Vollmer Urges Embargo on War Munitions
Representative Vollmer of Iowa urged a 90 day end to the European war by cutting export of war supplies. He backed a joint resolution to empower the president to prohibit such exports and cited past embargoes. The committee planned hearings from New York Chicago and Philadelphia starting Monday.
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Washington
United States
Vollmer
Iowa
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Bartholdi
Congress
Wilson
Mexico
Lne
Europe
Belgium
Germany
Japan
Kino-Chow
Pacific
Flood
Bartholdt
Austria
Great Britain
Cooper
U. S
Tom
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Planning American Finance Conference in Washington
Administration officials moved to organize a conference in Washington likely in early spring. Treasury and American financiers with finance ministers and bankers from Central and South American nations will discuss financial and commercial issues arising from the European war. Several nations have accepted the invitation to participate.
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Associated Press
Washington
Administration
Treasury Department
Finance
Americas
United State
Germans Put On Defensive In Early Winter War
An official Allied report covers December 16 to 24 of hard winter fighting. It notes German gains were consolidated and their attacks reduced Allied countermeasures, with fighting in Arras Verdun and the Lys valley. French dispatches report modest Belgian gains near Nieuport and action around Sonnebeke and Paschendaele, while Meuse Vosges and Alsace saw heavy artillery exchanges and repulsed German assaults.
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Argonne
Verdun
Lys
Nieuport
Ypres
French War Department
Belgium
Polders
Lombaretryde
St. Georges
Sonnebeke
Becelaere
Paschendaele
Oise
Aisne
Champagne
Four de Paris
Vosges
Moselle
Meuse
Tete de Faux
Navarra Sinks After Striking Holmes Island
The steamer Navarra of 2947 tons, leaving St John NB bound for France, struck Holmes Island near Yarmouth NS in the night and is reported breaking up. No word on crew safety. Aberdeen steamer ordered to aid, with two tugs standing by. Navarra carried hay and feed.
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Associated Press
Halifax
Dee
Navarra
Tong
St. John
N. B
Admiralty
France
Holmes Island
Holmes
Nova Scotia
Yarmouth
Aberdeen
War News Epitomized From Global Fronts
British foreign office weighs Washington note over detaining American ships suspected of contraband. Berlin reports Russian retreat from East Prussia and German gains in Poland. Belgium and Galicia see Allied and Central power actions with St Georges capture and Austrian defeat in the east. Montenegro pushes Austrian soil as Turkish success in the Caucasus is debated and Arabia operations fail.
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Washington
London
Grey
Russia
Caucasus
Berlin
Constantinople
Arabia
Perilous rails blamed for bigelow derailment
An 1914 Bigelow Minnesota derailment killed one passenger and an express messenger and injured eleven passengers, two mail clerks, two conductors and two porters. A broken rail with a twenty foot flaw caused the crash, officials say, urging rigorous inspection and removal of defective rails.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Imaha
Bigelow
Minn
Interstate Commercce Commission
Government Bureau of Standards
W. H. Belnap
Division of Safety
Commission
Archbishops Urges English to Fight in New Year Letter
The archbishop of Canterbury issues a New Year letter to laity and clergy urging recruitment as essential to the empire. He warns that the life of the nation may depend on the response and calls on every eligible man to bear arms for the land they love.
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London
Canterbury
Russians Check Is Claimed By Teutons In Central Front
German war office reports fight over St Georges near Nieuwpoort with bombardment and retreat of Austrian forces. Russian cavalry pushed back near Pillkallen as front in Poland and Vistula region holds. Western front quiet aside from sporadic combat as pressure shifts east.
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Berlin
Tanssian
Galicia
Vienna
Poland
Petrograd
London
Prussia
Pillkallen
Niemen River
Vistula
Bzura
Iniwlodz
Lowicz
Skierneiewicce
Eng
Nicholas
Carpathian Mountains
Joffre
Baura
Warsaw
Yser
Belgium
Investigation Finds US Made Dum Dum Bullets Don’t Match Allies
Washington officials say they have nearly finished probing Count Von Bernstorff's charge that United States supplied dum dum bullets to the Allied army. The inquiry found the samples presented by the German ambassador were manufactured in the US but did not match any ammunition used by the Allies.
