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Show NO DECREASE IN FOOD PRICES, SAD FORECAST y Associated Press. WASHINGTON. Nov. 12 Immediate dropping of food prloes aa a result of the ' conclusion of an armistice cannot be ex-. ex-. pec ted. Food Administrator Hoover declared de-clared last nlsht In a statement whlf h added that while the prices of some foodstuffs food-stuffs will decrease, others will Increase. "With the war effectually over." said Mr. Hoover, "we enter a new economic era and Ita Immediate affect on pricee la difficult to anticipate. The pricee of some food commodities may Increase, but others oth-ers will decrease, because with liberated shipping accumulated stocks In the southern south-ern hemisphere and the Far Kast will be available. The demands upon the t'nited Htatee will change la character, but not In volume." All activities of the food administration will be continued through the armistice period, said Mr. Hoover, adding that there will be no relaxation of efforts to keep down profiteering to the last moment. "The maintenance of the tmlisrgn he continued, "wilt prevent depletion of our stocks by hungry Kuroie below our necessities ne-cessities and any one who contemplated speculation In food against the nreds of these people can well be warned ot the prompt action of the government. |