The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-15
Announce Formation of Board
To Control Supply.
Hoover Chairman, Barnes OF
Duluth Is President.
lNNOUNCE WHEAT COMMITTEE
Waters of Kan. Aggie College
on Price Fixing Board.
MiIlers' Committee Includes a.
j. Hunt, Arkansas City, Kan.

Washington, Aug. 15.-Government
purchase of enough of the 1917 wheat
crop to stabilize prices in the United
States was forecast in the formation
today of a $50.000.000 corporation by
the food administration.
The intention is to take over the
entire harvest if necessary to maintain
fair prices. The corporation VIII
make all allied purchases of wheat
and flour and thus will stabilize
prices to the allies. Thru this
rangement too, it hopes to secure it,
self against any possible loss. The
food administration will open agen-
cies at all the principal wheat termin-
ais. carrying en- its transactions with
( the usual dealers. No commission
! charge will be made except to cover
costs of operation. The price to be
paid for wheat will be fixed by a
committee under the grain division
( headed by President Garfield of Will
liams college. This price the food
administration expects to see main
! tanned in private as well as govern
ment transactions.
The corporation will be put under
4 the grain division of the food admin
/ istration and its executive officers will
/ be the same as the officers of this
division whose names were announced
today as follows:
| Herbert c. Hoover chalrman; JUL
ius Barnes. Duluth, Mimi, president;
Gates W. McGarrah. New York, treas
. ureT, T. NfOWell, hd0SdS 1llyp NlCc
president; Edward Chambers, Chi
cago, transportation director; Curtis
H Lindley, San Francisco. counsel:
]. w. Shorthill, York, Neb, secretary
The personnel of the wheat price
fixing commission was announced to-
day as follows:
Henry A. Garfield, president of Will
liams college, chairman.
Charles ]. Barrett, Union City, Ga,
: president of the Farmers Union.
m nOal Rnannl<R VA
vice president of the Brotherhood OF
Railroad Trainmen.
Eugene E. Funk, Bloomington, IL
linois, president of the National Corn
Edward F. Ladd. Fargo, N. d.. pres
ident of the North Dakota Agricul-
tural college.
r. Goodwyn-Rhett, Charleston, S.
c.. president of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States.
]. w. Shorthill York, Neb-, secre-
tary of the National Council of Far
mers' Cooperative association
James w. Sullivan, Brooklyn, n.
Y, of the American Federation of La
Dor.
L. J. Tabor, GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
master of the Ohio State grange.
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 to-
day named committee TO cooperate
with the food administration in vol
untary regulation of their industry.
This committee is as follows:
James F. Bell. Minneapolis. chair
man; A. p. Husband, Chicago secre-
tary.
: Albert c. Loring, Minneapolis, rep
resenting the northwest.
: Andrew ]. Hunt, Arkansas CITY,
!. Kan, representing the southwest
E. NJ. Kelly, Nashville, Tenn, rep
reSeptinR the southeast.
Mark n. Mennel, Toledo, Ohio, rep
resenting the Ohio valley.
, THEODORE B. Wilcox. Portland. Ore,
representing the Pacific coast.
l Samuel Plant, St Louis. represent
: ing St. Louis and the state of M
, nois.
5 Bernard A. Eckhart, Chicago rep
: resenting the cities of Chicago and
Milwaukee.
! IL Division Bureaus.
Twelve men were named by the
, focd administration to represent this
gain division at the various termi-
nails They are:
Edward NJ. Flesh, at St. Louis.
= NJ. H Houser, Portland, Ore.
G. r. Fox, New Orleans.
II. p. Irwin, Philadelphia.
= p. II. Ginder. Duluth.
4 Frank L. Carey, Minneapolis.
Y George S. Jackson, Baltimore.
n H. 3. Jackson, Chicago.
s Charles Kennedy, Buffalo.
l.. A. Levin. San Francisco.
: ID. f. PiaSzek. Kansas City.
e j. +. Piazzek. Kansas City.
T Charles T. Neal, Omaha.
) Waters of Kansas Named.
= Price fixing commission-Frank W.
s Taussig chairman of the tariff COM
: mission. Theodore y. Vail, president
d of the American Telephone and Tels-
= graph company.
e Henry j. Waters, president of Kan
sas State Agricultural college.
/. CroweII Already at Work
Kansas City, Aug. 15,-Frank a
CroweH of Kansas City, named vice.
president today of the National Grain
= corporation has been yice-president o:
one of the largest grain concerns or
the Kansas City exchange. He came
l. here in 1903 from Atchison. Kansas
Il where he previously had been engaged
!, in the same business He has special
:, lied in export trade Mr. CroweIl haz
i been at Washington and New York for
% some weeks and. at his former Office
here it was said he already was en-.
gagged actively in the grain con.ro
~ work