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Show IULU t t SUGAR PRICES ICTOR OF ORGANIZATION WIT GLARES PEOPLE ARE IN t 'AIR WAY TO DE ROBDED ral Grand Jury le Urged to Hear Chai rcckels Claim Hoover Depart- rr nent Aide Gamblers; Manly Sends Letter to Harding slngtoa. Demands for as la. Ml ration of fluctuations In the su- ot u anrket, mado during the closing of congress by Western sens- to wero revived Thursday by pub- ceJ on ot a letter written to Presl- j Harding by Basil Manly, dlrec- the it the Beoplo's Legislative serv- mem :harglng that the American peo- not i 'ore In a fair way ot being rob- Part; f $500,000,000 "for the benefit-ot had gamblers and profiteers." J"1" is suggested," said Mr. Manly, JB. s organization was formed by gen ors of the progressive bloc in jle ess, that as one ot the first care sses the federal grand jury ed t d hoar Claus Spreckles, presl. tions ot tho Federal Sugar Iletlnlng aolut any, who has publicly stated offI?1 the sugar gamblors, "aided by onfJ lopnrtment ot commerce," have pJjj enabled to rob tho Amorlcan nton e ot millions ot dollars." jj( , Manly declarod tho irlso dn nrus; i had their sole basis, "so tar serto 0 public Is Informed," lu a state- clals Issued by tho department of ed a lorco on Fobruary 0, which was Vcr81 ireted by "all tho nowspapor" as u ctlng a great shortage of sugar g tho coming year, nnd that nl- c)mni h Secretary Hoovor had de- this ' 1 tho statomcnt was mlslnter- reall; 1, tho oponlng sentence was so lmpo id ns to "sond prices leaping curit; rd." coran |