Missing Tuscania Dead and Survivors Reach Glasgow
British and American officials plan grand military funerals for Tuscania dead after latest figures show 2,235 saved and about 166 missing. 126 American troops’ bodies recovered. 148 survivors landed at Scottish coast. Memorial services announced for the victims in Waco and other communities as families confirm safe relatives and confirm nonappearance of others.
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London
Tuscania
United States Army
United States
Glasgow
McLenan
McLean
Engine Room
Waco
Tex
Cotton Palace
Thirty-secondarmy Division
Camp MacArthur
J. Rollis
Stoughton
Wis
War Department
Washington
G. J. Rollis
France
McCoy
la Crosse
Robert McCoy
Sparta
Camp Merritt
N. J
Lieut
Bruce McCoy
Four men held in murder of widow near Clay Kentucky
In Clay Kentucky on February 9 four men, two white and two black, are in custody over the death of Mrs Joy Sparks a 24 year old widow whose body was found buried in a stable. Jacob Hicks and son Heber along with James Logan and William Casey were detained and moved to Henderson jail to prevent mob violence.
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Clay
Joy Sparks
Avery Stable
Jacob Hicks
Heber
James Logan
William Casey
Henderson
Red Guards Slaughter Finns in Helingfors Plunder
A correspondent escaped Helingfors reports Red Guards slaughtered large numbers of Finns and looted and killed in a frenzied, unchecked fashion amid the turmoil in Helingfors.
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Copenhagen
Helingfors
Red Guards
German Raids at Verdun Repulsed by French
Paris reports seven German raids on Verdun repulsed since February 2 with heavy German losses.
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Verdun
Paris
Ukrania Peace Accord Reported Signed by Central Powers
London on February 9 reports an official Berlin statement claiming that a peace agreement between the Central powers and Ukrania has been signed. The claim appears in a wartime dispatch from a German source.
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London
Berlin
St Quentin
France
Belgium
Paris
Forges
Verdun
Meuse
Director of Traffic Named for New York Harbor
H. H. Raymond, president of the Clyde and Mallory steamship lines, is appointed to direct the United States Shipping Board traffic entering and leaving the port of New York. He has authority to pool vessels and coordinate facilities with allies where pooling is needed.
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H. H. Raymond
Clyde and Mallory Steamship Lines
United States Shipping Board
New York
Draft Men at 21 Keeps Them on List to 31
Senate Military Committee unanimously approves a war department bill to require draft registration at twenty-one and set quotas by class rather than state population. Proposals to exempt men at thirty-one or register youths at nineteen are rejected.
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Washington
War Department
Senate Military Committee
Crowder
Senator New
Indiana
Jonas
Army Nurse Corps
Wilson
Senate
Senator Thomas
United States
Baker
Thomas
Gallinger
Labor Committee
Story
German money to Bolsheviki funds bolshevik rise
Paris reports German funds backing the Bolsheviki movement in Russia with documents showing payments to Lenin Zinoviev Trotzky and others. Finnish White Guards gain victory over Red Guards near Tammerfors with heavy casualties. Washington questions whether allied diplomats were expelled from Petrograd amid rumors.
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Paris
Petit Parisien
France
Russia
Germany
German Imperial Bank
Switzerland
Nicolai Lenine
M. Zinovieff
Leon Trotzky
M. Kamenets
Brest-Litovsk
M. Soumenson
Marsta Koslovsky
Bolshev
Mme
Alexandra Kollantay
Lentine
Bolsheviki Department of Public, Welfare
M. Mercain
Stockhold
Mannerheim
Forges
Helsingfors
Afton Tidningen
Red Guards
Korkeakoa
Tanmearfors
Washington
State Department
Francis
Petroggad
Bolshevipks
Ira Nelson Morris
Stockholm
Morris
Petrograd
Legation
Tornea
Finland
White Guards
Reconnoitering Party Brings Back Rifle and Made in Germany Saucers
American patrol in France entered a deserted German trench and returned with a rifle and a German sausage. The raid followed lively artillery duels as American batteries targeted seventy sevens and one fifties. The four soldiers heard laughter and voices back in the trench before the party withdrew at dawn. German sniping has slackened recently due to targeted artillery.
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France
Chicago
Los Angeles
No Man's Land
Bocies
Leutenant
Lack of official Tuscania death toll report remains
Washington February 9 The War department has no new official report to alter yesterday's estimate of 113 dead from the Tuscania sinking.
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Washington
War Department
Tuscania
Roosevelt Shows Gradual Improvement, Doctors Say
A forenoon bulletin from Roosevelt's physicians reports that Theodore Roosevelt is somewhat improved today after the illness. The update comes from New York as the former president remains under medical care.
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Roosevelt
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Fifty Five Indicted in Haywood Conspiracy Case
Federal grand jury in Sacramento charges fifty five persons with conspiring with William D Haywood and others to hinder wartime law enforcement. The probe links plots to blow factories ships and croplines and to provoke strikes on Pacific coast. Fort Hood and Voetter named in separate dynamite transport indictments. Frank H Little linked to the conspiracy.
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Washington
Pacific Coast
Department of Justice
al Sacramento
Sacramento
Pacific Coast Territory
Extel
Cal
Pel
GeeAn
William JD. Haywood
Industrial Workers of the World
United States
Federal
Grand Jury
San Francisco
William Hood
G. I. Voetter
Hood
Vvoetter
Stephens
Frank H. Little
Butte
Mont
United States Seeks Spies on Liner Arrival
Federal authorities conduct a passenger and baggage examination aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam after it arrives at an Atlantic port. Customs and Zone passes are denied at the pier while DOJ and Treasury agents board the ship to screen travelers. Augustus Phillip, the Netherlands' new minister to the U.S., lands with his aide.
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Iivet
Nieuw Amsterdam
Department of Justice
Treasury Department
Anmersen
Kirkwall
Augustus Phillipa
Netherlands
United States
Aubie
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