Arizona republican., 1918-02-25
NEW MEASURE
 TO AID RAIL
 WAR ACTIVITY
Compact Arrangement to Be Outgrowth of Discussion
 Over Delay in Shipments
 of Food and Commodities
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 WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Out of the discussion between the food and rail- road administrations over responsibility for delays in food shipments has grown plan by which the railroad admins tration will be furnished daily with re- ports not only on the car needs for the food administration but for the allies as well.
 Within a few days. the food admin istration announced today, it will com- plete an organization to collect this in- formation. The allied food purchasing agencies will submit their demands di- rect to the food administration and domestic requirements will be reported by regional transportation agents to be named.
 Daily Report Planned
 The daily report plan was decided on in response to the declaration of Di- rector General McAdoo that he would furnish all the cars necessary to move food if the food administration would notify him where the food to be moved was located. In a statement which precipitated the discussion Food Ad- ministrator Hoover had asserted that railroad congestion and lack of cars threatened the east with food short age and had retarded the food admin istration'S program for feeding the al- lies.
 Purchases Are Direct
 "The food administration directly purchases only minor proportion of the foodstuffs for the allied govern ments' said tonight'S announcement 'The bulk of this foodstuff is purchased | directly by the allied agencies with the 1 assistance of the food administration. The arrangements of transportation rests in. the allied agencies and their complaints as to car shortages and de- layed movements have hitherto been addressed directly to railway points and the food administration has been generally informed
 "The food administration has di- rected the allied agencies to furnish it daily with their requirements that they may be transmitted to the railroad ad- ministration
 Car Need Pressing
 "The most serious problem is the car needs due to delayed movement of last years crop and of livestock from pri- mary country points to interior term inals, the mills and the manufacturing centers, where they can be purchased for export and domestic supply. The presentation of these needs to the rail- road administration is being met by the appointment of regional transport ation agents for the food administra- tion-already established in Chicago, and proposed at New York and At lanta. Their agencies will secure and 7 furnish information as to car necessi- : ties for primary movement of food : stuffs to the regional railway admins tration.
 ] Appeal to Officials Shippers of foodstuffs should apply in the first instance to the legal rail- way officials for cars, and upon failure to secure necessary transportation , they should, for grain and grain pro- } ducts, apply to the food administration } zone managers; shippers of livestock and perishables in the same difficult ' ties should apply, for the present, di- rectly to the food administration in Washington. These applications fol cars would be put before the various regional directorates and would be daily reported to the railway administration
 in Washington.
 "C. E. Spens, vice president of the l Burlington railway, has been appointed
 head of the food administration trans portation division in charge of these l activities.
 3 "The food administration is confident l that in view of the director of railroad: l assurances as to supply of cars, il : brought to his attention, losses of food stuff through decay and possible short s age in distribution or for the allie: . will thus be averted."