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LOCAL MUNITION PLANTS MAY
RESUME OPERATIONS AT ONCE
PAR T PARAL
OF ALL INDUSTRIES
EFFECTIVE
AMERICA FEELS
PINCH OF WAR
FOR FIRST TIME
Manufacturing Plants in the
East Arc Closed For a
Five-Day Period
CRITICISM VERY BITTER
Failure to Heed Senate Re
quest May Mean Direct
Appeal to President
Washington, jan. IS.—Amer
ica felt the pinch ot war perhaps
for the first time to-day with its
industries hanging idle under the
fuel administration's order is
sued to relieve the coal shortage
and release fuel for ships loaded
with supplies for the American Army
and the allies.
In the face of protests predicting
disastrous consequences and a for
mal request from the Senate to stay
its execution temporarily the order
was signed last night by Adminis
trator Garfield with the approval of
President Wilson.
By its provisions manufacturing
plants east of the Mississippi and in
Louisiana and Minnesota, with rare
exceptions, will be closed for five
days beginning to-day and virtually
all business activity will bo stopped
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Schools Exempt From Coal
Saving Program, Downes
Wired From Washington
Schools are exempt from the gen
eral closing orders issued by the
Federal fus! administration, Dr. F".
K. Downes, superintendent of city
schools, to-day was informed by
telegraph. This means that the
ijchools will not have to close Mon
days when office buildings must turn
o!T heat.
Dr. Downes telegraphed to Dr.
Garfield as follows for a ruling:
"Does recent order close pub
lic schools on Mondays? School
buildings only place where thou
sands of children of the coun
try are warm and comfortable.
Saturdays already school holi
day. All Harrisburg schools
have sufficient coal. Think clos
ing schools will be a great mis
take. Please wire."
The following reply was re
ceived :
"Schools exempt from ad
ministrator's orders.
"School Administrator Elwell,
"Washinston. D. C."
Pennsy Cuts More Trains;
Sunday Schedules Start
Tonight at Midnight
By Associated Press
Philadelphia, Jan. 18.—The Penn
sylvania railroad will put into ef
fect its regular Sunday schedule on
local trains for passenger service to
morrow, Sunday and Monday under
the fuel conservation plan. An
nouncement to this effect was made
this afternoon. The regular sched
ule for through passenger trains will
not be changed.
WEATHER FORECAST
l> * llarrlMbiirß nnd vicinity! Fnlr
.iid colder to-night, wit it low
est temperature about 10 le-
KrecN; Saturday fair, continued
cold.
Tor KnMern Penniiylvunla: < londy
and colder to-niplit, probably
fnow In northenMt portion! Sat
urday fnlr. colder in Monthcu*t
portion) iceiitle to moderate
NhlftliiK wind*.
$412
Means
$5.00
Ask Your Letter-
Carrier.
Fuel Or
Interpreted
J
These interpretations of Doctor
Garfield's order were announced by
William I'otter, Pennsylvania admin
istrator and his associates yesterday:
"Mr. Potter, Federal fuel adminis
trator for Pennsylvania, makes tlie
statement that Doctor Garfield's order
is intended to facilitate the delivery
of coal at points where needed, and
on that account, so far as possible.
Such interpretation will be given to
Doctor Garfield's order as not to in
terfere with the free movement of
coal in transit.
"Under Subsection I! of Section 1 of
Mr. Garfield's orders, the words 'char
itable institutions' do not include
churches or Kehoolx unless the pupils
of iHflioolx sleep in the l>ui 1(1 in)(.
"The construction of Subsection H
of Section 1 of Mr. Garfield's order
is that the Franlcford Arsenal, Navy
Yard and other places of like char
acter are included in the term 'strictly
governmental purposes.'
"Under Subsection A of Section "
of Mr. Garfield's order, no plant can
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2,000,000 in Pennsylvania
Affected by Temporary
Closing of Industries
.Philadelphia, Jan. 18.—Approxi
mately 2,000,000 workers in Penn
sylvania will be thrown out of em
ployment during the five-day shut
down of industries affected by the
Federal fuel administrator's order,
according to statistics compiled by
the State Department of Labor and
Industry at Harrisburg. One million
and a half workers will be similar
ly affected on the Monday holidays
and the approximate loss In wages I
was placed at $114,000,000.
