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Show tiff IKS TO I INVESTIGATED House Takes First Legislative Legisla-tive Action to Reduce the High Cost of Living. rrXGTON-. Aug. 13. With the r.V,ion of th isoe resolution directing: !-C '(o1eral trartc commission to inveati-:."e inveati-:."e increased shoe prices, tho house to-took to-took first legislative action toward Action of 'he '''s''' t03t of livinS-"p,? livinS-"p,? -iousiy the house voted down an -o-d"ient which would have extended it. ."inquire to other articles of clothing '"ihou'.-e agriculture committee con-JiiVe con-JiiVe legislation to extend the food to other necessities of life. cw:, .jprt the powers of the act beyond riiiw Priod. to rImj the president "".i-orltv to fix fair prices for necessl-f"i"-ciii" to provide penalties for hoard-"today hoard-"today continued its hearings. To-' To-' "--evAttorney General Palmer will ap-fV ap-fV tcfore the committee. senate agricultural committee. e.-.r some members hud held that the 'leii as vroposed by the attorney i-f-eral did not cieariy define what con--.M;les profiteering and hoarding, post- viej action today. ' Repo" to tiie postofficc department (av irJi'itted that the war depart--rri'r food surplus, which was offered consumers yesterday through the ia--"el post, ives meeting with a ready Assistant Postmaster General j,!'r:ery today instructed postmasters t,:a' no war stamp tax was applicable to lLri post shipments of army food- |