Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-15
DETERMINED TO KEEP
WHEAT PRICES FAIR
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division headed by President Garfield,
of Williams College. This price the
food administrations expects to see
maintained in private as we'll as gov
ernment transactions.
To Adjust Wheat Prices
The personnel of the wheat price
fixing commission was announced as
follows:
Henry A. Garfield. president of
Williams College, chairman; Charles
j. Barrett, Union City, Ga, presi-
dent of the Farmers Union; William
n. Doak Roanoke, Va, vice-presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen; Eugene e. Funk, Bloom
ington, ILL.,, president of the Nation
al Corn Association; Edward F.
Ladd, Fargo, n. D., president of the
North Dakota Agricultural College;
r. Goodwin Rhett, Charleston, S. c.,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States; ]. w.
Shorthill, York, Neb., secretary of
the National Council of Farmers
Cooperation Association; James w.
Sullivan, Brooklyn, N. Y, of the
American Federation of Labor; l..
j. Tabor, GAINESVILLE, Ohio, master
of the Ohio State Grange.
the grain division of the food admin
istration and it's executive officers
will be the same as the officers of
this division. whose names were an
nounced to-day as follows:
Flour mills will be assured wheat
at the price to be paid by the Gov
ernment and the food administration
is ready to purchase for the mills all
the grain they use. The millers to-
day named a committee to cooperate
with the food administration in vol
untary regulation of their industry.
The committee is as follows:
Millcrs Name Body
Milling interest named com
mittee to cooperate with the food
administration in negotiating volun-
tary regulation of the milling indus
try. The committee comprises the
following:
James f. Bell, Minneapolis, chair
man; A. p. Husband, Chicago, sec
retary; Albert c. Loring, Minneap-
lis, representing the Northwest; An
drew j. Hunt, Arkansas City, Kan,
representing the Southwest; E. M.
Kelly, Nashville, Tenn, representing
the Southwest; Mark N. Mennel,
Toledo. representing the Ohio Val
ley; Theodore B. Wilcox. Portland,
Ore, representing the Pacific Coast;
Samuel Plank, st. Louis, represent
ing st. Louis and the State of Illi-
nois; Bernard A. Eckhart, Chicago,
representing the cities of Chicago
and Milwaukee.
Represent Grainers
Twelve men were named by the
food administration to represent the
grain division at the various termi-
nails. They are:
Edward M. Flesh, at st. Louis; NJ
H. Houser, Portland, Ore; c. B. Fox,
New Orleans; II. b. Irwin, Philadel-
phia; P. II. Ginder, Duluth; Frank
l.. Carey, Minneapolis; George S.
Jackson, Chicago; Charles Kennedy,
Buffalo; r. a. levin, San Francisco;
d. F. Piazzek, Kansas City, and
Charles T. Neal, Omaha.
The grain corporation will have a
capital of $50,000,000 and will be
organized along the lines of the ship
ping board of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation. 1t will be managed by
the grain division of the food ad-
ministration, which will have the
same officers as the corporation. All
the stock will be held and owned by
the United States government
Representatives of the wheat-buy-
ing industry came to Washington to-
day for a conference with the food
administration on the Government
plan to license the operation of all
elevators.