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Tl 68TH YEAR. NO. 84. SEMI-1 DEPARTMENT AGENTSs" OPERATE IN FLORIDA... Secret Service Men Libel Immense Stores of Hoarded Goods in Tampa. < 3.3 Lo< MANY FIRMS INVOLVED rep hos ad i Millions of Eggs and Hundreds dei of Thousands of Tins of Dr* Canned Goods, Held for Ad the vance, Have Been Taken Over am of i wh Tampa, Fla., Aug. 13.?More than ga< a million eggs, hundreds of thousands -^h of tons of canned goods and about wa 30,000 pounds of sugar figured in a taj seizure of foodstuffs here today by , department of justice agents operat- ] ing under Federal District Attorney pj0 H. S. Phillips. Six wholesale con- pe( * cerns were served with papers libel- tj, ing huge stocks of goods, the charge up> r being that the goods so libeled are poj V being held tor an advance in prices. GXI Goods libeled and the firms in- wo volved ard: fer Crenshaw Brothers Produce com- OV( pany, 4,000 cases of eggs; Joe Garcia, Sfa 4 1,450 pounds of salt, 3,240 cans of > jia, pens, 58,536 cans of tomatoes, 36,200 pounds of rice and 27,650 pounds of sugar; Charles H. Moorehouse, 1,800 pounds of oatmeal, 24,000 cans of peas, 4,000 cans of baking powder, 22,800 cans of corn, 447,648 cans qf tomatoes, 36,000 cans of tomato pulp, < 20,580 pounds of flour and 7,000 pounds of tea. Swift & Company, 29,568 cans of beans, 4,800 cans of salmon, 14,400 hoi cans of corn, 20,208 cans of peas and 31,224 cans of tomatoes; Jose Sua- ?r? arez, 30,000 pounds of salt, 14,400 s,)t cans of tomato pulp, 1,080 cans of mil ocr beans and 1,752 cans of peas; Reina ira Brothers, 12.000 cans tomato pulp, 720 cans of tomatoes and 3,000 an pounds of rice, 8Gr nal In each instance the libel filed , states that the food is Illegally held ^ from the market for the purpose of unreasonably increasing the price of ' rt the goods. ?_ of Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 13.? 'on With the seizure today of over a mil- SU< civ lion eggs held In cold storage by Mdrpe( rla & Company, Chicago packera, the ^ war on hoarders and profiteers had , begun. Motion for condemnation and , the sale of confiscated eggs will be made . hei In federal court on September 12. The w h writ of attachment issued charges that the eggs are held for tine purpose of unlawfully and unreasonably increasIng the price thereof In violation of the Lever food control act. Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 13.?Two food Jui concerns and six individual dealers were indicted by the county grand Jury here today as the first result of an investigation that has been under way nearly two weeks. The indictments charge member- Wi ship in an unlawful trust to control the trade Bnd prevent competition. The grand Jury investigation is being con- fry tinued and according to the county Ca prosecuting attorney other indict- sue ments are expected. ant . spr Chicago, Aug. IS.?Governmentt the prosecutors, who are waging war on 1 food hoarders and profiteers, will go 'en before feeleral district inHpoa ham xnr soon and seek writs to soize surplus t?ir food supplies in cold storage and sell arc them to the public. >HP' Thousands of tons of meats, poultry, fish, butter and eggs are held In warehouses by brokers and speculators here, according to reports by "lf the United States bureau of markets. ^01 - res Trenton, N. J., Aug. 13.?Appointment of price Axing committees in j each of the 21 counties of New Jer- i sey in accordance with the sugges- p tlon of Attorney General Palmer was ()f directed today by United States Dis- wo trlct Attorney Rodin in telegrams sent 0( to the county food administrators. gec pat CRASH INTO BNGINR fha COSTS RIGHT MVKS ga, Parkersburg, W. Va., Aug. 14.? me The death list, as a result of the I crash between a street car. crowded the with women and children, en route fon to a picnic, and a railroad engine at He Parrmaneo, two miles north of here, sup today*, was increased to eight tonight K<" when Ave persons succumbed to their at Injuries In hospitals. 