Rainbow and 82nd Divisions to Stay in Occupation Army
AP reports only two divisions, the Thirty first and Thirty ninth, will soon return to the United States. Georgia, Alabama and Florida soldiers of the Thirty first have sailed, with others placed on priority for early redeployment. The Eighty second division remains with the American First Army in France near Florent. The Forty second Rainbow Division sits with the army of occupation at Ahrweller.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Georgia
Alabama
Florida
Wis
Florent
France
Prawthoy
Army of Occupation
Ahrweller
Many Are Killed in Portugal Riot
Madrid reports serious disturbances in Portugal centered in Oporto where townsfolk clash with occupying troops. Demands by guerilla bands led to casualties as troops restored order. Lisbon wireless dispatch claims suppression of the insurrection and recapture of the torpedo boat destroyer Giralda by loyal forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portugal
Associated Press
Madrid
Oporto
Lisban
London
Lisbon
Paral Senal
Giralda
Berlin Civilians to Defend City
A German wireless dispatch says all civilians will be armed to defend Berlin. Gustav Moeke, in charge of defense measures, noted troops gathered for eastern troubles were used in Berlin, as frontiers could not be restored while the capital faced unrest.
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Associated Press
London
Berlin
Gustav Moeke
I W W Socialists Attempt Control at Labor Congress
Chicago, Jan 14 Socialists and members of the I W W attempted today to gain control of the national labor congress called by the Industrial workers defense league to seek new trials for Thomas J Mooney and Warren Billings life-term murder convictions tied to the San Francisco bombings Though denied safe they refused to leave the hall and tried to participate the radicals plan to push for a general labor strike resolution
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
TI. W. W
National Labor Congress
Industrial Workers, & Defense Peague
Thomas J. Mooney
Warren Billings
San Francisco
James S Shehane Joins Progressive Banks Board
At the Georgia National and American State Banks annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday, James S Shehane was elected a director. He is a prominent young business man and adds value to the boards of both banks.
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Georgia National
American State Banks
Jas. FL Shehane
Shehane
German Spy Work In This Country Reported
Frank Hr Gaskill, assistant chief of the Protective League, relates an enemy spy incident during the war. A triphammer operator in a Delaware River industrial plant signalled troop movements and raids before news dispatches. The operator, a former telegraphist, was interned. the source of his information remains unsolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malladelphia
Frank Hr. Gaskill
Protective League
Mr. Gaskill
Delaware River
Palmyra
N. J
New England
Gaskill
Seven More States Ratify Day Amendment
Seven more states ratified the prohibition constitutional amendment, bringing total ratifications to thirty. Arkansas California Illinois Indiana Kansas North Carolina and Alabama joined the move, while Nebraska Senate and Utah House also voted ratification.
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Associated Presa
Chicago
Arkansas
California
Ilinois
Indiana
Kansas
North Carolina
Alabama
Nebraska Senate
Utah House
New York National League Club Is Sold
New York on January 14 reports sensational baseball news as the New York National Club, a top paying major league proposition, was sold. Negotiations for the St Louis National change of hands were advancing toward completion as major and minor leagues debated the draft. The reorganized International League declared in favor of abolishing the draft.
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Associated Press
New York
New York National Club
St. Louis National
International League
Ukrainians Bombard Przemiss Town In Galicia
Vienna dispatch reports two thousand people killed in Przemisi Galicia after days of land and air bombardment by Ukrainians. Conditions described as terrible with ongoing attacks and heavy casualties.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Jen
Przemisi
Galicia
Vienna
Pramist
Troops Arrest Deserters in Mountain Lair Third Man Named
Special to Banner Blairsville Ga Jan 1 Troops pursuing Union county deserters report a third arrest Gordon Howers 30 a kinsman of the Crawley brothers Georgy Prank Felix and Decatur Crawley are charged with killing Deputy Marshal Dixon Frank Crawley and Felix Crawley were arrested Monday others remain at large troops continue the search
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banner
Blairsville
Union County
Gordon Howers
Crawley Brothers
Georgy Prank
Felixj
Decatur
F, Dixon
Frank
Felix Crawley
Big Naval Dirigible Reaches Brunswick on Way to Key West
The Wirigible Cone, the largest in the Navy, flown from Rockaway New York, arrived in Brunswick at 3 45 pm from Georgetown South Carolina where it spent the night. It will depart tomorrow morning for the final leg to Key West aiming to reach there by six o'clock tonight.
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Brunswick
Key West
Associated Press
Dan
Rockaway N. Y
Georgetown
South Carolina
Amendment to Cotton Future Trading Bill Delayed
Senator Smith of South Carolina said hearings are impossible due to heavy pending business so he will not press final passage of his amendment to the cotton future act at this time. The amendment would limit delivery on contracts to the five middling grades.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senator Smith
South Carolina
State Troops May Hold Battle Flags
Washington January. When the national guard and national army organizations are disbanded their battle flags will be given into custody of the states from which the majority of the men came when the organizations were formed. The war department announced today. Title to the colors will be retained by the federal government.
