Teutons Rushing Troops to France Amid War News
London December reports German forces rush units to the Western Front aiming to smash Allied lines before America can act. A collision of two German munitions trains killed and injured several hundred. Infantry activity paused. artillery active near Cambrai Ypres and Verdun. Jerusalem future position undecided until general peace. Washington debates nationwide Prohibition and woman suffrage as post office budget faces censorship funds.
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War Board Meets to Speed Up Plan Under Wilson
Washington reports detail Secretary Baker praising weekly military reviews as the new war council, led by President Wilson and including five cabinet officers. The meeting aimed to speed up war plans with tighter cooperation among government departments and war boards, though specific measures were not disclosed.
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Fight in Mexico Report Shows Rebel Motives
A scrambled AP despatch notes Unclear claims of Gutierres capture and renewed fighting in a Mexican town. Reporters mention army units and possible clashes near Sumy with dates and names partially garbled.
Bethlehem Steel Receives $2 Million Advance
Wallington, Dec 11. The war economy prompts the United States Navy to advance $2 million to Bethlehem Steel, amid company funding difficulties and reliance on private sources for Bundy supplies. Officials report ongoing defense production and ammunition contracts as 1918 closes.
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Hoarded dollar called a slacker by Vanderlip message
Cincinnati speech by Frank A. Vanderlip, national director of the war savings campaign, denounces hoarded dollars as ally of the enemy. He urges purchase of war savings stamps and certificates to finance the war and conserve materials and energy for essential production.
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Federal Trade Commission to probe dishonest food merchants
Washington December 11 The Federal Trade Commission will prosecute with vigor the investigation of charges by Food Administrator Hoover that some dishonest wholesale and retail merchants and food brokers are criminally responsible for the food shortage and rising prices.
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Sugar Prices Fixed By U S Food Admin
The United States Food Administration fixes retail sugar prices in California for purchases under 100 pounds, limiting family buys to twenty pounds and farmers to 100 pounds. Isolated communities may stock winter supplies in severe weather, while wholesale beet sugar prices rise by ten cents per hundred pounds as Senate orders an inquiry into a sugar shortage.
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Pacifist Preacher Removed by Bishop in Los Angeles
Bishop Leonard announced the removal of Rev B 1 Ryland superintendent of the Los Angeles district for failing to support the bishop in a series of patriotic addresses in large centers. The action takes effect next Monday.
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Vienna paper vents spleen on president
The Vienna Neues Wiener Pageblattaya comments on America's war declaration against Austria asserting President Wilson supports declaring war because Austria aids Germany. It argues the plan lacks fear and criticizes the stance as imprudent amid the global conflict.
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Halifax Rescuers Struggle After North Atlantic Explosion
Debris and a major blast left Halifax in darkness as a munition explosion killed and wounded hundreds. Canadian forces fought through wreckage to recover victims while burial teams and shelter efforts tried to curb an unfolding epidemic threat amidst stormy conditions and widespread homelessness.
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Senate panel to probe War Department on equipment
The senate military committee has ordered a general inquiry into War Department operations in arming and equipping American forces. Secretary Baker and other officials will be summoned to explain various war activities.
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Japanese American First Lieutenant Sakel Receives Commission
Honolulu reports Hawaiian born Japanese American Sakel has received reserve officer training commission. San Francisco notes further wage increases for shipbuilding trades in the Bay Area beyond the 1 percent federal adjustment, according to a telegram from the Iron Trades Council president Burton. The exact amount was not announced.
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Soldiers Get Limit for Riot
Ban Antonio Texas dispatch reports Fort Sam Houston hanged thirteen Negroes for complicity in the Houston riot of August. The Southern department says sixty three tried, forty one sentenced to life, one discharged with forfeiture, two and a half years hard labor, three dishonorable discharges, five acquitted.
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Pigeon with German Message Captured in Halifax
A carrier pigeon captured today in a Halifax home within a burned area carried a four word German message and was marked New York 10. Authorities withheld details pending delivery of the message to the military for verification.
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Tenor McCormack Plans Red Cross Tour Across America
John McCormack, renowned tenor, announced a patriotic concert tour from the Atlantic to the Pacific at his own expense. The fundraiser, benefiting the Red Cross, aims to raise substantial funds and opens in Washington with the president and Mrs. Wilson in attendance.
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Illinois Governor Pleads for More Coal
Governor Cox telegraphed the federal administrator urging immediate relief for Chicago coal shortages. He sought authority to commandeer coal in transit through Ohio for domestic use, saying Chicagoans will gain confidence in the government.
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Girl Aviator Sets Coast Flight From San Diego
Kath Stinson, famed aviator, starts a long coast flight from San Diego at 4:05 AM aiming nonstop to San Francisco. She plans to pass Los Angeles, Bakerfield, and Fresno, reaching the Presidio around 2:20 PM, with seas calm and favorable conditions reported.
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Bolsheviki Revolt Flares Across Europe and Russia
Reports from Copenhagen and London describe Bolshevik actions in Moscow and Petrograd as machine guns appear and garrisons grow insubordinate. Movements by General Kal edines and Don Cossacks threaten Moscow while seaborne trade and food shipments are debated amid advancing counter revolts and shifting Caucasus troop moves.
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Appeal to Reason endorses war stance in new edition
The Ap peal to Reason or gan has expoused the war as a defense of the United States and the allies against Prussia militarism. Louis Kopelin, editor, says Wilsons address clarified the war aim and the paper will rename to The New Appeal from December 22 to reflect broader international aims. The socialist paper supports democracy and criticizes German socialist support for Kaiserism.
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Nations at war defense allies on map and press claim
A reader notes that only defense fighting nations form the allies. The Appeal to Reason, founded in 1806, is described as a leading Socialist mouthpiece with reportedly greater English language circulation than all other American Socialist papers combined, per Mr Kopelin.
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Cold December Weather Sets Records in Ohio Valley
The Associated Press reports Washington on December 11 that the cold spell in December marked forty years in the Ohio valley with temperatures 20 to 40 degrees below normal across the country from the Rockies to the east.
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