The evening world. Newspaper, June 29, 1918, Page 1

Hundreds of Millions Pocketed by Profiteers Partly cloudy to-night and Sunday; warmer Sunday. Cclorlda,, (AVAL | “Circulation Books Open to Al 1918. 14 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. ——————————————————————————_—— —— => : PRISONERS: NEW BATTLE WON BY FRENC “If lt Happens In New York dt’s In The Evening World’’ P __PRICE “Ty w ° = s iN TS. — oes Wet ee Td 4000400 8 Sr DET RY DMSO Se ENO HOLD ASHE CANS BY Bl PACKERS REVEALED | anwap Tonkre HOLDING FRONT IN FRANGE; 2 <-== AGAINST TERRIFIC ATTACKS: IN PRICE GOUGING EXPOSURE ss. ° 2. ALL TRAINED AT CAMP UPTON PF _TALIANS WIN NEAR RHEIMS Shown as Fiscal Year Ends $1,500,000,000 in June. memes Federal Trade Board Pinte GUST 000+) ccc ae ees ome Peting Gets isk He Os DESTROYERS " BATTLE 000 Excess Over Years Before 1915} em to-say cine its voots sae OFF BELGIAN COAST —Huge Increases Also Pocketed |« ear in the warmand Mote] Ey ggg | Four rts Warcraft Have an En lay will open new annuat records.|'/+ 9+ ot With Eleven by Steel Men and Millers. [cabinet members and other heads of == | Lean Ve Jepartments will make to| Mastly Non-Combatanis, Sa) ict ar A ee Why You Pay High Prices for Meat, "2.8.0." 20", Gan. March in snnouncene fy Soa on Pins Shoes Milk and Canned Goods|: bites for oe nll bate packers reaped $140,000,000 during two years | | :| + | | :|Many Surprise Attacks Carried Out :| by French Troops, Says Paris War : | Office—Sharp Conflict on the Toul | } Front on. American Left. [F R: ENCH REPORT} PARIS, June 28—German attempts to recapture position: |taken yesterday by the French south of the Aisne were repulsed just ending—the ‘rs! ear ¢ WASHINGTON, June 29,- Th: Four of the tfve mea 1915 to 1917, Of this amount $121,000.000 wag pn excess over pre-war a National Army division bas after a stubborn battle, the War Office announces. Southwest of profits Rheims there was also sharp fighting. Italian troops 'm that set- Steel milis 100 per cent, profit, One in ‘oop: tor hurled the Germans from advanced positions temporarily occupied. Northwest of Montdidier forty prisoners, including one off | cer, were taken in a raid by American troops. rded, The net income of the 7 was $244,738,908. This wi s taxes were deducted ubled its profits. The average stance cf United Stat after Federal The coppe manded by profit was over 2i.4 per cent., as compared with 11.7 per cent, in not damaged MAJOR-GEN. JOHNSON | i . The International Nickel Company nrade profits in 1916 of ; ; ; —- | Two German attacks for the purpose of retaking French posi- 8 for Amon. , '0% over cent. or $ 0, pases of wa: Twenty-three bituminous coal companies in Pennsylvania 4 r & profit of seventy cents more a ton than in 1916, In gins of profit were tw three times norms The leather indust led its profits four or five usual percentage. Flour mills averaged 38 per cent. profit of their inv Canned milk companies were influenced by the Borden Company and the Helvetia Company. The usual profit was 65 per cent. on in- vestment, The salmon indu © CONGRESS BILL PROVIDES | ee i eeded for the moment in obtaining a foothold in the Italian “ ee ee 7 pyre Ai me a number of surprise attacks were car Evening World—Acro Club Offers $10,000, “e out during the night Northwest of Montdidier American units captured forty pris- oners, of whom one was an officer, In the Forest of Apremont, in ms the Italians er Jed by Ma ea aetna howed a clear profit of 52.8 per cen the Chief of hese are 1 ral Trade Commission re- were WASHINGTON, June 2 ported to the Senate to-day on i » loan than in on of profiteering, showing, WASHINGTON, D. ©, J 9 mere George R. Lunn of New a SS other astounding figures, that four of the big f when the | count Tr ar . World, introduce “ among other a g g i aie 0 y Uy World, introduced In! | orraine, on the left of the Ami in the Toul sector, the Freneh in the years 1915-1917, t rese 4 n i] A » in € 1 . 1 ro @ $140,000,000 itin the war years 1915-1917, of 2 ud ther special t a resolutl riz i! th kewise took prisoners and cap material. The night was cate represented an excess over pre-war prolit aes ‘ MERE at Ene ee Mebt on the rest of the fron The packers, particularly, came in for heavy scoring, but other lines, mba a; Tho | Across the Atia ‘ AA BIG GAINS BY FRENCH AND BRITISH. 