Profiteering Probe Blamed on Greed in Flour Meat Trade
A federal trade commission report to the Senate finds profiteering in industry due to greed and fraud. It cites four meat packers Armour Swift Morris Wilson Cudahy and affiliates earning up to 38 percent returns. flour and meat markets manipulated to fix prices despite government controls. The probe also notes high official salaries and bonuses aiding market power. coal mining shows large margins despite price fixing.
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Washington, D. C
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Armour, Swift
Morris, Wilson and Cudahy
Post Office Appropriation Bill Vetoed by Wilson
President Wilson vetoed the postal appropriation bill citing the provision to take over pneumatic tube mail services in several cities until next March. The measure would leave disposition to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Postmaster General Burleson opposed the plan, but Congress insisted.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Post Ofice
Interstate Commerce Commission
Burleson
Congress
Crowder May Be Lt General Reward For Draft Policy
Senators praised the army draft administration and the senate adopted an amendment to the army bill making Provost Marshal Gen. Enoch H. Crowder a lieutenant general during the war. An advertisement for Diamond Joe cigars closes the item.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Enoch H. Crowder
Kaiser Saved by Court from Name That Shames Him
Chicago June 29 J M Kaiser formerly J M Kaiser asked the circuit court of Cook county to change his name. The petition was granted. Kaye a member of Hiseman Kaye Co formerly Eiseman Kaiser Co leather traveling goods makers 23 South Franklin street said I had the change made for patriotic reasons I am all American by birth and parentage.
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Chicago
Kaye
American Aces Report Capture of 309 Germans and 3 Planes
General Pershing announced in an official communique that American aviators destroyed three German planes and captured 309 German soldiers, including seven officers, in operations around Chateau Thierry and Toul. Witness accounts describe Lieut Raymond and Maj Hartney's pilots engaging enemy biplanes and monoplanes at high altitude, with tracer fire observed and confirmations of destruction.
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Washington, D. C
Pershing
Chateau Thierry
Torcy
Toul
Lieut
Raymond
Maj
Hartney
McArthur
Lieut. Hill
Lieut. McArthur
Red Cross War Fund Drives Total $170 Million
Red Cross subscriptions in the second war fund drive reached 170,038,394 with returns still arriving. The first fund totaled 110,475,125 with 17,875,211 refunded or retained by local chapters. Final statements show receipts from all sources during 11 months ending May 31 and on hand July 1 last year bringing total funds to 120,679,188.
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Washington
D. C
Red Cross
Private Beesley Victorious in Lone Rifle Brigade Action
London reporting Private Beesley of the rifle brigade earned the Victoria Cross for a four hour stand under heavy fire. He commanded his company after officers fell, captured an enemy post, killed enemy gunners, captured officers, and kept a Lewis gun firing to repel a German counterattack with a wounded comrade beside him.
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London
Ottawa
Knights of Old
Beesley
Rifle Brigade
Reciprocal securities control pact with Canada announced
Washington June 28. The capital issues committee will sign a reciprocal agreement next week with Sir Thomas White Canadian minister of finance for joint control of selling public or private securities across borders. Dudley Cates of San Francisco named secretary and chief examiner to head a new bureau of examiners digesting applications and gathering information from federal districts and various government agencies to assess war necessity of proposed securities issues.
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Washington, D. C
Capital Issues Committee
Sir Thomas White
Dudley Cates
San Francisco
Bureau of Examiners
Federal Reserve
Yar Industries
Boarch
No Perishables to Soldiers by Mail Declared Banned
Washington June 29 report that post offices will not accept perishable foods for mailing to troops because they nearly always spoil before delivery. The rule aims to avoid waste and ensure mail safety for service members overseas.
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Washington, D. C
Rotary Club Cups Awarded as Wichita Leads Attendance
In Kansas City Missouri on June 29 1919 Rotary clubs officers settled on the convention city with Wichita Kansas receiving the ladies attendance cup. The vocational attendance cup went to the social service section and the golf cup was awarded to R A McLaughlin of Denver.
