Government move to control coal industry looms
The Wilson administration nears action on coal price fixing under the food control bill. The Federal Trade Commission reports current prices yield large profits for operators, jobbers, and retailers while distribution remains inequitable. Miners threaten strikes for higher wages as fuel supplies grow tight for winter.
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Union News Service
Washington
Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
The
Trade Commission
Francis §. Peabody
Coal Produce Committee
Council of National Defense
John P. White
United Mine Workers of America
Government Forms Wheat Control Corporation In 1917
Washington reports the Food Administration plans a 50 million dollar government owned wheat corporation to buy and sell wheat at major terminals to stabilize bread prices. Millers agree to voluntary regulation with a profit differential. future steps cover flour distribution and bread baking to curb speculation and set farm to store price scales. Herbert Hoover chairs the new Wheat Corporation with Julius Barnes as president. Garfield of Williams College leads the Price-Fixing Committee with 12 members from producer and consumer groups.
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Washington
Food Administration
Wheat Corporation
Grain
Herbert Hoover
Julius Barnes
Duluth
Garfield
Williams College
Norwegian Steamer Falkland Sunk in North Sea
Danish dispatch relayed by Exchange Telegraph says Norway reports the steamer Falkland was sunk in the North Sea with ten dead. The vessel Capalla also sank but the crew were saved.
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North Sea
London
Exchange
Copenhagen
Norwegian Foreign Office
Major Charles Billinglea Found Dead at Camp Meade
Major Charles Billinglea chief of sanitation at Camp Meade was found dead from a gunshot in his tent. A committee of five officers ruled the shooting accidental.
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Baltimore
Charles Billingslea
Camp Meade
Premier May Step Down Amsterdam
Count Moritz Ester hazy who since last June has been Premier of Hungary is expected to resign due to ill health, a Vienna telegram printed in the Vossische Zeltung of Berlin reports.
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Amsterdam
Moritz Esterhazy
Hungary
Vienna
Vossische Zeltung
Berlin
Fatal Explosion at Warren Oil Well
Three men were killed and three injured when a nitro glycerin blast during preparations to shoot a Peterson Oil Company well at Warren Pennsylvania caused multiple fatalities and injuries.
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Warren
Penn
Peterson Oil Company
Pershing Seeks Army Reorganization To European Standard
Major General Pershing proposes a full army reorganization to European norms. Infantry units shift to 250 enlisted and six officers per company with two captains per company for reserve and leadership, regiments to 3 battalions of four companies totaling about 3,600 men, and divisions reduced to about 19,000 men.
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Washington
Pershing
France
Plan to call medical students under draft to colleges debated
New York officials proposed to the President that medical students drafted for military service be detailed by his order to their colleges so they remain in school. The plan keeps them subject to call. Governor Whitman urged exempting policemen in cities over four million by legislation.
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New York
Wilson
Whitman
Woods
Rioting and murder charges in July race riots
Police officers and a prominent politician were among 17 men arrested in East St. Louis Illinois on charges ranging from rioting to assault to murder tied to July race riots that left over 100 whites and blacks dead. Of 105 indicted by the grand jury 39 have been taken into custody. 82 whites and 23 blacks were indicted.
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East St. Louis
Ill
Americans To Save Harvest Across Border Labor Accord
Washington reports twenty thousand American harvest hands will assist Canada's grain crop while about ten thousand Canadians will dig potatoes in Maine. Immigration rules will be suspended by both nations to allow cross border movements during the season.
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Washington
Canada
Maine
Fierce fighting in Lens after Hill 70 capture
London reports fierce hand to hand combat in Lens western district after the Hill 70 breakthrough by British and Canadian forces. Five counter attacks were repulsed, Canadian casualties were light, and German prisoners are arriving at depots. The battle marks a major wartime engagement and signals potential fall of Lens.
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London
Lens
Hill 70
War Department
Former U S Senator John W Kern Dies in Asheville
Former Indiana senator and 1908 Democratic vice presidential nominee John W Kern died in Asheville North Carolina at age 68 due to uraemic poisoning. He had come to recuperate and was with his wife Mrs Kern and Mrs George B Lawson a Roanoke Virginia daughter at his death. Kern was long a favored Indiana Democratic figure.
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Asheville
N. C
United States
John W. Kern
Indiana
Kern
George B. Lawson
Roanoke
New England Guardsmen to Join 42nd in France Contingent
Washington reports the Twenty sixth Division of New England guardsmen, led by Major General Clarence Edwards, may sail for France with the Forty second Division under Major General W A Mann. The move doubles the planned 19 000 to 38 000 men, relying on a compact regional pool of regiments.
