View Phone Rates In Effect Across Nation
Washington reports new toll and long distance rates by Postmaster General Burleson went into effect at midnight except where courts issued restraining orders. Legal challenges noted in Indiana Mississippi Florida and Illinois delay intrastate application while interstate rates proceed, with the plan to equalize charges and mostly reduce overall costs.
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Washington
Uuriebun
W. Mi. Lamar
Post Office Department
Federal Wire Control Commmittee
Lamar
Indiana
Mississippi
Himeis
Florida
Pensacola
Fla
United States
Lincoln
Neb
Burleson
Committee On Tate
Postmaster General
Chicago
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Illinois State Public Utilities Commission
David R. Forgan
Edgard S. Bloom
Frank S. Foyle
Central Union Telephone Company
Chicago Telephone Company
Red Cross To Feed Russian Prisoners
Paris dispatch says the American Red Cross will aid 1.5 million Russian prisoners held in Germany. Funds from Russian societies and individuals in France and Scandinavian countries support relief. Captain W B Webster oversees loading of the Nero with shoes blankets and clothing bound for Copenhagen. Hoover to supply food through Rotterdam and Copenhagen.
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Paris
American Red Cross
Germany
France
W. B. Webster
London
Copenhagen
Herbert C. Hoover
Rotterdam
Rail Brotherhoods Call Immigration Ban
P J McNamara vice president of the legislative committee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers testified before the house immigration committee that immigration of cheap labor from Central Europe must be stopped before peace is concluded or the United States will suffer financially for years. He said the four railroad employe brotherhoods favor legislation preventing immigration until the nation reaches a normal condition.
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Washington
House Immigration Committee
P. J. McNamara
Legislative Committee
Hague Treaty Used to Indict Kaiser in War Crimes
Paris reports long debates on holding former Emperor William accountable for wartime crimes. The Matin cites jurists who say William can be prosecuted under The Hague rules, with responsibility resting on orders givers rather than subordinates. A judicial committee may advise the peace conference on formal inquiry and indictment, while Holland may be pressured to surrender the ex-emperor to the league for trial.
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Paris
William
Matin
France
William Hohenzollern
Holland
League of Nations
League
Bankers Not United On Big Chinese Loan
Washington reports no agreement yet on a joint loan to China by bankers from the United States Great Britain France and Japan. Japan approves in principle while Britain and France mull it over. Thirty two American banks will participate in an undetermined loan amount. J J Abbott of Chicago heads the American banking delegation to China for talks with other nations' bankers.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
France
Japan
China
J. J. Abbott
Chicago
Foch Withdraws Forces From Belgium At Request
Marshal Foch announces withdrawal of British and American forces stationed in Belgium to aid revictualling and reconstruction efforts. Belgium’s government asked for the move to free railways for relief and reconstruction. The food minister traveled to Paris to coordinate further relief measures.
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Brussels
Havas
Belgium
Marshal Foch
Paris
Surrender proposal splits Bolsheviks as Paris peace talks begin
Reports from Russia claim Lenine and allies discussed surrender while Trotzky Radek and Tchitcherin opposed. Bolshevik strength estimated at 300,000 with western gains near Warsaw and Lithuania. Paris delegates include Sazanoff Logoff Bakhmeteff and others seeking recognition or aid. Three plans for Russia range from intervention to withdrawal and limited aid while avoiding formal Bolshevik recognition.
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Paris
Russia
Lenine
Soviet Congress
Trotzky
Karl Radek
Tchitcherin
Warsaw
Lithunia
Baltic
Perm
Archangel
Dwina
Penn
Ufa
Omsk
Siberian
Kuban
Baku
Odessa
Sevaktopol
Sazanoff
M. Tchaikovsky
Northern Republic
Logoff
Boris Bakhmeteff
Kerensky
Associated Powers
Associated Nations
Bolsheviks
Bankers Underwrite British Gold Bonds
A group led by J. P. Morgan and company underwrites converting the two year 5 1/2 percent British government notes into twenty year gold bonds. The notes, part of a $250 million issue due February 1, matured and $100 million was paid off in cash a year ago.
