International talks show Japan and Italy yield in postwar plan
Paris dispatches report Japan accepts internationalization of colonies and Italy agrees to drop claims on Fiume as a free port. No U S troops will be sent to Turkey for garrisoning, with American divisions on the Western Front gradually reduced and withdrawn after the peace treaty.
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Turkey
London
Paris
Daily Mail
Japan
South Africa
Wilson
Evening Standard
Italy
Fiume
Hamburg
U. S
United States
Supreme Council
Poeschen
Posen
Poschen
Roumania
Serbia
Banat of
Emesvar
United States of America
Inter-Allied Commission
Poland
Czecho-Slovak Republic
M. Roulens
Botha
Temesvar
Mms
Bratiano
Minsu
Tashitch
Vesnitch
Tiumbitch
P. A. S. Franklin Leads in Exports Control Work
P. A. S. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine, is a key figure likely to keep voluntary war work beyond peace. He represents the United States Shipping Board on the exports control committee, continuing his war-time duties as chairman of the shipping control committee and now serving on the exports control panel.
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P., A. S. Franklin
International Mercantile Marine
United States Shipping Board
Exports Control Committee
Franklin
Shipping Control Committee
The
Shipping Board
Belfast and Glasgow Riots Prompt Government Action
London reports the government will preserve order after a wave of strikes and rioting in Belfast and Glasgow. Police and soldiers clash with mobs injuring dozens. Belfast plans to mobilize 30 000 constables and Ulster volunteers amid a looming six week shipyard lockout.
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London
Glasgow
Belfast
Ulster Volunteers
Fay
Williams Gallagher
David Kirkwood
Wee
George Square
Plan to demobilize soldiers through local boards
New York reports Police Commissioner Enright saying the War Department is considering returning soldiers from France via local draft boards rather than discharge from camps. He cites issues of stranded men with final pay, urging federal officials to send released soldiers home through local processing for economic and moral reasons.
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New York
France
War Department
Enright
Washington
Baker
Crowder
Packers Cars Are Rapped by Washington Advocate
William F. Bode, vice president of Reid, Murdock, & Co. in Chicago, told the interstate commerce committee that meat packers use private refrigerator and peddler car systems to undercut wholesale grocers. He said witnesses before the committees avoid revealing full facts of these operations and that packers gradually seize wholesale trade.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Committee of the
House
William F. Bode
Reid, Murdock, & Co
Chicago
Bode
To Roney President's Ship
United States battleship Now Mosced anchored offshore to carry President Wilson. reports from Paris reg 81 detail preparations awaiting the president's arrival aboard the ship.
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Roney
Paris
United States
Wilson Howe
Rescue of 60 Americans From British Troops At Bembridge
Two thousand troops aboard the American transport Narragansett were rescued after running ashore on a Bembridge ledge. Sixty American soldiers were among those saved while the remainder were British.
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South Hampton
Bembridge
Navy expands to ten battleships amid wartime budget
Washington reports the house naval committee unanimously approved a three year navy program reducing battleships to ten with costs up to 21 million each and ten scout cruisers up to 4 million each. The overall navy appropriation totals 750 million with 169.9 million to be spent this year. The panel also kept a 500000 man army as the basis for next year pay appropriations, while stressing temporary measures and no implied permanent force.
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Washington, Febs
House Naval Committee
House Military Committee
Padgett
Congress
Navy Department
Daniels
Navy
Commtte
Fire Sweeps Air Station Hangars at Rockaway Point
A blaze at the Rockaway naval aviation station destroyed two hangars housing six airplanes each. New York City fire crews from multiple stations battled the flames which threatened eight additional hangars.
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Rockaway Point
N. Y
New York
Naval Aviation
New York City
Preliminary peace terms set for Germany February seventeenth
Paris reports preliminary peace terms will be presented to Germany on February 17 along with conditions for further renewal of the armistice. The notice sets the date and outlines the scope of terms to be discussed in the renewal talks.
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Germany
Pershing Denies Paris Reports of American Atrocities
General Pershing, in a message to Secretary of War Baker, called sensational French newspaper claims of assaults and burglaries by American soldiers gross exaggerations, dismissing them as unfounded.
