Steamer City of Wilmington Disabled at Sea
The steamer City of Wilmington, owned by Sprunt and Sons, reported disabled off the coast due to boiler trouble with fuel underway. Authorities kept her position secret, ships loaded to assist, as she sails earlier from Charleston to Italy. The vessel, in Atlantic service, may have been taken over by authorities and used for fuel transport duties.
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Atlantic Port
City of Wilming
Wilmington
Alexand‘Sprunt and Sons
Italy
Prests
Atlantic
Packers Tried 101 Influence Wilson Against Probe
Francis J. Heney, FTC special counsel, charged big meatpacking interests with trying to sway President Wilson to halt the investigation. He cited a Detroit bankers telegram and confidential files showing plans in 1916 to flood the Judiciary Committee with anti Borland resolution telegraphs and to influence Congressmen over livestock and meat packing probes. He noted packers’ reach into finance and city utilities as part of a broader push into canned goods.
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Washington
Francis J. Heney
Federal Trade Commission
Wilson
Heney
Detroit
Chicago Packers
Borland
Garda
Mr. Heney
New York
Thomas HB. Wilson
Wilson, and Company
Armour and’ Company
Kansas City
City
United States
Chicago
Murdock
Germany Holds Line as War Extends in Speech Debate
London reports reflect mixed London press views on Chancellor von Hertling and Foreign Minister Czernin. Papers view Germany as unconciliatory, seeking no peace terms but its own and stress the war will continue. Some praise nuances while most deny any peacemaking shift.
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London
von Hertling
Czerning
Feermiany
Austria-Hungary
Count Czernin
Wilson
Germany
Morning Post
Hertling
America
England
Telegraph
Europe
Austria
Chronicle
Czernin
the Chronicle
The
Daily Mail
Count von Hertling
Lloyd George
Alsace Lorraine
Sunday Rain Ends. Rest of Week Fair Across Region
The forecast predicts rain Sunday then generally fair weather for the South and East Gulf States. It will be colder Sunday night and Monday in the South Atlantic region with frost possible Monday morning on the North Gulf. Temperatures rise after Tuesday.
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Ian
Generall
South To
East Gulf States
Ther Bureau
South Atlantics
North Gulf
Railroad Commission to investigate general labor grievances
Kington January 26 The railroad Commission Director General advisory body decides to study labor grievances but limits its scope to broad matters of labor. A supervisor of labor in the permanent staff will handle grievances soon.
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Kington
Railroad
Commission
Or General
German Raid Fails West of Lobain In January Clash
German raid west of Lobain between the Oise and Aisne failed last night according to an official French war office statement. Lord Curzon, member of the war council, warned in Cardiff that Western front forces prepare for a possible great assault and that Germany may throw large forces at the front amid expectations of a Russian collapse and a potential strain on Allied troops.
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Lobain
Oise
Ailvers
French War Office
Don
Lord Curzon
War Council
gov'Ot
House of Lords
Cardiff
Western Front
Germany
Russian Socialist Congress Calls for International Support
The Congress of All-Russian Workmen and Soldiers' Delegates appeals to nations of Europe and America for socialist solidarity. It seeks friendly aid and support for the Russian Revolution as part of its struggle.
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Gre Avica
Sweden
Norway
Russia
Regulating Coal Diversions Issued By Washington Authorities
Ordered rules prohibit diversion of coal without state approval. No coal destined for another state or for coke ovens may be diverted except in emergencies. Local committees must seek state consent for reallocations and ensure payment arrangements before diversion.
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Washington
Tidewater
Assembly Delegates Released In London
Social Revolutionary members of the recent Constituent Assembly who were arrested have been released. A Prograd dispatch to Reuters reports that the Congress of Peasants supporting the Constituent Assembly has been placed under arrest by a presidential board.
Bolshevik Army Declares War on General Kal edines
An official Bolshevik statement from Petrograd reports that Cos Cossacks at Kamensky voted unanimously to declare war on General Kal edines and transfer all authority to the Congress, following a front line inauguration.
Bolsheviks authorize Trotsky to push Brest-Litovsk talks
Gopenhagen Jan 26 report says the National Russian Congress of Soldiers and Workmen Deputies authorized Foreign Minister Trotsky to continue peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk. Trotsky will return to Brest-Litovsk early next week.
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Gopenhagen
National Russian Congress of Soldiers and Workmen
Trotzky
Brest-Litovsk
Petrograd
M. Trotsky
Negligence Cited in Freight Congestion by Railroads
Washington report to Director General McAdoo says private management railroads show gross negligence in locomotive care. Hundreds of locomotives idle in shops and roundhouses due to neglect or missing repairs, reflecting poor foresight by local railway officials.
