Meat Trust Testimony Held Back at FTC Hearing
Reading of confidential packers files halted as Francis J. Heney returns to Chicago to pursue further material. Veeder’s vault holds key correspondence. court action possible if papers remain sealed. Heney accuses big packers of using influence and publicity funds to curb hearings.
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Associated Press
Washington
Chicago
Federal Trade Commission
Francis J. Heney
Henry Veeder
Heney
Hugh McIsaac
Commission
Veeder
Colin H. Livingston
Armour & Co
Cleveland
Sulzberger & Sons
Wilson & Co
Colin H. Livingstone
A. B. Adams
Livingstone
Thomas Shaughnessy
Lord Shaughnessy
Canada
Armour Company
Weather snapshot from Ohio Indiana Kentucky and West Virginia
Snow and cold across Ohio Indiana Kentucky and West Virginia with local snow in some areas Thursday and colder conditions Friday Fair and cold to very cold follow in most states Temperature readings show highs near 30s and lows below zero at several stations Wind and precipitation noted with cloudy conditions through the day. Historical comparison for Cincinnati January 2 1918 shows record lows and temperature shifts across 1915 1916 1917 and 1918 with cloudy conditions and light rain or snow indicated.
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Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Foreman Hennig Faces Treason Charge Over Torpedo Mutilation
Paul Hennig a naturalized German and foreman at the E W Bliss torpedo works is jailed on treason indictment with death penalty on conviction. He is accused of malicously mutilating gyroscopic steering gears to render torpedoes useless and cause them to circle back toward the firing ship.
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Underwood & Underwood
Paul Hennig
E. W. Bliss Torpedo Works
Great upheaval of labor in Germany and Berlin clashes
A Geneva dispatch reports clashes between soldiers and strikers in Berlin suburbs with some deaths as troops reportedly refused to fire. The German censor orders Berliner Tageblatt Vorwaerts and Berliner Post shut for their stance on the strike. London notes a nationwide labor upheaval amid peacetime dissatisfaction and mass strikes across Germany, with both men and women participating.
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Associated Press
London
Daily Express
Geneva
Berlin
Amsterdam
Berliner Tageblatt
Vorwaerts
Berliner Post
Germany
War MARRIAGES To Be Considered On Merits By Draft Boards
Secretary of War Baker challenges the district draft board ruling that all marriages since May 18, 1917 are slackers marriages. He writes Hughes that boards must decide each case on its merits under the selective service law.
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Associated Press
New York
Baker
Charles Evans Hughes
District Draft Appeal Board
Governor refuses pardon for convicted murderer
Columbus january report: Governor declines intercession in the electrocution of Charles Burnetti a Canton murderer set for midnight tomorrow. Attorney Frank Hemminger pressed insanity as a defense. Burnetti killed John O'Brien in Stark County in June.
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Columbus
Charles Burnetti
Canton
Frank Hemminger
Burnetti
John O'Brien
Stark County
Centralized control of all ships in transatlantic trade
A Ship Control Committee was created by U S and British officials to pool ships for moving supplies to Europe. The panel will direct loading, routing, and port of call decisions to speed shipments, with Allied and neutral ships operating under charter. Approval from Britain remains pending. Send Stevens abroad.
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Associated Press
Washington
American
Shipping Board
War and Navy Departments
Food and Fuel Administrations
Europe
P. A. S. Franklin
International Mercantile Marine
H. H. Raymond
Clyde and Mallory Lines
New York
Sir Cunnop Guthrie
United States
Railroad Administration
Cunnop Guthrie
Richard Crawford
Grain Fire Destroys Vienna Warehouses
Vienna grain warehouses are ablaze causing enormous damage. Revolutionaries are suspected of starting the fires. The large flour mill near Vienna was burned with grain flour and machinery destroyed, irreparably hurting Vienna’s provisioning.
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London
Vienna
Amsterdam
Exchange
Vorwaerts
Kaiser-Ebersdorf
Conference Endorses $50 Million Housing Appropriation
Washington January 380 housing appropriation of 50 million dollars was endorsed by a conference of top officials including Secretaries Baker Daniels and Wilson Assistant Secretary Roosevelt and Shipping Board leaders Hurley and Pier. The bill awaiting congressional action aims to house shipyard workers entering the labor force for war production and related centers may seek further aid.
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Associated Press
Washington
Baker
Daniels
Wilson
Roosevelt
Hurley
Pier
Shipping Board
Congress
Department of Labor
Two Pilots Die In Midair Collision Near Ellington Field
Houston report says Edwin D. James of Toledo Ohio and Carl S. Mather of Pawpaw Michigan, Second Lieutenants in the First Squadron at Ellington Field, were killed when their planes collided head on and plunged from 2000 feet. The aircraft locked together on impact and both bodies were badly mangled. Observers noted the planes were traveling at high speed at the time.
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Houston
Tex
Edwin D. James
Toledo
Carl S. Mather
Pawpaw
Mich
Ellington Field
Kentucky Legislator Discusses Bigelow Whipping Claim
In Lexington on January 30 a Kentucky legislator said Herbert S. Bigelow of Cincinnati was whipped by Kentucky farmers and deserved it. Rep Dill of Newport denied farmer involvement and blamed Ohio men. The House approved a $50 000 Tax Commission appropriation after a heated vote and advanced the state-wide prohibition bill.
