MORE BRITON SHIPS LOST IN GERMAN RAID
British losses mount as German submarine U 21 sinks five ships in its latest raid. Reports from Dublin and Belfast confirm Irish Sea attacks, with Tokomaru and Icaria torpedoed in the English Channel. Kilcoan crew landed safely on the Isle of Man. Shipping circles fear renewed danger to British liners.
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English Channel
Icaria
Paris
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North Sea
Pathfinder
Roberts Loser in Demurrer Over Election Conspiracy
Indianapolis February 1 Judge Anderson overruled a demurrer by Mayor Roberts of Terre Haute and Mothers charging conspiracy to corrupt the Haute election last November. The ruling held the federal government had jurisdiction over election machinery in the case.
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Roberts
Terre Haute
Mothers
Haute
Wheat Prices Soar As War Demands Drive May Wheat
Smashing high record war prices push Chicago wheat to fresh highs. May futures climb from last week’s gains, hitting 1.5538 and later 1.57 as European demand intensifies.
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Chicago
War Today Dispatches From Warfronts Across Europe
Associated Press reports renewed heavy fighting along the Warsaw front in Poland after a period of quiet. Petrograd confirms Russian occupation of Tabriz in Persia. Athens says Greece will aid Servia if Austro Hungarian forces invade. Submarine warfare threatens British shipping. Leinster raid shows raiders can operate far from base. Berlin cites favorable Carpathian conditions. no major action in France or Flanders. A German-British naval curb idea is voiced by Dr. Bernhard Dernburg in Minneapolis. A bomb damages a building in Chicago's Italian district. no injuries reported.
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Cruiser Montana Guards Haitian Port Prince
Washington February 1 The cruiser Montana with 600 marines has taken a station off Port Au Prince Haiti for the protection of American interests. All is quiet at Port Au Prince.
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Montana
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Dacia Sets Sail Seizure Likely in Atlantic Trade
Galveston to Rotterdam voyage with 11,000 bales of cotton valued at 880000 dollars signals a potential prize case amid wartime tensions. The Dacia left Galveston under orders to Bremen, with seizure expected and prize court diplomacy possible as British authorities contest American registry.
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Rotterdam
Bremen
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E. N. Breitung
New York
Hamburg-American Line
Port Arthur
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United
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American Commission For Relief
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England
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Washington
Senate Starts Ship Purchase Bill Debate in Continuous Session
The Senate resumed work on the ship purchase bill at 11 AM with both parties pledging to relay speakers day and night. Majority Leader Kern said the chamber would stay in continuous session as discussion of a cloture rule grows in Democratic circles.
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Smith
Michigan
Walsh
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Europe
Wires Give Way Under Ice Loads
A sleet storm over a wide area from Chicago caused ice coated wires to break cutting communications to many cities. Railroads faced delays while Chicago's streets were slick and pedestrians slipped. A Wisconsin blizzard paralyzed traffic, and rain and sleet disrupted telegraph and telephone circuits across Michigan.
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Wisconsin
Michigan
Chicago Women Must Tell Ages Registration Rule
County Judge Scully ruled that women voters must state their ages before registering. Campaign managers warned the rule would likely deter many women from registering tomorrow in Chicago, Alabama.
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Chicago
Scully
Woman Blamed Under Mann Act
Washington D C February 1 The federal white slave law has been interpreted by the supreme court as authorizing indictment of a woman transported in violation of the law as a co conspirator with the person who caused her to be transported In two dissenting opinions Justices Lamar and Day contended the majority decision had cut away the constitutional support of the law Supreme court lawyers were of the opinion the decision would make prosecutions very difficult.
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Supreme Court
Lamar
Day
Twelve Survive In Wrecked Ship
New York February 1. A tale of shipwreck where ten men and two women drifted six days on a waterlogged bark after it broke up. They lived on two pounds of canned food and a pint daily of brackish water. Seven crew members rescued near Santiago Cuba by the Manzanillo then landed at Santiago. All needed hospital care from privation.
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Monterey
Cuba
Ethel V. Boynton
Waldemar
Bermuda
Manzanillo
Santiago
Mobile
Genoa
Charles E. Olsen
Fire line outage at Central station eyed for morning
Fire reporter Murphy says phone line at Central fire station is out of commission and cannot be repaired until morning. Those who may need to report a fire by phone should call the police station at Rock Island 28.
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Rock Island
Weather Summary for Rock Island Area
Rain turns to snow and colder tonight with lows near 20 degrees. Tuesday expects more snow and colder conditions with strong shifting winds. Temperature at 7 am 33, yesterday 36 high, 23 low. precipitation 0.79 inch in 24 hours. humidity 100 percent. J. M. Sherier, Local Forecaster. Evening stars Jupiter. morning stars Venus and Mars. February constellations visible by 9 pm include Perseus, Auriga, Taurus, Gemini, Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Orion, Leo, Virgo, Canis Major, Canis Minor, and more. Jupiter and Saturn are evening stars this month.
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Venus
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Hercules
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Mitchell urges right to bargain for labor
John Mitchell former UMW president and New York workmen's compensation official testifies before the federal industrial relations committee. He argues that workers need the right to bargain collectively and criticizes corporate refusal to treat with labor, citing strikes and industrial unrest in Patterson West Virginia Lawrence Mass and other places. He notes wage and living condition improvements in Pennsylvania anthracite and warns that peaceful labor relations depend on collective bargaining.
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John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
New York Workmen's Compensation Commission
Federal Industrial Relations Committee
Mitchell
United States Steel Corporation
Bio Corporations
Industrial Association
Patterson
West Virginia
Lawrence
Mass
Rockefeller
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Amos Pinchot
Associated Press
Pinchot
Another Carman Trial in Spring
Freeport New York February 1 The second trial of Mrs Florence Conklin Carman for the murder of Mrs Louise Bailey will start in May or June according to District Attorney Smith The first trial last October ended in a disagreement and Mrs Carman has been at Liberty bond of 25000 dollars
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N. Y
Florence Conklin Carman
Louise Bailey
Atorney Smith
Carman
Liberty
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