Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-01
| HOOVER IS HOPEFUL
OF CHEAPER BREAD
Proper Cooperation Will Reduce
Price of Loaves
BOND BILL READY FOR HOUSE
Committee To Report Eleven Million
Dollar Measure-German Flotilla
Off Gulf Of Riga

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Basing his estimates on the basic
price of 1920 for wheat announced by
the President, Herbert Hoover, Focd
Administrator, said that flour used in
baking should retail TO the consumer
in New York City at from $11 75 to S12-
rs a barrel, depending upon condi-
tions experienced by the millers. The
average price for the last six months,
he said, was $15.36
A return to the five-cent sixteen
ounce loaf of bread, however, Mr. Hoo
yer said, could scarcely be expected
under the present trade conditions.
He felt that unless there was cooper
alton between baker, retailer, and
consumer to eliminate waste in manu-
I facture and delivery, a sixteen-ounce
loaf probably would retail for 10
cents under the new wheat prices.
| Hope for a sixteen-ounce loaf that
| would sell for cents was held out by
the Food Administrator, contingent
upon cooperation on the part of the
public, and he expressed the belief
that, under favorable conditions. some
of the big bakers might be able to go
slightly below that figure.
Some of the men who have been
working on the wheat price schedule
have expressed the belief that s.
cent fourteen-ounce loaf would be
possible under the new arrangement.
| Mr.. Hoover's estimate of a sixteen
ounce loaf for cents would make the
price of a fourteen-ounce loaf to the
consumer, z cents.
A campaign for the elimination of
fancy rolls and loaVes and the estab-
| lishment of a standard loaf of bread
| will be taken up by the Food Admins
tration in the effort to bring prices
down. While the Administration has
as yet no definite control over re-
tail dealers, Mr.. Hoover believes that
prices which the government estab-
lished will soon become effective.
First Austrian Ship Taken Over.
| The American flag was unfurled
Yesterday over the Martha Washing
ton, first-class passenger ship of s.
312 tons, owned by Austrian interests,
which has been interned in New York
| harbor. At the same time announce
ment was made that the United States
Shipping Board had decided TO requi-
| sition the ship and turn her over TO
| the War Department for emergency
service. II is understood that she is
in good condition and that necessary
repairs can be made rapidly
l.. .xf nj a \
with Austria, the Shipping Board is
sued a brief statement concerning the
position taken. 1t was explained
that Austrian tonnage occupied the
same position as neutral tonnage and
that international law permitted the
regulation of foreign tonnage by the
United States, if due compensation
was paid to the owners.
The Administrations $l1,O0O,OOO.-
600 bond bill has been completed by
the Ways and Means Committee, and
will he presented TO the House by
Chairman Kitchin. The committee
left the bill substantially as it was
originally approved by Secretary Nc
Adoo: attempts to impose heavy taxes
and strict conversion features on the
bond issue failed. The only taxes TO
be levied on the interest from the
lbonds will be sur-taxes and excess
profit taxes. and the ordinary in
lheritance tax.
Secretary McAdoo announced that
the next campaign to sell Liberty
bonds would be started so as to be
finished by November Z. He said the
active exploitation of the bonds
would be begun not later than Octo-
ber these arrangements to be SUD
iect to action of Congress on the bond
bill.
Attempts to amend the bond bill Will
be made from the floor of the House
as several committee members re-
served the right to offer amendments
One of the most important amend
ments will be offered by Representa-
tive Moore of Pennsylvania, who be-
lieves the bill should carry provision
for a Congressional committee to CO.
Ioperate with the President in prevent
ing waste and extravaganza in wal
expenditures.
Inc MOOTe dluCuulACht "~S ~N- -
yesterday in executive session of the
committee, and after considerable
discussion was rejected 1t amounts
to reopening the fight for a war audit
committee. against which the Presi-
! dent raised his voice several weeks
| ago. when Senator Weeks of Massa-
chusetts and Representative Madden
iof Illinois were striving for legisla'
ton to create such body. Members
of the Ways and Means Committee dis
cussed gossip concerning wastefu
contracts and inefficient methods. bu
in Difference to the Presidents former
expression most of the COMMITTEES
members voted against Representative
Moore's proposition He will make
! another attempt with the amendment
from the floor of the House
German Flotilla Is Active.
That the German fleet is preparing
Ito make another effort to force it:
way into the Gulf CT Riga appears eyi
dent from the fact that enemy mine