First survivor details sinking of destroyer Jacob Jones
Navy release relays Lieut J K Rickards account of the Jacob Jones sinking after torpedo strike at 4 20 p m the ship went down at 4 29 p m only two small boats and three life rafts survived to be picked up after seventeen hours in the water. A British ship saved the rafts men. The submarine was seen after the wreck with a three inch gun and two periscopes.
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Washington
Tec
Jacob Jones
J. K. Rickards
Navy Department
Leutenant
Lieuteant Richards
Richards
David Worth Bagley
United States
Bagley
Josephus Daniels
Frederick Mangenheimer
Brooklyn
Tie
Germany
Germans Press Cambrai Salient But Fail to Break Line
German artillery and infantry assaults west of Cambrai and between Bullecourt and Queant fail to break British lines despite a heavy effort. German losses mount as bombardments continue. Italians report snow on the northern front aiding defense. Cossacks and Bolsheviks clash with Bolsheviks prevailing. Allenby enters Jerusalem. Palestine operations advance as British holds and gains new positions. Cuba and Austria-Hungary in war state declared by Cuban house of representatives.
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Kaledines
Moheliev
Tamanovka
Bolsheviki Lnsees
Allenby
Palestine
Jerusalem
Cordiary
Austria-Waneary
Cuba
House of Representatives
Railroad war board orders 100 locomotives to ease congestion
Washington dispatch reports on December 18 that the railroad war board directed Western lines to dispatch one hundred locomotives to relieve traffic congestion. The move aims to improve freight and passenger flow amid ongoing shortages and disruptions across the system.
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Washington
Western Lines
Railroad War Board
Senate Passes Webb Bill Goes to Conference
The Webb export bill to legalize exporter combines passed the Senate 51 to 11 and heads to conference. It allows joint selling abroad not to restrain trade at home, limits anti trust repeal, extends FTC authority over export competition, and faces ongoing debate over foreign markets and price effects.
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Washington
Senate
Wilson
Congress
House
United States
Cummins
Reed
Europe
Hitchcock
Kirs
Trammell
Vardaman
Rarah
Cummings
Grenna
Kenyon
LaFeollette
Norris
The
Commission
Exporters Organization
Twin Cities Carmen Strike Poised Over Safety Button Order
In Minneapolis and St Paul about 30 000 union men may walk out today in protest of the public safety commission of Minnesota mandating street car workers to stop displaying union membership buttons. Union leaders frame it as a principle dispute while transit and railroad shops across the region face disruption from potential sympathy action. Traffic remains near normal with streetcar service at 9 percent above in Minneapolis, 90 percent in St Paul, and 96 percent overall.
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ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Northwest
Public Safety Commission of
Minnesota
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Twin Cities
Pacific Coast
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Chicago
Milwaukee
Concrete Ship Construction Planned as Experiment
Washington Dec 13 Construction of a 4500 ton concrete steamship will begin soon as an experiment by the Shipping Board and the United States Bureau of Standards. Built from bureau designs, success could lead to more vessels. Concrete ships have been built abroad and one is under construction at San Francisco. Inspectors from the bureau will study that project.
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Washiington
Shipping Board
United States Bureau of Standards
Bureau
San Francisco
Dean of Osteopaths Dies
Kirkville Mo December 13 Dr A T Still founder of the Osteopathy of Medicine died here Wednesday.
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Osteopaths
Kirksville, Mo
A. T. Still
The
Osteopathia of Medicine
President Wilson declares war stance toward Austro Hungarians
President Wilson issues a wartime proclamation declaring war with Austria Hungary and stating that naturalized Austro Hungarians and other subjects may live and travel freely in the United States with limited restrictions. Germans face broader controls while Austrians are not designated alien enemies. Some Austrians face arrest for investigation but internment is not yet decided.
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Washington
United States
Austria-Hungary
Congress
Wilson
Austria
Department of Agericulture
Department of Justice
Embargo on export freight by eastern railroads
New York Dec 13 An embargo on all export freight except U S government traffic was ordered by the eastern railroads general operating committee. The aim is to preserve railway equipment for essential fuel and food, ensuring overseas shipments can be transshipped promptly. It calls for cooperation with British and allied traffic control agencies to manage ocean tonnage.
