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Show HELPLESS 10 EliD SMUGIIIG GOVERNMENT UNABLE TO BRING GAMBLERS UNDER CON-SPIRARCY CON-SPIRARCY LAW Gathering of Records Covering Operations Opera-tions In Product by Federal Investigators Continued; Officials Reticent Washington, Tho government U helpless to prevent tho sugar goiu;e which la costing the American people a huge sum every day. Government officials havo evidence of tho operations of Bugar gamblers. They have u coiiHplracy law. They cannot bring tho gamblura under the law. That Is tho exact situation Saturday Satur-day whllo suar prices continue to climb. Tho trouble is that tho existing law does not Boem to cover such operations as the evidence In the hands of government officials Bhowi are being carried on. Thoro Is no doubt In officials minds of the guilt of certain indi. vlduals. Hut Ihey cannot find what they call "a point of departure" Id tho law from which to begin a prosecution that will stick. This explains the reticence of officials of-ficials from President Harding down on tho government's plans for relieving reliev-ing tho Amorlcan people from the sugar su-gar robbery. Tho only plan there Is constitutes : 1. Continuing to gather records covering operations in sugar. In Now York members of tho sugar exchange ex-change were called on by federal investigators for their records. -. Continuing a search for some way to slap tho law on them. Meantime, some of tho facts In tho government's possession may be given giv-en publicity from time to time, for two reasons first, to let the public know that tho prlco lncroase Is ar-tilliclal ar-tilliclal and not caused by any short-ago short-ago or other natural cause, and, second, sec-ond, to let tho sugar profiteers know that tho government knows what they are doing and how they are doing do-ing It. |