Hoover says speculators rob nation to fund food control plan
U S Senators hear Hoover accuse food speculators of draining $250 million in five months. He defends a national food administration to curb middlemen, stabilize prices and aid Allies, outlining proposed commissions, grain purchases and sugar co operation with allies and Cuban producers.
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Herbert C. Hoover
Congress
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North America
Germany
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Cuba
Sugar Commission
Weather Report Harrisburg Area July 4 Outlook
Fair to night and Wednesday with little temperature change. Eastern Pennsylvania sees fair weather with isolated thundershowers this afternoon or tonight in the north. Susquehanna stage around 5.3 to 5.5 feet with North Branch steady or rising slightly. Temperature up to 64 at 8 am. full moon on July 4.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna River
Bomb mystery in park cleared by patrolman remark
A crowd in a riverfront park heard a passerby cry it’s a bomb. A well wrapped object lay on benches until a patrolman pushed through and seized it. Damp gravel and a few dripping drops appeared where the package rested as bystanders watched.
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Front
Walnut
Harrisburg Telegraph
Old Top
Rev James F Bullitt Declines Hingham Church Call
The Rev. James F. Bullitt announced he will decline the rectorate at Church of St John the Evangelist in Hingham Massachusetts and remain rector of St Andrew's parish in this city He had considered the New England call since early month and previously led St Andrew's six years ago He was briefly in Hingham recently but is recovering from illness and will resume duties soon.
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Church of
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Hingham
Mass
St. Andrew's
Bullitt
New England
U. S. Lets Contracts For 16 More Steel Ships
The United States Shipping Board has awarded contracts to Moore & Scott Ironworks of Oakland for sixteen steel steamers of 9 400 tons each. The project is estimated to involve 25 000 000 to 30 000 000 dollars.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Cal
United States Shipping Board
Moore & Scott Ironworks
Oakland
Girls train for Red Cross certificates across Dauphin County
Harrisburg chapter of the American Red Cross leads a countywide drive for a $100,000 campaign. Local girls study Morse code, wireless, first aid and emergency care with physicians volunteering. Classes feature demonstrations, exams, and awards for instructors and students across Harrisburg Steelton and remote towns.
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France
Harrisburg
American Red Cross
Dauphin County
Upper
Steelton
Red Cross
United States
Porter Assigns Home Guard To Four Companies
Major A. M. Porter of the Harrisburg Reserves issues a general order assigning Home Guard members to four companies. Units will drill under National Guard officers tonight at the athletic field, island lower end, with two month officer terms to follow and elections of unit officers later. If bad weather, drills move to the next night. Red Cross workers may drill Friday if unable to attend Wednesday session.
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A. M. Porter
Harrisburg
National Guard
Red Cross
U S Revenues Top One Billion For First Time
Washington June 19 for the first time in American history ordinary Treasury receipts exceed one billion dollars in a fiscal year. The total to date is 1 015 381 815 compared with 660 400 953 a year ago.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Russia's War Mission Welcomed in National Capital
Washington June 19. The Russian diplomatic mission arrived with full honors reflecting American hope in a new European democracy. Officials greeted the party as crowds cheered along Pennsylvania Avenue toward their Washington headquarters at the Jennings home.
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Russia
Washington, D. C
America
United States
Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Treasury Department
David Henning Jennings
600 Garden Workers Are Farming 26 Acres in War Gardens
Shirley B. Watts the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce garden plot superintendent announced no plots remain for distribution. About twenty six acres are allocated with 600 workers already farming. Plots were reassigned from people who did not work them to ensure maximum land in war gardens as the agricultural committee directs.
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Shirley B. Watts
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce
Agricultural Committee
Chamber
Walls
30 000 Poles Hanged by Germans Do Not Satisfy Blood Lust
The Vienna Reichrath heard Polish deputy Daszinski claim over 30 000 Poles have been hanged by German authorities. Deputy Striberny described brutal treatment of political suspects and Pan German deputy Heine urged harsher punishment, provoking uproar and a suspended session.
