Bolsheviks forage for peace and reject Allied help
M Radek says bolsheviks strengthen the front and will repatriate those unwilling to fight, insisting on democratic peace and rejecting Allied assistance. Brest-Litovsk dispatch notes ten day window for belligerents to join talks. Russia declines White Sea blockade removal. Trotzky meets German envoy on prisoner exchange.
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M. Radek
Brest-Litovsk
Amsterdam
M. Joffe
von Kuehlmann
Czernin
Nessimy Bey
Justice Popoff
Germany
Petrograd
Russia
White Sea
Brest- Litovsk
Trotzky
Count von Mirbach
Turkey
Bolsheviks
Berlin
Germany Recognizes Finnish Republic Amid War News
Berlin announces that Germany has recognized the Finnish republic in a dispatch to plenipotentiaries. The move follows Russia’s readiness to recognize Finland upon its formal application and Finland’s corresponding step at Petrograd, received with favorable tone.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Berlin
Finland
Petrograd
Wilson Plays Golf in Gale
President Wilson played golf amid a fierce glaze storm in Washington. Streets were icy and escorts abandoned as he and the White House party moved slowly to the links. He appeared to enjoy the ice slicked course despite conditions.
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Wilson
Washington
White House
U S Mobilizes 3 Million Workers for War Industries
Washington reports a sweeping plan to mobilize 3,000,000 workers for agriculture shipbuilding and war plant work under the United States Employment Service. John B. Densmore is named national director with Robert Watson and Charles T. Clayton as assistants. Samuel J. Gompers named chief clerk. The service will span the continent creating interlinked labor exchanges and a public service reserve to avoid conscription.
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Washington
United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
Densmore
John B. Densmore
Montana
Wilson
Robert Watson
Massachusetts
Charles T. Clayton
Maryland
Samuel J. Gompers
New York
Mr. Watson
Bureau of Immigration
Department
Federal Employment Service
Federal Service
Public Service Reserve
Ship Harry Luckenbach Sunk. Eight Lost in War
New York, Jan 8 The Americas steamship Harry Luckenbach torpedoed and sunk with eight crewmen missing. The 30 man crew plus naval guard were aboard when last heard from in France where the ship had been requisitioned for use as a supply vessel under U S Shipping Board orders. Commanded by Capt F S Jones the loss marks the Luckenbach line’s fourth ship lost to submarine attacks since the war began.
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New York
Harry Luckenbach
Ife
France
General Pershing
United States Shipping Board
English Channel
F. 8. Jones
Luckenbach Line
Submarine Commander Awarded Pour Le Merite for Sinking Warships
Emperor William awards Pour Le Merite to submarine commander Krophamel after a voyage to the Cape Verde islands. He claims to have sunk an American destroyer and 14 merchant ships, mostly bound from the United States to Europe, and to have brought back 22 tons of copper.
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Amsterdam
William
Kophamel
Cape Verde Islands
Krophamel
United States
Italy
France
Wilson Defines Fourteen Points for World Peace
President Wilson outlines fourteen elements for a lasting peace including open covenants of peace and freedom of the seas. He calls the plan the moral climax of the war and insists on continued fighting until peace is achieved.
Deaths of Ely and Houdek as Pershing reports plane crash
General Pershing reports the deaths of Lieut. William S. Ely and Sergt. George E. Houdek in an airplane accident in France. Ely resided at 501 Hast avenue Rochester New York and Houdek at 1118 Monticello avenue Chicago Illinois.
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Washington
William S. Ely
George E. Houdek
France
General Pershing
Ely
Hast Aveue
Rochester
N. Y
Houdek
Monticello Avenue
Chicago
Earl Reading to Represent Britain as Ambassador in U S
London reports Earl Reading will go to the United States as direct representative of the British war cabinet with the title of ambassador. He will handle war related financial and business affairs while a charge d affaires handles routine diplomacy, Swinton to serve as attache. Viscount Northcliffe likely to remain in England directing the American mission offices from Crewe House in Mayfair.
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London
Earl Reading
United States
War Cabinet
Daily Express
H Earl Reading
BE. D. Swinton
Viscount Northcliffe
Lord Northcliffe
England
Crewe House
Mayfair
Lord Crewe
Governor Capper seeks half fare rail rate for soldiers
Topeka Kansas January 8 Governor Capper appealed to the secretary of war to grant a half fare railroad rate for all soldiers going home on furlough. He argued the country owes the boys this. If railroads must be paid in full he urged Congress to appropriate funds to cover the deficit.
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Topeka
Kan
Capper
Secretary of War
Congress
Deep Snow Halts Trains Milk Famine Follows Chicago
Snowbound Chicago trains fail to move as plows fail against 15 foot drifts. Milk deliveries collapse with 500,000 quarts of 1.5 million expected daily arriving. New York endures glaze storm with ice, disrupted traffic, injuries, and coal logistics stress.
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Chicago
New York
sVith
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
City
Middle West
Raymond E. Durham
Cook County Fuel Administration
Chicago Teamsters
New Jersey
New England
Dora Shorter Poet Dieage in London
Dora Shorter noted poet died in London after a long career. The report cites her prominence in literary circles and marks her as a significant figure in early modern poetry.
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Dora Shorter
London
Wool Shortage Critique of Shoddy Army Cloth
William Bianet testifies before the Senate Military Affairs Committee that changes in army cloth specs to allow 45 to 50 percent shoddy created demand for shoddy textiles and enabled firms to win government contracts. He labels wool shortage a manufacturers' scare designed to boost shoddy use.
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Washington
Charles Eisenman
Council of National Defense
Senate Military Affairs Committee
William Bianet
Bianet
America
Biand
U. S. Aviator Tanks Bathhouse at Camp Kearny
Captain Roy Knoggle, a junior aviator, narrowly avoided injury when his plane plowed into a bathhouse at Camp Kearny San Diego California on January 8. The crash wrecked the bathhouse but Knoggle escaped unharmed.
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U. S
San Diego
Cal
Camp Kearny
Roy Knoggle
German Press Censorship Tightens During U S War Entry
The article details strict German wartime press rules after the U S entry in World War I. It notes prohibitions on dog flesh ads and sensitive reporting on Prague unrest, strikes, Koenigsberg, and London bombing, plus guidance to praise military actions and conceal neutral imports.
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Washington
Jan
Germany
Department Off State
Petit Parisien
Paris
France
America
United States
Prague
Leipzig
Independent Socialist Party
Koenigsberg
Prussia
Food prices in Berlin reach high wartime levels
Washington reports Berlin prices for butter at 2.25 dollars per pound, sugar 66 cents, ham and bacon 2.11 dollars per pound, and five bars of American soap for 1.12 dollars. The Food Administration notes these costs are four to five times higher than U.S. prices, based on a reliable source.
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Washington
Berlin
Food Administration
United States
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