Logan Republican | 1914-09-05 | Page 7 | Drug Stocks Being Rapidly Depleted

DRUG STOCKS BEING RAPIDLY DEPLETED New ork, Sept. 3. Druggists were not Justified because of tho European waf In increasing the prlco of drugs until tho stocks they had on hand at tho beginning of hostilities ci;e oxlinusted, according to D. W. Mac Lean, secretary of :i drug company, who testified today before Chief Magistrate Mag-istrate McAdoo In District Attorney Wliltmau's JoIu Doo, Inquiry Into high food prices, Albert Clouch, vice president of tho Wholesale DrugglBta of New York, said tho Importation of drugs from tho countries at war virtually htid ceased and that, other sources of supply must be found. Prices had been advanced, ho declared, because be-cause the supply on hand whs grow-Ing grow-Ing smaller each day and it soon will bo impossible to buy various artl-"clcs artl-"clcs at any price.