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New York
J. P. Morgan and Company
Royalist Revolt in Portugal Proclaims Manuel King
Wireless dispatch from Lisbon reports Paiva Conceiro leading royalist forces at Oporto Braga and Viscous areas to crown Former King Manuel as king of Portugal. Government troops move to crush the conspiracy and Manuel rebukes the attempt by telegram.
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London
Portugal
Lisbon
Paiva Conceiro
Oporto
Braga
Viscus
Manuel
Portugese
Messages Carried to Germans Abroad Treason Indictment
New York January 21 J William Robinson a former stenographer for Jeremiah A O Leary is accused in a federal grand jury treason indictment of carrying messages between O Leary and German agents in Holland in 1917 He allegedly went to Rotterdam on an American tank steamer in April 1917 delivered covert correspondence from O Leary and from Madame Marie De Victorica John T Ryan and Herman Wessels to Frank Richards a German agent.
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New York
J. William Robinson
Jeremiah A. O'Leary
O'Leary
Holland
Federal Grand Jury
Robinson
Rotterdam
Frank Richards
Marie de Victorica
John T. Ryan
Herman Wessels
Ryan
Ireland
Madame de Victorica
Maria von Kretzchmann
Wessels
Carl Rodiger
Buffalo
Mexico
Emil Kipper
Albert Paul Fricke
Grandmother of the Russian Revolution calls for US aid
Madame Breshskovskaya in Seattle argues Russia will reject Bolshevik rule and seek US help to build a strong democratic state. She blasts the Bolsheviks as destructive and plans to meet President Wilson, seeking funds to save orphans and illiterates as Russia turns toward America.
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Seattle
Washn
Russia
Madame Breshskovskaya
United States
America
Madame Breshskovskayva
Wilson
France
Pay Back Allowances Only Is Fraudulent
Washington January 21 The house passed a bill letting government allowances be reimbursed only if fraud is shown for dependents named by enlisted men. Rep Treadway said the War Risk Insurance Bureau cancelled thousands of payments claiming beneficiaries were not dependents. The measure aims to relieve parents from repaying such allowances.
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Washington
House
Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Bureau
Raging Jugo-Slav Unrest Amid Italian Occupation
Dispatches from Belgrade report growing popular anger in Serb Croat and Sloven population under Italian rule. Clashes erupt daily as appeals to Allied powers flood occupied towns. Montenegrin tensions rise over Italian propaganda backing King Nicholas.
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Washington
Belgrade
Montenegro
Cettinje
Nicholas
Serbia
Water power bill deadlock in Washington conferees
Senate and house conferees on waterways development failed to resolve licensing terms for waterpower projects and adjourned. House managers pressed for federal licenses up to fifty years while Senate favored not less than fifty. compromise of thirty to fifty was rejected on a tie vote.
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Washington
Senate
House
War and Interior Departments
Canners Protest Rail Control in National Meeting
In Chicago on January 21 U. S. Senator A M Fernald former president of the National Canners association charged government rail ownership raised freight rates by 40 percent and passenger rates by 50 percent while service deteriorated. C H Bentley noted restrictive Latin American tariffs hinder American trade and warned revisions to shipping laws are needed to keep U S merchant marine from under foreign registry or rusting at docks.
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Chicago
National Canners Association
U. S
A. M. Fernald
Fernald C. H. Bentley
Foreign Trade Committee
Association
Latin America
Cuba
America
Lageman Resigns From State Income Tax Office
Arthur F. Lageman resigns after five years in the state income tax office. He will leave Feb 1 and open a private practice in the Illinois State Bank building after serving as office man, division deputy, and the past two years as deputy commissioner.
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Arthur F. Lageman
Illinois State Bank
Mr. Lageman
Cardinal Sees Hidden Perils In Prohibition
Cardinal Gibbons warns that prohibition harms worship and liberty. He argues sacramental wine should be exempt and condemns strict prohibition as likely to drive illicit liquor, legal enforcement costs, and home invasions, urging regulated control instead.
