Sugar Control Saved Hoover’s Public From Sugar Rise
Herbert Hoover declares sugar control saved Americans $180 million by preventing a potential rise to 20 cents a pound. He notes 70 percent of normal supply, prior Civil War price peaks, and shortages due to ship constraints affecting Java stocks. The report outlines voluntary regulations, grocer margins, and global supply shifts amid war.
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Java
Herbert Hoover
United States
Food Administration
Hoover
Carver Plans Colonizing Soldiers After War
Thomas Nixon Carver, adviser in agricultural economics to the U S government, works with Senators Curtis and Sheppard on a postwar plan to colonize U S soldiers. A bill with the idea is in Congress. Carver was until recently a professor of political economy at Harvard University.
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Thomas Nixon Carver
United States
Curtis
Kansas
Sheppard
Texas
Congress
Carver
Harvard University
Arabs Mutiny on Steamship Reported at Atlantic Port
A British steamship sent a call for help from an Atlantic port after reporting a mutiny among its Arab firemen.
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Atlantic
Nine Die in Latest Air Raid
London reports three killed and ten injured in Tuesday night air raid. Six more may be buried in a ruined house. A British war office statement says 400 bombs were dropped on targets including Roulers Menin and a Tournai air drome. Several enemy machines were shot down while three British aircraft are missing.
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London
Berlin
South End
Dunkirk
Gravelines
Calais
British War Office
Roulers
Menin
Forecaster charged in Newark plant blast prediction
Antoine Deutsch, a Passaic machinist, is under arrest after allegedly predicting publicly last Wednesday that the Submarine Boat Corporation plant in Newark would be blown up or burned. A fire Saturday caused $1,000,000 in damage to docks and warehouses at the plant. authorities say he spoke of the omen in a restaurant and secret service agents are investigating. Government agents are reportedly widening the probe to Deutsch's acquaintances.
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Paterson
N. J
Submarine Boat Corporation
Newark
Antoine Deutsch
Passaic
Deutsch
Secret Service
Italian Forces Gain In Monte Deval Thella Front
Rome reports Italian troops block Austrian advances and seize gains in Monte Deval Thella. Casualty figure stated as six thousand Teutons killed over two days of fighting.
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Rome
Monte Deval Thella
Teuton
Germany imposes martial law to quell labor unrest
Copenhagen reports imperial orders extend martial law to Bremen and call for swift action against strikers. Vorwaerts notes Berlin will be suppressed for three days as mass strikes spread. Dortmund mines see continued strikes while Neuremburg workers resume after a two day stoppage.
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Copenhagen
Bremen
Vorwaerts
Berlin
Dortmund
Neuremburg
Bavaria
110 Slain by Villistas Near Santa Rosalia
Juarez Mexico January 3 reports say Villa followers killed or executed over 110 soldiers and passengers after dynamiting a work train heading to Bellano to repair rails. Francisco Villa led the attack with Martin Lopez second in command. fighting widened to Santa Rosalia where guards were killed and the town looted. Train service between Chihuahua City and Torreon suspended.
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Villa
Santa Rosalia
Chihuahua City
Torreon
Berlin Strike Clashes Leave One Policeman Dead
In Berlin on Thursday a confrontation between strikers and police left one policeman killed and about a dozen demonstrators injured. The violence followed an attempt to disrupt streetcar traffic with sporadic disturbances reported in other districts as authorities claim the peak of the strike movement has passed.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
Germany
Stevens to London as Permanent Shipping Board Reps
Raymond B. Stevens vice chairman and George Lublee of the legal staff will be sent to London as permanent representatives of the shipping board. Great Lakes shippers protested against further removal of lake steamers for ocean service, warning it would harm commerce. The board has already taken over forty lake ships and plans to take out thirty more after the spring thaw.
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Washington
Raymond B. Stevens
Shipping Board
George Lublee
London
Great Lakes
Levy Mayer
Chicago
Lakes
No Leader for Strike in Denmark as Movement Falters
Copenhagen reports put strikers at about 180,000 with rapid disintegration. Riots stem from anger as the movement nears failure. Unions refuse benefits. the social democratic governing board says it did not take over strike management and unions disown responsibility, leaving the strike orphaned.
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Copenhagen
Social Democratic Party
General Commission
BIS HERDS DONE American moves to conserve meat supply
The piece notes Europe’s dwindling cattle and forage with Germany seizing cattle in occupied France Belgium. It cites England price controls and France milk decline, urging US stock growers to cooperate with the Food Administration to bolster herds and increase pork production amid war demands.
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Europe
France
Belgium
Germany
England
United States Food Administration
French Pierce Foe Lines In Upper Alsace Effort
French troops penetrated German lines in Upper Alsace southeast of Sepoy Le Haut after brief artillery preps and destroyed shelters while taking prisoners. One German plane was shot down and three damaged. French squadrons dropped 66000 kilograms of explosives on Conflans railway station and aircraft sites in the enemy zones.
