Heney Given Right to Question Heads of Packing Houses
Washington, Jan 25. Regulatio n of livestock prices to stabilize markets was debated before congressional committees by Louis F Swift of Swift & Co and J Orden Armour of Armour & Co. They urge price stability through continued food administration or other controls, warning removal could trigger violent price fluctuations. Francis J Heney was invited to question Armour, amid calls for a government price control agency independent of war conditions.
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Washington
Food Administration
Dco
Louis F. Swift
Swift & Co
House Interstate Commerce Committee
J. Orden Armour
Armour & Co
Senate Agriculture Committee
House Committee
Stephens
Nebraska
Heney
Mr. Armour
Senate
Francis J. Heney
Federal Trade Commission
Senator Page
Vermont
Levy Mayer
Armour
Swift
Sims
Mr. Swift
Mr. Sims
Hamilton
Europe
Thomas F. Logan
Swift and Company
Henry Veeder
Chairman Sims
Sazonoff Calls for Forceful Action to Crush Bolshevism
Paris January 25 Sergius Sazonoff for Omsk and Ekaterinodar governments argues there is only one remedy to Bolshevism to crush it by force. He urges approved volunteer expeditions raised and enlisted in European countries without powers organizing them. He cites Peninsular war Garibaldi Boer Balkans as precedents.
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Paris
Sergius Sazonoff
Omsk
Ekaterinodar
M. Noulens
Russia
M. Scavenius
M. Sazonoff
Balkans
Arrest Ringleader in Chicago Burglar Trust
Chicago police disclosed a burglar for trust with HQ in Chicago and agencies in several cities after Budd Wilmot, 50, was arrested. The operation has cost Chicago fur dealers over $100,000 in recent months and allegedly stolen furs valued at about $500,000 annually by its agents.
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Chicago
Budd Wilmot
Paice
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Pays Druggists Adv
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Pays Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure Itching Bleeding or Protruding Piles Stops Irritation Soothes and Heals You can get restful sleep after the first application Price 60c Adv.
List of captives released from German prison camps announced
Washington January 25 war department releases names of army and navy personnel freed from German camps. Included are 27 crew members of the British steamer Esmeralds sunk by Moewe in 1917, and Navy aviator George T. Rowe of Poston. Also listed are Army men Clyde Rorah of Kewanee Illinois and William J. Redenbo of Smithboro Illinois who traveled via Switzerland to France after release. Navy man Ray Roop of S S Campana, Boyne City Michigan, arrived in Scotland.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Navy
George T. Rowe
Poston
Switzerland
France
Clyde Rorah
Kewanee
Ill
William J. Redenbo
Smithboro
Scotland
Ray Roop
S. S. Campana
Boyne City
Mich
France Will Press Her Russian Claim
Paris reports recognition of Russia's pre war national debt to France by the Lenine Trotzky government will be a first subject if Bolsheviki leaders meet at Princes Islands for peace talks. France seeks priority, citing earlier contracts and widespread Russian bonds held by over two million people across the country.
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Associated Press
Paris
Russia
France
Lenine-Trotzky
Princes Islands
Italy
Social Democrats Poll Heavy Vote in German Elections
Berlin Jan 24 The German Social Democracy polled more than 10 million votes in last Sundays elections per Freiheit, versus 4.25 million in the last Reichstag. Twenty added mandates would give them an absolute majority. Majority Socialists about 8 million, independents near 2 million.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Social Democracy
Freiheit
National Assembly
Gallant Dog Army Aided British On Front For Two Years
London special reports England employed dogs as messengers sentries and guards for nearly two years. A 1917 war dog school trained collies sheepdogs lurches airedales and crosses. Dogs repeatedly carried messages under fire alerting units and saving positions across France and the Balkans.
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London
England
British
War Office
Col. Richardson
France
Balkans
American Canners Seek Export Trade
The National Canners association wrapped up its 12th annual convention with steps to enter world markets. A Webb law export company incorporation was approved to distribute American canned goods globally. An inspection bureau will certify quality on each shipping case. Officers elected: Frank Gerber president, W J Sears vice president, Frank E Gorrell secretary treasurer.
