Show RUSS TO HAVE r GRAIN SURPLUS S MOSCOW May 12 By DY A Ar P. P P.- P. Too Too much bread promises to to be beI Russia's dilemma In 1923 I From 1917 until 1922 1929 bread was the most v precious thing In Russia A farmer could trudge Into Moscow Moscow Mos Mos- I cow with a small ISmail sack of grain rain and trade trade-It- I 1 t for a i t titi all all' o f 1 thing which the tho city dwell had tl to v dwellers the same sanie peasant could walk v lk from one ono end of or Russia to the other and excepting in a few tew Isolated famine tamine districts could not get a 3 Jackknife jackknife Jack Jack- knife for the same sack of grain If It the harvest of ot this year turns out as expected Russia Rusia will have havea a surplus of grain which could be bo sold abroad From om a country which less than han eighteen months ago was was' clamoring clamor ing tor for crusts Russia has changed Into a. a nation which promised sIth with within in a a few months to bo be be su swamped d with wheat and rye At near cert certain in communes communes communes com com- that lavo been listed as famine stricken rye ryo flour the staple of bread Is quoted at less than 25 cents a pond which Is 36 pounds At Sam Samara ra the the- dis tract where even cannibalism occurred oc curled among the starving a year ear ago rye goes begging pe at tit less than thanO 40 O cents a a. bushel In Moscow naturally transportation transportation tation costs have made prices f t IJ r. r ft j t J i. i c I 11 vt t f t Y fo c s 's m i ili r. r almost a most dout double le lethe the reigning price pric in the great producing r regions glon- Siberia once the granary from which wheat poured i into into- western Europe did not fare so well wen In last years year's harvest and there prices are higher but in Odessa and at Kleff Klett In tho the southern wheat belt recent official quotations show wheat costing under 70 70 cents a a. bushel The Tho soviet govern lent through the collection of or taxes has' has rolled up a grain reserve amounting to nearly bushels bushel's Some of this Is needed to fed th army but as for th the bu bulk k of ot th the grain unless It can cn be exported the government government government gov gov- does denes not know what to do with it |