Creel’s Public Information Office Aims to Unite World
An extensive report by the Committee on Public Information chaired by George Creel outlines its global mission to advocate American entry into World War I. The article notes widespread campaigns, 100000 pamphlets in seven languages, 2500 paid staff, 5000 volunteer writers and 20000 speakers, and plans to reach every community in the United States and beyond. President Wilson endorses the effort, calling it a decisive, honest campaign to educate and galvanize public opinion without coercion.
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Ani
Arberea
Committon
George Fee
Committee On Public Informaton
Creel
Wly
Skerton
Key West
Eifel
Rome
San Iego
Honolulu
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Tanghai
Raio
Land
Russia
Sion
France
Esident
America
Jerica
Teul
Teuton
Cvapital
Europe
Scandinavia
Orient
Ame
Mexico
United States
England
Germany
Connec
Wilson
Yuros
Woodrow
This Week In Congress War Cabinet and War Legislation
Congress plans a busy week with war policy as the focus. In the Senate Senator Hitchcock will back the war cabinet and munitions director bills while reports on railroad control and moratorium bills move forward. The war finance corporation and food and price fixing measures are to be introduced or reported, with investigations into coal and sugar underway. In the House the interstate railroad bill and urgent deficiency appropriations will advance, Daylight saving legislation advances, and meatless and wheatless and price fixing bills face committee action.
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Washington
War Cabinet
Congress
Senate
Hitchcock
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Military Affairs Committee
War Finance Corporation
Simmons
Finance Committee
Pomerene
Reed
House
Inter-State Commerce Committee
Representative Glass
War Department
Daylight Savings
Agricultural Committee
Berkman and Goldman Surrender to Begin Draft Case
Notorious anarchist Alexander Berkman and co conspirator Emma Goldman surrendered to U S authorities in New York to start two year sentences for conspiracy to defeat the military draft. Berkman said Russian friends will press for his release. Goldman called the move outrageous. A U S marshal warned critics as diplomats faced threats from Russian anarchists.
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New York
United States
Russia
Alexander Berkman
Emma Goldman
Berkman
United States District Attorney’s Office
Miss Goldman
Emma
Joseph B. McDonough
Marshal McCarty
David R. Francis
United Press
Student Balloonists Finally Located in Georgia Swamp
Cadet Rowley of the Macon balloon school at Camp Wheeler waded through Ocmulgee swamp to report the balloon and its four occupants found after spending 24 cold hours in the waterlogged area. A $50 reward had been offered for information on the balloon or crew. The men are back at camp and the balloon was recovered.
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Macon
Ocmulgee
State College Triumphs Over Trinity In Clutch Thriller
State College defeated Trinity 28 to 18 in Raleigh on February 2 in a hard fought basketball game. Hartsell held Trinity to four field goals while State College connected on ten.
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Dispatch
Raleigh
N. C
State College
Trinity
Hartsell
Allied Conference Adjournes In Versailles
The second inter Allied conference concluded in Versailles tonight with an official statement to be released simultaneously in all Allied cities.
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Paris
Versailles
Wayne Man with 14 Army Sons Stirs NC Courtroom Tale
Goldsboro Feb 2 A well known Colored farmer John Borden claims 14 sons in the U S Army and 35 children from three marriages. He recounts births including four boys in one set and a half hour of multiple births as Judge Whedbee questions him in a divorce case. Borden says 27 children survive, youngest 22 months, 14 sons in service. Other items: Mrs Kitziah Cobb dies at 80 near Goldsboro and Charles L OBerry dies in Rocky Mount. a Pikeville fire causes significant uninsured loss.
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the Dispatch
Goldsboro
John Bor- Gen
Army of the United States
Borden
Whedbee
Sam
Kitziah Cobb
Rocky Mount
Charles L. O’berry
Pikeville
From Newsboy to Magnate
St Paul Minn February 2 Bill Kenney rose from a Minneapolis newsboy in the eighties to become president of the Great Northern Railroad next week. Louis W Hill son of James J Hill will remain chairman of the board of directors.
