The evening world. Newspaper, August 13, 1919, Page 2

authorities \will work powers of the food ad- against the retailers. will investigate the ers, producers, mai prosecute hoard- i i 7 £ = #58 g HRM F000 FO WL BE ON Public Schools of Greater City Will Be Used as Sales AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES jtant District Attorneys has notified Dis- Stations. that he will ived this notification term of dtd Po GENERAL MARKET DOWN | “prosecute violators, Mr. Swann, as $3.95 a box, and will start six large | % Large Employers Can Order Carload Lots — 1,893,600 Pounds of Bacon for Here. ithrough the populous sections of Man- worked out with|#umers from the gouging of the idents, On Friday | Profiteers and food hoarders. first trial of direct retailing |than C. Day promises to have part over routes, to be an-|0f the surplus army foods on sale in army truckloads |the schools of the Greater City next to Capt. J. H. Rebbelethwaite, sone surplug property |Same grades and brands handled by saoncenpay gy bedper edad AS Capt. Stewart reported that through h "By P. Q. Foy (Apecial Pood Expert of The Prening World.) The campaign started by The Evening World fot fair food prices has flow reached the climax. and not only the one hundred millions of American consumers are interested, but the President and the legislative bodies of the States and Nation as well, while the entire prosecuting and investigating machinery of the Unl- ted States is in motion to an extent never before known to save the con- City Market Commidsioner Jona- Monday morning. Capt. A. A. Stew- art, Zone Surplus Property Officer, has succeeded in getting a generous reduction in the prices of canned woods and cereais which will permit these army foods to be sold in com- petition with or cheaper than the the chain stores. iE EMPLOYERS CAN GET CARLOAD LOTS. an arrangement with Dr. Day, large rations or mercantile housos em- over 100 persons can purchase assorted foods in carload lots, City of New York assuming re- HI : bility for the sale. 2 i H ih Wf ee eee ts i ili i In the last three days loads of surplus foods ha f 5 re ak necticut, The Lieutenant that the al a knocked out. concerns, the William Iselin Company, Electric Company and Mor- Dock Company, have already carload orders for their em- Taeut. Frank A. Deo, in charge ot, subsistence sales ection, said that the /608,000 pounds of smoked hams were | held longer than late December will sold out, and it was doubtful whether | “¢teriorate so rapidly that the food there would be any more fo rheomio’. ‘the refiners, The price scheuled was ————— Teer te re en ee ee zs Bi Fi : esigned: to curb| \The resiguation of William M. Offiey, when he was Governor of | Who was fo Jersey, will be used in the fight food profiteers, Attorney | trict, was accepted to-day, Mr. Offley Thomas F. MoCran announced | wi) take up work outside the govern- He cailed the county prose-| ment service. Temporarily the local s attention to Section 13 of the | office will remain in charge of Joseph Only once since the laws have boon | affa' the statute books has this section ‘used, That was when the State | i# that Mr. Offley will be succeeded by inst those who planned |Frank Burke, an old-time Secret Ser- get the eae of oll plua a difteren-|Yice man under William JJ. Flynn. fial that” had been agreed upon by | M" Burke followed Mr os Prosecutor J. Henry Harrison of| Essex County to-day disclosed the Attorney General's weapon. Immedi- | ately afterward Prosccutor Garvin of Hudson announced that he had called 4 meeting of the twenty-one county Prosecutors for Friday afternoon to OFFLEY QUITS AS CHIEF OF SECRET SERVICE HERE Flynn, Expected to Get Place of Superintendent. seven years Superinten- dent of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice In this dis A. Baker, who has been superintending in the bureau, ‘The general opinion In the bureau Flynn to the Becret Service Department of the Rall- ment'of Justice when the latter becaine chief of that bur: New Anwiat Seeret Service C WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Jon. FE Murphy to-day wes named Assistant