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The Bismarck Tribune
Bismarck, Mandan, Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota
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Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts publicly disclosed a 1919 cablegram from Herbert Hoover to Julius H. Barnes for President Wilson, urging immediate consideration of sugar policies to control prices. Tinkham blamed Wilson for high sugar prices and suggested rationing nonessential consumers.
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Control Sugar Prices
Washington, June 1.—Copy of a cablegram sent from Paris, July 23, 1919 by Herbert Hoover to Julius H. Barnes, president of the United States grain corporation, for transmittal to President Wilson declaring that "the termination of the sugar policies require immediate consideration" was made public today by Representative Tinkham, of Massachusetts.
The cablegram was read in the course of a speech in which he charged that responsibility for the price of sugar was right squarely on the shoulders of President Wilson. The Massachusetts Congressman declared the president could relieve the situation even now by following Mr. Hoover's advice and ration nonessential consumers.
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Copy of a cablegram sent from Paris on July 23, 1919 by Herbert Hoover to Julius H. Barnes for transmittal to President Wilson, declaring that the termination of the sugar policies require immediate consideration, was made public by Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts during a speech where he charged Wilson with responsibility for sugar prices and suggested rationing nonessential consumers.