10< ie Lai WEEKLY. , Li IOPMEN CONVENTION jm Ml CALLS OFF THE STRIKE PI] ? BE A 1 inn to Accumulation of Freight * * I Limited Embargoes to lie Continued. Only Silt Plantet Cleveland, Aug. 12.?Chairmen of 00 locals of the Brotherhood or :omotive Firemen and Enginemen, iresenting 117,000 firemen and TO HOI itlers in the United States and Cani, convened here today to frame a . nand for increased wages to bo merican isented to the railroads. Now St The dny was devoted to organizing jje 1 convention, general discussion 1 the appointment of a committee ?ai 14 U ....... a* iu |nc(?ir a wage proposition ich will be presented to the dele- Columbi es possibly tomorrow afternoon or f()uowjnK j ursday morning. A substantial Amerlcan , ge increase and certain fundamen- ,pbe ^ rules of employment to be applied tbroutfb C( all railroads will be asked. hflg beRn 8 deports today to the railway em- frQm (he C( lyers' department of the American tbe \orth ieratton of Labor indicated that exchange f > strike of shopmen was "cleaned tjme ^Ul " except in Chicago and a few cured is ve nts in New England, where It was . ?A 111 cl II1II lected the men would return to bej(j jn (b(J rk before the end of the week. Con- f discuss! ences with Director General IUnes ,njnjniuin j >r the men's wage demands will baged on s, rt Immediately aTter all the men compari80r re returned to work. products ai JMMINUS FINDS th0 ma"e' year will b< PEOPLE FOR WILSON farms will ness basis i airman of National Democratic be planted Committee Speak* to ll'g Crowd ''' w Under no i at Aslieville. , . , , be planted bear down Asheville, N. C., Aug. 12.?Speak After thl e tonight to one of the largest formation wds that ever attended a political will receivi sech in this city. Homer S. Cum- eratlon ant ngs. chairman of the National Dem mittees, ar atic committee, declared that after quest for veiling 12,000 miles, from the At- the flagran itic to the Pacific, he had found been pract itiment stronger Tor the league of will be nu lions and President Wilson. manipulate Mr. Cummings was Introduced to the loss of ! audience by Mayor Gallatin Rob- One of a *4 M rt mon nn/1 ?" ?? A * * * * ? > > c.?? iiu |>t?i i; luitrn- me weann nally placing obstacles In the way stated: a league of nations will survive "We wo g enough to outlive the memory of money on h an offense against humanity and extremely llization," said the speaker. The absolute to >ple are overwhelmingly for the prices bein gue everywhere he went. manipulate Democratic leaders from all over that cotton Tenth Congressional District were gambling f e to hear the party chairman in of the We at many declared the greatest po- for handli cal address ever heard here. should do s prices." AL IS SEEKING Dry goo FISH FOR PONDS ln the Pri< vancing, it orders hilt uior Senator in Correspondence ^eon s With Federal Bureau Regarding sary to all< Htock for Next Spring. count of t manufactui Washington, Aug. 12.?Senator a rorord-br il has been in correspondence with As soon s federal bureau of fisheries in re- heen conflr rd to deliveries next spring of fish be denied < for stocking of ponds on South used to bei rolina farms. There are, more of the South :h ponds than might he supposed niany cann i many of them furnish not only pven with t >rt but considerable additions to has been ct > family table. Experts Distributions of stock by the bu- cost of pre u of fisheries cars are made in the crop find t ing and the late summer and au- pensive ore nn. but applications filed after June Ing expert > not filled until the subsequent rlson, of > ing. Blank applications may bo authority, ained from tlin mmmioainnon i ? ?i lerles, Washington, and when the the cost of :a required have been filled hi, crop, basis >se must be transmitted, for In- per pound, sem'ent. through a senator or rep- age of lab entatlve In rongress. grade eottc m will probal H'Iil> IllOSKCl TK ords, as t h< CHAIN HTOHK MAX of tro Wheeling. W. Va.? Aug. 12.?John jnp gn Wilson, agent of the Department hound to r; Justice here, announced that he ton uld recommend federal prosecution Much of George B. llevener, of Baltimore, ?|on cf the retary of the C. D. Kenny com- jHWH nf sui iy, chain of stores, on the charge jutely Igno ,t llevener ordered the sale of su- currency w at a higher figure than govern- fho Jaw Df nt regulation. Ing, Howe It. K. Gardener, local manager of tlnue to bf i Keuney company, testified at a themselves d price inquiry here yesterday that to this, wj vener had ordered him to sell growing c< ;ar at $10.20 per 100 pounds, while 15th to Se rernnient regulations prohibit sales recor wholesale for more than $0.61 per ... ). t (Contl MCAS1 \NCASTER, S. C., FRIDAY, AUG EXT CROP WILL WANT H BUSINESS CROP TO PROI ch Acreage Will Be Recommend! i as Will Bring Prof- mitted foi itable Price. of All \jU isiu MEETING FUNDS AH Cotton Association Bills Are Als fcuring Information to tigation ol cussed at Meeting in dustries? rly Fall. Given. a, S. C., Auk. 14.?The Washington ms been given out by the priat-lon ot' $5' Cotton association: of the increas< erican Cotton association, federal trade jnfidential reDresentativcs i ecuring Inside information man Murdock atton