Government urged to seize meat plants and railcar system
The Federal Trade Commission urged President Hoover to nationalize key meat industry assets. It proposes government ownership of stockyards, cold storage, railroad meat cars, and processing facilities to end monopolies held by Swift, Armour, Morris, Wilson, and Cudahy, ensuring open markets and fair charges.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Federal Trade Commiission
Swift & Co
Armour & Co
Morris & Co
Wilson & Co
Cudahy Packing Company
White House
United States
Railway Administration
Hans Dlers
Ser “Ramis
Af Porsl
British Thrust Reported in France Amid Fresh Fighting
A British advance in the Somme sector presses north while French forces on the British right report continued progress. Prisoners describe a surprise German division arriving. tanks and open ground favor Allied maneuvers as weather hindered gun flashes and air activity. The dispatch notes uncertain German reserves behind the Hindenburg line and ongoing heavy combat before noon.
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Frunce
Somme
Prussia
Bavarian
Rupprecht
Excess Profits Tax Debate Presses House Committee
Washington D C March reports show the house ways and means committee reviewing a 5 billion revenue bid. Chairman Kitchin will answer Secretary McAdon on adopting a rigidity of percent war profits with existing law rates on excess profits. The majority favors raising the excess profits rate to as high as eighty percent in combination with a six percent maximum, or an alternative plan of an eighty percent war profits tax.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
House
Ways and Means Committee
Kitchin
McAdno
McAdon
Resolution on Trade Involves United States Cooperation
Associated Press reports Temdon remarks on the Paris trade resolution indicate future steps will align with the United States. Andrew Bonar Taw, chancellor of the exchequer, stated the position in the House of Commons today.
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Associated Presa
Temdon
Paris
United States
Andrew Bonar Taw
Exchemer
House of Comminns
Ratification of Prohibition by Baron Rouvee House vote
Baron Rouvee Jac-Louisiana ratified the federal prohibition amendment after the house voted sixty nine to fifty one. The senate had previously signaled support early in the week and the measure proceeds to enactment.
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Associated Press
Baron Rouvee
Jac
Louisiana
House
Senate
Navy says it has sufficient men and crews
Washington reports Admiral Palmer told the Senate Military Committee that the navy has practically as many men as needed and would not be affected by extending the draft to the navy. Enlistments total about 434000 with 250000 for merchant marine and related needs. He said the navy could recruit 15000 per month if required and would continue joint enlistments with the War Department regardless of draft age changes.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Navy Department
Jumiral Palmer
Bure of Navigation
Senate Military Committee
Admiral Palmer
Daniels
Navy
Army
Ust
Palmer
Grant County farmer jailed under Espionage Act
Eau Claire Wisconsin judge Evans sentenced Christian Yearaus, fifty eight, Grant county farmer, to four years at Leavenworth and a thousand dollar fine for voicing against the war, saying this is a rich man's war and Americans have done as well things as the Germans in Belgium.
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Eau Claire
Wis
Evans
Christian Yearaus
Leworth
Belgium
Laborer Electrocuted Touching Wire Conduits
United Press reports Riacine Casner Jorgenson a fifty five year old laborer for Badger Foundry was electrocuted when his chin touched wet pipe conduits between basement rafters as he and three coworkers shoveled sand. Kes Olsen who tried to aid him fell unshocked.
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United Press
Riacine
Casner Jorgenson
Fiftyfive
Badger Foundry Company
Jorgenson
Kes Olsen
Thunder Showers Expected Across Atlantic Coast
Thunder showers are forecast to cool the middle Atlantic coast where a heat wave persisted. A low pressure system is developing over Alberta and moving east as a new heat wave heads toward the northwest and then to the Atlantic, with only temporary relief in sight.
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Associated Frese
Washington
1. C
Middle Atlantic
Weather Bureau
Wasters
Alberta
Canada
Northwest
Atlantic
Press Association Representatives Meet Burleson
Washington reporters and press association officials were invited by Postmaster General Burleson to a Monday meeting to discuss wire facilities for the press under government control of telegraph and telephone systems.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Washington
Corresponden
Burleson
Rain Brings Relief as Storm Toll Mounts in Wisconsin
Severe rain and winds across southeastern Wisconsin ease heat but leave a death and multiple prostrations in the last two days. Temperatures plummet below seventy as cooler rain arrives, cooling a torrid spell.
