File No. 103.97/130a
The Food Administrator ( Hoover) to the Food Administration Representative at London ( Sheldon)1
[Telegram]
Washington,
March 28, 1918, 5 p.m.
78. Your 136.2 Hotels requested limit service wheat products to two ounces per meal per person. Food Administration has authorized baking three-quarter pound loaf as conservation measure. People asked make it do work of pound loaf. After April 14 bakers must bake Victory bread containing at least 25 per cent wheat flour substitutes. Householders requested consume not over pound half wheat product per person per week.
Hoover