Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1920 — ONE REASON SUGAR IS SO HIGH [ARTICLE]

ONE REASON SUGAR IS SO HIGH

Logs reporters Mads 13 Cents Pound on One Carload. A felony charge, based on violation of the Lever food control act, has been filed against Mayor James Barnes of Logansport, charging him with making 17,000 on a carload of sugar. The sugar was bought In Chicago at 19 cents a pound and was immediately resold in Indianapolis at 32 cents a pound. It is charged that Mayor Barnes used the name of the Ruch-Drompp Co. of Logansport in the transaction. Neither Mayor Barnes nor the RuchDrompp Co. has a wholesale license to sell sugar, ft is charged. The penalty is |5,000 fine or imprisonment for two years, or both, for operating without a license. A like penalty is stipulated for profiteering. Mayor Barnes denies that he benefited by the transaction. He states that he loaned the Drompp company $13,000 to purchase the sugar, which he supposed was to be shipped to Logansport where a shortage existed, and accepted as security the bill of lading.