Show PRESIDENT iu ELS PS i r o BOARD IN PROBE T i I Wilson Gets House Com Com- I r x Consider HooI Hoovers Hoover's Hoovers Hoover's Hoo Hoo- I to I vers ver's vers j o. o t u iQ- iQ I 3 By By United Press f WASHINGTON Dec Dee 22 Herbert Herbert intervention of Hoover after atter personal l' l Pi President r Wilson answered critics of before the administration the food sen senate sugar probe pobo today In a prepared statement introduced In committee hearing only after the Hoover White House louse had bad so requested A in hr declared his activities had resulted I maintaining maintain ni the morale of the allied c countries es and had kept sugar prices in il this co country from soaring to more morer r th than ll 20 cents cent a pound I than a week Hoover has For more been e n pre prevented from testifying before the committee while serious th tho sugar against his charges cli jere were ero launched 1 sugar gar administration by bY Claus Glaus A. A Spreckels and others Tod Today y he he- was to appear appear at noon but after an an executive session s 's Chairman Chair Chair- iman man Reed of the tho committee e nn announced would be bo postponed postponed postponed post post- I i- i Hoovers Hoover's I H overs over's testimony until next week weel Jt t was then the president took tool a aS S hand and after communicating ting his wishes to the committee it was decided to let Hoover deliver his answer to toda to- to da day Hoover submitted a long stateS statement statement state state- S ment immediately 5 disturbances over admitS admitting admitting admit admit- the committee commit commit- S ting Hoovers Hoover's statement tee heard beard some sugar A resolution of a Los Loa Angeles coun coun- ty California grand jury declaring the acreage of sug sugar r beets would be greatly reduced next year unless the refiners would r raise lse the tho price prie paid the farmers was read by Thomas L. L Woolwine Telegrams to President Wilson and andS S Herbert Hoover telling of the situation situation situation situa situa- tion in the West were sent by Woolwine WoolS Woolwine Wool- Wool S wine November 30 and these were read into the record S Refiners profits are so excessive the tho telegram read that one company with a capital of made about last year and another company company company com com- pany capitalized at 1 S SS made S By the food administrations administration's recent decision to establish a ft commission in Los Angeles to determine a fair price lor tor sugar beets the growers' growers representatives said they believed Hoover had found a remedy for the situation in inthe inthe inthe the West I During the recess the representatives p fives tives declared their statements statements' that the price of sugar beets was kept too low by the were not attacks on tho the food administration The exact facts were never presented presented pre to Hoover until recently S Woolwine said |