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Show FINED FOR PEDDLING PURE WHEAT FLOUR SALT LAKE, Aug. 22 Two men have been fined for peddling straight flour about the country without license, li-cense, and without requiring the purchase pur-chase of substitutes, and millers who first disposed of the stock to the peddlers are In a fair way to lose their milling rights. The men are J. II. Spencer and P. W. Harper, both of Pleasant Grove, Salt Lake county. They were arraigned ar-raigned before W. W. Armstrong, federal fed-eral food and fuel administrator, yesterday yes-terday afternoon, found guilty and "fined. "fin-ed. Action will immediately bo taken against th millers selling them the flour. The amount paid over to tho food administrator will be sent to tho Red Cross. During the trial the fact developed that Spencer and Harper procured their supplies from mills located in the Uintah basin, and that many other oth-er persons are engaged in the trafficking traf-ficking in flour contrary to the laws and regulations of the foderal food administration. ad-ministration. The mills involved, it is alleged, have been selling flour freely 'to any person who applied for it with-lout with-lout substitutes. So extensive has this I illicit trading been carried on, according accord-ing to executives of the food administration, admin-istration, that even fishermen on va-J va-J cations have been able to procure large , amounts of flour from Uintah basin manufacturers to be smuggled Into Salt Lake. nrt |