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4 WHOLESALE FOOD DEALERS TO AID PRICE WAR HERE: SALES IN SCHOOLS RESUMED Cae: HEAVY PENALTIES TOCURB PROFITEER URGED IN SENATE Another Producer Rushes to i} U a by i, & ie & oyu i Te |e I i wn ELIA RPBLENS PUES WEDD, (STATELABOR SKS. RAILROADS OF U.S. cnowo on avpany Fo) CLASH OVER TREATY.) AIR RAGE HALTED IAEA) MLA ROT "BE NATONALZED (Continved from First Page.) (Continued from Peace Treaty and League of Nations. ei ai TR ‘ five per cent. divi- }teactive to walkers will: bring pas- Rock.” sai Neongers, Me, Mitten, hes avoceeted. In sarries te, a yen “fabeeao.008 ses ee 99,006 in to 767,758,406 last r. As he inereaved the earnings U roman traf- te raised the wages of saa e year Mant. ease of charge t fares has actual increase of in the x3 Tast passengers were s ual tort! per ‘cant. as 6q 4 Paid transfers 1,7) sere at pet cent. of the Decline to Consumer to Fol- erom h low Profit Margins of Big Merchants, MORE STOCKS ARRIVE, or he an 163 ot . First Page.) make the nation take the treaty “Just /down out of the swirling mis:s to as it came from the White House) Roosevelt Field ftom | Torontu, typewriter with no consideration for) Canada, at 11.84 o'clock. He was the American people than was shown | chuckling be | he climbed out of hia the Germans when they signed at the] “ahip.”"|) % = ‘ point of the bayonet.” j “1 left Albany at 9.85," he said, “and SINCERE, EVEN IF HE. ERAS,|T've been coming at the rate of 138 SAYS FALL. _|talles an hour ever since, but don't “1 1 ert," he continued, “I off sin. [98K me where I've been. I know I corely., 1 ofr through an exoess of | Was going and I was on my way. I patriotism. I err because 1 am an|think I have been over Long Island Amira” for half an hour, hunting a spot ‘The declaration started a wave of bebe looked like anything I cver saw ore: Chair. Roa eet a = getty disabled Reterring to President Wiison’s re- | Veteran E. F., as his naviga~ herrea, twenty questions subs |*". completed Bis trip at 11.80. «He > Br ae A SYRACUSE, Aug. 27.+Natiohaliza+ tion of railroads, telephone aud telex. raph companies and municipal owm+ ership of public utilitics were” im- dorsed by the State Federation of Labor .here to-day. The body also demanded the immediate ratification Of the Peace Treaty and the League : i ot Nations. v4 { «The questions were presented in the report of a special Cominittee on Re- strike agitators here been able to gain results| under the Mitten managem roel bd organized an employees’ we - must never |Souintion. which oot members #8 « chance to help win the pub-|month and it is said he gave them } their dollar more than twice as much as a labor union coyld give for double what, It cast them Tr isation, Raapioyees own jon, yous now given a life insurance po! |. | Sey. for $1,000 a or on Ten Brooklyn Grocers Are Charged With:Selling Sugar at Extortionate Price. ; records: ott wirdl, e sf3| Dineteen years old. He began ear ¥ he oe extont of millions. ‘he ent digability. ty-three re were) ‘of these pdlicies cashed the lant influensa epidemic. ‘The New York Wholesale Grocers’ Association sent a written pledge to y when on Federal Food Administrator Arthur Mr, Mitten laid down the inflexible rules that the wage have firet consideration, but he was five years gotting int where he eould pay a result is on ee are get- al ion; passengers cared for, wage carnors are satis- @ the shareholders are getting e835 i : 5 ‘o Park, 8 time ‘the. 11/000 "oime co to leave trettion problem also expected it hid by the men who transit iten was bern at Brigh » 5 ireh i te fe Gaited Btates wit! in TTT and lived on a ton County, Indians fajiroad career as a tel He was the Ind, until minor positions with the Denver And Rio Grande, 1910 10) Rock Island and Rio Grande Western appointed General Superin- the Denver, Lakewood and | Williams to-day promising whole- hearted oo-operation in the fight againet the high cost of living. ‘The association has formed a com- mittee to go over the entire price list and draw up a list of profit margins which will be submitted to the Food Administration. When the lst has been