German propaganda plot traced to educators and Hearst allies
A. Bruce Bielaski told the Senate committee that German propaganda funded by large securities reached U S educators and even Hearst linked figures. He named Dr. William Bayard Hale as a paid agent, and described plans to control major newspapers including the Washington Post. He cited money, Irish society schemes, and Catholic publications as part of the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Committee
Bruce Bielaski
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
William Bayard Hale
Germany
Hearst
Bielaski
America
Bermstorff
Albert
Dernburg
Washington Post
Puehr
Foreign Office
John R. McLean
Bernstorff Fuehr
McGuire
Syracuse
cGuire
New York American Denies Hale German Ties
The New York American asserts it never knew or suspected that Dr. William Bayard Hale had any relation with the German government or ambassador while in Berlin as a special correspondent. Hale was hired for exclusive services after recognition by President Wilson, with 58 weeks of pay totaling $14,300 in salary and $21,788 in expenses. The paper cites credentials promising his mission as a neutral correspondent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hale
Women Trade Unions Urged To Raise Wages
NEW YORK Dec 7 Mary Van Kleeck head of the women in industry unit of the labor department urged the organization of women’s trade unions as the first step toward equal pay for equal work in postwar readjustment. She also urged immediate enactment of state labor laws to ensure women have equal opportunities with men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Organization of Women’s Trade Unions
Mary van Kleeck
Women In Industry
United States Labor Department
Academy of Political Science
van Reech
Areps
Wro
Americans Enter Mainz Hesse Amid Rhine Fortress Action
American troops moved into Mainz the capital of Rhenish Hesse as Belgian cavalry arrived at Düsseldorf and Düsseldorf to Cleves moves announced. Intercourse with the opposite river bank was forbidden with relief of cavalry by infantry at Düsseldorf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mainz
Rhenish
Hesse
Germany
Rhine
Wolff Bureau
Berlin
Dusseldorf
Cologne
Cleves
Wesel
Revenue Bill Debated In Senate Tuesday
Washington Dec 7 the war revenue bill moves to the senate with debate to begin next Tuesday. Chairman Simmons of the finance committee will present the majority report while Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania files a minority report opposing the 1920 rate plan. Republicans Smoot La Follette and others plan separate statements. The bill aims to raise about 5.93 billion dollars under peace time terms versus 8.2 billion under the house draft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Simmons
Finance Committee
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Smoot
Utah
la Follette
Wisconsin
Senate Committee
Educators Deny Pro German Allegations Across U S
Stanford chancellor emeritus Dr David Starr Jordan denied any pro German stance and called the claim an unqualified falsehood. Columbia professor John W Burgess said he had upheld neutrality before U S entry and now testified he did not advocate Germany. Harvard government professor Albert B Hart asked to defend himself in person against pro Germanism accusations after his name appeared in Dr Fuehrs diary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanford University
Cal
Benman
David Starr Jordan
Stanord University
Newport
R. I
John W. Burgess
Columbia University
Fuehr
Cambridge
Mass
Albert B. Hart
Harvard University
Senate
First Woman Appointed Special Agent in Government Service
Denver December 7 Miss Felice Cohn of Carson City Nevada becomes the first woman named as a special agent in the federal general land office reporting to chief M D McEntry in Denver She also is the first woman lawyer to serve as a hearings agent for the government and will handle hearings in Colorado and Nevada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Federal General Land Office
Felice Cohn
Carson City
Nev
M. D. McEntry
General Land Office
Cohn
Colorado
Neva
Baden seeks incorporation in Bwiteerland
Fragmentary report from London dated December notes Baden seeking incorporation in Bwiteerland via a telegraphic dispatch. Names and details are garbled in the OCR, but the core action is Baden pursuing incorporation and contact with a newspaper telegraph service.
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London
Dec
Telenathien Baden Te
Bwiteerland
Heden Newspapers
Arvsa
Rhaeen
Naiip
Borah and Reed Clash Over League of Nations
Senate debate on the proposed league of nations features Democrat Reed and Republican Borah opposing the plan while Democrats Lewis Walsh and Williams back it. Discussion centers on jurisdiction and enforcement powers of a potential international tribunal and how to compel compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borah
Lewis
League
Reed
Idaho
Sena
Universal baby training push opens in Chicago
The American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality launched a three day session with a campaign for universal baby training. Speakers urged action to prevent poor unfit reproduction and proposed clinics charging nominal fees for families earning 1900 to 2000 dollars yearly. Delegates from 15 states and Canada attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
American Association For the Study
Roswell H. Johnson
University of Pittsburgh
William Lowell Putnam
Boston
Iss Pansy V. Benson
States
Canada
Forgotten War Prisoners Return to France Mentioned
Fragmentary report lists John H. Franklin of Leon Iowa among war prisoners who have returned from Germany to France. Names include others from Maryville Mo and Washington Brida, with scattered fragments indicating released inmates and associated places and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marysvit
Tae
Washington
Dec
John H. Franklin
Leon
Iowa
Germany
France
Nkita
Uea
Marye- Ville
Sultan Sorry Turkey Came Into the War
London dispatch reports an interview with Mohammed VI the Turkish sultan. He portrays a strong, scholarly figure who criticizes Turkey’s entry into the war and laments Armenian suffering. He vows inquiry, punishment for fomenters, and promises justice to prevent future bloodshed. He stresses most of the people are innocent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mohammed VI
Constantinople
Ele
Turkey
Ukraine Disorders Hetman Killed
Geneva December 6 General Skoropadski the Hetman of the Ukraine has been killed and all power in that country is now in the hands of the unionists. Kiev is in unionist hands after a severe battle in which ten thousand men, including 500 officers were killed or wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Skoropadski
Ukraine
Kiev
Lausanne
Jenikine
Liverpool Echoes Wilson Peace Conference Attitude
