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Show BAMBERGER TO AID FINANCE ; BOARD SALT LAKE MAN IS APPOINTED : SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF WAR FINANCE CORPORATION Sugar Beet Growers, Cattle and Sheep Men to ie Benefited by Loans in Utah Washington, D. C Ernest Bamberger Bamber-ger of Salt Lake City, Republican National Na-tional Comuiliiee mau from the Slate of Utah, lias been designated special representative to assist the War Finance Fi-nance Corporation in connection with , advances made by it to industries in j Ltah and Idaho. j ' I' - ' I v."? - . r -i Ernest Bamberger Kuuvne Meyer, Jr., managing director direc-tor of ihe War iSnance Corporation announced the appointment of Mr. Kaniberger Saturday. Stephen L. Kichards, head of the Heel Sugar Manufacture Association, and K. O. Howard, head of the Farmers' Farm-ers' Loan Agency, are also designated by Mr. Meyer as representatives of the War Finance Corporation to assist in handling the beet sugar crop of 1921. The War Finance Corporation which was reorganized under Act of Congress within the last five month has been one of the greatest boons to the farmers farm-ers of the West. Many millions of dollars dol-lars has been set aside by the War Finance Corporation and loaned to beet sugar companies and to other manufacturers in order that the manufacturers manu-facturers might be able to take the crop from the farmers. The sum of $4.o00,000.00 was credited credit-ed to the State of Utah by the Wat-Finance Wat-Finance Corporation for the purpose of handling the beet sugar crop of 1921. This money is loaned to the sugar companies com-panies that they may lie enabled to pay the farmers for the sugar beets without straining the resources of the companies. President Heher J. Grant of the Mormon Church conferred with Mr. Meyer in the relation to the loan from the War Finance Corporation to the Sugar Companies of Utah. President Grant is the president of the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. Mr. Meyer, as managing director of the War Finance Corporation, has been extending aid to furmers all over the country, and it was mainly through the efforts of the War Finance Corporation Cor-poration and the far-sightedness of Mr. Meyer that the farmers of the country coun-try were able to realize upon the crops tlds fall. The War Finance Corporation has also made heavy advances to cattle and sheep men of Utah and IdaJio, and Is enabling the cattle and sheep men through the banks and representatives of the War Financst Corporation t handle their itock. |