The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-08-22
RALPH COUCH

Washington. August 14.-Eleven
cents a pound is fair retail price
for sugar, according to a statement
issued by the department Of Justice
today.
Dealers who charge more will be
subject to investigation" the state
ment asserts. Ten cents is fair
wholesale price and one cent is a
sufficiently large margin of profit
on pound for dealers. -
Consumers who pay more than this
amount for sugar are asked to write
to the department Of justice at Wash
lngton or to their nearest district
attorney and the case win be looked
into.
Fined For Profiteering.
Washington, August 14.-Important
new developments in the governments
fight to reduce the high cost of living
are noted. So
One of the most interesting was
the announcement by Attorney Gener-
al Palmer that the first federal con-
viction for prcfiteering had been OBJ
tanned. District Attorney Lucey tele-
graphed from Binghamton. N. Y, that
retail grocer had been fined $500 for
selling sugar at fifteen cents pound.
No details were given and the law
under which the case was brought was
not known here.
: "a few good cases of profiteering in
each state will settle that trouble"
Mr.. Palmer remarked. es,.a
An Appropriation Wanted.
Associated Press Qispatch.l
washington, Aug. 14.75Appropria-
lions fotalling nearly $4,000 with
which TO help carry out the presi-.
dents suggestion for reducing the
high cost of living were asked OF
congress today by the agricultural
'spA'i Painsss Before caasIsssBBtsse.
wasbi nntEss l ssSs 'SRhEf9 Attorney
General Palher 5pb kfeG tgitav siss
.fternoon rs 8hswer luests i HI on the
of the food control bill as
By his suggestions. Pal
ner appeared before the committee
It two O'clock. A stormy session fol- !.
owed ih<which many senator's voiced
as opposed to- broadening
he powers of the wartime provisions
or the food control act,
Oppose Extension 81 Power.
s'If we change the food control act
{ will mean the extension of power
o regulate all lines Of human neces
Iities, as clothes. SHOES, all apparel
md will practically mean the, taking
,ver of all manufactures by the gov
stated Senator Smith of
south Carolina.
"While 4 feel the suggestions are
lnduly drastic / will not oppose them
f they will reach ON and bring to
Justice the violators who are profit
,ering in the necessities of life"
stated Senator GTonna, chairman of
he committee.
Butter is Seized.
UNITED Press Dispatch.1
Chicago, August 14.Three hun
ired and eighty two tubs of butter,
valued at $55,000. were seized by
,ederal officers at the Central Cold
Storage company plant here this
morning 1t was stated, previously.
~ officers that no seizures of food
'tuffs would be made until a tho
'ough survey Of the entire city had
,een made. I
Report Of starvation. /
rUnited Press Dispatchl i.
Charleston. West Va. August IA
More than 100000 persons, including
many women and children in the
mountain region OF Coal River and
Cabin Creek, Logan county. are re-
ported to be dying of starvation be-
;ause of the strike Of railway shop.
men on the Chesapeake and Ohio
'ailway. Tho state authorities have
been asked 70 take steps to relieve
he suffering.