Striking Power Workers Vote to Delay Action in Epidemic Crisis
Two thousand heating plant workers in apartments hotels and offices voted at the Central Opera House to defer a strike until Wednesday morning after a rally led by Health Commissioner Copeland. Copeland will act as mediator with hotel real estate and landlord groups while unions seek higher wages and better conditions amid the influenza epidemic.
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Sixty-seventh Street
Third Avenue
Copeland
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T Dersen
Dr. Conoland
Umd
Michael Muend
Joseph Iring
Wealing
Bielt
Timothy Healy
Tel
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Kiel Leased as Commerce Harbor Kiel Leased as Kiel Harbor
Berlin wireless reports the government has leased Kiel to local authorities to convert the former naval port into a commercial harbor with an initial 2,000,000 mark investment.
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Kiel
Commerce Harbor
London
Berlin
Wireless Phone Feat by De Forest Engineer
Robert F. Gowen of De Forest Radio Company Ossining reports wireless telephony with a small aerial and low wavelengths. He claims conversations reached Chicago and towns in Indiana Ohio South Carolina using a new modulating circuit and tube, showing voice heard at distant amateurs despite severe static.
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de Forest Radio Company
Ossining
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Indiana
Ohio
South Carolina
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Columbia City
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Wakefield
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Non-Residents Get Time Extension for Taxes
Albany reports a tax filing extension for non residents and non residents with wages from non residents employees. Comptroller Eugene M. tonight extended the deadline from March 15 to a date thirty days after the Supreme Court rules on the state income tax law. Interest at a percentage applies from March 15 for collectors or withholdings taken under this ruling. If the court upholds the law, taxes stand. if not, refunds are issued.
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Albany
Camp- Trays
Eugene M
United States Supreme Court
Con Rest
New York
Roosevelt Opens Talks On Navy Plans In Brooklyn Speech
Franklin D Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy told a Brooklyn audience that he had prepared a navy program for aggressive action but faced opposition from President Wilson who wished to avoid overt war. He said he spent 40 000 000 on guns two months after war was declared prior to receiving congressional permission.
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Germany
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
Roosevelt
Congress
Pinehurst Prepares to Welcome President Wilson
Pinehurst North Carolina areas ready entertain President Wilson with plans announced today and reserved estates to host him should he visit the South. In Washington Secretary Tumulty said he knew nothing of reports that the President would travel south within the next ten days.
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N. C
Wilson
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Washington
Tumulty Egid
North Carolina
Florida
Academy Offers 100 000 francs for first planetary communication
Paris February 1 The Academy of Sciences offers a prize of 100000 francs about 20000 for the best method to signal a heavenly body and receive a reply Mars included as knowledge advances The interest on the prize money will form a prize for scientists advancing planetary relations with Earth. London February 1 Professor Albert Einstein German astronomer says signals heard via wireless may be atmospheric or other systems He notes Mars habitation and suggests if intelligent beings attempted contact they would likely use light rays.
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Academy of Seidens
Mars
Academy
London
Albert Fitstein
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Berlin
Signor Marconi
Einstein
Earth
Prison Guards Hunt Missing Trolley Bandits
Sing Sing guards hunted two fleeing inmates Percival McDonough and Alfred Friedlander last night near Ossining after they escaped from the prison during Sunday yard time. The pair known as the trolley bandits had held up three trolley cars near Queens between Kings and Queens County last February, forcing passengers to surrender valuables before fleeing in a stolen green automobile. Authorities warned police across New York to search for the men, who were serving long terms for robbery. McDonough had 39 years and Friedlander 16.
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Ossining
Percival J. McDonough
Alfred Idlander
Flushing
Dammen
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Friedlander
Auburn
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Pitkin Avenue
Brooklyn
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Lewis EI
Weatchester
New York
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Frindlander
Lawes
Queensborough Road
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Aes
Queens County Court
Frisky Groundhog Will Look for Shadow Today
Groundhog day forecast notes if sun reveals shadow or not will decide six more weeks of winter. Report mentions deep Connecticut snow twenty two below zero and odd fire alarms in Manhattan Brooklyn and Bronx from frozen pipes and overheated flues.
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Brony
Brooklyn
Ban on Debate Drives Many From Forum
A church forum at the Church of the Ascension altered to ease tensions between Dr. Percy Grant and Bishop Charles Bureh. The session limited audience questions and featured a revised program to reduce controversy. Clergy praised the new format as protecting decorum while preserving discussion of religious issues.
