Dutch Steamer Nieuw Amsterdam Spy Hunt Advances
Federal agents continue a sensational spy hunt aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam after reports of a German double agent capture and incriminating evidence. Officials plan thorough searches of all on board and their belongings as the war effort intensifies. In Washington, the Senate is briefed on a proposed bill to empower the president to coordinate departments for wartime prosecutions. Secretary Baker backs repeal of extra pay for aviators, proposing new pay scales and revised duties for frontline airmen. Secretary Lansing and Col. House confer with the president on inter Allied peace data and related policy.
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Atlantic
Nieuw Amsterdam
Washington
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Senate Military Committee
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Lansing
Colonel House
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Roosevelt Slightly Improved as Recovery Seen Likely
New York February 9 The condition of Theodore Roosevelt is reported somewhat improved today. Friends of Col Roosevelt believe a turning point has been reached and he is on the way to recovery. Physicians expect his release from the hospital in about three weeks.
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Associated Press
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Col. Roosevelt
German documents claim Germany funded Bolshevik movement
Paris dispatch reports Petit Parisien publication of German papers alleging a leading French scientist obtained Russian revolutionary documents. The materials include a March 1917 circular from the German Imperial Bank directing Swiss agents to honor all money demands of Lenine Trotzky Zinovieff Kameneff and other Bolshevik leaders.
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Times
Paris
Petit Parisien
Germany
Imperial Bank
Switzerland
Lenine
Trotzky
Zinovieff
Kameneff
Cubans Face Food Shortage in Havana
Havana reports Cuba in dire need of basic sustenance. The regulating committee says Cuba is tenadet without flour lard and other staples, with exhaustion likely within days. Ongoing sugar production prevents self relief. relief shipments are urgently required to prevent starvation.
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Havana
Cuba
Loyal Labor Loyalty Week in New York Opens
Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Labor Wilson will open Loyalty Week with speeches in New York at a meeting Sunday under the American Alliance of Labor and Democracy. Similar events will unfold next week nationwide with many labor demonstrations on Lincoln's Birthday. Former President Taft, in a letter to Samuel Gompers, expresses broad support for the nation's war aims and labor’s role.
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Times
New York
Baker
Labor
Wilson
American Alliance of Labor and Democracy
Lincoln
United States
Taft
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Great Ships To Launch On March Tenth
Washington reports shipping board chair Hurley announcing three 4000-ton steel ships to be launched on March 10 on the Pacific coast. He credits purchasing and traffic departments for handling materials and equipment, noting keels laid between October and November last year and praising the effort amid weather and accidents.
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Washington
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Shipping Board
Pacific
A. Martin
California Ship Building Company
LABOR'S LOYALTY WEEK CALLED BY GOMPERS
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, calls two million members to observe a nationwide Loyalty Week starting tomorrow. Central bodies, states, and locals will stage events to counter pacifist propaganda. Lincoln's Birthday sees about 590 loyalty meetings planned with millions of literature pieces distributed.
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Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Lincoln
Fire kills four in sailors boarding house blaze
Four men and women died in an early morning fire at a sailors boarding house in New York. The blaze, reported by Associated Press, left four victims dead.
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Associated Press
New York
Massachusetts Hotels Save Flour and Sugar in December
Special to The Times reports that hotels and restaurants in Massachusetts saved almost six times as much flour in December as in November, per the food administration. Sugar conservation rose nearly fivefold in the same period, highlighting improved stock management.
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Washington
Massachusetts
Food Administration
Baker Permits Parades On Washington Birthday
Secretary Baker issues order to training camp commanders to grant city parade requests when military needs permit and rail freight burdens do not rise. Parades become possible for Washington's Birthday under new directive.
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the Times
Washington
Baker
New Service Bureau Formed in New York City
New York on February 9 reports the establishment of a new service bureau to counter German activity in the city. The agency aims to coordinate intelligence and public information efforts amid wartime concern.
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New York
Americans Captured Near St Michael as Berlin Reports
Berlin reports some American prisoners captured north of Jivray ten miles east of St Michael and held. A London report says a peace agreement between Teutons and Urania signed at 2 am. A semi official Berlin telegram says representatives of Central powers and Ukrainian Rada signed a peace accord in Copenhagen.
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St. Michael
German General Staff
London
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Urania
Copenhagen
Central Powers
Rada
Lincoln Rockfeller Wedding in New York Ceremony
Miss Florence Lincoln daughter of Mr and Mrs Frederic W Lincoln and William A Rockfeller son of Mr and Mrs William G Rockfeller grand nephew of John D Rockfeller wed at noon in University Place Presbyterian Church New York He is a member of Yale aviation unit.
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Fey Oestrone
Florence Lincoln
Frederic W. Lincoln
William A. Rockfeller
William G. Rockfeller
John D. Rockfeller
University Place Presbyterian Church
Rockfeller
Yale Aviation Unit
New Orleans Bicentennial Flag Raised At City Hall
New Orleans La Feb 9 a flag adopted for New Orleans was raised over city hall to mark the 200th anniversary of the city's founding. Festivities planned for now have been postponed to April when the cornerstone will be laid for a bronze statue of Chevallier Bienville founder of New Orleans.
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New Orleans
New Orleana
Chevallier Bienville
Local Front Line Descriptions Reach Bullecourt Region
Soldiers report actions between Bullecourt and Carp and north of Lens and northeast of Ypres. Allied units push through contested zones, coordinating advances with artillery support and infantry waves amid cratered terrain and shifting trenches.
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Carp
Lens
Ypres
Two Americans Wounded in Action Reported
Pershing reports the slight wounding of two privates in action. Neither was from the Southwest. The February dispatch notes the incident as part of ongoing military engagements.
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Washington
Pershing
Conflicting Reports on Tuscania Losses
Washington reports no official change to the 112 American soldiers feared lost in the Tuscania sinking. The British admiralty lists 147 missing, while Irish port tallies show 101 missing, creating conflicting casualty counts.
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Washington
War Department
Tuscania
Spanish steamer torpedoed and prisoners saved
Madrid reports the Spanish steamship Sebastian of 4 560 tons was torpedoed on a voyage to New York and the crew was saved. The Italian steamer Duca di Genova of 7 893 tons gross was also torpedoed. A detailed sinking report was ordered and a protest to Berlin may follow. Paris mentions French raid near Dioncourt Lorraine with 30 prisoners and one machine gun. Intermittent artillery continues on the front.
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Sebastian
New York
Duca di Genova
Berlin
Paris
Dioncourt
Lorraine
War Office
British Repulse Raids Southeast of Arras and Oppy
British forces repulsed two enemy raids south east of Arras and near Oppy yesterday as artillery activity increased in the region. The brief war bulletin notes no further details.
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London
Arras
Oppy
Meat Ration Order Set One Pound Weekly in England
London February 9 daily food controller issues a meat rationing order granting civilians approximately one pound of meat per week. The measure aims to distribute scarce supplies amid ongoing wartime shortages and directs enforcement via standard quotas across households.
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London
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