Caillaux Arrest Linked to Berlin Talks and Italian Papers
Paris reports say former premier Caillaux was arrested after a Lansing cable stated he had contacts with the Berlin foreign office in 1915 during a Argentina visit. Investigators found military and political papers in a Florence bank safe, including plans to purge rivals and reshape government.
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Paris
Joseph Callaux
Lansing
Washington
M. Callaux
Berlin
Bennos Aires
M. Calaux
Argentina
Count von Luxburg
Germany
Cai- Naux
Mafin
Florence
Madame Caillaux
Italy
M. Caillaux
Generalisimso
Clemencau
Health report highlights county gains and manager plan debate
Dr John Rudolph county health officer presented a report showing the county’s health services worth about $5,000 while compensation was $300 plus expenses. The 1917 disease totals fell from prior years with vaccines and inspections listed, and free services provided to indigent families and children. The meeting heatedly debated adopting a city manager plan, with W W Cleland admitting nonalignment with the city commission and a Fort Arthur Kasold arrival noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic Improvement League
John Rudolph
Reno
W. W. Cleland
Ya City
Forte
Mine Workers Convene in Indianapolis for Biennial Meet
Indianapolis January 15. The United Mine Workers of America open their biennial convention with welcome addresses from state and city leaders and a goodwill letter from President Wilson. Delegates representing over 400,000 unionized miners focus on maintaining current wage standards, with ratification of recent wage agreements expected, and no wage scale committee present this year. Some discussion seeks to move the convention date to September and rotate hosts to other cities including Cleveland Scranton and Kansas City.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Wilson
United Mine Workers of America
Washington
Cleveland
Ohio
Scranton
Kansas City
Plan to register all men twenty one since June five
Washington reports detail several war measures urged by Senate Military Committee Chairman Chamberlain. A bill would register all men who turned 21 since June 5, 1917. Another proposal would furlough National Army men for harvesting crops. A third reads the basis for state quotas shift to exclude enemy aliens. War Department supports the changes to bolster draft and food production.
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Washington
War Department
Chamberlain
Senate Military Committee
Senator Chamberlain
Chamof
States
Crowder
National Army
Secretary of War
Three Killed in Beloit Train Wreck
Three killed and 23 injured when the Beloit Solom on local on the Union Pacific plunged a bridge over Plum Creek near Beloit. The engine and cars crossed before a rail snapped, sending three passenger coaches over the span. Red Cross aids the dead and wounded. Names include Ross Carleton and Al Cochrene, with Mrs Charboneau among the injured.
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Beloit
Jan
Beloit-Solomon
Union Pacific
Plum Creek
Red Cross
Ross Carleton
al Cochrene
Abilene
Charboneau
Concordia
Rose Carleton
B. Hgilfillan
Telen Meacock
Bottlers Here In Two Day Session At University Visit
More than twenty five bottlers and supply men from across the state arrived in Lawrence for the Sixteenth Annual Kansas State Bottlers Association meeting a two day session. Mayors and officials welcomed attendees and a university tour was planned for this afternoon with a full program tomorrow. Registrants include T E Johnson Wichita A McNish Lawrence and several others across Topeka Leavenworth and Emporia.
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Lawrence
Kansas State Bottler’s Association
Chamber of Commerce
R. E. Lightner
Wichita
W. J. Francisco
Francisco
Fraternal Aid Union
West
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
Kaw Valley
John Copening
Fritz Hekelnkaemper
Iblic Health
C. C. Young
Haskell Institute
Battlers
T. E. Johnson
Wichitas
A. McNish
William Ligge
Topeka
Salina
W. Hekelnkaemfer
Atchison
G. H. Bulger
Sethness Company
W. D. Myers
Forrester Nace Box Company
H. ¥. Wood
Warner Jenkens Company
H. L. Cannon
W. H. Hutchinson and Son
P. A. Cutler
Emporia
F. O. Cross
The
Grape Rite Company of
KU Students Serve in Many War Branches
Four hundred ninety six University of Kansas students are listed by the War Records Bureau as serving in the U S military. Of these, seven are majors, twenty one are captains, and sixty two are first lieutenants. Ninety one enlist in infantry, fifty one in engineers, forty five in aviation, and thirty two in the navy. Twenty seven serve in France under General Pershing. The list is incomplete and expected to rise to about eighteen hundred.
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K. U
University of Kansas
Military Service of
United States
War Records Bureau
France
Pershing
War Record Bureau
Infantry
Navy
Kh. U
Enlisted As Aviator Zeno Rogers Joins Aviation Corps
Zeno Rogers of 1824 New Hampshire Street passed the final examination and enlisted in the Aviation Corps as a flier yesterday, marking a step into military aviation.
