Hemingray gained permission to re-open during fuel shortage

NEW ORDER MADE

ON GROCERIES

With Meat Markets, They Will

Be Permitted to Remain

Open All Day.

SOME FACTORIES RE-OPEN

J. A. Goddard, president of the J. A. Goddard Company, wholesale grocers, last night, received a tele­gram from C. C. Ward, state secre­tary for Indiana and Michigan divis­ions of the National Wholesale Gro­cers Association, saying that food dispensers, under which classification would come wholesale and retail grocers and butcher shops would not be required to close today or on any of the Mondays outlined in the clos­ing orders of National Fuel Adminis­trator H. S. Garfield.

Many of Muncie's grocery owners had prepared to close their stores at noon today but the telegram re­ceived by Mr. Goddard is official enough to warrant them keeping open all day. Mr. Ward received his in­formation from Mr. Whitmarsh, who is the national president of the Wholesale Grocers’ Association and who has given up his business affairs in New York and has been one of Food Administrator Hoover's chief assistants.

Only Necessities Will Be Sold

But people will be brought to the realization today, that for the first time in history, it will be impossible to buy a stick of chewing gum, a soda, or any one of the thousand lit­tle things American people have grown to almost regard as a neces­sity. Nothing — except what is con­sidered to be necessities of life can be bought today, this side of the Mis­sissippi River.

But with very few exceptions all business places will be closed, first because this Monday is within the five days set aside by Fuel Adminis­trator Garfield when all business should be suspended in order to save fuel, and second, because it is the first Monday of ten on which business shall suspend.

Drug stores will be opened all day but the twenty-two drug stores in the city have signed an agreement not to sell anything except medicines, drugs and hospital supplies. Black­smith shops will remain open as the horse shoeing has been considered necessary to the delivery of fuel.

Get Notice to Re-Open.

The Warner Gear Company and the T. W. Warner factory number 1, will resume their usual duties this morn­ing, a special exemption having been granted by the fuel administrator, as both factories are encaged in gov­ernment work. R. P. Johnson of the Warner Gear Company stated last night that his factory expected to run today and the other nine Mon­days, and Warren Sample of the T. W. Warner Company said that exemption had been secured to operate their No. 1 factory. J. Lloyd Kim­brough of the Indiana Bridge Works said last night that because of the company being engaged in govern­ment work, exemption from the ten days of business suspension was ex­pected to become effective next Mon­day. The Hemingray Glass Company will resume work as usual because it is imperative that the big tanks be heated continuously. Permission was secured by Mr. Hemingray to re­open his plant this morning.

Schools will remain open as many children have been comfortably warm in the schools, who have not been warm at their homes. The Red Cross work because it is war relief work will go on as usual, and girls and women released from their duties by the closing of their places of bus­iness, are urged to come to the Red Cross to sew.

Aside from the places named, where exemptions have been granted, no other business places will be al­lowed to remain open whether they use heat and light or not. Theaters will be open today but closed tomor­row.