Congress Asked to Appropriate Money to Guarantee Wheat Price
The Food Administration sent to Senate and Agriculture Committee a bill for 1.26 billion dollars to guarantee farmers 2.20 dollars per bushel for the 1919 wheat crop. Senators debate the measure’s scope and authority. Senator Gore, committee chair, may use it as a substitute basis.
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Congress
Associated Press
Washington
Senate and
Couse Ag Cultural Committee
Food Administration
Gore
Senate Agricultural Committee
Dorsey Company Adds New Ambulance To Its Equipment
The Dorsey Furniture Company expanded its undertaker equipment with a new maroon Cadillac ambulance built by E. M. Miller Company of Quincy Michigan. The steam heated vehicle joins a pallbearers coach to form a complete outfit rivaling urban firms and will serve locally and travel to Atlanta and elsewhere as needed.
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Dorsey Company
Dorsey Furniture Company
E. M. Miller Company
Quincy
Atlanta
Athens Man With Army of Occupation Writes Home
A delayed December 8 letter by an Athens native serving in the army of occupation describes moving toward Coblenz along the Moselle river. He praises the scenery and vineyards, notes locals’ warm reception, and asserts no hard feelings toward American troops, lauding the soldiers’ conduct and respect abroad.
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Athens
Army of Occupation
Coblenz
Moselle
U. S
Dont Spoil the Boys Is Advice of Lowell
Philadelphia January 28 Russell C Lowell of the Federal Board for Vocational Education warned against spoiling returned maimed veterans. He said excessive adoration leads to idleness and mental decline or crooked behavior. He stressed the challenge of guiding maimed men back into usable trades and overcoming reeducation difficulties after they return home.
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Associated Press
Phildelphia
Russell C. Lowell
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Lowell
Lowed
Porto Ricans Drink Coffee in Quantity
Porto Rico consumption has risen by fifty percent since the island went dry, aided by a coffee crop at half of last year and strong demand from Spain and Cuba. Prices have surged, with the market rising for a week or more. retailers report prices nearly doubling and restaurants charging ten cents a cup.
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Associated Press
San Juan
P. R
Porto Rico
Spain
Cuba
Immigrant Restriction Plan Clears House Committee
Washington January 28 The house immigration committee unanimously approved a four year postwar immigration ban with Cuba Mexico Canada and Newfoundland exempted Chairman Burnett will seek a special rule for early house consideration He argues the measure aims to reduce job competition and keep Bolsheviks out Amendments would allow relatives of already admitted aliens and permit skilled workers to enter
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Associated Press
Washington
House Immigration Committee
Cuba
Mexico
Canada
Newfoundland
Burnett
House
Congress
Warrant Officer Tells of Death Lord Kitchener
A warrant officer claims the Hampshire sank after striking a mine in June 1916 off Scotland in a violent storm. He says Lord Kitchener did not reach the deck, only a hatch remained open, and the ship went down within minutes. The officer doubts any rescue and describes a five hour raft struggle before grounding on a rocky reef.
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London
Associated Preas
Lord Kitchener
Hampshire
Scotland
Manchester Guardian
Germany
Jutland
National Memorial Plan for Clara Barton Emerges
Philadelphia on January 28 reports a national memorial for Clara Barton founder of the American Red Cross. The plan marks her 100th birth anniversary on Christmas Day 1921 in Oxford Massachusetts. David H Wright of Philadelphia an attorney and author of Under the Red Cross leads the effort. Senator Lodge from Barton’s native state is asked to introduce a bill to erect the memorial in the Hall of Fame in the Capitol.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Clara Barton
American Red Cross
Oxford
Massachusetts
David H. Wright
Hog committee sets February base price at 17.50
Washington January 28 The hog committee of the food administration unanimously agreed today on a minimum base price of 17.50 dollars per hundred pounds for hogs for February.
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Associated Press
Washington
The
Food Administration
Five Powers Discuss German Colonies At Paris Conference
The Associated Press reports that January 28 proceedings show the president of the United States and prime ministers and foreign ministers of the United States Great Britain France Italy and Japan held two meetings. They exchanged views on German colonies in the far east the Pacific and Africa and considered the league of nations principles. China attended one conference and British dominions joined in. They will meet again tomorrow.
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Associated Presa
Paris
United States
Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Far-East
Pacific
Africa
League of Nations
China
Body of Tampa woman identified in New York case
The body found on the Palisades near Tenafly New Jersey is identified as Azeele Packwood of Tampa Florida a Red Cross worker and widow of a major who died in France. Autopsy says death by chloroform self administration and the woman had planned to erase her identity. Packwood was twenty seven and had moved to New York ten years earlier to study music before joining Red Cross in the war.