consuming centers of letter to Spea and from the New York tlfd* commissi or quite some length of ale insufliclen L-h of the information se- p^sed inquiry, :ry valuable. '.Chairman It 10th mass meeting will be member of thi i early fall for the purpose by Attorney ( ng and recommending a nrlt reeoinme nice for the growing crop living costs, i apply and demand and the tttat the comtr i in prices of manufactured duct further i nd other commodities, also production, st of acreage for the condng of foodstuffs ? i seriously considered. The at figures on I be operated upon a busi- hid retail pric and only such acreage will ,fSo far as kr as, based on supply and nfct directed a ill bring a profitable price, tibns but bill condition will the acreage h6use for inqu to establish surplus to shoe Industrie prices. The conimu is meeting, confidential in- commission c secured as stated above, house at the e the most careful consld- which both 1 attention of special com- gave much att id in all probability a ro- problems. A] a special investigation of 000 was askec t manipulation which has by? Secretary Iced in the cotton murket in authorlzlni ?<le. As a result of this cTS"iis<- "be inse on the South has suffered cf the service millions. down food hoi the leading bankers from Hoarding ai y western section recently subject of two the house. A uld be delighted to loan (jard, democrt your cotton, as money Is $10,000 fine c easy with us, bu^^^'s an ment for ho< ol for the manj monopolizing g flagrantly 5 ^^^ently stuffs, fuel or d at his own/^^^ill, so tive Goodykot i is really considered as a Virginia, pros* troduct, and in our section rect the judicl Bt it is considered unsafe a legislation ng by ^he banks. You an(i to reduce lomething to stabilize your jn circulation. introduced a ds today, since the break secretary :e of cotton, are still ad- plus stocks of being impossible to have trucks, id without delay. It has Keprcscntat tated that It will be neces- republican, in 3t men's underwear on ac- orlze creation he great shortage of the conservation 1 red product. There will be and composed eaking demand for cotton, inet, five senat as the peace treaty has tives which w< med, the manipulator will ulate wholesa ane implement that he has food and cloth at down prices and caused Representat fabulous losses, as Ger- Ohio, discussii ot buy a pound of cotton ing In the ho ?old, until the peace treaty eminent wastt onfirmed. and at presei who are working on the war created a >ductlon of the growing sponsible for hat it will be the most ex- Senator McKo >p ever grown. One lead- appearing from the South. Mr. Mor- culture comm Jew Orleans, a recognized oppositio rendered a detailed state- packing indu* xiing every Item showyig regulate col production of the growing' The cost of i middling, of 47?? cents brought ?P a With the present short-! "(>?r 'be se or. the percentage of off-j dreason by ! ?n from the growing crop Senator Reed, >ly break all previous r<*c-j ' two addrt ere is certain ro r?e a great. mble and delay m gatherswing crop, which will be COW Kit PKIt uise off and low grade cot- ' Chicago, At the Information in posses- tacks by feder association shows that the officials on the >ply and demand are abflo-j suited today i red. The inflation of the articles of pre hlch Is as unchangeable as sumers. It wai gravitation, has no bear- fit to result fr vor, these laws cannot con- profiteers and > violated, they will assert decrease in wh eventually. In addition there oante a itch the condition of the receipts of var atton crop from August was said that ptember 1st, and you will shipments to tl-breaklng deterioration fear of furthe rued oa Page Bight.) (Continue rER Ni IUST 13, 1919. [ALHWILLION ,!OA,{OS !E HIGH COST Says is Not Kutlicient or itions Are Sub- tions?To Inti p Reducing I'rices I Necessaries. Washington, Aug. est of all parties coil especially to deterin IE INSUl h IC IENT ton manufacturers ? from the spinning ol . is justified under pi io Pending for Inves- .... ,, " conditions Represen " Sugar and Shoe In- south Carolina, wh Much Attention is offered a resolu niv; icucrm tl UUV CO I on this line, today formation given hit , Aug. 12.?An appro- factory as far as it v [10,000 for investigation "dent, ed cost of living by the 11 is shown in th< commission was asked him what it costs tl oday by Acting Chair- make the different k of the commission in a f',ei'e is notliing to ker Gillett. Funds for ^Gt from if. and it ! on already authorized after other expenses it to conduct the pro- "vies wishes to see the letter said. to introduce a bill.' lurdock, who