Nationwide Drive Averts Bread Shortage Activists Say
Nationwide campaign to avert a bread famine triggers agitation across the country. Supporters press for policy action as officials monitor supply and demand dynamics.
30 Sep 1916
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1916
Page
1
Nationwide campaign to avert a bread famine triggers agitation across the country. Supporters press for policy action as officials monitor supply and demand dynamics.
Washington dispatch reports Tri State Master Bakers urging export limits to avert bread famine. National Chamber of Commerce considers a referendum, with a special committee led by John G. Capers to devise a nationwide plan. Agencies including Agriculture and Commerce prepare data on a looming shortfall as 455 million bushels winter and 256 million spring wheat are forecast, far below recent years. per capita supply this year slated at six bushels, a post Civil War low.
British first line soldiers wear tin plates on their backs to deflect artillery fire and aid gunners in adjusting ranges, according to P F Marcosson who arrived in New York from England aboard the Baltic. also aboard was Rt Rev Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs, Lord Bishop of Worcester, en route to the Episcopal Church conference in St Louis on October 11.
A life preserver marked Bremen was found on Maiden Cove shore by ten year old Frederic Lakeman of Westbrook. The buoy bore German maker marks and a Crown motif and appeared new, prompting Coast Guard comment on its origin and possible accidental loss. It was photographed at a local newspaper office.
Mrs. Joseph Le Duc, wounded in the Walton Hotel shooting, must testify as a material witness. Mrs. Belzer killed Joseph Graveur and then died by suicide after a New York City witness’s account weakens the mystery surrounding the triangle death. Police shift to believe Belzer aimed to kill Graveur. revolver found in Belzer’s hand.
Beaver Falls police hunt a mysterious man who allegedly sold the Woolworth Building and the Brooklyn Bridge in New York to Silas B. Wood of Sewickley for 1000 dollars. Wood claims thirty years of earnings were used in the transaction.
Charles E. Hughes spoke in four New York southern tier cities on tariffs the Adamson law and eight hour day. He defended labor records clarified his stance on an eight hour day and urged protection extended to American industry peace and honor. He rode with Calder and Bacon then rested a substitute spoke in Hornell due to fatigue.
A bold strategy proposes a submarine fleet of about 300 ships aimed at starving England of supplies. The plan highlights a blockade style attack to deny wartime resources and force a quick surrender.
Berlin reports Chancellor Hollweg declares Germany will not hesitate to employ every instrument of battle to shorten the war. He criticizes Britain for breaking international law and notes Russia’s ultimatum to Roumania. James W. Gerard’s Washington mission may delay renewed submarine warfare.
Wet weather moved east of the Mississippis with rain across districts east of the river. A Western disturbance brought rising pressure and cooler air to the Eastern states after frosts in the Upper Lakes and Plains. Fair conditions expected Saturday and Sunday east of the Mississippi with cooler Atlantic coast temperatures and rising readings in the Great Lakes Ohio Valley and Southeast regions.
Westerly Rhode Island September 29 A fisherman at Pleasantview near Watch reported sighting a submarine may be the Bremen in the Atlantic.
Hill using marine glasses reports a large unflagged submarine twenty five miles east of New London heading toward the harbor. It shows a bright white mast light above a green light and moves at a moderate speed through choppy seas, referred by Captain Robinson to the Bremen’s expected profile.
The German merchant submarine Deutschland is ready for a second voyage to the United States, according to The Lokal Anzeiger reported by The Commercial Tribune from Amsterdam dated September 29.
At the American Chemical Society annual meeting in New York the dangers to munitions workers from poisonous gases and products such as gun cotton and nitroglycerine were highlighted. Dr. Alice Hamilton urged a Washington safety museum to coordinate officials and industry to reduce risk amid rising industrial poisoning cases since World War I.
Miss Wilhelmine Nichols named Superintendent of the Esther Home for Working Girls in the heart of the congested district. The home, formerly Ohio Hospital for Women and Children, was purchased five months ago by the Glenn Home Board Association and remodeled to house twenty seven girls with parlor and library. Dedication is set at St Paul’s Church Thursday at 4 with Bishop W F Anderson presiding. applications for boarders begin now with no creed or nationality bias.
Republican headquarters released Governor Willis speaking itinerary for early October. Dates include Geauga County on Oct 3, Alliance on Oct 4, Martins Ferry Oct 5, Greenfield Oct 6, Green County Oct 7, Piqua Oct 9, Lima Oct 10, Bucyrus Oct 11, Seville Oct 12, Columbiana County Oct 13, and Jefferson County Oct 14 with day and evening events where specified.
In Mountain View New Hampshire on September 29 the body of Mrs. Fred L. Small was found in a Lake Ossipee summer home. She was strangled beaten and the house set on fire. Her husband, Boston real estate broker Julius Small, was arrested after returning from Boston. A life policy of $20,000 on the couple was disclosed. Small previously sued A H Soden for $500,000 over Mrs Small’s affections and was awarded $10,000.
Allied forces press new advances on the Somme front with French gains between Fregicourt and Morval. Paris bulletin notes fresh drives by French and British yielded additional ground for the alliance.
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