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Show OFFICIAL URGES MORE POTATOES TO SAVE FLOUR "The hunger for food to keep body and soul together is abroad in the world," declares Chester A. Davis, chairman of Pres. Truman's Tru-man's Famine Emerency committee com-mittee in an appeal to the American Amer-ican people to cut down on bread flour and pastry so that 225,000-000 225,000-000 bushels of wheat can be expelled ex-pelled by July 1st. Mr. Davis reports that the government gov-ernment is taking steps on the use of wheat for alcohol, for flour and for feeding animals, but that, after full allowance or these steps we will be many millions of bushels bush-els short of the goal. Consequently, Mr. Davis asks the people of this country to continue con-tinue the Victory Garden program pro-gram so as to provide vegetables, particularly potatoes, as substi-i substi-i tutes for bread. He suggests pota- ! toes replace a second slice of I bread and insists that the saving of many lives "comes right down to our own homes and our own tables." Pointing to the situation in some countries of Europe, where the average amount of food available per person is close to 1,000 calories calo-ries a day, Mr. Davis says that "Lhis means a total daily ration of all kinds of food equal to ten bare slices of bread." He says the burden bur-den of meeting the need for food falls largely on the United States and Canada because nearly every other great suplus-producing region reg-ion has been hit by drought which cut production sharply, while in the United States and Canada the output is ranging far above prewar pre-war years. . t |