Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1920 — WHEAT WILL ROT IN FIELDS OF INDIANA [ARTICLE]

WHEAT WILL ROT IN FIELDS OF INDIANA

Indianapolis, June 16.—Thousands upon thousands of bushels of wheat and other grains will rot in Indiana fields unless relief is granted immediately from the car shortage, John McCardle, vice chairman of the public service commission, said today. “The car situation today is no better than it was two weeks ago, when railroad superintendents said they had begun to move cars thruout the state;” McCardlc said. “I have received complaints from farmers in.this state that they have only a handful of coal and not enough to begin threshing. “The rain of the last few days and the heat tend to hurry ripening of the grain and there is not. enough coal to assist the farmer in threshing his grain and not enough cars to move the grain. \ ■ “The result will be that thousands of bushels of grain will go to waste.” ~ * . The superintendents of coal carrying railroads informed the commission two weeks ago that they were moving cars, McCardle added, but as yet' they have failed to move enough cars to overcome the situation. The interstate Commerce Commission was denounced by McCardle because it failed to heed his cry for a priority order. ' ? Tomorrow afternoon the commissioners will meet the shippers’ association of Indiana to endeavor to eliminate all non-essential shipments in the state.