Gun Makers Cite Gause of Shortage and Delays
Washington dispatch reports ordnance manufacturers testified before the Senate War Inquiry that they spent millions in advance on war preparations while the Ordnance Bureau delayed actions. Vendors praised the modified American rifle and Browning machine gun as superior, but delays and late contracts hindered production.
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Associated Press
Washington
Army Ordnance Bureau
Senate Committee
War Departments
Ordnance Bureau
Stoddard
Marlin Arms Corporation
Rice
Ordnance Department
Thompson
War Department
I. S. Kimball
Remington Company
Kimball
Rifk
Tyler
Hitchcock
Department
Nators Hitchcock
Wadsrth
Iimbalk
Remington
Singieha
Navy Secretary Praises War Effort and Shipbuilding Pace
Secretary Daniels and Paymaster General McGowan testified before the house naval sub committee on Navy war activities. He outlined construction of 424 capital ships and other vessels, discussed submarine chasers, and praised naval aviation progress stalled by limited manufacturing. He described training merchant crew gunners, noted occasional problematic contractors, and urged further improvements with congress and committee support.
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Associated Press
Washington
Daniels
McGowan
Navy
House Naval
Oliver
Mr. Daniels
Congress
Lorraine Will Honor U S Dead in Lorraine Monuments
Lorraine citizens plan a monument for three first American Expeditionary Force dead in France Corporal J B Gresham of Evansville Indiana Private M L Hay of Glidden Town and T FB Enright of Pittsburg. A prefect’s letter to Mayor Armstrong quotes honoring their sacrifice and salutes the heroes on behalf of Lorraine.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Lorraine
France
J. B. Gresham
Evansville
Ind
M. 10
Hay
Glidden
Town
T. FB. Enright
Pittsburg
J. G. Armstrong
Government plans big new Washington building program
The Public Buildings Commission asks Congress to authorize expenditure over 358 million dollars for land and construction to house all federal activities in Washington. The plan adds to existing permanent offices and reflects a 100 percent rise in local government employees over 15 years. Current rents total about 1,059,000 dollars annually.
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Associated Press
Washington
Dec
Congress
Public Buildings Commission
Surgeon General cites camp sanitation failures at war camps
Report by Surgeon General Gorgas to Secretary of War Baker blames insufficient clothing overcrowding and poor sanitation for plague outbreaks at Camp Bowie Texas Camp Funston Kansas Camp Doniphan Oklahoma and Camp Sevier South Carolina He urges rapid base hospital completion improved plumbing observation camps for newcomers and 50 square feet per man while noting pneumonia deaths and measles cases in Camp Bowie and unfinished base hospitals amid harsh winter conditions.
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Washington
Camp Bowie
Texas
Camp Funston
Kansas
Camp Doniphan
Oklahoma
Camp Sevier
South Carolina
Corgas
Baker
Funston
Gorgas
Camp Trunston
F-11 Sunk in Fog war loss declares Navy
Secretary Daniels announced nineteen men perished when submarine F-11 was rammed and sunk by F-3 in home waters amid fog. Five survivors, including Lt. A. E. Montgomery, were saved, with a list of the dead released by the Navy. F-1 earlier set a depth record in 1912 off San Francisco Bay.
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Associated Press
Washington
Daniels
A. E. Montgomery
Julia Montgomery Pratt
Fort H. G. Wright
New Yor
J. M. Schmissautior
Machine
Celia B. Campbell
Ehuron
Navy Department
John RR. Belt
Seaman
J. E. Belt
Silsbee
Texas
Frank M. Bernard
Amelia Trulntal
Oakland
Cal
William L. Cartwright
Amanda Cartwright
Fresno
Tarry L. Corson
Hazel
ML Gorson
Long Beach
James
Goonan
Minnie McClain
Lima
Ohio
Simon Greenberg
Sophia Greenberg
Philadelphia
Dudley Stough
Marie Stough
Vallejo
Charles WT. Vincent
Albert FP. Smith
Imorence
Stebbens
Merced
Lyman . Lovely
Lyman Lovely
Denver
Ralph EH. McCluir
Josephine McCluer
Detroit
Duncan A. McFais
Florence M. McRae
Blain
Wash
John P. Messangd
Grover
Metz
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Point Diablo
James B. Vowell
M Nior Iron Works
Convoyed Ship Sunk By U Boat Near Naples
An American steamship reported the sinking of the British steamer City of Naples, 3,714 tons, while under convoy of destroyers. German submarines fired two torpedoes, with four depth charges dropped by destroyers. crew status and exact fate remain unknown.
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Associated Press
Atlante
City of Naples
Women urged to join Muscatine Red Cross drive
Muscatine women face pressure to participate in a Red Cross Christmas membership drive. Leaders report captains struggle to recruit enough volunteers amid holiday commitments. Citizens are urged to sacrifice personal plans to ensure the drive succeeds and support national defenders through unselfish service.
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Red Cross
Muscatine
London Air Raid Fatal to Tea City Casualties Rise
London officials report ten killed and seventy injured in last night's air raid with five wounded outside London. Several fires started but material damage deemed not serious and no naval or military targets were hit. One German plane was brought down and another is believed destroyed as 16 to 20 raiders attacked London in five groups.
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London
England
Inother
War Office
Aix
Winter Wheat Prospects Warn of Low Year
Agricultural forecast from Washington on December 1 shows winter wheat at a record low condition. Acreage planted for next year reaches 42,170,900 acres with 79.8 percent of normal. rye area up 36.6 percent to 6,119,000 acres with 84.1 percent of normal.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Idaho
Acrag
North Dakota
Miners to skip Christmas break amid coal famine
Indianapolis December 19 The United Mine Workers of America headquarters announces a two day holiday for coal miners Christmas and New Year due to a national coal shortage caused by snow and cold. Industries shut and fuel use urged to cut to meet demand.
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Indianapolis
Ind
International
United Mine Workers of America
United States
No Warning for Spanish Vessel
Yaris December 18 report of torpedoing of the Spanish steamship Noviembre 4654 tons gross by a submarine. Thirty crew landed. Ship torpedoed at night without warning. survivors swam for an hour before being picked up by patrol ships which chased the submarine away.
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Yaris
Noviembre
Beatritz
Hixcelsior
Bilbao
Perach
Allied Head at Saloniki Recalled in World War I News
General Sarrail, commander of the allied armies at Saloniki, has been recalled. General Guillemet will succeed him as the French lead on the Macedonian front. Austro-German forces stormed Italian positions on Monte Asolone with over 2,000 soldiers captured. Paris reports German attempts in the Argonne near Four de Paris repulsed with losses. German patrols active near Passchendaels. a few prisoners taken. No further front details available.
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Associated Press
London
Sarrail
Saloniki
A& Reuter
Athens
Guillemet
M. P
Berlin
Monte Asolone
Paris
Argonne
Four de Paris
War Office
Juvincourt
Lorraine
Furey
Nauroy
Dunkirk
Mandes
Passchendaels
French Cruiser Chateau Renault Sunk Off Mediterranean
Paris reports the old French cruiser Chateau Renault, used as a transport, torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on December 14. The attacking submarine was destroyed. All passengers were soldiers or officers and saved, with ten crew members lost. The vessel, built in 1896, measured 442 feet long and displaced 7,898 tons.
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Associated Press
Paris
Chateau Renault
Mediterranean
Chateau Renult
Wat
Weather Iowa Partial clouds tonight and Thursday
Partly cloudy conditions persist into tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. Winds light. No significant precipitation expected across Iowa during the period.
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Iowa
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