Vienna Cabinet Crisis Freights in Terminals Moving
Washington reports two of the ten government aims to curb industry by cutting fuel supply have been met. Coal to the east is increasing, bunkers to sea ports sufficient for transatlantic shipping, though railroad congestion remains unresolved due to weather. Freight moves to ports strain tug and barge services as pooling at New York expands.
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Washington
Garfield
East
Seaboard
New York
Hampton Roads
Shipping Board
J. E. Parsons
Hampton
A. H. Smith
Eastern Roads
Mr. Smith
Allon
Pennsylvania
McChord
President backs war secretary in battle over reorganization
President Wilson declared the War Department had achieved an unparalleled feat of efficiency and denounced Chamberlain's war council proposals. He favored reorganization by legislation only after effective measures were perfected, while Chamberlain vowed to pursue his fight despite presidential opposition.
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Wilson
Congress
War Department
Congressional
New York
Chamberlain
Senate Military Committee
Flaths
Baker
Capitel
Senator Chamberlain
War Council
Representative Dent
House Military Committee
Representative Kahn
White House
Union miners pledge Garfield full support
Union mine workers in convention pledged Dr. E. H. Garfield, national fuel administrator, unqualified support and cooperation and the maximum production of coal in organized fields. They adopted resolutions including support for old age pensions.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Union Mine Workers
Hese
EH. A. Garfield
Keokuk Soldier Dies Overseas From Pneumonia
Washington Jan. 22 General Pershing reports Corporal Guy Clark Morris of Keokuk Iowa died January 16 while serving with engineers in the overseas army from pneumonia His mother Addie Benson lives at 801 North Fifth Street Keokuk Iowa.
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Keokuk
Washington
Advertising in The Whig Drives Local Business Growth
Mr. Ross Reynolds Advertising explains advertising as essential to reaching goals and stabilizing cash flow. The Whig reaches over 7,200 daily and 8,000 Sunday households, targeting about 15,000 men and young men. It urges planting the Kuppenheimer name in minds across these homes as a key advertiser advantage.
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Whig
Wilson Defends War Effort Against Chamberlain Criticism
President responds to Senator Chamberlain's New York luncheon claim of government inaction. He asserts the War Department has handled unprecedented tasks with speed, cites delays from investigations and reorganizations, and argues proposed laws would cause more delays. He praises Secretary Baker's work but calls for a formal war cabinet and director of munitions to fix weak links in the chain of command.
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War Department
Congress
Department
Franker Hill
Senate Military Committee
Baker
Council of National Defense
War Industries Board
Clearance Committee
War Cabinet
Senator Lodge
Col. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Flanders
Gorgas
Stone
Penrose
England
Cain
Democratic Party
Lam
Republican Party
Cab
Corn in Western States Faces Urgent Movement
Washington dispatch reports governors in Illinois Iowa Indiana Ohio Kansas and Nebraska warn of heavy corn movement needs. Illinois may require 80 percent of its crop moved soon while Iowa reportedly has little stored or shipped. Nebraska remains normal.
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Washington
Lowden
Illnois
Illlinois
Towa
Fiardin
Goodrich
Indiana
Ohio
Cox
Capper
Kansas
Nebraska
Belgian Communique Reports No Fighting
Washington January 22 The official Belgian Commuque for the week ending January 21 received by cable at the Belgian legation notes unfavorable weather limiting artillery action in the Belgian sector with snow or rain reducing visibility. German artillery has been active around Ramscappelle and Dixmude to deter Belgian attacks.
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Washington
Ramscappelle
Dixmude
Firemen's Bones Laid Beside Captain's Body
In New York on Monday the bones of two firemen who died in the 1885 Academy of Music blaze were buried beside Captain Thomas Sullivan, who kept the bones so the three men could share a grave. Sullivan, 79, died Thursday of apoplexy.
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New York
Old Academy of Music
Thomas Sullivan
Sullivan
Autonomy questions in dispute at Brest Litovsk talks
A long Brest Litovsk report shows central powers and Russians far apart on how occupied territories should register self determination. Trotzky defends a referendum plan for Ukraine and notes limits on autonomous treatment for Ukrainian lands. Talks adjourned to January 29 as commissions continue work.
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London
Commission For
Brest Litovsk
Berlin
Trotzky
Russia
Ukraine
von Kuehlmann
Petrograd
Caucasus
Aland Islands
Finland
Economc Commission
Missouri Brewers Halt Work Two Days Weekly
Jefferson City Mo Jan 22 every brewery in Missouri must stop work two days each week by order of State Fuel Director Crossly no brewing bottling beer or other beverages on these days the directive aims to reduce consumption or conserve resources across the state
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Crossly
Austria's Ministry Ousted Sparks Cabinet Shakeup
Vienna dispatch says the Austrian ministry resigned and Count Von Toggenburg, former interior minister, has been asked to form a new cabinet. The upheaval follows strikes and unrest linked to war weariness and economic dislocation, with reports of suppressed newspapers and tension in Hungary over peace without annexations.
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Vienna
Berliner Morgen
Count von Toggenburg
Count Czernin
Dr. von Seydler
von Seydler
Austria
Brest-Litovsk
Hungary
Alsace-Lorraine
Germany
Berlin
Reichstag
Two Armed Mexicans Killed by Troopers
Two armed Mexicans were shot and killed Monday on the island opposite Fabons Texas, 32 miles southeast of El Paso, when U S cavalry patrols exchanged rifle fire from the Mexican side of the boundary line. An American cavalryman was unseated when his horse was shot.
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EL Paso
Tex
Fabons
Texas
Here
Train car derailment kills two in Omasa Tan
Two people die and fifteen are seriously injured in Omasa Tan when a cin ders loaded railroad car breaks from a switch and crashes into a street car full of riders.
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Omasta
Tan
Coal operators blamed for defying fuel rules at six-state meet
Kansas City January 22 Emer son Carey fuel administrator for Kansas declared coal operators are bigger than the fuel administration and never obeyed orders. All but Oklahoma's P A Norris agreed they had not played fair and sought extortionate prices. Missouri's Wallace Crossley outlined a plan to reorganize distribution in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska and Iowa with a non operator distributor.
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Fuel Administration
Emerson Carey
Kansas
P. A. Norris
Oklahoma
Coal Trust
Wallace Crossley
Missouri
St. Louis
Illinois
Chicago
Crossley
National Fuel Administration
Arkansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Garfield
Charles Webster
Des Moines
John L. Kennedy
Omaha
H. C. Couch
Little Rock
British Win Sea Fight Off Dardanelles
At the Dardanelles entrance British forces repelled Turkish cruisers Breslau and Goeben. The Turkish Midullu sank. 172 crew rescued. British monitors Raglan and M28 lost with 132 survivors. Goeben hit a mine and withdrew. Viscount Broome, Raglan’s commander, was saved and is linked to Earl Kitchener’s will.
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Dardanelles
London
Breslau
Imbros
Viscount Broome
Goeben
Evening News
Earl Kitchener
Senate Sparks Fly Over Roosevelt Attack By Stone
In Washington on January 22 Senate debates heated when Senator Stone, a veteran Democrat, assailed Republicans for political critiques of war policy and dubbed Theodore Roosevelt "the most seditious man of consequence in America." Republican leaders responded with defiant defense of oversight, as the clash stretched to adjournment and drew in Senators Lewis Kirby and Lodge.
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Senate
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Theodore Roosevelt
America
Missouri
Penrose
Lodge
New
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Senator Stone
Senator Penrose
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Ife
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