agreed upon there will be a decline of prices to the consumer, for the retailers have already agreed upon their profit margins, Mr. Williams was elated by the pledge from the ‘wholesalers! It’ts expected to accomplish & great deal in establishing a clear, unconfused set of prices. “The consumer’ will know the wholesale price and the rate of profit to which reputable re- tailers have promised to limit them- eelves, With these facts as a basis housewives will be able to detect in- stantly every attempt to overcharge. “Prices,” said Mr. Williams em:' Phatically, “are falling. ‘The cani- paign js dragging out of the ware- houses the hoarded supplies of specu- lators. Reasonable profits are becom- ing the rule and greedy speculators are being forced out, “Further success will depend a great deal on the consumer. He should buy moderately, not engage hoarding in his own home. And he whould let his dealer know that he appreciates fair treatment and knows when he {s getting It. If the publig| had will be ag earnest in this matter as was in war.the fight will be just as. certainly won.” . SUGAR OVERCHARGING IN BROOKLYN ALLEGED. The teeth of the foodinw were folt again to-day in Brooilyn where As- sistant Federal Distrlot Attorney Buehner issued summonses for ten grocers charged with selling sugar at extortionate prices. Bleven cents a pound Is thp maximum that any oon-| sumer should pay. these grocers, whose pames are not yet made public, charged from twelve to fourteen cents @ pound. in petty | It is alleged that | the Defense of the Big Five Packers. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Amend- ments to the Food Control Act pro- viding penalties for profiteering and bringing viothing and other necessi- ties within the scope of the law, aS DEATAFOROTHERS RETURNS 10 DUTY ir. Fit SER, tee’s aétion was not unanimous and that several members reserved the right to offer amendments and vote against others, Producers feel that the packers “are being jobbed by all this agita- tion and legislation,” I. 0. Thurmond, an ofloer of the Oklahoma, Livestock >roducers’ of \° 4) ? a Agriculture “Cominlttes to-any. |CaPt. Kindley Wrecked Plane ie. said the , inntti “aguately, opprned" to. the “Kenyon , to Keep From ‘Hitting al endric! is - ‘i 4 lation. Of the paskiag’ toductry Crowd. on. Field. ehroush 8 jicenaing system. | “The iy Mote of Ute Hoesinee he ndaea | cee Fs. A) Miatby. Branch houses of the five big pack- | *™ashed his airplane at) Albany. yes- ers through the Southwest, Thnr-|terday at the risk of his own fe to mond said were In competition to buy * cattle. Tt wan frequently ‘the ‘case, | St¥° the lives of a crowd of specta- which started th ag vorrei drrar} tors who swarmed into (he field to frequently because “they did not| Watch him alight, and was cited by ig hg A Qh | Col, Hartney im a-dispaton to Major Fort Worth, Tex. Trust Company, | Gen. Menoher, chief of the Army Air ald the regulation bilis “would hurt | Service, for his bravery and nerve, po A SR A et “reported for duty” at the Mineola In response to questions af menster|#¥iation field headquarters to-day. Kenyon, Davidson conceded that ho | C4Ptr. Kindley has the second best bo Neco a member of the Fort| record of A. BE, F. aviators. , Meo wiry eatock Exchange ten years | There were plasters on his riose and 827.000 In a trust presesuting! 8864 | under both eyes. His coat tulged with ya ia bandages which had been bound Cincinnati Indiets Tem an Moarders of | &°F088 his back and he walked with Food. slight limp and without any percept- CINCINNATI, Aug. 27.