President Upholds Garfield as Fuel Order Blocks Industry
Washington reports Fuel Administrator Harry A. Garfield signed a five day shutdown of plants east of the Mississippi and halted most business every Monday for ten weeks starting January 21, with President Wilson's full backing. The move faced strong protest and a senate vote to delay action, but Garfield said the order would stand.
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Harry A. Garfield
Mississippi River
Wilson
Senate
Garfield
Fuel Administration
Congress
Senate Demands Five Day Pause on Fuel Orders
Washington voters and lawmakers animated by protests over the fuel restriction order. the Senate approved a five day suspension resolution 50 to 19 amid stormy sessions in both chambers. Leaders proposed appealing to President Wilson as the order went into effect, sparking widespread telegrams from business interests. Senator Hitchcock framed the action as a grave discourtesy and urged action to stay the order.
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Congress
Senate
House
Wilson
Hitchcock
Garfield
Gallinger
Gillett
Fire destroys Hawkins block in Grand Rapids
Fire of unknown origin consumes the Hawkins block, a five story business structure in Grand Rapids as two adjacent buildings are damaged. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars. Snow blocked streets hampered efforts, threatening wider outbreak before firefighters gain control.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Hawkins
Central Control Endorsed for War Supplies
The United States chamber of commerce war committee urged strong central control of war supplies while not backing specific congressional proposals. It backs broad administrator power under the president and notes government plans trend toward decentralization, as Daniel Willard resigns from the War Industries Board and John D. Ryan is named possible successor.
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War Committee
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Waddell Catchings
New York
Senate War Inquiry
National Council of Defense
Department of Munitions
Senate
Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
War Industries Board
Willard
War Department
White House
John D. Ryan
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Chamber
Henry Morganthau Jr Heads Drive for 15000 Tractors
Henry Morganthau Jr son of the former ambassador to Turkey leads a commission sending 15000 tractors to Europe. The plan aims to plow up one million acres of ground in France as part of the agricultural effort.
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Henry Morganthau, Jr
Turkey
Europe
France
Fuel administration expands exemptions to key industries
Washington reports additional industrial exemptions issued by the fuel administration. The list includes munitions, ship, steel, and woolen mills to bolster household supplies. Dr Garfield argues bunkering ships is the top current task for fuel relief. Secretary McAdoo may consider a railroad embargo on shipments to Atlantic ports until dock conditions improve.
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Washington
The
Fuel Administration
Garfield
McAdoo
Atlantic
Crisis settles by compromise in European frontline control
Berlin reports say Hindenburg yields to Von Hertling for a free hand in the West with dictatorial powers on western front policy. The arrangement reportedly spares no change in Russia and aims at annexation plans in France and Belgium if Germany wins. British front remains quiet as Haig cites calm on January 17.
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Germany
Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Hindenburg
von Hertling
Hertling
Russia
France
Belgium
London
Haig
War Office
Budapest
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Paris
Doller
Thur
Alsace
Badenvillers
Director of Munitions Proposed in War Control Plan
Washington January 18 The senate military committee favorably reported a bill to create a director of munitions with broad noncabinet authority to centralize control of all war munitions. Another measure to establish a war council was nearly finished.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Three Die In Train Wreck Near Beloit Kansas
Three were killed and 18 injured when the Union Pacific Seloit Salina special crashed on a bridge east of Beloit. Three passenger coaches fell 80 feet into Plain Creek. a mail car turned over but had cleared the bridge. The engine stayed on track. Fatalities include Ross Carleton Beloit C W Cochrane Abilene and Mrs Charbenau Concordia.
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Seloit-Salina
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C. W. Cochrane
Abilene
Charbenau
Concordia
Bolshevik Leader Unhurt Amid Assassination Attempt
Dispatch from Petrograd reports Lenine escaped four gunshots with no details. Jewish Forward notes massacres in Petrograd and calls for a general congress of Jewish soldiers. Jap warships move to Vladivostok to protect interests amid ongoing bolshevik-Cossack clashes. Roumanian legation released by Lenin order. Kal edine’s power weakening as Donetz delegation arrives for conditions review.
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Amsterdam
Lenine
Russia
Forward
Vladivostok
Tokyo
Kaledines
Copenhagen
Kaledine
Donetz
Pet
Fuel Administrator to Curtail Coal for Non Essentials
Washington January 17 Dr Harry Garfield fuel administrator will issue an order curtailing coal supply for non essentials with immediate effect He works on provisions after P B Noyes head of the conservation department returns to Washington from surveying conditions in the East
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Harry Garfield
P. B. Noyes
Conservation Department
The
Fuel Administration
East
British Bomb German Trenches in Northeastern Front
Early morning raid northeast of Armentieres repulsed. Night operations north of Lens bombed enemy trenches, dugouts, securing prisoners and a machine gun.
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London
Armentieres
War Office
Lens
Backers of No Annexation Plan Urge Self Rule Worldwide
The British labor party issued a message to the Russian people declaring support for self determination and no annexations in the empire. It calls for international control of tropical Africa, accelerated self government for India, and an international protectorate for Asia Minor under a postwar peace conference body.
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London
British Labor Party
British Empire
Middle East
Africa
India
Labor Party
Asia Minor
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 a Navy Department notice to the line. The update came today, January 17, from New York authorities.
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New York
American Hawaiian Line
Texan
Navy
Flyers Drop Wilson Speech in Occupied Belgium
Amsterdam Jan 16The newspaper Les Nouvelles reports allied aircraft dropped about a thousand copies of President Wilsons message to Congress in occupied areas of Belgium.
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Wilson
Amsterdam
Les Nouvelles
Congress
Belgium
Sims Named to Lead Water Power Committee Inquiry
Sims chairman of the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce was named by Speaker Clark to head the special committee on water power and study the administration water power bill.
Caillaux Traitor Rumor Triggers French Arrests
Paris reports ex premier Caillaux allegedly watched by German interests as two Bernstorff telegrams to Berlin surface. State Department releases dispatches detailing Caillaux’s stance, warning of German praise and urging protection. Paul Comby arrested in Paris amid Caillaux investigation. French Chamber backs government action 274 to 210.
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Paul Comby
Paris
Case
Washington
Iran
Caillaux
Count von Bernstorff
State Department
Lansing
Bernstorff
Ote
England
Foreign Office
Department of State
Count Bernstorff
Buenos Aires
France
Briand
Wilhelmstrasse
Catliaux
Neue Freie Presse
Mediterranean
Morocco
Bravil
Jaures
Admiralty
Havana
Tol
Rio de Janeiro
Uraguaya
Cuaillaux
Signor Cavallinie
Chamber of Deputies
Bolshevik Volunteer Army Used to Rally Petrograd Garrison
A dispatch from Petrograd reports anti Bolshevik parties in Russia are using the Bolshevik volunteer army as fuel for agitation to turn the Petrograd garrison against the Lenin government. They aim to spark street demonstrations for the constituent assembly, risking anarchy, which Germany would welcome.
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Lenine
Constituent Assembly
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