Show k fA A A TO RAISE POTATO TO PRICES WASHINGTON Oct 10 With WV-With A Wi t h difficulties over compulsory tax control control con control con con- of potatoes far from solved an authoritative source disclosed today tad that the A A A Is drafting a tentative tentA- tentA tive plan to Increase tho the price of the 1935 crop at Rt once The tax control law affects only potatoes harvested after December 1 1 1935 and consequently would apply ap tip ply first t to next years year's production This law would place a n tax of three- three fourths fourtha of ot a cent a pound on all aU potatoes sold in excess of a national allotment The plan to Increase present potato potato po po- tato prices it was learned calls for heavy purchases of late potatoes by bythe bytho bytho tho the government for tor relief tion The purchase program would b be placed in effect in connection with a marketing agreement for tor western states The marketing agreement ement would be set up for producers lr in Colorado Nebraska Michigan Wisconsin and other ether states In that area The producers producers producers pro pro- would agree to withhold from tho the market potatoes cl classed cd as c culls Then the A A A would buy from from 10 to 20 per cent ent of ef his distribution through I the federal surplus relief corpora corpora- corpora I tion It was reported that the A A AA AA AA A believes believes- a sufficient quantity would be ba bought to increase e the price for the balance of the crop crop I from 15 to 25 cents a a. bushel This buying program in the western west- west ern states together with the marketing marketing marketing market market- ing agreement it was be expected to raise the tho price of all potatoes potatoes potatoes po po- for the tho remainder o of trio the year c r. r WORKERS TO DEPART ANCHORAGE Alaska Oct 10 UP R The The first group of approximately transient workers to be bo withdrawn withdrawn withdrawn with with- drawn from the project will sail saU Saturday for tor Seattle SeattIe |