Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
NEW HAVEN FIRM
 PENALIzED FOR
 SECOND DEFENSE
Eastern Flour and Merchan- disc Go. Must Give $500 to
 the Red Cross.

Hartford, Oct. 15-After a delay of several weeks, the Food Administra- uon Saturday announced that, for the second time in five months, the East ern Flour & Merchandise Co.,, a large wholesale firm doing business at New Haven, has been convicted and penal ized for violation Of the c1oL admin istration rsles s-4 vt-sptAticng. The latest punishment was the alternative sentence either of the indefinite re- vocation of their food administration license or the privilege of contribut- ting $500 to the New Haven chapter of the American Red Cross
 After f1lirfg an appeal with Wash ington for another hearing and then vacating it, the firm has paid the $500 to the Red Cross and unless they again violates the food regulation, will be permitted to continue in busi- ness. They were forced to close last May ? and 8, and to display over their main entrance, in conspicuous letter ing, a sign reading, Closed by Order of the United States Food Administra- tiOn." For some time the Food Ad- ministration officials both in Wash ington and in this city considered erasing the original penalty of $500 and revoking the license, for a stated period or for the duration of the war. but it was finally determined that the compulsory contribution and warn 1 ing that a third offense would be the last, was the proper penalty.
 Isadore Bear is president and l Charles J. Finley is secretary of the 1 TNo TNIo, and both have endeavored by every possible means to 6bulk the execution
 of the penalty imposed by Assistant
 Federal Food Administrator Joseph H. Lawler, who gave the accused firm l hearing in this city Aug. 1 5. At this | hearing the firm was convicted of sell
 ing flour without substitutes and of
 selling flour with an insufficient amount of substitutes. The Food Ad- 1 ministration ordered the firm to cease all business under it's license during the last week in August. In lieu of
 this penalty. thep rivilege was given | of contributing $500 to the Red Cross. | Last April Thomas W. Farnam, who | recently retired as New Haven Food | Administrator, closed up the firm for
 two days because, as he said in his
 finding, he did not believe the in fringement of the flour and wheat
 substitute sales regulations had been deliberate. The lentient penalty was
 also imposed with the understanding
 that the recommendati2l would he
 made to Washington to revoke sum-
 marily the license on condition that they would hereafter carefully obserTe e
 all the Food Administration rules and regulations.
 At the hearing before MT. Lawler or. Aug IS, both Bear and Finley con- tes'ed the charges from the very be-
 ginning of tha hearing and several formal motions for the postponement
 of the hearing and Tor a more specific
 statement of the charges were quickly overruled by MT. Lawler. The hear ing proceeded, thee hief witness being
 Eugene Faure, a New Haven expert accountant, who had taken trans cripts from the firms ledger proving > beyond any doubt that they sold I wheat flour without substitutes to J Kulzae of Bridgeport on July 6, 1918
 and that on June Is they sold to A. E
 Andrews of Norwich 260 barrels ot
 flour with only q small amount ot
 white corn meal. The firm on Aug 26 placed with Food Administrator
 Farnam a certified check for S30t ! which check has now been paid to the American Red Cross.