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Protest Meeting Slated
On Price Rollback by
2,200 Restaurateurs
Representatives of 2,300 restau
rants In the Washington area
members of the Washington Res
taurant Association — have been
summoned to a mass meeting Mon
day night to protest the OPA '‘roll
back” of restaurant prices and to
seek means of easing the acute
meat shortage that already has
led one restaurant to close its doors.
This was announced today by
Robert J. Wilson, secretary of the
association, as the National Res
taurant Industry Advisory Com
mittee presented to the national
OPA a formal petition seeking de
control of prices in the restaurant
industry throughout the Nation.
i am connaent tne meeting Mon
day will adopt strong resolutions
protesting the “rollback” of res
taurant prices to the June 30 lev
el,” said Mr. Wilson. "We will de
mand that restaurants be decon
trolled immediately.
"We will also decide what can be
done to increase the supply of meat
to restaurants in Washington, Vir
ginia and Maryland areas. We have
some measures in mind that might
be taken but they have not reached
such a stage that they can be dis
closed."
The meeting will be held at the
United States Chamber of Com
merce.
Mr. Wilson said the C. & L. Food
Shop. Ill B street S.E., a member of
the Washington restaurant group,
had closed for a week because of
lack of meat but that he had no
reports of any other restaurants
closed.
The National Restaurant Indus
try Advisory Committee is headed
by George Le Sauvage, president of
the National Restaurant Associa
tion, and comprises several other
national officers of the organiza
tion.
OPA Administrator Paul A. Porter
is out of town, and the group, after
presenting their petition, went into
conference with C. Dean McNeal,
director of OPA’s food price divi
sion, of which the restaurant branch
is a part.
Meat
(Continued From First Page.)
bare meat counters mounting in in
tensity, top Democratic party chiefs
assembled here for a meeting that
seemed certain to take note of the
whole situation.
The Army showed no disposition
to await possible action by any other
branch of the Government.
Reporting that its “visible sup
ply of meat is less than a month’s
requirement,” the Army last night
served priority papers on all pack
ers operating under Federal in
spection, ordering them to set aside
25 per cent of their total output
for the armed services, the War
Shipping Administration and vet
erans’ hospitals.
Army Uncertain of Goal.
While reminding that "punitive
action” awaits those who violate
the set-aside order, the Army
announcement left unanswered
whether its goal of 60,000,000 pounds
of meat a month could be achieved.
“Meat slaughter is descending to
the vanishing point,” it declared.
The political storm broke in ear
nest yesterday after Mr. McCormack
demanded the 60-day suspension of
controls.
Mr. Reece, branding Mr. Mc
Cormack’s action as “cheap politics,”
noted in a statement that the 60-day
period proposed would carry the sus
pension just past the November 5
elections.
Declaring the Massachusetts Dem
ocrat is trying “to kid the voters,”
Mr. Reece added that if the admin
istration "had listened to Republican
advice during the last session of
Congress, such chicanery as Mr. Mc
Cormack now proposes would be
unnecessary.”
Led Fight for Controls.
Mr. Reece called the control sys
tem “unworkable.”
Mr. McCormack was a prime
battler for the administration
during the long House fight over
extending, and then reviving, OPA.
Since then administration em
phasis has been on the necessity of
keeping controls over food and other
scarce items.
Secretary of Agriculture Ander
son, who, in a radio speech from
Albuquerque Tuesday night, said he
considered present price ceilings
high enough to give farmers a fair
return on their meat, promised last
night he will act promptly on any
formstf petition to remove controls.
“But,” he added, “if one of the
requirements for decontrol is a
showing that the commodity is not
in short supply, such a finding
might be difficult to justify, as the
present outcry for more meat would
indicate.”
Under the price control law, only
OPA advisory committees may pe
tition for decontrol—a step now be
ing arranged by Chairman Roscoe
I. Haynie of the Beef Industry
Committee.
Taking note of Mr. McCormack's
call for a 60-day suspension of ceil
ings, Mr. Haynie told a reporter
such action "would not bring or
derly marketing or production.”
“The only solution 10 the present
meat shortages,” he added, “is com
plete and permanent decontrol.”
On Capitol Hill Senator O’Daniel,
Democrat, of Texas, long a bitter
foe of OPA, agreed with Mr. Haynie,
telling a reporter: “I don’t think
controls should be suspended for 60
or 90 days or any other length of
tine, xney snouxa oe aooiisned.
"The only reason these New Deal
ers want them suspended for 60
days is to get by the elections,”
Senator O’Daniel continued. "I pre
fer that these New Dealers go hun
gry and get defeated.”
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
Michigan also said he favored an
indefinite suspension, adding: "If
a situation developed making resto
ration of controls advisable, it could
be done. But it would Invite specu
lation to announce in advance that
decontrol would last for only some
specific time.”
Wants Six-Week Supply.
In explaining the reasons for it*
action, the Army said that in order
to keep its pipeline overseas filled “it
is necessary to have approximately
six weeks' supply in reserve.”
Since April, the statement said
"this has been impossible” because:
"In May and June growers held back
their cattle from the stockyard*
waiting for the removal of price con
trols on June 30, creating a shortage
"During July and August, the
months free of controls, prices first
shot up beyond the limits prescribed
in the quartermaster budget and no
meat was procured until prices
leveled off late in July.
