Poland Question Taken Up by Big Five Today
Paris reports the big five powers America England France Italy and Japan extended deliberations to include Poland at the supreme inter allied war council. The session began at 11 o clock with plans to decide steps in Russia and Poland, amid reports of bolshevik activity and German support for bolsheviks.
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Paris
America
England
France
Italy
Japan
Poland
Foreign Office
Harold Scavenius
Russia
United States
Bolshevin
Orlando
Sonnino
Supreme Inter-Allied Council
M. Sazanoff
Prince George Looff
Ludendorff
Robert Cecil
League of Nations
Iiet
A. Bonard Law
London
Chamber of Deputies
Wilson
Paul Deschanel
Attempted Extortion Claim In Speedway Hospital Talks
Chicago attorney William S. Ett testified before a senate committee that a War Department official Milton J. Trainor offered to speed up final contracts for the Speedway hospital in Chicago for a $100,000 fee. Ett described deliberate steps and named the official during the hearing.
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Washington
War Department
Speedway Hospital
Chicago
Senate
William 8.Ett
Bennett
Rainst
Milton J. Trainor
Ett
the Shanks Construction
Speedway
Minor Leagues to Proceed Despite Major League Talks
New York, Jan 22 Lieut David president of the New Interna league said that among major league presidents the agreement to the National association makes no difference in minor leagues plans. It looks as though they are not favorable to the terms of the agreement but will go ahead and live up to the verbal understanding reached at the joint meeting.
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New York
Lieut
David
National Association
Fultz
France to Honor Soldier Dead Mausoleum Planned
Paris reports a national mausoleum to honor fallen soldiers with photographs and records. The plan, discussed in the French Chamber of Deputies, could be adopted soon with Premier Clemenceau guiding approval.
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France
Paris
House of
P Ch
French Chamber of Deputies
Clemenceau
Trotsky Rules With Iron Hand in Bolshevik Armies
Stockholm reports a Moscow dispatch citing the secretly published Bolshevik paper Novolenie that over three months 2000 Bolshevik soldiers were shot for insubordination and neglect of drill. It describes harsh punishments, flogging, torture, and executions including mutineers at Kusskové and youths whipped for conscription refusals. Chinese executioners and brutal discipline are noted as standard, with distrust and surveillance among troops urged by Trotsky.
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Stockholm
Leon Trotzky
Moscow
Obnovlenio
Bolshevists
Peru
Kusskové
Count Scheremetiev
Red Guards
Bolshevk
Yugustchinsky
Trotsky
Progressives Win Sweeping Victory in Senate Reform Drive
In Washington on January 22 the Progressive wing of the Republican Senate won a sweeping victory by creating a five member committee to study ways to abolish the seniority rule and democratize Senate procedures. Led by Senator Lodge the committee will consider Norris Cummins and other reform proposals and report later guiding whether to press rule changes or back the regular Republican program.
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Washington
Senate
Penrose
Senate Finance Committee
Norris
Lodge
Cummins
Ford's Peace Party Exposed By War Probe
Washington January 22 German and pacific interests inspired Henry Ford's peace expedition to pull troops from trenches by Christmas Archi bald B Stevenson of the military intelligence bureau testified. An Austrian woman conceived the plan she sailed with the Ford ship and did not return. Lochner Ford secretary and other leaders headed pacifist societies.
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Washington
Henry Ford
Archibald B. Stevenson
Military Intelligence Bureau
Sevare
Stevenson
Ford
Wis Lochner
Waterbury Manufacturer Lewis A. Platt Dead in Miami
Waterbury reports the death of Lewis A. Platt in Miami Florida a prominent local manufacturer and president of Platt Brothers and Company and treasurer of the Patent Button Co. Burial will be in Waterbury.
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Waterbury
Lewis A. Platt
Miami
Fila
More Units To Return To Home Ports
Washington January 22 General March chief of staff announced additional American expeditionary forces units amounting to 270 officers and 4927 men are to be assigned to early convoy home ports.
