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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06

barrels per car in 1911 to SO bar
rels per car in 1919.
IF you produce the cars which it
is predicted you will produce, and if
production of crude oil does not in
crease any more rapidly than it has
in the past, there will be avaiIa BILE
per car only 40 barrels of crude oil
this year, 1920. In 1922, if your
calculation that there will be nearly
100000 cars registered is correct,
there will be provided only 35 barrels
, of crude oil per car in this country,
if production does not increase more
rapidly than it has in the past
I'm, 1919 we consumed 3I5oOO.gO0
barrels of crude oil Since the first
of August 1919, and down to the first
of March 1920, we have been con-
Stunning at the rate of 436, 100000
barrels per annum, and we have
been producing at the rate of 4O2,-
100000 barrels per annum. This
shows an excess of consumption over
production of 100000. barrels.
1.-THE remedy for the present fuel
shortage lies in the following:
First the government of the
United States must cooperate with
the oil business and with the auto
m ortive industry at home and abroad
if the gasoline problem is to be
solved.
Second, the greatest possible eff
ficiency must be gotten by the auto
motive industry and by the consumer
from motor fuel or the problem will
not be solved.
Third, the oil industry must be
more efficient and must get more
gasoline from each barrel of crude.
with reference to the second
remedy, the efficiency of the products
of the automotive industry, there il
need to curb the present demand OF
the American public to have motor
cars with motors developing 70 to so
horsepower which are operated gen
orally at 20 miles an hour.
"The recent change in gasoline
prices occurred by reason of the
change in the relationship of pro
duction to consumption.
There never was a time in the
history of the oil business when there
was SO much competition as there is
today, and there is more competition
in the oil business, I believe thar
there is in the automotive bust
ness
Just to give you a few figures: II
1911 the. Standard group refined
eighty per cent. of the petroleum re.
fined in the United States@
IN 1910, the otanoard group re
fined sixty per cent. of the petroleum
produced in the United States.
I'm 1919, for the first time in the
| history of the oil business, the hide
pendents refined more crude o1 thar
| all the affiliated Standard companies
| These figures are the official figure:
| taken from the government reports.
mo one person and no singh
group of persons settles the price o
gasoline. Nobody settles the price. ex
cept the producer, the consumer ant
| the law of supply and demand. Tn
| recent advances in the prices of gaso
| line have been a mere reflection
and not a complete reflection, of thu
recent advances in crude. So far a.
the advances being more or less uni
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06
GASOLINE SITUATION
OUTLINED BY EXPERT

r. l.. WEIGH, sgeneral secretary and
counsel of the American Petroleum
Institute, of which most of the lead
Ing petroleum producers and manu-
: facturers of this country are mem
bers, has made public the following
memormn dunn on the gasoline situa-
ton addressed to 5000 members of
the Society of Automotive En-
Eineers.
THE automobile industry and the
pubic have been asking for years
what kind of gasoline or motor fuel
we were, going to have in the future
and whether it would be necessary to
q abandon. gasoline and to use kerosene
or some similar. pr oduct of petroleum.
Furthermore, every one has been ash.
ing whether we would have enough
gasoline.
THE time has~arrived when so far
as ordinary human foresight can go,
we can answer the first question by
stating that the motor fuel of the
future will probably be substantially
the same product known as motor
gasoline today. But it seems equally
clear that there will not be enough
of it to go around unless the auto
motive engineers cooperate to con-
serve gasoline. There is no doubt
but that such conservation could be
accomplished by proper design.
"A careful study of statistics will
show that the amount of crude oil
available during the period of very
1ow-priced gasoline was great to
excuse for the time being any great
expenditure of effort on the> part of
the automotive engineer to conserve
fuel. That time is past. = ~.
The time has now come when,
from the oil mans standpoint, it
would seem as though the problem of
the automotive engineer is to build
engines that instead of making from
seven to twelve miles on a gallon of
gasoline will make twenty or thirty
miles on the same amount. The
problem is not, to build engines to
burn refined oil, I Or some product of
lpetro fe1m other THAN the rkesent mo-
tor fuels. At the present time there
is not enough petroleum Ito meet all
requirements.
with the speed limits of automo-
biles fixed at about IS miles an hour
and with the crowded; condition of our
city stxeets and roads today, making
it unsAfe to drive very much faster,
why Is d it not necessary. advisable,
and practicable to cut down very ma
terially the consumption of gasoline
by all types of automobiles, by the
more efficient use of fuel
SHOULD not the horsepower of the
heavy. cars be cut down, and could
not the cheaper and lighter cars be
so equipped as to get all the speed
desira BILE from a very much smaller
amount Of gasoline than is now used?
mo reasonably well-informed man
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06

