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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
19
The sugar investigative committee reported Attorney General Palmer used executive power for price control, claiming profits harmed Cubans and Louisiana producers. The majority urged his resignation, while Palmer maintained he enforced anti profiteering actions under the Lever Act. Rep Tinkham led calls for full investigation into Louisiana transactions and 1910 price arrangements.
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A historical report discusses actions by the Attorney General regarding price controls on sugar from Louisiana producers in 1919. It notes limits of powers under Public No 41 and the fortieth section of the Lower det act, with statements about potential prosecutions and the timing relative to beet and Cuban sugar supplies. The piece references Officials including Mr. Palmer and concerns about official duty and statutory interpretation.
Paris reports that American visitors will be comfortably housed this summer with over 40 000 tourists anticipated. Hotels now used by missions may be released by July and emergency spaces prepared for travelers while 30 million francs is sought to build hotels near battlefields for future tours.
Estelle von Tilzer, who stabbed her husband Jules von Tilzer, a movie publisher, last March, was committed to Bellevue for ten days' observation by Magistrate Levine in West Side Court. The husband testified she is mentally unbalanced and threatened to kill her dog and herself, with the dog to be buried with her. She appeared with a bandage over her right eye and cried that she would not be sent to Bellevue.
Peter J. Brady, member of the American Federation of Labor, told the Lusk Committee in New York that sugar could be sold for four to eight cents per pound including overheads. He suggested government purchase of Puerto Rican sugar, living wages for workers, fair profits, and price regulation across regions to cut prices, with hearings resuming to examine shoe prices.
Bruce Barton told the Federal Council of Churches in America convention in Cleveland that the Bible is the best one volume book on modern business. He said the Bible has the greatest salesmanship ever written and compared St Paul’s approach to Athens with a modern press and publicity. The report urged churches to cooperate with newspapers without flashy church advertising.
Police and fire unions submit letters to the city board urging a salary increase equal to higher officers. The associations, led by Patrolmen's and Firemen’s groups, request action under the Right of Appeal law and ask the mayor to respond promptly.
A fragmented report discusses labor and housing under the model cities program. It notes employers exploring employee home ownership or rental options and profits sharing to benefit workers, with many companies already reactive or abandoning plans.
The American Woolen Company plans a shortened work week due to factory congestion and uncertain conditions. From Thursday to Monday the plant will be closed, affecting about 80,000 operatives across its fifty plants as it restructures shifts and duties.
Arnstein case detective witnesses accuse Furey and Keane of threatening two reputable brokers Pfutsch and Willis Townes with extortion in New York. The indictment cites demands of five thousand dollars on November fourteen and three days later to avoid alleging their complicity in the burning of the Oceanien in the St Lawrence River.
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