The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
RIVER CITIES ARE
UNDER THE BAN
ALL IOWA TO FEEL THE EFFECTS
OF FUEL ORDERS.
STORES TO CLOSE MONDAYS
Embargo Placed On Freight Ship
ments On Eastern Roads - Or.
GarfieId's Rules Being Closely
Observcd-Breweries Closed.

Des Moines, Jan. 23.-Iowa Fuel
Administrator Chas. Webster has
issued the following order to the six
big cities in Iowa along the Missis-
sippi river, including Keokuk, Fort
Madison, Burlington, Davenport,
Clinton and Dubuque:
Complaints are being made that
marked injustice is being done Illi-
nois towns along the Mississippi
river on account of the Monday
closing order. Suggestion is made
by the United States fuel admins
tration that. l take such action as
will, in measure, remedy. the
trouble.
/ Therefore, as fuel administrator of
Iowa, and by authority from the
United States fuel administration, /
direct and order that all stores, in
Guiding billiard and pool halls, bowl
ing alleys, with the exception of food,
fuel and drug stores, be closed on
Monday of each week. All places
of amusement theaters and moving
picture shows be closed on tuesday
of each week until further notice"
Another Order This Week.
The order issued is a special one
and is not to take the place of the
one to be issued later in the week
affecting practically every public and
business institution in the state. Fol
: lowing a conference late yesterday
with the retail merchants of Des
Moines, Webster agreed to modify
the intended closing order to some
extent.
i One of the first acts of the fuel
administrator upon returning to Des
Moines after two weeks absence was
to dismiss the Des Moines fuel board,
of which Mayor John MacVicar was
county board would be reorganized,
with one board to have control of the
entire county.
Order Ready For Delivery.
Des Moines, Jan. 23-The state wide
order limiting the hours of stores and
other public places in the interest of
the Fuel conservation measures was
completed this afternoon by State
Fuel Dictator, Charles Webster
the Fuel Dictator Charles Webster
The order however will not be made
public until tomorrow.
The order when is to go into effect
some time late this week probably
will order all department stores and
many other similar lines of business
to close at five p. m.
Cigar stores and pool halls will have
their hours limited, but arrangements
will be made to suit individuals. If
they are given permission to heat
their buildings twelve hours a day it
is thought likely that they will not
open until eleven or twelve o'clock in
the morning.
Theatres and other places of amuse-
ments, though not effected by this or
der, but in case they are and have
to close one day during the. week,
probably will do so on Tuesday
Embargo On Freight.
Washington, Jan. ga Temporal
ry embargo on all freight except food,
coal and war supplies was ordered
today by Director General McAdoo
on the Pennsylvania lines east of
Pittsburg, on the Baltimore & Ohio
! lines east of Ohio, and on the Phila'
delphia & Reading railroads.
Duration on Weather.
McAdoo's action followed the in
sistent demands of the fuel admins
tration. 1t was declared to be the most
vital movement which could be taken
if the breaking of the eastern rail
road jam was to be accomplished.
McAdoo took his step because he
said that it was an absolute necessity
Threats of tying up of the ship build
ing program and intense sufferings in
many other points influenced his de
cision
The embargo McAdoo declared
would last only until the weather
moderated. The war supplies which
will be exempted from the embargo
will only be those which are specifi
cally designated by the war depart
ment he asserted.
These lines will concentrate or
movement of coal into New England
Naw YORK harbors and other points