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Show i ATTORNEY GENERAL ASKS FOR "BIG STICK": liilULLl I illL 6 i E II i I ll d Palmer Plans Direct Ac- 1 I tion to Reach Profi-1 Profi-1 tearing in Foods, He Informs Committee. Opposes Plan to Have President Fix Prices of Commodities; Probe of Meat Packers Started. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. Proposed amendments to the food control act which would authorize the president to fix wholesale and retail prices of certain commodities were strongly opposed today by Attorney General Palmer. Appealing before tho house agricultural committee to urge speedy enactment of additional laws to heip reduce the cost of living, the attorney general declared such executive power would bo too drastic dras-tic and would provoke so much debate in congress as to delay passage of other amendments suggested by the department of justice. Tho department has recommended that provisions of the food control act be made applicable to wearing apparel, fuel and fertilizer, with heavy penalties for profiteering. prof-iteering. Armed with an antiprofiteering law, the department, Mr. Palmer told the committee, commit-tee, could obtain specific indictments In various cities "which would make unnecessary un-necessary a far-reaching . fight against high prices." Exemption from prosecution under the food control act of any retailer was opposed op-posed by the attorney general, who also asserted that penalties should be imposed im-posed for profiteering on producers' organizations or-ganizations conducted for a profit. WOULD REACH EVERY RETAILER DIRECTLY. "It Is your desire to reach every retailer re-tailer directly?" asked Representative Mc-Loughlin Mc-Loughlin of Michigan, Republican. "Yes, sir," answered Mr. Palmer, emphatically. em-phatically. Attorney General Palmer said there was evidence that the government campaign cam-paign to reduce tho cost of living already was bearing fruit. A prominent vegetable veg-etable packer of Maryland wrote Mr. Palmer that prices in many lines were beginning to ease off as it became evident evi-dent that the department of justice meant business in announcing that criminal crim-inal prosecutions against hoarders and profiteers would be instituted wherever the laws were violated. "We want to make clear, however," the attorney general said, "that nothing we can do can change the immutable economic laws on which prices depend. If we can Increase the supply by greater production and lessen demand by greater saving on the part of the people, then the cost of living should eorno down. Wo can help that alon by forcing hoarders to put on the market food held out for an advance in prices and further by holding up to public scorn or by prosecuting, if congress gives us tin 'criminal amendment amend-ment to the food control law, those who are guilty of trying to exact a greater profit than is reasonable and just. We are going to make the market that is, , the law of supply nnd demand operate : normally instead of artificially." i PUBLIC SHOULD MAKE CERTAIN DISTINCTIONS. Tho attorney general and Judge Ams, ! his assistant, drew distinctions wh ich they s'iid the public should recognize bo-tv.een bo-tv.een hoarded f jod and stored food. The former is held out of the market in greater quantifies than required for the owner's business, for the purpose of 1 forcing up the market. The latter is surplus sur-plus bei rig husbanded from the liar vest ' to the lean season. It was made clp r, though, thn t nil food proved to be h-'firrWl would he put ! on the market. L'ni t-d y ta tes marshals '. probably wi 11 ad mi nisi or its disposition, but whether f hjs. will be mudo d ir--t , to the public or through retailers und-.-r a guarantee of fair prices lias not been decided. i Ileports to the attorney gnern ! f mm j state food administrators inoicruf-d that ; fair price boards rapid '.y were b'-ing set' iij) in many slates and were proceeding . to get pledgee from dealers 1.0 abide by ; the price.- promulgated for the guidance j of the public. 1 The department of Just !ce announced j that eleven cass bad h'-en brought under un-der the fond control a-n for ;he seiz-ire of food in Cohimhiis. .St. L-onis, De troit. Chattanooga and K'nnws City. I Shoe Price Probe On. ! BOSTON, An:;. L' 1 . j ' i j 1; i rv into th mph co?l of s'"io?( by ;,i" cojn'y gr;i:e jury today deve;o:. 1 some ;-bo- workers bad been timing '.': a v.