| Show I i Il TAIN NS No Nc Appeal Is Allowed Those pose Convicted Mills Mills Are re Among Largest in In Wheat Producing Area AreaT 1 I Ij HE heavy hand of the law j T fell today upon five nen pou flour millers of the the state tate I when when national food administration a- a tion officials at at Washington ordered the industries closed down tight for periods ranging from froni 40 to ilo days ys each order to suspend operations ns Is Ise Is e rastI penalty Imp imposed sed loy by F Washington higton Sash officials on on pie millers I ers ter p Qt xo a milling rules Recommendations for punishment P in each case case were were- m made de by W V Armstrong food adminis administrator i adminis-i I for or Utah Utah before whom eight millers miners were tried last Tuesday in Salt Lake While no definite announcement announcement announcement an an- I has been made it is said saide e recommendations of the Utah administrator were sustained by the theW W Washington h officials in each c case case se QUICK VERDICT Infinite i he authorization to Imp Impose se the the Penalties penalties was received at the local food w administration office in in ina a tele- tele r. r f Washington The verdict s closely upon the decision reached hed at Washington a few days go in the case of L L. F F. Becker man man- t the th ManU Mantl roller mills who to pay a fine of to th the Red Cross It was intimated at ats atthe atthe the time lime s that Beckers Becker's penalty would be the lIght lightest st of any imposed It to 10 developed when five of the eight millers colliers tried were no not given the alternative of a fine ACTION TION IS FINAL line The action of the Washington of officials of- of today Is final The millers baY naw no no recourse through appeal to tribunal They must close do town down their mills and not turn a wheel I Q he penalty penally period imposed in fach acly case the IThe heaviest liea penalty imposed by Washington as I was that given Riven to J J. J M M. I Parry manager of the Elsinore Roller M Mill company of Elsinore Utah Parr Par Par- r Y acom P e to totally suspend opra op op- ra or refrain from any milling Dt enterprise for a IHrl period d of one hundred en days das OTHER SENTENCES Ben Ben proprietor of the EphraIm Mill MY 1 and Elevator company Eph Ephraim alm Utah received the next se seYer severest se- se Yer verest sentence in an order to suspend dopes operations B for a period of seventy five IBi Bent t Munson proprietor of the Mun- Mun company Moroni Utah null ant close for forty days das and N N. Hane Han- Han e iP of the Phoenix Roller mills and Axel Nielsen Nielen proprietor of tt roller mills both of Richfield eld t tah must each cach close down do n nor for or a period of forty five days the cases of the Mt Pleasant Mill sad d Power company of Mt Pleasant ind nd the Union roller mill at Fairview Washington officials apparently could not not f agree ee on a verdict er and ana a rehearing cases before Administrator Armstrong Jl was ordered This his hearing r held next Tuesday in the of of- of the local food administration RECORD ECORD I ESTABLISHED I l According to local officials the clos close I Cf g of the five Utah mills is the greatt great- great I t umber of severe punishments met- met PJ out jut In any section for violations of I od lo regulations number of ot mills were threatened It ith being closed down entirely for fore e Period of the war and revocation of ot a but this penalty local of- of C Is say y V. V was moderated because the indefinite suspension of mm- mm would hamper the states state's Dut ut of flour h h 5 mills ordered closed ar are said to among the largest In the state serva serva a a vast portion of the great wheat section 8 of the southern coun- coun and and doing a large export business other Oher iner states and to the allies abroad 1 he millers were convicted of vi vidla- vidla la- la lot of the fifty fifty-fifty substitute rule twenty rule and other milled mill mill- ed tad d food regulations I |