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Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
United States
Prisoners Released From German Camps Reach Allied Ports
War Department lists American POWs freed from Germany and reaching England Switzerland and France. Names include Andrew Maron Detroit Manley Grimes Whitehall Arthur Sheets Carthage Thomas Stanforth Detroit Adolf Sobel Hamtramck John Lepton Lake Bluff Milber Stoker Cedar Rapids Carl Klug Harbor Beach Harris Cruse Silver City Cecil Harris Detroit Dick Bunk Kanawha Frank Davenport Woodburn John Vandervelde Grand Rapids Lawrence Faber Keokuk Robert Cox Vermont Lewis Blair Kalamazoo Guy Sanford Plymouth Fred Shirer Craiton Iowa.
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Washington
War Department
Camp Dulmen
Germany
England
Andrew Maron
Detroit
Mich
Manley Grimes
Whitehall
Berne
Switzerland
Arthur J. Sheets
Carthage
Ill
Thomas E. Stanforth
Adolf Sobel
Hamtramack
Rastatt
France
John P. Lepton
Lake Bluff
Til
Milber B. Stoker
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Carl F. Klug
Harbor Beach
Harris F. Cruse
Silver City
Cecil J. Harris
Mack Ave
Dick Bunk
Kanawha
Douglas P. Pichae
Louis Ave
Frank C. Davenport
Woodburn
John Vandervelde
Grand Rapids
Lawrence B. Faber
Keokuk
Robert D. Cox
Vermont
Lewis Blair
Kalamazoo
Guy R. Sanford
Plymouth
Fred Shirer
Craiton
Shipping Board Chief King Resigns for Private Business
Robert M. King, head of the Shipping Board’s special dispatch agency, resigns to return to private business. King organized the agency in December 1917 to speed cargoes for government forces in France, and it has grown to branches in fifteen major Atlantic coastal ports.
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New York
Robert M. King
Special Dispatch Agency
United States Shipping Board
Mr. King
France
Atlantic
Springfield Man Sentenced to Life for Two Murders
Cart HI, R. Evans of Springfield Illinois, 18, a Navy deserter who confessed to two murders, was sentenced Monday in Jersey City to life imprisonment for each crime with the sentences to run concurrently. Evans killed a man during a robbery and later killed a policeman who attempted to arrest him, smiling and saying he would be a model prisoner.
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Jersey City
N. Y
R. Evans
Springfield
Ill
Navy
Evans
Gompers Delegation Meets British Body in London
The Samuel Gompers led American Federation of Labor delegation met the British parliamentary committee of the Trades Union Congress in London. The three hour conference failed to agree on a proposal for a purely trades union international conference alongside the peace conference. Strong divergence of views was reported.
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London
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Paris
Trades Union Congress
Gompers
Open Door of League to Trusty
Lord Robert Cecil argues the League of Nations should admit all trustworthy nations including Germany Austria Bulgaria Bulgaria Turkey when ready. He bases trust on stable governments and territorial settlements and notes Bohemia shows progress within Austria while Turkey’s status awaits post peace talks.
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Paris
Germany
Austria
Bulgaria
Turkey
League of Nations
League
Robert Cecil
Robert
Associated Press
Lord Robert
Lord Roberts
Bohemia
Prussia
Balkans
Wilson Luncheon Elaborate Affair
Paris reports two main events the supreme council meeting on the Russian situation and a gala luncheon with President Wilson at Luxembourg Palace. Wilson warned that France’s peril if unchecked becomes a world peril while urging global organization. M Noulens spoke to the council about Bolshevik influence and the entente’s stance.
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Associated Press
Paris
Supreme Council
Wilson
Luxembourg Palace
France
Lansing
M>noulens
Russia
Entente
Influenza Epidemic Subside Reported in Illinois
December reports to the Illinois health department show 49,887 contagious disease cases, with 46,913 influenza and pneumonia. Dr. C St. Clair Drake notes the influenza epidemic is subsiding and only a few areas remain heavily affected. Deaths from influenza and pneumonia in Illinois by mid January are estimated at about 25,000.
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Springfield
Illinois State Department of Health
C. St. Clair Drake
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Wageman
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Shipping Board
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