Government Seizes Lumber as Shipyard Drive Expands
The United States Shipping Board announced widespread commandeering of lumber and preparation to power a new shipbuilding push. Contracts for Southern Shipbuilding and Hampton Shipyards are canceled or scaled back as the board vows no more state financed get rich quick schemes.
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Washington
United States Shipping Board
Southern Shipbanding Company
Charleston
S. C
Hampton Shipbuilding Company
Norfolk
Southern
Edward N. Harley
Shipping Board
Bewrl
Southern Pine
Congress
Congress urged to amend espionage law to uncover meat packers plans
Special Counsel Francis J. Heney asks Congress for swift legislation to reveal confidential files held by the court related to the beef trust. He charges that Veeder and the five major packers Swift Armour Morris Wilson and Cudahy conspired for price fixing and industry control and that evidence shows the scheme persisted since 1912.
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Francis J. Heney
Piet
Money
Veeder
Beef Trust
Heney
Swift, Armour, Morris, Wilson and Cudahy
Labor backs war to finish long national strike
American Federation of Labor leader Samuel Gompers testified before Judge Alschuler, declaring workers willing to work without pay if needed to win the war. He argued eight hour workdays would slow production, urging support for the war effort and labor unity amid the stockyards dispute.
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Samuel Gompers
Chicago
America
Samuel Clowipers
Americnan Federation of Labor
Laabor Committee
Council of National Defense
Samuel Alschuler
Gompers
Meat packers resist progress with stubborn stance
The report notes higher pay and better laboring conditions are not just a frame of mind for meat packers who fight change, aiming to stem inevitable progress with stubborn resistance.
Yale Man Killed in France Naval Aviator Ensign Curtis Read
A Yale message reports Curtis Seaman Read ensign and naval aviator killed in France. Read was last year’s football assistant manager and would have been manager this year. He belonged to Scroll and Keys and Delta Kappa Epsilon. son of William A. Read of New York. His brother Barton, a freshman, is also in France with a naval contingent.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale University
Curtis Seaman Read
Eln
France
Read
Scroll and Keys
Delta Kappa Epsilon
William A. Read
New York City
Barton
Embargo Placed on Western Corn Markets
Food Administrator Wheeler received no telegram from Herbert Hoover on an embargo for three weeks on all corn in Western markets including Chicago St. Louis Kansas City Omaha Minneapolis Duluth and Milwaukee. From 5000 to 70000 bushels per day were to be shipped to Eastern ports for the cities. Letters reveal packers tried to influence army officials to lift strict food regulations and push up cheaper meat prices.
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Hoover
Chicago
Wheeler
Herbert ©. Hoover
Washington
St. Louis
Kansas City
Onaha
Minneapoli
Duluth
Milwaukee
Sooo
Army
Francis J. Heney
Federal Trade Commission
Railroad bill passes with two year postwar hold period
Washington reports the House approved the administration railroad bill by a wide margin fixing two years after the war for government hold on roads while leaving presidential ratemaking power intact. Amendments favoring government ownership were defeated amid party lines as conference talks begin.
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Washington
House
Administration
Representative Sweet
Flown
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ot O
Sime
Atea
Representative Mech
Wisconsin
Coods
Repubiens
Barkley
Kentucky
London
New York
Representaves Tama
Tiddleston
Alabama
Carey
Connoss
Chandler
Oklahoma
Denison
Hilness
Gorden
Ohio
Thomas
Haugen
Ramsay
Town
Stay Halts Felony Probe in Swift & Co Case
Judge Landis authorized a search warrant for Veeder documents but the federal circuit court stayed further action. Heney urged Congress to clarify that a judge’s probable-cause ruling is conclusive and that a summary felony-determination stays can keep seized papers custody until the purpose of seizure is served. The stay blocks examination of papers already seized.
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Commission of Felonies
Landis
Chicago
Veeder
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Heney Wosked
Congress
Heney
Federal District Court
Swift & Co
Allied Airmen Raid German Depots and Trenches
Allied forces and units from England and Scotland conducted raids on German trenches near the Scarpe and in the southern Houtlheast area. Prisoners were taken, machine guns captured, and enemy artillery active near Ypres. British aerial operations dropped four tons of bombs on Courtrai and surrounding rail facilities, with aircraft losses reported and several air crews missing.
