Germany to Hold Elections Amid War Blame Debate
London Times urges Germans to confess to combat blame for the war. Berlin forms a people’s league with leaders like Prince Maxmilian of Baden and Cardinal von Hartmann. Copenhagen reports Ebert's cabinet may resign. Congress of Soldiers and Workers Councils sets January 19 for elections to a National Assembly. 40 of 240 oppose the summons.
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London
People's League
Berlin
Copenhagen
Maxmilian
Baden
Hugo Haas
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Mathias Mrzberger
W. 8. Solf
Prince von Mhohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst
Cardinal von Hartmann
Cologne
Friedrich Ebert
Germany
the Times
Congress of Soldiers and Workmen's Councils
National Assembly
Hog Island Shipyard Costs Disclosed in Senate Hearing
Charles Piez testified on the Hog Island plant cost at 63.3 million dollars with one ship delivered and fifty keels laid. He noted a sixty day completion target as the Senate Commerce Committee reopened its Hog Island investigation. Discussions covered government take over versus continued operation and earlier cost estimates rising from 21 million to 27 million.
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Washington
Hog Island
Charles Piez
Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Mr. Diez
British Fleet to Visit America After War
The Admiralty favors a large part of the British fleet commanded by Admiral Sir David Beatty visiting the United States soon after peace is signed. A tour of British dominions will follow. Admiral Viscount Jellicoe will visit the dominions and India in February to advise on naval matters.
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London
Admiralty
David Beatty
United States
War Cabinet
Viscount Jellicoe
Dominions
India
War Restrictions to End Amid War Industries Board Dissolution
Formal announcement states all War Industries Board restrictions and orders will be canceled on January 1. Bernard M. Baruch resigns as chairman and President Wilson accepts the dissolution, effective on that date.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Bernard M. Baruch
Wilson
Lets Ask For Protection from Bolsheviks
The State Department received an appeal from the Lettish Government via the American Legation in Stockholm asking protection from Bolsheviks. Left representatives claim German troops are leaving, not staying to keep order, and that without arms they cannot organize a defense.
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Washington
State Department
Lettish
Stockholm
Cedric Brings 2,277 U S Troops To New York Harbor
The White Star liner Cedric docked off the Statue of Liberty with 2,277 American soldiers from overseas, including 1,259 wounded and a large Negro troops contingent. It is the fourth troopship to reach port, bringing total arrivals to nearly 5,000 men, as Maul and other ships followed.
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New York
Cedric
Daniels urges limits on naval buildup at governors conference
Secretary Daniels told a conference of State Governors that peace may delay mobilization, calling for a strengthened navy to support an international police force. He urged testing government ownership by results, warned against railroad telegraph fears, and urged actions to curb child labor and aid public health campaigns.
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Annapolis
Daniels
Conference of State
Navy
United States
Pact Proposed to Resolve Tacna Arica Dispute
Buenos Aires reports Chile may accept mediation with Peru and Bolivia offering a territorial compensation plan. The proposal includes adjustment of Tacna Arica, plus restored railroad and commercial links to benefit all three nations.
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Buenos Ayres
Argentina
Chile
Peru
la Nacion
Bolivia
Tacna-Arica
War Department plans continue Aberdeen and Neville Island plants
Assistant Secretary Crowell in charge of surplus material says the War Department will not abandon the Aberdeen Maryland proving ground or the Neville Island Pennsylvania ordnance plant. Both will be developed to the full wartime scope.
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Washington
Aberdeen
Government Ordnance Plant
Neville Island
War Department
Crowell
Review of Fleet Postponed by Navy Department
Navy Department announced postponement of the Atlantic fleet review by Secretary Daniels from December 24 to December 26 in New York. Admiral Mayo reported bad weather delaying returning vessels from European waters.
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Washington
Daniels
New York
Navy Department
Admiral Mayo
Mayo
Department
Embargo on Hogs Declared at Cleveland Stock Yards
Cleveland Stock Yards imposed a 24 hour embargo on all hog shipments due to heavy weighty loads. Cincinnati stockyards reported unusually large hog supplies with strong demand but 15 000 hogs remained unsold, unable to clear despite favorable market conditions.
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Cleveland
Cincinnati
Bold Midnight Shootout Kills Man near Charleston
One man died and two were wounded in a pistol battle at St Albans near Charleston West Virginia during a midnight raid by state prohibition officers on a freight train. Officers found seven bootleggers in the gang.
