Witnesses Oppose Government Packing Regulation in Senate Hearing
Dozens of witnesses from Missouri to Georgia testified before the Senate Agricultural Committee against Kenyon and Kendrick bills to regulate the packing industry. Farmers, feeders, butchers and meat dealers argued regulation would harm consumers and didn't curb inflation, noting higher costs they face without clear benefit.
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Washington
Kenyon
Kendrick
Senate Agricultural Committee
Missouri
Georgia
W. P. Carpenter
Tarkio
Thomas Dunn
St. Louis
J. P. Flynn
Striking Workers Stand Firm as Militia Guards Plant
In Hammond Indiana 1500 workers mostly aliens strike at Standard Steel Car demanding shorter hours and higher pay. 11 militia companies arrived but strikers refuse entry, promising no concessions. Soldiers guard all gates martial law may follow. Justice Department agents in town for a week threaten deportation of agitators including many women.
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Hammond
Ind
Standard Steel Car Company
Hast Hammond
Department of Justice
Hoarded Food Found in New York Warehouses
Fire Department Inspectors under Mayor Hylan discovered millions of pounds of hoarded food in warehouses and storage sites over the past week. Principal items include Beggs 358,000 cases, coffee 44,356 pounds, beans 2,180,828 pounds, fresh meat 15,772,846 pounds, rice 10,265,200 pounds, sugar 9,563,440 pounds.
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New York
Hylan
Lord Told Me To Do It Ends Tragedy At Hogewood Home
A 16 year old girl Clara Bar tell, daughter of a Reading railroad signal man, shot and killed her father in the kitchen of their Hogewood home between Yardley and Langhorne. She told officials the Lord commanded her to act and refused to elaborate further. Coroner Harvey 8 Rue and local authorities investigated the incident.
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Bristol
Harvey
Rue
Clara Bartell
Reading Railroad
Hogewood
Yardley
Langhorne
Indicted Cleveland Butter and Eggs Company faces grand jury charges
A Cuyahoga Special Grand Jury returned an indictment against the Cleveland Butter and Eggs Company for alleged violations of a Valentine era law. No officers were named in the indictment, though a writ was to be issued for a breech case against the corporation.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga Special Grand
Corporation of
Wing
Valentine and Sf
Cou
Bree, Davis
Profiteers In Fuel And Clothing Hit By Final Vote
The House moved to amend the Lever food control act to extend its reach to clothing containers of food feed or fertilizers fuel oil and farming implements. Proposals to cover rent profiteering were dropped. Attempts to include kerosene gasoline and farmers within the act failed amid partisan clashes as Palmer recommendations to cover small retailers were retained. Five hours of debate followed as Congress acted on high cost of living measures with Hutchinson storage bill to be reported next week.
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Washington
House
Republians
Agricultural Committee
James G. Strong
Kansas
Walter H. Newton
Minnesota
Thomas L. Blanton
Texas
A. Mitchell Palmer
Department of Justice
Wilson
Congress
New Jersey
Repubiicans
Union News Service
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Henry Cabot Lodge
John Nugent
Idaho
K. Kirby
Arkansas
Robert L. Owen
Oklahoma
Nhotice
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate Agricultural Committee
Fatalities and injuries rise as war toll contrasts with peacetime accidents
A late casualty list shows 50,000 Americans killed in nineteen months of the war while in the same period about 126,000 men women and children and roughly 2,000,000 others were injured in accidents across peaceful America as the nation recovers.
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Chicago
America
Packers Are Convicted In Smith Cold Storage Case
Theodore Leonard was found guilty in Columbus Municipal Court of selling poultry after cold storage beyond the Smith act limit and fined 500 dollars plus costs. The case, argued on constitutional grounds, will go to Franklin County Common Pleas Court and then higher courts as the state appeals, aiming for swift review and broader rulings on the act’s validity and public policy aims.
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Columbus
Theodore Leonard
Leonard
Franklin County
Supreme Court
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Government resumes control of sugar prices
Government resumes active control of sugar prices through a Justice Department and Food Administration agreement. Licenses will be revoked if dealers profiteer. Consumer price set around eleven cents per pound with a 7.28 cent board sale to refiners and 9 cent refinery contracts. cash discounts and small handling profits allow a fair price of about eleven cents.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Food Administration
United States Sugar Equalization Board
Must Resume Service in Louisville Street Rail Case
Louisville mayor George W. Smith tells officials the street car system must be restored. He warns that noncompliance could lead to cancellation of the Louisville Street Railway Co franchise.
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Louisville
George W. Smith
Louisville Street Railway Co
Grand Jury Recommends Prosecution of Packers Merchants
Judge Mouser noted indictments under current law would be hard to prosecute for profiteering. The special grand jury on high living costs found packers largely responsible and urged turning over names of certain merchants with excessive profits to the Government. Eight indictments were returned, none for profiteering.
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Marion
Mouser
Counter Claim Filed in Federal Suit over Receiver
Quaker Oil Co. files a counter-claim for 30541.45 in the Cumberland Pipe Line Co. suit against James D. Crabtree and the Quaker Oil Co. The pipeline seeks to place the oil company and Crabtree property in the hands of a receiver in federal court here.
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Frankfort
Quaker Oil Co
Cumberland Pipe Line Co
James D. Crabtree
Quaker Oil Go
Pipe Line Company
Oil Company
Crabtree
Prices Outjump Wages in New York State
The State Industrial Commission reports that average weekly factory earnings rose 82 percent from June 1914 to July 1949, while food prices increased 92 percent in the same period, highlighting a growing real income squeeze for workers.
