Barbarous Slave Deportations Across Belgium France
Report translates German deportation orders in Lille Tourcoing Roubaix and other occupied areas as part of a calculated system of terror. Documents cite forced labor and transport to interior camps with families split and bodies numbered like cattle. Paris and Belgium condemn brutality and urge French help.
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France
Belgium
Gerard
State Department
Lille
New York
Doran
England
Htappen-Kommandantur
Raymond Poincare
Paris
Tourcoing
Evidence of German Atrocities Reported by Belgian Committee
Belgian officials compiled detailed charges against Germany citing mass killings of civilians including women and children. The report alleges widespread looting and destruction, with soldiers said to enter towns to drink and commit abuses in homes and wineries.
Mockery of Suffering Cited in United States Message
The statement by United States Minister Whitlock denounces German requisitions during wartime. It claims food, furniture, farm animals, and bedding were seized, leaving people with nothing. It notes officials issued illegible German language vouchers and later dropped even those controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Whitlock
Soldiers May Kill If Fire Plot Targets Food Stores
Camp Dodge in Des Moines issued orders to kill or capture anyone attempting to set fire to government property or storehouses after reports of incendiary fires at grocery outlets. Lt. Col. H. L. Cooper warned the public that German agents may seek to destroy food supplies, urging vigilance to protect food as a vital asset.
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Camp Dodge
Des Moines
H. L. Cooper
Col. Cooper
Men Return to Work in Milwaukee Railroad Shops
The dispute between Milwaukee railroad shop workers and road officials is settled according to J W Stapleton. About fifty men were discharged while around twenty women remained at work, with only the car department affected. The agreement details are not disclosed and the women continue employed.
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Dubuque
Milwaukee Railroad
J. W. Stapleton
Knoxville Girl Enlists for Red Cross in France
Miss Mildred Gilson, daughter of T. G. Gilson of Knoxville, joins Major Donald MacRead’s Red Cross hospital unit of Council Bluffs. A Methodist Hospital Des Moines graduate nurse sails with the Atlantic coast unit bound for France.
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Knoxville
France
T. G. Gilson
Red Cross
Mildred Gilson
Donald MacRead
Council Bluffs
Atlantic
Methodist Hospital
Des Moines
Major Connolly Ordered to Report for Duty in Washington
Maj Maurice Connolly, after training at Chanute field and visiting his family, has been ordered to report for duty in Washington D C. No position was announced. Connolly has spent months at Rantoul aviation field and piloted several flights.
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Connolly
Dubuque
Maurice Connolly
Chanute Aviation Field
Rantoul
Ill
Washington, D. C
Rantoul Aviation Field
Immense Service Flag for Ames at Iowa State College
Eight hundred twenty seven men will be represented by stars on the new Iowa State College service flag soon to be flown. Ward M. Jones, alumni secretary, released the latest figures. The December Alumnus issue lists an honor roll with 7738 names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa State College
Ward M. Jones
Pool Halls Close Early in Cherokee City Order
The city executive department orders all pool halls in Cherokee to close at 9:80 PM daily, 10:00 PM Saturdays, to conserve fuel and light. Opera house manager A G Ferrin announces the Cherokee Opera House closed for the season for the same reason.
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Cherokee
A. G. Ferrin
Cherokee Opera House
Fire destroys Osceola department store stock
The Osceola department store suffered near total stock loss estimated at 12000 dollars in a recent fire. No cause has been found as there was no fire in the furnace at closing time. the damage is covered by insurance.
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Osceola Burns
Osceola
Iowa
State Department of Automobile Registration
Towa
Phantom Engine Kills Worker in Council Bluffs Yard
Peter Tomcik, a laborer in the Union Pacific yards, was crushed to death when a runaway locomotive without an engineer or fireman rolled from its stall and struck him at a turntable in the roundhouse. He was caught between the engine’s pilot and cab. death was instantaneous.
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Council Bluffs
Union Pacific
Peter Tomcick
Hubbard Establishes Welcome Stop for Camp Dodge Soldiers
The town of Hubbard set up a food coaling station for Camp Dodge soldiers en route home for the holidays. A thirty foot banner on the Jefferson highway proclaimed Soldiers Welcome Free coffee sandwiches cigars. Soldiers were served these items as they passed through Hubbard before Christmas and again on New Year’s.
