Wilson Will Not Sit as Delegate at Peace Conference
President Wilson plans to attend preliminary talks in Paris and aims to push the league of nations while avoiding a full delegate role. He intends to discuss freedom of the seas with Lloyd George and prefers guiding sessions from the sidelines.
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Lloyd George
Wilson
Washington
New York
George
Clemenceau
Orlando
United States
Paris
of Nations
McCauley
Wfill
George Washington
France
White House
British Ships to Carry U S Troops for Return Home
Washington reported that British ships with tonnage enough to move about 40,000 American troops each month will be placed at the disposal of the United States. Chair Edward Hurley said plans for returning troops are progressing after talks with Lord Reading and Sir Joseph MacLay, with Pershing also conferenced. Officials expect immediate transport of 40,000 soldiers home in British ships over the next month.
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Washington
United States
England
United States Shipping Board
Edward N. Hurley
London
Lord Reading
Sir Joseph MacLay
Pershing
Hurley
Shipping Board
Army Reassignments Tie McAdoo Kin to Peace Commission
Paris dispatch notes several high ranking officers reassigned. Marshall Field moves from artillery to serve as liaison between the commission and the American commander in the Paris region. William McAdoo Jr attaches to the peace commission section. Powell Glass and Major Glass join the staff in the peace offices adjacent to Maxim's, with Glass Jr serving as secretary of the treasury and a member of the Eightieth division staff.
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Paris
Ican
Marshall Field
Luxem
William McAdoo
Air
Secretary of Treasury
Peace
Powell Glass
Carter Glass
Secretary of the Treasury
Peace Commission
Maxim
Glass
Arraignment in police court over stock theft claim
On December 10 Benjamin Wey husband of actress Julia Arthur and Armond F lts secretary were arraigned in police court charged with stealing 100 shares of Gila copper valued at 1775 dollars from stock broker Sederouist. The alleged theft involved wash sales to keep the price up. Murray ordered the case continued until tomorrow.
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Benjamin. Wey
Julia Arthur
Armond D
What Belgium Will Ask at Peace Table
Belgium at the peace conference seeks free passage of the Scheldt river and restoration of Limburg and Luxemburg provinces lost in 1849. Foreign Minister Paul Hymans said via La Metropole that Belgium should also regain Malmedy St Vith Eupen and Montjoie and other Liege towns taken by Germany. He noted Scheldt control by the Netherlands hurts Antwerp’s sea access.
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Belgium
Scheldt
Limburg
Luxemburg
Paul Hymans
la Metrople
Antwerp
North Sea
Germany
M. Hymans
Malmady
Stedth
Euphen Montiole
Liege
Netherlands
Holland
Embargo on Hog Shipments to Chicago Markets
Washington orders a two day embargo on hog shipments to union stock yards in Chicago to prevent market overload. No hogs will be received today and tomorrow. shipments may resume Thursday. Regional Director Ashton in Chicago halted arrivals at convenient feeding yards. This marks a first ever such action by the bureau of markets.
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Washington
Union
Chicago
Railway Administration
Bureau of Markets
Department of Agriculture
Ashton
Public Market Ad at 400 Main Street
Public Market at 400 Main Street near Stueck bakery advertises homemade sausage meat and baked ham. It promotes frying canned corned beef and fresh ground bone for hens at 6 cents a pound, along with native hams, fresh shoulders, pig parts, and various beef and lamb cuts for roasts, stews, and steaks.
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Main Street
Stueck Bakery
U Boats Planted Mines Here Near Newport Coast
Newport R I December 10 The German government sent charts showing mine locations on the coast and the mine fleet from this district is sweeping near the Nantucket Shoals lightship. Two kinds of mines drift and anchored. Six mine sweepers are at work.
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Newport
R. I
United States
Nantucket Shoals
Grain in Elevators and Cleared at Atlantic and Gulf Ports
Washington December 10 Director General McAdoo reported weekly figures for November 28 showing 276,808 tons of grain in elevators at North Atlantic ports with 220,398 tons cleared. Gulf ports held 250,892 tons in elevators and 31, $20 tons cleared.
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Washington
McAdoo
Amer ican Third Army Advances Toward German Front
Pershing report states the American Third Army pushes into Germany reaching a line from Rolansech to Brohl with nightfall listing Rolansech Brohl Wassenach Mun as the general front.
