Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-17
BARRETT IS NAMED
ON COMMISSION TO
FIX WHEAT PRICE
Food Administration Forms
Corporation to Take Over
Control of the Nations
Grain Supply

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WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.-With the
approval of President Wilson the food
administration today announced the for
nation of a corporation to take over the
control of the country's grain supply.
The following executive officers have
been named:
Herbert Hoover. chairman; Julius
Barnes. Duluth, Mimi, president; Gates
w. McGarrah, New York, treasurer; F.
G. Crowell Kansas City, vice president;
Edward Chambers, Chicago, transporta-
ton director; Curtis II. Lindley. San
Francisco. counsel; ]. w. Shorthill, of
York. Neb.. secretary.
Milling interests named a committee
to cooperate with the food administra-
ton IN negotiating voluntary regula-
tions of the milling Industries. The
committee comprises the following:
James F. Bell, of Minneapolis, chair
man; A. p. Husband. of Chicago, secre-
tary; Albert C. Loring, Minneapolis, rep
resenting the northwest; Andrew J.
Hunt, of Kansas City, Kas., representing
the southwest; E. NJ. Kelly, of Nashville,
Tenn, representing the southeast; Mark
y. Mennel. of Toledo. representing the
Ohio valley; Theodore B. Wilcox. Port
land, Ore, representing the Pacific
coast; Samuel Plant. of st. Louis, repre-
senting the state of Illinois; Bernard
A. Eckhart, Chicago. representing the
cities of Chicago and Milwaukee.
The personnel of the wheat price fix
ing commission was announced as fol-
lows:
Henry A. Garfield, president of Will
liams college. chairman; Charles J.
Barrett. of Union City, Ca president
of the Farmers union; William N.
Doak, Roanoke, Va, vice president of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen;
Eugene e. Funk. Bloomington, Ill,
president of the National Corn associa-
tion; Edward F. Laid, Fargo. N. d..
president of the North Dakota Agricul-
Charleston, S. c., president of the cham
Der of commerce of the United States
J. W. Shorthill, York. Neb.. secretary Of
the National Council of Farmers Co.
operation association: James w. Sulli-
van. Brooklyn, n. Y, of the American
Federation of Labor; L. J. Tabor, OF
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, master of the Ohio
State Grange.
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; NJ.
H. Houser, Portland, Ore; c. b. Fox,
New Orleans; II. B. Erwin, Philadel-
phia P. H. Ginder, Duluth; Frank l..
Carey, Minneapolis; George S. Jackson.
Baltimore; Howard B. Jackson, Chica-
go; Charles Kennedy, Buffalo; r. A.
Levin, San Francisco; d. +. Piazzek,
Kansas City; Charles t. Neal. Omaha.
The grain corporation will have a
capital of $50 100000 and will be organ
ICED along the lines of the shipping
board emergency fleet corporation. 1t
hxy he division
of the food administration which will
have the same officers as the corpora
tion.
All stock will be held and owned
by the United States government.
TO STABILIZE PRICES.
The intention of the food administra-
ton is to take over the entire harvest
if necessary to maintain fair prices.
The corporation will make all allied
purchases of wheat and -four and thus
will stabilize prices to the allies.
Through the arrangement, too, it hopes
to secure itself against any possible
loss
The food administration will open
agencies at all the principal wheat ter
minals carrying on its transactions with
the usual dealers. No commission
charge will be made except to cover
paiu for wheat will be fixed by COM
mittee under the grain division headed
by President Garfield. of Williams col
ieee. This price the food administra-
ton expects to see maintained in prl-
vate as well as government transac-
tions.
The corporation will be put under
the grain division OF the food admin
istration and its executive officers will
be the same as the officers of this d.
vision, whose names were announced
today.
Flour mills will be assured wheat
at the price TO be paid by the govern
ment and the food administration Is
ready to purchase for the mills all the
grain they use. The millers today named
a committee to cooperate with the
food administration in a voluntary reg
ulation of their industry.
Representatives of the wheat buying
industry came to Washington today for
a conference with the food administra-
ton on the governments plan to IL
cense the operation of all elevators. De-
tailed regulations drawn by the FOOD
administration and approved by Presi-
dent Wilson governing the licensing Will
be announced shortly.