Wilson Plan on Russia Adopted at Paris Peace Meet
Paris Jan 23 The peace conference debated responsibility for the war and penalties and considered swift action against the former German emperor. A Polish mission to Poland and a Russian representation at the conference were approved aims. Marshal Foch and General Diaz will attend a Versailles council meeting, and Paderewski’s Polish progress shapes the Eastern front. The league of nations loom dominates the plenary session with Wilson’s fourteen principles guiding the talks.
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Paris
William Szollern
Swift
Supreme Council
Marshal Foch
Diaz
Versailles War Council
Russia
United States
Mexico
Samuel Gompers
Incan Federation of Labor
Higon
Cvence
Supreme Inter-Allied Council
Poland
Ison
Wilson
League of Nations
Vernon Kellogg
California
Associated Powers
Generev
Marshall Foch
Haller
Josef Haller
Jan Ignace Pad
Germany
East Prussia
Pol
Dr. Kellogg
United It
Leland Stanford Univers
Dairymen Elect State Officers During Farmers Week
Robert Mitchell of Southbury was named president of the Connecticut Dairymen Association during Farmers Week events in Hartford. Joseph W. Alsop of Avon became vice president, M. E. Pierpont of Waterbury treasurer, with directors from Windham New Haven Hartford and New London counties and EB Duffy and I W Crouch named to the board.
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Robert Mitchell
Southbury
Hartford
Connecticut Dairymen’s Association
Joseph W. Alsop
Avon
M. E. Pierpont
Waterbury
Gerald Waldo
Windham County
Victor B. Lucchine
New Haven County
EB. Duffy
Hartford County
I. W. Crouch
New London County
Mumps In 103rd Division At Fortin France
An epidemic of mumps has broken out among the 103rd machine gun battalion stationed in France. The unit comprises former Connecticut National Guard cavalry companies.
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Hartford
Jan
Are France
Connecticut Cavalry
Connecticut National Guard
Clearing House Statement
Clearing house report from New York dated January 23 shows sub-tredbury debit of 1 086 718. Exchanges total 651 447 410 and balances figure prominently listed.
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New York
Gallant record of 26th Division in France shown
Boston report details the 26th Yankee division’s losses and front line service in World War I. From an initial 30,000 men, 11,955 casualties included 1,730 killed and 3,624 severely wounded. The unit fought in seven major battles, advanced 37 kilometers, and captured 3,148 prisoners and 205 guns.
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Boston
France
State Adjutant General
Neuchateau
Vosges
Couvrelles
Bar-sur-Aube
Joinville
Neynes
Boucy
Trendes
Toul
Ranteuil-les-Beaux
Chemigny
Genevrois Farm
Mery-sur-Marne
Lucy-le-Bocay
Grand Ru Farm
Russy-sur-Seine
Barle-Duc
Sommedieue
Rupt-en-Wo
Verdun
Chateau Thierry
St. Mihiel
Is Brule
Leicheprey
Flivrey
Xivray-Marvoism
Chemin Des Dames
la Heine
Doucy
51St Field Artillery Brigade
German Soldiers to Flock Here After Bars Are Let Down
Washington Jan 23 German soldiers and officers plan to flock to the United States when immigration barriers are lowered Representative Royal C Johnson testified before the house immigration committee in support of the Burnett bill He based his statements on notes from German prisoners He said there has been a worldwide mental and moral breakdown and that soldiers must have time to adjust before living beside men they once fought for while labor claims protection of rights.
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Washington
Royal C. Johnson
House Immigration Committee
Johnson
Willimantic Man Guilty of Statutory Arson
Raphael Howarth, 21, was found guilty in Willimantic of statutory arson for a Putnam fire on October 3. The superior court jury deliberated twelve minutes before verdict. earlier the jurors disagreed and were instructed to retry. Judge Reed postponed sentencing. Howarth is brother to Frank W. Howarth, already serving a 10 year term for arson.
