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Show REGULATION OF COLD STORAGE IS M'KELLAR'S PLAN WASHINGTON", Aug. 13. Federal regulation reg-ulation of cold storage of food was used hi the senate today by Senator McKeilar, Democrat, of Tennessee, as a certain means of reducing the cost of living and as tlfe only remedy for "the most out- I razeous piece of profiteering that can be imagined." The meat packers were charged by the Tennessee senator with using cold storage stor-age facilities to fix food prices. Explaining hi bill. Senator McKeilar said it would limit the time foods could I be held In cold storage and has been vig-. ! orously opposed by the packers. Citing recent statistics of the federal trade commission of food held in cold storage, Senator McKeilar said they showed vast increases over the amounts stored last year. He compared retail prices, -secured from the manager of the senate restaurant, showing large increases in price, despite the increased supplies in storage. "Some middlemen." said Mr. McKeilar, McKei-lar, "arc making Gt 2-3 per cent profit on eggs alone. The only possible way in which these prices can be manipulated is through the medium of cold storage-Put storage-Put a limit on the time in which these goods can be held and the packers will be compelled to pell." l",ggs. particu'arly. the senator asserted, "are monopolized. They are in the hands of the most giant monopoly there Is in the world. The price the packers pay and the nrice at which they are sold is out of all proportion and they never will come down until eggs are stamped and regulated." |