Food Card System No Cure For Hunger
Asle Switzerland October 21. The German food supply is described in stark terms. A German dinner includes bread potatoes egg sugar butter with limited access and shortages. Wealthy Germans fare better but still face scarcity and substitution of coffee and tea. The piece notes rationed foods and the difficulty of obtaining full entitlements. (Continued on Page 4.)
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Switzerland
Engand
United States
Muuch
Germany
Jack” Myers
Mergenthaler Company
Berlin
Myers
Holland
British guns captured at Cambrai rise to 138
London reports Maj. Gen. F P Maurice announcing in Mesopotamia a successful operation with Russians. He notes German attacks in Cambrai were planned by Von Ludendorff and that the British held a strong line with reserves, retaking most of the advance and capturing 138 enemy guns.
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Mesopotamia
F P. B. Maurice
War Office
Cambrai
Maurice
von Ludendorff
Lis
Bate
Ypres
Italy
Rail Lines Urged Unified State Action And Sherman Act Repeal
The Interstate Commerce Commission urged immediate moves to unify railroads through government operation or wartime suspension of antitrust and pooling laws. Commissioner McChord pressed for government control with guaranteed returns if nationalization occurs, and warned against relying on voluntary pooling due to selfishness and war pressures. He faulted railroads’ 18 percent rate hike plan and called for centralized authority to avoid chaotic orders from multiple agencies.
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In Rstate Commerce Commission
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Fuel and Food Administrations
Wilson
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Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Adamson
House Interstate Commerce Commission
British Ship Losses Mount in Week
London reports sixteen British merchantmen over 1,600 tons sunk by mines or submarines in the past week. One vessel under 1,600 tons and four fishing vessels were also lost. The prior week saw fourteen merchantmen over 1,600 tons and seven under 1,600 tons sunk by similar causes.
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London
Admiralty
Dynamite Plot Details Exposed in Kaltschmidt Trial
Charles Respa testified in Detroit that Albert Kaltschmidt conspired to blow up British munitions ships in New York Harbor in 1915. Respa, a life prisoner, described 1913 trips to New York to fund explosives, later abandoned due to tight ship defenses. The prosecution argued Kaltschmidt acted as a German agent with embassy connections.
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Detroit
Albert Kaltschmidt
New York
Charles Respa
Kaltschmidt
Respa
Carl Schmidt
Karlschmidt
United States
Kinnane
von Bernstorff
H. ¥. Albert
General Shipp Dies of Long Illness in Virginia
Norfolk Virginia December 6 Gen Scott Shipp former commandant of the Virginia Military Institute died Tuesday night at Lexington Virginia He commanded the V M I cadets and led the charge against Union forces at the Battle of New Market earlier in his career
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Scott Shipp
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington
Shipp
New Market
Inter Allied Conference Forms Transport and War Production Body
The Paris meeting created an inter allied organization to coordinate transport use and imports, freeing tonnage for American troops. It also established committees on armament aviation production and a permanent financial coordination group led by Louis Klotz and Oscar Crosby.
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London
Inter-Allied Conference
Paris
Louis Klotz
Oscar T. Crosby
Switzerland
United States
Inter-Allied Commission
Berne
Navy-wide call for graduate nurses to join army service
Washington reports 475 graduate nurses are needed for urgent army service by December 12 and over the next year at least 20,000 more are required in army hospitals in the United States and Europe. Ages 21 to 45 may apply after passing a physical. about 3,500 of the 80,000 total nurses are on duty, with 1,500 in France, and many more could respond quickly.
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Washington
Europe
Dora E. Thompson
Anly
Engineers Rejoin British Forces After Cambrai Action
The Cambrai fighting featured 50 American and Canadian engineers with British troops who were cut off near Gouzeaucourt and captured, then rescued after hand to hand fighting with German guards. A US Canadian motor lorry unit charged six Germans at a crossroads, escaping with the machine guns. At Gouzeaucourt front, ten American army medical officers worked in British casualty stations since Gen Byng’s offensive.
