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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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U.S. government in Washington imposes wartime controls on butter, meat, and bread to combat food shortages and black markets, with OPA subsidies for dairy farmers and Senate committees addressing distribution and supply issues. Improvement in butter expected within 60 days.
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OPA and Agriculture Dept.
May Program for Im-
proving Situation
WASHINGTON, April 16. - The
government mapped a new attack
on the snarled food situation today
involving butter, bread, meat--and
blackmarkets.
Wartime controls were ordered
slapped back in an effort to spur
butter production and Stabilization
Director Chester Bowles foresaw a
"real improvement within the next
60 days" on this front.
The Senate Agriculture Committee
called for more details on factors
dislocating meat distribution, while
OPA and the Agriculture Depart-
ment moved to restore other war-
time controls on slaughtering with
the aim of spreading available sup-
plies more evenly.
A potential bread problem had
members of the Senate Small Busi-
ness Committee seeking ways of
meeting famine relief quotas for
overseas without impairing the na-
tion's flour supplies. Baking in-
dustry spokesmen told the Commit-
tee yesterday that if these supplies
fall 25 percent below last year gov-
vernment bread rationing or black
markets in the food are probable.
The move for butter production
was bracketed with OPA action to
keep consumer bills at their pre-
sent levels for milk, butter, cheese
and other dairy products. A pro-
gram of larger subsidies for dairy
farmers was announced yesterday
to compensate for higher feed and
labor costs. On butter, the OPA
aimed at overcoming a situation
which made it more profitable to
use butterfat for ice cream and
other products than for butter.
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Primary Location
Washington
Event Date
April 16
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Outcome
foreseen real improvement in butter production within 60 days; restoration of controls to spread meat supplies more evenly; potential government bread rationing or black markets if flour supplies fall 25 percent below last year; larger subsidies for dairy farmers to keep consumer prices stable.
Event Details
The government ordered wartime controls to address the food situation involving butter, bread, meat, and black markets. Controls aim to spur butter production and overcome profitability issues favoring ice cream over butter. The Senate Agriculture Committee seeks details on meat distribution disruptions, while OPA and Agriculture Department restore slaughtering controls for even supplies. The Senate Small Business Committee addresses bread issues from overseas famine relief quotas potentially impairing U.S. flour supplies, with baking industry warning of rationing or black markets. OPA announced larger subsidies for dairy farmers to maintain prices on milk, butter, cheese, and other dairy products.