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Box 210, Nome, Alaska. rhone, Black 134.
Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NOME, ALASKA. APRIL 2tt, 1018.
Three Congressional
Investigations
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(Quoted From La Follette's Mag
azine. January, 1918 issue.)
INQUIRIES INTO MILITARY AF
FAIRS, SHIP BUILDING AND
SUGAR, HAVE BEEN CON
DUCTED AT WASHINGTON
DURING THE PRESENT
MONTH
MASS OF TESTIMONY GATH
ERED TOUCHING ON IM
PORTANT SUBJECTS
THREE IMPORTANT INVESTIGA
TIONS OF WAR ACTIVITIES ARE
BEING MADE BY SENATE COM
COMMITTEES
(Continued from Yesterday.)
SUGAR
Claus H Spreckles,/President of the
Federal Sugar Refining Company,
started the sugar ball rolling by charg
ing that the American Sugar Refining
Company had secured an undue ad
vantage by having its officers and em
ployees on the inside of the Food Ad
ministration and as a result an extra
, profit of $1,500,000 had accured to the
American Sugar Refining Company
Mr. Spreckles asserted that the price
of the Louisiana cane sugar was fixed I
by Mr Hoover’s sugar committee and
a committee of growers.
Mr Earl D. Rabat, President of the
American Sugar Refining Company,
was present during some of these ne
gotiations. He was in touch all the
time and immediately that the price
was fixed was given an option on 100,
000 tons of Louisiana sugar. Mr
Spreckles learned of this two days
later from George H Rolph, of the
California and Hawaiian Refining
Company also an r.ss t ' of i Pood
Administration. Mr Spreckles assert
ed that the fixing of the price of
Louisiana raw at 0.15 in New York
placed the growers at a disadvantage.
The International Committee, thru
which all the Cuban sugar was 'mark
eted had fixed the price o fthat sugar
at 6.90.
The refiners were granted a differ
ential of 1.30. In the ease of the
Louisiana growers after he learned
what had been dono< Mr Spreckles
telegraphed that lie would take 10,
000 ton ; at G.35t at New Orleans and
pay the freight to New York. This
forced the American Sugar Refining
Company to pay the same price. Mr
Spreckles said he was not able to get
any of this Louisiana sugar, because
of the action of the American Sugar
Refining Co.
As Mr Uolph’s California company
under the regulation would pay 25c
per hundred less than the New York
price, Mr Spreckles said that the fix
ing of the low price to the Louisiana
growers would have benefited him di
rectly.
NO SHORTAGE IN 1917
Mr Spreckles also produced figures
to show that there was no shortage of
sugar in 1917.
Tills testimony made a profound im
pression and left a. decidedly bad im
pression which "Herbert C Hoover, the
Food Administrator, endeavoring to
remove first by means of a public
statement which he Issued through the
"White House, and later when exam
ined by the sub-committee of the
Senato Committee on Manufactures.
Ills testimony covers not only the
statement but is interesting because
of the facts developed and not covered
by the statement.
'That examination developed that
while the Food Administration liad
been solicitous to establish a profitable
differential for the sugar refiners, no
steps had been taken to safeguard the
beet grower or to stimulate sugar beet
production until the Senate ordered j
this investigation. In pre-war times. |
the refiners had a differential of 85 [
cents per hundred. That was the dif
ferential between the cost of the raw
and the refiner’s selling pi-ice. At the
time the Food Administration was es
te.blished this had risen to $1.85. Mr
Hoover said the President directed
that pre-war normal profits be main
tained and to do this the refiners de
ferential was cut to $1.30. This he
said because of increased cost, at the
time it was fixed, would protect the
pre-war profits of the refiners.
FIX PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Food Administration had fix
ed the price of beat sugar at 7.25 per
pound and Mr Hoover put in the re
cord a list ofHieet sugar factories
widely could hardly exist at that price.
This includes some of the California
and all the Wisconsin factories and ^
one in Utah.
Mr. Hoover testified that it was the
view of the administration that a dif
ferent price could be maintained for
bet sugar, west of the Allegheny!
Mountain, than was permitted for '
cane sugar east of the Alleghenies.
In replying to a question of Chair- j
man Reed, Mr Hoover stated the reas-1
cn for permitting a higher price for,
sugar oa the Atlantic Seaboard than !
in tile interior to be.
.-‘For the simple reason that the Cu- |
ban sugar had been bought at a higher I
level and was in possession of the re
finers and others at a higher level.
Tlie whole of the sugni stocks had
been accumulated at a higher level.
We had no right to impose a loss on
the total *ugar .industry just to level
it down with beets. Furthermore.in or.
der to give the Louisiana purchaser
as good a position as could be gotten,
We gave him the seaboard price that
was necessary in order to protect his
production.'
Chairman Reed then gave some at
tention to the Louisiana purchaser,
Mr Babst, preseident of the American
Sugar Refining Co., and a member of
the Sugar committee of the Food Ad
ministration.
The Chair mart. Louisiana produces
about 225,000 tons?
Air Hoover Yes, sir.
The Chairman Mr Babst got a con
tract for 100,000 tons?
Mr. Hoover. Yes.
