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Show PLAN OF PROBE OF FOOD READY FORM 0.1. Programme of Proposed Inquiry In-quiry Will Be Submitted to President and Attorney Attor-ney General. i: WASH J N'CTOX, Dr.-. ,X. Officials roinlni-tin tht! nvcrnment 's inquiry into t lit' h roM. nl' living virt ually have completed ;i t rn jr ) ji t j i rns to place before President Wilson and Attorney f it'iiiTit) ' i rfoi v I run or row, providing for siinnltiinr-oii.-, enmd jury investigations investiga-tions throughout tVif country. It is understood tli:it in ' add i t ion to the m fiii-uh now rlircctlv cnaed in culli'i-t iii int'oriniition, others may be nil mod. It. was Kiiift that doubt no longer nx-isted nx-isted ns to whether Hhto had been com-hi com-hi nat. ions of nn n to hont con I price, and that effective menus to punish those who have violated the law in muLrihiitint; to the i -im-m were, .being at udied. President Wilson and the cabinet discussed dis-cussed thn situation today, and, it is un-understood, un-understood, decided to await further disclosures before rear hi a cone hi-niou hi-niou as to reeommendat ions to congress. con-gress. In congress (he house eommmeree committee com-mittee decided to defer action on bills and resnlut if ins bea ring on t lie subject until after tho holidays. Probe Car Shortage. United States Attorney Anderson ot Boston, conduct irijf tlio invest i Ration, call oil ut the White house, conferred for: several hours with the interstate commerce com-merce commission nt fir in Is concerning tho activities of coal dealers, spent some1 time with Oliver K. Pagan, the depart-: nient'R expert on drawing indictments, and dispatched fresh instructions to the field forco of investigators throughout, the country. Tho interstate commerce, commission began work on a mass of information relating to car shortage and coal ship-inentH ship-inentH for use in contemplated prosecutions. prosecu-tions. The two situations, it was said, were closely related. Indications are that tho department of justice will concentrate its immediate forces on inquiring into operations of coal dealers and minor railroad em-plovees em-plovees in the middle west, with a view to determining whether cars were deliberately delib-erately withdrawn from their normal channels to aid in creating an artificially artificial-ly higher level in prices. Many Empty Cars. Interstate commerce commission statistics sta-tistics nro understood to show that at the height of the riso in coal prices, at a, time when there was an apparent shortage in the supply, hundreds of loaded cars stood in railroad yards in the middle west. Sme cars are said to have been loaded load-ed from four to six weeks, and one case has beeu reported where a car had been loaded lOli .lays. Measurable scurcitv of refrigerator cars for shipment ship-ment of perishable foodstuffs was reported re-ported to have been caused by failures of consignees to handle them promptly. Whether this failure was part of a conceited con-ceited plan to create a car shortage ' and advance prices is under investigation, investiga-tion, V hen nsketU'eonrerntng the investiga lion proposed. William W. Kay, Unileir States district attorney for Utah, said: This matter has not boon brought specifically to toy attention, but I Know that it was included in the matters turned over to t he United States attorney for Massachusetts, chlied with the investigation. I do know, however, that one of t lie important points brought out in connection with t he car shortage is how Ions a shipper would he kept waiting for cars to make up a train, and how much longer it took to make a trip because, of heavy trains than it would take it' the trains made up consisted of fewer cars and the train service were Increased. Leon Hone, special investigator of the department of justice, said lust night that tie knew not hint; of thy matter that it had not been brought to his attention. |