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Show FUEL BOARD FOR NATION PROPOSED i GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE IS 1 1 ' FAVOR OF EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION DIS-TRIBUTION OF COAL. Agree That Country Faces Serious Coal Shortage and That Only the Utmost Conservation Will Prevent Pre-vent Suffering of People. Chicago. Governors of seven soft coal producing states at a conference here on November ISO, agreed that the state governments should take "all possible" 'steps to obtain t lie production produc-tion of coal and recommended to the federal government that a complete fuel administration with an administrator adminis-trator for each state recommended by the government be perfected immediately. immedi-ately. The state executives also requested re-quested uniform and rigid rgulations in all states. The governors' conference was called call-ed by Governor Frederick D. Gardnei of Missouri. Attending the conference were Governors Gov-ernors F. O. Lowden of Illinois, James I'. Goodrich of Indiana, V. L. Harding Hard-ing of Iowa, Gardner of Missouri, Robertson of Oklahoma, A. II. Roberts of Tennessee and Attorney General R. J. Hopkins of Kansas, representing Governor, Henry J. Allen. The state executives were in agreement agree-ment that their states faced a serious shortage of coal and that only the utmost ut-most conservation of fuel and the most rigidly supervised distribution would prevent suffering of the people and disaster to industry. The governors were unanimous that the fuel administration organization should be perfected to provide more absolute charge of coal reserves and distribution through state administrators administra-tors named by the state executives themselves. The sessions were executive exec-utive and it was not until late in the afternoon that the conference broke up and issued a public statement. |