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New York
United States
North Atlantic Seaboard
General Operating Committee
Eastern Railroads
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Ministry of Shipping
Cold Wave To Follow Snowstorm Across Regions
Weather bureau warns of a developing cold wave after a snow event. An anticyclone over the Dakotas moves south as temperatures drop 30 to 40 degrees below normal. Snow covers the Mississippi valley and parts of Montana Wyoming Colorado with heaviest snows reported in Virginia and North Carolina.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Mississippi Valley
Central Plains
Texas
Dakotas
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Carolinas
Gulf
Virginia
North Carolina
Atlantic Coast
Lake Region
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
East Gulf States
Caillaux Denies Disloyalty Charge in Chamber
Paris December 13 Former premier Joseph Caillaux faced unpatriotic conduct accusations as the deputy session opened He was absent when the question to pursue the charges was raised and entered flushed and agitated He pledged to dissipate the cloud of gossip and explain his policy before the war The chamber erupted in shouts as he spoke then left the platform amid discussion
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Paris
Joseph Caillaux
Deputies
Dubai
Tr. Foe
M. Caillaux
Speaker Clark Fresh Convert of Suffragists
Washington December 13 The annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association opened as state delegations braved a snowstorm to present arguments to congress. Missouri reported Speaker Clark would support the federal suffrage amendment and vote for it if a tie occurred, with nearly all Missouri members also backing the measure.
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Washington
Congress
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Capitol
Missouri
Clark
Columbia Missouri Man Dies at Front
Washington Dec 13 General Pershing reported First Lieut. E W Young medical officers reserve corps attached to torit ish forces severely wounded in action His wife lives at McKenney Va Also reported deaths from natural causes Private T M Shaw signal corps Columbia Mon Private Morris Fondy Lac Wis Corporal R Evans Palmyra Tenn
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Washington
Pershing
E. W. Young
McKenney
T. M. Shaw
Signal Corps
Columbia
Mon
Morris
Infantry
Fond *Y Lac
Wis
R . Evans
Shields water power bill advanced in Senate
Washington Dec 13 The Shields water power development bill moved to privileged business in the Senate after passing the Webb export bill. The measure would authorize development and leasing of water power on navigable waterways, facing prior failures amid federal safeguards concerns.
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Washington
Congress
Wixon
Senate
Webb
Shields
Successful German aviator killed on western front
Amsterdam December 13 Lieutenant Erwin Boechme, a leading German aviator and successor to Captain Boleik, was killed on the western front. His death came the day before the German Emperor awarded him the Pour La Merite. Halifax December 13 The Mont Blanc disaster toll in Halifax harbor stands at 1,226, including unidentified bodies and the missing.
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Amsterdam
Erwin Boechme
Boleik
Halifax
Halifan
Halifax Harbor
German Assault Presses British Line At From Bullecourt Bend
Reuters dispatch from France reports a fierce dawn assault by Bavarian troops against British positions between Bullecourt and Queant. Despite heavy bombardment and waves of infantry, Germans gained only about 400–500 yards before the attack was checked, with British counter-action possible as open warfare continued in dry winter weather.
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London
Bullecourt
Queant
Cambrai
Reuter
France
London Times Calls for Full Inquiry Into Cambrai Front
London editors urge a prompt searching and complete inquiry into the Cambrai front reversal on November 380 and the following days. The Times criticizes misleading German-loss estimates, stresses that the new line is held, and questions partial first hand accounts while spotlighting unprepared sectors and notable but regrettable acts of valor.
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London
the Times
New Cambrai Saint
The
Times
Fightine
Allenby Enters Jerusalem Troops Enter City
Premier Slava George told the house of commons Gen Allenby the British commander in Palestine entered Jerusalem on foot on Tuesday. American and other military attaches entered Jerusalem with Gen Allenby, the general reported.
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Allenby
Jerusalem
London
Des
Slava George
House of Commons
Palestine
Haig reports German attack east of Bullecourt repulsed
London Dec 13 Field Marshal Haig describes a German assault Wednesday morning about a mile east of Bullecourt as repulsed at most points with heavy German losses. A short trench salient was briefly entered on the attack’s right. several prisoners were captured, and German artillery had activity south of Lens and near Armentieres and Messines.
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London
Bullecourt
Haig
Ballecourt
Lens
Armentieres
Messines
House Committee Assignments Made
Washington reports new house committee assignments approved at caucuses. Rankin designated as ranking Republican on the special house committee on suffrage. Democrats chose Baker ofnia as chairman of suffrage committee and Stulley of Kentucky as chairman of appropriations to succeed Fitzgerald. Sims of Tennessee named chair of the commerce commission, replacing Adamson of Georgia who joins the appraisal body at Newport.
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Washington
House
Miss Rankin
Representative Baker
Colornia
Representative Stulley
Kentucky
House Appropriations Committee
Representative Fitzgerald
Representative Sims
Tennessee
House Intersts Commerce Commission
Roneesentative
Adamson
Georgia
Vustaums
Newot
Weekly U boats losses total fourteen large ships
London December 13 A slight rise in British merchant losses by mines and submarines is reported by the Admiralty system. Fourteen vessels over 1600 tons were sunk, and seven more under that tonnage.
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Admiralty
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