Evening star., 1943-05-22
Gasoline
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this morning at $50 o'clock but had
received 1000 gallons an hour later.
Mr. Davis said this would serve
only 400 cabs. which are being re-
strlcted to 5 gallons each, and that
he expected the station to 60 dry
again before tonight. He predicted
a serious traffic tie-up tomorrow
night at the Union Station. where
Diamond has exclusive hacking priv
ileges.
The influx of passengers from
the North on Sunday nights. espe-
clally near midnight, creates seri-
Gus jam at the station, one that
Diamond. aided by other cabs. is
hard pressed TO handle even by fill
Ing all cabs to capacity.
Il don't know what We'll do if We
don't receive more gas today" Mr..
Davis said, Anything and every
thing on wheels will go into the sta
tion to help move the traffic, but
understand other companies are
even worse off than we are. and I
don't see how we can expect much
help from them
Pending the receipt of definite in
structions from OPA, Mai. Edward
j, Kelly, superintendent of police.
promised his departments complete
cooperation in helping stop non-
essential driving. Enforcement Of
hcials for the OPA, said a list of
forms had been sent to all police
precincts and the Traffic Bureau, on
which police will make their reports,
but tha- no information as to how
police might proceed had been sent
to the department.
Meanwhile, OPA and ODT off,
cials expected to work out at least
a partial solution to the critical
gasoline shortage in the District and
l3 Eastern States at a meeting to-
day
Strict enforcement of the pleasure
driving ban and some curtailment Of
fuel allotments for commercial We
hicles were indicated after OPA re-
iected the War Food Administra-
tion's proposal to cancel A. B and c
hooks temporarily along part Of
bdSlCl II SCdU ". llCSt
posals followed reports that many
farm tractors and other machinery
used in food production were stand
ing idle because Of lack OF gasoline
Law enforcement officials in Mary
land and Virginia as we'll as WASH
ington. promised Wholehearted CO.
operation with OPA inspectors to
halt pleasure driving.
No additional supplies of gasoline
were reported received by major
distributing companies. but Govern
ment officials denied that the
Plantation pipe line. terminating
at Richmond. had broken down.
1T has been bringing in $4,000
barrels of Oil daily since opened
on May s." a spokesman for the
Emergency Pipe Line Corp. said.
Doctors Cars Run Dry.
District physicians have been hard
hit by the gas drought and were
faced with the possibility of hav-
ing to rely on public transportation
systems for visiting patients when
their gas tanks went dry.
Theodore Wiprud. secretary of the
District Of Columbia Medical So
cietv, reported that one physician
took streetcar to visit a patient
yesterday while dozen others
vainly sought gas at stations
throughout the city.
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald, pres
ident Of the society, appealed to
service stations to give physicians
what gas they can to avoid an acute
situation
OPA Shake-up Hinted.
Meantime reports circulated that
OPA was about due for another
shaps-up, with Secretary of Interior
1ckes and Food Administrator Ches-
ter Davis possibly getting more au-
thority than they now exercise over
food and gasoline rationing
These reports could not be con-
firmed at OPA where a spokesman
confined his remarks to an admis-
sion that considerable sniping" at
OPA is going on and that Price
Administrator Brown is having dif-
ficulty finding a successor to John
Hamm, his senior deputy admin
istrator, whose resignation becomes
effective June l.
Secretary Ickes now has authority
to say how much gasoline is avail
able in a given period at a given
place for rationing but O2A allo-
Gates 1t among different classes Of
users.
Ickes May Limit Supplies.
One ofncial close to Secretary
yekAS Said fhe IL ttar u,or n>< ~einr