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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
1
Twenty air battles were fought on a single forenoon on a French sector as Allied air supremacy pressures German lines. Prisoners report only one non commissioned officer aware of the Kaiser’s peace overtures, while German and British artillery exchange fire and German commanders order countering actions against Allied air dominance.
Baltimore and Ohio officials report unusually heavy travel this week with extra coaches added to all through trains. Traffic peaks Saturday with trains loaded to capacity as snow and cold worsen track conditions. Officials caution on delays but aim for safe, speedy operation despite heavy express and through service.
The wheat market opened nervously on Wednesday at Associated Press Chicago. May delivery opened around $1.64 to $1.65, briefly touching $1.62 3/4 in early trading. July fell to about $1.36, down two and three quarters cents. S. M. Steele observed in from Moundsville.
Miss Eleanor Blevins, noted actress and aviator, set a record time driving from Philadelphia to Washington. She completed the trip in a little over three hours, signaling a new record for a woman motorist.
Baltimore and Ohio railroad placed an embargo Tuesday night against all westbound carload freight from connections west of Cumberland Maryland except perishables livestock and foodstuffs for human consumption. Embargo to ease shipment backlog and prevent congestion at terminal points.
The Associated Press reports Nebraska endured its coldest spell of the season on Wednesday. Valentine registered twenty six degrees below zero, Norfolk fifteen below, and Omaha’s weather bureau noted ten below. Sioux City Iowa reported fifteen below and Sioux Falls South Dakota twenty two below, marking extreme lows across the region.
Berlin Dec 20 General Berth elot French military strategist has asked to be recalled from the Roumanian front where he has been engaged for some time. Hamburger Fremdenblatt reports most British officers attached to the Roumanian general staff have departed for England. The same paper cites a long conference between King Ferdinand of Roumania and General Alexeiv of the Russian army on the military situation of the Roumanian forces.
Washington reports a December meeting of railroad officials and shipping interests focusing on preventing abuse of reconsignment privileges that allow cars to be held in transit. Participants discussed curbing speculative use of cars as warehouses rather than carriers and improving the system overall.
Governor Craig orders three day home parole for Trusties in North Carolina prisons and camps starting next Sunday. Convicts must vow to return by noon December 27. Last Christmas over 80 prisoners were paroled under similar terms and reported back to authorities.
In Toledo on December 20 three hundred workers in the car shops of the Wabashi railroads faced a wage cut of ten percent. Wallace B iesioras is named as president.
A New York report states that broken or forfeited contracts linked to the clothing strike have produced losses of 150 million dollars, with calls by Jacob Schlossberg, general secretary of the strikers union, for war supply and spring apparel contract disruption. Atlanta dispatch notes wages for 3,400 operatives in the Cotton Goods Campanise at Aitken Langley and Seminole.
The Overseas News Agency’s military critic reports Romanian forces are being driven toward a narrow embanked zone in eastern Wallachia despite rain and soaked roads. They claim Danube to Sereth barriers constrain Romanian resistance, with Rimnik Sarat as a remaining town in Bowmanian bands while Braila Galatz and Fokshani sit strategically behind the Sereth line. In Dobrudja Russians retreat south of Babnadagh under Bulgarian pressure. The Central Powers front shortens about 600 miles. in the west British gains near Verdun are a political show with little effect on the overall war. The year 1916 is not improved for France by minor local successes.
The Elks charity benefit at the Palace features The Ragtime Santa Klaus, a holiday song by Dillebar and Smith, once highlight of the Masonic Club's Merry Minstrels. The act includes electrical effects an Xmas tree and Santa Klaus distributing presents to all in attendance.
Robbers entered the Oklahoma National Bank at Skiatook near Tulsa on Wednesday and escaped with about 20000 in currency and silver after blowing the safe. Investigators say the bandits had a several hour head start from Tulea and Skiatook as telegraph wires into town were cut. Skiatook lies five miles from the Osage hills, a longtime outlaw rendezvous, and officials believe the robbers may be hiding there.
One passenger died and several were injured when the Seminole Limited from Jacksonville to Chicago derailed nine miles from Opelika on the Central of Georgia tracks. The dead man was B. Kirkpatrick of Indiana. Six cars overturned and tumbled down an embankment, with broken rail cited as the cause. In Birmingham Alabama, a fire in a women’s clothing store caused over 200 thousand dollars in damage, with A Williams and Company adjacent properties also heavily damaged.
Washington reports 200 Americans detained in Syria and Palestine by Turkish authorities seek permission to depart via Beirut on condition they are interned in Beirut for a month to neutralize any military information they may possess.
In Indianapolis on December 20, Indiana reformers clash over strategy to push statutory or constitutional prohibition. J Frank Hanly opposes the Anti Saloon League leadership while a federation of groups forms sans ASL. Brewers and politicians plan fights as Bryan may be drawn into the campaign.
Alfred Zimmerman has just succeeded Dr von Jagow as German minister of foreign affairs. His duties resemble the American secretary of state, and he will answer Mr Lansing's notes.
Dispatch reports thousands of Roumanians fleeing German and Bulgarian invasion cross into Russian territory. They stream into Odessa and Kiev in destitute condition, posing a refugee problem Russia struggles to manage amid economic strain and ongoing population pressures.
Funeral services for Donald Edwin Wine aged one year will be held at 10 30 Thursday morning in Mt Clare Odd Fellows cemetery. He died Tuesday night after a brief illness. Son of Mr and Mrs A Fleming Wine he was taken ill Tuesday morning and grew worse, losing consciousness by evening. His father is a clerical employee at Grasselli Chemical Company Grognelli plant.
Former Mayor Franke i Moore offers the Elks room on South Fourth Street for the distribution of Christmas charity articles to the needy. The Elks club chair Claude H Atzrodt asks stores near the hotel Gore and garages listed to prepare arrangements for the Friday morning distribution with names to be sent in beforehand.
Fire swept through the Allen department store in Atlanta early Wednesday, causing about 200,000 dollars in estimated damage as a wall fell. Investigators have not yet disclosed a cause. Local fire units battled the blaze for hours, with extensive damage to the storefront and adjacent structures.
Fragments describe a county lunacy matter and a Wednesday court session. Text mentions Homer Beverlinry, Orville usty, and shooting hints with names like T M Dent and son McRell from Westons, with Bemble Whittelish Bere on monte noted.
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