Lawrence Ice Price Hearings Pin Down Race to Profiteer Costs
Lawrence dealers faced a public hearing on ice pricing with Attorney Guterman and Assistant U S District Attorney Goldberg present amid talk of a federal probe. The commission approved reduced retail rates from 1 to 0.75 per 100 pounds in 100 pound lots while keeping wholesale at 12 per ton. Witnesses from Lawrence Ice Company and others admitted price increases since March, citing costs and competition, and some raised questions about fairness and record keeping.
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Harry N. Guterman
Attorney-General’s
United States District
Louis Goldberg
James A. Donovan
Fter
Louis Holt
Law“ence Ice Company
Aswer
Sterman
Ina
Ie Ealers
Donovan
Lawrence
Merrimack River Valley
Lowell
Haverhill
Quan Y
Clara F. Prescott
Lawrence General Hospital
Ida C. Blackwell
E. F. Hilton
Alderman Maloney
City Hospital
Guterman
Cr. H. Thomas
Weir
N. H
Gutan
Emil Mercier
Peoples’ Ice Company
Mercier
John Q. Hill
Lawrence Ice Company
Hill
Goldberg
W. A. Toye
Toye Brothers
E. T. Nuckely
Andover
Holt
Mr. Holt
Morris Hill
Pleasant Valley Ice Company
United States
Daniel A. Shea
State Commission On
John H. Sherburne
Boynton
Federal Building
Shea
Commission
Boston
State Commission
B R T Men Vote to Quit
In New York Aug 5 Brooklyn Rapid Transit workers affiliated with the Amalgamated Association voted unanimously to strike at 5 am tomorrow. About 3000 members approved, with 8000 of the company’s 13 000 employees expected to obey. The strike covers all lines except subway and elevated motormen, likely tying up surface, subway and elevated service. An immediate strike was ordered but an amendment set the start time at 5 am to allow current crews to finish.
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New York
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Subway
Elevated
Mena
Youths Plunge to Death in White Mountains Tragedy
Clauson and Lonigan disappeared with companion John Jansky during a walking trip in the White Mountains. Jansky reported the plank they rode descended the steep grade at a terrific speed before the fatal fall.
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Clauson
Lonigan
John Jansky
White Mountains
Jansky
Plank Ride Tragedy On Mt Washington Ends in Deaths
Clauson Lonigan and Jansky, Boston natives, hiked Mt Washington and spent the night at Summit House. While descending they proposed riding a plank down the tracks. Jansky refused a risky start. two hours after searchers found the other two bodies thrown from a pine-covered 40 foot wreck site. Clausson lived on 60 Eighth Street and Lonigan on Union Park Street.
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Clauson
Lonigan
Jansky
Mt. Washington
Summit House
Clausen
Boston
Clausson
Eighth Street
South
Union Park Street
Vacationing youths Claused in Bretton Woods accident
Clauson 19, Lonigan 21, and John Jansky were on a White Mountains trip when a Bretton Woods accident claimed Clauson and Lonigan. Clauson, son of J A Clauson of South Boston, worked at Clauson Machine Co. Ages and family ties noted. Jansky unnamed.
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Harry Clauson
Jack Lonigan
Bretton Woods
N. H
J. Albert Clauson
Eghth Street
Boston
Lonson
John Jansky
White Mountains
J. A. Clauson Machine Company
Summer Street
Clauson
Lonigan
Florence
Car Shop Workers Announce No Action Pending HQ Request
Fitchburg August 5 union officers said no strike action would be taken in local Boston & Maine shops until an oral vote request is received from national headquarters.
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Fitchburg
Car Shop Workers’ Union
Boston & Maine Railroad
National
Women Buy First Carload Of Food In Boston Probe
Women officers of the mayor's Food Committee announce the first carload sale to Boston housewives at about 7500 dollars. Federal and state probes into high prices proceed with witnesses grilled and plans to root out profiteers.
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Mayor’s Food Committee
Margaret N. Jacobs
Barrett Wendell
Mary A. Barr
Public Service
Women’s Public Service Committee
Boston
United States
Thomas J. Boynton
Profiteers to Be Brought to Court Warning on flour price readjustment
Government promises action to curb profiteering under the Lever act as Attorney General Palmer orders nationwide investigations. Director Barnes says grain corporation will sell Standard export flour in carloads at not more than ten dollars per barrel, below last four months’ levels.
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Department of Justice
Waltham
Malden
Farmers’ Market Exchange
Main
Irving Streets
Barnes
National Treasury
Congress
Grain Corporation
North America
United States
Russia
Palmer
Department
Food Administration
Tumulty
White House
Griffin
France
Italy
Runaway Train Wrecks Havoc in Its Path
A runaway train wrecked through a house burying eight occupants under plaster and debris, leaving the scene in a chaotic state. Firefighters and rescuers worked to reach survivors and assess the damage.
Embargo Debate Grows Over Food Exports to Europe
Washington reports show June exports of 356 million dollars worth of American foodstuffs to Europe as Congress weighs an embargo. Breadstuffs like wheat flour rye and barley plus meats dairy products and condensed milk led the shipments totaling hundreds of millions in value.
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Congress
America
Europe
Washington
Department of Commerce
United States
Japan's Shantung Note Not Yet Received in Washington
State Department officials said they have not received a copy of Tokyo's statement outlining Japan's intended disposition of the Shantung peninsula and know nothing of its contents.
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U. 8
Shantung
Washington
Japan
Shantung Peninsula
Tokio
State Department
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Natice
Dept
Newburgh-on-the-Hudson
Massachusetts
Mass
Ag Brand
Moun
South Boston
Barr
Armeigo Capitano
John Capitano
Amelia
Mary Capitano
Springfield
Capitano
John Crowley
Eleanor
Marie
New Haven
Springfield Ice Company
Carlisle Coal Company
Elinor
Font Piazza
Street Department
Tenment
Florence Capitano
Wilson
Mohawk Rubber Co. of
Brookline Ave
Maas
Akron
Ohio
Rose Petal
National Toilet Company
Paris
Tenn
Robert L. Norton
Shreve, Crump and Low Company
Sheffield
Tremont Street
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