Show I COAL ECONOMY ISi IS I I BEING URGED BY i iI I FUEl OFFICERS Drive Is Started to Wipe Out Inefficient Steam I Boilers t By United Press W WASHINGTON April PInch 27 PinchIng Pinch Pinch- Ing economy in the use of coal coat w was ws s urged today by fuel administration of of- of This they declare is the only way to meet a threatened shortage this year of to tons Already a a. drive to wipe out inefficient Inefficient clent steam boilers is on headed by P. P B. B Noyes of the conservation di division division di di- vision of or the fuel administration In Industrial Industrial In- In concerns waste millions of tons of coal coat a year through antiquated boilers and fire boxes Saving of 30 to tons a year can be effected by introduction of Improvements improvements Improve improve- ments meats officials declare Rating of efficiency of every steam plant burning tons or more of coal a year will wIil result in discovery of ot coal leaks Fuel engineers from the four leading engineering societies have I volunteered their expert epert supervision of the rating campaign While fuel administration administration administration ad ad- ad- ad ministration officials will not act hastily In closing plants which refuse refuse- to modernize equipment they will cut cutoff cutoff ot off coal in cases where deliberate negligence negligence negligence neg neg- is apparent The immensity of the coal problems for for the big year of war work ahead j I w was s emphasized today by officials who vho stated that over 50 per cent of the en entire entire en- en I tire Ure railroad traffic is coal hauling One weeks week's coal movement is a job jobI equal In size to the moving of the entire entire en en- I tire American wheat crop |