-w'i. ThrFa ir.?!ari'-- 'M w : f" w. b-jt Ir v, j (Continued on Pac 3. Column J.) telClS HELP is m m iCarranza Officers Offer Aid to Expedition of Americans. (Continued Prom Page One.) band which captured Lieutenants Davis and Feterson, the war department was advised in a telegram sent yesterday by Major-General D.ckman, commanding the southern department. The message was made public late today. to-day. "Mexican consul at Presidio and General Gen-eral Pruneda at Ojlnaga were notified of our Intended pursuit of the bandits at 6 o'clock and their co-operation asked this morning," said the message. "Later the consul called me up and said that General Pruneda was preparing to leave with a force in compliance with orders from General Dieguez, translation of which was sent you yesterday, to look for the aviators and fallen plane. The consul said that General Pruneda would !iki to send troops to follow the bandits after the consul had been informed of our having obtained the lost aviators and having told just where the plane fell with them and they were captured near Cxyame and heid "and taken to mountains moun-tains opposite Candelaria for ransom. "The consul then suggested that General Gen-eral Pruneda- do not move his troops at all, in order to avoid any contact between be-tween Pruneda' s troops and ours, since Pruneda had orders not to permit any military representative of our government to accompany his troops in the search for the lost aviators. I agreed with the consul that this would be wise; that our troops had taken up the trail of the bandits as soon as it was light enough to see the traii and were then in pursuit; that it was impossible to get Mexican officers to accompany our troops, and assured him that efforts would be made by airplane to keep liaison between our troops nd the Mexican troops, to which tho consul agreed. The aviators have made two liaison flights, keeping contact with and observing our troops. Shall keep you informed." CARRANZA TROOPS PLANNING GUARD AGAINST BANDITS AGUA PRIETA, S-onora, Aug. 20. Colonel Jose Domlniquez, a member of General P. Klias Calies's staff, said today to-day it was. not the intention of his chief, who also is military governor of the state of Sonora, to send any federal troops either to this place or to Naco at this time. Colonel Dominiquez fiaid peaceful reports continued to be received from the Sonora border districts. The federal forces in this section are adequate to guard against possible bandit raids, he said. A detachment of 150 soldiers was sent on Monday to the properties of the Chicago Chi-cago Exploration & Development corporation, corpora-tion, north of Tonichi. to guard the same against future exploits of roving bands of so-called Villistas, who about two months ago seized Franklin B. Harding, chief consulting con-sulting engineer of the company, and, after af-ter torturing him for forty-eight hours, released him on the desert to make his way back to the border as best he could. It Was through urgent representations made on the part of Mr. Harding some ten days ago that General Calles ordered the troops to the mine. MEXICAN PRESS SAYS SITUATION IS VERY GRAVE MEXICO CITY, Aug. 20. The executive committee of the Federation of Syndicate Workers of the federal district has issued is-sued a manifesto to its members saying the committee is disposed to aid the government gov-ernment in the present crisis and asking President Carranza to bend all efforts to secure the cooperation of all the Mexican Mexi-can people. General Juan Torres, chief of operations opera-tions in the state of Sonora. reports to the war department that the Yaqui bandits ban-dits who killed an American chauffeur named White have been dispersed with 1 losses. H. S. White, an Arnericau, was reported re-ported killed near Hermosillo, Sonora, last May, when twenty Yaqui Indians attacked at-tacked a truck train carrying silver ore. The Mexican government announced that American troops had crossed the border in a bulletin issued last night, but has given no indication of its attitude. El Universal demands for Mexico an opportunity to be heard before being "outraged." "out-raged." It calls on all Mexicans to contribute con-tribute to the defense of the country and announces that its section printed In English En-glish will be discontinued until the Americans Amer-icans leave Mexico. Kl Heraldo says the situation has