Evening star. [volume], April 11, 1948, Page A-3, Image 18

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Wheat, Flour Exports j
Up 16 Million Bushels;
Goal May Be Reached
By Chalmers M. Roberts
A 18,000.000-bushel increase in
United States wheat and flour ex
ports announced by Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson raised hopes
last night that the total may reach
the 570,000,000 goal before the crop
year ends June 30.
The increase, possible because of
Improved crop prospects, gave a lift
to the Economic Co-operation Ad
ministration as it began k the job of
administering the European Recov
ery Program.
Secretary Anderson said the In
ternational Emergency Pood Com
mitte, which plans world food ship
ments, could count on the additional
16,000,000 bushels as a "firm goal.”
He said that after the April 23 grain
report on the new crop is made
public it will be possible to deter
mine whether the overall goal can
be reached.
To Set Final Figure.
The Cabinet Food Committee, con
sisting of Secreary of State Mar
shall and Secretary of Commerce
Harriman as well as Secretary An
derson, will have to set the final
figure.
The increase just announced
brings the total export figure for
wheat so far this crop year to 466,
000,000 bushels. About 90,000,000
bushels of other grains, chiefly corn,
already have been exported so that
about 14,000,000 more bushels of
wheat or flour equivalent would be
needed to meet the goal.
The 570,000,000 figure was set last
September by President Truman,
chiefly on the advice of the Harri
man Committee of which the ECA
administrator, Paul G. Hoffman,
was a member. Poor crop prospects,
however, dimmed for many months
the possibility of coming closer than
within 100,000,000 bushels of the
goal.
The new increase is based on the
preliminary forecast that 1948-491
may bring the third largest wheat;
harvest in our history. A crop of
around 1,132,000,000 bushels is in-!
dicated by the Agriculture Depart-:
ment. It would be considerably be-1
low the 1947-48 record of 1,364,000,-’
000 bushels.
Dollar-Credit Problem.
The higher export total will make
it easier to keep full the food pipe
lines to Europe. The immediate
dollar credit problem for the five
nations in most serious financial
straits was solved Friday by Mr.
Hoffman in advancing $21,000,000 of
ERP funds for supplies, mostly food.
The nations are Greece, Italy,
Prance, Austria and the Nether
lands.
Meanwhile, Mr. Hoffman has still |
to sign up the man he wants for the j
$17,500 deputy administrator post:
at ECA. It was reliably reported Mr. ’
Hoffman’s choice was one of these J
four: Ferdinand Eberstadt, form
er War Production Board official;
Daniel W. Bell, Washington banker
and former Undersecretary of the
Treasury, Robert H. Hinckley, form
er Civil Aeronautics Authority head,
and Jess Larson, War Assets Ad
ministration chief.
The job of roving ambassador in
Europe—a $25,000 post—also has yet
to be filled.
Temporary Organization.
A temporary organization, de
scribed as makeshift and subject to
change, already is taking form in
the ECA offices in the old State
Department building. It includes
the following:
Wayne Chatfleld Taylor as opera
tions officer. No one is quite sure
what the title means—least of all
Mr. Taylor. Mr. Taylor. 54, served!
both as assistant secretary of the
Treasury and as Undersecretary of
Commerce, as well as president of
the Export-Import Bank.
Maurice T. Moore as acting gen
eral counsel. Mr. Moore Is a di
rector of the concern Mr. Hoffman
heads, the Studebaker Corp., as well
as a director of Time, Inc., and A
partner in the New York law firm
of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He
has said he does not intend to re
main in Washington and doesn’t
want to be acting general counsel
any longer than is absolutely neces
sary—a matter of days, possibly.
* Donald Stone as administrative
officer. Mr. Stone is on loan from
the Budget Bureau.
Flies to South Bend.
Mr. Hoffman took a day away
from his desk to fly to South Bend,
Ind., and back to collect a change
of clothes and handle unfinished
Studebaker business. He had not,
been home for several weeks. He
came to Washington directly from
an Army mission to Japan.
Along with the problem of as
sembling his staff, Mr. Hoffman
must gije consideration this week
to the coming hearings before the
House and Senate Appropriations
Committees. The House hearings
are expected to begin a week from
tomorrow.
Both Chaiiman Taber of the
House group and Chairman Bridges
of the Senate committee have made
it clear they expect Mr. Hoffman
to “justify” the appropriation of
$5,300,000,000 for ERP.
That sum has been authorized by
Congress in the ERP Act, but the
only funds the new agency has as
yet is the $1,000,000,000 which the
act authorized the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. to advance pending
an appropriation.
Green Acres Group to Elect
New officers, of the Green Acres
Glen Cove Citizens’ Association will
be elected at a meeting of the group
at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Westbrook
School.
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