Sugar control saved millions and kept prices steady
Herbert Hoover notes sugar reform saved the American public about 180 million dollars by fixing prices and coordinating refiners and wholesalers. With 70 percent of normal supply, retail sugar sells at 8.5 to 9 cents a pound, while avoidable shortages and wartime demands shape policies and shipping constraints.
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Herbert Hoover
United States
Food Administration
England
France
Arabs Mutiny Reported on British Steamship
A British steamship sent a call for assistance from an Atlantic port reporting a mutiny by Arab firemen aboard the vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Nine Die In Latest Air Raid
London reports three killed and ten injured in Tuesday night air raid. The British war office says aerial activity included bombing of Roulers Menin and a tournai air drome with several enemy aircraft shot down and three British planes missing. Six tons of bombs were dropped on enemy billets and trains.
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London
Berlin
South End
Dunkirk
Gravelines
Calais
British War Office
Roulers
Menin
Tournai
Italian Forces Gain As Austrians Suffer Heavy Losses
Rome reports Italian forces blocking Austrian advances and gaining ground in the Monte Deval Thella area. In two days of battle about six thousand Austrian troops were killed according to telegraphic reports.
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Rome
Monte Deval Thella
Teuton
Meat conservation drives cross nations as war shifts meals
The article notes Allied and European meat shortages and U S actions to preserve flocks and herds. It cites drastic livestock reductions in France England and Denmark, shifts to grain for feed, and cooperative efforts by U S stock breeders to boost production. It highlights the importance of pork and veal, and the war’s impact on milk yields and cattle supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
West
East Indies
France
Italy
England
America
West Indies
United States Food Administration
Europe
Denmark
Germany imposes martial law to end labor unrest
Copenhagen reports imperial orders extend martial law to Bremen and call for summary executions of strikers. Vorwaerts in Berlin cites suppression for three days as trigger for a mass strike. Strikes erupt in two Dortmund mines while Neuremburg workers resume after a two day demonstration.
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Copenhagen
Bremen
Vorwaerts
Berlin
Dortmund
Neuremburg
Bavaria
Forecaster Charged Over Newark Plant Attack Prediction
Antoine Deutsch, a Passaic machinist, was arrested after allegedly predicting publicly last Wednesday that the Submarine Boat Corporation Newark plant would be blown up or destroyed by fire. A fire at the docks and warehouses caused a $1,000,000 loss last Saturday. Deutsch is held for examination as federal agents investigate his claim.
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Paterson
N. J
Submarine Boat Corporation
Newark
Antoine Deutsch
Passaic
Deutsch
Secret Service
Clash Between Strikers and Police In Berlin
In Berlin the northwestern district saw clashes between strikers and police with one officer killed and a dozen strikers injured. A crowd of men and women attempting to disrupt streetcar traffic sparked the fight, another officer was seriously wounded, and disturbances spread to nearby sections as the German press notes a peak in Berlin now subsiding.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
Germany
Stevens to London as Shipping Board Sends Delegation
Raymond B. Stevens vice chairman of the Shipping Board and George Rublee of its legal staff head a 28 member delegation to London. Great Lakes shipping interests protest further removal of lake steamers for ocean service saying it would hinder commerce as the board has already taken over forty ships and plans to remove thirty more after spring thaw.
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Washington
Raymond B. Stevens
The
Shipping Board
George Lrublee
London
Great Lakes
Levy Mayer
Chicago
Lakes
No Leader for Strike in Denmark as Movement Falters
Copenhagen reports German papers estimate 180000 strikers with rapid movement disintegration. Riots came from anger over doomed failure. Unions refuse benefits. Social Democratic governing board says it did not take over strike management. General Commission disclaims responsibility. strike appears orphaned by unions.
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Copenhagen
Social Democratic Party
General Commission
French Pierce Foe Lines in Upper Alsace Return Prisoners
French war office reports deep penetration of German positions southeast of Sepoy Le Haut in Upper Alsace after brief artillery prep. Shelters destroyed and prisoners taken. Also mentions German sailplanes shot down and French air action dropping explosives on Conflans station and aviation grounds.
