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Show o BREAD PRICES TO BE REDUCED NEW YORK, Nov. 7. Decision that a baker Is a manufacturer will, It Is learned at the food administration administra-tion give- Herbert C. Hoover a weapon weap-on with which to boat down tho universally uni-versally high price of bread. Classification Classi-fication ot bakers as manufacturers puts thorn under tho law with regard re-gard to licenses, nnd a proclamation Is to bo mado within a fow days declaring de-claring bakers must bo llconsod. Onco licensed the thousands of bakora of tho country will come under un-der full control of tho food administration, admin-istration, and prices can bo regulated regulat-ed arbitrarily. Thus far tho only control ovor broad prices has been an Indirect control through regulation of wheat and flour prices. This has not sorved to lower the cost of bread to tho consumer. con-sumer. It bakers aro making moro profit than seems warrantable prices will speedily como down, it was predicted predict-ed by food administration officials. If, the bakers, on tho other hand, have to pay so nines, moro than formerly for their flour, sugar, yeast and lard, that present prices allow them only a fair profit, action will bo taken toward lowering the prices of broad Ingredients, and the bread prlcee will be lowered later. With, bread under control, tho I last basic foodstuff will be In the hands ot the food administration. It was said tho administration is now in a, position to start a general prleo lowering drive all along the lino. |