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Show RUMANIA PUTS EMBARGO ON WOOL; STRIKES AT PROFITEERS (By International News Service) BUCHAREST, Aug It is learned learn-ed hero that the Rumanian government govern-ment has placed an airtight embargo un all wool exports The restriction lis aimed at cloth and clothing profiteers prof-iteers who have taken advantage of the i r. Ity of w ool In tho country to boost prices far beyond a reasonable 1 cl It Is the Intention of the gov-'oriimont gov-'oriimont to control tho entire wool Industry; fixing tho price of raw materials, ma-terials, standardizing the grades of cloth, and setting rock bottom prices ,on all men's and women's clothing Merchants and tailors selling woolen oommodltiea above the government fixed iate w-111 bo liable to orosecutlon The scarcity of wool In llumanla, 'which is responsible for the government's govern-ment's drastic action, Is the result of war conditions During the enemy-occupation enemy-occupation of the country the lndus-trj lndus-trj was crippled by tho requisition of nearly all tho sheep In Rumania Moreover. the Industry was never large The poorer classes In Rumania wear, as a rule, little or no woven iwool clothing, preferring. In the coun-try coun-try districts, to dress in cured sheepskins sheep-skins prepared at home The mobilization of the army cro-jatod cro-jatod a huge demand for woolen uniforms, uni-forms, which took up all the available raw wool on hnnd With the dlsap-I dlsap-I Pearance of sheep from the Rumanian pasture lands the peasants have been mH deprived of the source of their primi- tiVi sheepskin garments and a demand I has grown up for woven, wool clothes. j |