27 Jan 1918
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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1918
Page
1
Washington reports Hoover raising bread standards to 1 percent and by February 28 to 20 percent mixed cereals. New Victory Freshly to replace white loaf in public bakeries. Wheat conservation measures urge meatless days and daily wheatless meals with fish, poultry, and legumes promoted.
President Wilson urges nationwide food saving to aid wartime needs. The proclamation sets wheat, meat, and sugar reduction targets and designates wheatless and meatless days, urging households, businesses, and public eaters to follow. It praises American women’s cooperation and calls for strict conservation across the nation. Woodrow Wilson signs from the White House dated January 18, 1918.
President approves new US Food Administration rules effective January. Cooperation of the public and trades is essential to conserve wheat and support allies. Voluntary measures depend on public sentiment, with some enforcement under the Lever Act. Consumers must balance wheat flour with other cereals. Retailers will sell wheat flour with equal weight of alternate cereals.
Newsdealers in New York Harlem and Brooklyn boycotted morning and evening papers to push down the new wholesale price rise from one to two cents. Ripping unsold copies, snatching papers, and tense crowds marked the day as unions warned distributors and publishers of possible long-term effects.
Caspar Whitney reports on Y M C A efforts to explain to American troops why they fight in France. He compares views of Americans, Australians, Canadians and English, noting many soldiers lack clear understanding of the war’s meaning and stakes. The piece includes conversations with soldiers in Paris and observations on public complacency.
Secretary Baker will appear before the Senate Military Committee to present the Administration’s reply on War Department shortcomings. He plans to inform Congress and the country about war preparations both at home and in France, aiming for fuller confidence in government actions.
Petrograd dispatch reports Bolshevik press claims of widespread Austria Hungary unrest with workmen and soldiers forming groups in Vienna and Budapest and a War 5 strike. Warsaw congress plans a revolutionary council. Espress notes rumors of German unrest and bread riots in Berlin, with police repression. Caution urged over Bolshevik propaganda aimed at Russia.
Reports from Berlin and Vienna show German Chancellor Hertling and AustroHungarian Foreign Minister Czernin pursuing peace aims while factions in Germany debate concessions. Scheidemann urges general peace with Russia, Alsace Lorraine's fate disputed. Bolshevik and Vienna demonstrations grow, with rumors of unrest in Amsterdam and suppressed bread riots.
General Goethals, acting as quartermaster, endorses the Eisenman led Supplies Committee action with the Busy Sorting Company of New York on a scrap sorting contract. The Senate Military Committee has criticized the deal as profiteering while Eisenman reports the contract is not shady and benefits the government. Quartermaster General Sharpe has revoked the contract and government work continues.
Secretary of War Baker told Senator Calder in a four letter that shipments of high explosives are being diverted from the Port of New York to other ports to lessen danger to the metropolis. The note answered Calder’s protest over the peril to the city.
An Harvard Clubman loudly assails President Wilson, then is beaten after a confrontation outside the Harvard Club on West Forty-fourth Street. Bystanders watch as the fracas ends with the assailant dragged inside and later aided by other members, amid conflicting accounts of the cause.
AMSTERDAM June 26 Scheidemann president of the Social Democratic party in Germany warned military leaders that if they obstruct peace with Russia they would be hurled from power. He argued the militarists favored a decisive war still seen as unlikely and pressed for clear terms on Alsace Be gium and related issues while urging Wilson to state Alsace is Germany's and prevent England's war-mongering.
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