THE INQUIRY INTO ~~ (000 PAIGE President Asks Department of Justice to Act. TO LOCATE CONSPIRACY Those Responsible For Sudden Rise in Cost Of Living Will Be Prosecuted-—Big Cities Aroused, Washington, D. C.—President Wil- son directed the Department of Jus- tice Immediately to institute a search- ing Investigation into the causes of the tidden rise In prices of foodstuffs. Attorney-General McReynolds, a few hours later, set in motion the ma- chinery for the probe. He first asked Secretary of Commerce Redfield for co-operation, and the experts of that department will be put at the service of the Department of Justice. The determined way in whieh the President took hold of the food situa- tion upon his return from the South shows that the whole force of the Ad- ministration will be thrown into the investigation fer the purpose of punish. ing the “food gougers.” Will Start In Baltimore. The inquiry will first be prosecuted in Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Detroit, Kansas City, Port- land, Beattie, Omaha, Louisville, Gal veston, St. Paul, Denver, San Fran. cisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Dallas, Atlanta, Norfolk and New Orleans. The following letter was sent to United States District Attorneys in those cities by Attorney-General Me Reynolds: “The department, by its special agents in various parts of the country, has instituted an investigation into | the marked increases in the price of | foodstuffs since the outbreak of the European war, with a view of ascer- taining whether the Increases are due to any combination of combinations in restraint of trade or other unlawful actions. Please co-operate by com- municating to the department any in-| formation which you obtain on the sub- | ject, together with your opinion in re-| epect of the appropriate action to be taken.” May Ask For Legislation, If Attorney-General McReynolds de- termines that there is no law under which the “food gougers” can be pun- ished, the President will ask legisla- | som [epods ® uj s¥auSuo) WoL} won | sage. The President's Letter. President Wilson's letter lo Attor- ney-General McReynolds was as fol lows: “The rapid and unwarranted In} crease in the prices of foodstuffs in| this country upon the pretext of the | eonditions existing in Europe 1s £9] the liberty of calling your attention! to it. { “1 would be very much obliged if you! would advise me whether there is, un- | der existing law, any action which the | Department of Justice could take, either by way of investigation or legal | process, and what Federal legislation, | if any, would in your judgment be justifiable and warrantable in the cir | cumstances. ! “I feel that this is a matter which | we cannot let pass by without trying | to serve the country. Certainly the | country ought to be defended, if pos-| sible, against men who would take ad-| vantage of such circumstances to in-| crease the price of food and the dif. culties of living.” Department Of Justice Ready. Attorney-General McReynolds at! once replied to the President as fol lows: “I have your letter of August 13, in reference to the unwarranted increase in the price of foodstuffs. “The head of our special agents has been Instructed to give directions to his men throughout the country to be gin investigations In order to ascer- tain the real facts, and I am sending the various district attorneys similar instructions. This should enable us to secure some definite information in respect of true conditions. “May I take the liberty of suggest. ting that perhaps the agents of the Department of Commerce could render valuable assistance along the linea in. dicated. . “When we have become somewhat more familiar with the exact situation I hope to be able to make you some suggestions in respect of legal pro- ceedings or appropriate legislation, “The department has for some time been making Investigations in various directions concerning the price of food. stuffs.” ITALIANS GUARD FRONTIERS. Big Force Mobilized Along Swiss and Austrian Borders. Geneva, Switzerland. — Italy has mobilized between 200,000 and 250,000 troops on the Swiss and Austrian frontiers as a precautionary measure. All the high passes over the Alps, such as the Theodule above Zermatt, are strongly held and Swiss and Italian patrols meet there and exchange their impressions of the war. ’ (Copyright) REGISTRY OF FOREIGN VESSELS Bill Permits Ships to Be Trans- ferred to U. 8S. Flag. NO TROUBLE TO MAKE CHANGE Foreign Owners Will Merely Have To Get State Charter and Turn Over Their Vessels To the Corporation, rs Washington, D. C.