Show RUSH R H CARGO CAR O 1 OF f WHEAT WHAT TO HELP Ol BELGIUM I M Three Million Bushels BusheL Will Leave Atlantic Ports at Once to Provide Provide Pro Pro- vide for Starving Ones One OnesBy By United Press April 20 WASHINGTON To relieve starving Belgians Belgians Bel Bel- gians ians bushels o or of wheat wheal win will be rushed immediately from Atlantic ports taking precedence even ven over food for the other allies aUles ii it was vas learned on high authority here tonight This will feed teed the tho 9 people for foz forone forone fort t one ne month Official cablegrams reaching reaching reach- reach i ing ng here hero pictured Belgium as starving The he country is totally without without- bread bread-at this his moment and even with the immediate imme late diate rushing of or food across It Is believed believed beloved be be- be- be loved that nothing can avert a breadless breadless bread- bread less ss period of about twenty da days s With the tho allies clamoring for more and nd more food in the face tace of ot the German German Ger Ger- man aan drive Herbert has becu beez fighting relentlessly for the last Jast tennys ten tenda's days das nys to save the Belgian people from practical famine and has finally ar arranged arranged ar- ar ranged to ship ahead of ever everything thing 2 bushels of or wheat Shipments will begin leaving ports at t once and all efforts will be concentrated concentrated concen concen- rated for tor a period of about ten da days dayson on a loading this Belgian grain Hoover had ad the cooperation of or the the- shipping board oard In obtaining tonnage for tor Belgian relief ellef Only ships not available for lor troops or war supplies will be used for tor forus this us purpose but allied civilian needs need will wait vait temporarily After a few Jars days loading it Is expected that noral normal normal nor nor- mal al grain shipments to England and andI I France rance will be resumed Hoover was supported by the action I of ot t the allied war super council last Jast I January wh when n it was agreed that BelIan Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian Ian relief should not be allowed to be beUt cut Ut off ott by war deman demands s. s It w not until the German drive forced speeding up p of ot trans Atlantic shipping that BelIan Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian Ian food supplies supplier were In danger and andus this us Is la the first time it has been necessary sary aI try to fall tall back on the council council coun coun- cil Ii agreement be under this i Wheat heat to shipped arrangement will total about 7 I tons ns Some Som neutral boats will be bc ul used d dby by y permission of ot the shipping board On One ne es vessel el which has been lying Idlet Idle at t a a. gulf gull port will be ba loaded there then Cablegrams from Belgium appealing frantically for help stated that Belgium w was ls l's t totally without bread and that as assuming assuming as- as suming that all cargoes afloat when th the e cablegram was sent would reach Belgium safely 13 cly the bulk bunt of ol the population population lation suffering there and in occupied northern France Prance would have to suffer a a. twenty day bread famine before the increased shipments will show in the tho theOd food tood Od supply in lb stricken districts Food Administrator Hoover who left his Is engineering business in 1914 to beIn be begin begin be- be gin In the work of or feeding starving Belim Bellum Bel- Bel lum im tonight was o. o extremely gratified at the agreement reached With ith all the burdens urdens of ot the food administration upon pon him he has never relinquished his Is grasp of the thc Belgian situation and andis It is known that this is perhaps the closest thing to his heart |