Hoover Pushes Food Control Bill Amid War Strain
In heated Capitol hearings, Herbert Hoover argues for broad food administration powers to curb prices and ration supplies for Allies and United States. He defends against claims of dictatorship while detailing plans to stabilize wheat and sugar, limit middlemen, and mobilize voluntary sacrifice to avert European famine amid wartime demand.
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Retailers Keeping Up Prices Says Hartigan
Commissioner Joseph Hartigan accuses retailers grocers butchers delicatessens new store keepers and fruit dealers of maintaining high prices while wholesale costs fall. He notes full cold storage space some food on sidewalks and cites British bans on buying food and consumer restraint as causes. He cites butter and eggs wholesale drops not passed to customers with tub butter at 41 to 45 cents a pound and eggs at 42 to 44 cents a dozen retail versus wholesale 4 to 87 cents per pound and 83 to 88 cents per dozen.
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Joseph Hartigan
Passport Rules Tightened in Washington June Order
Washington reports new travel rules require passport applications at least a week before issues. Passports will be required for travel to all places except Canada. Previously, passports had not been required for certain destinations like Cuba and a few others.
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Canvin
Ban Cabarets and Economize Hoover Advises Women
Hoover urges women to conserve food and curb public dining waste to feed millions. He praises cabaret abolition as vital and calls for unified wartime action by women through coordinated defense council committees and major national societies.
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Anna Howard Shaw
Another $35,000,000 Loan to Great Britain
Washington reports another 35 million dollar loan to Great Britain from the Treasury with 7.5 million to Belgium, bringing Allied aid to 83 million dollars so far and Great Britain to 525 million.
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Belgium
Socialist Honorary Delegates Enter Sweden Amid Passport Dispute
Three men travel from the United States to Stockholm for the international Socialist peace conference. Boris Reinstein of Buffalo travels with no passport after the State Department seized it. Max Goldfarb of New York claims credentials were sent by cables. D Davidevitch, a Russian, represents the Socialist and Territorialist Labor Jewish party. All oppose a separate peace. Reinstein declines comment on Halifax transit.
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Russia
Goldfarb Declares He Will Not Return to United States
Goldfarb says he will stay in Russia and never come back, as a New York Socialist once connected with the Jewish Workingmen’s Committee and the American Jewish Congress Committees withdraw. David Davidaviteh, the other New York Socialist, is noted for long interest in migration regulation among Techeh circles.
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Dr. Goldfarb
David Davidaviteh
New York
Techeh
Military Reinforcement Plans and Rank Parallels
The passage notes reinforcement by regulars and marines to raise total force beyond two divisions. It also expects Pershing to be promoted to lieutenant general to achieve parity with British and French officers in rank.
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Navy awards contracts for 3.6 million socks to eighteen firms
The Navy Department awarded contracts for 3,587,200 pairs of socks to eighteen firms nationwide. The agreements follow the knit goods committee of the Council of National Defence recommendations. Average prices were about 18 cents per cotton pair and 28 cents for woolen pairs.
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National Defence
Irish Sinn Fein seeks passports for three members
A Dublin dispatch reveals the provisional Sinn Fein executive has demanded passports for three members to travel to the United States to oppose the Ishe Nationalist party mission. No word on British approval or the travelers’ identities or personnel.
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