Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1919 — WHOLESALERS GETTING IN BAD [ARTICLE]

WHOLESALERS GETTING IN BAD

Federal and State Action Against Two Alleged Profiteers. / Indianapolis Aug. 14., —Steps toward federal and state action against two Indiana wholesale companies alleged to have sold sugar at more than the government regulation prices were taken today, according to Stanley Wyckoff, federal sugar distributor for the state. Mr. Wyckoff said he had evidence against the C. D. Kenny company of Indianapolis and Birhaus Bros., of Vincennes. In the case of the Kenny company, T. S. Thornburg of Knightstown and J. E. Bender of Richmond, have submitted inI voices to the federal sugar distributor, Mr. Wyckoff said, showing that they paid the Indianapolis company eleven cents a pound for sugar. Specific complaints were made agaiinet Bierhaus Bros., by C. R. Gregory, grolcer, and Frank Goebel, bottler, both of Washington, whose invoices show that the price of sugar was advanced by the Vincennes concern until the figure reached 11% cents a pound, whereas the price should have been between 9.77 cents and 10 cents, Mr. Wyckoff declared.