The evening world. Newspaper, November 6, 1919, Page 3

JAIL FOR MILK PROFITEERS TS AIM OF FEDERAL INQUIRY. INTO LATEST PRICE BOOST Secret Hearings Begun to Get Evidence for Criminal! Prosecution, DEALERS ARE DEFIANT. Dr. Copeland Says Raise Will Cost the City Consumers $1,000,000 a Month. Estimating that the increase in the Price of milk will cost New York con- Sumers $1,000,000 this month, Health Commissioner Copeland, as Chairman of the Governor's Fair Milk Price Committée, to-day announced a State and city investigation in co-operation with that already begun by the Gov- ernment. Commissioner Copeland has sent YLoton Horton, President of the Shef- field/Farms Company, an invitation for him and other officers of the com- pany to appear before the Fair Price Committes at its first meeting of investigation at the Gity Hall to-mor- row afternoon, The Federal investigation into milk ‘was started yesterday after announce- ment of increased prices by the Shef- field Farms Company, Inc., and the Clover Farms Company, Inc. and a statement by the Borden Farms and Products Company that it would an- Mounce a raise to-day,or to-morrow, ‘The Federal hearings are with a Siew to sending some one to jall it Possible. Under instructions from (Washihgton they will be secret. If ‘warranted, criminal action will be ftaken either under the Lever Food ontrol Act or the Sherman Act. Henry A. Guiler, Special Assistant United States Attorney, has been famed by Francis P. Garvan, Ass fant Attorney General, to conduct the fnquiry: Mr. Guiler summoned sev- eral milk company officials yesterday to learn why a raise of 2 cents a quart in Grade B milk is warranted. ‘Mr. Guiler said that his investigation ‘will last for weeks, that he will sum- mon every official in any way con- mécted with the milk industry in order te get the facts, and that he then will make an extensive report to the ‘Attorney General. He ts assisted by Special Assistant District Attorneys BR. W. Joyce and R. H. Williamson. The higher prices of the Clover farms Company, which with the Bor- iden and Shoffield Farms concerns, practically controls the New York | milk supply, were made known yes- ferday to patrons through printed forms distributed by drivers. The form reads: “Following prices will be in effect for Our products beginning Nov. 5: Grade B pastourized milk, quart bottles,.....17 Me. Go B pasteurized milk, pint botties....... 10 Grado A Mower pasteurized milk, quart bottles 2f Grado A Homer pasteurized milk, pint bottles 12 Grade A raw milk, quart bottles.....+ Certified milk, quart bottles. Buttermilk, quart bottles . 2-4 quart X cream ... ay quart X Cream . rt XX, cream Fy quart condensed milk The Borden Milk Company, which ‘with the Sheffield Farms Company ‘nd the Clover Farms Company, practically controls the istribution of milk in New York, to-day an- nounced price increases for all grades of milk. ‘The new schedule ts as fol- lows: Loose Milk, pasteurized, per quart.. Gertified Milk, bottled, per quart, Grade A Mils, bottled, per quart,. Grade B Milk, pasteurized, per quart Erxert Heavy Cream, hat pint . Ldght Cream, half pint Battenniik, pottled, per quart Grade Bb Milk, pasteurized, per pint... J. J. Fitzpatrick, sales manager for the Bordch Company, attempted to Justify the increases on the higher} prices paid the farmer and the re- cent wage incre advances given employees, and predicted. that milk would continue to advance in price ‘fas long as labor costs advanced, ‘Asked if he would answer the six questions propounded to milk dis- tributers by Heath Commissioner Copeland, Mr. Fitzpatrick sald that he could answer them and that any officia! of his company could answer} them, but that if Dr, Copeland really wered wanted them an pubpoena the milk distributors, He said that as far as the Federal hear- ing was concerned it had been going ‘on to his knowledge since Septemb: and that there was nothing new connection with it. “There are so many hearings now- days,” ho said, “that officials of milk companies haye not time to properly aitend to thelr business, Yet ‘when they get all through with the hearings and all the testimony is taken public officials are not better equipped to relieve the situation than they were before.” It was sgid at the main offices of tho Clover Farms Company that the expected additional revenues derived under the new price scalé would be almost entirely absorbed by recent ‘wage increases granted employees. ‘An assistant to the General Manager “The npany will’ just about clear the incurred expense which came about following the acceptance hg the drivers and other help of the he should| in| | years ‘old, ident