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PLANT YOUR GARDENS
NOW!
Conserve the Food Supply
And Live Better By
Raising Plenty of Vegetables.
Plant Early and Plow Often.
£ Fresh Seeds
just received at
Allen’s Drug and Seed Store
Help to provide for our soldiers who
are fighting to save your children
from Autocracy and Poverty, j
Buy United States Government War-Savings
Stamps and Thrift Stamps, which pay 4 per
cent compounded quarterly. A $5.00 stamp will
cost only $4.12 if purchased in January, $4.13 if
purchased in February. A “Thrift Card” is
furnished to all purchasers of 25-cent stamps.
Produce more and do not waste.
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It’s good, sound business sense for you to buy the
MAXWELL
A High-Grade Motoi Car, for $745 Factory. It shows
an appreciation of value without sacrificing any desira
ble feature in your car. Perfect motoring satisfaction—
without even a thought of extravagance—that’s what
makes the MAXWELL a “SENSIBLE CAR.”
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Phone 234 Lamar St
SHE AMERICUS HIMES-RECORDER.
CLOSE IIP STORES
OF THRHGROCERS
GOVERNMENT PROSECUTES MEN
WHO MADE ILLEGAL PROFITS IN
SUGAR—FOOD CONTROL LAW
BEING ENFORCED.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Three un
licensed retail grocers of Pittsburgh
M. Shapiro, M. Block and M. Gelman,
have been prosecutedl by the food ad
ministration for profiteering. They
have had their supplies of licensed
food commodities cut off by order of
the food administrator because of
“making unjust and unreasonable
charges in handling and dealing in
necessaries.” Other retailers through
out the country who have profiteered
will be treated in like manner'when
found guilty.
The order against the Pittsburgh
retailers has been sent to all per
sons in Pennsylvania, Virginia and
Ohio holding licenses under the food
control act, forbidding them “in any
wise to deal with, buy from, sell to or
make any sale of any licensed com
modity directly or indirectly to ’ the
partis concerned.
This case presents the first instance
io which it has been necessary for the
food administration to exercise its
power of indirect control over the re
tailer doing a business of less than
SIOOO,OOO a year. The state food ad
ministrator of Pennsylvania, is au
thorized at his discretion, provided
these retailers comply with the rules
of the food administration, to revoke
this order of the United States food
administrator.
Clear cases of profiteering in sugar
have been made out against each of
the accused. Sam Gelman appears to
have been the principal offender. Al
though conducting only an ordianry
retail grocery and fish business, about
Nov. 26, when the sugar shortage was
acute, he purchased over 25,000 pounds
of beet sugar at prices running from
$7.66 to $7.86 per 100 pounds, and sold
practically all of this sugar in whole
sale quantities to manufacturers at
prices far beyond the retail price at
the time prevailing in Pittsburgh. One
lot of 11,500 pounds he sold at 14 1-2
cents per pound and the rest at prices
running from 12 1-2 cents to 13 3-4
cents per pound.
The transaction of Block and Sha
piro were much less extensive. Al
though the retail and the wholesale
dealers in food commodities doing a
business of less than SIOO,OOO a year
ar« not licensed, the food administra
tor can control their supplies of food
stuffs. Where deliberate evasion of
the food control act is shown, the food
administration by cutting off the deal
er’s supply can effectively eliminate
the unfair and unpatriotic from the
competitive field of business.
HIS BARGAINS IN BUNDS
LINO HIM IN THE TOMBS
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Nineteen
year old Harold Urbant, salesman at
No. 1719 Sterling Place, Brooklyn,
spent last night in the Tombs on a
charge of receiving stolen goods. He
was arrested yesterday after an alleg
ed attempt to sell $l,lOO in bonds from
a $14,000 lot recently stolen from
Hemphill, White & Chamberlain, brok
ers, No. 37 Wall street. Detective
C onroy of the Third Branch, made the
arrest at the house of A. M. Goldsmith,
No. 232 East 69th street.
Telephone calls from a man who
desired to sell bonds at bargain rates
aroused Mr. Goldsmith's suspicions.
Yesterday he asked the man to come
to his 410086. The police say Urbant
appeared and tried to sell a 7 per
cent SI,OOO bond to the Sinclair Oil
Refining Corporation and a SIOO Lib
erty Bond.
Upon arrest, Urbant said he had
bought the bonds for $250 from a
granger in the Hudson Terminal
building.
A clerk from the office of Hemphill,
White & Chamberlain admitted in
headquarters that he could not iden
tify Urbant as the messenger who took
the bonds from the firm to deliver
them to a customer and disappeared.
OLD SLEUTH MOTOR CAR
GETS IN ARMY RUNAWAY
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 26. —Clay Berlin,
thirty, of New York, was knocked
down by an auto al 16th and Locust
street here last night. When the po
lice searched his clothing they found)
papers showing him him to be acorpo-!
ral of Company g, 138th New York
Infantry, stationed at Camp Doniphan, i
Okla. He had been granted a furlough
which expired on January 11, but over-.
stayed his leave.