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Associated Press
Washington, Jan
National Guard
National Army
War Department
Four Multiples Reported In Local Farmer Family
Mes Mary Hukes Witte, a farmer's wife in Sycamore Gallan, reportedly bore four living children in one birth on Thursday. The family’s history includes earlier multiple births with triplets and twins, marking a record in the area.
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Associated Press
Sycamore
Gallan
Mes Mary Hukes
Divergent Opinion What To Do With Russian Soviets
English leaders and papers split over policy toward Soviet Russia. Buchanan urges voluntary reinforcements to fight Bolshevism while Machin and papers like Manchester Guardian call for immediate entente withdrawal and no further military action. Public opinion largely noncommittal, awaits peace conference debate.
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Tandon
Associated Press
Entente Bowers
Soviet Russia
George Buchanan
Russia
George
Ramagay MecDonald
Manchester Guardian
London Daily News
Germany
Esthenia
Russia in Danger Reverting to Barbarism in Three Years
A British officer who escaped from Russia warns that Soviet Russia will revert to barbarism within three years without outside aid. He notes many educated Russians are retreating to peasant village life, comparing future Russia to a primitive Congo under Bolshevik control, and argues Bolshevik leaders are weak despite appearing strong.
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London
Russia
Associated Press
Congo
Lenin
No Accident Week Planned for Southern Railways
Atlanta reports that January 1925 details for No Accident Week have been decided by safety representatives in the Southern Region. About thirty officials met with regional safety supervisor C. L. Anderson to organize seven days of personal safety appeals and exhibits for roughly 230,000 employees to reduce injuries nationwide east of the Mississippi.
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Atlanta
Railroad Administration
C. L. Anderson
Healey
Frontrng
Rall Moving Picture
Ohio
Missisippi
Bb, Winchell
Heetadal
Railronvds
Marshal Foch Presents New Armistice Terms to German
Four American armistice delegates depart for Treves to hear Marshal Foch outline new terms to the German commission. Admiral Benson Norman Davis Hurley and Louis Shelton join. Report notes submarines under construction found by interallied inspectors. terms demand surrender of all submarines and destruction of those under construction.
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Associated Press
Paris
Treves
Marshal Foch
Admiral Benson
United States Navy
Norman Davis
United States Treasury
Hurley
American Shipping Board
Louis Shelton
Tloover
Whic
Kiel
Wilhelmshavve
Government to sell nitrate at 81 dollars per ton to farmers
Nitrate will be sold at 81 dollars per ton to farmers through approved channels. Farmers must apply via county agents or local committees, stating use on their land and not for trade. Oconee and Clarke counties set January 25 application deadlines with local banks handling deposits and drafts for freight and cost. A meeting in Watkinsville on January 20 invites all county farmers to file applications and terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke County
Georgia National Bank
S. 1. Truitt
Oconee County
U.S. Department of Agriculture
S. D. Truitt
A. Y. Crowley
Bishop
K. J. Crowley
Watkinsville
J. FP. Haygood
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Oconee
EJ Crowles
J & Haygood
Three YM CoA Workers Arrested in Paris
Paris reports three Oversea Y workers from YM CoA are under arrest on charges of defalcation. The total misappropriated sum is about thirty nine thousand dollars, with most of the funds reportedly recovered.
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Associated Press
Paris
Jan
To-Tt
Ym, Coa
Mexico Plans Army Of Hundred Thousand
Mexico City reports war department plans for 1820 call for an army of about one hundred thousand. Recruitment halted, native Mexicans only admitted, soldiers aged years discharged, and reforms to boost efficiency are being implemented to counter rumors of a 400,000 force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mexico City
War Department
Vince
Repub
Belgians Return Home From England
From Southampton and Grimsby ships carry back to Belgium the first consignment of Belgian refugees who sought shelter in Britain at the war’s start. Repatriation focuses on Antwerp area and will extend to others later, funded by Britain. Transportation and contact with released Belgian territories remain slow and challenging.
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Associated
London
Southampton
Grimsby
Scotland
Belgium
Antwerp
England
Carolina Lawmakers Begin South Carolina Session
The South Carolina general assembly opened its 40 day session with reconstruction issues as a focus. Governor Manning retires next Tuesday. Robert A. Cooper becomes governor and Junius T. Liles ascends as lieutenant governor. A salary increase bill may be pushed to affect the new administration.
