Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-16 | Page 11 | Fuel Administration Notes

FUEL ADMINISTRATION NOTES ill United States Fuel Administrator j hi Garfield requested that all automobile, U motorcycle, and motorboat racing and J ' speed contests be suspended for the I ' period of the war. Tho request is n I result of the growing need for the con- S servation of gasoline and because ol J tho growing demand for skilled aut'o- i mobile drivers and mechanics for wai I work. I The Right Rev. P. J. Donahue, Ro- J man Catholic bishop, of Wheeling, W. Va., has issued a general appeal to the ! coal miners of the country, and par- 1 ticularly those of W-est Virginia, to . increase the production of coal to the 'r limit. j Under a proclamation issued by I President Wilson and regulations for- mulated bv tho fuel administration, 9 H those onga'ged in the business of im- I porting, manufacturing, distributing, 1 and transporting crude oil, fuel oil, 1 kerdsene, gasoline, and natural gas are I required to secure licenses to do bus- 1 iness. B United States Fuel Administrator , Garfield announced that tho use of au- u tomobiles on gasolineloss Sundays for B the purpose of aiding tho fourth Lib- erty loan would not be considered a t , violation of the request of the Fuel I Administration for the Sunday savins of gasoline. I