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Show ADEQUATE COAL SUrJfLY; LITTLE CAUSE TO WORRY WASHINGTON, D. ('., July 10.-Assuranco 10.-Assuranco of an ndequnto supply of coal to meet all domcMio requirements require-ments during the coining months is given by George H. dishing, managing manag-ing director of the American Wholesale Whole-sale Conl nwocintion, who declared today in a statement that reports of an impending conl shortage were unfounded. un-founded. The public, he said, is pauie stricken without reason or any excuse. "There is no shortage of coal," dishing stated. "There Is no danger of any shortage. Therefore there is n reason, but no excuse, for the current cur-rent high pricos in tho open market. The reason is that we have had too much governmental agitation of the danger of famine." Cusliing declared that for the past eight mouths "(hero has not been n day or even mi hour when some governmental gov-ernmental agency was not agitnting bIkiiiI coal and predicting n coal. famine." fam-ine." I'riees, he said, have reached the highest peacotimo level in history hef-auxi those who need eon I are "frantically bidding against each other in every market." Declaring that he had investigated nearly every alaramt reKrt, Gushing asserted that "not one of thorn will stand M-rutiny or analysis." He predicted that the consumption of bituminous ral during thu eoal year, beginning last April first, would tint weed 536,000 tons or 10,'ii3,l0-l tons a week. "The present nMiimption," dishing dish-ing continued, 'Ma that unless we reach this average weekly consumption consump-tion in the early weeks of the coal year we are rushing headlong into n shortage of coal. That has not been true in twenty-five years. It is not true this year. The records of the coal trade are that with the excep lion of 1017 and 1018 war years wo never reached in production n figure fig-ure ecpial to thu required weekly nvcr-a nvcr-a go production until tho middle of August. This year wo lunched It in the second wick of June. Thus our production is eight weeks ahead of schedule. That ilocfl not look like n impending famine." The statement also declared un unfounded un-founded alarmist reports that New England, Now York City and Chicago Chi-cago liiul in ittorog only n two days supply of coal. An iir.-cstigntion made . by tho president's coal commission, ! according to dishing, showed that tho total storago for Now England, , exclusive of tho railroads, was suf- fieicnt for thirty-eight days and thai i tho statement at to conditions in New i York mid Chicago was "merely the wildest guess," |