Peace bureau reforms outline to reshuffle wartime agencies
Washington November 2. Postwar plans call for maintaining some wartime boards while dissolving others. Hoover to lead food relief abroad as the fuel and munition sectors shift to the interior and agriculture departments. Nonessential industries to absorb war production and auto plants to resume normal operations as the national emergency ends.
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Washington
Nadar
Food Administration
Department of Agriculture
Herbert Hoover
America
Department of the Interior
Congress
Food and Fuel Boards
Automobile Organization
Premier Lloyd George and Col House Telegram Exchange
London November 12 Premier Lloyd George received a telegram from Col Edward M House Wilsons personal representative at the Paris conference praising the British premier for contributions to the victory. Lloyd George replied that Americas support in critical days aided the victory and credited President Wilsons response.
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Lloyd George
Gol
London
Col. E. M. House
Wilson
Paris
Edward M. Howse
Col. House
America
Classification of Men Passed 37 Is Stopped
Washington November 12 Local boards were told by the War Department to halt classifying registrants who on September 12 had reached their 37th birthday and to continue those who reached 19. They were also to issue questionnaires to those who had turned 18 but not 19 and complete the classification of remaining registrants as fast as possible.
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Washington
War Department
Theas
Algo
War Time Prohibition Decision Looms
Washington November 12 War time prohibition would be decided by the President in a few days as the Senate plans to drop the Pomerene anti rent profiteering amendment from the bill. City leaders deny veto prospects while expecting the amendment to become law and enforcement to begin after July 1, 1919 for the wartime ban on liquor.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Sacrifices of Soldiers Not in Vain in Paris Proclamation
Paris declares in a city proclamation that the sacrifices of soldiers ensured victory on all fronts. The message praises the dead, calls for peace, and urges citizens to honor leaders and the republic with restrained enthusiasm. The proclamation celebrates triumph and france and urges enduring gratitude to the dead and living military.
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Paris
The
Republic
France
Twelve Months of Bloodshed Is Prevented
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia told the Senate that President Wilson’s diplomacy saved the world from twelve months more of bloodshed. He praised the armistice terms as satisfactory and said Wilson carried the battle for democracy into Austria and Germany in coordination with General Foch.
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Washington
Wilson
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Senate
Austria
Germany
Foch
Clark Named Democratic Floor Leader in House
Washington reports Champ Clark will be Democratic floor leader of the next House. He agrees to step aside as speaker when a Republican takes the speakership, while Kitchin remains the ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee.
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Washington
Champ Clark
House of Congress
Clark
Representative Kitchin
House
Kitchin
Ways and Means
Hoover urges strict conservation to ship 20 million tons Europe
Washington reports Hoover calls for stringent conservation to enable the United States to send twenty million tons of foodstuffs to European stricken peoples next year. He notes sugar protections, warns of shortages in feeds and fats, and outlines plans with allies and Cuban sugar imports to stabilize prices and supplies.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Herbert C. Hoover
Food Administration
North America
Mr. Hoover
Hoover
Allies
Belgian Relief Commission
Belgium
War Tax Bill Plans Keep Taxes Until Victory Liberty Loan
Washington reports the Senate Finance Committee will use all revenue from the current war tax bill in addition to funds from a new Victory Liberty Loan. No immediate tax reductions will occur after the war ends.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senator Trammell Aims Month Furlough With Pay
Senator Trammell of Florida proposed in the senate a bill to grant all officers and enlisted men of the United States fighting forces a month of furlough with full pay before discharge. The measure was introduced this afternoon.
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Washington
United States Fighting Forces
Senate
Trammell
Florida
German Revolution Faces Food Shortage and Uprising
Berlin trembles as revolutionaries clash with troops in Hamburg and Berlin. Reports say shells and rifles blaze through streets while Reich Bank fights for control. Socialists rally under red banners as chancellor Ebert appeals for Wilson mediation on armistice terms.
