Government Seizes Food to Curb High Living Costs
Federal action spreads from Chattanooga and Jacksonville to Chicago district as the government seizes large stores of eggs, canned goods, and sugar to suppress profiteering. Violators face fines up to 5000 dollars and imprisonment, with stocks to be seized and sold. Sugar supplies rise and Army can enhance civilian use. Prices for beef, bacon, and beans are cut in wartime war department price revisions.
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Chicago
Chattanooga
Tenn
Jacksonvile
Fla
United States District Attorney's Office
Department of Justice
Palmer
Washington
Lantic Tee and Coal Corporation
Morris & Co
Jacksonville
Associated Press
Milroy
H. H. Rosopp
Middle West
Carlile
Egg Board
Wilson
U. S
War Department
Roumanians Enter Budapest to Stamp Out Bolshevism
Budapest reports state Romania moved its army into the city in line with allied wishes to curb bolshevism. Premier Gratiano said the action aims to defend Romanian frontiers and would end once Hungary has a stable government and adherence to armistice terms is guaranteed.
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Budapest
Gratiano
Associated Press
Bratiano
American Ship Englewood Strikes Mine in North Sea
The Englewood, a 5130 ton American steamer built in 1918 for the United States Shipping Board, struck a mine off the Thames in the North Sea at 7:30 am while en route from New York to Rotterdam with a cargo valued at about $1,000,000. Tug boats stood by as the ship avoided imminent sinking.
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Dover
Englewood
North Sea
Thames River
New York
Rotterdam
Staten Island
United States Shipping Board
Germans Start Fight Over League Propaganda
Representative Heflin of Alabama charged that German money munition money and manufacturers funds back propaganda to defeat the League of Nations. He said thousands are spent and papers bought to poison public sentiment and that agents are here to assassinate the league. He argued German agents aim to undermine Wilson’s government and the league, and that Germany is trying to destroy it.
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Washington
Stetlin Demn
Alabama
League of Nations
Wilson
League
Germany
Delays Hit Coal Fields As Freight Rates Rise
Washington reports wage increases for railroad workers to be considered after shopmen return to work. Freight rate increases tied to wage talks threaten relief, with car shortages and tight services hitting crops and miners. Thousands of miners and families in Logan Coal River and Cabin Creek face starvation from rail bottlenecks caused by the strike. More than 300 mines closed and 30,000 out of work. 125,000 residents depend on railroad transport for food. A Huntington meeting with striking shop men is planned amid the crisis.
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Washington
Railroad Administration
Hines
Hines Beieves
Charleston
W. Va
Logan
Coal River
Cabin Creek
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Huntington
Boston
Striking railroad workers halt work amid wage dispute vote
Thousands of shop men and mechanics on New England railroads await a vote on returning to work while a strike looms. Balloting ends tonight and officials say current train service can continue without major cancellations until Friday. Fears over ice milk and food deliveries ease as embargoes are scaled back and idle freight handlers may widen if the strike persists.
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New England
Abe
New York
New Haven
New Haven Road
Boston & Maine
United States to sue cement trust in New Jersey
Attorney General Palmer announced an equity suit to dissolve the cement combination. The action will be brought in the district of New Jersey against 19 individual companies.
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U. S
Cement Trust
Washington
Asult -In Equity
Palmer
District of New Jersey
U S Aid to retreating Russia as campaign unfolds
The report notes U S material aid to Admiral Kolchak's retreating army in Siberia, with 45 000 rifles and several million rounds sent from San Francisco and more equipment slated for transport this week. Other dispatches claim Vinnytsia abandoned by Bolsheviks and Denikine's forces pushing against Bolshevik resistance with Kamishin yielding thousands of prisoners and heavy materiel.
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Washington
Koleos
Siberia
Vladivostok
San Francisco
London
Vinnitza
Ukraine
Kiev
Moscow
Volhynia
Antibolshevik
Lutsk
Kovel
Copenhagen
Berlin
Riga
Denikine
War Office
Kamishin
Senate panel debates motives as treaty delays loom
In a stormy executive session the senate foreign relations committee urged quick action on the peace treaty. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska led a furious exchange over Republican motives while Senate Republicans pressed a reservation program. Senator Lodge and Senator King spoke on action and Greek Thrace, with discussions noting Dems’ potential acquiescence.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hitchcock Nebraska
Senate
Fall
Hitchcock
Lodge
Fatl
United States
Repubican
Greece
Thrace
King
Utah
Wage Increase Granted by Interborough Rapid Transit Company
The Interborough Rapid Transit company which runs Manhattan subway and elevated lines has granted a general wage increase of 10 percent to its employees.
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New York
Interborough Rapids Transit Company
Borough of
Manhattan
Senate resolution on Thrace award and free state proposal
A resolution declaring Senate support for Thrace to Greece with trade provisions at Saloniki Kavalla and Dedegut and proposing the Sea of Marmara and Gallipoli as a free state under the league was referred to the foreign relations committee without debate.
