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ELEPHANT OUT FOR UNCLE SAM BtuviS - jisHU The "only white-toed elephant in captivity is here shown parading on Broadway, New York, to show he is s loyal to Uncle Sam as any one. pretty girl had to wave his flag for TO LOWER PRICE OF BREAD BY FEDERAL CONTROL? Washington, April 28. To com bat the high cost of foodstuffs, the department of agriculture is to be put on a war basis. Increasing the pro duction of wheat and lowering of the price of bread are the main objec tives. 0 Department officials say this must be done soonand congress will be asked to pass legislation accomplish ing' it. With powers of handling situations' coming under its jurisdiction in the ' same manner as the war and navy departments control matters under theirs,' the agriculture department would be able immediately to cope with such developments as the sud den boosting of bread prices, officials say. "Placing the department on a war footing would be the solution of the whole question of high prices on foodstuffs. Ass't Sec'y Vrooman of the department feaid today. "It would assure the planting of vastly more acreage for ene thing. "Armies can be raised at any sea son of the year, butx wheat has its planting season "and that a very short one. Once this season passes we must wait for a whole year before there is another. "Meantime our people and our al lies might be starving." It is admitted that the jump in bread prices has come under the eye of the department, but pending con gressional action on a measure to in sure full war powers it 'is taking no" ' action in-the situation. "" Meantime officials' believe the bread, rise in New York will not be followed by bakers in other parts of the country at least for the time' being. O-p-O Miuwaukee. Flour jumped 80 cents a barrel over night here and dealers predict' it will go higher. The wholesale price quoted today was i $14.90 a barreL