The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-06
BOOKLET CHARGES
GRAFT DURING WAR

sensational charges against he
management of the Riverside Milling
Company of Reno and statements in
volving the State Food Administra-
ton in various channels of miscon-
duct, are contained in a booklet re-
Gently given general circulation
throughout the state by w. w. Perci-
val, manager of the Elko Milling
Company, says the Elko Free Press.
The book was prepared and printed
but according to his statement was
withheld from general circulation un-
til all indications of wal complica-
lions had passed, out OF the desire of
the author not to impede any govern
ment war activities. The pamphlet
Is entitled THE Millers and the Food
the following appears on the title
page: Facts not generally known
to the public concerning the regula-
ton of flour mills in the State of
Nevada during the days of the great
world war-Mills big and small. and
how they stood in the eyes and orders
of the food bureau"
First-That an income of $50, 900
per year through official favoritism
was offered to the Elko Milling Com
pany by James A. Wood, convicted
food administration official for Ne
vada, in return for a handsome COM
mission. This income was to DE
created by Woods Juggling of -four
shipments so as to favor the Elko
Milling Company.
Second-That attempts were made
by the larger milling concerns in the
state to close smaller competitors;
that the Nevada state food admins
tration ordered the mill of the Reno
Milling Company, at Reno. closed on
the ground that it had ground its full
allotment of wheat; that this mill was
at once reopened upon appeal to the
coast division Of the food admins
tration upon the ground that it had
not ground its full allotment of
wheat. That upon being asked II
the Nevada food administration was
going to order the Reno Milling Com
pany to deliver all it's wheat to the
Riverside Milling Company, the man
ager answered that che was afraid
to tackle it because it looked toe
raw"
Third-An affidavit of a miller, once
in the employ of the Riverside Mill
ing Company. at Reno, incorporated
in the pamphlet. charges that tho
management of the Riverside Milling
Company stated to him that IL was
its purpose to secure control of var
ious small mills throughout this ter
ritory; that during war times the
Riverside Mill at Reno operated up
on the basis of seventy-five per cent
wheat -four and twenty-five per cent
substitutes; hat this was done upon
the order of the management of tn,
illii, tudt lOCO dullitiliotI alum OlltidI
assisted the management of the River
side Mill in securing the a~fiiant's ex-
emption from the draft on the groun(
that he was indispensable to the bust.
ness, but that he resigned shortly
afterward when another miller took
a position in the mill, coming there
from Washington.
Fourth-A second affidavit of =
miller, once in the employ of tho
Riverside Company. also averring tho
manufacture of seventy-five twenty
five flour, when the ~fifty-ffty rule
was in force. This affidavit also
charges that one hundred barrels o.
pure wheat flour was sold withonf
substitutes when the substitute rule
was in effect: that the COMPANY
claimed to have a special food ad-
ministration permit to sell what was
known as "Sheepherder's -four.
which was seventy-five per cent pur,
wheat flour; that the mill shipped
five carloads of pure wheat flour T.
John II. Keorner of New Orleans. the
sale being entirely without substiti
ties. during the time the substitute
nile was In effect.