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
State Department
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Count von. Bernstorff
Department
Day in Congress Senate and House actions noted
Debate resumed on an immigration bill. Commerce commission continued work on the rivers and harbors bill. Senator Shafroth assailed a water power site leasing bill before the land committee. Representative Volmer urged the foreign affairs committee to favor his resolution authorizing the president to embargo shipments of war materials to Europe. Agricultural appropriation bill carrying nearly all department estimates totaling 2,500,000 was favorably reported from committee.
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Senate
Ae Commerce Commission
Shafroth
HOUSE
Volmer
Foreign Affairs Committee
Europe
Local Militia Captain Lange Resigns Amid Promotion Talk
Captain Henry F. Lange, longtime commander of Company CG, 64th regiment, Iowa National Guard, resigns this month likely to join the general staff as a colonel or lieutenant colonel. First Lieutenant Ralph T. Othmer appears set to succeed, with an election for a new captain on January 10. Lange says he remains committed to the militia and the armory project despite stepping down. The resignation becomes effective January 16.
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64Th Regiment
N. G
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Ralph T. Othmer
Des Moines
Company C
Armory
National Guard
Othmer
Com Marder
Iowa National Guard
Bold bandits rob Sleepy Passengers on Sunset Express
Two masked men boarded the west bound Sunset Express near Cline Texas and robbed all passengers in the two rear sleepers at gunpoint. They halted near Spofford to escape, pursued by officers aboard the train. One target carried about 10,000 dollars in jewelry and money. Both robbers fled into rough country, described as short and stout with a flat nose and tall and thin respectively. They did not rob other cars or passengers in coaches or express sections.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Texas
Galyveston
Harrisburg
Cline
Spofford
New Orleans
San Francisco
Senate probes Philippines unrest as lands bill moves ahead
The Senate committee led by Hitchcock plans to report the lands commissioner bill favorably by mid January while probing recent Philippine disturbances. War Department information will be sought and amendments may be limited to independence timing under specified conditions. Worcester will lecture on the Filipinos.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Dean C
Star
Commission
Philippines
Hitchcock
War Department
Worcester
Philippines i
Naval Subcommittee Weighs Naval Bill Provisions
The House naval sub-committee met to pass the preliminary naval appropriation bill. It eliminates a Norfolk dry dock provision, funds aviation development, ammunition, torpedoes, and smokeless powder, and follows Navy estimates. Debates include battleship cuts and submarine increases, with leaders pressing for a battle cruiser option.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Naval Sub-Committee
Norfolk
Navy Department
Padgett
Naval Department
Stephens
California
Roberts
Massachusetts
Escape From Warren County Jail In Monmouth Illinois
Four prisoners at the Warren county jail in Monmouth Illinois escaped last night by cutting bars and punching a roof hole then lowering to the ground on a rope made of blankets. The escape included two black inmates one Mexican and one white. Sam Robinson, one of the black prisoners, is held in connection with the Jennie Miller murder in Aurora Illinois. In Caruthersville Missouri former bank cashier A J Cy Tindle and assistant cashier Thomas B Ward pleaded guilty to embezzling 442000. Tindle had been convicted previously on related irregularities and sentenced to two years in prison, a verdict he has appealed.
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Burlington
Warren County
Monmouth
Sam Robinson
Jennie Miller
Aurora
Ill
Associated Press
Caruthersville
A.J Cy Tindle
Pemiscot
England Agrees Trade Differences May Be Bridged
British officials study the American note protesting seizures of cargoes by warships. Key figures including Sir Edward Grey and LloydGeorge discuss friendly potential resolutions. Neutrals Denmark Holland Norway Sweden must curb reshipment to Germany. Page to review full question with Grey as cabinet weighs next steps.
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Associated Press
London
United States
Great Britain
British ‘Foreign Office
Edward Grey
Foreign Office
David Lloyd-George
Reginald McKenna
Home Affairs
Walter Runciman
Board of Trade
Sir Francis Hopwood
Admiralty
America
Denmark
Holland
Norway
Sweden
Germany
Austria
Official Information Bureau
Lord Haldane
Sir Edward Grey
Grey
Walter B. Page
Washington
Gayette
Weather forecast for Chicago area and Iowa regions
The forecast notes fair and colder tonight with lows near five degrees. Thursday expected fair and warmer with moderate northwest winds becoming variable. Winds fair tonight, colder in the east. Iowa also fair tonight and Thursday with warmer temperatures. Muscatine at 7 am records 66 degrees below zero. River stage at 2 feet 7 inches.
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