Show Claims Aliens Speculate t Reduce Utah Sugar Stock I f April 24 Why Why sugar is sc scarce scirce was related by an Ogden grocer today who gave as s one of the reasons for the sugar shortage and prevailing prevailIng pre pro high prices the efforts of foreigners from eastern states to buy all available sugar The Tho assertion that persons persona of ot foreign for for- eign descent together with native native- born Americans Americana are arc In the market with almost ted capital to gain control of as much sugar as possible was corroborated by E Ee of the Amalgamated Sugar company Ho He stated that while ho was not prepared to cite any particular Instances of sugar being purchased for tor shipment to the east It was as generally known that this practice had been carried on since last September The Tho local grocer e who would not permit permit permit per per- mit his name to be used in connection with the thc article asserted that certain restaurant keepers keepers' of ot Ogden had bought ht at least worth of sugar sue recently reselling It at large lare-e profit In eastern markets Because of the tho fact that Utah like other states has been on an allotment plan t for r sugar distribution the re re- re moval of ot c quantities of sugar from this state creates a demand for tor sugar that tha cannot be bo filled and as as moro moro more sugar sue is shipped e east eyt y t the local demand becomes become more acute and prices rise he said laid Utah being a sugar sugar manufacturing center ho said has been the center o or of attack for tor eastern sugar sue speculators and It Is because extensive buying campaigns campale have been carried out hero her are suffering from shortage Reports received about Ogden today indicate that several everal foreign born men have been h here re during the pas past few fow months with apparently unlimited capital and have bought ht sugar t wherever over ever It was obtainable shipping It t to eastern markets where It commands command greater reater prices than here One is reported to have hac visited an Ogden grocery grocer store last week when beet sugar sugar was selling at approximately approximate approximate- ly 15 a a. hundred and to have offered for five s sacks ks of sugar sue |