British Policy On Persian Invasion Defense In World War I
London reports say a Paris conference with Lloyd George Churchill Hume Long Beatty and Wilson may decide on defensive action against Bolshevik aggression. Persia asks Britain what aid is possible and what defense aligns with policy. Unconfirmed Berlin note mentions Enver Pasha in Berlin aiming at Kurdistan. Letts counterattack reports and village captures near Dvinsk Antopol plus Pytalovo station.
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London
Paris
Lloyd George
Winston Spencer Churchill
Walter Hume Long
Admiralty
Baron Beatty
Grand Fleet
Sir Henry Wilson
Imperial
Great Britain
Persia
Berlin
Enver Pasha
Kurdistan
Asia Minor
Bolshe- Yavin
Reschitza-Kreutzburg
Frauds in Pacific Shipbuilding Exposed in West
Government investigators uncover millions in graft tied to ship construction for Oregon, Washington, and California. Treasury special agent Tidwell reports findings as Attorney General Palmer orders the Shipping Board to halt about 37 million dollars in claims pending inquiry.
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San Francisco
Oregon
Washington
California
William H. Tidwell
Treasury Department
United States
Bert Schlesinger
A. Mitchell Palmer
Pacific Coast
United States Shipping Board
Blood for transfusion workers strike at Flower Hospital
Blood sellers at Flower Hospital demanded 55 dollars per pint, up from two weeks earlier, as student nurses acted as strikebreakers. A horse was used for a transfusion during the disruption, and two hours later the hospital received a free pint while the strike ended and sellers returned to the old wage.
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New York
Flower Hospital
Enver Pasha Leads Bolshevik Plot Across Asia
A Baku telegram reports Enver Pasha former Turkish War Minister elected King of Kurdistan has begun a Bolshevik revolution in Turkestan Afghanistan and Baluchistan. He reportedly directs hostilities against British prestige in Southwestern Asia with the aim of overturning British influence in India. Large sums of money are said to be supplied by the Soviet to Enver in Moscow.
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Geneva
Enver Pasha
Kurdistan
Turkestan
Afghanistan
Baluchistan
Baku
Enver
Asia
India
Moscow
Food Poison Kills Four in New York
Mr and Mrs Paul Del a Dene and their two sons Dominick and Anthony are dead after eating spoiled olives. Their daughter Lena is hospitalized with the same illness.
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New York
Paul Dela Dene
Dominick
Anthony
Lena
Bank Messenger Os car PF Jesseman Missing With Cash
Police report the disappearance of bank messenger Os car PF Jesseman of Old Colony Trust Company who was entrusted with $1000 bills and missing with $20,000. Frank Tymn, a close friend, also missing. both youths active in amateur theatre roles.
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Boston
Oscar PF. Jesseman
Old Colony Trust Company
Jeaseman
Frank Tymn
Tymn
Seman
United States Plans Withdrawal From Siberia After February First
The State Department released a note to Japan outlining US intent to pull all troops from Siberia after February 1 and to oppose any Japanese territorial expansion there. It asserts ongoing US interest in Siberia’s political and economic rehabilitation and requires Japan to honor guarantees that barred any military “territory grab.”
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Washington
State Department
United States
Siberia
Japan
Soviet Republic
Waterway Authorization Extends Chicago Gulf Route
The War Department approved a project to improve the Desplaines and Illinois Rivers creating a waterway connecting Chicago with the Gulf of Mexico and linking the Great Lakes to St Paul Minnesota. The system will open about 15000 miles of inland rivers for water-borne commerce in the Midwest. Governor Frank C Lowden of Illinois received the authorization.
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Chicago
Middle West
New Orleans
Frank C. Lowden
Ilinois
War Department
Desplaines
Gulf
Great Lakes
St. Paul
Minn
Exports To Russia Under Allied Trade Change
The Supreme Council decided to allow reciprocal exchange of certain commodities with Russia and allied and neutral countries. A State Department communiqué says Russian cooperative organizations will be able to import clothing medicines agricultural machinery and other necessities.
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Russia
Washington
Supreme Council
State Department
Suffrage Plan Ratified by Indiana Legislature
Administration leaders kept control of the special session as the Indiana Legislature ratified the Federal suffrage amendment and adjourned, honoring pledges to the Women's Franchise League of Indiana.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Women's Franchise League of
Fifteen Firemen Buried in Fatal Cincinnati Blaze
A fire on the second floor of the five story Charles L Newton Tea and Spice Co building on Second Street and Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati spread to upper floors aided by a high wind. Two firemen were killed and three fatally injured when an explosion blew out the east wall. Fifteen firemen were trapped under the wall as they battled flames from the bridge.
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Cincinnati
Charles L. Newton Tea and Spice Company
Second Street
Suspension Bridge
Bolshevik Propaganda Report Spurs Mexican Situation Probe
A traveling salesman testified before a Senate sub committee that Bolshevism has spread from Sonora to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and into San Antonio. He warned Carranza favors the Bolshevik faction and that American support strengthens extremist agitators. He described public park speeches in Guaymas with hymn songs printed on pamphlets and repeated performances in theaters.
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San Antonio
Texas
Sonora
Tehuantepec
Senate
Mexico
Carranza
Wilson
Guaymas
Sinn Fein Wins in Dublin Municipal Elections
Preliminary Dublin returns show Sinn Fein successes with three commoners elected on the first count. Alderman Tom Kelley, jailed in London, led with more than three times the required vote. Country districts also favor Sinn Fein, suggesting a majority outside Ulster with labor.
