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Show BOYCOTT EFFECT IS ADMITTED BY CHICAGO HOUSES CHIC A CIO, Dec. 5. Officials of five of the largest storage warehouses in the city were questioned by representatives of the United States district attorney today to-day in the investigation begun by the federal fed-eral Rovernment of the recent rise in food prices. Michael L. Igoe, assistant in char? of the investigation, stated that The ofnriali-' conceded thai the recent un-organizM un-organizM i'nd sporadic boycott of housewives house-wives on butter and eggs had forced pikes down all over the country and intimated in-timated that a general boycott would knock the bottom out of the market. T..-:i warehouse officials were sunpoenaed sun-poenaed to appear in the district attor-rv's attor-rv's office and live of them were questioned ques-tioned at length. "None of these will go before the grand jury," eald an assistant district attorney, "but from the ones questioned we have obtained the names! uf their bookkeepers and cashiers, and 1 these, employees, with papers and docu- 1 ments. will be taken before the gTand jury Thursday." It al?o was said that James E. Wetz will be summoned tomorrow to explain whether lie is really the owner of 72. OOO.ttuo eggs ln storage in his name, or 1 Whether he merely is acting as an agent. . |