Willard Resigns War Industries Chair Amid Reform Talk
The War Industries Board loses its chairman Daniel Willard as Congress prepares a one man control plan for munitions. Senate Military Committee meets daily to draft a director of war industries with broad powers under the President, not a Cabinet member.
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Associated Press
Washington
Daniel Willard
War Industries
Congress
War Supply Department
Industries Board
War and Navy Departments
Senate Military Committee
Senate
Willard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
France
Russia
Baker
Wilson
Senate Committee
Chamberlain
Department of Munitions
French General Fayolle Leads Forces in Italy Front
France has selected General Fayolle to command troops sent into Italy to aid in repelling the Teuton invasion. French forces have reached the Italian front and performed well in the recent battle at Mt Tomba.
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Underwood
France
General Frayolle
Italy
Mt. Tomba
Peace talk resumes as Germany hawks terms
London dispatches report renewed peace talks amid German factional strife over Brest-Litovsk demands. Hungary's cabinet resigns over war policy, Russia Rumanians face tension, and naval losses fall, with eight British ships sunk last week.
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Associated Press
London
Altho
Brest-Litovsk
National fuel rationing order extends ten weeks
A new national order remains in effect through ten weeks, outlining drastic measures to preserve fuel. It applies nationwide and covers succeeding Mondays, guiding consumption and restrictions across industries and households.
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NEW National Order
Five Days Heating for Office Buildings and Industry
Washington sends a drastic order halting operations in most eastern factories for five days to ease a fuel shortage. The plan also designates Mondays as holidays for ten weeks, closing shops, saloons, and many offices while allowing essentials like drugs and food.
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Associated Press
Washington
America
Mississippi River
Garfield
Wilson
Weather Summary for Ohio and Surrounding Regions
Snow expected in Ohio Thursday with clearing by Friday in the south. Lake Erie, Indiana and Kentucky: fair Thursday and Friday with little temperature change. West Virginia: snow Thursday then fair conditions. Current station data show temperatures, highs and precip. Cincinnati records for January 16, 1918 list highest 16 and lowest 3 with rain and wind details.
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Ohio
Lake Erie
Indiana
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Messages From Enemies Taint Caillaux Treason Case
State Department released intercepted messages between Count von Bernstorff and Berlin noting Caillaux in 1915 Argentina in contact with German agents condemning the French government and seeking favorable treatment for his position. A final dispatch warned a ship captain to treat Caillaux with courtesy if captured. The exchanges were provided to the French government before Caillaux’s arrest and released in Paris.
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Associated Press
Washington
Jan. Wn
Caillaux
France
State Department
Department
Count von Bernstorff
Berlin
Paris
Roosevelt Honored by American Defense Society Luncheon
Theodore Roosevelt accepted the honorary Presidency of the American Defense Society at a Union League Club luncheon in New York. Lindley M. Garri son, former Secretary of War, accepted membership on the society's Board of Trustees.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
American Defense Society
Union League Club
Lindley M. Garrison
Society
Marked Drop in British Merchant Ship Losses
London report from the Admiralty shows a week with only six merchantmen of 1600 tons or more sunk by mines or submarines, plus two under 1600 tons and two fishing vessels. This follows a prior week tally of eighteen 1600-ton plus losses and earlier weeks with higher figures.
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Amsterdam
Germany
von Hindenburg
von Hertling
Reichstag
Austria
Charles
Russia
Rumania
Council of National Commissioners of
Italy
Piave River
British Admiralty
London
Miralty
Clash over sugar probe continues in Senate committee
George H. Earle of the Pennsylvania Sugar Co testifies on US sugar consumption and supply while Claus Spreckels challenges Ad ministration testimony. Senator Reed restricts references to prior statements as Senator Jones objects but agrees to proceed. Earle says 1917 task tougher than 1918 and tomorrow continuation planned. Francis Peabody presents a coal price list and zone system plan to aid production and delivery.
