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Show RETAIL HEALERS FAOIipil Concerted Action Taken to Advance Prices and Federal Fed-eral Action. PRICES NOT JUSTIFIED Governor of Kansas Overwhelmed Over-whelmed With Letters of Protest. TOPBKA, Kans., Oct. 12. Declaring that "concerted action by retail dealers deal-ers in advancing prices to unreasonable unreason-able figures apparently with a determination deter-mination to ignore federal action is producing a lack of confidence in authority auth-ority which must Inevitably provo injurious," in-jurious," Governor Capper todnv enr a letter to Harry A. Garfield, federal coal administrator, calling his attention atten-tion to "the extremely unsatisfactory condition of the retail coal market in the state of Kansas." "A careful Inquiry has developed no justification for tho prices now prevailing," pre-vailing," writes the governor. "Prolonged "Pro-longed delay on the part of the federal government in giving our people the relief they had expected from a situation situa-tion which has become intolerable, has created widespread unrest. This condition con-dition of mind finds expression in an overwhelming number of letters now coming to my desk in every mall." oo - |