From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, July 29, 1919: The national sugar shortage became a local emergency today as canning factories prepare to start canning sweet corn. Responding to appeals from canneries that have been without sugar for more than a week, Stanley Wyckoff, Marion County federal food administrator, announced that 1,000,000 pounds of sugar from War Department supplies will be rushed to Indianapolis. Twenty-six railroad cars of sugar on the way to the city will provide immediate relief until larger shipments arrive. One carload of sugar will replenish supplies of state institutions that are nearly exhausted. Local wholesale dealers have asked the United States Sugar Equalization Board for a thirty-day embargo on exporting sugar. Wyckoff has warned against hoarding and has requested that the resale of sugar in large markets be prohibited in order to check potential sugar price increases.