Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-09-01
Price Ceilings Lifted
On 40 Food, Other
Agricultural Items
First Short Supply List
Automatically Frees
Some Commodities
BY MoIcoIm Lomborne, Jr.

frlCe ceilings went OH more
than 40 food items and other
agricultural commodities today
for September as Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson, acting I'M
der the new price control bill,
made public his first monthly
list of products found to be
scarce.
Not specifically mentioned on the
short supply" list and thus auto
matically freed from ceilings were
all frozen fruits, canned apricots,
plums and prunes; a number of
fresh and canned fruits and vege-
tables, including fresh apples,
grapefruits, lemons, peaches and
tangerines; hay, peanuts, popcorn
and brandies.
The Secretary also failed to in
elude on the list poultry and eggs
or tobacco and its products, a move
which an Agriculture Department
source said precluded any action by
the Price Decontrol Board on these
commodities during September.
Congress exempted these products
along with petroleum and its prod
ucts and said they only could be
recontrolled if the board found
them in short supply, prices I'M
reasonably high and recontrol prac-
ticable and enforceable.
OPA Officials Kept in Dark.
An OPA official pointed out that
about 80 per cent of the items re-
moved from price control by Mr.
Anderson's action were under con-
sideration for decontrol by OPA in
any event.
OPA officials were kept in the
dark on what the Secretary's list
would contain until copies of the
order were released to reporters late
yesterday. Several hours later OPA
issued long list of imported and
domestic items which it said would
continue under ceilings.
Mr. Anderson's short supply list
included hogs, cattle, milk and but
terfat, most fats and oils, jams and
jellies, fish, wheat. corn, oat cereals,
malt beverages, distilled spirits ex-
cept fruit and grape brandies, sugar
and even larger number of canned
fruits and juices and vegetables
than were on the ceiling-free list.
Listings Govern Price Control.
In providing for monthly issuance
of the short supply list. Congress
said whenever an agricultural COM
modify is left off and has been under
ceiling up to that time, it goes off
control Immediately. Thus the first
of next month If the Secretary finds
the commodity again has become
short, he must list it, making it
eligible for recontrol.
While dairy products were on yes
terday's scarcity list, the Decontrol
Board has ruled their continued
freedom from controls on the basis
that prices have not risen unreason-
ably since last June
The board already has directed
ceilings for meats. and OPA plans to
announce this week new rental CELL
ings, effective September 9.
Other Items Listed.
Items removed from ceilings by
yesterdays action were:
Fresh snapbeans, cantaloupes,
carrots, lettuce, onions, spinach,
sweet potatoes and tomatoes.
Canned peas, lima beans, aspara-
gus and mixed vegetables.
Frozen lima beans, corn, green
peas and asparagus.
Dried apples and other apple
products, except canned apples,
apple butter and apple sauce.
Cranberries, Concord grape prod
ucts, tobacco, wool, edible tree nuts,
hops, broom corn, gum rosin, bees
wax, peppermint and spearmint oil,
peanut products except oil and meal.
Following is the full list of COM
modities reported by the depart
ment as in short supply:
Wheat, rye, rice, buckwheat flour,
corn, barley, grain sorghums, oat
cereals.
Dry edible beans, dry edible peas
Red clover, alsike clover, sweet
clover and alfalfa seeds.
Millfeeds and other grain by-pro-
ducts, feed screenings animal tank
age and meat scraps, and other ami
NAL product feeding stuffs.
Hogs, cattle and calves for slaugh-
ter, sheep and lambs, mohair, milk
and butterfat.
Soybeans, cottonseed, haxseed,
(see PRICES, Page A-100