Two Billion in New Ship Plans Detailed
Washington reports a $2.0 billion government shipbuilding push with $701 million for new contracts and $82 million for housing workers. No new shipyards are planned. funds target fabricated steel vessels and expansion of existing yards as Senate probes contract practices and wooden ship concerns unfold.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Congress
Samme Iime
Housing Plana
Senate Commerce Committee
Fire Hits Hoboken Plant as Water Scarcity Bites
Bitter cold and high winds hampered fire crews at a wall paper plant blaze in Hoboken New Jersey. Three buildings burned and threatened munitions docks while Army and Navy units assisted, with two sailors injured and naval observers tracking the flames. A second dispatch notes Japan weighing renewed full diplomatic ties with Bolshevik Russia.
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Hoboken
N. J
Wall’ Paper Manufacturing
Gattl-Me- Quade Company
Fifteenth Street
Puri Avenue
Viremen Callahan
Wall Paper
Twenty-second United States Infantry
Franklin Hart, Jr
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Tietjen & Lang
Sixteenth Street
Fletcher Iron Works
Fourteenth and
Hudson Streets
Blize
New Cabinet Post Proposed for Munitions Secretary
A bill introduced by Senate Military Committee Chair Chamberlain proposes a new Secretary of Munitions to head a wartime department during the war and one year after. The secretary would control arms, ammunition, food, clothing, equipment, transportation, and other designated munitions under the President, aiming to speed supply and end costly bureaucratic delays. The measure seeks direct coordination, stripping red tape and unifying bureaus to strengthen fighting readiness.
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Washington
Jan
Department of Munitions
Chamberlain
United States
Help Fight Imperialists and Defend Polands Destiny
A resolution by the Petrograd executive committees of Workers and Soldiers Delegates and representatives of the General Army Congress affirms internationalism and the right of Poland and the Baltic provinces to self-determination. It calls on the German people to join Russians against Austro German Imperialists seeking wars for annexation, following Leon Trotzky’s Bolshevik address declaring Hus an workers would not accept the German program.
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Auman
Petrograd
Congress of Worksmen
General Army Congress
Poland
Baltic
Mussim
Leon Trotzky
Husan
Opponents of suffrage urge states rights over women voting
Washington June 5 opposition to a constitutional amendment for woman suffrage resumes hearings. Dr Lucien Howe of Buffalo and Averett P Wheeler of New York for the American Constitutional League argue states should decide by action and that a woman's place is in the home not politics.
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Washington
House
Lucien Howe
Buffalo
Averett P. Wheeler
New York
Government plans take more New York waterfront dockage
Washington January 5 conferences between ex-Congressman Hulbert now New York dock commissioner Secretary Baker and General Black chief of army engineers revealed that the government is considering taking over an additional large stretch of dockage along the New York City waterfront comprising many city blocks.
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Washington
Hulbert
New York
Baker
General Black
Army Engineers
New York City
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