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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1917
Page
1
The Citizen announces a fundraising campaign led by E Jon Wright to feed one million starving Belgian children for a year. He pledges to sponsor 500 children and urges readers to donate any amount, stressing urgent humanitarian duty beyond war divides.
New York January hearing focus on short selling on December stock trades tied to President Wilson peace note. H G S Noble testifies as Rules Committee seeks customer names, loaned shares, and daily positions from exchanges for December 10 to 23. committee aims to identify anyone profiting on leak information and advance notice.
Chief Justice Alfred Franklin told the Phoenix Gazette the court plans immediate steps to speed a ruling. He criticized day to day adjournments and the failure of pay vouchers to materialize, while Hunt and Campbell face scrutiny over attempts to conduct executive business.
Explosion of a kerosene stove in a liquor-laden motor truck in route from Cheyenne to Denver started a fire that damaged the Van Sickle Brothers garage. About forty automobiles were stored there, the liquor destroyed and the truck demolished.
Tokyo January 22 Japan confronts a pivotal cabinet crisis as the Terauchi government faces a challenge from the constitutional party allied with nationalist forces in the lower house. Terauchi and Foreign Minister Motono will speak as the diet reconvenes amid expectations of dissolution and new elections.
W H Stone grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and J E Sheppard acting president of the Order of Railway Conductors testified before the house commerce committee in opposition to the Adamson bill aimed at preventing railroad traffic disruption by creating a special investigating committee whose deliberations would deem strikes and lockouts unlawful.
Dr. Thomas Darlington urged in the Federation annual session that large government land reservations be set along coastlines and borders for mobilizing troops in war. He said in peacetime these camps could train recruits in military tactics sanitation aviation and automobile engineering.
Judge J T Ronald of King county superior court Seattle is appointed by Governor Lister to preside over the murder trials of seven Industrial Workers of the World in connection with the Everett riot last November when seven men were killed. Affidavits of prejudice had been filed against Everett judges.
In San Diego, Army aviator W A Robertson Jr recovering from days lost in the Sonora desert may be sent across the border to locate the plane and lead plane pilot Harry Bishop in the recent flight incident. Officials aim to recover the craft and its compass to assess whether faulty mechanism caused the misdirection. Robertson may start from Yuma with a Sonora search by air or ground pending decision.
San Diego Cal Jan 22 An inquiry into a flight by North Island aviation officers that ended in the California desert is to begin as soon as possible Col W A Glassford announced Major Burnside said the inquiry will determine how the aeroplane was diverted and whether laws of the machine were observed Lieut Cal H G Bishop and Lieut W A rtson are held for possible testimony.
In Rio de Janeiro on January 22 the Danish steamer Hammershus was fired on by Santa Cruz fort while attempting to depart after loading provisions and reportedly explosives from German ships in the harbor. The vessel halted, was boarded by port police, and remains under surveillance near Brazilian warships pending inquiry.
German official report cites Bulgarian movement northward in Priobrudja crossing the Danube near Tulecha. Remaining Romanian front actions show minor engagements favorable to Germanic forces with other fronts mainly raiding operations.
Berlin dispatch summarizes advances by German forces on the Eastern Front and Allied counteractions as reports detail German defenses near Inteski and Tromelies. Messages describe enemy operations and allied responses amid shifting fronts with limited verifiable specifics.
Senator Cummins filed a resolution to adjourn the Senate to a full week of debate on the president's address, inviting free remarks. Senator Stone objected to immediate consideration, suggesting time constraints, and the measure was set to be discussed again tomorrow in a tense probe of foreign policy proposals.
Chicago workers including department store staff will wear overalls this spring with women’s jeans adapted for female wearers. The move follows demand from women in munitions work abroad and aims to improve safety and mobility for both factory workers and home keepers.
Announcement says the St Louis Iron Mountain Southern railroad will be foreclosed at 2 PM on February such sale followed by the Missouri Pacific railway at 11 AM the same day. The two roads will be under one management after the receivership ends, under reorganization plans.
At the stock exchange, President Noble retracted prior support for short selling by pools and said his approval depended on the absence of conspiracy or artificial market depression. He stated penalties for such actions include suspension or expulsion, noting this has not occurred.
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