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Show NATIONAL CONTROL OF FOODAND FUEL PRESIDENT SIGNS FOOD BILLS, APPOINTS HERBERT HOOVER FOOD ADMINISTRATOR. Extortion Is to Be Prevented, Vicious Speculation Stopped, Prices of Foods And Fuel Stabilized and Waste Eliminated. Washington The American government govern-ment on August 40 assumed control of the country's food supply with the signing by President Wilson of the administration ad-ministration food survey and regulatory regu-latory hills. Formal announcement of Herbert Hoover's appointment as food administrator admin-istrator was made at the White House soon after the measures were approved and Friday night Mr. Hoover set forth the aims of the food administration ad-ministration in a statement declaring its purpose will be to stabilize and not to disturb conditions. Every effort will be made to correct cor-rect price abuses made possible by abnormal times, Mr. Hoover said, but drastic measures will not be attempted until it is seen the purposes of the administration cannot be accomplished through constructive co-operation with food producing and distributing industries. in-dustries. The very existence of corrective power, Mr. Hoover declares, win tenu to check speculation and price Inflation. Infla-tion. The two measures signed give to the government sweeping war-time powers. The regulatory bill is designed de-signed to put food distribution under direct government supervision and a provision added as an amendment extends ex-tends an even more drastic government control over coal and other fuels, in cluding the power to fix prices and authorizing au-thorizing government operation of mines. The survey bill is intended to encourage production and gives the government authority to keep up a continuous con-tinuous census of the amount of foodstuffs food-stuffs in the United States. It will be administered by the department of agriculture. |