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Show I ACTUAL SHORTAGE . OF GASOLINE IS BEING FEARED WASHINGTON, May 2. Warning of the probability of an actual shortage short-age of gasolene before the e"nd of next summer as a result of the disproportionate dispropor-tionate increase in gasolene production produc-tion and the number of automobiles in use, was given in a statement issued today by the bureau of mines. While an increase in stocks at the end of February of more than 100,-000,000 100,-000,000 gallons, or 20 per cent, as compared com-pared with a year ago, shows that the situation is not yet acute, it is probable prob-able the statement said, that before the "summer season is over it -ivill be-come be-come tight if indeed it does not become Heavy drafts were made in March on the reserve stocks of crude petroleum petrol-eum notwithstanding a twenty peri cent increase in production, according! to a report today by the United States geological survey. The total increase in output of United States in March as compared with March, 1910, was six m'iilion barrels, but the increased consumption made necessary the im-portalioa im-portalioa of 6,500,000 barrels' from Mexico. An additional million barrels was drawn from the reserves to meet |