7 : fi \ RUby.ciat Mr. Lunn is @ inember of the Committee on Milltary Affairs an he parades sateadn i tha Pearce deli ie . including flour milling and basic industries, were shown to be re: batt i ; Y fh i‘ In the operati ms yesterday the French and British troops made im- bove peace times profi Rasa cevicet | Gen, March d SARE Gey e ce. | ORUnLy AMER SS LAR 188 , Hen: AYR | portant gains on widely separated fronts, vast sums above peace t profits to about $1,258,000,000, a new| Gen. March ¢ at the 0 tereayerd fond | The F wie 4 seer ‘ ! he t yMOR. | French advan A { “However delicate a definition is framed for ‘profiteering, 2|high record, and payments to Allies| cia! reports from the Itallam front | pi Z nae | he F id need below the Aisne on a front of nearly four and i Py ckers have preyed I nle 1 | were approximately 000,000, less | Place the number of Austrians cap- | men ae a E FREIGHTER | a half miles, west of Soissons, between Ambleny and Montgobert. They | report, ‘these packers have f upon the people unconscionab If the $500,000,000 which the | ture 18,000 and a large amount of |$10,099 offered by the Aero are soon to come under further Governmental regulations approved b executive order. : ; ‘Tho report, intended as an exhibit © ited States every month. | Italians and in some places bas been! yo oer inerty Bonda ships to transport troops to} aligh y adva 1 aually bas feured es nese | War roateria), Th' ad the Fluea | Acnacice: will take actaves seth of CREW OF 35 SHED poe gg prisoners and advanced a maximum depth of a mile and ai finance the Allied purchases | has been entirely ored by the 900. The Acro Club prize is in The British on the Lys salient of the Flanders front attacked oa front of three and a half miles and advanced one mile, smashing the 32d Saxon and the 44th Prussian Divisions and taking more than 1. ) priseners n to Plorida, nt Off responsible primarity y |to make things that Government fixation of GET 3 YEARS IN PRISON |: a » n Gea : aye and twenty-two machine guns, T captured L'Epinette Verte Ripe prices on some basic ot ee, Oe, Tae Te ata aoe | and La Becque and reached the Pla er. The Germans were had an evil tendency | \a 4 rea if Florida points, struck # reef off Wateh |{aken utterly b irprise while at nd the British losses Were a great advantage to n pati + ‘0 the bottom. erns. . “ f thrt ¢ waa fa eo . ah Thureday af sritish shot down twenty “The commis pole : Q wn t y know that prof owe Aig Ma control. London admits thé tags the report, “Much of it i f traffic acr from the J twenty-one tons of bombs en | advantages taken of the ne unit 1 eta ued the crew twenty German air the times as evidenced in the war{ed Federal District Court epula Sa vess ened to land on yo planesand | pressure for heavy production. Some| weck of defrauding the Government Rie muase ket r was not +xplained by naval tons of bombs on the Ger- of it is attributable to inordinate | .,., 2 quantities of eloth, : vy My an at the en r Allied airy planes and one cap sreed.and bare feoed fraud.” |sen by Ju ; : ’ th vend Sic Teel at e balloon. Ina raid into Germany, two British and thr: Armour, Swift, Morris and Cudahy | Ha ene Feder ear were reported|Gen, Ma aid. Fine exam a a “af ms «wy tive bal ae ee German air. were designated as the lecaders 2 individue bravery are comin, ge “ae planes were lost, meat profits, The Wilson Comp various Gov. | nondaga profits were large, but not c r-| 000.000, | , able to those of the remainder of the| i ident Alan It. Haw f the big five. nds and other Aero Club of A ‘ae ffors « The profits of M for the fiscal yes 1917, is equal to the company (capital ris and C ding Nove © SENATORS MANE CROWDER " na muni) i FOR LIEUTENANT GENERAL (to be repaid) machines have een made by of BRITISH CASUALTIES sae ee AN ASUNTES CAPTURED BY THE BRITESR Meer catandiog, 1h 10. oases’ P ' § Bit ee M London Now Announces That the Number of ’ 4 Mr in n bu ‘ the other four ngs sb earge | AU OM Kk f Prisoners Taken Yesterday Exceeds 400. rate is from 27 per cen ecogt ol yee flow ONE STEEL MILL MADE 319 PER | Draft Work. CENT. PROFIT, He sy aiyiaes : [BRITISH REPORT] wo ioe sotelsning are the revea-| ,ASIMINGTON, June 2#-—Folion a Geek ois wh ae Et LONDON, dane ae essful attack In Flanders, eat tions concerning some steel mils in stot Re id ates . ; A | ive ‘ : k more than 400 prisoners, the class three—those which start with |s to-day adopted an amendment | king a v 4 ¢ announced da iy llowing is the text of to-day’s ‘War furnaces—and who recently com-|to the Army Bill to make Provost Mar- | j so" ""S ewe GERMAN FIELD GUNS ao (Continued on ee ences weesed Ly Kalas, steraay’s vitae _ seers eee ~ ees owe eee erry eee ene + epee a A EE LO OS