also is a t"calling for tl a sub-committee named ?aw which will co leneral Palmer to sub- trade commission to ndations for reducing an itemized statemei set forth in his letter mil's. This will sho rlssion proposed to con- Paid r r the raw c nvestigations as to the Paid their selling a orage and distribution mill help, and, final irith the aim of arriving reived for the finish [he real cost, wholesale show in detail, hov es. help received, and town, the president has celved, and from th ny additional Investiga- mined whether ther Is are pending in the around or whether n iries into the sugar and eumstances warrant, s. middleman or some nlcation from the trade 'leering." halrman reached the * close of a day during PUBLIC CTILIT1 branches of contrress ... . . ention to cost of living fljAIN'JIS I jpropriations of $175, 1 for the secret service Sro?-?'s of Gurolinu < Glass. who asked that Strike of Man] S the appropriation a ... . rted to permit the use operatives in running irders and profiteers. Charlotte, X. C., A id profiteering were the ?al wo, kors ronnecte ? measures presented in ern Utilities i bill by Representative in? ^leetrlo li>;ht and it. Ohio, would provide of ci,ies i:i ,ht' tv ?r five years' imprison- hundreds of mnnul lrding, profiteering or Went on strike at 3:5 the production of food- ,<Mnoon- Rower w ' clothing. Represents- 8hut off The coni ontz, republican. West 'hat il would t mted a resolution to di- "H ROOn as offlo'al? ary committee to frame coui<1 Ket ,0 the tran to eliminate hoarding sta,,()nK the amount of currency T,le walk-out w.'l Mr. Goodyknootz also si*ri,i'l system of the resolution requesting between Greenville, i of war to sell the sur- boro, X. {' , and tli automobiles and motor Western I'nion Teh whose power is seour ive Kellar, independent nf ,hu company, troduced a bill to auth- As soon as the r?f a nntUil K?Q ,.,1 ,.r nounceri nn? nf th? r leaded by the president ?f l^e Southern Pow of members of the cab- to one of the local :ors and five representa- Hons and prepared [>uld have power to reg- rent again, when 21 le and retail prices of threatened bodily in ling. serves stopped the i ive Fess, republican, company announced ng the high cost of liv- *)e restored when tl use declared that gov- company, many of ifulness during the war from the ranks, wil it in continuing many the operation of the gencies largely was re- ? the existing situation. SOLDIERS' RON liar, democrat. Tennesbefore the house agrl- l)E( LAI Ittee, predicted organn on t lie part of the Represent at ive Pou 'try to any legislation Partisan Acli Id storage facilities. Matte living question will be gain tomorrow on the nate with prepared ad- Washington, Aug Senator McKellar and '60 war bonus pi democrat, Missouri, soldiers and sailors isses probably will give compared with $24 0 trable debate T, ers. Representative ..... of North Carotin.i. in IV-I I liMl IIICWIO ( ONSl MFItS asked for non-purti* up. 12.?Concerted at- ?r Republicans urn al, state and municipal dealing with addition high cost of living re- "When we dial wl n lower prices of many . , . , ... . ., * ' he said, I hope then >duce to Chicago con? k 'ral differences. 1 hi s the first definite beneom the attacks on food no sl'<irrinp for polii I hoarders. With the The additlonsfl bonomlesale and retail price, enough to give all di; substantial increase in and sailors a good s! Ions articles of food. It ?Th<i WRfrh producers were rushing <1 _ in... . , Mr Pou stated, wo the ( hicago market in r reduction of prices in Kficken at the stmoi priatlon." Justice sd on Page Eight.) these in ii at any cot ?. zws SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR v FIRST PROFITEER IS CONVICTED AND FINED i Cotton Condi oduce Illil. Grocer Pays $500 for Selling ? Sugar at Fifteen Cents a 12.? In the inter- Pound in Binghamton. icerned, but more line whether cotire earning more WILL SETTLE THE TROUBLE f raw cotton than resent high price tative Byrnes or Attorney General Palmer Says a o. a day or two Few Such Convictions in Each uon calling upon state Wi? put a stop to the amission for dala said that the in- Practice. n while satisfac icnt, was not sur- Washington, Aim. 13.?Important new developments in the governmentsgun s supplied t() rf.(]llco the liigh cost of living le cotton mills to .... . . came today. inds of olotli, ut one of the most Interesting was the show what tln> announcenieut by Attorney General Is the net return. ,>almor Umt the fir8t federa, couvjr. arc met, that M.. ^(||) f0r profiteering had been obuic. 1 am go! -g talned l>j?triot Attorney I.ucey teleMi. 