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Willimantic
Raphael Howarth
Putnam
Reed
Frank W. Howarth
Bolshevist Police Chief Eichorn Found In Berlin Home
Copenhagen reports Robert Emil Eichorn former Bolshevik police chief of Berlin has been located in his Berlin home, which is surrounded by soldiers after the Spartacist uprising collapse. Eichorn was elected to the German national assembly in the recent election.
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Berlin
Copenhagen
Robert Emil Eichorn
Eichern Ws
Quiet Again At Barcelona Suppressing Bolshevism in Spain
Madrid reports calm returning to Barcelona with residents resuming work. Premier Romanones says the population honors the government’s resolve to stamp out Bolshevism in Spain.
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Barcelona
International
London Daily Express
Madrid
Romanones
Spain
Bristol Factory Adopts Four Day Work Week
Bristol January 23 The N L Birge Sons Co manufacturers of knit underwear announced today they would shorten working time to four days per week in Bristol.
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Bristol
The.N._L- Birge Sons Co
Plans to perpetuate the Council of National Defense
New York date January 23 1919 Grosvenor B Clarkson outlines steps for sustaining the Council of National Defense in peacetime. He calls for permanent state bureaus to coordinate community councils, linking local efforts with state and federal agencies to mobilize aid, labor and civic services.
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New York
Council of National Defense
Grosvenor B. Clarkson
Council
Secretaries of War, Navy
Interior
Agriculture, Commerce
Labor
United States
Defense
Alaska
State Council of Defense
State Council
Permanent
Bureau of Commission
State of
Smith
Washington
National Council
State Councils of Defense
Little business in legislature in brief session
Hartford Jan 23 with one week left before the filing deadline the house and senate each spent under 15 minutes on new business. Senate measures included extending organization time for Connecticut Indemnity Co to May 16 1921 granting Meriden Curtis Home property up to 5000000 amending Scoville Mfg Co charter doubling capital to 15000000 and blocking highway sign boards over 12 square feet. Also appointing trustees of Connecticut Hospital for the Insane and a plan to give districts with multiple towns twice as many delegates as legislative representatives. New London county commissioners elected in the house and measures allowing trespass fines and highway and railway company extensions were noted. Petitions from teachers in Seymour Orange Ansonia Huntington and other towns protested the new school code.
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Hartford
House
Senate
Meaures
Connecticut Indemnity Co
Curtis
Meriden
Scoville Mfg. Co
Waterbury
W. W. Wilcox
Samuel Russell, Jr
Ferdinand Gildersleeve
Connecticut Hospital For the Insane
Marsden
Charles H. Smith
George O. Fellows
New London County
Yale & Towne Mfg. Co
Stamford
New Haven
North Haven
Meriden, New Britain and Hartford Railway Co
Seymour
Orange
Ansonia
Huntington
Refuse To Grant Workers Demands In Lawrence Mills
Pacific mills in Lawrence Massachusetts with about 10 000 workers issued a statement today refusing the 48 hour week demanded by textile workers. They say employment is on a downward grade prices are higher than ever and workers have had voluntary increases over the past year.
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Lawrence
Mass
Pacific Mills
Dhe
Yorkshire coal mines idle as general strike spreads
Strikes in England halt activity after a general strike leaves all Yorkshire coal fields idle. The engineering and ship building strike, starting at Lowestoft, spreads to Beccles with workers pressing for a 44 hour week. Bakers threaten a national strike in protest.
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England
London
Yorkshire
Lowestoft
Beccles
New Haven May Make Big Bond Issue
New Haven mayor David E. Fitzgerald announced plans to seek alderman approval at the February 3 meeting to issue bonds totaling $1,000,000 for public improvements in the city and to relieve the labor situation.
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New Haven
David E. Fitzgerald
Board of Aldermen
Irish Press Fills With Gloom Over Sinn Fein Move
Dublin reports widespread forebodings as Sinn Fein parliament actions spark worry. Freeman's Journal warns if parliament is not serious Ireland may face tragedy, while de Valera, jailed on political charges, is described as the republic’s first president by followers. The Irish Times and Irish Independent echo caution and doubt about bolshevism and republican prospects.