—The conference committee representing the House and | Senate agreed upon a ship registry | bill which {a8 to be presented to the two houses at once and rushed through with all possible dispatch. Under the terms of the conference bill foreign ships of any age may be transferred to the American flag from the date the measure is approved by the President. The only condition fixed Is that they shall be owned either by Americans or be corporations char- tered under the laws of Congress or under the laws of any State. What the Bill Provides. This means, therefore, that the cor porations in question do not have to be controlled by Americans. The Cummins amendment, added in the! have at least a majority interest in | these corporations, was stricken out. ! All that foreign ship owners have to | do is to get a State charter and trans-| fer their vessels to the corporation | thus chartered without regard to the | nationality of the shareholders. Sante Domingo and Panama Treaties Heid Up. Washington, D. C.—Eighteen of the 20 peace treaties with foreign nations, | providing for commissions of Inquiry | before resort to arms in international | disputes, which ordinary resources of iplomacy fall to settle, were ratified by the Senate. The treaties with the Dominican Republic and Panama were held up for further consideration. Treaties ratified are with Norway, The Netherlands, Portugal, Switzer land, Denmark, Italy, Salvador; Gua- temala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Persia, Costa Rica, Venezuela, | Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Chile. | Postponement of action on the pacts | the Dominican Republic and | Panama was determined upon after! spirited debate over present relations | between the United States and those republics. The United States is now engaged In attempting to settle a revo. lution in San Domingo, and it was sug. gested that the pending agreement might conflict with existing treaties. i SENATOR WILLIAMS IN HUFF. Tenders Resignation From Foreign Relations Committee. Washington, D. C Senator John Sharp Williams resigned as a member of the Forelgn Relations Committee because, he declared, the committee had hesitated to support the Adminis. tration’s policy as to mediation and be- cause of ita “equally disgusting atth tude” regarding the purchase of ships to carry cotton and other goods abroad. Vice President Marshall ruled Senator Williams’ resignation out of order and an appeal was voted down. Senator Willlams dramatically left the chamber alone. For years he has been an ardent advocate of peace, KILLS FATHER, THEN HIMSELF, in Illinois Resulted From Quarrel! Over $12. Clinton, lll--In a quarrel over $12 in accounts, Porter Spencer, aged 48 years, a farmer, shot and killed his father, John Spencer, aged 78 years, near here. The quarrel started be. tween Porter and his brother Thomas, When the father interfered, Porter shot him. After chasing his brother into a cornfield, Porter turned the gun Tragedy on himself and blew out his brains. URDERS TRUST 10° DISSOLVE Court Holds Harvester Trust is Monopoly. JUDGE SANBORN DISSENTS Controls More Than Eighty Per Cent Of the Trade In Necessary Farm Implements, Saye the Decision. St. Paul he International Har vester Company was declared to be a monopoly in restraint of interstate and foreiga trade and was ordered dis solved by a majority decision filed here by Judges Smith and Hook in the United States Court Judge Walter H. Sanborn dissented. Unless the corporation submits a plan for dissolution within 90 days the court will entertain an application for A receiver Judge Hook, concurring, said: “The International Harvester Com pany is not the result of the normal growth of the fair enterprise of an in tion. On the contrary, It was created by combining five great competing companies which controlled more than 80 per cent. of the trade In necessary farm implements, and it still main tains a substantial dominance “That is the controlling fact: all else is detall. It may be, as is sald, that there is a growing recognition of the need of great concentrated re sources for trade and commerce, even though secured by combination of in dependent, competing concerns. But that is not the Sherman act, and a statute must be taken by the courts as a true estimate of the preponder ance of public opinion, which calls for legislative expression. It is not for them to question whether that opinion was rightly weighed or interpreted whether it Is wise or unwise or whether it has since changed. Business Is Falr, “It Is but just, however, to say and to make it plain that in the main the business conduct of the company to wards its competitors and the public has been honorable, clean and fair Some petly dishonesties were tracked in at the start, mostly by subordinates who had been in the service of the old companies, but they were soon gotten rid of. In this connection it should also be sald that specific charges of misconduct were made in the govern ment’s petition, which found no war. rant whatever In the proof. They were of such a character and there was so much of them apparently without foun: dation that the case is exceptional in that particular.” The decision is by a divided court and the case will not be ended until the Supreme Court has sald the last word. PESTS CAUSE MILLIONS LOSS, Hesslan Fly and Army Worm Cost Farmers $10,000,000. Columbia, Mo.