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Washington
New England
France
W. A. Mann
National Guard
Clarence Edwards
Two Mexicans Arrested in Nogales Gold Heist Case
Tucson officers rounded up Antonio Rojas and Ernest Mittales on the local arrest tied to the Nogales Sonora bank theft worth about $60,000 in gold and currency.
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Tucson
Ariz
Antonio Rojas
Ernest Mittales
Nogales
Sonora
Clash Likely as Chinese Armies Mass Near Fukien Coast
Troops of the Northern and Southern Chinese armies concentrate around Chaoan in Fukien Province, 40 miles north of Swatow, raising expectation of a clash. Three Austrian merchantmen interned in the harbor handed to Chinese naval forces. ships remained undamaged with no resistance. The German and Austrian vessels now seized total about 18,000 tons.
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Shanghai
China
Chaoan
Fukien
Swatow
Ohioans to Occupy Chillicothe Camps
Secretary Baker approves the first draft distribution with Camp Sherman in Chillicothe Ohio receiving most Ohio troops. Pennsylvania supplies 4 000 more at Louisville and Illinois New York and Pennsylvania quotas are split among camps to reach about 40 000 per site while Alaska and western states send 46 109 to American Lake Washington.
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Washington
Sherman
Chillicothe
Ohio
First National Army
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
National Army
Petersburg
War Department
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New York
Louisville
Kentucky
Indiana
Iinois
Des Moines
Iowa
Rockford
Baker
American Lake
Alaska
Oregon
California
Idaho
Nevada
Montana
Wyoming
Utah
Peace Proposal Rejected by Allies and Vatican
Washington reports that Pope Benedicts peace plan faces likely rejection by the Entente and United States. Officials say the Vatican seeks armament reduction and freedom of seas with no postwar economic retaliation, but acceptance as presented is unlikely.
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Washington
Pope Benedict
United States
Balfour
Viviani
Germany
Vatican
Twenty six I W W agitators arrested in Spokane
James Rowan district secretary of the I W W and 25 members were arrested at the Spokane hall by Idaho Guards and jailed as military prisoners. Rowan had ordered the Northwest general strike calling farm workers to let fruit rot and urging construction workers to lay down tools. Moran and Rowan were taken to the jail while guards secured the hall and 22 others. Military authorities said no civil charges were filed yet and an inquiry would decide if any hold was wrongful.
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Western Newspaper Union News Service
Spokane
Wash
James Rowan
Industrial Workers of the World
Idaho National Guards
Rowan
Northwest
William Moran
I. W. W. Hall
Clement Wilkins
Wilkins
F. A. Jeter
Moran
Food Stuffs Plundered as Finland Riots Erupt
Reports from Copenhagen via Exchange Telegraph detail revolts in Finland’s leading towns with Finnish mobs plundering foodstuffs and authorities seizing remaining supplies. Public order is being restored by fresh troops as forest fires scorch large tracts of woodland across the country.
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London
Finland
Copenhagen
Sweden
Exchange Telegraph Company
Militants to Serve Time with White House Protesting Charge
Six militant suffragists who defied police banners at the White House gates will share in the workhouse routine with other prisoners. For 30 days they will labor to pay for their upkeep, with Superintendent Whittaker asserting the work will improve their health and that they will be 100 percent better off upon release.
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Washington
White House
W. H. Whittaker
Planned Largest Troop Movement by American Railways
Fairfax Harrison announces the largest troop movement in U.S. history is being perfected by the American Railways Association at the request of the U.S. Government. The plan involves extensive rail coordination to move troops, signaling major mobilization efforts nationwide.
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New York
United States
American Railways Association
Fairfax Harrison
Railroads War Board
Navajo Abandoned After Sea Fire at stokehole
The Navy Department reports the American steam ship Navajo of the Navajo Steamship Company caught fire at sea and was abandoned with the crew landed safely. The blaze is believed to have started in the stokehole.
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Washington
Navy Department
Navajo
Navajo Steamship Company
British Praise American Troops Parade
British Foreign Minister Arthur J. Balfour sent a letter to American Ambassador Page praising the parade of American troops in London. He and the War Cabinet expressed admiration for the magnificent sight and deep gratification at the display of American power.
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Washington
Arthur J. Balfour
United States
Page
London
King George
War Cabinet
Italians Begin Drive on Isonzo Front Against Austria
Italian forces launch a major offensive in the Isonzo region of the Austro Italian front. Fighting continues along a 37 mile front from Tolmino area to near the Adriatic Sea on the Carso plateau.
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Vienna
Isonzo
Tolmino
Adriatic Sea
Carso
War Department Plans 800000 Infantry to France
Washington reports the War Department aims to send more than 800000 infantrymen to France with a two to one infantry to artillery ratio. The overseas force would total at least 1200000 fighting men, out of 1500000 under arms, with the rest kept as depot troops to fill vacancies.
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Washington
War Department
France
United States
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