The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, July 25, 1920, Section One, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 23. 1920 IE SHORTAGE state minerolotrist. and Tt. P. Mc- 1 Laughlin, state oil and gas inspector. Of the export rumor, the company asserts that Standard Oil exports of gasoline for the whole of this year will be. and these under old contracts made in 1919. 213.351 barrels contain ing 50 gallons each, against 339.023 barrels last year and 705.741 barrels in 1918, which shows a very material decrease in exportations. Seventy per cent of this year's exports already have been made. "Second: The Standard Oil company does not export gasoline, but sells for export, and such sales are at the market rates in San Francisco, and not at fancy prices alleged to pre vail abroad. "In 1918 this company's gasoline LAID TO CONSUMERS Standard Oil Company Gives Its Explanation. THIS WEEK SUPPLY NOT DIMINISHED BEST MUSIC IN AMERICA AN OPEN LETTER Far West Has More This Year Than Ever Before, but Xot Enough to Supply Demand. TO THE PEOPLE OF PORTLAND 14 guteRSQ!: ir rrrnTTTT f ft 4 In the current issue of the Stand- ard Oil Bulletin, official publication of the Standard Oil company of Cal ifornia, appears an extended explana tion from the company of what it declares to be the causes of the pres ent gasoline shortage on the Pacific coast. The company also discusses prospects for the future. "There is no mystery in the exist ing shortage of gasoline on the Pa cific coast," declares the Bulletin. "It is not a case of diminished sup ply the far west has never had so much gasoline as this year but one of increased consumption. The re fineries of California are this year manufacturing a greater volume of gasoline than last year, and great quantities are being brought to the far west from mid-western fields and Mexico. Yet this larger supply does not satisfy the enormous demands of additional automobiles, trucks, farm tractors, gas engines, pumps and ot her' equipment dependent upon gas oline for power." . Situation In Summed I p. The outstanding features of the situation are summed up in the Bul letin, as follows: The crude oil upply: California will this year produce .bout 100,000.000 bar rels of crude oil. ; Crude oil consumption: The ' Pacific roast will this year consume about 110. noo.000 barrels of crude oil, the 10,000.-000-barrel. difference being drawn from reserve stocks. The gasoline supply: Greatest in his tory of California oil industry and aug mented by the Importation of millions of gallons from eastern and Mexican fields. Gasoline consumption: In lftl." there were :;0.O00 motor vehicles on the Pa cific coast, in 1!20 more than 7S0.O00; in 1015 there were 3000 tractors, in 19i0 at least 2.-.000. There are many thousands of gas engines in operation. In 191S the Standard Oil company's sales of gasoline amounted to 152.000.000 gallons, in 1019. 19:1.000.000. while the sales of 1020 will be more than 300.000.000 gallons. So far this year, this company has sold 48.4 per cent more gasoline .than for the same period of last year. C urrent Humors Answered. The company has much to say of the many rumors that have been current as to causes of the shortage. These rumors the Bulletin takes up one by one and answers as follows: "The gasoline situation has been greatly confused by the circulation of countless and most astonishing rumors and untruths. They may be discussed seriatim: "Exports This is one of the most vigorously circulated reports. It is said that the reason for the shortage is that huge quantities of gasoline are exported and sold at higher prices abroad. This company's exports have for three years constantly diminished, from 705,741 barrels in 1918 to 339.023 barrels in 1919, and to 213.351 bar rels in 1920, and these exports are being made only under contractual obligations of last year. For the last six months of this year exports will average but 300 barrels per day. Fur ther, and quite important in its bear ing upon this rumor, the Standard Oil company of California does not export, but sells for export and ob tains for its product the market price prevailing at San Francisco. "The 30-cent slgns-r-Here is a ru mor that has covered the Pacific coast. At a meeting of the California Automobile Trade association in Fresno an unidentified person said that he had seen in Los Angeles 1000 signs announcing 30-cent gasoline, prepared by this company, which were to be posted on July 1. Being an absolute . untruth, it is natural that most diligent efforts to have these statements proved have met vith failure. Production Shown Increase. "The