--The Hessian fly and the army worm, in the damage done to crops, outside of corn alone, cost the farmers of Missouri about $10. 000,000 this year. This is a conser vative estimate made by Leonard Haseman, State Entomologist. Great damage was done to corn also, but no estimate of the monetary loss can be made because the army worm did the damage at a time when the farmers could replant. DOG UPSETS BOAT; MAN DROWNS Wiliam Mummert Loses Mis Life In Codorus Creek. York, Pa—Willlam Mummert, aged 34 years, was drowned In Codorus creek here. Mummert was Rolng bath. ing with Frank Helman. They got In a small boat and were rowing along the creek, when It is thought the motion of a dog which accompanied them upset the boat. Mummert, whe could not swim, sank. Hellman swam to shore. Wha a CARBAJAL QUITS in the Night. I —————— HOLDS REBELS RESPONSIBLE A— { RAISING SQUABS FOR PROFIT EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS PRO- | DUCED FROM SMALL TRACT, | Plot of Ground About 30 by 40 Feet | in Size Proved itself Worthy of Time, Effort and Small Ex- pense Put Upon it, Fifteen miles from the busiest dis- produced extraordinary results. It is Successor To Huerta Leaves Mani. festo Saying He Has Done His Best To Save Country From Further Bloodshed. Mexico City.—Provisional President Carbajal left Mexico City on a special train for Vera Cruz. The city ia quiet When the inhabitants of the federal capital awakened Thursday morning the arsenals were empty, the barracks were deserted and the provisional president of the republic, as well as the members of his cabinet, had van- ished. on & special train bound for Vera Cruz. behind him a manifesto to the nation saying that he bad done his best in & provisional capacity to save the country from that his peaceful overiures had been met on the part of the Constitution alists by uncompromising demands for an unconditional surrender. Two paths lay before him, he said, to fight or to accede to the Constitutionalists. Under such conditions the President claimed that his government could no iouger exist, and he concluded: Preparations for the reception of the triumphant Constitutionalist army in the capital are under way. A commit. tee, consisting of senators and deputies of the old Madero congress has been appointed to General Carranza as he enters the city, business houses have been requested to decorate and ar- rangements have been made for wom- én to strew the path of the incomin army with flowers. The departures of Provisional Pres! dent Carbajal and his cabinet caused no interruption in the normal life of the capital, but for the first time In its history Mexico finds itself without legislative, judicial or executive power. When the Constitutionalists enter the city they will find it without money, Arms or ammunition. A formal peace pact between the Constitutionalist Army and the Fed. eral government was signed dy Gen. eral Obregon, representing the Con stitutionalists, and Eudaro Iturbe, gov- ernor of the Federal district document forms the basis under which the Constitutionalists will enter the capital It sets forth in general terms guar antees of the life and property of citl tens of the capital and promises an absolutely peaceful occupation. The pact was drawn up at the request of the State Department at Washington, mest it. the put upon Almost all of ordinary table can be found | plece of ground | ing in the summer bills. Lettuce, radishes and onions wers the first arrivals, and came in such | The amount of | choice lettuce that can be raised in al t by 6-foot bed is surprising, and this afforded a of | ealad material a a. Onions of raised, and in fore others were ground In July beets and were ready use, and again may put forward the argument in {a vor of the small garden on suburban namely, that there {8 no compari et the products, and ready vegetables of you rly part of August the to n, and by raising ¢ i8 a constant supply of $ fre . de frost cut one constant ry . - il the summer supply fresh i! Beas varieties were planted | several that were | those the even out of the cucumbers for one lots, ween dried-up, expensive fresh, eve own growing the r ¥ * th #4 iid 106 £4 matoes ripe rieties the ua ount off the them until t % g process, but leave which m ngle box was 1 » berries were large an uced had proved 4 ¥ hua tal amount pre was 50 quarts wond lerberry Pert a a ’ #803 also, this nev here that this was absolutely sary stitutionalists, combatted the idea of signing any documents, saying uncon- ditional surrender was the right of hia conquering army bate over the question, however, a compromise was effected under which | General Obregon signed for the Consti tutionalists. RUSSIANS TAKE TOWN. Sokal, Austrian Galicia, Reported Car ried By Assault, St. Galicia, by assault, inflicting heavy according to a semi-official announce | ment. The Austrian garrison consisted of lancers and a regiment of Hussars | After dislodging them the Russian cav alry pursued the Austrians across the River Bug and blew up two bridges and a viaduct Several houses In Sokal, which is 45 miles northeast of Lemberg, were set the Russian troops because civilians bad fired from them on the attacking force. . LIVES WITH BROKEN BACK. Gardener Struck By Auto Expected To Recover. White Plains, N. Y.