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Pershing
Washington
Amercan Third
Germany
Rolansech
Brohl
War Department
Wassenach-Mun
Berlin Ainde Martial Law Proclaimed Amid Uprising
Berlin declares martial law as counter revolutionary agitation spreads from Hamburg to Munich. Dr. Karl Liebknecht calls for overthrow of the government within 15 days while Germany reels from Bolshevik actions and censorship efforts. Schleswig Holstein poised to declare a republic as Danish demands self determination.
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Paris
Berlin
Zurich
L’information
Karl Liebknecht
Liebknecht
Schleswig-Holstein
Denmark
Prussia
Austria
Control of Packers Aims to Open Free Markets
Representative Sims of Tennessee introduces a bill to curb the big five meat packers by indirect licensing to ensure free competitive markets. The measure, drafted by the federal trade commission and approved by President Wilson, seeks to break the meat trust without nationalizing any plants.
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Washington
Sims
Tennessee
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Federal Trade Commission
Meat Trust
Wilson
Foch to Visit America After Peace Terms Signed
Marshal Foch of France is expected to visit the United States as a guest of New York City soon after peace terms are settled. In reply to a cable from Mayor John F. Hylan, he expresses gratitude, accepts the honor, and regards the city’s freedom as a right.
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New York
Marshal Foch
France
United States
New York City
John F. Hyan
America
McAdoo vows no return to wasteful railroad practices
Director General McAdoo of the United States railroad administration pledged to the American people that wasteful and extravagant practices would not be revived under any circumstances even if the government decides what to do with railroad properties. He stressed that private control previously allowed such waste and would not resume postwar.
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Washington
McAdoo
United States Railroad Administration
Wilson Urges Europe Mission For Reconstruction Board
President Wilson asked Secretary Wilson and Vance McCormick to go to Europe as members of the reconstruction and raw materials commission. The move was disclosed this afternoon and aims to coordinate postwar recovery efforts.
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Wilson
Europe
Washington
Eaber Wilson
Vance McCormick
War Trade Board
Prescient Wilson
Reconstruction and Raw Materials Commission
Unemployment Dropping in Bridgeport Factories
Bridgeport reports unemployment falling near zero among factory workers. United States Employment Service data show 30 fewer applications at the local office today than last Monday, indicating improving conditions for workers in the area.
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Bridgeport
United States Employment Service
Service
Monay
Metal Prices Reported With Varied Lead Spelter Rates
New York metal market notes lead unchanged and spelter quiet. East St. Louis spot offered at 835 with December at 825, January 815, February 805, and March 800.
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New York
East St. Louis
New England Troop Ships Reach Port in Heavy Casualties
New England troops arrive as the Kroonland and Empress of Britain dock with hundreds of officers and men including thousands of sick and wounded. Other ships expected or arriving include Mercy, Tenadores, Susquehanna, Adriatic, Ascanius, Siamese Prince, and Canopic due to reach Boston lightship with about 2000 soldiers for demobilization at Camp Devens.
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New York
Kroonland
Brest
France
New England
Liverpool
Empress of Britain
Mercy
Bordeaux
Verdon
St. Nazaire
Cofort
St. Mary’s Hospital
Hoboken
Canopic
Boston
Berry
Menace of
White Star Line
Camp Devens
United Fruit role in Costa Rica revolt debated in Senate panel
Washington reports reveal a Senate foreign relations sub committee examined United Fruit Co influence in the Gonzales overthrow and Tinoco setup. Acting Secretary Polk submitted state department documents and agents’ activities, while Senator Lodge urged a hands off stance and private findings.
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Washington
United Fruit Co
Gonzales
Cosa Rica
Tinoco
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Moses
Senate
Polk
State Department
Lodge
Capitol
Frear Resolution Probes National League Activities
Representative Stafford of Wisconsin opened debate on the Frear resolution calling for a congressional investigation of the National Security Leagues political activities during this year’s campaign. Stafford said munition makers boasted they would spend thousands to defeat him in the election. Stafford, a Republican, was defeated for re election this year.
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Washington
House
Stafford
Wisconsin
Frear
National Security Leagues
House bill seeks two year immigration suspension
Washington December 10 A bill introduced by Representative Lufkin of Massachusetts proposes a two year suspension of all immigration. Exemptions would apply to government officials ministers or teachers of religion professional men merchants commercial travelers and tourists and their families.
