Huge food surpluses eyed as prices top wartime levels
United Press reports Senator Kenyon to ask Agriculture Department to reveal if large warehouse stocks exist and who holds them to determine if efforts to keep prices high are aiding. Analysts warn retail prices lag wholesale drops, while state warehouses overflow with pork, beef, poultry.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Senate
Kenyon
P. Q Foy
United Press
Foy
Market Report
Johnson Urges U.S. to End European Involvement
Senator Hiram Johnson of California declares a peace program demanding home soldiers return, restore democracy and free expression, and keep American business on track. He condemns policing new nations and criticizes covert diplomacy shaping postwar Europe.
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Washington
Senate
Hiram Johnson
California
Johnson
Iamur
Ledge
United
Europe
United States
America
Parise
Russia
Cier
New York
Lenine
Trotsky
Petrograd
Germany
Union walkout looms as Central Labor council debates plan
Seattle unions push for a mass walkout in sympathy with shipyard strikers. Thirteen unions voted to strike and will report to the council, including Hotel Maids Leather Workers Jewelry Workers Milkmen Electricians No 77 Painters Local 300 Cooks and Carpenters. An emergency measure would fine strikers for intoxication and feeding arrangements are being organized.
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Seattle
Central Labor Council
Labor Temple
Tuemiay
Metal Trades Council
Metal Trades
Council
Puget Sound Maritime Council of Carpenters
Battle For “Industrial Democracy
Charles Plez
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Fleet Corporation
A. E. Miller
Metal Trades Strike Conference Committee
Miller
James Duncan
Mooney
Chicago
Duncan
Housewives Urge National Boycott
New York January 29. The National Housewives league calls for a national boycott of all food dealers not reducing retail prices to wholesale levels. Mrs Julian Heath, president, sent telegrams to state and city headquarters urging immediate action to force price cuts.
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Bureau of Markets
Walter L. Fisher
Secretary of the Interior
New York
National Housewives’ League
Julian Heath
League
Senator Norris Probes Swift on Food Surplus Prices
Senator Norris pressed Louis F. Swift, packer, during a Washington session citing figures that show a large surplus of foodstuffs and demanding explanations on prices.
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Washington
Norris
Louis F. Swift
Packer
National Prohibition Proclamation Signed
Washington January 29 Acting Secretary of State Polk signed the proclamation announcing that the national prohibition amendment had been ratified.
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Washington
Polk
US Sells 80 Percent of Shoes to Chile
Chilean import records show trade with the United States growing steadily. Before the war the United States provided 20 percent of Chilean shoes. now the share is 80 percent.
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Santiago
United States
Chile
Free Situation Wanted Ads For Service Men
Eir war service men are invited to use the situation wanted columns of The Star. Copy may be left at The Star office, 7th and Union or the downtown branch, located at Bartlett's Store, 610 Second Ave.
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Star
7Th and Union
Bartell’s
Second Ave
League to Rule Huns Colonies
President Wilson was to insist that German colonies and territorial questions be settled under the League of Nations. The plan would place administration in the league or under trusteeship and could involve Australia and Japan in renewed disputes over Pacific territories. Britain supports the trusteeship concept, with details to be continued on page 12.
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Thia
Creat Piritain
Japan
Caroline
Marshall Island
London
Italy
Dalmatia
League of Nations
William Philip Simms
United Press
Paris
Dan
Wilson
League
Australia
Pacific
Germany
Peace Bureau
Great Britain
Frank P Walsh for Attorney General
The editorial urges President Wilson to appoint Frank P Walsh as attorney general citing his vision integrity courage and support of workers. It argues Walsh earned respect as head of the industrial commission and as joint chairman of the war labor board and would inspire public confidence in fair impartial justice.
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Wilson
Gregory
Europe
United States
Frank P. Walsh
Industrial Commission
War Labor Board
Wm. H. Taft
Walsh
Frank Walsh
Skagit River Power Project In Doubt Says City Engineer
City Engineer A H Dimock warns the Skagit river municipal power project may waste millions if the city delays. He sets the estimated completion cost at thirty million dollars and urges liberal spending on preliminary surveys to avoid larger future costs. Existing survey expenditures include eighty thousand dollars with twenty six thousand more needed this year.
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Skagit River
A. H. Dimock
Ipal Power System
Dimock
Gorge Creek
Mother Testifies Against Son in Draft Registration Trial
Mrs Helen J Heardon testifies against her son Willard Lawrence Tallman in Monroe alleging he failed to register for the June 1917 draft. The 69 year old witness, mother of five, recalls quarrels over property and war sentiments as prosecutors seek to prove Tallman’s birth year as 1887 and establish his eligibility.
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Willard Lawrence Tallman
Monroe
Helen J. Heardon
Willard
Prisoners Sail to Sea Before Armistice
One hundred British NCOs in a German prison camp learned of the armistice and marched to a stream where they commandeered a small vessel. They steered toward the sea, found themselves in the Kiel canal, and were then picked up by a German submarine and brought to England.
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London
Germany
Kiel Canal
England
Henry Albers Trial Sees Defense Claim Intoxication Clouding Intent
In Portland on January 29 Henry F. McGinn, chief counsel for Henry Albers, argued that his client is an unfortunate man who sometimes drinks and shifts from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde. He claimed government agents pressured Albers while intoxicated as the trial on sedition charges began with testimony from government witnesses.
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Portland
Henry Albers
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Henry F. McGinn
Albers
Women Work Debate Sparks Postwar Roles in Letter
A reader letter argues that women should keep working after the war, claiming men would be spared labor and could rest. The piece warns this could revive old gender roles and make men lazy while women shoulder ongoing duties, prompting readers to weigh postwar family dynamics.
Tacoma council refuses truge in shipyard dispute
Tacoma January 28. The War Labor Board’s S. Larson proposed a settlement by appointing a committee of business men and strikers to present the case in Washington. The metal trades strike committee said the plan will not be considered.
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Fred S&s Ferguson
The
United Preax
Paris
Dan
America
Wilson
League of Nations
United Press
San Francisco
Maritime Bay District Council
Bay District
R. N. Brotherton
Brotherton
Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment
Tacoma
S. Larson
War Labor Board
Washington, D. C
Bremerton Metal Trades Seek Feb Vote on Walkout
Bremerton and Seattle union leaders announce a February meeting of Metal Trades council reps to debate a walkout of Bremerton oil workers in solidarity with striking shipyard workers. Telegrams from Seattle urge nationwide cooperation.
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Bremerton
The
Metal Trades Council
Seattle Metal Trades Council
British Chief in Strike Plea
Sir Robert Horne the British minister of labor urged Clyde shipyard workers to return to duty. The move followed his earlier stance favoring joint talks and came as 30 thousand more joined the Glasgow strike for a total of 70 thousand. Belfast trades halted. nationwide walks disrupted shipbuilding coal and allied industries.
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London
Sir Robert Horne
Clyde
Glasgow
Belfast
Revolt Breaks Out in Romania Across Cities
Vienna Jan 28 delayed dispatches report a revolution raging in Romania. Homecoming volunteers clashed regular army troops in permanent garrisons. Bloody encounters occurred in several cities and continued in Bucharest through Sunday.
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Vienna
Rumania
Budapest
Bucharest
France loosens embargo on metal imports
Special dispatch from Paris reports France lifting restrictions on steel, copper, tin, nickel, and related goods, giving priority to timber shipments and boosting metal supplies. In Victoria, B C. metal trades workers refuse to repair the steamer Admiral Watson sent from Seattle, with union action cited as behind the stoppage.
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N. EL A
Paris
France
Victoria
B. C
Seattle
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