Show n AR CHIEF I I of Selling Product 0 just Unreasonable i Is Allegation in by U. U US U.S. S. S Officials fES ES Eis of selling sugar at an unreasonable price jt 1 t and g against st the thc Ut Utah Idaho Idaho h-Idaho pany in ill a a. complaint filed of the thc Second judicial burt urt of the United States The action is I lunder inder tl the e Lever Le food control I c I III 1 II i lately tely following the issuance plaint nt a a. warrant was ise is- is be e arrest of Merrill Nibley pr president dent and assistant gen gen- ager ager of the company He before Henry V. V Van Pelt fates commissioner and fur fur- urt ur- ur t nd in the amount of which was sworn to Van Yan Pelt by Floyd T. T Jackie Jackg Jack Jack- agent of ot the dei det deot de- de ie g r ot t i Justice Uce accuses the the- sugar Joi of and to bags baSS Taylor n-Taylor co company DY At at a. a big bJ on May 1 1 tt t t a a. bag on ou May 4 4 oabIe o Pronto Profit Claim f orth la Ln the complaint that cot cost t the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar approximately to pro- pro therefore tho the price at which sold ld to the Taylor Anderson was an unfair unjust and a. a ible lc rate and in consequence by making this sale salo ICeS named violated the tho fed- fed an unreasonable foodstuffs fugar ugar gar company is charged In n nta with violation of the LeIn Le- Le J t In the first two counts th the f. f 1 i Is accused of or knowingly unlawfully and feloniously an unjust and unreasonable charge In handling and deal deal- Ufa ugar r by selling to the or or company bags 0 of or sugar deal I te Ic of a hundred pounds bird count the I same ame accusation on the thc sale o of bags at ato atthe o 0 th the s same mo com company pan In both bOUl t the te e charge is la made that the tho ld Id not cost coat In excess of a Palmer Order Ordered d Action was commenced b by Isaac ass United States district at- at to instructions from Crom fromy y yG General meral A. A Mitchell Palmer tes result lt of ot reports placed before r. r Jackson who ho has been st st week weel Investigating the theIn Jie In the thc price of ot sugar which t to to effect May Ia 1 van vans said yesterday that his Ions on from Mr Palmer were to toem te em in case cas any violation of the theet tl et was found by the of department of ot Justice oft of- of t apparently ha has been a viola viola- I the e- e Jaw said Mr Ir Evans Evan and ande be e evidence c of the tho actual sales Utah Sugar com company pan was wu secured by Mr Jackson u Ii i afternoon I prepared tho the L Claim Short f Utah tah Sugar company compan t that at at present there is an hOrtage of sugar In lii Utah as ers ers erR In the ibo stale have actually P their allotment of or sugar up according to Mr Evans and andRu Ru 1 te ter portion n of or the tho sugar on onI I that w which 18 Is allotted to east cast ff us leaving for fOI 2 state k b bass gs of tho the commodity ft ulan inan tile inc usual demand endeavoring to find out Just ich oh sugar l Is Js needed here to re or of f the lne non normal al demand until comes In ho sala saia N r res s fro from In the thc sugar company rue hIe Into my possession after Plaint was as issued hUed show that al ai cost of the thc sugar this year V said mill Mr Jackson yesterday urea ures show there thero is actually In Ines t the tho company's factories and es 2854 1 S bags of f sugar Busar and antI c Ii mount while whilo bags bass are sto stored d the thc balance balanco of oC stored In Idaho and statistics also show how Q Mr Jackson that tho the av- av st t. t of t sugar f in the thc past five lve Pt O l 28 1920 was waR as ag The average selling price Jor or tho year end ending lug February was was' 60 o a n. net profit of or 27 7 ag ac- to which Is to be added eats differential freight rate i Francisco making makinS' a total r baG ba of ot l 1 I The company's compans s b how w the cost for the tho past year een 33 a bag baS Officers of th the th on page f- f l r UJ 4 IDAHO AH-IDAHO SUGAR M COMPANY OFFICIAL IS UNDER ARREST f J I Violation on of L Lever Act Is IsI Charge Preferred b by FedI Federal Fed Fed- I I era eral Agent 0 Continued from Paso Pago a o 1 company admitted to mo no that there was wasa a profit In selling this years year's crop at 10 SellIng LJ License at t S According to Mr Jackson son tho the sugar company may be cited to show shaw cause why its license to sell sugar should not be revoked and wh why tho amount now on hand s should not be sold as JS contraband Tho maximum penalty for tor violation of oC tho the Lover Lo act is a fine of or and anda a a. year two-year prison sentence or both for each separate offense Representatives of oC tho the United States department of ot justice continued Investigations tl of oC the sugar price situation and tho the causes of ot the recent Increase yesterday and Salt Lake people took tool advantage of ot advertised d sugar at premise pre mise rase prices The Auerbach com company coman any advertised that on Saturday it would sell sugar at IG cents a pound sales ales being limited to two pounds to each cach customer Mr r. r Jackson said yesterday that records records records rec rec- on file with the department nt showed that 50 5 per cent of ot the sugar shipped from irom Utah was sent o D 0 wholesalers wholesalers whole whole- salers aler and ami jobbers lie declared the rumor t much shipping hail