The price of bread here and in Leningrad shot up. 15 per cent by official decree issued today.
Officials gave no reason for the increase, but it was believed that the action was purely a revenue measure.
At the same time potato prices were reduced 25 per cent.
"he price of black bread, formerly 85 kopecks per gram, increased to one ruble (100 kopecks) while the price of white bread rose from one ruble to one ruble, 15 kopecks.
It was doubtful that the rise in bread prices was due to a wheat shortage, since the harvest this year was abuni (The German wireless from Moscow today said that all but.05 per cent of the 214,000,000-acre grain crop was harvested by mid-Qctober.).—United Press.
Mr. Willkie Warns Young Americans on New Deal Milwaukee, Oct, 22, Mr, Wendell L, Willkie, Republican, Presidential candidate, in a broadcast last night addressed young Republicans and asked whether Arericana should continue living in freedom of deliver themselves to the state.
"This issue," he said, "is whether. we in America can live in freedom and by freedom or whether we must deliver ourselves and our enterprises into the hands of the state.
"I know that every major policy of the New Deal is pushing in that direction, We are undertaking great defence programme. This programme is three or four years late in getting started, but mow at last we have begun......
Let me never hear New Deals point pridefully to business revival based on the creation of a huge war machine. Those are not achievements on the road of progress. Those are the terrible duties which we must perform; only dictators boast that they have solved' domestic and economic problems, that way United Press,
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