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The Little River News
Ashdown, Little River County, Arkansas
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Washington, July 13: National Coal Association urges immediate nationwide prohibition to boost coal output by 100 million tons for war needs, informing Fuel Administrator Garfield, who consults President Wilson. Liquor traffic seen as hindering production.
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Prohibition for Duration of War. Held to Be Necessary.
Washington, July 13.--Immediate nation-wide prohibition is an absolute necessity if the extra 100,000,000 tons of coal a year needed by the country is to be mined, Fuel Administrator Garfield has been informed by the National Coal Association, representing bituminous operators producing 400,000,000 tons of coal annually. Dr. Garfield is understood to have laid the association's recommendation before President Wilson for his consideration.
In a statement tonight the association said that, in the opinion of special committee of its members from virtually all coal-producing sections of the country which has investigated the question, "the country can't have both booze and sufficient coal this winter."
"The liquor traffic," said the statement "is curtailing coal production, and the time has come to eliminate it if there is to be the substantial increase in coal output the war program demands."
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July 13
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Immediate nation-wide prohibition is recommended as necessary for increasing coal production by 100,000,000 tons annually to meet war needs. The National Coal Association informed Fuel Administrator Garfield, who presented the recommendation to President Wilson. The association's statement claims liquor traffic curtails coal production and must be eliminated for the war program's demands.