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Show SUGAR IN Wondering if There Is to Be a Further Hunt for. "Higher-Ups" I New York. Jan. 17. Arraignment ot ! indicted f ugar mcnpAaywas awaited with Interest and with trepedatlonlh somo quarters where there was press- lng anxiety to learn whether tho government gov-ernment was going to proceed further in sugar underwelghlng frauds prose-I prose-I cutlonn. There has been somewhat of a conflict con-flict of statements as to whether, now that Charles R. Holke. secretary of tbe American Sugar Refining company, com-pany, has been hailed Into court for alleged conspiracy, the government would ?o ahead with its search foi men "higher up." "Helke 1b the man we were after." has been stated In prominent circles, but tho prosecuting officials themselves them-selves have, up to today, declined to say whether or not there would he further digging Into the mystery as to who gave the orders for susar employes to work cheating scales on the Williamsburg sugar docks. Plea-s of not guilty were expected from Helke and other men named in the sugar frauds in the blnnqet Indictment Indict-ment with the possible Alternative that demurrers would be interposed for some or all of them. |