San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-23
4bnormally Large Part Of
American Wheat Crop
Unmarketed.
o CARE FOR BABIES
|ongestion Apparent in
Railroad Terminals
and Harbors. il i
RY L G ROYLE.

I,pyright, by The San Antonio Light.
! New ork, Feb. 2S.-An abnormal
| large part of the 1922 grain crop
/ the United States has not yet been
3arketed. Elevators at Atlantic ports
| e filled to bursting. Shipments by
,1s=.hich cannot be unloaded at tide
later terminals are tying up many
Adly needed freight cars. In the
eantime, the Russian Soviet govern
ent has been hopping blithely into
le markets of Europe, and is selling
1der the American price, wheat
lhich has been shipped from ports
here America is sending free food
IF starving Russian babies.
| The Soviet authorities, according
cables received today. take the
and that while hundreds of thou
|,nds are starving in Russia internal
transportation difficulties make it i'm
bssible to convey the grain available
] them and it is being sold TO other
buntries to establish lines of credit.
Babies Will Be Cared For.
This situation is being closely
{atched by relief commission Off.
= ais, who are warning citizens OF
bis country against appeals being
\ ade for Russian sufferers. These of
| cials say that they will be able to
Ike care of the children until the
/ ext harvest. Grain shipments to
tussia were discontinued nearly a
Ear ago, but free condensed milk,
iIgar, rice, cocoa and other foodstutfs,
nd fats, are still being sent to Rus
IAN ports.
Shipping men today reported that
fhile grain was going forward to Eu-
| pe in fair quantities from Canada,
australia and South America, the
merican export movement is verv
fuggish. Wheat futures. they say,
ppear lower in those countries than
d the United States. but they ac-
|ount for this by the fact that Amer.
"a normally ships the lower grades of
rain abroad. keeping the better
rades for domestic consumption.
Congestion at Rail Terminals.
Exports have fallen sharply at
Philadelphia. According to reports
he pennsylvania and the Reading
railroads are preparing TO greatly en-
|arge their grain handling and un-
|bading facilities in anticipation Of
eayy shipments later. Some of the
railroads entering New York are de-
l.;;..ng grain shipments to this pert
(ecause of the delay in unloading
aused by congestion.
Hundreds of thousands OF bushels
III wheat are in storage in vessels now
lied IN at docks in Great Lakes ports
! nd this must be unloaded in the near
|uture in order TO enable vessels to
| axe advantage of the open lake navi-
Eation. Other tremendous amounts are
It'll in the hands of the growers who
| re adequately financed. who do not
have TO sell Immediately and are
banging on to their 1922 products N
hopes of advancing prices. :,
Grain Rates to Europe Down.
A resumption of European buying
based on more settled conditions on
| he other side of the Atlantic, export
hrs say, will bring about a movement
which will relieve the situation.
Grain freight rates from Atlantic
hnd Gulf ports to Europe have dc.
Filmed materially since January !, and
Hour rates have declined sympatheti'
|ally. 1t is estimated that today
there are 54,957.OOO bushels of grain
available in the United States OF
which all but about 100000 bushels
! IS east of the Rocky mountains.
Garment Strife Near Settlement.
1t 10 expected that the 10000 gar,
ment workers who have Been on strike
here for Two weeks will be back at
work again nv Monday SIS an agree
|ment appeared today to be probable
pn the basis Of piece work and a 40
hour week.
New England cotton manufacturers
Expressed themselves today as conf
dent that the conference of cotton
growers in Atlanta would result in 8
campaign against the ravages of the
boil weeril. more effective than any
hitherto undertaken.