Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-12-19 | Page 1 | Famine in Sugar Laid to Rys. by Refiners

If A M I N I ii N 1 I SUGAR AR lAID I Ii i T To HYS m Of BY I i ii i Head of Trust Aid to Hoover Says Lack tack of I Cars Is Cause of the Shortage in the EasI East EastBy I By ay United Press I WASHINGTON Dec 19 I VV V V Placing the blame of or the sugar shortage squarely on the railroads Earl D. D Babst head of the sugar trust today told the senate probing committee that vast amounts of beet and Hawaiian sugar are ro still tIlt held eId uJ up in tie the West because e m det n s y the Hoover sugars committee to re re- re hove the transportation situation said gald in reply to Chairman tOTe tOTe-I Steeds Reeds s 's questions Last July Babst admitted selling his cane cano sugar in the East at I ICEn CEn cents ts a a. pound while wItHe the beet sugar fixed price was wa 7 25 cents and tons of ot Michigan beet sugar were vere unavailable because of ot no freight cars cars The Hoover administration was praised by sugar ugar refiners for its handling of the sugar situation in telegrams presented to the committee Robert Oxnard San Francisco re refiner re- re liner icier wired that to his own knowledge c the tho food administration had engineered ono one of or the biggest operations for the benefit of at the people Other refiners including Georgo George II H. Earle of Philadelphia blamed the railroad congestion for the tho sugar fam fam- ine toe Thirty eight thousand barrels shipped from San Francisco to Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia on September 8 8 have not yet yetI I reached the Pennsylvania Refining company Earle stated Babst Pabst on resuming testimony de declared declared do- do elated the tho closing of the New York sugar exchange by tho the food administration adminis adminta- I caused a drop In prices I Tho The administration today promised promise Western beet an Immediate immediate imme Imme- diate investigation of their complaints I against tho the prices the tho refiners pay them Herbert Hoover may ma mabe be called caned to 1 testify within twenty-four twenty hours