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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1917
Page
2
The Federal Trade Commission under President Wilson directs an immediate inquiry into food price rises and alleged anti trust violations. The Agriculture Department assists, examining production, ownership, storage, distribution, and by products to determine manipulations or restraints of trade harming the public.
The Union Switch and Signal factory in Swissvale Pittsburgh burned, wiping out the largest U S plant making switch signals. Estimated loss is $4,000,000 with over 2,000 shells in the shipment room likely destroyed. Justice Department agents to probe origin.
Havana reports a revolutionary movement feared to be underway as interior secretary Aurelio Hevia warns civil and military authorities. Notes on Sa indicate rising tensions and potential action.
Chicago Feb 10 The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen switchmen will not strike after a late-night conference. Both sides report all differences settled with managers conceding union demands. Eight-hour day and overtime pay were debated but not forced. Managers say the danger of a strike is passed and government ready to intervene if a general strike occurred.
The British admiralty said an older torpedo boat destroyer struck a mine in the English Channel on Thursday night and sank. All but five officers and crew were lost.
Reports confirm the Touraine reached Bordeaux safely and the Devonian arrived in Liverpool from Boston with war materiel and horses. Dutch ports close. a bomb explodes at Amsterdam stock exchange steps with no casualties. Entente conference signals aim to end the war by summer.
The Golden State Limited from Chicago struck a motor truck in downtown El Paso killing Private Charles Eaton and Sergt. Karl Eisenhart of the Fifth Ohio infantry. Two more Ohio soldiers, Private Rudolph J. Smith and Private Cam T. Toomey, were badly injured and ten others seriously hurt. Military headquarters announced National Guard redeployments to home states as the Second Wisconsin infantry heads to Fort Sheridan for muster out. Maj. Frank L. Wells ordered continued mustering out of the Thirty-second regiment at Fort Wayne.
Chicago announces the appointment of William B Carlisle as postmaster by President Wilson after Senator James Hamilton Lewis backed him over Dixon Co Williams. Carlisle, born January 21 1870 in Lebanon Kentucky, rose through the insurance industry including roles with Mutual Life and Equitable Life in supervisory positions across the United States.
Stockholm reports worsening German food conditions over five months with scarce staples and long bakery lines. Potatoes cost 72 cents per 60 pound bushel and bread just under 3.5 cents per pound. Rationed food remains low for the poor and turnips supplement meals.
Monticello Utah interpreter C L Christensen writes Governor Bamberger claiming Navajo and Ute Indians could be recruited to defend the Mexican border. He asserts 10,000 Navajo could be enlisted in a month, armed and fed by the government. emphasizes patrol work and existing horses.
Officials in Washington say an expert hospital force ready to care for a million men could be mobilized within days after hostilities begin. Acting chairman Eliot Wadsworth estimates the force would include base hospital units, 1,250 nurses, 599 aides, reserve nurses, navy detachments, local emergency detachments, and instructors in surgical dressings.
Fragmentary notice indicates Mrs Kieso has been ill for seven months in Pekin Illinois Mass area. Confidential call promotes medical advice claiming it may help health and save life.
After eleven months of field training under war conditions General Pershing's expeditionary forces march along the border to their posts. A foreign military attache, evaluating Kitchener's Britons, Germany's hordes, and Japan's armies, declares the American army the finest fighting machine in the world.
London report from the Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company says Americans directed to leave Germany will probably travel through Switzerland and Spain rather than via Denmark.
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