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Show PRICE PIRATING IN GOAL NOW AT ANjNO mii)Iii,i:.mi:n and i'kodl'ckiih to ortnt.vrn unii:h i.ici:nrix National AiluilnlMrntloii to liook After Dl'trihiitloii nml Connervntloii nf Fuel Much A Hooter HniMllr I'oxmI Klltinllon Country Thin Week Inlil tint Into 'Trriil Zmrn. WA8IIINOTON, D. C, April 1 Price pirating In ronl nnd roko pnnned nwn) in the Pulled Hlale early today. At 7 ni lork thl morning the nntlon'n mat induntry furnmllj went under government control. Ilerenfter for the ilurntlon of the war nt leant middlemen, mid-dlemen, nnd Home producer, will op-etnte op-etnte only under tlecnno of tho fuel ndmlnlntrntlnn. Hxtortlou nml hoard-ing hoard-ing by thune prone to It will end, for profit margin nre rigidly fixed, nnd nil bunlnen munt be enndupted In the open nml under the government eye. There'll be nn end, too, to manifold Helling ii lid renelllng under which coal In the pant hu traced n devioun nnd tontl niumo In the ultlmnto con-Mimer con-Mimer The nclllng agent I virtually lorCcd out of bunlneiw by ntmllnhing of hln rommlnnion, nnd there may bo but one cnmmtnlnou for tha purchn-Ing purchn-Ing ngcnt'M nervlre, be there one or ninny of hlni. Thl purchasing ngent'a tommlnnlon I limited to fifteen cent ti ton on hltttmlnou nnd twenty cent nn nnlhrncltn ennt of lluffulo, N. Y., nnd thirty cent went of llliffnlo. Men who have bought In coal nnd pencil nn "purchasing ngent," thereby extorting ex-torting "rommlnnlnnn" on their nwn purrhnne may hereafter fecclvo no Mich bonun. In nhort. the fuel ndmlnUtrntlon will ndmlnlntrr ronl nn tho food administration ad-ministration for the pant wnr month bun ndmlnlntcred fond encouraging healthy production, "playing aqunrn" with thn right minded merchant, nnd giving nil other nhort nhrlft. Llcenne nre tnnueil to bo vnlld only "on good behavior." nnd will lie nunpended or altogether revoked where decent Inw nf trnde or thn regulation of tho fuel ndmlnlntrntor nre dlnrrgnrded. Panning Pann-ing nf tho fuol Induntry under federal direction today mnrkn the opening of n nnljonwldo effort to bring orderly K)tem Into ennl dlntrlbiitlou, to build n non nil Mrticturo Hint will not break down ugnlti whlln the war Innt. The word ha gone forth that there must be no further coal nhortngc. either local or genernl. To iiccompllnh thin I end. the fuel ndmlnlntrntlnn plnnn to devote nrduou nprlng and no miner month In preparation for the reruT-ring reruT-ring ilrnln of next winter. The United Btnte tin been mnpped out Into coal "zone" within which roul dlntrlbutlon Will bo "locnllied." Kueli tone will renter nbout j coil producing dlntrlct, nnd the conl mined therein will go direct to the consumer consum-er In that territory ttenult no long crouhnullng, with wnnto In transportation transpor-tation nnd handling cost. At no npeed-ler, npeed-ler, more rertnln dellverle, with le dinner, for Juggling ond hoarding by tlii coal nhark. Municipal "coal pile" form another chapter of the fuel conservation story Administrator Oarfleld I writing. Hupervlnlon. by thl method, will bo carried right down to the consumer, who, for hi part, will be watched, too, ngnlunt un-necennary un-necennary private "hoarding" nnd waste, |