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Washington
Lufkin
Massachusetts
Senate inquiry into three inch shell shortage
Washington December 10 Senator Poindexter of Washington asked in the senate for an investigation into alleged shell shortages for American forces during the war. He argued that if a half dozen traitors had been shot early in the war many better men would have been saved.
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Washington
Senate
Poindexter
British naval group inspects German ships at Hamburg
The British naval inspection commission examining German seacraft for internment and disarmament has reached Hamburg, with information reaching Copenhagen today.
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Copenhagen
British Naval Inspection Commission
Hamburg
17,000 Died in Camps of Flu in World War I
Washington reports that about 17,000 U S army members died of influenza in military camps during the epidemic this year. Total deaths at camps reached 338,257 with 19,094 total deaths from all causes since September 13 to December 1. Camp Funston led in cases, while Camp Grant recorded the most deaths at 1,091. Other camps with high influenza totals included Devens Taylor Pike Lee and Meade.
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Washington
United States Army
War Department
Camp Funston
Kan
Camp Grant
Ill
Devens
Taylor
Pike
Lee
Meade
Camp Wheeler
Will of Captain de Lamar Leaves Major Medical Grants
The will of Captain Joseph Raphael de Lamar bequeaths half of his estate, over 20 million dollars, to Harvard Medical School Johns Hopkins and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons for medical research and living principles. The other half goes to daughter Alice Antoinette de Lamar in trust, with reversion to those institutions if she dies without issue. An unusual clause asserts the captain was never married and had only one child.
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New York
Joseph Raphael de Lamar
Harvard University Medical School
Johns-Hopkins University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
Alice Antoinette de Lamar
Antoinette
Meriden Man Shoots Wife Then Kills Himself
Michael Gudowicz shot Mrs Sophie Kisiel 22, wife of Charles Kisiel, at 286 Center Street Meriden then turned the gun on himself. He died. she remained in serious condition with a bullet wound to the head. Police say unrequited love sparked the tragedy. Gudowicz, 34, had threatened to sue the Kissels for gifts he gave.
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Meriden
Sophie Kisiel
Charles Kisiel
Center Street
Michael Gudowicz
Meriden Hospital
E. T .Radstreet
Gulowicz
Kissels
Gudowicz
Europe
After Thaw Again New York Seeks Extradition
New York authorities contend Harry Kendall Thaw is mentally responsible after Pennsylvania sanity rulings. Edwin P. Kilroe travels to Philadelphia to review records on Thaw’s condition and possible extradition for the Frederick Gump kidnapping case.
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New York
Harry Kendall Thaw
Stanford White
Frederick Gump
Kansas City
Edwin P. Kilroe
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Thaw
U. S. Seamen Brutally Treated By German Raiders
Copenhagen dispatch reports American sailors captured by German raiders Moewe and Wolf and brought to Aarhus Denmark. About 500 prisoners were driven from their camp without food or word of the armistice and later described brutal treatment by their captors.
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U. S
London
Moewe An
Aarhus
Denmark
Copenhagen
Postal Appropriations Cut By House Committee
Washington December 10 the house committee on postoffices and post roads reports postal appropriations totaling 359657577 for the July 1 1919 fiscal year a decrease of about 2 million from the department request the department had sought 36872575 and the committee trimmed 9125 from the total
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Washington
House Committee On
House
British Protest Delays Action on Burleson Order
New York December 10. The British government reportedly asked that the Commercial Cable Co refrain from implementing any Burleson recommendations until British approval was obtained. Western Union officials declined comment, and Carl ton was away. A second equity suit against Burleson was filed by Hughes and Cook for Commercial Pacific Cable Co, alleging seizure of cables occurred without Senate consultation.
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New York
Britis
Commercial Cable Co
Burleson
Western Union Cable Department
Carlton
Western Union
Charles E. Hughes
William W. Cook
Commercial-Pacific Cable Co
San Francisco
China
Japan
Philippine Islands
Senate
Burleson Wrecked Air Mail Sparks Call for Probe
Chicago reports Captain K B Lipsner former air mail superintendent demands congressional investigation into Postmaster General Burleson. He accuses the Post Office of hindering the aerial mail service and claims the war department plane effort costing 650 million may be junked. He cites Praeger’s announced 186 million appropriation for new construction.
