Cold Wave With Snow Deteriorates Across Nebraska
The Nebraska storm sirocco rages through Thursday night with heavier snow in central areas. Hastings Grand Island and Kearney report four to five feet of snow in some locations while Lincoln sees light snowfall and strong winds. Kansas City notes record low barometric pressure for 31 years with 50 mile winds across several states as rain snow and sleet push temperatures lower.
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M cCormick Denounces President Signing Our Treaty
Rep Medill McCormick complains that the president cannot sign any treaty that alters the Monroe Doctrine. He argues America must not abandon liberties or cede influence in the Americas or to former German possessions. He criticizes allied policy toward Russia and warns against mandatories that threaten hemispheric control.
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Investigation of I. W. W. Spread Among Chinese
Chicago agents disclose a government inquiry into I. W. W. propaganda among Chinese as Chinese leaders in Chicago seek to curb radicalism. The probe ties to deportation plans of enemy aliens and police report 160 I. W. W. and other radicals arrested in the past week.
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Glass Wants Fifth Lean Made More Attractive
Secretary Glass told the House Ways and Means Committee that bonds and notes of the victory liberty loan must be made more attractive and asked for authority to fix interest rates and exemptions from taxation. He urged extending War Finance Corporation powers to exporters and broadening the Treasury’s loan purposes to foreign governments.
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Colored Heroes of the Argonne Home
New York Feb 13 The transport Stockholm with 2084 American troops carried part of the old Fifteenth New York National Guard Negro regiment led by Col William Hayward The 300th unit was praised for bravery with 191 members cited and decorated The regiment helped reach the Rhine as an advance guard for the French army of occupation Sergt Henry Johnson awarded Croix de Guerre with star and palm for actions at Bois-Hanzey May 4 and his injuries during combat
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Maryland Court Invalidates Sunday Sports Ordinance
The Maryland Court of Appeals declared invalid a city ordinance allowing baseball and other athletic events on Sundays in public parks. It held the ordinance conflicted with state Sabbath laws, voiding Sunday sports permits.
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Store Workers Strike Hits Berlin in February Turmoil
Twenty thousand Berlin store employees walk out for higher wages disrupting Leipziger Strasse where major shops close. Spartacists fire indiscriminately in the newspaper quarter as strikes ripple across the empire with doctors and other professionals opposing them.
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Frontier Question Still in Abeyance
Associated Press reports the arbitration proposal on the Italian Yugoslav question is paused as Premier Orlando and his cabinet defer action without consulting the king parliament or cabinet. President Wilson clarifies he did not originate the proposal and prefers to be a neutral intermediary. A Fiume deputation arrives in Paris with documents seeking union with Italy.
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Cuban Expert Beaten In Billiard Match
Augie Kieckhefer, three cushion billiard champion, beat Alfred Deoro the Cuban expert 50 to 45 in 63 innings in the first block of a 150 point title match in Chicago. Deoro, from whom Kieckhefer won the championship last year, displayed strong skill with an 8 in the fifty fourth inning before Kieckhefer overtook him. Kieckhefer’s high run was four.
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War Revenue Bill Passed by Senate in Tax Push
The senate approved the war revenue bill levying six billions in tax this year and four billions yearly thereafter. The conference agreement, adopted without a record vote, awaits presidential approval after Vice President Marshall and Speaker Clark sign it. Senators Smoot and Townsend criticized parts of the measure.
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Michigan
Shipping Board seeks public opinion on merchant ships
Chairman Hurley said the United States Chamber of Commerce will help gather opinions from business, civic, industrial, and labor groups nationwide on policies for the merchant marine. A telegram survey will ask about ship construction, government or private ownership and operation, and related issues.
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Revolt in Rumania Forces Royal Family to Flee
A Vienna dispatch reports a general insurrection across Rumania. King Ferdinand is wounded fleeing Bucharest as workers block roads and protest topple the dynasty. Rioters cry for a republic while clashes at Bagorst kill about 60 and wound 150. army discipline collapses amid dire food and financial collapse.
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Good Board Ad Promises Quality Meals
The WHIG WANT AD Columns advertise boarding houses offering tasty meals. Readers are urged to try these places for satisfying dining and productivity, implying better work and health with proper meals.
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Close Debate on Army Bill May Amend It
The House closed general debate on the eleven hundred million dollar army appropriation bill and moved to amendments under the five minute rule. Attendees saw no forecast for a final vote, with proposed changes including universal military training and a reduced appropriation for the military intelligence service.
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Ohio
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Texas
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Wilson on Principles and World Cooperation in Paris
President Wilson, addressing a French association delegation, hopes for a public meeting after his return to celebrate progress toward a world society. He cites miracles of wartime cooperation and stresses translating principles into practical action rather than abstract talks. He pledges cooperation with the plan formed after his return.
Arkansas bill would ban all public dancing statewide
A bill by Representative Hill in the Arkansas legislature would prohibit all forms of public dancing and impose fines from 100 to 500 dollars on conductors of public dances.
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Russia Policy Given Senate By Hitchcock
In the Senate debate on Russia, Senator Hitchcock predicts a Princes' Island conference will lead to a joint withdrawal of American and allied troops from Russia. Senator Johnson pushes for immediate withdrawal while Lodge and Lewis clash over Lloyd George's statements and theAmericans policy.
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Paris
Poll of Unions On Threatened Strike Nationwide Vote
Ernest Bohm secretary of the New York central labor unions announced a nationwide vote by all central unions on a no beer no work strike set for July 1. He said plans could be canceled if light wines and beer are deemed non intoxicating and outside federal prohibition.
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Society of Nations debate stalls inter allied force plan
Paris Feb 13 The Bougainville proposition for an inter allied military force to enforce peace failed by an overwhelming vote at the meeting of the society of nations commission. Only the French and Czecho Slovaks supported it. The draft of the society of nations plan was adopted as a whole with twenty six articles. President Wilson will read the draft to a plenary peace conference meeting tomorrow. The conference will not be asked to adopt it then. The Japanese delegation proposed that racial discrimination not be allowed in immigration law but the issue was dropped.
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Claims Drug Victim Became U S Witness
Jeremiah A O Leary a former Bull editor is on trial for espionage. Arthur O Leary, his brother, defends him arguing the government coerced a woman named Madame Victoria, an alleged German spy, to testify by threatening to withhold drugs she sought.
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Society of Nations
America
Victoria
New Haven Railroad Management On Rack
A petition in equity seeks appointment of a limited receiver for the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad on grounds of waste of 204 million dollars spent outside its sphere. The Adams suit, begun in 1916 to recover part of the sum for stockholders, is called futile. Hearing set for February 22 by Federal Judge Knox. stock fell three points on Wall Street after receivership news.
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United States District Court
Harold Norris
Knox
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Pittsburgh Cashier Guarded In Hospital
J. S. Swartz cashier of the Park Bank in Pittsburgh is guarded in a hospital awaiting recovery before facing charges of perjury fraudulent entry and embezzlement. Bank doors are closed by the state banking commission as directors hope to reopen and pay depositors in full. Swartz was the bank’s largest stockholder with alleged losses over 250000.
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Arrest Karl Radek in Berlin by Berlin Police
A Berlin dispatch reports Karl Radek the Russian Bolshevik commissioner, long accused by German authorities of instigating radical outbreaks, has been discovered and arrested by the Berlin police after a period of mystery about his whereabouts.
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