Evening star., 1934-10-23
ALLEN THREATENS
TO OBTAIN OUTSIDE
MILK FOR NEEDY
Commissioner Warns Pro-
ducers Relief Clients Must
Have Nine-Cent Price.
CITY WOULD LICENSE
FARMERS TO GET FLUID
Walker Expected to Answer Ulti-
matum at Conference Later To.
day-11-Cent Deliveries Start.

Determined TO obtain milk for re-
lief families at less than IL cents a
quart, Distric, Commissioner Allen
today told producer representatives
he would bring in outside milk un-
less they agreed to furnish the prod
uct at 20 or p cents gallon.
He served this notice on Frank S.
Walker, president of the Maryland
and Virginia Mix Producers Asso-
citation at a conference in his Office
at noon today on the question of
relief milk.
Allen is seeking to have the pro-
ducers organization furnish milk for
relief families at 20 cents a gallon
so that it can be bottled and distrib-
uted at 8 cents a quart. Thus far
Walker has refused to meet his de-
mand, but has countered with a pro-
posal to furnish sufficient milk for
relief distribution at "a cents a gallon.
Would Ask Applications.
If Allen carries out his threat, the
District government would call for
applications from milk producers not
now lincenSed to ship on this market.
Immediate inspection of these farm
erS then would be undertaken and
temporary permits granted by the
Health Department.
The Commissioner made it plain,
however, he did not wish to create
an additional surplus of milk on the
Washington market, but he empha-
sized he was determined to furnish
the $4,000 families on relici rolls
with milk at cost the destitute
families could pay. He said he was
particularly anxious to increase the
consumption of milk among these
poor families. Walker was expected
TO answer the ultimatum at 4 pm.
today when the conference will be
resumed.
Deliveries Today.
This proposal is independent of
another plan, already approved by
Commissioner Allen, under which the
Embassy and Chestnut Farm Chevy
Chase Dairy will furnish relief fam
lilies with milk at IL cents a quart.
The deliveries at this price are ex-
pected to start today or tomorrow.
Some opposition among producers
has already been expressed against the
9-cent plan. The farmers have con-
tended that If milk at this price is
made available to the $4,000 families
on relief rolls it would cut heavily
into the sale of basic or fluid milk,
for which the farmer now receives
ta1,
present farm price for surplus milk
is l6 cents a gallon, but under Aliens
plan all milk sold to relief families
at 9 cents quart would be paid for
by dairy companies at 20 cents a
gallon
Producers Divided.
However, some producers have
maintained the difference in price
for surplus milk would not make up
for the loss in sales of basic milk. On
the other hand, some distributors
have expressed the belief, it was said
at the District Building, that there
would be no appreCiable gain in milk
consumption by relief families.
The conference recessed at ! o'clock
with an agreement to meet again at
4 p m. to discuss further the posi-
bllity of providing innocent milk for
the relief families Walker objected
strenuously to selling milk for relief
purposes at 20 cents a gallon to
dalries, arguing that a large increase
in milk consumption by relief fami-
lies would decrease farm sales of class
! milk and diminish the farmers
income. He proposed the farmer be
paid "a cents a gallon for milk for
relief purposes, but Allen declined to
accept this and the argument was to
be continued at this afternoons ses-
sion.
Meanwhile, meeting of the BoarC
Of Directors of the Maryland- Virginia
Mix Producers Association was sci
for today and a sharp controversy
was expected over the whole mill
question. A month ago the directors
ordered Walker and Isaac w Heaps
head of the Eastern States Milk Mar
ket Association and car of the Wash.
ington- Baltimore market, to demand
a four cent per gallon increase in
the farm price. This proposed in.
crease apparently has been spiked
by Allen and the Consumers Counci
OF Washington, which has demanded
q 2 cent per quart decrease in the
retail price Of milk.