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Show S THE WEATHER. Friday fair; warmar north portion ; Saturday fair and warmar. There is no quicker or cheaper way to reach buyers and sellers than by Tribune Want. Ads. v - r Local Scttlamant Price. Silver, domestic, l -- c; foreign Lm 225 Copper (cathodes) $16.46 6o VOL. 107, NO. 6. 20,-19- 4 Afr. Anthony W.'Cook . Federal Government Acts to Curb Sugar Prices; Files Injunction Suit in Court j . CROPS OUT IN POLITICAL TALK Capital Circles Speculating t on Course to Be Taken, by His Friends. New York Dry Director Chairman Wood to Ask Situation in That Quarter Pay Viit to Liquor President to Pigeon Menacing German Govhole His" Proposal. Smuggling Coast Boats. ernment, Berlin Says. ' Dry and Wet Issue Loom- l ing as Factor in Both I 4 f V' yfs . a 'y 'a V ..a, ' ?, ' ' v ' - .An ; i Big. Partyv. With Gets Plenty of Evidence Organ Appears Hot Attack on Adof Activities of Booze ministration Program. Runners,. Cut No Bottles Agitation Becomes More Pronounced Throughout P o I a n d . Anti-Teut- on - i Camps. a By MARK SULLIVAN. Ipteial to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, Thera April J emerges in Washington mention ol i Governor Giford Pinchot of ta eonnartion with the Republican presidential nomination, not very pregnant itself. but Which haa a bearing on the wet" and dry Quest ion in the campaign rest year, ho far M It baa substance, the mention of Pinchot for the presidency cams from some of the mare Sealous spirits in the Anti saloon league and was based largely on the fact that Pinchot has Just put through the Penns) lvanta legislature a law enforcement act which not only is exceptionally drastic, aa compared with that of any other state, but la really a spectacular performance, considering what had been going on in Pennsylvania before Pinchot became governor. Although New Jersey and New York are more widely advertised in this respect, it is probably fair to my that I enneylvanla, until Pinchot took bold of it, was really the wettest state in the country wetteet in the sense of lacking enforcement and In the sense of a stubborn unwillingness to accept enforcement on the part of considerable groups of its population. Gets Rigid Law. oday, by virtue of the act which lichot forced through by focussing better elements of public opinion a pretty unwilling legislature, Penns) tvema haa a statute equal in its rigidity to the federal one. Further than that, everybody knows Pinchot will really enforce this law. His conception of obeying and enforcing the law includes actually prac be will prohibition personally, andlook for expect anybody- else to or'go be given any- greater immunity than he concedes to himself. But there is very little actually to the Idea of Pinchot being put forward for the presidential nomination. The his program still holds, although the line which with suggestion frequency this about Pinchot arise is evidence of the delicacy of the Harding program and the difficulty there is going to bo in keeping it going. Mott Are Satisfied. But the greater number and the more practical men among the leaders of the Anliealoon league are quite satisfied with what Harding has done for, enforcement; and will net a lion don him on that account. So strongly has Harding leaned towardenforce-men- t and toward the .Antisaloon league that it was said seriously by some disgruntled Republicans that Harding s prohibition appointment of the present enforcement officer was based not on the recommendation of any Republican, but wholly on the recommendation of William Jennings Bryan. There is yet another reason why Pinchot la unlikely to figure In the preoonventkm situation next year The Is Pennsylvania term for governor will four years. Next year Pinchot of not and he is it middle be in the likelv to run the risk of wounding the sensibilities of his state by becoming candidate for president before he has completed half his term as governor. Under a Pledge. in Pennsvl-thJft iff occasionally issaid under a pledge Pinchot jnania to NU out his terra. There is not It jmw'h definiteness to that pledge. rests on Pinchot having said several times during his campaign that he had no ambition except to make a and good governor of Pennsylvania then go fishing." But. while Pinchot will never enter the race of his own Initiative or as an avowed candidate, it Is always possible that In a deadstock in the convention he might be dragooned. This is, of course, only on the assumption that the present Harding program of renominating ahould fall through for any reason, and that the) field should become aa Open one. Not only does Pinchot appeal to the dry s, it Is also a fact that aa things stand today Pinchot la mors nearly the heir of the old