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Show FLOUR SUBSTITUTE PRICES ARE FIXED Dealers Are Urged to Dispose Dis-pose of Stocks on Hand Where Possible. On authority from the office of the national food administration at Washington, Wash-ington, the local office yesterday announced an-nounced that the following prices will be paid by the government at seaboard points for Victory flour and wheat flour substitutes: Victory flour, $10.50 per 100 pounds; straight or patent rye flour, $9.90; white corn flour, $S.50; cornmeal (cream), SS; barlev flour. ?S; dark rye flour, $7.50; yellow' corn flour, SS; other cornmeal, $7.50. In no case will a price higher than actual invoice cost plus freight be paid. The flour or substitutes must be delivered de-livered in carload lots on export freight rate to New York, Boston, Philadelphia. Baltimore, New Orleans, Galveston, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., or Seattle, Wash. No shipments of less than carload car-load lots will be received. Shipping instructions in-structions may be received from M. 1-1. Greene, Utah representative of the United States Grain corporation. Flour milled later than November 15 will not be accepted by the government except that which is covered by outstanding outstand-ing contracts, sworn copies of which must be submitted. The local use of present stocks Is encouraged, en-couraged, in preference to offering them to the government for purchase, and I bakers are urged, as far as possible, to I continue the use of substitutes until present pres-ent stocks are disposed of, although this I is not mandatory. |