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Associated Press
Tenafly
N. J
Jedge
the Palisades
Azeele Packwood
Tampa
Fla
Red Cross
France
Huckin
Tamps, Fla
George H. Packwood
New York
Ismay Funds National Mercantile Marine Fund
J Bruce Ismay, son of White Star founder, donates twenty five thousand pounds in War Loan stock to create a National Mercantile Marine Fund. The aim is to honor British merchant seamen and provide grants or pensions to mariners and support for widows and orphans.
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Associated Press
Liverpool
J. Bruce Ismay
White Star Shipping Line
National Mercantile Marine Fund
British Mercantile Marine
Gold Subsidy Fund Not Needed Says British Committee
London reports that the Gold Production committee including Lord Inchcape Sir Thomas Elliott Sir Charles Addin and W H N Goschen finds a gold subsidy fundamentally unsound They note empire gold production rose from 51 million pounds in 1910 to 59 million in 1917 and that the postwar decline is due to natural causes and reduced wartime labor efficiency.
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Associated Press
London
Lord Inchcape
Thomas Elliott
Charles Addin
W. H. N. Goschen
Gold Producers Committee
Former Athens Lawyer Succeeds in New York
Former Athens lawyer Jerome Michael has joined a prominent New York firm Konta Kirchway France and Michael in the Equitable Building. He previously served as Athens city attorney, served in the war, and has now returned to civil life to practice law in New York, where his colleagues and friends here take pride in his success.
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Jerome Michael
New York
Konta, Kirchway, France
Michael
Equitable
Michael Io
Col
M. G. Michael
Athens
Americans Retire In Good Order From Shenkursk
A dispatch from Archangel reports the evacuation of Shenkursk by American allied and Russian troops facing Bolshevik forces, completed successfully. Troops remained in good condition with minimal losses.
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Associated Press
Washington
State Department
Charge Poole
Archangel
Shenkursk
Shipping Board fixes new ocean rate on cotton
Washington January 28 The shipping board today fixed new high density cotton rates from south Atlantic ports to the United Kingdom effective immediately at a dollar and a quarter per hundred pounds to Dutch Belgian and French Atlantic ports one dollar and a half French Mediterranean ports and Barcelona two dollars to main Italian ports two and a quarter dollars per hundred pounds
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Associated Press
Washington
The
Shipping Board Today
South Atlantic
United Kingdom
Barcelona
U. S. Steel Cuts Extra Dividends
New York January 28. United States Steel directors cut the extra dividend on common shares to one percent quarterly after declaring the regular dividend of one and three quarter percent on the preferred and one and a quarter percent on common.
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Associated Press
New York
Iron and Steel
United States Steel Corporation
Shipping Board Orders Delay Shipyard Work Nationwide
Washington announces orders to shipyards not to begin work on ships ranging from 1.2 to 1.5 million deadweight tons, keels normally laid by next August, affecting Atlantic and Pacific yards.
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Associated Preas
Washington
Shipping Board
Atlantic
Pacific
Aviator Dies After Low Flight Near Norfolk Country Club
Ensign Jas A Clark Navy aviator flew low over a Virginia country club to drop a note to his wife. Upon rising the hydro airplane struck a boat pier and he died from his injuries. The incident occurred in Norfolk on January 28 as reported by the Associated Press.
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Associated Press
Norfolk
Jas, A. Clark
Navy
Buenos Aires Strikes Halt Port Activity for 25 Days
Buenos Aires remains isolated after a twenty five day port strike blocking entrance of trans-Atlantic steamers. Three thousand cigarette and cigar makers joined the action today, paralyzing the industry in the harbor region.
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Associated Preve
Buenos Aires
Pan-Germans Praise Kaisers Role in German Empire
Amsterdam dispatch from Jan 28 reports the German peoples party, dominated by Pan-German and Junkers elements, sending a telegram to the former Kaiser. They express appreciation for his work and vow that millions of Germans under new conditions will revere monarchist ideals and reject any estrangement from the Kaiser's crown and Prussian kinship.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
German Peoples Party
Junkers
Kaiser
Berlin
Bank of England Discharges Women Clerks
London January 28 Eight hundred women clerks hired as a war measure are told their services will not be required. Two hundred may apply for permanent clerical positions. Salaries run 15 a week with a 7 50 pension after 25 years. Managers disagree on permanence under pressure.
