STATE NEWS ITEMS MEN ARE BACK FOR TRAINING
Active training resumes at Camp Taylor Kentucky as hundreds return from holiday furloughs. Last man to leave New Year’s leave departs and more are due back Saturday. Steel helmets and live grenades signal possible early overseas service for Lincolnton division soldiers. In Mississippi Camp Shelby Major General Sage invites Thirty eighth division officers to New Orleans for a weekend party aboard a special train.
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New Orleans
Camp Shelby
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Sage
New Jersey Based Standard Airplane Names New Works Manager
George D. Ker shaw, formerly vice president of the Advance Rumleys company in this city, is named general works manager of the Standard Airplane corporation of New Jersey. He will oversee Elizabeth plants and Newark and Plainville facilities with subsidiary teams at Philadelphia. Interurban travel faces ticket office closures and self service baggage checks as lines cut costs.
Indiana Food Administrator Slams Eggs in Mixed Drinks
Marion county food administrator decries eggs in mixed drinks at soda fountains and bars. He cites a proposed fee of 460 to SIG dozens daily, raising prices beyond reach for the average man and claiming strain on hospital costs.
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Indianapolis
Stantes Woyehkot
Marion County
Camels of the World Set for Anderson Convocation
The supreme reunion of the Camels of the World will hold its annual convocation in Anderson February 12. Lincoln's birthday will be eluded in the program. CL Herbal Morris of Minneapolis, Minn, supreme commissioner, will preside. More than 800 delegates are expected.
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Anderson
Lincoln
Herbal Morris
Minnneapolss
Minn
Order
Boo Delegeres
Boy Crushed to Death at Letsineer Mine
Sixteen year old Bernard Bresster, son of Millen Presster, was killed when he was crushed under four tons of rock at the Letsineer mine. He had worked there about a week. Survived by Wray Bheo Fucht and others. investigators and local officials began examining the accident.
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Jasonville
Jan
Bernard Bresster
Millen Presster
Train strike kills switchman at city yard
A Chicago and North Western passenger train struck a section hand named Lee Moreapad who was sweeping switches and died instantly. Snow storms halted rail yard work and delayed construction on steel mills and ammunition plants in Calumet, with power and travel disrupted in January.
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Lee Moreapad
Jie
Gary
Jan
Calumet
Local Man Dies After Shotgun Accident at Home
A man identified as Clarence Tan nels dies at his residence after a chronic illness and a shotgun accident. The incident occurred in Falkand, Diess Tanus, with authorities reporting the fatal event as resulting from a wound sustained during an accidental discharge.
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Tanus
Falkand
Jon
Rele Bush Severateen
de Etinus
Rejected Peace Terms With Germany Upheld By Bolshevik Leaders
Petrograd reports Russia has spurned Germany’s terms. Leon Trotzky announces the rejection and the Soviet executive calls central empire peoples to press for general democratic peace. Bolsheviks insist on no annexations and indemnities. Front soldiers say they are ready to resume hostilities while seeking bread.
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Petrograd
Russia
Germany
Leon Trotzky
Soviet
Berlin
Vienna
Trotzky
Cheriweiuy
Reading Named British Envoy to United States
Washington circles believe Earl Reading will succeed Sir Cecil Spring Rice as British ambassador in Washington. Lord Reading has been in the United States on a special mission and was hosted at the White House, with the president showing strong regard for his capabilities in financial matters.
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Washington
Dan
England
Tiny
Cecil Spring
Rice
Beilish
Mbassador Toom United Bortes
United States
White House
Government sues for absolute divorce in Towson case
The United States government files suit in Towson seeking an absolute divorce for two soldiers stationed nearby who married in Baltimore recently. The government alleges the women pressured the men to wed to obtain monthly payments and pensions.
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Baltimore
United States
Towson
Tar
Howard
British Heppel Enemy Raids Repulsed near La Basse
The war office reports hostile raiding parties repulsed south and southwest of La Basse. A number of prisoners were taken in our hands. Enemy artillery showed activity during the night near Tipehy.
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London
la Basse
Gouden
War Office
Tipehy
Civilians to Run Ordnance Department Reorg
Secretary Baker announces a four division civilian led reorganization of the ordnance bureau. Procurement production inspection and supply divisions will handle contracts production control quality and distribution with civilian executives and experts guiding the effort Col Samuel McRoberts named to head the procurement division.
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Washington
Ordnance Bureau
War Baker
Baker
Secretary of War
Ordnance Department
Crozier
Senate E Commiittee
Chief of Ordnance
Ordnance
Samuel McRoberts
Natiional City Bank of New York
Hear Women on Suffrage Hearings Begin in Washington
The first in a series of hearings on the woman suffrage constitutional amendment opened in Washington. National American Woman Suffrage Association speakers included Mrs Maud Wood Park in charge, with Dr Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt among listed advocates.
