KEEP MUNITIONS AMONG MEMBERS
Washington reports that GOP leaders consult Wilson on a league of nations plan as Senate debates the peace conference. Paris notes Leon Bourgeois presents recommendations, including arms limits and education central to a society of nations. Wilson eyes swift progress and possible treaty ratification before departure.
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Make U Boats Criminal Says Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph argues submarine warfare was a crime against Britain noting losses of cargo valued in the millions and 15 000 British deaths at sea. It urges the peace conference to condemn submarines and to empower punishment of any nation that resumes submarine construction.
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Daily Telegraph
Wilson pushes three year naval expansion program
Washington reports that President Wilson pressed for a three year naval expansion. The House naval affairs committee approved a 750 million dollar annual naval appropriation bill after receiving a cable from Paris confirming no change to his recommendations. Chairman Padgett cited the president as very earnest and insistent on the plan.
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Iowa Senate Bill Aims to Limit Women’s Working Hours
Des Moines February 4 A proposed law backed by the State Federation of Labor would cap weekly hours for women at 54 and ban shifts longer than six hours. The bill sets a 4 am to 10 pm limit for under 21 year olds except telephone operators and requires a 45 minute lunch break for most workers. Exemptions would apply to domestic workers farm hands nuns and canning factory staff during harvest.
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Bolsheviki Push Back Russians on Pinega Front
Associated Press report from Archangel notes Russian detachment with American forces retreated several versts after a failed assault against Bolshevik forces. Artillery and patrol actions continued along the front while an American airplane bombarded Bolshevik positions on the Vasa river. In Paris, Gen. Diaz discussed Franco American ties with visiting American reporters.
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London Strikes Shut Tube, Crowds Fill City Streets
Londoners faced transport disruption as tube workers and other unions struck. Crowded buses and crowds walking from suburbs marked a citywide morning, with power stations idle and some Glasgow and New York labor actions shaping the broader stoppage.
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Pershing Awards Honor To 21 Americans In France
Washington Feb 4 The War Department announced congressional medals of honor for 21 Americans in France including Capt Marcellus L Chiles and Privates Jesse N Punk Cathsn Cole and Charles D Barger among others. The awards honor conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond duty with many posthumous recognitions.
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U S Army Ships Return With 7600 Men In Three Weeks
The War Department announced arrival plans for about 7,600 U S forces from France to dock at New York Philadelphia or Newport News within three weeks. Ships include the cruiser Seattle with 1,616 aboard and the cruiser Charleston with field headquarters and coast artillery detachments. Additional transports Madawaska Pastores West Eagle and others carry convalescents, casual officers, and Illinois Iowa New Jersey troops. Changes in transport destinations were also announced.
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Russia Signs to Seek Agreement with Entente
A Moscow wireless report says the Soviet government will take all measures to secure an accord with the Entente and complains Bolshevik authorities had not received a formal invitation to the Princess Islands conference. Also noted McAdoo was retained as counsel by a Los Angeles moving picture company.
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Wilson Ideas Claimed as Theirs by French Socialist Deputies
President Wilson received a mixed reception in the French Chamber of Deputies as Socialists rose to claim his ideas as their own. The scene included interruptions and chants such as comprehensive support for the society of nations and a chorus against war.
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Pershing Arrives in Nantes Amid Cheers on France Visit
Gen. John J. Pershing, commander in chief of American forces in France, arrived in Nantes to a large crowd and met civil and military authorities before departing to Tours to inspect American cantonments and depots.
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Hotels for Soldiers to Be Run in Gotham by Salvation Army
Salvation Army to operate several hotels in New York City to house returning soldiers and relatives, with a nine story building between Broadway and Sixth Avenue valued at $625,000 to be used for wartime lodging. The move signals support for service members and their families arriving from overseas.
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Crown Prince Begins Divorce Suit in Berlin Dispatch
Frederick William Hollenzollern, elder son of the former German emperor, starts divorce proceedings. He wed Grand Duchess Cecile of Mecklenburg in 1905. they have five children, with Princess Alexandria born in 1916. A Prague Tageblatt dispatch cites Charles of Austria-Hungary seeking divorce from Princess dita of Bourbon and Paro.
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Hammerstein Named Military Delegate on German Train Peace Commission
Berlin reports that Gen Baron Louis von Hammerstein Loxten has been appointed to succeed Gen von Winterfeldt as the leading military delegate on Germany's tranviatice commission. von Winterfeldt resigned January 27 amid a dignity complaint. Uncertainty surrounds the exact identity of von Hammerstein.
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Watch Long Green There’s a Spurious Twenty Note
The treasury secret service warned today that a counterfeit $20 Federal Reserve note from the New York bank is circulating. One specimen was found near Havana Cuba and bears President Cleveland’s portrait, darker color, check letter D plate 51 and signatures of McAdoo and Burke. Fibers imitate paper with pen marks.
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Four Auto Bandits Stage Suburban Holdups in New York
Five armed men in a touring car robbed two street cars in Flushing and Broomhurst in Brooklyn suburbs. Early police reports did not indicate if passengers were aboard. Advertisement notes Smoke Diamond Joe Cigars.
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Senate probes German propaganda and Bolshevik praise
Washington Feb 4 The Senate adopted a resolution extending the committee on German propaganda to inquire into other activities aimed at overthrowing the government. Senators Kellogg Myers Thomas Borah Weeks warned of lawless groups like the I W W and Bolshevik praise at a Washington theatre meeting in a government owned building. Senator Weeks called the meeting more serious. Poindexter sought attorney general action. Borah noted no overt overthrow preached, just defense of the Soviet.
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Bapaume Appeals for Adoptive City Aid From Continent
Washington dispatch reports Bapaume, a French town grievously damaged in the war, seeks a godmother through Mayor Ganton Stenne. He tells Petit Parisien that a great city from either continent should adopt and assist the town as others have aided destroyed communities.
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Connecticut Senate rejects federal prohibition amendment
Bartford Conn Feb 4 The Connecticut senate votes 20 to 14 against ratifying the federal prohibition amendment. Paris Feb 3 Polish and Czech leaders are warned by the peace conference not to occupy disputed territory in Teschen Austrian Silesia per an official bulletin.
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