Show 1 STRONG OLDS FALL AS HUNS HUN'S INVADE RUSSIA Ii c. c 4 0 4 1 t 2 r t wi s i. i 1 1 z r f r ra a o d Supply of Easy East Is s early Dearly N Exhausted let I 1 r A f 1 1 u LAME r PUT J JOA I 3 1 N ROADS OA t t y 3 BY HOOVER c T With Withes rith Stol StOr Stores es 5 Nearly Depleted 1 No Relief Likely for Sixty 4 Days nars Program for Feeding ng g 11 r rr lithe r the Allies Is Far Behind l f fRAIL RAIL RAIL AD ADMINISTRATION RESENTS STAT STATEMENT l i P r I McAdoo I Ad o Declares Readiness lo to Facilitate i Movements l Products y as as' The They j Wait Vait Shipment It Is Sai Said m I W WASHINGTON Feb 21 The Jc The I e eastern stern part liart of the United States States faces face a food short shortage e likel likely I to 0 co continue nue for the next sixty days lay I I In In making baling this disclosure tonight Food d Adm Administrator Hoover declared declare J 1 at the situation is mos JUo most t critical in inthe th the country's history an and that in im Iny of or the large consuming areas arens 1 re 1 nunc resme erre food stores are at the point m I of of exhaustion v The he whole blame blam Is put b by the food administrator on railroad congestion t I i he says sars also alo has thrown the food administration far behind in Its pro pro- mm for tor feeding the allies The fhe only he sees Is a greatly Increased fall rali movement of foodstuffs c even cn n to IM exclusion of much other commerce i I n Urgent nt p It II nas very ery l e evident ent tonight that the the Railroad railroad administration is Inclined to ft resent ent Mr r. r Hoovers Hoover's blame of oC th thu railroads ralland rall- rall I toads roads and Director General dehe de- de dared cl he was ready to provide every ery I j tac facility iii t for expediting XI e j food tOOd movement The Thc railroad j N I tin tation Ion he said sallI ha had pu suggested Jest that I farmers bc Le urged ure d to I release lease their thell grain holdings DO aing that large numbers of or available avail all I able able e car ears might be utilized In moving mo hem F J Cereal al exports exp rt to the allies Mr 11 Hoo- Hoo Ho ers ns k fn says will be he be short schon n 0 March 1 t an and meat Icat also nillo are far short of or the mounts In crl Inability to move e the crops Mr tt II 00 ter r sets forth tanh has suspended the tin a law Jaw a of DC supply and demand an and has created creat- creat creatI I I fd ed a a price margin ecu between I r. r producer Inc and r wider than It ever el wag waH before f Corn CorD ont About to Spoil IOU 1 Jar large lare e Part of f the 1 18 corn Cr crop P S as about Dout 16 a spoil because Is It not nw Ing C g M to terminals for tor drying f The fhe he per pcr- per per-I of oC soft corn In ln last latt la t years year's to of ot which u t be he dried If It it Is Ise F be h e saved is the tho largest t ever cr known tes place the amount as hl high II u i 1 A fM bushels hels The eo cost it t of ot grains for r fcc feeding ln live l clock OCK has Increased to such puch an nn extent LA IS rea reason EOn of trans transportation or n I ties les Ur r. r hoover Hoo said aId that tet feeders ers ar arf are I with the pro 11 1 prospect of ot set 5 declares osa B t 1 losses asses Dairying Interests Interest too loo he heare are hard har hit lilt Potatoes cs the food administrator a de- de e. e le ire are spoiling in the producers producers' binds while consumers lIed have been sup sup- only from r ny u sum summer er Garden crops and na stores carrier carried 1 over O lIuo Hooker r Gl CiveN ew cn 1 wr Jr Hoovers crts statement follows In 1 rp lib response to beg to toman man many Inquiries I to say M It le Is true that of J rio g-rio since the first December w We c have ha fallen far I Iliad Le- Le our CS C'S D agreed food I fro gram t Uh the tho By the thc cn end d of We IJ trill 1 be short bushels In real ce- ce products which We undertook un ns as lee I be short or of their sit 1 p 1 lea We c iv o of the wand amount of meal mca t pork POlk P pr r lIu t td ts that w we e tode r This were to do- do th the deficiency Is duo ue 1101 q 1 t to rh The congestion Inee that at d date Y directorate I since Iglo coming control font ol on an f tort t to find January 1 has ha made eft ef- ef n a remedy hut bUt during tic the n 1 o ot of able the cr Was wag in Ui- Ui and althou h p pro ogress ha haCa s j Ca Continued ou Page 2 i 1 FOOD SHORTAGE FACED BY EAST Continued From Page Pase 1 been beon ma made e since sinco the tho fifth lUh of or February the situation Is I the accumulation of oC I three months months' delay IM Is Critical The next net sixty days as a's will be he th the most critical period In our food hl history The simple fact is that the problem goes goci oc far tm deeper than supplies to the allies During the In last t three months w wo have ha far fallen behind In movement mo of or foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- stuffs from the farm arms to the consuming and storage centers center Up to the first of or February less leNs than 30 O per cent vent of or ortho tho thc normal ratio of ot corn has been moved leis ICES than 30 O p per r cent of oC the oats and less Jes than 60 per cent of oC the potatoes From November 1 I to January Janu ary 1 I we were short In the usual movement movement move move- ment of or grains an and grain products Into the terminals alone by over o carloads carload over carloads o cl over I bu bushels hel and this was further aggravated b by similar shortage outside tho the terminals Furthermore this year ear we have ha tho the largest percentage of or soft corn In Inman man mamay years cars and arid though we have a n record crop of or corn a considerable portion portion por por- tion of or the soft of corn will viii b be bf lost by spoiling unless It can call be moved in time tho next sixty days ays to the tue drying terminals Time Tile least amount of oC grain that must be loaded for the next sixty lays lars Is bushels po day and day and we e have ha not yet attained that L Loss Less ss than this this will solve neither the allied no nor our domestic situation Iono Held HeM Hack lYe We e had about carloads fJ of oC potatoes on November 1 which should have hwe been moved mO from the