Many of the department stores'
and manufacturing interests in Phil-I
adelphia announced to-day that they
would pay their employes during the I
enforced suspension.
Tho general committee of anthra-;
cite operations issued an appeal to-!
clay for 25,000 additional men to!
work in the hard coalmines of Penn
sylvania.
"Although last year's production
of anthracite exceed 77,000,000 tonsj
nearly ten million tons more than I
ever before," said the appeal, "pro-!
dttction must be further increased. I
The high record output lias proved'
insufficient to meet enormously en-1
larged war-time demands. More la-|
bor is essential now. The industry is!
shorthanded. It has only 152,000,
mine workers, against 177,000 in
1016. The mining operations are!
developed sufficiently to enable an!
immediate increase in production,!
could the necessary labor be had."
Many large manufacturing estab-1
lisliments throughout the state are|
completely idle to-day but others j
were being operated regardless of j
the live-day suspension period order
by National Fuel Administrator Gar- j
field. Some of the plants ignoring the!
order appear to be within the fuel!
saving ruling, others have shut off
heat and power and face losses of
thousands of dollars.
Reserve police in the city and state
are being held in readiness for any
disturbances which might accom
pany the enforced idleness. Work
ers are accepting the "lay off" phil
osophically although few rulings
have yet been made offering pay to
employes for the five-day idle per
iod.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works,
Atlantic Refining Company and Nice
town Link Belt Company are among
the large plants running to-day, al
though apparently coming under the
fuel ruling.
Fuel Holiday Enables
Railroads to Clean Up
Miles of Congested Sidings
Reading. Pr.., Jan. 16.—Because of
tho fuel holiday the railroads started
to-day to clean up miles of sidings
which are congested with coal and
freight cars. General Superintendent
W. H. Keffer, of the Beading Kail
way. with headquarters in this city,
returned front tho anthracite fields
Thursday evening after having spent
an entire day there in getting the
tracks in shape to handle the coal
traffic. "In all my experience." said
Mr. Keffer, "I never knew condi
tions to be worse than they are now,
because of the heavy snow and ice
which blocked the tracks all through
the region.
"Wo had about 1,000 men employed
clearing away the Ico and snow and
it required hard work, but it was ac
complished, and conditions to-day are
very good. Notwithstanding the great
difficulties encountered, the outpu;
from the mines reached 1,100 cars
yesterday and It Is expected that this
number will be Increased to-day."
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1918
FACTORIES AND
MILLS CLOSED
BY FUEL ORDER
Scores of Big and Little
Plants Shut Down For
Enforced Holiday
MAY WORK IN THE OPEN
National Order Applies Only
to Workers Using Coal
or Power
Modification of the general
closing order by Fuel Adminis
trator Garfield to-day permits
the Steelton plant of the Bethle
hem Steel Company and the
mills of the Central Iron & Steel
Company to continue operations.
Modification of the order was
I
made with the understanding
that the plants work to full
capacity pn steel plate orders
for the Emergency Fleet Cor-
poration. Word was received
here from the general offices in
Bethlehem that instructions
would be followed out.
At the Central plant, the en
tire force cannot be put back to
work until Monday, it was said,
because it will take that time to
get back the employes. At both
the Steelton and Central plants I
between 30 and 50 per cent, of
the men were working to-day!
keeping the blast furnaces hot, I
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Do You Want a Clean
Collar and Table Linen?
Well, Write to Garfield
"1 don't believe your Uncle John!
ever had a collar on," hummed al
spruce lad tb-day as he approached I
his laundryman.
"We'll, he won't get any here,"
scowled the latter. "A five-day
shutdown will have everybody turn- |
ing them over. Low neck will prob-'
ably be the style and you know what!
that would do to us."
