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Show BREAD HELD PRICE OF Mill EUROPE Size of Loaf Will Depend De-pend on What Can Be ' Done From TWrCon-tinent, TWrCon-tinent, Says Hoover By Robert J. Bender, United Press 8taff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 28. Bread is the price of international inter-national peace in Europe. And "the size of the loaf will now depend absolutely on what can be done from the North American continent." according to Herbert C. Hoover, Amerlca'a new food administrator. adminis-trator. The alllea. In order to provide the minimum bread ration, which they are now giving their people, will require more than 600.000.000 bushela of what at the next harvest, Hoover aald today. With thla appeal before them, the house and senate resumed debste on the Gore-Lever food bill, providing a general food aurvey In the country and meana of stimulating production. "With the lower claases In Europe, bread la the fetiah of food.- Hoover warned. "And without the loaf even assuming that you give them a dietetic aufflclency of something without the loaf you could not preserve public tranquillity, bread la the price of peace." NEED OF ALLIES. In addition to the 800.000.000 bushels of wheat needed. Hoover has informed congress, the alllea will also require "somewhere over 260,000.000 to &0.- 000,000 bushels of other cereals." Therefore, we havs a problem here of furnishing anywhere from 800.0o0.000 to 1.000,000,000 bushels of grain. Hoover Hoov-er aald. The bulk of the bread burden la now on the United States because the alllea' crops are short millions of bushela. In France alone. Hoover aaid, the wheat crop Is down 66 per gent, creat-frmjilmjdyyJ BREAD HELD Continued from page l. Ing a deficiency of 150. 000.000 buahela I All former sources of cereals for the allies are now cut off. These were originally Russia. Rumania, Bulgaria, Australia, India and Argentina. "The whole supplies of Russia. Bulgaria Bul-garia and Rumania are absolutely rut off," Hoover continued. "Australia and India are. In effect, out off today because the haul la three times the distance dis-tance of the Atlantic seaboard, the tonnage ton-nage required la treble,! and the danger just about doubled. The result Is they have been unable during the last three months to get sny consequential amount of grain from that quarter. "Whether that lane will be reopened la a matter of some difficulty. Home measures are being taken to reopen It and It may be hoped that during tbe next year some food supplies msy be obtained from Australia and India by the use of sailing ships and by transshipping trans-shipping at some point like Buenos Aires or Panama." Hoover sounded the warning, however, how-ever, that In supplying the "great vacuum'" across the water, "public tranquillity tn this country must be i upset." He said It Is the business of this nation that the allies "shall not suck too much food out of our own country. In other words, he said, "if we allow the normal course of commerce to run loose, those people in clamorous desire for food will strip our home markets In this situation." "Therefore," Hoover said, "we" have got to protect ourselves from our allies I in order to protect our own people and at the same time do-all Justice by them snd ail the service for them that w. can." I |