Bolshevik Demobilization Report Sparks International Distrust
Unofficial dispatches indicate German and Austrian circles mistrust Bolshevik leaders in Russia. Reports claim a planned eastern maneuver, with tensions rising after a Brest Litovsk peace conference rupture. Austrian Emperor Czernin urges early general peace while German leaders discuss energetic measures toward Russia.
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East Front
Hrest-Litovsk
Ukraine
Zernin
Wilson
Amsterdam
Czernin
Vienna
Two Kingdoms
Brest-Litovsk
Russa
Stuttgart
Trotekys
Meat famine warned before senate by stockman
A. Sykes president of the Corn Belt Meat Producers association told the senate agriculture committee America faces a meat famine. He cited losses from low prices and poor transportation with 75 percent of corn belt livestock unsellable due to transport gaps. He warned waste of food and argued packers will lower livestock prices once transport improves while retail prices stay high.
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Washington
America
Senate Agriculture Committee
A. Sykes
Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Association
Sykes
Billion-Dollar Urgent Deficiency Bill Sent to House
A record one billion dollar urgent deficiency appropriation bill was favorably reported to the House by Chairman Sherley. It funds immediate needs of the war and navy departments, with prior committee investigations revealing alimony figures and military requests totaling billions for artillery, ordnance, and related war materials.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
House
Sherley
Appropriations Committee
Pershing
France
Roosevelt Recovering Able to Sit Up in Bed
New York February 14 Colonel Roosevelt has recovered enough from recent operations to sit up partly in bed. After a long examination today physicians report his condition is steadily improving and he had a restful night with remarkable headway noted in his recovery.
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Roosevelt
Kie
New York
Colvel Roosevelt
Shipbuilders Told to Cease Strikes
Washington February 14. An urgent call to striking carpenters and riveters in eastern shipyards to return to work came from Hurley chairman of the Shipping Board. He telegrammed union heads saying mothers and others giving their sons to battle will not long permit interference with the shipbuilding program. The strike wave followed disruptions at yards near New York and Baltimore where men demanded the wage scale recently granted for Pavitte coast of 6.60 dollars a day.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hurley
The
Shipping Board
New York
Balti More
Americans Aid French Victory In Champagne Raid
Grand Headquarters reports American artillery played a brilliant part in a French raid between Tahure and the Butte Mesnil in the Champagne. The assault resulted in 160 German prisoners taken and positions held three quarters of a mile deep along a front of about a mile.
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Tahure
Butte Mesnil
Champagne
France
Marschal Haig
Pelain
Lens
Flanders
Austrian Arrested in Sheridan Over Kendrick Threats
Henry Walker of the police force arrested an Austrian who escaped from Canada and is charged with threats against Senator J B Kendrick during a recent Sheridan speech. He is held for further investigation. Papers found on him suggest opposition to the government and he reportedly stated at the Congregational church he wanted to kill Kendrick.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Henry Walker
Canada
J. Bb. Kendrick
Kendrick
Huns Fight for Booty Division
In Wasitington on February 14 an official dispatch reports German and Bosnian troops clashed over loot in Udine, resulting in fourteen German and three Bosnian deaths. The fighting occurred after the town was invaded, with casualties during the division of booty.
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Wasitington
Udine
Tome
Bandits Fire Bank and Flee in Buckeye Heist
In Phoenix on February 14 a joint effort by military and civilians pursued three bandits after they dynamited the Buckeye bank near the city in an attempted robbery. Bank cashier William Keeling was fatally wounded during the attack as troops and local sheriffs joined the manhunt.
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Phoenix
Ariz
William Keeling
Buckeye Bank
Senate Defends War Aims Against Chamberlain Speech
Senator James of Kentucky denounced Chamberlain's New York speech as unjustified and harmful to Allied morale. He credited U S naval efforts for sustaining wartime gains and cited the repaired German and Austrian ships as proof of American capability amid ongoing Senate war debates.
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Washington
Chamberlain
New York
Germany
Austria
James
Kentucky
Senate
America
United States Senate
Vaterland
France
Hennig Acquitted of Treason Charge
In New York on February 14 the jury found Paul H. Hennig not guilty of treason after the U S attorney urged acquittal and the judge granted the motion. Defense lawyer Arthur K. Wing praised the court’s fairness as the trial closed.
