Big Army Needed for Air Service
A Public Information Committee briefing cites the scale of air service needs and costs. It notes that 100000 planes would demand vast auxiliary personnel and transport space, with remount and veterinary corps expanding to support horses and animals for the war effort. It discusses pay scales for enlisted men, hospital admission rates, and the broader logistics of supplying uniforms, equipment, and food.
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Veterinary Corps
Uncle Sam
Committee On Public Information
Washington
Howard K. Cottin
Aircraft Production Board
Air Service
Army
United States
United States Army
Anton
Waehington
Eld
Grace
Infantry
Field Artillery
Coast Artillery
Cavalry
Moen
Engineers
Ordnance
Signal Corps
Quartermaster Corps
Medical Department
Mijors
Waders
Gerade
Buchers
Minjers
Medien
Aid
Imister Simmel Electricians
Heetricians
Ser
Post Exchange
Proletariat unrest and Baltic crisis nears flashpoint
The article reports on German and Austrian pressure for territory in the Baltic region, bolstered by pan German circles. It notes Bolshevik struggles in Russia, Ukrainian talks with Germany, and rising unrest in Austria Hungary amid mass strikes and calls for peace with Russia. It also covers Allied concerns, Turkish losses at sea, and U S naval responses, plus domestic wartime politics and Baker-Chamberlain clashes.
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Fatherland Party
Brest-Litovsk
Pottman
Kholsheviks
Germany
Courland
Baltic
Russia
Reval
Drest-Litovsk
Hoffman
Petrograd
Congress of Soldiers
Workmen's
Moscow
Constituent Assembly
Austria
Heatless Monday Program to Be Reconsidered
Washington reports Dr. Garfield and Director General McAdoo will hold another conference on suspending the heatless Monday closing order. They say results of the current Monday closings and railroad embargoes will guide an announcement on possible continuation or suspension. Ten heatless Mondays were decreed January 17 to save coal and ease rail traffic amid strong merchant opposition.
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Washington
Garffeld
Railroad
McAdoo
Wilson
Garfield
The
Fuel Administration
Eastern Railroads
Warning Issued to Flour Dealers on Shortage Substitutes
The food administration warned flour dealers not to exploit shortages in cereals caused by new baking regulations. Prices for wheat substitutes will not be raised, and 477 licensees found selling above reasonable profits risk license revocation. The aim is to ensure ample substitutes and lower prices as transport improves.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
Hoover
Ecor
Navy plans daily output of anti-submarine craft
Washington reports production plans for a new anti-submarine boat program. The goal is a finished vessel delivered each day once the production cycle completes. The first hull is under construction at Ford Motor Company in Detroit with staged steps to reach daily output.
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Washington
Navy
Ford Motor Company
Detroit
Wilson reiterates objections to war cabinet plan
President Wilson again urged Democratic senators to avoid agitation in Congress that could aid the enemy and imply discord while reiterating his opposition to the senate military committee bill for a war cabinet and a munitions director.
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Stone
Roosevelt
Chamberlain Bil
Baker
Wilson
Chamberlain
New York
War Department
Senate
Washington
Senate Military Committee
White House
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America
Austria-Hungary
Edward W. Pickard
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Siberia
Tarauch
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Davidsind
Lyzed
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Bohemia
Prague
Cologne
East Front
Kaiser
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Pershing
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Teutons
Piave River
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Tinave
Medulla
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Dardanelles
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Nogara Point
Sweden
Belgium
Telgitim
British Labor Party
Ion
Nottingham
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Guerminy
Ruel
Gairfield
Indusvink
Belne
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Tasker I. Blilss
Staf
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