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Show DID GOAL BARONS SOAK GOVERNMENT? i i i ! ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL HINTS AT PROSECUTION ! UNDER LEVER ACT. Evidence Submitted of Alleged Profiteering Profi-teering Seems to Require Action, Says Nebtker, Who Promises Case Will Be Pressed. Washington. Inquiry will lie Infill! lit once into tin- prices charged the government for coal last year. Acting Attorney General Xebeker announced Saturday on receipt of the finding-; of the senate committee on reconstruc-tion, reconstruc-tion, which has been in etsigating the sale of fuel to the war leinrlineni anil other branches of the government during the shortage. Prices asked government departments depart-ments for coal as set forth in the committee's com-mittee's report, the acting attorney general said, appeared to warrant and "even mini re," investigation by the department of justice. Prosecutions will be instituted and pressed to the limit, he added, should the facts developed de-veloped bear out the evidence submitted submit-ted by the committee. It would appear on the face of the report, Mr. Xebeker said, that prices charged the government for coal were exorbitant to a degree, ahd that action would lie under the Lever act for profiteering. Names of more than a score of concerns who had supplied coal to the government were listed by the committee, he added, but would not be announced, pending an investigation, investi-gation, which would include a study of statistics of coal costs, prices charged and the committee's estimate of what would have been a fair margin of profit. Replies to telegrams of inquiry sent to chambers of commerce and municipal munici-pal authorities over the country by the senate coal investigating committee commit-tee began coming in Saturday and were said to indicate that retail coal prices were on the decline. |