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Show i FOOD DROPS AS PROBEPROCEEDS WASHINGTON. Aug. 14-Indications of the real punch behind the govern-1 govern-1 uienl s campaign to reduce the high cost of. living were given today in un- miatakable fashion to many cities 1 W hile Attorney lieneral Palmer was j telling the senate agricultural committee com-mittee that he intended to prosecute I eVi rj dealer guilty of eiiinq at higher prices than those listed by the fair io H e committees of each county, word I I came from Chicago, St Louis and Birmingham of .--.i.ures of great quantities quan-tities of foodstuffs by federal olflcials ! who recently were instructed to pro-I pro-I j ceed under the i"r'l control act to stop ; hoarding In Chicago 1,282 tubs of j butter worth $50,000, was seised; in i St Louis 284. ISO pounds of coffee, i which has been showing rapid advan .,ces in price, and in Birmingham 100 barrels of sugar. Mr. Palmer told the senate committee commit-tee that he believed the great majority of fanners and food dealers were not profiteering bur th;it the suggested amendment to the food control act extending ex-tending it to clothing and providing a criminal penalty of $5,000 fine or two years" imprisonment or both, was necessary to make effective the cam paign against those who are dishonest ly gouging the public. There was 0 m division ol opinion among the senators - as to the advisability of the lcgisla-" lcgisla-" tlon. several declaring that the amend - ment gave the department of Justice , loo drastic powers over commerce, I while others questioned the constitu-, constitu-, lionality of extending the life of the l food control act beyond the declara j lion of peace, as has been suggested. Given this penalty Wo can break the backbone of this profiteering Ir sixty days," Mr. Palmer retortec I crisply, "and then you wont have tc worry about constitutionality '' oo The young lady across the way say? she bet a rrsting quietly at home this I summer and has gone In for very few 'social am nitica. |