Chief of the United States Secret Ser vice by Secretary Glass, filling the vacancy caused by promotion of W, i. Moran to Chi NEWARK TO CUT SOUP PRICE. Mayer Gilt Buys 28,400 Cans Fr phia Firm, Newark is going in the soup busl- ness to cut down the high coat of liv- ing, Mayor Gillen announced to-day that the city had purchased 38,400 cans of assorted soup from a private firm in Philadelphia, which had a ¢ ment order when the armistice was signed and which was cancelled, leav- + Ing. the firm overstocked has he soup W bought at from three to four cents a can and retailed at seven cents, four cents under the prevailing prices. fasdiceacs NES German 5% te Quit, but Spies Will Work, BERLIN, Aug. 13 (Associated Will be dissolved Oct. 1, The Intelli- @ gence Service, however, will continue under direction of the Foreign Ottice, Frank Burke, Long Associate of | 8° road Administration and then went with Mr. Flynn as assistant in the | Bureau of Investigation of the Depart- Press).—The German General Staff | - * R NEW YORK SALE MONDAY 096-460-0600 fone amounted to 1,898,600 pounds packed in tins, three squares of bacun weighing twelve pounds to a tin, The Government has 0,000 boxes of wine- sap apples in standard bushel boxe These apples cost the Government from $4.75 to $5.50 a box, and contain from 120 to 200 apples to a package. | Capt. Stewart has arranged to sell! thexe apples direct 'to consumers at | ¢ noe army trucks early Friday morning | > battan, Brooklyn and Jetsey City. | Here is an opportunity for families to| @ obtain fancy table apples at less thar one-half the cost of the same grade of | fruit in the stores or street corner stands. | Regarding the 3,000,000 pounds of roasting chickens stored, the Cay toin sald that he has received no of- ficial orders for their disposition. Theso chickens, ho said, were highly perishable and in his opinion could not be successfully handled by the City, but would better be distributed through trade channels. POULTRY AND BEEF DISTRIBU- TION DIFFICULT, ‘The Evening World pointed out to Secretary of War Baker that this poultry ahould be distributed through trade houses, the Government fixing { ita cost, and then adding about 1 cent a pound for distribution, while the | ‘ Fetallers should not charge the con- samers over 4 of 6 cents a pound over the cost to themselves, In this way it would only require twenty- four hours to distribute these roast- ing chickens from the warehouse to the families and hotels, where those chickens are used. It ts a mistake to hoid those chickens away from the | 4 consumers any longer, as the new crop is coming forward rapidly, and | 4 the longer. the Government holds them the lower will be the price that hoy will get for them. ‘Tho 60,000,000 pounds of frozen aides of beet held by the Government | seeee Will also. have to be distributed as only experienced butchers can cut arly geen ania "FAR RETAIL PRICE FOR FOOD AND WHAT WAS CHARGED TO-DAY IN VARIOUS PARTS OF CITY Warehouse at once would force down) Fair Margins Are Based on Yesterday's W hole- sale Cost — Quotations Compiled After Investigation by The Evening World. HE following table shows the fair retail margins prepared by Food DANGER IN FORCING OUT FOOD TOO QUICKLY. With this Nation rapidly gravitat- ing toward food control, it might be well to remind those interested that @ reduction in prices must go hand- in-hand with constructive conserva- tion; to force these foods out of duction, Then Europe would be at- tracted by the low cost and take enough to shorten our supply, and thus in a-few months the prices might be higher than they are now. We have fully 8,000,000 cases of ese ik’) DDOVE PODOPP POOP OOO DIOL HOW in the United States, These eggs if I Administrator Arthur Williams, a fair retail price the dealers should be charging, based on yesterday's wholesale prices, and the value would be greatly impaired or! prices charged to-day in lower and middle Manhattan, Harlem, the Bronx | Dartly, wasted. The following ratio and B®&oklyn, reductions of the holdings of would be fair to both the consumers and the mer- chants and would obviate any serious