Coal budget aims to cut fuel use under war effort plan
The Fuel Administration unveiled a 1918 coal budget based on voluntary agreements with nonwar manufacturing firms to cut consumption. It seeks a potential 50 million tons annual reduction, with war-related users receiving full needs while nonessential production shifts to war work.
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Treasury ruling on inventories under review by Justice Department
The Treasury decision allowing dealers to use cost or market value to determine inventories for excess profits and income tax returns is being reviewed by the Justice Department and may be revised. If overturned Congress may be asked to amend the revenue law to permit the Internal Revenue Bureau to apply the ruling.
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Treasury Legal
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Gregory
Congress
Internal Revenue Bureau
Internal Revenue
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Revenue Bureau
Supreme Court
Smoot
Weather roundup with snow and temperature readings
Ohio and Indiana report snow on Wednesday with mixed conditions for Thursday. Kentucky and West Virginia expect snow on Wednesday with partial sun and cooler Thursday. Station observations list highs and precipitation including Montreal Denver Jacksonville Phoenix Pittsburgh Spokane Seattle Portland Winnipeg St Louis Kamloops and Cincinnati January 8 1918 record with highs lows averages and wind readings.
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Earthquake Death Toll Estimated at Six Thousand in Guatemala
Reports from Guatemala City relay a traveler’s estimate that about 6,000 people were killed in the earthquake. The traveler also claimed looting and shootings of the dead, with many Guatemalans fleeing toward Mexico and El Salvador. Earlier dispatches had varied casualty figures from 50 to 2,500.
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Salvador
McAdoo aide Shaffer placed in draft Class 1
Joseph M Shaffer personal stenographer to Secretary McAdoo was declared subject to call in the next draft by the East Boston Exemption Board after McAdoo filed an affidavit showing Shaffer is a necessary government employee. He had sought Class 3 deferment but was assigned to Class 1.
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Boston
Joseph M. Shaffer
William G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Shaffer
McAdoo
Mississippi's Prohibition Amendment Ratified by Legislature
Jackson Miss January 8 Fifteen minutes after the subject was presented in Governor Bilbos message the Legislature ratified the proposed prohibition amendment to the Federal Constitution with eight dissenting votes The Mississippi Assembly is the first to act In the lower House the vote was 93 to 3 and in the Senate 30 to 5 Representatives from Warren County cast the only negative votes in the house Senate votes were from scattered districts.
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Senate
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Vicksburg
House
Shipping Board Placed Cart Before the Horse
War fronts show little action besides artillery duels and raids. Germans briefly entered a British trench near Bullecourt but were driven out, with prisoners taken. Italian front sees heavy bombardments from Asiago to Piave as weather worsens. German and Austrian papers reject Lloyd George’s peace terms. Russian peace delegation reportedly returns to Brest-Litovsk for renewed talks.
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London
Bullecourt
Field Marshal Haig
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Piave River
Monte Asolone
Germany
Austria- Hungary
David Lloyd George
Wilson
Brest-Litovsk
Padgett predicts U S submarine fleet to rival Germany
St Louis January 8 Chairman Padgett of the House Naval Committee arrived to speak here and said within a year the United States would possess a submarine fleet as good as or better than Germany. He noted 138 submarines are under construction under the August 1916 program and said this is only part of the total planned.
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Germany
American destroyer Jacob Jones commander sails home
Lieutenant Commander David Worth Bagley who commanded the American torpedo boat destroyer Jacob Jones sunk by a German submarine in the war zone on December 6 left for the United States last week.
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London
David Worth Bagley
Jacob Jones
United States
Flames destroy Columbus plant doing war work
The American Chain Company plant at Columbus Ohio, tied to Navy contracts, burned late today with losses around 150000 dollars. Fireman and millwright Edward Lescabetes were seriously hurt when a blow torch flame ignited asphaltine on loaded chain. Burned area gutted within an hour. this is the second fire at the plant in a week.
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American Chain Company
Bridgeport
Conn
Edward Lescabetes
N. B. Marple
Olumbus
Lescabetes
Navy Department
Wilson lays out U.S. aims in war and peace message
President Wilson, addressing Congress in a joint session, outlines fourteen concrete war and peace proposals to defeat German world domination. He calls for open covenants, freedom of the seas, removal of trade barriers, armament reduction, fair colonial adjustment, evacuation of occupied territories, and independent Poland with sea access, among others.
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Russia
Belgium
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Italy
Austria-Hungary
Romania
Serbia
Balkan
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Poland
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Wilson's Message Widest Distribution Worldwide
President Wilson's congressional address was distributed to news centers globally using a coordinated publicity network. The Public Information Committee and news agencies in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Far East spread the speech within minutes of delivery, with rapid confirmations from foreign capitals.
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Lloyd George
Wilson
Russia
German Socialistic Party
New York
Congress
Civilized World
Committee On Public Information
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South America
Europe
Africa
Australia
Far East
Walter S. Rogers
Division of Foreign Press Service
Expert Builder Links Worker Housing to War Ship Program
Homer L. Ferguson testifying before the Senate Shipbuilding inquiry said 3,000,000 tons is the likely 1918 output and blamed housing shortages for shipyard workers as the main obstacle. He urged government action to provide housing and land, warning ships cannot be built without workers and criticizing coordination among War Navy agencies and the Fleet Corporation. He noted Newport News housing is full and suggested broader coastal plant distribution to ease rail congestion.
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Wilson and Lloyd George Offer Parallel Peace Promises
The two leaders express no intent to impair German greatness and urge a democratic shift. They say Germany should choose its future by adopting a parliamentary system, while pursuing a broad peaceful peace and opposed to military domination.
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