Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-04
IDAHO BAKER
GIVEN ADVICE
BY SENATOR
Continued From Page II


mated means an increase of IL
per cent or more in the cost of
the bread loaf in the American
home. 1t is another illustration of
how powerful interests steadily and
rob the common people
of this country by adding small
amounts to the things which they
have to have in order to live.
Whatever the poorer people may
gain in the wage or wages or in the
price of the product, or thing,
they have to sell, is gathered upon
and all under the guise of law
and put into the pockets of mono
polists.
"Of course, I presume the argu-
ment will be made that this in
crease in the price of bread is
due to the increase in the price
of wheat. But I recall that when
wheat was low, down to the very
bottom, the price of bread was
high and we were told that the
price of wheat had very little to do
with the price Of bread.
II am not in a position to adj
wise you, as an individual stand
ing alone, to fight this system.
Some of the rest of us will do
DnroJ pp,,c1,,fjaI
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. UI)-
NRA officials today called Senator
William E. Borah IS offer to furnish
free counsel to an Idaho baker if
he cut bread prices despite alleged
NRA instructions, "a tempest in
a teapot
Walter White, who as deputy
NRA administrator, played an act
i've role in drafting the bakers
code, said there was no price fix
ing provision in the code which
compelled bakers to raise prices.
White explained local code auth
critics and bakers frequently con-
fer on whether an advance in prices
for bread is necessary. Then they
discuss the issue with members of
the consumers advisory board and
NRA. The increases, often, he
said, are then suggested to chain
stores. He pointed out, however,
this was all voluntary.
Practically all prices we have
endorsed have been to help small
and middle-sized bakery operators, -
White said
NRA officials said also that Mes
tor was exempt from NRA code
provisions under the President IS
executive order which limited their
application to towns of $500 or
over
TWIN FALLS, Ida, Aug. 4. U.H
Emphatic denial that any orders
to increase bread prices were given
E. w. Nestor, baker of Glenns Fer
ry, Ida, was made here today by
S. H. Graves, Twin Falls, member
of the bakers NRA code authority
for southern Idaho.
Graves raped the Glenns Ferry
bakers charges by declaring that
no price instructions, "either ex-
pressed or implied" were given
Nestor.
son the morning of July 19,o
Mr.. Graves said, ~ discussed pro-
visions of the code with Mr.. Nestor
for a short time, during which
time I reported to him the prices
that were discussed at the meeting
of the Idaho Bakers association at
Boise on July 18
'To my knowledge the charges
made by Mr.. NeStor are entirely
unfounded and unwarranted. d."
CHICAGO, Aug. 4. U.P)-E. w.
Nestor, Glenns Ferry, Ida, baker
who said he had been ordered by
the NRA to raise bread prices, has
been victimized by an imposter,
executives of the National Bakers
council, national bakery code auth
ority, said today.
Eugene Lipp, acting chairman of
the authority, said that no deputy,
authority or administrator has been
appointed for Idaho and that no
one has been authorized to act for
the national authority in that state
in any capacity.
The bakers code does not provide
for price fixing, said Lipp, "and
even if we had such power it could
not have been exercised here be-
cause we have no administrator in
Idaho.
Apparently someone has been
YictimiZinP Mr.. Nestor. - Lipp