had been done by retailers was s s. s In Investigation In- In showed tint the retail re retail re- re tail lat stores had very low f if It Ite e gar ogar r just sufficient to meet meN thoi thel r regular ular reeds needs In se several instances instance stores Tes reported th they had no sugar on 01 hand Ho However eer Mr Jackson said aid If IC people would only buy sugar according to their actual need there thero would be no shortage Statement by Company Stephen H. H Love sales manager of the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company compan made the following statement yesterday esterday re regarding regarding re- re garding tho the sugar supply and price conditions It Il It can be said and an examination of oC the records will prove pro that no com corn company van pany In the United Stales States has bc been n I more earnest In its ors endeavors to carryout c carry carryout rr out every ery Fe regulation arid d desire ot of C the Hll G government nt ivi with h respect to tho the i price ico of ot sugar sur-ar than tho the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company compan As As a malt matter r of oC fact Its of officials of- of were among th the very cry first to acquiesce In the prop proposal sal of Herbert Hoover Hoovel national food administrator to bring about aboul i a voluntary agreement nt be between between Le- Le tween the the su sugar ar producers of the coun- coun tn and iry-and ry and tl tho e government Jo of the United Stal States f where il re all foreign and domestic sugar consumed In America would be bo distributed fairly amon among the various ulous cons consuming communities with th the view of minimising ln the burdens upon transportation transportation transportation trans trans- facilities retired required for tor such distribution and the preventing of or un un unjust j just st st. unreasonable unfair and wasteful commissions profits and practices And after the voluntary agreement abo above o. o referred to was consummated and Ule practical scheme for tor distribution tion Inaugurated the Utah Idaho Sugar Sus comp company IU- IU was among the loyal support support- c era s or tho plant plan and conscientiously e every ery recommendation of oC tho the food tood administration Prices ees to Local Interests Sinco Sine th the first day of of last October tho the Utah Idaho Sugar company has been selling Its product both locally arid aid In eastern distributing centers at prices ranging from Crom 5 to as lS much as as 1 15 a pound laO bag of ot sugar below thes the Ue s Y n t a kot n Y and from fn i 0 tn to 1 n. 4 j po poa n vv uv a a bag less than the price allowed b by bythe bythe the government to Michigan and IA Louisiana Lou IAu- u- u i iana producers And while whilo recognizing the tiie unjust and discriminatory features of ot such a condition it has st steadfastly complied with every known desire desiro of the department of ot Justice which has hns be been n charged with tho the duty of enforcing enCore enCore- ing the pro provisions of ot tho L Lever ver act let since sinco tho the retirement of or Mr Ir Hoover Hoo as food administrator sincerely believing that It was Its duty to do so as l long longas ng as It was possible t to keep down tho price of or sugar for tor our own people and retain sufficient supplies to take t caro care of or tho the Jobbing an and manufacturing Interests In In- In toreste teress In tho intermountain country countr- But finding Itself unable to do so I 0 owing owing ow ow- ing tp tho the limited amount of or sugar now on hand and In order to make malto it possible for Utah consumers and manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers man man- to get a partial supply from California It was obliged to acknowledge acknowledge edge edgo the time-honored time law of or supply and demand lemand and put Its price up to In S San ui the level lo of or that prevailing prevailing- Francisco where cano sugar obtainable for tor this market is produced Statement of or Con Consumption Now Xo In order that the tho people of ot seriousness of oC Utah may realize tho the tho the prese present t situation wo 10 e may ho bo pardoned for quoting somo some extremely pertinent figures For example tho the normal consumption of or sugar in the United States has bc been n about 85 pounds per capita per annum but since tho the advent ont of prohibition tho the increase has hag I I been BO heavy that it is now asserted I con con- consumption by the fife best authorities that the consumption consumption con con- J this year will cry very likely reach roach tho the enormous amount of ot I pounds for every man mon woman and child in the tho United States This would mean meRn t In round figures figurer that if we wo suc succeed eed in i getting our requirements wo we will need tho the inconceivable amount of ot l pound bags Where this his sugar Is In to I como come from irom no practical sugar man will willi I ha hazard ard a gue guess s. s In view Ie of 01 tho the fact tac that I Ithe the only unsold T row raw w sugar suar available n Inthe inthe In Inthe the whole holo world oriel Is some to tons of or this years Pars Cuban Cub crop tho the already al already al- al having baYing balance balanco somo some tons ready b been en disposed of or to foreign countries countries countries coun coun- tries and larGe largo eastern refiners