capped wells Production, it is alleged, is being kept down by wells being "capped,' thus creating the shortage. The company has 'capped' no wells and knows of none. The production of the state of Cal ifornia is little less than last year; the production of the Standard Oil company is greater than last year. One hundred and thirty-four more wells have been started in California fields this year than last. There are over 3000 more producing wells in California today than in 1915. If an oil operator capped a well his neighbor on an adjoining property would drain his land. Hence, to cap wells would be folly. The California state mining bureau has recently of ficially investigated this report and found that 'in all fields there is evi dence of effort to obtain a maximum production.' "The Full Refinery Tanks: This report has usually taken the form of an employe of the Richmond Refinery of the Standard Oil company stating that the tanks there were full to overflowing, and the gasoline with held from the market to create a shortage. Never has gasoline storage touched such low points as this year. Instead of entering the busy season with 40 to 50 days' supply, as for merly, the company this year had only two or three days' supply. In January of this year the company had 4.400,000 gallons of gasoline at refineries; two years before the quantity was 27.000,000 gallons, (.inline on Priority List. 'The Railway Situation: In an nouncing curtailment of sales in San Francisco and Oakland, this com pany stated that the dislocation of railway transportation, coupled with the general shortage of gasoline, had created a serious situation In the agricultural districts. It was further stated that the railway strike had caused this dislocation, but that the railways having placed gasoline on a priority list, the situation had now improved. This company, however, . had not recovered from the previous dislocation. All of which was true, as anyone familiar with conditions during the railway strike, when there ' was material dislocation, can so testify. "Stopping Refinery Improvement It was reported that in the face of shortage and restriction, work on expanding the company's Richmond refinery had ceased. The report was . absolutely untrue. That part of a 110.000.000 Improvement at Richmond designed to increase the gasoline out put has not been stopped nor sus pended, and the work goes on 24 hours a day. The construction of certain mechanical units, having nothing to do witn me increased pro. duction of gasoline, has been post poned." An official denial from the-Call fornia state mining bureau that any oil wells have been "capped" to limit production, is also included, in the bulletin, signed by Fletcher Hamilton, jm- ".:.. t ' f v- . f -CH- '1 1 A5 - t I ' - T f f ' & J x I Hi t lit A ry It v-rp It Joel H. Ltiloptrr, director of ibe Royal Rossrisn municipal hand, now playing In park concerts. Joel B. Ettinger. musical di rector of the Royal Rosarian Portland municipal band, play ing in the public parks this sea son, is a schooled musician, a magnetic and authoritative con ductor and has built up his band from the best instrumentalists. The citizens of Portland can well be proud of the band. Each concert has shown decided im provement in music ensemble, - as conductor and instrumental ists became more accustomed to each other. Mr. Ettinger Is also a business man, being manager of the American Woodworking Machinery company. In the east he was-a noted bandmaster on tour. exports amounted to 18.5 per cent of the total business handled by the company, in 1919 to less than 8 per cent, while in 1920 the gasoline ex ports for the entire year will be about 3 per cent. "Nothing is more indicative of the great change that has come over the petroleum business in the last few years than the situation concerning exports. Not long ago this company was active in seeking foreign mar kets for surplus products. The oil fields of California produced such quantities over and above the domes tic demand that existed at that time, which was before the great develop ment of automotive vehicles and gasoline-using machinery, that there was a considerable supply available for foreign sale. Eastern Fields Kntered. ,. "The situation today is completely the reverse. The California crude oil supply is insufficient to meet do mestic demands, and not only is there a market for everything that Cali fornia can produce, but in order to supply fields formerly dependent upon supplies of gasoline furnished by California notably eastern Wash ington and Oregon. Nevada and Ari zona this company has gone into eastern fields and to