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Washington
American Expeditionary Forces
General March
Clearing House Statement in New York Ledger
New York reports sub-treasury debit 1,803,806 with exchanges 745,043 and 766 balances totaling 121,726,861. The note outlines daily debit amounts and account balances for the banking network.
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Clearing House
New York
Sub
Treasury
Last German mine swept up along Atlantic coast
Washington reports the last German minefield laid by U boat crews has been swept by navy mine sweepers ten miles south of Fenwick Island. The field of seven mines caused several sinkings, with 57 mines accounted for and many recovered or washed ashore. Navy officials deem the coast safe for navigation.
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Washington
Atlantic
Fenwick Island Shoals
United States
Navy
San Saba
Laetia
Navy Department
Fire Island
Fenwick Island
San Diego
Haetia
Chatarro
Herbert Pratt
Minnesota
Somerstad
Mirlo
Frederick Kellogg
Atlantic Seaboard
Rioting in Berlin with Spartacists armed attacks
Spartacists renewed fighting in Berlin last night using rifles and grenades at Anhalter station and along Koeniggratzer street Dessauer street Wilhelmplatz Albrechtstrasse and Coquenicker street. Labor groups in Bremen disarmed soldiers and seized the town hall stock exchange Reichsbank and telegraph and telephone offices. Two government regiments were ordered to remain to protect the government and aid police. The national assembly is slated for February 6 in Weimar.
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Berlin
London
Anhalter Station
Koeniggratetze Strasse
Dessauer Strasse
Wilhelmsplatz
Albrechtstrasse
Coequenicker Strasse
Bremen
Stock Exchange Reichsbank
National Assembly
Weimar
Bolshevik Slay Peasants Sparks Southern Uprising
Stockholm reports fifteen hundred peasants slain by bolsheviki in provinces south of Moscow with villages burned. Rebels, led by a former schoolmaster, surround Moscow's approaches via Tula Koslov and Ryazan, defending lines along the Oka river Serpukhov and Kolona as Red Guards push to quell killings of women and children.
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Stockholm
Moscow
Tula
Koslov
Ryazan
Oka River
Serpukhov
Kolona
Red Guards
Holding Back News on Jewish Outbreak
A cable from Abraham Cohan editor of the Jewish Daily Forward in Paris claims that the Polish press withholds facts about the Lemberg anti Jewish outbreak. He says an eye witness reports 100 Jews killed outright 260 burned to death and total victims at 3000.
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New York
Lemberg
Forward
Abraham Cohan
Paris
Cohan
U S to Lose by Wool Auctions
Washington report states the United States will lose between 10 million and 15 million dollars in auctions of surplus American wool. R. J. Thorne, assistant director of army purchases, told the house military affairs committee this afternoon.
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U. S
Washington
United States
R. J. Thorne
Army Purchases
House Military Affairs Committee
Wilson blamed for shipbuilding restraint idle stance
Washington January 22 details accuse President Wilson of delaying shipbuilding by keeping restrictions for foreign accounts. The remark links his policy stance to broader international labor and supply concerns, casting him as responsible for stalling naval and commercial buildup amid global tensions.
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Wilson
Washington
Lenin
Yale Mobile Hospital Back From War Arrives in Boston
The Royal Mail steamship Melita returned from Brest with 1,650 soldiers officers nurses and civilian workers debarking at Boston for Camp Devens. The Yale mobile hospital led by Col. Joseph M. Flint landed 750 wounded and gassed men and boasted several heroes including Lieut. O A Ralston and Lieut. O P Johnson with five and seven air victories respectively.