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Albany
State Industrial Commission
Treaty Draft Nears Completion in Paris Talks
The final draft of the American peace treaty is completed and likely to be handed to the Austrian delegation, signaling a deal ready for negotiation.
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Paris
German Baron Sees No War-Indemnity Will Stand
Baron von Dem Busche Haddenhausen, former German minister to Argentina, told the Buenos Aires Herald that treaty indemnities are ridiculous and will be annulled or reduced by the League of Nations. He said the public backed the Kaiser, Germany will not restore the monarchy, and that sufficient food would avert Bolshevism while Silesian mines remain German owned. He added that Brazil seeks German immigration but expect fewer than 5,000,000 arrivals.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Baron von Dem Busche Haddenhausen
League of Nations
Brazil
Germany
Upper Silesia
Silesian
Obert
Carranza Assailed in Mexican Manifesto in San Antonio
A manifesto from Alfredo Robles Dominguez printed in Mexico City urges President Carranza to resign and favors a provisional government. Dominguez, a former Madero adviser and prominent engineer, says he is not a rebel and condemns Carranza’s handling of Mexico’s internal and external affairs. The pamphlet is said to be circulating along the border and in Mexican quarters of the city.
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San Antonio
Texas
Carranza
Mexico City
Alfredo Robles
Dominguez
Madero
Mexico
Ebert Takes Oath As Imperial President in Berlin
Ebert took the oath as Imperial President at the National Theater in Berlin. A crowd gathered in the square as the Landjaeger band played. Ebert arrived by automobile at 5 pm and was escorted inside by Vice Presidents and secretaries to meet Konstantine Fehrenbach, president of the National Assembly.
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Weimar
Frederich
Ebert
National Theater
Landjaeger
Herr Ebert
Konstantine Fehrenbach
National Assembly
Food Sold at 58 New York Schools Relief Sale
Army food supplies were priced at 58 public schools citywide under the Department of Markets. Officials estimated a population of 6,500,000 with about 16.44 pounds of food per resident available. Items included baked beans peas condensed milk and tomatoes as crowds gathered before 10 o'clock opening.
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New York
Department of Markets
Une
Peace treaty faces fast congressional action this week
Washington reports that the foreign relations panel may report the Franco American treaty, with hearings resumed and amendments discussed. Senate Democrats expect action this week if possible. Other measures include living-cost controls, cold storage regulation, and a broad enforcement bill on prohibition.
Escape by German internees at Camp Sherman
Twenty Germans interned at Camp Sherman escaped during a severe storm. Fifteen were recaptured as a statewide search continued. The escape occurred via a secretly dug tunnel from the barracks cellar to a nearby street, an intricate effort officials say likely weeks in the making.
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Chillicothe
Camp Sherman
Wireless boost eyed for world talks from London
London hopes for a wireless telephone system enabling London to talk to any part of the world for up to three minutes at a cost of one pound. Sir Godfrey Tsaacs warns government red tape could delay progress, while backing faster development and a possible Australia link within 200 days if obstacles are removed.
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London
The
Evening News
Godfrey Tsaacs
Australia
Excursion Trains Crash in Ellwood City NJ
One man was killed instantly and 17 injured when two Pennsylvania Railroad excursion trains on the Washington Baltimore Atlantic City route collided in Ellwood. A high speed train struck the rear of a stationary train at the station.
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Ellwood
N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fugitive Captured In Kentucky Prison Break
Joseph Wendling of Louisville, held for life for the 1900 murder of Alma Kellner in Louisville, escapes Frankfort Penitentiary and is captured in Louisville after a prison break.
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Kentucky
Frankfort
Joseph Wendling
Louisville
Alma Kellner
Bankruptcy Faced By Foe in Berlin
A Lokal Anzeiger financial writer warns Germany teeters toward bankruptcy as 1.5 billion marks in gold remain in Reichsbank vaults while 40 billion marks in paper money circulate and more is printed daily. He argues only foreign credits can avert disaster if Finance Minister Preberger can attract them.
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Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Germany
Reichsbank
Preberger
Man’s Increased Value in Matrimonial Market after War
The Baltimore Sun notes men gain social value postwar as marriage prospects surge. With 1.5 million surplus British women, and higher demand for eligible bachelors, men in Europe and America may dictate terms, influencing happiness, standards, and gender dynamics for years.
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Baltimore Sun
Europe
Great Britain
Moot reinstated at the Inns of Court in London
The Moot, a historic London legal ritual, has been restored at the Inns of Court. It tests bar candidates’ abilities and preserves the age old practice, with the phrase moot point tracing its origin to discussions meant to settle questions that cannot be settled.
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London
Inns of Court
Christian Science Monitor
Cribbage: From Noddy to One for His Nob
The article traces cribbage origins in England noting its Elizabethan name noddy and links to The Compleat Gamester of 1674. It mentions a growing library of cribbage literature explaining terms like one for his nob and two for his heels and the game’s enduring terms.
Miss Leitch Delights Yet Fails to Finish Golf Hole
English paper notes Miss Leitch played delightful golf up to the hole but could not hit the ball truly with her pit ending in a ludicrous miscue.
Man Who Moves the World
Quote attributed to George Bernard Shaw about progress relying on the unreasonable man who refuses to adapt to the world. The saying contrasts reasonable and unreasonable approaches to change.
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Berhard Shaw
Cincinnati Markets Prices for Hay Grain Dairy and Livestock
Market listing shows prices for hay and grain with corn varieties, oats, and mixed feeds. Dairy items include butter and eggs with per pound quotes. live poultry covers pryers broilers fowls and roosters. Cattle and stocker prices range by grade from common to extra, with packers and butchers noted.
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Hixtra
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Newark
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United States
Kaiser
Cincinnati
Timothy
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