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Zeno Rogers
New Hampshire Street
Aviation Corps
Service Report for Paul Friend and Fitzpatrick Siblings
Report for service lists Paul Friend Earl Fitzpatrick and Dudley Fitzpatrick enlisted in the quartermaster's department and today receive orders to report at Fort McPherson Georgia.
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Paul Friend
Earl Fitzpatrick
Dudley Fitzpatrick
Quartermaster’s Department
Fort McPherson
Georgia
Bombardment hits Yarmouth killing three people
London reports German naval attack on Yarmouth with twenty shells striking the town. Three killed and ten injured as fire opened at 10:55 p.m. and lasted about five minutes. Yarmouth, a North Sea port 115 miles northeast of London, hosts shipbuilding and fishing industries.
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London
Yarmouth
Scarborough
North Sea
Carl Meairs Promoted to Second Lieutenant at Camp Kearny
Carl R. Meairs of Lawrence has been promoted to Second Lieutenant of Company M, 160th Infantry, now stationed at Camp Kearny California. He left Riverside Junior College to join the army as a private last April at war’s outbreak and rose to lieutenant in nine months. His uncles Edward Meairs of Haskell Institute and William Meairs of Lawrence are noted.
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Camp Kearney
California
Charles Meairs
U. S. Army
Carl R. Meairs
Lawrence
Company M
160Th Infantry
Camp Kearny
Meais
Riverside
Edward Meairs
Meairs
Haskell Institute
Wm. Meairs
Banks to Assist with Income Tax in Lawrence and Euodora
Banks plan to help customers fill income tax blanks. Some banks favor hiring an expert to assist all banks, while others prefer each bank to manage its own blanks. A second meeting will decide the approach as courthouse representatives handle hundreds of duplicates and transfer answers when official blanks arrive.
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Lawrence
Eudora
County Court House
Court House
Y M C A Elects Perkins President For Coming Year
The Y M C A Board of Trustees hosted by President Dr W B Gerritt at his home reviewed the year’s work led by secretary W Boltz. Dr Gorrill, longtime president, recommended change and F M Perkins was elected president with Dr W R Gorrill as vice president Axel Olson as secretary and D Asher as treasurer.
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F. M. Perkins
W. BR. Gerritt
Hr. W. Boltz
Dr. Gorrill
W. R. Gorrill
Axel Olson
D. €. Asher
Guests of Lloyd Ware at Bowersock Theater
Home Guard forces gathered at the Bowersock Theater to see Emily Stevens star in the film Slacker. The event highlighted Lloyd Ware as the central host and point of organization for the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Ware
Home Guard
Bowersock Theater
Emily Stevens
Kansas Weather Report Forecast Notes
Weather report from Kansas shows temperatures near minus sixty five at 1 p.m. yesterday and higher at 7 a.m. today. Forecast indicates generally fair conditions tonight and Wednesday, with the western portion a bit cooler tonight.
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Calder West
British Attorney General Frederick Smith to Speak at KU
Sir Frederick B. Smith, attorney general of Great Britain, will address University of Kansas students in Robinson Gymnasium Thursday afternoon as part of War Conference programs. He travels from England for state defense events and will also speak at Kansas City’s Knife and Fork Club before arriving in Lawrence. He replaces Franklin Lane at the Topeka program with George E. Vincent of New York City slated to speak in Topeka Thursday night.
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Frederick B. Smith
Great Britain
University of Kansas
Robinson Gymnasium
Smith
Lawrence
Topeka
State Council of Defense
National Council of Defense
Bar Association
St. Louis Mo
United States
Knife and Fork Club
Kansas City
K. U
F. R. Hamilton
Speakers’ Bureau
Hamilton
George E. Vincent
New York City
Franklin K. Lane
Vincent
University of Minnesota
Rockefeller Foundation
New York
Lane
Students Work Seek to Earn Big At Kansas University
University of Kansas men earned 4175 dollars in the first four months while working spare hours, per Lloyd McHenry secretary of the University Y M C A employment bureau. The goal is ten thousand dollars for the school year. Table waiting leads with 48 jobs filled and applied for. dishwashing club stewarding and sales jobs follow. Two hundred sixty eight positions were filled in four months.
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University of Kansas
Lloyd McHenry
University Y. M. C. A
Scarcity of teachers threatens Kansas high schools
Professor LYrd. W. H. Johnson of the University of Kansas predicts a severe next year shortage of men teachers in Kansas high schools, estimating four to five hundred fewer men. Vacancies in November and December totaled 83, with 55 filled by men entering service, especially in mathematics and science, leading to more women teaching those subjects.
