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Show Administration Issues Orders to Insure the Operation of Road. MAKES EXEMPTIONS Emergency Utilities Will , Receive Coal; Provide for Domestic Use. WASHINGTON, Oct 30 -The rail-Iroad rail-Iroad administration today ordered the confiscation of ?ll eoal in transit Where necessary to obtain a reserve supply to keep the roads in operation. , In (aklng over such coal, exemptions exemp-tions will be made as far as possible of coal destined to certain classes of eonsisnee?, based on the priority list established by the fuel administration. administra-tion. Hincc' Statement. ! Director General Hines issued the following statement "In order to interfere as little as poe Ible with the normal course of coal traffic, the railroad administration administra-tion up to the present time has per muted coal to go to the designated consignees. For the last two Weeks' open lop equipment has been devoted to coal loading to ih' exclusion of other classes of traffic and the move, ment of such equipment has been expedited ex-pedited so as (o facilitate the maximum maxi-mum production Ol rn.l Tho result 'has been an exceptionally heavy coal production. "It having become necessary, how-( how-( ever, to he prepared to insure ..gaiust all temporary contingencies and 'he l ransporl ation service be t protested. regional directors have now been inslructc-d to see that '-arii railroad shall accumulate accumu-late a necessary reserve of coal when ii is not alrea on hand, purcha-sinp such coal it possible anil otherwise holding coal in iransit, the practice thus re-sorted to is a practice which railroads hae always employed in emergencies whether under prhate or public control and has been n cognized as indispensable to Ihe maintenance of up e.-sential public service. Coal Exemptions. ' In holding such coal, exemptions Will be made as far as possible of coal destined to certain classes of consignees con-signees in the following order of pri-( ority which Is the basis of priority 1 adopted duriut; the war by the fuel ad - j ministration : "1 Railroads, land and steamship lines. ' "2 Domestic, including hotels, hos- i pitals and asylums. "3 Nav and army. "1 Public utilities, including plants and such portions of plant- a supply I liKht. heat and water for public use r Producers and manutacturers of, .food, inrludinc refrigeration. "6 National, slate, county and mu- ;nicipal government emergency re-' Quirements ; "7- Bunkers and other marine emer-! I gene requirement;; not specified above. "8 Producers ot news print paper jand plants necessary to the printing i and publication of daily newspapers "Coal held in transit is not to be unloaded in storago nor used until ac-1 Itually needed, so that if Its use is later I found Decessarj it can be lorwarded J I to destination whenever practicable. "Instructions issued provide thnt there will be as little disturbance as I possible in the distribution of coal but at the same time protecting the neces-l sities of the railroads which have a I public duty to perform " |