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Show 00 Foodstuffs Are Being Seized by the Government WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Close cooperation co-operation between state authorities, who possess detailed information of food and price conditions, and the attorney at-torney general and his staff of assis-ants, assis-ants, empowered to enforce the food control law, is being established as part of the government's fight to re uuce the cost of living. Instructions went out today from At torney General Palmer to the two d!l trict attorneys in Ohio to proceed im 1 mediately! to assist Governor Cox iu the seizure of large, quantities of meat, 1 butter and eggs alleged to have been held In storage in that state tor more than six to ten months, the legal limit Criminal prosecutions will be institu'-ed, institu'-ed, it was said, if it can be shown thai the foods were held from the market for tho purpose of boosting prices. Officials here were inclined to think that the long period of shortage indicated indi-cated some other reason than and el fori to spread the abundant supplied of a producing season over the lean part of the year. Acting on a telegram late today from Governor Cox, saying that a Cleveland concern in order to escape possible prosecution lor hoarding was moving its meat products to warehouses In Chicago and destroying Its records, thc department of Justice ordered the district dis-trict attorney at Cleveland to look lojn 1 1 he matter Immediately All attempt to effect transfer of goods in storage, officials said, would be summarily dealt with. Seizure of large stocks of foodstuff in storage continued today with re-1 re-1 ports received of libels filed In Cleveland Cleve-land and Detroit and preparation? for jsuch action in many cities The de parlment was informed tonight ihat the district attorney at Detroit had filed libels in three cases and seized ! approximately 10,460,000 eggs and fl 300,000 pound.- of butter, all of whie'i Jl ' I bffw held in storage for som tim j fr Statistics announced by the bureau 'S of marketSi showing sn-at increa -i In the amount of food held in storaee. were said by Judge Ames, assistant to the attorney general in charge of enforcing en-forcing the food control law. to befir out the department's contention that a prime reason tor enhancing prices was the holding of supplies from th? !j market. J .irr going to lorce these hoarders hoard-ers and profit er-rs to disgorge," Judge Ime declared, "whererer ihrv an round hold greater amounts than arc necessary for the conduct of their DUSines I and the safeguarding of thi food Ituation during the winter." |