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4 THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, PACKERS ACCUSED OF PLAN TO RAISE PRICES FOR ARMY Heney Reads Letters to Back | : Profiteering Charge—Con- | « gress Asked to Open Files. | ¢ ONICAGO, Feb, 28 -Purther inti-! mations of pr ering on army tracts were given by Fra 1 Wee) fd ney, Special Government Connsel, at the Federal ‘Trade Corimission's packing investigation here to Heney read a letter said to have been written by fb. A. Cudah 6, 1918, to Cudahy and Cor Omaha branch manager, directing mpany's him to raise the price, on “cheek”! ‘beef from 12% cents to I cents be- Pen ee ee ee ee cause there ware “prospects the Gov Wom AR a ernment would allow it to t canned | 944040000004 090464-4-00-0606-16690000 for the army.” — ~ _ - —— - Se ee Ba ee eee Se ene mh ta a aM OM MIAN 7’ F TRAING ARMY AUTO TRUCK TRAIN PASSING THROUGH CITY AND ITS COMMANDANT See ee oe 7 Det corte soy ome “= 980 OF WOODEN SHIPS INN FEINERS ACCUSED occur Tek shou tgn, PROMISED IN 3 MONTHS OF BURKING U. S, FLAGS wlahy Compaby. Other levers #tat aes ed that the packars had been amured | Total of 1,330,000 rons Will Be | Reports of Lawlessness in Ireland army contracts “would be made si. ched by : ild- Increase—Secretary to Stand ciently attractive to produce the entire Launched by June 1, Build by C ti A End amount needed without risk to them- ers Predict. 'y Convention to End. selves,” sated Hedey. | wastinaron 28—Netween| LONDON, Feb. 2&—The newspapers > print r Apportionment of Government or-|the ist of March and the let of June | COMB Uo ders among the “Big Five” packers! this yedr’mote than (80 weoden dips, | Of Ian following a conference with Col. Knis | aggrexatine 1,330,000 tons, will be | Oy Sins, kern, army buyer, was charged by | launched ar Heney. Competition was wiper! out,| ood ship bp Heney declared. day ume on a constant Honey to-day returned to time at- [stream of wooden veunels will pli tack on W. F. Priebe, an officka! in fee rr the Hoover Food Administration, by |")! attempting to show that Priehe al- lowed the dig packers to ship their poultry holdings to branch storage ship, the largest wooden ship ever houses. Independents without such wax of 6,000 tons, 410 fect tn facilities were forced to put their |length and 48 fect beam, whip waw frozen poultry on the market, teay- | Put out five months after the keel was ine the alleged food combine i con- | '*'4 “trol, according to Henoy foan shipyards announced here to-| these acta, Among the from rowing America’s firat of the programme emday by the National mpany at Orange, Ce rkanized eo invention. Tt ter enithy famiite: Ireland ha eacup. the disorders. watson, Soot soma | HEMPSTEAD MAKES i and epeedy legisiation to iny bare mcidential file of the Kreat reat STATE TROOPS AND POLICE = ewer ROUND UP DETROIT THUGS | packers and disclose what Govern- iil ' e ; ee gots cocina cane oe tne| Preparations Begin at Camp Mills ——_—— meat industry was asked of Con- to Care for Thousands Armed Men in Autos Mi gress to-day by the Federal Trade of Them. sot Si ecls 01 Comeniesion, sale Arrests of Suspects on On recommendation of Francis J Preparations are being made at Heney, special counsel conducting the The mild weather has been of great assistance to the Quartermaster’a De partment, whose men are cleaning and| hunt ever undertuken repairing the tents, most of which | Nearly 19) auspects were were frozen wolidly to the ground. As & result ‘taking further papers and ilso from using thowe giready eelzed by nin agents, the commission laid the facts before Congress and asked for ation Charging that Henry Veeder, poun- sel for the packers, ‘is ell the cui todian of many papers whidh bay deen used as ingtrumentalities in t should be connected with those at joutlawry. In addition commission of felonies,” Mr. Hemey| sompstoad or Garden City or separate | bUTslars. hold-up asked for a supplement to the espton-| aiynoaay plants installed age law to facilitate the Governmemt’s| we putior Duncan, prominent in inquiry into the Industry hat [Yachting and steeplechasing, has been Specifically Mr, Honey asked that lar iointed Secretary of the Hempstead Congress amend or supplemegt tho | SPA", Espionage Act in that the “decision |" Promi of @ Judge who issues a search war-|County will take an active In * athe