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without pay from the Government.
Not all of them are expected to
work full time with the committee,
however.
Director of Information will be
Bruce Cation. former Commerce
Department director of information
He will be assisted by Albert J..
Lubin, chief of the Commerce De-
partment news section, on loan
from that department. :. ~
Director of consumer services:
Katharine Fisher. director of the
Good Housekeeping Institute. on
leave of absence from Good House
keeping magazine to direct a con-
slant flow of information to home
makers on meal planning and food
conservation" She will supply
daily recipes-without meat on
Tuesdays or eggs and poultry on
Thursdays. 5
Director of administrative serv-
ices: Michael J. Roche, a Lever
Brothers official on leave of absence.
Director of research and statis-
tics: Robert Oshins, secretary of the
Cabinet Food Committee. He will
continue to work with the cabinet
group.
Fund Shifts Approved.
The Budget Bureau and the con-
troller general have agreed that
funds may be shifted from various
Government departments to pay
for those activities of the Citizens
Food Committee which cannot be
obtained free. The committee Is
counting on advertisers making
available space for its campaign
just as they did during the war for
the Owl and OPA. Most of the
money spent by the Government
probably will go for printing
material distributed by the COM
nittee.
The best guess in informed quar-
ters as to what the food drive will
cost the Government is around
$250.000, but 1t was pointed out this
Is only guess since its duration is
not definite and its scope changes
almost daily.
The Famine Emergency Commit
tee spent around 100000 during
its six month life last year, includ-
ing the cost of former President
Hoover's trips to Europe and South
America.
Mr.. Luckman, who got into trouble
with news and radio reporters at
his first press conference 10 days
ago because he talked in generali-
ties, has begun to get down to cases.
He brought the distillers into line
last week, although there was plenty
of grumbling that the 60-day shut
down would not produce any more
grain than the industry's own partial
closing plan. Some industry people
also were resentful of the way the
shutdown was nnounced-over the
radio last Sunday by Mr. Luckman
when he told both the public and
the distillers about it for the first
time.
Corn and Barley Cut Sought.
The Nations brewers promised to
help by ending the use of wheat
and table rice. But Mr.. Luckman
also wants a cut in their use of corn
and barley, cut they have not yet
agreed to make. He expects to hear
from them again in the next day
or two.
The millers and the bakers, the
other major industrial users of
grain, also are still to be heard
from. They have pledged "co-opera-
tion," but the details are lacking.
Pleas for Qualification" of the
meatless eggless poultryless days
program came in all last week and
the National Restaurant Associa-
tons industry advisory group is to
meet here with Mr.. Luckman to-
morrow on the same subject. Many
of the associations locally afhliated
restaurant groups have refused to
go along with the, Tuesday Thurs
day plan, but Mr.. Luckman is stick
ing by his origial requests for 100