Packers Charged With Profiteering in 1915 17
The federal trade commission reported widespread profiteering in basic commodities led by meat packers Armour Swift Morris Wilson and Cudahy. It says the five firms pocketed 140 million dollars across 1915 to 1917, using monopolistic tactics while price fixing affected consumers and competitors.
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Washington
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Armour
Swift
Morris
Wilson
Cudahy
Italians Break Through on Asiago Front Take Monte di Valdella
Italian forces push along the Asiago plateau capturing Monte di Valdella and 809 prisoners. They also seize the Sasan Rosso heights on the Brenta left bank near Valstagna. The surprise offensive challenges Allied expectations of a mountain defense.
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Rome
Asiago
Monte di Valdella
Diaz
Brenta
Sasan Rosso
Valstagna
Piave
McAdoo Returns Short Lines to Private Control
About 1700 short line railroads were turned back to private management on June 20 by the Railroad Administration. A few hours later Congress passed legislation aimed at preventing further relinquishments. Between 0 and 400 roads sought to remain under government control, with about 400 counted as part of the national system.
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Washington
Railroad Administration
Congress
Kystom
Senate approves war funding bill in Senate pause
The Senate on Saturday approved an appropriations bill providing more than twelve billion dollars for war funding and presidential authority. The measure faced a brief pause after passing several days of debate with no opposing votes.
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Senate
Washington
Survivors of Owlusk sinking rescued at Hampton Rounds
Twenty men were rescued on June 28 after surviving an Owlusk transport ship sinking near Owinak Beach Shore Washington. They were picked up by a naval vessel and remained offshore near Hampton Rounds through Sunday.
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Owinak Beach
Washington
Hampton Rounds
Senate defeats plan to raise army draft age to twenty one
The senate on June 28 overwhelmingly defeated an amendment to extend the army draft age to twenty one. The plan to base quotas on class one rather than state populations and other changes were also voted down. The chamber adopted reforms including a $100,000,000 aircraft production board and neutral citizenship provisions tied to draft exemptions.
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Washington
Senate
Fall of
New Mexico
Aircraft Production Corporation Board
The
Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Hitchcock
Nebraska
State Department
Death of Grant H. Lyman Son of Apostle in France
Salt Lake City official notice reports Grant H. Lyman died from wounds suffered while serving with the marine corps in France on June 17. He is the son of the late President Francis M. Lyman of the Council of Twelve of the L D S Church.
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Apostle Lyman
Salt Lake City
Grant H. Lyman
Marine Corps
France
Francis M. Lyman
Council of Twelve
L. D. 8. Church
Armed Prisoners Aid Bolsheviks In Siberia Fight
Harbin dispatch says 20,000 prisoners fight for the Bolsheviki in trans Balkaria with 4000 Magyars as the main source of strength. The correspondent notes prisoner releases bolster Bolshevik power and could topple their regime in Siberia.
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London
Siberia
Harbin
Daily Mall
Trans- Balkaria
Button Combine Dissolved In Pearl Button Industry Case
Judge M K Wade entered a voluntary decree in federal district court dissolving the button combine which was alleged to have controlled prices and output in the United States pearl button industry.
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Button
Des Moines
M. K. Wade
Federal District Court
Button Combine
United States
United States Threatens War Over Tabriz Incident
The United States warned Turkey on June 25 to explain the sacking of a U S hospital in Tabriz or face possible war. Secretary of State Lansing sent the urgent ultimatum via the Swedish government, after prior messages through Sweden and Spain were ignored. Officials say relations with Constantinople are at their most strained in memory.
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Washington
United States
Turkey
Tabriz
Constantinople
Lansing
Sweden
Spain
Bolsheviks and Hun Unite in Poland Conspiracy
A Milan dispatch to the Times reports a secret convention between London Germany and the Bolshevik government to crush Polish nationalism. The agreement pledges recognition of Austro German hegemony in Poland and aid to defend it against former Russian allies.