of ShefMfeld’s, FEDERAL CONTROL “OF SUGAR PRICE MAY LAST A YEA Williams Would’ L Limit Pur-’ chases Until Normal Con- ditions Are Restored. Federal control of the price of sugar to consumers and Federal con- trol of the.amount each consumer may buy tn time of shortage will be continued through next year, or until normal conditions are restored, if Ar- thur Williams, Federal Food Admin- istrator, has his way, Mr. Williams advocates not only this extension of the period of con- trol, but also believes that an ar- rangement should be made by which there shall be a firm Federal control on every pound of sugar brought into this country from abroad. At present the Government controls all imports of sugar from Cuba and Porto Rica, | j but does not control the supply from | Venezuela and San Domingo. The fact that some foreign sugar Is uncontrolled, Mr, Williamg says, has made it possible for dealers to juggle with figures and with exporting la- bels to an extent that has enabled them to profiteer in sugar for domes. Ue use, It is possible, Mr, Williams said to- day, that the 1920 crop of raw sugar from Cuba may cost two cents a pound more than this year’s crop. But he added that even if this in- crease jn the price of the raw product | does take effect, it will not be a legit- | imate excuse for the extraordinary increase jn the retail price that some of the biggest “sugar price engineers’ ere trying to create. Mr. Williams made arrangements for a conference between United States District Attorney Caffey and the Clothing and Shoes Sub-Com- mittee of the Fair Price Committee to devise a Nation-wide price stand- ardization, at least in some staple lines. In New York City, Mr. Will- jams guid, there already exists considerable degree of’ standardiza- tion brought about by the advertising competition of merchants, Announcement was made that the new supply of navy food, about $4,000,000 worth, probably will be placed on sale early next week under the supervision of Commissioner of Markets Day at the central distribu- tion station, —_—— PROFESSOR THOMAS. BURIED. Colambia Facalty P aspects to Linguist. a President Nicholas Murray Butler and, members of the faculty of Columbia University filled St. day to pay their last respects for the | late Calvin Thomas of No. 490 Riverside Drive, “professor of German languages | and I'terature at Columbia since 1896, Who died on Tuesday of a disease of the heart. Prof. Thomas, who was sixty-five leaves a widow, Mrs. Mary Sieanor Thomas, and two’ sons, Prof Harold Thomas ‘of Western University and Paul Thomas, connected with the Carnegie Foundation Writer Becomes STAMFORD, Conn., Bride, Nov. 6,—Mra. Nina W. Putnum, @ short story writer, | was married here yesterday to Robert J, Sanderson, District Superintendent of the Southern New England Telephone Company. company’s compromise offer to pro- vent a strike. “We are also mabey the farmer one-half cent more per quart for milk this month,” Health Commissioner Copeland, has “six pertinent questions” to be put, first to Loton Horton, Presl- and afterward to the head of every milk concern which amnounces further raise in mili prices, “with furmer, the November prices to the per hundred as against I 'in *Gctoter, an advance ‘tf r hundred, or approximately fo! nths of cent per quart, what addi- lonal cost on this acqount are the dealersy justified in adding to the pricw of mil for this month? “Docg the price B mean that the quart will pay 17% cents for grade purchaser of @ single 18 cents? If so, how much do you estimate will be the amount of income derived from this one item of a half cont? “How many employees, by classifica tion, are ted by the new salary sehedule nd how much is the actual crease in salaries? ‘With the new schedule of pay for your employees, what additional cost on this account ‘are the dealers justified in adding to the price of milk for this month? “With milk of the advance in, the price of approximate! cents per quart, as I figure it the pe a cost of milk to the citizens of New York during the month of November will be approximately a million dollars, How much in excess of last November’ profits to the di ‘3 Will the estimated promis of this November be “Assuming that the people will en- dure this added burden and will buy an equal amount of milk, deducting the additional pay to the’ farmer ot four-tentha of a cent r quart, and the additional cost of distribution due to the increased employee: at" ‘will be the inereased income. ot he milk distributor over ‘October. by rouson of of this raise in pricet” DILLON SAYS MILK CAN BE SOLD AT -| TO GENTS A NTS A QUART 480,000,000 ts Ana Is Annual Profit, & Former