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Washington
General Pershing
Prisoners Strike At Leavenworth Barracks Fire Damage
More than 1500 of 8570 prisoners at the United States disciplinary barracks at Leavenworth refused to leave cells or to work after a quartermaster storehouse fire. They complained of forced labor with Black inmates, poor food, unequal courts martial sentences, and resented the release of 118 conscientious objectors by war department orders.
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Leavenworth
Kan
United States
War Department
Nat Goodwin Dies in New York After Illness
American actor Nat Goodwin died in a New York hotel after a brief illness following eye surgery. Born in Boston in 1857, he appeared on stage since 1874 and was married five times to Beza Weatherby, Nella Baker Pease, Maxine Elliott, Edna Goodrich, and Margaret Moreland.
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New York
Nat
Goodwin
Baltimore
Margaret Moreland
Raymond Gilson
U.S. A
Wis
Georgia Gardner
Los Angeles
Cal
Boston
Mass
Flo
United States
England
Mr. Goodwin
Beza Weatherby
Nella Baker Pease
Maxine Elliott
Edna Goodrich
Informal War Contract Settlement Sent to Conference
Senate sends to conference a measure to validate and settle informal war contracts worth several billion dollars. The bill, approved by the military committee, allows departmental officials to settle disputes with contractors and permits appeals to a three member commission if adjustments are unsatisfactory.
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Washington
Jan
Senate
Military
House
Peace envoys suffer new itch at Paris conference
Paris reports a new inconvenience at the peace talks as soldiers returning from the battle front bring in a skin irritation called Gale or the French itch. The affliction resembles the common year itch and is widespread among troops in the city.
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Paris
Arive
Wake mourners flee fire at West Fire Street dwelling
Firefighters found a man wrapped in a sheet on the dining room table at 2201 West Fire Street after responding to a blaze in a closet. Mourners fled the wake and did not return, leaving a police officer in charge and a pot of soup simmering on the stove at Frank Suenha’s residence.
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Chicago
West Fire Street
Frank Suenha
Robbery at Chicago Junction Depot Ends in Capture
A bandit gang fails a $200,000 payroll robbery at the Chicago Junction depot on lortleth Street and Ashland Avenue in Chicago. One robber, Frank Rosso, is captured.
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Chicago
Chicago Junction Railroad
Lortleth Street
Ashland Avenue
Frank Rosso
Whistler Portrait Sold for 200000 in New York Deal
Whistler’s famous painting Lady Mewx was purchased from the family of Tandy Meux in England for 200000 by a New York firm of dealers. The sale was announced in New York on February 1.
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Whistler
New York
Lady Mewx
Tandy Meux
England
Switzerland to Get Pork and Pore Products
Jang has been allotted 40000 tons of pork and pork products for the year ending September 20 next. The War Trade Board announced after conferences with representatives of Great Britain France and Switzerland governments.
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Washington
Feb
Jang
War Trade Board
Unclear OCR fragment prompts terse casualty note
Fragmentary text reports casualties and figures with illegible names and locations. The garbled lines mention totals and periods of service but lack resolvable entities or dates to form a concrete summary.
Secretary Wilson urges emergency public works to curb unemployment
Secretary Wilson urged immediate Congress action on a Kenyon bill to create a 10 million dollar emergency public works board and allow the War Finance Corporation to lend up to 300 million to states for public works. He warned of rising unemployment after the armistice and called for a buffer to employ returning soldiers and munition workers. He noted possible postwar unrest risk and said wages would likely stay high for some time.
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Washington
Wilson
Department of Labor
Congress
Senate
House Labor Committees
Kem von Dill
United States Emergency Public Works Board
Kenyon
War Finance Corporation
United States
Ile
Inbor
Will Lift Anthracite Ban in New Federal Action
Washington officials say a fuel administration order to remove all coal restrictions including price and zone rules awaits Administrator Garfield's signature. An official announcement is expected shortly.
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Washington
The
Fuel Administration
Garfield
Butter and Eggs See Major Price Drops in Chicago
In four weeks Chicago saw butter prices fall about 60 to 60 cents per pound and eggs drop 20 to 25 percent. Butter retail rose to 60 cents from 76 cents, while higher grade eggs moved from 59 to 54 cents. St Louis residents faced butter at 57 cents and eggs at 4 1/2 cents after four weeks of declines.
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Chicago
St. Louia
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Daniel
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Narragansett
Pershing
Fort Leavenworth
Sir Gordon Hewart
Gordon Hewart
Nat Goodwin
Senate O. K
Switzerland
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