Turbulent Weather Lays Waste Across Southern Towns
A devastating windstorm rims Dothan Alabama and Webb Alabama causing multiple fatalities. Six children reported dead near Dothan with forty injured. One man killed at Webb, with numerous injuries. Damage extensive at state fair grounds and Camp Wheeler near Macon Georgia. Animals rampage as a circus house is damaged. Seven killed in Cowarts Alabama. Corral collapse near Canton Georgia fatally injures one man.
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Storm Toll Grows as Deaths Hit Seven Across Nation
A blizzard toll rises with seven deaths reported in Oklahoma, St. Louis, and Duluth. In Macon Georgia a tornado and heavy rain devastate Camp Wheeler and city sites, injuring several and damaging tents and structures, including a corral and animal buildings.
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Chicago
Oklahoma
St. Louis
Duluth
Minn
Common law wife proved no excuse for draft evader
Arthur Handlen of Indianapolis was sentenced to five years in Atlanta federal prison after pleading guilty to obtaining military exemption by fraud. His common law wife Sally Stephenson got one year and four days in a state prison, Carl Pence and George Raine received two years and eighteen months respectively. The affidavits backing Handlen's exemption claim cited his dependent wife.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
Arthur Handlen
Federal
Atlanta
A. B. Anderson
Federal District Court
Handlen
Sally Stephenson
Carl Pence
George Raine
Weather Summary and January 11 1918 Cincinnati Record
Ohio reports snow and cold this weekend with Lake Erie snow flurries and strong cold waves. Kentucky Illinois Indiana West Virginia see fair weather later with severe cold. temperatures and precipitation listed for stations including Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago Seattle Portland and others. The Cincinnati reading for January 11 shows 7 am 22 89, noon 6 85, 7 pm 3 01, with snow at night and an average temperature 25, precipitation .31 inches.
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Lake Erie
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Chicago
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St. Louis
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Omaha
Winnipeg
Cincinnati
T. Billeting
Fuel chief orders curtailment of coal use nationwide
Washington January 11 Fuel Administrator Garfield said war plants and utilities may curb coal consumption for up to sixty days as rail congestion worsens shortages of about 38 million tons from the prior year persist. Voluntary cuts by less essential industries will lead to weekly shutdowns, with paper boards already cutting one day weekly and glass and other sectors expected to adjust.
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Washington
Garfield
P. B. Noyes
The
Fuel Administration
New York
Paper Board
Deficiencies in Army Equipment Questioned by Senate Panel
Secretary Baker faced three hours of cross examination before the Senate Military Committee over army equipment shortages. Democrats and Republicans pressed him on deficiencies in saddles canteens pistols and machine guns while he argued supplies were adequate for initial rush needs.
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Baker
Senate Military Committee
War Department
Weeks
Pershing
War Board
Kerstein
Boston
Krensi
Florence Kelly
Wadsworth
Peace Plan Withdrawn By Germans
London dispatch reports a shifting stance in Brest-Litovsk talks as central powers withdraw peace proposals on December 25. Bolsheviks led by Lenin resist concessions, threaten new war, and Ukraine declares independence while Cossacks form a Southeastern Russia republic under General Kaldenin. Front activity includes trench raids by French and Italian advances in the Alps.
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London
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Brest-Litovsk
Stockholm
Great Britain
France
United States
Count Czernin
Nikolai Lenine
Ukrainian
New Ukraine
Kaledines
Artileries
Irgonone
Vosges
Cavazadhurina
Chicago aviators spared phantom camp mix up
One hundred fifty young pilots from Chicago avoided an erroneous Ft Wayne Ind aviation camp invitation after an error was found in Washington. Cards had listed Ft Wayne Ind instead of Ft Wayne Detroit Mich. Ground school at Detroit is a new institution and several squads chased the wrong location.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Washington
T. W. Winston
Detroit
Mich
Hoover Plans Enforced Conservation for Expanded Exports
Food Administrator Hoover outlines plans to enforce conservation in restaurants and extend antihoarding rules to households to boost ally exports. He says allies need 175 to 190 million bushels of wheat and request doubling meat exports, but American feeding must be preserved. Public support for deeper savings is urged as state administrators coordinate a new saving program.
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Associated Press
Washington
Food Administration
Hoover
America
England
France
Italy
Government to regulate private securities for war effort
Washington reports a proposed system to license each private security issue and to allocate capital via federal control. A government corporation may absorb approved issues, with a push to curb nonessential public and private expenditures to fund the war.
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Congress
Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
White House
McAdoo
Federal Reserve Banks
Federal Reserve System
Denman May Testify on Shipbuilding Topics
William Denman ex chairman of the Shipping Board may testify before the Senate Commerce Committee investigation into shipbuilding. He submitted a list of discussion topics and may be limited to refutations of statements and current affairs. Today's session focused on housing problems with calls for a 100 million dollar housing commission for workers.
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Washington
William Denman
The
Shipping Board
Senate Commerce Committee
Denman
Denman-Goethals
Fletcher
Phelan
Otto Eidlitz
Philip Hiss
Council of National Defense
Blizzard temps record frigid subzero readings citywide
After the Friday blizzard the city faced subzero temperatures by Saturday 2 30 am The report lists readings from College Hill Evanston Baylor Park Westwood Mt Washington Madisonville Hyde Park and WEES with values ranging from 23 below to 9 below The text is garbled but clearly notes widespread extreme cold across multiple neighborhoods.
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Evanston
Baylor
Park
Westwood
Mt. Washington
Madisonville
Hyde Park
WEES
Factories Redirect to Powder Bag Production War Work
Washington January 11 factories making auto and carriage covers and corsets have been asked by the Council of National Defense to start producing powder bags. This marks the first announced step to divert civilian plants to war work.
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Washington
Tories
Council of
National Defense
Coalled Mentor Residents Hoard Garfield Coal Find
Citizens in Mentor Ohio report three Garfield estate homes hold about thirty two tons of coal in cellars one third in Lucretia Garfield James R Garfield and John Newell houses. Caretaker Gunseth and wife burn soft coal while others in town use furniture for warmth.
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Cleveland, O
Mentor
Garfield
Lucretia A. Garfield
Harry Garfield
Gunseth
Dr. Garfield
James
California
Washington
James R. Garfield
John Newell
Cleveland
John Purroy Mitchel Named Major in U S Army Aviation Corps
John Purroy Mitchel, who retired January 1 as Major of New York, was appointed a Major in the Aviation Corps of the United States Army in New York on January 11.
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New York
John Purroy Mitchel
Aviation Corps
United States Army
Robbery at Camp Funston Banking Hall Kills Four
Four civilians, including C. I. Winters of the National Reserve Bank, were killed with an axe during a bank robbery at Camp Funston Kansas. A man in a captain’s U S Army uniform led the raid. one officer was wounded and two suspects sought. The robbers escaped with cash and Liberty Bonds after entering the vault.
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Associated Press
Camp Funston
Kas
Army
United States Army
C. I. Winters
National Reserve Bank of Kansas
Kearney Warnell
Altho
Austrian Actress Katharin Schratt Dies in Vienna
German newspapers report the death of Katharin Schratt in Vienna. Schratt long counted Emperor Francis Joseph as a close associate and was named in his will with a bequest of 256000 dollars.
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Vienna
Katharin Schratt
Francis Joseph
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