Roosevelt followTo Republican. ing than any other some extent Genera Wood once had this legacy, and to eome extent Hiram Johnson once had it, but today, among men In active political life, Pinchot h it almost without contest. Program Stands. As has already bfen aaid. the program" of renominating Harding still stands. If this program continue to aland, the Republican party next year will be thoroughly "dry," and even if the program of nominating Harding ahould break down, and if some other candidate should be nominated, the Republican party will still be certain to be dry." This is an accepted party policy on tho part of the Republicans. to capitalize They propose to be "dry. matheir dryness, and. if possible, neuver the Democrats Into the position of seeming to be wet" As for the Democrats themselves, there is a division of feeling. McAdoo and the McAdoo leaders, who. as things stand today, compose gloss to half of the party organisation, are aa dry a the Republican party. They are really more sincerly "dry" than the Republican. They ore aa "dry a the Antisaloon league Itself. The other branch of the Democratic party has evolved a plan for being wet" enough without being too wet They have a plan for putting forward in the Democratic platform a thoroughproposal going and i for the restoration of state rights. This means the restoration of state sense. They rights in the hroadaat propone to make the campaign on the basis ef taking away some of the many functions which the federal government hes been absorbing to itself tsf a generation and restoring the ijaate governments. The idea Is that under the wing of the general proposal for the restoration of functions to the states there should be given to the state governments the duty of enforcing the prohibition act. Jftls would give to the various states a certain amount of latitude in defining what really constitutes an "intoxi-eatin- g beverage." (Copyright. 1923, by the New York , Tribune Syndicate.,) I Penn-eylvan- ia ? Uc-- nr -- mvv,; yd-'4 a D. A. R. Poll . Is Bitter One Disorderly Scenes. Mark Balloting for President-General at Trien- nial Election. Wtth WASHINGTON, April delegates worked up to a high pitch as a result of the bitter contest waged In connection with the selection of a new president general, ballots were oast today in, the Daughters of the American Revolution's triennial election of officers. Long lines of women filed past the tellers throughout the dav. Voting was still in progress tonight, with some uncertainty as to when the result would be announced. Three candidates originally were in the field to aucceed Mrs. George Maynard Minor aa president general, but the unexpected withdrawal from the race of Mrs. William Oummlnt Story of New York, announced last night immediately after she had been nominated. narrowed the nominees to Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cbok of Pennsylvania and Mrs. G. Wallace W. Mrs. Story Hanger of Washington, declared she withdrew because of some of the Campaign tactics resorted to In connection with the election, which served to intensify feeling The will serve for three yearn. Polling In Confusion. By Tatveraal Service. WASHINGTON. April 19. Balloting for a new president general of the Daughters of the Revolution was actoday companied by such confusion that it became necessary to call on the police and fire departments to preserve order. Memorial Continental hall, where the society has been in convention for the pant three davs, teemed with of fashionably dressed women, milling back .and forth in an effort to reach the polling booths. Efforts to OentiasM w Baev Tw hun-dre- Four.) (Golems at fjT L . Who Had Been Separated Found With Bullets in Their Heads. Couple EL PASO, Texas, April 19. Luis Quintana, 21, and his divorced wife. Ramona Quintana, 19, were found dead In an alley hack of the woman's home here early today by guests at a dance given in honor of the couple's aon. Luis and Ramona lived together two years. Then the woman charged him with' being cruel and they separated. But when tho babv wan christened Luis left hia work in a rah road shop in Pennsylvania to come down to the dance celebrating the christening of their infant eon. Couples danced all right, and for a while it looked as if Ramona and Lu would make up, acoording to the story gleaned from the dancers by the coroner. Ramona and Luis went for a walk while the donee went on. Luis pleaded in vain for Ramona to return to him. After they had been away from the dance an hour, the dancers became uneasy, organised a searching party and come across both bodies with pistol bullets in their heads. Bury my body with my wifes," said a note found on Lukf person. The person who made ua separate is to blame. 