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Show All States Respond To Palmer's Appeal I For Co-operation WASHINGTON, Aug 11 Attorney General Palmer today received "en thusiastic" assent from virtually all state food administrators of whom he lacked co-opratlon In the goVernmt ttt's efforts to redf;ci the high cost of liv-ing. liv-ing. At the same time he sent in istructions to all district attorneys to !ge In touch with the food administrators adminis-trators and to act at onte on any evl-dence evl-dence of law violation. Any attempt of the district attorneys I also was called to the attention to th "unlimited availability" of the secret .service for any investigation work ne-jeensary ne-jeensary to ;he punishment of hoarders and profiteers I Living problems continued to absorb ab-sorb much of tho attention of con gress Federal supervision of the is- suance of the stocks and certificates was proposed in the senate Cold storage regulation suggested by President Pres-ident Wilson was taken up by the house agriculture committee. Europe's import of food from this country, par ticularly that purchased with the -rlim,. 000,( fund Ahich President Wilson said was necessary to stop the westward west-ward spread of Dolshevisism. drew the fire of Senator Myers, who declared people abroad were bujins American products cheaper than thvy could be pun based at home. President Wilson 'a suggestion that COnj r BS COIlld show what can be done to control mounting prices by r4mod -ins the extortion rampant in the District Dis-trict of Columbia, resulted in the draft ing of a bill by the district comiuls sloners in conjunction with Chairman Murdock of the federal trade commission, commis-sion, which would license all dealers in food, fuel and wearing apparel, with the licences revokable on proof of pio-fiteennc; pio-fiteennc; Retail food merchants are beginning to feel the effects ot the distribution distribu-tion of surplus foodstuffs bv the war department, it was indicated today, -when the department announced of filially that prices on certain foods were being readjusted "to make them accord with reductions which have oc curred (since August .i) in the retail market on similar commodities of like grade." |