Allied Victory Sees Need to Prepare for Further Actions
London dispatch reports a Wireless Service correspondent stating that revolutionary councils may reject armistice terms. The piece notes the Allies’ strong negotiating position, the strategic need to enforce peace, and the likelihood of gradual transition from war to a rebuilt Europe from the Rhine to the Urals.
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Gompers Outlines World Peace Plan of American Labor
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, presents a world peace program at a plan labor conference in Laredo Texas. The resolution advocates free peoples, no reprisals, no territorial changes except for welfare, and supports free assembly press and speech, sailors’ right to leave ships, an international child labor law, and an international eight hour law. The proposal is referred to the resolutions committee.
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American Federation of Labor
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War era spruce output winds down as workers shifted
About 6,000 men in spruce production on the Olympic peninsula are being released at a rate of 500 daily. Half are soldiers likely returning to civil life. Jobs in shipyards railroads and other labor short sectors are offered by the U S Employment Service. The spruce program aimed for 500 million feet by December 22 1919. The Northwest produced 132 million feet of first class airplane lumber and 14 million feet of lower grade material since August 1917.
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Northwest
Six More Years of Big Taxes for Americans
Washington announces war taxes will continue until 1925 with the end of fighting reducing 1918 costs by 6 billion dollars. Treasury projections show 18 billion dollars in expenses for the current year and about 2 billion annually after January 1, 1925, with four-year outlooks near 2.5 billion each year.
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Treasury
McAdoo
White loaf is now in style in major bread move
Washington November 15. The food administration suspends all regulations for substitutes in baking. Hoover urges restricted wheat bread consumption. Plans are prepared to manage cereal stocks with coarse grains shifted to animal feed.
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Lister Delivers Peace Plan Talk To Chamber crowd
Governor Er nest Lister spoke to about 500 Chamber of Commerce members in the Masonic temple dining room about Washington state's path after demobilization. Mayor Hanson and Senator Jones sat near the speaker as leading business and professional men listened intently.
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Senator Jones
Building of Ships Must Still Go On
Washington November 15. Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board declares the continued need for American owned tonnage. Shipbuilding will be continued steadily to supply Europe’s devastated areas until they are self supporting. Vessels to be erected must be of new types designed to meet peace needs.
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Hurley
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Europe
Night Schools in War Camp Planned
Y M C A officials in Camp Lewis plan vocational night schools for soldiers awaiting demobilization. If approved by the war department, classes in stenography teleg raphy typewriting bookkeeping and other subjects will open immediately. U S mission will help Washington reports of a mission to Spa hint at the mixed armistice commission supervising armistice terms.
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Washington
Spa
United States
Senator Chamberlain Urges All U.S. Boys Training
Portland report on Senator Chamberlain urging elementary military training for all young men. He argues iridescent peace depends on discipline of the growing generation and cautions that peace is threatened by greed in the human heart.
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Ore
Senator Chamberlain
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Peace Problem Men Will Meet
Mayor Hansons reconstruction committee appointed Thursday to advise city county and state governments on peace problems will hold its first meeting in the city council chamber Monday. Time not set. Women’s reconstruction committee not selected but to be announced soon. Initial meeting will organize details and plan future work by the people of Washington.
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Women's Reconstruction
People of
Washington
No More Openings at the Puget Sound Navy Yard
A telegram from the assistant secretary of the navy to Shemerton states no further vacancies will be filled at the Puget Sound navy yard by the civil service commission. The notice confirms a hiring freeze effective immediately.
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Civil Service Commission
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Shemerton
Secretary of the Navy
Liberty in Draft Card Case Dismissal at Butte
Federal Judge George M Bourquin dismissed P F Sullivan charged with failing to carry his draft card ruling that carrying cards was not compulsory.
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Butte, Mont
George M. Bourquin
P. F. Sullivan
Four Nations to Lead Peace Conference Shift
Dispatch from Robert J. Bender reports the peace conference delayed a month as the United States and Allies refine details. Col. House and aides shape Near East peace adjustments amid evolving German politics. Big powers France Britain the US and Italy will dominate negotiations while many nations are allied beligerents.
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Italy
Army Supplies Held Up by Strike in New York Harbor
New York harbor operations for loading ships with foodstuffs for troops abroad stalled as 7,000 workers at the Brooklyn army supply base walk out in protest against overtime abolition. War department and Bureau of Labor move to broker a settlement and recall workers.