assumed as-sumed a grave character and declares that the crossing by the Americans was without with-out notice or request for permission. U. S. SOLDIERS RESUME PURSUIT AS DAY BREAKS MARFA, Texas. Aug. 20. Witli their exact location withheld for military reasons, rea-sons, troops of the Eighth cavalry, U nited States army, before dawn today resumed pursuit of the Mexican bandits who liuld American Aviators Davis and Peterson for ransom. The Americans had a difficult task before be-fore them today because the heavy storm of last night had almost obliterated trails of the bandits. The country over which the troops were operating is infested with small bands of Villa followers, who have been roaming roam-ing in the mountain valleys and canyons since part f Villa's band left him after (be American forces crossed to Juarez on June 1o. Kep'-.rts from the field in Mexico today to-day toid how the Americans spent the night in the Mexican mountains. The troupers slept under a starless sky, in canyons, on trails, wherever they happened hap-pened to be when it grew too dark to continue their pursuit. Sentries were stationed at entrances to canyons and at high points on trails to prevent an am- bii'-ii or surprise t tack if the band its reassembled in force during the n'ght. j Xo firs were permitted. Horppj: wore picketed in hollow squares, and the men. j relied in blankets. slept beside Their ; mounts, with r-f'es and piste is at their ! r '!. Pickets pa trolled the temporary camps. Pack nvu;es were unburdened for the . n i-;b t and the field wireless set wr.a r.cced for making report s to hendqnar- . tors. P. e fere da rk a:rp!a ns swnnnfd low ovtr tho eamos. dropp:::T oruerr. i M'r'icers were in whispered cTv.Vrences durh.c th? ir'gbt d'scussing orders and j pir. '.!V t. -dry's operations. ; The troopers, tired out from tbe:r V-v.. I hard ride, tdt-pt as pnon as They finished ;i cold supper of field ratmr.s. i EXECUTIONS OF j MEXICAN OFFICERS RECITED IN DETAIL EL PASO. Texas, Aug. 2. Xame.s a- d details of the ee-";t:on of arrv.y ; .i',",er' at Ohihua :h:t. C.;y in eu,;i r-- ;" w-'-e reee-vod la M loday ii a 1 s"e.v:ii d; p;-a; eh- to the I era Id ;"rn-n Ch:- -' '" "'- i;:;der date C A':'..st 1 v The d:pate'.i ?n" that a ft or tvre-- da--. o; :-;,'i;;.:::oti the n:k."y -r.-'r ap--po-::- ed by General Ma r.ue". T'it-r::- : .-. ; uave a verdict P-r.tonc!" - to da:h or-d '-ar. A rz :- I'lc.re K ;-. ; n w ; o tain Eustolio L. Lucero and Captain Manuel Man-uel Palda. Colonels Oregorio Xunez and Ilerrera were sentenced to eight year3' confinement, confine-ment, and the same penalty was given Melgarejo. KoMes and Captain Patino. Two captains and four lieutenants were 'ound not guilty. "At 7 o'clock this morning." the narrative narra-tive continues, "the condemned men were :diot at the foot of Cerru tanta Rosa be-for be-for 20U0 soldiers of the garrison and hundreds hun-dreds of people who went to see the spectacle. spec-tacle. "Arzate. when the firing squad was going to kill him. cried 'Viva Villa!' and Martinez also, when tiie squad was ready to fire, cried 'Death to Carranza ' General Gen-eral Alanis was freed at the beginning of the proceedings, as lie proved lie was not implicated with the plotters. "During the investigations A rzate confessed con-fessed he was In correspondence with Villa since March of this year and was commissioned to foment a revolt in this city, receiving money for that purpose." Tanks Sent South. C'OLL'MBL'S, Ohio. Aug. 20. Sixty-two more tanks recently were shipped from the army reserve depots here to forts on or near the Mexican border. it was learned today. During the past week 100 of the one- man wh ipnet ta nUs were shipped to the border. Three thousand :d Ties also have been shipped to border points within tiie last few days. Army officers at the denot refuse to comment on the significance of tiie shipments. General Dickman Arrives, KAGDE FA Tea. Aug. 2. Major General ,Tose;ih T. Pie1-man, commander of the pourhern department., who arrived here Inst niht on his'w:iy to Marl'a. tn-day tn-day ii.si'p'ded the Iroo;--. to Die EiitIo Tnss tkstrict. lie will p-ave later for the west. Two Yankees Have Close ('all. MAUi'A. Terns, .'eic. T'vo American Ameri-can a via tors, Pieu ; ena o I T. Pa.1! ev aiid Pi-.-u:ui: t M, A. ,J'di:i'-n. i.ad a i.ar- " i e-'i.h "'bik- on scut duty in Mexico today. 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