iV ft J V HARD COAL PRICES Certain. Small Operators to 5MGo, bilt Industry Is Be hind New Move M r t" GARFIELD NOW DICTATOR $ Largo Part of Country's Produc- tft' tlon Already Under Contract Not to Be Affected m i -jL ft. m l iff rar Ky l,itj. Washington, aur. 22. The rresldent Is preparing to fix hard eoal prices. Just as he net figures for tho oft coal output, and may have the conl dictator to take Charge of both situations, it was snld. Thousands of so-called "wagon loader" coal operators on n small scilc but pro ducing many thousand carloads per month In the aggregate will bo ulperi out by President Wilson's maximum prices, ac cording to Chairman l'enbody, of the de fense council's coal committee today, The Industry. lioeer, ulll be oolldly be hind tho President In his efforts to reduce prices to the acrngo consumer, he eald A large part of the country's loal pro duction already under contract will not be affected by the President's prices. Tcntatho price, averaging about $2 25 a ton for home sizes nxca by 'resident Wilson for coal at tho mouth of every bitu minous mine, went Into effect Prltes to retailers and consumers will follow shortly. II A. Garfield president of Williams Col lege, and now chairman of the wheat prlce flxlng board, has accepted tho post of fuel dictator. His Installation will follow com pletion of his present wheit task , The rates of profit to be fixed by tho President are expected to be twenty cents a ton for wholesalers and fifty cents for te tallers This, added to the President's prices at the mouth of the mlno In the twenty-nlno bituminous coal dltrlcts of the country, together with railroad freight and expenio of local delivery, will afford every city a working basis for figuring the coal cost to the American home Costs for the average house should be figured on prepared tzee, which are twenty-fho cents higher than the "run-of-mlno" coal president's annou.vci:mi:nt The President's announcement was as follows: ' The following scale of prices Is pre scribed for bituminous coal nt the mine In the several coal-producing districts It Is provisional only. It Is subject to reconsideration when tho whole method of administering tho fuel supplies of tho country shall havo been satisfactorily organized and put Into operation Subse quent measures will have as their object a fair and equitable content of the distri bution of tho supply mid of the prices, not only at the mine's, but alo in tho hands of tho middlemen aim tne retailers The prices provlnlonally fixed here nro flxpd by my authcilty under tho provi sions of tne recent net of Congress re garding ndmlnlstrntlon of the food sup pit of the country, which also conferred upon the executive control of tho fuel supply. They are based upon tho actual cost of production and nro deemed to be not only fair and Just but liberal ub well tinder them the Industry should nowhere lack stimulation WOODHOW WILSON. sciinnuLi: ok piuci:s BBBBMKsr'pi'v: mm M'k H lit S uflHHH rvK i3r' Wir . t rr ntf whteh, flke' fti''Kjrirolw:C( like Comnanv.' mined UDWard of & i ' i"n 'z mfnurrsssjzzj IIARUY A. GARFICLD Prices are on Of 2000 pounds. fob mine basis for tons nun nf mln ! mi j nip .on Finylvnla Maryland "Wmmt lrfflnln w i Vlrilnla (Ni-w lllvrr) i 1 Virginia r. (,'. Ohio (thick vein) J t" Ohio (thin vein) J ?J Kentucky . . . . 1 Kentucky (Jelluo) .. . J 40 Alabama (bla Beam) ... l.UO Alabama (Pratt. Jiener and Corona) lu Alabama (Pahabv and Tre. ainrk or linreil acreen alrea ings -' J'l 1.7-. 1 71 1.7". l nu 1.73 1.71 2.10 1 70 LM'. 1 05 a ."V J ." 2 40 .' .' 2 i:i 2 00 ' 'JO J Ml 2 IS 240 1 00 a 2 4n 2 111 .'411 i in i iii 2 40 .' 11 J 7( n a. m t jA w - in 2 II) 2 20 2 (IV 2 1HI .'(I-. 2 Ml an'. .1 10 2 00 .' 7(1 .' II " 2 ftr. .' 75 JK5 3 5U 2 11 -01 2.11 1 70 1 71) 2 1.1 2 411 2 45 2 30 2 45 2 8(1 2 40 2 JO - 45 2 15 2 25 2 35 3 00 M, Hlark Creek) Tenneste (Kaatern) Tenneaaee (Jelllfo).. Indiana . Illinois . ... Illinois (third vein),. Arkanaas Iowa Kanaaa . ........ .Mlioourl 2 70 Oklahoma SOI Texas 2 01 (oloradp .Ml MonMna - 70 New Mexico 2 40 VVomlnc "VI Utah 2A0 Washlnston S J5 The President's order fixes the price at approximately Jl a ton below the schedule agreed upon at a recent conference of the coal operators with the Coal Production Committee of the Council of National De fense The President's order did not ptate definitely whether the price scale was meant to affect existing contracts, and representa. tlves of the coal operators here were at a loss to Interpret It In that connection. The majority are of the opinion that contracts will not be permitted to stand If the Presi dent feels that the best Interests of the country would be served by making void. them tts, m: iar m; m 1 teV: " ",V.W '!F & V OPERATORS CONCERNED OVER PRICE-FIXING Flatly contradictory opinions as to the effect of thb coft coal schedules as fixed by President Wilson were