1 could not live without her." , . I MAIL CLERK IS UNDER CHARGES CHEYENNE, Wyo.. April 19. H. Alexander railway mail dark, arrested here by poetoffice inspectors from Kansas City last night charged with robbery of the mails, is under Interrogation by Inspectors this morning. Alexander haa been in the railway mail service for thirty years and haa been a clerk in charge for ' fifteen year. Alexander at first denied that he had been robbing the mails, but under prolonged questioning Is .said finally to have admitted a series of thefts of letters and packages over a period of six months He wss arraigned before a United G. Caatiansd sa fa Tribes e Salt laky Tribone Wire. NEW TORK. April 19 Palmer Canfield, federal prohibition director for New York state, paid a visit today to Rum Row and officially established the existence of the liquor smuggling armada. Not a bottle was seen, not an aromatic whiff was sniffed, but six ships riding peacefully In the brilliant sunshine, fifteen miles southeast of Ambrose Light, in the opinion of Mr. Canfield, were .tlvere neither for sunshine nor peace. On the trip down aboard the coast d guard cutter Manhattan, Mr. aaid that he personally had never doubted the fleet, but he added that he was confident that the dry bound coasts of New York and New Jersey would soon become a a classical as the rockbound" coasts of New England. On the trip up, he admitted that if the coastal alteration hereabouts was to take place, a constant patrol of armed vesseia would be needed. Mr. Canfield called the smuggling craft "buacards of the ocean, plucking at the heart of our constitution. He estimated that the' flotilla anchored innocently a trifle more than twelve miles off Red Bank. N. J and the remainder of the rum squadron supplied New York City and vicinity with 100,000 cases of assorted As a rule, about liquors annually fifteen to twenty shipa are loitering off the Jersey shore, but many of them have gone home to restock. After the Facta The trip down the bay and out to aea was undertaken to that accurate information about the fleet could be In the possession of Director After Inspecting the vessels off the coast today, he declared lying that he would formulate at once a plan to cope with the situation. He Chics Underwood. Copyright, Underwood One ef the two aepirents to the office of president general of tho O. A. R. Pge ICOhu Tvx) Three FIVE - CENTS t 24 PAGES 23. Can-fiel- Can-fiel- d. CeetiBaed ea Page Xwe (Csluauv On. ) Bernhardts Companion Asks for Situation The following appeared recently In the 'Situation Wanted columns of the Faria newspapers. Mme, de Ooumay, used fro years, for many yearn the companion of Mme. Harah Bernhardt, left free by the sad event of her death, seeks a place as companion, reader or housekeeper. Address No. 4 Rue OHer. The advertisement brought a fair number of answers. Mme. de Gotir-na- y told Excels r that she thought she would accept an offer of a place wHh a provincial society wbman. Khe aaid she wanted above all a eftriet, retired life, after the last five strenuous year with the great actress Bernhardts final Italian tour was particularly trtng, Mme de Goumav asserted, for 'Divine Sarah played even night, often retiring at 2 oclock in the morning only ty arise at 4 because of a fear that she might miss her train. PARIS, paragraph April 19 State Begins Probe of Fatal School Fire SACRAMENTO. Cal., April 19. Almost while funeral services were being held today for nine of the ten children burned to death In a fire which destroyed the dormitory of a Japanese school here, representatives of the state arson board arrived to investigate circumstances of the fire The funeral of .the tenth child will he held later. It has been suggested In several quarters that this and other fire in the Japanese quarter were Incendiary. Inquiry Into their causes was begun yesterday by the fire department. MRS. C. F. MVEY DIES. COLUMBIA. Mo., April 19 Mrs Charles P. McVey, mother of Mrs Sidney Drew, well known actress, died at a hospital here today after an operation. Besides Mrs. Drew, Mrs. McVey is survived by three other children, Miss Rose McVey of New York, an actress on the Orpheum circuit. Hartley McVey of Jacksonville, Fla., and Lloyd McVey. of Herrington, Kao. UNDERTAKERS TO STRIKE. PARIS. April 19 The french undertakers union haa called a general strike throughout the country to support the wage demands of its members in the Paris suburbs, who for the peat months have sought an increase of five francs a day. Th city of Paris is not affected by the strike order, as undertaking here is a municipal monopoly. . AIRPLANES REACH TUCSON. TUCSON, Art. April 19 The four big Martin bombing airplaneo which hopped off at the North Island naval training station