River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
Drastic Measure Suspends Manu-
featuring For Five Days To
End Coal Famine.
NO WARNING is GIVEN
All Normal Business Activities To
Cease Each Monday For Next
Ten Weeks AS Further Con-
serVation Measure. 49,

Washington, Jan. 18.-Threatened
with a national calamity due to the
shortage of coal, President Wilson,
through Fuel Administrator Fl. A. Gar
field, ordered temporary shutdown
of factories and other industries and
a general hating of business east of
the Mississippi, including the entire
states of Minnesota and Louisiana.
The shutdown is ordered from next
Friday to the following Tuesday, in
elusive, and the nine following Mon
days.
On these IA days no manufacturing
plants will be operated except those
requiring continuous operation to
avoid injury to plant, those producing
perishable foods and those producing
other foods whose operation is desired
by the food administrator.
Abstract of Order.
The following abstract of the coal
restriction and business holiday order
by DR.. H A. Garfield, fuel administrat-
or, has been given out by the fuel adj
ministration:
Until further order of the United
States fuel administrator all persons
selling fuel in whatever capacity shall
give preference to orders for neces-
sary requirements:
"A-Of railroads.
"B-Of domestic consumers, hOspit-
ais, charitable institutions and army
and navy cantonments.
"C-Of public utilities, telephones
and telegraph plants.
"D-Of ships and vessels for bunker
purposes.
"E-Of the United States for strict
ly governmental purposes; not includ-
ing orders from or for factories or
plants working on contracts for the
United States
"F-Of municipal, county or state
governments for necessary public use.
Cor manufacturers of perishable
food or of food for necessary imme-
date consumption.
1.-The order further provides that on
Jan IS, 10, 20, 81 and %, 1918, no fuel
shall be delivered to any person, firm,
association or corporation for any uses
or requirements not included in the
foregoing list until the requirements
included in the list shall have been
first delivered.
Certain Plants to Run.
ION Jan 10, 10, 20, 81 and %, 1918,
and also on each and every Monday
beginning Jan %, 1918, and continu-
ing up to and including March 25,
1918, no manufacturing plant shall
burn fuel or use power derived from
fuel for any purpose except
'A-Such plants as from their ma
ture must be continuously operated
seven days each week, to avoid serious
injury to the plant itself or its con-
tents
Manufacturers of perishable
foods.
Manufacturers of food not per-
ishable and not in immediate demand,
who may burn fuel to such extent as
is authorized by the fuel administra-
tor of the state in which such plant is
located or by his representative au-
thorized therefor, upon application by
the United States food administrator.
"D-Printers or publishers of daily
papers may burn fuel as usual except
Ing on every Monday from Jan. Fl to
March %, 1918, inclusive, on which
days they may burn fuel to such eX-
tent as is necessary to issue such edi-
tons as such papers custOmarily issue
on important national legal holidays,
and where such papers do not issue
any editions on holidays they are per-
mitted to issue one edition on the said
Monday.
"E-Printing establishments may
burn fuel on Jan. Is, 10, 20, Il and p,
to such extent as is necessary to issue
current numbers of magazines and 9TH
er publications periodically issued.
"On each Monday beginning Jan. q,
1918, and continuing up to and includ-
ing Monday, March %, 1918, no fuel
shall be burned Except to such extent
as is essential to prevent injury to
property from freezing) for the pur-
pose of supplying heat for:
AMY business or professional Of
fees except offices used by the United
States, state, county or municipal gov
ernments, transportation companies or
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az" Has 600 Men in War Service.
Minneapolis, Jan. 1S.-The Universe
ty of Minnesota has 900 men in vari-
Gus branches of the United States war
forces, and 1872 of them have en-
listed since the college year began,
Oct. 10, Dean ]. B. Johnston of the
academic college announces. Regis
trar E. B. Pierce said that 65S addi-
tional men in the engineering, med
tool ond dopto1 cOlInpoS have en-.