Senate Fails To Vote On Famine Relief Measure
After hours of debate the Senate failed to vote on the $160 million European famine relief bill passed by the House. Leaders expect action Monday despite opposition over authority to tax funds and aid to enemy nations. Lodge amended to bar Austria Turkey Bulgaria from distribution but allows aid to Armenia Syria Greece and persecuted Christians and Jews. Hoover faced sharp charges from Borah and Kenyon over meat packers profits and taxpaying interests.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Wilson
Martin
Lodge
Borah
Idaho
Kenyon
Iowa
Myers
Montana
Congress
Austria
Turkey
Bulgaria
Germany
Armenia
Syria
Greece
Herbert Hoover
Bolsheviks Occupy Mitau After German Evacuation
German wireless dispatch reports Mitau the capital of Courland occupied by Bolsheviks. Germans left behind many guns and ammunition. After evacuation a fire broke out destroying numerous central houses.
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Associated Press
London
Mitau
Courland
Iebknecht Falls to Victim of Own Terrorist Tactics
Scheidemann makes this declaration in speech at Cassel. The remarks address political violence and public security concerns amid escalating tensions.
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Iebknecht
Scheidemann
Cassel
German Leaders Executed Spark Violence in Germany
A German government wireless announces February 16 as the national assembly date. In Kassel Philip Scheidemann cites the martyrs Liebknecht and Luxemburg as victims of their own terrorist tactics, while Vorwaerts condemns the lynching yet notes the deaths result from violent appeals. Independent Socialists urge a general strike against military anarchy.
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London
Philip Scheidemann
National Assembly
Associated Press
Berlin
Greater
Where Rosa Luxemburg’s Body Taken Sparks Berlin Mystery
In Berlin on Friday night Associated Press reports the bruised and bullet perforated body of Rosa Luxemburg, lieutenant to Karl Liebknecht, remains unaccounted for amid the Spartacist upheaval. Military officials probe the car’s command and the plan to transport the woman to jail as the sensational tragedy shocks Germany.
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Berlin
Priday
Rosa Luxemberg
Karl Liebknecht
Germany
British Labor Unrest Triggers Nationwide Alarm
London reports industrial unrest across sectors driving anxiety among large employers and labor leaders. Unions seek shorter hours and higher wages with miners, shipbuilders, dock workers, and carpenters pushing for forty to forty seven hour weeks. Beer shortages arise from brewery strikes amid long hours.
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London
J. Hi. Thomas
Railway Men’s Union
Clyde
Liverpool
Polish Paderewski cabinet approved with limited opposition
Warsaw reports the Paderewski cabinet has broad approval except from Radical Socialists who threaten a general strike if the government lasts to mid February elections. Paderewski vows public service in danger and outlines a program to call parliament defend frontiers aid workers rebuild mills regulate finances and secure loans. A Paris Warsaw express rail plan may be launched, crossing Bohemia and Austria amid Czech objections.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Paderewski
National Assembly
M. Paderewski
Lodse
Russia
Poland
Germany
Eberhardt
Bohemia
Austria
Army officers complete map making tour flight to Houston
Four army officers flying in De Havilland planes arrived in St Louis this afternoon after traveling 250 miles from Indianapolis in two hours and thirty minutes. They will depart tomorrow morning for Memphis as part of a map making tour from Detroit.
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Houston
Texas
Detroit
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Memphis
Tenn
Colorado to make November 11 Liberty Day
Denver January 18 the house bill to establish November 11 as Liberty Day to honor the armistice signing was passed on third reading in the lower house as the only measure for final action while the senate was not in session.
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Associated Press
Denver
Colo
House
Colorado
Senate
Debate Over German Admission to the League of Nations
Paris Reports wide discussion on whether Germany should join the League of Nations. Leon Bourgeoise argues initial exclusion for free nations only, with Germany potentially joining after satisfying guarantees. cautions dangers lie in the German soul and militarism. Continued on Page Eight.
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Associated Press
Paris
Germany
Leon Bourgeoise
Associated Nations
M. Bourgeoise
League
Grandmother of the Russian Revolution Arrives in Victoria
Catherine Breshskovskaya known as the Grandmother of the Russian Revolution arrives in Victoria from the Orient aboard the Kama Mard. She heads to Seattle then Washington DC and Boston. Madame Breshskovskaya, deaf, declines to speak for publication. Miss Helen Dudley will escort her east.
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Victoria
B. C
Catherine Breshko Breshskovskaya
Orient
Kama Mard
Seattle
Washington
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Boston
Mass
Mme
Breshskovskaya
Associated Seal
Wash
Helen Stuart Dudley
Mme. Breshskovskaya
Dudley
Idreshskovakaya
Iressa
Jan Ls
Alice Stone Blackwell
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Catherine Breshskovakaya
America
Miss Blackwell
New York City Faces Undernourished Children
Aveociatuat Press reports testimony showing 20 000 city children cared for yet 11.6 percent of New York children are undernourished. Ben Howe of the community council for defense warned on social conditions and the high cost of living during a War Labor Board hearing on the harbor boatmen wage controversy.
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New York
Dan
Ben Howe
Community Council For Defense
War Labor Board
French Premier Elected Chairman of Conference
Clemenceau declares the program must follow a plan to fix responsibility for the war and crimes committed during it. The French premier is elected chairman of the conference to oversee the pursuit of accountability and reparations.
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Clemenceau
Peace Conference opens with Clemenceau chair and aims
Paris hosts the opening session of the peace congress as Gorges Clemenceau accepts the presidency and leaders Wilson Lloyd George and Sonnino speak. Poincare’s address is delivered without applause amid solemn proceedings and a strong push for a quick, united program including international labor rules and war crimes accountability.
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Paris
Gorges Clemenceau
Raymond Poncare
Wilson
Lloyd-George
Baron Sonnino
Reeset
Poincare
M. Clemenceau
League of Nations
Wilson's Address at Peace Congress
Paris January 15. President Wilson offers to be permanent chairman of the peace conference in a tribute to France and Clemenceau. He praises French steadfastness, foresees a supreme conference in history, and urges unity to lift fear and restore prosperity through wartime cooperation.
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