The Chairman And that is the sug
ar, now, the price of which you wanted
to maintain by shutting off the beet
sugar and keeping it from coming east
of tlie Allegheny .Mountains?
Air.Hoover. We wanted to maintain,
miongst other tilings,a. righteous price
“a proper price for cue Louisiana pro
ducer.”
The Chairman Of course you may
say “righteous price” and “proper
price” hut the Louisiana producer sold
his sugar to Mr Babst, did he not—
contracted it?
Mr Hoover He soirt actually, 1 be
lieve, 29,000 tons.
The Chairman All right. He ex
pected to get the 100,000 tons, did ho
not?
Mr Hoover Yes.
The Chairman, You expected him
to get it, did you not?
Mr Hover We hoped he would get
it ,
The Chairman Yes, sir; and so you
maintained a price?
Mr. Hoover, To the producer. Mr.
Rabat's profit was fixed.
Tlie Chairman. Yes, you maintained
a price over on tho Atlantic seaboard
for the benefit of that Louisiana sug
ar?
Mr Hoover For tho Louisiana pro
ducer.
Tlie Chairman. Yes-oh, yea. Now,
the Louisiana producer nas stipulated
a. price in his contract with M r Babst,
had he not?
Mr. Hoover. He had.
The Chairman Ana If he delivered
that sugar to Mi" Babst, Mr Babst
would have had to pay him that price,
would he not?
Mr. Hoover. I assume that he would.
The Chairman. Why certainly he
would, So that wnen you shut out the
5eet sugar from west of the Allegheny
Mauntains in order to maintain a
ligher price for cane sugar east of the
\llcgheny Mountains, and Mr Babst
rad a contract for 100,000 tons of that
mugar, that arrangement was calcu
ated to get Air Babst the full price
'or his sugar, the full Louisiana price
?lus his $1,30 was it not?
Mr. Hoover. Quite so.
The Chairtnttm And 10 guarantee
lim or put him beyond the possibility
)f loss? I
Mr Hoover And under no other
drcumstancos would Mr Babst have
Alton that ■contract and paid the full
'.mount to the Louisiana producers.
(Continu'd tomorrow.)
IF YOU ARE IV FAVOR OF
ILEAX POLITICS VOTE FOR
WILLIAM MALONEY. Adv.
Shovels, Picks, Quicksilver, Gold
[*ans, Brooms, Building Paper and
Rubber Boots. HOLT Has the
floods.
Do.'.’t forget that it is recognition
jf the union, and $5.00 per day and
mard, for an eight-hour work day,
is what will be demanded on and
-„fter May 1st, 1918.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT. NO. 0332.
[n the United itates Land Office at
Nome, Alaska. March 1, 1918.
NOTICE IS HtfREBY GIVEN,
lhat Marie Neibling,* a citizen of
Lite United States, over the age
jf twenty-one years, whose post
affice address is Nome, Alaska, has
nade application before the United
States Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
’or a Patent for the Sener Placer
Hlaim, situated on the right limit
jf Dry Creek in the Cape Nome
Recording District, Alaska, Mineral
Survey No. *199, said claim being
more particularly described in the
ield notes and plat of the official
survey thereof now on file in said
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, to-wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with 'Cor. No."* 2, Sur. No. 328,
Beatrice Bench. U. S. L. M. No. 11
oears S. 49 deg. .46 min. W .4560.00
ft. Witness Cor., a fir post 4 ft.
long, 4 ins. sq. set 2 ft. in ground,
with earth mound 24 ins. base, 16
ins. high around same, scribed W.
C. 1-1199 S B, 2-3JJ.8 B B, bears
N. 18 deg. 54 min. W. 31.7-0 ft.;
thence N. 18 deg. 54 min. W. 361.70
ft. to Cor. No. 2, thence S. 55 deg.
26 min. W. 65 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. 29 deg. 12 min. W. 765.60
ft. to Cor. No. 4; thenceN. 53 deg.
50 min. E. 630.60. ft. to Cor. N°- 5;
thence S. 25 deg. 57 min. E. 1377.00
ft. thenc? S. 79 teg. 14 min. W.
577.90 ft. to beginning, containing
an area of 16.569 acres. The varia
tion herein is from 19 deg. 15 min.
to 19 de:;. 30 min. *5.
Said claim Is .situated on unsur- ;
veyed ground on right limit of Dry
creek in Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska.
Mineral Monument No. 11 to
which this claim is tied is a fir post
6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground with
gtone mound around same 6 ft. base
3 ft. high scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11,
about 2.5 miles N. N. E. of Nome,
Alaska, and in Latitude 64 deg. 32
min. N., Longitude 165 deg. 22 min.
W.
The Notice oi Location is recorded
in Vol. 86 Page 37, rocords of the
Cape Nome Recording Precinct,
Alaska.
The adjouring claims on the East
is No. 2 above Dry creek, Sur. No.
464; on the West the Beatrice claim
Sur. No. 328 and also unsurveyed
property and on North and South
is unsurveyed ground.
There are no conflicting claims.
THOS. McGANN,
Register.
Date of first pub. March 6, 1918
Date of last pub. May 6, 1918.
WE CAN DO IT.
Peoples Laundry wash everj thing
except the Baby.
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