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Lexington
Kentucky
Herbert
Canton plant fined for food control act violations
The United States Food Administration fined the Canton Ohio branch of General Baking Company $3000 after it found that O C Yant sold 100 pounds of sugar to 28 employees and to others in December and January. Yant was dismissed. the fine will be split to Red Cross Y M C A and Knights of Columbus war funds. Croxton recommended one week shutdown before deciding on further action.
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Associated Press
Columbus, O
United States Food Administration
Fred C. Croxton
Ohio
Canton (O
General Baking Company
Altho
O. C. Yant
Canton
Ohio Road Administration
Red Cross
Knights of Columbus
Yant
F. E. Fawcett
New York
Washington
Food Administration
Croxton
Murder suspect held in Milford arrest
A man believed to be Dudley Shelton, sought for the murder of Kentucky lawyer J. Mart Rothwell three years ago, was arrested in Milford by Marshal Harry Thomas at the request of Sheriff Homer Scoville of London Kentucky.
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Milford
Dudley Shelton
J. Mart Rothwell
Kentucky
Harry Thomas
Homer Scoville
London
Senator Hughes Dies After Long Illness in New Jersey
Senator Hughes of New Jersey died today after a long illness. Born in Droughden Ireland on April 3 1872 he rose from Paterson silk mills to a public defender of labor and a U S Senator since 1913. The White House and Senate leaders acknowledged his service and announced funeral arrangements.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senator Hughes
New Jersey
White House
Tumulty
Congress
House
Hughes
Department of Labor
Frelinghuysen
Senate
Droughden
Ireland
Paterson
United States
Ice gorge floods threaten Cincinnati area at Fernbank Dam
Ice jams formed a vast barrier on the Ohio River below Cincinnati as a new gorge at Fernbank Dam rose to hold back waters. The surge sent the river to fifty feet by night, with the potential for renewed flooding if another freeze or thaw worsens the barrier.
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Cincinnati
Fernbank
Ohio River
National Banks Show Stronger, Safer, More Lawful, Comptroller Says
Comptroller of the Currency reports national banks are stronger, safer, and more law observant and efficiently managed than ever before. Resources total $18.553 billion, up $7.06 billion since 1914, outpacing state banks by 61 percent growth over three years. Banking power now valued at about $57.529 billion.
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Williams
Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Act
United States
Federal Reserve Banks
Serbian Mission Head Telephones New York to Frisco
Dr Milenko Vesnitch head of the Royal Servian Mission spoke by long distance telephone today to the Jugo Slavy Committee in San Francisco receiving a greeting and pledge that Southern Slavs of the Pacific coast will aid Serbia in their liberation and unification. The call used Prof Pupin’s line invention and connected New York to San Francisco.
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Associated Press
New York
Milenko Vesnitch
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Serbia
Pupin
Prohibition Measure Passes Kentucky Lower House
The state wide prohibition bill, a Senate measure, passed the Kentucky House 76 to 11. If ratified by voters in November 1919, prohibition would take effect July 1, 1920 with exceptions for sacramental, medical, scientific and mechanical uses. The legislature had already supported the federal prohibition amendment.
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Frankfort
Senate
Kentucky
Ration Card for New York Wealthy Aims to Cut Food Use
Food administrator Hoover releases a voluntary ration card for rich households in New York under the honor system. Set kitchen display notes per person weekly allowances for meat fat sugar and bread with lists of items allowed freely such as seafood poultry and vegetables.
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New York
Hoover
F. Gray Griswold
Zeebrugge Targeted In Severe Aerial Raid
Amsterdam reports Zeebrugge, the German submarine base in Northern Belgium, suffered an unusually severe air assault Tuesday afternoon. The Telegraaf frontier correspondent confirms the attack.
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Amsterdam
Zeebrugge
Belgium
Telegraaf
Hudson River vehicle tunnel plan to be discussed
Proposals to build a tunnel roadway under the Hudson River connecting New York and Jersey City will be considered at a conference in New York within a few days. Governors and congressional representatives, along with mayors, will discuss sharing two thirds of the cost by the two states and the federal government covering the rest.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hudson River
New York
Jersey City
Sugar lines form for sugar amid shortage in Chicago
Chicago residents form long lines at major stores to buy half a pound of sugar as supplies run low. Smaller shops report depleted stocks while relief waits on West shipments delayed by freight congestion. Coal shortages persist with lines outside yards and households warning of possible seizure of tied up coal cars.
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Chicago
Illinois
State Fuel Administration
Ice Gorges Fail in Ohio River Break Near Cincinnati
Ice on the Ohio at Cincinnati split after 10 am sending large floes downstream toward the L and N Bridge. A crack ran for miles as rivermen and waterfront property owners sounded alarms and prepared to move belongings.
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Ohio
Cincinnati
Peace Luncheon Signals War Cabinet Coordination
Secretary Baker and Senator Chamberlain met at the Capitol to discuss army efficiency. They weighed a war cabinet bill as essential for centralized authority, while Baker argued that coordination is already underway. Chamberlain stressed the panel’s aim to aid the administration and promised further talks this week.
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Associated Press
Washington
Baker
Chamberlain
Senate Military Committee
Capitol
America
Altho
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