loss that might result from injudicious marketing, A gradual uction of stocks computed on Sept. 1, as follows: September, 10 per cent; October, 15 per cent.; No- vember, 35 per cent.; December, 25 per cent.; January and February, 16) Flour per cent. By this method each mei chant would know how many. eg; he would have to move each month and would make hi /the holdings of creamery butter much longer than for eggs, the for- mer season extending over to the middle of next Ma: ‘The market on fresh eggs declined 2 cents @ dozen yesterday and closed panicky. The merchants who atored eKge against the advice of The Eve- ning World are now realizing) thelr ition, European demand cannot develop’ into a guificient volume. to save the situation, while the extraor- dinarily ‘ge crop of laying hens in the country insures an early win- ter producticn of eggs,< while the fi receipts at the moment are in excess of the consumptive demand, | Loin Chops jand instead of eggs coming out of Shoulder Chops | storage in August they are going in, Rib © A similar condition has never before | Rib Chops... been experienced, and if the banks | Stew Lamb. . and warehouses that furnish money | Ch jfor this form of gambling could be made to realise this fact, a recurrence might be avoided. Duke of Aosta Coming to U, 8, ROME, Aug. 13.--The Duke of Aosta, eldest cousin of King Victor Emmanuel and commander of the i Ito-day, probably will soon make a visit to the United States, From the United States he will Ko to China and Japan. rikers Riot PEORIA, Il, curred at th Peoria, 11, Aug. 13,—Rioting oc- nt of the Keysto mpany, to-day, whon With depagy aheritts Mt fe tnan a Box ts were exchan, Was said two strik . © wounded, 1 Strike BRUSSELS, Aug. 13.—A sp ‘ongress resolved to-day to c I atrike in Belgium at midnight Sun- day if the Government does not respond to labor's final appeal, bane al Cabqa Minister to U. 5. im Parts, PARIS, Aug. 13.—Carlos M, Cospe- des, Cuban Minfter to the United States, has arri remain bh Veral day@ before going to Italy Girl Namen New § The Maine type ac n Inland 6 oner R. R, Go' christened the ship. pasha RO King Invests Lloyd George, LONDO. Aug. 13 (Assoctated Press), se last night invested David ore, the Premier, with (ne Order of Merit at Buckingham Palace. |the House The awarding of the honor to the iN i Mains Pe Asked Asked today in to-day tm Agted, Axted Axed Upper to-day in to-day in ron. Past Chops (oad ork CI (end)... Pork Chops (middle). nd it | Palmer Sends Plea to Senate Committee—McKellar As- sails Packers. WASHINGTON, sion of the Food Control Act to cover clothing and other necessities and addition of heavy penalties for prof- in Paris, He wii) | iteering were asked by Attorney Gen- eral Palmer in a@ letter to Chairman Gronna of the Senate Agri- cultural Committee, Palmer explained that these amend- was launched successfully to-day at the shipyards of the Cartaret Ferry Cor- |Poration in the meadows at Linoleum. | ments would be “extremely helpful in Ville, Staten Island, Milas Mattie Govin the department's efforts to reduce the cost of living.” The Attorney General made a simi- lar request of Chairman Haugen of The prices charged to-day were compiled after an invesii- rage Le The Kve- | gation by The Evenin, Id, w.lin'Now York, New Jersey and Con: (ning World, “would be fair to[ ee woe hats Striking Actors’ Flying Squadron Spreading Smiles and Propaganda 2 ery Pa Re 5 A Py W015 NOI I2AIP 10-15 16 S217 M15 ane Wi, 7 15.20 11520 S21 S18 20.21 1192.30 “59-166 “63.65 43.48 39243 65.78 ‘58-75 “55.65 alos 04/,.05 "03.05 (0654.07 “W012 (04-06 25.28 (28.32 2834 24.28 3538 3a ne 20-25 2a 30.33 20-30 4045 | 3445 4043 3445 Was 3844 4244 3848 ¢ ALA M42 eM 32.35 “40.42 35.39 30-42 K “38-40 35038 336.42 r M648 ALMA MMB : 36-38 35.37 [32.36 > ee 0A 0.25 2230 ‘2 25.28 20-24 2 W-45 MD 42-44 30-.32 3244 32.34 ‘52-60 ‘50033 ” 30-45 ALAS 45.50 14548 45.48 “ayia ctr, §, CONTROL OF CLOTHING Lae UNDER THE FOOD ACT URGED IN WAR ON COST OF LIVING draft of the amendments he desires. One amendment adds “wearing ap- parel, and the containers in which foods, feede and fertilizers are sold” to the