likes to make predictions about the
oil business. At the same time, the
logic of the situation is such that au-
tomotive engineers should plan to use
and conserve the present day motor
fuels. The only fuels possibly
available aside from the present-day
motor fuels are kerosene and per-.
hapR a diStillate similar to the fuel
which is used in Diesel engines, that
is, something approximating gas
"Gas on and kerosene are tending
to become as scarce as gasoline. At
the present time many gas companies
in the United States are in distress for
gas oil. 1t has more than doubled
in price in a comparatively short
time.
The demand for kerosene has
been SO great that the tank wagon
the country is approximating two
thirds of the tank wagon market
price of gasoline, A short time ago
it was about one-half.
This increasing demand for these
heavier distillates will apparently
continue and must be met. We must
never forget that the kerosene lamp
is a long way from being supplant-
ed and that the demand for gas oil
will continue to be very great.
The price of kerosene, and gas oil is
rising more rapidly than the price Ut
gasoline. With the great demand
for these two products, it is difficult
to see where the kerosene is going to
come from to enlarge the motor fuel
supply. If the kerosene or gas oil
is available, it seems obvious that by
efficient refining methods it will be
cracked into gasoline approximating
in its boiling points the ordinary
grades of motor fuel in use through
out the country. If you design your
engines to these two heavier
fuels, it looks as though the oil in
dustry were going to beat you to it
by cracking both of them and max
ing gasoline out of them.
1T will be possible to furnish fuel
provided we have the cooperation of
everybody who has proper rela-
tionship to the problem. 1t is doubt
full whether it will be solved unless
we have that cooperation. If the
government of the United States will
cooperate with the oil industry, the
same, courage and the same busines
ability which have characterized the
automotive industry and the oil bust
ness will get the OIL
I'm 1911, the oil industry had to
supply gasoline for only 100000 auto
mobiles. In other words, the sup
uly was 314 barrels of crude oil to
each autom obile. Bringing it down
to last year, there were only so bar
rels of crude oil produced in the
United States to each automobile in
use. There is the story-from S14
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06
UNITED STATES
FAR BEHIND In
ITS BUILDING
Excessive Cost of Labor and
Material To Some Degree
Responsible
Blame Also Placed on
Poor Transportation
Sufficient Supply of Raw
Materials For All
Projects.

The United States, like every other
former belligerent is far behind in
its building operations. Although the
supply of basic raw materials in this
country is sufficient to support the
most ambitious building program
here, the high cost of both labor and
materials and the inadequacy of
transportation facilities prevent the
use of large part Of these materials.
This condition is the most serious
factor in retarding the work of meet
ing the acute demand for homes and
industrial structures throughout the
country.
In the absence of complete statis-
tics of building for the entire ,coun-
try, the figures reported by the Unit
ed States Geological survey for about
$50 cities in all sections of the coun-
try may be regarded as fairly repre-
sentative data. Its statistics do not in
clude construction for military pur-
poses, for which no permit was re-
CURED. Such construction can only in
part serve military purposes.
Since the Geological Survey statis-
tics do not show the number of neA
houses, but only the value of the per
mits, it is proper to make allowance
for change in prices in estimating
the accumulated shortage of housing
as is evidenced by the permits.
The official table shows a shortage
of 1-3 times a normal years build
ing. 80
Other estimates II the housins
shortage, in terms OF the number O.
houses have been made. The United
States Forest Service estimates tina
the country lacks 100000 houses
Other estimates range as high as 500,
900 and even 100000 houses TIL,
wide variation in size and cost o
houses makes it difficult to defin
any standard house as a unit of mea
surement. The value of the permit
affords a more satisfactory measure
ment of the building shortage.
AS already indicated, the raw ma
terials for building-timber clay, ce
| ment, iron, etc.-are available il
abundance. Unlike the yield of agri
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06
BELIEVES passed.
|tS WANTED MAN

