Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12

will be allowed to open tomorrow
at . a. m. az usual and to remain
open until . p. m. This action was
taken by the fuel committee repre-
senting the six cities in this COM
munity this afternoon. In fecOgni-
ton Of the claim that merchants
must be allowed longer hours to
dispose Of holiday stocks. A COM
mittee of II representatives OF the
retail trade element In the tri-cities
appeared before the fuel commit
tee to make such request, but the
motion for the . to > ruling. to ap-
ply tomorrow only was already be-
tore the house. It had been made
BY Mayor c. P. Skinner OF Moline.
Other rulings Of the committee,
excepting that referring to the OPP
Grating hours Of theatres and NOV
ing picture houses were left un-
changed today. Movies and other
theatres were granted the privilege
.O1 conducting both afternoon and
Evening shows Saturday and Sun
day. Monday they will also be per-
mitted an evening program.
Action may be taken on other
parts of the committees general Or
der tomorrow noon. On the motion
of Colonel Jordan this afternoon,
Chairman H. A. Clevenstine ap-
pointed q subcommittee of three
e. X. Putnam of Davenport, Col
onel Harry B. Jordan, commandant
Of Rock Island arsenal, and Ed
ward G. Fairfield, Of Muscatine, to
go over the provisions Of the order
and report any chaLges thought ad-
visable, to the main committee to-
morrow noon. They went into ses-
sion this afternoon to take up some
of the more minor sections. To-
morrow morning. with q complete
report Of this afternoons regional
directors meeting in their hands,
this subcommittee will again con-
vene, to make further changes In
line with whatever mandates result
from the directors session. It is
hot known yet what the recon-
mendations Of this committee will
be. Undoubtedly they will have
some proposal regarding the after
noon time of closing for retail
stores next week. and possibly one
concerning evening operation Of
mercantile houses the last few
days before Christmas.
High Lights Of Meeting.
High lights Of today's fuel COM
mittee meeting as brought out In
statements by various Of the MEM
bers were: ..
Four big manufacturing plants in
Moline, several in Rock Island, and
two or three in Davenport, are con-
fronted with the possibility of being
unable to operate next week on ac-
count of coal for heating their
shops and Offices having been ex-
hausted. 4S
Fuel consumption restrictions in
the tri-cities are much less strin-
gent than those in Chicago. Chi
cago stores must operate three
hours leas tomorrow afternoon than
those here, while manufacturing
establishments there are conform
ing in full to the Garfield order
which would have them, operate
only three days per week. Conces-
sions for the benefit Of retailers
and shoppers were made by the To-
cal committee at the risk sensure
from the state.
The coal situation was worse to-
day than at any previous time, B.
]. Denman said. The power COM
pany's heating plant was without
fuel for an hour this morning, un-
Ill q special engine hurried two
cars Of coal for its use. Mr.. Dem
man cited other conditions to SUBJ
stantiate his statement.
Colonel Jordan said that the
working man has been hit as hard
a. any class, manufacturers or mer-
chants, but called the committee's
attention to the fact that the only
delegation from working men which
had appeared to ask better condi-
tons was that of the street car
men. Il. X. Putnam suggested that
It was all important that labor en-