Hoover to Direct Distribution of Food Relief
President Wilson names Herbert C. Hoover Director General of an international relief organization for liberated populations. Norman Davis to assist, with the American Peace Commission announcing the plan and stressing united Allied effort to organize large scale food relief for neutral and enemy countries.
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Wilson
Great Britain
France
Italy
McAdoo Faces Scrutiny Over Five Year Rail Plan
Director General McAdoo testified before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committees on extending federal control for five years. He urged unified private management to stabilize conditions, opposing immediate State control renewal, while noting uncertainty and possible conflicts with state commissions and Interstate Commerce guidance.
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Iowa
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Minnesota
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Local Railway Officials Endorse McAdoo On Cincinnati Terminals
Cincinnati railroad leaders support McAdoo’s five year government control claim, citing a $70 million plan to overhaul freight and passenger terminals. The plan includes a new Ohio River bridge, rebuilds of two bridges, and a belt railroad to speed Interchange and reduce congestion. Officials praise terminal unification and note savings from switching arrangements, while expressing mixed views on continued government control beyond 1924.
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Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
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Big Four Railroad
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Big Four
Weather snapshot across states with temperature notes
Ohio and Indiana forecast fair with rising temperatures through Sunday. Kentucky and Virginia expect fair weather and warmer after Saturday. some snow flurries possible in extreme north. A table lists temperatures and conditions at multiple stations including Cincinnati, Memphis, Omaha, Galveston, Denver, Nashville, San Francisco, Grand Rapids and Winnipeg with highs, lows and precipitation notes.
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Virginia
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Momaha
Galveston
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Nashville
San Francisco
Grand Rapids
Winnipeg
Lodge Urges Haste In Concluding Peace
The Senate debated President Wilson's peace terms with focus on quick action. Senator Lodge urged haste and denied plans to delay league of nations while Senators Lewis and Thomas defended the President's aims and warned against political interference amid global events.
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Associated Press
Washington
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Senate
Lewis
Illinois
Thomas
Colorado
Foreign Relations Committee
Lodge
Massachusetts
League of Nations
Woman Pays Wage of Sin in Pittsburgh Mystery
In Pittsburgh on January 3 a dead woman in silk pajamas and a man were found in a downtown rooming house. Morgue officials identified the man as Deioneisios Giakounelis, 26, of Salt Lake City, and believed the woman to be Irene Hayford, 25, of Colorado. A restaurant operator said Giakounelis claimed to have joined the woman in Englewood New Jersey, where she reportedly bid her soldier husband goodbye before he sailed for France. Detectives found the woman shot in the abdomen and the man dead by a gunshot near him.
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Pittsburg
Deioneisios Giakounelis
Salt Lake City
Utah
Irene Hayford
Colorado
Giakounelis
Englewood
N. J
France
Captain Kyne Adopts Orphan Marcel After War Turmoil
New York reports Marcel, a ten year old orphan, travels with Captain Peter B Kyne and Battery A as the 144th Armored goes to the Pacific. Marcel attached to a French regiment, followed the poilus over the top four times uninjured, then joined American troops. He later stowed away in a base drum case before revealing himself. Kyne plans to take him to San Francisco.
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New York
Peter B. Kyne
California
Marcel
America
Matsonia
144Th Artillery
Germany
Kyne
Poilus
144Th
Kyn
San Francisco
Plan Campaign For Suppression Of Bolsheviks
General Poole arrives at Ekaterinodar to discuss a campaign against the Bolsheviks with Denikin loyalists and other Russian groups. Sergius Sazonoff signals urgency for rapid suppression while on route to Paris for talks.
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200 Wounded Aboard Stranded Transport Rescued Despite Blizzard
A massive rescue off Fire Island as a nor’easter hampered evacuation of 2 500 soldiers from the Northern Pacific. By nightfall 2 041 troops and 259 nurses had been brought ashore or to ships with no deaths and one lifeboat capsized. Coast guard and Navy crews operated in heavy surf under dangerous conditions.
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Poland's White Eagles Control Posen
Advices from Berlin report Posen fully under Polish control with German officials replaced by Poles, guards in German uniforms and White Eagle cockades. Polish authorities seize money, Polish colors fly from homes, and German monuments are overturned amid clashes. Bakers refuse bread to Germans and German districts see Polish leadership.
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Copenhagen
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Berlin
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Bar Association Seeks Reform of Military Courts
The American Bar Association will debate reform of U S military justice at its annual meeting in New York. President George T Page said current laws are unworthy of a modern republic and harsh punishments in courts martial prompt calls for changes and better legal protections for soldiers. The discussion cites cases of excessive sentences and swift executions without proper review.
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New York
United States
American Bar Association
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Dent George T. Page
Peoria
Ill
England
Great Britain
Texas
Suffrage Sentinels Fire Seen In Front Of White House
A watch fire kept by National Woman's party sentinels outside the White House burned for two days despite weather. A crowd in uniform extinguished it, and police ended a second blaze after it caused pavement buckling and a loud explosion. The display moved from a stone urn to a metal wash tub and back to a new urn before being smashed again.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Woman's Party
White House
British Dutch pact on former German Emperor status
The British and Dutch Governments have reached an agreement on the status of the former German Emperor. The Telegraaf dispatch from The Hague reports the accord was confirmed today.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Telegraaf
Hague
Fifty Men Trapped In Burning Coal Shaft
Fifty men are trapped in the No 6 shaft at Hamilton Coal Company in Cherokee Kansas. The tipple and chute are burning as dynamite is used to try to curb the flames and enable rescue of the workers.
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Associated Press
Cherokee, Kan
Hamilton Coal Company
Boston Woman Dies Jumping From Hotel Room
Mrs. Jack Rayburn, registered from Boston, leapt from an eighth floor hotel room in Houston while awaiting her husband’s return from France. She had been under medical care.
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Tex
Jack Rayburn
Boston
Fire roars through Euclid Building as absences hindered response
With two thirds of Cleveland firemen absent for eight hour day enforcement, a blaze gutted the four story Euclid Building downtown. A dozen companies fought the flames until off duty crews arrived, leaving the structure a total loss. Chief Wallace put the damage at about 100000 dollars.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Euclid
Wallace
Speech Before Italian Chamber Calls for New Balkan Deal
A speech before the Italian Chamber of Deputies urged negotiating a new Balkan deal. The speaker pressed for renewed regional arrangements and emphasized strategic interests and stability in the Balkans.
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Compliments Romans For Conduct In War
Paris reports French delegates to the Peace Congress may include Louis Klotz Leon Bourgeois and Captain Andre Tardieu with Premier Clemenceau and Stephen Pichon Marshal Foch expected to join The Rome dispatch notes President Wilson visiting and receiving ovations as troops parade and Italian American and allied flags decorate the city
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