Speculators in Food Hit Consumers With High Prices
Washington report states food speculators have taken about 60 million dollars a month from consumers for five months, totaling nearly 250 million. Herbert Hoover told senators that the food control bill aims to curb this, while predicting higher prices for all foodstuffs. He notes many new participants in food markets and cites England where bread costs less. The canning trade example shows 1917 output sold before canning.
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Hoover
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Congress
England
Day Convention Opens at Topeka Kansas
Kansas leaders and prominent figures from several states gather in Topeka for a State National Prohibition Convention focusing on wartime Prohibition. Dr Sam W Small of Atlanta is slated to speak at the opening meeting. Governor Arthur Capper and four former Kansas governors will address the follow up session, with former Congressman Richmond P Hobson scheduled for Wednesday night.
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Atlanta
Arther Capper
Th State
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W. J. Bailey
Richmond
PF. Hobson
Alabama
Standard Oil Ship John D Archibald Sunk by Submarine
New York June 19 The Oi Tank Steamship John D Archibald of the Standard Oil company has been sunk by a submarine. Four crew members are reported lost. The tanker went down last Saturday in European waters. It was armed and had United States gunners aboard from a wartime ship.
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New York
John D. Archibald
Standard Oil Company
United States
Heat wave chokes German crops across nation
Copenhagen dispatch reports unprecedented heat scorches German grain with widespread burning crops. Berlin reportedly endured its hottest Sunday in 70 years on June 17, as editors relay alarming conditions across the nation.
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Germany
Berlin
New Monster U Boats Noiseless Says Swiss
Zurich June 19 A Swiss correspondent who visited Kiel reports German new monster submarines of 2000 tons plus, with long range, over 20 knots surface and 12 submerged, crew over 160, noiseless motors and multiple 6 inch guns and torpedo tubes. Four built, more to come. Smaller subs said to reach 18 mph underwater with 20 to 30 torpedoes.
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Kiel
Army Physician Accused Of Murder In New Jersey Case
A warrant was issued for Captain William J. Condon U S Army Medical Corps in Chattanooga Tennessee on charges connected to the murder of John Viper a University of Vermont graduate. The body was found with a bullet wound near Spottawood. Police allege Condon moved the body from his home and disposed of it along a road in an automobile. Both spouses are married with children.
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United States Medical Corps
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Tennessee
John Viper
University of Vermont
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Condon
Active Army
Piper
Rutgers College
Ing Cane Riper
Pier Wer
May Casualties of Germans Heavy in May
London reports German casualties for May from official casualty lists. Killed or died of wounds and sickness 22,000. prisoners and missing 26,502. wounded 62,294. total 110,?. cumulative since the war began prisoners and missing 67,010. wounded 2,791,228. total 4,366,760.
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London
Russians Rebuild Towns They Destroyed
London reports from Koenigsberg East Prussia describe the reconstruction of about 30 000 homes wrecked in the prior invasion. More than half have been restored, with thousands of Russian prisoners aiding the work. Agricultural use expands in East Prussia, potatoes leading the crop. A Bradley picture show benefits the Red Cross with donated theater use and a special attraction.
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Germany
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Red Cross
Red Cross Appeal Urges Donations During War Week
A heartfelt plea to support the Red Cross as families mourn and heroes return. The message thanks donors for bringing sons home from No Man's Land and urges subscriptions of any amount to aid care, blood drives, and relief efforts nationwide.
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Red Cross Fund Urges Immediate Giving Wall of Granite Support
Letters emphasize urgent support for the Red Cross as a wartime wall of defense, criticizing hesitation to donate. The appeal calls donors to give until it hurts, citing suffering in Belgium and northern France and warning against American occupancy risks. A late item notes Metropolis North region water disputes and an injunction request over ditch cutting.
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Red Cross
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Dude Taber
Treasury receipts reach record billion-dollar figure
Washington June 14 The ordinary receipts of the U S treasury topped the billion dollar mark for the first time in American history totaling 1015 SSE,817 for the fiscal year, compared with 66,400 the previous year. The rise is mainly due to higher income taxes and earlier payments.
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Admiral Sims In Charge Of Allied Forges On West Front
Vice Admiral William S. Sims of the U S Navy was named to take general charge of Allied naval forces in British waters. Reports from Zurich and Vienna note Poland's political tension and harsh reprisals, while British front fighting intensity increases in France and Belgium with Petain expanding trench lines near Mont Camillet and Mont Blond. Haig reports raids probing German lines as the British line tightens along the southern sector.
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Trish Waters
Associated Press
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Belgium
Petain
Champagne
Mont. Camillet
Mont. Blond
Genoerail Haig
Nevada Volunteers Outnumber Drafts
Nevada has enlisted over six hundred men into the navy, marine corps, and army since April 6. Draft registration estimates for section one project five to six hundred, smaller than current enlistments. Total figures show 562 in navy, 50 in marine corps, 25 in other services, with army slots narrowed to infantry, field artillery, medical, bakers, telegraph operators. cavalry enlistments closed.
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Marine Corps
Nevada
The
Journal
United States
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Cavalry
Infantry
Field Artillery
Medical Department
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Signal Corps
State Food Control for Colorado Crops
A state wide plan for storage transportation and marketing of Colorado food crops has been approved by the State War Council. The plan aims to prevent waste assist producers and consumers ensure community food self sufficiency aid surplus sales through Eastern markets and provide pooled products including beans for Army use with warehouse receipt financing among its developments.
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Colo
Colorado
State War Council
Austrian Cabinet Resigns Reported from Basel
News from Basel reports that the Austrian cabinet has resigned. The June Vienna dispatches note the cabinet stepping down amid political shifts, with confirmation arriving here through international wires and city desks.
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Schnd
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England Two More 25 Million Dollar Loan Alert
United States approves another 25 million dollar loan to Great Britain on June 1. A.M. & A. F. & A. M. Elko Lodge No. 16 calls a meeting for important business and confer PC degree. The French Bakery plans to deliver Wheat-Rice bread to every house in Elko tomorrow, claiming a lower cost and improved quality over wheat bread using Lowell Grain and Milling Wheat-Rice blend.
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A. M
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Lowell Grain and Milling Company
WheatRice
Independent
Chaplin Offered Higher Pay Sparks Satirical London Mix
London papers mock Chaplin after reports he has been offered more money than in films. The Daily Express headlines Fighting For Millions and Charlie Chaplin Surfaces the Deadly Film while noting recruitment for Allied armies continues across the Atlantic.
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Chaplin
Britain
Daily Express
Charlie Chaplin
Atlantic
Germans Throw More Mud at America
Amsterdam dispatch reports Tage cie Rundschau calling the American emblem a carrion hawk and accusing the United States of gross hypocrisy. The piece describes America as a “filthy bird of prey” fattening on Europe’s corpse-decked fields, portraying the nation as unworthy of heraldic dignity.
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