So far tar faras taras faras as beet sugar is h concerned It is doubtful doubtful doubt doubt- ful full if there aro arc bags 1 left n of or tho the thoI thoU U pound laO ba bags or less than I 10 P per r cent of or the total produced in tho the I United States while on May 1 I. I a year distribution distribution distribution ago ao there thero w was as available a for tion In this country a n. lar larger r portion of oC the total amount of ot beet sugar r produced produced pro pro- of ot tho the Cuban and Cull fully one half crop lIn h was W ample to supply all our y needs Statement from Planter The Louisiana Planter In Its 1 Issue 10 Tho Tho In editorial on of ot April 10 10 an Scarcity of or Sugar makes maltes the following I I II comment comment The statistical position of oC sugar sU is such that it ought to be selling somewhere somewhere some some- somei i where where- between 20 O and 30 0 cents at the present time for Cor genera distribution to dealers who ho sell to consumers tho the wo well well- 1 Willett and Grey known statisticians in their estimate entire world In tho the of ot the sugar crop gave e some rather startling data expressed ex expressed eX- eX pressed In long tons as ns to tho the results three seasons and of the previous their own estimates as follows OOS 1917 IS 15 1 17 tons 1918 1318 1919 20 1919 O dec decin decline These three crops show a in the total production from that or ot 1917 IS of ot about aboul tons per year The American beet sugar crop which is included In the above aboe estimates esti estl- estimates in the tho constant decline mates mate shows a total quantity although not as large larg- relatively eh as the whole world shows s sin in Its regular total The American report re report re- re port notwithstanding the high prices prices 1917 18 GS follows follows- for or sugar Is as ai 1919 O. tons tons- 19 InS I If It If the decline In sugar P produced should continue sugar sUlar would soon bo be worth 1 per pound and yet we wo find tind that with all the Ule high prices prevailing prevailing prevail prevail- Increased increased In Increased In- In In ing 1 that very ery C few w countries have hAvO creased their sugar crops crop having found It more advantageous to produce produce pro pro- duce duco other crops G Greater t r Supply Weeded Nettled N d dIt It will bo be noted that the tho Louisiana Louis lana iana Planters Planters' comment with respect to the the- decline In tho the production of or sugar applies with equal force to beet as well as as' cane this cane this In spite of ot all of oC tho the new factories that have hao been built built provia g be beyond ond the question of or ofa ofa a 8 doubt that that more factories does loes not mean more moro sugar But It means that we e must get et more sugar beets before wo we get an Increase In tho the production of ot sugar This brings us to tho the question question ques ques- tion of or the new contract t which the tho Utah Idaho Sugar company has with Ith farmers the tho coming season s said aid contract contract con con- tract being based upon the tho prevailing price for sugar Bugar not In Utah but In New York during the months of ot October Octo Octo- ber November and December Today Toda the refiners' refiners price for cano sugar Is 2 23 a 4 1 pounds In Now York That means that If It tho the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company was as obliged t to bu buy beets from the tho farmers Carmer tomorrow it would under tho the contract referred to be compelled to pay 24 24 t a 3 ton So that If IC peradventure this company should continuo continue to sell sen Its Ils sugar on a a. 13 13 cent basis u under der government Go restrictions restrictions restrictions it would find Ind itself in a aery very ery precarious condition financially the tho year Is out provided pro of or course the present high price for sugar continues continues continues con con- in the eastern markets which seems e Imminent fleet Deet SD Sugar ir r Production The rhe vr production of or beet sugar ar In Inthe Inthe inthe the Utah-Idaho Utah district last season was approximately pound bags baCs of ot which the tho Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar c company made about 40 per percent per cent So that our total production is a very ver- small portion of t tho the total amount of ot sugar consumed In the United Stat States s As a matter of at fact the districts district's production production pro pro- is is' 2 per cent while whilo that of ot the tho Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company alone Is not quite 1 li per cent centt It will he be noted from the tho above figures that he 1 production In this part of oC the country Is not much of of ot a factor in establishing the market price for tor sugar sug as some I people seem scent to imagine Under normal Um times s our producers have ave only been able to distribute from 1 12 to 15 16 per percent percent percent cent of ot their sugars In local territory the tho b balance lance be being nG shipped out to castern eastern eastern east cast ern distributing markets But during the past six or seven months almost half hat of the tho local production has been sold in the Intermountain mountain country country- tho the reason f for r this enormous increase lo being charCe chargeable blo to the high prices existing In tho the east as |