Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1922, Page 10

ARNOURS DENY HONCPOLY CHARGE S Packing Company Head Sum- moned to Meet Complaints of Commission Men. Ty the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 27.— ‘With J. Ogden Armour of Chicago, presi- dent of Aymour & Co., subpoenaed as a witness, the federal Department of Ag- riculture’s hearing of complaints against | i the packing company was scheduled to open here today. Charges of monopolistic pucuces xn the conduct of the Mistletoe yards he of Arncul.lu(e J. 39° Assaciations Jota 1a Cllr[! the Oklahoma Live the b ol Live Stotie Pmducens As- Union of e e 'loined the local live stock exchange in the charges agalust the Armour company They assert Vet the ‘Mistletoe yards, privately owned by the Armour company through- thé Fowler Pack- ing Company, & subsldiary of the local Armour plant, in: purchasing hogs privately, has given éxelusive rights to selected shippers who deal with i the Mistletoe yards, “excluding all ather farmers, %roduceru or farmers' co-operative associations.” The petition asserts that prices are fixed arbitrarily at the Mistletoe vards; that there are no competitive bids, and “that the system of direct shipments assures packers supplies of hogs that enables them to manipu- late and depress market prices below tllell' normal level, thereby causing 'y losses to all producers.™ Ar-fllr Company Denies. The Armour company, in a reply to the charges, asserts its right to operate private yards and has denled that the intent or effect of such oper- Armour plant here. The arrangement ‘was purely a voluntary one on the part of shippers, the reply stated, and cited the fact that such shippers were satisfled as evidence of the fairness of the practice. ‘The motive back of the charges is the desire of the various exchanges to collect commissions on direct sales from farmers, in the view of the pack- ers. Shippers saved $110,000 in com- missions during the last year. ac- cording to the Armour statement. Failare to “Pfll Up” Hogs roducers’ statement set forth :n u-e general stockyards here, and not practiced at the Mistletoe yards, caused a loss to the producer more than twice as great as any saving on commission fees. The Armour conten- tion is that hog prices at Mistletoe yards “are higher than at any com- parable mar REPUBLICAN LANDSLIDE FOR HAWAIIAN DELEGATE Harry A. Baldwin Carries All But One Precinct—McCandless Defeated by Two to One. <HONOLULU, March 26.—Harry A. wi Hawaii's new dele- according s late Saturday n||'h o m ona the ninty-nine pre- cincts in the territory. He defeated Lincoln L. M less, democrat, the [cC: next highest candidate by more. than two to one. Baldwin's vote on the basis of un- official and incomplete returns from yes- terday’s election was 14,112. McCand- t, 3 ly precinct mllfln‘ is Nl,fl.n‘ul ‘which has only e\‘hleen ‘voters. Mary E Alflurley anotlur inde- p;ndant mdldne received 114 votes r. Baldwin, who lives in Paia, Maui, is knaw‘n over the. islands as tended Oahu College here, Phlllipl Andorver Academy at And- over and the uetts Institute of echnology. He {8 a_member,.of the %-umpomx jon and Boaemian Clubs of Francisco. McCandless, the principal de- Mr,- f!ll.ed candidzte, lives in Honolulu. as born in Indiana, Pa. 46 KILLED EVERY HOUR. B!thnehudl’n-. BERLIN, March 26.—Forty-six men were killed I.nd 109 wounded on the erman side dllrl!l‘ every hour the world war was ing, xtx:ordmz to +an estimate arrlved at by Gen. von Altrock, a statistician. Th]l es(lmlto w:’! made from a study of official rec- T ny's losses fotaled in dea D T e g T Men to the number of 1.000.000 % ert under arms during the course of the ‘whom about one in seven xm:d in battle. b officers’ corps lost 53,00 Killed ‘ana. 96,000 “wotnded. " German soldier and civillan losses thro h death, caused dl:ectly or indirectly the war, are estimated by Gen. von Altrock at 12.000.0 Paint-Up Wlth Becker —Paints and your Clean.: Week efforts % oth something. au.my brands Finish | for ev Priced Mn«ut-.g Becker Paint and Glass Co., CHAS. l m’ EIN, 1339 W Ry nne me West 67 . 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