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Show raionnY QUESTION ' ISBTHBIf War and Navy Departments, Depart-ments, Hoover and Garfield Gar-field All Make Claims. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. Requests from different government quarters for priori tv of transportation for food, fuel ar.d munitions Ivi thrown the -whole question of preferential shipment into a tangle. T::e committee on priority of transportation, of which Robert 5. Lovett is chairman, was trying tonight to clear the situation. k A tins on he susrest'on of fuel Administrator Ad-ministrator Garfield, the general operating committee of eastern raihoads to-lay sa.ee ol and coke shipments right of way to i 'ear congested terminals. Or. Garfield has requested of the priority committee a central order givtnsr coal the tracks. Tonieht the food administration an-i-ounLj it had entered a strong protest with the priority committee apain.-t giving; giv-ing; priority over food shipments to coal nr any other freight. The situation is farther complicated -by demands of the Tiar and navy departments for preferential preferen-tial rights to the movement of their sup- At the o:fU-e.s of the priori tv com my -toe none would say w'at materials would be given preferen-e and some ofticials s.;geeted that the o'J'rsCon mi'-'ht be taken up ry i:.e .van council, comprising (epa rtnient heads ar;d r h aim1 en "f the various, government '.o?rds and commissions. commis-sions. I The rai'roads. in responding to Dr. Garfield's Gar-field's re'Kst iliat c:al be n.ovcd ahead of penero 1 i're;sht. asked that a general priority order for eon! he w'lhbeld until t'ie road.-; ha-'e had an opportunity to teit their plan to-" jooling equipnient and ra--;tage. Tiecerhh' thev anno'inced tliat thre was no o'"jc 'ion to sT'TsI priority orlerg. but declared that all (iemands for r-rcferential movement for specific im-rrovemei! im-rrovemei! ts had done much to complicate tho th ih "oarj on rest inn. , lr. expia ining its request tint not in could 'ro p-jt a ilea d of fn, , l shipnvuiie, i ne food a dm ini ft rati on sa id ilie neces-f'.iy neces-f'.iy of movincr livestock ani r"rir';:;ihs and rorn, oats and animal fading stufis cnorally pre-f-minr-m or largo an'.oLints of food would be Inst. |