Exposé of Profiteering by Big Firms Before Senate
The federal trade commission exposed alleged flagrant profiteering by large manufacturing and distributing concerns in a Senate session. It names Armour Swift Morris Wilson and Cudahy as key packers, details high profits across flour milling metals oils coal lumber leather and canning, plus manipulations of costs, depreciation padding, and price fixing. The report cites 1915 to 1917 excess profits and warns of regulatory gaps while outlining effects on prices and competition.
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Food Administration
Paris Hit By Third German Raid In Three Nights
Paris reports a third air raid in as many nights with anti aircraft fire lasting about twenty minutes. Some bombs fell but no casualties were reported.
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Three U S Flyers Dead In A France Crash
Three American airmen were killed in France on Wednesday morning. Lieutenant E W Maynor of Birmingham Alabama and his observer died when their aircraft, just after takeoff, plunged to earth.
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E. W. Maynor
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Battle of the Piave Averts Mass Austrian Losses
An official Rome dispatch reports between 50 000 and 60 000 Austrians killed at the Piave with the dead and wounded totaling at least 250 000 and over 20 000 captured. The front line holds dense casualties and mass graves, while Italians have recovered about 10 000 corpses and buried thousands more.
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Great Naval Battle Off Belgian Coast Reported
London reports a naval engagement off the Belgian coast where four British destroyers fought eleven German warships. The four destroyers engaged for 15 minutes at long range, three more enemy craft appeared, and the British withdrew to support. No damage to our destroyers was reported.
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Admiralty
Hillquit predicts socialist control of national and world affairs
Morris Hillquit told the New York state Socialist convention that Socialists will govern national and international affairs after the war. He called Russia a birth of a new proletariat republic and urged preventing a return to old conditions, asserting Socialists must lead in ending workers' suffering. He was made permanent chairman of the committee.
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London Express Salutes Fighters of America in Editorial
London June 29 The Express issued an editorial praising fighting America as Allied troops prepare for the next German assault. It declares young Americans rallying in cities and on troop ships, vowing victory and solidarity with war-worn soldiers.
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These Bank Rovers Old Enough to Know Better
Three elderly ex convicts were arrested at the Liberty National Bank in New York on charges of attempting a robbery at the paying tellers cage. Police say William Coleman 72 Henry Hardy 58 and Frank Hartley 62 are the suspects and expect the arrests to help close recent jewelry thefts.
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Frank Hartley
Administration Probes Russian Situation Amid Conflicting Reports
Washington reports say officials seek actual facts from Russia as sensational and divergent accounts circulate. Bolshevik forces and counter revolutionaries clash on seven fronts while Monarchists mount a vigorous campaign. Workers are urged to defend the revolution amid antisemitic Black Hundred influence.
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Ngayen
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Petrograd
Black Hundred
Aerial Fighting Report Shows Increase On Western Front
London reports a rising level of aerial combat on the western front. On June 12 planes raided Thionville workshops and railway yards, dropping nearly three tons of bombs. Our formations endured attacks as three enemy machines were shot down, two ours missing, and one forced down by engine trouble. Earlier, raid on Bolden airfield succeeded with all our aircraft returning safely. The enemy bombed a martinet aerodrome last night but without material damage.
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Coastwise Freighter Strikes Reef Off Atlantic Port
A 2 500 ton coastwise freighter struck a reef off the Atlantic port last night. All officers and the thirty crew were rescued by coastguards before the vessel sank.
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Allied advances and captures on Western Front and Italy
British forces take more than 400 prisoners in a broad advance east of Nieppe Forest on the Flanders front. American units raid north of Montdidier and seize 40 Germans in Apremont wood, while Italian forces gain positions on the Mount Bligny sector southwest of Rheims. Lively artillery in Asiago Plateau. three Austrian planes shot down.
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London
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Picardy Front
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First American Troops Reach Front From United States
General March announced that the first American troops arrived in the theater yesterday as part of the semi direct deployment from the United States. The move signals a rapid buildup of American forces in the area and confirms ongoing liaison with allied units.
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March
First American troops reach Italy amid non combatant units
Washington reports the first U S troops sent directly from the United States to Italy arrived yesterday. Most are sanitary corps personnel with additional fighting regiments sent from France. Gen Pershing and the supreme war council may dispatch more combat units as needed while the 77th Division and 35th National Guard Division move into the line. Italy claims wide prisoner gains but Gen March cites 18 000 prisoners and substantial booty. The Italian line remains back to its position at the start of the Austrian offensive, with allied artillery gains and morale boosts noted.
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35Th National Guard
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Five die as interurban hits truck at Elmhurst crossing
June 29 five men are dead and five others gravely injured after an Aurora Elgin and Chicago Rail road interurban struck a stalled truck at Elmhurst street crossing. Victims include Maj. robert b Brooks US Army and Capt Harold Jauch US Army. the car traveled about sixty miles per hour on a homebound Chicago commuter run.
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Aurora
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R. W. Dunlap
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Harry G. Wealphal
Elgin
W. Miller
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Washington Weather Forecast Brief
Washington reports cooler tonight and Sunday with a forecast of cooler conditions. The brief mentions June 29 with light winds and no precipitation indicated for the period.
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