Show I REPEAL PF OF TAX ON S FLOUR FLOURIS IS URGED oj Congress s Asked to Aid 5 Wh Wheat at Conservation S Program By United Press W WASHINGTON Sept 18 Con Congress ress today today to day was asked to amen amend the revenue bill to to aid the rood food administrations administration's new Wheat conservation program In a letter to Representative Henry T. T Rainey of Illinois Food Administrator Hoover suggested that the bill bUl be amended to repeal a a alax tax lax of oC 4 cents a barrel on mixed flour which has been I in force since the Spanish American war The food administration Hoover points out virtually is planning planning- to do away with pure wheat flour for tor the duration of ot the war wax and put In its Us place a consisting of 80 per cent wheat and 20 per cent substitutes Unless the present tax lax on mixed is repealed it will stand as a tax on r e every loaf of or bread eaten within the United States Stall whether baked in iii tIle the the home horns or ot purchased at a baker bakery S SS S j jL L |