Allies to define Russian representation at peace talks
Paris January 22. The peace council aims to give Russian elements a seat at the conference but delays policy definition. A working plan for Russian representation may shift toward guarantees that stop terrorism and aid food relief and rail and industry restoration. Evacuation of Archangel port and withdrawal of allied troops are discussed as part of a practical route to Russia's salvation. The official statement notes progress and a next meeting set for Wednesday at eleven.
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Paris
Peace Council
Russia
M. Scavenius
Nish
Petrograd
United States
Quai d'Orsay
Bismarck Planned New War Against France
Paris reports a Petit Parisien document claiming an ex counsellor to the king of Hanover recorded a conversation with Bismarck. It quotes him vowing a second war to destroy France by seizing colonies and fleet, dismembering the country, and mobilizing the German people for power.
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Paris
Bismarck
Germany
France
Petit Parisien
Hanover
Uhlans Sent to Polish Front from Potsdam
Bertin January 22 report says a squadron of the Third guard uhlans departed Potsdam for the Polish front per the Lokal Anzeiger.
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Uhlans
Potsdam
Bertin
Third Guard Uhlans
Lokal Anzeiger
Fron
Republic in Ireland Proclaimed Amid Sinn Fein Assembly
Dublin January 22 Sinn Fein parliament in Mansion House reads independence declaration demanding British evacuation. Declaration proclaims Irish law making power rests with Irish people. Twelve men shoot two policemen near Tipperary during independence day unrest. Belfast prisoners riot ends with police clashes.
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Dublin
Mansion House
Ireland
Father O'Flanagan
Rosconmon
Cathal Burgess
MacDonnell
Qonpel
Tipperary
Sinn Fein
Belfast
Esthenians Drive Bolseviks Near Lake Peipus Narva Taken
Esthenian troops northeast of Lake Peipus capture Narva on the Reval Petrograd line and take many prisoners. Dorpat recaptured with three guns a locomotive and over a hundred cars. Trotzky fled Narva after the Bolshevik defeat as Finnish forces aided the Esthenians in the drive.
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Narva
Stockholm
Lithuania
Esthonia
Libau
Dorpat
Lake Pelpus
Trotzky
Leon Trotzky
London
Wireles
Reval-Petrograd
U S Urges Sky Blue Laws
A draft proposes no bill to give the treasury authority to audit promotion prospectuses and certify their accuracy. Charles S. Hamlin submits the plan to Secretary Giss for congress to enact blue sky laws this session. Reports say millions in securities of doubtful value entered the market after the armistice as promoters exchange Liberty bonds for stocks or bonds.
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Washington
Treasury
Giss
Charles S. Hamlin
Capital Issues Committee
Congress
Petition by French Women Demands Punishment for Atrocities
French women petition the peace conference calling for justice for victims torn from families and subjected to mistreatment by German forces during the war. They urge condemning those who ordered atrocities as criminals of the common law.
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Peace Conference
Paris
Baker to testify on Argonne casualties before Rules Committee
Secretary of War Baker is summoned to appear Friday before the House Rules Committee to answer reports that Kansas state troops suffered heavy Argonne casualties due to questionable strategy. The committee will not calendar Representative Campbell of Kansas’s resolution for investigation until Baker testifies.
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Washington
Baker
House Rules Committee
Kansas State
Argonne
Campbell
Kansas
Protests by Public Service Commissions on Wire Rule
A dozen state public service commissions protested the administration measure extending government wire control. The protests were presented to the House Post Office Committee in Washington on January 22.
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Washington
Public Service Commissions
House Post Office Committee
Dominions Seek Autonomy in Foreign Policies at League Talks
Paris January 22 Dominion leaders from Canada Australia New Zealand and South Africa plan to demand autonomy in foreign policy as the British empire agrees to admit them to the league of nations as self governing states with internal sovereignty while Britain retains control of foreign relations.
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Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Paris
League of Nations
Great Britain
South Africa
Belgium
England
Dominions
Coast Ship Workers Strike Expands Across Northwest
About 30,000 Seattle shipyard workers and 15,000 in Tacoma walk out demanding a new basic agreement of eight dollars daily for mechanics seven for craftsmen and six for laborers and helpers. Olympia boards may soon vote to join as Aberdeen wooden yards already strike. machinists and shipwrights expected to follow.