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Charleston
W. Va
St. Albans
Here
Prohibition
Berlin newspaper warns of threat to government and armistice
Vorwaerts reflects the Ebert-Scheidemann group accusing the Extreme Left of disrupting the Congress of Soldiers and Workmen after an invasion by soldiers. It warns that the government apparatus could crumble and peace negotiations may fail if a competent German government does not exist.
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Berlin
Ebert-Scheidemann Group
Vorwaerts
Congress of Soldiers and Workmen
Hog Island Investigation Finds No Criminal Liability
The Department of Justice report on Hog Island shows no criminal wrongdoing and urges arbitration to determine if any of the more than 60 million dollars beyond reasonable need should be recovered from contractors. It notes cost far above original estimates and a chaotic early period, with completion in September and ongoing disputes over expenditures.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Hog Island
White House
Wilson
Board of Arbitration
Emergency Fleet Corporation
American International Corporation
Piez
Senate Commerce Committee
G. Carroll Todd
Mark Hyman
Hurley
Shipping Board
Bandits Loot Granby Bank For Unregistered Liberty Bonds
Bandits blew open the vault at the Bank of Granby in Granby Missouri and escaped with 15000 dollars worth of unregistered liberty bonds. The robbers fled before reaching the money containers.
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Joplin
Granby
Here
Casualties Reach 66,892 for American Expeditionary Forces
Officially announced figures from General Pershing place total American expeditionary forces casualties at 66,892, a figure not previously published.
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Washington
Pershing
Electrical workers strike hits General Electric plant
In Schenectady New York a sympathy strike was declared by 28 000 General Electric employees walking out to support strikers at the companys Schenectady plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenectady, N. YA
General Electric Company
Uurie
Wilson in Spotlight as Peace Talks Open
President Wilson dominates the peace conference scene outlining a league of nations as part of the treaty while Knox’s anti league stance echoes in Paris. French public opinion remains broadly favorable to Wilson with only a few papers questioning U S aims. The President presses his 14 points and seeks stronger U S France friendship.
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Paris
Wilson
League of Nations
Knox
Echo de Paris
Mr. Wilson
America
France
Navy Cost Out Urged In Daniels Conference
Secretary Daniels urged cutting costs on navy destroyer contracts and cancelling unstarted work to allow future keels to reflect wartime experience. He stressed no reduction in the destroyer program, noting over 300 contracts remain outstanding.
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Navy
Washington
Daniels
Congress Approves Major War Funding Totals
Representative Sherley announces that Congress will un expend more than 16 billion dollars of cash appropriations and contract authorizations for war purposes. The total wartime appropriations and authorizations reach about 57 billion, with 10 billion in wartime loan authorizations to foreign governments and roughly 8 billion in loans actually made.
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Washington
Congress
Sherley
Kentucky
House
Atterbury Offered Director General of United States Railroads
Brigadier General William Wallace Atterbury has been chosen to succeed William G. McAdoo as Director General of Railroads. He, recently in France directing troop and supply transport, awaits formal acceptance announcement.
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Atterbury
Ft. Wayne
Ind
William Wallace Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Railroads
United States
William G. McAdoo
France
Four Negroes Lynched in Mississippi Mob Action
Four accused Black men and two women were taken from Shubuta jail and lynched according to Mobile reports. All four are said to have been hanged from a bridge girder over the Chickasahay River, in a mob action tied to the murder case of Dr. E. L. Johnston.
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Mobile
Ala
E. L. Johnston
Shubuta
Miss
Chickasahay River
Secretary Baker Orders Scarlet Chevrons For Veterans
Washington announces that Secretary Baker directs two scarlet chevrons be worn on the left sleeve by each honorably discharged soldier. The chevrons match the size and shape used for service abroad.
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Washington
Baker
Officials Indicted Over Balbone Street Tunnel Wreck Deaths
A Kings County grand jury indicted Timothy Williams president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. and John H. Halleck president of the New York Consolidated Railroad Co. along with four subordinate officers and employees. They face first and second degree manslaughter charges over the Balbone street tunnel wreck on the Brighton line early in November that killed more than ninety people.
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New York
Kings County
Timothy $8. Williams
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
John H. Halleck
New York Consolidated Railroad Company
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Balbone Street
Brighton
Airplane Antarctic Expedition Planned by Aero Club
The Aero Club of America will finance a polar flight expedition led by Captain Robert A. Bartlett to survey the north pole by airplane next June. Conceived by Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, the mission aims to explore and photograph Arctic lands, study upper air and polar basin depths, with a $250,000 fundraising goal for equipment and transport.