near Ban Diego early this morning landed here at 9 16 oclock this afternoon. Should weather conditions be favorable tomorrow morning thev expect to continue their Journey to Quantico, Va. - , WAGE INCREASE OFFERED. NEW YORK. April 19. Officials of the St. Regis Paper company, at a conference with representatives of their employees today, offered the workers an increase of 4 cents an hour, Floyd Carltstle. president of th The workers company, announced decision will be announced next Tuesday. VESSEL ABANDONED. HALIFAX. N 8.. April 19,-- The British barkentine Chitha has been abandoned in a sinking condition and set on fire about 1600 miles east of New Tork, according to a radiogram today from the. liner Orduna, watch picked uo th crew. Chicago take Tribene Wll. Tritmae-Rl- t WASHINGTON, 19. April By rilTMw.l Bervke. Opposi- tion to the world court among Republican party leaders haa grown to such proportions that new and more determined effort will be- made to Induce President Harding to abandon his Advocacy of making tha United States a member of th international tribunal. Representative Wood. Republican, Indiana, chairman of the Republican congressional campaign committee, will confer with the president tomorrow to urge him to pigeonhole the court. He will seek to emphasise what 8enator Watson, Republican, Indiana, on behalf of several Influential Republican senators, told Mr-- Harding several weeks ago. In an effort to impress the president with, the soundness of his views, hs will 'take with him a bundle of letter from Republicans in all porta of the oountry expressing their disapproval of the world court as an issue in the 1924 campaign. Mr. Wood s opinions concerning the world court are In accord with the one of Senator Mosea, Republican, Ngw Hampshire, chairman of th Republican senatorial campaign committee, Senator Moses is now in Europe, but it Is expected that immediately upon hia return he will Join Mr. Wood In the attempt to induce the. president to sidetrack the oourt. Adamss Petition. John T, Adams, Republican nationnl chairman, will discuss tha political outlook with the president within the next few days. He haa Just returned from Europe, and, although he has made no public statement of his views, a pretty fair Indication of hia position was contained in todays issue of the National Republican, the semiofficial organ of th Republican national committee. Political circles wera stirred by tha frankness and audacity of the National Republican when it declared today, in open revolt against the world court plan, that It would be the height of folly to shift th line from domestic to International questions- "Good times will be the Republican Naparty's Issue in 1924," says thestabiltional Republican. Economic will be ity and governmental security Republicanism's strongest argument. Prosperity will be th Republican national administrations best press agent. "To shift the line of battle from domestic to international question would he the height of folly. Th stressing of International rather than domestic issues can only create division within the Republican party. Says Rest Demanded. After five years of international entanglement and of' consequent economic disturbance and social unrest, the people of this oountry want a rest from the demand of those who have somehow doped It out that th duty of this government is not ehiefly to its own but to foreign peoples We were told that unless wa entangled ourselves with Europe our prosperity could not be restored. Now that prosperity has been restored without European entanglement, w are told that our prosperity esnnot be maintained unless we interweave our destiny with that of nations which, after ten years of war, still haven't enough of it and Are unwilling to quit hating and talking and 'go back to work. A sample of the kinds of letters which are coming from prominent Republicans on the world court question was furnished by C. L. Knight, former congressman and editor of tho l, and a figure Akron in the politics of the presidents home state. 