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Show CUBAN GOVERNMENT TO COrfTROL SUGAR Commission Named to Prevent Pre-vent Manipulation 7 . HAVANA, Feb. 12. Control of the sale and shipment of Cuba's 1920-1921 sugar crop has been placed In the hands of a government organisation known as the sugar finance commission. commis-sion. This commission, appointed yesterday yes-terday by President Menocal, consists of seven members who will receive no compensation. t The decree appointing the commta-; slon directs sugar buyers or sellers to: file before February 20 sworn state- J ments covering all foreign sales con-' tracts. The agreementsiust stipulate that the product they cover is to be refined or used by the buyer, and not sold or offered for sale as crude sugar. Infractions of rules will result in refusal re-fusal to Issue permits for further shipments. ship-ments. K. II. Ifawley. president of the American Amer-ican Sugar and one of the members of the commission, declared that the Cuban Cu-ban government had adopted the plan "to save the sugar Industry of the Island." Is-land." "The Cuban government, he continued, contin-ued, "seeks, not only to defend its own Industry, but also to defend the American-sugar consumer against abnormal) conditions. It is not the purpose to hold or hoard the product, but at all ! times to offer It freely whenever it is I needed at the loweat prevailing price in ! the world market." J i |