Buelow Defies Allies On Extradition Demand
Field Marshal von Buelow said he would never place himself at the disposal of entente powers and urged fellow commanders to resist extradition. The German government opposed the extradition list and sought negotiation. Meetings of army and navy leaders favored refusing to surrender and urged legal objections to arrest orders. Swiss authorities may follow Holland’s stance, while discussions on a new note to Germany were delayed.
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Berlin
Son Buelow
Lokal Anzeiger
Entente Commission of Control
Belgium
France
Vor Heeringen
Grand Duke of
Hesse
Tageblatt
Bauer
Io Tmorroy
National Assembly
One Zeitung
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
The
Hague
Holland
Geneva
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Switzerland
Paris
Germany
Trans-Mit
Council of Ambassadors
Lord Birkenhead
Cat Which Never Lost Fight Succumbs on Beach
Pahu Beach Florida. Dick the famed tomcat owned by John R. Bradley died after a clash with a skunk last Sunday night. He had never lost a fight, weathering many prints and a $5,000 bulldog bet. Bradley seeks inscription ideas for Dick’s tombstone, noting the cat’s legendary social fame and decade of watchful vigil on the Beach Club property.
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Pahu Beach
Fla
John R. Bradley
Mr. Bradley
America
Edward R. McLean
Newport Nipper
Hamilton Cary Dick
Epoca Trashes Glass Plan as Europe Urged to Disarm
Rome reports Epoca criticizes Secretary Glass for credits to Europe while noting America joined late, protected Germany, and argues Europe seeks a peacetime slaughter as it is urged to disarm. It questions disarmament amid Bolshevik aggression and U.S. fleet expansion.
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Associated Press
Rome
America
Epoca
Glass
Jetter
Europe
United States
Germany
Yale Freshmen Outpace Army Officers in IQ Tests
Yale freshmen scored highly on psychological intelligence tests with 99.2 percent earning A or B grades indicating above average intelligence. Yale analysis finds freshmen as a highly selected group and ranking higher overall than a large sampling of army officers.
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Associated Press
New Haven
Conn
Yale
Army
Constantine Breaks With Family Over Leeds Wedding
Geneva reports former Greek King Constantine severed ties with his mother Queen Olga and brother Prince Christopher after Christopher wed Mrs W B Leeds last Sunday. Constantine allegedly would not attend and still hopes to return to Athens.
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Geneva
Constantine
Greece
Olga
Christopher
W. B. Leeds
Iif
Athens
Sled collision claims life of boy in Des Moines
Peter Pratt 15 son of Russell Pratt of Des Moines died in a local hospital after a head on sled collision. He was sliding on a hill when another boy descending from the opposite direction met at the bottom of the incline. Both sleds were travelling at unusual speed.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Peter Pratt
Russell Pratt
Pratt
Legal officials delay journey in English Channel
Lord High Chancellor and Sir Gordon Hewart, the attorney general, were delayed in transit from London by a considerable hold up in the English Channel.
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Ish
Gordon Hewart
London
English
Doubt of Trading Plan With Russia Voiced by Allies
Paris report notes doubt over partial resumption of trade with Russia via cooperative societies. Soviets accused of double dealing as U S representatives on export commissions to supervise railway rolling stock are absent, prompting calls to appoint provisional American presidents to oversee these commissions.
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Associated Press
Paris
Russia
Council of Ambassadors
Reval
Wallace
United States
Germany
Army Recruits to Be Allocated from States Hereafter
The War Department issues a national schedule to allocate recruits by state to specific regiments. New divisions are formed on geographical lines with New England and New York as examples. Infantry, field artillery, and engineers mix by state to identify regiments with regions. Some regiments will draw from multiple states to fit divisional needs.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
New England
New York
Tawa
Wisconsin
Infantry
Field Artillery
Camp Dodge
Tawa Coast Artillery
Vessel With 104 Aboard Aground Off Rockaway
The steamship Princess Anne of the Old Op in ion line carrying 32 passengers and 72 crew ran aground off Rockaway Point on Long Island in a heavy storm. Tugs and a police patrol boat aided. Captain Seay was seriously injured. The ship’s position was marked serious by a two day gale and passengers and crew were to be evacuated before night.
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Associated Press
New York
Princess Anne
Old Opinion Line
Norfolk
Rockaway
Point
Long Island
S. OG. S
Army Transport
Hoboken
Seay
The
Courier Delivery Time Notice
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5 30. If you fail to receive by that time due to carrier error or other cause, phone 3380 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 20 p.m.
Sedition danger to the United States debated in Congress
Washington deliberations before the house judiciary committee on anti sedition laws drew sharp contrast between Francis Kane who said much of the Bolshevik talk in America was mere talk and Charles Newton who warned thousands of radicals backed by a radical press were daily advocating overthrow and dictatorship urging Congress and the public to curb propaganda.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
United States
House
Judiciary Committee
Francis 7. F. Kane
Philadelphia
Palmer
America
Who’ll Assist Polands If Reds Violate Peace
London reports Warsaw diplomacy says the crucial issue is guarantee of Soviet adherence to peace with Poland and who would back Poland if the Bolsheviks violate the pact. British hopes for peace and international admonitions weigh on cessation of hostilities.
