Deadlock on War Committee Up to Wilson
Washington July 29 Conferrees on the administration food control bill were deadlocked tonight after Senate day conference and will confer again with President Wilson on two remaining differences. The talks center on a Congressional committee to oversee war expenditures and a three member food board. The conference aims for final enactment this week, but success is not assured.
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Congressional Committee
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White House
Senate Conferrees
Food Board
Pearson
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House
Fedwal
Senate and House clash over government control of necessaries
The House plan tightens federal license regulation of importation manufacturing mining storage and distribution of government controlled necessities. Retained drastic provisions ban hoarding and monopoly while imposing penalties up to $5000 and two years imprisonment. Also kept prohibitions on wilful destruction and new requisition powers for military use with compensation rules and limited government purchases.
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House
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Pomerone-Walsh
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the Food Administration
Civil Service
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Advisory Commission
Polish Legionaries Revolt Demands Free Government
London dispatch reports large Warsaw street demonstrations after General Pilsudski and other Polish Legion leaders were arrested for opposing an oath to Austro German rulers. The Polish Council of State urged swift establishment of a genuine Polish government and army, while Governor General von Beeler denied wrongdoing and claimed evidence of plans in Germany. The coverage notes the unrest spans a broad political Left beyond German reports.
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Warsaw
Pilsudski
Polish Council of State
von Beeeler
Idski
Germany
Bruckner's Safe Looters Strike New York Official
Representative Henry Bruckner reported a burglary at his Harlem office on 161st Street. Thieves looted a locked safe, taking about $1,000 in cash and checks from private papers and the Buckner Brothers account stored there.
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Henry Bruckner
Enat
Hruckenr
German Aviators Bomb Red Cross Hospital in Paris
Paris reports a second German air raid near Paris failed to reach the city as French fighters dispersed the hostile planes. One German flier dropped four bombs on a Red Cross hospital, killing two doctors, a chemist and a male nurse and injuring others.
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Red Cross
Associated Press
Otier
Authority on Divorce Laws Sued by Wife
Judge Henry W. Scott, noted author on marriage and divorce, is charged with desertion in a divorce petition filed by Mrs. Marion L. Patton Scott in Chancery Court. The case cites his long career and a stint in Kansas bar dating to 1884.
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Newars
Henry W. Scott
Chancery Court
Marion L. Patton Scott
Scott
Europe
Kansas
Olshoma Terri
Plaster Pedlers Sought Over Germ Laden Packages
Plattsburg police search for two men selling court plaster on the outskirts of the city. Samples sent to the State Health Department for analysis after a government warning that disease germ laden plaster had been distributed nationwide. Pedlars claimed proceeds would aid French wounded and War Relief.
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Plattsburg
State Department of Health
Teutons Sweep Across Border Into Russia
London, July 29. German forces push over the frontiers into Galicia and Bukowina, driving Russian units back toward Halicz and Czernowitz. Kerensky returns to the front as Kornilov orders a mass reassembly before August 14. Austro German advances threaten Czernowitz while Russian morale falters and supplies shift to fuel German food reserves.
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Rine
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Oitus
Odobests
von Mackensen
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3Mae
Czernin Flags Peace Aims If Entente Refuses Basis
Vienna outlines that Austria Hungary seeks an honorable peace through understanding with Berlin and Vienna claiming unity with Germany. Czernin says allies will fight to last extremity if Entente rejects terms, urges universal guarantees to prevent future wars and supports democratization at home while demanding reciprocity from others.
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Count Czernin
Austria
Hungary
Berlin Cafes Reduced to One Fifth Illumination
Copenhagen reports Berlin imposes an order limiting lighting in stores hotels and eateries to one fifth of normal until mid December 1918 due to coal shortages and transport difficulties. Dressel's restaurant in Unter Linden is noted as among those closed for violations.
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Reliev Dressel
Unter Linden
Talk With British Would Bring Peace Says Erzberger
George London July 29 A Zurich report quotes Mathl Erzberger, leader of the Clerical Centre in the Reichstag, saying a conversation with Lloyd George or Mr Balfour could quickly lead to peace negotiations. Erzberger has played a key role in recent peace efforts and claims Dr Michaelis is a peace chancellor.
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London
Zurich
Mathl Erzberger
Germans Refute Belgium Cession and East Annexations
Berlin papers debate Belgium’s future after the war. Lokal-Anzeiger argues Belgium will not be handed to England and France. Volkszeitung supports retention of Belgium and East regions as essential to frontier protection. Tageszeitung endorses the stance. other papers push the idea peace without annexations is possible.
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Copenhagen
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House of Commons
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Asquith
England
France
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Michaelis
Tageszeitung
Heavy German Guns Seek Out American Camp
Heavy German artillery pressed to reach U S forces in France yet failed to contact them. In a village, American troops staged boxing bouts with $1.50 for the winner and 50 cents for the loser, then held a concert after a vigorous day of marching and bombing practice. The French spectators enjoyed the show, though fears linger they left with a rosy, moonlit image of America.
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Heywood Broun
France
Asendatton
Controle
Americain
America
King George Delights at American Troops Visit
London July 21 King George with Queen Mary and Princess Mary visited the Borden camp to inspect American engineers of the United States forces commanded by Colonel Charles The King praised the soldiers as they lined up in a square and passed before him while he saluted.
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Aldershot
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Charles
England
Chancellor Announces Secret Treaty With Ex-Czar
Berlin reports Dr. Georg Michaelis summoned newspaper men to assert Britain seeks only total victory and not peace by agreement. He cites Lloyd George speeches and Carson remarks as proof of Allied greed for conquest and claims France Russia sought prearranged terms in secret sessions.
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