Evening star., 1922-07-29
Priorities Will Be
in Hands of
Committee.
PLAN OF CONTROL
TO BE ANNOUNCED
States to Maintain Fair
Prices and Distri-
button.


country will be given first call on rail-
road coal cars as soon as the organi-
zation of the administrations emerg-
sncy fuel control machine is COM
pleted. 1t was announced today by Sec
retary Hoover, chairman of the led
eral coal distribution committee.
The priorities on cars to producing
mines will be rSssed upon by the dis
tribution committee, Mr.. Hoover said.
so that all coal may be obtained under
the fair prices agreed upon to prevent
profiteering. The Commerce Secretary
said 1t would then be up to the states
TO maintain prices within their boun-
DIARIES by the prevention of resales and
profiteering-
Will Announce Proposals.
MIR. Hoover plans to make public
soon proposals being sent to all of the
states for the organization of local fuel
control bodies. The federal plan, he
added. contemplates that each state
shall take the entire responsibility for
distribution and prices within its
boundaries. while the federal govern
ment will see to it that the states get
coal from the operators at fair prices
Inc commerce SECRETARY III lAiS
connection stated that Henry b.
Spencer. the administrative member
of the Presidents committee, is to be
known as the federal fuel distributor
and not as an administrator, as. ne
explained, was enormously announced
Yesterday by the department through
a typographical slip. The govern
ment, Mr. Hoover stated, is not re-
establishing the old wartime fuel ad-
ministration system, but is chiefly
concerned in the equitable diStrlou-
ton of coal.
state Plans Not Uniform.
The plans for emergency organiza-
tion to be sent to the states, prac-
tically all of which have responded to
the coal committees appeal, Mr..
Hoover said. will not be uniform, but
adapted to the administrative needs
of each state as conditions in New
England along the great lakes. the
intermountain territory and states
having d surplus of coal all vary.
States far from coal centers, he de-
clared, must be accorded greater
transportation facilities than those
nearer the producing fields.
AS an instance, he asserted, New
England must be given advanced
DfiDfltleS over states IKE
Illinois or Ohio in order to insure
adequate distribution.
Mr.. Hoover also announced that he
had asked all bunkering companies
along the Atlantic coast to bunker
ships only to the next port of call and
after August l to require all foreign
ships to bunker for the round trip
abroad. American coal. he declared.
is cheaper than foreign coal and it is
the present tendency of ships to load
up with coal in American ports
rather than abroad or with imported
fuel.
The Presidents committee. Mr..
Hoover said. has recommended to
Canadian consumers that they import
coal for their own safety" Pro-
vision. however. will be made to take
care of the needs of Cuba, he added.
Advisory Names Listed.
Secretary Hoover, who announced
Mr. Spencers selection by President
Harding for the vacancy on the CEN
tral committee, made public yesterday
the names of operators from coal-pro-
ducing districts so far designated as
members of the advisory committee
which is a part of the federal organi-
zation for maintaining coal prices and
inSuring fuel distribution. They are:
e. Il. Bockus of New York, chairman
for Virginia; f.. l.. Douglas of Cincin-
natl, for Kentucky; George S. Francis
of Greensburg. Pa, for Penn
Sylvania; Z. c. Mahan of Knoxville, for
tennessee: w. J. Magee of Charleston
w. Va, and f. L. White of Glen White,
w. Va, @or West Virginia.
e. T.. Tuttle of New York was named
advisor TO the committee on lake and
northwest movement and LIE Baron S.
Willard of New York advisor on
he aRa gaverners of
states MIR. Hoover announced have
undertaken to erect the necessary ad-
ministration to control profiteering and
distribution of coal within their state
borders
States which have reported steps to
set up this machinery include Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois. Michigan, Wisconsin,
North Dakota, Minnesota, Maine, Mas
sachusetts. New Hampshire. Connecti-
Jersey, Maryland. Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Iowa, Oklahoma. Florida,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana.
Exceptional Territory.
Kansas. Mr.. Hoover said, has al
ready an establishment under its in
dustrial court law, and it is not con-
sidered necessary to set up coal con-
troll machinery in the intermountain
and Pacific states. as they have sup
plies of both coal and fuel oil.
The Norfolk and Western, Chesa-
peake and Ohio, and Louisville and
Nashville. three railroads which ira
verse important coal producing Sec
tions. today reported institution of
embargoes over their lines against
all freight except foodstuffs, live
stock and fuel. The roads acted, 1t
was said, under the formal announce
ment by the Interstate Commerce
Commi ssion that an emergency ex-
isted which impelled it to authorize
roads whose normal operation had
been affected by the strike to estab-
lish priority in certain classes of
transportation.
While 1t was made clear. at the
White House, according to the Aseo-
ciated Press, that the administration
supervision of coal distribution would
be directed to the end that the fuel
supply might be equitably divided
among all users entitled to consfdera-
ton, 1t was added that no objection
would be made II state authorities
went ahead-as has been the case in
Indiana and Michigan-with> separate
efforts to provide coal for the people
within their Jurisdiction.
Senator Borah, chairman of the
Senate labor committee, conferred
with President Harding yesterday
with regard to the bill proposing q
federal commission to inquire into the
coal industry. 1t was said the con-
i, ference covered only the broader