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Boston
Royal Mail
Melita
Brest
France
Camp Devens
Massachusetts
Yale Mobile Hospital
Victor Heintz
Cincinnati
Thomas W. Jones
Middleport
Ohio
O. A. Ralston
Lincoln
Neb
O. P. Johnson
Iowa
Greater Boston
Chateau Thierry
William S. Johnson
Hartford
Conn
Yale
Joseph M. Flint
Alexander L. Prince
Albion Little
Portland
Peter P. Chase
Providence
William P
Dutch) Arnold
Alrick H. Mann
New York
Stewart Boyle
New Haven
E. C. Streeter
Frances Rouilon
Waterbury
New England
Annual Report of Comptroller Exposes Bank Lending Changes
Washington January 22 The comptroller John Skelton Williams released the annual report noting $5 3794 0000 in circulation total up 5 07 per capita since 1917 and a banking power surge to 39 082 000 000 in June 1918. He urges 25 cent minimum loan charges for small borrowings and calls for bookkeeping reforms, vacations and rotations for bookkeepers. National banks earned 813 997 000 in 1918, up 298 373 000 from 1914, with average return on capital stock at 19 33 percent.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
John Skelton Williams
Milk famine drives infant mortality in Greater New York
Health department records read at the John Doe inquiry show infant deaths under one year averaged 277 per thousand births during the recent price war. This compares with 175 per thousand in the prior week, a sharp rise tied to the distributors and producers dispute.
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New York
Health Department
John Doe
Mary Sullivan
Police Department
Boys Held for Robbery in Waterbury Chase
Joseph Backus and John McCarthy both 16 were caught in the act of robbing a Waterbury store. They led police through back yards, were cornered in a chicken coop, and fled as shots were fired. They were arraigned in city court and bound over to the superior court with bonds of 1000. Backus avoided reform school after Judge Larkin’s ruling.
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Waterbury
Joseph Backus
John McCarthy
Backus
McCarthy
Larkin
Twenty five convicts escape from Rock Island prison
A sheriff's posse believed to have surrounded twenty one of twenty five convicts who escaped from Rock Island prison in three automobiles. The fugitives armed with revolvers and shotguns were said to be preparing to battle the posse in a woods near Rock Island. Four escapees including several safe blowers murderers and robbers were captured an hour after the escape.
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Rock Island
Ill
John Sexton
U. S. Ships Go To Constantinople
Admiral Bristol of the United States Navy heads a flotilla of American destroyers from Brindisi to Constantinople. The Scorpion had been the only U.S. warship in the Bosporus, constrained by mines. The Temps notes British control at Constantinople, Greece’s interest in a nations league, and Bristol’s role in Turco allied negotiations.
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Paris
Bristol
Brindisi
Constantinople
Bosphorus
Scorpion
America
Talaat Pasha
Enver Pasha
Greece
Dardanelles
Temps
Admiral Bristol
League of Nations urged as first step to world law
The Hague January 22 reports that a league of nations based on President Wilsons principles is seen as essential for world law. An interview in Berlin quoted Prof Simons admitting Germanys responsibility for the war and criticizing German aims at arbitration and disarmament at the Hague conference as a misreading and trap.
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The
Hague
League of Nations
Wilson
Berlin
Simons
Germany
British seek missing German prisoners of war in mines
Berlin January 22 British commissioners scour Germany for straggler bands of prisoners of war possibly detained as involuntary workers in mines and even asylums are searched. About 100 missing prisoners are believed. The British government has sent a list of all missing Germans and warned Germany not to destroy captive records. After living searches, graves will be examined.
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Berlin
Germany
Noy
Hal Chase to be Cleared Before Hearing
Hal Chase star first baseman of the Cincinnati Reds believes he will be cleared of charges of frequenting pool rooms and betting on games. National League president John A Heydler has set Thursday January 30 for the hearing and says Chase will be allowed full opportunity to defend himself.
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Hal Chase
New York
Cincinnati Reds
National League
John A. Heydler
Chase
Discharge and Restoral Of 113 Men At Fort Leavenworth
Washington January 22 The restora tion to duty and immediate discharge from the army of the 113 men at the Fort Leavenworth discharges was ordered this afternoon by Secretary Baker in a move that clears several service members for return to duty. The action follows investigations into their conduct and aligns with wartime personnel adjustments announced by the War Department.