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Seattle
Wash
Tacoma
Olympia
Northwest
Aberdeen
No Change in Price of Hogs Maintained by Government
F S Snyder head of the meat division of the food administration says the government will keep its pledge to farmers and maintain a hog price of 17 dollars and 30 cents per hundredweight. He notes a current hog surplus but predicts a possible shortage within three months in Washington.
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Washington
F. S. Snyder
Meat Division
The
Food Administration
Snyder
Liebknecht Autopsy Reveals Shot From Behind
Berlin on January 22 an autopsy on Dr Karl Liebknecht Spartacist leader slain last week showed he was shot from behind by bullets fired from distance. Professors Bier Strassman and another surgeon conducted the examination with William Liebknecht and Hugo Haase present.
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Berlin
Karl Liebknecht
August C. G. Bier
Paul Strassman
William Liebknecht
Liebknecht
Hugo Haase
Milk price sets February range for regional producers
Milk producers from Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin decide February wholesale milk price between 83.76 and 3.81 per hundred pounds. They vote not to sell directly to condensers or Chicago distributors after this month. Milk will be sold to the Co operative Marketing Company and then to condensers and distributors.
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Elgin
Ilinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Chicago
Co-operative Marketing Company
Producers’ Association
Co-Operative Company
Ships Carry U S Troops Home After Demobilization
Ohio West Virginia and Illinois troops of the Eighty third division including the 339th and 351st infantry battalions sailed from Brest January 17 bound for Camp Sherman Ohio for demobilization aboard the cruiser Frederick and transports Conia and Susquehanna General March Chief of Staff announced The Susquehanna brings one company of Tilinots troops due in New York January 28
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Ohio
West Virginia
Illinois
F Eighty-third
Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth Infantry
Three Hundred and Fifty-first Infantry
Camp Sherman
Brest
Frederick
Conia
Susquehanna
General March
New York
National Guard divisions ordered to prepare for embarkation
The War Department announced three famed National Guard divisions the Twenty seventh New York the Thirtieth Wildcat and the Thirty seventh Buckeye are to prepare for deployment after their action in France. Return parades are planned for the Twenty sixth New England and Forty second Rainbow with reviews in New York Washington and Boston and camps in Ohio or Southern states for the others.
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War Department
National Guard
Twenty-seventh
New York
Thirtieth
Wildcat
Thirty Seventh
Buckeye
United States
France
Twenty-sixth
New England
Rainbow
Baker
Boston
John IF. O'Ryan
New Yark
North
South Carolina
Tennessee
Camp Sherman
Ohio
Reds Seek Conference in Stockholm Note Exchange
Maxim Litvin off, former Bolshevik envoy in London, sent a note via Bolshevik Foreign Minister Tehitcherin to the American State Department from Stockholm. The note says allies intervention in Russia no longer exists and expresses willingness to meet with American emissaries to fix a date and place for Soviet representatives.
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Stockholm
Maxim Litvinoff
London
American State Department
Tehitcherin
Russia
Senate
Hitchcoek
Tehiterin
United States
Packer Willing to Sell to U S
Washington January 22 J Crainamour told the house interstate commerce committee that proposed meat packing regulation is reactionary and possibly unconstitutional He warned that delaying or blocking the bill would disrupt livestock prices and bread costs and hurt agriculture He said government ownership would bring red tape raise costs and abolish private initiative while Armour noted company profits are minimal and denied conspiracy charges
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Washington
Armour
Armour & Co
Army to Be Under 500000 Before July 1920
Washington January 22 General Lord director of army finances told the house military affairs committees that Americas army both overseas and domestic forces will be reduced considerably below 500000 before July 1 1920. He explained how he arrived at the estimate of money needed for the army in the coming fiscal year.
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Washington
America
General Lord
House
Plot to kill Rockefellers exposed in 1914 archist plot
Washington reports inspector Tunney described an anarchist scheme in New York in 1914 to assassinate John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr. The plotters Carson Berg and Hanson allegedly died when their bomb exploded. Tunney warned anarchist activity was rising.
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Washington
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
New York
Senate
Thomas J. Tunney
Carson
Berg
Hanson
Rockefellers
Tunney
Wilson highway planned to linking Ely to Paso across US
The Wilson highway project aims to create a trunk road from Ely Minnesota to Paso Texas as part of a national highway system. The concept originated about a year ago by Perley Sheldon Amor, a local engineer.
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Ely
Minn
Elo Paso
Tex
Kansas City
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