Passenger Train Service Reduced Beginning Today
General curtailment of rail passenger service approved by Director General McAdoo. Eastern routes including the Congressional Limited will trim schedules by about 20 percent and speed to aid freight and war effort. Inland waterways plan announced as auxiliary transport. Public urged to limit travel and skip pleasure trips during wartime.
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Guatemala City Aftershocks Leave Survivors Seeking Aid
Conflicting reports say Guatemala City was struck by a severe quake with aftershocks and noxious gases. Crevices release gas as buildings crumble trapping hundreds while survivors flee amid debris without food or shelter. Railways and bridges are destroyed and communication is severely limited.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Lloyd George outlines war aims in peace terms
Premier Lloyd George declares Britain seeks not German destruction but a just peace. He lists eight aims including Belgian restoration, Dardanelles neutralization, independent Poland, and self government for Austro Hungarian peoples, with broader regional and colonial arrangements to prevent future conflict. The remarks frame Allied goals as a path to lasting peace.
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Palestine
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Harbor Regulations Aimed at Halifax Ship Explosion Risk
Washington January 5 The United States Customs Service will issue rules to protect New York and other harbors from a Halifax style munitions ship explosion. Munition ships must anchor away from city water fronts and may not delay cargoing dangerous explosives. if no safe anchorage exists ships may be kept moving at sea. Additional rules to curb smuggling of coded messages may follow under a presidential proclamation.
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W. T. Bost to Edit The State Journal
Col. Alex J Field leaves Raleigh for Washington to join the Shipping Board legal department. He leases The State Journal to W T Bost, Raleigh correspondent for Greensboro Daily News and The Wilmington Dispatch. Bost says the shift adds copy duties but does not affect prior arrangements.
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Wilmington Dispatch
Railroad Shops Burned at East Cambridge
Fire destroyed the Boston and Maine Railroad round-house and repair shops in East Cambridge shortly before midnight. The blaze caused extensive damage to structures and rolling stock, with firefighters battling flames through the night. No injuries reported as crews worked to control the inferno.
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Ambridge
Federal control fever spreads in Congress as railways go government
Washington Jan. 5 A wave of government ownership enthusiasm sweeps Capitol Hill after President Wilson’s seizure of the railways. Bills to run oil wells telephones and coal mines are drafted or introduced. Fuel Administrator Garfield predicts coal field operation may come in spring to avert a winter coal famine. Congress shows little sympathy, but momentum grows for broader federal control and shipyard interurban lines as figures like McAdee and Filetcher shape the policy push.
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Dortch and Webb to Serve Another Term as Marshals
President Wilson sent to the Senate the nominations of William T. Dortch of Raleigh for another four years as United States Marshal Eastern District of North Carolina and Charles A. Webb of Asheville for another four years as Marshal in the Western District. Senate committee chair Overman said they will be approved Monday and confirmed without delay with no objections recorded.
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Raleigh
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North Carolina
Charles A. Webb
Asheville
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Judiciary Committee
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Webb
Dortch
Jim Crow Car Law Remains In Effect
Washington reports on January 5 states that Southern railroads will continue to preserve Jim Crow cars. Government action will not interfere with state railroad regulations, and officials expect state rules to stand for the foreseeable future.
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Washington
Railroad
May Use Dutch Ships to Move Southern Cotton North
Dutch ships held in American ports by an embargo for months may be used to transport Southern cotton to New England mills. This would free American coastwise tonnage for overseas trade, per a cotton broker and shipping circles report.
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New England
Aday
Federal control of industry via railroads and emergency powers
The passage argues that federal authority already exists to regulate power, coal and oil, and communications through laws and presidential powers. It claims railroads grant the government domination over all industries, enabling near total control of industrial America.
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America
Lloyd George war aims signal peace but not dismemberment
Lloyd George's January speech outlines concessions on Alsace Lorraine and Belgium, supports Polish independence and separate entities for Arabia Mesopotamia Syria and Palestine, and hints at German reform within the Central Powers. Officials say it moves toward peace, though no armistice and US policy stays war-focused.
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Palestine
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George
Deadlock Appears in Russo German Peace Conference
Berlin dispatches suggest a likely deadlock as Germany demands retention of armies in Poland and Baltic territories and insists on plebiscites. Vienna reports Berlin and Swedish delegation tension, while Trotsky moves to Brest-Litovsk negotiations amid Russian self determination aims.
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Russia
Mutiny Reported Among German Troops In East Front
Wireless patches claim 25 000 German troops near Kaunas revolted and cut food. The report, likely unreliable, notes deserters sent the dispatch and suggests German forces may be shuttled to the West to press peace terms.
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Revival of Mississippi River Traffic Plan Gains Support
Jan. 5 report from St. Louis notes the Joint Commission representing New Orleans Memphis and St. Louis has assurance Congress will approve a 13 million dollar appropriation to acquire sixteen tow boats and 200 barges to revive Mississippi river traffic.
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Congress
Inmate Dorothy Faces Dental Work Delay in Cell Block
An OCR fragment notes an inmate named Dorothy in a jail cohort with another coed. It mentions dental work for Dorothy and a pain in her tooth, though the context and full details are unclear.
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