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Hubbard
Camp Dodge
Jefferson Highway
Captain Dulany Leaves Army to Attend Business Demands
Captain George W. Dulany resigns from Battery F after eight months away on duty. He cites urgent business obligations and a required home presence as the cause, noting three months at Ft. Sill blocked any leave. He praises available officers and asserts his departure will not strain the unit. He is described as a millionaire and son of a former lumberman in Des Moines.
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School of Fire
Ft. Sill
Leutenants
River City
Iowa City Father Seeks News On Stricken Guatemala Son
Lincoln Hess of Iowa City says his son Percy Hess, a State University of Iowa engineering graduate now with Grace and Co. in Guatemala, is safe though he cannot reach him. Hess expects wire service outages may block messages as Percy serves as an engineer in the stricken capital.
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Guatemala
Iowa City
Lincoln Heas
Percy Iea
Hess
Percy Hess
College of Engineering
State University of Iowa
Grace & Co
Lowan Gets French Croix de Guerre Honor
Ottumwa Lieutenant Walter Schafer son of Mr and Mrs John M Schafer has been awarded the croix de guerre a French honor medal for his trench raid work. He has been at the front and wrote to his parents describing the first American death in his sector after finishing twenty days in the trenches.
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Lowan
Ottumwa
Walter Schafer
John M. Schafer
Schafer
Son of First Engineer Dead at Blairstown
The funeral for Matt Temple, son of the world s first railway engineer, was held here recently. Temple died Christmas Eve at 76. His father built the first locomotive steam engine by George Stephenson in 1814. Born in London in 1841, Temple came to the United States via Canada fifty years ago and worked for years as an engineer on the Chicago and North Western Railway.
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Blairstown
Matt Temple
Mr. Temple
George Stephenson
England
London
United States
Canada
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Fire destroys Porter Tidrick Carriage Co. in Des Moines
A Des Moines blaze swept the Porter Tidrick Carriage Company stock and building, estimated at about 35000 dollars. Wind whipped flames in subzero weather, threatening nearby homes. Two families in adjoining one story houses fled to neighbors as the fire grew.
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Des Moines
Losa
Porter- Tidrick Carriage Company
Escape Flames Through Window Rescue
Two families on the second story of the Tierney block were rescued through a window as fire swept a block housing a restaurant and confectionery shop. The building was totally destroyed with an estimated loss of 20000 dollars and the fire origin is unknown.
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New Hampton
Red Cross Cake Sells for 128 Dollars at Unique Theater
At the Unique theater a Red Cross fundraiser featured a Christmas cake donated by Mrs. N. S. Cannon. The cake sold for 128 dollars with the final bidder paying 20 dollars. seventeen buyers participated, and proceeds went to the Red Cross.
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Red Cross
Quidden
N. 5. Cannon
American Faces Bring Joy in France Letter
Lieut Col Matt Tinley of the 106th infantry son in law of Mrs Tinley, and formerly of the Third Iowa, traveled with coaches flashing a pocket electric light in the faces of arriving troops in France. He wrote of three months in Camp in France preparing a camp for the regiment and of longing to see the men.
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Council Bluffs
Matt Tinley
One
Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry
Old Third Iowa
France
Tinley
Winterset Soldier Wilcox Dies in France
Winterset born St Clair Wilcox near Patterson Madison Iowa October 4 1895. He enlisted July 23 19817 in Company A Third Iowa National Guard and served in Des Moines camp. Transferred to hospital corps and died in France after measles relapse during ocean voyage and return with his regiment.
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Winterset
St. Claire
Draft ruling places married men in Class One for select service
Provost Marshal General Crowder issues guidance that a registrant with a wife but no children may still be in Class One if other support exists. Local boards told to fill Camp Dodge slots with men discharged for defects and to apply detailed rules on dependents and pay aid.
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Des Moines
Adj
Logan
General Crowder
Camp Dodge
Crowder
We would see Jesus in all life and death
A sermon reflects on Jesus as the source of comfort and salvation for burdened souls. It contrasts true worship with hollow rites and urges seeing Christ in daily life, grief, and even death, concluding with the hope of beholding Christ in glory.
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Jerusalem
Jesus
Philip
Andrew
Musua
Christ
Choe
Tife
Like Seeks Like in Faith and Art Recalled at Chautauqua
Henry Turner Bailey argues that true belief draws believers into Christian fellowship. He asserts prophets in painting include Michael Angelo, Rembrandt, and Marino, alongside biblical figures Isaiah David Paul and Jesus, at a Chautauqua gathering.
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Isaiah
David
Paul
Michael Angelo
Rembrandt
Marino
Henry Turner Bailey
Chautauqua
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