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Dublin
Sinn Fein
Ireland
Freeman’s Journal Today
Freeman’s Journal
de Valera
Irish Republic
The
Irish Times
Irish Independent
Great Britain
John C Wilson Dies in Hartford
John C. Wilson president of Smythe Mfg Co and Sigourney Too Co died suddenly at his Hartford home. He leaves a wife and two children and had led multiple rubber and quarry ventures. Born July 22 1864 in Mooreland Georgia he held key posts in Hart ford business life and belonged to several clubs. Funeral Saturday at his home with Cedar Hill cemetery burial orderly note.
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Hartford
John C. Wilson
Smythe Mfg., Co
Sigourney Too! Co
Wilson
John Hall
Portland
Mr. Wilson
Mooreland
Hartford Rubber Works
New Brunswick Rubber Co
New Jersey
Pickering Governor Co
Union League Club of
New York
Hartford Club
Hartford Golf Club
Country Club of
Farmington
Grace Hall
John H. Hall
The
Colt’s Patent Fire Arms
Cedar Hill
Leroy Brainerd Place
Joseph S. Porter
Ebert Has Majority In German National Assembly
Berlin reports official election counts show Majority Socialists with 169 seats, Independents 29, Democrats 76, German Nationals 34, Centrists 86, Liberals 22, Miscellaneous 11. Women elected. Alsace and Lorraine had no ballots. Assembly meets in February. Calls for Naumann Dernburg Groener as presidential hopefuls. Berlin calm after daylight thefts. volunteer army withdrawn. sailors patrol.
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Berlin
Copenhagen
Ebert
National Assembly
Alsace
Lorraine
Naumann
Dernburg
Groener
New Haven Attorney Von Hoegen May Face Treason Charge
Hartford reports that Maximilian von Hoegen, a former New Haven lawyer with pro German sympathies, may be brought back to Connecticut to answer treason charges. He fled after a mob forced him to kiss the American flag, was later traced to Texas where a court martial found him not guilty of desertion, and federal authorities seek the treason warrant with bail possibly set at no less than $20,000 if bail is granted.
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New Haven
Hartford
Texas
United States
John F. Crosby
San Antonio
Tex
von Hoegen
Crosby
Burleson Acted Without Authority on Rates
A New Mexico state corporation commission communication to the House Post Office Committee says Postmaster General Burleson acted without authority in fixing telephone rates. The Vermont public service commission and Montana railroad commission joined protests, insisting on prompt return to private control of wire systems.
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Burleson
Washington
New Mexico State Corporation Commission
House Post Office Committee
Vermont Public Service Commission
Montana Railroad Commission
Y M C A Relief Ship Caught In Ice Jam
The British steam ship Hova used as a Y M C A relief ship between British ports and Archangel is trapped in an ice jam. It carries 150 lorries and supplies valued at 200000 dollars for American and British authorities in northern Russia, including 5000000 cigarettes, fifty tons of candy, and one hundred tons of sugar and foodstuffs.
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London
Hova
British
Archangel
Russia
Sazonoff Declines at Marmora Peace Conference
Paris January 28 M Sazonoff representing anti Bolshevik governments in Russia said they would not take part in the Russo Allied peace conference on Prince's Island in the Sea of Marmora on February 15. He called Bolsheviks outlaws and said non Bolshevik Russia would not participate because they would be represented.
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Sazonoff
Paris
M. Sazonoff
Russia
Prince’s Island
Sea of Marmora
Jury awards Carlson damages over trolley loss in Hartford
A jury in Hartford Superior Court returned a verdict for Ernest Carlson of South Windsor totaling 5960 against Connecticut Company for damages over the loss of his leg when struck by a trolley car. Carlson testified in his own behalf during the trial the day before.
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Hartford
Superior Court
Ernest Carlson
South Windsor
Connecticut Company
Carlson
Anti Bolshevism Grows In Russia Reported
Copenhagen reports from Petrograd and Moscow indicate the anti Bolshevik movement in Russia is growing with new activity and support observed in major cities during January.