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Kansas City
International Association of Rotary Clubs
Wichita
Kan
R., A. McLaughlin
Denver
Banker's Hoard of 1 000 Bushels of Wheat Sold
Goshen Indiana June 29 One thousand bushels of wheat hoarded by Stanford Willard a Wakarusa banker were hauled to a Goshen mill and sold at 2 10 a bushel. The county food administrator directed the sale. Willard owner of 2 000 acres is recovering from a public beating by Theodore Herring a farm hand who charged the banker was a slacker on Red Cross consignments.
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Goshen
Ind
Stanford Willard
Wakarusa, Ind
Willard
Wakarusa
Theodore Herring
Red Cross
Way Logt Onondaga Sinks In Fog Off Watch Hill
The Clyde line freighter Onondaga, Boston bound for Charleston and Jacksonville, hit a reef in heavy fog off Watch Hill Rhode Island and sank in shallow water. 35 crew were rescued by Watch Hill coast guards. naval authorities offered no cause. The 2696 gross ton ship, built in Philadelphia in 1905, was under Captain Goggins and had served in Boston for years.
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Watch Hill
R. I
Clyde Line
Boston
Charleston
Jacksonville
Coast Guards
Coast Guard
Philadelphia
Goggins
U S Protest Mexico Taxing Oil Lands
Washington protests Mexico decree of February 19 1918 that taxes oil lands, calling the tax confiscation and unfair. The State Department cites President Wilson on trust and misunderstanding, pledging justice and fair dealing in return.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Mexico
State Department
Carranza
Wilson
Unite States
First American Rainbow Will Army Steps on Rail of Italy
Gen March announced the first American troops landed in Italy yesterday. The force consists largely of sanitary and noncombatant units, with combat troops to follow under Pershing. He called the overall front condition extremely favorable for the Allies and noted 18,000 Austrians captured with substantial matériel.
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Washington, D. C
Italy
March
Pershing
France
First
National Army
T7th
New York
Camp Upton
Franklin Bell
Johnson
Kansas
Missouri
William M. Wright
United States
Military Committee
Europe
Delegates named at Republican county convention
The Republican County Convention held in the Courthouse opened with J B Newman Cedar Falls as temporary chair and J R Rainbow favored to select delegates to the senatorial convention. Voting contortions followed as Bowman Grout Rainbow battled for the nomination amid calls for harmony and strong party unity.
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Republican County
J. B. Newman
Cedar Falls
J. B. Rainbow
Walter R. French
H. W. Wente
J. B. Evans
W. P. Hoxie
J. J. Rainbow
M. L. Bowman
Sam
J.J. Rainbow
Henry Grout
H. W. Grout
Grout
Rainbow
Bowman
J. B
Newman
J. E. Evans
H. M. Reed
Mr. Newman
J. J. Miller
J. K. Joder
W. C. Strickler
Ned Brown
TD. Tiller
Mr. Hartman
H. B. Lizer
Paul W. Smth
Eee
Hartman
TR. A. Santee
French
Delivery assurance notice for missed paper
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British ships engage German destroyers off Belgian coast
Four British torpedo boat destroyers fought a long range clash with eight German destroyers off the Belgian coast. The action lasted about a quarter hour, others joined, then the fight broke off with no damage to either side. Further Allied reports describe heavy bombardment near Merville, captures of officers and men, and continued Allied progress in the Somme and Soissons sectors. American units near Cantigny reportedly captured 40 prisoners with French forces at Apremont forest and St Mihiel areas. Continued fighting and reinforcements are noted as the war moves along the Lys and Soissons fronts. Page continuation noted.
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London
Associated Press
France
Merville
Klled
Royal Air Force
Soissons
Fosse-en-Bas
Culry Ravine
War Office
Paris
Reims
Bligny
Senate votes down draft age expansion in army bill
Washington June 2 Senate rejects an amendment to direct the president to raise an army of 6,000,600 as equipment and transport permit. The army appropriation bill of about 12.089 billion dollars passes without a roll call, with no change to draft ages. Debate on extending ages 20 to 40 ends 49 to 25, majority favoring postponement until the new army program is ready.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Congress
War Department
Baker
Gen
March
Senate Military Committee
Hardwick
Georgia
Weeks
Massachusetts
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U.S
Justice and Fair Dealing
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