Expedite Return of the American Expeditionary Forces
Secretary Baker pledges all possible aid to speed the homecoming of American expeditionary forces. He commends General John J. Pershing and officers for gallantry and leadership contributing to victory and urges early return to civilian life as military conditions allow.
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Baker
Washington
Gershing
War Department
United States
American Expeditionary Forces
Progressives Begin Fight to Wrest Control of Senate
Washington November 15 Progressive Republicans move to amend Senate rules to gain control as Norris plans a resolution for the next session. A filibuster by Senator Penrose blocked the measure and delayed the emergency food stimulation bill with a wartime Prohibition rider. Norris is backed by Kenyon Borah La Follette Gronna Johnson and several other progressives.
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Washington
Progr
Senate
Norris
Penrose
Barry and Buck Arrive at Home Port in New York
Major General Thomas H Barry and Buck, the first US general to receive the Distinguished Service Cross, arrived aboard an American transport carrying wounded from France. The ship entered at night, the men woke to the Statue of Liberty, and officers stood amazed at the news of victory.
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New York
Thomas H. Barrys Buck
United States
France
Paris Prepares Grande Parade for Alsace Lorraine Victory
Paris plans a major Sunday celebration with 206000 participants, marching from Arcade Triomphe to Place De La Concorde. Ten thousand soldiers sailors American band and French units march accompanied by airplanes pigeons and artillery. President Poincare to speak. Pine branches and medals given to marchers. moving pictures of Rouge De Lisle. charity booths fund a liberation loan.
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Alsace-Lorraine
Thes Arcade Triomphe
Champs Elysee
Palace de la Concorde
Strassburg
Lille
Poincare
France
Blue Devils
Alsgave
Place de la Concorde
America
Royal Horse
Alsace
Metz
Straussourg
Place de Carrousel
Laxrnette
Gambetta
Rouge de Lisle
Champs Elyzeees
Alsace Lorraine
Ioan
Michigan Democrats Hint at Scandal in Newbery Election
Washington November 15 Protests over seating Truman N Newbery and George H Moses, GOP Senate contenders in Michigan and New Hampshire, reached the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee. A Ford non partisan league telegram said documents on Newbery campaign expenditures are en route. The panel postponed ruling until the papers arrive and planned to reopen the LaFollette probe tomorrow.
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Washington
Truman N. Newbert
George H. Moses
Senate
Michigan
New Hampshire
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Pomerene
Ford Non-Partisan League
Newbery
Moses
LaFollette
German Armistice Strain Probed as Wilson Receives Message
Washington reports watchful but hopeful officials say armistice terms are being carried out despite violations. A German appeal from Gertrude Baeumer and Alice Salomon urges U S action to ease rail stock ship food, while Jane Addams criticizes the act as propaganda and defends the German women involved.
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John Edwin Nevin
Washington
United States
Wison
White House
Miss Addams
Berlin
Woodrow Wilson
Waite House
Washington, D. C
Germany
United States of America
Gertrude Baeumer
Alice Salomon
Jane Adams
St. Chicago
Augusbury
War Industries Board Faces Copper Control Dilemma
Washington November 15 The War Industries Board weighs continued government control of copper supplies and prices and the release of copper to peacetime industries. A full day conference with Bernard Baruch and copper industry leaders including Daniel Guggenheim and the Zacklings discussed extending supervision. Baruch indicated about eighty five to ninety percent of copper remains under government control.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Bernard Baurch
War Service Committee
The
American Copper Industries
Daniel Guggenheim
Louis
Daniel Zackling
Baruch
Hindenburg Said To Be Near Cassel
Field Marshal von Hindenburg is at Wilhelmshöhe near Cassel where Napoleon III was confined after Sedan, per a dispatch quoted by the Frankfurter Zeitung. Allied high command protests German retreating forces in Belgium and Meuse leaving materials. Foch to take Metz and Strasbourg in Allied hands.
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Paris
London
Allied High Command
Belgium
The
Meuse
Marshal Foch
Metz
Straussburg
Poincaire
Clemenceau
Armistice Commission
Gepeney
Koenigsberg
Beatty
Ontario casualty reported in War Department notice
Washington November 15 Corporal J F Brasher from Joplin Missouri was added to the casualties list for the sinking of the Ontario according to a War Department announcement today.
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Ontario
J. FE. Brasher
Joplin
Army casualties abroad may be higher than official tally
Unofficial estimates from officers returning from France claim American overseas losses may exceed 100,000 and that actual figures are far heavier. They cite Argonne fighting where up to half a million Americans served, warn of red tape delaying casualty reports, and anticipate Congressional scrutiny and a coming investigation.
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Washington
France
Argonne
War Department
General Down
Western Front
Congress
Boards report 90 percent through WWI physical exams
Washington reports 1291 local boards have completed about ninety percent of the physical examinations for class one men aged 19 to 36 from the September 12, 1918, registration. Some boards show thirty percent completion of the overall classification process.