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London
Germany
Poland
The
Nation's Voice
Cracow
Calica
Times
Milan
Russia
Major Killed as Train Crashes into Stone Truck
Three men died outright and an army major was fatally injured when an Aurora, Elgin and Chicago electric train crashed into a stone laden truck at Elmhurst. The truck’s gasoline tank exploded and burned, but the electric cars were saved from the flames.
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Chicago
Army
Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Limited
Elmhurst
Premier Hughes Warns Allies Face Supreme War Crisis
London speech at the Chamber of Commerce notes Prime Minister Hughes and Australia warn against a turning point in the war. German leadership accepts need for decisive victory now to avoid a doomed stalemate amid rising odds.
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London
Wilian M. Hughes
Australia
Chamber of Commovce
New Bond Issue Approved in Washington House
The House on June 28 approved without dissent and with little debate a bill authorizing an additional bond issue of 8 billion dollars.
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Washington
House
July Draft Calls to Deplete Glass? National Mobilization Plans
Washington reports 367 961 men to be called in July underGen Crowders orders. White and colored registrants total 124 525 summoned June 26 with mobilization in July starting July 5 for 43 250 white men. Aims include 220 000 to be mobilized July 22 25 and new 21 year old registrations.
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Washington
General Crowder
Commission to Visit Russia for Economic and Industrial Study
Washington reports plans to send a commission to Russia to study its economy and industry. The official authority says the commission's personnel are now under discussion.
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Russia
Washington
Usshet
Germany Accepts Invitation to War Prisoner Conference
Washington reports Germany has accepted the U S invitation to send representatives to Berne Switzerland for a conference on August 5 with the American delegation on the general subject of exchange and treatment of prisoners of war.
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Germany
Washington
United States
Berne
Switzerland
American Army Unit Now in Italy Arrives June 28
Washington says the first American force in Italy landed June 28 to augment French-reinforced units. Sanitary teams lead arrivals with other special units. The bulk of combat troops will come from the United States, replacing units sent to Italy from France. The Seventy-seventh Division, raised in New York and trained at Camp Upton, now holds a front sector under Major General Johnson.
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Washington
Italy
United States
Marek
Staf
France
Pershing
March
Baker
First National Army
New York
Camp Upton
J. Franklin Bell
Johnson
U S Reproaches Carranza Over Mexican Land Tax Decree
The state department on June 20 protested to President Carranza against Mexico’s February decree taxing all lands, calling it confiscation and unfair. It cites Wilson’s warning that suspicion breeds trouble and trust leads to peace in future relations of nations.
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Washington
United States
Mexico
State Department
Carranza
Wilson
Future Relations of Nations
Keymen to Strike July 8 Against Western Union
Chicago June 30 J S Konenkamp president Commercial Telegraphers Union in America issued a general order to all units calling for a strike against Western Union Telegraph on July 8 at 7 am after months of negotiations through the national war labor board whose decision granting the telegraphers the right to organize was rejected by Western Union.
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Chicago
J. Konenkamp
Commercial Telegraphers Union In
America
Western Union Telegraph Company
National War Labor Board
Western Union
Proposals Rise After FTC War Profits Report
Disclosures of profiteering in the federal trade commission report spur senators who last year demanded taxing 80 percent of war profits to pursue immediate action.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Britons Down Seventeen German Planes on Front
British aviators on the western front Friday shot down seventeen German air planes and sent six others down out of control. Three British machines are missing as a result of the combat.
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London
American aviators report capture of 800 German prisoners
General Pershing released an official communique noting that American forces captured about 800 German prisoners and destroyed three German airplanes in actions reported Saturday.
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Americana
Washington
General Pershing
Building Collapse in Kioux City Causes Casualties
A three story brick Hutt building at Mourth and Douglas collapsed at 1 40 Saturday afternoon. Early estimates put deaths at 10 to 20 with about twenty more injured.
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Kioux City
Iowa
Hutt
Mourth and Douglas
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