Meat Packing Industry Hearings From Two Congressional Committees
Two congressional committees opened hearings on evidence from the FTC meat packing probe. J Ogden Armour testified to the House Interstate Commerce Committee about his $25000 salary and opposition to federal takeovers while proposing livestock pricing based on production costs and centralized shipments. Senate Agriculture Committee members questioned Thomas F Logan about his Washington work for Swift & Co and other firms. Independent packers also attended.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Meat Packing Industry
J. Ogden Armour
Armour & Co
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Senate Agriculture Committee
Thomas F. Logan
Swift & Co
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Joseph P. Tumulty
Edward N. Hurley
Hobby Submits Large Program to Legislature
Governor Hobby sends a broad program to the legislature advocating liberal public school funding including 500000 dollars annually for two years to raise teacher salaries, judiciary reform, home seekers laws, and delaying a constitutional convention until soldiers return. Other items include pipe line eminent domain, theft of cotton a felony, garage and mechanic licensing, and a suffrage measure advancing in the House.
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Alianee Austin
Legislture
Hobby
Austin
Sinn Fein Parliament Closes After Brief Session
Dublin January 2 Sinn Fein parliament adjourned after a one day session at the Mansion House behind closed doors. Count Vlanket said a business statement would be released later following the Piris conference. Outside a hundred youths gathered as two policemen were killed in Tipperary amid a rising terror campaign and explosives stolen from a guarded cart.
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Dublin
Sinn Fein
Mansion House
Count Vlanket
Piris
Tipperary
Bolshevik Shelling Hits Allied Positions in Russia
Archangel front reports Bolshevik artillery pounding American and Russian lines south of Padenga on the Waga river. A U.S. plane claimed bomb hits on key Bolshevik positions as fighting rages in cold, harsh weather with peasant mobilization and ongoing shelling along rail lines.
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Presa
Archangel
Padenga
Waga River
Shenkurska
Tania
Vilsk
Allim
Vologda
Kadish
Oneca
Khadish
White Sea
Murmansk
Rupozerka
Soroka
Organization for Merchant Marine Activity Planned
A conference of ship operators builders and employes laid the foundation for a permanent organization to maintain and expand the American merchant marine. Speakers urged against government control of ships in peace and called for a national policy of subsidizing ship operation, with wage control in shipyards to be relinquished as a step toward world competition.
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Associated Prew
Washington
Ransdell
Louisiana
Chas. Page
The
Shipping Board
Amarillo Weather Hourly Temperatures and Forecast
Yesterday in Amarillo hourly readings show highs near 72 with evening lows around 36 as a warm day ended. Forecast calls for Thursday fair with West Texas mostly fair and slightly warmer in the Panhandle, and Friday also fair with little temperature change.
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Amarillo
Son
Aodoo
West Texas
Panhandle
Bolsheviki suffer severe defeat in northern Russia
January 22 London reports from Copenhagen via the Exchange Telegraph that Bolshevik forces in northern Russia face a severe defeat. Dispatches say widespread revolts have erupted and a Bolshevik commander ordered the surrender of the town Stooveff without resistance.
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London
Bolshcheviki
Russia
Exchange Telegraph Company
Copenhagen
Pest
Stooveff
Move Toward Russian Truce Aims at Princes Islands Meeting
The Supreme War Council led by President Wilson moves to unite Russia’s factions including Bolshevists for a peace conference. A Russian commission sails to Princes Islands by February 15, while Pershing may join as U.S. representative.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Hoover
Senate
Europe
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Congress
Ashurst
Arizona
Townsend
Michigan
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Paris
England
Supreme Council of the Great Powers
Russia
Princes Islands
Sea of Marmora
Black Sea
Bosphorous
John J. Pershing
Joint Commission
Finsela
Associated Powers
Joint Commission of the Associated Powers
Siberia
Strike Conferees in Buenos Aires Deadlock Over Port Strike
In Buenos Aires ship owners and the Federation of Maritime Workers report deadlock in talks to settle a harbor strike that halted port activity. The dispute centers on the workers insistence on keeping a delegate on every vessel to arbitrate captain crew disputes, while owners refuse to renew operations until that demand is dropped.
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Buenos Aires
Federation of Maritime Workers
Mariime
Former Chieftain owner denies pro-Hon stance
N Stevens former owner of the Colorado Chieftain testifies before the Ball e committee denying charges that the paper agreed with Count Von Bernstorff to publish pro German articles. He says he never instructed Smith about paper orientation and never heard of German propaganda until 1916. He notes he sold an interest before the alleged agreement and cites his prior Denver city attorney and Colorado Senate runs.
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Washington
N. Stevens
Crear
Colorado
Alfred J. Smith
Count von Bernstort
Stevens
Smith
von Bernstorff
Denver
Senate
Progressive
Comepany
Philadelphia
Orners
Count von Bernstorff
Germany
New Mexico
Utah
General Pershing in Paris as Supreme Council Discusses Uprising
Report from Paris notes General Pershing arrives for ten day stay to assist in solving Russo Polish issues. The supreme council plans action and seeks a coordinated approach to the regional turmoil.
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Paris
Pershing
Roth Boon
Pershin
Supreme Council
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J.ogden Armour
House
Clark
Mr. Armour
Snook
Ohio
Armour
Cooper
Dillon
South Dakota
Armene
Fort Worth
Lenger
Amour
Federa
Wilson and
Huckle Abain
Organization For Merchant Marine Activity Planned
J. W. Powell
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Hfomer L. Ferguson
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Holden. Evans
Baltimore Drydock and Shipbuildingompany
Holshevikde
Real Terese
Tacoma
Ity
Portland
Supreme War Council
United States
Alefand J. Smith
Amsterdam
Gerenun Social Democrats
Dianatch
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