Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1918 — GASLESS SUNDAY RULE IS STILL ON [ARTICLE]

GASLESS SUNDAY RULE IS STILL ON

NO LIFTING OF BAN FOR PRESENT, ACCORDING TO FUEL ADMINISTRATION. In response to repeated inquiries at the office of the state fuel administrator as to when gasoline will be available for Sunday use, the administration, through Horace H. Herr, director of conservation and publicity, has made public the following explanatory bulletin from Washington: “Gasolineless Sundays requested by the United States fuel administration of all. citizens east 1 of the Mississippi river will continue for the present. “In connection with a suggestion from Gov. Samuel 'McCall, of Massachusetts, that restrictions be removed from Sunday automobiling as a means of ameliorating the epidemic of Spanish influenza prevalent in the Eastern states, Fuel Administrator Harry A. Garfield made public an opinion from Brig. Gen. Charles Richard, acting surgeon general, U. S. A., that automobiling would not influence the epidemic one way or the other. “Statistics on the available supply of gasoline also were made public, showing the great saving already effected by the gasolineless Sundays and the necessity for its continuance.” The grand total of available gasoline in the United .States outside of California for the week ending Sept. 23, Mr. Garfield announced, was 3,392,000 barrels of motor gasoline and 281,000 barrels of aviation gasoline. This is a decrease from a stock of about 14,000,000 barrels on April Ist and 8,000,000 barrels on August Ist. A notable saving by the public was announced as a result of the almost universal compliance with the request of the administration for gasolineless Sundays. Approximately 500,000 barrels, or ten ship loads, have been shipped Which could not otherwise have been sent abroad, and in addition gasoline stocks available for Shipments overseas have gained between 150/000 and 200,000 barrels, it is announced.