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Metz
London
Greenkind HM
Herth
Scarpe River
War Office
Kogtich
Houthelst Forest
Dawrinccourt Wood
German Fleet Moves Toward Finland in War Front Reports
Berlin dispatches state the Baltic fleet heads north toward Finland as Finland received hundreds of Finnish troops from Germany. Minsk reports 50 000 rifles and 2000 machine guns captured. Bolshevik and Roumanian clashes continue in Besarabia with heavy fighting near Kishineff.
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Finland
Teutons
Copenhagen
Baltic
Berlin
Wireless
Germany
Minsk
London
Russia
Petrograd
Exchange Telegraph Company
War Office
Lenden
Nat Vasa
Jerne
Bessarabia
Vilna
Kishineff
Little Russia Fights Bolsheviks at Odessa Report
A dispatch from Ambassador Francis dated February 21 says the people of Little Russia fight Bolsheviks at Odessa. The maximalists are holding their ground as the message notes.
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Petrograd
Francis
Little Russia
Odessa
Victims Named in German Gas Attack Report
General Pershing reports one American soldier killed in action on February 26 and three dead from gas. Names include Private Fimer E. Reyelt of Harlan Iowa and others from Bristol Pennsylvania and Cord Arkansas. Seventeen more privates listed as severely wounded across batteries with several towns represented. Philadelphia cartoonist Robert Carter dies at age forty four after arterial illness.
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Washington
Pershing
Fimer E. Reyelt
Harlan
Joseph A. Schumacher
Bristol
Pas
Sid Coleman
Cord
Ark
George E. Galloway
Fatrimmont
N.C
Dacob Anger
Louisville
Robert M. Beatty
Hammond
Ind
Frank P. Mahoney
Manete
Alvin M. Masterson
Rochester
Schuyler C. Mowrer
Monticello
David E. Plunkett
Hammondsville
Adam Bielawsky
Irvington
Bernard J. Beckwith
Morocco
Philadelphia
Robert Carter
Philadelphia Press
Carter
Americans Face Gas Attacks in France Casualties Rise
Paris March 1 American soldiers in France endured a German gas shell offensive with five deaths and about 60 hospitalizations from Tuesday and Wednesday attacks. Private BE J. Hade describes heavy gas exposure, delayed mask issues, and a two hour barrage as German planes harassed the front.
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Paris
France
Mareh Jo
United Press
BE. J. Hade
No Man's Land
Irose
Hade
Paucueed and Petrogad Resistance Leave Capitol
A fragmented note reports that resistance groups Pauueed and Petrogaad depart the capitol before an impending event. Details are unclear due to damaged text but imply a political or strategic withdrawal from a central government area.
Germans Move on Petrograd as Russians Flee Capitals
Special dispatch from London reports Kaiser orders to halt German advance in Russia and a march toward Petrograd. Germans near the capital as residents flee with their belongings while U S envoys depart Petrograd for safety in Bologna.
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London
Russia
Petrograd
United States
Vologna
French Get Brazil Shipping Aid for German Ships
Paris reports the chamber of deputies approved 22 million dollars to charter German ships placed at France by Brazil. The vote was 817 to 111. Pichon hailed Brazil’s move as a first France Brazil pact since Brazil broke with Germany and chose France over the United States in leasing the vessels.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
France
Brazil
Pichon
Germany
United States
Italian War Update Reports Mixed Front Activity
Rome reports activity by hostile recon patrols between the Adige and Brenta repulsed by our sources. Our batteries shell massed troops west of Monte Grappa and carriage movement along the Piave. An enemy ammunition store near Cleanen is said to have been hit by our aviators. A night raid bombarded rail lines at Bulzano and Pergine. Enemy aircraft reportedly attacked plains around Venice with fury.
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Rome
Italian War Office
Adige
Brenta
Monte Grappa
Te Plave
Bulzano
Pergine
Viso
Venice
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Senate
YALE
Curtis S. Read
UDCA
Kaiser
Vasa
Bolsheviki Air
Aubossader
U. S
Lowan
U.S
U. S. Line
Petrogaad
Resstans
Capitol
Sol
Ogna
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Evening Journal
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Teuton
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