Evening star., 1946-05-27
Trains Resume
Normal Runs al
Union Station
Freight Congestion
Cleared; Supplies
Of Food Speeded

Meat shortages to last a week
and a trickle of mail still coming
IN by plane were the only evidences
OF the national railroad strike in
Washington today.
The first two trains to leave Miami
for Washington after the strike
ended Saturday afternoon unloaded
their passengers at Union Station
early this morning. Airlines stopped
accepting priority cargo at 6 am.
today. Hotels began to fill up as
travellers, delayed by the train stop
page. came in to claim their reserva-
tions originally made for Saturday
and Sunday.
special meeting between the
District Commissioners and a Board
OF Trade committee appointed to
act IN the emergency was Cancelled
today after the Board of Trade
found that it could do nothing to
alleviate the meat shortage.
Meat Will Be Delayed.
William H. Press, secretary of the
Board of Trade, said Washington
will have to wait at least five days
for meat from Midwest packers.
The packers halted shipments az
soon as the strike became imminent
because they didn't want perishables
stranded along the line, he ex-
planned.
The first meat is being shipped to-
day from the Midwest and it usual
ly takes f1ve-day run to get to
Washington, Mr. Press said.
Harry E. Reed, deputy director Of
the Department of Agriculture Of
flee of Marketing Services, an
nounced that he would consider any
requests from meat plants in this
area for temporary lifting of quotas
but said that he had received none
to date.
| A Board of Trade survey dis
closed that slaughters in Baltimore
and Frederick, Md, already are
slaughtering under existing quotas
as much beef as they can get.
Trains Running on Time.
w. H. Marks, Union Station
master, announced that all trains
were arriving and departing on time
today. The last cancellation of a
train scheduled to depart was at
HAS am. yesterday. The Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad was
caught without equipment here for
a run from Washington to Cincin-
natl.
| Normal freight operations also had
been restored by the five lines using
the Potomac Yards, it was an
nounced. Confusion created by the
abrupt stoppage of freight trains
along the line and resumption of
transport of ff-schedule was straight
ened out over the week end. a
spokesman reported.
< Postmaster Vincent C. Burke said
the mails were operating on a nor
NAL basis and Washington had no
accumulation of delayed mail today.
delayed mail still was coming in
from isolated points, however, and
planes were still bringing mail from
the West Coast.
Airlines Operate Normally.
Bus and airlines both settled
down to carrying their usual ca
pacity loads without extra sections.
Travellers increased at National Air
port after the danger of getting
bumped en- route by priority cargo
was removed
Railroad operations in Virginia
and Maryland virtually were back
to normal today. Lines quickly
cleared up passenger and freight
congestion over the week end, fol-
lowing the end of the two-day strike
by engineers and trainmen.
The fact that many weekend
travellers Cancelled their trips en-
tirely when they could not leave
town Friday enabled the railroads
to accommodate all passengers yes
terday.