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Manufacturers aud Dealers
Penalized by Authorities

The Food Administration issues
the following:
For failure to observe United
States Food Administration regula-
tions a number of licenses have been
penalized during the past two weeks.
Among these are the following:
Read & Bro, and John Woelpert,
of Paducah, KY, retail grocers, were
required to close their stores for two
weeks for violating the ''fifty-fifty'
regulations and display signs calling
attention to the penalty.
S. Friendlander, Tyler, Tex, had
his license revoked for the duration
of the war. He was found guilty of
failing to unload car of cornmeal
and allowing it to spoil. In addition
he was required to make a contribu-
ton of $500 to the Red Cross.
Nels Bendt, proprietor of the Home
Bakery, Laramie, Wyo., license re-
voked for 80 days for baking bread
above the required weight and using
no substitutes in cakes and pastries.
S. A. Underwood, retail grocer,
of Albemarle, N. c., had his supplies
cut off for six months, ending No
vember Is, 1918. He was found
guilty OF selling 1000 pounds of
sugar in less than three months, and
in selling excessive amounts to indi-
vidual customers.
T. F. Clark, a retail grocer, of Oak
boro, N. c., had his supplies cut off
for six months for violating sugar
rules and operating illegally in col
fusion with S. A. Underwood, of AL
bemarle, N. c.
J. w. Hendricks and Morris G Co.,
both of Pickens, S. c., have been or
dered to suspend business for one
week, beginning May 20, for unjus-
tifiable rejection of two shipments of
potatoes consigned to them. They
were ordered to pay the shipper of
these potatoes the full value thereof
and to handle the goods.
D. A. White Co., Cincinnati, Ohio,
lost it's license for 10 days, begin
ming May 10, for selling sugar in
1OO-pound lots in violation of the
Food Administration rules.
j. C. Lance, a baker of Camp
Chase, Ohio, HAD his license revoked
for three days for violating the
''fifty-fifty" rule.
The license of the Atlantic Eleva-
tor Co. at Gardena, N. OAK, was re-
voked for one month, beginning May
Is. This elevator was found guilty
of excessive sales of flour and no
sales of substitutes.
The macaroni manufacturers Ii
cense of Luigi Balsamo, of Newark,
N. j., has been revoked for the du-
ration of the war for violation of
the Food Administration rule limit
ing macaroni manufacturers to 70
per cent. of the amount of flour used
in the corresponding months of 1917
and for falsifying his invoices.
Violations by wholesale and retail
grocers of Porto Rico of the Food
Administration rules and regulations
affected the following concerns:
NJ A. Cantalin G Co., retailers, ov-
ercharge on -four. Will donate bal
ance of stock to the local Boys Ref
uge and agree not to sell flour until
after August 1.
Baquero & Co., profiteering and
unjustifiable resales. of crackers. Will
donate $40 to the Y. M. G. A, $50 to
Knights of Columbus, $50 to Boys
Refuge and $50 to leper colony.
Sucesores de Rose & Co., excessive
profits on flour; donated $3.50 to the
Red Cross.
Sucesores de Sobrine & Co., prof.
teering on crackers, will donate S25
to the Municipal Hospital of Vega
baja.
Freiria & Co., excessive profits on
crackers. VIII donate $3.50 to the
Red Cross.
Forteza Hermanos & Co., profiteer
ing on crackers and unjustifiable re-