Profiteering expose lashes big war industries in Senate
Washington reports the Federal Trade Commission's Senate testimony details wide profiteering by Big Five packers Armours Swift Morris Wilson and Cudahy with subsidiaries. It cites 1915–1917 excess profits totaling 140 million and profits soaring as sales rose 150 percent while margins tripled, plus methods to inflate costs and mislead regulation across metals oils chemicals coal lumber leather and canning sectors.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
United States Senate
Congress
Armours
Swift
Morris, Wilson and Cudahy
Wilson and Company
Morris & Company
Commission
Armour & Company
Senate
Swift & Company
Louis F. Swift
Ed F. Swift
Edward F
Eastern Leather Company
Armour ‘Selling
F. W. Croll
National City Bank
New York City
J. Ogden Armour
Chicago
Armour Company
Pennsylvania Lumber Company
Food Administration
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
United States Steel Corporation
New Jersey Zinc Company
International Nickel Company
Helvetia Company
Borden Incrensed Milk Company
Borden
Helvetia
Sum
Southern
German Foreign Secretary Kuehlmann to resign
Dr. Richard von Kuehlmann, the German Foreign Secretary, will resign soon, reports from Switzerland say. The note cites his Reichstag speech in which he warned the war would not end by pure decisive action, predicting retirement after Count Czernin.
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Kuehlmann
Richard von Kuehlmann
Switzerland
Vienna
Czernin
Three U S Acres Killed With the American army in France
Three American airmen were killed in accidents Wednesday morning. Lieutenant E W Maynor of Birmingham Alabama and his observer died when their plane crashed soon after taking off. Captain F P Nunes of Niagara Falls New York was killed similarly. Over 60 000 ministers of the gospel are with the allies in France about 20 000 with the Red Cross.
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France
E. W. Maynor
Birmingham
Ala
EF. P. Nunes
Niagara, Falls
N. Y
The
Red Cross
Casualties in overseas force total 83
War department reports 42 Army casualties among American Expeditionary Forces with five killed in action twelve died of wounds two from disease two from accident and other causes fourteen severely wounded and seven missing. Marines list 41 casualties: twenty four killed in action eight died of wounds seven severely wounded and one missing. New England names include Privates Eugene Connor Charles Dubuque Charles Row Earl Severance Fred Sherman Corporals Emmons Boyton Harry Chidsey Archie Comeau Michael Powers and Lieutenant Philip W. Davis.
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American Expeditionary Forces
War Department
Marine Corps
Army
Philip W. Davis
West Newton
Mass
New England
Eugene M. Connor
Winchendon
Charles Dubuque
Nashua
N. H
Charles Row
Lowell
Earl L. Severance
Topsfield
Fred Sherman
Calais
Henry L. Baribault
Springfield
Emmons A. Boyton
Augusta
Harry H. Chidsey
Hark Street
East Haven
Conn
Oo Aliie McChaud
Brownville
Ernest A. French
Irvington Street
New Haven
Archie J. Comeau
Haverhil
Michael J. Powers
Leonard Street
Aerial activity rising on western front report
London reports rising aerial activity on the western front. June 2 attacks targeted Thionville workshops rail yards and stations with nearly three tons of bombs. Our planes faced anti-aircraft and enemy fighters, three hostile aircraft were shot down and two of ours did not return. An earlier raid on Bol den succeeded with all aircraft returning. The enemy struck our aerodrome last night with no material damage.
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London
Air Ministry
Thionville
Bolden
Wangars
New Meat Regulations Aim to Cut Beef Use
Government urges housewives to limit beef purchases to 1 1 4 pounds per person weekly and to substitute lamb poultry and pork products plus beef by products. Program to run through September. London editorial salutes fighting America with a rallying call as Allied troops prepare for the next German assault.
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London
America
the Express
United States
Atlantic
France
England
Weather Report for New Haven and Connecticut
New Haven and vicinity expect partly cloudy to night and Sunday with some local showers east of the lake region. Connecticut similar, with moderate west winds and unsettled showery weather from Western Texas to Town. Temperatures show little change east of the Rockies, with a notable rise in eastern lake regions and northern New England. Observations list many stations. New Haven 59, Hartford 60, Boston 56, Cincinnati 70, St. Louis 70, Jacksonville 78, Washington 66, others cloudy or missing.
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New York
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Portland
St. Louis
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Washington
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Automobile Blue Book
Official Road Guide of America
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