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Show !lRE POWERS FOR i FEDERAL TRADE ! ARE SOUGHT Commission Submits Re-j port on Activity During Year. j .By Associated Pres.. j j, WASHINGTON. Tec. I .V Lejrtsla-1 Lejrtsla-1 tion to extend the powers of the fed-r fed-r eral trade commission so as to bring j iidlMilMil m4 M'H"M"'I'" apee " ntin; in interstate commerce within j Ita upervaion I recommended In the ' commission's annual report, made pub. lie today, outlining activltiea for the : year ended June JO. j Thft rmnmi -slcxu -ajan ajcaan tirgea , enactment of leislat ion prcvloi:ly I ulmitte. to consrea. designed to pre- vent the practice of commercial j bribery. runnir the year, the commission ' ay. Ita work was chteflv devoted to ' assist i nr other departments and ape- ) cial war agencies of the government j in matters concerned with the proae- ' cntlon of he war. The report review ' many special activities and ciuft in- ! vest lira Hon prosecuted, an inquiry i Into control of enemy corporations, 1 through which assistance was ren- ; dered to the alien property custodian ' and the Intelligence aectiona of the army and navy. j Invest gations Into the coat of pro- duoiiou nod control of foodstuff which had previously been begun were, continued con-tinued ami one of these culminated in : report on meat packing companies, made public in report to the pre!- H dent. Several other food Investigations ;D still are under way. Thefo were presented to the com- j 9 mission during the year many applica- M tions for proccling charging unfair ' H competitive methoils under the Clayton i act. The commission disposed of 240 ! applications during the ear and has ! pending 2SS cases j American manufacturers and export- i t- i:.Liti !-i,U mug.. .f th vrul.t. Kill,i filed w ith the i-oin mission thirty ,tx '. statements of conibinatiou for pur- : pose of export trade. Arrangements I are being made to oversee the activities activi-ties of th'-se combinations, the reiorfc states, Maying tn this regard: 'The worldwide dislocation of trade and industry incident to the war Is creating new conditions which may vital vi-tal lv affect Amerii an bisjines in the future. The .oinmiss.on is clohely G fallowing new development In inter- B national trade, as ttiey urtse. with a M view to anceitaining the bearing they D may have on the foreign tiade of the United States." I |