Harbor Strike Rages as Workers Reject 48 Hour Restart
New York harbor workers reject A Cantern regional director's 48 hour restart plan amid talks with government boat owners and unions. President Delahunty warns of no surrender while officials seek arbitration. Strike halts harbor traffic as conferences continue and a possible Atlantic cable settlement is awaited.
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Delahunty
General strike paralyzes Buenos Aires amid deadly protests
Buenos Aires reports a nationwide general strike beginning at midnight followed by violent clashes. At least five killed, trains burned, and food supply disruptions worried citizens as mobs attacked a Vasena iron foundry and a Catholic school. Police stations and transit were disrupted as unions vow to continue protests.
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Argentine Republic
Idiers
Pacific Railway
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Mation
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Vasena Ponte
Socia Party
Orgen la Vanguardia
Soldiers From France Arrive With 166 American Troops
The British transport Ulita arrived from Brest with 166 American troops. On board were 15 officers and 421 men of the Sixth anti aircraft section, 9 officers and 266 men of the 12th anti aircraft section, 2 officers and 49 men of casual company No 222, and 5 officers and 118 men of trench mortar betters along with nine casual officers and nine civilians from the Y M C A and K of C.
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Ulita
Brest
K of C
Peace talks hinge on rivers of principles at Paris
Paris dispatches report preliminaries shaping the peace conference with Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George seeking broad principles. Delegates from Britain, France, Italy, and colonies prepare for a round table style start while minority rights and territorial questions loom large.
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Paris
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Lloyd-George
England
France
Mail
William Morris Hughes
Australia
Robert [L
Ebert Government Wins Bid Against Spartacans Amid Turmoil
Fragmentary dispatches from Germany report the Ebert government winning a victory as loyal forces gain support. Spartacan rebels suffer heavy losses and their police chief reportedly flees as fighting rages for five days, according to a Matin despatch.
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Spartacans
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Os Delien
Berlin Fighting Leaves Hundreds Dead and Wounded
Berlin reports from January indicate more than 200 people killed since Monday and about 300 wounded by Tuesday, with twelve corpses ferried to the chancellor's palace on Wednesday. The city’s Charite and other hospitals treated the injured.
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Associates Press Lessee
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Wilhelmstrasse
Women Take Seats on Republican National Committee
The Republican National Committee in Chicago admitted two women to inner council seats on proxies widening female participation. Chairman Will Hays opened with a year-end review as new members from Maine New Jersey and Virginia were elected. The committee adopted Roosevelt death resolutions and hosted a luncheon with the Woman’s Republican National Executive Committee led by Medill McCormick and Mary Garrett Hay.
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Republican National Committee
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Mary Garrette
New York
I Gof
Will H. Hays
Maine
A. J. Sweet
New Jersey
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Virginia
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P. Sullivan
Theodore Roosevelt
Ee Hays
Woman's Republican National Executive Committee
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Qilto's
Mary Garrett Hay
Maroon McCarter
Kansas
Josephine Corliss Preston
Washington
Raymond Robins
United States House to Vote on 100 Million Famine Relief Fund
The White House and Congress push to immediate consideration of a 100 million famine relief fund for wartime needs. Administration leaders canvassed the House Rules Committee and plan another attempt tomorrow to advance the emergency measure.
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Washington
HOUSE
Presint Wilson
Germans Repair Shoes for U S Soldiers in Coblenz Factory
In Coblenz Lutzel a three story brick building houses a shoe repair operation for U S troops. About 200 German workers under American direction repair ten thousand American shoes with wages paid in marks. Soldiers widows will join soon boosting staff to over 200, with eight marks daily. Major Landres oversees salvage, Lt. Carton supervises.
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Third Army
Berlin
Budjliding
Coblenz-Lutzel
Rhenish
Prussia
Landres
Thomas A. Carton
Coshocton
Trade School At Camp Dix For Wounded Soldiers
A trade school for crippled and valiant soldiers has been organized at Camp Dix New Jersey. It already counts over 1106 overseas veterans in classes offering stenography typewriting auto repair ing shoe repairing printing telegraphy and wireless telegraphy. A United States civil service bureau is set up on site to help officers and men seek government clerical and related positions.
