Bakers Fix Retail Bread Price Debate In Senate Hearing
The Ball subcommittee heard witnesses led by Charles I. Corby deny attempting to dictate loaf cost while Capper argued price fixing. Corby admitted restricting sales to shops undercutting 10 cents. Holmes & Sons outlined wartime losses and postwar loaf weight restoration.
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Calotabs Purify Your Liver With Calotabs Tonight
A vintage advertisement promises a nausea free Calotabs cleanse that leaves you feeling energetic and alert. Take one Calotab at bedtime with water and wake up feeling fine with a purified liver and appetite to match. If unhappy, your druggist will refund the price. Sold only in original sealed packs for thirty five cents at all drug stores.
Bread price saga in Washington hits committee hearing
Testimony reveals profits from selling pig products dwarf bread gains as officials discuss price controls. Holmes states a 25000 dollar president salary and 10000 dollar vice president pay while Dawson describes shifts to 9 and 17 cent loaf prices under pressure from Corby Company. Sanitary Grocery’s Yonkers says Corby dominates bread market with possible price drops. War Department official Gerrer urges loaf weight standard of one pound for all bread.
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Corby Baking Company
Harry T. Peters
Lewis Holmes
Holmes & Sons Baking Company
L. Uiman
Holmes Company
R. O. Dawgon
Piggly Wigely
Edward J. Yonkers
Sanitary Grocery Stores
Capper
Bail
Fair Price Committee
L. S. Ullman
Mr. Holmes
Holmes
Ulman
Ington
Uiman
Maneger
Dawson
R. O. Dawson
Corby Company
Washington
Corby
Edward G. Yonkers
Slashes Prove Fatal in Northwest Altercation
William Fowler, a Black man of 510 Florence Street NW, was severely cut in an altercation at 1512 Twelfth Street NW. Police seek William Matthews, another Black man, alleged assailant. Fowler is in serious condition at Freedmen’s Hospital due to blood loss.
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Twelfth Street
William Matthews
Freedmen’s Hospital
Robbery Suspect Nabbed After Suitcase Loot Recovered
Wilson Easex a Philadelphia visitor was arrested for robbery by Inspector Wilson and officers Jones and Hellmuth within an hour of the report. Charles Shore identified a suit case of wearings and silver items taken from his home at 1780 Tenth Street worth about 250 dollars. Police linked the suspect to other robberies and noted Shore’s description matched a bow-legged man in a shaggy coat. Essex admitted moving the goods through Four and a Half Street toward Maine Avenue.
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Reform School
Physicians Active in Hospital Drive Campaign Meeting
Well known physicians, social leaders, and philanthropists of the Capital will attend tonight at the Ebphitt Hotel for the final organization meeting of the Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital campaign to raise 375 000 in fourteen days beginning tomorrow. Captains and team leaders include Dr. William J. Manning and Dr. N. P. US among others, with many doctors serving on various teams across the city.
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Cecil
Morris Catzyn
E Street
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W. P. Wood
M. P. McInerney
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Interracial Congress Denies Planned Alexandria Raid
The executive council of an interracial religious congress called the report that Washington negroes planned a raid on Alexandria pernicious false and misleading. They spoke before adjournment yesterday labeling the assertion as unfounded and wrong.
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Interracial Congress
Alexandria
Executive Council
Congress
Washington
Reported church audit found without foundation in city
A report concerning Cosmopolitan Baptist Church on N street between Ninth and Tenth streets NW was investigated by a committee led by Rev. S. P. W. Drew and declared utterly without foundation.
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N Street
Ninth
Tenth Streets
S. P. W. Drew
First New Jury Impaneled Under New District Jury Commission
Associate Justice Ashley M Gould returns to preside as the first jury under the amended DC code is impaneled for criminal and circuit cases. The all citizen jury panel includes Benjamin F Shaw Edward J Eynon Jr and Barry Bulkley sworn by Clerk John Beach. The jury will hear the murder case of John McHenry charged in the Mulcare shooting with Detective Armstrong and AUSA Paul B Cromelin listed in the proceedings.
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Ashley M. Gould
District Supreme Court
Atlantic City
District of Columbia
Benjamin F. Shaw
Edward J. Eynon, Jr
Barry Bulkley
John 8. Beach
John McHenry
Wallace W. Mulcare
Sergt. Armstrong
United States
Paul B. Cromelin
Prosecutor Announces Readiness to Proceed in McHenry Case
United States Attorney Laskey announced yesterday that the government is ready to proceed with the prosecution of McHenry, marking a key step in the case.
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McHenry
United States
Laskey
Randle Land Sale Success At Public Auction
The Randle Highlands sale drew many buyers who resold lots at higher prices. Public auctions of remaining property will run all summer, every Saturday afternoon from June 15, on about one fortieth of the District of Columbia. Prices range from 500 to 25000 dollars. Homes and starter houses can be built quickly.
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Pennsylvania
Avenua
District of Columbia
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