expressed today by large operators here. Some held to the view that It would be perfectly possible for Penn sylvania's large coal operators, at least, to sell coal at $2 a ton, no matter what the effect of the new ruling might have on the smaller operators Others, referring par ticularly to the price set on West Virginia bituminous coal, asserted with emphasis, "It simply can't be done!" Of special significance was the Intimation on the part of more than one official that trouble with the miners ve'as certain to be precipitated by the President's schedule There was a strong hint that If the new prices, which the President points out nro to be merely provisional nt first. Hhould become permanent, an effort would un doubtedly be made by the operators to con vince the miners that the present scales of wages could not be continued. "We can scarcely look to the miners to consent to a reduction, no matter what the operator's losses may be," was their atti tude, ''and It looks as though trouble were brewing " "The new soft coal schedule, with all Its unfairness, Is nothing more or less than a muddle accomplished by Secretary linker and Secretary Daniels In their role of try Inp to run the country," said one big soft coal tperator. "If they keep on, they won't run the country f they'll ruin It, The '11 keep on until the country loses Us patience and throw i them out." A tA . I -til' OARFIBLiD NOT KNJOWN ft ' News of the appointment of Harry A. ,-H Gnrfleld. president of Williams College, ns I I "coal dictator" failed tn nmnu m, - "i lhuslasitf among local bituminous coal Jj operators, who said that they knew nothing ivh euner tor or against Doctor darneld. fii "Tho appointment called for a man of the rVv bl8"Best -caliber," said one man, "and for ,, one wno was Intimately acquainted with the ",li tilt Urn frmitcf inat ialhintlnn T t.-. . jy heard that Doctor Uarfleld was an author is Jty on coal. It seems to me that there are .already too many college presidents at i'fi 'Washington." L1, Anumberof smaller operators, who re. 3 Used to permit the use of their names, were I" (iuti imi in Aniar.nv .hah .k .... ..1...J..1 . - -.- H.v-..a .ifc ure now Kjiicuuiea meant mat most ot the operators would be forced out of business. I "If enforced.lt would mean the cancel- station or repudiation of the contracts ' already held." they said In effect. "It was lair enough eto cause the reduction of the lalf 'onough to cause the reduction of the Mr-4vto ell at II 5 to J3, It seems as Man " ougni 10 d lert. aione wr a iWTM Government ought to Investigate the car situation and see what It Is We lose two days a week through the railroads' failure to provide cars. Wo could load from 25 to 40 per cent more cars than nro obtainable Tho steel companies havo ad vanced their price for steel raits from 13 to $50 a ton nnd gtt the cars Wo havo to supply the mills with coal, but we can't get the cars" President Wllson'n announcement, which, In dollars and cent, means that the conl producers of PentinIvnnla stand to obtain some $200 000 000 lens for tlulr coil this vear than If the present prices were con tinued, wan nnturnll) received locally with grave concern It was pointed out that 1i9,121,S1I tons of bituminous al were mined In Pennsjlvnnla In HIS, tho greatest record since thit of 1911, nnd which ex ceeded that of 1915 b) II 701. 74C tons An even larger output for this cnr has been expected If efforts are made by the oper ators of this Mate to reduce the w.iges paid to miner, upwnrd of 171000 operatives will be affected It w.i Mid The 12 rate fixed for run-of-mlnn soft conl will fall most heavllv on Ihe smnller operators. It was said of whom there nro nearly 300 Virtual! IOOOuO.OOO toils out of the IB1 000 000 tons taken nut nf tho mines In PUS was produced bv thlrlv-one concerns, ench of which mined more than 1,000 000 tons Many c'oncerns sought i rav of comfort In the reflection that (he bulk nf their nut put has already been sold under contract, and thev refused to believe tint a repudia tion of these contracts would be ordered by tho Oovcrnment The situation In this State H like In Illinois, where, according to n M Irwin of the O'Onra Coal Company, Chicago "G per cent of the co'il output is under con tract nnd will not bo nffectcd l the new price Levi llnver of the Illinois State Council of Defense estlinited however, that tho Government schedule would mean a saving of $70 000 000 annually In that State. "It co'ts some operators dose to $2 50 n ton to get their coal out of the mines," said Joseph M O'llrlen assistant sales manager of the lCejtmio Coil A. Coke Comp.anv, "but others big operators like ourselves, can, I think, meet tho $i schedule all right "We will havo n mirgln which will hold us all right, I think Hut I wipposp that thcro will be nnii) smaller concerns which will be closed out If thej should tie, that will not curtail the