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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1918
Page
5
Washington reports sweeping rate cuts for long distance and telegraph tolls with a basic 6 1 4 mill per mile charge. Night and day rates are standardized, night rates set at half to one quarter of day rate, effective January 21. Airline distance used for calculations.
The retiring Secret Service chief testifies to a record of bold actions by Flynn and Bielaski and their team. They exposed Boy Ed and Von Papen plots, Dumba's schemes, the Zimmerman letter, Luxburg dispatches, Bol Pasha intrigues, and helped in prosecutions, shaping U.S. wartime security.
Senator Owen mocked German obedience by recalling a WWI interaction. A German recruit, smoking a pipe, refused to salute a general. The general shouted swine dog and a reprimand followed. The recruit replied his sergeant taught him not to salute with a pipe in his mouth.
The Caillaux Case drama filmed by William Fox plays at the Lyceum Theatre for today. The film dramatizes the ills of Mme Henriette Caillaux and the ministerial circle amid pro German treason links with Bolo Pasha and Count Von Bernstorff documents.
An unannounced visit by the president to the Picpus cemetery in London drew lines of surprised nuns and an aged gatekeeper who, upon recognizing the visitor, unlocked the gates and welcomed the US leader as news quickly spread through the convent nearby.
Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, the second million dollar production, faces tough development for the Lyceum Theatre showing on Sunday. He notes he walked on thin ice blending military life with humor while avoiding ridicule of the service, using a single bumbling recruit to frame the comic scenes.
In Paris on December 15 President Wilson ignored local custom by personally obtaining a wreath for Lafayette's tomb. He had Admiral Grayson buy the wreath after explaining the break with tradition. The inscription on his card read in memory of the great Lafayette from a fellow servant of liberty.
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