Demand for Informer Names Targeted in Packers Probe
Washington January 30 The House Commerce Committee heard four of five packers deny charges that they conspired to fix prices. A motion by Representative Decker to disclose the Commission witnesses was debated as members pressed to reveal anonymous sources and compel the Federal Trade Commission to testify. The panel tentatively weighed calling the commission to substantiate the allegations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Commission
Thomas E. Wilson
Congress
Decker
Missouri
Federal Trade Commission
Wilson
Winslow
Massachusetts
Trade Commission
Department of Jusce
Free Ireland Bill to be considered by foreign relations committee
Washington January 30 The Gallagher resolution urging American peace commissioners to press for Ireland’s freedom independence and self determination will be acted on by the house foreign affairs committee Saturday morning Chairman Flood announced. The committee will consider Gallagher Illinois instead of McLaughlin Pennsylvania AOH president whose resolution asked Congress to use its offices to obtain a Canadian style government for Ireland.
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Washington
Gallagher
Ireland
Paris
House Foreign Relations Committee
Flood
Illinois
McLaughlin
Pennsylvania
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Congress
Canada
Flying Ace Lieut Atwood Dies in First World War Flak
The body of Lieut Richard H Atwood noted as a millionaire army aviator and daring acrobat is being sent to Cheshire Connecticut for burial. He died at age 22 from bronchial pneumonia while in Ants GA and his bride Dorothy Randolph of Alexandria Louisiana accompanies the funeral train eastward.
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Ants. Ga
Richard H. Atwood
Cheshire
Conn
Atwood
Dorothy Randolph
Alexandria
Belfast Strikes Spread as Pickets Grow
Belfast on January 30 reports the strike widening with 3,000 pickets. A nationwide bakers strike appears imminent per posted notices.
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Belfast
Stock Market Opens With Scarce Supply And Broad Gains
Stocks opened with scant supply as covering and buying lifted many issues. Marine preferred rose to 100 1 4 after a early climb, and steel and copper shares advanced. The market stayed firm through forenoon trading and in the afternoon rose further with Consolidated Gas and steel stocks among the leaders. Washington urged abandoning most militia camps and to return 14 of 16 national army cantonments to owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jan
Shorts
Marine Preferred
Common
Steel
Baldwin
Cuba
Bethlehem Steel
Marine
Texas and Pacific
Washington
National Guard
National Army
Baker
Crowell
House Committee On
Camp Kearrey
Cal
Camp Sevier
S. C
Excluding Negroes From Pool Not a Misdemeanor
Magistrate Simpson rules the Bronx pool exclusion case does not violate the law barring race based public-place discrimination. The ruling came in a test case where negroes were barred from a swimming pool at the Bronx exposition grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Simpson
Bronx Exposition Grounds
Radek Organizing Revolt Across Europe
London dispatches report Karl Radek the Russian radical is organizing another revolution. The fugitive fled Berlin after Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were assassinated and later returned to the city in disguise, according to Berlin dispatches.
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Radek
London
Karl Radek
Berlin
Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Leibknecht
Alleged Bigamist Arrested in Waterbury Tale
Fred Maynard was arrested on bigamy charges and held at the Waterbury police station. Investigators allege he has a wife and child in New York and a wife with two children in New Haven.
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Waterbury
Fred Maynard
Maynard
New York
New Haven
Demobilization of British Forces Nears Completion
London announced that demobilization will finish by March 1 if strikes and weather do not interfere. By mid February about a million soldiers will have been demobilized.
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London
Reds Defeated at Wilhelmshaven by Government Forces
Amsterdam reports Sparta forces were defeated at Wilhelmshaven as government troops clear the railways. Advices received here confirm ongoing operations and movement of troops in the area.
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Amsterdam
Spartacists
Wilhelmshaven
Addi
Toy
Butter Prices Drive Demand at Russell Bros Market
Fresh made creamery butter offered at 59 cents a pound by Russell Bros at 324 Main Street. Advertised as finest quality, the notice highlights low prices and direct market availability for local shoppers.
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Russell Bros
Main St
Horses Return to Greenwich Colonel From War Front
Stamford report recounts Captain J Alden Twachtman’s 103rd Field Artillery unit shipping two blooded horses to France before departure from Camp Curtis Guild. Hannah and Yar Rum were believed lost after a torpedoed ship, but both were later found in France. Twachtman plans to bring them home to Greenwich while defending his men against wartime zealot tracts.
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Stamford
103Rd Field Artillery
Camp Curtis Guild
Buxford
Mass
France
J. Alden Twachtman
Stafford
108Rd Field Artillery
Hannah
Yarrum
Newport News
LeMain
Twachtman
James Scully
Scully
States
Col. Twachtman
Greenwich
Conn
Nurses Elect Officers and Back Bills for Nurse Ranks
Miss Sarah Baker of this city elected vice president of health nurses at Waterbury meeting of Connecticut public health nursing. Resolutions support enabling nurses to hold ranking commissions in U S army and navy. Other officers named include Kathryn Sherman New Haven and Elizabeth Culver Norwich. Annual meetings of both public health nursing group and Connecticut Graduate Nurses Association opened at 2 PM.
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Sarah Baker
Waterbury
United States
Connecticut Organization For Public Health
Kathryn Sherman
R. N
New Haven
Elizabeth Culver
Norwich
Middletown
Margaret K. Stack
Hartford
Martha J. Wilkinson
Abbie M. Gilbert
Catherine McCarthy
Rockville
Margaret Barrett
Gertrude M. Kitson
New Britain
Graduate Nurses’ Association of Connecticut
Five Transports Sail on Overseas Voyage
Washington January 30 General March announced the sailing of five transports carrying 436 officers and 6,436 men of the AEF. Cedric West Haven Agamemnon Peerless Western Ocean sailings set for February and arrival at New York Newport News Baltimore. Cedric carries 245 officers and 3,257 men with 90 officers and 3,191 men in coast artillery and casual companies 234 and 133. Agamemnon carries 51st coast artillery with 31 officers and 1,651 men plus base hospital No. 2 and casual companies 226 and 230 for New York.
