Airplanes and Britain Shot Down Across Essex and Kent
London reports a heavy air raid with about 15 German planes, four or five reaching London. Forty seven killed and 169 injured as bombs were dropped in east and north London districts between 9 and 10 p.m. One raider fell in flames at 10,000 feet. all crew burned. A second assault saw one raider reach London before dusk. a British pilot scored a kill over Essex. Casualty lists pending.
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London
Lihe
Essex
Kent
Isles
Thanet
Sheppey
Thames
Royal Flying Corps
Cedar Falls Tightens Hours Across Businesses
Cedar Falls fuel commission issues new limits effective Wednesday night. Lodges and clubs closed. theatres to shut one night weekly. Most institutions close Sunday. drug stores and newsstands may open 12 m to 1 p m. Retailers set 5 a m to 5 p m, groceries and meat markets 7 a m to 6 20 p m. Banks 9 a m to 3 p m. libraries 1 p m to 5 p m Mon Wed Sat.
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Cedar Falls
Fuel Commission of
Roumanian Crown Jewels Seized by Reds in Kishinev
A Petrograd dispatch to German papers says Bolsheviki forces seized part of Roumanian treasury funds in a Moscow bank and took the Roumanian crown jewel at Kishinev. Queen Marie of Romania is reported to have fled Kishinev.
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Amsterdam
Petrograd
Moscow
Kishinev
Marie
Bowmania
Kishineff
Assy
Fire Damages Pioneer Iron Plant in Marquette
At 10 o clock the Pioneer Iron company chemical plant exploded and four buildings were leveled. Firemen battled flames with low water pressure and subzero temperatures as condensers containing high explosives failed. Police suspect incendiarism while the plant faces $500000 in losses and months of idle work. two more explosions and a later fire caused further damage.
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Marquette, Mich
Pioneer Iron Company
Marquette
Mich
Pioneer Iron Furnace Company
Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company
Cleveland
Altho
United States
Plant
Heves9
Bolsheviks Split on Peace and Break With Roumania
Bolsheviks split over peace terms with Germany and debate a democratic peace. Trotsky travels to Brest Litovsk for talks while the congress of workers and soldiers supports continuing negotiations. Russia breaks relations with Roumania and seizes Roumanian gold in Moscow. Gen Stcherbatcheff labeled an enemy of the people.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Leon Troteky
Bolsheviks
M. Kameneff
Brest Litovsk
Councils of Workmen’s and Soldiers
Trotzky
Europe
London
M. Trotzky
M. Kamenes
Stockholm
Paris
Thotzax
Roumania Petrograd
Delared
Roumanian Front
Stcherbatcheff
Isi
Red Cross to Aid Soldiers Writing Home
Washington D C Jan 29 The American Red Cross will help soldiers in training camps and hospitals keep in touch with relatives by extending the France camp service to the United States. Secretary Baker and Red Cross officials plan to appoint searchers in camps to operate under War Department regulations and coordinate with surgeons and adjutants general to inform camp commanders and ensure cooperation.
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Washington, D. C
Red Cryas
Baker
Tis
Hove
France
Davison
Red Cross War Council
Red Cross
War Department
Adjutant General
Mississippi
Camp Jackson
Casper Whitney
Stettinius
Washington
Hoover seeks broader powers for food control
In a letter to Representative Anderson Hoover proposes extending the Lever act to regulate distribution manufacture and preservation of foodstuffs. He urges controlling nonessential uses cutting luxury demand and shaping allocations to ensure rationing for allies while opposing public eatery licenses and overly broad restrictions.
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Washington, D. C
Hoover
Representative Anderson
House Agricultural Committee
Anderson
Curbon
Food Administration
Chicago Trains Badly Tied Up By Snow Weather Strikes City
Chicago faced severe disruption as heavy snowfall tied up trains and delayed milk deliveries from Elgin and Freeport. Contractors quoted 200 to 1000 dollars for snow removal while the city has spent over 235000 on the work. Gutters and basins are being cleared in anticipation of thaw. rail lines, telegraph and telephone wires remained impaired. Passenger schedules suffered major interruptions amid a grave sugar shortage with only one car reaching the city yesterday.