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South Carolina General Assembly
Richard I. Manning
Robert A. Cooper
Laurens
Senate
House of Representatives
South Carolina
Manning
Signamire
Junius T. Liles
Orangeburg
Andrew J. Betha
Sam M. Wolfe
Anderson
Thomas H. Peeples
Harris
Agriculture, Commerce and Industries
A. C. Summers
FP. J. Watson
H. H. Arnold
Spartanburg
Railroad Commission
W. B. Dove
S. T. Carter
W. W. Moore
KR. L
Osborne
J. P. Swearingen
Thomas P. Cothran
Greenville
Bolshevik Ultimatum Threat to Swiss Citizens
Geneva January 14 The Bolshevik government at Petrograd telegraphed an ultimatum to Swiss authorities demanding the release of thirty arrested Bolshevists or late February will see thirty Swiss citizens in Petrograd shot without trial.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Petrograd
McCormick Resigns as Democratic Party Head
Washington reports Vance C. McCormick has stepped down as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He is believed to be under consideration for the American ambassadorship to France, to succeed William Graves Sharp. Sharp’s resignation status was unclear, with no official announcement yet. McCormick had sailed to France two weeks earlier for the peace conference and had recently led the war trade board.
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Associated Press
Washington
Vance C. McCormick
Democratic National Committee
France
Wiliam Graves Sharp
Sharp
McCormick
Paris
War Trade Board
Spartacan Leader Severely Wounded in Berlin Fighting
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch to Amsterdam reports Spartacan leader Karl Liebknecht was severely wounded in Berlin fighting. A previous report that he had been killed was false.
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Associated Press
London
Karl Liebknecht
Berlin
Amsterdam
Liebknecht
Allies to control Trans Siberian line in Asia
An agreement for control of the Trans Siberian and Chinese eastern railroads by the interallied committee is virtually concluded. Ambassador Morris of Tokyo has been instructed by the American government to go to Vladivostok to work out the details.
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Associated Press
Washington
Morris of
Tokio
Vladivostok
British Naval Man Gives Lesson to Hun
London dec 20 a British naval officer disciplined German sailors aboard a captured battleship off the Firth of Forth. He ordered the men to salute and clear the lobby then gave orders in German to restore order, demonstrating strict command over the crew amid surrender of German ships. Mr Wills Dobbs funeral noted in Athens with burial at grave.
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London
Associated Press
Firth of Forth
Marriage Licenses In 1918 Total 387
During 1918 there were 387 marriage licenses issued by the Ordinary Orr. Of these 179 were for White couples and 208 for colored couples. Licenses to colored couples have already been issued since the year's start, while only one license for whites has been issued.
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Orr
Riley
Ancient Lighting Methods in Russia and Russian Shtick from War Shortage
In Northern Russia shortages push villagers to revive old practices. The svetila, a two foot wooden trough with an iron pan, uses birch twigs to burn and glow like a candle, yielding smoke as families feed the ember. Women also use the preelka loom to weave flax into clothing, producing coarse and fine cloth from limited imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwl Tha
Russia
Svetiia
Dwina
Paris Conference Sees Progress on War Council Sessions
Paris reports indicate President Wilson and European leaders viewed the day as fruitful for Supreme War Council planning. Tomorrow’s session is expected to run the full day with a key issue being the official language for meetings. Meanwhile American delegates review ninety four proposals for a League of Nations, stressing Monroe Doctrine concerns and integration into the postwar treaty.
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Associated Press
Paris
Wilson
Lloyd George
Bonar Law
Pasfour
Supreme War Council
War Council
League OF Nations
Army Man in Athens Gathering Data For Great Military Map
Sergeant William P Murphy on special detail in the Southeastern department has arrived in Athens to gather data for a wide Atlantic and Pacific coast map. The War Department aims to prepare a detailed terrain record in case of any contingency. Murphy, a Virginia Military Institute graduate, will work in various sections until August.
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William P. Murphy
Specias
Southeastern
Athens
War Department
Pacific
America
United States
Sergeant Murphy
Virginia Military Institute
European Relief Bill In Senate Committee
Hearings on a bill to appropriate one hundred million dollars for famine relief in Europe and the near east will begin tomorrow before the Senate Appropriations Committee in executive session. The measure is urged by the president to curb Bolshevism’s westward spread.
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Associated Press
Washington
Europe
Near East
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate Votes Pension To Mrs Roosevelt
Washington journalist report that the Senate passed a resolution authorising a pension of one thousand dollars per year to Mrs. Roosevelt widow of the former president and extending to her the mail franking privileges. The measure moves to the House for action.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Kite
Bey
House
Japan Heralds League of Nations Favor in Press
Tokio dispatch reports Japanese newspapers largely welcome the League of Nations project. Rear-Admiral Kato warns of China becoming an international economic battleground, while others plead for political unification paired with economic cooperation. Some writers urge peaceful nations and caution on potential Western exploitation in Asia.
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Tokio
Associated Press
Leaguer of Nations
Saily
K. Kato
New Republic
League of Nations
Japan
K. Toda
Kyoto University
Kato
China
Germany
England
America
France
Amell Ormed
Ingo
Saenet
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Hun
W. F. Dobbs
Wills FO Dobbs
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P. Wievins
George Stone
J. V. M Morria
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