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Washington
House Suffrage Committee
National American Women Suffrage Association
Maud Wood Park
Anna Howard Shaw
Associamen
Carrie Chapman Cutt
Travers Whitney
New York
Guilford Dudley
Nashville
Henry Waterlon
Wishita
Rail Control Seen as Success to Ease Rail Congestion
President Wilson plans to address Congress with a railroad message on Friday. He aims for government operation to earn net income equal to three years ending June 30, 1917, while guaranteeing properties stay well maintained. McAdoo says every wheel is turning to relieve coal shortages and freight congestion.
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Washington
Wilsoy
Congress
Wilson
Wilsen
William G. McAdoo
McAdoo
Dining out as business expense for buyers ruled
Washington Jan 4 Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper ruled that dining out of town buyers is a proper business expense and may be deducted from earnings for income and excess profits taxes. He noted New York and Chicago jobbers of clothing millinery and merchandise sought this interpretation and that dinners have a business aspect when charged against earnings.
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Washington
Internal Revenue
Roper
New York
Loyalist Candidate Victor Wins Wisconsin Senate Race
Louis A. Fons, Loyalist candidate, defeats Socialist EB Melins in the Fifth district special election. Fons wires Senator La Follette to repudiate his America first stance while claiming district endorsement. Votes show Fons 3169 to Melins 3052.
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Louis A. Fons
Milwaukee
Wires la Follette
T Louis A. Fons
EB. T. Melins
Fiehth
la Follette
Eiswith
Fons
Moeims
Luxburg Declared Insane by Argentine Doctors
Buenos Aires reports Count von Luxburg former German charge d affaires to Argentina has been pronounced insane by alienists and placed under observation in a sanatorium. He authored messages to Berlin via the Swedish legation instructing the sinking of Argentine ships without leaving a trace.
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Buenos Aires
Count von Luxburg
Argentina
Wis
Ven Laxburg
Berlin
Edison Plant Closes for First Time in History
The Thomas A. Edison plant in West Orange New Jersey shut for the first time due to a lack of fuel.
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West Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edison
Reds Seize Moscow Banks Threaten Factories
Consul Summers reports Bolsheviks have seized the banks in Moscow and threaten to confiscate all factories. General disorder and martial law are in effect as the message to Washington is garbled and only partially deciphered.
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Washington
Summers
Moscow
State Department
Ban on U. S. Socialists in War Post Communications
The Petrograd correspondent to Times reports a northern front military postal and telegraphs official warns stations that sending appeals to French and American socialists will face severe punishment. The message brands those socialists as imperialist hirelings.
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U. S
London
Petrograd
the Times
Fresh German Russian peace talks questioned in Brest-Litovsk talks
Stockholm and London report renewed upheaval as Von Kuehlmann returns to Brest-Litovsk with new instructions. Berlin leaders and Austro-Hungarian officials meet about the Russian situation amid claims his stance hurt peace prospects. He and Count Czernin leave with fresh explanations.
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London
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Berlin
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Austria-Hungary
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von Hertling
Admiral von Tirpitz
Marine
Charles
Kucharzewski
Reichstag
Philipp Scheidemann
Friedrich Ebert
Hugo Haanse
von Kruehhmann
Count Czernin
McAdoo reviews railroad wage and coal movements
Washington reports that Director General McAdoo and staff discuss railroad labor and finance questions as coal moves to New England and the East. Four railway unions met to review the employment situation under government operation and may push wage issues after transportation priorities are resolved.
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Washington
McAdoo
New England
East
W. W. Hearing Delayed Indictment Pleas Filed
Chicago January 4 eighty three remarrers to government indictments and seventy six pleas for bills of particulars plus two pleas in abatement were filed with Judge Landis by attorney George F. Vanderveer representing members named in federal indictments.
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Chicago
Landis
George F. Vanderveer
French Break War Records On Monte Tomba Operation
A veteran officer reports the French attack on Monte Tomba yielded 1,400 prisoners and 560 dead with under 50 casualties. He notes unprecedented French drill and discipline overcame Austrian rawness, and Austrian officers impressed by French captors amid cheers from their troops.
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Italy
Monte Tomba
Vke
Germany
Platform of British Labor Endorses Postwar Reforms
London in early June reports a draft British Labour subcommittee plan for a postwar policy. It calls for universal national minimum wage democratic control of industry use of surplus wealth for the common good and a labor reconstruction policy to be submitted at the party conference next June if a general election makes it necessary.
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London
Jin
British Labor Party
20 Killed in Mysterious Petrograd Depot Blast
In Petrograd the Gutuyevsky basin depot fire and explosion killed about twenty. A vast quantity of ammunition and eleven hundred airplane machine guns were destroyed in the incident.
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Petrograd
Gutuyevsky Basin
Autonomous Army Approved by Emperor Karl in Vienna
Vienna dispatches report Emperor Karl of Austria Hungary has approved the creation of an autonomous Hungarian army in Zurich on January 4. The move signals a shift in military organization within the empire.
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Karl
Austria-Hungary
Vienna
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