State's pinductlun, how ever It imi evin help It Their mines must continue to he worked by others, who will be able tn keep the pioduitlnn cost down. labor mi: iik; pi:ohi.i:m "The big problem Is, of ermine, the labor problem, tanking nee nnd onlv to the car problem Tho miners are certalnh 'get ting theirs ' They have demanded their share when higher prices prevailed, and I don't believe they will agree to a reduction of wages even If the prices are cut One operator tells mo that It cotH him close to $1 50 a ton merely foi the labor, and not Including overhead expene. Our labor cost Is probably although this 1h only a guess on my part not more than $1.25 a ton. "The new' governmental schedules will probably hit very heavily at the numerous small coal brokerage offices that have come up like mushrooms recently In order to grab the Pilot coal business They are the deil ers who have caused much of the trouble at Washington 'nut It Is a little early to give nnv definite opinion on the new schedule It Is not known whether the new rates are to go Into effect at once or at some future date. And tho President sajs that they nro provisional One operator hero believes that the order was Issued f-lmplv as a 'feeler' 1 do not But 1 don t regard It as exactly fair, In that It does not make any discrimination as to the qualltj of coal That Is u point thit must be threshed out. "Some coal Is being sold which might he swept up off the street It lsn t worth fltt cents a ton Other coal Is well worth $3 "But the new oider will not be worth much unless It can be enfoiced. The agree ment entered Into by operators to sell at $3 hasn't been kept by many You couldn t have bought twenty carloads of coal nt $3 since It went Into effect" An official of tho Bcrwlnd-Whtte Coal Cmih and Ci 1,800,000 tons last yeah did not agree that coal could be sold for $2. 'The price fixed for West Virginia coal.ls below the cost of production." said he. "It simply can l De done." This official estimated the Item of labor at 10 per cent of the cost of.productlon nnd declared that the new schedule cbuld not he accepted unless the labor cost were cur tailed. Ho asserted that most of the larger concerns had sold on contracts nnd would not be affected by the new order. The little operators, who had rushed Into the export conl market when the Oovcrnment put no regulation on export business, ho said, would be most affected, "The experts sent to this State by tho Federal Trado Commission to Inquire Into tho cost of production seemed to overlook everything except the cost at the mines," said nnother official "They forgot tho overhead, deterioration charges and so on, You wouldn't ask a rlgar manufacturer to aell clears nt $2 whose tobacco cost him $2. Yet that's what the Government Is trying to do with tho soft coal dealers " f German Lines at Lens Yield in Great Drive Continued from Tare One concrete cellar transformed Into a bomb proof More came up like ants from near by mlno shafts scurrvlng exactly like thofc insects do when their ant hills are shaken "In one dug-out nearby the Canadians found ope German ofllcer and one private oldler who hnd been held prisoners there for several rifts Neither man had been ablo to leave through the tornado-llko bar rugo flro which the British guns poured round nbout 0I:K.MAS CONCHNTUATHn "At times during the fighting the Oer mnns hnd portions of six different divisions fighting tho C'tnadlin advnnco simultane ously Surh a concentration of troops shows clenrly the Importance which the German high command attaches to I.ens "After ono counter-attack southwest of the clt a hundred German corpses were counted on one tlnj patch of ground The enem's casualties have been very heav ' While the British lire gaining on their sections of the front, the Trench appeared to hive made the more rapid strides for ward In the most sanguinary fighting The German horde that onco clutched Verdun almost to the point of suffocation b is hcn driven still further back The blood slopes of the Cote 1 Ole, the villages of Ilegne vllle and Samogneux, with Intervening fortl flcatlons, havo been swent clean of the enemy Counter-attacks last night, mado with n desperation born of tho German war chiefs' knowledge that tho Trench of fenslve was only beginning, brought the enemy nothing hut heavy losses. "Along the Alsne." the statement said, "the Germans bombarded our first lines and Inuncjhed strong attacks at Mennejean forem, east of Urae, south of Labovelle and between Allies, Hurteblse and the Call fnrnle pi itenu The Trench maintained possession of nil gains Intact and took a number of prisoners ' On the left bank of the Jleuso tho Kiench Inst evening threw back a violent attack between Hill 301 nnd Dead linn's Hill Hnem detachments ponetintcd a front-line trench, but were thrown out by a brilliant Ticnch attack "On the right bank tho Trench repeatedly "SHEN-KING" MANIFOLD PAPER Ideal for Cnrbon ( oples of Correspondence 1 Light In Weight- Will not fill up files 2 Yellow In Color Kaslly distinguished from original 3 Tough In Texture Will stand necessary handling. 