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Wilson
Supreme War Council
Supreme Council
Camp
Dix
N. J
United States Civil Service
Baron von Dem B Muench Sentenced For Passport Fraud
Baron von Dem B Muench nephew of Count von Bernstorff was sentenced in San Francisco to three months in county jail for attempting to enter the United States with a forged passport.
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San Francisco
Baron Allardt von Dem B. Muench
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Count von Bernstorff
Scrlith of U K Koren In Prancement
Fragmentary wartime list notes virtually two dozen of the British troops in France departing with 144,689 officers and men having left France. The Tes includes soldiers who hate France since American troops first set foot in Europe nearly two years ago.
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Koren
Twaltt
Annency
France
Eauropean Coil
Troop Departures From France in Early Convoys
Washington reports the departure of three transports Huron Belgie and Arenas with about 6406 men and officers from multiple units. Huron due Newport News January 15, Belgie bound for New York January 12 and Arenas for New York January 15 with detachments from the Seventh Division and related corps. Early convoy assignments include the 12th balloon company 420th and 423rd telegraph battalions and other support units led by General Pershing with the 108th trench mortar battery slated for early movement.
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British Commission Favors Proceeding Against Ex Kaiser
The subcommittee of the British inquiry on violations of the laws of war recommends proceedings against the former German emperor. A tribunal plan to try cases has been submitted. Sub-committees continue to review vast evidence before final reports on charges andindividual responsibility are issued.
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Associated Press
London
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Memorial Service Planned for Colonel Roosevelt
Congress moves toward a national memorial in Washington with a joint session and committees authorized to arrange the February 9 service in honor of Colonel Roosevelt. The Senate unanimously approved the resolution.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Unfilled United States Steel Orders Drop December
United States Steel Corporation reports unfilled orders for December 31 at 7 379 152 tons, down 745 511 tons from November. The monthly statement was released today.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Greece Calls for Rights at Peace Conference in Philadelphia
Dr John Metaxa former governor of Venizelos era speaks at the University of Pennsylvania representing 3 000 066 Greeks under foreign rule He warns that failure to correct wrongs may prolong Greek reunification struggle until Greece becomes a free nation The piece references the 1919 secret treaty and assigns Greek islands to Italy and spheres of influence in Epirus and Asia Minor with Turkish gendarmes giving way to Italian carabinieri.
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University of Pennsylvania
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Iqis
Advisor to Japanese delegation on way to Paris
Dr Tachi of the Imperial University of Japan arrived in Honolulu en route to Paris to advise the Japanese peace commission. He supported a league of nations with equal opportunity and opposed barring nationals who are undesirable. Bunji Suzuki, called Japan's Gompers, arrived to attend the international labor conference and to push unionization in the United States.
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Tachi
Imperial University of Japan
Paris
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China
Bunji Suzuki
Laborers Friendly Society of Japan
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Girl Slayer Executed in Sing Sing Prison
Alton Cleveland was electrocuted in Sing Sing prison for killing May Lewis in Brooklyn last February. He refused to speak to his two daughters during imprisonment and died with the hope they would never learn how he died.
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Ossining
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Alton Cleveland
May Lewis
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
Cleveland
West
All Fuel Rules Off Washington
All orders and regulations on fuel conservation except natural gas were withdrawn today by the fuel administration. Zones and price regulations remain, but fuel saving becomes an individual matter under the administration policy.
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Fuel Administration
Fuei
Berlin Civil Strife Deepens In City Center Firing Continues
News wires report a renewed urban clash as government forces move on Spartacists in Berlin. Central districts near the Brandenburg Gate see constant machine gun fire and blockades while authorities promise to fire on provocation. Police chief Eichhorn escaped, but many rebels are captured. Spartacists struggle to mobilize despite Proclamation from Ebert Noske and Scheidemann.
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Brandenburg Gate
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Fennian Te Onder
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Gustav Noske
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Tageblatt
Vonsiche Zettung
Ebert government gains control in Berlin amid Spartacist fighting
Reports from Berlin say the Ebert government steadily gains control as Gustave Noske moves troops and controls railways. The Spartacists resist in centers of the city with casualties reported, while a state of siege has been declared and guards arrive to back the government.
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