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Show VIOLATORS OF RULES NlE OIM CARPET Food Administrator to Keep Close Watch on Purveyors of Edibles. Although the rules and regulations seem to fl.v thick an.l fast from the desks of the mighty in Washington, causing the state administrators to watch their steps in order to keep up, the local aul hnrities are keeping an eye open steadily for any infractions of the requests of the food administration. administra-tion. Several eases have come up for in-i in-i vestigation before V. W. Armstrong, I and yesterday two were taken up at i soine length. The first was the ease ' of G. G. Kyreuboutous, proprietor of I the Broadway lunch room, who had i been found serving veal on beefless ! Tuesday. When brought to book, Ky- reoboulous explained, through the ' friend who eame with him, that he left I t buying to his eook, and the cook i fas instructed lent Monday to buy '''r- rabbit for a Tuesday stew. As the : cook himself is not as long on Knglish I as he is on stew, he understood the butcher to say that veal was permissible permis-sible to use in place of rabbit, so the cook ambled back to the Broadway lunch room with eight pounds of veal, j 1 which made its appearance last Tues-i Tues-i day and caused all the trouble. As there seemed no real intent on the part of Kyreoboulous to really disregard dis-regard the orders of the food adminis- ! trator, he was dismissed after promis-j promis-j ing to observe the wheatless days with ! the utmost exactitude, else his license j will be taken away. The other case was that of the j Speirs grocery on Eighth East, whose ! proprietor had been reported for sell-j sell-j ing a hundred-pound sack of flour to one of Mb customers. The frank admission ad-mission on the part of the erring gro- coryman that he knew he shouldn 't have dono it, but that he knew that I the customer in question had religious-! religious-! ly purchased substitutes each time and j that he knew she needed the hundred- pound sack of flour, too, so he just j "up and sold it to her. " j His abject admission of: guilt and his readiness to accept any punishment i which the food administrator saw fit to inflict, moved Mr. Armstrong to ask I the groceryman himself to name his own punishment. This was finallv de-I de-I titled to be the positive refusal of the j groceryman to handle or sell flour for ' some time to come. In short, when he decides that he has served his sentence, he is to come to the food administrator ! and voluntarily return himself to the ranks of the righteous and the well-j well-j meaning. |