The Liverpool Post comments on American suspicion toward President Wilson at the peace conferences. It notes talk of a Senate committee and labor delegates, led by Samuel Gompers, accompanying him. The piece argues Americans underestimate how the war reshapes international relations and warns Wilson must join the circle shaping the peace settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Liverpool Post
England
Wilson
Europe
America
Senate
Labor
Samuel Gompers
Food administrator lifts all time limits on crop futures
Washington reports that all time limitations in trading in future deliveries of corn oats rye and barley were removed Friday by the food administrator. The present conditions do not warrant abrogation or modification of present limits on speculative accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Winter Closed Cars For Sale In The WHIG Ads
Winter brings cold and snow and winds making closed cars a comfort. The WHIG WANT ADS offer a large number of makes in good condition at moderate prices. Buy now and enjoy winter motoring instead of waiting for spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WHIG
16 000 YET TO REPORT TO NATION
Washington reports 16 000 major casualties not yet reported to next of kin. Many minor injuries also awaiting confirmation due to hospital records not alphabetized and duplicates. Delays blamed on large multi front army and influenza slowed processing. most reports expected within days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Frida
Department
Pershing
Wrshing
Courer
France
Labor Asked to Put Off Big Strike
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of Labor Wilson urged workers nationwide to postpone a planned December 9 strike in protest of the Mooney murder conviction linked to the preparedness day bombing in San Francisco. He warned a strike could undermine the jury system and trust in justice amid efforts for a possible new trial based on new evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Wilson
Oregon State Federation of Labor
Mooney
Longest Air Routes Flight Starts From City
Four Army Air Lines under Major Albert Smith chart a normal service between Paso Robles and San Diego. They departed Phoenix at 3 55 p m for Tucson where the night will be spent as part of the fledgling voyage.
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Phoenix
Arta
Dea 1
Army Airlines
Albert Smith
Paso
San Diego
Calif
Tucson
Fritz Renounces Prussian Crown Claim
Dec 6 Paris ARIS report says Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm renounces all rights to the Prussian throne and imperial crown. The dispatch from Basel cites his formal renunciation dated December 1, 1918 at Wieringen and signed Wilhelm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
ARIS
Frederick Wilhelm
Basel
Wolff Bureau
Prussia
Wieringen
Army Health Best Of Any Surgeon Gorgas Announces
Washington December 7 The health of the American army at home and overseas is excellent with a low mortality rate from disease in Surgeon General William C Gorgas 1917 to June 30 1918 annual report Total deaths from disease were 2964 and the death rate per thousand 63 versus a new peacetime figure of 4 9 per thousand The report notes typhoid deaths would have been 1400 if morbidity matched 1898 with only 23 deaths Measles heads the diseases causing deaths while 65 percent of deaths stemmed from pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William C. Gorgas
Gorgas
Iowa Boys Turn $25 Into $25,000 Hog Venture
Johnny and Billy Turner of Dewitt Iowa began with $25 to buy a bicycle four years ago now run Turner Brothers with 600 Hamp shires valued at $25,000. They display a prize boar at the International Live Stock Exposition and have won 83 prizes including three blue ribbons.
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Chicago
England
France
Johnny
Billy Turner
Dewitt
Iowa
Middle West
Billy
Turner Brothers
Businessmen appoint delegates for Paris
Atlantic City N J Dec 7 Appointment of an European commission representative of American business to go to France and be available for any aid it might provide to U S peace delegates regarding economic issues in peace talks was decided at the reconstruction congress of the industrial war services committees. Other resolutions urged speedy return of railroads under federal charter, opposed government ownership of telegraphs phones and cables, called for Sherman anti trust law modifications, endorsed Rockefeller Jr s industrial creed on labor and the creation of a central board of war service committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
European Commission
France
United States
Reconstruction Congress
Industrial War Services Committees
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Central Board of War Service Committee
Wilson plans peace conference meetings in Paris in January
The Associated Press reports President Wilson will be informed by wireless about plans for assembling the inter allied conference and the peace congress. Delegations from Britain, Italy and France will attend. The inter allied conference reopens December 16 or 17 at the Quai d Orsay and the peace deliberations are expected to last about four months, possibly ending in early May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
ARIS
Wilsod
Peace Congress
Supreme War Council
London
Supreme Council
B. M. House
Clemenceau
Baron Sonnino
Earl of Derby
France
Foreign Office
Quai D’orsay
Versailles
David and
George
A. J. Balfour
Wilson
Great Britain
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Senators Confirm Glass Nomination for Treasury
Washington Dec. 7 The Senate confirmed Representative Carter Glass to be secretary of the treasury succeeding William G. McAdoo. Glass will resign from Congress after sixteen years and assume his new duties December 16 while McAdoo remains as director. Glass expressed that treasury policies will likely continue along current lines and called McAdoo’s retirement a national misfortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carter Glass
Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo
Senate
Glass
Congress
McAdoo
Railroads
The
Treasury
Publi
Federation Votes to Retain the Referendum System
Bloomington Illinois December 7 After FY Rebate the Illinois Federation voted to retain its present system of as acting officers that is the referendum system Delegates largely declined to follow the constitutional recommendation The text mentions labor showcase at the reconstruction parish and fees as part of the unclear fragments
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Bloomington
Ilinois Federation
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New York American
League of Nations
Illinois
Walsh
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Williams
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Missouri
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Tor
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