President Up Holds Garfield Order Shuts Plants for Ten Weeks
Washington January 18 1917 Fuel Administrator Harry A Garfield signed a five day plant shutdown east of the Mississippi and a ten week Monday shutdown beginning January 21 with President Wilson backing the move. The Senate considered a five day postponement but Garfield said it would not affect enforcement.
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Washington
Harry A. Garfield
Mississippi River
Wilson
Senate
Garfield
Fuel Administration
Congress
Senate Demands Five Day Delay in Fuel Orders
Washington January 18 Senate adopts 50 to 19 resolution asking a five day suspension of the government fuel restriction orders amid stormy debates in both houses. Leaders consider appealing to President Wilson as protests from business interests flood Congress.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Wilson
Hitchcock
Garfield
Hitch_cock
Gallinger
Gillett
Grand Rapids Block Burns in Snowbound Fire
Fire of unknown origin destroys the Hawkins block a five story business structure in Grand Rapids Michigan and damages two adjacent buildings. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars as snow blocked streets hampering firefighting efforts.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Hawkins
Central Control for War Supplies Considered by Chamber
Washington January 17 The United States chamber of commerce war committee urged centralized war supply control though no specific bill is favored. The panel led by Waddell Catchings plans to testify before the Senate war inquiry on production and purchase since last June as bills move toward a one man administrator model.
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Washington
War Committee
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Waddell Catchings
New York
Senate War Inquiry
National Council of Defense
Senate
Thursby
Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio Raiilroad
War Industries Board
Willard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
War Department
White House
John D. Ryan
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Chamber
Three Die In Train Wreck Near Beloit Kansas
Three were killed and 18 injured when the Union Pacific Beloit Salina special wrecked three miles east of Beloit. Three passenger coaches plunged 80 feet through a bridge over Plum Creek. A mail and baggage car toppled after crossing the bridge. engine stayed on track. Wreck blamed on defective rails. Dead: Ross Carleton Beloit C W Cochrane Abilene Mrs Charbenau Concordia.
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Beloit
Kan
Union Pacific
British raid repulsed near Armentieres and Lens
The war office reports a strong hostile raid northeast of Armentieres was repulsed early today. During the night British forces raided enemy trenches north of Lens bombing dugouts and capturing prisoners and machine guns.
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London
Armentieres
War Office
Lens
Fuel admin expands exemptions to industry sectors
Washington reports new exemptions by the fuel administration cover munitions ship steel and woolen mills. Dr Garfield regards bunkering ships as the top near term task while Secretary McAdoo may impose a railroad embargo on shipments to Atlantic ports until dock conditions improve.
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Washington
The
Fuel Administration
Garfield
McAdoo
Atlantic
Crisis settled by compromise in German command
Amsterdam reports Germany’s internal crisis resolved with Hindenburg ceding power to Hertling for a free hand in the West. Hertling favored German vassal states and annexations, while Hindenburg yields on the East and Russia policy. London reports a quiet British front. Paris notes only a sharp Doller Thur bombardment and forty Germans captured near Badenvilliers.
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Germany
Berlin
Lokal Angeiger
Hindenburg
Chancetlor von Hertling
Hertling
Russia
France
Belgium
von Hertling
London
Pier Marshal Haig
War Office
Budapest
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Paris
Doller
Thur
Alsace
Badenvillers
Director of Munitions Proposed Amid War Office Powers
Washington January 18. A bill to create a director of munitions with broad control of all war munitions and no cabinet status was favorably reported by the Senate Military Committee. Another measure to establish a war council was nearly complete.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Bolshevik Leader Lenine Targeted in Petrograd Fire
Dispatches from Petrograd report an attempted assassination of Premier Lenine with four shots fired but all missed. Roumanian legation arrested by Bolshevik authorities was released by Lenine. Kaladine is said to be losing power as Kal edine troops face unrest and Donets delegation travels to Petrograd. Massacre of Jews in Petrograd is reported.
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Kaladine
Amsterdam
Lenine
Russia
Kaledines
Copenhagen
Dan
Kaledine
Donets
New York
Jewish Soldiers Plan General Congress in Petrograd
Advices from Petrograd report that Jewish soldiers will convene a general congress of all Jewish soldiers of Russia in January to coordinate responses to massacres. Desultory clashes between Bolsheviks and Cossacks have persisted near the city as Japan dispatches warships to Vladivostok for protection of allied interests.
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Petrograd
Forward
Russia
Vladivostok
Tokyo
Garfield to Curtail Coal Supply for Non Essentials
Washington January 17 Dr Harry Garfield fuel administrator will send his order curtailing coal supply of non essentials at once and it will become effective immediately He is drafting provisions after P B Noyes head of the conservation department returns to Washington from surveying conditions in the East.
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Washington
Harry Garfield
P. B. Noyes
Conservation Department of the
Fuel Administration
East
Backing No Annexation Plan Ends The Imperial Drive
London reports the British Labour Party sent a message to the Russian people declaring support for self determination and no annexations in the British empire. It calls for international control of tropical Africa, accelerated self government for India, and protectorates for Asia Minor peoples via an international organization to be formed by the conference.
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London
British Labor Party
India
Labor Party
Africa
Asia Minor
Perce
Vnece
Texan Safe After Reported Sinking Off Coast
The American Hawaiian line steamship Texan, reported sunk off the coast two days earlier, is confirmed safe by the navy department in a January 17 update. The line was notified today.
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New York
American Hawaiian Line
Navy Department
Allied planes drop Wilson message to Belgium
The newspaper Les Nouvelles reports allied aircraft distributed about a thousand copies of President Wilson's message to Congress in occupied Belgium.
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Wilson
Amsterdam
Les Nouvelles
Congress
Belgium
Sims Named to Study Administration Water Power Bill
The House Speaker appointed Thétus Sims, chairman of the committee on interstate and foreign commerce, to chair the special committee on water power to examine the administration water power bill.
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Sime
Washington
Thétus Sims
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Speaker Clark
Administration
Caillaux Shown Up as Traitor in German Telegram Case
Paris arrest of Paul Comby linked to Caillaux case as German telegrams via Count von Bernstorff are disclosed. Washington reports state department release confirms Caillaux’s perceived stance and French government watch. Deputies back government action in Caillaux affair by large majority.
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State Department
Bernstorff
Germany
Watchsling
Paul Comby
Paris
Case
Washington
Caillaux
Count von Bern, Storff
Lansing
England
Calliaux
Department of State
Count Bernstorff
Buenos Aires
Caftlaux
France
Briand
Tle
Cail Iaux
Nene Frele Presse
Mediterranean
Morocco
Jaures
Bernstoref
Admiralty
Havana
Tol
Rio de Janeiro
Uraguaya
Cailloux
Caillauxs
Bernstorer
Callens
Signor Cayvallinke
Chamber of Deputies
Bolshevik Army Use Sparks Anti Government Agitation
London reports from Petrograd claim anti Bolshevik parties use the creation of a volunteer army by the Bolsheviks to rile the Petrograd garrison against the Lenin government. They seek street demonstrations for the constituent assembly to provoke anarchy, which would benefit Germany.
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London
Russia
Daily News
Petrograd
Lenine
Constituent Assembly
Germany
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