1 am not aura that we are not now proposing to enter the league of nation through the cellar door. said In my humble JudgMr. Knight. ment. the only chance for an open revolt is on the league of nations. If the Republicans surrender on that point, or even try to compromise with it, a revolt should and may com. - Beacon-Journa- German BERLIN, April 19. Th government needs to bo argus-eye- d these days to watch the danger signals that are flashed from all directions In tho Ruhr; a strict lookout must be kept for danger arising from tho governments failure to hold thc mark steady, and at the name time an eye must be kept on the threatening attitude of Poland, the third disturbing factor on the politloal horizon. agitation In rUppr according to dispatches, haa assumed dimensions recalling the rising of the Polish Insurgents in 1921. Th streets of Kattowlla are filled with French officers, and General le Rond, who la alleged to have supported th Polish insurgents of 1921, is continually en route between Krakau and Kattowlla. General Foch and General Weygand, the latter the organiser of the Polish army, are also In th field. A correspondent of the Voasiach to Zeitung who has Just returned Kattowita after a three months absence wires bis paper today that he Is astounded to find Poland in an intensely aggressive political mood, such as "fills every lover of. peso with dir foreboding. A systematic effort Is being made to convince the population of Poland Anti-Germ- Silesia, Oeatiaeed sa (Oeiou Pe ?.) Xwz Lasker Refuses Offer for Three Steamship The'offer of NEW YORK, Beneficial th Marine association to buy three shipping board venaeis for 1309,000 was de. clined today by Chairmen A. D. La, ker of Abe United, State shipping board. In hia refusal. Chairman Lasker pointed out - that th offer apd of tha low. proximated only eat sales prioe net for th vessels. beneficial Th marine' engineers association (onight submitted a new three shipping offer to purchase board vessels. The association offered to deposit 290.000 as a guarantee fund and operate th vessel until an arbitrary price is fixed. April 19. xme-thlr- Draft of Funding Plan ' Being Carefully Studied April 19 (By the Associated Press.) The draft of the debt funding agreement which has been in the hands of ths British treasury officials for a week, la being closely studied to make sure there haa been no misunderstanding of any clause before the government finally authorizes Ambassador Geddea to sign on behalf of Great Britain, it was said today. Regarding the American comment aa to the British delay, officials said that the document is a very compli. rated one, requiring careful examinaLONDON. merican tion. Ohio Girl Sets New Dizzy Dance Record CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 19. Completing ninety horns and ten minutes continuous dancing, Miss June Curry walked off th floor of a local dancworld ing academy tonight, th champion endurance 9danoer. When she quit at 10 oclock eh had beaten by one hoar and fifty-tw- o minutes the record of eighty-eighours and eighteen minute established today by Arthur Howard Klein. ht ALBUQUERQUE IB CHOSEN GREENVILLE, 8. C.. April 19 N. M was selected aa Albuquerque, the next- - convention city of th United States Good Roads association, the Bankhead National Highway association and the United States Good Roods Show, at th Joint convention of th organizations hers today. . Yorks Wedding Precedent 650 Years Old OfO- 040 040 040 040 00 Crouchbacks Long Ago Nuptials Cited 040 040 040 . 040 040 Royal Marriage Program Is LONDON, April 19 (By th Associated Press.) It la necessary to go back more than tad years !i) the record of Westminster Abbey to find a parallel to th ceremony which will take place there a week from today, when the Duke of York la married to ' Lady Elisibeth Bowea-LyoTh last time a ion of a reigning kins married a commoner in the abEdmund bey was in 1269, when vrlfn Crouchback was wedded to of Lancaster, daughter of the Duke -- v -of Albemarle. An interesting feature rising ont of the fact that the Duke of York's bride will not proceed from a royal palace will be the dispatching by the king of the royal coach to the home of Lady Elizabeth in Bruton street. In this vehicle, th bride, suitably escorted and attired la Florentine n. gown of Ivory chiffon moire,- will 040 Completed exhortation, after which th archbishop of Canterbury will perform the actual marriage service uniting Albert Frederick Arthur Georg and Elizabeth Angela Marguerite. Immediately after this part of th ceremony the choir will sing "God be Merciful Unto Ua and Bless Us. Th archbishop will then deliver the address which will be followed by the hymn "Praise. My Boul, the King of Heaven." Next will be sung the first verse of the national anthem and Immediately after it th choir will render the anthem Beloved, Let Us Love On Another. which wa composed especially for Princes Mary's wedThe Mendelssohn inarch will ding. oonclud th service. , SEARCH FOR MISSINQ PAIR. CALEXICO. Cal. April 19. Three left Calexico airplane today to search the desert are of Lower California sixty miles south of her for trace of Charles Anderson and Miss Mabel Graves, missing last sine Sunday, when they left her in an automobile for Lagunr Salads with a picnlo partv. Effort of searcher going into th desert In automqhUsa so far have produced no trace of ' th missing - drive to the abbey accompanied by her father, the