U.S. At War: POTATOES ROTTING

Is this a picture of Governmental bungling? It shows a carload and a half of potatoes dumped by the War Food Administration at the Vincennes, Ind. municipal dump. Republican Congressman Gerald Landis of Indiana charged that 37 carloads of potatoes, worth $60.000, had rotted in Vincennes' storage plants. He demanded an investigation. WFA, anxious to make a molehill out of the potato mountain, said that most of the 37 carloads in Vincennes would yet be saved, that only the carload and a half are a complete loss. Elsewhere in the nation, only 50 of 6,422 carloads of Government potatoes were spoiled,...

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