Sugar Beets and Beets Farmers Feud Over Prices
Fresh leased wire reports farmers accuse high processing costs and foreign labor in Colorado beet sugar, pressuring Hoover to fix sugar beet prices. Letters from Colorado Farm Association and Rocky Mountain Sugar Growers urge federal help, citing Great Western Sugar profits and a push for equitable distribution amid Liberty Bond loans.
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Great Western
Thomas Ji. Stearns
Colorado
Great Western Sugar Com
Sugar prices eyed as relief appeals urged
The administration urged economy and asked the public not to pay more for sugar as a shortage looms in the East. Hoover planned moves to influence refiners by licensing controls to curb price increases and ease the deficit before December.
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Hoover cites limits on retail sugar price hikes
The article notes refiners cannot raise prices to retailers and retailers face no higher cost today. Hoover argues retailers should not exploit the shortage to lift prices, while feed control law provides no direct authority to regulate retail pricing.
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Carnival funds climb to 887.25 as queen race tightens
A charity carnival gains 251.23 this week bringing the Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund to 887.25 to aid Sammiea in France. Activities include 9:30 p.m. dances and a 10:20 aero act by High Knoll. Queen voting costs 1 cent and ends Friday night with a diamond ring prize. Olive Dolphin leads, Elsie Wright second. The tobacco fund nears 3,600 with multiple small donations. The fuel administration plans to seize excess coal hoards in Ohio and Pennsylvania temporarily.
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Police Department
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Liberty Loan gains pace as small subscribers rise
Washington reports the second Liberty loan nearing success with about half of the $34 billion minimum quota subscribed. Officials urge the remaining eight days must average $455 million daily to hit $5 billion. Gains stem from many small subscriptions as workingmen farmers soldiers and small wage earners buy bonds, with a strong burst from New York district aiming to top $500 million.
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Washington
Liberty
Treasury Department
New York
Oregon Falls Behind in Liberty Loan Drive
Portland on October 18 reports Oregon has raised only 5.19 million dollars toward a 146.5 million quota. Campaign leaders say there is pessimism and orders to exert every possible effort statewide.
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United Press
Portland
Oregon Liberty Loan
Jones appeals for Liberty loan backing in War effort rally
Senator Wesley L. Jones urged full support for the $5 billion Liberty loan at a Young Men's Republican luncheon. He framed the WWI drive as essential to honor soldiers and allied nations, stressing unity and sacrifice while noting 4,000 local troops subscribed to $50 bonds each.
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Young Men's Republican Club
Good Eats
France
Great Britain
Italy
Vancouver
Wash
Liberty loan push boosts Seattle participation
Chauncey Wright promotes Liberty bonds on a 4 percent plan with the aim of public support. In Seattle 40 restaurant workers subscribe in a preliminary canvass while Renton banks and citizens back a $40,000 bond drive. A university district campaign targets $100,000 in subscriptions with a parade and mass meeting. Bonfires nationwide will remind Americans of their obligation, and Liberty Day is set for the next Wednesday.
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Women's State Committee
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Tobacco package pledge for American servicemen
A fragment describes a pledge to send tobacco packages to American fighting men, each dollar buying a package valued at 45 cents, with details of how to participate and a request for a message of thanks.
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Seattle Star
Peace Ahead in Shipyards
Representatives of employers and unions from Portland will go to San Francisco with the federal shipyard labor adjustment board before the end of the week and arrange a permanent settlement of coast shipyard troubles. The same wage scale and general working conditions will probably prevail in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
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Portland
San Francisco
Federal Shipyard Labor Adjustment Board
Seattle
Allies Breakthroughs and German Trench Shifts in 1917 War
Analysis describes British and French bombardments and advances at Arras Messines and Ypres as German trenches evolved into shell holes and pill boxes. It notes Hindenburg's shifting strategy, from trenches to concrete fire positions, and the creeping barrage that shaped the Menin Road fighting.
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