Evening star., 1948-02-11
WORD on 7 Shipments
|0fD. T.. Oil Awaited;
City 10 Have Coal Aid

officials today awaited word OF
two shipments of fuel oil to bolster
seriously dWindling supplies here, as
coal dealers announced steps to
help Washington residents who are
running out of that fuel.
Most important shipments to oil
consumers is 1,050,DO0 gallons of
home use fuel due to arrive in Bal
timore and slated for use in Wash
ington. The shipment is part OF
the 9,500,000 gallons obtained for Use
here and in Baltimore by the Sem
ate Small Business Committee.
A. J. Wolken, investigator for the
committee, said he feared a. tanker
carrying the large shipment has
been delayed in the ice-packed
waters of the Chesapeake Bay. This
morning brought no word of the
barge. expected at the Baltimore
port yesterday.
Second Barge From Norfolk.
District Fuel Co-ordinator j..
Thomas Kennedy reported that he
also is awaiting word from a barge
sent to the Norfolk area to pick up
a Navy load of 100000 gallons of oil,
on the way to that port from New
York. t
Meanwhile, the city's motion pic
ture interests protested to the Com
missioners against a proposal to
stop deliveries of fuel oil to places
of amusement.
A. Julian Brylawski, president of
the Motion Picture Theater Owners
of Metropolitan D. c., told the city
heads in a letter that the District
movie houses use IAN insignificant
fraction of l sper cent" of the oil
consumed in the entire city and
that the proposed measure would
work an undue hardship on the
theaters and their employees.
Could Help in Severe Shortage.
From another angle" Mr.. Bry-
lawsN wrote, ''the theaters using
fuel oil seat approximately $4,000
people and, therefore, in case of a..
really severe fuel shortage, it would
be advisable to give places
of public assembly priority as they
could keep thousands of people
comfortable in theaters at about q
per cent of the amount of oil con-
sumed in keeping them comfor-
table at home" |
On the coal front, Patrick A. Deck,
coal division chief of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association, said
the division has taken care Of sew
era1 residents who have run out of
coal. Mr.. Deck asked that coal users
whose stocks are exhausted not to
call other dealers.
'This simply ties things up," he
declared. mo one has enough coal
to take care of more than his reg
ular customers" Residents who are
out of coal and are unable to get
more through regular dealers should
call the associations Offices, Ma
tional 2611, to ask for hardship de-
liveries, he said
Hardship Cases Continue.
Mr.. Kennedy said hardship cases
for oil are continuing to flow in.
The District stockpile yesterday was
increased by a set-aside of about
10000 gallons by a major firm. here,
he said.
Deeper cuts in oil exports during
the emergency meanwhile have been
demanded on Capitol Hill. Senator
Lodge and Representative Heselton,
both Republicans, of Massachusetts
yesterday said they were not salts
fled with the Commerce Depart
ment's ban on heating oil shipments
from East Coast ports until
March 81.
In Alexandria the city's Retail
Merchants Association, last night
deferred action on City Manager
Nicholas A. Colosanto's request that
merchants and amusement place
managers cut their hours of opera
ton by 20 per cent to save fuel oil.
Sylvan Cohen, president of the
group, said the merchants decided
to wait for similar action in other
areas here and until there is more
definite evidence of crisis"