—Ten indiet- | ible enthusiasm at the end of each te soe violation of the State | stride. gold storage law, were returned by| “The machine was all smashed Pr Hamilton County Grand Jury to- up,” he said, when reporters, found FF him reporting to Col. Miljer that he and his machine were “out of the flight.” He added that he had been ther lucky.” By order of Col, Milltr he gave a further rather hare acgount ‘of what happened to him, ing,"" he sald, “and it was the first bacon 1 had tasted in fifteen years, ecatine it was tho first time in fife Veen years that | could get what I call really good bacon, It was the best 1 ever ate.” ' The Federal investigators are hay- mitted by him, Senator Fall said ft peste letters from Secretary of was his conolusion from the Preel- | State Hugo of New/York to John McK. dent’s response that Mr. Wilson was bose marr pt ates of the Hotel obsessed with the idea of getting » pocrnsr vf Nike “the shell of @ bee =| Both Capt. Bimontan and Livguts, of Nations” that he could not give|Browh and M'Akid paid ‘that they attention to details of the Treaty or;ad never met worse weather for fly- oven the details of the covenant, add- | !9S than that they encountered com- ing that parts of the Treaty were |'N# down from Albany this morning. construed @ifferently by both the|=ven high in the air there were thin President and Secretary Bansing. cloud banks which made it impossible Senator Kyl defended the Commtt- |‘? follow any course except that of tee'e, ection in, conducting hearings | ‘eed reckoning by the compass, on. the Treaty, declaring the docu- Lieut. Robert Midkiff, flying « ments contained a great mass of de- er arg i 4, landed at Roosevelt tails. regarding the future of Euro- phe ineola, to-day, the fifth to pean boundaries and: peoples that the pos trate trip, Midkiff came to wos sorrte yet eae wtate-| Dieuts, Plumb and Maynard com- witet got taeda relations could | Dleted the round trip at Mineola te be Tesumed:‘oatil, eetification of| est evening and Major Scbforder | finished at Toronto. Pika aie spend poo egiol| The official flying time of the three ee ere oui waid-the Span- |*r™y flyers who have completed the Leeman ooking our|cireuit will not be known until to- ish Consular agents bebeen= ung Out Gay, when reports are recelved trom for American interests t! 7 aoe | intermediate aduizel waliéne. “Chats ently just ud. amen. Aerie w figially ,Plumb's flying time is given Festored pur own Goneals, ca |%# 50 minutes and Schroeder's at But that. the Henator said, seomed/518 minutes. It was belleved May- to have,been overlooked by the baer ahids hada: ba Goan foattae | Whee gent a to establish the) cmoial figures are received as to his League, . A aelioy, ey arrival and departure at Buffalo. Under the Presid: i a " wey whcrmas, Sr STEEL MEN'S UNION, READY FOR STRIKE, Europe and the American people aid net evén know it. “How long are outraged people to ‘be compelled # submit to a dictator- ship if this courtry?™ he demanded. No progress was made by the Foreign Relations Committee durtag the day in fts consideration ‘of the Treaty, none of the members having amendments ready.to,be pressed for action. Senator Fall moved to strike out the entire labor section, providing for gn internationd! labor. :organization, but sald he was not ready‘for a vote ae he desired to discasy the motion at length. ‘ Further action on the amendment agtecd ‘to ‘yestertiy to eliminate American representation on inter- ational commissions also was im- possible because; complete list of the changes it will make necessary in ths text ‘hdd not been’ prepared. (Continued trom First Page.) its subsidiaries. We express no opin- ion concerning any other members of the iron and steel industry. bg ‘As heretofore publelty stated-and repeatod, our corporation and subsid- jaries, although they do not combat labor unions wich. decline to dis- cuss business with them. The cor- poration and subsidiaries are opposed to the ‘closed shop.’ They stand for the ‘open shop,’ which permits one to engage in any line of employment whether one does or does not belong to a labor union, This best promotes SERED BY GARY contruction, headed by Jobn Mitchell, ‘The report was adopted. ~~ The report favors taking over by the government of the railroad syss-_ toms, with adequate remuneration for the present owners and particlpation ‘by the empyoes in the managément of the roads, and the absorptiop‘of the telophone and telegraph systems as bart of the postal department, The convention set itself against the Use of American troops or food. supplies in favor of any one faction in Russia and protested against eco- nomic blockade of any Government trying to get back on its