27 Jul 1919
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1919
Page
1
The governor activates full legal machinery in Columbus to pursue gougers and hoarders as last two weeks see price surges. Prosecutors summoned nationwide in response to Commercial Tribune appeal. hope rises for swift action to avert further suffering.
The governor announced the state will use legal machinery to investigate hidden causes of rising food costs. The Grand Jury and County Prosecutor Louis Capelle lead inquiries, with Capelle attending a prosecutors conference in Columbus. The effort aims to uncover profiteering, hoarding, and warehouse storage driving prices, including watermelon and egg markets.
Ohio Governor Cox directs Attorney General John G Price to launch a comprehensive state inquiry into food price manipulation and supply, urging grand jury action if counties withhold cooperation. The July 25 1919 letter emphasizes public trust, wartime distortions, and potential conspiracies in cold storage and distribution.
Attorney General Price and Governor Cox unite to launch a statewide inquiry into artificially high food costs. Deputies will inspect cold storage plants in Cleveland and Cincinnati while grand juries may be summoned to pursue unlawful practices in food traffic. County prosecutors to convene for plan.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Louis Capelle calls for new laws to curb food hoarding and profiteering. He backs a storage tax on goods kept in warehouses and supports using the Valentine act to prosecute hoarders. Governor Cox urges action and a prosecutor conference in Columbus.
The homegrown potato season arrives with abundant supply in Delhi New town bottoms and Whitewater basin yet prices remain high. The text alleges Burton manager of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Potato Exchange, with help from a Washington Market Bureau, controls the potato situation. The piece notes local interest and hints at grand jury scrutiny.
The Commercial Tribune telegram to Governor Cox on July 18 1919 urged action against food hoarding and price gouging in Cincinnati Ohio. It accused producer consumer profiteering and called for state investigation by the Department of Agriculture or other authorities.
Washington July 26 Something of a haze settles over the League of Nations controversy but days remain before the lines of cleavage are visible. England and France ratify the pact while Germany has ratified. America faces a partisan clash over reservations and interpretations.
Special Dispatch to The Commercial Tribune reports Attorney General Price announcing a broad effort to locate and prosecute food profiteers in Ohio. He pledged full use of state power, cooperation with other jurisdictions, and action against caused price unrest amid Governor Cox’s cost of living initiative.
The Department of Agriculture will move John T. Glass to Cincinnati to head the bureau in that city. He is currently an assistant in New York and formerly lived in Plymouth Indiana. J. J. Ahearn will move from Cincinnati to New York to lead the big New York office as officials call it a step up the ladder. The transfer may wait several months until market report issues in Cincinnati are resolved.
William Harmon Black, ex Vice Chairman of the War Labor Board, argues price fixing commissions are the only cure for profiteering in life’s necessities. He notes widespread inflation, with many raising prices, and warns of a breaking point if unchecked. Black sails for six weeks to France and England.
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