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Russia
Copenhagen
Petrograd
Moscow
Sub-Treasury Report Shows Net Cash Gains
New York January 23 sub treasury reports a cash net gain of 2,304,000 since Friday, with a daily gain of 333,000 from banks, noting continued liquidity movement.
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Sub-Treasury
New York
Store W. 8. S. Couldn't Sell War Stamps
Waterbury men Lee Keefe and Joseph Chiaforelli were arrested for theft from Joseph Solimine’s Jersey street store after attempting to cash $1,000 in war saving stamps in Bridgeport and New York. They returned to Waterbury when they could not cash the registered stamps.
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Waterbury
Bridgeport
New York
Lee Keefe
Joseph Chiaforelli
Joseph ‘Solomine
Jersey Street
Field of Honor bill seeks site for U S soldiers in France
Washington January 23 A bill introduced in the house by Representative Fess of Ohio would acquire a field of honor in which all American soldiers who died in France would be buried. The measure also provides for a suitable monument and creates a commission to aid in selecting the site and supervising the project.
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U. S&s
Washington
France
United States
Fess
Ohio
Bristol Pastor Resigns After 12 Years At Swedish Lutheran Church
Bristol dispatch reports Rev Nimrod Ebb resigns as pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church after twelve years of leadership. Ebb, a notable figure in the community and Sypariah in We Wadena, Mina, vacates his post effective immediately.
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Bristol
Nimrod Ebb
We Wadena
Mina
Food bill fight unfolds on Senate floor in Europe aid drive
Washington reports a final push to save the president’s food bill with Senator Hitchcock defending the program and urging aid to Europe. Hoover defends reliability to packers and farmers, insisting a square deal and continued food shipments to Britain, Italy, and France amid warnings of hunger as Europe’s needs rise.
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Washington
Senator Hitch
Senate
Herb Hoover
Food Administration
Hoover
Great Britain
Italy
France
Hitchcock
Paris
Swift & Co
Senator Borah
Borah
Europe
Prope Allied Food Pool
Manuel May Accept Crown Portugal Mystery Wife
Paris dispatch reports royalist leaders in Oporto weighing a possible monarch with an American wife if uprising succeeds. Ex King Manuel’s reluctance leaves the crown open to Duke of Oporto, brother of the late King Carlos. An American widow and Anita Stewart are named as potential queen consorts.
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Portugal
Paris
Oporto
Manuel
Duke
Carlos
Philip van Valkenburgh
Wi York
Vankenburgh
Prince Miguel of
Fog Forces Leviathan to Return to Dock in New York
In heavy fog the Leviathan, the ocean liner bound for Brest with many passengers, returned to her berth today. On board in the first cabin were William G. Sharp, ambassador to France, and Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, chief of embarkation in Washington.
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Leviathan
Dock
New York
Brest
France
William G. Sharp
Can
Frank T. Hines
Washington
Bolsheviks Capture Orenburg Advance
Copenhagen reports Bolshevik forces have seized Orenburg and disrupt lines between the Siberian government and General Denikin's anti Bolshevik forces. About thirty thousand Ruthenians besiege a Polish army in Lem Light as water is cut from the city.
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Orenburg
Copenhagen
Siberian
Denekine
Lem Light
Twenty Seventh Division Comes Home for Demobilization
Washington January 23 900 officers and 25000 men of the twenty seventh division, composed of new troops, have been assigned to convoy. Upon their return to country they will be demobilized at Upton General March chief of announced today.
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Washington
Anly
Upton
General March
London Idle Workers Reflect 47-Hour Week Strike
In London on January 23 three hundred fifty workers from engineering mining and other industries are idle amid strike difficulties over the 47 hour work week. The stoppage affects multiple sectors as unions press for shorter cycles and fair labor terms.
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London
Alf
Metal Prices Steady in New York Market
In New York on January 23 metal prices show lead quiet with East St. listing 550. spelter from East St. Louis offered at 685 for February and April delivery, with quotes noted.
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New York
East St
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