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Show oo UNDER ONE HEAD WASHINGTON, Nov. S Centralization Centrali-zation in the food administration of all purchases of staple foodstuffs by the army and navy and by allied and neutral neu-tral buyers for the purpose of stabilizing stabiliz-ing prices and controlling supplies, was announced last night by Food Administrator Ad-ministrator Hoover. The purchases will be handled by a newly created di- Vision of co-ordination of purchases." i "The necessity for such an organization," organi-zation," said Mr. Hoover, "grows out of the governmental consolidation all over the world of the buying of certain commodities into such large orders as to extend beyond the ability of any one manufacturer to supply and the failure to co-ordinate which may affect af-fect price level and supplies to the civil population. Army and navy supplies will be handled by a committee representing the army, navy, federal trade commission, commis-sion, and the food administration's division; di-vision; allied supplies by the various allied purchasing .agencies through the division and neutral purchases by neutral neu-tral agents, the war trade board and the food administration. nn |