Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-14

Inspections to Prevent Ex-
cessive Prices Continue,
Administrator Declares.
WATCH KEPT BY OFFICERS

Inspection of the opera tions of meat
dealers in Washington will be con-
tinued by the District of Columbia
Food Administration and every effort
will be made to prevent the charging
of excessive prices.
Announcement to this effect was
made today by Food Administrator
Wilson. He explained that although
fresh and canned meats were never
Included on the official weekly price
list, his administration has endeav-
ored to check any attempts at undue
price boosting here, and that this pol
icy will be continued until he is other
wise directed.
Mr.. Wilson pointed out that fresh,
canned or cured beef, pork and NUT
ton are not released from the control
of the food administration by the re-
cent presidential proclamation lifting
restrictions on certain food commodi-
ties. He declared that these meat
commodities remain in the same rela-
tion to the food administration as
heretofore.
Dealers Get Notice.
called the attention of all local deal
ers to this fact.
PACKERS, wholesale dealers and job
hers are subject to nceLse' he said. "as
are also retail dealers who do a business
Of more than $100,00 year. Other re-
tail dealers are subject to control
through rules and regulations, and
breaches of the regulations may be
punished by the issuance of an un-
fair order. against them directed to
licensees, prohibiting such licensees
from dealing with the retailer.
"All dealers who purchased and use
the blackboards for stating their
meat prices must continue to use
Them. The quotations on these boards
will continue to be checked up by
the food administration through ex-
Buying Public Benefited.
The buying public of Washington
has been greatly benefited as a result
of these blackboard price quotations,
the administrator said today. and he
looks for continued benefits in the
future. This method of displaying
prices has tended to increase keener
competition among dealers, he said,
noticeable price boosting. 1t also has
been the means of educating the
housewife in the matter of a wider
knowledge Of the variety Of meat
cuts"
with the releasing of a large num-
Der of food commodities from admin
istration control the local inspection
force will be afforded much better
opportunity to inspect more closely
the sales of those articles which now
remain under control. Besides fresh
and canned meats the more important
of the latter are eggs, butter, butter
substitutes. cheese, pork products and
sugar.
List of Commodities Affected.
Administrator Wilson has prepared
a tabulated list of the commodities af-
fected by the United States Food Ad-
ministrations recent order regarding
control. 1t follows:
Commodities no longer under control
and regulation-Sirups and molasses.
dried beans. pea seed or dried peas.
poultry, fresh or frozen fish, fresh fruits
or vegetables. canned peas, dried beans.
cured. salted. dried. smoked, picked or
otherwise preserved salmon; dried
prunes, apples, peaches or raisins,
bread and cake, all other bakery prod
.ucts. white arsenic or other insecticides
containing arsenic, tomato soup. tomato
catsup and other tomato products. ALI
mentary paste. green coffee, castings.
peanut meal and soya bean meal, con-
densed, evaporated or powdered milk ;
buckwheat OF buckwheat products: ali
products of wheat or rye other than
wheat. or rye flour or wheat mill feeds
Distributors (not manufacturers or
millers) of the following: Oatmeal,
rolled oats. oat flour. corn grits, corn
meal. corn sirup. glucose and raw corn
fakes rice and rice flour. wheat -four
and rye flour and barley flour, any feed
produced from wheat. and raw milk.
Distribution Under Control.
Control over the distribution but
not the manufacture of the foll6wing
is released:
Wheat -four and wheat millfeeds,
rye -four, barley -four. rice and rice
-four, oatmeal, rolled oats and oat
Hour. corn grits, corn meal, hominy,
corn nour. starch from corn. corn,
sirup, glucose and raw corn fakes,
cold storage warehouses storing
wheat corn. oats. rye. rice. barley: IN
salt, wnter fishermen. barely malt
sterS: fermented beverages contain
Ing less than >one-half Of I per cent Of
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