Show EXPORTATIONS FALL FAllOfF OFF gui BUT guiGAS GAS STill WASHINGTON April Depart 15 Depart Department m mont ment nt of ot justice officials d declined to today today today to- to day to discuss discuss discuss' whether the investigation Lion tion Into the rise nse in gasoline prices A Ahad had i cached reached a a. stage tage where criminal indictments were ere being considered It Il was stated at the department however that ag agents still sUlI were gathering that the nature of or the prosecutions prosecutions pros pros- if any would be decided bythe bythe by bythe the result of or the investigation The gasoline agitation came up again in congress toda today when Representative Howard of ot Georgia attacked the Standard Oil on company as a trust whose devilment has only been scattered scat scat- scattered by a. a court decision Explanation of the increased cost pf of pf gasoline was found in in the Standard of or lines Oil on company's control pipe rather than In ih the Increased exportations exportations caused by the tire war he contended He lie offered statistics to show that the tha total Increased consumption In this country and during the last 7 cent more than year ear was only per the increased production while prices had bad advanced Rd 75 per cent said Shipments abroad Howard are falling ort off eVer every day and yet et the Standard Oils Oil's trust desires to make u us uc pay war prices V t f V The committee took no action cUon S |