Show I FOOD FOOD RUSH IS ON AS EMBARGOES ARE LIFTED I I i By United Press CHICAGO March 17 17 Tern c I release of oC emt on several ral Western railroads tonight enabled population centers center In the thc middle West to make maken a n final effort to provision pro themselves themselves them them- selves against th the possibility that the th threatened railroad strike will como become an nn actuality next Monday even evening I r g Food supplies were being rushed to Chicago tonight hl from every available source The Tho Chicago o Northwestern Chicago Rock nock Island Pacific and Chicago Alton roads tapping an Immense area of or food sources announced that they would woul accept all freight delivery of or which in Chicago could bo be made before noon Monday londa- The Alton order l also to St. St Louis ana nna KAn Kansas as Cit City The Tho Baltimore Ohio while white not formally lifting its embargo an announced announced n an- that It would rn e rush TUh deliveries Of oC all cars of or foodstuffs no now now- In It Its yards President Halo Hold Holden n of the Burlington IV gurney said tonight that hl his road Is III moving mo two trains of or me meat mel l from Omaha to Chicago and will move o all aJl food possible po possible pos pos- sible to this city before Monday afternoon Chicago produce dealers avi avidly l seized the the- opportunity afforded b by bythe bythe the armistice between the railroads railroad and the brotherhoods brotherhood and tomorrow tomor row and Monday Monda probably will wilt see Ice seea IceDo a Do heavy Influx of oC food supplies here Freight officials of or the ChIc Chicago o Milwaukee and Tl St St. Paul and anti the Chicago o Northwestern lines at Milwaukee reported that shippers and merchants In Wisconsin Jumped at the opportunity afforded h by the tho respite to move mova fr freight for Monday delivery dell Retail dealers In St. St Paul laul were j refusing to sell ell sugar and potatoes by hy the tho barrel tonight Indications were that considerable foodstuffs would be he moved Into St. St Paul and Minneapolis durin during the next forty forty- eight hour hours St. St Paul and Minneapolis lInn poll are Arc to tonight to- to night rushing rushing- ISO carloads of ot live lin livestock tock stock Into their pens peris from outside points 1 |