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Show WILSON WATCHES COAlMTAGE Present Movement of Fuel is' Reported as Fifty Per Cent of Normal vshington. Jul) I4v 'President 'Presi-dent Wilson has been kept fully .d-via .d-via fl as to efforts bv the railroad administration ad-ministration and Interstate commerce I commission and the Goal Operators ! association. In deallnit with the coal , shortage situation) and csnecially at! lake norta a report tv t M Bldord, aaststant I to the direebpr general of the rallroud I administration, showing the pretteni ! movement of eoal about 50 per cent 'of normal was sent to the president today with other document Discussing rumors ( tin aitpolnt-ment aitpolnt-ment by the president of a foil administrator, ad-ministrator, Whii" House officials Worfted aualnst Intimations 1 hat luch Ian official would not be named, explaining ex-plaining that an emergency might , arise later to mak the appointment necessary. K It, I1 N'l MIM 1: It kftGCS. , INDIANAPOLIS. 1 mI . Joly 14. Charges that live railroads of the I counlrv were Obtaining control of all bituminous coal posslblo and ratselling ! it to dealers beCsuse of the oppor-! oppor-! t unity to make big profits due to present pres-ent high prices, wetc made In a state-' ment Issued by Ellis Bearls, editor ! uf the Mine Workers' Journal, from I the headquarters f the L'nited Mine 1 VVorkers of America hen- tou "Big Pour" and Pennsylvania rnll-i luad officials her denied the charges. 1 They asserted that their own supplv ' is not sufficient to meet present needs., Y ll.Mi Alt Kil 11 WASHINGTON, July 1 4 JSxlenslon Cor thirty dajs of the ordci ivlnp preferential distribution of open-top; cars to coal mines east of the Mississippi Missis-sippi was ordered today ly thi interstate inter-state commerce commission In an effort ef-fort to solve the coal transportation problem. The original order would ha e expired Jul alj |