Embargo Demands on 3 Railroads Amid Coal Crisis
Fuel Administrator Harry A. Garfield urged a general embargo on the Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburgh the Baltimore & Ohio and the Philadelphia & Reading to halt all freight except food fuel and certain war supplies. The move aims to relieve crippling car shortages slow coal movement and congestion and follows recent Maryland Pennsylvania actions. Iowa also orders Monday city closings in Keokuk Fort Madison Burlington Davenport Clinton and Dubuque to align with Illinois rules.
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Nurse Corps Chief Aims to Recruit 25000 Nurses
Miss Dora F. Thompson, superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, leads a push to expand the nursing corps to 25,000 trained women to care for the million men training for war. She operates under the surgeon general with full supervision and coordination with the Navy Nurse Corps.
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Eastern freight embargo tightened by rail director McAdoo
Washington reports all freight shipments except food fuel and war munitions barred on Pennsylvania lines B&O and Philadelphia Reading by rail order from McAdoo at the fuel administration. Pershing says infantrymen Cook Wardman and Radi killed in action with no details. London notes two British steamers sunk in the Mediterranean with 718 lives lost.
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Turks Desert Kaiser's Army as Falkenhayn Fails in Palestine
Washington reports 160000 Turkish troops, more than half the reorganized force, deserted during the Constantinople to Palestine transfer. Falkenhayn abandoned the rehabilitation plan and returned to Constantinople after failing to win Turkish support. Typhus is rising in Constantinople as the internal situation grows more acute.
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Norway Rejects U S Terms for Food and Shipping
Copenhagen reports all Norwegian political parties agree the United States terms on food supplies and shipping cannot be accepted. Norway will propose a new basis for an agreement.
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Roosevelt Presses War Pace in Capitol War Cabinet Battle
President Wilson denounces Senator Chamberlain while backing Baker and a war cabinet, boosting Democratic support for the plan. Colonel Roosevelt arrives in Washington to urge speedier entry into the war and support universal military training, meeting Chamberlain and other lawmakers to press their strategy. Chamberlain and allies plan a straight talk on the cabinet bill next Thursday and will probe government machinery testimony.
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Germany pressures Sweden over neutral shipping lines
Amsterdam reports Germany is mounting strong pressure on Sweden. The Cologne Gazette warns that if Sweden allows American use of Swedish tonnage even for coastal traffic, Germany will deem it a breach of neutrality.
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U.S. Bars Irish Paper Over Editorial Matter
Post office upheld excluding Irish World January 19 issue from second class mailing for espionage act violations. Authority also withholding Gaelic American and New York Freeman's Journal pending review. Editor said action tied to a joint petition reproduced in all three papers.
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Trish World
Irish Woman's Council of Dublin
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Hannah Sheehy Skeffington
Ireland
United States
36 Germans Are Interned
In New York 86 Germans deemed among the most dangerous enemy aliens were escorted by armed guards to Fort Oglethorpe Georgia for internment for the war. Among them was Hugo Schmidt former head of a Deutsche Bank branch in New York.
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Prophetic doom fells Lombardus Miller in Paterson
Lombardus Miller a retired sex captain predicted the Kaiser would die on January 18. When the date passed unfulfilled he killed himself in Paterson New Jersey leaving a note saying he had sinned against God and was no false prophet.
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Belgians Shoot Down Three German Planes
Three German triplines were shot down and the pilots killed by Belgian aviators, according to a dispatch received by the ministry in Washington.
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Lice Harvesters Strike in St Paul After Wages Cut
St Paul Jan 28 The harvesters went on strike demanding 2.50 dollars per day after a wage reduction. Local authorities sought to mediate as workers rallied outside mills and packing houses.
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Railroads to remain under government control after war
Director General of Railroads Mc Adoo told the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that private ownership of American rail roads will not return for a long time after the war. He said greater control of the railroads will be needed than before the government seizure.
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