War News Digest From The Seven Day Epitomized
Reports from Hicks Field Fort Worth Arcadia and Macon span aviation fatalities and training. Casualties include Second Lieutenant Reinbooth and Ca det Mason of Canada. Also, the Whitman fire near Greenwood South Carolina kills a mother and six children. War marriage surge noted in Protestant Episcopal Church.
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Reinbooth
Bury St. Edmunds
England
Fort Worth
Texas
Camp Talisaferro
Mason
Hicksfield
Royal Flying Corps
Mickey Welcha
United States
Candelaria
J. L Whitman
Whitman
Greenwood
8. C
Protestant Episcopal Church
New York City
Malden
L. H. Wissman
Havana
Wissman
State Committee of Georgia
Frank A. Vanderlip
New York
Atlanta
Georgia
Abert C. Kalschmidt
United States District Court
Detroit
Mich
Albert C. Kalschmid
U. S
Benbrook
Arcadia
Fla
Signal Corps
Punta Gorda
Tampa
Macon
Red Cross Society
S. L. Lowry
D. B. Givens
Guatemala City Ruined by Christmas Earthquakes
Washington reports Guatemala City ruined by a Christmas Day to early morning series of earthquakes. A cable confirms 125,000 people in streets without shelter and many killed by falling walls. Naval vessels ordered to aid stricken city as seismographs mark shocks around 5:57 to 7:00 p.m. local time.
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Washington
Guatemala City
Republic
Guatemala
Navy Department
Georgetown University Observatory
Smileage books for soldiers plans of theatrical shows
Washington plans for selling "smileage" books to soldiers at army camps. The program funds 64 theaters at 16 cantonments with 3000-seat shows and 1500 to 2000-seat National Guard tents. The books offer 5 cent coupons for 1 or 5 dollars, exchangeable for admission, effectively giving up to 50 performances.
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Washington
War Department Commission
National Army
Marc Klaw
Klaw & Erlanger
New York
Destructive earthquake hits Guatemala City causing widespread death
San Salvador reports Guatemala City destroyed by a major quake. Colon theater collapsed with many fatalities among attendees. Hospitals, asylums, prisons damaged and deaths reported among patients and prisoners. Rail depot, sugar mills, post office, legations, consulate, churches levelled. Over 80,000 homeless. Provisions scarce. aid requested. New Year celebrations suspended.
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San Salvador
Guatemala City
Republic of Guatemala
Colon Theater
United States
Guatemala
Unnatural Germans to be registered in wartime drive
Washington announced an planned week of February 4 to register about a half million naturalized and naturalizing Germans in the continental United States under President Wilson s alien enemy proclamation. The procedure includes gathering details on business, relatives, habits, plus photographs and fingerprints. After registration carriers must carry a card and cannot change residence without police or postmaster approval. Violations risk internment. Austrian-Hungary subjects are exempt. German women and children under 14 are not required to register.
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Italy
Piave Front
Asiago
Col del Rosso
Venice
Paris
France
Belgium
Ferdinand of
Roumania
Smolny Institute
Bolsheviki
Petrograd
Leon Trotzky
Bolsheviks
Congress
Kaledines
Don Cossacks
Trotzky
William
German War Office
Monte Asolone
Monte Pertica
Monte Solarolo
Asia Minor
Aleppo
Brent-Litovsk
Europe
Amsterdam
Telegraaf
Krupp
Essen
Washington
Department of Justice
Continental
United States
Wilson
Austria-Hungary
Provisional Peace Talks Open In Brest-Litovsk Discussions
Provisional agreement reported by delegates from Russia and central powers in Berlin and London on December 30 covered war prisoner liberation and resumption of trade. The discussion, aiming to settle issues for a broader peace, was terminated.
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Brest-Litovsk
Berlin
London
Russia
Enlisted men sent to paper ordnance base
Washington reports Secretary Baker ordered investigation into why ordnance corps troops were mobilized at a base that appears to exist only on paper. About twenty soldiers were moved to Raritan New Jersey and will be housed at Camp Upton while officers work to untangle the confusion.
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Washington
Baker
Ordnance Corps
Raritan
Ordnance
Camp Upton
Madoc Orders NewA.A. War Board Traffic Pooling Plan
War board now directs freight movement by the most direct routes. McAdoo, as director general of railroads, issues orders to pool traffic and operate government rail lines. Railroads under government control, with potential continued war board leadership for now.
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Washington
United States
McAdoo
Wilson
Railroads’ War Board
War Board
Treasury Department
Teutonic Peace Terms Fail to Satisfy Allies
Great Britain and France reject Teutonic peace terms as inadequate and vow to keep fighting. Labor leaders in Britain align with Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Minister Pichon, while the United States and Entente demand a concrete peace basis. Meanwhile Bolshevik Russia delays Brest-Litovsk talks to January 4 as Trotsky plans new notes to Entente embassies and world publics.
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Great Britain
France
Wilson
United States
Lloyd George
Pichon
Russia
Brest-Litovsk
Trotsky
Prohibition for Troops in France Under Debate
Washington reports that prohibition of intoxicants for American expeditionary force members is under discussion by General Pershing and French authorities. Pershing advised the War Department after clarifying his order that forbids soldiers from buying any strong intoxicants except wine or beer.
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Francis Griffith Newlands
Nevada
Washington
Newlands
Senate
Germany
Pacific
Turkey
United States
France
Thansksgiving
General Pershing
War Department
Pershing
McAdoo appeals merchants to stop selling bonds at par
Secretary McAdoo urged Washington merchants who offered Liberty bonds at par or premium for merchandise to halt the practice. He said their patriotic motives may misjudge the impact, noting the government aims to have bonds purchased as permanent investments and to support the currency position.
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Washington
McAdoo
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Argentina
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Australia
Lane
Franklin K. Lane
Bureau of Mines
Nature
America
Department of the Interior
Army
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War Camps
War and Navy Departments
Four Minute Men
Newton D. Baker
Porto Rico
Department of Agriculture
Alaska
Guam
Hawaii
Ordnance Bureau
Quartermaster’s Department
Canal Zone
The
Food Administration
Camp Meade
Fuel Administration
Madoc
Newa.a. War Board
M’adoo
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