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March
Washington
General March
Cedric
New York
West Haven
Agamemnon
the Peerless
Newport News
Western Ocean
Baltimore
Coast Artillery
Illinois
Camp Meade
Bolsheviks Use Camouflage and Massacres at Shen kursk
London dispatches report Bolshevik troops outflanking allied lines at Shen kursk by wrapping in white sheets to blend with snow. They killed many civilians and looted the town while evacuating hundreds of hospital cases and 500 refugees. Esthene says Bolshevik forces later killed about 1000 civilians at Dorpat including a bishop and eight priests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Shenkursk
Esthenia
Dorpat
Reds Surrender at Cuxhaven and Shackleton Ship Disaster
Grain market reports from Chicago show corn and oats closing higher on Jan 30 with various contract values listed. In Europe, Sparta forces have secured unconditional surrender at Cuxhaven and Bremerhaven. Shackleton’s Nimrod ship disaster off Yarmouth leaves ten dead and two rescued.
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Chiago
Cuxhaven
Copenhagen
Bremerhaven
Shackleton
London
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Yarmouth
Glasgow confronts violent strike tactics bold counter demonstrations
Glasgow reports serious tension as prominent strikers employ terror tactics to drive others from work prompting counter demonstrations. Authorities monitor flare up amid unrest in the city.
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Glasgow
Chick feeding and egg production tips from SHICKEN note
The article urges quick poultry gains to boost meat supply and egg output. It explains feeding as the key problem, recommends farm mixed or branded feeds, lists valuable ingredients from cereals and by products, and cautions against overfeeding the cheapest ingredient.
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National Crop Improvement Service
Patnode Held on 5000 Bond in Mann Act Case
George H. Patnode of Willimantic faced a Mann Act charge for allegedly taking 19 year old Gladys Hansen to Albany and Cleveland. A hearing before U S Commissioner Richard F. Carroll resulted in bond set at 5000 and waiver of examination. Hansen remained hospitalized after ingesting bichloride tablets. hospital officials said her condition was uncertain but she rested comfortably.
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Hartford
George H. Patnode
Willimantic
Gladys Hansen
Albany
N. Y
Cleveland
Ohio
United States
Richard F. Carroll
Patnode
Josiah H. Peck
Hansen
St. Francis Hospital
Senate passes war contracts validation bill without roll call
Washington January 30 the senate approved a bill to validate war contracts without a roll call or the Hitchcock amendment An appeals commission of three will handle settlement questions trimming Secretary Baker out of unilateral control The measure validates about 3 billion dollars in war contracts by the War Department that were briefly invalidated by the armistice
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Hitchcock
Baker
War Department
Swift waives immunity before Senate committee on agriculture
Washington January 30 Louis F Swift of Chicago waived immunity before the Senate committee on agriculture and forestry saying he acted to satisfy the committee and denying any necessary action. Senator Norris interrupted the cross examination by Francis J Heney just before the recess asking if Swift waived immunity.
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Washington
Louis F. Swift
Chicago
Senate Committee On Agriculture and Forestry
Norris
Nebraska
Swift
Francis J. Heney
Federal Trade Commission
Stevenson Resigns From Military Intelligence Bureau
Archibald Stevenson, who supplied a list of Pacifists to a senate committee probing German propaganda and who was criticized by Secretary Baker, has resigned from the military intelligence bureau in New York. Officials say he had an office near the bureau and sent clippings he deemed pertinent. he was never under military authority and resigned yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevenson
New York
Archibald Stevenson
Senate Committee
Baker
Thirteen Express Company Robbery Suspects Sentenced
In Boston this afternoon thirteen firm messengers from the American Railway Express Company faced municipal court for stealing goods valued at 53000. They pleaded guilty and received sentences from three to eight months. The defendants operated on trains 48 and 49 between Boston and New York, with 15000 in property recovered from the men’s homes.
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Express Company
Boston
American Railway Express Company
Frmer
New York
Alabaster or Venus, caretaker corrects visitors
An art gallery party is led by a caretaker who praises art at length. Pausing before a scantily clad statue, a guest asks about its material. The caretaker rebukes gently, clarifying the figure is Venus rather than alabaster.
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Watertown
Venus
Drop in Price of Butter at Russell Bros
Advertisement notes a price drop for the finest butter at 59 cents per pound sold by Russell Bros at 324 Main Street. The ad highlights quality and location to attract customers.
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Russell Bros
Main St
A Bad Place for Bad Men
A New York Sun opinion extols Nassau and Suffolk counties in Long Island as desirable country areas offering nature and sport yet notes a darker side. It argues that evil men may seek country isolation to escape city protection, prompting wives to defend themselves with violence and coroner interest in cases of self preservation.
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New York Sun
Long Island
Nassau
Suffolk County
Suffolk
Hermione
Father and Son Tangle Over Dog in Domestic Dispute
In a Baltimore American cartoon style caption a father threatens a whipping for disruption and the son retorts that taking it out on him won’t help as the dog would bite the aggressor, illustrating a tense home scene with humor and tension.
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Baltimore American
Kilmer Swamp Root Kidney Medicine Ad
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a gentle herbal remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It claims quick, mild healing effects and offers sample sizes and a pamphlet by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY, with a note to mention The Middletown Evening Press.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Middletown Evening Press
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Joe Lawton
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Uncle Sam
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