FDR Approval Sought for Nation-Wide Gasoline Rationing
WPB plans for nationwide gasoline rationing to conserve rubber await President Roosevelt approval. Donald Nelson signals a decision soon with possible referral to WPB rubber experts. OPA to administer rationing nationally with EDT prominent in planning. Permanent eastern plan to require proof of need and include stamps.
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Washington
War Production Board
Roosevelt
WPB
Donald Nelson
Congress
Nelson
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Office of Defense Transportation
Leon Henderson
Keep Er Flying For The USO Jamboree At Municipal Auditorium
A free two hour military musical revue titled Keep Er Flying For The USO will be staged at the Municipal Auditorium Monday night at 8 30. The Dixie Dice Girls will pace the show with modernistic dance and a Sleepy Lagoons number while thirty junior dancers perform a Mexican Hat Dance styled segment. The program includes military tunes such as Caisson Song Marine Song and Anchors A Weigh and features old fashioned and contemporary numbers culminating in There s a Million Yanks On The Way and You re A Grand Old Flag. The public is invited with no gate fee.
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USA
USO
Dixie Dice
Municipal
Times
Texas
America
Dixie Dice Girls
Pat Rooney
German Agent Tells Orders In Court Confession
Minneapolis born Dr. Hans Melmut Gros testified in a Los Angeles federal trial that he was a German intelligence captain earning 200 dollars a month plus a 20000 mark bonus. He said Heydrich instructed sabotage, harbor photography, and contact labor leaders to gauge their views for Germany. He claimed no intent to act and admitted sending only newspaper clippings.
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Los Angeles
Minneapolis
Hans Melmut Gros
Maj
Hans Bebert
John L. Lewis
CIO
Harry Bridges
Pacific Coast
Germany
Gros
Cavalry Troop A Reorganized in Oregon
Cavalry troop A, a historic unit once led by the late Gen. George A. White, is reformed under the Oregon state guard and will be led by Major H. C. Tobin. The guard plans organizing additional cavalry units at Pendleton Burns Baker Salem and Klamath Falls in Oregon.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
George A. White
Oregon State Guard
H. C. Tobin
U. S. Army
State Guard
Pendleton
Burns
Baker
Salem
Klamath Falls
Negroes seek vote in Texas Democratic primary
A Dallas delegation of Negroes will ask the state Democratic executive committee to permit Negroes to vote in the Democratic primary. The meeting will also consider methods to fill the vacancy on the state railroad commission and ensure soldiers voting rights, with the convention city to be chosen.
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Gordon K. Shearer Austin
UPR
State Democratic Executive Committee
O. P. Lockhart
Lockhart
State Railroad Commission
Jerry Sadler
Coke R. Stevenson
Sadler
James E. Kilday
Democratic
E. B. Germany
Dallas
Kilday
Full Blooded Indian Pilot of Fighter Plane
Leonard Farron, a full-blooded Puyallup Indian from Tacoma, has joined the U.S. Army Air Forces as a second lieutenant after majoring in aeronautical engineering at the University of Washington. He is a descendant of A. Kautz, a Union Army general, and Augustus Kautz, an early Puyallup Indian student at Forest Grove, Ore.
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Tacoma
Wash
Leonard Farron
Uncle Sam
Farron
University of Washington
U.S. Air Force
A. Kautz
Augustus Kautz
Forest Grove
Ore
Chemawa India School
U S Cargo Ship Sunkoff Atlantic May 17
A U S cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic May 17 with eight lives lost. Two torpedoes shattered the starboard side, causing a rapid blaze. Fifteen to twenty rounds were fired at a light offshore, but the submarine was not seen. Fifty-five survivors were picked up eleven hours after sinking and brought to Trinidad. thirty-one were landed at a gulf port the next day.
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New Orleans
UPI
U. S
Atlantic
Fighth Naval District
Trinidad
Gulf
Wife Wins Relief From Neuritis Pain
Thousands of sufferers of rheumatism sciatica lumbago neuritis and neuralgia find relief with NURITO a quick acting formula that eases muscular aches and pains. It contains no opiates and is sold with a money back guarantee if the first three doses do not relieve the pain.
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Nurito
Amateur astronomer postpones Hitler death forecast to September
Houston custodian and amateur astronomer Fred W. Gayle admitted his April 23 1942 Hitler death prediction was wrong. He now set September 24 as the dictator's new demise date and pledged to quit forecasting if Hitler does not die by that date. He noted many readers wrote in and a brother-in-law kept vigil for the prior April prediction. Portugal produced over 170000 tons of cork last year.
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Houston
U.A
Fred W. Gayle
Houston Post Office
Adolf Hitler
Gayle
Hitler
Portugal
Lavoptik Eye Bath Promises Relief and Refund
A patent medicine pitch touts Lavoptik boric acid mixture to soothe tired inflamed burning itching or sticky eyes. It claims 25 years of success with thousands praising it and offers a money back guarantee. Available at all drug stores.
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16Th Street
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Rae
Silk
Lucille Shoppe
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Sport Oxfords
Tam
Ist
W. A. Dieter
Fashion Bilt
Patty Lee
Archi
Lucille Shoppe Shoe Dept
Were
Sweden
U.S
Tommy
Italy
Mussolini
Tommy Bird
United States
Holmes
School of Shorthand
Amarillo
Globe-News
Fenmwevs
Penney's Beach Toys
Penney
Belle Isle
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