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Washington
McAdoo
Interstate Commerce
McChord
Rej En
Austria Ready for Peace Separate From Germany
Vienna dispatches from Petrograd report Austria is ready to conclude a separate peace without Germany and accept the Russian democratic program except for self determination of nations. Additional Petrograd telegrams claim Bolshevik papers note great reactions in Austria Hungary and mention soldiers forming a union.
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London
Austria
Germany
Petrograd
Sixchange Telegraph Company
Exchange Telegraph Company
Austria-Hungary
British Labor Concludes Historic Convention Endorses Wilson
The British Labour Party wraps a three day convention in Nottingham with a firm anti militarist stance and strong endorsement of President Wilson. Pacifist elements were defeated on votes about war policy while Lloyd George and Poincare drew less critique. no Allied leader received as strong a tribute as Wilson.
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Nottingham
Eng
Labor Party
Wilson
Lloyd George
Poincaire
President Wilson sets food conservation plan for war effort
Washington January 26 President Wilson completed a proclamation urging greater food saving to release more food for the army and Allies. The document to be issued from the White House tonight outlines the Food Administration program and includes wheat flour sale and distribution regulations.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Food Administration
American crews on special food orders
Washington reports crews of all American ships sailing from Atlantic and Gulf ports will receive special Food Administration rations starting February 1. They will eat less beer and pork and observe ten wheatieas meals per week.
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Washington
Atlantic
Gulf
Special Food Administration
Pershing Announces Deaths Of Five AEF Privates
General Pershing reports five American Expeditionary Forces deaths from pneumonia and a skull fracture. Names include Allen Maxwell from Jordan, C H Private Jesse Lakes of Hephzibah Georgia, Wesley Small from Baldock South Carolina, Ernest Mosey from Rion, Virginia, and Samuel H Passey of Vinton Roanoke County Virginia. All were privates.
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Washington
Pershing
Allen Maxwell
Jordan
Jesse Lakes
Hephzibah
Wesley Small
Baldock
Ernest Mosey
Rion
Samuel H. Passey
Vinton
Roanoke County
Senate backs Federal Bill ending amendment ratification
Bismarck North Dakota January 26 the Senate with only two dissenting votes last night concurred in the House resolution ratifying the Federal Bill ending amendment.
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North Dakota
Bismarck
Senate
House
Similar Views In Germany on Peace Terms Debate
The piece surveys international reaction to German and Austrian wartime aims as leaders push for terms favorable to their side. It notes unity among Allied capitals on Germany seeking peace on its own terms, with London stressing a uncompromising stance and Paris viewing Central Powers as trying to split the Allies.
Hertling's Address Seeks to Separate Alsace Lorraine
The Temps argues German Chancellor von Hertling avoids full commitment to evacuating Belgium and aligns with keeping the Alsace Lorraine issue separate from President Wilson's peace program. It notes his remarks fail to reassure Allies and hint at a unified Entente front being fractured by this stance.
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Alsace-Lorraine
Wilson
Paris
Cellor
von Ke
Lorraine
Germany
Belgium
Temps
von Hertling
Corenin
Cancellor von Hertling
Chan von Hertling
Fire at Fidelity Storage Warehouse destroys Paterson facility
Paterson New Jersey, January 26 Fi delity Storage Warehouse burned with an estimated loss of 150000 dollars. One life is believed to have been lost. Fifteen firemen trapped on the roof had narrow escapes from death.
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Paterson
Fidelity Storage
Disorders in Barcelona Reported as Rioting Women Demand Cheaper Food
Reports from Madrid dated January 26 confirm disturbances in Barcelona as groups of women rioted demanding lower prices. The government has suspended constitutional guarantees in the province of Barcelona.
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Madrid
Barcelona
Taft Addresses Camp Lee Soldiers in Virginia
Petersburg Virginia January 26 President William Howard Taft spoke to Camp Lee soldiers at the M C A auditorium on why the United States went to war. He noted offenses by many and praised the army tour. Brigadier General Lloyd M commanded Camp Lee while Major General Cronkhite served in France. Yale men in attendance cheered Taft as he supported camp library enrichment by the American Library Association.
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Petersburg
William H. Taft
Camp Lee
Taft
America
Lloyd M
Cronkhite
France
Yale University
Dent
American Library Sociation
MORE LIGHT SHED ON PACKERS ACTIVITIES
Washington reports government counsel Heney described correspondence as interesting linked to alleged efforts by large packers to derail a 1916 investigation. The letters allegedly aimed to secure government publication of meat price figures and avoid a Congressional inquiry via an amendment to agricultural law.
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Washington
Heney
Federal Trade Inquiry
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