The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-24
FEDERAL BODY WITH $5o,ooo.-
600 cAPlTAL-PLANs PRAC-
TicALLY PERFECTED,
BARNES OF DULUTH AND
LADD OF FARGO NAMED
Minnesotan 10 President Of Company
Which Will Conduct Government
Wheat Purchases and Sales
Price Fixing Board One Of
Three Committees.

Washington, Aug. 1G.-Creation OF
. God administration grain corpora
tion with $4,000, 900 capital to conduct
government wheat purchases and sales
has been officially announced.
To carry on the gigantic work the
President appointed three committees
the wheat purchasing division, the
price fixing board and the United
States miliers' committee.
Along Shipping Bosrd Lines.
The grain corporation VII be organ
lied along the lines of the shipping
boards emergency fleet corporation.
1t will be managed by the grail divi-
sion Of the food administration witch
will have the same officers as the cor
poration. All the stock will be held
and owned by the United States gov
eminent.
Machinery Practically Perfected.
The great machinery for wheat con
troll is now practically perfected. The
following executive officers have been
named:
Herbert Hoover, chairman.
julius Barnes, Duluth, president.
Gates w. McGarrah, New York,
treasurer.
F. G. Crcwell, Kansas City, vice
president.
Edward Chambers, Chicago, trans.
p%ortation director.
Curtis H. Lindley, San Francisco.
counsel.
+. ]. w. Shorthill, York, Neb., secre
tary.
Price Fixers Named.
The personnel of the wheat price
fixing commission was announced as
follows:
Henry A. Garfield, president of Will
liams college. chairman.
Charles J. Barrett, Union City, Ca,
president Of the Farmers union.
William H. Doak, Roanoke, Va, vice
president of the Brotherhood Of Rail.
road Trainmen.
Eugene E. Funk, Bloomington, ILL.,,
president of the National Corn associa-
ton.
Edward F. Ladd, Fargo. N. D., presi-
dent Of the North Dakota Agricultural
college.
r. Goodwin Rhett. Charleston. S. c..
president of the Chamber OF Com.
merce OF the United States.
J.. w. Shorthill, York, Neb., secre-
tary of the National Council of Farm
ers' Cooperative Associations.
James w. Sullivan, Brooklyn, N. Y.
of the American Federation of Labor.
l.. J.. Tabor. GAINESVILLE. Ohio, mas.
ter of the Ohio State Grange.
Frank w. Taussig, chairman Of the
tariff commission.
Theodore N. Vail, president Of the
American Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany.
Henry J. Waters. president of Kan
sas State Agricultural college.
Grain Men Picked.
Twelve men were named by the food
administration to represent the grain
division at the various terminals.
They are:
Edward NJ. Flesh, at St. Louis.
Ed NJ. HOuser, Portland, Ore.
c. B. Fox, New Orleans.
H. B. Irwin, Philadelphia. !.
P. NJ. Ginder, Duluth.
Frank l.. Carey, Minneapolis.
George S. Jackson, Baltimore.
H. B.. Jackson, Chicago.
Charles Kennedy, Buffalo.
R. A. Lewis, San Francisco.
D. +. Piazzek, Kansas City.
Charles 7. Neal, Omaha.
MiiIers Selected.
Milling interests named a commit
tee to cooperate with the food admin
istration in negotiating voluntary reg
istration Of the milling industry. The
committee comprises the following:
James F. Bell, Minneapolis, chair
man.
A. P. Husband, Chicago, secretary.
Albert C. Loring. Minneapolis, repre-
senting the Northwest.
Andrew J. Hunt, Arkansas City.
Kan, representing the Southwest.
f. NJ. Kelly, Nashville, Tenn, repre-
senting the Southeast.
Mark M. Mennel, Toledo, represent
ing the Ohio valley.
Theodore B. Wilcox. Portland, Ore,
representing the Pacific coast.
Samuel Plant, st. Louis, represent
ing st. Louis and Illinois.
Bernard A. Eckhart, Chicago. rep
.resenting Chicago and Milwaukee.