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Ay United Press
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Leaves For Hay In Munich Parks Troop Fodder Plan
Zurich report says Munich children were hired to strip LP leaves from trees in public parks for conversion into hay to feed army horses, The Munich Post notes this is needed due to fodder shortages.
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Associated Prann
Zurich
Munich
Munich Post
Cashier Held Up By Three Bandits In Indianapolis Bank
Three bandits robbed the South Side Bank in Indianapolis shortly after noon, taking about $26,000 from the cashier. Police pursued the suspects, details of escape being awaited as investigators question witnesses.
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United Press
South Sides
Training to Chase Germans in Fort Sill Gunnery Drill
A U S Army training photo shows Browning automatic machine guns during a practice drill at Fort Sill Oklahoma. The rapid fire weaponry would sweep roads and mow down advancing enemy regiments if ammunition held.
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Fort Sill
Oklo
Increased Gas Rates Hit Fond du Lac by Utility
The Wisconsin gas rates rose for Fond du Lac with a fixed $1.49 per thousand on the first ten thousand cubic feet and $1.13 per thousand beyond forty thousand. Late payments incur higher charges while the commission notes promised improvements and better service with new management. Eastern Wisconsin Electric company owns the Fond du Lac plants and operates electric properties in Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, and Sheboygan.
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Kesvicarsinte
Wisconsin
Pant du Lac
Sir Mad
Fond du Lac
Eastern Wisconsin Electric Company
Oshkosh
Font du Luc
Sheboygan
Malvy’s Residence in San Sebastian Amid Banished Ex-Minister
Former French interior minister Malvy, convicted of a misdemeanor after treason charges linked to Bolo Pasha, is banished for five years. The San Sebastian locale is noted as a fashionable watering place on the Bay of Biscay, twelve miles from the French coast.
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Paris
Louis J. Malvy
Interior
Spain
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Bolo Pasha
Senate
Barapa
Bay of Bisway
Mark Twain Manuscript Theft Charged in Los Angeles
United Press reports Kashima Kohima faced charges after being accused of stealing Mark Twain's original manuscript of The Legend of the Spectacular Ruin from the Clark store. The suspect allegedly confessed to the shopkeeper, claiming possession and intent to sell for hundreds of dollars.
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Los Angeis
Itogi Kohima
Pose
Butler
Mark Twain
K.P. Clark
Kashima
Lin
Atrect
Leap From Moving Train Severs Rights Near Sandstone Michigan
Twenty eight year old Grand Rapids resident Grafh Eo ion, Mayer, leaped from a window of a moving train en route to St Paul with eleven other men charged with Grafh eo ion. The train was stopped and Mayer received first aid from Raed Crome nurses on board before being taken to a hospital at Sandstone Minnesota for treatment.
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United. Press
Minn
Frederic Mayer
Af Grand Mupids
Mich
Piciy
U'Ain
St. Paul
Grafh Eo Ion
Raed Crome
France
Sandstone
Scandinavian ministers appeal for famine aid to U S
Identical notes from Norway Sweden and Denmark urging aid for famine sufferers in Mindland were presented to the state department today by the three Scandinavian ministers.
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Washington, D. C
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
United States
Minland
State Department
Red Cross Officer Killed in Plane Crash Near Kelly Field
Second Lieutenant Merton H. Knox of Redwood City California was killed this afternoon when his plane crashed six miles south of Kelly Field. Knox served as a Texan line officer and was an aviation cadet before his death. No further details were provided.
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Associated Press
San Antonin, ‘Tex
Ant. Merton H. Knox
Redwood, Csl
Kelly Field
American Ship Merak Sunk by German Submarine
Reports from marine insurance circles in New York state that the American steamship Merak of 4 Lons gross was sunk by a German submarine off Cane Traytoras Tuesday night. One small boat with crewmen unaccounted. captain and 23 crew landed at Norfolk. Merak, formerly Dutch carrier taken over by the United States, was bound from an American port with coat. Twenty survivors of another American steamer Metal sunk by a German submarine off North Carolina were landed, accounting for all aboard. Navy department received no further details.
