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Show COAST COAL DEALER'S LICENSE REVOKED SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 26. The California Cali-fornia food a dm in 1st rat ion revoked today to-day tlio license of II. P. Cox, u San Francisco Fran-cisco grain dealer, on charges of failure 1 ii make delivery on rire sold Inst J lino lo tho .1. S. Hrown Mercantile company of J Vnver, and for alleged specula t ioii. The action is the first of Its kind t." ken In the state niid was authorized by Herbert Her-bert Hoover, federal administrator. (""ox notified the llrown concern that because of "war conditions" ho could not rill his orders, which he had contracted for nt a low price, according to the (cod administration, but admitted that since notifying the Hrown company of his Inability In-ability lo sell U ricn he had delivered the commodity nt a higher conduct price (o other firms. Cox's defense was that he h;nl been tumble to obtain nil the rlco . from growers that had hern prom I sod. |