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Associated Press
Zurich
Daszinski
Vienna
Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung
Striberny
Heine
No Joke About Cabbage Leaves in Cigars
June 19 Copenhagen reports that Germany faces tobacco shortages driving jokes into reality as government substitutes mix cabbage hay and strawberry leaves with lavender sandalwood to imitate aroma.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Germany
Department On
Tax Bill Accord Hints at Afternoon Deal
It is likely an agreement on the direct inheritance tax bill will be reached this afternoon. Senate leaders conferred with Attorney General Brown and Auditor General Snyder, who disagree on appointments in the bill. Hearings on local jitney cases before the Public Service Commission were postponed indefinitely.
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Brown
Snyder
Public Service Commission
Sinn Fein Celebration Sparks Dublin Riots Over Flag
In Dublin crowds rallied to welcome released Sinn Feiners. Two men scaled the ruined post office walls and hoisted the Sinn Fein flag as the crowd sang the Sinn Fein song. Police arrested two demonstrators after 2 a.m. for breaking into the post office and torching timbers. In Paris an American ambulance detachment of 250 joined the march to France aboard the same boat.
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Associated Press
Dublin
Sinn
U. S
France
Paris
French Roll Back Attack in Champagne Front
Paris reports renewed heavy fighting on the British front in France and Belgium. General Petain’s forces struck in Champagne capturing a trench system a third of a mile long between Mont Camillet and Mont Blond and repelling a German counterattack with heavy losses. General Haig notes only raids along the southern end of the British line with successful incursions.
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France
Belgium
Petain
Champagne
Mont Camillet
Mont Blond
Haig
Paris
Champaign
Mont
Banner year for liquor taxes in United States
Washington reports a record fiscal year with ordinary internal revenue receipts totaling 424 million dollars led by whisky taxes near 178 million. Beer and tobacco also set highs as withdrawals from bonded warehouses surged and cigarets gain popularity among women.
Germany Faces Searing Heat Threatening Crops
Copenhagen reports describe an unprecedented German drought with grain crops burning like in 1915. Berlin marked the hottest June 17 in 70 years as tropical temps spread west of the Oder while the weather bureau warns rainfall chances remain very small.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Germany
Berlin
Weather Bureau
Oder River
Senate OKs Camp Curtin Memorial Bill and More
The Senate passed finally the Beidleman bill carrying 55000 for the Camp Curtin memorial and sent it to the House appropriation committee. It also approved 15000 to purchase the W Pennypacker relics and 250000 for land for the State Inebriate asylum.
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Senate
Beidleman
Camp Curtin
House
W. Pennypacker
Forbes Receives Croix de Guerre for Rescue Bravery
Boston, June 19. France decorates C. Stewart Forbes of a prominent Boston family with the Croix de Guerre for gallant conduct in bringing out wounded under fire on the western front. Forbes joined the American Red Cross ambulance service a year ago.
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Boston
Mass
France
C. Stewart Forbes
Forbes
American Red Cross
Dato Addresses Spain Amid Grave Problems
Madrid reports Premier Ed uardo Dato told press calm prevailed though grave government problems loom. He believed these issues were solvable. In the United States, Deputy Marshal Harvey T Smith probes why several draft age residents in the city and county have not registered, including a German who claimed ages of 29 in December and 36 in March.
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Madrid
Eduardo Dato
Spain
Harvey T Smith
United States
House OKs Senate Fish Code Amendments to Gov
The House approved Senate amendments to the fish code and sent the bill to the governor. Similar action occurred on borough code amendments backed by the League of Boroughs. The borough manager bill awaits the governor.
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House
Senate
League of Boroughs
Belgium says deportations of Belgians continue
The Belgian government denounces the Wolff Bureau denial of June 7 and asserts deportations of Belgians have not ceased. It accuses the denial of evading essential facts and focusing only on deportation locations.
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Associated Press
Havre
Wolff Bureau
Goverment
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