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New York
Federal
Paul
H. Hennig
United States
France
Chatfield
Arthur K. Wing
Fire at Grey Nunnery in Montreal Leaves Up to 100 Feared Dead
Fire at the Grey Nunnery in Montreal destroys a large building housing nuns, nursing sisters, soldiers, and nearly 1,000 residents. Thirty eight child victims recovered, with fears the death toll could reach one hundred. Alarm prompt. efforts centered on saving the sick and infants.
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Associated Press
Montreal
British House of Commons backs government amid hostile votes
The house of commons adopted the address in reply to the throne speech without division. Debates covered the food question brewing diplomacy and other topics with all amendments against the premier’s address withdrawn or rejected.
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London
House of Commons
Sentence of death for Bol Pasha in Paris court martial
Holo Pasha Bol Pasha was sentenced to death by a French court martial in Paris after a fifteen minute deliberation. Co defendant Darive Porehere received three years in prison while co defendant Filippe Cavillinje was also sentenced to death though not present. The verdict aims to disrupt German propaganda efforts targeting France during the war.
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Paris
Holo Pasha
Colonel Voyer
Bol
Darive Porehere
Filippe Cavillinje
Jirisidieton
France
Maul Holo
Bolo Pasha
Bolo
Joseph Caillaux
Chamber of
Dop
Dempsey Knocks Out Flynn in Fort Sheridan Bout
In Chicago Web 14 Jack Dempsey defeated Jim Flynn by knockout in under two minutes of a ten round scheduled bout at Fort Sheridan.
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Dempsey
Flynn
Chicago
Web
Jack Dempesey
Jim Flynn
Fort Sheridan
Pershing Soldier Herbert Seigh First to Kill German
Sergt Maj Herbert W Seigh, first Pershing’s army member to kill a German, is hailed by his mother Mrs Frank Leigh of 160 Horner St Johnstown Pa who recalls his shooting prowess since childhood including a 1400 yard kill and a dangerous street prank with a smoking cigar.
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H. W. Seigh
Herbert W. Seigh
Pershing
Frank Leigh
Horner St
Johnstown
Herbert
Dragnet Against Alien Property Violators Expands Nationwide
A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian, announces a nationwide dragnet to locate enemy aliens who failed to report property holdings. Federal agents search coast to coast for outstanding enemy property and order immediate seizure of Schutle & Koerting Co assets in Philadelphia after a hearing shows German ownership.
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Washington
A. Mitchell Palmer
Palmer
Schutle & Koerting Co
Philadelphia
Wile Automatic Valve Concern
Germany
Plint
Women Oppose Vote on Lallot Reform Action
Nebraska women filed suit in district court seeking an injunction to block enforcement of an election reform measure. The suit targets the secretary of state and the timing of the reform proposal's ballot submission amid a heated suffrage debate.
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Associated Press
Lincoln
New Army Training Plan Hints Major Overhaul
Washington reports a new plan to reorganize divisions awaiting embarkation. Depot brigades would be abandoned and full divisions would be split into two cantonments with training duties shifted to replacement depots.
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Washington
Wse
General Staff
Europe
unclear OCR headline on government bill debate aftermath
A garbled passage describes a debate over a railroad bill and government control. It mentions Patty S200 CK bee Swit Comedies and a resumed discussion in the stewngeter, but the text is largely unintelligible.
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Washington
Patty
Clark Impresses Committee in Oil Land Bill Probe
John D. Clark of Cheyenne testified before the House Public Lands Committee about the oil land lease bill and impressed members. Wyoming officials expressed optimism for a favorable remedy as Fort Russell and related troop movements were discussed with military authorities.
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Clark
Washington
John DD Clark
Cheyenne
House Public Lands Committee
Wyne
Senate
Wyoming
Fort Russell
Prosecution Threatened in Shipbuilding Probe
Investigation by the Department of Justice ordered by President Wilson into the Amerifin International Corporation and government contracts for the How Island Virginia shipyard. Charges of mismanagement and extravagant spending cited as potential criminal action and possible contract cancellations loom over the yard amid delays and labor issues.
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Washingtons
Department of Function
Amerifin International Corporation
Sovernment Bie
How Island
Wilson
Tine Chatenman
Baerley
Euipping Board
Mwther
Eerie Couienbelle
Death Rate Still Low in U S Camps
In a war era briefing the hospital admission rate declined from the prior week while the death rate remained well below the average of the two preceding months. National guard deaths totaled sixty eight with pneumonia cited. regular army deaths included sixteen from pneumonia and ninety nine from other causes. National army deaths numbered fifty nine with pneumonia listed among the causes.
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Washington
Abbbeyagie
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Hennig
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Sammy
Wile
Russell
F. A. Bowler
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