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Percy Stickney Grant
Charles
Bureh
Oree
Gordon Battle
Dr. Grint
Hurch
Andriefly
Watlie
Sidnos Altosvo
America
Styne
G. A. Curstengen
Holy Tool Church
Marsonsen
Grant
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
William Austin Smith
the Churchman
Percy Grant
Smith
Dr. Smith
St. Paul
Platform Contest Surges in Second Week on Page Nine
The Tribune reports the National Republican Platform Contest entering its second week with growing interest. About a thousand planks were submitted in the first week as readers scan the platform page on Page 9 today.
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HE Tribune
Reds Forge Red Cross Passports Amid Bolshevik Plots
London reports that Bolshevik agents used forged American Red Cross credentials to travel between Berlin and Soviet Russia, posing as Red Cross delegates. Arrests followed after authorities traced couriers, including a German radical Socialist, a Swiss extremist, and a woman from Tivina k, revealing plans to supply forged papers and organize prisoner exchanges with Bolshevik authorities in Moscow.
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Russan Holshievik
Paritian Aftars
Bolshevists
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Boluhevik
Turin
Zinoviol
Corman
Wigravers
Soviet Russia Allows Trade With West and America
The Soviet government authorized the Central Union of Russian Cooperatives at Paris to transact business with Western Europe, America, and other nations. It provides guarantees for goods exported and imported by cooperatives and business firms, and the Central Union is ready to begin operations immediately under safety delegation terms.
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FARIS
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America
Central Union
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Viet
Russia
Martial Law Declared in Havana Dock Strike
President Menocal suspends constitutional guarantees for sixty days after dock workers reject arbitration plan. Extra edition of Official Gazette reports decree and crackdown. Police reportedly prepare action against labor agitators as strikers vote against arbitration.
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Menocal
Havana
Hoover Boom Fades as Republicans Question Hoover Nomination
News from Washington reports a surge of letters to the Republican National Committee urging Herbert Hoover for the party ticket. Women voters pressed for Hoover, but support waned as anti Hoover forces gained voice. Managers now see the Hoover surge cresting and diminishing. Political insiders note Hoover’s openness to either party nomination weakened the boom.
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New York Tribune
Washington Dure
Washington
Republican National Committee
Herbert
Hoover
Republican
Move to Reseat Socialists Is To Be Deferred
Albany reports say the plan to reseat five Socialists will be deferred pending the prosecution and committee actions. Roosevelt and allies oppose a premature move and will wait for the judiciary committee’s report on expulsion charges as the political conflict over the ouster unfolds.
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Charles EB. Hughes
Judiciary Committee
Mexico Releases Two U. S. Flyers
United States Army aviators Lieu tenants K P Davis and G Grimes, detained after a forced landing near Guerrero, were released at Nuevo Laredo and crossed into Laredo. Officials cited sovereignty concerns and said no court action would occur, while Mexican critics noted incidents as incursions.
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Tex
K.P. Davis
G. Grimes
United States Army
Guerrero
Nuevo Laredo
Rio Grande
Laredo
J. E. Fechet
Air Service
Southern Department
Reynaldo Garza
Julian F.sanez
Matamoros
Garza
Sanez
Randolph Robertson
United States
Murguia
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Fechet
Stoner
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Cuerrera
Davis
Grimes
Feeher
Allies May Seek Extradition of German Leaders
Paris reports The Matin says Belgium will demand Dr Theobald von Rethmann Hollweg former German chancellor. England will seek Admiral von Tirpitz Admiral Reinhardt von Scheer and Prince Oscar of Prussia. Berlin denies Germany plans to surrender list members and expects no official reply to its note on revision of extradition.
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Reinhardt von Scheer
Jutland
Oscar
Prussia
I. William
RLM
London
Berlin
Chat d’Affairea
Sinn Féiners Arrests and Limerick Police Shooting
Dublin reports 65 Sinn Féin members arrested across Dublin Tipperary Limerick and Cork. No new developments in the ongoing situation. Police Sergeant Wellwood in Limerick was shot in the jaw. initial fears of death eased as recovery appears likely.
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Britain Accepting Lodge Reservations Rumor Boosts Ratification
Washington reports Viscount Grey letter to The London Times signals Britain would accept the Lodge reservations. Republicans view the Atlantic telegram as validating modification of the treaty and undercut Democratic opposition, with plans to push ratification on the Senate floor early this week.
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