Wilson presses Congress to speed up session
President Wilson urges swift action on key measures including railroad and water power bills. He plans frequent Capitol talks with senators and representatives, while leaders pledge cooperation. Night sessions discussed. Navy payoff delays loom over leasing and water power bills. Several delegations urged nitrate plant site and property damage relief.
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Bopp Sentenced by Federal Court
In San Francisco on January 23, Prane Bopp Germany's consul general became the first foreign consul general in U S history to be sentenced to prison and a fine for violating American neutrality. Judge William Hunt imposed two years in prison, one year in county jail, and a total fine of $10,000. Three aides received concurrent sentences of one year and one day with no fines. Also reported: in London the War Office called to home defense all youths aged 18 to 19 for training.
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Trukg Trains of Army Start in Mexico
A Mexican courier arrived with news that American expeditionary forces trucks left Colonia Dublan for Columbus loaded with camp equipment ordnance and stores. Morroon settlers asked for safe conducts denied by Pershing. News notes efforts to conceal troop movements and preparations for potential withdrawal from Mexican soil and garrison plans in western Chihuahua.
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Transport Hits Mine In Channel
Wireless distress signals reported a British transport with 1,800 soldiers struck a mine and began sinking in the British Channel. Berlin dispatch notes rising POW totals in Romania and that dispersed soldiers are reappearing, while Romanian forces reorganize in Moldavia and Bessarabia amid ongoing raids and artillery on the western front.
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Save the Overseas News Agency
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Daylight Saving Plan Backed by AFL Leaders
The New York daylight savings committee won approval from the American Federation of Labor and its executive board to advance clocks one hour for five summer months beginning May first. The federation urged nationwide adoption for conservation of time and open air leisure, with a congressional bill pending and a national convention scheduled for January 30 and 31.
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New York Daylight Savings Committee
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Samuel Genmipers
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Congress
Brooklyn Woman 106 Dies at Home
New York report says Mrs. Alice Bennett, aged 106 and the oldest Brooklyn woman, died at her home after a brief illness in her 106th year. She never wore glasses, reflecting a long, sharp life.
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New Move Unpopular in London
The Morning Post lauds President Wilson speech as noble and amiable yet argues peace terms must be settled by those who bear the costs. It cites Lincoln and the War with Spain to illustrate that war must be fought to a finish, while the Chicago Tribune notes European sacrifices and questions Wilson’s suggestions as intrusive. Continued on Page 2.3
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Blue Sky Laws Upheld by Court Ruling
Supreme Court sustains so called blue sky laws of Ohio, Michigan and South Dakota. Justices McRkenna and McReynolds diverge with dissenters over state's power to curb fraud. Laws enable state securities commissions to bar sales within borders to prevent investor losses. Michigan and South Dakota statutes align with the National Association of Attorneys General model. Investment bankers opposed the statutes as overreach.
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Republican Wins Alaskan Election Delegates Race
SHWARD Alaska Jan 23 Bristol election returns favor James Wickersham independent Republican candidate for reelection as delegate to Congress. Adding Bristol Bay totals to Juneau figures gives Wickersham a 34 vote plurality over Charles Sulzer Democratic candidate. Wedding Cake 46 Years Old. Salt Lake City Jan 23 fruit cake forty six years old baked by the mother of D C Walker of Anaconda Mont served at the wedding breakfast after the marriage of Mr Walker and Miss Laura Ice of Butte Mont.
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Peace League Speech Outlines Terms of World Peace
The President addresses the Senate outlining the United States role in forging a lasting peace. He argues America must join a universal covenant with a strong guarantor to ensure stability, condemn immediate terms that fail to secure global harmony, and insists the new world order require American leadership in shaping enduring peace.
Chief Points In Wilson Speech
The address argues a lasting European peace requires a concert of power with U S participation to guarantee peace and justice. It endorses Monroean doctrine, nonentangling alliances, freedom of the seas, and armament moderation, urging government by consent and universal adoption of these American principles.
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Governor Addresses Medical Societies
Springfield report on January 23 notes representatives from medical societies and state boards met to back Governor Lowden’s consolidation plan. Three options were debated including a general health department, a general registration department, or a combined registration and education department. A formal vote favored a registration department separate from health and education, with nurses supporting education, physicians preferring health, and Plow Derdds elected chair.
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Mexican hotel walls fall one killed in Cananea
Reports from Cananea denied previous claims of many deaths after a Sonora hotel wall collapsed Sunday night in Douglas Arizona. Gaston Mendoza, a German, aged 22, was the sole fatality, his body recovered Monday. Several guests, including Americans, were slightly injured.
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Sonora
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Gennan
President Wilson Signals US Entry Into World Peace League
Washington scene as President Wilson addresses the Senate proposing world peace league and a shift from isolation. Debates erupt over propriety and substance while diplomats receive copies of the address for foreign offices. Wilson stresses a universal covenant to end the current war and shape lasting peace, though he says the terms are not yet decided.
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Formal inquiry to open on missing army officers flight
San Diego January 25 formal inquiry will start soon into a flight by two army officers from North Island aviation station that ended with eight days lost in a Lower California desert. Major Burnside announced through Mayor Burnside that inquiry will determine how the plane diverted and the loss of the machine. Yuma Arizona January 23 Col Harry G Bishop improved at a hospital after being found exhausted following an eight day disappearance with Lieut W O A Robertson. Bishop was delirious at times and spent his first restful night in a bed since January 10.
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