welfare of soldi rant shall be oonclusive UpoB the) stationed on Long Island this summer question of the existence of probable or EXPLOSION KILLS CORPORAL sae BILL DRASTIC TO PLOTTERS. House Committee for Thirty-Vene| yo yori, ‘Term for Destroying War Matert WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Drastic powers to deal with German rym- pathigers and ents who destroy or attempt to destroy war supplies or war plants are provided In @ bill ported out favorably by the House ‘ ‘ Judiciary Comanittee to-day racks, to-day, The explosion wan said The bill, Introduced by Representa- | to be due to the presence of a Hive raid py eestooenisy Esucte Fuel Conservation Com John Simmons of Piednton Instantly killed and Lieut. Hanna w Injured and three other officers revetved alight injuries from the explosion of a gren- ade at the school of fire, Schofield Rar {ttee In the Aldermanic ntainda, absolutely do th ace Inevitable repetitic tive Gard. te a substitute for one|in w box supposed to contain dummies, [sect inevitable repetition passed by the Senate last scasion | orn next coldgae which the Attorney General said was = Wo cannot control the inadequate. Robert Carter, Cartoontat, Diew tm woathor nor the output With a fine of $10,000 or thirty elphin, teas etre tiene years imprisonment or both. the bil BLI at one ee Pe punishes the deatruction of arms, am-|,,PIEADPLUHIA, ort provialor Known ear poly as sunimer as have at I munition, foc supplies, or the burn ing ot dynamiting of war {hea machinery. bridges, dock ven died SY n Hospital af. Clty ought t had hamper anithrac ie wn Op 1,716,000,000 Pounds of Flour Saved if each of our 22,000,000 families use this recipe instead of white bread, One loaf saves 11,000,000 pounds; three foaves a week for a year means 1,716, 000,000 pounds saved! Enough to Feed the Entire Allied Army Corn Bread with Rye Flour } exp corn moat 1 teaspoon salt rye flour 2 tablespoons euger } se an 1 5 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 8 tablerpecne shortening Barley four or ont flour may be used Inatend of rye four with equally good repults, OLN dry dienve into bowl; add mike beaten 9; Bye foie] shortening, tir well, Put into greased pan, allow to etand in warm place 20 to 25 minytes and bake in moderate oven 40 to 45 minutes. Our new Red, White and Blue booklet, ‘Best War Time R. eel containt: th recipes for making delicious and wholesome wheat saving jacdg mailed tree me prey ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., Dept. H, 135 William St, New York Co,—Regular dividends of 1 3-4 per cent, to stock of ¥ and common payable April 3 to record Allouez, Mining dend of $1.60,’ payable April 3 to stock of record “Maren 13. orts of sclzures d other acts of Inwles#n Feiners tn Ireland. lice are daid to be unable “oal Sites Co—Régutar ot 4 per cent., dents 1» @ report that Sinn xelae’ Americap flags which two b | wero cartying im a street im Galway and tore and burned them. Henry Duke, Secretary for Ireland, has not resigned and it 1s understood that be intends to stand by the Irish ntion until the end. Jited with the opinion that much he present lawleasgess | + Co.—-Remular quart- ~Year ended Dec. $20,000,000 stock, 7 a share earned in 3916 on $12, Yukon Gola A coon detictl tor year, Total deficit $2,116,523. rted that many ing in the West gone to Dublin to 8 & Elcetric Co.—Regular quarterly dividend of 1 1-2 per cent. preferred stock, stock record Feb. 28 Co.—Quarterly 0 cents a share, payable March k record March: &. Year ended Deo, | id equal to $14.49 a Bt against $12.76 @ share Cte. Int American Sumatra Tobac Camp Mills and at the aviation uids Clean Up” Raid. at Hempstead, L. 1. to care for the} DETROIT, Feb. 2.