The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-25
PHOTOGRAPHED CONTROVERSY IS
 BRINGING RESULT Food Administration An nounces Plan to Keep In- formed on Car Needs THIS INFORMATION
 TO BE GIVEN ROADS Organization Is Being Formed to Col lect Data Which Will Aid in Fur
 nishing the Transportation
 Facilities Quickly

Washington, February 24.-Out of the discussion between the food and railroad administrations over respon- sibility for delays in food shipments has grown a plan by which the rail- road administration will be furnished daily with reports, not only on the car needs for the food administration. but for the allies as we'll.
 Within few days, the food admin istration announced tonight, it will complete an organization to collect this information. The allied food pur- chasing agencies will supply their de- mands direct to the food administra- tion and domestic requirements will be reported by regional transportation agents to be named Such an agent has been appointed at Chicago and il has been proposed to appoint them at Atlanta and New York.
 DAILY REPORT MADE The daily report plan was decided on in response to the declaration of Director General McAdoo that he would furnish all the cars necessary to move food if the food administra- tion would notify him where the food to be moved was located Tn state ment which precipitated the discuss sion, Food Administrator Hoover had asserted that railroad congestion and lack of cars threatened the east with a food shortage and that he regarded the food administrations s programme for feeding the allies as serious.
 SERIOUS PROBLEM "The most serious ps hlem,'' said to- nights announcement the car needs, due to the delased movement Of last years crops and Of livestock from the primary country points to the interior terminals. the mills and the manufacturing centers. where they can be purchased for export and do- mestics sslpply. The presentation Of these needs to the railroad admiHis- tration is being met by the appoint ment of regional transportation agents | for the food administrations already established in Chicago, and proposed at New York and Atlanta. Their agen- cies will secure and furnish informa- tion as to car necessities for the pri- mary movement of foodstuffs to the regional railway administrations. SHIPPERS ADVISED Shippers of foodstuffs should apply 1 in the first instance to the local rail- way officials for cars, and upon fail- ure to secure necessary transportation they should. for grain and grain prod ucts, apply to the food administration
 zone managers; while shippers of live
 stock and perishables, in the same diff l faculties. should apply for the present directly to the food administration in
 Washington. These applications for cars will be put before the various regional directorates and will be daily
 reported to the railroad administration l in Washington.
 1 c. E. Spens. vice president of the l Burlington railway, has been appoint I ed the head of the food administration transportation division in charge of all these activities.
 1 "The food administration is confi- dent that in view of the director of railroads assurance as to the supply ! of cars, If brought to his attention, losses of foodstuffs through decay and possible shortage in distribution or to l the allies will thus be averted."