Show SUGAR OUTPUT INCREASE ASKED WASHINGTON Feb 20 WV- WV Senator John Thomas R. R Idaho i. i u urged ed In the senate Thursday that quotas of of beet sugar producers be increased to permit production of approximately tons tons of additional additional additional ad ad- sugar this season He advocated the increase as a protection against the possibility of a avery very serious shortage grOWing growing growing grow grOW- ing out of war conditions and told his colleagues that some authorities authorities author author- are predicting that it will willbe willbe willbe be only a short time until we must again ration sugar to Ameri Amen American can consumers The surplus sugar now In the United States will disappear very rapidly h he said if U we are unable unable unable un un- un- un able to Import the quantity we wen n normally take from the Philippine Philippine Philip Phllip- Co pine islands and our insular pos pos- sessions The agriculture department ordered ordered ordered or or- or- or dered a per cent reduction in sugar beet acreage in order to reduce a ton surplus t Thomas related but since then w wew we have been threatened by a shipping shortage hortage that threatens to destroy our ability to import imports s sugar gar from the Philippines our insular possessions and from Cuba However wise the policy of the department of agriculture in cutting quotas when its announcement announcement announce announce- ment merit was made a few weeks ago Thomas declared it seems to me that in the light of the present facts it should be changed to permit permit per per- mit sugar growers on the continent continent continent conti conti- nent to produce at least the usual q quantity of sugar Our present surplus will be dissipated in a very short time if our imports are reduced and if there should be still a surplus by next fall the defense commission commission commission commis commis- sion might well purchase that to store for emergency use |