Earl of Strathmore. When th coach arrives the bridal procession will enter the abbey, preceded by th choir, which will sing Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us As the bride and bridegroom take their place In front ef the altar, th dgan ef Windsor will read the couple, - k , Complaint Charges Fictitious Tr ansae - tion and Conspiracy to Enhance Values. WASHINGTON. April 19. The gov- -, ernment'e bill filed in New Tork today in the sugar case declare that as a result of fictitious transactions ar and the price the price of of refined sugar to the consumer haa been Increased since February I on an average of more than 21 per hun' dredweight; that these operation were carried on for the purpose and with th Intent of unduly enhancing prices, and that unless tha court Intervenes, new fictitious levels win be forced In the tiTtura. Aa alleged conspiracy waa declared In violation of th Sherman antitrust law and other statutes of th federal government and contrary to th public policy of the United States aa well aa harmful to the Interest of th people. The full Met of those against which the Injunction waa requested, in addition to th exchange and tha clearing house association, arm T, S'. B. Nielson, Manuei - E. Riortda, Frank C. Russell, C, H. J. H. Walter Lenkau, Justus Ruhrti, Louie V. Sterling, William 8. W. 8cott. O. H. Finlay, Franklin C. B. Hopkins, John W. Wlndels, Car8. A. John Stroud, Dunn, Hugh F. William Uayne, Edward ney, Diercka, Leon Israel, Arthur 1L Lam-borLewis W. Mlnford, in their own right and as representatives of th members of the exchange and the association. It was asked that writs of subpoena be Issued requiring the defendant to appear and answer for themselves and for those they represent, but not under oath, th allegations contained In - the petition. A hearing on the- injunction request waa asked for within ten days and It waa requested that after preliminary injunction ha expired th defendants be perpetually enjoined fropf mainexchange taining and operating th and the association in so far aa they deal in, or purport to deal in sugar, and from establishing hereafter any similar organisation! whose operation affects the price of sugar. -: Perpetual, tnjunctle. s The court also waa asked to perpetually enjoin the defendants from publishing la any newspaper any prices for raw or refined sugar as purporting 'go represent th market price of th commodity. Th statement Is mad In the government bill that during the period from February 1 to the present, th situation in the United State and throughout fhe world in relation to any available storks of raw sugar haa been more favorable than at aay time within the laat three year. Production of can and beet sugar for 121-2the bill said, was approximately ton greater than in tho pre1,000,04 and the estimated proceding year 1922-2Is 621 400 3 ton duction for commore than for 1921-2Th merce department, It was aaid, had world producestimated th 1922-2- 3 tion at 19.000,611 ton, an Increase of 1,900,000 over 192L The situation in the principal porta of the United States, and the United States as a whole, on April 1923, waa much more favorable than in th bill aaid. There April. 1922, existed during this period no economic Justification for a sudden or appreciable increase in the price of raw or refined sugar, or for any increase." Comparative Figures. Comparative figures as to the total tales mad In February and March of .this year and of other years were prevented to the court to substantiate the charge that an orgy of speculation In raw sugar has been indulged in through the instrumentality of th exchange and clearing house association." Brokers commissions, it waa declared, averaged during February more than 140,000 each trading. The defendants, by the methods described in the petition. It was alart still engaged in carrying leged, out their unlawful combination, and conspiracy unlawfully and unreasonably to enhance prices and to prevent the lowering of prices of raw and refined sugar and are pursuing unabated their operations with It waa declared that unless seal, the Court promptly Issued, its injunction, prices wilt be maintained at a an irreparable level constituting puhlie Injury," Numerous essentia! Industries, said the hill, having to do with th of fruit canning and preservation and the manufacture of confection and other foodstuffs In which sugar is aa essential Ingredient will be compelled by such abnormally high prices to largely restrict their purchases of sugar in interstate and foreign commence and thus largely curtail production of such commodities and foodstuffs entering Into interstate and foreign trade and commerce to the irreparable injury of all such Industries and of ail th people pf the