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Paris
Upper Alsace
War Office
Four de Aris
Hartmannsweiler-Kopf
Upper Allaice
le Haut
Snes
Conflans
St. Frivas
Naval Volunteer Lost Overboard From Pe nobscot
The Navy Department reports Seaman William F. Roller of the National Naval Volunteers, 881 Woodavegua Bridgeport Conn, was lost overboard from the steamship Penobscot on January 12.
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William F. Roller
U. S. S. Penobscot
Washington, Jan
Navy Department
National Naval Volunteers
Woodavegua
Bridgeport
General Wood Near Release From French Front Hospital
Gen Leonard Wood, wounded by a bursting gun while visiting the French front, is confined to the Ritz Carlton hospital and expected to be released in about a week. He suffers a flesh arm wound, not dangerous. Lieut. Col Kilbourne, wounded in the face, may lose his right eye. Major Joyce, wounded in the arm, is improving.
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Paris
Leonard Wood
Ritz-Carlton
Charles BE. Kilbourne
Wood
Kenyon A. Joyce
French Take HMN Prisoners In Vosges Actions
French patrols operating north of the Als bring back prisoners. Artillery fighting continues vigorously through the night at Martmansweileß Kopf in the Vosges region.
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HMN
Paris
Als
War Office
Vosges
Martmansweileßkopf
Big Ice Jams Sink River Steamers From Cairo to Carrollton
Report of severe ice jams breaking river at Cairo and Louisville area. St. Ten steamers sunk between Cairo and Paducah. Tug Theses lost cabin, ferry Willan Teil breaks in two. City of Louisville sinks after colliding with Ottawa. Princess and Island Queen also in danger at Carrollton.
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City of
Louisville
Cairo
Eee St
Paducah
Caio
Theses
Willan Teil
Collecht
Sprite Ami
Colinhus
Kontsigh
Cincinnati
Ottawa
City
Carrollton
Kentucky River
Society Leader in Kentucky Ends Life in Louisville
Miss Salle Guthrie, 30, a prominent Lexington and Louisville society figure and musician, shot herself at her uncle John F P Starks' Louisville home after a nervous breakdown. She had been under alienist care and was left alone briefly by her nurse before taking the pistol and dying instantly.
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Lexington
Salle Guthrie
Louisville
John FP. Starks
Guthrie
Evade rigid food control in Germany fuels surreptitious sales
Reports reaching the United States food administration indicate that even strict German food controls are failing. Butter is allegedly sold illegally at 1.78 to 2.25 dollars per pound, eggs at 10 to 15 cents each, and bacon or ham priced from 2.25 to 3.25 dollars per pound.
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Java
France
The
Food Administration
Germany
United States Food Administration
Treasury certificates oversubscribed issue closes
The $400,099,006 issue of treasury certificates of indebtedness announced January 22 and closed Tuesday night was heavily oversubscribed.
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Washington
Treasury
Pershing Soldier Wounded and War Deaths Reported
General Pershing reported Private Raymond Grover infantry slightly wounded January 20. His father Homer Grover of Syracuse New York. Also listed are multiple pneumonia deaths including Kenneth Miller Stamford Conn George De McSorley Council Bluffs Iowa Cart Engdahl Detroit and others. Additional deaths include meningitis and moronally fever cases with various locations and ranks.
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Washington
Pershing
Raymond Grover
Homer Grover
Jamesville Avenue
Syracuse
N.Y
Kenneth I. Miller
Stamford
Conn
George de McSorley
Council Bluffs
Cart A. Engdahl
Detroit
Mich
Walter BR
Allen
East Greenwich
le Paul Rich
Salem
Ores
Albert Altragge
Made His Mouth Water Bishop Learns From Cannibal Diet
An ex cannibal recalls the bishop of Bunbury Australia who once led Melanesia and unknowingly caused a native servant to crave human tongues. The servant recalls believing the tin of sheep tongues was human, fearing a relapse into cannibalism.
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Bunbury
Australia
Melanesia
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Upper
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