Zone system streamlines army purchases across depots
The quartermaster department establishes a 13 depot zone system to allocate purchases within each region. Depots assess local production, promote regional bidding, and publish bid records. Army ordnance reports sufficient shells and rifles for overseas shipment while sculpting limits on flour sugar and cattle prices in Canada and Switzerland. American fur interests begin moving to domestic merchants as German supply chains wane.
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Washington
United States
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Leipzig
London
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China
Germany
Crowder Urges All Men Fight or Work Under Draft Plan
The Selective Service head Crowder orders every draft age man to fight or take a useful occupation after July 1. Irregulars and nonessential workers face conscription, affecting gamblers, sportsmen, waiters, clerks, domestics, and theater staff. Government aims to secure labor for farms shipyards and munitions as war mobilization escalates.
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Crowder
Selective Service
Washington
Gregory
Railroads announce large wage increases for nearly two million workers
General McAdoo issues retroactive pay raises effective in December 1915 on a percentage basis. Increases, averaging over prior boosts, will total more than 300 million dollars annually, with back pay distributed soon. Women, white workers, and men in similar jobs receive equal pay. A Wage and Working Conditions Board will study remaining inequalities and advise further changes. No wages will be cut.
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McAdoo
Pullman Company
Washington
Thew
Chevino
Tecommen
Red Cross Exceeds War Mercy Fund Goal By 12 Million
Washington reports the second 100 million war mercy fund oversubscribed by 12.1 million as divisions race to meet or exceed goals on the closing drive day. Home divisions show overages while Potomac and Southern divisions report large totals and cities like Greater New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Chicago and Boston push toward final tallies.
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Washington
American Red Cross
Gulf
Potomac
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Boston
Firms Charged With Selling Spoiled Army Food
Federal Trade Commission complaints accuse Morris & Co and Swift & Co of selling thousands of pounds of unfit meat and chickens to the army at Camp Travis Texas. The food was described as unfit for human consumption and much of it was condemned after sale.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Morris & Co
Swift & Co
Camp Travis
Texas
Steamers Clan Matheson Sunk in Collision
London reports the British steamer Clan Matheson of 4500 tons gross built in 1917 and Sunderland has been sunk after a collision Lloyds shipping agency said. Owned by Carter Irvine Co Limited of Glass0 the ship last appeared in shifting records December 16 at a United States Atlantic port.
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Clan Matheson
Lloyd’s Shipping Agency
Sunderland
Carter Irvine & Co., Limited
United States Atlantic
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