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Show FOOD CONSPIRACY it CAUSES HEAVY LOSS 11 NEW YORK, Juno 21. Charging H that the "underworld of the food W trade" conspired to create food short- W ages and boost prices, Edwin J. O'Mal- ley, commissioner of public markets, M I today appealed for the establishment 9 of a terminal market system through ft which the city could control distribu- I tion of perishable foodstuffs. jH ! Hundreds of millions of dollars have H been .lost to the consumers through this conspiracy, which has five times . , 1H threatened tho city with famine, Mr ffl O'Mal ley asserted. Prominent mer- Vfl chants and bankers were either di- Wm rectly or Indirectly Involved, he said, H |