Coal shortage and embargo actions across US rail lines
The report notes 71 ships remain coaled in New York harbor with 17 bunkered and weather conditions easing. McAdoo authorizes temporary embargoes on freight east of Pittsburgh and other routes to ease coal transport for New England and New York harbor fuel needs amid severe winter conditions.
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McAdoo
A. H. Smith
East
New York
New York Harbor
J. N. Parsons
United States Shipping Board
Mr. Parsons
Washington
Pennsylvania Lines
Pittsburgh
Baltimore & Ohio
Ohio River
Philadelphia & Reading
A. H. Stith
Garfield
Allegheny Mountains
Railroad Administration
Smith
War Department
New England
McAdoo Suggests Rail Fare Rise Not Likely
Washington reports Director General McAdoo testifying before the House Interstate Commerce Committee. He reiterated that federal control should not impair states' rights to tax railroads and said passenger fare hikes are unlikely unless freight congestion forces a need to cut passenger service.
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Washington
McAdoo
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Senate
British Merchant Ship Sinkings Stay Low in Week
London reports the Admiralty says six ships over 1,600 tons and two smaller vessels were sunk or fed by mine or submarine in the last week, marking a continued low point in British merchant shipping losses.
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London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Thomas McNamara
House of Commons
McNamara
Mersey
Goeben
Dardanelles
Naval Air Service
Vienna Revolt Report Claims Garrison Refusal to Fire
A wireless dispatch from Vienna reports a revolution breaking out with striking workers forming mobs in the capital. The Vienna garrison reportedly refused to fire on the mobs when ordered, and revolutionists are said to have named a cabinet.
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Austria-Hungaria
Russia
Vienna
Petrograd
Kaiser's Ultimatum on Baltic Provinces Demanded
Petrograd telegram reports Trotsky announcing a Kaiser ultimatum demanding that Russia cede full control of the Baltic provinces to the central powers or Germany will resume war within one week. The threat frames the crisis as a direct bet on Baltic control.
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Germany
Petrograd
Trotsky
Russia
Baltic
Teutons Fall Back On Monte Tomba Front
Forces of the central powers retreat from the Monte Tomba sector on the Italian front. They evacuated substantial territory as dispositions shifted and defensive lines proved untenable.
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Teutons
Rome
Monte Tomba
U S Soldiers Killed Details Lacking Fights Minor Patrol Skirmishes
General Pershing reports three American infantrymen killed in action on January 21 with few details. Names include Private Albert Cook, Delbert Coots, and Harry Garman, while another, Private Ovid Herrick, is thought wounded. Seven deaths from natural causes accompany the report.
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Washington
General Pershing
Ile
Albert Cook
Delbert Coots
West Almond
N. Y
Harry VW Garman
Catawba
Lee WK
Haugh Street
Cleveland
Ovid Herrick
Frankfort
Pershing
Clarency M. Wilhelm
Heatless Mondays Close by New York Stock Exchange Board
The board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange decided to close the exchange on the remaining heatless Mondays imposed under the fuel administration's order.
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New York
The
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
Fuel Administration
Adamson Law Quiz Balked By Traffic Conditions
Washington reports that abnormal traffic in the first nine months of 1917 prevented the eight‑hour commission from making definite recommendations on the Adamson law. Major General Goethals, chairman, stated this in a report to Congress.
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Washington
Goethals
Congress
Trotzky says Germans aim to strangle Russia economically and politically
London dispatch quotes Bolshevik foreign minister Leon Trotzky returning from Brest Litovsk. He accuses Germany and Austria of annexation aims and harming Russia while Austria delegates rubberstamp German proposals. He notes protests over omitted declarations and threats over prisoner rations. Gorky defends the revolution against foreign diplomats aligned with imperialism.
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London
Teon Trotzky
Petrograd
Brest-Litovsk
Exchange Telegraph
Russia
M. Karakhan
Doctor von Kuehlmann
Count Czernin
Leon Trotzky
M. Trotzky
Germany
Austria
Hoffman
Stockholm
Novaii Zhian
Maxim Gorky
Ioumanian
Pravda
Council of Workmen's and Soldiers’ Deputies
M. Diamond
Francis
M. Noulens
Korniloff
Kaledines
Savinkoff
Gompers Urges Seven Hour Day For War Economy
Samuel Gompers at the United Mine Workers convention in Indianapolis endorses a universal seven hour day during the war to curb coal shortages and rail congestion. He defends government leaders, warns against profiteering and neutrality, and targets Bolshevik influence and the Industrial Workers of the World without naming them directly.
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Indianapolis
Ind
The
Fuel Administration
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Convention
United Mine Workers
U. S
Gompers
Labor
C&8
Mr. Gompers
Railroads
Rich
Republic
Ife
Industrial Workers of the World
Blizzard claims hogs in Bloomington total loss 2,000
Two thousand hogs suffocated during a blizzard in Bloomington Tl as a heating measure. Losses total about 100000 with state wide estimates around 2000000 indicating widespread impact on livestock.
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Bloomington
General Barry to Camp Grant in Illinois
Brig. Gen. Lyman W. Kennon and Col. Charles H. Martin prepare to depart Camp Grant Rockford for rejoining Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Barry who returned from France with other division commanders. 15,000 knee length coats and steel trench helmets are issued for spring.
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Camp Grant
Rockford
Lyman W. V. Kennon
Charles H. Martin
Chicago
One Hundred and Seventy-second
National Army
Thomas H. Barry
France
Barry
Central Department
Water famine halts mining in Pennsylvania coal fields
In Pottsville Pennsylvania on January 24 an infrastructure shortage disrupts coal flow as rail freight delays and a water famine stall several large anthracite collieries, limiting mine operations and market movement.
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Pottsville
Pennsylvania
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