Show FEDERAL PROBE I T TO SEEK CAUSE OF SUGAR COST Attorney Gene General al Palmer Orders Or Or- ders lers Local Representatives es to tp Find Reason for Doubling Doub lin ling ice Pi-ice of Commodity y In a telegram ram from Attorney Ge General etal A A. A Palmer received late yes yesterday CS afternoon by b- Isaac Blair E Evans United Stat States s ic district attorney tho the lo local local lo- lo cal official al was Instructed d to Investigate I gate tho thoroughly the tho cause of ot the thc In Increase increase in- in n- n crease in the price pric of sugar in Utah flak and present the facts to Washington Mr Evans said that previous to the tho receipt of oC the telegram on Monday Monda ho started an nn investigation to determine the facts fets In the casel case se l 1 bell believe eYe the officers of tho the Utah Litah Sugar companies will give us such In In- In formation n as we wc wish said Mr tr Evans Ean last lut night In Iii fact tact the aU attorney mey for tor forone forone torone one of the sugar Companies telephoned my ray office and told me mc his hilS company would give mo me any Information I r needed d Access to Record F Floyd oyd T T. Jackson acting sp special la 1 agent o of the thc department of or Justice w was s bUs busy yesterday c checking Up quantities quan quan- of sugar held in various warehouses ware ware waro- houses and sugar factories in this his section Mr Ir Jackson said aid he hc had been re xe- xe fused access to o certain records by the tho Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company compa He lie said yesterday ho thought there was waS wai C cork con l le moro more sugar ar in storage in this section than was vas generally believed Sn War 01 Shortage De Declaring lar ng- ng the shortage e in sugar suar Is a holdover of or war conditions and re results re- re suIts suIts from Crom wars war's which th brief brieC rei reign n of of ot peace has not sufficed to cure Mr Palmer has written a let letter let let- ter tor to J. J r. r W. W Funk fair tall price cOmmissioner commissioner cOmmis- cOmmis commis commis- stoner of or Utah In which ho says In part Fair price commissioners should hold conferences with jobbers and su sugar sugar su- su gar Jar brokers urging sing the closest sc scrutiny of or their sales to tho the end that the consuming con con- suming public secures a fair share o o a sugar Jobbers and brokers should 1 warned that quick and pro pro pro- will follow tho charging eh an excess profit on sales sates to that this is just as much l i crime under the Lever Lerer law as ai t. t J proC proC- a. a against the tho public In any oth Other r r way This warning warning- should tend to r n hove lieo the situation for the public b bv minimizing the attractiveness of or Ul Ilia tue manufacturing trade for the jobber and n brol brok broker er Cr American refiners have hae been warned arn l that their sugars must be sold direct dired to Jobbers and brokers doing a legitimate leSI mate business and performing a necessary necessary nce sar sary but In no case caso to 10 sp cu- cu and the they a admit the wisdom and uirl justice of this restriction and have e agreed to it Fair price commissioners must see sec that thit this restriction Is observed ob oh- served and report to Washington all Infractions The prevailing pre hi high h prices will help ultimately to bring bring- about p permanent permanent perma perma- rma- rma nent relief relic b by stimulating pro production but the tho department will protect tho the public against speculations and exaction exa tion of or unfair profits at all aU costs Cites Cite Figure Figures compiled b by the tho bureau o oT crop estimates tes show a slight falling alling off ocr in the amount of or sugar sug-ar c extracted from Crom tho the sugar beets In 1919 when compared pound for pound with the crops of preceding years In tho the United States and including the be beet t crop from 80 acres in Ontario SS' SS short tons of oC beets pro produced 11 1 short tons of sugar in 1919 1919 wh whito tons of beets from the same ame sources in 1918 InS gave us tons of oC sugar In 1919 moreover the average prod production production pro pro- d of beets per acre was tons ton while the average a in 1918 HIlS was 1001 tons according to tho tim estimates The 1919 1019 crop sold for J J per cr ton tonof tonof of 2000 pounds as against 10 for the lois 1918 crop and the tho total value of or the two TO crops was and i respectively tho the bureau reports Says Sugar Must l Be Rationed Herald ld Special Ogden May Ia I. I Voluntary I rationing of oC sugar b by the housewife and refusal reCusal of or purchase at the present prices will cause causo sugar sugar prices to drop red Fred G G. Taylor general manager of ot the Anal Amal- Continued on Page Pago 11 Hf R ERS PROBE Of SUGAR SIT SITUATION A TION h d 1 tage b i 1 t 1 21 11 i Sugar SUar c u h facing on no of or the most th-most h most that has ha'S von e. I Ia a ii a. a he ho end rul t sali I l ma m tb rh t u with r si d f he be n e saz b for 1 time the tine civil war las ns loll H be beer r. r n with fl n acute sugar shortage he heN c stat stated that of C o so- so N iI d bc Oil on the for 1 ree rec c at a Jow hower r fn pie c f c being a aSked 1 in lu the thi AS its t. t l p rs havo hao ci 1 tt at nt the th lit local ha market marlot and dolo do- do lo l local supply I I i I |