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Chicago
National Canners’ Association
Frank Gerber
Michigan
W. J. Sears
Ohio
Frank E. Gorrell
Washington, D. C
Military Men Meet With Paris Council
Paris January 24 the supreme council of the powers met today as the supreme war council. Present were President Wilson premiers foreign ministers Marshal Foch Haig General Pershing General Diaz representing the high command on all fronts and the Versailles war council generals. Diaz accompanied Premier Orlando of Italy. Session focused on the status of allied and American occupational forces along German and Austrian frontiers.
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Associated Press
Paris
Supreme Council of the Powers
Supreme War Council
Wilson
Marshal Foch
Marshal Haig
John J. Pershing
United States Army
Diaz
Versailles War Council
Berlin
Tasker H. Bliss
United States
General Robilant
Ialy
Orlando
Italy
Fears Jobless Era When Yanks Return
New York Jan 25 There are ten million jobless persons in the United States today Dr George W Kirchwey federal director of employment for New York state declared in an address in Brooklyn He predicted a period not terrible but serious while soldiers and war workers were being replaced in peace time industries He said after the armistice the work changed from finding men for jobs to finding jobs for men The employment service will give preference in the assignment of jobs to men returning from over seas
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New York
United States
George W. Kirchwey
New York State
Brooklyn
Kirchway
President Signs Bill While On Foreign Soil
Washington reports that President Wilson signed the first act of Congress outside U S soil in Paris. The law provides transportation expenses to the homes of government war emergency employees discharged since November 11.
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Washington
Congress
United States
State Department
Wilson
Paris
Senate names list of 62 radicals and pacifists in record
Washington reports a Senate committee record listing 62 individuals, many academics, labeled radical or pacifist by Archibald Stevenson of military intelligence. Names include Jane Addams, David Starr Jordan, Morris Hillquit, Scott Nearing, Oswald Garrison Villard, and Eugene V. Debs, with positions and addresses noted. The list prompted executive session before final insertion decisions.
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Washington
Senate
Archibald Stevenson
Military Intelligence Bureau
Stevenson
Jane Addams
Chicago
Frederic C. Howe
New
James J. Bagley
Franklin Union No. 23
New York
Henry J. Cadbury
University of Pennsylvania
Edmund C. Evans
Philadelphia
Harold Evans
Kuno Francke
Harvard University
William F. Bade
Berkely
Cal
Henry Sb. Dana
Columbia University
Roger N. Baldwin
Washington University
St. Louis
Charles A. Beard
Sophronisba P. Breckenridge
University of Chicago
Frederick A. Busbee
Colorado College
Evans Clark
Princeton University
Lindsay T. Damon
Brown University
Henry W. L. Dana
John Lovejoy Elliott
Elizabeth Freeman
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Thomas C
Columbia University Law School
Lindsay M. Keasbey
University of Texas
Edward Kherbiel
Leland Stanford Jr. University
Agnes Brown Leach
Louis P Lochner
Frederick Lynch
Judah L. Magnes
Theresa S. Malkiel
James H. Maurer
Pennsylvania Federation of Labor
Tracy Migatt
Scott Nearing
Nathaniel Schmidt
Cornell Aniversity
Vida D. Cudder
Wellesley College
Clarence R. Skinner
Tufts College
Helen Phelps Stokes
Sidney Strong
Seattle
Wash
Norman M. Thomas
Alexander T. Rachtenberg
St. John Tucker
Oswald Garrison
Willard
Suian D. Ward
Jas. P. Warsbashe
Brooklyn
Harry F. Werd
Boston School of Theology
Donald Winston
Union Theological Seminary
A.fplingsworth Wood
Eugene V. Debs
Terre Haute
Ind
Objectors Charged With Brutal Treatment by Prisons
Theodore H. Dund e of Chicago told the house military committee that twenty military and political prisoners, many conscientious objectors, were brutally treated in federal penitentiaries and detention barracks. He provided details for each case and urged an official investigation.
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Washington
Theodore H. Dunde
Chicago
House Military Committee
Mott Defends Army Y In Des Moines Speech
Dr. John R. Mott executive head of the American Y M C A spoke to the state convention, vigorously defending the Y M C A war work overseas. He acknowledged flaws and urged critics to help address problems rather than merely condemn.
