Wilson Won't See Peace End Until Spring Says President
The sixty fifth congress opens its final session with clashes over railroad issues military programs reconstruction retrenchment war revenue and woman suffrage. President Wilson states peace may not be achieved until spring prompting doubt over senate action before its term ends March 3. Leading figures anticipate treaties from Paris with separate accords on seas and a league of nations and a possible special session if business runs long.
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Sixty
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Wilson
Senate
Hitchcock
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
Council Appropriates 500 to Fight Influenza Epidemic
The city council in regular session approved 500 to create and maintain an emergency hospital to combat the influenza epidemic. A further 40 810 was set for installing a turbine in the electric light plant to handle added load from new shops. The finance board was organized and invited bank bids for city fund deposits.
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McGreevy
Finance Board
Surrender of German War Fleet Completed
Basel dispatch reports Berlin stating armistice surrender of German warships largely finished. Only Koenig Dresden and a torpedo boat remain, to be sent to England. Submarines total 122 U boats delivered, with mine clearing in the Baltic underway and sea belts now crossable without a pilot.
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Basel
Switzerland
Berlin
Koenig
Dresden
England
Helgoland
Baltic Sea
Little Belt
President to name McAdoo’s successors today
President Wilson plans to name a secretary of the treasury and a new director general of railroads before departing for France. Talks with McAdoo at the secretary’s home focused on successors. Robt S Lovett regarded as leading candidate, while Walter D Hines may stay in his present post.
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Washington
Wilson
New York
George Washington
France
Influenza Epidemic Prompts Countywide School Closures
Cass county reports 251 new influenza cases over two days, city and rural areas affected. Health officials order school closures, limit public gatherings, and consider Sunday church services depending on future trends. Loganport schools close. Kreuzberger building eyed as emergency hospital. donations sought for hospital supplies and volunteer committees formed to manage the response.
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Hatch
Vance
National Board of Health
Benninger
State Board of Health
Logansport
Douglass
Kreuzberger
Market
Third Streets
Florence Uhi
Barnes
Ira Cree
U. S. Houck County
W. F. Hanley
Red Cross
A. P. Flynn
Ben Porter
Frank Wall
Gladys Brandt
Congress estimates 1920 expenses for ginning next July
The 1920 expense forecast from Congress shows an estimate of 7 443 415 838 dollars for ginning operations set to begin in July.
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Congress
War budget estimates for 1920 show large outlays
The Associated Press reports 1920 defense and public works costs total about 7.44 billion dollars, including 2.56 billion for the army, 2.66 billion for the navy, and 0.50 billion for ships. Interest on debt and war pensions are sizable, with broad allocations for post offices, rivers and harbors, and federal buildings.
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War and Navy Departments
Congress
McAdoo
Treasury
War Department
Europe
Navy Department
Shinning Board
Mississippi River
State Department
Panama Canal
Interior Department
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Labor
Packers Facing FTC Charges Over Unlawful Compacts
Federal trade commission charges five major meat packers Swift Armour Morris Wilson and Cudahy with restraints on interstate commerce in livestock and meat. The report cites national and local divisions of live stock purchases and exchanges of confidential information that stifle competition and influence prices to producers and consumers.
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Washington
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
Swift & Co
Armour & Co
Morris & Co
Wilson & Co. Inc
Cudahy Packing Co
United States
General Combination
Denver
Armour and Swift
Aerial Mail Service Set to Start December 15
The Associated Press reports that aerial mail service between New York and Chicago will begin around December 15. Captain B Lipsner, superintendent of the aerial mail division, announced the plan tonight.
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Associated Press
New York
Chicago
B. B. Lipsner
Post Office Department
Return Address on Letters and Packages Urged
The local post office warns the public to include sender name and address on all mail to American soldiers overseas and not to enclose currency without a money order. Many letters will be returned as thousands of troops come back from France.
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France
Will ask Kaiser be extradited pressed by British cabinet
Liverpool December 2 Sir Frederick E Smith attorney general said the British war cabinet including colonial representatives has unanimously decided to press Holland to extradite the former German emperor.
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Associated Press
Liverpool
Frederick E. Smith
The
Echo
Holland
First American Troops Homeward Bound Enter New York Harbor
New York December 2 The Mauretania with more than 4 000 troops from almost every state sails into New York harbor amid cheers from Battery Park to Hoboken while 1 000 wounded soldiers returned from France slip ashore at Hoboken and head to nearby hospitals. Families of the wounded will be notified soon and allowed to visit.
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New York Harbor
New York
Manhattan
America
Battery Park
New Jersey
North River
France
Hoboken
Jersey City
Staten Island
Mauretania
England
Camap Mills
Aviator Dies in Ohio Plane Crash Near Dayton
Lieutenant J. A. Brumback of Kansas City was instantly killed and Lieutenant C. J. Sohn of Washington state was injured when their Wilbur Wright Aviation Field aircraft fell in West Springfield, near Dayton, Ohio, this afternoon.
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Dayton
J. A. Brumback
Kansas City
C. J. Sohn
Washington State
West Springfield
Wilbur Wright Aviation Field
Walks From Delphi to Logansport Over Tracks
Herbert Shirk the son of J Shirk a Delphi banker walked 20 miles to Logansport along interurban tracks yesterday His father asked police to locate the boy if possible The youth is believed mentally weak Sergeant Bixler found him at the Barnett Hotel where he had rented a room He had just returned from Fort Oglethorpe Georgia where he had been stationed.
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Herbert Shirk
J. Shirk
Delphi
Logansport
Bixler
aBrnett
Fort Oglethorpe
Assured uniforms fixed for IU medical corps members
Indianapolis December 2. An order states the students army training corps at Indiana University medical school will not be demobilized until all 130 members are fully uniformed. Students were told to bring old clothes when joining to ensure presentable uniforms for three months after demobilization.
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Indianapolis
Students Army Training Corps
Indiana University Medical School
Engineer Scalded to Death at Garrett Plant
Auburn Indiana December 2 David Carter fifty five year old engineer at the Garrett electric light plant was scalded to death today when a steam pipe burst in the plant and caused the fatal injury He was employed at the plant for many years and death followed the accident at once Proceedings were started to determine the exact cause of the rupture.
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Garrett
Auburn
Ind
David Carter
Electric Light Plant
Resolution Declares Office Vacant Letters to Congress
A partial notice notes a presidential message to congress will be published on page 8. The item references a resolution to declare an office vacant and pays tribute to soldiers without offering solutions.
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Congress
Wilson to Attend Peace Conference in 1919
President Wilson announced in a joint session his plan to attend the peace conference and guide postwar policy. Senators debated eight member senatorial visits to Paris and a possible vice presidential interim, while Wilson praised armed forces and hinted readjustment would largely occur without government aid.
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Congress
Wilson
Democrats
House
America
Pershing
Sims
Cummins
Iowa
Paris
Senate
Rodenburg
Ilinois
Sherman
Illinois
War Trade Board
Indiana Weather Outlook Partly Cloudy and Warmer
Indiana forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures on Tuesday. An unsettled pattern moves in at night with chances of rain across the north and central portions Wednesday.
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