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Show PRICES OF SHOES BE INVESTIGATED Want One Dollar a Day More Wages In Order Not Strike. WASHINGTON. Aug. 19 With adoption of the Igoe resolution, directing direct-ing tho federal irade commission to investigate iucrja.--d shut- prif1-. tho house today took first leeislath e ;c tlon toward reduction of the high cost Of living. Previously the house voted down an amendment which would have extended extend-ed the inquiry to othr articles of clothing and food. The house agriculture committer, considering legislation to extend the food control act to other necessities jof life, to extend the powers of the act beyond the war time period to give the president authority to fix fair prims for necessities and to provide penalties for hoarding, today contiu lied its hearings Tomorrow Attorney !General Palmer will appear before ihe committee. The senate agriculture committee, after some members had held that thj J legislation as proposed by the attor ney I Deral did not clearly define v.'hat .constituted profiteering, boarding, postponed final action today Reports to the postofflce department today indicated that the war department's depart-ment's food surplus which was cf ifered to consumers yesterday through Hi" parcels post was meeting with a I ready sale. Assistant Postmaster Gen-ural Gen-ural Docker? today instructed post- masters that no war stamp tax was applicable to parcels post shipments I of army foodstuffs |