United State. Government Contention. - ' Th government said that it waa making no complaint against tb exchange and the association In regard to their operations in any other commodity than sugar, but added that any decree issued should be without prejudice to. the right of the government to institute proceedings to regulate trading . in other things should It be found desirable later. It wee estimated in th bill that every advance of t cent per pound In th price of refined sugar coats consumer tn the United Ftates approximately 92,060.000 a Week. In Its arraignment of th exchange and the clearing house association, which constituted aa unprecedented chapter In legal proceedings, the government adid. Sal exchanges and said clearing association serve no legitimate purpose in the marketing of sugar. They exist only as a means of contracting and speculating' with "reference to mu police of sugar which in many cases do not exist, and of manipulating the prices of raw and refined sugar wlthqut regard to conditions actually obtaining la th Industry and regard'esa of the law of supply and demand and solely for Illegitimate gambling or speculating profits to the enrichment of th parties to snch operations and frequently to the injury snd detriment of those actually engaged in the business of producing and refining sugar snd at all times to the serious injury of the consuming public. Th hearing on th governments application for a temporary Injunction evil! be held April 20 unless a postponement is granted by th court. raw-sug- n. 2, 2. 1. ' I Summary of U. S. Government Plea Criminal Proceedings May Follow .Action to Prevent " T rading . in Futures on Market The governments bill asks court to permanently prevent th the New York Coffee and 8ugar exchange from entering into or permitting any transactions In sugar unless the person' purporting to make such sale has In his possession or under hia control a supply of sugar adequate to meet the requirement of such transact! on. , The government pro bah y Will request the courts to declare Invalid individual contract involved in th"iy;eculation complained of and issue an order preventing settlements between traders. The action is rsquested. the government says, aa a result of an orgy of speculation which haa driven up the prices of sugar to the consumer and which during February enriched the pocket-booof brokers by- - 2900.000. r WASHINGTON. Criminal April prosecutions may follow an Injunction suit filed In New York today by the federal government to protect the 'public' against exorbitant sugar , prices. Tha first phase of the government's action against the alleged sugar conspiracy was completed with, institution of .the civil Injunction proceedings to prevent speculative trading on th New York sugar exchange.. Th criminal phase waa held 4k abeysne. but Acting Attorney General Seymour A "conspiracy tn restraint of announced that it waa under serious trade sad oommaroe" is charged, and officials of tha err hang and eonsidsraUon. of th New York Coffe and Huger Final decision regarding criminal Clearing House asaorlation, against action waa said offlciaUy to be bewhich th injunction would e directed jointly with tho exchange, fore Attorney General Daugherty. are asked to appear in court and who Is now at Asheville, N. C. He answer th government allegaI waa th personally active In drafting tions. nf Injunction1 sult7'bsed'o- the" Sher t The court waa advised In thp bill man antitrust law and antitrust pro-- I that th exchange and the cleanof th Wilson tariff act and vision ing bouse association serve no waa said to be considering a request or useful purpose in legttimat marketing In Interstate and forupon the federal' grand jury in New eign commerce of raw and refined York for criminal indictment, under sugar, but ext only as a means th of contracting and speculating conspiracy provisions of tha Sher- As a result. It was added, man act, of defendants named in tolevels are established whichprice art days civil aulL and artifiwholly speculative Tariff Not Factor. cial. Another development today In th are the most sugar situation wua a report to PresThs proceedings sweeping ever instituted by the ident Harding by the tariff ooromfx-io- n federal government in Ua effort which found that duties of th to curb specula lion in ths necessities of life. new tariff act were not a factor in the recent increase in sugar prices, Th commlaaion declared the Increase was due to other causes and Action-Cause- s that if the tariff ws reduced or removed the tendenev would be to decrease production of Amerioin beet sugar and Increase imports of tho for. Sign product. ( ' Th governments action In the New injunction suit designed to close Futures Market York tho New. York