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Show DID ML HR " SOAK GOVERNMENT? mNTS FORNEY BENERAI. HIN.LAT PROSECUTION UNDER LEVER ACT. EVtHn6 tUbm'Ued 0f AI,eSed Profl. Says Nebeker, Who Promises Case Will De Preed. ttiHilngloii. -inquiry will be begun at once Into ,l(. rlm ch , 0 wyornment for n,n ,t H.ar. Acting Attorney (jL.or(ll Nc)ll.ker linil0UnKl, Saturday on receipt of the findings of io senate committee on reconstruc- lon, which has been lnetslgatlng the sale of fuel to thy war department nil other brunches of the government during the shortage. Prices asked government departments depart-ments for coal as set forth In the com-inlttee's com-inlttee's report, the acting attorney genernl snld, appeared to warrant and 'wen require," Investigation by the lopartineiit of Justice. Prosecution" will be Instituted nnd pressed to th limit, he added, Miould the facts developed de-veloped bear out the evidence submitted submit-ted ny the committee. It would nppear on the face of tho report, Mr. Nebeker said, that prices :luirged the government for coal were exorbitant to a degree, and that nctlon would lie under the Lever act for profiteering. Names of more than n score of concerns who had supplied coal to the government were listed by tl' co ilttee, he added, but would not be announced, pending an Investigation, Investi-gation, which would Include u study o; statistics of coal costs, prices .'hnrged and the committee's estimate of what would have been u fair margin of profit. Itepllcs to telegrams of Inquiry sent it chambers of commerce nnd municipal munici-pal nuthorlt'es over tho country by the senate coal Investigating committee commit-tee began coming In Saturday unit were said to Indicate that retail coal prices were on tho decline. |