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Washington
Gen. Crowder
Health Conditions in Camps Show Continued Improvement
Washington reports health conditions in camps and cantonments improved for the week ended Nov. 15. Influenza cases fell to one third of the prior week, with 1,002 deaths from all diseases that week, compared to 1,272 the week ending November 1.
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Washington
Ireland
Press censorship on cable postal and land lines lifted
Washington announces the censorship board ends press censorship on cable postal and land lines effective today. The move ends censorship measures affecting communications channels and information flow across agencies.
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Washington
Former New York Mayor Robert Van Wyck Dead in Paris
Paris dispatch reports former New York City mayor Robert Anerson Van Wyck died Tuesday in Paris at age about seventy. He led the city during the late 19th century and left a lasting mark on its development.
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New York
Paris
Robert Anerson van Wyck
Greater Production Urged as World Needs Grow
Thomas E. Wilson of Wilson and Company argues for increased output to feed 200 million new mouths and aid famine regions in Russia and the Balkans. He cites U S farm stock totals and calls for continuous night and day shifts to raise production.
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The
Wilson Packing Company
Chicago
Thomas E. Wilson
Wilson and Company
Packers
Russi
Balkans
Wilson
Department of Labor hears criticisms on child labor
Washington reports vigorous criticism of child labor in Maryland and Virginia canneries. Of 270 canneries surveyed by the departments children bureau, 1094 children under 11 were found at work last season. The study notes illiteracy and squalid living conditions and that after the law’s suspension, canneries continued employing underage children.
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Maryland
Virginia
Department of Labor
Childrens Bareau
Departmen of Labor
Department
Departments
Red Cross Plans to Relieve Food Distress in Austria
Boston Red Cross official Bennett prepares a train load of food for Austrian prisoners and refugees in Roumanian Serbian and Russian camps. Attaches accompany the shipment while Meredith O'Neill notes grave conditions as the poor swarm hotel doors for scraps.
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N.S. Berne
Bennett
Boston
Red Cross
Austria
American Red Cross
Meredith O'Neill
St. Louis
Poles seize German headquarters in Varsovia
A semi official dispatch from Berne says Polish troops occupied the German general headquarters at Varsovia Poland and disarmed German troops without resistance. Pilsudski pledged protection for besieged Germans while Beseler is reportedly missing. Varsovia government seizes German documents and begins territorial talks at Lemburg.
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Varsovia
Poland
Berne
Count Larchenfeld
Ruteaun Czapski
von Beseler
Pilsudski
Beseler
Lemburg
Dazinski
Lublin
Wille
President Wilson narrowly escapes death in plane landing
Washington reports President Wilson dodged a Handley Page bomber near Potomac Field during a landing. The pilot twisted the craft to miss him by about eight feet, drawing gasps from spectators. Wilson, urged back to the White House, departed to cheers after the near miss.
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Potomac Park
Washington
Wilson
Baevow
Poto Field
Pifert
Res. Wilson
White House
Bank Brittanica
Membrany
Two Men Die After Toast to Peace In Morton Grove
A coroner jury will probe the deaths of Edward L. Nieman and Fred Helin from Morton Grove after they drank a toast to peace. Police say Herbert A. Scharenberg poisoned the whiskey they sought, but he survived after a three day battle.
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Chicago
Edward L. Nieman
Fred Helin
Morton Grove
Here
Herbert A. Scharenberg
Scharenberg
Sick and wounded AEF soldiers land in US in week
Washington November 15 sick and wounded men numbering 724 were landed in the United States from the African Expeditionary Forces during the week ending November 8 the Surgeon General of the Army announced today These men have been distributed to the various reconstruction hospitals throughout the country.
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Washington
United States
American airman lands in Cologne Germany
An American airman landed in Cologne Germany on Thursday according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. Cologne lies in the Rhine Valley near the Belgian border and is a key railway hub.
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Cologne
Germany
London
Copenhagen
Rhine Valley
President sends new nominations to Senate
Washington November 15 The president sent a batch of nominations to the Senate including Howard L. Kern of Iowa for Attorney General and two naval captains, Janes Hoogewerff and Marbury Johnston, for rear admiral.
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Washington
Pres Dent
Senate
Porto Ries
Howard L. Kern
Iowa
Janes Hoogewerff
Marbury Johnston
King Albert Inks Belgian Cabinet Dialogue In Ghent
King Albert sanctions a Ghent meeting of twenty party nationals on Friday November 15 to discuss constitutional reforms and the formation of a new Belgian cabinet on the Western Front.
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Bruges
Nancy
Albert
Interior Allied Comvssion
Allied Commission of Navigation
Western Front
Ghent
Frid
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