lst of articles described as necessaries by the Food Control Act. Penalties of $5,000 or two years im- prisonment, or both, are added to the original act. our effort to reduce the high cost of living if these amendments to the food control act can be promptly passed,” the Attorpey General wrote. Chairman Gronna plans to call his committee together at once to con- sider the Attorney General's recom- mendations. practically revive the regulatory | powers exercised during the war by the Fuel Administration over fuel wearing apparel and other com- modities, Premier was announced on Aug, & "Air. Walmer sent the committess «| Favorable report on We bill for the . “It will be extremely helpful in The Attorney General seeks to} and the War industries board over |? 8-89 DDOLE-EG DO-9-99 VOD IDTPIPESODOPOO OH DIGI SFHEHOSP HGH PLIES HOSE leasing of Government-owned oil, coal, phosphate and sodium lands for the Purpose of stimulating production was ordered to-day by the Senate Public Lands Committee. The vote was unanimous, Federal regulation of cold storage of food was urged in the Senate to- day by Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, as a certain means of reducing the cost of living and as the only remedy for “the most out- rageous piece of profiteering that can be imagined.” The meat packens were charged by the Tennessee Senator with using cold storage facilities to fix food prices, “It is being used by the packers,” he said, “for the purpose of controll- ing prices.” “Some middleman,” said Mr. Mo- Kellar, “is making 66 2-3 per cent. profit on eggs alone. The only pos- sible way in which these prices can be manipulated ts through the me- PIES OF FOO AT RETAL VARY ~INQURY REVEL Some Higher, Others Lower Than Those Established as “Fair” by Comptroller. An investigation made by Evening World reporters to-day in Manhat- tan, the Bronx and Brooklyn dis- closed two striking facts: ‘That retail grocers and butchers are generally charging prices considerably higher than those established by the Federal Food Administration as fair, By making the rounds of the retail dealers, buying one com- modity in .one neighborhood, others in another poss to buy almost everything men- tioned in the. Federal fist at Pp even lower than’ those quoted as “fair.” accounted for by variations of qual- ity, Federal Administrator Williams stated that the prices in his list were to be considered fair for high class goods and that for inferior goods the retail prices ought to be lower than his Hist. Reporters visited the markets in all ecetions of the elty and found that in some sections a single merchant would lave prices on some items much higher than thore of the Fed- eral list, while on other items his prices were below. Merchants sald this was due to the chatacter of their trade. A Harlem butcher, for in- stance, said: “My price on chuck steak 1s 20 cents a pound, which is 12 cents lower than the Federal list, ‘The reasom is that my customers don't want chuck steak and most of them won't take it at any price.” ‘The same merchant was charging about 10 cents more than the list for above the list on loin chops, shoulder chops, rib chops, bacon and several other items. ‘The commodities hardest to get at or below the prices named as fair are: Sugar, canned. corn, potatoes, onions, bottom round steak, loin chops and shoulder chops. Many of the retail dealers said that the prices listed, by the Food ‘Administrator were not fair, holding that he had neglected to consider items cost other than quoted whole- sale prices, and even on these prices it was said that the Administrator was frequently inisinformed. Both in Brooklyn and in Manhat- tan there were dealers who chal- lenged the Administrator to show them where they could buy at wholesale at prices justifying the re- dium of cold storage, Put a limit on| tail prices that he named. the time in which these goods can be held and the packers will be com- pelled to sell.” Present cold storage practices are a menace to public health, Senator Mc- Kellar declared. The Post Office Department an- nounced to-day that the sale of army food through the parcel