Philadelphia, Aug. 6.-Believing that
Augusta Passed., arrested last Monday
at Egg Hanbor, N. j., not only is the
man who obtained $12, 900 from George
Coughlin, but is the actual aibductor
of baby Coughlin, authorities renewed
their efforts today to learn the where
abouts of the child.
passed. admits, according ito postal in
spectors, that he went to Egg Harbor
last Monday to get $4,000 which Mr..
Coughlin was to throw from a train
as additional ransom for the return of
the missing boy He declares, the au-
thoritieS say, that he was hired by an
other person to get the money and he
knows nothing of the kidnapping.
This, postal officials assert, leads
them to believe that he also was hired
to do the Kidnapping. They believe
the person who hired him was a wo-
man and that the baby is unframed
and in the keeping of this woman
| Investigation has established beyond
I doubt, according to George A--~Leon-
ard, Chief Postal Inspector, that Pas
col was the writer of 1.-The crank let
ters.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06
ROBERTS WINS FOR
SEN. IN TENNESSEE

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 6-Returns
from yesterdays primaries indicate
that Albert H. Roberts was renomi-
mated as Democratic candidate for
governor over w. r. Crabtree by
from 10000 to $4,000 majority. In
the Republican primary, ALT Taylor
apparently had won the gubernator-
ia1 nomination over Jess M. Littleton,
c. R. Evans and J. o. Eaton.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06
All Summer Apparel
Coat and Suit Dept.
Practically at Cost and in Many Instances
Less Than Cost
The Values Are Extraordinary.
Rockwell Quality Footwear Below
Usual Prices

Discontinued Styles of black and brown
and white Pumps and Oxfords. Values up to
Brown Calf oxfords, perforated tip, mill
tary heel, welt sole. 5000 value $5.87
white Kid Opera Pumps, Louis covered
heel. turn sale $11.OO value $7.87
Brown Calf Pumps, military heel, perfor-
ated wing tip $11 90 values ;. $8.87
Children's White Canvas Pumps, nature
last welt sole, sizes 87a to H. 81 w values $z61
Misses sizes, 1111a to 2 $3.50 values $3 81
Child's Smoked Elk Butcher O1ordA sizes
91a to H. $3.50 values g. S7
Misses sizes 111a to 2. $3.50 values $5.87
= Same style in Brown Elk.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06
BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.

The first meeting of creditors in
the cases of Pirozzoli, ct ais; L. Re
back and Charles Grimwood, will take
place before Referee John E. Keough
this afternoon, at o'clock.
The Recommendation for discharge
in the case of Frank Santora, former
~ of Stamford, was sent out this
morning, following the hearing in that
case. No appearances were made.
However, the Reds should not be
asked to have their hair cut without
taking a powerful aneSthetic.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06

ward the head of the list OF commo-
dities for which such claims may
rightly be made.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06

Advertise in The Times
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06
Greater Values in the Fin est Stationer

Greater Values in the Fin est Stationery
Practically at cost or less than cost
Hurds "Royal' Writing Paper. SOC
value. pound package ........... 35c
Hurd's "Gladstone" Writing Paper. 60c
value. pound package 47c
Hurd's Holland Linen Finish Envelopes,
"a to package. Soc value .--.-.-.-.. 21c;
All boxed stationery Reduced. !
Formerly soc and $1.OO now: 1890. SIC
Formerly SIPS grades Sic
Doughertys Playing Cards -. .19c and 25c
Ivorine Paker Chips
Box of 100 11a inch size. $500. &c
Box of 100 IA inch size. SIC
Waterman's Fountain Pen Ink, Zoe size. Ice
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06

Bungalow Aprons of dark percales, made
with elastic waist band 97c
Bungalow Aprons of ginghams and
chambrays, fine quality ......:.. AZ
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06
For Miss 8 to Ia

White and Colored Wolfe and Organdy
Dresses formerly priced to $3.50. $3.50. $4.17
Others formerly up to $475. 1917
floor.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-06

Wolfe and Batiste Shirtwaists round,
or square neck models $l.87
Tailored Waists Of lawns, organizes and
batiste plain white and colored trimmed: 9th
ers plain colors 1890. $227
Wolfe Waists with frill collars and
cuffs $277
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08
RULES
FOR SCHO|OLS.sooN
Education Beard Will Issue
Manual for Use of Teachers
and Officials.