—-One comanission': eatlicat . who ~ been Pertatied ty poi ensuitloe thousands who will soon arrive there. | auton loaded with, armed i State troopn, crulsed the atrests ate: troit during the night in the bigxeat man | ‘BUILDING ONLY A PART OF U. S, HOUSING PLANS $50,000,000 Fund to Be Drawn On jt" fo Improve Transportation for Shipyard Workers. rop In process In jail to-day There ts an abundance of available} ‘Two hundred State militiam: water at both camps Health officers | with Detroit police in the declare that the sewerage systema| series of nightly campaigns & had orders to “clean up |take in all suspteous charac e kathering places ot Wet st society teaders tn Nassau |UAGES CITY 10 HO TO HOARD living accommodations | Pantcouters) 900,000 TONS OF CO ke anticipation of Presi- | Maren , » by! May j duly Peters Confers With Mayor's conn 000,000 approp mittee on Plans to Store Next Winter's Supply. Harry ‘T.) Peters, Chairman ittor ference with the Mayor's Fuel Ce 48 for housing purpo In a statement of the feet corpora- tor af housin id the expenditure | day to discuss ways for adding » space to accommodate a re jof coal against next winter's b said Peters, asential, else the n of the shipp ment or expansion of transportatio: the purpose authorized instead of new | WILSON STATUE IN FRANCE. | He Erected Jn American Rent | AIN-LES-BAINS, to Preaident vibuting freely |TRAIN AIR PHOTOGRAPHERS. WASHINGTON announced to- ite Chatman Aun. eet sigur Am «ar Am. Aun Amn A. Am. Sm Am Sum, To) Am TA T Am W ry Apacoiila Minit Ath T ASF ult “Ww alilein Leevmw & Ohio Steel Bot a Kapid Tran Laather fle. Gen, Flee Gen) Motor 6a, (ireat Nor. pf “Great Nor. Ore. Lua” Coopme ss Inter, yes Ci fo, belly Sunogtield Kennecutt Lark. steel 1b toe A Cigar terres tweit Ind. Atootiol Rube Ty 8! Stee U8, steel pf Viah Copper Western Mary wil N. ¥. COTTON EXCHANGE. Open, High. Low, Clos + MAS 2 October WAL 29.93 Market closed fii PTOMAINES KILL THIRD. ove, Ne Father In TL, r of Love Lane J, died this after Mother of Cedar a an Mra. John K Cedar Grove, noon from ptomaine poisoning. Her *, Bertha and Emma, died 3 ago. The father is ill but tuughte! two wee able W be around. On Feb. 16 the family ate canned next day all b. 17, one ring bean salad. T taken UL Sunday. € the giris died and the other th next day. The mother had been it ver since. SHIP ON ROCKS IN SOUND, Virwinia-Carolina Vretghter 1 © Goes Awround in Fou. (Special to The Keening World.) STAMFORD, Conn,, Feb, 28.—The Virginia-Carolina freight boat ‘Thetis, bound from Proy © to Norfolk with- out cargo, is a don the end of Tod's Point, Greenwich, The boat went on the rocks in a midnight her course It wa } tho boat that she {s not dama She | London yesterday afternoon, through Lopg Island Sound. Sh riow a crew of fifteen, Capt. © wick of Baltimore is her commander —_ Premier Borden Confers With Me- vy fog nt ® was about two miles off said ab w Robert Ror r, conferred »-day with Secretary McAdoo regard ne the transfer to Canada of British dita granted by n, Canadian Prem or wry Robert conferred also wih Ber eer Raruch, of the War Industries Board » establishme tion between the two Governments in ising WAT Materials here, The Canadian F of greater co-ordina a $100,000 Loms im Went Shore Freight Wreck. ROCHESTER, *N. Y., Feb, 28.—Mer chandise of an ¢ mated value of $100,000 was destroyed this morning | Otyde when West Shi Ast freight tr hed into th CHEROKEE UNSEAWORTHY, OFFICERS HAD WARNED Wives of Victims and Survivors of Navy Tug Tell of Protest— Investigation On. PHILADELPHIA from Washington Rear Commandant of the adelphian Navy | Goff for stealing the sinking of the uding Junior L man clasped the corpus di the bottle of wine, fondly, aa he ques- tloned the complainant Newell's wife Martin, wife of A j ejaculated Jus inh here to-day that the the Cherokee led her of a predicth w screw and @ glass,” replied F giving AUTO HOLD-UP A MYTH: MMIGTIM” UNDER ARREST | eaene Jurors and ape Being Robbed of $980 Said ch of Cushman P81d B68 ag 39 31.06 31.14 |! a 30.97 30.58 39.24 4 87 20.93 | December 25... 29.40 29.70 29.39 29.01 up 19 to 23 poigts. | with them eat nk to the police, 3 $500 short in Vie- Magistrate Conway GALLINGER FOR SUFFRAGE, Other Doubtful Republicans Lenan- aid to-day to I 1 of Gang of Boy to-day hunting t nicht bombarded | kang of boys who |i 52 express train of the branch with @ volley of ston ore of windows were new models emier will leave for Ottawa. | at little more than ONE UP AND ONE DOWN CAUSES JUDGE TO FROWN (?) Bottle of Wine V in Air and Everywhere, but No One There Got a Share. When William Rh Look out for this mi the veteran white hai Attorney Samuel Feldman, During the course of the trial Feld- ‘4 interest “Mr. Dist t Attorne: eye, addressing Assistant Dis Atto: Fitzpnt but Fel: man held it aloof. “Put it down," commanded the. Jus- tlee, smiling broadly “I would, Your Monor, If T had hottle to the Assista Dis t At tors roared. KIDNAPPERS PUT TO