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Chicago
Burleson
K. B. Lipsner
L. Y. Sherman
Illinois
Lipsner
War Department
Praeger
Lloyd George calls for just peace to deter future war
London dec 10 premier Lloyd George urged women voters at Albert Hall to reject a peace that repeats past German errors. He backed a league of nations to make war difficult, insisted rulers and German people alike should be held responsible, and warned armies must not be permitted to provoke future conflicts.
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London
British Wireless Press
Alsace-Lorraine
Germany
Lloyd George
Albert Hall
League of Nations
Beard named professor of military science at Yale R O T C
Col L A Beard field artillery has been appointed by the war department as professor of military science and tactics at Yale university. He will arrive December 19 to take charge of the Yale R O T C which will be reorganized at the start of the January term. Beard, a West Point graduate, is regarded as one of the best young field artillery officers and his Yale appointment may become permanent.
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Yale R. O. T. C
New Haven
Col. L. A. Beard
Field Artillery
War Department
Yale University
Yale
Col. Beard
West Point
Count Karolyi Attempted Suicide in Despair
London reports Count Karolyi former Hungarian premier and first president of the national assembly attempted to take his own life on Sunday due to despair over Hungary's reconstruction. The attempt was frustrated according to Amsterdam dispatches with no further details provided.
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Count Karolyi
London
Hungary
National Assembly
Amsterdam
Prussian Cabinet Demands Hindenburg Surrender
Amsterdam December 10 President Strobel of the new Prussian cabinet demands the surrender of von Hindenburg, chief of the German army, asserting documents prove he ousted Bethmann Hollweg as chancellor for proposing reforms, according to Berlin reports.
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Hindenburg
Amsterdam
Strobel
von Hindenburg
Bethmann-Hollweg
Berlin
Cardinal Guidoni Honored as Grand Cross Knight
Rome dec 10 King Victor Emmanuel names Cardinal Guidoni a chevalier of the Grand Cross with the grand ribbon of the crown.
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Cardinal Guidoni
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Carrdinal Guidoni
Ex-War Lord Fears Extradition After Suicide Attempt
London report says former German emperor William Hohenzollern attempted suicide at Amerongen in a melancholy move. A staff member intervened, was wounded, and attendants keep the ex-monarch under constant surveillance amid fears of extradition and trial.
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London
William Hohenzollern
Amerongen
Exchange Telegraph
Copenhagen
Leipsiger Tageblatt
International
William
Frear Bill Passes In Unanimous House Vote
Washington December 10 the house without a roll call unanimously approved the Frear resolution for a broad congressional investigation of the national security league and its anti election activities this year. Speaker Clark named a seven member investigating committee with authority to sit nationwide and compel witnesses. Towner declined due to illness. replacement to be named later.
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Washington
House
Frear
National Security League
Congress
Clark
Harrison
Mississippi
Johnson
Kentucky
Saunders
Virginia
Caraway
Arkansas
Reavis
Nebraska
Towner
Iowa
Walsh
Massachusetts
Marshall to Preside at Cabinet Session
Washington records show Vice President will chair a cabinet meeting for the first time in history. The session, announced by the White House, follows a radio-ordered travel note from President Wilson aboard the George Washington. No emergency is indicated. routine matters only.
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Washington
United States
White House
Wilson
Marea
Republicans Sign Minority Report in Revenue Bill Clash
Washington December 10 The minority report on the revenue bill warned against fixing taxes for a year hence calling such a policy fallacious and unsound. Senator Penrose led the report, signed by all Republicans on the finance committee except Senator LaFollette, arguing that 1919 20 changes render current taxes valueless when collected then.
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Washington
Penrose
Finance Committee
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Unfilled Steel Orders Decline In November Totals
United States Steel Corporation reports un filled orders at November 30 totaling 8,124,663 tons, down from 8,353,293 tons on October 31, a drop of 228,630 tons.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Wireless nomination sent to Senate for Detroit customs post
Washington December 10 President Wilson sent the first nomination by wireless to the Senate at noon today. Richard Lawson of Detroit is nominated to be collector of customs for district No. 38 with headquarters at Detroit.
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Washington
Senate
Wilson
Richard Lawson
Detroit
District No. 38
Returning Soldiers Transport Numbers Reported by General March
Seven transports carried 3351 American soldiers 138 officers and 40 civilians from Europe to the United States in the past week General March chief of staff announced late this afternoon in Washington
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Washington
Europe
United States
General March
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