26 Dec 1918
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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
1
Fragmentary report notes a vehicle wreck near TD plato Street and Dr A Rice in town. Authorities say Doctor Seal and Yau ite convited amid unclear details. Seventeen wounded reportedly due to the collision on the Conewagio road.
Adams County soldiers are reported alive or wounded in France and Germany with details on names such as Harold Angell Littlestown and Corporal Bryan Vine of Irishtown. Letters from Pvt Elteun S Ruth and Lt Chester A Bower describe service, health, and a new chaplain commission in the United States Reserve Corps.
The obituary notes Miss Mary Jane Ashton known as Aunt Jane, who boarded with Woodrow Wilson at Johns Hopkins University from 1883 to 1886 and nursed the future president through illness, dies at her Baltimore home.
President Wilson conducts talks with Cap tain Andre Tardieu on relief for France and shipping. The U.S. plans to keep certain yards available for navy needs while awaiting peace conference developments. An official censorship update is expected. Wilson travels to London for four days, then to northern France and Belgium before January 4. The inter allied conference opens January 6 to set a common action basis for the peace congress. Miss Margaret Wilson tours with American troops near Chaumont on Christmas day.
Reported progress outlines an Inter Allied conference in Paris beginning January 6 with delegates from allied nations and the United States. President Wilson is due back in Paris around January 4 after visits to England and northern France. The preliminary talks aim to form a unified front for the peace congress to open late January, with German delegates expected to attend for the first time.
Five people perish when a large touring car skids on frost coated planks and plunges through the railing of the Mentonbrook drawbridge between Atlantic City and Pleasantville. Victims include Herman Statzenbach and his wife Justina, Carpar Baldus, Marie Baldus, and Daniel McCarthy. The car fell about a dozen feet into the water and the wreckage pinned them half an hour before rescue. Bridge tender Legi Truex arrived after two prior crashes and witnessed the toppled car.
The Cologne Gazette reports total German casualties up to October 25 at 6,066,769 with over 4.75 million Prussians among them. Naval losses total 70,000 with about 25,000 dead 15,000 missing and nearly 29,000 wounded.
Reports from Copenhagen cite three British officers saying Lieutenant Coheeny was shot after stepping outside the barbed wire at the German camp. A British officer was wounded as guards fired into the area. Comrades were barred from retrieving the body. Die Cutter Earns 224 a Day at Shipyard. Ralph Adams Cram and Boston housing officials noted a die cutter at Beth Tehem Shipbuilding earning 224 dollars for a single day.
More than 300000 soldiers have been discharged to civilian life as the demobilization rate climbs to 150000 weekly. The War Department aims to raise daily discharges to 1009 per camp while maintaining Marine strength near current levels and plans to keep the corps at about 79000. General Farnett told the House Naval Affairs Committee that marine discharges remain limited to urgent cases.
Four aviators died in a midair collision at Payne flying field near West Point Mississippi. The crash occurred at about 806 feet. An investigation was ordered as cause remains undetermined. The dead are Lieutenant Alvin W. Spiant Old City Pennsylvania Lieutenant Fred Synnested Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Private Fred P. James Litchfield Illinois and Private Guy C. Weils Reynoldsville Pennsylvania.
Federal investigators found no criminal process or fraud at Hog Island operated by America International corporation under the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The report calls for an arbitration board to determine if excess costs over reasonable necessity should be demanded, noting plant costs may reach about 1.6 060 000 and that the yard faced early disarray.
Western Maryland railway conductor Herbert Johnson, 34, shot his wife Nellie Johnson and then killed himself at Mrs. Nellie White’s Cumberland home after a quarrel with his wife who had left him for her sister. Sheriff Hutcheson reported the revolver fire set bed clothes ablaze and the fire was not extinguished. Children survive.
masked two gunmen robbed Summit National Bank at Summit near Chicago, held two employees and a customer, exchanged shots with the police chief, escaped in a touring car with currency and Liberty bonds, estimated loss about $26,000. Congressional action notes over $16 billion in war-appropriations remains unexpended.
Fragmentary notes indicate bran prices rising sharply to $462 per ton as milling operations adapt to government removal mandates. Details are unclear due to damaged text but point to a sudden shift in market for milling by government action.
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