Embargo Requests on Three Railroads Warn of Congestion
Fuel Administrator Harry A Garfield urged a general embargo on three railroads to halt all freight except food fuel and certain war supplies. The plan targets the Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburgh the Baltimore & Ohio and the Philadelphia & Reading to ease coal and coke movement amid severe car shortages and severe winter weather. Des Moines Iowa also ordered Monday closings for Keokuk Fort Madison Burlington Davenport Clinton and Dubuque to align with Illinois’ rules.
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Washington
Harry A. Garfield
McAdoo
Norfolk & Western
Garfield
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Baltimore & Ohio
Philadelphia & Reading
Baltimore & Ohio Lines
Sexboard
Baltimmore & Ohio
The
Fuel Administration
Iowa
Des Moines
Charles Webster
Towa
Keokuk
Fort Madison
Burlington
Davenport
Clinton
Dubuque
Illnois W
Illinois River
Turkish Desertions Doom Falkenhayn Plan in Holy Land
Official dispatches report 160000 Turkish troops, over half of 24 divisions, deserted on the march from Constantinople to Palestine. Falkenhayn returns to Constantinople after abandoning his rehabilitation plan as Turkish officers refuse to follow his program. Typhus also worsens in Constantinople, with rising victim counts.
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Washington
Falkenhayn
Constantinople
Palestine
Allenby
Holy Land
Alexandretta
Falkenhbayn
Turgey
Norway rejects U S terms on food and shipping agreement
Copenhagen dispatch reports in Christiania that all political parties in Norway agree the U S proposal on food supplies and shipping cannot be accepted. Norway will offer a new basis for an agreement.
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Christiania Dispatch
Copenhagen
Christiania
National Tidende
United States
Norway
Freight embargo hits Pennsylvania lines rail shipments barred
Rail Director McAdoo orders an embargo on freight shipments on Pennsylvania lines B&O and Philadelphia Reading except food fuel and war munitions by request of the fuel administration. Pershing reports three infantrymen killed in action without details. Two British steamers sunk in the Mediterranean with 718 lives lost.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia & Reading
McAdoo
The
Fuel Administration
Pershing
Cook
Wardman
Radi
London
Mediterranean
Roosevelt In Washington Views War Cabinet Fight
Col Roosevelt visits Washington to back universal military training and support Chamberlain in the war cabinet debate. He meets lawmakers and plans to press for faster U.S. entry into the war while denouncing Stone and signaling clashing positions with President Wilson.
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Wilson
Chamberlain
War Department
Baker
Senate
Congress
Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
Capitol
Senator Stone
Senator Chamberlain
Hiram Johnson
California
Wadsworth
Curtis
Baer
Lavin
America
Madden
Kahn
Demoocrat
Republican
Hitchcock
Martin
Military Committee
National Press Club
Chamberlain Lees
War Cabinet
Germany pressures Sweden over neutral shipping pledge
Amsterdam reports Germany has begun strong pressure on Sweden. The Cologne Gazette states that if Sweden allows American use of Swedish tonnage even for coastal traffic, Germany will treat it as a breach of neutrality.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Sweden
Cologne
America
Nurse Corps Recruit Target Set at 25000 Women
Miss Dora B. Thompson head of the Army Nurse Corps aims to recruit 25 000 trained women to care for the million men in training. The Army and Navy each maintain separate nurse corps with Thompson under the surgeon general.
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Dora BE. Thompson
Army Nurse Corps
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Navy
Miss Thompson
U S BARS IRISH PAPER REFUSAL OF MAILING PRIVILEGES
U S post office officials upheld excluding the January 10 issue of the Irish World for editorial material violating the Espionage Act. Other Irish papers Gaelic American and New York Freeman's Journal also blocked for alleged violations amid scrutiny of a Dublin petition presented to President Wilson.
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Post Office Department
Postimaster
New York
Lamar
New York Free Man's Journal
Irish World
Gaelic American
Free Man's Journil
Post Office
Robert EB. Ford
Trish World
Irish Woman's Council of Dublin
Wilson
Hannah Sheehy Skeffington
Ireland
United States
Hunger and unrest ripple through European capitals
Swiss dispatches report Austrian troops refusing to fire on hungry demonstrators and hunger strikers arrested in various places. Berlin and Petrograd note peace talks paused at Brest-Litovsk with resumption planned. Bolshevik leaders order red guards to hunt alleged killers of ministers, while bodies of slain officials are viewed by thousands.
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Lenine
Beneh-Burevitch
Red Guard
Shingurolff
Kokoshkine
Kerensky
Petrograd Council of Soldiers and Workmen's
M. Loginoff
Constituent Assembly
Marine Hospital
Keren’ Sky
Kresy
A. V. Kartasheff
A. I. Konovaloff
S. H L. Tretyakoff
S. A
Kter
Kiev
Congress of Councils of Soldiers
London
Switzerland
Austria
Gratz
von Seydler
Wekerle
Germans Interned in Fort Oglethorpe War Camps
Thirty six Germans deemed among the most dangerous enemy aliens in the United States were moved from New York under armed guard to Fort Oglethorpe Georgia for internment for the war’s duration. Hugo Schmidt formerly headed a Deutsche Bank branch in Berlin was among the group.
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New York
United States
Fort Oglethorpe
Hugo Schmidt
Deutsche Bank of
Berlin
Prophet’s False Death Warning Ends in Suicide
Lombardus Miller a retired sea captain in Paterson New Jersey believed the Kaiser would die January 18. After his prediction failed he killed himself leaving a note saying he had been a false prophet and sinned against God.
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Kaiser
Paterson
N. J
Lombardus Miller
Belgians Shoot Down Three German Planes
Three German airplanes were shot down and their pilots killed by Belgian aviators in a recent action. The report was received at the ministry in Washington on January 23.
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Washington
Ice Harvesters Strike in St. Paul Prompt Wage Demand
Ice harvesters in St. Paul Minnesota strike for 2.50 dollars as pay demand. The terse notice signals labor action and bargaining context in early January.
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St. Paul
Minn
Retain Roads After War Warns McAdoo to Senate
Director General of Railroads McAdoo told the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that American railroads will not be returned to private ownership for a long time after the war. He said greater control of the railroads will be necessary than before the government seizure.
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Washington
McAdoo
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
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