FARM PRICE
PROBLEM TO
THE FORE
By JACK STINEfT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 18.
—(AP)—-There’s one question
that’s going to get bigger in the
months to come. It is: how are
farm prices going to be maintain
ed as surpluses are released and
demand drops off? It’s the same
old story that plagued us after
World War I and both Capitol
Hill and the administrative
branch are starting to hammer
their heads in an effort to solve
the problem.
Office of War Mobilization Di
rector* James F. Byrnes first stat
ed the dilemma when he warned
Congress that it would probably
take two billion dollars to sup
port farm prices in 1945 at pres
ent parity levels. Byrnes isn’t a
pessimist. He has been informed
that about six million tons of
food (unprocessed wheat exclud
ed) will be released when the
war in Europe is over. He esti
mates that at least two million
tons of this will have to be dump
ed on local markets, which leaves
a generous allowance for con
tinued military consumption and
disposals through UNRDA to
blighted Europe.
There already is talk here that
farm incomes are likely to de
cline four or five billion dollars
t next year. While that still will
be several billions above the 1919
level and more than three times
the depression low, it has farm
state Congressmen and farm
vote-minded government officials
worried more than almost any
other phase of the postwar pro
gram.
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According to Department of
Agriculture experts the problem
is simply this: Congress has told
the farmers that it will maintain
prices at 90 per cent of parity
through 1947 (parity is the sell
ing price that will produce the
buying power of the farm dollar
in the “normal” years 1910-14).
In order to meet war needs,
farm production has been step
I
! ped up almost 35 per cent above
I pre-war production levels. Be
cause of food stockpiles, the end
of the war in Europe will see
the present demand disappear
almost overnight. An end of ra
tioning may help on some com
modities but this will be more
than offset by sale of surpluses
in this country.
What will the answer be?
Hardly an Agriculture depart
ment official or an operator in
the farrrf lobby lfne doesn’t have
some pet solution.
Generally, these include dump
ing farm products abroad at less
than production prices, with
some restrictions to assure that
they won’t be resold competitive
ly to the United States; another j
broad program of plowing under i
all farm products that are over
poduced; expansion of the school
lunch and charity feeding pro
grams; and concentration on con
version of surplus farm products
to industrial uses, such as in the
manufacture of plastics.
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The non-agricultural members
of Congress gripe that almost any
solution is going to hit the tax
payer right in his wallet. These
and others fear that any effort to
solve it by dumping on other na
tions will endanger foreign rela
tions at a time when they need
most to be preserved.
Congress has tossed the whole
problem in the lap of Secretary
of Agriculture Claude Wickard.
They have just extended him an
invitation to come in and tell
them what can be done about it.
BERLIN RADIO
REPORTS JAP S
ADMIRALS DEAD
LONDON, Oct. 18.—(AP)—A
Berlin broadcast was heard re
porting from a Tokyo dispatch,
of the death of three vice ad
mirals of the Japanese fleet, it
was reported today.
The officers included Vice Ad
miral Miura, who died from ill
ness at the front; and Vice Ad
mirals Mttra^a and Mothunobe,
who were killed in battle.
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FUNERAL OF
FAIRBANKS MAN
HELD TODAY
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 18.—(API
Funeral arrangements are being
scheduled today by the Pioneers
of Alaska, for the late Richard
C. Wood, aged 69, prominent
Fairbanks pioneer, it has been
reported today.
Mr. Wood has been a banker,
a veteran Klondike stampeder,
and most recently, manager of a
real estate and insurance firm in
this city. He suffocated to death
early Sunday morning, after fall
ing asleep while smoking. The
cigarette set fire to his mattress,
causing the tragedy.
Later he became president of
the First National Bank of Fair
banks.
LALLEY RITES
HELD TUESDAY
Funeral services for Henry
Joseph Lalley took place from
the Federated Church uesday and
then proceed to the cemetry for
burial. The hour of service was
two o’clock.
During the services Mrs. O. S.
Weaver sang a special song, and
Robert Baldwin played special
music. Rev. Vernon Booker pre
sided and gave the obituary.
The services were very impres
sive and well attended.
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ALL-FIGHTER
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NEW GUINEA, Oct. 18.—(AP)—
The first big all-fighter raiding
I party swept the Philippines and
II penetrated farm north into Men
i dora on Monday, surprising the
I! Japanese convoy on the highway,
it has been destroyed.
The planes destroyed 62 trucks
, and six staff cars.
The Americans apparently
I caught the Japanese entirely by
| surprise in this bold daylight
raid, for the fighters flew low
and struck not only the convoy,
but also important Cagayan Ma
) tina airdromes, and attacked the
cavalry troops, inflicting heavy
' l casualties before the horsemen
could scatter.
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NORTHWEST
PASSAGE MADE
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VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 18.
—The first voyage ever to be
completed in a single season,
across the treacherous Northwest
Passage over the Arctic top of
America, was completed here last
night by the little Canadian M.
P. schooner “Stroch”.
Starting on its return trip, to
the west coast from Halifax,
Nova Scotia, last July 22, RCMP
Sergeant Henry Larsen, captain,
piloted his 80-foot schooner
through a perfect cruise across
the north of Canada and Alaska,
thence on down the coast.
The name amethyst is said to
be derived from the Greek word
meaning “not to intoxicate,” ex
pressing an old belief that the
stone protected is owner from
strong drink.
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