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St. Paul
Minn
Bill Kenney
Minneapolis
Great Northern Railroad
Louis W. Hill
James J. Hill
Steamer Caught in Ice Off Bar Harbor
A Main e Central Railway steamer en route between Moon Desert and Bar Harbor is frozen in heavy ice between Frenchman’s Bay and the city. Fears for passengers, including women and children, are reported tonight.
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Bar Harbor
Maine Central Railway
Moon
Frenchman’s Bay
Louvain Sunk. 224 Lives Lost in Eastern Mediterranean
London reports the armed boarding ship Louvain was torpedoed and sunk in the eastern Mediterranean on January 21. Two hundred twenty four people perished. The Louvain’s role included intercepting merchant ships and carrying officials to inspect cargoes and papers.
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London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Food shortages threaten sections as weather halts rail flow
Washington reports a food shortage worsened by severe weather. Director General McAdoo accelerates relief with 200 carloads of livestock feed eastward and 1000 refrigerator cars daily moving food from the Midwest to congested Eastern districts.
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United States
Railroad Administration
National Railroad
McAdoo
New England
Middle West
Garfield
Smith
New York
Mohawk Valley
Chicago
Freight Wreck in Nashville Suburb
Nashville Tenn Feb 2 One man is missing four wounded and twenty one freight cars two locomotives demolished after a wreck on the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis line in a western Nashville suburb. Crews attempted to move the train in sections as brakes on seven rear cars failed on the slick tracks causing runaway cars to collide with a following double header.
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Nashville, Tenn
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
Nashville
Blotter Filling Slowly At Police Headquarters
Police blotter reports only three prospects for Recorder's court Monday morning. Macy O. Nix colored charged with store breaking. William Faison colored jailed on a larceny warrant. Anthony Stuart white marked as drunk.
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Recorder's Court
Macy O. Nixon
William Faison
Anthony Stuart
Governor Bickett Seeks Ford Plant in Wilmington
Governor Bickett writes Henry Ford proposing a Wilmington shipbuilding plant for the Atlantic seaboard. He asserts no better site exists along the coast and that Wilmington offers all necessary facilities.
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Bickett
Ford
Dispatch
Raleigh
N. C
Wilmington
Henry Ford
Atlantic Seaboard
Protection for the Small Railroads Debate
Majority Leader Kitchin and Representative Webb urged Director General McAdoo to amend the railroad bill to protect small lines. McAdoo said protections would be provided as far as possible, while Webb warned a protection amendment may come before the House.
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Washington
Kitchin
Webb
McAdoo
Railroad Administration
South
Kitchin and
Socialists Inspire German Strikes Across War Protests
Copenhagen reports indicate Independent Socialists sparked the German strikes opposing the war. A pamphlet signed by eight Independents including Wilhelm Diettmann urged the working class to demonstrate against pan German demands and push for peace talks with Russia. Diettmann’s arrest in Amsterdam was linked to his signatory status.
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Copenhagen
Germany
Russia
Wilhelm Diettmann
Amsterdam
Diettmann
Berlin
Government to License Oil Industry Amid War Mobilization
Washington reports that within 48 hours the oil industry will come under government control. President Wilson will issue a proclamation enabling the Fuel Administration to license all production and distribution and set prices for crude and refined products. The aim is to ensure sufficient gasoline for air force needs and flying machines.
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Washington
Wilson
The
Fuel Administration
Requa
Aoa
Chicago Police Face Bandits In Fatal Street Battle
In a desperate gunfight near the Fillmore Street police station a bandit died and George Moran surrendered after the hold up of a woman. Dr. J M Hancock was shot four times and Patrolman David O Keefe was fatally wounded along with two detectives. Moran had been released on bond for freight theft. Raymond was 26 and recently released from Joliet penitentiary.
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Fillmore Street
George Raymond
George Moran
J. M. Hancock
David O’keefe
Raymond
Moran
Bandit
Joliet Penitentiary
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