Hart Schaffner
& Marx
CLOTHES
REDUCED
$40.00 Suits $30.00
35.00 Suits 26.25
30.00 Suits 22.50
25.00 Suits 18.75
20.00 Suits 15.00
W. D. Bailey Co.
BREITUNG HELD
INCOMUNICATO
CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—Max Breitung,
of New York, is held incomunicado
by the department of justice until the
arrival of the president’s warrant,
which will intern him for the period
of the war. The local authorities
acted on instructions from Washing
ton, and the arrest was made under
section 3 of the espionage act.
That a woman recognized Breitung
in the Congress Hotel ana reported
horn to the government representatives
finds no confirmation here. The arrest
is said to have resulted from the dis
covery of additional evidence regard
ing the plans of the indicted conspira
tors. They included destruction of
munition ships and steel chemical and
ammunition plants.
The activity of the agents of the
department of justice since the arrest
here of Linda Jose, the “Dynamite
Cirl,” indicate that it has reports on
CLOTHING
REDUCTIONS
In the face of the fact that prices on
Men’s Clothing for next Fall and Win
ter will be almost double of the pres
ent prices it looks FOOLHARDY and
UNBUSINESSLIKE to make reduc
tions on present prices of men’s clothes
but there are are times when condi
tions, over which we have no control,
arise, therefore for a few days we offer
the following reductions on Adler-
Rochester and Scloss Bros. Clothing.
$35 Suits and Overcoats now $26.25
' S3O Suits and Overcoats now $22.50
$25 Suits and Overcoats now $18.75
S2O Suits and Overcoats now $15.00
The Largest and Best Line in the City
From Which to Make Your Selection
Spot None Sent on
Cash Appr ( oval
Only
Exchange
“VERY GOOD EDDIE” AT
OPERA HOUSE MONDAY
•Very Good Eddie” which has prov*.
ed the biggest muscal hit of two
seasons in New York, having had the
longest run of any of the musical
plays in that city, will be the attrac
tion at the Opera House Monday
right only.
This will be the musical comedy
which has kept Broadway whistling
its tuneful melodies now for a year
and a half.
The action of “Very Good Eddie”
hinges on the many trials and tribula
tions that ensue when two married
couples go away on their honeymoon
ai.d find themselves sparated, and pair
ed off not in accordance with their
marriage certificates. One ill assorted
couple miss their boat bound for the
Catskill mountains, and the other
couple who sail away together are
forced to spend the night in a country
inn, under very embarrassing circum
stances. The story is one continuous
laugh from beginning to end, and has
very much more real plot and contin
uity interest than the average musical
comedy can boast of. Much of the
humor is furnished by the hotel clerk
at the Inn, a delightfully misanthropic,
slangy character part which has put
James J. Kennedy who plays this role, ;
j'i the front rank of clever comedians.
Maud P. Terrell, as Madame Matroppu,
also furnishes many of the best
laughs and does a good deal of old
fashioned jigging song and dance spe
cialty that has proved one of thq. big
gest individual hits of this delightful
comedy with music. Others promi
nent in the cast are Carney Christie,
dimunitive portrayer of boy parts,
Dorothy Hodgkin, Harry R. Hoyt,
Grace T. Pomeroy, Myrtle Bordine,
Emory Blunkhall and Briggs French.
The chorus of 'Very Good Eddie” has
received considerable publicity as
possessing more than the average
quota of beauty, and also because of
the up to the minute fashion designs
worn. In one scene a deceided novel
ty is introduced when all of the girls
are dressed in smart sport costumes.
contemplated destruction work of en
■ emy aliens. No further revelations
of the object of the girl have b*een
. given out.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1218,
Howard &
Foster
Shoes
Reduced
SIO.OO Shoes 00
9.00 Shoes 7.50
8.50 Shoes 7.00
5.00 Shoes 4.00
I
D. Bailey Co.
MISSING SCHOOL GIRL
FOUND IN ITALIAN’S HUT
MIDDELTOWN, Conn., Jan. 26.
Esther Strickland, the seventeen-year
old Portland High school girl who dis
appeared on her *way home Monday
afternoon, Jan. 14, in company with
Silvester Rovioli, who had boarded
five years with her paretns, Mr. and
Mrs. F. E. Strickland, was found with
Rivoli today in a shack in the Italian
quarter of South Glastonbury, where
they hadbeen morning
and the arrest was*made by Deputy
Sheriffs House and Hanson,
Miss Strickland says she was forced
to go with Rovioli through fear. After
I leaving the auto at Glastonbury she
' was obliged to walk miles through
back ro%ds and fields and sleeping at
night in barns and sheds. All they
had to eat in their wanderings was
what they begged.
She says Rovioli offered her »o
physical harm.