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Show MEATLESS DAY IN EASTERN CITIES Series of Ten Mondays to Save Coal for Private Consumption. RADICAL CHANGES Industries Co-operating Fully : With Fuel Administrator j Cold Wave a. Handicap. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. General business activity east of the Mississlp-pip Mississlp-pip valley which was suspended today for the first of a series of ten heatless Mondays ordered by the fuel administration adminis-tration to release coal for private consumption con-sumption and trans-Atlantic shipping. At the same time heating plants throughout the cast were idle for tho successive day in compliance withVhe administration's five days closing order, or-der, effective last Friday and designed also to save coal and assist materially in relieving the traffic congestion. Radical Change of Feeling. Fuol officials declared there had been a radical change of feeling in the country regarding, tho orders. Industries In-dustries were co-operating fully, they said, and virtually complete acquiescence acquies-cence ivas expected of concerns affected affect-ed by the Monday closing program bo-gun bo-gun today. Handicapped b$ another cold wave covering the greater part of the country coun-try east of tho Rockies and adding to the winter's record of tho severest weather in recent years, railroads strove to increase the movement of coal to favored classes and straighten the freight tangle. Reports to the offices of-fices of the fuel administration said that, the supply to householders and-steamship and-steamship interests had been increased increas-ed but officials directing the railroads as3ortcd there was littlo hope for material ma-terial improvement in traffic conditions condi-tions until the weather moderates. Those who have urged general embargo em-bargo against shipment of freight from plants shut down by the closing order still believed today that such action would be necessary before the congestion conges-tion is improved. |