Mexico, and there made purchases of gasoline to meet the demands of the public." Under the heading, "The Future," the bulletin has this to say: The gasoline shortage will grow less acute as summer wanes: precise ly when conditions will be back to normal, and supply and demand equalized, is difficult to foretell. With the lessening of demand at the end of summer and the supply of crude oil constant and tliere is every reason to believe that this supply will remain constant for some time, with possibilities of increase the shortage should not be of great duration, and a steady improvement should be manifest shortly. Further, the new processes this company is installing at its refineries at Richmond and El Segundo for the extraction of more gasoline from crude oil than is now obtained will help the situation materially." Hood River Woman's Club Names Year's Committees. Activities of Organization Are Post poned V:ntil 'all. HOOD RIVER, Or.. July 24. (Spe cial.) The executive committee of the Hood River Woman's club, the activities of which have been post poned until fail, has appointed the following committees for the ensuing year: Calnedar, Mrs. E. O. Blanchar. Mrs. Paul ft. Hughes and Mrs. L. S. Ben nett. Educational. Mrs. E. R. Moller, Mrs. J. W. Crites, Mrs. S. G. Campbell and Mrs. George C. Gladden. Civic, Miss May Davidson, Mrs. R. D. Gould. Mrs. Mark Cameron, Mrs. G.' W. Thompson and Mrs. W. L. Nichols. Legislative. Mrs. Ella Wilbur. Mrs. William Munroe. Press. Airs. H. G. Cooper and Mrs. F. S. DeWitt. Emer gency, Mrs. J. W. Ingalls, Mrs. Frank Gilbert and Mrs. V. R. Abraham. Philanthropic, Mrs. la. M. Bentley, Mrs. F. C. Wittenberg. Mrs. C. J. Cal kins and Mrs. A. C. Lofts. Decoration, Mrs. E. A. Franz, Mrs. P. L. Tompkins and Mrs. G. A. Molden. Auditing. Mrs. George Stranahan and Mrs. W. B. Heath. Social, Mrs. W. H. Chipping, Mrs. William Irwin, Mrs. W. B. Tewksbury and Mrs. P. L. Manser. Home economics, Mrs. F. A. Gram, Mrs. W. J. Knight. Mrs. I. D. Parkens and Mrs. Harry Connaway. Lyceum, Mrs. W. A. Schaffner, Mrs. A. S. Keir, Mrs. E. O. Dutro, Mrs. L. L. Murphy. Mrs. W. J.'Knight and Mrs. Geo. Wil bur. Property, Mrs. A. Canfield. Parliamentary, Mrs. W. F. Laraway. It. C. Kephart Visiis Portland. Midshipman Ralph C. Kephart, who is on the annual cruise of midship men from Annapolis, is visiting Port land and Willamette valley cities on leave from the fleet now in Puget sound. He is visiting his brother, C. I. Kephart, engineer with the pub lic service commission, and Mrs. Kep hart, and. while in Portland, is the guest of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ahlson. on Shattuck road. Midshipman Kephart's home is in San Francisco, and he will rejoin the fleet there, after visiting rela tives in that city. am ' i -vNt t - "-St .. "t. $ ; ? if iris ' i , - ' "" frt -T VlfaftfrM Waal i s ' '-'iC'j.J. J.X iiim sa'iliu i in. urn." . ..J.liJ. Have you ever felt a longing for something NEW in photoplays; something BIGGER than the pictures, you have been seeing; something that you could carry away from the theater in your heart and remember with a smile for months to come a picture bigger in THEME, cleverer in PLOT, richer in HUMAN NATURE, more beautiful and interesting than anything you ever wit nessed? If you have, see "MAN AND HIS WOMAN" INTERNATIONAL NEWS ' HER PERFECT HUSBAND TOPICS OF THE DAY THINK. ALL OF THIS FOR , 25c AFTERNOONS 35c EVENINGS (IncL War Tax) SPECIAL SUNDAY CONCERT 12:30 Noon Today Ruy Bias F. Mendelsohn-Bartholdy Loin du Ball Gillett Liebstraum F. Liszt Piano solo by Francesco Longo Melodie in F Rubinstein Valse Op. 34 M. Moszkowsky WEEK-DAY CONCERTS Vralse Op. 34 M. Moszkowsky 1 " I V s S Vs ' I t 7 - QUALITY OUR POLICY n..... a. m m Lw., . r , , ,. .1 1f Ir yj. ; r 1 an". 1 1 ' - .MLprrWa.. ,T;gT-.. .- . U Bi -- -- r J Mirismin ri inn, ii iflWfiiiiT '"' mn SUIT IS FILED REV. J. P. ALLE-V SAYS MIS SION BOARD LIBELED HIM. to the "International Home Mission association." Mr. Allen has another suit pending in the circuit court seeking to evict the present occupants from the mis sion hall. Plaintirr Claims Letter Sent Out Damaged His Good Name; Sec ond Suit Rec-trded. As a new high light in the confu sion surrounding the affairs of the Interdenominational Mission associa tional, international, starting with the supposed ousting of Kev. J. P. Allen, George King and Mardella King from the councils of the elect, is a $25,000 libel suit filed in the circuit court yesterday by Mr. Allen against Rev. E. L. Cooper, superintendent of the mission: Rev. Myrtle Cooper, assist ant superintendent, and Rev. 