Hoover and Hurley sail to organize postwar relief and troop return
New York reports Hoover and Howard W. Hurley depart for Europe to coordinate food relief for Allied nations and chart safe, rapid repatriation of American troops. Hoover cites a surplus of 18,000,690 to 20,000,000 tons of tea and outlines priorities for Little Allies while easing blockade limits to avert chaos.
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Hoover
Howard W. Hurley
United States Shipping Board
Europe
Mr. Hoover
Russia
Hungary
Bon ‘Mark
Germany
Hurley
America
United States
Senate Finance Committee Revises Tax Bill Proposals
Washington November 16 The Senate Finance Committee moves to revise the new tax bill following Secretary McAdoo’s suggestion to limit refunds to not more than 6 million dollars. The measure previously aimed to raise over 5 billion, but the panel has cut the bill to about 6.5 billion.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
McAdoo
House
Senate Committee
Copper representatives reach agreement with the board
Washington November 16 representatives of the American copper industries and their Industries Board announced an agreement to continue government regulation of prices and allocation of materials. The present rate of production and wage levels will be preserved, with the sercement extending until January 1.
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Wasington
American Copper Industries and Their Industries Board
Evacuation proceeds rapidly as Allied forces advance
Paris dispatch reports French and American troops entering Belgium and Lorraine as the German retreat accelerates. French forts at Metz are occupied and civilians welcome the advance while prizes and prisoners are arranged for repatriation. German naval envoys reportedly agree to surrender the fleet, to be moved to the Orkney Islands.
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Washington
Sars
Lyons
Belgium
Giverland
Lorraine
Mosseile
Metz
France
Germany
Brussels
Strassburg
Switzerland
Holland
Clemenceau
London
Orkney Islands
Scotland
Lloyd George and Bonar Law on Irish Home Rule
Premier Lloyd George writes to Chancellor Bonar Law stating unionists claim the right to establish home rule with the exclusion of six northern counties, but such action should be postponed until Ireland’s conditions allow it. The note reflects stalled efforts to resolve the Irish question.
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Lloyd George and
Bonar Law
London
Lloyd George
A. Bonar Law
Ireland
Railroad spending 403 million under U S Rail Admin
Washington November 16 director general McAdoo announced that 403 864 950 was spent for all work in connection with the United States railroad administration from January 1 to September 30 1918. The amount represents thirty four percent of the total sum authorized for 1918.
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Washington
United States Railroad Administration
McAdoo
Railroad Administration
Italian Troops Occupy Pola Naval Base
Italian forces have seized Pola the major Austro-Hungarian naval base on the Adriatic and established occupation at the town and forts. Earlier reports indicated Italian sailors disembarked from warships at Pola.
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Rome
Pola
Adriatic
Paris Believes President Will Be A Delegate
In diplomatic circles here the belief spans that President Wilson will travel to Europe for the peace conference. He has been urgently invited by Allied leaders, with names such as Lansing Baker Taft and Lodge floated as possible envoys if he cannot stay through the talks.
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Paris
Wilson
Europe
Movlé
Lansing
Baker
Taft
Senator Lodge
Farmers National Committee Denounces War Revenue Bill
The Farmers National Committee censured the War Revenue bill proposed by the House and a Senate Finance Committee draft as unfair to service members and workers. It urged funding of nearly twelve and a half billion dollars through war profits, incomes, corporate taxes, unused land value, and customs. The statement condemned wealthy classes for seeking to dodge their fair wartime share.
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Washington
House
Senate Finance Committee
Farmers National Committee
Farmers Committee
House Committee On Ways and Means
Hasten Return of Allied War Prisoners
Paris reports Allied military representatives discussing speeding the release and return of prisoners of war. The YMCA requests permission to send food and tobacco by truck convoys, but approval is not yet granted. Many American, French, and Italian prisoners are already moving toward American lines after armistice signing amid food shortages.
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Paris
Bolshevism Is Waning in Germany
Report from Washington notes official advice indicating a stable German government is likely as Bolshevism declines.
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Germany
Washington
Peace conference in Versailles to resume next week
Washington officials indicate the early Bolshevik wave has waned and conservative socialists hold power in Germany, prompting a hurried peace conference. President Wilson weighs his delegation and possible trip as Allied leaders plan to resume talks, while German claims for swift negotiations face US pushback.
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John Edwin Nevin
U. N.S
Washington
Germany
America
England
France
Italy
Versailles
Dr. Solf
United States
Wilson
French air aces plan Atlantic flight for Northcliffe prize
Paris reports French air aces are preparing an attempted Atlantic crossing for the $50,000 Northcliffe prize. The award was revived after the armistice, with the aim of delaying German awareness of Allied planes capable of crossing the ocean.
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Paris
Atlantic
Former German Empress to Join Husband in Holland
Amsterdam reports the former German empress is expected to arrive in Holland soon to join her husband. The ex-Crown Prince and other German officers are on Barole, it was reported today.
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Amsterdam
Holland
Barole
Demobilization Plan Outlined for 1.7 Million in U S Camps
Gen. P C March announced a nine stage demobilization starting with development battalions and the spruce production division. About 200000 would be discharged in the next two weeks at a rate of 30000 daily with medical checks and war risk insurance status verified.
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Washington
War Department
P. C. March
Central
Central Training Schools
United States Guards
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Department
March
Regular Army
Officers Reserve Corps
United States
Pershing
New England
Camp Devens
Atlantic
Spain Breaks with Russian Bolsheviks
Washington reports Spain has severed relations with the Bolsheviks. Perez cableliere, Spain’s under secretary of state, announced there is no Spanish representative in Russia, per a Madrid dispatch.
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Washington
Spain
Perez Cableliere
Russia
Madrid
War Department Telegram Faints Operator in Wisconsin
In Wauconda Illinois? No Wisconsin town Miss Mabel Daley night operator fainted after the War Department telegram began informing her of the death of her brother Corporal Arthur Daley killed in action. The line went dead as she collapsed while writing the telegram addressed to herself.
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Wauconda
Wis
Mabel Daley
Miss Mabel Daley
Arthur Daley
United States Extends Loans to Belgium and Allies
On November 16 the United States extended loans totaling 260 million dollars to Belgium the Czecho Slovak National Council England and Italy. Belgium received 9 million Czecho Slovaks 7 million England 30 million and Italy 50 million. Secretary McAdoo announced the scale and noted total Allied loans now stand at about 8.18 billion.
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Washington
United States
Belgium
Czecho Slovak National Council
England
Italy
Council
America
Czecho-Slovaks Council
McAdoo
Caeches
Loans to Allies to Be Returned and War Cost Estimates
Washington figures show war cost to U S taxpayers at about 24 billion dollars with total appropriations near 57.6 billion for the Sixty-fourth Congress to June 30, 1919. Treasury and committee members project tax and bond financing, noting 10 billion in loans to the Allies and imminent additional borrowing.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Lhereasury McAdoo
McAdoo
Treasury
Governmmnt
United States
Wilson
Sematt Finance Committee
Fire in Cambridge Port section causes 50 000 dollar damage
A Cambridge Massachusetts fire today left many families homeless and several people slightly burned. The blaze destroyed five tenement buildings in the Port area, with property damage estimated at 50 000 dollars.
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Cambridge
Mass
Cambridge Port 1
Weather outlook for Washington: warm south portion
The forecast reports warmer conditions tonight and Sunday in the southern portion. No strong storms or precipitation indicated. Residents should expect higher temperatures and keep an eye on localized warm spells.
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the Weather
Washington
South Portion
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