Evening star., 1947-10-05
By Chalmers M. Roberts

Representatives of the Ma
tion's brewers, called on to CO.
operate in President Truman's
save-food-for Europe program,
agreed yesterday to stop using
wheat and table grades of rice in
beer but baked at cutting their
use of corn and barley.
An announcement through the
White House said the brewers rep
resentatives agreed to recommend
to the members of their trade asso-
Citations that they release immedi-
ately for food purposes all stocks of
wheat they own or have under con-
tract-more than 100000 bushels.
Charles Luckman, chairman OF
the Citizens Food Committee, well
coined this indication of co-opera-
tion" by the brewers, but indicated
he was not satisfied with the action
taken in a six-hour meeting here
The development came as the Food
Committee prepared to launch its
Nationwide campaign aimed at
saving" 100000,000 bushels of wheat
so that total of 570,000,000 bushels
of grain will be available for ship
ment abroad during the crop year
1947-8 President Truman. Secretary
of State Marshall, Secretary OF Com
merce Hartman and Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson will 90 on the
air with Mr.. Luckman on a four
network hook-up at 1890 tonight.
Hopes for Greater Contribution.
Mr.. Luckman, in his statement
on the brewers action, said that he
hoped and believed that the in
dustry and its individual members,
upon further consideration, could
and would be able to make addition
al contributions to the conserva-
ton drive"
The Star learned that this re-
ferred to a proposal for an overall
cut which Mr.. Luckman made to
representative of the United States
Brewers Foundation and the Small
Brewers Committee at the meeting
Yesterday in the old State Depart
ment building.
Despite the lengthy meetings
among themselves with Mr.. Luck
man and with Secretary Anderson,
the brewers would not agree to go
further than to release the wheat
whieh Mr.. Luckman referred to as
comparatively small" amount.
< The brewers representatives did
agree to discuss an overall cut in
the use of grains when they meet
with their boards of directors this
week. to study further conservation
measures" as the White House
statement put it.
Program to be Formulated
The brewers agreed to recommend
in addition to immediate elimination
of the use of wheat and table grades
of rice in the brewing of beer, to
take steps to eliminate losses and
increase recovery of the high pro-
tein and yeast by-products OF brew
ing. These are used extensively for
dairy herd milk production and in
the feeding of poultry.
Mr.. Luckman was quoted in the
White House statement as believ-
ing that further consideration will
enable the brewing industry to offer
a larger program" The industry
meeting this week, Mr.. Luckman
said, will formulate program
which will represent the utmost that
the brewing industry can possibly
and reasonably contribute"
If atmospheric conditions are
good, the broadcast tonight will in
clude pickups for foreign points to
emphasize the need abroad for
American food, especially In the
coming winter months.
Expected to go After" Farmers.
1t was learned from a source close
to Mr.. Luckman that the $500, ,OOO-
a-year head of Lever Brothers, the
Nations second largest soap manu-
facturers, has been much impressed
by wide criticism of his food COM
mittee's activities in its week-old
history. Mr.. Luckman was repre-
sented as ready to go as far II not
further than the law allows" when
he goes on the air tonight.
The food committee program be-