The restaurants lost no time in
making provision for the cessation i
of laundry establishments, sending,
in bi„ orders for paper napkins and I
heavy paper table cloths. The
amount of washing needed to keep a I
first-class eating house is so consid
erable that restaurant men say they I
cannot get their regular washing i,
done and will have to rely on pa-!
per material.
England has been doing this for
some time. England also began to
eliminate laundried collars, using
soft rolled ones. The hotels here
were sharply hit with the change and
they, too, say they will have diffi
culty getting their linen cleaned up.
Little Snow Forecast,
Although Weather Is to
Continue Unsettled
Hai-risbur-.? lius hart snow on the
ground, never less than six inches,
since December 8, and at the pres
ent time there is just an even foot
of it. The greatest amount was a
little over twelve inches.
The town was properly camou
flaged In white for the first time on
December 8, although there were
three or four flurries in November.
That month closed with the btreets
covered with 3.8 inches and since
thtn the various falls have been
heavy enough to make a foot of it.
The snow sift of to-day does not
promise to develop into anything
protcntious, raid Mr. Demain. It
will probably disappear this after
noon and may be followed with a
tiifle colder weather. The general
prediction calls for "unsettled"
weather, with no warm wave on the
way.
BIG SHAKEUP IN BERL
fIRSp j(r 4
' Z!T T" VON HIKDEMBUWi
According to recent reports from Berlin, important changes in the gov
ernment arc to be made in the near future. The Crown Prince> MArsftftl
von HindenburK and General von Ludendorft' were summoned to council re
cently by the Emperor. The outcome of the conference was the downfall
of the "peace party" in Germany and the promise of military dictatorship
by von HindenburK.
RUSSIA FACES NEW
PROBLEMS—CIVIL
CONFLICT
Deadlock in Negotiations With Central Powers; Threat
ened War With Rumania and Hostility of
Ukraine Are Present Problems
An apparent deadlock in the peace
negotiations with the central pow
ers, threatened war with Rumania,
and the hostility of the Ukraine are
difticulties faced by the Bolshevik
government, to which has been added
the assembling in Petrograd of the
delegates to the Constituent Assem
bly. There is also a report from a
Swedish newspaper that the relations
between Premier Lenine and Foreign
Minister Trotzky daily become more
strained.
Germany has refused to accept Rus
sia's attitude concerning the right ot
GARFIELD SAD
FAILURE, HOUSE
CRITICS AVER
Madden and Lenroot Lead aj Triangular Sector Infested by
Vigorous Attack 011 Na- j Enemy Since Low Water
tional Administrator Is Again Cleared
Washington, Jan. IS.—The Senate
last night, in unprecedented action
and a majority of 50 to 19. approved
the resolution offered by Senator
Hitchcock, Democrat, of Nebraska,
requesting Fuel Administrator Gar
field to suspend for five days his order
halting the consumption of coal in
the east for that length of time.
The resolution was approved after
Doctor Gartleld had been summoned
before the subcommittee .of the Sen
ate committee on manufactures to ex
plain the necessity for it and after
many hours of bitter debate between
a few administration supporters and
a majority of the Republican and
Democratic members.
Fuel Administrator Garfield's coal
order hit the House of Representa
tives like a bombshell. The veil of
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(•ROSS OIVBN HEARING
Commissioner E. 7.. Gross, charged
by John I'. Guyer with the violation
of' the election expense return law.
was given a hearing late this after
noon before Alderman Handls, be
fore whom the suit was brought.
the occupied territories of
Courland, Lithuania and Ksthonia to
self-definition- along lines advocated
by the Bolsheviki. Until a general
peace, the Germans say they cannot
evacuate the territories. The Bol
shevik stand is declared by the Ger
mans to be one-sided and the Russian
delegates are asked to agree to the
German view. Foreign Minister Trot
zky's answer'to the German proposals
is not yet known.
Rumania not having replied to the
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ITALIAN TROOPS
BREAK PRESSURE
ON PIAVE RIVER
liy Associated Press
Italian Headquarters in Northern
Italy, Thursday, Jaii. 3 6. —Italian
troops have succeeded in breaking
the pressure which the enemy has
been exerting on the lower Pia\}e in
the sector nearest Venice. ,This is a
| triangular sector originally cleared
|of the enemy when the whole re
j gion was inundated bj% opening the
[Continued on Page JO.]
