Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-18 | Page 1 | Wealthy Woman Yelps at Paying $1 for Lemonade

'WEALTHY .WOMAN YELPS AT PAYING ! $1 FOR LEMONADE; NEW YORK, April 17 Even the rjch yell when they're gouged! When the "flying squadron" of the department of justice invaded in-vaded this city to hunt for profiteering, prof-iteering, most of the complaints which greeted it wereirom poor people. Now the rich are grnm-, grnm-, bling, too. kThe most recent cpmplaint is ) from a well-known society wo-' wo-' map, whose name is withheld, .alleging that at a dance given in -af'ashionable hotel $1 had been charged for a glass of lemonade. lem-onade. "The lemonade was weak at that, and I might add that alL the waiters were Grermcins, ' ' the woman's letter concluded. So far the quest of the "flying" "fly-ing" squadron" has not yielded any definite results. number of cases, it is said, are ready for action. To complaints that in other cities nost of the "flying squad-rone's squad-rone's ' ' j:rpsecutiqn have hit-J hit-J Imaflnajiers and', jobbers,,. A.. W. Riley, head of the squadron, replies : "No man is too big for us to j prosecute, and string-pulling will be of absolutely no avail."