feet after. the war. mination of unemployment. pb; public means it private means. fail wed | Wages, shorter standardization eight-hour day, six days a jroo, aa Saturday half holiday is part of the plan for better conditions, 1 Michael Colleran of New York City told the convention that unless a change was made in the attitude of New York contractors that city is likely to see a repetition of the race riots of Washington and Chicago. Mr. Colleran is President of the New York organization of union plasterers and cement finishers, He scored New York contractors for tht importation breakers from the South. He sald that some fights between whites and blacks have already taken phice. e assailed New York contractors for holding Up reconstruction work in New York, and asked that a special committee from the State Federation be appointed to confer with State committees Javestigating reconstruc. tion proble: and inform them of the true condition of affairs, President Holliind said such o committee would be appointed . occupy a leading and advanced posi« tion among employers. “It will be the object of the cor- poration aid subsidiaries to give such consideration ~to émployees as. ta show them their loyal and effictont service in the past is appreciated and that they may expect tn tho future fair treatment.” Pyblication of the correspondence on the news tickers brought about a sharp slump in shares of United Steet and other industrials on the Stock Fachange. Steel, which closed yester- day at 102 3-8 dropped to 100 3-4, SPECIAL SALH last Saturday of 300 colored strikes . war appointed Assistant Commissioner Day of the Depart- ment of Market’ announced to-day ing much succeas in locating hoarded food and two storage proprietors have jo the net earnings were per cent. until last raraings were theor} ‘the | Superintendent $1,704,427.65 ter than the $30,000,000 capita! issued. " that a at is at. Laugh— $10,000 are of dollarw’ worth Earns KEYSTONE FILM Co. 1459 Broadway, N.Y. C. and iperintendent of the Milwaukee Street Railroad Company. Then he became General Superintendent and General Manager, Vice President and Prosident of the International Rail- Company of Buffalo from which ent to leago to be President he Chicago City Railways Com- In_ 1911 he became President Philadetphia Traction Com- Veader Predicts Strike N Month, CHICAGO, Aut. Railway shop: men of the Chicago district will en | Sunday to discuss President Wile offer of a four-oent wage increase. John Haunders, secretary of the Chica coving reject ident Wilson leents an hour increas | reports collected to-day shops throw Hease Passes WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—A bill corporating the American Legion, an organisation of veterans of the wae passed to-day by the House and went to the Sena’ HERE'S a new newspaper in New York—a new kind of newspaper. been persuaded to séli 3,000 cans of “As 1 came down, he sald, to the field, which isn't really bie enough (it is about 300 by 600 feet), F could ‘To-morrow the committee will re- | the abel employers. welfare of both employees and riean Legion Bill, war, that a reduction of the price of army food to the consumer is a possibility, Tho reduction depends upon an audit baked beans bought three years ago at $1.45 a dozen at 75 cents a dozen, anid two ¢arioads of red beans bought in 17 at cost price, Almost a score see that there was a Fow of tall trees on the right and there was d@ deep crowd parked on the left, I hit for the distribution costs thus far Bas The acgountant in charge will have the figures ready to-morrow, but he Is now assured that prices now charged are covering at least the overhead expense, Tf it Is found that tho overhead is more than covered, the price to the consumer will be re- duced accordingly, ‘The sale of army food in New York was resumed this morning tp fifty-six schools, and it was said that addition- al schools might be opened as distri- ‘sution stations in the course of the day. From every section of the city came reports this morning that the resumption of army food sales was marked by an increasing eagerness of the public to buy. "The