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The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph
Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio
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Washington, March 4: House war investigating committee files majority report urging prosecution of dealers for selling 5M cans of unfit salmon to War Department in 1918, condemning department and contract; minority report commends inspection that protected soldiers.
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War Investigating Committee Files Two Reports.
Washington, March 4.—Recommendations that the department of justice institute criminal proceedings against dealers who in 1918 sold the war department 5,000,000 cans of salmon held by government experts to be unfit for human consumption, are contained in a majority report filed by the house war investigating committee.
The majority report condemned the war department for failing to take steps looking to the prosecution of the dealers, condemned the latter for selling the salmon, attacked the contract covering the sale, and also recommended that the department of justice determine as to the possibility of recovering additional sums under the contract.
The minority report commended the department for an inspection service which kept the food from the soldiers, declared the product was turned back to the packers, and that the army had been "spared the pestilence and suffering caused by the sale of embalmed beef during the Spanish war."
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Washington
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March 4
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majority recommends criminal proceedings against dealers and recovery of additional sums; minority commends war department inspection service for preventing unfit food from reaching soldiers.
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House war investigating committee files majority report recommending prosecution of dealers for selling 5,000,000 cans of unfit salmon to War Department in 1918, condemning department for inaction and the contract; minority report praises inspection that returned product to packers, sparing army issues like embalmed beef in Spanish War.