Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-24
KADOO PROMISES RAIL ADJUSTMENT
 ID MEET DEMANDS OF HOOVER BOARD
Virtually No Ships Held in ; New York Harbors Because
 of Lack of Grains; Rail-
 roads Reiterate Pledge.
Rv Review Jes1ed Wirr,

WASHINGTON. Feb. g. = Prompt adjustment of railroad transportation to the c0untry's food needs as Food Administrator Hoover may demon strate them, was promised today by Director General McAdoO. who reiter- ated his statement of yesterday that virtually all food offered for move ment by farmers and food dealers is being transported
 Railroad administration officials pointed to the report that virtually no ships in New York harbor were held up by lack of food cargOes as proof that the movement of fOOdstuffs is sat isfactOFy Some ships are detained at south Atlantic and gulf ports, they said because grain merchants of the west are not loading cars as rapidly as expected
 Continued Shortage
 Reports to the food administration continued to tell of shortage of cars, however, particularly for the transpOr- tatiOn of grain products eastward from western primary markets. The rau- road administration offered the ex- plantation that if this condition exists, it must be because by the failure of shippers or the food administI ation to make specific requests for cars
 The danger of a serious food short age in the east. to which MI- Hoover referred two days ago in his statement which precipiIzted extensive public discussion of the relations between high prices of food in the east and railroad transportation. was empha- sized less today by the food admins tration.
 Replying to a letter from MT. Mo AdOo promising to provide for every food shipment to which his attention was called by the food administration Mir Hoover said:
 T am certain that this assurance from you will greatly quiet the grow ing apprehension in the country of ths last few weeks
 NIT. McAdoo replied to this letter by saying that Mir. Hoover had failed to point to specific cases of the failure Of railroads to move food shipments, and repeated his request of yesterday.
 Relations Satisfactory
 Both officials explained that their relations were entirely friendly and that their efforts to clarify the food and transportation situation did not represent a controversy either in fact or in spirit
 Mir. McAdOo said he was only trying to help MT. Hoover and to do the best possible for the country and that hts only antagonism was for the kaiser
 Mir. Hoover after giving out a copy of his letter to the director general offered this comment:
 T have nothing more to say. My face is toward the future and not to- ward the past"
 Subordinate officials of the food and railroad administrations, however, did not display the same degree of friend Illness.
 Congestion on eastern lines was on- ly slightly improved today over yester- day.
 Mir. Hoover's letter to Mir. McAdoO on the food movement was as follows:
 Expresses Appreciation
 T am grateful for your note of the 22nd and I wish to express the grea. relief of myself and my colleagues at your assurance that not only will the allied fOOdstuffs be promptly moved. but there will be no delays in our do- mestic distribution causing any dan ger of suffering. which necessarily i'm plies the collection of our food materi- als from the country to our terminals, mills and packing houses before eithe- the domestic or allied supplies can be
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