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“I ATTEMPT TO: )WER ‘GAS’ STANDARDS : . Fight on at .Washington Means Money to Every Car Owner BY HARRY BR HUNT N. EA. Staff Correspondent = | WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—Behind the doors of the government's spe- ela} committee on petroleum specifi: | fations there is being waged a fight Mm which every owner of a fMivver, Hmousine or motor truck is vitally interested. | Tae outcome means dollars and) Gents to every motor car user, and Millions upon millions to the big oll Fefinera, } The off tntereste are exerting | every pressure to bring about a further reduction in the specifics ions for gasoline, fuel and illumi Rating olla “The automotive industry, assisted the navy department, is fighting the effort to reduce epecifications and will urge that the various states now largely without definite gaso M@ Standards, adopt the standards e the government. phe sole reason given by the on| ple why gas standards should Yowered is that they can't meet bthe present demand if required to ply a number one article, | Government experts reply they} Went been meeting the specitica- Anyway, and that the interest of the public demands a raising of Specifications, rather than official) netion of inferior standards. | Tests of gasoline simples secured cities thruout the country by the) im of mines show that inferior | 8s is being marketed in every city, tho the east is getting an article @f poorer volatility and purity than the middie west and west. | ‘The sub-committee of the commit. | fee on standards has made its rec-| @mmendations.- These are under | Stood to be against a further reduc | tion in government standards. It tn | fn the central commit: ever, headed by Ma fon ef the fuel administration, him: | &n ol) operator of size, that the! ire is being applied by refiners. | feport of this committee, as yet is expected to go to they nt within the next two week: two chief factors which have ted the gasoline situation - are ‘ 3—The rapidly increasing use of ) many of which are built to Gistiliate or inferlor grades of -. 3—The tremendous tncrease tn the| @f fuel off by the navy, mer vessels, railroads and station- | Power plants, | ) The necessity for establishing and nig 4 definite standard for | ts cited by navy offictala in | sige disappearance from the! “distillate,” a fuel tying} has gas and kerosene and) id by tractors and special types | 4 combustion engines, For. | Rerly “distitlat country today selling distillate as such. Distillate simply te being put in w of any of the in © has bee ene wed stoadily higher Government fuel experts dell that, whatever the outcome of the Present review of gasoline standards the various st aid act prompt of gas needed for the navy ation, but for the sort of of Nivver o truck has for ga Readjustment of Prices : in every department of this Great Store will bring hundreds of news customers day—for the saving on THE SEATTLE STAR FOR SON'S DEATH'UNITARIAN MAN HE ASKS $25,000 HERE NOV. 11-14 Suit for $25,000 to the death of James J wansen pipe | 4 “Courier” to “Urge Church- Geeta iaproee ‘MErn, Mas| less Folk to Back Church Grays Harbor M ». May 1920, wan f ' Rev, John W. Day, of st oration in superior court Mriday by of rpe of mininterial Willtam J Ha m, father of the the ompe ensate tor! Unitarian | week, is November | “v uled to be in Beattle On th the tional ca Their addresses a 65,000,000 in the Ur are not affi with the me nation cannot than could bu schools if two-third men or thy ie day ¢ STORES STAY | OPENNOV. i Seattle stores will not close on Armistice day, next Thursday This decision waa reache by the 700 members of t Trades Bureau of the Cha Commerce. So many holidays are coming along at this time of the year, the | fetal merchants decided it would jnot be practicable to close Thurs leg | | t |Horr, Sigurdsson, Thanked by Vets Roosevelt post, Veterans of For sign Wars, passed resolutions of ap | |preciation of the services rendered | ph Horr, who handled the | publicity, and Torfi Sigurdsson, who jwas in charge of the organization |work, in bebaif of the veterans’ | bonus bill. 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