The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-05
FUEL OFFICIALS
RELIIQUISRING
Their CONTROL
Are No Longer Consigning
Coal to the Indus
tries.
no PRICE CHANGES YET
Fuel Administrators Fix
pected to Stick Through
out Winter.

through Director OF Bitumfnous Dis
ttribution Galloway to H. K Stauffer,
field agent OF the Fuel administration,
who Is is charge Of the Fairrnonr dis
trict office IN the absence OF r. D.
Isner. distritc representative. who is
in Boston on business. Under the
notifications steel mills, gas plants.
by-product plants and all other indus
tries are. thrown upon their own re
I sources for procuring fuel. Hereto
fore they received their supply OF fuel
through the administration district
OFFICES.
Under the new order only requisi-
tons covering coal and coke for retail
tiles and government reQufstions will
stand until cancelled or modified
4 The order here Is generally regard
ed as a clever way Of getting around
the price proposition, at least that is
the Interpretation Of some persons
connected with the coal trade.
During the present week 500 extra
cars of coal have been requiSitfoned
By the local district representatives.
Office for the eastern lines Of the Phil
adelphia and Reading railway. the
! delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
Central Of New Jersey and the Lehfgh
1 valley. The total number of cars re-
Questioned for these roads alone this
week will be 1000 cars. Normally
this will run 500 cars. 1t is believed
that requistonins of coal for rail-
roads will also be annulled before
long.
The order is as follows:
Cancel today all outstanding requi-
sitions issued for coal and coke in
| % - toll IN o..
| ton from this Office and on inStruc-
Etions from state administrators Who
will confirm such cancellations to you.
Leave outstanding all requfsttonS is
sued covering coal and coke for re-
F., tail dealers, hospitals. schools. public
utilities. Government acquisitions
will stand until Cancelled or modified.
All industries. effective tomorrow will
protect themselves with coal through.
their own Efforts, but this Office will
still arrange for coal and coke for
public utilities government agencies.
including railroads as far as may be
necessary. state admiristrat tors pro-
tectins through requistions on you re-
tail dealers, hospitals. schools, state
and municipal agencies when neces-
sary-
on for Charleston.
J. Walter Barnes. state Fuel ad-
nainistzator, and r. E. Rightmire, ad-
ministrative engineer, left last even
ing for Charleston. They are on a
trip for the purpose OF viewing power
plants as to the condition OF conSerTa-
ton methods They probably will also
visit Huntington and possibly Blue
field, returning to Fairmont on Satur-
| day night or sunday morning.
! No Price Changes.
No price changes were made at the
conference OF officials OF the United
states Fuel administration in WASH
ineton. D. C., on Tuesday. according
to a wire received today by J. Walter
barnes state Fuel administrator. from
| Evans Wolen. acting director OF state
administrators, Washington, y. =:
The wire Is as follows: DIT G:rEeta
will continue IN direct charge OF Inc
Fuel administration as lorS as theEe
is work to be done and to discharge
fully his duty to the public. Re4ies
ON YOUR assistance through the winter
at least. No definite decision yet on
zones, prices OF margins.
In AIartinsburG-
Attorney a. H. Rose. director OF
enforcement. state Fuel administra'
\ for'z office. left for MartinsburS last
evening. He will attend TO some BUS
/ mess there and other points In tae
eastern Panhandle,
"FIu' About Yet
While no particular mine in the
Fairmont region is sorely anhcteo oy
the s'du,'' most os the big operations
are affected. This Is OF suntctent
moment to cause the operators much
.n1ovance and disorganize work more
On less IN many mines. Not only are
I,3iners sick with the flu, . but a mum,
her Of miners families are i'll with II
also There Is considerable sickness.
however, in addition to the ho-
No Nurses as Yet
Tn until noonFtoday no add1uonal
I nurses had been secured lot the re
/ zion through the OFFICES OF the tSol,
| them west Virginia Coal OpeFatoEs
/ association. It is hoped that W0Eu
will be secured from PittSou5sn . eiiss
FoIIr can be sent here. Definite wore
-! - receiysd today from the State de,
, . 81 health, Charleston. thai
:. 10 nurses could be spared, as they
jsd been sent elsewhere IN the STATE
TsSrlJer iris region could have secur
a several from Charleston. but al
@TIafs 4ine.they were not needed mere
as the local people banked on tne
i1eily1v of nurses from Pittsburgh
2 Adjusting TroubLe.
: Miners 81 four out Of six mines O
the West Virginia Coal and Cokt
: company near EIkins are out on
stdke. Ehorts are being made to al
lust the trouble. which Is reported Z
! have been cauesd by.a disagreement
) over the Ereeport scale. It IS expect
) tea that the men VIII 80 back 20 WoFE
). before the day closes.
! = i
Insthere ION today there are 4ssss
coal clrS, The lscement u 2 q seloel