Markets Com- missioner Says, John J. Dillon, former Commia- sioner of Food and Markets and edi- tor of the publication Rural New Yorker, appearing to-day as a wit- |ness in the investigation of the De- partment of Food and Markets, un- de: the Moreland Act, declared that ,milk now selling for from 171-2 to |30 cents a quart could be sold, under |® proper system of distribution, for 10 to 12° cents if bought at the |stores, thus eliminating a yearly profit to milk companies in Greater New York of more than $50,000,000. This statement and the allegation § that the Department of Food and Markets had outlived its usefulness 4nd was steeped in partisanship poll- tes was brought out under direct ex- amination of Mr, Dillon by John. B, Coleman, counsel for George Gordon Battle, appointed by Gov. Smith to sit as a special commissioner in con- ducting the investigation. “A two-cent-a-quart faving on milk,” said former Commissioner Dil- lon, “means a saving of more than $18,000,000 @ year, and a greater sav: ing can be made with a system of dis- tribution which will eliminate han- dling of milk and other foods by six or seven different profit-seeking mid- diemen, “Despite assertions to the contrary, the farmer is getting one cent a quart |less for his milk’ this year than he did last year and the dealer is making a Sreater profit than he ever did be- fore. “For instance,” Mr. Dillon con- tinued, “the farmer is paid 7 1-2 cents for a quart of milk. Under the pres- ent prices, the dealer has 10 cons a quart as a working margin for his milk. Freight and pasteurizing cost him 1 cent a quart, Therefore, he gets a profit of 9 cents for taking the milk from the depot and delivering it to the door of the consumer for 17 1- cents a quart for grade B milk. “If the Department of Food and Markets would get together with the people and the State legislature, as well as local civic boaies, and | Work out some tangible method for milk distribution, there is no reason why milk caunot ‘be sold in the stores at a price of 10 cents a quart for loose | milk and 12 cents a quart for bottled {milk. Can you imagine the profit when there is more than 2,000,000 quarts of bottled milk sold daily in th etty aloné? Here is @ situation where the De- partnent of Food and Markets, which has outlived its usefulness and which was created for the express | purpose of destroying, the very kind of work the farmers were then per- forming toward adequate systems of food distribution, should step in and do something. » trouble les in the fact, how- ever, Dillon went on, “that the Department of Foods and Markets, as well as the Bureau of Agriculture of | that department, is so steeped in poli- tics as to be virtually useless.” “The one remedy is elimination of the Department of Food and Markets and all kindred bureaus, and re- tablishment of a Department of Food and Markets and a Department lof Agriculture under single-headed | commissions, chosen by the Governor or elected by the people; individual commissioners for both the depart- ments, who can rule their depart- ments without political interference | and who are responsible to the Gov- | ernor and the people, and who can be removed only by the Governor and the people.” | Other witnesses who will take the stand at the hearing, which now has taken on the aspect of securing mate- rial for remedial suggestions on legis- lation with a view to attaining | greater efficiency from the Markets Dpartment, include: Charles A, Weit- ing, former Commissioner of the De- partment of Agriculture for two terms; Former Commissioner of Agri- culture Calvin J. Huson, Dr. V. A. Moore, of Cornell University, con- |siered an expert on tuberculosis, and |T. C. Hunter, an attorney, who | prosecuted food violation cases for the Attorney General. Calvin J. Huson, former Commis- sioner of Agriculture, testified that politics and the multiplicity of bu- reaus had demoralized workers in the Department of Foods and Markets and the Bureau of Agriculture, ———>_—_. $10,000 TO GIRL SCOUTS. | John D, Rockefeller J riman and Others Ald Drive, John D. Rockefeller Jr. materially aided the Girl Scout drive by pledging a gift of $2,500 yesterday toward the Manhattan city quota of $100,000 in the and Nation-wide campaign for » members and funds. 4 ution of offe d by Mr. Rockefeller 0 upon the entire quota of $100,000 being raised in Manhattan by Armis- when the drive cle —. H. Harriman yesterday sent eck for $2,000, and checks for $1,000 were received’ from Mortimer Le Schiff, Nicholas Brady and Arthur O. Choate. Ee LEARN ENGLISH FIRST. Arthur Forman, of No, 367 Sackman Street was fined $5 and advised to learn English before he undertook to earn his living by driving a truck by Magistrate’ Brown in Williamsburg Plaza court to-day Forman's excuse for driving through & street where children were playing wa sthat he could not read the sign "School Street, Closed for Traffic, —————-_—— German Mark Down to Less Thea Three Cent BERLIN, Noy. 6.