The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-25
DAILY REPORTS
ON CARS NEEDED
Food Administration is to
Complete Organization to
Get Desired information
OUTCOME OF ROW
OVER DISTRIBUTION

S0AAVt'' AOOASiu III Cdi IsceuS Ou6 W
Delayed Movements of Last Years
Crops and Live Stock from Country
Points to Terminals.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Out Of the
discussion between the food and rail
road administrations over responsibility
for delays in food shipments has grown
q plan by which the railroad administra-
tion win be furnished daily with re-
ports not only on the car needs for the
food administration, but for the allies
as wen.
Within a few days, the food adj
ministration announced last night, it
viii complete an organization to col
icct this information. The allied food
purchasing agencies will supply their
demands direct 10 the food admiuistra-
tiou and domestic requirements will be
reported by regional transportation
agents TO be named.
The daily report plan was decided
ON I'm response to the declaration of
Direetor-Gencral McAdoo that he would
furnish ell the ears necessary to move
food if the food administration would
notify him where the food to be moved
was located. In a statement which pre-
cipitatcd the discussion, Food Admins
traitor Hoover had asserted that railroad
congestion and lack OF cars threatened
the East with Il food shortage and had
retarded the food administration s pro
Gram for fppdiuCv fine allies
1.-THE food administration directly
purchased only a minor proportion Of
the foodstutfs for the allied govern
mcuts, said last night 5 announcement.
1.-The bulk of this foodstutf is pur-
chased directly by the allied agencies
with the assistance OF the food adj
mlnistration. The arrangements of
/ transportation rested in the allied
agencies and their complaints as to
( ear shortages and delayed movements
/ have hitherto been addressed directly to
railway points and the food administra-
|tion has been generally informed.
THE food administration has now di-
rcctcd the allied agencies to furnish it
( daily with their requirements in order
/ that they may be transmitted 20 the
railroad administration.
1.-THE most serious problem is the
car feeds due 10 delayed movements
of LAST years crops and of live stock
from the primary country points to
the interior terminal, the mills and the
manufacturing ceuters where they can
hc purchased for export and domestic
supply. The presentation of these needs
90 the railroad administration is being
met by the appointment of rcgiona,
transportation agents for the food ad
iuistratiOn--already established il
Chicago, aud proposed at New York and
Atlanta. Their agencies will secure ano
furnish information as to car necessities
for the primary movement of foOdstut1,
To- tine regional railway administration.
d" Shippers of foodstuffs should apply
INA the first instance to the legal railway
officials for ears, and upon failure Il
secure necessary transportation they
should for grain and grain products ap
Iplv TO the food administration manag
crs. while shippers of live stock and per
. ishablcs in the same difficulties SHOULD
apply for the present directly to thu
j food administration in Washington
. These applications for ears will be pu
= before the various regional directorate
and win be daily reported 70 the rail
- road administration in Washington.
. &C. T.. Spens. vice president of tn
b Burlington railway, has been appointeo
To- the head of the food administrator