opening of the school year is not expected to stop the use of the school buildings as distributing cen- wes for army food, but it will be necessury to arrange the selling hours so as not to Interfere with sohool work, In the Bronx the Bor- ough President plans to obtain well- Ing stations in buildings adjoining the schools wherever it is possible, A barge containing 900,000 pounds of peas, tomatoes and army stores at Port Newark was de- livered at the-Kast Mth Street pier this morning, and a similar load went to the Bronx, Five or six barges aro to be in constant use hereafter, The supply of bacon in the New York schoola at the openin: was about 100,000 pounds. beans from the | Mi this | ntet of other cold storage deale: have been ordered to dispose of some of their surplus supplie: The. criminal phase of the food campaign kept to its Course to-day. |with the milk situation under the serutiny of Federal and State prose- cutors. the middle of the field, As the ma- chine touched the ground, gotn. about forty-five miles an hour, the crowd broke through the police lines and I saw about a thousands persons running toward me, “It was absolutely impossible to |stop the machine, ‘There was only one thing to do, and that was to ‘zoom’ alid leapfrog the crowd and take chances on the other side, But, the machine hadn't power to litt So I turned hor sharply to the right. “There was a bunk there with @ drop of about thirty feet. 1 jumped before the machine struck and $0 wasn't much hurt. It is a good thing for me that I did, When the ship struck the motor burst out and hopped fifteen feet from the wreck, and one piece of it came back and struck me.” rr Major Gen. Menoher, it was sald by 102, (cates), ‘second; | officers at the flying fields to-day, is 05 (Connelly), third, | going to try to have a Distinguished Alr King, Alvort| Service Medal awarded to Capt. Kindley by the War Department— and failing that, to get some equiva- Jent recognition for his act. “Pd like to see that Miss Virginia Vernon,” said Capt. Kindley before he went to change his clothes. “4 really believe she saved my Life.” Just before Capt, Kindley left the field at Mineola Miss Vernon, whose home is in Freeport, ran to the side of his machine and handed hima tiny silver image of St. Anthony, which ne said ho slung about his neck and was wearing when he yanked his machine to destruction in the face of the Al- bany crowd, Te Mobi! jewlves’ Army, Virtually’ al) the 60,000 members of eighty community councils of tional Defenso in New York City are ex- peeted to be mobilized this week into ‘a housewives’ army to assist tho Fed- Seal Food Administrator in. the falr- price campaign. Reports from mem- rs already havo resulted in a num. ber of corrective actions by retailers The organization work(s beli rected by Mrs, Charles C —o—— SARATOGA RESULTS. FIRST RACI—¥For two-yoar-olds, pon St. Allan also SARATOGA ENTRIES, ADOLPH WERNER DIES AT 80 Professor merit sume its.open hearings beginning a schedule which is expected to prelude any consideration: of amendments be- fore the end of, next. week. Necessity for League of Nations reservations “to ‘make plain the American viewpoint” were ursed to- day by Répresentatives Slomp, Vir- ginia; and Echols, West Virginia, who have just returned from ‘Europe. Both aro Republicans. “France apparently accepted the League in. exchange for other more desirable. features of the Peace ‘Treaty. Representative Echols said, “and apparently. bas tittle faith in “In view of the well known atti- tude, as above expressed, the officers of the Corporation respectfully decline to discuss with you, as representa~ tives of a labor union, any maters relating to employees, In doing 80 no personal discourtesy is intended. “tn all decisions and acts of the corporation and subsidiaries pertain- ing’ to employees and employment their interests are of highest import- ance. In wage rates, living and working conditions, conservation of fe and health, care and comfort in times of sickness or old age, and providing facilities for the general welfare and happiness of employees and their families, the corporation and