Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-04
BREAD PRICE To
Be REDUCED WHEN
U. S. TAKES HAND
Food Board and Emergency
Council Recommend Dras-
tic War Measures
Associates Pres, ~ v. s. Naval Wtr,I.,,.l

WARRINGTON, o. c., Dec. 81 ne
baking Industry bureau OF the Emery
ency War Council today recommended
that an immediate reduction be car
ried out in the prices Of bread where
ever It is possible. The bakers will be
licensed beginning November 10. using
the standardized loaf formula.
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The United States food board las:
week announced definite rules for the
baking industry of the country. In
Hawaii, enforcement Of these rules Is
presumably in the hands OF the fed
eral food administrator
The United States Food admintstra
ton announced that the following gen.
eral rules and regulations. governing
all lisensed manufacturing bakery pro-
ducts, will go into effect on December
10:
The licensee, in selling bakery pro-
ducts, shall avoid all unreasonable de-
lay. Resales, without reasonable Justl-
fication. resulting in a higher market
price to the retailer or consumer, Will
be dealt with as an unfair practise.
The licensee shall not buy. contract
for, sell, store or otherwise deal in
any food commodities for the purpose
OF unreasonably increasing the price
or restricting the supply Of such COM
modities, or of monopolizing any OF
such commodities.
The licensee shall not destroy any
bakery products and shall not know
ingly commit waste or wilfully permit
preventable deterioration in Connec-
ton with the manufacture, distribu-
ton or sale of any bakery products.
The licensee shall not accept re-
turns of dread or other bakery pro-
ducts, nor make cash payments, NO.
allow credit, to any retailer for any
unsold bread or other bakery pro-
ducts, nor shall the licensee ex-
change any bread or bakery products
for other bread or bakery products
which he has sold.
Other Special Rules
The following special rules and reg
ulations governing licensees manufac'
turing bread and rolls were also made
public:
Rule I. The Ileenses shall manu-.
facture bread and sell Il only In the
following specified weights, or null.
tipIes thereof, which shall be net
weights, unwrapped, II hours after
baking:
is ounce units (not to run over II
ounees).
"a ounce units mot to run over 2sHa
ounces).
Rule 2. The Iieensee shall manu-.
faeture rolls and offer them for sale
only In units weighing from I to 3
ounces, but no rolls shall be manu-.
featured or offered for sale which
shall weigh, unWrapped, IL hours after
baking, less than I ounce or more than
8 ounces.
Rule 3. The standard weights here.
in prescribed shall be determined by
averaging the weight of not less than
Is ioaves Of bread Of any one unit, or
five dozen rolls Of any one unit, and
such average shall not be less than
the minimum nor more than the maxi.
mum prescribed by these rules and
regulations for such units.
ingredients Limited
Rule 4.-The Iiesnsee in mixing any
dough for bread or rolls shall not use
the following ingredients In amounts
exceeding these specified below, per
unit Of 1876 pounds Of any flour, or
meal or any mixture thereof:
Sugar: Not to exceed 8 pounds Of
cane or beet sugar or In lieu thereof,
3E pounds Of corn sugar. Where
sweetened condensed milk Is used, the
Iieensee, in determining the permitted
amount Of sugar, shall deduct the ad.
ded sugar contents Of such condensed
milk from the net amount Of other
sugar, Of the kinds herein designated.
Milk: Not to exceed six pounds Of
fresh milk from which the butter fats
have been extracted, or the equiva-
lent thereof.
Shortening: No shortening shall be
used except AZ follows: Not to ex.
coed pounds Of "eompounds" con.
tanning not more than IS per cent Of
animal fats.
In lieu Of such compounds" the u.
eensee may use not to exceed 2
pounds Of vegetable fats.
The Iicensee in making any bread o.
rolls shall not add any sugars Or fats
to the dough during the process OF
hakind or 70 thu bread or ROLL when