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Associated Press
London
Bank New
Futre
Death of James W. Kelly Under Runaway Car
James W. Kelly a 32 year old Central of Georgia switch man was crushed to death when a box car loaded with corn derailed and toppled onto him near Athens Georgia. Engineer J L Thomas and conductor J P Knowles oversaw the crew as the car left the track and Kelly attempted to set the brake before being crushed. Survived by wife Ethel Black and three children plus his father and siblings. The body was moved to Bernstein Brothers chapel and funeral set for Emmanuel church with burial at Bairdstown.
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James H. Kelly
Virginia
Avenue
Central
Georgia
Kelly
Andrew Harris
Kely
Central of Georgia
J. L. Thomas
J. P. Knowles
Athens
Episcopal Church
Ethel Black
Savannah
James H., Jr
Lawrence
John
W. D. Kelley
John Kelley
France
T. E. Barwick
Pittsburg
Mies Emily Kelly
Washington, D. C
Bernstein Brothers
Emmanuel Church
A. G. Richards
Bairdstown
Doubt of Cromwell Twins Confirmed by La Lorraine
Dorothes and Gladys Cromwell, twin daughters of a New York society family, who served with the Red Cross in France, are confirmed to have died by their own act. Passengers aboard the La Lorraine saw them jump overboard as the liner departed. The deaths are attributed to strain from wartime duties.
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Associated Pres
New York
Dorothes
Gladys Cromwell
Red Cross
France
Edward Shearson
Committee For Relief of the
Committee Extends Government Control Of Wires
Washington January 28 By a 10 to 8 vote the House Post Office Committee decided to report the bill continuing government control of telephone and telegraph wires for one year ending with the current year This marks the measure to extend federal supervision over critical communications networks through the next year.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Post Office Committee
J C Barnett Returns Safe From Overseas
Mr and Mrs W W Barnett of Colbert received a telegram announcing their son J C Barnett has arrived at Newport News Virginia from Brest France. He serves as postmaster on the battleship Rhode Island and has seen nearly four years of naval service, earning praise for his fine duty. He will soon visit his parents in Colbert.
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W. W. Barnett
Colbert
J. C. Barnett
Newport News
Brest
France
Barnett
Rhode Island
Navy
Col
Anarchists Active in New England Stir Trolley Car Vandalism
Anarchistic literature criticizing the government and deportations appeared across Massachusetts and Connecticut. Stickers on trolley cars poles and buildings were placed overnight and mailed to numerous citizens signed The American Anarchists.
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Associated Press
Boston
Massachusetts
No Air Traffic In England Until Laws Are Passed
An official of the British air ministry says no passenger or commercial air service will operate from England to other nations until comprehensive air traffic regulation plans are in place. He notes 20 existing laws and outlines issues with customs, postal, police, and contraband control, stating a new framework is needed before commercial entry.
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London
Associated Press
England
British
Air Ministry
United Kingdom
Women of England Hold to War Time Independence
London correspondence notes that women who supported Britain during World War I will not relinquish their independence. Thousands cheered Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in London, illustrating a shift from prewar propriety to confident public presence in uniform, with women demanding Haig at Buckingham Palace and creating a chorus of We want Haig.
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England
London
Associated Preas
Field Marshal Haig
Buckingham Palace
Haig
France
Change in Name of Peace Conference Committee
Paris report notes a significant rename of key peace conference committees handling damages and compensation. The article argues the shift signals a broader U S policy trend and would have changed damage calculations beyond reparations, potentially inflating costs for the defeated powers.
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Committee of Peace Conference
U. S
Associated Press
Paris
America
German Spies Active in England Before the War
London reports reveal British Secret Service uncovered German agents preparing to use the Isle of Wight as a landing area and for bombardment plans before hostilities. Spies operated from Harwich to Hampshire, with methods including coded Morse signals and gypsy bands, leading to arrests and drastic prewar measures to protect coastal towns.
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London
Associated Press
Secret Service
Isle of Wight
Portsmouth
Harwich
Hampshire
England
Pevensey
Tunbridge Wells
Gus
Device Saves Ships From Mines Honored In Britain
London reports a device that protected British warships from German mines has won an engineering honor and a grant of 150000 dollars. The waterplane torpedo with side fins tows from the bows, catching mooring lines to prevent mine damage, saving numerous sailors and ships.
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Associated Press
London
Charles D. A
Fon
St. Michael and St. Georges
Grant
Mexico Takes Hand In the Mooney Case
Mexico City journals report protests forming after California governor commuted Thomas Mooney’s death sentence in the San Francisco bombing case. The Regional Labor Union and Tamaulipas bodies urge the court, while Tampico workers unionists strike twelve hours in protest.
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Mexico City
Thomas Mooney
San Francisco
California
Mexico
Tamaulipas
Tampico
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