DEATH. | Mexican Officers for Abducting Soctety JUAREZ, Fob. 28,—Etght deral ofc uahua Ci ted h ha & memb according to information recetved here The practice of the men was to aeix swirl as she emerg hurry her into efore sho could give an a _ m Lenroot to Run for Senate on Loyalty in tforne, WASHINGTON, F, tive Levir Ler o-day auth Ja Representa. zd his friend ited St Paul Hustir ehardt was placed on trial before Supreme Court Justice a bottle of wine from & Harlem saloon keeper, Rheinehardt said he had no money to employ a lawy 4 jurist told feti—namely auddonty off, with a twinkle rlet ney Fitzpatrick, “Do you think that the People's exhibit is in safe k reached for the boitle of - idman, while the Justice, the ntly after having becn of @ gang 1 Kidnapping young girls, rive away with ber 90t, Republican, of AUTO TRUGK TRAIN GETS RIVERSIDE DRIVE WELCOME Sixty Motor Cars Bringing Supplies for Army From West Passes Through City. Sixty motor treks, comprising Com— panies Band C of the.Fourth Division of the United States Motor Supply Train, ch truck weighing five tons and carrying two tons of supplies for the, army, arrived here this morning in come mand of Lieut, Russell G@. Hay on their way from Buffalo to Baltimore after having been on the road for more than two weeks. It was rough going for the train nearly all the way through snow and mud, One day the trucks made pix miles, and their record travelling was yesterday, when they reached Peekskiih after @ seventy-seven miles’ spurt. The detachment w Accompanied by Col. 4, J, Hornbrook, who joined it at Schenee- tady Troop K of the State police, in com: mand of Léeut, Howard C. Lord, eacort- ed the outfit all the way from Buffalo, and at th Yonkers Une they wer Joined by a motorcycle squad of New York police under Sergt. McLaughlin’ In this order the outfit filed dow! Broadway into Dyckman BStreet and then over to Riverside Drive. The tooting of horns nt the wit dows of apartments along the Drive flying open and the sidewalks were lined with crowds which swell#d as the cavalcade proceeded. The column crossed 724 Street into Broadway and along Broadway to Amy sterdam Avenue to 42d Street and A) the ferry to Jersey City, shes eis ORS, GOMPERS AT WAGE HEARING. Toe Close € efor Packing Hous Employe: CHICAGO, Feb. 28—President Samed! Gompers of the Amertcan Federatiog | of Labor la expected to close the case of Chicago packing house employees when he appears to-day aa a witness before Federal Administrator Satnuel Alschuler. Ho will support employees demanda for an eight-hour day and ins creased wages. a Matrimonfal —— Army Aviator Tak Flight. Sergt. Fred P. Vanmettering of ithe 137th Aero Squadron, now at Garden City, I. 1, recently arrived from Fort, Okla. married at the early mass to-day in St. Francis Church, Ridge- field Park, N. J, Mies Theresa Kelly of that e. Father MacDonald per, forméd the ceremony. The bridegroom scta to leave soon for France, where h 8 brother is awalting him, Gillier Deliciour mr Frerh Roarted roy Want hrok aeltiy le Seeks pete > so at ike wivolecale. prices Ow, Vee rice” within hon” guaran Due “Gililes Coitee Co. 233-299, Warhington Mt. New York, Ret, Park Ul a areday Bt Thane Harvlue sat Best & Co Fifth Avenue at 35th St. Est. BOYS’ CLOTHING Quality Counted So Much as NOW When costs of materials advance, there is always a temptation to lower standards, Costs of materials for boys’ clothing have doubled In many cases tripled—before war costs. = NEVER Has For nearly 40 y ars factured and sold Boys’ Clothes that have been standard as gold. Today is no exception. The same excellent fabrics * The same fine tailoring The same advanced styles, The same big generous values. Just now an assortmer $18.50 is particularly full and interesting. TOP C There is a particular dé upper smartness about ae boys’ top coat—if Best & Co, tor nearly 40 years de Boys’ Clothing’ — spec selling clothes that are right. The top coats that are esting this year — Boxy coats, belted t lrencher—nifty taking coats of comfort that the boys all like. Especially good values are shown for boys from 8 to 16 years at $15.00, $18.50 and $21.50 Pe sess 4ie) English, Scotchy effects, Homespuns and Coverts, 1879, Best & Co. has manu- it of suits at $13.50 and COATS it 1s right. igners of alize in making and more than usually interes cks, English types and