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Paris
Upper Alsace
War Office
Four de Faris
Hartmannsweiler-Kopf
Upper
Alsace
le Haut
Conflans
St. Frivas
Naval Volunteer William F Roller Lost Overboard
The Navy Department reports that Seaman William F Roller of the National Naval Volunteers from 881 Woods Avenue Bridgeport Connecticut was lost overboard from the USS Penobscot on January 12.
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William F. Roller
U. S. S. Penobscot
Washington
Navy Department
National Naval Volunteers
Woods Avenue
Bridgeport
Conn
United States
Penobscot
General Wood to Be Out Soon From Wound at Front
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood of the United States Army is confined to the Ritz-Carlton hospital after a flesh wound from a bursting gun at the French front. He is reported to be doing well and expected to be out in about a week. Lieut. Col. Charles B. Kilbourne may lose his right eye after a facial wound. Major Kenyon A. Joyce, wounded in the arm, is improving.
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Paris
Leonard Wood
Ritz-Carlton
Tie
Charles BE. Kilbourne
Wood
Kenyon A. Joyce
French Take HM Prisoners
Paris reports French patrols operating north of the Aisne brought back prisoners. In the Vosges artillery fighting continued vigorously during the night at Martmanswelles kopf.
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Paris
The
Aisne
War Office
Vosges
Martmanswelleskopf
Ice Jams Sink Steamers From Ohio River Gorge
Jan 31 reports from Catro and Cincinnati describe ten steamers sunk between Cairo and Paducah as a massive ice gorge breaks. The tug Thesens loses its cabin, the ferry William Heil splits, and a barge is dragged down by a tow. City of Louisville sinks after collision with Ottawa. Princess sinks at Carrollton with Island Queen feared lost.
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Catro
Paducah
Cairo
Thesens
William Heil
Sprasueaml
Columbbus
Cincinnati
Fan
Louisville
Ottawa
Carrollton
Kentucky River
Society Leader Sallie Guthrie Ends Life in Louisville
Miss Sallie Guthrie a Lexington and Louisville society leader, aged thirty, shot herself at her uncle John F. Starks’s Louisville home after a nervous breakdown. A musician and noted beauty, she was under alienist care when her nurse briefly left her alone with a pistol.
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Lexington
Sallie Guthrie
Louisville
John F. Starks
Miss Guthrie
Evade Rigid Food Control Reported in Germany
Semi official reports reach the United States food administration indicate Germany hides illegal food sales. Butter and eggs sell above official limits at up to 2.25 dollars per pound for butter and up to 0.15 dollars per egg, while bacon and ham fetch as high as 3.25 dollars per pound.
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Food Administration
Hoover
Wmudc
Germany
United States Food Administration
Treasury certificates issue closes in Washington
The $400,000,000 treasury certificates issue announced January 22 and closed Tuesday night amid heavy oversubscription stands as a major debt management move. Officials noted strong demand and rapid subscription reflecting market appetite and fiscal policy signals.
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Washington
Treasury
Pershing Soldier Wounded and War Deaths Reported
General Pershing reported Private Raymond Grover infantry slightly wounded in action January 20. Grover’s father Homer Grover lives at 257 Jamesville Avenue Syracuse New York. Deaths from pneumonia listed include Kenneth E M filler Stamford Conn George D McSorley Council Bluffs Iowa Carl A Engdahl Detroit Michigan Walter R Allen Bust Greenwich Rhode Island Rich Salem Oregon Albert Al t rogge Clarence Center New York Otto H Petrick Washtena Washington John J Reynolds New York. Other deaths cited include Benjamin F Klass meningitis New York Frank W Cochrane meningitis Saint Paul Minnesota Frank H Hubbard corporal scarlet fever Seattle Washington Morris Williams corporal gunshot wounds Marvell Arkansas.
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Washington
Pershing
Raymond Grover
Homer G Rover
Jamesville Avenue
Syracuse
N.Y
Kenneth EK. Afiller
Stamford
Conn
George D. McSorley
Council Bluffs
Carl A. Engdahl
Detroit
Mich
Walter R. Allen
Greenwich
R. 1
and Rich
Salem
Ore
Albert Altrogge
Clarence Center
Otto HL Petrick
Washtena
John J. Reynolds
New York
Benjamin FL Klass
Frank W. Cochrane
St. Paul
Minn
Frank H. Hubbard
Seattle
Wash
Morris Williams
Marvell
Ark
Ex cannibal servant recalls a cannibal’s delicacy in Bunbury
A former Melanesia bishop recalls the moment a tin of sheep tongues inspired confusion in a servant who had once been a cannibal. The servant feared the tongues were human and thought the bishop had resumed cannibalism.
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Bunbury
Australia
Melanesia
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