The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-22
GOVERNMENT GRABS
H0AROEO SUPPLIES
DETROIT DISTRICT ATTORNEY
SEXES 10000, 900 EGGS and soo.-
600 POUNDS OF BUTTER
FORCE THIEVES TO DISGORGE
Action viii Be Taken Where Hoarders
Are Found to Hold Greater Guam
titles Of Food Than Is Necessary
for the Conduct OF Business

Washington. Aug. iG--Close coop
GRAFTON between state authorities. who
possess detailed information of food
and price conditions. and the attorney
general and his staff. empowered 10
enforce the food control law, Is being
established as part Of the governments
fight To reduce the cost Of living.
Instructions went yesterday from At
torney General Palmer 10 the two dis
trict attorneys In Ohio 10 proceed inn
mediateiy 10 assist Governor Cox In
the seizure Of large quantities Of meat.
butter and eggs alleged 10 have been
held In storage In that state for more
than six To ten months, the legal lin
It's. Criminal prosecutions will be in
stituted, II was stated If II can be
shown that the foods were held from
The market for the purpose Of boosting
prices Officials were inclined To think
that the long period of storage indicat-
ell some other reason than an effort to
spread the abundant supplies Of a pro-
ducing season over the lean part Of the
year.
Acting on telegram yesterday from
Governor Cox saying that a Cleveland
concern, In order to escape possible
prosecution for boarding, was moving
It's meat products to warehouses In
Chicago and destroying Its records,
the department Of justice ordered the
district attorney AT Cleveland to look
into the matter Immediately.
Seizure of large stocks of foodstuffs
In storage continued yesterday with re-
ports received Of libels filed In Cleve-
land and Detroit. and preparations for
such action In many cases. The de-
pnrtinent was informed last night that
the district attorney at Detroit had
filed libels In three eases and seized
approximately 10. 400, 900 eggs and 800
900 pounds of butter.
Statistics announced that the bureau
Of markets, showing IA great increase
In the amount of food held In storage,
were said by Judge Ames, assistant
to the attorney general, In charge Of
enforcing the food control law. to bear
out the departments contention that
u prime reason for enhanced prices
was the holding OF supplies from the
market.
I'VE are going to force these hoard
ers and profiteers to disgorge," Judge
Ames declared, wherever they are
found to hold greater amounts than
are necessary for the conduct OF their
business and the safeguarding of the
| food situation during the winter"
The agricultural committees of both
senate and house continued work yes.
| terday ON legislation asked by Attor.
ney General Palmer extending the
| provisions of the food control act and
giving n criminal penalty for violation
Of It. Opposition by several senators
| baked an immediate report by the
senate committee. which now plans to
act Tuesday.
| Another witness before the house
committee was John n. Miller of the
national hoard of farm organizations,
who urged that farm associations
| should he exempt from any regua.
| lions AS To the price and distribution
| of food products. l.. u. II, Weld OF
Swift 4 Co. testifying before the
house Interstate commerce committees
which IL considering cold storage leg
tsiation, declared that 10 force stored
food on the market now would ere
ate n serious situation next winter
Through the putting ON sale yester.
day of 2.o0o,ooo surplus army blankets
the war department made another nj.
tack on high living costs. Telegrnms
reaching the department yesterday in.
Dictated remarkable response To gov
ernment offers.
Officials were anxious that the dis
trlbution should be widened so that
persons remote from the supply cen
tiers might he able IL take advantag,
III the sale. hut they could see me- way
In which this could he effected. In
aulry was telegraphed however. Il
those Ia charge Of the sales ta report
the number of blankets remaining OF
hand with n view Ia making the sal,
subject Ia mail orders when neeanpa
nied by the fun purchase price
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