'William Harvev. Rev. M. McPhee and Rev. Alma Daugherty. general board of the i mission association. The plaintiff asserts that he was libeled grievously in a "To Whom It May Concern" letter Issued by the defendants July 8, 1920, and sent to M. 1. Kllis, Walker Furniture com pany, C. A. Sumner and others. Mr. Allen, who asserts that he is a min ister of the gospel and was at that time, and still is, treasurer of the Interdenominational Mission associa tion, international, maintains that his good name has been damaged to the extent of $20,000 by allegations of theft in the letter. Kxcerpts particularly objected to were: "Dr. J. P. Allen took with him $1,50 cash received from the sale of our printing press, type, etc., together with all moneys belonging to the mis sion in the bank, amount unknown," and "Registered letters were sent to Allen and King informing them of the action of the board and demanding return of the books, papers and all moneys belonging to the mission asso ciation." Further, the plaintiff asserts that Mr. Cooper told Dr. Hinson of Port land, on May 15, 1920. "that J. P. Allen has stolen $150 and other money belonging to the mission," and that Myrtle Cooper made virtually the same statement to H. H. Newhall of this city. The letter was sent from 9 Union avenue and was signed by all the defendants. It set forth that the un dersigned believed it a duty to ap prise "all business men and subscrib ers to our paper that Dr. J. P. Allen, George King and Mardella King have been expelled from our association by unanimous vote of the board." Among statements following is the charge that Mr. Allen had sought to spread the impression that the name of the organization had been changed TEMPORARY HEAD NAMED Dr. Rebec Succeeds Dr. Thompson on Clilld Welfare Body. Dr. George Rebec was elected tem porary chairman of the child welfare commission yesterday to succeed Dr. Franklin Thomas, the retiring chair man. Dr. Rebec will act as chairman until the professor of sociology to succeed Dr. Tnomas has been selected by the University of Oregon. Dr. Thomas in addition to being the director of the Portland school of social work, was a member of the university faculty. He has resigned to go to New York August 1 to head a large orphanage at Hastings-on-Hudson. When his successor has been named by President P. U Campbell and the board of regents of the university, the child welfare commission will be completed and the permanent chair man will be elected by the commission. Thief Gets Jail Sentence. Lover Latourell was sentenced to 26 days in the county jail by District Judge Jones yesterday for the theft of a large quantity of soap and cleansing powder from city stocks. Trunk Sewer Is Complete. The trunk sewer on Albina avenue, from the south line of Ainsworth ave nue to the Columbia slough, has just been completed at a cost of $83,719. The sewer will accommodate the ter ritory between Albina avenue and Williams avenue, north of Killings worth avenue. It is the first of a se ries of sewers which will drain into the Columbia slough. Tourist Party Travel in Handsome Gray Hearse. Young Couple tio Through Ahland on Way to 1on AnjteleK to Enter the l' ndertuking HutiiietM. ASHLAND, Or., July 24. (Special ) That "there are many men of many minds, and ways of traveling, many kinds," was manifested on the streets here recently when a tourist party stopped for gasoline. They were traveling in a. handsome gray hearse and two cunning little dogs peeped over tne shoulder of the driver, ' whose wife stated they had shipped their furniture to Los Angeles and that her husband was the third generation to be in the undertaking business. She said it seemed the sen sible thing to travel in the hcJrse, since it would he needed in the busi ness. The bedding and cooking uten sils were packed in the hearse. The hour being early and the couple in a hurry to get to their new home, they did not camp in the park, but after a plunge in the sulphur pool "hit" the highway south. . OUTING TO BE HELD TODAY knights of Columbus, With friends, to Enjoy Sunday. The Knights of Columbus will hold its annual outing today, members of the order and their families nd friends spending the day at Bonne ville. The trip will be made in a special train leaving the Union station at 9:15 o'clock this morning. An interesting athletic programme Dancing Tonight and This Afternoon Columbia Beach CHEVROLET USED CAR SALE Each Used Chevrolet At $100.00 Discount Every one of these cars has been overhauled and has good top, good tires and good finish. Come early, for they won't last long. FIELDS MOTOR CAR CO. 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