Congress Votes Aid to Starving Europe
The U S House approved a 100 million dollar famine relief bill for Europe excluding Germany to curb Bolshevism and aid postwar peace. An Inter Allied Council will supervise distribution. The measure passed 240 to 73 with Hoovers and McCormicks backing.
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Congress
Europe
Inter-Allied Council
Associated Press
Washington
Germany
House
Wilson
Senate
Herbert C. Hoover
Vance McCormick
War Trade Board
Rules Committee
Sherley
Europes
Senator Martin
Representative Sherley
State Department
Henry D. White
White
Great Britain
France
Italy
United States
Cox Inaugural Address Sets State Aid and Prohibition Goals
Ohio Governor James M. Cox, sworn in for a third term, outlines priorities in his inaugural message to the General Assembly. He seeks relief funds for counties, cities, and schools while enforcing liquor prohibition and expanding state authority against delinquent officials.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Columbus Chamber of Commerce
Supreme Court
James M. Cox
House
Senate
General Assembly
Cox
Congress
War Council Sets Armistice Renewal Terms and Restitution
Paris dispatch reports a Supreme War Council agreement on January 17 armistice renewal terms including naval clauses finances supply and restitution of material and machinery taken by Germany. The two sessions outlined two phases with Foch presiding the morning talks and full conference to convene January 18 at the Foreign Office.
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Paris
Supreme War Council
France
Belgium
Foreign Office
Associated Press
Supreme Council of the Peace Congress
Ereng
Japan
Wilson
Lansing
Bliss
Herbert c. Hoover
United States
Clemenceau
Pichon
Klotz
Clementel
Loucheur
Marshal Foch
Weygand
de Bon
Lloyd George
Balfour
Great Britain
Sonnino
Italy
Viscount Chinda
Matsui
Bligs
Benson
Sir Henry Wilson
Foch
M. Klotz
M. Leygues
Robilant
Germany
Weather summary across states with temperatures and precipitation
Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, partly cloudy and colder Tuesday and Wednesday. West Virginia partly cloudy Tuesday, fair and colder Wednesday. Temperatures and precipitation listed for stations including Cincinnati, Boston, New Orleans, Galveston, Nashville, Memphis, Kansas City, Omaha, Winnipeg. Details compare January 13, 1919 readings with prior years.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Boston
New Orleans
Galveston
Nashville
Memphis
Kansas City
Omah Sene
Winnipeg
Cincinnati
Bolshevik Nests Cleaned Out in Bourgeois Plant Raid
Radical strongholds are being eliminated in a crackdown described as ending the Bourgeois newspaper plant raid. Authorities report the operation targeted insurgent hubs with limited collateral disruption. Local observers note the action signals a broader campaign against subversive press activities.
Berlin uprising telegram cited by officials in Washington
Officials in Washington noted a Berlin Tagelische Rundschau article saying the Spartacus group sent a telegram to Moscow urging an end to fighting because Berlin workers were not ready for proletarian dictatorship. The piece is cited as supporting charges that the German uprising was directed by Russian Bolsheviks.
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Associated Press
Washington
Berlin
Spartacans Shot in Berlin and Lethal Reprisals
A wireless Berlin dispatch reports Spartacan members court martialled and shot seven government soldiers as reprisals. It notes arrest of Karl Liebknecht’s son and Rosa Luxemburg’s flight, with government forces seizing the Silesian Railway Station and dispersing scattered Spartacan groups near the station.
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Associated Press
London
Spartacus
Germany
Berlin
Karl Liebknecht
Rosa Luxenbourg
Silesian
Greater
Boetzow
The
Spree
Roosevelt's Last Indictment on League of Nations
An Associated Press report transcribes Theodore Roosevelt's final Kansas City Star article on the League of Nations. The piece, dictated January 3, was published after his death, arguing caution in promoting a world league and critiquing Wilsonian rhetoric and the fourteen points.
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T. R
League OF Nations
Associated Press
Kansas City, Mo
Strike in Lima and Callao disrupts Peru economy
A general strike in Lima and Callao involving 20 000 to 30 000 workers shuts stores offices and factories and halts interurban traffic. The protest supports 2000 cotton mill workers demanding an eight hour day and 50 percent wage hikes. Troops clash with demonstrators and authorities say control is restored at key points.
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Associated Press
Lima
Peru
Callao
Maroccoha
Cerro de Pasco Company
Moroccoha
Martial law declared in Buenos Aires amid unrest
The President and Cabinet declare martial law in Buenos Aires with ten thousand reserves summoned. Police report about two thousand prisoners as Russian detainees reveal many fugitives tied to revolutionary activity. among detainees are 200 Catalonians fleeing the Barcelona uprising.
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Buenos Aires
Russia
Barcelona
Influenza shutdowns branded as foolish in Baltimore
Baltimore officials report 18 496 influenza cases from Jan 1 to 13 surpassing December totals. Dr G Hampson Jones condemns school and theater closures as foolish, urging public responsibility to stamp out the flu.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Board of Health
G. Hampson
Jones
Montreal Man Under Embezzlement Charge Faces Boston Arraignment
William Roniker also known as William Willis was arrested in Montreal on embezzlement charges of 30000 dollars from Manufacturers National Bank of Boston. police say he confessed after leaving 13000 dollars in hundred dollar bills found. he will be arraigned in Boston.
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Associated Press
Montreal
National Bank of Boston
William Roniker
William Willis
Boston
Roniker
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Toronto
Ottawa
Cambridge
Mass
National Bank
Ohio Electric car overturns. five killed, six injured
An eastbound Ohio Electric traction car overturned at London station at 10 45 PM. Five people died, including Mrs Glenn Kinkead of Columbus and Frances Reeder of London, with two dying in Columbus hospitals and one fatally injured. Six others were seriously injured. Cause cited as brake failure.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Columbus
Ohio
London
Glenn Kinkead
Frances Reeder
I. N.aeschliman
Columbus Hospital
Reeder
Herman Kohl
Columbus, Co
A. Lowe
Prince of Wales Dances With U S Nurses in German Occupied Zone
In Coblenz the Prince of Wales joins American and British nurses at a dance while serving as guest of Major General Dickman. He delivers graceful apologies for an accidental cut in and dances with Miss Agnes Kann of Baltimore, treated as an ordinary captain in the American zone.
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Associated Press
Coblenz
Prince of Wales
Dickman
Hines
The
Prince of Wied
Agnes Kann
Baltimore
Nine Die As Philadelphia Wreck Crashes Two Trains
Nine persons killed and over twenty injured when the Scranton flyer rear ended a Doylestown local near Ft. Washington station fifteen miles north of Philadelphia. The wrecked rear coach collapsed with devastating results. eight identifications follow.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Scranton Flyer
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
Doylestown
Ft. Washington Station
Secions
Frank Soiday
North Wales
Ambler Trust Company
Lawrence Pottager
Ambler
Emma Renner
Hazel, Rudolph
Clara Lewis
North
Wales
Raymond Bechtel
Oak Worrell
Lloyd Houston
Reading Terminal
Midvale
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WAR Council
Price OF Extension
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Grayson
Bernard M. Baruch
Edward N. Hurley
Andrew Bonar Law
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Orlando
Vittorio Orlando
Rome
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General Robilant
Foreign’ Office
Admiral Grayson
Sera
Grant
M. Picton
Sidisee
Bolshevik Telegraph Agency
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Roosevelt
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