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most of Minnesota for one month.
Packing plants would be closed
after one week.
Kansas Faces Fuel Shortage.
Topeka, Kan, Oct 17.-(United
Press.)-Topeka wholesale dealers
said today that Topeka's food sup
plies would last about sixty days
should railroad strike tie up
transportation
o. B. Cutler, wholesaler. said,
however, he believed motor trans
portation between Kansas City and
other points could be successfully
used
| Coal dealers said the threatened
tieup of the railroads would have a
tendency to aggrayate the fuel sit
uation and to make the strike of
Kansas miners more threatening,
because it would be impossible to
continue to get coal from other
| states.
st. Louis Makes Plans.
ST. Louis, Mo-, Oct 17.-CUnited
Press. Rail union heads and ex-
! ecutives here today awaited fur
Their word from national chieftains
before mapping out plans to meet
| the walkout of employees on Oct. 30.
Mayor Henry w. Kiel today con-
ferred with other city officials on
the question of providing food and
other necessities in case the strike
materiaIized. Retail coal dealers
agreed there would be no coal
shortage in St Louis if the citi-
| zenS~ order now.
AirpIanes for Il. C.
! Kansas City, Mo. Oct 17.-(Unit-
ed Press. Motor trucks, airplanes
and electric lines will be mainly
depended on to distribute food sup
plies in Kansas City and surround
| ing territories if such an emer-
gency arises on account of rail
strike, it was declared here today.
Kansas City, as well as the ma
| jority of the southwest cities, was
said by foodstuff dealers to be IN
usually prepared to weather an in
dustrial storm for four to six weeks
providing, of course, that emer-
gency restrictions are promptly
placed in effect
The most serious immediate sit
uation would arise in the fuel sup
! ply, dealers said. A strike would
cut off importation of coal, stocks
of the southern Kansas product al
ready having been cut by the
'Howat strike.
Michigan Well Fixed.
Detroit, Mich, Oct 17.-(United
Press would have no diff
fculties in solving its food prob
lens in event of a rail strike, city
| authorities said today.
Food would be shipped in from
outlying farm districts by motor
trucks, F. L. Henk, secretary of the
Detroit Transportation association.
Lansing, Mich, Oct 17.-United
Press-)-Lansing would not feel
the pinch Of rail strike until 10
| days after it was called, the indus
| trial department of the Chamber
of Commerce stated today.
| Chicago Won't Suffer.
Chicago, Oct. 17.-CUnited Press.)
Chicago, the granary of the
WI uy HOuIu nOI OuhSE 1IOL4 q
railroad strike, it was stated by
the Association of Commerce today.
| Large stores of grains and food,
out of which the nation is fed,
would be used to feed Chicago,
when shipments to the outside
world ceased. Large supplies of
meats, of course are on hand at
the stock yards.
Chicago is the coal center of the
nation and an abundant supply is
held here
Denver Is Optimistic.
Denver, Colo, Oct 17.-(United
Press. )-This section will not suf-
fer from a.food or fuel shortage in
the event of a tieup of the trans
portation systems Oct 80, accord
ing to leading men through whose
hands the provision and fuel sup
plies pass.
Wholesale dealers declared today
there was a great reserve supply
of food in warehouses here
AREN'T Y0U GLAD