Nelson Refuses Ickes Fuel Rationing Power
War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson rejects Harold Ickes bid for shared rationing authority over fuel oil and gasoline while planning a new inter governmental committee to supervise distribution. The group would include Ickes OPA and Office of Defense Transportation reps, with final say still with Nelson on disagreements. Officials warn statements caused confusion and outline steps to shift tank car use and accelerate deliveries to the East, though not increasing civilian supplies.
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Arthur F. Degreve
Washington
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Office of Price Administration
Office of Defense Transportation
East
Nelson
WPB
Midwest
DDT
Joseph B. Eastman
Eastern States Committee
Fred Hartley
New Jersey
Columbus
Ohio
Missouri Valley floods cause 20 million in damages
Army engineers estimate spring floods in Missouri Valley caused about 20 million dollars in direct damage to agriculture, railways, highways, levees and utilities. About 465000 acres flooded. 800000 acres inundated at times. The crest threatened St Louis with the river split and bridges closed between Kansas City and Weldon Springs.
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Kansas City
U.P
Missouri Valley
R. E. M. Des Islers
Mississippi
Col. Des Islets
Army
Nebraska City
Missouri
Kaw Valley
John W. Ellis
Ellis
St Louis
Big River
Weldon Springs
Washington, Mo
Lake of the Ozarks
Nazis Wait And Tremble
The piece describes Allied bombing as potentially decisive in Germany and Italy during the summer of 1943. It notes British munition output rising 40 percent in early 1943, Ruhr Valley tightening under bombardment, and German morale declining as air raids intensify. It also references radio excerpts predicting harsher attacks to come and German acknowledgment of widespread damage.
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Germany
Italy
Europe
Switzerland
Thomas F. Hawkins
Associated Press
London
Great Britain
Ruhr
Rome
France
Belgium
Holland
Fuel Oil Rationing to Remain Steady This Winter
A Petroleum Administration spokesman said homeowners in rationed states will receive about the same fuel oil allotment as last winter. Small houses and hardship cases will get extra supplies, but there will be no general increase.
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Petroleum Administration
Carnival Has Biggest Night in Amarillo
The Legion-sponsored carnival at Third and Grant Street opened with thousands of Amarillo residents and soldiers from Amarillo Army Air Field attending. J George Loos said opening night marked the largest in Texas this year as 20 rides and shows drew crowds past midnight. Proceeds will help retire the Legion Home mortgage.
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Texas
J. George Loos
Greater United
Third and
Grant Street
Amarillo Army Air Field
Loos
Globe News Carrier Boys
Hanson Post
Patrol Bomber Sinks Enemy Submarine Off Columbia River
Major Everett Holstrom of Eugene Oregon says a U S patrol bomber sank an enemy submarine 40 miles off the Columbia River 17 days after Pearl Harbor The craft surfaced near Dawn on December 24 1941 as a squall approached Also notes a separate Kearns Field item about First Sergeant Gordon Kerley attending Jefferson Barracks administration school in Missouri.
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Tacoma
Wash
Columbia River
Pearl Harbor
Everett Holstrom
Eugene
Ore
Holstrom
Jimmy Doolittle
Tokyo
Jolly
Dept
Kearns Field
Utah
Kearns Post
Gordon Kerley
Jefferson Barracks
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ODT
Gulf
By Max Hill
Osage and Gasconade
Big
Los Angeles
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Middle East
Malta
Radio Zeesen
Hugh Campbell
N. Elvay Dallas, Texas
J. M. Hyden
W. 7Th St
Ena Waka Avon Rees Sais
Seagram
Seagram Distillers Corporation
New York
Jayne
Jayne’s
America
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
N. Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
Amarillo
Globe-News
John Maynard Lumber CO
West
Penney’s
Helena Rubinstein
Jergen
Lady Esther
Woodbury
Tropics
Nas
Felt Millinery
Madison Square
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