J. S. On Verge of Break With Germany
Washington faces a possible rupture as Germany vows to discard subs restrictions. President Wilson and Secretary Lansing weigh two paths: recall of Gerard and German envoy Bernstorff’s pass or a diplomatic protest with a formal memorandum.
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Lansing
Gerard
Presidnt
Congress
Bernstorff
Washington
United States
Germany
Wilson
Europe
Senate
Berlin
Count von Bernstorff
State Department
Ambassdor
White House
Quebee
von Bernstorff
Sussex
Farrell Addresses Foreign Trade Banquet Highlights Postwar Prosperity
James A. Farrell, head of United States Steel and chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council, urged renewed U S foreign trade cooperation for postwar prosperity at Pittsburgh’s fourth annual foreign trade convention banquet. He warned that continued submarine warfare and the Sussex note contradict earlier German pledges and threaten neutral shipping.
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United States
James A. Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
Pittsburgh
Farrell
National Foreign Trade Council
Plot to murder Lloyd George ends in Derby court arraignments
Four Derby residents including Mrs. Alice Wheeldon and two of her daughters are arraigned for plotting to kill Premier Lloyd George and Arthur Henderson. They deny the charges as trumped up punishment for conscientious objection to conscription. The women teach locally and the husband is a druggist's clerk.
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Derby
Eng
Derby Guild Hall
Lloyd George
Arthur Henderson
War Council
Guildhall
Alice Wheeldon
Miss Ann Wheeldon
Ilkeston School
Winifred
Alfred) Mason
Foundry Lane School
Southampton
Tie
Winifred Mason
Roosevelt Blames Wilson for Crisis Over German Note
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt criticizes President Wilson over the German note. He says Wilson should act to protect noncombatants and seize German vessels if threats to Americans continue. Greece’s Premier Lambros appeals to Droppers to lift the entente blockade to ease suffering.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Langdon
Germany
Wilson
Lusitania
Lambros
Greece
Garrett Droppers
Germany resumes unrestricted naval warfare in new U boat zones
Berlin declares policy of unrestricted sea warfare effective Feb 1 within barred zones around Great Britain France Italy and the eastern Mediterranean. Neutral ships travel at own risk while the U S is urged to press for humane conduct and avoid barred routes. Hospital ships barred from certain channel zones. London warns of immediate reprisals if German threat is carried out.
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Germany
Falmouth
England
Washington
Kaiser
Wilson
U. S
Berlin
America
Great Britain
France
Italy
Mediterranean
Jutland
Gerard
United States Senate
Ireland
India
Austro-Hungary
Turkey
Bulgaria
A. Falmouth
Sicilly
London
Flamborough Head
Terchelling
Netherlands
Landsend
Quessant
Tennessee abolishes capital punishment law
Nashville Tennessee February 1 The bill repealing the anti capital punishment law in Tennessee passed and was signed by Governor Rye This legislative action ends capital punishment in the state according to the report
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Rye
Louis Botha Heads to War Council Meeting
Premier Louis Botha is reported to attend a war council meeting to discuss national defense strategies. The event underscores South Africa's wartime leadership and policy direction amid regional tensions.
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Council
British Empire
Louis Botha
Botha
Africa
Aged Woodchopper Accused in Lake Wawasee Attack
Warsaw Indiana February 1 Harry Smi forty five years old suffers a four inch head gash and may die. David Trubey seventy is in county jail charged with murder after a cottage attack on Lake Wawasee. Smith staggered to a nearby house seeking help.
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Warsaw
Ind
Harry Smi
David Trubey
Lake Wawasee
Smith
Trubey
Canadian Packers Drive Hog Prices at Chicago Yards
Canadian buyers entered the Chicago stockyards, purchasing the best hogs and pushing prices to the highest level yet seen. The price rose 20 cents per hundred pounds to about 12 dollars per hundredweight or 12 cents per pound live. Experts predict further gains, possibly to 13 dollars, as Canadian hams and bacon fetch higher Liverpool prices.
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Chicago
Liverpool
United States
LEAK PROBE HITS STONE WALL AGAIN
New York February 1 congressional investigators pursued a leak in Wilsons note to neutrals and belligerents. Francis A Connolly Washington broker and R W Bollings partner testified admitting sending the note to E P Huttons New York firm before public release. He said he learned the note from gossip and his own ideas and questioned if a reliable source would have warned him to protect clients from a stock market drop.
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New York
Francis A. Connolly
Washington
R. W. Bolling
Wilson
E. P. Hutton and Company
Fire Sweeps Logansport Block Lodging H Wiler Co Loss
Fire destroyed part of the McGourty Block at Fourth street and Broadway in Logansport Indiana affecting the H Wiler Co furniture store Reichter barber shop a three story building and the Ark Theater with losses estimated at 75000 dollars. In Washington the state department sought details from the American minister in Costa Rica on the Gonzales government overthrow and foreign protections.
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Logansport
Ind
McGourty
Fourth Street
Broadway
H. Wiler & Co
Reichter
Ark
Washington
State Department
Hale
San Jose
Costa Rica
Gonzales
Markets Report From Chicago and East Buffalo Live Stock
Chicago live stock receipts hogs 54 000 with light heavy packers bids hogs 11 50 to 11 70. Cattle receipts 21 000 with steers 10 50 to 11 25 cows 7 25 to 8 00 prime dealers 13 50 to 14 25. East Buffalo quotes cattle 10 cars steady hogs 20 cars steady heavy hogs 12 25 pigs 10 75 to 11 25 lambs 14 60 to 14 75 yearlings 12 50 to 13 50 wethers 11 50 to 12 00 ewes 10 60 to 11 00 veals 15 00. Potatoes 1 90 to 2 25. Corn 3 white 99 to 99 1/4 cents. No 3 yellow 99 1/4 to 99 1/2. oats 3 white 55 1/2 to 56 cents. Butter firsts 38 cents. extras 36 1/4 to 37. eggs firsts 38 1/2 to 39 1/2 cents. storage 34 cents.
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Chicago
East Buffalo
Dunning and Stevens
Livestock Commission
N. Y
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J. S
Yaiser
American Press Association
Roosevelt
South Africa
Dominion
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