Hoover warns senators on food control and war mobilization
President Hoover outlines to fifty senators the scale of food pricing abuses, claiming 250 million dollars over five months took from consumers. He argues for a food controller, vows voluntary sacrifice, and denies a food dictatorship while stressing impact on European aid and domestic labor.
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Washington
Herbert C. Hoover
United States
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Hoover
Germany
Gore
Agricultural Committee
Reed
Missouri
Britain
U.S
President W L Siebert Elevates to Major General
Terre Haute Indiana announces engagement of President W W Parsons Indiana Normal and Miss Martena Erickson former dean of women at Indiana school, with banns filed in Indiana Illinois. The notice notes Erickson as Monticello Seminary principal at Godfrey Illinois and details the couple's union plans.
War Plans Said to Unfold Rapidly for U S Troops
President Wilson to issue draft proclamation within days as planning for a second draft follows the first 625,000 conscripts. New York and Illinois guardsmen lead the first overseas divisions, with Illinois next, then broader mobilization aiming for up to 1.6 million by Christmas and a million abroad by summer.
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Illinois
Washington
America
Pershine
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Europe
Ilinois
United States
War Department
France
Wilson
Crisis in Reighrath Panic Over Polish Opposition
Vienna dispatch notes Austrian cabinet resignation rumors amid Polish MPs refusing to vote budgets. Reports claim Premier Clam Martinic and Foreign Minister Czernin face pressure, with no official confirmation. Daszinski alleges over 30,000 Poles hanged by German authorities per Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung.
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Switzerland
Vienna
Amsterdam
Count Clam-Martinic
Copenhagen
Vossische Zeitung
Clam- Martinic
Count Czernin
Zurich
Daszinski
Reichsrath
Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung
Kaiser for stock seized in Indiana town raid
Max Elismalitz of Indiana Harbor was jailed for carrying the Kaiser's picture on his watch fob. Jeweler Joe Ginsiger was arrested after a dispute over the fob. Police confiscated Ginsiger's entire stock of Kaiser fobs.
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Ind
Max Elismalitz
Indiana Harbor
Kaiser
Joe Ginsiger
Elismalitz
Ginsiger
Heat Burns German Crops in Unprecedented Wave
Reports from Copenhagen say Germany endures a severe heat wave with all valuable grain crops burning like in 1915. The drought has persisted since early May, threatening harvests nationwide.
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Copenhagen
Germany
French Vice Consul Dies in Albuquerque Sanitarium
Theodore Summaripa French vice consul at Chicago died in a Albuquerque New Mexico sanitarium of tuberculosis. He arrived a week ago with his sister Mme Marguerite Grassino of Chicago for treatment.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Theodore Summaripa
Chicago
Mme
Marguerite Grassino
Wilson Welcomes Envoys of Russia in Washington
President Wilson greeted Ambassador Boris A. Bakhmetieff and the Russian mission with a formal welcome. A extensive program of receptions, visits to the Capitol Mount Vernon and other sites followed as officials arranged ongoing conferences and entertainment for the visitors. Some members will stay permanently while others move to other cities after initial arrangements.
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Washington
Wilson
United States
Boris A. Bakhmetieff
State Department
Capitol
Mount Vernon
Union Station
Pennsylvania Avenue
Hennen Jennings
Massachusetts Avenue
Teutons Launch Major West Front Attack Repelled
In West, London, June 20, reports say only one major assault occurred, launched by German forces in Champagne and broken up by French artillery within twenty four hours of fighting.
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London
Teutons
Champagne
Child Dies from Scratch in Evansville
Evansville Indiana June 20 The eight year old daughter of Dr J J Ly died of lockjaw from a scratch on the foot.
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Evansville
Ind
J. J. Ly
Mason Charged With Treasonous Speech in Congress
Representative William E. Mason of Chicago faced accusation from William W. Hastings of Oklahoma that he delivered a treasonable speech during floor debate on the Lever food bill. Hastings protested and sought a vote of no quorum as chaos followed, later withdrawing his remark and attempting an explanation that was not completed.
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Washington
William E. Mason
Chicago
William W. Hastings
Oklahoma
House of Representatives
Mason
Hastings
Ilinois
Mr. Hastings
Gary Cleanup Threatened in Gary Grand Jury
Gary Indiana June 20. Gary’s first Grand jury begins clean up on vice naming four well known young business men for gambling George Throckmorton Phil Cohen Roy Ingersoll and James McCollough They were released on 500 bail Sensational disclosures expected against prominent city officials Cohen and McCullough own the Smoker Cigar store an up town gambling house Throckmorton is alleged to have ties with the Metropolitan at 25 West Ninth Street
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Gary
Ind
Unknown Babe’s Body Found. Police Suspect Parental Murder
Gary police find a child’s remains in a south Gary location. Investigators believe the murder was committed by the child’s parents who strangled the youngster with a rope. Dogs dug up the body from a sandy grave. the sex of the child is unknown and the crime is thought to have occurred about a week earlier.
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Cary
Ind
Gary
Fire at Packing Plant Building Kills One Man Missing
One man is dead and four others injured after a fire swept through a packing plant building in East St. Louis Illinois on June 20. George Reininger is missing and believed dead. two men and two women were injured in the blaze with an estimated loss of 75000 dollars.
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ST. Louis
Ill
George Reininger
Jose Lorenzo
Gregorio Loza
Domingo Lago
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Newport News
New York
Havre
Rouen
France
J. B. Thompson
Sims in Charge in Irish Waters
Vice Admiral William S. Sims is appointed to take general charge of allied naval operations in Irish waters while the British commander in chief is absent. The American flag is hoisted as senior officer in these waters.
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William S. Sims
Admiral Sims
Standard Oil Boat
New York
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Archbold
France
Dr Harper On Way To Russia Arrives In Copenhagen
Dr Samuel Harper chair of Russian languages at the University of Chicago is en route to Russia. He has arrived safely in Copenhagen, according to university updates received in Chicago.
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Harper
Russia
Chicago
Samuel Harper
Copenhagen
University of Chicago
Dr. Harper
University
China Near Civil War Rumors Amid Provincial Rebellion
Report from Pekin notes southern provinces accelerating warlike prep and negotiating with the southwest. President Li Yuan-hung is reportedly imprisoned, General Chang Hsun has seized power and compelled the secretariat to sign.
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Pekin
China
Li Yuan-hung
Chang-hsun
Irfa
German American Takes Polse
Irits Lehman, a seventy year old German immigrant, killed himself in a Hammond hotel where he was a boarder, amid the war mood and his strained relation with his father.
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Hammond
Ind
Irits Lehman
United States
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