coffee and sugar exSugar change snd the New York Cofie and Breaks Stocks Hit Sugar Clearing association, Ine., to future or speculative trading In sugar was unusually News apeedy and vigorous. by ft BTeo constituted a new and extraur- 1 of antitrust legal development dinary tion Suit. , attempt !u atop prosecutions in Its speculation mf a commodity exa precedent which, if finally XEW YORK, April i9. United change. established by the supreme court, States Attorney William Hayward government counsel said, might lend filed th clrU suit for th government to important future expansion of tn Sherman laws effect At the Wh.ts today to enjoin the New York Cof-fHouse It was said It would be novel and Sugar exchange and its clear- and important to determine for th ing association from further trad- future whether th government haa in ing In sugar future unless backed the power to prevent speculation In clothing, and also foodstuffs up by actual ownership or control of prices of whioh hav a to tendency th sugar dealt with. Subpoenas fluctuate abnormally. were issued for twenty-thre- e member Long Inquiry Precedes. , Two months of active investigation and offlcera of th exchange and Its coungovernment agents in this clearing association for a hearing by try and Cuba preceded filing of th April SB on the application of th govinjunction suit. Although the de- -' ernment for a preliminary injunction partment of Justice plana were known to a considerable number of against trading In sugar futures pendth move made today we ing n filial bearing. clothed in secrecy, no indication beInvestigators of th department of ing given that the government Consuch drastic action. Justice, who prepared th ground for templated Officials explained thst the civil th governments action, refused to proceedings properly came first in discuss the stole moot of Assistant At- the governments procedure, the detorney General Seymour in Washing- sign being to use the injunction to ton that there whs Possibility of prevent further increases tn raw criminal proceedings in the course of sugar prices, which are reflected te tho government investigation of the the family sugar bowl through th The crimihigh price of sugar. They wen only wholesaler and retailer. going to attempt to do on thing at nal phase logically would follow, officials said, if Attorney h time, they said. General United States Attorney Hayward, In Daugherty determines that th warrants conviction on conspia statement announcing the action of the government, aaid. This la a racy charges of those in .the alleged united effort on th part of the Unit- combination which It is charged reed States officials charged with the sulted in th skyrocketing of sugar enforcement of tho law and protec- prices since early February. Still another line of attack was tion of the people of tho oountry to make the gambler in sugar remote probable, aimed at the profits of their roulette wheel from th Ameri- rthose involved in - sugar speculations. can breakfast table. Acting Attorney General Seymour Mid that in the Injunction proceedMarket Breaks. th probably wou.d ings Th raw sugar futures market moke an government additiorsi prayer to th which opened f to 10 points higher court not contained in todays petithan .yesterday's close, broke badly tion, striking at the profits of specuwhen the .news of (ha government s lators, It la proposed to ask the injunction proceedings reached the court for an order annulling th floor. Quotations for September raw speculative trades since February futures dropped perpendicularly 69 and prevent settlements being mode customers. This broker between and points, from 4.79 cents to 6.90 cents, within n few minutes after the new also was said to be another unprecedented move in antitrust litigation. Osatismd ss Pegs Three . .mss , ess Fordney-McCurnbe- r- Court Stir r and of-lnjun- c- -- os , ofu-clal- s, evl-de- (Osleaui Fnr.i Larkin Under Arrest; Will Deport Agitator Now Is the Time James NEW YORK, April It, Larkin, recently pardoned by Governor Smith sad released from Bing Bing- prison, where he was serving a . term, for criminal anarchy, waa arrested today and token to Ellis island on a, warrant of deportation. Ihe warrant, issued March 13, 192J. following a hearing at Ossining, N. Y . was signed by Secretary of labor Davie. It characterised Larkin a a an alien anarchiM and ordered his deportation after his release from prison. lark in eeme to this country from Ireland in November. 1914. after having been well known there as the organiser of dock and transport work-erIn this country he was active In labor circles until in November, 1919, he and thirteen others were Convicted of criminal anarchv. 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