Russians Resume Peace
| Negotiations, Declares
Official Berlin Dispatches
Berlin, Jan. 18-via London— After
j mi address (<> the peace delegates at
[ llrest-Ulovsk on Wednesday by UDII
Trotzky. Bolshevik) foreign minister,
! tlie KiiNslans agreed to a contlnun
i tlon of the discussion.
Tho German foreign Secretary Dr.
| Von Kuehlmann adressed the dele
! gates after M. Trozky, and moved
I that they should begin discussion In
a business-like manner of four points
proposed by the Russian delegation.
To this M. Trotzky agreed. The next
sitting was fixed for the following
day.
CITY REACHES AN
ACUTE STAGE IN
COAL SHORTAGE
Men and Women With Bags
and Baskets Swarm Oyer
Car Sent Here
DEALERS' YARDS EMPTY
Emergency Orders Given to
Homes Where There
Is Sickness
The coal shortage in
has reached the most acutej. Stage
that it has assumed at
during the winter. ' Contrary to the
expectations of Ross A. Hickok, fuel
adn\inietrator of Dauphin county,
whMcxpected a fair shipment of poal
over the Pennsylvania lines y<£Mff
day, no coal was received from jMUe'r
the Susquehanna Coal
which comes over the Pcnnsjnvania
Railroad, or the Reading Coal and
Iron Company, yesterday.
Families without coal, are besieg
ing the police station and the
Chamber of Commerce offices, with
demands for coal. offices
are thronged with consumers, bring
ing bags and baskets for sdltUl sup
plies of coal.
Mr. Hickok said that a few cars
of coal have come into the city over
the Pennsyvania lines to-day. One
dealer, he said, received three cars,
but he could announce no other
shipment#. He has been telephon
ing to Mr. Potter, state fuel ad
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GOVERNOR SEEKS
T6 RELIEVE FUEL
ORDER HARDSHIPS
Seeks Advice of Industrial
Leaders as to Means of
Preventing Suffering
Governor Brumbaugh to-day tele
graphed to chairmen of the public
safety committees of the industrial
counties of Pennsylvania and men
prominent in industrial affairs such
as Charles M. Schwab, of the Bethle
hem Steel Company, and A. A. Herr,
of the Westinghouse interests, for
their opinion as to the effect of the
"shut down" order of the national
fuel administrator, as he phrased it.
During the day the Governor discuss
ed the situation with other men
pro '.nent in affairs over the tele
phone and called to his office lead
ers of the railroad brotherhoods and
[Continued on Page 10.]
PATRIOTS MUST
DIE FOR IDEALS,
• SAYS PREMIER
Urgency For Raising •"More
Men Is Self-Evident, De
clares Lloyd George
By Associated Press
London, Jan. 18. —Premier .Lloyd
George, addressing the labor dele
gates to-day said no man standing
on the watch tower could deny the
urgency of the need for raising more
men.
Tho prime minister said the demo
cracy has ever long survived tho
failure of its adherents to be ready
to die for it.
Mr. Lloyd George said that he and
President Wilson without previous
consultation —there was no oppor
tunity—had laid down substantially
the same program of derriands for
the termination of the war.
Must Kestore Belgium
There was no man willing to
muke peace without complete res
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Grand Juries Investigate
of 'Gouging' hy
Retail Coal Dealers
Washington, D. C., Jan. 18—Federal
grancU.juries In many districts are
investigating complaints that coal
operaHTrs, and whoJesale and retail
dealers, have violated the Govern
ment's fixed prices.
Single Copy, 2 Cents NIGHT EXTRA
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x MANY FIRMS EXEMPTED 'X
|j Washington—The fuel administration to-day ma ere
JL ;i
public a list of more than one thousand firms exempted '>
t from the fuel restriction order as being necessary to the £ J
<I rational interest. * *
'J LAND PURCHASE BILL PASSES SENATE J I
4* Washington—The administration bill authorizing the * !