11> rne? .-aid graphed from Ringhamton, N. Y., ie enac t in. nt oi a a retail grocer had been fined inpel the ledera for selling sugar at 15 cents a publish quarter 1} p0un^. No details wero given and it from all cotton tbe Jaw under wh|cli the case was w what the mills broUKht wa8 not knowu here. otton. what they ?A f#w gQod casos of proflteerln{C gent, the cost of jn oacb 8tate will settle that trouble," ly. what they re- pa,mer roiuurke(1> ed goods. It will T<) ,nrIndo nothing. i- much the mill In order to brJng to booR pol.gonp waat others re- gUj|ty 0f raising prices exorbitantly is will be detei- Qr boarding food to advance prices,. i> is fair play all j?aimer submitted to the agriculindcr present cir- tura| committees of congress thewhethrr it is the draff nf fln nnionHmonr one who is prof- "" "" " j". . control act extending its provisions to clothing and containers of foods and feeds, and providing a penalty of ItS POWER $5,000 fine 01 two years' imprisonLOSE DOWN inent or both for violation of the law. _ Chairman llaughen of the house . . committee announced that the amendities Affected l>y . ... . . . . nient would be considered lmmediate' ly by a subcommittee and that a report might be made tomorrow. ? It is Mr. Palmer's idea that thiK >ug 12 -Kle-trl amendment should be considered bed with the South- f(,n> taking UP ether amendment sugcompany, supply- Keate(i President Wilson to extend power for scores ,ht" effective life of the food control ro C'arolinas and act beyond the war period. 'acturing plants, The Sinews of War. 10 o'clock this af- Three cabinet officials asked special as immediately appropriations from congress for the? panv announced campaign against inflated prices. Sec? o restore service retary Kedfield requested $410,000 of the company ^or "le w?rk ?f th<> bureau of standsformers and gas! ard8 in assuring full weight and? I mAASlirpQ nnH nf iKn Kn ? -' ? ...... u, i.k imii on u ui iisiiI eries in introducing new lish foods.1 also a ?it 1 e Secretary Wilson asked $475,000 for Southern railva? employment of special agents and 3. C'., and Greene- .. . ? , ? . . others and Mr. Palmer requested $1.p qprviop C) 1 t h?? 000,000 for the bureau of invcstigupgraph company, . . tions and for the expenses of state 'ed from the linei ... .. . n food administrators assisting the Department of Justice. Another $200,strike was an- qqq wax asked for anti-trust suits, esesident engineers j,ecially that against the big live packer company went jnR companies. The attorney general", transformer sta- ajso wants $300,000 for other work to start the cur- (he department, not directly con> of the strikers nected with the living problem, such jury. Police re- as tjie enforcement of war time protiisorder and the hibition, prosecution of appeals and that service will hiring of special assistants. ,e officers of the ..rut IUm, TaiK. ? whom came up ^ sked today if he had any reports 1 take charge of indicating sufficient food held in stor"nes age to affect prices materially if rpleased, Mr. Palmer revealed that a US number of governors had appealed to RFD I* \I TRY h'm <(> ?Ut ,aP?" 'n forcing on the market "amazing quantities" of foedstufTs now in storage. In some Appeals for Xon- raaes_ j, waa sa;d, the lood has been on in the held longer than permitted by state r. laws, hut technicalities regarding interstate commerce have presented .rx i the governors from undertaking seiz. 12.?Declaring; i ure or prosecution. Mr. Palmer ortid to dis< h.u ged ] (jpred all district attorneys to assist was paitry as (ftp governors. paid war work- Reports of excessive storks of food Pou. Democrat.! held In storage have been received the house today from at ,east aix s,a,es- thc attorney general said. He declined to be more an consideration ... .... specific, but it was indicated that. 1 "Democrats in Xew Jersey was one of the states, lal bonuses. Storage Conditions, ith the soldiers," Storage conditions are also engagj will be no polit- 'nR t*le attention of the state food ad, . ministrators. several of whotn haveape there will be .... .. . . . . asked if they were authorized to puhlical advantages. jjR^ fa(.(S where it appeared that i should tie large more food was being held from thc scharged soldiersj public than the reasonable requireart as civilians." ments of a dealer demanded. of the treasury.! to,d tho,n to *? r,Pht ahead an? I to use the names." Mr. Palmer anuld be "horror- , . , . . ... , . , | ncunced decisively. I am interested int of the appro-. jn getting as much information on should be done .. .. ?t, he said. I (Continued on Page Four.)