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Show LACK OF FOOD BRINGS EARLY GROUP ACTION Predicted shortages of foods were felt throughout the nation this week as reports from many regions had indicated a general tightening of the belt within the next few weeks. Food disribution and civic leaders lead-ers in some areas already seriously serious-ly hit by, growing scarcities of essential foods had called a meeting meet-ing to study their local shortage problems. Local meetings, held in Reno, Nev., urged the saving of wheat products and food fats and oils to help feed an estimated 500 million people which a directive from the department of agriculture said were faced with famine. Other committees in the state did not lag behind in their efforts to save food, it was announced by S. Dean Caldwell, chairman of the distributors' advisory commitee, and groups throughout the state conducted meetings to acquaint the public with the problem. "The nation will face an egg shortage next fall far greater than the current butter shortage," declared V. E. Scott of the Uni- versity of Nev. He advies heavy culling of hens and the almost normal purchasing of baby chicks as the best means of dealing with poultry feed shortages. California's wheat supplies are insufficient for the state's feed needs, it was reported, and unless wheat is obtained from outside sources the state will have to cut by 40 percent its poultry flocks. Already, hog production has been forced to reduce 50 percent be- methods used to sidestep price ceiljngs. An acute shortage of sugar loomed for New England during tn'e week and housewives were warned by Malcolm McGabe, executive ex-ecutive secretary of the Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Retail Grocers and Provision Pro-vision Dealers association, to be I sparing with available stocks. cause of feed shortages, according accord-ing to Dr. Geo. Hart, 'authority on livestock feeds. Iowa is running short on feed due to large scale black market activities. The corn black market extends across the Missouri and into Nebraska, it was reported in an article in the Omaha World-Herald, World-Herald, which also showed some j |