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Associated Press
Washington
Reed
Senate Manufactures Committee
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania Sugar Company
Earle
Claus A. Spreckels
Food Administration
Jones
New Mexico
Doly
United States
Spreckels
Francis Peabody
Council of National Defense
Talbot Elected President of Civil Engineers Society
A. N. Talbot of Urbana Illinois was chosen president of the American Society of Civil Engineers at the sixty fifth annual meeting in New York. Retiring President George H Pegam noted in his address that eleven percent of the society's members are currently in the army.
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New York
A. N. Talbot
Urbana
Ill
American Society of Civil Engineers
George H. Pegram
McCumber Urges Rapid War Preparations Shipbuilding Push
Senator McCumber of North Dakota painted a dire war picture in the Senate urging aggressive speed in shipbuilding and mobilization. He said the United States must mobilize 5,000,000 troops to balance the central powers and 7,000,000 to force a German retreat, noting Russia and Romania were out of the war and asserting Italy and France faced heavy pressure.
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Washington
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North Dakota
Senate
United States
England
Russia
Rumania
Italy
France
Europe
Emperor Charles Rejects Hungarian Independent Army Plan
Amsterdam dispatch reports Emperor Charles rejected a proposal by Hungarian Premier Dr. Wekerle to create an independent Hungarian army. The Austrian Ministerial Council reportedly opposed the army reforms, aiming to keep Austrian and Hungarian forces with separate identities.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Charles
Vienna
Koelnische Zeitung
Wekerle
Rail Securities President Calls Members Meeting
President S Davies Warfield of the National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities invites 140 leading financiers and business men to a Baltimore meeting next Tuesday. The session will adopt by laws after incorporation under Maryland law and discuss current and future railroad issues.
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Baltimore
S. Davies Warfield
National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities
Maryland
Oil firms charged with short measure in Ohio
P Gault head of the State Dairy and Food Department announced forty affidavits filed against Cleveland headquartered oil firms for short measure. Crystal Oil Great Lakes Refining and Anglo American Pork Products lead the actions in Cleveland Akron Mansfield and Toledo with sales in Canton Marion and Columbus. Prosecutions are in Justices Courts.
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P. Gault
State Dairy and Food Department
Weights and Measures Division
Cleveland
Crystal Oil Company
Great Lakes Refining Company
Anglo-American Pork Products Company
Akron
Mansfield
Toledo
Canton
Marion
Inspector Gault
Justices Courts
Grocers Arrested for Storage Egg Sales in Chicago
January 16. Warrants issued for seventy five grocers charged with selling storage eggs as strictly fresh in violation of a new state law. Local authorities move to enforce the regulation across Chicago.
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Chicago
Smallpox in Ohio Reaches Five Year December High
Ohio department of health reports December smallpox cases at 1,050 the highest monthly total in five years. Shelby County led with 95 cases, a drop from 150 the previous month. The 1917 statewide total reached 5,148, another record. Nearly all counties reported cases.
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Ohio
Associated Press
Columbus
State Department of Health
Department
Shelby County
Six Bard Children Die in House Fire at Caribou
Six Bard children age 4 months to 10 years died in a home fire near Caribou Maine. Their mother Mrs Bard was seriously burned while trying to rescue them, reports to county officers say.
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Caribou, Me
Charles Bard
Here
Bard
R A Mechanics Are to Go East
Washington reports efforts to transfer machinists and skilled railroad workers from Western roads to the East for a few weeks to relieve shortages and allow Eastern lines to repair locomotives and freight cars. A. H. Smith was asked to determine the number of mechanics needed by Eastern roads as the plan unfolds.
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Associated Press
Washington
Railroad Administration
Western Railroads
Eastern
A. H. Smith
McAdoo
Miners in Convention Renew the Declaration
Leaders from 21 coal states at the United Mineworkers of America biennial meeting in Indianapolis pledge sympathy for areas hit by fuel shortages. John P White, former UMWA president and now a National Fuel Administrator adviser, blames railroads for the crisis and says production is not the issue.
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United Mineworkers of America
Washington
Mners
John P White
Miners’ Union
Garfield
White
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