'Shen-Klng' made in our own mills at Lambertvllle. N J i hss been adopted by over B0 or the leading railroads ot the United States Phone Market 160 for Samples and Prices. 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"North of c'ourleres Wood Oennnn at tacks by liquid fire vvero broken down. "Unbounded German prisoners tnlton since August 20 and counted so far total 4116, plus 174 officers. Tho French es terday enptured many more In shelters, which havo not ct been counted. Six hundred wounded Oermnns have also been taken, together with Important booty 'Especially vnluabto was tho booty taken In three tunnels on Dead Man's Hill, whera n complete electrical plant nnd first -nld stations wcro found Intnct, together with many regimental stores. "A lorps commander was captured there." CADORNA CAPTURES 13,000; TAKES FIVE MORE TOWNS BERLIN ADMrtS LOSS OF MEVSE POSITIONS HKIIMK, Aug. 22. French troops gained a footing on the southeastern portion of Avocourt wood, on tho enst bank of tho Meuso near Verdun, today's official report admitted Around Samogneux, In the same sector, they forced themselves lntotho southern part of tho city. "Otherwise," the report added, 'the denso masses thrown forward In tho of fenslvo vvero sanguinarily repulsed. Tho l"rench losses were henvy." RESTIVE POILUS ANXIOUS TO CONTINUE ASSAULTS noMt:, Aug. 22 Prisoners In General Cadoma's offensive reached a total of more thin 13,000 men and 311 omccrs, this nfternoon The War omce announced thirty guns nnd n great quantity of booty had llkcwlso hten taken. Austria's tcrrlblo toll of casualties In the continuing Italian advance today reached 36,000 In dead and wounded, accoirllne to headquaittrs' estimates ltullati troops have swept the enemy from the villages ot f)ecla, Drltof, Cnnnle. Bomrez nnd lloga All were found smoking heaps of rulnn burned bv the Austrlnns nnd shattered by artillery lire The Italian peet nnd diamatlst, Gabriel d'AnnunzIo was nmong a hundred or more Italian aviators who co-operated with the land troops in Italy s greatest offensive Crossing of tho Isonzo was simplified for the Italians bv a sudden fog Tnn impen etrable curtain shut clown during the night, nnd the ins of Austrian searchlights vain ly sought to pierce It Italian engineers threw bridges across In many places, and over thcte attacking forces poured VinVNA, Aug 22 rifty-slx hundred Italian prisoners nnd fifty machine guns weie captured by tho Austro-Ilungarlans In fortj-elght hours' fighting on the Italian front, the War OHlcc ananouncfd today In an official statement dated Tuesday By HENRY WOOD WITH THH rHENCII AUMinS AT VKU DUX, Aug. 22. I'lred with a real that made their charges utterly Irresistible, French soldiers, victors In Trance's greatest blow out oi Verdun, petitioned their commanders today for permission not to bo limited to specified objectives In their advances Tho pollus want to keep on going They fretted yesterday at stern orders limiting them to certain trenches over which they swnrmed In unbeatable waves when there were more German lines Just nhead that thev felt could Just as well have been cap tured In some places the troops could not restrain themselves from exceeding the thumb, TaP'aiaTfMr SCREW APPLIED mctrt,ATop. trm ran Scclcy's Adjusto Rupture Pad tncreasei Efficiency of a trutt 50 Nultrl notion nt deepeat point sites free million nt c-ilEen, while holillnx point re main. Matlnnnrv. This Injure constant prr.niire nt rupture openlnc while edito .ilrld to nrrj motion of the bodr, therrhy riolne iiMiiv ulth friction nnd Inrrenalng comfort. 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Ortii Smith, of Berwick, Dead nnrtWICIC, Aug 22 Cyrus Smith, one of Berwick's best-known cltlrens, former manager of the Uerwlck Opera House, prom inent Mason and for forty-seven years em ployed by the American Car and Toundry Company, died Monday night. Heart dis ease and dropsy were the causes. REPORTS 0 AliltS$J SITUATION IN Rt Washington Hears Rumors. WhtM, H Unconfirmed by Secretary LansW? and Russian Embassy WASHINGTON, Abif. S2.... nlarmlnjf reports concerning condnu 7I ltussla were widely circulate. .J ?,l.,0n hi ton today. They ranged from stories ,! the Kerensky government was nho, . .""s . --. ... l-. ... -wiui ,A k overiiuuwii m uincrs inai Very iH... . 1 Ing- had broken out In man vnf.i'u? ".'! Itusslan cities. " WW Secretary of State Lansing- ciiscusa iiieBo reyorio, rf..k. iM He said ;vrs fl Department hnd no Information c!!L8tauJl them. No reporta have reached h,,.,nln'. Ambassador Francis at PetroaraI ."" with the subject. ""Wad detB .-"'"-i"". "at B? i""". e""as8y. 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