Eastern U S faces food shortage due to rail delays
A February report from Food Administrator Hoover warns of a severe eastern food shortage likely to last sixty days. He blames railroad congestion for halting the movement of grain and meat, with Congress and McAdoo offering transportation support.
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Associated Presse
Washington
United States
Hoover
Food Administration
Behin
Silies
McAdoo
Railroad Administration
Creshout
Appli
Artillery duel in France as American lines hold firm
Feb 21 reports persistent night and day artillery duel near Roche. American shells strike enemy positions with accuracy and intensity, while German fire causes only minor damage, hampered by ground haze reducing observation.
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Sivmies
Roche
France
Graft Alleged Among Officers of Federal Banks
Washington report notes graft among officers and directors of the federal reserve system. Chairman Carter Glass urges amendments to the Federal Reserve Act to make it a crime for officials to accept fees or gifts for loan approvals or to personally borrow over $10,000 from the reserve bank. State banks oppose federal act encroachment on this banking area.
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Washington
Federal Reserve System
Carter Glass
House Banking and Currency Committee
Treasury Department
East
Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Act
Supreme Court
Open Shop Policy Aims to Unite Government and Public
McAdoo declares government and public service align against Germany. Officials and workers must serve the public interest, obey safety laws, and work overtime when needed. Job retention will reflect fitness and service, with no discrimination for union membership.
High School Service Flag Unfurled With 94 Stars
The Chey Ioehleh school unveiled a 94 star service flag, one golden, at a patriotic gymnasium event. Supt Ira B Fee led the program with Miss Columbia Alicea McPhetridge and other dignitaries while the audience sang America. The flag honors students serving in World War I.
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Chey‘ioehleh
Couture
Ira B. Fee
Alicea McPhetridge
Columbia
Watcle
Mra. I. B. Henderson
W. (. Mentner
P. L. Corbin
Y. M
Fort Russell
Frank Mullen
Francis Brownlee
Red Cross
America
McPherridge
Cleveland
Ohio
Allies Fighting for Lives Says Briton
Viscount Milner, a war cabinet member, told reporters at Plymouth that war talk should not replace peace efforts. He warned that until negotiations succeed, Britain must press on to defend freedom and survival of Western nations amid German aggression and Russian turmoil.
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Associated Press
London
Viscount Miler
War Cabinet
Plymouth
Alma
Kuom
Russia
Germany
Sadedle
Pershing to Obtain War Supplies Under Spain Pact
Washington reports an economic agreement with Spain allows General Pershing to receive army blankets and other materials in exchange for cotton oil and other commodities. The deal was signed in Madrid and relayed to the State Department by Ambassador Willard.
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Washington
Spain
General Pershing
Madrid
State Department
Am Dastador Willard
U S Moves to Take Over Car and Light Plants
With President Wilson's approval the federal railroad administration plans to take control of street railway, light, heat and power companies facing financial strain from rising operating costs nationwide.
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U.S
Washington
Wilson
Federal Railroad Administration
Lght
Treasury certificates offered to raise funds at new rate
Secretary McAdoo announced a fresh issue of treasury certificates to strengthen reserves. The issue totals 500 million dollars with a 4 percent prior cap replaced by a higher rate and will bear interest payable May 24.
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Washington
Treasury
McAdoo
Vast Allied Supplies Move East For Export
Six trains of packing house products will be moved eastward daily for a month to Allies. Secretary McAdoo outlined shipments to the Hantish ambassador Earl Reading the Italian Count Macchi di Cellere and French high commissioner Andre Tardieu. Daily wheat oats and other foodstuffs will total millions of bushels with an estimated 5,000 cars per day moving to the seaboard.
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Washington
McAdoo
Earl Reading
Count Macchi di Cellere
Andre Tardieu
Seaboard
Federal inquiry cites limits on mutton and lamb use
Telegram from Congressman Timberlake reports the Federal Food Administration has raised the embargo on mutton and lamb for nonessential use until April 18 west of the Mississippi and across Minnesota Wisconsin and nearby states.
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Fort Collins
Cola
Imelidlie Uimoty
Wisconsin
Timberlake
Narrow partisan press seizes chance to defame governor
In Chapter 5 of the Wheathead affair Phifer and an officer near the governor plot misstatements to injure the governor. Bennett, an impostor, becomes an affidavit man and carrier of slander. They seek to spread the claim via the Tribune and the Wyoming Tribune as willing partisan outlets.
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Masonic Temple
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Rock Springs
Kemmerer
Green River
Evanston
Laramie
Jebel Temple
Denver
Rawlins
Wheathead
Phifer
Bennett
Cheneshirister
Wendy
the Tribune
Hater
The
Wyomieg Tribune
Parti
Austrian Socialists Press Wilson Peace Plan For General Talks
In Zurich and Amsterdam on February 21, Austrian socialist members urged government adoption of Wilsonian principles as the basis for broad peace talks with the United States. Vienna reports describe tense Reichsrat scenes as Premier von Seydlers speech provoked protests by Crèche and Slava factions. Polish protests and Ukrainian frontier tensions loom as Austria-Hungary faces demand for minister Count Cyernin’s dismissal.
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Hy Associated Press
Zurich
Wilson
Jan
Reichetrat
von Seydler
Vienna
Berlin
Vossiche Zeitung
Berlina
Hig
Cyech
Russia
Bug
Cyernin
Indian Squaws Go on Warpath in Utah
Incensed by arrests of seven draft evaders and removal from the Goshute reservation, squaws attacked the agency at Cold Hill Utah. They raided the cegency, threatened to kill Indian interpreter Jim Clover left in charge, and vowed to burn the agency office inciting the old bucks to violence.
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Cold Hill
Utah
Goshute
Jim Clover
Bolshevik Crisis Deepens With Minsk Occupation News
Associated Press reports German troops and Polish legionnaires have entered Minsk while Russian forces regroup near Vitebsk. Petrograd braces for attack as Bolsheviks vow to resist. German ships near Reval signal possible advance.
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Associated Press
Kerdin
Minsk
Russia
Patrogral
Vitebsk
Rbonchirueyeritel
London
Neval
The
Express
Petrograd
Reval
Daily News
Bolsheviks
Trotzky
Prussian Diet Debates Plural Voting Subproposal
The franchise committee of the lower house accepts by 20 to 1 vote the Conservatives subproposal for plural voting and representation by professions and guilds. The government plan for equal suffrage is declared disposed of per a Berlin telegram.
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Amsterdam
Diet
Berlin
Senate defeats federal railroad ownership plan vote
Washington report shows a decisive Senate rejection of a government ownership scheme for railroads after the war. The Cummins amendment sought to cut compensation and retain earnings, but failed 5 to 2 in a test vote, ending the immediate bid for federal control. Senator Johnson of California pledged to renew efforts despite the setback.
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Washington
Fo. d
Colny
Senate
Johnson
Phatia Fornassitis Ilia
Atraneth
Cummins
Lowe
Kendrick
Wyoming
Maximum Prices for Foods Fixed in February
The Associated Press reports a new, temporary price cap on food commodities set by a change in policy. The ruling binds members of the association to contracts by grade only, preventing purchases or sales above 50 cents per bushel for February through May. Imposed to curb speculation, the measure is to take effect February 2 and applies to shipments scheduled in February April and May.
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Associated Press
ICAGO
Seastom
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