The sun., 1918-10-22
$4,S6O SHORN OFF
LAMB PROFITEERS
Forty-two More Retailers Who
Gouged Public Made to
Help War Charities.
PRICE WARNING ISSUED
Penalized Butchers Ordered to
Display Signs Telling
Of Frauds.

The Federal Food Board melted out
penalties yesterday for proiteering on
sales Of lamb to forty-two additional re-
tail butchera one Of whom got a double
dose because he owned two stores The
voluntary contributions to war charities
OF the third batch OF the original 284
summoned before the board amounted to
N,35o. of which all but s2o0 or s30o
will 20 to the Red Cross. Thus far los
butchers have owned up that they ex-
acted profits In excess of the margin
fixed by the Food Administration and
war chests have been swelled to the ex-
tent Of slo,s75. The mill will continue
to-day TO grind for fifty of the balance
Of the accused
Retail butchers who are caught re-
peating their offence Of profiteertng will
have their wholesale supplies cut on"
Arthur Williams. Federal Food Admin
istrator for this city. said last evening.
Mr.. Mitchell. chairman Of the board
agrees with me in this 1t begins to look
rs IL prohteering in the sales OF meat Is
getting to be a lost art. We want prices
that are fair. and the man who Is fair
will be backed UP. But the man who
profiteers has got To get out OF the BUSH
ness- Profiteering must stop"
Complaints Are Invited.
Mr.. Williams said housewives who are
satisfied they have been charged ex-
cessive prices should lay their COM
plants before the Federal Food Board.
6 West Fifty-seventh street, and in
vestigators for the board will take the
matter up without any Inconvenience to
the women who complain.
Because of the spotlight OF publicity
which has focused on the butchers who
didn't believe the board meant business
the retail prices of meats have dropped
in practically all the butcher shops in
the greater city, according to reports
made to the Food Administrators. Gro
GERS too, II is said. also are pruning
prices 30 that they agree more nearly to
prices suggested" by the board for GER
tain groceries bought on cash and
carry basis.
Yesterdays bearings took place before
Charles p. Robinson, Samuel A. Berger,
]. ]. IAndner. Frank Schwartz and r. 8.
Carpenter department and bureau ohiefs
detailed to sit as commissioners. They
were more or less informal heart to
heart talks between Commissioner and
butcher during which the Commissioner
explained in what respect the accused
had erred (the butchsr's hooks were the
pFiuCtpAl WtttttoseSJ anu VIC butChtT uiu
the best he could under the circum-
stancea
Administrator Williams declared last
evening that not a single butcher who
was penalized took the position that the
prices he had charged for lamb were
fair pricea
One butcher. Phillip Beilstein of 1sa
Fifth avenue, Brooklyn. entered gentle
protest that he was being diBcriminsted
against. saying that the rest Of the man
on hiS street were doing the samo an he
did, - 50, o.. 49,. .,...
why haven't yow before this board
every butcher In New York; he asked.
They are all profiteering. Come out
with me and III prove II.
1T isn't that care for the $780," he
added. but the size OF the amount
makes rue look more guilty and gives
me greater notoriety"
a $40 fine would give you just as
much notoriety," the Commissioner said.
Besides making voluntary donations TO
war charities all penalized butchers must
place signs, ~ by Is inches, in their
stores reading as follows:
Having exceeded margins allowed by