Wilson sails to Europe to attend peace conference
President Wilson ships for Europe aboard the transport George Washington to join five other US delegates for the Paris peace talks. Wilson opposes militarism and aims to crush Prussian militarism for global peace. journey includes stopovers in France and Rome with plans to return to Paris for Christmas. The departure features archways of flags, military escorts, and ceremony at Hoboken.
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York
Wilson
Europe
George Washington
Manchester
England
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Guardian
Col. House
Paris
Rome
London
New York
Woodrow Wilson
United States
France
Robert Lansing
Henry White
Italy
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Gen
Tasker H. Bliss
North River
Hoboken
President Wilson
G. H. McManus
Army Transport Service
Baker
Albert Gleaves
Atlantic Fleet
Ands
Sangway
Mc.Manus
Gleaves
Wilsons Attitude On Peace Divides Press of London
The London press debates President Wilsons 14 points. The Morning Post supports an understood link to peace terms while praising US cooperation. The Daily News seeks clear acceptance of the spirit, warns of menace, and questions allied adherence to the gist over the letter. Paris papers favorably quote Wilsons aims. In Washington, Senate debate opens on interpreting the 14 points with calls for public clarifications and possible publication of terms.
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London
Wilson
American Congress
Daily News
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Lloyd George
France
Italy
Paris
Congress
Gustave Herve
la Victoire
Belgium
Uy Rane Daral
Europe
Senate
Washington, D. C
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Roosevelt urges support for allies at peace talks
Theodore Roosevelt argued the United States did not do enough to defeat Germany and urged backing Britain's navy and allied forces at the peace conference. He dismissed Wilson's 14 points and pressed for a strong US navy, preserved Monroe Doctrine, and continued economic independence. A separate note reports Chicago's Red Cross gift of $12,224,000 in 1918.
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United States
Germany
Theodore Roosevelt
Wilson
France
Panama Canal
Austria
Wearst
Viereck
Congress
Armilas
Chicago
Red Cross
Omaha trolley men strike over union recognition
Omaha Neb December 4 at 3 pm the trainmen of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Co went on strike. About 900 men affected demanding recognition of their union and shorter working hours amid a tense east management stance. Berlin fears soviet war according to Deutsche Zeitung report from Amsterdam December 4 noting radical leaders and hidden artillery and munitions.
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Omaha
Associated Press
Omaha, Neb
Omaha & Corneil Bluffs Street Railway Company
Street Railway Company
Berlin
Amsterdam
Deutsche Zeitung
Th. Liev- Knecht
Delivery correction notice for missed paper
If the paper is not delivered at your home by a certain time due to the carrier or other cause, call WHONE 3320 and a copy of Piper will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 30 p.m.
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Piper
Austrian Beheads Foreman and Assistant at Oil Plant
In Whiting, an Austrian immigrant named John Veres, 26, killed David McCloud, foreman of the paraffin department, and John Winswork, an assistant foreman at the Standard Oil plant. Five special policemen were wounded before Veres was subdued.
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Chicago
John Veres
Standard Oil
Lapland's 1797 A.D. men due at New York today
Paris reports ten American dreadnoughts will accompany the president into French waters after which large American troops will be landed in the United States before Christmas. The British transport Lapland, with 1,797 soldiers, is due in New York today, along with three other returning troop transports expected this week. Gale winds up to 70 miles per hour battered ships arriving ice crusted yesterday for the first time since last winter.
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D. C
Wilson
Atlantic
France
Alsace-Lorraine
Paris
Associated Press
America
New York
Lapland
Liverpool
Baruch resigns as WIB chairman effective Jan 1
President Wilson accepts Bernard M. Baruch resignation as chairman of the War Industries Board and plans the board to cease as a government agency on January 1. The notice also includes an advertisement for Smoke Diamond Joe Cigars promising good to the last puff.
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Baruch
WAR Industries Board
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Bernard M. Baruch
War Indust I
Trotzky Thrown Out By Rubber Collar Clash
Louis N. Hummerling, president of the American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers, testified to a senate judiciary committee investigation claiming two years earlier he expelled Leon Trotzky, then a Bolshevik foreign minister, from his office after Trotzky demanded money and threatened his life. He described tying Trotzky by the neck and cutting his head on Trotzky’s rubber collar during the eviction.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Judisciary Committee
Louis N. Hummerling
American Association of Foreign Language
Leon Yretzky
Trolshevik
Hammer- Jing
Trotzky
Poison Plot Allegations Against German Leadership
London dispatch reports the Frankfort Gazette condemning a terrorist service, alleging the German staff with diplomatic aid supplied explosive cultures to Malian and French anarchists to spread disease among army horses. It claims even Prince von Buelow faces accusations as truth breaks through censorship. Springfield case notes Floyd Bepp's denial of a rehearing in his murder appeal after his hanging sentence.