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Copenhagen
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Kiel
Council of Workmen
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Holland
Ebert
Solf
Wilson
Roosevelt in Hospital After Sciatica Attack
New York November 12 Col Theo Roosevelt was taken to Roosevelt hospital yesterday afternoon with severe pain from sciatica. Physicians reported his condition as not alarming. He has been confined to his Sagamore Hill home for several days.
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New York
Col. Theo. Roosevelt
Roosevelt Hospital
Sagamore Hill
Swiss minister to meet Wilson at White House
Swiss minister Hans Sulzer will meet President Wilson at the White House at two this afternoon to deliver a communication from German secretary Solf. The message asks Wilson to ease armistice and transport demands, citing feared German civilian starvation, while officials suggest the issues belong to the peace conference. Wilson has already indicated German ships will be used to supply Germans.
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Washington
Hans Sulzer
United States
Wilson
White House
Dr. Solf
Germany
America
State Department
Allied Council
Congress
White Dove of Peace or White Airplane Mystery
Paris reports in L Huere a tale of a white aerial craft over the front that prompted no gunfire. Two colonels and a major say they saw a white aircraft pass over American and German trenches for more than an hour before disappearing, with no markings to identify it.
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Paris
L’huere
Separate Peace Opposed by Senator Poindexter
Washington November 12 Senator Poindexter of Washington introduced a Senate resolution opposing any separate peace between the United States and Germany or Austria. The measure states the Senate’s sense that the U S should join the London pact to ensure unified Allied action in peace terms and postwar activities.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Germany
Austria
Oindexter
Fair and Warmer Tonight in Washington Weather
The forecast for Washington calls for fair skies with slightly warmer conditions tonight and continued fair weather into Wednesday. Temperatures are expected to rise modestly, with no precipitation indicated.
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Washington
President and SEG Lansing in Conference
Leaders from President and SEG in Lansing hold talks on plans for a coming peace session and progress on the internal trouble in Germany.
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Seg
Lansing
Germany
Peace conference plans and Solf note discussed at White House
A lengthy White House conference with Secretary Lansing focused on the coming peace conference and Germany’s internal troubles. Officials reviewed the Solf note appealing for modification of armistice terms and considered assurances to the German people. The Allies warned the blockade remains a military measure but would not halt revictualing efforts.
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John Ihdwin
N.S
Stan Cortes
Washington
Wilson
Lansing
White House
Germany
Solf
Hans Sulzer
Congress
New York Joy Fades to Work After Armistice Celebration
New York endures tired faces as crowds disperse after a 24 hour victory celebration. Six killed and several wounded by celebrants firing weapons during the armistice revelry. Boston observes Victory Day with parades and a 20 000 strong soldiers and sailors parade.
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New York
White Wings
Boston
Massachusetts
McGill
Commonwealth
State House
Sallora
Official Solf Note Delivered From Nauen to White House
The document titled Solf Note was sent from the German wireless station at Nauen and picked up by authorities before reaching the White House. The note conveys alarming warnings and fearful conditions.
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Nauen
White House
German Government Seeks Wilson Mediation to Avert Famine
The note from German Foreign Secretary Solf asks President Wilson to intervene to ease armistice conditions that threaten German starvation. It says Germany accepted the terms but urges action to prevent chaos and secure a just durable peace, warning that enforcement could provoke unrest.
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Washington
Bolt
Wilson
Germany
Nauen
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Solf
Clemenceau's Victory Speech Praised in France
Paris November 12 crowds hailed Premier Clemenceau who outlined armistice terms to Germany in parliament yesterday. He stated German signers protested the stern terms and saluted Alsace Lorraine in the name of the French people while praising brave French soldiers.
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Paris
France
Clemenceau
Germany
Alsace-Lorraine
Peace Conference Likely Set for Versailles France
Washington reports a wireless dispatch indicating the peace conference will be held at Versailles France not a neutral nation. The premiers of the allied nations will gather there soon to review issues from the current development and then decide on the future venue.
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Washington
Versailles
France
French High Commission
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