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Show tobeSlated Special Rules to Be Put in Force on November First. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. Special regulations for cold storage houses will bo put Into force by the food administration ad-ministration November 1 when distribution dis-tribution of the most important foodstuffs food-stuffs goes under license. Poultry, eggs, butter and fresh or frozen fish, stored thirty days or more, cannot bo sold as fresh and will not be permitted to go on sale unless marked with a placard "cold storage goods." All fresh meat, fresh meat products, fresh fish, game, poultry, eggs and butter must bo marked with the date on which they are placed in storage and their dale of release. No warehouse will ho permitted to store any foods tainted or diseased. To Check Speculation. To check speculation the food administration ad-ministration will limit loans and advances ad-vances by storago warehouso men to tholr patrons. WarohouseB will be classified as public or private and thoso storing goods on tholr own account ac-count as.jvell as for tho public will bo required to take out also dealers' licenses. Must File Schedules. All warehouses will bo required to file schedules of their rates with the food administration. "Tho purpose of tho regulations," it was said at the food administration today, "is to strengthen tho legitimate warehouse by bringing the operations of all storage concerns out into the open and preventing those, who patronize the warehouses, from taking tak-ing advantago of tho opportunities for speculation. It is not believed that the practices aimed at are gonoral, but rather that they have been indulged in-dulged in only by the fow who have abused the system." oo |