Evening star., 1933-12-17
KING QUITS DAIRY
DIVISION Of A.A.A.
]. H. Mason Made Successor
as Crop Limit Plan Is
Is. Considered.
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comment on Dr. Kings resignation
pending issuance of the committees re-
port. when he said I'VE might have
something to say"
! Committee Counsel Seal, however,
| said he intended to proceed with tes-
timony to prove that one of Kings
principal advisors was DR.. Henry N
Wooman, university professor and q
| director of National Dairy Products
Corporation.
Il regard Dr. Kings resignation as
victory for the committee" said Seal
But despite his action. intend to
show that one of his closest associates
DIR. Woolman of National Dairy-had
an office in the dairy division of the
A. A. A. and assisted in the drafting
of milk marketing agreements"
The new A. A. A. policy, which is
backed by Secretary Wallace and As
sistant Secretary Tugwell. will mark
the beginning Of the liquidation of
much of the work of George NJ Peek.
who has just been shifted from A. A. A.
administrator to the post Of special
assistant to the President in charge Of
promotion of foreign trade.
The resignation of DR.. King whose
work has been under fire from liberal
quarters for months, was submitted to
Mr. Peek on December 4. it was re-
vealed yesterday. 1t was accepted
Friday, apparently, as Mr.. Peeks last
official act before his duties in the
A. A. A. were formally transferred to
the new administrator. Chester C..
Davis.
Recommended by Tugwell.
DR.. King was originally chosen for
the post with the recommendation Of
Tugwell. who had studied under him
at the University of Pennsylvania. But
his work here in the drafting of mar
keting agreements has been under con-
sistent fire from the liberal side. and
the milk agreements were recently cited
by Secretary Wallace as an example Of
the failure Of Peekts idea of trying to
increase farmers income by price-fixing
methods
The milk agreements generally have
fixed prices to the farmer, and In some
instances they also have fixed minimum
prices to the consumer. They have re-
suited, according to Wallace, in increas-
ing production on one side and decreas-
ing consumption on the other. thus
forcing more milk into butter-msking,
with consequent depressing effects on
butter prices. The attempt Of the A.
A. A. to hold up the price of butter by
buying the surplus through special
corporation terminated at midnight last
night.
In the principal cities, the milk agree
ments have encountered stubborn re-
calcitrance and open defiance from MI
norities of distributors. Resort to the
licensing power of the A. A. A. has led
to court actions on behalf of Chicago
and Philadelphia distributors and more
or less open "bootlegging."
Plans for crop restriction plan Tor
application to dairy farmers are still in
their preliminary stages. One proposal
is that the problem be attacked with
the elimination of diseased and in
ferior cows, for the destruction of which
bounties would be paid out of funds
raised by processing tax. This would
be an enlargement of the tuberculosis
elimination program of the Federal and
State governments.
The new chief Of the dairy section,
Mason, is said to be in complete accord
with the necessity for crop control. The
A. A. A. announcement of his appoint
ment said:
Mr.. Mason has been prominent in
dairy farming for many years. For 10
years he operated dairy farms in Iowa.
He y member Of the Board Of Di-
rectors of the National Cooperative
Milk Producers Federation.
He arbitrated and settled the milk
dispute in the Sioux City. Iowa, area.
last February"
Milk Prober Seal today was COM
pleting his plans for resuming the
hearings into the local milk situation
with another Of the important witnesses,
DR.. Henry N. Woolman of Philadelphia,
director In the National Dairy Prod
ucts Corporation, missing.
Woolman's presence had been re-
quested by Seal so that he could ex-
plain what, if anything, he had to do
with the set-up of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration and the pro-
muigation of milk marketing agree
ments. He is the president of Supplee-
Wills-Jones Dairy. Philadelphia, and
professor in the University of Pennsyl-
vania's Wharton School of Finance.
Woolman Not Located.
Seal could not locate him yesterday
to hand him a subpoena and neither
could Joseph j. Davies, National Dairy
attorney, who had promised the inves-
tigator he would try to have the
dairy director present when hearings
are resumed. An effort was being made
to locate Woolman In Philadelphia and
Ardmore, Pa, his home.
Meanwhile, officials Of the Breyer Ice
Cream Co., Philadelphia subsidiary Of
National Dairy, continued to deny hav-
ing cut prices and slashed wages. An
swer;ng charges of Charles McClosky,
business agent for the Ice Cream
Workers Union, Raymond Davis, local
branch manager of the Breyer Co., is
sued the following statement:
THE price Of Breyer's ice cream to
the dealer is comparable with the prices
Of our competitors, and is in no in
stance as low as stated in the news
paper articles published December Is
and IA.
The Salaries paid Breyer employees
are as high or higher than geenrally
prevail In the industry.
The Breyer Ice Cream Co. was one
of the first ice cream companies in
Washington to sign the Presidents
blanket national recovery code and is
conforming with all its provisions.
Otto w. Anderson. county agricul-
tural agent has issued q call for
meeting of the retail milk producers of
Monlsolaepy County. In tho O1l0p OF tho
eneen hs ns pSsse Tsssa Anaar.oa saas ssaaed ss
is to discuss the proposed milk code