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Union News Service
New York
Robert A. Bartlett
Polar
North Pole
Agro-Club of America
Robert E. Peary
Pole
United States
Walter Hines Page Dies in Pinehurst After Illness
Walter Hines Page formerly ambassador to Britain and a New York resident died of heart disease in Pinehurst North Carolina. He had resigned his post in England due to illness and returned to New York October 12 in critical condition. He was hospitalized at St Luke's, improved briefly, then declined after a late November relapse before traveling to Pinehurst about ten days prior to his death.
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Pinehurst
Walter Hines Page
New York
Court of St. James
Page
England
St. Luke's Hospital
Transport with 4 636 Yanks Welcomed
United States transport Mongolia carrying 148 officers and 4 588 enlisted men arrived from Brest to a boisterous Hoboken welcome. Units included 188th Field Artillery 34 officers 1 095 men Fortieth Coast Artillery 56 men Seventy third Coast Artillery 40 officers 1 419 men Seventy fourth Coast Artillery 48 officers 1 127 men plus 735 wounded and sick 80 casual officers 156 casual enlisted 15 Y M C A workers 5 Red Cross workers 5 nurses and 9 civilians landed for demobilization at Camp Mills
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New York
United States
Mongolia
Brest
Hoboken
Camp Mills
188Th Field Artillery
Fortieth Coast Artillery
Seventy-third Coast Artillery
Seventy-fourth Coast Artillery
Red Cross
American patrol boats armed on the Rhine
The Rhine American fleet comprises 12 vessels including ten patrol craft and one supply boat plus the Prussian used by General Dickman. The Prussian, a premier steam yacht requisitioned from Coblenz district head mayor, joins operations alongside machine gun armed boats once used by marines at Soissons.
Three Bavarian Parties Issue Ultimatum to Government
In Munich three leading parties the Bavarian People's Party the German People's Party and the Munich Liberal Party unite to issue an ultimatum to the Bavarian Government. The Socialist Party abstains from signing.
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Munich
Bavarian People’s Party
German People’s Party
Liberal Party
Socialist Party
Railway to Be Scrap Iron Heap in Findlay
After a long period of uncertainty the fate of the Cincinnati Findlay and Ft. Wayne railroad is apparently sealed. Work to link the line between Cincinnati and Ft. Wayne will begin later this week with two crews on site. Work starts at the Ft. Wayne end first.
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Findlay, O
Cincinnati, Findlay
Ft. Wayne
China Decorates Hurley With Chinese Order
The Chinese Government conferred the Order of Chiaohu second class on Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the United States Shipping Board.
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Peking
Edward N. Hurley
United States Shipping Board
Coblenz hears Star Spangled Banner in French troop review
General Dickman reviews French troops in Coblenz as the town for the first time since occupation hears the Star Spangled Banner played by a French band. American officials continue unobtrusive oversight as French troops pass through the city.
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Dickman
Coblenz
Cobleny
Medical Adviser for Home Nursing and Dr Pierce Remedies Ad
An advertisement touts the Medical Adviser book with 1 008 pages and a home care focus including First Aid Bandaging care of fractures taking care of the sick physiology hygiene and more. It also promotes Dr Pierce s Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery citing a testimonial from Mia Bettie Gunn about health improvements.
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Main St
Buffalo
N. Y
Tennessee City
Tenn
Dr. Pierce
Mia
Bettie Gunn
Desert Island Sailors Seek Prayer and Collection
Two shipwrecked sailors endure hunger and cold on a desert island. One asks the other if he can pray or sing, then proposes a religious collection to cope with misery.
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Bill
Dead Shot Worm Expeller Claims Single Dose Efficacy
Dr Peery s Dead Shot promises to expel worms or tapeworm with a single dose no second dose or purgative needed it tones up the stomach and bowels advertised claim users advised to try the remedy for intestinal issues.
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Dr. Peery
Water Hanging Plant with Hidden Cup Technique
Place a small funnel in the basket center with the cup part above soil hidden by foliage. Fill daily so water soaks into soil gradually without running onto floors or carpets.
The Bore Leaves No Memory of His Victims
A terse crime note describes a predator who harms victims without leaving lasting memories or evidence. Authorities warn the public about the suspect’s elusive pattern and urge any sightings to contact police immediately.
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Soldiers and Workmen's Councils
London Times
George
Secretary Daniels
Hog Island Investigation
Pres. Wilson
R. A. Bartlet
Arctics
Aero Club
Cape Columbia
Bavaria
China
Religious
Cascara
Mr. Hill
Baker's
Pav
Ore
Walter Baker & Co. Ltd
Dorchester, Mass
Ree Eneera
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