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London
Switzerland
Frankfort Gazette
the Gazette
Vou Buelow
Germany
King George Calls Kaiser Greatest Criminal in World Today
A Daily News writer relayed a stateist man’s account of King George’s view that Kaiser Wilhelm II is the era’s “greatest criminal.” The king allegedly blames the Kaiser for Belgian and French bombings, torpedoings, poisoned wells, and destruction of art and industry, asserting no penalty would be severe enough.
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London
Associated Press
George
William Hohenzollern
Daily News
Ately
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Sas
Former German Emperor Sits Writing Hour After Hour
London dispatch reports Wilhelm II in exile near Amsterdam, mood heavy and reclusive. His wife attempts to lift him, while a correspondent notes he writes for hours at a window, as if against time, with the Crown Prince set to abdicate but not affecting his successor.
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London
William Hohenzellern
Telegraph
Amerongen
Holland
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Raya Ie
Acrvording
Cyclops found in Kiel canal by German capture
Return message from Joe Johnston to his mother reports the collier Cyclops located in the Kiel canal after being captured by Germans. The letter states plans to tow the ship back to the United States if engines cannot be repaired and to resume commission if possible.
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Pla
Lkarrow
Joe Johnston
U. S
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Cyclops
South America
United States
Kiel Canal
Johnston
Newport News
Rumely Tied to Foreign Press Fund Campaign
Washington December 4 The senate committee questioned Jons Wammerling head of the American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers about a $200000 advertising drive aimed at curbing munitions shipments to the allies. Wammerling said the effort began in 1975 and was largely funded by Edward A Rumely former owner of the New York Evening Mail with some money traceable to P Heimerich Albert a German propaganda operative in the United States.
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Jons Wammerling
American Association of Foreign Language
Senate Committee
Hammerling
Edward A. Rumely
New York Evening Mail
P. Heimerich Albert
United States
Eveniti Courier Dominates West City Market Reach
A local paper argues its superiority in circulation exclusivity versus Waterline area papers. It claims BIERE is smaller, and claims the Eveniti Courier stands alone among few competitors in Iowa for large, thoreness, and exclusive reach.
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BIERE
Waterline
Thoreness
Eveniti Courier
Lowa
PAILY PUBLICATIONS AT INDIANAPOLIS RAISE SUBSCRIPTIONS
Indianapolis papers announce subscription increases for city carrier delivery and Sunday issues with higher mail rates for outside sales. The note mentions a rise in prices across all formats and districts. Governor action or local notices are not cited. the focus is on pricing changes affecting urban readers. The fragment also references an Iowa gardeners meeting and a vague influenza note, but these are not clearly connected to the main item.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Kelloggs World Tribunal Plan Seeks Peace League
Senator Kellogg urged a world tribunal for arbitration of international disputes and a peace preserving league of nations, not a world government, with public opinion enforcing decrees. He warned against an impractical scheme and stressed government and public sentiment must align. The War Department announced a plan for aviators to join an aviation reserve with two weeks of annual flying practice.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
League of Nations
World Tribunal
Kellogg
Minnesota
Ttepublican
Senate
Wilson
Kelloge
War Department
Better the Day Good Fellows Campaign Gives to War Aid
The Courier and Reporter honors the Good Fellows drive as essential to wartime support. It notes many donations to liberty funds Red Cross and United War Work Fund, with emphasis on sustaining citizens and postwar good works.
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Germany Pays To Limit War Damages In Allied View
London dispatch reports inter allied conference backing Lloyd Georges policy to compel Germany to pay to the limit of capacity and seek trials for war outrages. Daily Mail estimates allied costs at £25 billion far below Germany assets, while Britain notes German railways and resources are government owned. Cummins plan for a four Democrat four Republican Senate committee to France is considered, action postponed, and National Race Congress names five delegates to the Paris peace conference in France.
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Lloyd George
Germany
Daily Mail
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Alsace-Lorraine
Cummins
Washington, D. C
Senate Foreign Relations’ Committee
Iowa
Senate
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Jeaders
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United States
Garfield Resigns as Federal Fuel Administrator
President Wilson accepted the resignation of Dr. Harry A. Garfield from the federal fuel post. No effective date or successor announced. Garfield plans to return to Williams College after holidays. administration to operate through winter and maintain coal control.
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