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Show PACKERS PREPARING TO GIVE TESTIMONY BEFORE COMMITTEE (By Staff Correspondent.) , WASHINGTON. Aug. IT. While Attorney Attor-ney General Calmer was in New York todav directing a plan of campaign Which he believes will unload vast hoards of food on the market this week, Chicago packers began arriving here for the opening open-ing of the fight to place them under government gov-ernment control. The senate commltteo on Agriculture tomorrow to-morrow morning will begin a series of hearings on tlie Kenyon and other bills proposing government license of food packing establishments on such terms that the government could close a plant at any time on charges of violation of the law or regulations. Tlie packers will fight the licensing scheme to the last ditch. Armour, Swift, Morris, Wilson and numerous other officials of-ficials of the packing corporation are to appear before ihe committee to state their objections following witnesses who will argue In favor of the proposed legislation. The attorney general believes that the campaign of prosecutions and threats of prosecution upon which he has embarked will result this week in emptying the cold storage and other warehouses or hoards of food piled up in excess of the ahiounl normally stored for futuro supply at this period. Some of these stocks already have been seized and will be thrown on tlie market, but "the quantity in the aggregate has been small. Mr. Palmer's aim this week will be to unload such large quantities that prices will be forced down. The department of justice aeserta that It is hampered in proceeding against hoarders because there is no penalty for hoarding In the food control act. Such seizures as have been nrnde were under the pure food act and were based on allegations al-legations of adulterations, misbranding, etc. The question of amending the food control con-trol act so as to provide a penalty for hoarding will come before the house this week and Majority Leader Mondell believes be-lieves the amendment will pass. |