Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-27 | Page 25 | Relief Shipments Force Sugar down from $4.50 Pound

. , Relief Shipments Force Sugar Down From $4.50 Pound BUCHAREST, July 2S. (By the Associated Press.) When the American Bed Cross and .the American Ameri-can relief administration began work here several months ago, sugar was selling at $1.50 a pound, and almost al-most impossible to obtain even at that price. Today it is still very scarce, but can be purchased at somewhere around ?1, due to the large relief shipments. A "Hoover" ship with 900 tons of milk, about 3000 tons of fat, and 3000 tons of other foods, recently arrived at Constanzsu Thousands of Rumanians participated in a great demonstration as the ship docked. These supplies did much to improve the situation. Food is not the only commodity which has taken a fall. In the last month the price of thread has dropped from $6 to ?1.60 a spooL Rumania is in great need of cloth and thread. A speculator who recently re-cently brought in a trunkload of cotton thread realized a profit of $3600 on his enterprise.