Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-18
INDUSTRIES
MUST CEASE
Minnesota, Louisiana and
All States East Of Missis-
sippi Are Affected BY
Order To Offset the Coal
Famine.
MUNITTON FACTORIES
MUST HALT WAR WORK

Washington, D. c., Jan. 17.-suspen
sion Of operation of Americas manu-
featuring industries east of the Miss
issippi and in Louisiana and Mime
sofa for period Of i've days begin.
ming tomorrow is decreed by the
fuel administration in an order issued
today, designed to relieve the serious
coal shortage. The order as originally
announced even includes munition
plants and excepts only industries pro-
ducing food and those requiring con.
tinuous operation to maintain their
business.
SOME RELIEF PROMISED.
When DR.. Garfield was summoned
before the senate's coal investigating
committee this afternoon, however
he revealed the fact that the actual
text OF the order, which is in course
Of preparation, will be somewhat less
drastic than was indicated by the alb
stract made public last night.
It Is not considered probable that
it viii permit any Industries other
than those engaged in war work to
consider themselves exempt from the
order, however, except those which
were named in the first announce.
ment as exempt, such aS food uian,l'
iA0Ctn1ing c1 selling yscoueetns, drna
stores and similarly necessary activf.
ties.
A preferential list Of consumers Of
coal in whose interest the order was
drawn is prescribed. including rail-
roads, householders. hospitals, charit-
able institutions, army and navy can
public utilities, strictly gov
ernment enterprises, public buildings
and food manufactures.
TEN IDLE MONDAYS.
AS means Of additional relief the
order provides that industry and busi-
ness activity generally, included
stores, saloons. schools. theaters and
once buildings, shall observe holiday
or Sunday conditions each Monday
for ten weeks.
Even street car lines will be put on
q Sunday basis on Mondays between
Fl and March 25. Newspapers
are limited to one edition. Concerns
selling food will be permitted to oper-
ate until noon on the heatless Mon
days and stores selling drugs will be
to remain open as usual.
State fuel administrators in whose
hands the execution of the order is
placed may close banks and trust
il they think necessary.
SHIPS TO GET FUEL.
To clear up the congestion of ship
ping at principal Atlantic ports re-
sulting from the famine of bunker
coal, Fuel Administrator GARFIELD has
selected a special assistant to take
charge of bunkering at the ports. Coal
Is assured ships by the fuel admins.
traitors order.
FINE FOR VIOLATION.
Inclusion Of munitions plants in the
order came as q surprise but fuel Of
ficials said that war plants have been
producing more material that the rail-
roads could handle and war supplies
also had moved to the ports of ship
ment faster than they could be trans
ported with ships tied up for lack Of
coal.
MAY EXCEPT WAR PLANTS.
The order will not include natural
gas nor use Of wood as fuel, nor
power derived from water. It is said
that the exception Of necessary war
industries from the operation OF the
order may be more liberal than first
announcements indicated.
The fuel administration will issue a
series Of rulings on queries concern
ing the conservation order. State
Iuel administrators will not be allowed
10 make rulings and the rulings issued
here will have general application.
U. s. TO SPEND $25,ooo, 900.
It developed today that under the
tuel administrations plan the govern