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Senate
Thrace
Greece
Saloniki
Kavalla
Dedegut
Constantinople
Sea of Marmara
Gallipoli
League
Foreign Relations Committee
Bandit shoots self after bank robbery attempt in Washington
A holdup man enters the Munsey Trust Bank on Pennsylvania Avenue aims two pistols at a teller demanding 150 000 dollars. After firing at a clerk the man turns the weapon on himself, wounding himself in the jaw and is hospitalized. He identification as John E Fetzer of 116 East street Defiance Ohio. He says his uncle Charles KR Fetzer can explain why he could not succeed. The 34 year old mechanic came from New York.
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Washington
Munsey Trust Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
John E. Fetzer
East Street
Defiance
Charles KR. Fetzer
New York
Brewers Plan Large Conference on Liquor Law Repeal
Atlantic City brewers have called a nationwide conference for September 28 lasting a week. The event aims to channel opposition to prohibition into a repeal effort. Hugh F. Fox of New York, secretary of the United States Brewers' Association, said arrangements are complete.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Hugh F. Fox
New York
United States Brewers’ Association
House of Commons approves profiteering bill price powers
London August 14 The house of commons after a heated debate adopted an amendment to the profiteering bill empowering the board of trade after an investigation to fix wholesale and retail prices. The vote was 132 to 95.
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London
House of Commons
Board of Trade
General Strike in Ecuador Ends in Guayaquil
The long running general strike in Ecuador ends with workers in gas and electric works securing all their demands in Guayaquil. The settlement follows days of unrest as the labor action paused during the dispute.
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Ecuador
Guayaquil
Strikers and Special Deputies Clash at Keystone Plant
At Keystone Steel and Wire in South Bartonville Peoria Illinois a clash between 125 strikebreakers from Chicago and Johnstown paused with gunfire after 25 special deputies under Sheriff Hines protected the workers. Two men wounded including Charles W Laporte a Keystone aide. A brick aimed at Laporte narrowly missed him as strikebreakers sped through gates. Eight hundred Keystone employees have been on strike for a closed shop for six weeks.
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Peoria
Ill
Chicago
Johnstown
Keystone Steel and Wire Company
South Bartonville
Hines
Charles W. Laporte
Keystone Company
Keystone
Airplane search to locate illicit distilleries in Alabama mountains
Montgomery Alabama August 14 inaugurates use of airplanes to locate illicit distilleries in the Alabama mountains Deputy Marshal J A Wall conducted a survey flight over the territory and expects arrests during the operation.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Mountains
J. A. Wall
Arro's
Striking Shopmen Ordered Back to Work or Expulsion
An armistice between Keystone Steel Wire Co. strikers and sheriff forces holds until six o'clock tonight. Strike leaders pledge to keep union in check until then as Adjutant General Dickson arrives from Springfield. State troops stand by in Peoria armory to quell any disorder.
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Peoria
Keystone Steel Wire Co
Dickson
Springfield
Union Head Demands Striking Shop Men Return to Work
B M Jewell head of the railway division AF of L in Washington wired union officials to order the striking shop men back to work or they would be expelled from the organization.
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Evening Journal
Chicago
B. M. Jewell
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Moonshiners Barricade Mountains After Deputy Slaying
Three moonshiners tied to the McCloud gang have barricaded themselves in Logan county with a posse of 20 deputies closing in from Huntington toward the Kentucky border. The outlaws and the armed pursuit are expected to clash as the chase continues in the hills.
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Charleston
W. Va
Will Farley
McCloud
Logan County
Huntington
Kentucky
Conductor Wage Raise Sought by Railway Group
Washington August 14 The Order of Railway Conductors has formally asked the railroad administration for wage increases. Director General Walker D. Hines said the group submitted the request, noting current average wages of conductors as 180 dollars per month for passenger lines and 5.40 dollars per day for freight lines. The proposed new figures are not disclosed.
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Washington
Walker DD. Hines
Army Hospital Inquiry Sparks Secret Inspections
Complaints to the house military affairs committee about unsatisfactory conditions in army hospitals led to an investigation of all army hospitals. Accusations of neglected soldier patients and poor food were referred to the surgeon general, prompting officers to depart Washington on a secret tour of inspection.
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Washington
House Military Affairs Committee
Surgeon General
Army
Strike spreads as actors threaten nationwide walkout
Chicago reports the Equity Association of Actors and Artists threatens a wider strike after closing Woods and Cohan's Grand theaters. President lately Wilson warned musicians and stagehands may join if the action expands countrywide.
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Chicago
Equity Association of Actors and Artists
Woods and Cohan
Musiciaids
Lately Wilson
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Keystone Steel
Jewell
the Federation
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