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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1917
Page
1
A terse note suggests officials are anxious to revise a control bill targeting poverty programs. The fragment hints at legislative intent and political pressure shaping reforms. No clear names or dates are readable in the provided excerpt.
President Wilson pushes with Senators to modify the food control bill to retain authority to permit beer and light wines in emergencies. Postmaster General Burleson and allies urge a provision allowing malt and vinous liquor manufacture, while opposing immediate prohibition.
President Wilson told senators he does not want to disturb public sentiment during the war by cutting off beer and wines consumption. He said a provision prohibiting distilling and empowering the President to stop brewing would satisfy prohibitionists and an amendment to that effect will be introduced with prospects of adoption.
Memphis Tennessee June 29 rapid settlement and development of large areas in Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas Tennessee and nearby states are expected from discussions at the semi annual conference of the Southern Alluvial Land Association tomorrow. Hundreds of thousands of acres of cutover and cleared lands will be represented by lumbermen planters farmers merchants and bankers with Governor Brough of Arkansas leading the speaker list.
Six women suffragists who served three days in jail for peeking at the White House were released this morning.
Athens reports Greece has not formally declared war but government deems a state of war in effect since the new administration took power yesterday. Greek diplomatic envoys to the Central Powers and allies are set for recall.
A city ordinance prohibits jobbers and retailers from charging double prices on goods. The new rule targets resale marks and price gouging practices. Enforcement details specify penalties and reporting procedures for violations.
Four hundred coal operators and government officials reached a price reduction pact for all mines east of the Mississippi. The new prices include cuts of 1 to 5 dollars per ton with an additional 50 cent cut for government use, effective July 1. The deal places price setting under the defense council through the coal production committee to avoid anti trust violations.
A survey forecasts operators lose 180 million dollars annually in output value while the public saves more. Prices at mines will drop, with a 25 cent per ton commission cap. Anthracite talks postponed to after July 1. many districts cut mine-to-load prices to new standard figures and await remaining districts, governors, and exporters' impact.
London reports Rotterdam dispatches say the German press is completely muzzled and that a drastic action may have occurred or is imminent in Germany. Dutch observers anticipate startling Reichstag developments at next week’s meeting.
Premier Lloyd George said at Glasgow that a peace end before Allied forces reach the original aims would be the greatest disaster in history for mankind. The remark framed ongoing hopes for a just peace amid wartime discussions.
Debates on beer and wine exemptions continue as lawmakers wrestle over food regulation and the policy question of prohibition. The issue centers on whether alcoholic beverages should be treated separately in controls.
Senate debate on government control of food and prohibiting distilled spirits centers on beer and wine. Senator Johnson argues for wartime sacrifice and supporting the substitute bill to ban all intoxicating beverages while allowing executive exemptions for wines.
The senator warned that closing all breweries would ruin 100000 jobs and harm dairy feed supplies, risking higher bread prices due to yeast shortages. He argued Germany and France sustain soldier morals with alcohol, while beer drinkers are not weaker.
A torpedoed merchant captain turned over a sketch to British naval authorities showing a new German submarine type equipped with a wire cutting device. The drawing depicts circular knives cutting stout hawsers stretched from bow to conning tower, enabling release from nets.
Four prominent Greater Boston college athletes sail for France to join the American Field Ambulance Service. The group includes J Edward Graham Harvard oarsman William S Nagle Dartmouth football star William H Meanix Harvard hurdling ace and Joseph F Ryan Harvard football squad member.
Washington June 29 Russian republic is forecast by members of the Russian mission in the clearest exposition yet received here of the enormous problems of reconstruction now facing Russia. Any other form of government is declared practically impossible.
The Arkansas Railroad Commission received a Hamburg protest against the Arkansas and Louisiana Midland plan to remove eight miles of track between Reise Avenue and Hamburg. A hearing is set for July 6 after notice to the railroad forbidding discontinuance of service.
A speech by Premier Geeborgehk Ppossplees is anticipated to reveal unusual significance. Officials say the address will outline policy shifts and potential reforms for the nation, with observers awaiting specifics on economic measures and international stance.
Reports from Allied fronts describe British advances near Lens Avion and Oppy and raids north of Lens. Verdun sees renewed French front activity as German attacks on Hill 304 near Verdun are repulsed and German gains on the Aisne front are driven back.
Berlin says German forces yesterday captured French positions on the west bank of the Meuse in the Verdun sector over a 2000 yard front and 500 yards deep. Today German troops stormed a French position in the Avocourt wood.
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