Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-17

night as likely that Secretary McAdoo, director general of railroads, might de- clare a rail embargo against the ship
 ment of the products of plants closed down if necessary further to relieve l the roads. q. The critical coal situation is blamed on the unusually severe weather of | the last week, which has made it i'm possible in many instances to move
 coal at all and which has cut off the l fuel supplies of whole cities
 Homes Must Be Kept Warm. Officials who worked out the cur
 tailment plan came to the conclusion,
 they said tonight, that the homes must | be kept warm at all costs. Reports have poured into the fuel adminis- tration's offices for days past telling 1 Of intense suffering in many Parts of the country. Some of the largest cit ies of the east have run so short of ! fIel already that local fuel officials have stopped industrial activities ito provide homes with coal. ... Resides ship yards and factories pFb.s ducing foodstuffs, the few exceptions to the general rule forbidding the use | of coal in the period specified are plants which must be continuously op- erated to prevent injury to the plants 1 themselves. newspaper plants and printing establishments which. publish
 current and periodical magazines.
 On the Monday holidays besides the
 manufactuv ng plants the following
 consumers will be forbidden to use coal: Business and professional offices
 (except to. prevent freezing) except
 those used for government offices or
 banks and trust companies and those
 housing physicians and dentists;
 wholesale and retail stores, with ex-
 captions for drug stores and those that sell food: all amusement places and
 saloons. State fuel administrators may
 close the bank and trust company
 buildings if they think necessary.
 On the holidays subWays, surface, elevated and suburban cars will. be permitted to use only the amount of
 coal they normally consuyAe on Sum-
 days.
 Domestic Utilities Exempted.
 Some domestic utilities probably win
 be exempted from the order in sup- plementary rulings, including laun-
 dries, ice plants and hundreds of oth-
 CTS 0pon which the people are depend
 ent for supplies and service
 Cutting off coal to non-esSential in-
 dustries had been expected in Wash
 ington for a week It was explained
 tonight that they were not discrinin-
 ate4 against in the order because o1
 the fact that it was almost impossi- ) ble to classify industries as essen.
 tial and non-essential. Thousands 0. factories producing so-called non-es. sentiais, it was pointed ont, supply either directly or indirectly plants which themselves manufacture goods
 vitafly needed by the government ol by the public. Most of the industrie. manufacturing war goods are said tt have on hand more manufactured sup plies awaiting railroad and oceal transportation than have the non-es, sentials. Suspension of few indus , tries is expected to interfere with de
 liveries if the railroads can move tn,
 goods in their present congested state Officials tonight forsaw that tn, German government might distort ant make much of the order to improve tn, morale of the German people, but the, 2 said this danger was negligible whe1 compared with that of permitting tn,
 fuel situation to continue unimprov
 cd.
 9 Under Authority of Lever, Act. g The order was issued under author
 ity conferred in the Lever food act f which provides fine of $, 900 or i'm Pt @SOAAiASiAI AOA V4Ol0llOu UI US pIOVI = sions and warning was given that i would be strictly enforced.
 To prevent industrial unrest 1t wa l said tonight that the governmen n might make a formal request on in d dustries affected by the order to pa s their employees during the time the S are idle.
 MT. GarfeId7s Statement, . Fuel Administrator Garfield iss1e this statement:
 Adverse weather conditions in th
 recent week and the inadequacy Of tn
 present coal supply and transportstio facilities to meet the war time de a mand have made necessary irmediat restrictive measures as to the use c t coal, in that part of the United State east of the Mississippi river. e 'The movement of coal in transpor = tation must be so directed so as to al e the director general of railways l. dealing with the railroad emergenc U created by recent blizzard condition r Domestic consumers of coal must b
 kept warm and other absolutely neces e sary consumers must be supplied. - "All industry must be fully 4restric, a ed in it's use of coal in order that tt n available supply for the remaindt = of the winter may be properly dis g tributed and may be made sufficier r. (continued on Page Thr.e.)