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Brooklyn
War Department
Bureau of Labor
Prince's Boy Safe Taken To Place Of Safety
Amsterdam report says the former crown prince adjutant airlifted Frederick William's eldest son to a unnamed safe location. The action was announced today and aims to protect the boy amid unsettled conditions in the region.
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Amsterdam
Frederick William
Here It Is Why Americans Can Have More Wheat Now
Charles K Bryant of the state food administration says Austria’s armistice opens the Mediterranean route to Australia with a wheat surplus, easing substitutes. He warns against waste while noting renewed supplies to dairies and war-torn regions. Extra sugar allotments boost nonessential manufacturers.
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Food Administration
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State Food Administration
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Mediterranean
Europe
Germany
Russia
United States
B. C. Beck
Local Food Administration
Let Us Erect Victory Monument
A call for a public victory monument to honor Washingtonians who served in war urges voluntary funding. It proposes carving names of the fallen on the monument and placing it in Pioneer Square or the Third and Yesler triangle, asking who will start the effort.
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Third and Yesler
Lard Pail Drive Set for Sunday to Aid War Work
Lowell school students aim to raise 400 for the United War Work drive with after school and Saturday work. A 6000-strong bucket brigade will canvass Seattle, with 3500 lard pails donated by Barton & Company and Saturday drugstore collections. Police will enforce tags on cars, and a "Dollars for Doughnuts" campaign will fund doughnut sales for doughboys.
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Evacuation of Belgium and Poland Moves Amid War News
Reports from Paris Amsterdam and Copenhagen describe German evacuations in Belgium and Poland as French and American forces advance toward Metz and Brussels. Dutch monarch Wilhelmina faces abdication pressure while talks of a new government rise as towns in Alsace Lorraine prepare for French administration.
Belgians Take Antwerp As City Falls
London reports Belgians are in possession of Antwerp today. It is unclear if Belgian troops occupied the city or if Germans evacuated and Belgian civilians resumed charge. Antwerp, a key seaport on the Scheldt, sits 22 miles north of Bruy sels and 25 miles from the nearest Belgian line point.
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French Warships Sail to Firth of Forth for Interment Base
The cruiser Admiral Aube and two torpedo boats depart Brest for the Firth of Forth under Admiral Grassel's orders. The move signals Scotland as a potential internment base for parts of the German fleet per armistice terms.
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Admiral Aube
Brest
Firth of Forth
Grassel
Scotland
Berlin Riots Claim 100 Dead Buried at Friedrichstrasse
COPENHAGEN reports 100 killed in Berlin revolution. The dead were buried in the Friedrichstrasse church yard, according to dispatches today.
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Copenhagen
Friedrichstrasse
Austria-Hungary Proclaimed Republic Reported
A Vienna dispatch reported via Zurich that Austria-Hungary has proclaimed a republic, as published by Le Journal. The Vienna dispatch notes a major political shift and the move spreads through diplomatic channels with Paris reporting at 45 30 p m.
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Austria-Hungary
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German Women Plead For Aid From Mrs Wilson
German women appeal to Mrs Woodrow Wilson and Miss Jane Addams asking relief from armistice rolling stock seizures. The war department reports unofficially that the governments intend no modification of terms though seized railway material might later aid Germany if Bolshevism spreads.
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United States
Germany
Woodrow Wilson
Jane Addams
Hull House
Chicago
War Department
Execution of Wilhelm May Follow Trial
Paris reports three deputies will push for allied nations to form a tribunal to prosecute those behind the war. The memorandum asserts that even if extradition is refused, a tribunal condemnation would leave the Kaiser and his advisers with no refuge but death. A Versailles peace conference is anticipated in early 1919 with Balfour Sonnino Lloyd George and Orlando arriving. Col. House is said to be working hard.
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Holland
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House
American Airman Lands in Cologne
An American airman landed in Cologne yesterday as Allied forces hold the Rhine crossing at the city. Cologne lies 38 miles from the Dutch border and 125 miles from the Allied line as of November 11.
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Copenhagen
Four Hundred Veterans Landed in New York
Four hundred officers and men who fought in France arrived in New York today aboard the auxiliary cruiser Harrisburg. Many veterans are suffering from wounds and shell shock as they disembark and receive hospital attention.
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