U.S. Moves To Take Hand In Food Question
Secretary Houston asks Congress for power for the Agriculture Department to supervise food production and distribution and for a 25 million dollar appropriation. The plan includes surveying supplies, possible licensing of food related firms, and emergency price controls if needed. The proposal aims to keep conditions normal and improve market grading for farm products.
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Washington
Congress
Houston
Senate
Department of Agriculture
United States
Council of National Defense
Agricultural Department
Secretary Houston Urges Surge in U.S. Corn Production
Secretary Houston of the Department of Agriculture calls for increasing corn output nationwide to meet war emergency demand. He notes corn is a vital cereal usable for food and livestock feed and says acreage should grow especially east of the one hundredth meridian where conditions favor corn culture.
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Washington
United States
Houston
Department of Agriculture
America
Battle on Southern Front in World War I
Paris reports hard fighting along the southern front with French gains under General Niville north of the Aisne in Champagne and the Argonne forest. The French say more than 19,000 German troops were captured and over 100 guns seized since the offensive began.
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Paris
France
French War Office
Niville
Aisne
Champagne
Argonne
Gun Plant For Charleston West Virginia
A Navy Department commission led by Rear Admiral Ralph Earle announced that the government will build a large gun forging plant in Charleston along with armor plate and projectile plants near the city. Separately in Brownsville Texas authorities investigate reports that fear of conscription is prompting Mexicans and Mexican born residents to leave Texas, raising labor shortage fears for southern farms.
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Charleston
W. Va
Navy Department
Ralph Earle
Ordnance Bureau
Brownsville
Texas
United States
Mexico
Farmera
Ohio colleges oppose draft plan to keep youths on farms
May Leave Schools and Help Farmers report Ohio educational institutions favor no plan to dismiss young men so they may go to the farms and help produce larger crops.
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Columbus
O—J
Ohio
Senate approves record war finance bill for 7 billion
The Senate passed unanimously a war finance bill authorizing 7 billion dollars in securities and a 3 billion loan to allies, aimed at funding hostilities with Germany. Conferees may be appointed if the House does not accept changes, with all present senators voting in favor except one absent member.
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Washington
Senate
House
Germany
Lane
Oregon
Shipments to Neutrals Policy Discussed in Washington
Washington considers policy on food exports during the war with neutral nations. The American government plans no broad embargo on shipments to European neutrals except where aid to Germany may occur. Minister Van Rappard met President Wilson, and other neutrals fear export controls as Congress weighs embargo bills.
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Washington
Germany
van Rappard
Netherlands
Wilson
United States
Congress
Insurance body proposes uniform policy surcharge to aid recruiting
A committee of the National Association of State Insurance Commissioners plans a uniform provision for policies issued to military age individuals. A 10 percent premium increase on policies for those enlisted or about to enlist is cited as a serious recruiting handicap in the eastern states.
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Des Moines
Iowa
National Association of State Insurance Commissioners
Fire and explosion claim three lives at lumber camp
In Mancelona Michigan an oil stove explosion at a lumber camp eight miles away sparked a fire that cost the lives of a young mother and her two children. Bernard Marks, a wood man, tried to rescue them and nearly died himself.
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Mancelona
Mich
Bernard Marks
Fire of Mexican Snipers Against U S Border Troops
Snipers fired on American border patrols in western El Paso Texas. A detachment of the Twentieth United States Infantry returned the fire. One Carranza soldier was killed. Brigadier General George Bell Jr. ordered a protest to Mexican authorities and directed US troops to shoot to kill when attacked.
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el Paso
Texas
Twentieth United States Infantry
Carranza
George Bell, Jr
Soriano Bravo
Selective Draft Urged as Solution to Draft Shortfalls
The Senate Military Committee report endorses selective conscription over the volunteer system. It argues the present method is uncertain and inadequate for mobilizing large forces, and that the bill ensures rapid, efficient raising of tens of thousands of troops while minimizing disruption to the economy. It cites world wars recognition of selective draft as the only effective method.
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Washington
Chamberlain
Military Committee
Senate
National Guard
Make German Ships Ready for Sea Seizure Plans
Washington reports vigorous government steps to prepare seized German ships for sea and to take over ships under construction for neutrals in American yards. A bill to empower the Shipping Board to seize foreign built vessels and pay for them is expected in Congress. About 1,200,000 tons are under construction for foreign interests. A shortage of officers may prompt new legislation to ease current restrictions.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Congress
Rioting in Porto Alegre Targets German Colony in Brazil
Rioting flared for days in Porto Alegre Brazil after anti German demonstrations. A streetcar passed a German hotel and gunfire wounded several. Violence renewed against Germans as authorities moved to restore order and arrested several Germans.
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Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Porto Alegre
Men who married since war declaration must serve in military
Washington reports a War Department policy stating that men of military age who have married since the war against Germany began will not evade their military service obligation. The policy reinforces duty despite changes in personal circumstances.
