Because Philadelphia had not paid $303,000 of their 1937 bills, two coal companies last week threatened to deliver no more coal to the city's water works. Director Wilhelm F. Knauer of the Department of Supplies & Purchases warned the City Council: " We can't let a city of 2,000,000 go without water. . . . We will simply have to call out our police and seize coal wherever we find it, probably from the railroad trains. It would be a case of committing a technical crime in order to prevent a great human crime."
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