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Show World Shortage Is : f Likely to Continue WASHINGTON, May 14. Herbert Hoover, former food administrator, and fJ candidate for the Republican nomlna- jg Hon for the presidency, gave his views" : " r tc congress today on the sugar and " f industrial situations. Appearing before v - , a house committee Investigating the sugar situation Mr. Hoover declared E that the world shortage product was M likely to continue two, or three years. . The pressing need was rationing, he 0 ' H said, with immediate government ac- fl tion to control the supply through commercial, not legislative methods. Although the hearing related prlmar-ily prlmar-ily to the action of Attorney General I Palmer in approving a maximum price (for the Louisiana crop, it reached out i ;inlo a broader field after Mr. Hoover I I said he would give only an "off-hand" 'opinion as to that proceeding. Mr. ; Hoover said. howeer, that the government govern-ment should have bought the Louisiana crop last year, pocketing the loss or else selling to the luxury trade at an k advance. i g |