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Show Cuban Crop Goes Sky High Following U. S. Refusal to Buy It Up BY GEORGE B. WATERS, N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON. April 2'. Raw sugar su-gar is soiling at 13.83 cents -per pound on board ship at Cuban ports. President Presi-dent Menocal of that republic has informed in-formed Senator McNary, head of a Senate committee investigating sugar prices. This is in contrast with tho price of 4 1-2 cents a pound at which the, entire Cuban crop of 1919 was offered the Sugar Equalization Board late last, summer, and a price of 6 1-1 cents at which it was offered in the fall. Followed Palmer Action. The tremendous increase in the price of unrefined Cuban sugar followed fol-lowed closely the action of Atty. Gen. Palmer in fixing a price of 17 and 18 cents per pound on Louisiana. "Tho failure of the Sugar Equalization Equaliza-tion Board to .buy tho Cuban crop means that the people have to nay about 10 cents more than thoy vould have paid had the deal gone through. It will mean for the year an increase in the sugar bill of $900,000,000, or ?9 for every man, woman and child In the United States." Republicans blame President Wilson for not authorizing the Sugar Equalization Equaliz-ation Board to buy tho Cuban crop. Democrats blame the Republican majority ma-jority in congress for not enacting a law continuing the sugar board in time to justify the president in authorizing au-thorizing the board to accept. Importation Jumps. It is significant, however, that after Atty. Gen. Palmer fixed a high price for Louisiana sugar, thero was immediately imme-diately a great increase in tho importation importa-tion of Cuban sugar to Louisiana, where it was refined. For tho first three months of this year 300,000,000 pounds was Imported from Cuba to Louisiana, against 230,000,000 pounds for the similar period in 1919, an Increase In-crease of 70,000,000 pounds. The Louisiana growers, who have refineries, refin-eries, increased thoir importations for the period from 6,000,000 pounds in 1919 to 146,000,000 In 1920, an increase of 140,000,000 pounds. Federal Attorney Henry Mooney, New Orleans, said his' office kept track of this Cuban sugar and that it was put on the market at the established price for Cuban sugar. But, it is admitted ad-mitted at the attorney general's office that after the sugars are refined no one can tell which Is which. nn |