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Dublin
Sinn Fein
Sinn Commoners
Tom Kelley
London
Labor
Ulster
Rail Strike Averted in Chicago as Union Reaches Settlement
Agreement between the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Illinois Central Yahoo and Mississippi Valley Railroads, signed in Chicago, averted a threatened strike. Union committee head Val Witzpatrick and railroad Assistant General Manager F B Gibbons led the talks to settlement.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Railway
Illinois Central and
Yahoo
Mississippi Valley
Val Witzpatrick
Brotherhood
F. 8. Gibbons
Trains Crash Near Hamlet In Snowstorm
Three employees of the Detroit Toledo and Ironton Interurban were killed at Hamlet near Holgate when a work train returning from Leipsic collided with a freight train in heavy snow. The crash disrupted freight and passenger service in the area.
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Toledo
Detroit, Toledo and
Ironton Interurban
Holgate
Leipsic
May Sue Winner Seeks 1 Million From Clothingmaker
Bird Coler, Commissioner of Charities, moves to sue Louis Krohnberg a wealthy clothing manufacturer for 1 000 000 or five times winnings from alleged stud poker, under a statute allowing charity cases against game winners to recover five times the amount won.
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New York
Louis Krohnberg
Bird 8
Coler
Commissioner of Charities
League Council Formed in Paris Sets Sarre Valley Frontiers
Representatives from France Britain Italy Greece Belgium Spain Japan and Brazil met in Paris to form the League of Nations council electing Leon Bourgeois as chair and Sir Eric Drummond as secretary. They appointed three commissioners to fix the Sarre Basin boundaries with future meetings planned in London.
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Paris
France
Great Britain
Italy
Greece
Belgium
Spain
Japan
Brazil
Council of the
League of Nations
Foreign Office
League
Leon Bourgeois
Eric Drummond
Sarre
M. Bourgeois
Sarre Valley
Germany
Wace
Lambert
Kobaish
London
Lord Curzon
United States
Stock Dealings Probed Amid Broad Grand Jury Inquiry
In New York a special grand jury probes alleged market manipulation tied to Mayor Hylan and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. Assistant District Attorney Talley clashed with Justice Weeks over evidence suggesting a strike plan to secure higher fares, while Weeks investigates brokerage offices for possible public officer short selling Interborough securities.
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New York
Talley
Supreme Court
Weeks
John F. Hylan
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Justice Weeks
Wall Street
Sivann
Interborough Securities
Syracuse Socialists Convicted in Espionage Case Sentenced
Utica officials report Charles W. Steene Frank L Preston and William Hotze all of Syracuse Socialists were convicted of four espionage act counts. Judge Garvin sentenced each to one year and six months in Atlanta Penitentiary on each count with sentences running concurrently.
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Utica
N. Y
Charles W. Steene
Frank L. Preston
William Hotze
Syracuse
Garvin
United States Court
Atlanta
New Anaesthetic Discovered in Wilmington Report
A Wilmington report announces a new anaesthetic that removes pain without losing consciousness and causes virtually no nausea. It is claimed to be usable in obstetrics, wound care, and dentistry, potentially transforming medical procedures.
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Wilmington
Del
Bandits Repulsed at Port au Prince by Marines and Gendarmerie
United States marines and Italian gendarmerie repelled an attack on Port au Prince by 800 bandits, more than half of whom were killed wounded or captured after a pursuit outside the city.
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Washington
United States
Port Au Prince
Haitien
Wood Alcohol Ban to Bar All Preparations in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg announces embargo on sale of any preparations containing wood alcohol for external or internal use. The move aims to curb unsafe products and protect public health across the state of Pennsylvania.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
AFL Opposes Anti Sedition Law in Congress Clash
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, announcing the federation will oppose anti sedition bills in Congress. He warns the measures undermine the Constitution and free government, labeling them autocratic and un-American while defending existing laws.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Samuel Gompers
Federation
Organized Labor
Senate
A. Mitchell Palmer
House Rules Committee
Gompers
Publc
Republic
Government uses 1919 income taxes to target rent profiteers
Washington reports that the 1919 income tax forms will require tenants to state rents paid and to whom. The measurement will be sent to the Department of Justice as part of a campaign to curb high living costs and punish landlords profiting from steep rents.
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Washington
Daniel C. Roper
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue
Department of Justice
Mexicans Tapped Wire Alleged by Officer
San Antonio report details Senate Sub Committee affidavits and depositions this week to rush witness testimony on a Mexican controlled wire into Mexico used to transmit American military information during the war. An American officer exposed the scheme and a message tied to the Mexican official who directed the U S end was captured.
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San Antonio
Tex
Senate
Marcus Smith
Mexico
Sinking of British freighter Yar Mouth near Light Vessel No 3
Radio reports say the British freighter Yar Mouth, 725 tons, sailing from New York to Havana with liquor, is sinking 29N 74W. She reported forward ballast tank leaking into the engine room, 24 miles northeast of Light Vessel No. 3.
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Boston
Yarmouth
New York
Havana
Influenza Grips Poland in Sudden Fatal Wave
Influenza described as highly virulent and baffling medical teams sweeps Poland. American Red Cross reports note sudden onset and high fatality rates with hundreds dying daily in Warsaw.
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Paris
Poland
American Red Cross
Warsaw
Army Deserters Near Paris Face Police Raid
Paris reports about one thousand American army deserters still in the vicinity. Many are homeless and facing financial hardship, resorting to petty theft and larceny for subsistence. French authorities plan a general raid to restore order.
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Paris
Sore Eyes and Romar Eye Balsam Ad Repeats
Sore Eyes blood shot dyes and watery eyes are healed promptly with nightly Romar Eye Balsam applications. An ad mocks a predica ment and features a postal card request to Garfield Tea Co. Brooklyn NY for a sample. A stray line notes a kettle boiled water in a Japanese kettle makes musical bubbles hitting metal bars.
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Garfield Tea Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
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