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Show p : Maude Fulton, who appears at tho Salt Lake theater tonight in "The Brat," Oliver Morosco's successful comedy. WAR BOARD FIXES PIE FOR HIDES Arrangement Made by Voluntary Vol-untary Agreement With the Industry. WASHINGTON, May 1. The, price fixing fix-ing committee of the war industries board today fixed the maximum price of the present stocks of packed and country hides at that prevailing April 24, this year. By thus stabilizing the" raw material mate-rial market, officials think a reduction in the cost of shoes will be effected. The prices were fixed by voluntary agreement with the industry. A new price to be made effective August Au-gust 1 will be fixed at a conference two weeks before the expiration or the three months' price. A meeting of representatives representa-tives of the tanning industry will be called immediately to take up an agreement agree-ment as to leather prices. The general public, under the government's govern-ment's price-fixing policy, will share in the prices obtained by the government. The complete sohedule of hide and skin prices fixed by the committee today contains con-tains some fifteen hundred different prices. They are for the kill of May, June and July. While somewhat higher than their differential value of present stock and present market prices, the prices are declared by the committee to be reasonable. rea-sonable. Full control by the government of all imported hides and skins, through its import license system, caused the committee com-mittee to fix the prices for imported hides the same as for the domestic hides. Tanners will be called by the price' fixing fix-ing committee at once, with a view of establishing es-tablishing fair and equitable prices on leather, and the committee' will, it is stated, endeavor to see that leather products prod-ucts will reach the consumer at fair price. |