Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-20 | Page 7 | Cuban Sugar will Relieve Shortage

CUBAfJ SUGAR WILL RELIEVE SHORTAGE S. H. Love Returns From Meeting of Distributing Board at Chicago. The scarcity of sugar in 1 he eastern i states probably has rea ehed its most aeuto stage and relief will l-e nfforded by the importations of Cuba n sutiar, which arc expected to bcin within thirty or foity-five days, is the belief e- pressed yesterday by P. Tl. Love, member mem-ber of the food administration sncar dis-iributinK dis-iributinK eoniinltteo, who has returned to !?alt Lake after attending: a meetinR of I the committee at Chicago. Mr. Lo'e also: M'as present nt the hearing heiore the inters in-ters t;i te commerce commission of the Fourth section cases, doalin with inter-mouuiain inter-mouuiain rates, as a rcptCKuntati'e of , tlie Utah shippers. The whole eastern country is bare of sug;ir and wholesale dealers are doling out 100-pound lots, while retail mer- ; chants are limiting liid Ivklual purchases 1 to i"'J- cents and even 25 cents. Mr. Love ' stated. All producing sections are eiilp- ; line" mi par east as fast as railway equip- t men t cmi be obtained, and the coin mil- j tee of cane sugar uir.n aurcecded in hav- ing released for distribution from New York KI.OOO tons of sugar that had been bought by foreign governments. The committee, after a session of ten days, convinced the Hoover committee at Washington that the scarcity of supra r is be i tic: felt In the middle west as severely se-verely as on the Atlantic seaboard. No testimony was offered by western residents at the fate hearing presided over by EvHinluer Attorney Thurtell. Reports Re-ports were made by representatives of the shipping interests of Pittsburg, Cincin- ! nati. Cleveland and Chicago. The hear- : ing is pimilar to those pending' at Portland Port-land and New York.