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Ole Associated Press
LendiGn
Luteeauial Amerie Friends of
Voli Arenteine
Witlyhe Holsheviki
Ivaroed Todity
Cirelos
Poland
Soviet
Russia
London
Warsaw
Piasek
Sheviks
Rail Administration Reorganization Nears Private Return
Washington February 6 The railroad administration under Director General Hines announced a reorganization as a step toward returning roads to owners on March 1 A new division liquidation of claims will replace the former capital expenditures division Max Thelan will lead liquidation and TC Powell will become director of the revised divisions The plan preserves law finance and accounting while dissolving some purchasing and operations units as federal control ends and claim settlements continue for private ownership restoration.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Railroad Administration
Hines
Max Thelan
Public Service Division
TC. Powell
Direc
Lime Rail Road
Southern Railway
Atlantic gale damages along coast reach million mark
The north Atlantic gale and blizzard subside as property losses top two million dollars. New York reports 34 ships seeking location. Atlantic City and Seabright hardest hit with homes washed away and towns inundated. Travel remains disrupted, with snow drifts clogging streets and limited subway operation. Coney Island residents fled by boat amid three feet of street flooding. Sheepshead Bay boats smashed or carried away. Washington forecasts another day of snow and high winds with New England seeing the heaviest fall yet of the winter.
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Associated Press
New York
North Atlantic
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Seabright
Maryland
Maine
Weather Bureau
New England
Upper
Ohio Valley
Pontiac man held after wife killed with bloody ax
An automobile worker, Garmon, was held after his wife was found dead in their home in Pontiac. Police say the man, who appeared dazed, told an officer he "guessed he had killed" her. The body showed a crushed skull and a bloodstained ax lay nearby.
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Associated Press
Pontiac
Mich
Seb
C. Li
Garmon
Italians Accused of Trying to Get Navy Submarine to Fiume
Bari dispatch reports Naval Lieutenant Augusta Tesl and Giovanni Trenton, an Italian naval engineer, arrested at Brindisi for allegedly prompting an Italian submarine commander to sail to Fiume. They are said to have seized the steamer Tarania carrying about 2,000,000 gold for Italian troops in Albania. A 20-year-old woman arrested with them is believed to be an accomplice.
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Bari
Italy
Augusta Tes
Giovanni Trenton
Brindisi
Fiume
Tarania
Albania
Suit to Return Berger to Leavenworth Prison
In Chicago on February 11 District Attorney Charles F. Clyne filed a circuit court suit seeking Victor Berger the convicted Socialist congressman be sent to Leavenworth to serve a 10 year term. Clyne alleges Berger attempted fraud on the court based on new evidence showing he aided a Socialist anti conscription campaign while out on bail and Berger’s appeal remains before the circuit court of appeals.
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T’ress
Chicago
Charles F. Clyne
Circuit Court of Appeals
Victor Berger
Leavenworth
Mr. Clyne
Berger
Gerger
K. M. Landis
Fight on Profiteers Netted 895 Arrests and Convictions
Washington report cites 895 arrests in the campaign against food profiteers and hoarders. The Justice Department says 28 convictions so far with penalties up to 3000 dollars and one year imprisonment. Over 100 sugar profiteering arrests. eleven sugar convictions reported.
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Assad
Washington
Department of Jusice
Mexico City reopens Chapultepec military academy ceremony
Chapultepec military academy, nicknamed the Mexican West Point, reopened today as the main feature of the national holiday celebration in Mexico City. The school had been closed for five years amid the holiday observance.
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Mexico West Point
Associated Press
Mexico City
Chapulteries Military Academy
Mexican West Point
Five Alleges Killers Sought in Moss Enright Death
Chicago police and state attorney officials hunted five alleged professional killers from New York and one from Buffalo in connection with the murder of Moss Enright, a noted labor leader and gunman. The suspects reportedly arrived from New York about two weeks before the shooting with Mike Carozza, head of the Street Sweepers union, who is in custody. George Kenny, secretary to the state's attorney, traveled to New York to pursue the case.
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Associated
S'eoss
Chicago
Keb. G.—'Guatien
East
New York
Buffalo
Moss” Enright
Enright
Mike Carozza
Carozza
Tim” Murphy
George Kenny
Municipal Markets Urged to Cut High Living Costs
Dr Eugene H Porter New York state foods and markets commissioner urged municipally owned coal and terminal markets for major cities at the National Association of State Marketing Officials conference. He proposed publicly owned terminal markets with steamship piers railroad yards warehouses and cold storage to reduce consumer food costs and argued municipal ownership offers a quick long term solution benefiting retail dealers.
