Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-05-23 | Page 8 | Allied Board Will Spend 10 Billion a Year in U.S.

allied board will spend 10 billion ayearu.s. Plana Laid to Turn Over Quartermaster Department Depart-ment to Experts. By International News Sarvica. WAS1IINOTON. May 23 The allied al-lied purchasing board will spend ten billion dollars a year In Hip I'nited Stales. It will buy suppllA. not for the entente alllea alone, but for the military and naval forces of the I'nited States as well. These facta developed tlila after noon after It was learned that Secretary Secre-tary of War Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniela am now working on concrete plana for turn'ng over the entire quartermaster's departments depart-ments of both the army and navy to work as a division of the allied purchasing pur-chasing board. The work of the purchasing board, already heralded as the greatest buying buy-ing agency In the world's history, will he nearly doubled by this extension nf the -rope of tU ae-MrHteg: ftrr rr-nouncement rr-nouncement has yet been made of the namea of the men who are to be members of tha board, but It Is known -. that moat of them will be American bualnesa experts. According to present pres-ent plans. It la understood that the entente allies will be represented on the board by only one official of each country involved in the war on Germany. The work of the purchasing board probably will get under way by the middle of the summer. Ita head- Siartere will be In Washington and will have thousands of field agents throughout the United States. The centralisation of the purchasing authority au-thority in this one body will mske not only for economy, but for efficiency effi-ciency that will measure well up to the Prueslan standards.