Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-26
|BlAhKENsH|P LEAVES
HDR POST IN BALTIMORE
Field Agent OF Division OF Markets
Gives Up His Work In
# This State.
SpRosECUTE FEED DEALERS
tate'Tood Administration Says Cen
oral Violation OF Regulations l.
Due to Ignorance on Part Of Many
MiIlcrs.

4 D. NJ Blankenship. field agent of the
sdivision OF markets OF the state Agri-
.5cultura Department, and specia! agent
s.AnderS the division OF enforcement Of
ssthe State food administration. leaves
..to-daS for Baltimore where he has
been transferred 10 the Federal Dc
Epartment of Labor
e Mr.. SBlankenship's work in the State
fof Vifginit has been notably effective.
CO -ordinatinr. as it did not only the
field activities OF the State Bureau of
Markets and the Federal Bureau Of
Markets, but combining with this work
the important activity OF special agent
for he legal department Of tho food
administration
Mr.. 'Blankenship has Just returned
from his second tip OF investigation
;fto the Southwest relative TO the mat
stcr of Violations Of th1 food admins
Ittration's regulations REGARDING mill
I feed. AS a result OF MIR. Partnerships
{report, Which WAS given 10 Mr.. Bethel.
head OF the division OF enforcement,
yesterday, the whole OF next week viii
be taken up With hearings Of mill
Howners and operators in the south
swest. ! These mill men will be cited
for a. hearing before AIR. Bethel TO
show why there has been such a wide
spread violation of the regulat! tons OF
the food administration.
Therrule by which the prices OF mill
feed Ii worked out is not a compli-
Gated one, and there Is no excuse in
the opinion OF the food administration,
for the millers OF the Southwest. The
rule followed is that the price OF wheat
I'm Newport News, less the freight, be
accepted as n basis for calculating the
price of all wheat hyproducts of the
Il
dog" The amount OF So is added in
Virginia for bran in ton lots, and -
additional for bran in less than ton
lots-that is IN bags and sacks.
Not only nlillers, but merchants,
come under this ruling. Other by
products run III a scale as follows:
shorts. 50 NOR. than bran: mill feed
81 more than bran, middlings, 50 more
than bran, and red dog" SI5 more
than bran.
BELIEVES VIOLATIONS
DUE TO IGNORANCE
Mr.. Bethel is OF the opinion that the
. neral violation OF this regulation
throughout the Southwest Is due muin-
5ly 10 IGNORANCE on the part Of the
,nillcrs, who do not read tho news
spaperss and resent any change iu Tia.
old order Of things. hn,, at leas;. the
mi'lery viii have chance 10 come 10
Richmond men week and show lust
cause Why they Should not hand over
snhstaptiaI checks TO the led Cross for
failing, to inform themselves OF The
reNo'uUonnrY changes which are daily
'S Mr. B" t't% said ne .you,1 soon ,.p,n
II drivy for the purpose Of enforcing
5thS rule TO limit hotel and restaurant
riI"sisatc two ounces OF wheat 10 one
.mcaI ale said that indications were
stha; llqtei and restaurant proprictors
.Svrrc not fully observing the rule. and
wrrc gwen. in many cases. forcing
dread pn their customers when i, was
snol asked
twenty cases OF violations or tn.
Stood rules have been prosecuted so far
sbN ,hai food enforcement director IN
sprefGrcncc TO losing their license the
svioNators have contributed checks to
The Rcd Cross amounting to total Of
}Sa,6ro. 2 There is al present Sigh;
5iemporary sugar shortage in Rich
) mond. Tho dealer Is not allowed under
thc rules 10 make moro than ! cont
proilt g. pound or sugar, and Mr.
Bethel has requested that cases ~
rSGEhtant charges be reported 70 him