post would begin Aug. 18 and end Aug. 20. Additional rules were announced’ as follows: Price lists will be placed in post offices; the amount of the order plus the postage mut be paid in advance; patron may deliver their orders in writing to postmasters or city or rural carriers; orders wil) be filled | in order of receipt; a number of con- sumers may join in a single orde! postmasters will refund advance: shouold there be a shortage in any article; bulky supplies such as flour and rice in bags must be ordered in spoiled or Il’ be replaced. the original containe damaged shipments BELA USED $100,000,000 Henry J. Hauck, a retail butcher, at No, 639 Ninth Avenue, this, after- Williams to buy meats at the whole- ham for from 44 to 45 cents a pound. can't be done. head is almost that much.” in his price quotati Solf Talked of New German BERLIN, Aug. Destroyed Before He Was Driven From Budapest. how a hundred million dollars was 5 to a Budapest despatch to t della Serra, The names of persons in Italy been ovel SHOT DEAD Father Sees Son Kil Accident, PORT WASHINGTON, 18.—Joseph Smith of No. a boat the hammer caught on the rail | the gun went off and the charge went into his heart. | He and his father were out fishing | ana had taken the gun along. SARATOGA RESULTS. FIRST RACE—For fillies claiming; purse $1,381; f Beck (Robinson) Time, 594-5, Brynhild, Drusilla, Jessie. Betsinda, Fair Charity, Thunder Bird, Dame also ran. 4 Documents Showing Expenditures MILAN, Aug. 13.—Documents showing | t | for Bolshevik propaganda throughout Europe was destroyed before Bela Kun and his followers surréndered, according | Corrier to whom money was sent and the sums spent in this country are said to have 00) ON FISHING TRIP. Sailboat Fifth nee. Street, Long Island City, was accl- dentally killed to-day when in pulling a shotgun from a sailboat to a row- d Calls, 1 Lovers’ Lane, 109 (Buxton), sec- Orleans Girl,’ 107 (Nolan), ‘third. brought by t ‘The apparent discrepancy may be| sirloin steak. His prices we > also}, noon defied Food Comptroller Arthur sale prices quoted by him. Mr Hauck bared his books to an Evening World representative and showed that yes- terday he paid 43 cents a pound for smoked ham in Washington Market. Mr. Williams's list showed that the public should be able to buy smoked “Mr, Williams's prices are all wrong,” he said, “I should like him to go with me to Washington Market and show me where I can buy whole- sale at the prices he mentions, It I am making but twelve per cent. profit and my over- The Vice President of one of the largest grocery houses in the city declared Mr, Williams was “way off” W. 8. soit,| former Forelgn Secretary, was being NANAGERS IN RACE TO BOSTON TO HEAD. | OFF ACTORS STRNE (Continued from First Page.) that she was with them heart and soul. President Shea of the International 9 Alliance of, Theatrical and Stage Em- Ployees in his address to th strikers yesterday afternoon tol them not to let the 600,000 sult of the Winter Garden worry them. “It's a bugaboo,” he sald, “and don't let big figures scare you. Do you know what jt would mean if they should win that suit? Jt would cost each member of the Alliance 15 cents to pay it.” Chiengo Actors to Work Pending tn- etion. CHICAGO, Aug. 13.—All theatres in Chicago will continue to operate, and the actors have agreed to work, pend- Ing the result of injunction suite managers. This agree- hed to-day, following # rence with Judge “Walker and nsel for the a "and the Pro- ducing Manager: n. BOLSHEVISTS ADMIT LOSSES IN THE UKRAINE Abandon the City of Vinaitza—Anti- Bolshevists Take Lutsk—Reds Occupy Riga. LONDON, Aug. 13.—The City of Vinaitza, in the Ukraine, 125 miles southwest of Kiev, has been aban- doned by the Bolsheviki, according to a wireless message from Moscow. In Volhynia anti-Bolshevik forces have occupied the rallway centre of Lutsk. theast of Kovel. (Withdrawal of the Bolsheviki from Vinaitza indicates that the Roumanians and anti-Bolsheviki have forced the Bolshevik! to re- tire from the line of the River Dniester in northeastern Bessa- Tabia. BE. 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