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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1919
Page
1
The government vows to pursue profiteers and hoarders of food, pledging swift action to curb shortages and ensure fair distribution amid national strain. Officials say investigators will identify and prosecute individuals suspected of price gouging and stockpiling.
Amid rising costs, residents report grocery bills climbing sharply this month. Analysts cite supply chain strains and market pressures as factors, while store managers promise continued updates on prices and availability.
Attorney General Palmer after a White House meeting announced bold actions against hoarders and price gougers in food, with Congress urged to amend the food act. The administration promises aggressive justice, targeting big packers and retailers, while rejecting subsidies. The Wheat Situation report notes possible price readjustments if world prices fall.
The city council, on recommendation of City Attorney Walter R. Meta, ordered a refund of 711.26 to the Chicago Burlington & Quincy railroad company. The payment covered tar pails for street maintenance assessed a year ago but later found to be beyond the council’s jurisdiction. The railroad protested and has held the funds with the county treasurer awaiting settlement.
Profiteering sugar brokers claim outsiders in the trade hoard sugar to force a three cent rise and quote housewives fifteen cents a pound during canning season. A wholesale dealer testified against the profiteers in disputable proof of the scheme.
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee voted unanimously to have Chairman Cummins respond to President Wilson on creating a special railroad wage board. Cummins will make his letter public tomorrow and is understood to say he has authority without new legislation.
Fourteen principal railroad unions present a united plan to Director General Hines demanding immediate action on wages. They propose using a congressional appropriation for increased pay, backed by freight rate hikes, while pushing cost of living cuts. The action could mobilize about 2,000,000 rail workers and risk nationwide paralysis.
Omaha July 7 striking railroad shopmen have nearly halted operations as pickets block key facilities and union leaders pledge continued walkout actions amid ongoing talks for a settlement.
Superior awards sixty blocks of concrete paving while Grand Island orders one and a half miles of pavement. Columbus starts paving districts five and six soon, covering about fifty blocks. Main Street in Humboldt nears completion. 80 Will Alliance.
News from Aug 5 reports widespread shop and freight disruptions as union workers walk out across major rail hubs. Several lines including Northwestern shops in Missouri Valley and Council Bluffs, with others in Billings Helena and Huron, join the stoppage. Freight permits halted. passenger service largely intact. some shops see partial returns to work. Continuous updates expected.
City Council approves ordinance creating the city manager post and appoints Cassius C. Smith as manager and superintendent of the light and water department. He will oversee city improvements, parks, library, farm, cemetery, enforcement of ordinances and city purchasing. Smith, formerly of Montrose Colorado, begins August 20 with mayoral and council support.
Petitioners representing Box Butte Avenue owners urge Alliance Nebraska City Council to order paving from Fifth to Tenth streets with a twenty foot central parking lane. They request paving include one half block on Fifth through Ninth streets.
A couple of Mexicans faced police court after shots from a high powered gun at the railroad yards. Night Marshal Taylor and Special Agent Smith seized the firearms and jailed the offenders. One paid a $20 fine while the other faced a $60 charge.
Alliance strengthens roster with new players and defeats Scottsbluff Athletics 7 to 1 at the fairgrounds. Umpire Hariing praised. Frickie and Hudkins battery for Alliance. Adams and Garber for Scottsbluff. Alliance to travel to Bayard for next game.
Reports to the ways and means committee by Hoyt Gale of the Geological Survey describe tightened European export prospects for potash. Spain shows no surplus. Germany uses most of its potash at home. Alsace offers mainly low grade. true export potential could be limited to about 650 thousand tons globally, with U S shortages likely through the year. Nebraska producers have storage, but big buyers stay out, awaiting price movements and shipping availability.
John Walters of sixteen miles north and one mile west of Alliance shot himself with a .22 rifle, their body found days later by neighbors. Sheriff Miller had met Walters hours before he feared neighbors would blackmail him. Walters spoke of past mental strain and needing help to care for crops and stock, and he left behind three brothers and a sister. Funeral held at Hemingford.
Local people see optimism in a report on the foreign potash situation as eight een states show interest and Nebraska dominates production. The industry eyes opening plants at Antioch Lakeside and Hoffland while Fordney era legislation could shape price and domesticForeign mixes for farmers. Mrs James Graham returned from a Washington trip visiting her daughter May and the A Renswold family, former Alliance residents.
Mrs. J A Mallory told the city council Wednesday night she seeks relief from a torn up alley behind her Laramie avenue property. The dispute involves Lowry Henry cutting down alley surface for a rear garage pavement at Fifth street and Box Butte avenue, blocking use of a barn on Mallory lots. The council ordered the city attorney to arrange a settlement satisfactory to Mrs Mallory and reaffirmed that no one may alter streets or alleys without council order or consent.
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