Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-10-13 | Page 5 | Senator Smoot's Assertion Denied

SENATOR SMOOTS SMOOT'S ASSERTION DENIED WASHINGTON Oct 13 Jud Judge Judge e Sidney Ballou attorney for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Planters association In hl a statement here denied that next years year's Hawaiian sugar cro crop had been sold to Japanese Interests Interests as stated by Senator Smoot of ot Utah during the course of ot debate in the senate on the sugar shortage The entire Hawaiian crop sal said Judge Ballous Ballou's s statement has been sold to two sugar refiners in California California California Cali Cali- fornia the California and Hawaiian and the Western estern It will be refined on the Pacific coast and distributed to American consumers No sale to the Japanese has even been contemplated contemplated plated The Hawaiian planters would consider It an act of ot disloyalty to divert their supplies from their own country in time of need an and there is nothing Ip in their record of ot unswerving unswerving unswerving un un- un- un swerving support of the food a ad administration administration ad- ad ministration during the war which would justify the circulation of such sucha a report