New-York tribune., 1919-12-08
Names Five City Officials
to Apply Profits From
Army Surplus Sales to
Relief of the Poor
Chamberlain Stakeholder
Gets 100000 in Checks;
O'Malley Tells Mayor
Days Charges Are Outrage

Mayor Hylan made public yesterday
the personnel of committee of FIVE to
which will be intrusted the handling
of the 100000 profit derived from the
sale of army food by the city. Those
on the committee are Philip Berolz-
heimer, City Chamberlain; Edwin j.
O'Malley, Commissioner of Markets;
John F. Glchrist Commissioner of Lii
censes; John A. Harriss, Special Deputy
Police Commissioner, and William P.
Burr, Corporation Counsel.
In letter to Mr.. Berolzheimer the
Mayor has instructed that the money
be used to assist the poor of the city
by supplying the necessares of life at
reduced OR cost price, as the emergency
arises.
urge that the fund be used to combat
the high price of sugar expected to re-
suit upon the removal of government
restrictions on December 81.
Mayor Writes Letter
over by Corporation Counsel Burr to
the Mayor on Saturday. The Mayor
transmitted them with his letter to Mr..
Berolzheimer.
"This fund.-" the Mayor says in his
letter, "is to be turned over to the
committee, and when the accounts are
finally Strengthened out with the gov
ernment and the business closed up the
net surplus then remaining, which may
be either somewhat less or somewhat
more than the amount now trans
r,itted, is to be used for the benefit of
the poor of the City of New York.
"My object and sole desire in in
trusting the committee with this fund
is to enable the committee, when the
occasion arises, to help the poor Of the
city by supplying them with necessaries
such as coal, milk, ice, etc. at reduced
prices or at cost.
Corporation Counsel Burr has in
formed the Mayor that the money may
Mr.. O'Malley wrote the Mayor a let
ter, saying he will sue DR.. Day for
libel for utterly wicked falsehoods'
concerning the use of the money OF
which Mr.. O'Malley was joint de-
positor.
To Break High Markets"
Mr.. O'Malley said he believed the
fund would be made a permanent
weapon to combat profiteers and break
high markets in necessary comm odities.
A survey of the sugar situation
prompted an expression of fear that
profiteering on an unprecedented scale
will result when Federal control ends.
Some dealers declared that housewives 9
may have to pay as high as 25 cents a
pound soon after the vast supplies are
released from storage. The high
prices, however, are expected to de-
cline about February /, when arrivals
of Cuban sugar are expected. 1t is
predicted that this crop will sell for
about 10 or 16 cents q pound until the
middle Of the summer. when a further
drop is expected.
1t has been discovered that there are
at least 100000 pounds of sugar
stored in warehouses, refineries and
docks in Brooklyn.
Officials of the American Sugar Re
fning Company say that these stocks
have been held in accordance with the
rules of the distributing committee of
the Sugar Equalization Board. In nor
NAL times, they say, it would all be
used up in two weeks, but that the
board has ordered it spread over a
period of five weeks. 1t is not being
boarded, said f. 7. Gibson, secretary of
the company, and must be sold at the
contract price of nine cents a pound
less 2 per cent.
Federal Food Administrator Arthur
Williams said that while the board s
control over sugar ends this month
prosecutions for boarding and profiteer-
ing can still be pushed under the
Lever food control act