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Show EMBARGO TO GO ON EXPORTS OF FOOD President to Sign Order Today Effecting Control Act Passed by Congress. WASHINGTON. June 19. President Wilson is expected to sign tomorrow an executive order putting into operation the export control act just passed by congress. A r 1-n of organization and general export ex-port programme drawn up by Secretaries Tensing a nd Redfie.hl was taken up at today's cabinet meet ins. The act will be administered by an export ex-port council made up of representatives of th.e state, war. navy and commerce departments, de-partments, the food administration and others to be selected by the state and commerce departments. Administrative details will be handled by the bureau of fore: en and domestic commerce, which will lie enlarge'."! by the addition of an export ex-port lictnsinz division. Matters of interna tional consequence will be decide I by the state department. FV--d i7'if-s;;oi:s w '.''. ! l-ft to the food a Imin--a : ion. t'oai and wheat will be r he first two 'o:iuiicdi: :cs to come under operation op-eration of the act. and a presidential (Continued on Page Four.) EMBARGO TO GO M EXPORTS OE F000 Continued from Page One.) proclamation specifying these twro probably proba-bly will accompany the executive order. Heavy grain purchases by European neutrals, it was said tonight, influenced the government to hasten putting the export ex-port control act into operation. Alarmed at prospects that the United States was preparing to exercise the strictest supervision super-vision over food shipments, the neutrals, it Is declared, have gone into the American Ameri-can wheat market and obtained contracts for enormous quantities of the cereal. Much of this now probably will never leave the country, and if the food bills pass the purchasers can be forced to disgorge dis-gorge their holdings under the embargo clause. The allies, who have discontinued 'grain purchases for the time being, awaiting the outcome of the food export and control con-trol legisly tion, have grown more and more impatient, it Is declared, at the continued con-tinued neutral buying. The heavy allied buying in the spring has been blamed in large measure for the high prices to which May wheat went. Under a programme that probably will be adopted by the government America will be supplied first out of American product; the allies will be taken cure or next, and the neutrals will be considered last. |