Evening star., 1933-07-20
FAIR BREAD PRICES
SHOWN BY SURVEY
Most Bakers Reported to
Have Set Equitable
Sale Schedules.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Farm administrators reported today
that most bakers appear to be main
tanning fair price schedules" after an
intensive investigation of bread prices
in 80 cities, which showed increases
averaging slightly less than cent per
pound loaf on July 13, compared with
June Is.
Bakers in the cities where investiga-
tions were conducted were reported by
administrators to have ''in most cases
kept within what Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace has indicated would be
a justifiable price advance"
After ordering the processing tax of
30 cents a bushel on wheat in effect
on July 9, he said it did not justify an
increase Of more than one-half cent a
loaf and that the rise in prices Of wheat
and other ingredients of bread did not
justify with the tax an increase of
from more than 11s cents to IL cents
a loaf.
The investigation was by representa-
tiveS of the department, who visited IL
stores in each of the 80 cities and OBJ
tained prices on bread. Both chain and
Independent retail establishments were
covered.
Analysis Of Records.
Analysis of the records showed that
retailers in one city added less than
l cent pound to their June price:
those m IL cities added / cent per
pound; in cities the advance was from
IL to IA cents and in others it was
2 cents. Bread prices In S cities had
not changed.
DR.. Frederic c. Howe, consumers
counsel in the farm organization, said
that the investigation is the first of
series Of periodic checks planned to
help protect consumers" and that "the
department is watching for evidence of
unfair price advances and will forward
complaints to the Department OF
Justice"
Howe said that bakers in some of the
cities had decided to change the weight
of their loaves, instead of their price.
He said this variation was taken into
consideration in calculating the price
shown for each city.
Reports Of price changes In effect on
July 13 for each city were:
Albany, N. Y, ! cent increase; Balti-
more, 0.8 to 10 cent increase; Boston,
chains, no increase; others, 1.3 cent in
crease; Buffalo, IL to 1.3 cent increase;
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1.3 cent increase.
Cent Up In Chicago.
Chicago, chains, cent increase; Gin
cinnati, chains, l cent increase; others,
2 cents increase; Denver, u cent to
1h cent increase; Fort Worth, Tex, no
increases reported; Galveston, Tex, !
cent increase: Great Falls, Mont, none
reported; Indianapolis, 0.5 to 20 cents
increase.
Kansas City, none reported; Los An
geles, cent increase; Louisville, cents
increase; Memphis, IL to 2 cents
increase; Milwaukee, 1 to cents in
crease; Minneapolis, cent increase in
unwrapped bread; Nashville. Tenn.
chains. "a cent increase; others 44s cent
to ia cents increase; New Orleans,
ia cents increase; New York City,
cent increase; Oklahoma City, no
increases reported, weights of loaves re-
duced; Omaha, / cent increase, 27 and
"a ounce loaves decreased to 20 ounces.
Philadelphia, cent increase; Port
land, Oreg., cent increase; Sioux City,
Iowa, Is to 1Hs cents increase; st.
Louis, chains, to cents increase;
others, none reported; San Francisco.
bakeries, l cent increase; Seattle. in
crease anticipated; Toledo, l cent in
crease; Washington. D. c.. none re-
ported; Wichita, Kans., chains, to 113
cents increase.