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Washington
Germany
War Department
Two British sailors rescued after 15 days adrift at sea
Emanuel Jannig and Herman Week of the British schooner Annittina, capt Brathley, reached Baltimore aboard a Norwegian steamer after 15 days without food or water. Five comrades died of thirst during the ordeal. one died by self-injury in delirium. Their bodies were salted from salt water. The boat capsized and rations were lost. rain provided their only water.
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Baltimore
Emanuel Jannig
Mate
Herman Week
Seaman
Brathley
U. S. to Fix Food Prices
Governor Cox urged Ohio Farm Directors that the Federal Government should fix minimum prices for farmers products while subsidies could offset drawbacks. He argued farmers should not set prices and warned of world hunger if harvests fail to meet demand amid a food shortage.
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Columbus
James M. Cox
Ohio
William O. Thompson
Ohio State University
Wheat Placed on Free List by Ottawa
Ottawa places wheat, sour, and semolina on the free list under reciprocity with the United States. Free wheat products will flow both ways as Canada and the U S remove duties. The move, due to export pressures and tonnage limits, ends a 10 cent per bushel wheat duty and a 45 cent per barrel flour duty.
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Ottawa
United States
Canada
Germans Strike in Berlin and Bread Ration Cut Rumored
Dispatches from Amsterdam report a general strike in Berlin and riots in the German capital. Copenhagen notes the reduced bread ration in Germany has begun, with German workers allegedly discontent and threats of retaliation by strikes.
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London
Holland
Germany
Amsterdam
Berlin
Copenhagen
Yonkers Pastor Kills Two Women Then Kills Himself
In Yonkers New York Rev Robert F Berry a German born pastor shot and killed his wife and mother in law after a quarrel over the war. He wounded his sister in law and then died by suicide leaving a note Insane Prussians. Police say Berry bought a pistol days earlier and claimed to join the Home Defense Guard.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Germany
Robert F. Berry
East Yonkers
Caroline Bahr
Berry
Home Defense Guard
U S Welcomes British Envoys Amid War Tension
Washington greets British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour and the royal commission. In a sober ceremony, flags fly, no music, 5000 spectators watch from the Union Station plaza as President Wilson and Secretary Lansing deem the visit a grave national moment.
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Washington
Arthur J. Balfour
Union Station
Wilson
Lansing
Second Cavalry
Fenton
Ft. Myer
Two Hospital Ships Sunk Off Britain
London reports the British hospital ships Donegal and Lanfranc torpedoed without warning on April 17 with many wounded aboard. On Donegal 29 wounded and 12 crew missing. Lanfranc carried British and German wounded with 19 British and 15 Germans believed dead. Andrew Bonar Law announced further recent losses to hospital ships.
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London
Donegal
Lanfranc
Andrew Bonar Law
House of Commons
Explosions Wreck Seaboard Plant Wounding Watchman
Three massive blasts rocked the Seaboard By-Product Plant near Kearny New Jersey causing a fire that gutted the lab and spread to the tong toolhouse and administration building under construction. A watchman was killed in the disaster.
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Kearney
N. J
Seaboard
Here
Tong
Demonstrations in Buenos Aires Support US and Allies
Enthusiastic crowds in Buenos Aires march with flags for the United States and Entente Allies. About one hundred thousand participants sing the Marseillaise and cheer France and other allies as women shower flowers on the paraders from balconies.
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America
Buenos Aires
United States
France
Five Die In Fire Destroys Lincoln Home
A fire in Lincoln's Baker Ridge area killed five children trapped on the second floor while their mother and aunt escaped. The incident left the women unharmed after they jumped to safety.
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Boston
Baker Ridge
Lincoln
Explosion in Wilhelmshaven Harbor Reported
A terrific explosion occurred in Wilhelmshaven harbor in Prussia, reported by the Nieue Rotterdame de Courant. Damage extended for many miles around the area.
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Wilhelmshaven Harbor
Amsterdam
Prussia
Nieue Rotterdame de Courant
New York Publishers Oppose Espionage Bill Censorship
The Publishers' Association of New York City adopted resolutions denouncing the censorship provision of the espionage bill as an assault on free thought and speech. They urged Senators and Representatives from New York to vote against the measure, calling it drastic and indefinite in its terms.
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New York
Publishers’ Association of
New York City
Congress
Not the Only One in Philadelphia Quirer Plan
A fragment notes a buying plan of five dollars down and percent when caught, keeping a house keeper on the jump, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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Kathryn Freeman
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Balfour
Western Newspaper
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Batavia
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Cincinnati
Hillsboro
Aes Saunders
Genel Pacihack
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Joan L. Bla Oo
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Winchester Peebles
Mineral Spring
Barden
Portsmouth
Attorneys AT Law
Roudebush
Bly
Clermont House
H.L. Nichols, Atchols & Nichols, Attorneys-At-Law
A. B. Nichols
Benstioe
Main Street
Jorman L. Burnet
Attorneys-At Law
Clermont Bldg
Batavia, Ohio
Awson E. Bradley
First National Bank
4Th and
Walnut Sts
the Jamieson Music House
H. Stirling Moore
Ome Eet Sncew Batavia
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