Western Union Fights Government Control Over Postal Lines
Edward Reynolds, VP of Postal Telegraph, tells House Post Office Committee that Moon’s plan to extend government control would dump Western Union’s financial troubles onto the public. Reynolds, Madden, and Steenerson defend private ownership and warn of wasteful competition and higher phone rates as new rates go into effect nationwide.
Boxing Return in Paris Blocked by Police Prefect
Paris authorities refuse to grant a promoters syndicate permission to revive boxing in Paris. After the war exhibitions remain taboo and public prize fights are halted. Prefect Raux calls the plan premature and offers no future promise, with Georges Carpentier rumored to be training and possibly moving to the United States in spring.
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Paris
National Sporting Club of Paris
Raux
Georges Carpentier
Carpentier
Chatham Bar
Casino de Paris
United States
Death of Senator George T. Oliver at 71 in Pittsburgh
Former United States Senator George T. Oliver of Pennsylvania died at his Pittsburgh home. He had suffered a spinal ailment and declined for months. Oliver retired from politics in 1917 and quit business last June. He was 71. The funeral is set for tomorrow. He owned and published the Gazette-Times and Chronicle-Telegraph and held extensive local properties.
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Pittsburg
United States
George T. Oliver
Pennsylvania
Oliver
Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times
Chronicle-Telegraph
Waist Makers Strike Grips New York Industry
Women pickets stand outside nearly every dress and waist factory in New York as 35 000 union members strike. Police report several arrests, but the demonstration shows limited violence and broad participation across the industry in the city.
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New York
Fighting 55th Back From War Aboard Cretic in New York
The Fighting 55th coast artillery unit from Massachusetts and Rhode Island, after three major French campaigns including the second battle of the Marne and Vesle fighting, returns to New York aboard the Cretic. Officers call them heroes as they recount energy, bravery, and pivotal support that helped win the war. The transport Manchuria and numerous support units accompany them, marking a triumphant homecoming for 44 officers and 1,557 enlisted men.
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55Th Coast Artillery
Vesle
John L. Roberts
New York City
55Th Artillery
Cunarder
Mauretania
Liverpool
Romsey
Havre
Clermont Ferrand
Randanne
Puy de Dome
Champcourt
Brest
New York
France
Abbaye d'Igny
Arcis le Ponsart
Drivergny
Courville
Redcourt
Very
Montfaucon
Epinonville
Gesnes
Romagne
Beaufort
Merritt
466Th
Fort Slocum
87Th Division
More Charges Against Burleson Spark Telegraph Ownership Debate
Edward Reynolds, former Postal vice president, told the House Post Office Committee that Postmaster General Burleson schemed to scramble Postal Telegraph property with Western Union assets to push government control of telegraph lines. Reynolds claimed plans to close 99 of 100 Postal offices aimed to erase competition and pressure government seizure, arguing ownership harmed public interests and workers.
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Washington
Burleson
Postal Telegraph Co
Western Union
Edward Reynolds
Postal Company
House Post Office Committee
Reynolds
Postal
Stamford Farmer 92 Dead In Stamford Connecticut
Stamford resident 92 year old farmer Teaish Matthews died at home in Stamford. Born in Mt. Pleasant New York he lived there 33 years and spent 19 more years in White Plains before moving to Stamford. Survived by wife Susan Miller of Wester County New York and five children with grandchildren.
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Stamford
Conn
Teaish Matthews
Mt. Pleasant
N. Y
White Plains
Susan Miller
Wester County
Matthews
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Federal Control
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
John A. Moon
Moon
Western Union Company
Halver Steenerson
Martin B. Madden
Illinois
Steenerson
State Public Utilities Commission
Madden
Moon Demiered
A. Madden
W. Reypolds
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