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Associated Press
France
Cambrai
Gouzeaucourt
la Vacquerie
Foe
United States
Byng
House Plans Ballots on Suffrage and Prohibition
Washington Dec 6 Informal understanding reached between house leaders on Dec 19 for nation wide woman suffrage and Dec 20 for nationwide prohibition amendments. Members favor war measures but insist on voting these domestic issues before the Christmas recess. The judiciary committee meets next Tuesday to vote on both resolutions and report promptly.
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Washington
House
Congress
House Judiciary Committee
Pershing Reports Two Killed in France and Seven Wounded
Gen Pershing reports two soldiers killed in action in France between November 12 and 17 and seven severely wounded with four slightly wounded. The fallen include Corporal Virgil G Winebrenner and Private Peter Wojtalewicz. Severely wounded are Private Darwin P Kragie Corporal Gardues Private David A Launders.
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Pershing
War Department
France
Virgil G. Winerenner
Andrew J. Winebrenner
Marto
Ind
Peter Woj
Airman and Student Injured in Dallas Plane Crash
Lieut. Mc Farland of the Royal flying corps stationed at Fort Worth was seriously injured and an unidentified student aviator was probably fatally hurt when their airplane fell about 200 feet near Duncanville outside Dallas. Physicians say Mc Farland has a chance to recover.
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Royal Flying Carg's
Forth Worth
Duncanville
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Rebels Seize Chungking as Japanese Marines Land
Rebels have taken the city of Chungking amid panic. Japanese marines have landed to protect foreigners in Pekeng as the situation develops.
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Pekeng
Chungking
Germans Lose Eight Planes Over Verdun Front
PARIS December 6 German air planes were brought down on Monday by French aviators according to the war office. Active artillery fighting continues on the Verdun front east of the Meuse.
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Paris
War Office
Verdun Front
Meuse
Congress Prepares For Austrian Break War Declaration
Congress moves to declare war on Austria-Hungary from noon Wednesday by joint resolution. The House foreign affairs committee unanimously approves the measure, which directs use of armed forces and resources for victory. Turkey and Bulgaria are not included, despite calls to widen the war to them.
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Congress
Wilson
Austria-Hungary
State Department
United States
House
Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate
Austria
Germany
Turkey
Hulgaria
Bulgaria
Stone
Flood
Senator Stone
Representative Flood
Lansing
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Miller
Minnesota
Six Officers of Sixth Will Return Home
Seven officers in two field artillery regiments resigned after efficiency tests were announced. Names include Captain Roy M. Hawse and First Lieutenant Charles N. Myatt with several lieutenants from various batteries. The units involved spanned the 38th brigade headquarters and multiple Illinois and Houston formations.
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Houston
Tex
Roy M. Hawse
Charles N.myatt
23Rd Field Artillery
Clyde H. Eves
Lord Headquarters Company
Charles QO. Bastin
T. J. Simpson
Senator Lewis Denounces Austria in War Declaration Speech
In Danville Illinois on December 6 Senator Lewis praised President Wilson and argued the United States was forced to declare war on Austria Hungary. He claimed Austrian agents planned attacks on factories water systems and cities to incite destruction and deaths among Americans.
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Lewis
Wilson
Austria-Hungary
Austria
United States
Germany
Washington
America
War Declaration Resolved in 1917 Congress
The text notes that Congress declares a state of war with the Austro-Hungarian government since December 1917 and authorizes use of full U S naval and military resources to wage and end the conflict, pledging all national resources.
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Senate
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Congress
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Delicate Question Brought With War
Washington Dec. 6 The status of thousands of Austro Hungarian Bohemian and other nationals serving in American forces creates a war time dilemma. Lansing Baker and lawmakers discuss citizenship or exclusion measures to resolve whether these subjects may remain in uniform or face treason risk if captured.
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Washington
Austria-Hungary
United States
Lansing
Baker
Congress
America
Fighting resumes on the Macedonia front
Washington reports that fighting has resumed on the Macedonian front with Bulgarians active in reconnaissance. British and French forces claim air defenses and anti aircraft fire downed many Bulgarian airmen while French troops report patrols captured. British aircraft continue to bombard the Bulgarian rear as Allied positions overlook the Vardar valley and Monastir hills.
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Vardar
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