Bills Aimed at Profiteers Before Senate
Helena Aug 1 Two Montana senate bills target profiteers. One by Booth bars wholesalers from consolidating all product from a single firm and requires carload or lowest-fare sales with penalties up to 5000 dollars or one year in prison. Another by Tealy Booth and Lowe bans discriminatory wholesale pricing and requires price quotes and monthly reports to the Montana trade commission.
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Standard Start
Helena
House
Higgins
Senate
Booth
Montana
Oiny
Montana Trade Commission
Relief measures advanced before special session
Helena reports the caucus passes two relief bills for drought districts. House bill 11 proposes five million dollars in state farm development bonds over 15 years at 5 percent, with a statewide one mill annual tax and a September 2 bond election. Loans fund seed grain, equipment, fencing, irrigation, debt relief, and other farm needs as defined by the state board of examiners.
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Standard
Helena
Higgins
Belden
Drouth
State Board of Examiners
Farm loans and county aid measure outlined in state bill
The proposal sets up loans up to 5000 dollars for those farming or raising livestock, with 6 percent interest and security to be decided by the state board. Applicants must swear to objects and use, notes payable yearly, and funds revert to the farm development bond. The bill also allows county boards to purchase seed and supplies for disaster victims, with petitions from 100 freeholders before action. If under 10000 dollars, relief is provided. above that, a special election is held and bids are sought.
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State Board of Examiners
Board of County Commissioners
Belden
Condroners
Peer Prine
Myers Ageo Fund for Fire Combat
Senator Myers of Montana introduced a bill at Secretary Lane’s request to approprate 900 000 to empower the interior department to fight forest fires on public lands in several western states. The measure was sent to the appropriations committee as Idaho and Montana face fire emergencies. The senate public lands committee plans its original agenda and will wait on the Mondell land reclamation bill until it passes the house. The house committee chair expects to report tomorrow and to bring the bill up when Congress reconvenes in September.
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Myers
Montana
Lane
Interior Department
Appropriations Committee
Idaho
Senate Public Lands Comm
Sinnott
House
Explosion Kills Five in New Jersey Packing House
Five people died when a thousand pounds of dynamite exploded at a packing house of Atlas Powder company near Landing New Jersey. Accident investigators probed the sudden blast and its cause while officials reported casualties and property damage. The incident occurred today as workers were handling dynamite in the facility.
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Atlas Powder Company
Chicago Riots End as Troops Quell Unruly Areas
State troops patrolled the south side urban zones while police closed saloons and assembly places in the Negro district. Officials reported uneasy calm but warned of possible further unrest, with house to house searches urged to seize firearms. The mayor sought 2,000 more permanent police.
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Garrity
A. F. Lorenzen
First
Illinois
Brundage
United States
Third Reserve
Bakery concerns surprise public over price hike hearing
Chairman Frank Eliel agreed to hear bakers who promised to submit figures soon. No figures were yet filed and prices rose suddenly and arbitrarily. The public learned that master bakers plan to present data before any further price advance. Many housewives intend to bake their own bread, cutting demand by about 40 percent as costs rise.
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Frank Eliel
Commission
Worldwide fight against food profiteering and price controls
Fragmentary text discusses wartime food restrictions and price concerns. Mentions Herbert Hoover, the United States, and Allied nations resisting further price increases on essentials. Notes fear of Germany purchasing through reparations and government price controls amid social conditions.
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Europe
United States
Herbert Hoover
Germany
Montana grain crop estimate announced
Commissioner Charles D. estimates the Montana grain crop at 4,000,000 bushels with irrigation districts supplying most of the yield. The state would buy seed grain for about 10,000 farmers, and about 10,000 more will be required for related outlays. Expenditures for farm stock and other items are not included in this estimate.
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Charles D. ‘Tatissioner
Tunnel project study favors under Channel study report
Aug. 1 in Will Tunnel Aris reports that a committee appointed by Albert Claveile to study the feasibility of a tunnel under the English Channel has given a favorable assessment of the project.
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Albert Claveileter
Public Works
English Channel
Cabinet Action Aims To Cut Prices And Wages
A special committee was named to study ways to lower living costs. President Wilson and Attorney General Palmer will lead the group, which will compile deductions and report to the cabinet Monday. The plan includes enforcing laws against profiteering and addressing wage demands, with discussions on wheat prices and taxation.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
General Hines
Federal
Leffingwell
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White House
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Brotherhood ‘of
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Duto
Mooney in Congress Pushes Labor Department Inquiry
In Washington on August 1 Representative Blanton Democrat Texas introduced a resolution asking Secretary Wilson for details on labor department activities related to Thomas J. Mooney. The measure seeks copies of instructions given to J B Densmore during his 1918 California Mooney investigation and names of department personnel involved, plus a full statement of expenses and activities since Mooney’s conviction.
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Department of Labor
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Wilson
Blanton
Texas
House
J.B. Densmore
California
Mooney
Department
Densmore
Bolshevist Letter Barred From Record
Washington August 1 Senators Williams and another Republican protested admission of a letter from Arthur Le Seus St Paul to the partisan league arguing the war aimed at fighting popular government in Russia. Approx 1 500 000 pounds of surplus prunes from war dept stocks sold to New Wrecking Co Indianapolis at 20 to 23 1/2 cents a pound. Some smaller lots sold at 16 to 19 cents. Washington August 1 F W Tausig resigns as chairman of the United States tariff commission, resignation accepted by Wilson.
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Arthur le Seus St. "Paul
Partisan League
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Mississippi
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War Department
New Wrecking Company
Indianapolis
Ind
Saripp
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United States Tariff Commis
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