—Although his back is broken at the walst line Henry Tolapks, of Purchase, has lived for 19 days in St. Agnes’ Hospital here, and he has shown so remarkable a re sponse to treatment that it is ex pected he will recover. He was a gardener for Louis B. Rolston, of Pur. chase, and was struck by a delivery automobile on July 25. Dr. Henry Vier removed the broken bone and put the patient In a plaster cast. WILL STAND NEUTRAL “ Ambassador At Paris Tells itailans Te Have No Fear. Paris. — Tommaso Tittonl, Italian Ambassador to France, issued and had posted at the Italian Embassy and io the Italian quarters of Paris a signed notice stating that. “italy has pro eclatmed and will maintain the strictest neutrality. Therefore there is no need for Italians to be alarmed. They may continue to reside In France In ITALY Some of the Results From a Small Kitchen Garden. rightly named, in that the number of 00 one won- when the size of the vine is considered. vine is bore well, and #0 it was—one fruit af yet too young to bear, but are very | promising. The financial side of this enterprise netted $10 and the products of the currants and raspberries were worth | Not to go into further detail it is! | fair to estimate that this small gar den planted at an expense of not more than $1 for seed, has made a return of about $30, beside affording many ‘hours of healthful exercise to the | family. These results show how a little “pin | money” ‘could easily be made by util izing the back yards of suburban or city homes, True Economic System. The truest economic system of con: ducting any business is the one which makes every dollar of the capital em. ployed whether in bonds, land or stock, yield a suitable return in some shape; but bare field, unworked land will not do this and the farmer who attempts to make a profit is certainly not conducting his business on an economic princinle, Packing Poultry. Never pack poultry as long as one drop of water or onc degree of animal heat remains in their bodies. Never alow them to touch one another or anything which will retard the free full security.” circulation of the air around them. Some One With Whom He Is Personally Acquainted, Pigeons depreciate in value with They are cousidered be at their prime when three years old, and to thelr feed after they are seven years ding theses Professional dealers bree old pairs for from five cents, and then gell them to the unsuspecting : mated birds are) from pair pretty in thei BiXiy to seventy public {which dollars a I bree at two or three as a rule, wi for the first few months / quarters, but a source oil this reason a Such birds, well For birds is personally acquainted, or person guarantee not or nan from ome ons with else from ' who is willing to give a ily as rds “ why a the leg ba has bred them cialm to have done, he fair estin but as there {8 no way of verify- ing this ig to buy young birds and yourself statement the only safe plan mate them There are many varieties of pigeons used for squad producers, the most common is These are often crossed | that but probably the Homer are | i ~~) ~~ Sop ——— White Dragoon Cock. | Crop Is Important One and Farmer i Should Not Be Compelled to Buy Them for Table Use. Where potatoes are taken {rom the ' the that aii B4 forced to buy » use should look upon if as temporarily disgraced Enough | year by ¢ g for tan ©eNe Care feed 2 the second twelve Only in communities where i staple crop in dig important potatoes are spoiled digging 1 QD class for ry loss { the potato is the main an | is there any real care glug and handling this very | food crop. shown | USEFUL CHOPPER FOR ROOTS Any Blacksmith Can Make Device by Following Suggestions Given in Hlustration HMerewith, It's a slow and tedious job chopping rpots in large quantities, and if they are to be fed to animals, a great deal of time {8 required. Your blacksmith lowing the suggestions in the picture A Good Root Chopper. herewith. Take to him an old handle of some kind and have it insektel firmly in the chopper and fastened with screws, The edges of the chopper should be very sharp and the blade should be strong enough not to bend under vig orous chopping. Uniform Type in Colts, Breed the mares so as to secure, as far as possible, uniform type in the colts. This may mean the use of one stallion, or of three or four--but se cvre uniformity, Success of Orchardist. The measure of success of an or chardist depends upon his knowledge: of sprays and the ability to appl them at the proper time and in the right manner,
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