Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-19

which were to lie called by the chairman
as occasion might require"
CLAIMED COMMITTEE
FIRST APPROVED PRICE.
In contrast to the evidence OF Mr..
White and the records of the fair price
committee, is the evidence in record of
the examination of Mr.. Wyckoff which
was taken on July 1S, last. and shows
that Mr. Wyckoff claimed that the fair
price committee first approved Of the 60
cent price of ice for retail use.
The records show the following ques-
tioning of Mr.. Wyckoff by Attorney Cen
eral U. S. LVh.
Q. When did your duties cease as fair
price commissioner for the State of In
diana?
A. November, 1920
q. Do you know what price ice was
selling in the city Of Indianapolis at that
time, both on the platform and to the
consumers in the retafI trade?
A know the maximum prices ap-
proved by the fair price committee and
price commission
q. What were the maximum prices es-
! tablished by the fair price commissioner
and committee to which you refer at the
time your duties ceased7
SCHEDULE OF
PRICES FIXED.
A. Sixty cents a hundred for retail
family delivery; IS cents a hundred for
cash and carry stations. where family
trade called for its own ice; IS cents q
hundred on the platform and 40 cents per
hundred for the weight trade. What we
mean by weight trade" is the butcher
and grocery trade
Q. How long prior to November, 1920
haua
stated them for that date?
A. They had been In effect since June.
1920.
Q. In June. 1920 then the prices we're
first fixed at this schedule you have just
detailed?
! A. They were not fixed They were
what we considered fair maximum mar
gins, fair maximum prices. The govern
nient had no power to fix prices.
Q. You mean the government had no
power to fix minimum price, or pricesg
A They had power to fix a maximum
price. fixed price is stationary price.
This is fair maximum price.
Q. Then these maximum prices were
first fixed
A. Qnterrupting) They were. approved
by the fair price committee Of Marion
County.
SAYS APPROVAL
IN JUNE, 1890.
Q. This schedule Of prices then was
first approved by what you term the fair
price committee for Marion County in
June, 1920?
A. In June, 1920.
Q. Do you know the date in June7
A. I would not without referring to
the records on that, which are on nie
with the Government.
Q. What were the prices prior to that
tme, the maximum prices II any prices
had been fixed by this committee
(Attorney Miller for the defendant OBJ
Jected 20 the question:
2. Who constituted the Marion County
committee that approved these maximum
prices in June, 1902
A. l would also have to refer TO the
record on that. l could name some Of
them to you from memory John +.
White was chairman OF 1t and Victor
Kendall was a member. Arch Grossman
was 2 member; Paul Krauss, Jr., was a
member Of this. Henry Dittmer was a
member Of 1t. There was several ladies'
and labor representatives In that also,
who | didn't remember l would have
TO look up~the official record.
Q. Did you recommend to that com
mittee those prices as fair price com
missioner Of the State o. .Iiana7
o ED AFTER
APPROVAL
A That was put up before the com
mittee and l o. KID. the committees
recommendation, IL 1t met with my ap-
prevail
Q. Did you recommend It to the com
mittee before they approved if'
A. l did not
Q. Did you take the mat Up with
I -
matter was laid before the committeeY
A. l did not.
.. Did you take the matter up with
the department at Washington after It
was approved by the committee?
A. l did and tn eschedule was filed.
QUESTIONS WHITE ON
MAKING UP RECORD.
After counsel for the State had read
all the minutes Of Mr. White before the
court Charles w. Miller, counsel for the
defendants, questioned Mr.. White at
length in an effort to show that Mr.. White
made the go-called records Of the com
mittee weeks and even months after the
meetings. Mr.. White stated no usually
made the official records from notes he
had taken at the meetings from a week
TO ten days after the meetings. He ad-
mitted that the record Of the June II
meeting was not made until a much
longer time had elapsed
Mr.. White was on the stand when the
afternoon session began.
Harry Essex OF the Buehler Market on
Pennsylvania street. testified that he
called every ice company In the city and
every ono gave him the price OF IS q
ton
ALL BIDS
AT IS A TON.
Robert E. Mem Of the Iona Hospital
testified that he sent out for bids on Ice
and all bids received were for So a ton.
George s. Wilson Of the Indiana School
for the Blind. testified that ne asked for
four or fve bids on ice and received only
one bid.
Henry Woessner Of the Indiana Market
| testified that he was paying 40 cents for
ice.