—The German mark reached its lowest level yesterday when quotations ran down to 36.50 marks to the dollar. Additional decrease in the value of the mark will cause au ¢co- ie foared, ' ‘ifth Avenue HE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, Gets Peep At Women’s Pantaloons, — atest sh in Paris (SC ROW HM ORION HCHO HOH KENTA HHH HHH CHT i ‘| Bg EER Te be i } —— |New York Will Be Wearing Them Soon, Predicts Miss Sheer. Here we have, ladies, what you all will be wearing before long to re tions, on the street—in fact, every- where—if tho prediction of a New . ‘ baths A-SHEER. NT RAL NewS | SSRIS HR LH TH WOCTRRNOK MUI OH CH HMRC! York young woman, Miss A. Sheer, comes true, These are the celebrated pantaloons Miss Sheer brought with her from Paris and wore down the |gangplank to the officials and: the delight of the ship | news reporters. |, Miss Sheer walked out with them | t jay and caused a flurry in Fifth “lAvenue. They are the latest Pari- sian craze, Miss Sheer said, and are worn to the smartest functions. = WETS OPEN FIGHT ON WAR TIME ACT Distillers ers Enter Arguments Be- fore Judge Hand. Brewers, distillers, wholesalers and opened thelr legal against War Time prohibition to-day. retailors | Three cases involving three different phases of the before Federal Judge Learned Hand, who announced this morning that he would hold court in session until bsix o'clock to-night in order to enable the battery of counsel to complete their arguments. The first case was the application jof Dreyfus, Blum and Co, for an in- Junction preventing U.S, agents from interfering with the removal of $50,- 000 worth of distilled Hquors now in bonded warehou here, Former Judge Walter C. Noyes represented the complainants, Former Judge Noyes asserted that the Wartime Prohibition Law may have been constitutional when adopt- ed, but he raised the question as to its constitutionality because of changed conditions at the time when Collector Edwards refused his clients permission to withdraw their liquors from pond, After quoting Supreme Court de- cisions indicating the Federal District Court possessed jurisdiction to hear and pass upon the controversy, liquor question were Former Judge Noyes discussed tive | propositions, which elementary, Judge Hand agrecd to the first proposition which was that the Gov he described as ernment possessed no general policc power to prohibit the sale of in- toxicants because that is a police power reserved to the States, Judge Noyes further contended thata “law may be constitutional in November, 1918, because of the ing state of war then, may be of its constitutional authority change of conditions in 1919," The thon existing war necessity, Judge Noyes argued, has been satis- fied by ‘the demobilization of the army and the navy “Congress, itself,” determine the constitutionality of its own acts, It cannot pull itself up by | Js own boot straps “President Wilson has proc Jaimed | the war at an end, therefore th emergency is ended too, and th of this law as a Constituti ment should fall and the ¢ xist- shorn by a November, he said, “cannot | That the rohit w is a direct contravention 18th Amendment to tho Constitution w also argued by Judge Noyes. He d that the 18th Amendment gave uor interest one | yoar In ¢ that th |to dispose of their stocks; rs tiine does not expire until Jan uary, 1920, and that the purpose of ‘that amendment had been contra- | vened by the enactment of the Vol- stead Law W, 1, Frierson, Assistant Att(Oncy Senne U.S. COURT Brewers .and Retail- | battle ‘a! are. ‘There are $70,000,000 spirits In bond awaiting the determination of this question | General, who appeared for the Ge ernment, declared that demobiliza- tion had not been completed, as wtreama of troops weré still coming rom France. ‘The War Emerg- any “he eaid, wae, not.over, and Be cited the general restlessness of tha country in support of this theory. He mentioned the overriding of the Pres- ident's\veto by Congress ag proof that Congress did not regard the emerg- ency as ove <> -- $3,000 BAIL FORFEITED. an Accused of Theft Fa Show in Court. Magistrate Robert C. ‘Ten Byck in Yorkville Court to-day declared forfeit the $3,000 bail bond put up on Oct. 29 »y Samuel Herman, twenty-five, of No. Avenue B, accused of stealing a pocketbook in a woman's talloring es- {ablishment