I principal producing centers rs and up to the first of or February we had moved about carloa carloads s while we should hould have havo moved over In this his period Tho The result Is that potatoes are piled up spoiling In tho the producers producers' hands hand and the consuming consuming con con- suming centers have ha only been supplied b by virtue of or the summer gardens and other stores carried over from las year ear There Thele Is 18 a great Ireat deal teal of or live livestock livestock stock tock which has been een ready for the time market for some s-ome time lime but bul Is 15 still hold holdIn In the farmers farmers' hands through inability It ity 1 to secure transportation transportation- These cattle arc are eating their heads ot off without with out Increasing their theil moat float value and andare andare are only adding to tho the costs of or tho the farmer and consuming tho the grain The effect of this delayed movement mo has been many fold toM First First To To die c the safety of or a great deal of oC the soft oft corn and atles such euch as potatoes Price Condition l. l Second The The stricture In flow Clow of or distribution die dis has entirely disturbed tho tile price conditions In the country countr by br practically suspending the In law lav of or supply sup UP ply ph and demand The margins H between the fn farmer mer and the tIme consumer In man wider widel than commodities were cre never ne the they are tOlla today because the consuming trades are and the tho far farmers fir fir- mers mels compete for or transportation Prices Prices' of or the coarse grains have reached unheard of levels while hIle tho thu limit tran transportation hau diminished tho the farmers farmers' 1 returns turn Third Third The The cost of grains for tor feedIng feed feed- Ing nl live lI stock has so Increased to the ree feeders of or finished cattle that the they face serious losses The he costs costs costs' of or the thc dairyIng dairying dairy dairy- Ing Industries havo have necessarily greatly Increased Through Fourth Through h the time largo 1 consuming In ing areas arcas we have havo been ln living off oft re reserves reserves re- re serves eS through the period of or s scant n supplies sup sup- plies These rC reserves es are In many sections sec eec lions approaching exhaustion Allies Supply Short Fifth We Firth Wo have ha been unable to transport lo to seaboard the time nc necessary foodstuffs for tor or the time allies This has not been due so o much touch to time the actual In Inability Inability In In- I ability of ot the time railways 8 5 giving RI priority to foodstuffs for allied shipping a as lM it I lai been to brIn bringing ln- ln products from the farms to th the terminal markets where it can be o aggregated prepared and purchased b by the allies The Tue economic mani of or this whole delay I In the thc movement mo of or the national na na- harvest are almost most countless nd hey rJ ri esen the mo most t critical of oC sit situations Mt- Mt Hatlon of ot which no solution e exists html but buta Luta a continued of or tho the efforts of the railway administration In the thc movement nt of foodstuffs in every Y di direction direction dl- dl r to the time exclusion of oC much oth other r Considerable Consider Consider- commerce of oC the country able blo progress pro has made In n the thelaM thelast continued d rises Inthe in inthe inthe lat last ten do days doy but the price of cereal cerral commodities an anthe and the tho failure to secure sufficient surplus over Immediate domestic tlc consumption to feed the time allies allio are evidence c that there I is he still a deficiency In food caro care and that they need bo be o still further In Inci In- In ci Ct cased casc Comparisons of the movement from 11 lay day to fa day luring during time Jhc last few days clays I with movements monts of periods last I Il l year car reflect 1 the efforts being made malic U by I 1 the railway directorate We e have hare however a long long- accumulation to be te got Jot over o arid and to bo IH got ot over o with within in the tho next sixty da days The situation calls calis for foren every en operation co of the public public- through the Iho quick loa of or cars 10 loading load ellIn ell ell- In ing them to capacity and discharging ln them quickly quicklY Oral and In every e way r re reducing re- re the tax on the railways Cooperation cooperation co Cov Co- Co operation c can be eiven I b by reduction In imi consumption of oC foodstuffs foodstuff by hy th the con- con J of or home home- and nd local l stores tores to the time exclusion so o for fOl as mn may be of ot transported trans trans- ported articles article If IC eT e Interest t cC co- co c t 3 40 o 0 shall ha 11 II supply up ph the allies nilles and amid remedy rc the distribution of our QUI I dome domestic tlc supplies for or our farms farm ar are full of foodstuff No o effort le Is being p spared ul to move mo nil all food as a fH last fast t as It Il can be I In the Interior antI and nd tolla today the railway rail all rail rail-j I wa way directorate Is arranging trains trains to tarry meat and packing hou house o products from Chicago tp up load the UC waiting ships chips II Supply Ample Ample mple supplies of sugar sURn will bo be available during the time coming seaon n on the food rood administration announced tonight to 10 meet the necessary requirements o. o oi food manufacturers and len lor household I preserving ln purpose I All ll m manufacturers of or essential food I product a food a administration I statement state state- m ment nt sold old are fire advised ad that the they will willbe be ho able to obtain their full Cull necessary 1 requirements mentA This Timis applies particularly particular particular- ly Iy to the time of oC fruit uit condensed milk nn and such vegetables for tor the pre pros pros- er of or which mi gar may bo necessary nee nee- i essary as well uvell a as to time tho housewives os or 01 I usage As the fhe car shortage E Is IN relieved relle supplies sup sup- plies of C sugar will ill be bo available u for or time the necessary t purposes Shipments Ship Ship- I ments mants from rom Cuba are uie steadily I I In ing |