The sun., 1919-08-17
ARMY FOOD SALE
FACES NEW DELAY
Delivery Of Stocks to Schools
VIII Not Start Until
Tomorrow.
STRIKE HATS COPS AID
Government Agents Find
boarding by Speculators-
Retailers Absolved.

II was admitted last night by officials
u the Department Of Public Markets
that the plan TO open forty-six Of tho
city's selected school stores for the
snls Of army surplus foodstuffs to-mor-
row may miscarry. The work Of trans
porting the stocks Of food from the
army dspots 10 tho stores win not
bsgin until tomorrow morning. Az tho
Stocking up process In In itself big JOB
u INIT likely the city win be able TO
% business with consumers direct untn
Tuesday and possibly not until wednes-
dsy.
mo date for the Official opening
originally was scheduled for Monday.
August IL. and n postponerent for a
week was ordered 10 enable I-dwin J.
ofMaIley, Deputy Market Comm s,oner,
% wrestlo with the Washington a. !hori-
ties In an effort to get lower prIcvU, In
which he was sucoaasful
400 Trucks Hired by City.
Ono hundred ave ton trucks hired by
the city. with two msn 10 . truck. also
hired. win be used to cart tho food from
Port Newark Terminal Bush Terminal
and tho army base At Tffty-ntnfh street,
Brooklyn, 70 the schools that have BEEN
selected rs the market places. They
win begin moving ut . O'Clock IN the
u,erning and II L. expected each truck
win mako two trips q day. Trucks that
WI deliver to the outlying sections may
not do as well as this.
The Market Departments plans have
gone astray in other directionA II was
expected that the POLICE Department
would detail two men at each Of the
@pdhool stores to help along tho good
WORK However. the necessity Of using
IN available men during tbs impending
Marlborough strike has compelled Po-
iics Commissioner Emigh1 DO limit his
ioan Of store hands 70 nifty cops. No
heap 10 expected from the Fire Depart
unenf In running Of stores Mayor Hy-
ina promised yesterday to see 10 II that
city employees from various departments
are assigned 10 oct as ~clerka."
INA Rsv. Or. Jonathan @ DaT. Com
missioner OF Pubic Markets. announced
dur4ng tho day that the "sghool stores"
vfu he opsn 1or business from 10 A NJ
until 4 P. NJ
II was said at the ofiios Of Czpt. A A.
stcxzrt, the zone SURPLUS property OH
On, xe1 Eighth avenua. yesterday that
Nsv York city win receive about three
quartsrs Of Q million pounds Of food
rreries. New York was behind other
o1t3es IN the matter Of getting orders
n. and oonssgnsntly she Isn't going to
gsk any Of the Government ham which
fpIks IN other municipalities are saying
- ~,aume ham,
Government agents who have been
oorsbtng the city for boarded stores OF
hoods WIN present some OF their findings
b the Federal Grand Jury to-morrow.
n was said yesterday their investiga-
tions show that 'hosrding" IL not being
carried on by regular dealers IN the
trade, but by men who heretofore have
not bsen identtaod with the fnnhstun
business.
Ths reports Of The investigators 4ndi-
onto that along Hudson, Greenwich and
Washington streets are a large number
Of warehouses nllsd with foodatuffs, the
storing Of which began about eighteen
months ago. Some Of these 'Vtore-
houses'' are old ramshaclsle structures
that never were intended to be used as
food warehouses. The stocks in these
places have been listed and the owner
chip Of hts property traced.
clerks to Faoe Grand JurE.
IN ono case It was learned that O large
quantity Of rineApples, which cost theiI
puFuhasers $2.25 per case, were tucked
away in q building to await O rtsins
nariest. The pineApplss were owned by
o spool" Of clerks headed by q bank
dark who enjoys a modest salary OF
t2Aoo a year. They cost 81 900 and
the pool made known It discrimination
not TO sell until 1t gets SO per case for
tta hnldinga
II Is understood that the Grand Jur,
win be given a chance to learn about the
plans of these young fnanciere. There
are other speculators In the same class
whose ventures in the realms Of food
traffickfng are to be made the subject
Of official inquiry.
They include, It IL said. brolters clerk
and others nipped by the bug of high
finance. The possibility that mon o.
means are using clerks a. ''dummies'' ir
food speculation Is being considered by
tho investigators.
Arthur Williams Federal Food Ad.
ninistrator for this city. said yesterday
A. Mitchell Palmer, United States Attor.
ney-General, win attend meeting of the
Fair Price Committee In the Hotel Bit.
more tomorrow night at 40 O'clock
Ir, Williams has sent the following
lstter 10 Michael Eriedsam. president o.
=. Altman C Co.i
In connection with tho work of your
subcommittee, would II not be well to
appoint at least two groups ono repre-
ssnting dry goods and clothing and the
other shoes; or even possibly three
groups. another distinctly IN mems
ciothing7 mean. Of course. prominent
men in each, who enjoy the eonndsnoe
At ths public.
u find great DEAL of unrest and
apprehension regarding clothing and
shoes, and such committees, under your
guidance, would either show that the
DRices are fair. without the element OF
ovsrcharge or prohtSering, or they would
expose unfair prices on the part of I'M
scrupulous dealers, which would be very
greatly to the benefit OF the public.
We may not be able to 60 back and
change costs, whatever they may be. An
explanation Of the reason for Increased
costa froaasuch an authority as yourself
and the men gathered around you would
Be appreciated by the public. and there
might be instances OF overcharge which
wouh be corrected by reoofnmendat lions
q the committee, or prevented by the
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