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RESUMES CONTROL OF SUGAR PRICES Government to Revoke License in Case of Profiteering. ELEVEN CENTS FAIR PRICE Congress Would Extend the Food Control Act to Include Wearing Apparel. Washington, Aug. 21.-Active con trol of sugar prices was resumed to The Great In Gooc CHEWC 7 IGi 0Q 4 Sealed Tight T e Fla% aumuuuusnmsSUummutuu Dantzler & Willard Sto Service Batteries Recharg General:I Oiling andU Greash, FISK Cord an Opposite C MANNING, - day by the government, through ai agreement reached between the De partment of Justice and the food ad ministration that licenses will be re voked by the latter when it is shows dealers have been profiteering. Sugar should reach the consumer a approximately eleven cents a pound it was announced, based on the own ership of the entire domestic and Cu ban crop by the United States suga: equalization board, which is selling ti refiners' at 7.28 cents a pound. Refiners are under contract with the board to sell at 9 cents, less than LEYS est Name Pqy-Landi 77fF: LEY LEYS I-V, GUM Kept Right 2 For Lasts enu:::::un::::m:tttmu ustm3 UU SMcCullough, rage Battery Station ed, Sold or Rebuilt. Repairing ag Cars a Specialty. d Fabric TIRES 'entral Hotel, - South 'Carolina. peg cent discoint f cashl Wholealems!w and Jobbers are allowed a maximum of 68 cents per 100 pounds for hand ling and retailers -are permitted a profit of 1 to 1 1-2 cents per pound, making a fair price 11 cents, except t in cases where dealers have purchased at an "unreasonable" price due to misunderstanding in the trade. When this is a fact a reasonable advance over the actual cost will, be permitted. Prepared for Action Today,. With the House agricultural commit tee's amendment for extension of the powers of the Food Control Act before it, the House tonight was prepared to take action tomorrow on the amend ment and thereby make its first ex tensive step toward beating down liv ing costs. The amendnment which was reported to the House today by a u:ianimous vote, includes retailers among those liable under the Food Control Act, and its enactment, along with the control exercised over sugar, efficials believe, will do much to cur tail profiteering by retailers. "Our desire is to secure a fair price for the consumer," said Attorney Gen eral Palmer in announcing resumption of sugar control, "and we do not wish to pursue a wholesale policy of recom mending the cancellation of licenses. Where trade adjusts itself to a fair price for the future, past transactions unless flagrant,' will not ordinarily be made the basis of a recommendation by this department for the cancella- I tion of the license. Sale of army subsistence supplies now in progress will cover virtually the entire surplus, the War Depart ment announced today, including enough to give two p.unds of meat and one-quarter qound of canned veg etables to every person in the United States. Would Extend Scope of Law. The amendment to the Food -Con trol Act, as reported today, would extend the act's provisions to include wearing apparel, containers of food, feel or fertilizer and fuel oil. A pen alty of $5,000 and two years' impris onment for profiteering is provided. "The absence of evidence of any profiteering by farmers," the agricul ture committee's report said, "and the provision of the so-called Sherman anti-trust law recognizing collective bargaining by labor makes it wise to not subject the farmer to incon venience and expense under the fed eral law." Numerous bills and resolutions deal ing with living cost questions were presented in both houses of Congress. Representative Hutchinson, Republi can, of New Jersey, introduced a bill which would enable the Secretary of Agriculture to "prevent deception with respect to cold, storage foods: to leg ulate the storage and shipment of cold storage foods in interstate commerce and limit such storage to ten motnhs." - o TRAIN ROBBERS STILL AT LARGE Tennessee Holdup Said to Have Net teal $60,000 in Cash. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 21.-With railroad and postoffice detectives scouring middle Tennessee and follow ing every indication of a clue late this afternoon, the four bandits who held up andl robbed Louisville and Nashville passenger train No. 7 ten miles south of Columbia last night "ere still at large. One clue wvas based on the report that - woman and twvo men were seen dIrivinig in an automobile near the scene of the robbery late last night, coupled wvith the mysterious alpear ance here twvo (lays ago of a woman who claimed to be from a Weste Statr- andl had a ticket for Glendale, the station near wheer the robbery oc cu rredl. A slim, (delicate looking man of ab~out twenty-five years with a broken nose, is also being sought by the of ficers. Engineer Wray, .having told g.overn1ment officials this wvas the only ma~n wvho took off his mask. Other lusare being followed. Alihough no ofliciail estimate of the amount of boty taken by the roh Demand ! "Titehold" Select 4 Red Cedar Shingles Handsome, Durable. Economical V' If your dealer can't select., write us. ,;-Ask for free 'shingle booklet. CarlisaI'rtiaa Cenat Cs, Chadeston, S. C. ' lat Jacksonvilie Iemlngham New Orleans W. P. LEGG, Dealer, Manning. S. C. The Won I A con tial of all FARMER We co to make ti W. C. DAVIS, Presiden1 hers has been given out, it was ' 't men. d here today that the bandits gol $60.000 in cash from the mail car. According to W. P. Mulvihil, th< ihenan, two of the bandits boarder the train at Columbia, riding the "blind hagage." When it a woodet section the bandits climbel o 'er the tender and, pointing their guns at th< engineer and firemen, shouted "The train is held up." The engineer says they were they ordered to run the train until they came to a white light. The light ap peared just south of Glendale and wa: The next time you bily calomel ask for The purified and refined calomel tablets that are nausealess, safe and sure. Medicinal virtues retain ed and improved. Sold only in sealed packages. Price 35c. * RED * And all othe BO OTI: I Holds Noti ' II Imo" . Pt" '4 section with a strong, friendly farm "equipment," and is son cannot successfully be without rdially solicit the accounts of f e freest use of our every facili A. C. BRA R. C. BAGGETT, Cashier a -searchlight held by one of the ban dits. While two bandits stayed with Wray, a third compeled Mulvihill to go back with him and eut off the en gine, express car, baggage car and mail car. On their way back they met S. H. Allen, conductor of the train, on his way to the engine to in vestigate the stopping of the train. After the train was cut the robber ordered the fireman and conductb' to get into the coaches, which they did. The three bandits then forced the engineer' to drive the engine, with baggage, express and mail cars at tached to it, to a point about half a mile beyond, where the passenger coaches were detached and there stopped. After rifling the mails the bandits cut the engine loose, threw the throt tle Wide open and left the loocmotive to spend its power anywhere south of Glendale. 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