"Then the quartermaster could
1
MEAT SHORTAGE CLOSES RESTAURANT—A passerby pauses
to read a sign stating that this restaurant, the C. it L. Food
Shop, at 111 B street S.E., has closed because of the dearth of
meat supplies. —Star Staff Photo.
Survey Shows 65% of People
Oppose Return to MeatCeilinas
(The Psychological Barometer
is a Nation-wide poll of public
attitudes conducted by Dr. Henry
C. Link of the Psychological Corp.
since 1932.}
NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (NANAK
—A majority of the American people
believe the Government was wrong
in putting meat back under OPA
ceiling prices, a survey shows. *
The Psychological Barometer, in a
snapshot survey consisting of sev
eral hundred interviews with men
and women in widely scattered cities
procure only 15,000,000 pounds, about
one week’s supply. During August
• • * the quartermaster was able to
procure 58,000,000 pounds, but was
already below the safe line on re
serves. * * *
“Up to the time of issuance of
priority orders, the quartermaster
has not been able to procure a pound
of meat during September.”
100 Fake Sugar Slips
Found Since April
Disclosing that a number of coun
terfeit sugar coupons have been
found in Washington trade channels
since last April, J. Grahame Walker,
chief District OPA enforcement at
torney, today said that the number
has dropped in recent weeks.
Mr. Walker said his office has
evidence of more than 100 instances
of counterfeit coupons since April.
Mr. Walker pointed out that when
a merchant turns a counterfeit
coupon into the OPA the amount
of sugar he sold is deducted from
his inventory. In some cases a mer
chant’s license to sell sugar has
been suspended because he has been
involed repeatedly in counterfeit
coupon cases.
The enforcement attorney said
this method of enforcement is used
in order to channel scarce commodi
ties through known trustworthy
channels.
His disclosure concerning the
bogus coupons followed arraignment
of Tony Petro, 31, of the 700 block
Seventh street S.E., before Municipal
Court Judge George D. Neilson yes
terday.
Petro was arrested by OPA agents
and fifth precinct police Tuesday.
He was charged with passing,
transferring and uttering of coun
terfeit sugar coupons. He was re
leased on $500 bond.
He was specifically accused of
passing 40 coupons last April and
40 more in July, Mr. Walker said.
Poles Fly Here for Talks
WARSAW, Sept. 25 (Delayed)
^.—Konstanty Dabrowski, Polish
Minister of Finance, and Edward
Drozniak, president of the National
Bank of Poland, left by plane today
for Washington, where they will
discuss international bank recon
struction funds.
and towns, asked the following ques
tions:
“Do you think that the Govern
ment was right or wrong in putting
meat back under OPA ceiling
prices?”
Per Cent.
Right .29
Wrong . 65
Don’t know__ 6
Snapshot surveys always precede
the conducting of the Nation-wide
barometer of several thousand in
terviews. In view of their timeli
ness, the results have been reported
at once.
Jury Finds Carlson Book
Libeled Churchman
By th* A»iocia«*d Fnu
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—A Federal
Court jury found yesterday that
George Washington Robnett, execu
tive secretary of the Church League
of America, had been libeled in the
book, “Under Cover,” and fixed dam
ages at one dollar.
Mr. Robnett had sued E. P. Dut
ton & Co., publisher of the book,
for $100,000 damages. The jury of
six men and six women deliberated
nine hours to reach its verdict in
the third trial of the suit. A year
ago a jury was unable to agree; a
mistrial was called in the second.
Counsel for John iRoy Carlson,
author of the book, asked Judge
John P. Barnes for a change in
venue for trial of a separate action
brought by Mr. Robnett against the
writer. The suit also asks $100,000
damages. Judge Barnes said he
would rule later on the motion.
Lucas Boosts La Follette
For Administration Post
By *h» Allotiaiod Prou
Senator Lucas, Democrat, of Illi
nois yesterday urged President Tru-,
man to consider outgoing Senator:
La Follette, Progressive, of Wiscon- ■
sin for “a responsible executive
position” in the Government.
"I am satisfied that the President
looks with much favor on such an
appointment, in the due course of
time,” Senator Lucas told a re
porter as he left the White House.
Senator La Follette, rounding out
21 years in the Senate, dropped his
Progressive party tag last summer
to make an unsuccessful race for
the Republican senatorial nom
ination.
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Some Meat Located.
Mr. Brennan disclosed that he
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will be given priority. In addition
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000 worth of canned meats.
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tendent of Gallinger Hospital, de
clared that “we have not suffered
greatly up to this point,” but fore
saw the possibllllty of feeding horse
meat to patients, if the meat short
age continues for any great period.
"We have not used horse meat,
but if driven ,to it, we would try
it out. We would certainly let the
patients know what they were get
ting beforehand. Horse meat is
doubtless as nutritious as beef, but
it is not an American dish. We
could try it, but we do not know
with what success.”
Dr. Sweeney said that the hos
pital has been getting small amounts
of beef and pork, canned processed
food and other substitutes for real
meat, but declared that “the va
riety is very sparse."
He said that oats, grits, beans,
peas, peanut butter—all rich in pro
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the hospital’s diet to supplement
the full quota of meat.
Officials at Providence Hospital
said that institution is getting suf
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