Peace Conference Council eyes rapid progress on Germany terms
Paris January 27 The supreme council met at 10 20 am with full attendance and technical advisors including three Americans. They consider territorial adjustments abolition of conscription and Germany’s economic reconstruction. Commissions to study these will be named and officials foresee finishing peace terms by end of March.
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Associated Press
Paris
Supreme ‘Council of the Peace Conference
Foreign Office
Council of Ten
Germany
Peace Congress
Wilson views devastation at Paris fronts visit
President Wilson toured battle front areas in France visiting Chateau-Thierry and Rheims. He observed dozens of razed villages and the ruin of Rheims Cathedral, saying he could not put the impressions of such desolation into words. He traveled with Mrs. Wilson and a small party.
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Associated Press
Paris
Wilson
Chateau-Thierry
Rheims
Germany
France
Mrs. Wilson
Admiral Grayson
Immigration Bill Seeks Four Year Pause After Peace Treaty
Washington January 28 legislation to prohibit general immigration for four years after the peace treaty was approved tentatively by the immigration committee. The move aims to curb influx while postwar conditions are settled.
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Washington
Immigration Committee
Belfast Strike In Ireland Affects 100000 Workers
The Belfast strike involves 100000 people across twenty six trades. Workers demand a forty hour week and the city is described as a dead city by the Daily Mail correspondent.
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Associated Press
London
Belfast
Daily Mail
German-born Honolulu businessman wills estate to Bremen
H Wilhelm Wolters who arrived from Bremen forty years ago left a 435000 estate in a will dated after the U S entry into the war. The will places the principal in trust for ten years with annuities to two brothers and other relatives, then to Bremen for charitable, educational and scientific uses, though Custodian of Enemy Alien Property Palmer's Hawaii representative doubts funds will reach Bremen and has taken the matter to Washington. Wolters was naturalized and owned stock in H Hackfeld Ltd, later Americanized as American Factors Ltd.
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Associated Press
Honolulu
T. H
H. Wilhelm Wolters
Hawaii
Bremen
Germany
United States
Richard H. Trent
Palmer
Wolters
Trent
Washington
H. Hackfeld, Ltd
Oklahoma Cement Production Declines Sharp in 1918
Oklahoma's Portland cement output fell to 1 183 000 barrels in 1918, down 33 1 3 percent from 1917. Shipments dropped to 1 278 000 barrels, a 26 4 percent decrease, and year end stocks stood at 44 000 barrels, down 37 8 percent. Texas also declined with 1 996 000 barrels produced.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Texas
Bolsheviks Repulsed as German Forces Advance on Baltic
Berlin dispatches report German volunteer units, outnumbered, halting Bolshevik forces along Libau on the Baltic coast. Soviet troops were forced back across the Windau river while reports from Estonia claim 600 killed in Dorpat and Wesenburg during unrest.
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Windau River
Seeitung Ammittag
Esthenia
Bolshevists
Dorpat
Wesenburg
Ban On Near Beers Will Be Lifted
The food administration announced President Wilson signed a Paris proclamation January 23 removing restrictions on near beer production. Also notes a separate fact about worms producing yellow silk from pongee silk silkworms feeding on oak leaves and egg hatching timing.
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Associated Press
Washington
The
Food Administration Today
Wilson
Paris
Praise for 111th Engineers from Ada area
The Ada region honors Roy Meeks and Stewart Anderson as the 111th Engineers earned high praise from their commanding officer. Assigned as corps engineer regiment with the St Mihiel to Meuse operations, they met every demand under harsh weather and enemy fire. Road and bridge work proved vital to the offensive and artillery support.
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Ada Peo
Stewart Anderson
1St Army Corps
St. Micheil
Argonne
Meuse
First Army
G. M. Hoffman
Gen. Craig
S. 1St A. C. Co. C
City to Build Garbage Incinerator for Clean Town
City officials announce construction of an incinerator on city garbage grounds north of town to burn all waste and carcasses using fuel from the city pipeline. The project aims to improve cleanliness and public health after war years, with support from the Red Cross pending more volunteers and sewing and supply needs.
Turkish Cabinet Resigns Over Allied War Property Demands
Tevfik Pasha leads a Turkish cabinet that resigns after Allied demands to restore property taken during the war and to halt harsh measures against Greeks and Armenians. The announcement comes from Saloniki on January 28.
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Associated Press
Saloniki
Tevfik Pasha
Turkey
Labor Forefront at Paris Peace Conference Actions
The American delegation plans to keep the labor question central in Paris meetings. President Wilson and Col. E. M. House schedule a gathering of American labor leaders to draft a program. Mrs. M. M. Webster reports her husband in Germany has been promoted to captain. Carmen Jones leaves for New York to resume naval duties after visiting family.
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Associated Press
Paris
Wilson
Col. E. M. House
M. M. Webster
Germany
Carmen Jones
New York
Navy
Spartagan Forces Overthrow Government at Wilhelmhaven
Spartagan forces seized Wilhelmhaven in Germany and occupied banks and public buildings. Railway traffic to and from Wilhelmhaven has been halted.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Wilhelmhaven
Germay
Bolsheviks Repulsed Near Archangel on the Dwina
Bolshevik forces failed last midnight to drive American and British troops from Tulgas on the Dwina River southeast of Archangel. Earlier the enemy had bombarded these positions.
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Associated Press
Archangel
Tulgas
Dwina River
Kaiser's return thought and costs of living comments
The piece notes the Kaiser contemplating returning to Germany and possibly backing Bolshevik ideals, a soap box philosopher worries about gasoline prices, and a groom tracks monthly expenses with an adding machine. It discusses styles, rules, and the idea of American leadership mirroring Russia.
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Cross Roads
America
Russia
Influenza Sweeps Northern Russia
Archangel reports heavy influenza along Murman coast Kola peninsula White Sea coast villages Onega Kem Nimensk counties empty houses dead without coffins towns with few medicines Archangel itself sees two thousand cases as sanitary commission enforces health laws to curb the epidemic.
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London
Associated Press
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Nimensk
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