The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-16
WHEAT PRICE
BOARD NAMED
H. A. Garfield of Williams
College It's Chair,
man
T. n. VAIL NEW
YORK MEMBER
Labor Represented by James
w. Sullivan of
Brooklyn

Washington, Aug l6.-Creation of {
food administration grain corporation
with $5O,0OO,0OO capital to conduct gov
eminent wheat purchases and sales was
officially announced yesterday.
To carry on the gigantic work the pres
ident appointed three committees-the
wheat purchasing division, the price fix
ing board, the United States millers
committee and those who will conduct
the buying at the different terminal
points in the country.
The great machinery for wheat con
troll is now practically perfected.
The allies have agreed to make their
wheat purchases from the government
grain corporation, advancing money and
thus relieving the United States from
part of the burden of financing the pur-
chases of the country's entire 1917 wheat
harvest.
The corporation will open agencies at
all the principal terminals and transac-
tions will be carried on with the usual
dealers through the regular channels.
In reselling the wheat to the allies the
government will merely charge a nomi.
nal percentage to cover cost of operation
Domestic dealers who refuse to sell at
the government fixed price viii be sum
marily dealt with under the licensing
powers in the bill
The principal millers will first be
supplied with the wheat they need for
domestic consumption
Members named for the various boards,
the wheat price fixing committee being
first, are:
H. a. Garfield, Williams college, chair
man.
Charles J. Barrett, Union City, Ga,
president Farmers union.
William ~ Doak, Roanoke, Va, vice
president Brotherhood Of Railway Train
men.
Eugene f. Funk, president National
Corn association, Bloomington III.
Edward F. Ladd president North Da-
Sota Agricultural college, Fargo, n. D.
r. Goodwin Rhett, president Cham
Der of Commerce Of the United States, |
Charleston, S. c.
J. W Shorthill, secretary National
Council Of Farmers Cooperative asso-
,iation. York, Neb
James w. Sullivan. American Fedora
ion of Labor, BROOKLYN
L. J. Tabor, master Ohio state grange,
0.
Frank w. Taussig, chairman federal
ariff commission, Washington, D. G.
Theodore n Vail, president American
Telephone & Telegraph company, New
FORK City.
Henry J. Waters, president Kansas
'tate Agricultural college, Manhattan,
IAN.
The wheat purchasing division of the
God administration will consist of the
members:
Chairman, Herbert Hoover; president,
ulius Barnes, Duluth, Mimi; treasurer,
ates w. McGarrah, president Mechan-
IS and Metals National bank, New York
ity; vice-president, f. G. Crowell. Kan
rs City; transportation director, Ed
ard Chambers, Chicago, vice president
anita Fe railroad; counsel, Judge Curtis
. Lindley, San Francisco, and j. w. !
horthill.
The following men will represent the L
'ain division at the various terminals: :
Edward NJ. Flesh, st. Louis; NJ H.
ouser, Portland, Ore; c. b. Fox, New a
rleans; H b, Irwin, Philadelphia p H. =
inder, Duluth, MINI; Frank L. Carey, z
George S. Jackson, Balti- a
ore; Howard b. jackson, Chicago; y
larles Kennedy. Buffalo; r. A. Levin,
In Francisco; d. P. Plszzel, Kansas r
ty, and Charles T. New, Omaha. II
The United States millers' committee,
cooperate with the food administra p
On in negotiating voluntary regulation
the milling industry, win comprise 9
e following: II
Chairman, James f. Bell Minneap-
is; secretary, A. p, Husband, Chicago; d
Albert C. Loring, Minneap- d
IS; southwest, Andrew r. Hunt, Kansas u
ty, Kan; southeast, E. NJ. Kelly, -
lshville; St. Louis and Illinois. Samuel ~
ant, st. Louis; Ohio valley. Mark n. "
annel, Toledo; Chicago and MIlwau- !"
e, Bernard A. Eckhart, Chicago; Pacific
lst, Theodore b. Wilcox, Portland Is