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Mott
Army Y
Des Moines
John R. Mott
The
American Y.M. C. A
St Louis Infirmary to House Wounded Men
About 1,000 wounded men of the American Expeditionary Force will arrive in St Louis within two weeks to be patients at the City Infirmary, being converted into an army reconstruction hospital. Col. B J Edgar, arriving from Cheyenne, will oversee the changes and his initial survey indicated the facility could be prepared quickly.
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ST. Louis
St. Louls
City Infirmary
B. J. Edgar
St. L Louis
Cheyenne
Wyo
Edger
Naturalists say serpents can live six months without food
Naturalists report that serpents can survive for six months or longer without sustenance, highlighting reptiles' efficient metabolism and adaptive fasting.
Friction With French Slight In American Army
January report from American headquarters in Germany describes minor incidents that caused temporary tension between Third Army and French troops as lines shifted near the Rhine. Incidents in Coblenz included French officers snubbing German civilians and American soldiers recalling France’s past hassles. Tension faded within weeks as expected, with soldiers generally grumbling as part of army life.
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Germany
Third Army
Rhine
Coblenz
Insance
Rickman
France
Congress
American colonels broker Balkan truce in Carinthia
Vienna reported Cols. Herman Miles and Leroy King of the American army halted bloodshed between Germans and Jugo-Slavs in Carinthia. They arranged a perpetual truce, set frontiers for administrative purposes, and brokered prisoner and wounded exchanges while the Peace Conference decides the final settlement. Miles previously served as American military attache to the Balkans.
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Vienna
Herman Miles
Leroy King
Carinthia
Cols
Miles
King
Klagenfurt
Col
Balkans
Bucharest
Petrograd
England to extend panel plan to all classes
A government committee proposes expanding England's panel medical system from the insured poor to all classes. Doctors oppose, warning a clinical system destroys doctor patient bonds and free choice. Plan would create five class ranks with salaries from 7500 to 2000 dollars and government funding of drugs clinics and travel.
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London
England
Medico-Political Union
Government Budget For Hog Cholera Fight
Washington January 25 An agricultural appropriation bill to be reported to the House includes 640000 for federal and state cooperation in the hog cholera war. Missouri gains directly for its leading cholera control efforts. The bill also seeds 1000000 for bovine tuberculosis battle, up from 500000 last year.
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Washington
Hoase of Representatives
Missouri
Agricultural Committee
J. W. Connaway
College of Agriculture
T. L. Rubey
Colds Cause Headaches and Body Pains Headache Relief
A cold brings headaches feverish sensations and body pains relieved by taking LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. The box shows E. F. Grove as signer. Price 30 cents.
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E. F. Grove
Local Furnishings Ad From JL Potash
A Chicago area retailer offers a good line of dressers buffets beds mattresses kitchen cabinets sewing machines stoves and rugs at 900 N Tenth with contact code 2710 J and a date of February 26.
Highways discuss cost of Illinois road system plan
Springfield Jan 25 members of the division of highways debated delaying the 60 million bond funded Illinois road system until labor and material costs fall and bond markets improve Director Frank Bennett said 500 miles could be built next season and 1000 miles the following year but current costs threaten coverage He noted cement now costs 2 40 a barrel vs 1 25 expected bond sales may be hard during Liberty bond drive about 6 million from state and federal funds may be available soon site work could reach 75 million by completion and price drops could speed many miles of road planned by counties
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Springfield
Ill
Division of Highways
Department of Public Works and Buildings
Frank L. Bennett
Bennett
Expec
Statid
Federal
Futur
Army bribe case tied to Camp Dodge material sale
Des Moines, Jan 25. Michael Levy and 8. D. Brill Chicago businessmen were arraigned on charges of attempting to bribe an army officer and conspiracy to defraud the government. They pleaded not guilty and posted bonds of 6000 each for a Feb 5 federal court hearing. Levy is VP of the Michael Tauber Co.. Brill is secretary. Federal agents allege they sought to buy surplus Camp Dodge material no longer needed by the government.
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Des Moines
Towa
Michael Levy
D. Brill
Chicago
United States
Piper
Levy
Michael Tauber Company of
Brill
Camp Dodge
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