In West 67th Street, Coun- 1 for Herman asked for an adjourn- ment on ground of illness, “1 object.” said Assistant District At- torney O'Shaughnessey, “this Is the third SERMRMARRMERERRS SENAAESRARAKAKERARARKARRABAR 4X REARRRARARRK RXKRKABRAS consternation of | to 1919, FEW DRUG CLERKS. QUT, BUT LEADERS Wy STRIKE TS ON 3,500 to 4,000 Have | Quit Their Posts. With officials of the United Drug Clerks, Local No. $25; asserting that between 3,500 and 4,000 men went out |on strike this morning for increased € pay and recognition of the union, a canvass of drug stores in the finan- clal and theatrical districts to-day showed that virtually no clerks went out on strike and few bad received official notification from the union | that the strike had been called, other than the announcements made in newspapers. John J. Bealin, special agent ‘of the Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, of the New York State Department fot Labor, conferred this afternoon ‘with B. E, Baker of Lafayette, Ind., International Presfdent of the union, and H. M. Sorowitz, President of Local No. 325 of this city with the view of adjusting the situation, The strikers are demanding an eight-hour day and $50 a week for registered pharmacist. Assurance was given to-day by Baker that under no circumstances will the strike deprive the sick or suffering of medicines. He said the | proprietors of more than 100 drug stores already had acceded to the cleks' demands and would be open to fill prescriptions in all parts of the city, Extra pharmacists will be supplied to these stores in case there Is a rush. Mr. Baker also said that no hos- pital, public institution, dispensary or clinig would be affected by the strike, He added ghat assurances to that ef- fect pad been given to Mayor Hylan and Health Commissioner Copeland, According to Mr. Baker, the union Lit 4,000 out of the total of 8 Firth AVENUE {ime the defendant has failed to appear.” FRIDAY Fourteenth Street MOIRE, SATIN FETA RIBBONS, full five inches wide—black, white and an infinite variety of new, lovely shades. See other pages for our four col. Friday, le and special adv. of Apparel for Business Women. STORE OPEN 9 A. M. TO 5 P. M. AEARN West of kifth Avenue TARToF \EASON \\ALE RIBBONS Our Regular .52 It’s a season of ribbons for every kind of trimming and also for the making of innumerable pretty gifts for Christmas. The large assortments in the sale offer a rare opportunity to buy all you need at money saving prices incredibly low. {Union Officials Insist That| employed. He said only about 2,61 would be called out by the atrike. It was his opinion thaf “the trouble could be settied in ten minutes if the employers would consent to recogni- tion of the union.” “About 5 per cent. of the drug clerks,” added Baker, “belong to the LW. W. They have been vociferous apd active for several weeks in trying to promote the strike, They met in East Fourth Street Tuesday night. But we have succeeded in wiping out their influence.” As far as could be learned this ‘morning the only stores affected by | the strike were the independent phar- macies on the east side, where owners, in the absence of their clerks, were filling prescriptions as rapidly as pos- sible, It was said at the office of George M. Gales, President of the Louls K. Liggett Company, which operates seventy-five drug stores in this city, that with sixteen stores heard from, but six clerks walked out on strike. The company’s estimate was that not more than forty clerks would walk out to-day. A survey of the situation in Brook- lyn showed that few of the drug stores had been seriously affected. HEDGES ASKS TO RETURN 4TH AND MADISON LINE Says Impossible to Pay the Rental as Line Does Not Pay Oper- ating Expenses, Job B. Hedges, Receiver for the New York Rallways Company, to-day pre- sented a petition to Federal Judge Mayer asking permission to cut off the Fourth and Madison Avenue Line from the sys- tem and return that line to its owners, which are the Vanderbilt interests, penses afhoe the re- celvership and that it had been impos- sible to pay the rental, which amounts to $400,000 a year, The 86th Street cross-town line owned by the Fourth and Madison line owners and will be turned back at the samo time if Judge Mayer grants the petition, which he was expected to do this afternoon, One of Mayor Hylan’s bus Lines hi been running parallel to the 86th Street line, and it was sald Hedges might try | to stop the bus line by litigation, JEWELRY, WATCHES AND SILVERWARE - NOTED FOR QUALITY AND TAF- t the property back. "TIFFANY & CO. & 37 STREET SATURDAY ° F. H. 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