Evening star., 1946-03-11
Program 10 Conserve
Food Stocks Outlined
AT Meeting Here
Hoover, Lehman Confer;
Wheat Report Dorkens
Picture of Crisis
By Malcolm Lomborne, Jr.

The Famine Emergency Com.
mittee was meeting today ir
the Agriculture Department tt
take up important recommen-
dations on food saving by the
Nations bakeries and eating
places. Herbert Hoover, hon.
orary chairman, attended, anc
Chester C. Davis, former wal
food administrator, presided.
Food conservation proposals were
to be presented to the committee by
representatives of various segments
of the food industry, who met here
last week with Secretary of Agricul.
ture Anderson.
Following action on the industry
recommendations, the committee
will call on American consumers te
take specific steps to save wheat
other cereal products and fats and
oils.
Mr.. Hoover, who conferred yester-
day with French Ambassador Henri
Bonnet, was to have lunch with Her
bert H. Lehman, director general OF
UNRRA, in preparation for the for
mer Presidents trip to Europe to
study food conditions for President
Truman. Mr.. Hoover hopes to leave
by plane for Paris this coming week
end.
Mr.. Lehman called last night fol-
greater efforts by the peoples of the
United Nations to meet mounting
world food crisis.
''The world food situation grows
more critical each day and during
the last few weeks there has not
been one single ameliorating fac
tor" said the UNRRA chief. Every.
thing has operated to make the sit
uation worse"
IF the peoples of the United Ma
tions are to surmount this great
crisis" he added in his statement
ut is clear that even greater efforts
will have to be made both by sup
plying and receiving countries
UNRRA has no power by which II
can enforce decisions on national
governments, but I should be fail
ing in my duty were I not to con-
tinue to emphasize my conviction
that still more can be done by the
member nations themselves"
Mr.. Lehman reported that UNRRA
shipments of food and other supplies
to liberated areas in February reach
ed a record high of 1,239, 400 gross
long tons. This brought total ship.
ments to more than 6,000, 600 tons.
Today's committee meeting also
was to consider Mr.. Hoover,s trir
abroad and the question of enlarg-
ing the committee to include repre-
sentatives OF labor, agriculture and
other phases of American life.
Wallace Also at Farley.
Mr.. Lehman and Secretary of
Commerce Wallace attended the
committee session. Neither is q reg
ular member of the group.
The food industry was represented
by Admiral G. r. lie Savage, presi-
dent of the National Restaurant
Association: John L. Hennessy,
chairman Of the American Hotel
Association Food Committee: John
A. Logan, president of the National
Association of Food Chains; William
M. DMiller, president of the Ma
tional Retailer-Owner Grocer Asso-
ciation. and Paul S. Willis, Grocery
Manufacturers of America.
Secretary Anderson and Mr.. Davis
planned to hold a joint press confer
ence after the meeting.
Before leaving for New York. Mr.
Hoover will hold news conference
tomorrow morning at his Mayflower
Hotel suite, at which time he viii
outline his itinerary on the conti-
nent and the makeup Of his stan
Group Opposes Hoover.
Opposition to the choice Of Mr..
Hoover for the assignment was re-
newed yesterday, this time by the
National Citizens Political Action
Committee. The group said, he
should be replaced by "an appointee
IN which the American people and
people throughout the world have
greater faith and confidence"
Meanwhile, the Agriculture De-
partment made public q report on
world wheat production in l945.
lSee FOOD, Page A-4.1