GREAT WHEAT CROP ESTIMATED STIRS FEAR IN THE MIDDLE WEST OF LABOR AND CAR SHORTAGE 1 GREAT WHEAT 7. KANSAS CITT, Mo., June 2 (IP). 'With harvest time only n short time away, the Southwest is facing several serious problems, according ac-cording to re(Hrts reaching here. Clyde M. Heed, chairman of the regional advisory hoard of the American liaihvay Association, is of the opinion that the nuniher of freight cars avnilahle for the use of wheat growers is not adequate to earry the enormous crop exected from the region tins year. L. M. Betts, Washington, manager of the closed car section of the railway association agreed with Reed in this statement, after it had been estimated, taking a composite of reixirts from nil states, that 410,-(HK),(X)0 410,-(HK),(X)0 bushels of wheat would be harvested this year, with the minimum mini-mum field placed at 31X1,000,000 bushels. I Officials of the five principal railroads rail-roads over which the grain will be I routed to the markets stated, however, how-ever, that they have been amassing freight cars for weeks in preparation prepara-tion for the onslaught. No estimate was made by officials of the five lines as to the number of cars which would be available. They expressed the opinion that "no such acute shortage of cars as feared by the Trans-Missonri-Kansas regional advisory board of the-American Railway Association exists." Word from Chicago Indicates that the northwest too has been preparing prepar-ing for the movement of grain by gathering every available box "ear at centrally located Hints fur the movement of the grain. Between 2:iO,000 and .'iitl.lHKi box cars would lie needed to ha mile the wheat from this section, on tin basis of The alKve estimation of HOO.OOO.OOO to -KIO.OOO.tXKI bushels yield. .Inly lfi is the deadline set I for the start of the wheat movement. move-ment. Continued, excellent growing weatlier has been had in the southwest south-west for. the last few weeks, and constant ircdictions of a bumper crop have been coming rn here daily from every state. The next problem the' wheat growers have to face is the one of getting sufficient labor for -use in rhe fields. Kansas alone estimates it will need lo.tXKI men to handle the crop this year while many more must be employed in Texas. Railroads are - giving, as usual, special -Tates" to harvest workers rhe "rate" generally being the mere assertion that the mau is heading head-ing for the harvest field and the farmers rind their wives are preparing pre-paring in every way possible to take care of the horde which soon will pour Into the communities. The farniers, despite the 'two serious problems and several minor ones, are not, however, worrying. Quite to the contrary, the prosiiects of an unusual wheat yield is causing caus-ing the growers to be optimistic, and to hold the opinion that "somehow, "some-how, some way we will get the grain harvested as we always have done, and will tgct it to market and (he mills,'' m one grower remarked, i