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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1918
Page
5
Washington January 11 suffrage bill approves 274 to 136 with cheering scenes. Mann of Chicago and Sims vote after leaving hospital and splashy debates feature Rankin, Decker and Gallagher. Sunday opens session with prayer as supporters celebrate.
LATE TELEGRAPHIC BULLETINS Amsterdam Jan 11 German Foreign Secretary Kuehlman withdrawn the peace offer made to Russia last Christmas. The list of names includes Jow Davidson Davis Dempsey Dennison Dillon Dowell Dyer Edmonds Eliott Ellsworth Elston Emerson Esch B L Fairchild Fairfield Farr Fess Fordney Fess Francis Frear Freeman French Fuller Glynn Good Goodall etc. Total names 165 plus more 838. Of those not belonging to either main parties the vote was Baer nonpartisan Aves Randall V Progressive Protectionist Aye.
Reports from Berne and Petrograd say a separate peace between Russia and Bulgaria is signed with Russia recognizing Bulgaria’s right to appoint a delegate to a Danube commission. Bulgaria will resume navigation to Odessa and stations con sul general there as relations normalize. General Kale dines and General Dutoff are reported defeated and in retreat. Turkey’s peace proposals are rejected by the Bolsheviki. Russia and the central powers negotiations continue at Brest Litovsk.
Washington reports the suffrage amendment measure: 10 in favor for every 4 against. Notable supporters include Alexander Ayers Barkley Barnhart Beakes Beshlin Blanton Booker Borland Brodbeck Brumbaugh Burne Caldwell Campbell Cantril Caraway Carew Carter Church Connally Connelly Cox Crosser Dale Decker Denton Dickinson Dill Dixon Dooling Doolittle Plane Eagan Evans Ferris Fieldrs Fisher Flynn Foster Gallagher Gal livan Gandy Garrett Godwin Gregg Hamil Hamlin Hayden Hastings Helvering Hennley Hilliard Igoe Jaceway Johnson Jones Keating Kelly Kettner Lea Linthicum Littlepage Lobe c Lunn McAndrews McClintic McKeown Maher Mays Neely Oldfield Oliver OShaughnessy Phelan Rainey Rake Remius Rubey Rucker Russell Sabath Scully Sears Shackleford Shallenberger Sherwood Shouse Sims Smith Smith Stephens Sterling Sullivan Sumners Taylor Thomas Tillman Vandyke Walton Weing Welling Wingo.
A fragmented OCR pass lists Republicans and names such as Anderson Anthony Austin Bach arach Blind Bowers Britten Browne Burroughs Butler Campbell Carter Chandler Chandler Clark Classon Cooper Copley Costello Cram ton Qurrie Dale Dar with incomplete spellings and truncations, indicating a roster or roll call draft.
Health conditions in the National army and Guard camps show a slight improvement for the week ending January 4. Measles and pneumonia epidemics are subsiding in most camps with less meningitis. There were 109 National Guard deaths and 167 National Army deaths, up from the prior week.
Heavy snow falls along the northern end of the battle line in Italy as snow limits activity to artillery fire and operations are largely at a standstill.
In London on January 11 the representation of the people bill failed to exclude women from suffrage as Lord Loreburn's amendment was rejected in the House of Lords by 134 to 69.
Crowds in Berlin, Leipzig, and Essen chanted We must have peace as news broke that Brest Litovsk negotiations had broken off. Reports from The Hague indicate Germans push for a no annexations no indemnities peace with strong military and political pressure on Kaiser to declare war aims.
Washington reports say President Wilson's war aims met a hostile reception in Berlin officials. German press criticizes Lloyd George plan and Arthur Henderson endorsement as one sided. Copenhagen dispatch notes urgency at Brest-Litovsk as Bolshevik Russia issue looms.
Arthur Ransome reports from Petrograd that Foreign Minister Trotzky confirms a German revolt involving 25 000 troops. He notes desertions from the front, with 26 000 German deserters behind the German line near the Kauno district armed with machine guns being starved by German forces.
Rio Janeiro reports Brazilian naval aviators, the first Brazilian contribution to the allied fighting forces, have departed for England to join the war effort.
The United States fuel administration issued the first ruling limiting fuel use for boxboard and related boards made from waste paper. Manufacturers must shut down from 7 a.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Monday, a move expected to save 15,000 tons weekly and 780,000 tons annually, with similar orders for about 100 industries to follow. The coming year could see coal savings of 50,000,000 tons.
Mise Ilelene Branstitter, twenty, was smothered by two patients Marian Menika of Springfield and Stella Coppa of Chicago. After the murder, the two fled by taking her keys and escaping from the Jacksonville state hospital.
General Pershing reports Private Arthur J. Snedeker engineer was self wounded in action on December during an unspecified engagement. His father lives at 205 South Sixth Street, Columbia, Missouri.
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