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Associated Prows
New York
United States
Eugene H. Porter
New York State
Foods and Merkers
New Association
Great den
Lake
Porter
Father and Son Buried Alive by Gravel Pit Cave In Bellevue
Farmer P Wagner and his son Edward 24 are dead after a gravel pit cave in near Bellevue Louisiana. Rescuers found both men dead when they reached the scene.
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Bellevue
D. P Wagner
Here
Edward
Exchange rates show firmer tone in London and New York
London reports generally more favorable foreign exchange with Paris at 418 francs 45 centimes and Brussels at 45 francs 36 centimes as plans for global bank coordination circulate. In New York demand bills for pounds opened at 3.34 and rose to 4.59 before easing. francs at 14.52 per 1, then lire at 19.32.
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Associated Press
London
Paris
Brussels
New York
Delmand
Seven Days to Hines by Unions For Wage Word
The union leadership in a conference adopted a resolution directing their Washington committee to demand action within seven days. A telegram from Vice President Maltays, acting for the brotherhood, reached Director General Vines but gave little promise of favorable action.
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Cig de Assoeio
Netroit
Mint
Armal Insistance
Union Ofiera
Washington
Vines
Maltays
Brotherhood
Lines
Odessa Garrison Reported Largely Taken Prisoner
London dispatches say a large portion of the garrison of Odessa belonging to Gen Ventkine's army has been captured. The remaining troops are said to have been disarmed in Romanian territory.
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Associated Press
London
Odessa
Ventkine
Cabinet Paper Waste in Three Years Big Senator Smoot Says
Senator Smoot of Utah charged massive waste of print paper by federal executive departments. He cited July 1, 1916 to July 15 of last year with 30 144 262 copies of cabinet speeches mailed at a cost of 442. Senator Sherman of Illinois accused Mr McAdoo of using railroad literature for propaganda and questioned campaign financing as a government expense.
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Smoot
Washington, D. C
Federal
Utah
Senate
Sherman
Ilinais
McAdoo
Michigan
Newberry
Dan
Bersheba
Pies May Be Solace to Booze Lovers
New York federal prohibition agent Charles R. O Connor announced that alcoholic liquors may be used for cooking without breaking the law. He said New Yorkers can have brandy in mince pies and wine sauce and that hotels and restaurants will receive permits to stock brandy wine or whisky for legitimate culinary purposes. O Connor opened offices to issue permits under the Volstead act.
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New York
Charles R. O'Connor
Plague Outbreak in Teschen Area With Yanks Due
Plague outbreaks are reported in the Teschen plebiscite area to be occupied by American troops after ratification of the Versailles treaty. American Red Cross headquarters are rushing medical units to affected districts as the situation unfolds.
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Teschen
Associated Press
Vienna
United States
American Redross
Woman Hero Rescues Family From Burning Cleveland Home
Mrs. Pearl First saved her five year old son Philip then aided her 20 year old niece before carrying her 76 year old father Be. B. Applegrove down the burning stairs to the street. The fire destroyed the residence in Cleveland Ohio today.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Pearl
Philip
Labor Federation Plans Aggressive Campaign Ahead of November Elections
The American Federation of Labor outlines a nationwide effort to defeat unfriendly candidates for Congress, the presidency, governors, and state legislatures. An army of organizers will mobilize every trade to back officials aligned with organized labor, targeting about 14,000,000 union voters. President Gompers led the meeting as plans were to be formally announced after today’s session.
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Associated Press
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
Federation
Congress
House
Senate
Gompers
Fair Price Probers Sweep State Probing Retail Profits
Des Moines Feb 6 Investigators under state fair price commissioner H G Larimer have been checking retailers profits in several towns this week and will visit more cities in a few days Local commissioners will then direct efforts to reduce living costs once appointed Early indications show no definite action yet but tests may be considered later.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
HG. Larimer
Larimer
Wes
Jers
Election of Officers of Upper Mississippi Valley Body Is Held
The Upper Mississippi Valley association elected officers with Mrs. H. S. Richards of Madison as president, Mrs. Gunderson of South Dakota as secretary treasurer, and Mrs. Rumpler of Indiana as vice president. The next biennial meeting is slated for Indianapolis.
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Mississippi Valley
Madison
Wis
Upper Mississippi Valley Association
Inois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Nesota
Missouri
Nebraska
North and
South Dakota
Wisconsin
H. S. Richards
Gunderson
Rumpler
Indianapolis
Diner Chef Dies After Wreck Watcher Killed
Frank E. Johnson a Southern express pullman chef who was slightly injured in a wreck yesterday was killed last night by an express train while watching workers jack his dining car back onto the rails at dead man’s curve in Philadelphia. The report notes a rehearing grant in Keller vs the State Bay of Rock Island and includes an advertising line for CINCON’s Safe.
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Associated Frees
Philadelphia
Frank E. Johnson
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