Halifax Fire Fends Off Ship Sinking Blaze and Relief Efforts
Halifax reports detail a blaze aboard the British steamer Pleton causing a cargo of immigrants to be thrown overboard. Firemen prevented a larger disaster, with doctors and aid arriving as relief efforts unfold and famine fears ease. authorities urge residents to stay away for urgent matters. In Petrograd the consituent assembly’s central committee is arrested by Bolshevik guards as Kovensky contemplates a cabinet role amid a vote showing Bolshevik strength.
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Halitar
Lamber
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Korensky
Livestock Shipments Regulated Around Chicago Market
New wartime plan set daily shipment rules from three zones around Chicago to stabilize prices. Within 300 miles, livestock arrives by Tuesday Thursday Friday or Sunday for Chicago. A second zone 100 miles to the 60 hour limit allows shipments on Monday Wednesday Friday or Saturday. Outside these zones shipments may reach Chicago any weekday.
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Rull Wade War Board
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Pro German Interests Forge U5 Bonds Down
Secretary McAdoo told a conference of 100 Liberty Loan committee representatives that forced sales by German interests were responsible for Liberty bonds selling under par. Also reports from California discuss district medical boards reexamining doubtful draft registrants and plans to combine California electrical power resources under one management for wartime efficiency.
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Germany Gathers Largest Western Army Says Baker
Secretary Baker reports in his weekly war review that Germany has massed its greatest western army of the war. He urges faster U S preparation to meet what he calls a revived German strength and notes the Cambrai setback as part of a broader push on multiple fronts including France and Italy.
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Baker
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France
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Italy
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Vie
Alte
Mackea
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Rebels in Portugal Victorious
Lisbon reports a successful revolution in Portugal overthrowing the government of Prime Minister Costa. Sidonio Pena, former Portugal minister to Germany, heads a provisional government as Soares Franco and Alvon Rogadue lead the revolutionaries. Alfonso Goza is reportedly fleeing to Guarda.
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Sidonio Peas
Soares Franco
Alvon Rogadue
Alfonso Goxta
Querda
Night bombardment sinks Spanish steamship Claudio
Associated Press report from Madrid dated December 1 says the premier announced that night sailors were killed and others wounded in the bombardment of the Spanish steamship Claudio by a German submarine.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Claudio
No Americans Killed by Blast at Halifax
No Americans were killed in the Halifax explosion according to reports to American consul general Ethelbert Watts. Pheodore Wisher was badly cut by flying glass but otherwise unharmed.
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Associated Presa
Ethelbert Watts
Pheodore Wisher
G Lass
Supreme Court Limits Picketing By Unions In Open Shops
The Supreme Court ruled six to three that employers may block union solicitations of nonunion workers seeking to join unions in open shop contexts. The decision centers on United Mine Workers and American Flint Clone Workers' union cases, deeming certain organizing methods as false and harmful.
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Washington
Ai Preme
United Mine Workers of America
American Flint Clone Workers’ Union
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Busy week for solons
Washington dispatch reports Congress plans immediate action after President Wilson’s decision on railroad operations. Leaders weigh government control of railroads, voluntary unification, and financial aid amid a busy legislative calendar with broad views and possible special address.
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Austria Hungary
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Pase Tours
Von Bernstorff Weds An American Woman
Berlin dispatch reports former ambassador Von Bernstorff married Mrs. Margarete Vivian Ourtoh-Thomason of Burlington New Jersey in a ceremony noted by newspapers here The announcement names the couple and the city of Burlington as her residence with the event dated December 9 a Sunday.
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Berlin
von Dernstorff
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Vivian Ourtoh-Thomason
Burlington, N. J
Auto crash injures Bell and three others near Goldfield
Last evening in Belle Aute on the road to Goldfield Lee Bell and two friends were sideswiped by a Buick owned by Louis Prisinger. DeWitt Walker suffered three broken ribs while the Buick occupants fled after the collision leaving the driver and third passenger to fight among themselves. The Buick was damaged and Prisinger was the owner.
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Belle Aute
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Louis Prisinger
Tonopah
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Soll
Buick
DeWitt Walker
Midland
Mobilization notes amid Petrograd food block and Berlin armistice talk
Dispatches from Amsterdam and London report provisional Russian civil orders to halt European food shipments to Petrograd citing risk to Germany. Berlin confirms a front armistice with Russia and Romania along the lower Danube. Novo-Tohorkak is cited as a center of anti Bolshevik activity with cavalry and organized labor. Continued on page four.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Siberia
European Russia
Germany
Berlin
Teutoni
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Danube
Surrenders and battles in the Italian and French fronts
Reports describe Jerusalem surrender after surround by British forces. Hungarian infantry storms Italian bridges near Caposila capturing 200 prisoners. Austro German pressure pushes on the Axingo plains as Italian and Allied troops counter with artillery and boulders. Front activity remains lighter in France and Belgium with mutual bombardments. Halifax relief fund of 1 million dollars announced by Prime Minister Borden to aid victims.
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Polnik
Mare
Hrenta Rivera
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Plase
France
Belgium
North Sea
Verdun
Cambrai
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Bantoux
Hezonvaux
Pneumonia Patient Taken To County Hospital
Cal Bottomsey of Manhattan was brought to the county hospital yesterday suffering from pneumonia. A report states Serenenner-leeewenarennenhnes seeks a government post to direct the production of trinitroteluol.
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Cal Bottomsey
Manhattan
Serenenner
Eeewenarennenhnes
Murderer of Little Boy Sought by Mob
Santa Ana Cal Dec 10 authorities found the severed head of Leonard Hearwick 11 under a tree where Eddie Keyes allegedly confessed he hid it after the boy had been beaten with a knife and the body thrown in a ditch Keyes has been charged with degenerate acts He was removed to Los Angeles yesterday when a crowd gathered at the jail
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Leonard Hearwick
Eddie Keyes
Keyen
Los Angeles
Western League meeting notes new members and southern expansion talk
Portin and Bloomington Tilinoix are favored as new Western league members while Oklahoma City and Tilano by President Dickerson are considered unlikely additions. Most club owners attend, Hugh Jones absent, Jones proxy held by E. L. Manton of Bronx City. Executive session begins after 2 p m yesterday.
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Portin
Bloomington
Tilinoix
KB. W. Dickerson
Oklahoma City
Tilan
Dickerson
Hugh Jones
Diver
Jones
Manton
Bronx City
Mont Blanc blast cause blamed after great Halifax collision
Halifax dispatch reports officers blame a signal exchange error between Mont Blanc and Imo as the French munition ship sailed toward Bedford Basin. The collision caused a fire and toxic cargo fears as crew evacuated in lifeboats amid rising smoke and explosions.
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Aiomente
Mont Blanc
Weveral
Lamedoe
Bedford Basin
Imo
Harrow
Lameioe
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Convicts to Aid War Effort Reported in Washington
New York dispatch Dec 10 reports privon experts will move convicts from penitentiaries to Washington to assist government prosecutions in the war. Also noted is Daniel Jacksin, noted mining magnate, en route to the capital.
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