Eastern U S Faces Food Shortage Due to Rail Delays
The Associated Press reports food administrator Hoover warns the eastern United States will face a sixty day shortage. He blames railroad congestion for delaying grain, corn, and meat movements, risking large stockouts and higher prices. McAdoo pledges transport aid.
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United States
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Food Administration
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Railroad Administration
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Gun Duel In France Sees Skirmishers Exchange Heavy Fire
On Feb 21 the ongoing artillery duel between SIVMIES and the American Army in France persists day and night. The enemy fires increasing volleys, yet damage to American lines remains minor while American shells repeatedly strike key enemy positions with evident effectiveness amid ground haze and limited observation.
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Sivmies
Roche
France
Graft Alleged Among Officers of Federal Banks
Washington report on amendments to the federal reserve act proposed by the treasury. Chairman Carter Glass charges graft among east coast bank officers who trade influence for loans. The changes would make it a crime for an officer to accept fees or gifts to obtain loans or to take personal loans over ten thousand dollars. State banks oppose federal act encroachment despite recent supreme court ruling on trust provisions.
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Federal Reserve System
Carter Glass
House Banking and Currency Committee
Treasury Department
East
Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Act
Supreme Court
Open Shop Policy Emphasized by McAdoo for War Effort
Director General McAdoo set a general order clarifying federal relations with road workers. Officials and laborers are to serve the government and public, not private interests, with all safety laws enforced. Overtime may be required and job retention based on fitness and service, with no discrimination for union membership.
High School Service Flag Unfurled With 94 Stars
Cheyenne High School unveiled a service flag bearing ninety four stars including one gold star at a patriotic gymnasium event. Supt Ira B Fee led the program with Miss Columbia and other dignitaries as the audience sang America and heard the flag history.
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Couture
Ira B. Fee
Alicea McPhetridge
Columbia
Watcle
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W. (. Mentner
P. L. Corbin
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Fort Russell
Frank Mullen
Francis Brownlee
Red Cross
America
McPherridge
Cleveland
Ohio
Allies Fighting for Lives Says Briton
Viscount Milner, member of the war cabinet, in Plymouth urges restraint on war talk and warns that until peace negotiations are reached the Allies are fighting for their lives and the existence of free peoples in the western world. He notes Russian setbacks and Germany's strengthening military stance amid continued bloodshed.
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Associated Press
London
Viscount Miler
War Cabinet
Plymouth
Alma
Kuom
Russia
Germany
Sadedle
Pershing Will Get Supplies Under Spain Agreement
Washington reports an economic pact with Spain allows General Pershing to receive army blankets and other materials in exchange for cotton oil and other commodities. The State Department was advised by Ambassador Willard late tonight.
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Washington
Spain
General Pershing
Madrid
State Department
Am Dastador Willard
U S Moves to Control Street Railways and Utilities
With President Wilson's approval the federal railroad administration plans to take an interest in street railways and light, heat, and power companies nationwide whose finances may be strained by rising operating costs.
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Washington
Wilson
Federal Railroad Administration
Lght
Treasury certificates offered to raise funds with new rate
Treasury certificates of indistinct value were offered for subscription tonight by Secretary McAdoo as part of funding efforts. They carry an interest rate above the prior 4 percent, at ty per cent, payable next May 2.
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Washington
Treasury
McAdoo
Vast Supplies Sent to Allies
Washington announces daily eastward shipments of packing house products for export to the Allies for a month. Secretary McAdoo outlined plans to move up to five thousand railroad cars daily, with wheat and oats totaling millions of bushels, to the seaboard.
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McAdoo
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Count Macchi di Cellere
Andre Tardieu
Seaboard
Federal food admin raises meat ban west of Mississippi
Telegram from Congressman Timberlake reports the federal food administration has extended the embargo on mutton and lamb use for nine days until April 18 west of the Mississippi River and in Wisconsin and the northern states.
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Fort Collins
Cola
Imelidlie Uimoty
Wisconsin
Timberlake
Narrow partisan press seizes chance to defame governor
The Wheathead affair unfolds with Phifer and an aide to the governor preparing slanderous affidavits. Bennett, an impostor now acting as an affidavit man and camouflage, aims to spread false statements through a partisan newspaper, specifically the Wyoming Tribune, to injure the governor.
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Bennett
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Wyomieg Tribune
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Austrians Back Wilson Peace Plan Amid Turbulent Debates
Austrian socialists urge government to adopt President Wilson’s peace principles and begin direct negotiations with the United States. Vienna reports say protests and cries of treachery marked Premier von Seydlers address as Polish and Czech tensions rise over policy and the Ukrainian border.
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Zurich
Wilson
Amsterdam
United States
Jan
Reichetrat
von Seydler
Vienna
Berlin
Vossiche Zeitung
Berlina
Hig
Cyech
Russia
Indian Squaws Go on Warpath in Utah
Incensed by the arrest of seven draft evaders and their removal from the Goshute reservation soldiers faced a hostile protest by squaws. They raided the agency, threatened to kill Indian interpreter Jim Clover left in charge, and aimed to burn the agency office while inciting the old bucks to violence and revenge.
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Cold Hill
Utah
Goshute
Jim Clover
Bolsheviks Gird For War as Germans Enter Minsk
Associated Press reports German troops enter Minsk as Polish legionnaires also occupy the city. Petrograd braces for resistance with Red Guard and civilian workers mobilizing. News from Brest-Litovsk peace talks surfaces amid rumors Trotzky may resign.
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London
Neval
The
Express
Petrograd
Reval
Daily News
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Trotzky
Prussian Diet Subproposal Backed by Conservatives
The franchise committee of the lower house accepted by 20 to 1 the Conservatives' subproposal for plural voting and representation by professions and guilds. The government proposal for equal suffrage was declared disposed of, according to a Berlin telegram.
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Amsterdam
Diet
Berlin
Senate defeats federal control of railroads bill vote
Senate votes 10 to 1 against government ownership of railroads after the war. Cummins of Wyoming proposes reducing compensation to railroads. supporters vow to renew effort. Debate centers on whether federal control should continue beyond current terms and how compensation is handled.
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Fo. d
Colny
Senate
Johnson
Phatia Fornassitis Ilia
Atraneth
Cummins
Lowe
Kendrick
Wyoming
Maximum Prices for Foods Fixed in Association
Chicago reports a new association rule setting maximum food prices. Directors declare Feb 2 as the start of a period in which members may not contract for purchase or sale by grade above eight and one half cents per bushel for deliveries from February through May.
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Associated Press
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