Announcement of U S Action Expected Soon
Washington Feb 2 The nation waits as the government mulls a response to Germanys unrestricted submarine warfare. Officials expect a break in diplomatic relations and cabinet details may be disclosed this afternoon or tomorrow. Measures to ready the country for war are being carried out secretly with expedition.
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Washington
Wilson
Berlin
Lansing
Gerard
United States
Holland
Count von Bernstorff
Ment
Entente
Gas explosion kills and injures in Chicago tenement
A fire and gas blast ripped a West Side Chicago tenement, killing 40 sleeping residents and injuring many others. Rescuers pulled survivors from windows as temperatures plunged to ten degrees below zero. Two women and two children were rescued from a doorway as volunteers worked to reach trapped occupants. the blast prompted a county hospital emergency response. Continued on page 17.
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Chicago
Real Fighting by U S If War Comes
Washington reports officials expect rapid U S mobilization if war comes. Navy would defend commerce now. army ready by summer 1918, likely a year and a half to deploy first expedition. Entrance would boost allied morale and end Wilson peace proposals, possibly delivering a decisive coup de grace to Germany.
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Jis
Europe
United States
Mr. Wilson
Germany
Weather Report for Harrisburg and Eastern Pennsylvania
Fair and colder tonight with temperatures near zero. Saturday remains fair and cold with fresh to strong northwest winds. Susquehanna River level around 9 feet, ice may form and slow rises. overall river stages near normal with a storm track off the North coast. Temperature ranges show a cold pattern across the region with a full moon noted.
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Pennsylvania
Susquehanna River
Nuel
Middle Atlantic
Ohio Valley
Newak
North Carolina
Mississippi River
Kentucky
Special Bill Seeks One Hundred Submarines Immediate Build
A special bill introduced by Senator Poindexter proposes immediate construction of 100 submarines, 80 for coast defense and 20 for fleet use. It adds to 18 submarines in the regular naval bill, with at least six fleet and 25 coast submarines to be built on the Pacific coast and $4,000,000 for yard equipage.
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Washington
Poindexter
Pacific Coast
Secretary of the Navy
Curtin
Old Camp Curtin
Beidleman
Senate
Public Officials Call for Speed Control and Land Bill Shifts
Highway Commissioner Frank B. Black asks Governor Brumbaugh for information on joyriding by state cars and notes cars were marked. reports on weather and a groundhog omen. Oregon senator withdraws anti alien land bill to avoid Japanese complications amid US tensions. Japan protests California and Idaho Oregon bills. Robert B. McClean named business manager of Harrisburg Telegraph and formerly Evening Post circulation chief.
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Brumbaugh
State Highway Department
Black
Washington
Japan
United States
Idaho
Oregon
California
McLean
Robert B. McClean
Harrisburg Telegraph
New York Evening Post
McClean
The
Evening Post
Robert, McClean
Mechanicsburg
City engineers cite $50,000 fund need for 1917 street work
City engineers say a fund of at least $50,000 is necessary to pay for paying street intersections and streets fronted by unassessable properties as part of 1917 improvement plans. Petitions from Cameron street and Chestnut street residents have been received, but funds are lacking.
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Herr
Calder
Chestnut Street
William HH. Lynch
Lynch
Senate blocks immigration bill from veto override today
Reed halts immediate reconsideration as the Senate blocks the House action on the immigration bill passed over President Wilson's veto. The Washington note references Fyna resuns and testimony by F. A. Connolly, Washi ton tracker, about the veto dispute.
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F. A. Connolly
Wilson
EB. F. Hutton
and, Company, New
Washington
House
Senate
Reed
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