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Chicago
Elgin
Freeport
Floods Endanger River Traffic Across Kentucky and Beyond
River floods and ice chokes momentum on the Ohio and Tennessee systems. Paducah harbor vessels and multiple steamers face loss as debris and ice sweep downstream, with more than a dozen boats at risk and damage possibly exceeding $200,000. Separate reports from Metropolis and Paducah note sunk boats, damaged docks, and several vessels carried away by ice floes.
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San
Tennessee
Ohio
Paducah
Per Bons
Metropolis
Eagle Packet Line
St. Louis
Tennessee River
Bald Eagle
Spread Eagle
Paducah Drydocks
Cairo
Alfred
Nashville
Tenn
Cumberland
Kentucky
Burnaide
Knoxville
Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio River
Monongahela Ris
Pittsburgh
Weather Bureau
Monongahela River
Fairmont
Ohin
Monongahela
Evansville
Ind
Green River
Yankee Flyer Killed on Duty in France
Paris January 24. Dumaresque Spencer of Highland Park Illinois was killed returning from patrol duty across German lines near Belfost. A member of the French American flying squadron he earned his pilot brevet October 21. Spencer, 21, Yale graduate, was about to be commissioned in the U.S. aviation service.
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Paris
Dumaresque Spencer
Highland Park
Belfost
Spencer
Yale
Linited States Aviation Service
Packers Use Cutthroat Methods to Strangle Competition
At a federal trade commission hearing, J. May of the Farmers' Co operative Association testified that five large packers push prices downward in co operative territory, undercutting independents. He cited below cost pricing and packing-house tactics to stifle competition, with evidence of price suppression and altered invoicing.
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Waabington
D.C
Farmers’ Co-operative Association
Madison
Wis
Federal Trade Com
Co-Operative Association
Swift & Co
Aulsons
J. Sloney
Commission
May
A. C. Lasater
Falfurrias
Tex
Long Lave
Lunsator
Fort Worth
Armour
St. Louis
Tie
Junsater
Wisconsin
Berlin breaks Augusan truce amid war department charges
Washington reports that Germany violates the Russian truce by moving troops from the eastern front to the western battlelines. The U S army general staff says troops are ferried home on furlough then sent to western regiments to mislead the Russians and undermine eastern front morale amid peace talks. San Felice, a Great Quality Cigar.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
War Department
General Staff
United States Army
Justification of Constructive Criticism Editorial
Theodore Roosevelt argues for a bipartisan, nonpartisan investigation into wartime administration. He praises Senator Chamberlain byline, notes Mr. Stettinius appointment as a partial step, and urges drastic action to coordinate and fix army supply administration with capable leaders and clear responsibility. He highlights discrepancies between Baker testimony and battlefield realities.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Courtes
Kansas City Star
Kansas City
Senator Chamberlain
Stettinius
War Supplies Purchasing Department
Chamberlain
Baker
General Wood
Italian Attack Breaks Through on Asiago Front
Rome reports Italian troops struck and breached enemy lines on the northern mountain front. They stormed positions east of the Asiago basin, took over 1,500 prisoners, and repelled counterattacks in several breached sectors near Col del Rosso and the Brenta river.
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War Office
Nos
Camporialo
Asiago Basin
Berlin
London
Col. del Rosso
Frenzela Ravine
Brenta River
Monte di Val Bella
Italy
Assiago
Irakian
Setti- Communi
Asiago
Col del Resso
Brenta
Havrincourt
Ypres
France
Belgium
Balkans
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Commissioner Murdock
Mr. May
Oliver
Berlin War Office
Lorenza River
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