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Kansas
Lyrd
W. H. Johnson
University of Kansas School of Education
Johnson
Engineers in Lawrence Today Tenth Annual Kansas Engineering Society Meet
Engineers from across Kansas and Missouri gathered in Lawrence for the Tenth Annual Kansas Engineering Society meeting at the university. Chancellor Strong welcomed attendees, with talks planned on tractors, fuels, Camp Funston construction, drainage, and electrical power.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Lawrence
Kansas Engineering Society
Marvin Hall
Kk. U
Frank Strong
Don Buck
H. B. Walker
A. A. Potter
Manhattan State Agricultural College
F. H. Sibley
Kh. U
Freda J. Herman
Camp Funston
H. A. Rice
New State Water Commission
Geo. C. Shaad
Ellis Johnson
Kansas
Engineering Society
Funston
Mischa Levitzki to Perform in University Concert
Russian pianist Mischa Levitzki, famed as a piano genius, appears at the third concert of the fifteenth annual University Concert Course in Robinson Gymnasium tomorrow night at 8:20. Program includes Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Rubinstein, and Liszt works.
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Mischa Levitzki
East
Robinson Gymnasium
Bach
Mozart
Athens
Beethoven
Schumann
Chopin
Franklin School Awarded for Community Interest and Quality
O J Lane county superintendent received the standard plate and diploma for Franklin School District No 16 this morning. The honor was approved by W D Ross state superintendent and Gertrude Stone rural inspector last Thursday. Florence Banker teaches. school board members are John Whitelaw Robert White and T L Davis. Superintendent Lane expects other county schools may receive similar honors soon.
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Franklin
O. J. Lane
W. D. Ross
Gertrude Stone
Lane
Florence Banker
John Whitelaw
Robert White
T. L. Davis
Hutchinson man studies French to beat the Dutch at KU
John Martin of Hutchinson is back in school at the University of Kansas taking four two week intensive courses in French grammar and conversation to aid his aviation service entrance exam. A former KU law student, he hopes better pass the exam after completing his work there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Martin
Hutchinson
University of Kansas
Martin
Aviation Service
At &K. U
Arrest Rumanian Minister and Staff in Petrograd
The Rumanian minister at Petrograd and his staff have been arrested by the Bolsheviki, the Rumanian legation announces. Captain Merle J. Adams reports to his father that on January 3 he was transferred to the signal corps and now commands the radio company of the 109th Field Signal Battalion at Camp Cody, New Mexico.
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Eunese Jondon
Petrograd
Capt. Adams
Merle J. Adams
Delaware Street
Signal Corps
109Th Field Signal Battalion
Camp Cody
N. M
Weightman Jr. finishes ground school in Austin to enter flying school
Topeka January 15. Matt Weightman Jr. reports his son John Weightman has completed the ground school course in Austin with the aviation section of the army. He has left for San Antonio to begin training at the Kelly field and enter the flying school.
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John Weightman
San Antonio Topeka
Matt Weightman, Jr
Army
Austin
San Antonio
Oread High to host Edwardsville in Friday basketball game
The Oread High School team plans a home game against Edwardsville High School this Friday. The Oread squad has been playing well this season and aims for another victory.
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Oread High
Oread High School
Edwardsville High Schail Five
Oread Sieh
Een
New Franchise Presented for City Utilities and Tracks
A new interurban franchise was presented to City Commissioners and the Public Utilities Commission. It seeks authority to haul freight under restricted terms and to gate car barns with changes to the ordinance. The plan proposes track extensions in Lawrence and new turnout rights, with detailed freight limits and revenue sharing. Also noted are a Parent-Teachers meeting and a hospital illness in the Price family.
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Interurban
State Utilities Commission
Nes Pacific
Interurban Railways
Massachusetts Street
Nineteenth Street
Seventh Street
New Jersey Street
Thirteenth Street
Eighth
Ninth
Tenth Stresti
Delaware Street
Eighth Street
Ninth Street
Fifth Street
Levee Street
Massachusetta Street
First Street
Union Pacific Railway Company
Grantee
Lawrence
Tee
Lawrence Railway & Light Company
The
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Kansas Weather Report
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Fraser Chapel
U. S
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F R. Hamilton
Kansas Society
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Engineer Corps
Waltz
Rubinstein
Etude
Liszt
Edwardsville
McAllister Parent-Teachers Club
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