The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-12
PRIORITY LIST
FROM WAR BOARD
Preference Is Given to Fuel
and Products Necessary
in War Work
MORE ARTICLES TO
BE ADDED LATER

Will Not Restrict Coal Supplies of Non
Essential Industries-To Decide in
dividual Gases on Their Merits If
Need Arises.
WASHINGTON, April Revised |
priority regulations designed to assure |
fuel and transportation TO industries |
necessary to the war and essential to |
the public welfare have been issued by |
the war industries board A lengthy |
preferential list made public Classics |
as essential. Others, it was announced, |
will be added from time to time. The
preferred industries under q plan now
in preparation also are to be given pref
erencc in obtaining raw materials and
other supplies.
Following is the list of industries
which viii have preferential treatment,
but the order in which they appear does
not Indicate particularly priority The
intention is to treat all these alike, and
possibly decide individual cases on mer-
its if need arises:
! Plants engaged exclusively in manu-
featuring aircraft or supplies and equip
ments, ammunition for the United States
/ ard the allies, army and navy canton
ments and camps, small arms, chemicals
coke, domestic consumers, electrical
equipment, electrodes, explosives. farm
implements, ferro alloys, fertilizers, fire
bricks, food for human consumption,
food containers, gas, gas producing ma
chinery, guns, hemp, iute and cotton
bags, insecticides, fungicidcs, iron and
steel (blast furnaces and foundries).
laundrics, machine tools, mines, mining
tools and equipments. newspapers and
periodicals, oil, refneries (mineral and
vegetablel, oil wells equipment. public
institutions and buildings, public utili-
ties, railways, railway equipment and
supplies, refrigeration, seeds Except
flower seedsl, bunker coal (not including
pleasure craf0, ships. ship supplies and
equipment, soap, steel plants and roll
ing mills, tanning plants Except for
patent lcatherl, tanning extracts, tin
plate, Irvine (binder), and rope, wire
rope and rope wire.
The month 5 passenger fare bill of the
nation apparently was $50 $50 600, for
aggregate collections from the eight per
cent tax on the cost of passenger tickets
were s. ,465, 600 Pullman fares paid By
travellers must have been 81 ,46S 600,
since the 10 per cent tax brought in
S146SO0. Express taxes, five per cent Of
the payments, were S767 900, indicating
that the amount Of business done was
Sl5,355, 900. From the tax of five cents
ON each telephone or telegraph message
!. Of - cents or more Sl,063,0 was
, raised, indicating that q ,215,000 mes
sages were despatched.
The nation s thcater amusement bill
for the month appears to be So ,0S3,-
600, as S3,10S 900 was collected from
the 10 per cent tax. 1t also IS Indicated
that the American people spend 1860
600 for club dues every month and pay
: 10 per cent of this as government tax
Apparently people are not buying as
many decks of playing cards now as a
year ago, for the revenue figures show
that tax was collected only on l,7SS,00C
: decks in the month, as compared with
! o,S96000 in February, 1917. Revenue
was greater, however, owing to the rails
ing of the federal tax from two to five
cents a deck.
The tax OF three per cent on the sale:
price Of automobiles and motorcycles
! yielded $2,320,000, indicating that ta1
: was paid on ST. ,352 600 sales.