Evening star., 1946-03-04
Famine Board 10 Call
Food Farley in Week
To Eliminate Waste
BY Malcolm Lomborne. Jr.


Aides of Secretary of Agricul-
ture Anderson said today that
representatives of restaurants.
hotel operators, grocery store
and dining car operators and
others in the commercial food
industry would be called to a
meeting here within week by
the Famine Emergency Commit
tee to work out means of reduc-
ing food wastage.
Among proposals to be taken up
by the committee is suggestion that
= eating places serve only one slice of
toner requests more.
Some experts say this might cut
restaurant bread use by one half
and thus make more grain available
for shipment overseas. 49,.
Without waiting for the national
meeting of, commercial food users,
the Washington Restaurant Associ-
alton is going ahead with plans for
tnstructing its members on food con-
servation and an education program
directed to customers who will be
asked to order only what they can
eat.
In line with the proposal for cut
ting down on use of bread, Arthur
Hartnett, executive secretary of the
Hotel Association of Washington,
said it might be possible for hotels |
to bring back bread warmers with
boy taking the bread around to pa
irons instead of having it pile up
on tables.
Officials said that the committee,
set up by President Truman with
Herbert Hoover as honorary chair
man, would be enlarged within the
next few days to include repre-
sentatives of labor, agriculture and
the food industry.
In an effort to channelize empty
box cars into the northwestern
United States grain areas and thus
speed up grain movement to ports,
the Office of Defense Transporta-
ton is expected to issue an order
late today giving priority on cars
to grain elevator operators who
plan to ship grain to terminal
markets. -
An ODT spokesman said that
I'VE want to see that the railroads
do their part in the crisis" The
order, he said, would be similar to
procedure during the war when
movements of munitions had pre-
cedent over other freight.
Meanwhile, the joint Agriculture
Department-OPA action over the
week end raising ceiling prices on
grains met approval of members of
Congress.
Chairman Thomas of the Senate
Agriculture Committee said he was
glad to see OPA finally paying some ,
attention" to directives from Con-
gress concerning farm prices. He
called the increases long overdue"
Before the increases were an /
nounced, Chairman Thomas had
contended OPA was creating a black
market in grain by holding down ,
prices unlawfully and then asking
Congress for money to investigate
the black market.
Sldill CGlllIlS lIlCTcdS6S amount 10 4,
3 cents a bushel on wheat, 3 cents !
on corn, 4 cents on barley, cents
on oats and cents on rye.
Anderson to Testify.
Secretary Anderson will be the
first witness before a House Food
Committee headed by Representa- {
tive Pace. Democrat, of Georgia,
which opens hearings tomorrow on 7
the entire grain problem. Mr.. Pace g
said the group wants "a complete {
picture of grain supplies and the /
demand for them, including our
commitments abroad" l
In the meantime, delegates of an t
Indian Food Mission prepared today r
to bring their case for greater al '
locations Of food to their. country v
before the combined Food Board. I
Eight of the 13 delegates arrived here !
Saturday by plane.
I'VE are working under no illu- t
sions." member of the group de- +
clared. I'VE realize there are other l
claimants before the Food Board, 1
but we have a pressing case that 7
we are prepared to substantiate by r
facts" He added that if America a
and Canada will eliminate waste
in handling and consumption of
food, at least 10000 tons of cereals
could be made available !,