Prohibition Enforced as Nation Awaits Midnight Start
New York reports that nationwide prohibition takes effect at 12:01 a.m. January 17. Col. Porter notes no drinking, manufacturing, or transporting of liquor for beverage purposes allowed. Authorities expect some bootlegging but pledge public education and minimal home searches.
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Bellevue
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Bowery Mission
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Bolshevism Rumor Spreads Through Mexico Senate Hearings Hear Witness
An American salesman testified to a Senate subcommittee that Bolshevik propaganda has spread from Sonora to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec within a year. He described favorable views toward radicalism among striking workers, government tensions with Carranza, and incidents involving Americans and Mexican authorities. Witnesses, including women survivors, recounted personal losses and flights to the United States amid unrest.
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Ex-Kaiser Extradition Sought by Allied Powers
The supreme council drafted a note to the Dutch government urging extradition of William II under Versailles Article 227. The proposed note, likely to be sent Saturday, invites Holland to join the allies in trying the former German emperor for a supreme offense against international morality and treaty sanctity.
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Associated Press
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Japan
Weather outlook for New Mexico and Arizona in mid January
The report notes Denver and Calo on January 15 as partly cloudy with rising temperatures. New Mexico is expected to see Friday be partly cloudy with a warmer trend into Saturday. Arizona forecast calls for generally fair conditions Friday and Saturday with little change in temperature.
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Weather Summary From Local University Report
Conditions for the previous day recorded by the university show a maximum temperature of 19, humidity at 66 percent at 6 am, light precipitation noted and a west wind with a partly cloudy day character.
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Baker Awards Highest Medal To 554 Officers 33 Civilians And One Private
Morning Journal reports Secretary Baker publicized a letter to Representative Gallivan defending war service awards and disputing claims about former chiefs of staff. The piece lists distribution of the Distinguished Service Medal among ranks and notes allied awards comparisons to show scope and controversy.
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Bolshevik Threats and War Crimes Charges From Moscow
A Wireless dispatch from Moscow reports the all-Russian extraordinary commission will approve death sentences for enemies of the Soviet government after further terrorist acts. The dispatch says the defeat of Yudeniteh Denitkine and Kedchuk with Kedchuk’s capture shifts conditions in the anti counterrevolution war. It notes Rostov’s fall and Kolchak’s capture give a chance to suspend terror weapons.
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Kedchuk
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Novoecherkaysk
Krasnoyarsk
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Congressman's Son Killed in Mobile Accident
Robert B. Means of Dakota City Neb loses son in a mobile accident. The deceased, 8 D., January 15, is identified as the congressman's son, with details suggesting a fatal incident in transit. Local authorities report the death occurred instantly at the scene.
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Compromise on peace treaty moves forward at round table
A bi partisan Senate round table conducted talks on reservations to the peace treaty. Leaders Lodge Hitchcock New Kellogg and McKellar Simmons Walsh Wen discussed possible compromises as Bryan urged prompt agreement and warned against shifting blame into the 1920 election context.
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Benator
British War Leaders Called to Paris Amid Bolshevik Threat
London reports say Churchill Long Beatty and Wilson were summoned to Paris for talks with Lloyd George on military and naval matters as Bolshevik advances in European Russia raise fears of further war. Experts foresee possible Soviet attacks on Poland and the Baltic states, with strategic lines exposed.
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Associated Press
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Winston Spencer Churchill
Wahler Hume Long
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Grand Fleet
Henry H. Wilson
Imperial Staff
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Odessa
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Stadia
Soviet Army Victors on Turkestan Front
London dated report says Bolshevik communique from Moscow wireless states captures on Turkestan front. Red forces seize the Fourth and Fifth divisions and their commander in chief, with 600 prisoners taken south of Chernyi Vara near the Volga.
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Holtsheviski
German Troops Begin Evacuation of Silesia
Berlin reports German forces started withdrawing from Silesia with troops moving eastward yesterday as Allied pressure and military operations unfold across the contested region.
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