An up-to-date manual of the rules and
bylaws of the board Of education and
a directory of the public schools will
be published soon for the beneht OF
teachers and officials. Preparations for
having these books printed were started
today by school authorities
The last edition of the handbook of
rules and bylaws of the school board
was published in 1910. Since that time
all but several Of the numerous copies
printed have been either lost or de-
stroyed. and Supt Ballou and new MEM
bers of the school board are without
them.
Halted Became OF Cost.
The directory Of the schools was pub
lished annually until 1916. when it was
suspended because Of an increase IN
cost. This year. however, officials and
teachers will be supplied with An pp-to-
date copy of this booklet
Before sending the manual Of rules
and bylaws of the board to press some
changes will be made by S1pt Baiiou
and q committee of the school governing
body. Authorization to make changes
was given the superintendent at the last
meeting of the board The proposed
changes have not been disclosed by DR..
Ballou.
dresses of all school officials. the direc-
tory to be published this year will
give the names and locations OF all
school buildings. and carry the name
of every school teacher in the system
and the building and class in which
they teach 1t will also give the name
and address of each of the nine board
members and tell on which commit
tees they serve
Asst. Supt. kramer Rack in City.
Stephen E. Kramer, assistant super
1nfNndenf returned 1nAaY
from a brief trip at Rehohoth Beach.
Del He announced that the board of
admissions to the high schools will
meet next Thursday. Friday and Sat-
urday, September 1e to IL. inclusive.
at the Franklin School, for the pur-
pose of receiving applications Of chill
dren residing outside the District who
intend to enter the high schools this
fall. Children who have not had
previous high school education win be
required to pass an examination before
they enter the senior Institutions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08
STRIKERS FIRE into
BROOKLYN CARS
Nine Men Pursue and Attack
Train; Caught After {,
= :
Long Chase.

+ NEW FORK, September s.-While
further efforts were being made to-
day to arbitr2te the strike Of Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company employees
nine men in an automobile raced
alongside = train on the surface near
the cars but injured no one. -
brought squad Ut motor cycle po-
lice, who pursued the motor car at
high speed until the nine men were
caught three miles away.
Aaaitisnal Cars Operate.
Eleven additional surface lines
were put in operation by the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit today, according
of Atty now working. Including shut
ties, the system had seventy-seven.
Improvement in number Of elevated
and subway trains also running was
reported. An effort was made to run
Tie trolleys during the morning rush.
the greatest number since the strike
began.
-Four Thousand of the strikers last
night unanimously voted for the ap-
pointment of Mayor Hylan AZ sole
arbitrator of the strike. The mayor
was expacted.to- make nenlHSedaoyer-
lures fhfs morning to Federal Judge
Julius II. Mayer. legal custodian OF
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system.
Company OAcials Firm
1t was clearly indicated. however.
that Judge Mayer and the company
would remain stanch in their. prsyi-
ously expressed determination not to
deal with representatives OF the
AmalE2mated Association Of Street
and Electric Railway Employees of
America, the strikers union.
Lindley n. Garrison. receivsr for
the company, refused an extension Of
time in the company's ulttmatum last
night and claimed more than 5000
strikers had signiAed their intention
of resmning work this forenoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08
DR.. GREENE DEAD;
IT YEARS PASTOR
CONTINUED from First Page.)

affairs and his spiritual sagacity.
He limited the activities of Calvary
Church to the single objective Of the
propagation of the gospel: and he
fixed spiritual habits of mind in
Calvary Church by a ministry OF com
fort and consolation in Christ.
For determined not to know any
thing among you, save Jesus Christ
and Him crucified," was his first text
and in this he developed spiritual
unity and efficiency. Justice Hughes
once said that Calvary pulpit voiced
! courage without pugnacity. convic-
ton without bigotry. charity without
faith without credulity
love of humanity without mere senti-
mentality. meekness with power and
emotion with sanity"
The influences Of DR.. Greene's
m inistry have been widely felt DR.
Greene was notable among the great
spiritual leaders.
He is survived by his widow and one
son. DIR. Samuel H. Greene. jr.. a
practicing physician in this city,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08
COUNTY, VA,
LOSES 3se POPULATION
Hanover Shows Biggest Increase Of
Three State Subdivisions Report
ed By Census Bureau.