4* <*Pnditure of $50,000,000 from the funds of the -h; „
x board for government,purchase of lahds near ship yards 'J \
Jj upon which t< n.-u-houses for the use of shipyard cm- * *
X P'°>cs ed to-day by the Senate after brief \
14* bate. The bill now goes to the House * '
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4 BALDWIN WORKS TO RESUME
5* •
Washington—Balwin Locomotive Works, Philadel-* >
! jj phia, may resume work at once. * '
|X MARKET CLOSES IRREGULAR >
New York—Steels, coppers and equij J t
J further recoveries in*the last hour. The closing was ir- * 1
regular. Liberty 3 1-2's sold at 98.60 to 98.48, first 4's fc ;
4 at 97.06 to 96.3 Oand second 4'a at 96.22 to 96.10. The new .* I
4* * ■
• conservati n order acted as a check on trading in ,* *
♦ narrow stock market. Sales approximated 475,( CO es. J j
| CUBAN SUGAR DISTRIBUTED ) *
t Washington—President Menocal of Cuba, by deer *
| has permitted distribution throughout the world of the J )
entire Cuban crop by the International Sugar Commitu ,* *
T which works with the food administration.
4* WAR COUNCIL BILL APPROVED J [
f Washington—The bill to create a new war council of * *
three civilians and the Secretaries of War and Navy was X
I approved late to-day by the Senate Military Committee
£ and 'Will be introduced in Senate on Monday.
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DIRECTOR OF MUNITIONS BILL }
' ton—A bill to create a director of munitions, t'
t not having cabinet membership but With broad auth
A ' 1
L to centralize control of all war munitions, was rcj >X
X ltvorably to-day by the Senate Military Committee. An- 4*
e§ other bill to establish a war council was nearly completed. X
J PRESIDENT WILL NOT INTERFERE M
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| Washington—lt was stated officially early, to-day that §
X President Wilson is not even considering interfering with ■X
*}* the fuel l striction ordet and feels that the countr will 4*
m *2*
iX be satisfied with its necessity. 'i /
IJ MUNITION PLANTS MAY WORK • .J
I A Washington—All the principal munitions plants will X
be permitted to work at ull capacity under the ucl tc- i I
t striction order. As announced last night by the fuel ad- * |
X MORE THAN 500,000 X
X Chicago—More than one billion dollars in capi- 4*l
'4* tal and some 500,000 workers arc idle to-day in t'io X
$ X*
,4, Chicago district, as a result of the conservation order of X
t the federal fuel administration, *
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it URGE 6 DAYS' WORK IN FIVE 4*?
3 4>
jjW New York—The doing of six days' work in X
T five during Mondayless industrial weeks is recommended tf
ito members of the National Bopt and Shoe Manufacturer 4*
Association in a bulletin telegraphed to them to-day I 'Tv
"f* John S. Kent, president. w
A TEXAN REACHES PORT X
! t An Atlantic Port—The Hawaiian American line steam- ,X!
T ,f : -
,4* ship Texan which was in a collision at sea last Monday, ilk
IX arrived here safely to-day under her own steam. It be- T!
came known that she was rammed by a convoying war- 4*!
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i ship which punched a large hole in her port side. X >
It ASK FOR 25.000 ADDITIONAL MINERS J
|4 Phila. Jphia—The general committee of anthracite X %
IX operations issued an appeal to-day for 25,000 additional ,T j
j t men ' n the hard coal mines of Pennsylvania. [X
f SCHOOLS ARE EXEMPT T
§• Harrisburg—Schools are exempt from the general 4
closing order, the federal fuel administration today wired, £ \
F. E. Downes, superintendent of city schools. ,|j| 3
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J iniKIAGE LICENSES ¥
£ Ckarlea H. StkmrU and Mnj- Jennie Itinekurt. Mifflin; .lames J.
S I.WIIMIII nnrt Penrl 1.. Sfhnab, l'lltahnr(L: I,ee McUaiiit and Ida T'
llmke, llnrrlabam.