Evening star., 1943-06-03
100 Gas Trucks
Head This Wdv
With Big Supply
100000 Gallons Due
For D. C.-BuItimore
! Area, Officials Say

Exceptionally heavy truck load
tngs of gasoline at Greensboro, N. c..
were expected to add approximately
100000 gallons to supplies in the
Washington Baltimore area today.
Office Of Defense Transportation
officials said 100 trucks, each haul
ing 100 barrels, had been dispatched
to this section-hardest hit by the
drought. in the last "a hours. The
renewed flow was expected to bring
some relief to motorists but there
was no official indication it would
continue beyond the end of this
week.
At several stations throughout the
city motorists reported they pur-
chased gasoline without waiting in
line. In other places the usual wait
ing lines were seen and virtually all
dealers had set up their own quota
systems and were dispensing fuel
at the rate of gallons to GUS
toner.
One Driver Protests.
One lrate driver reported he was
refused gas at the Sears, Roebuck
Co. service station on Seventeenth
street NE. even though his indicator
pointed to empty and two cars i'm
mediately before him in line had re-
ceived l3 and - gallons. respectively.
Attendants refused to sell him
enough gas to get home on because
the station stopped selling at II
o'clock, he said. although the cars
ahead were being serviced while he
was in the station.
On the congressional front a fight
appeared to be shaping up between
an Eastern-New England bloc and
the Office Of Price Administration
concerning conditions on the At
lantic seaboard.
Letters Exchanged.
Following a call by Representative
Hartley, Republican. of New Jersey
for a conference Saturday morning
to discuss the situation, Senator
Tobey, Republican. of New Hamp-
shire made public the essence of an
exchange of letters between himself
and John R. Richards, chief of the
gasoline rationing branch, OPA, in
which he took the latter to task for
limiting gasoline supplies in the
East.
Meanwhile District OPA officials
suspended the book of one motorist
for Illegally using It" ration coupons
for gasoline, denying him any more
gas for 60 days and suspended
service station from selling gasoline
for five days for discriminating
among its customers.
Got I Stamps From Friend.
The coupons of Walter Haight,
621 Oneida place NV, were sus-
pended after admitting he used
three 1T" coupons to obtain nine
gallons Of gasoline Mr.. Haight said
the coupons had been given him by
friend.
A Minute Service Station at
Twenty-tirst street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. was forbidden
to sell gasoline for five days for
giving preference to customers who
also contracted for grease Jobs or
other similar services.
Three additional cases of alleged
illegal trafficking in IT" coupons and
one OF shoe store accused of SELL
inP shoes without requiring GUS
toners to present a No. II coupon
were continued until June Is by
Hearing Commissioner Clifford Sni-
der.
Representative Satterfeld, Demo-
crat, of Virginia yesterday disclosed
what may be one important reason
for continued shortage of gasoline
IN Washington despite efforts to
relieve the situation.
Pipeline Carries Plane Gas.
shipments of regular automo-
bile gasoline will have to be de-
layed,' he said "A recently laid
pipeline to my home city, Richmond.
Va. has, I am informed, been car
rymg only aviation gasoline"
OPA officials had said this pipe
line, an auxiliary to the Plantation
Pipeline terminal at Greensboro,
N. c., was pumping 10000 barrels
OF gasoline daily but had given the
impression that all of this was for
commercial use in trucks and auto
mobiles.
Petroleum administration officials
revealed that stocks of petroleum
products in the midWestern area
had reached low level on a rather
general basis but declined to name
locations where the situation was