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United States
Washington, D. C
Mera
Chin Wat
North Carolina
Navy Department
Honor for Wilson by Italian city confers honorary citizenship
Rome reports the municipal council of Arenza conferred honorary citizenship on President Wilson. The announcement notes Arenza, near Florence, with about 29 900 residents, as the birthplace of Petrarch.
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Aregio
Wilson
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Ateou
Imorence
Petrarch
Large stores captured as allies push after Archangel
United 6 reports allied forces have seized Archangel area and advance toward Lonskii Vologda and Vologda. They claim defeating 5,000 troops, capturing stores and war materiel north of the Gulf of Finland. Mentions Archangel region and strategic positions 260 miles north of Moscow.
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London
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Lonskii Vologda
IL Wieraed
Archangel
Gulf of Finland
Vologda
Architaged
Moscow
Anak
Belrogeaus
Dr Job charged in narcotics violation case at Barnesdale
The case against Dr Job of Barnesdale Superior rises on charges of violating the Harrison Narcotic Act. The doctor allegedly sold morphine cocaine heroin and opium to obtain a forged order form. A large number of drug addicts are expected to testify for the government.
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Barnesdale
Harrison Narcotic
Home Rule Bill Drafted to Pass Commons Likely
In the House of Commons Edward Shortt the secretary for Ireland said during the recess he would assist in drafting a home rule bill likely to pass the house. The remark came in reply to Nationalist leader Joan Tillen’s inquiry about Ireland policy.
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Associated Pros
London
Joan Tillen
Edward Shortt
Ireland
Hase of Commons
Offensive in Italy Report From Switzerland Hints Large Reinforcements
Washington reports from Switzerland indicate Avabo German reinforcements have been sent in large numbers to the Italian and Albanian fronts. Another enemy offensive in Italy is expected at any time, according to officials.
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Associated Press
Washington
Tome Today
Switzerland
Italy
Crop report: corn and wheat forecast as bumper yields
Associated Press reports the August 1 crop outlook showing corn and wheat as bumper crops thanks to steady weather. June and July weather influenced yields. winter wheat projected at 61 million bushels, spring wheat 122 million, total wheat near 878 million. State condition ratings given for Iowa Indiana Missouri Texas and others.
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Associated Press
D. C
Department of Agriculture
Une
T Wan
Allies Outlook Brightens as War Effort Seen Improving
London report on Lloyd George wartime speech declares the outlook for the Allies becomes brighter. It notes morale among German forces weakening and German strategic strain, with divisions exhausted and Bavarian quarrels amid retreat from Soissons. Washington sources confirm shifting German posture and retreat toward Berlin.
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London
House of Camerons
Lloyd Jorjee
Atogether
Siarreren
Washington, D. C
Gernpeh
United States
Commission
Ftrmen
Oulehy-Le-Chateau
Berlin
Soissons
Allies Launch Major Allied Offensive Across Somme Front
British and French troops attacked from Albert to Montdidier along the Avre and Somme front. Field reports note advances up to two miles and possible captures near Marceveteave and Lit 2 Molton. The assault, three weeks after a prior western front defeat, aims to disrupt German lines before reorganization.
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Amicis
Moutdidier
Avre
Anmlens
Somme
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Marcveteave
Washington
Marne
Aisne
Weste Ani
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Picardy
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Ayre
Montdidier
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Grandcourt
Bapaume
Noyon
Biss
Germar
Dawn Averee Inne
Compiegne
Italians Repulse HMS Attack Amid Balkan Front Claims
Italian forces claim repulsing an Austrian assault near Corona on Tuesday after brief artillery preps. Trahan reports Leday stating enemy stormed advanced positions but was halted by timely artillery and infantry reaction. North of Col del Trasso a patrol captured prisoners and a machine gun. In the Lombary valleys shelling hit ferries and hostile activity.
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Bolsheviki and Germans Agree on Russia Front Move
Reported agreement between Bolsheviki and Germans allows a limited German advance into Russia while permitting transfer of Soviet troops from the eastern front to the Czech Slovak area in the Valga region for concentration.
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Russia
Valga
Attack on Western Front Report From London
London reports describe a major Allied assault on the Somme front with rapid advances, large numbers of prisoners and artillery gains. British and French forces crossed the Avre Liee valley and pressed a heavy attack, while German positions near Amiens and the Aisne faced counter moves and rearguard actions.
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Peta
Amiens
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de Veste
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