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Show Ii Committee Includes S. H. Love of Salt Lake All Interests Are Represented. WASHINGTON, Sept, 21. Beet sugar producers In conference with the food administration yesterday reached a unanimous agreement under -which . the stable retail price of sugar will be about S cents a pound. They will sell to wholesalers at eastern refining points at llA cents a pound, cane basis, I and the retail price, it was stated, would normally be not more than 34 ' cent higher. At the same time the food adminis- tration announced that an Internation- al committee of five had been named ff-'' to arrange for the purchase and distribution distri-bution of the vast quantities of sugar needed by the United States and allied : countries. This committee, acting ! acting through the food administration j under authority of President Wilson's proclamation placing the sugar Indus- try in this country under license, will control a largo proportion of the j world's sugar output. George M. Rolph, head of the food ,1 administration's sugar division; Earl D. Babst, president of tho American Sugar Refining company, and William A. Jemison of Arbuckle Brothers, are the American members of the committee. commit-tee. The allied nations are represent-I represent-I ed by Sir Joseph White-Todd and j James V. Drake, Sr., British sugar men. Details of the sugar distributing plan oill be worked out by a food adminls tration committee consisting of H. A Douglass. Detroit; E. C. Howe, Denver; Den-ver; W. H. Hannan; S. H. Love, Salt Lake City; W. S. Petriken, Denver; S. W. Sinsheimer, Huntington Beach, CaL, and W. P. Turner, Detroit. Inclusion of the big Cuban cane sugar producing Interests in the allied distributing scheme will be discussed with the food administration tomorrow by the Cuban minister. Dr. Manuel De Cespedes. Cuba's participation in the1 plan is expected, particularly in view of the government's power to prevent importation by refusing licenses to producers not agreeing to the uniform price. American cane sugar representatives, representa-tives, it is believed, will take action similar to that of the beet sugar men within a week. Most cane producers already have agreed to 7Vi cents price or its equivalent, but this is not re- j garded as final unless the decision is unanimous. The objections of about 10 per cent of tho beet sugar men to the low price were composed at a final conference today. The new sugar price will become effective ef-fective in the west October 1 when tho 1917 crop reaches the refineries and in the east about two weeks later. The present price of beet sugar to wholesalers whole-salers is about 8.4 cents a pound. "This patriotic action on tho part of the beet sugar producers of the United States," said a food administration administra-tion statement last night, "demonstrates "demon-strates conclusively the value of this industry to the country in coming forward for-ward with low prices at a time when sugar naturally would be selling at much higher levels." oo |