OF the three Virginia counties whose
population was announced today by
the census bureau, Hanover county,
with totalof 1898, has the largest
increase, SsS. which is . So per cent
INCREASE in its population since 1910.
Nelson county. with total of 1877.
has "a per cent increase, or ass
over the figures Of 1910. almost all Of
which is accounted for in the Mas
sizes Mill district.
Highland county. with 1920 total
of 4,931. has decrease in population.
3s6 in the past ten years. or" a loss
of 80 per cent. Every district in High
land county has been ste9dily losing
in population since 1889.
Other figures announced Ey the GEN.
sus bureau, follow:
Ashland. Va, 1898: Fort Pierce, Fla.
2,1l5; Meridian. Miss. frevised), 23,3s9
Esoanaba. Mich; 1s.1oS: Edectease.
PeeksviIie. n r 1896: increase.
s2S, or Al per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08
is BROADER GENERAL,

Col. Henry D. Todd. jr.. Of the Coast
a brigadier general in the Army to
fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines.
Gen. Todd is from New York and
was graduated from the Military
Academy in June. 1880. He was as
the grade of colonel in September,
ials. During the world war he served
as a brigadier general in the National
Army. Recently he has been stationed
at the Army STAN College. Washington
barracks. ~,e,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08
EMORY SERVICE TONIGHT.

Condensation Of Jesus Christ"
will be the subject OF . sermon by
Rev. Theodore Copeland Of Dallas.
Tex. at revival services at the Emory
Methodist Church tonight at 8 o'clock.
A song service will precede the ser
mon.
The revival services at the Emory
Methodist Church. 500 Georgia ave-
nue., began Sunday and viii contin9s
for two weeks. Services will be held
every night at s o'clock, excepting
Saturdays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08
PRESIDENT GETS APPEAL.
Attorney Asks Communication for
Woman Sentenced to Hang.


The fate of Josephine Berry, COL
ored. who is sentenced to be hanged
at the District Jail Friday morning,
for the murder of Ada King. more
than year ago, is today in the hands
of President Wilson. The statement OF
facts in the case which was forward
ed to the White House this morning
by the Department of Justice. aside
from review of the crime and the
trial of the woman. contains an ap-
peal from her attorney for commu-
tation. 1t is expected that the Presi-
dent will arrive at conclusion with
in the next twenty-four hours.
The condemned woman, if the Pres
ident does not take favorable action
will be the first of her sex to be
hanged in the District since the exc
cution of Mrs. Surratt, one of the Lin
coin conspirators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08
ASSIGNED TO ANNAPOLIS.

been assigned to duty at the Annapolis
Naval Academy. They are Lieut. Com
manders Walker Cochran, Ellsworth
Davis. w. H. B. Hatch, Paul Hendren,
Lloyd H. Lewis, Samuel n. Moore.
Charles J. Parish and Henry A. Seller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08
NEW CODE TESTED.
First Judgment Rendered Under
Will Contest Law.

The first judgment under the new
provisions OF the District code al
loving 2 collector of an estate to be
sued pending . win contest has been
rendered in favor of Mary F. Lewis
who brought suit to recover $3.50 al
feged to be- due her from the estate
OF her brother, Samuel Z. Lewis. AT
the death Of the brother the notes
representing his alleged indebtedness
could not be found. although his safe
deposit box contained securities. be-
longing to the sister. The plaintiff
showed that her brother was indebted
to her in the amount asked and said
that he had given promissory notes
which had been left in his possession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08
McELR0Y TO PHILADELPHIA.

Rear Admiral George w. McElroy.
inspector of engineering material,
Brooklyn. n. Y, has been ordered to
Philadelphia for duty as inspector of
machinery for vessels building for the
Navy on the Atlantic coast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08
SUES FOR DIVORCE.

Mrs. NelEe Nicholson has filed suit
Tor a limited divorce from James
Nicholson. They were married in Bal
tim0re June % last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-08

For the past sixty-seven years Miss
Miranda Steele. eighty-four. has been
employed in the same mill in Clare
mont, N. H.