subsidiaries have endeavored to CAMPBELL FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway and 06th et, om Wednesday, ut 11 A. M. the plan.” “AN European countries are seal- ously looking after their interests with no thought of the United States,” Representative Slomp said, “and it is time that we limit our world views and ‘safeguard our own interests, I found generally an indifference to the League of Nations as finally worked out. “The only way for Germany to avoid or ameliorate the conditions of the treaty of peace ‘is through the league. Therefore she favors it while other countries do not, or are at least indifferent to it. My opinion is that reservations preserving the American point of view in every way possible is the only course to pursue,” good en Loft knowledge German Sparta Pence ‘1 - BIRLIN, Monday, Aug. 26 (Aasoci- ated Press),—A clroular letter from the leaders of the Spartacus party says the party opposes the clause in the Peace Treaty relative to labor by, German Raging Against) tloners are asking SOc a pound and the and the quality is no better than these, workmen in thg rebabilitation of deya- Trade Mark Nothing But the Best of Everything for Loft Candy HETHER OR NOT ANY MATERIAL IS moves to enter into the manufacture of ly is determined by the expert and skill of our highly trained analytical chemist. Certified purity insures safety and enjoyment of our famous sweets. f A WORLD eCiall “eeaTER Special for To-morrow, Thursday, Aug, 28 : FROSTED ASSORTED GOODIES—*Assorted Counter Goody’ a me confectioners call them. Others cali them “ and we might mention the fact incidentally that assortment Iv no bet In this wed tind the last word in long-lasting sweets. comprising Pi Buttercuvs, Blossoms, Satinettes, Frult Rock, Frult Tablets, oi districts in France and Belgium, ete. SPECIAL FOR THURSDAY, FOUND BOX we Incidentally it was shown that there pees ‘ : ying the pact was “signed by bour- a ss It comes cut every morning, and ie an active propaganda carried on by Where He T: ob en Bhd ie gi ol oc Wednesday's Attractive Offerings ca “14 4 Se ey is on sale throughout the day and evening. Most of it is pictures. But all the is there, t \- densed into brief | parsgraphes0 y t it ald at a glance, some retailers against army bacon. These dealers have been telling house- wives, it ls sald, that the army bacon is “bad,” and some buyers have tried to get their money back, The army bacon Is said to be perfectly good and wholesome, The anti-army bacon propaganda in the Bronx got mer W. Cubrity, clerk to the Borough President. “T ate some army bacon this morn- blow from Morti- |% Rae Adolph Werner, Professor Emeritus of TETH RAOB—Seling; for three-year-olds and Ci Ot x hil BACB cline: fx tweerear olds end the College of the City of New York, O'S. ‘Miler Witt | died yesterday at his hme, No. 401 West b- End Avenue, at the age of elghty years, ‘The funeral will be private. Borm at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Ger- moms Ten, 5, 1889, Prof, Wernér came 1850, He recelyed the M. ° (vom the Free Academy, now ¢-‘of the City of New York, in . the M, 8, degree tn 1860, A ‘eu om 1867 to 1861, Prof. Werner Was professor of German at the College of the City of New Yours trom 1861 uns als retirement, Fab. 1, 1916, Proce spain, 1? Mord’ 1 ere tLe yuan, 100; Otte Kruter, 1 Ne " Bkhe WAOw— Por ands Gahiather tar, 1103 08 10; two-year-olds; dis 112) TS; Langhette, ia; Lady ood, 112; Mary, 11! eace Pennant NeiAporentiaaiionance claimed, Tach iow Weather "reiting, ens 118; joes not recognize.” The letter states | that the Spartacan organization will not send its laborers to France, HOME MADE FUDGE— Italian Dephties Take Sept. 3. PARIS, Aug. 27.—The Journal says! the peace treaty will come up for discussion in the Italian Chamber of [Deputies on Sept. 3. Figaro says it \is the duty of America to ratify the treaty, because acceptance or modifi- cation of it concerns not only the United States but the whole of Bu- PAe . ‘ Up Treaty Nates Nuts ple and Choc. mallow Ore. OUND x Bazi aM Yet: 4 PotgSSESne ate ‘The specified weight inoludes “he cont NY 0 h = lg POUND BOX —————-—_!