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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1918
Page
3
Secretary Glass outlined treasury policy under his administration stating plans mirror former McAdoo. He said another Liberty Loan must be issued before June and war savings stamps and certificates will be pushed aggressively to meet government expenditures.
The Twenty-Eighth Division and the 103d Ammunition Train received multiple commendations from U.S. forces for gallantry during the Valley of the Aire and Argonne offensives in late September to early October 1918. Commanders praised rapid supply delivery under difficult road and traffic conditions and noted decisive advances, capturing Hill 224 and other strong positions amid heavy fighting.
A U S sailor led twelve hysterical girls escaping thick smoke from a sixth floor loft fire in New York. He calmed them with a handkerchief over his mouth and formed a human chain to guide them out before vanishing. Acting Battalion Chief James Coveny was injured and a $10 000 damage estimate was reported.
New York on December 20 reports the War Camp Community Service mounting a nationwide program to bring dinners theater trips dances and gifts to soldiers and sailors on leave for Christmas. In New York about 60 000 service members will be on leave Christmas Day with similar numbers via New Year. The plan runs from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Night featuring 50 000 dinners ten thousand Broadway tickets and gift packages for those at ships or stations away from home.
Henry J. H. Nachman and Herbert Kaufman, Penn students, arrived home for the holidays to stay with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Harman Derick, who wed here last Wednesday, are registered at the Martinique in New York City.
Private Oves describes air and sea experiences starting from Boston July 31, reaching Bristol England after two weeks. He recalls sinking two submarines, one by ramming, and a dramatic water geyser. He praises Red Cross aid in England and shares airplane flight sensations and camp details from 1917 to 1918.
The Harrisburg side lists the Philadelphia Division crews with numbers 124 116 117 and others, naming conductors engineers firemen brakemen and up assignments for the 124 116 crews. The Enola side covers Philadelphia Division and Reading section crew rosters with 206 226 and other numbers including engineers firemen and yard board assignments.
Picketing began today at the local plant of the General Electric Company with no disorder reported in Schenectady New York. In Brooklyn, Timothy S. Williams president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Hal lock vice president and four officers and employees were indicted for manslaughter. The British Air Board drafted articles for an international air convention to be submitted to the Allies. Bainbridge Colby proposed placing shipping built by the government in private hands by lease or purchase as a war emergency measure. Expulsions from Alsace are increasing daily according to a Berlin telegram. Reichaltz chairman of the Soldiers Council at Strasbourg has been arrested and detained near Strasbourg.
Through trustees Mrs W C Miller Maggie Keller and May Bless Capital City Sisterhood No 53 Dames of Malta purchased the limit in War Saving Stamps totaling $1000 from A A Garman connected with the fund.
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