Hope to Remove West Virginia From Eastern Gas Ration Area
West Virginia officials and congressional delegates urged Prime coordination with Harold Ickes to remove the state from the eastern gas rationing region. Senator Kilgore and Neely reported the goal as essential to war efforts while noting protests against the inclusion. They cited discriminatory effects on service stations near the Ohio and Kentucky borders and the desire for fairer allocation of gasoline coupons.
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West Virginia
Wesline
Harley M. Kilgore
Gen. Neely
Delegeilor
Saisk
Kilgore
Fresure
Eastern Seaboard
Neely
West
OPA
Ickes
Ohio
Ration Banking Program Devised for Coupons Flow
Washington announces nationwide ration banking to ease bookeeping of millions of coupons. The plan, to begin January 27, uses stores wholesalers and dealers as clearing houses for rationed goods and fuel, with banks handling accounts and reimbursements. About 75 percent of small stores exempt from cost provisions. gasoline distributors will follow the same system.
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Washington
Mart
Office of Price Administration
Arma
Albany
Troy
Schmectady
Pers
al Yetllers
OPA
Open Ace Wat
Pte Plan
Focal Boards
Perse
Brown to Take OPA's Top Job
President Roosevelt to name ex Senator Prentiss M. Brown as director of the Office of Price Administration. Brown, under pressure from the President and Justice Byrnes, accepted the post as Henderson’s vacancy looms. Nomination to the senate expected soon with Brown likely to take over around January 15.
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Prentiss M. Brown
Washington
OPA
Léon Henderson
INS
Roosevelt
Office of Price Administration
James Byrnes
Brown
Senate
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Michigan Statesman
Iranning Shaw
Zeihn
E.bammi
Depunty Sifeller
Capitol
DuPont Receives Army Navy E Honors Thursday
Brig. Gen. Trelawney Marchant will present the army navy E flag at the Fort Hayes ceremony honoring duPont de Nemours and Co for wartime production excellence. Gov. Neely and Lt. Cmdr. G. H. Crocker will attend. Lammot duPont among speakers as the 17th army navy E is awarded to duPont employees.
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Suh Service Command
Fort Hayes
Army
Navy
E. 1
duPont de Nemoury and Company
Trelawney
Neely
G. H. Crocker
South Charleston
duPont
Lammot
duPont Company
Army-Navy
duPont Organization
OPA Opposes Further Slash In A Gasoline Coupons
The Price Administrator Leon Henderson opposed further cuts in the value of A gasoline coupons, warning 5,000,000 people would be stranded and transportation would break down in Washington and eastern centers. His stance followed AAA appeals to maintain current coupon values to avoid widespread demobilization of automobiles and transit disruption. Eastman ordered taxicabs off pleasure trips in affected eastern areas, noting a taxi surge as private car bans continue. He said DDT is exploring taxi usage controls, though enforcement remains difficult. The AAA President Thomas P. Henry referenced rumors from Ikes office about possible suspension or devaluation.
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Washington
Jun
Leon Henderson
Henderson
American Automobile Association
Joseph B. Eastman
Office of Defense Transportation
OPA
Eastman
AAA
Thomas P. Henry
State Tax Cuts Seem Assured
State tax relief appears likely as the 1943 legislature opens. Gov Neely will propose a 25 percent cut in the personal income tax and officials expect at least an $800,000 savings for taxpayers. A sizable biennial surplus may cushion the overall budget, while the board of public works plans a slight increase to about $80,000,000. The 60 day session is expected to feature wrangling and debate.
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Harry G. Hoffmann
Board of Public Works
State Chamber of Commerce
Neely
State OPA Defines Ban On Pleasure Driving
The state Office of Price Administration launches a statewide clamp on pleasure driving and outlines typical cases to clarify essential versus pleasure travel. Officials warn enforcement will curb gasoline use and may confiscate ration coupons for violators.
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State Office of Price Administration
Carl M.frasure
OPA
Fighting French Reach Two Desert Outposts in Fezzan
French forces under Brig Gen. Jacques LeClerc report capturing two Axis desert outposts in southern Libya as they push north from Lake Chad toward the Mediterranean. They say El Gatron and Brack fell and other strongholds are doomed as their advance nears the 8th Army’s junction near Tripoli.
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Libya
Fezzan
Jacques LeClerc
Equatorial Africa
Mediterranean
el Gatron
Muzurc
Brack
Tripoli
Cayiture
LeClerc
Fezzen
Brach
Sth
Lake Chad
8Th Army
Tripolii
Mediterranea
Camel Corps
el Gatrun
Murzach
Sebhe
Gebel Es Sods
M Nary Probes Flynn Record Over Ambassador Nomination
Senator McNary announced Republicans would seek a hearing and investigation into Edward J. Flynn's record if President Roosevelt appoints him as ambassador to Australia. Flynn resigns as national chairman and says he will leave in February as nomination heads to the Senate, while McNary seeks Foreign Relations Committee action on the grand jury charges.
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Cority
Medam
Mbery
Oregon
Edward J. Flynn
Denesvatie
Roosevelt
Pin Envay
Australia
Flynn
New York
Flit
Senate
White House
Flynn McNary
Bow to Progress in Bermuda as Auto Ban Lifts
In Hamilton Bermuda January 2 the last purtney against major vehicle use ended with a 20 to 7 vote by the assembly. A report by the elect committee requested removal of the ban on cars after decades of restriction since the automobile’s invention. Relaxations had occurred during wartime allowing military trucks staff cars and doctors leasca limited travel on roads.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Assembly
United States
Record Budget Program Ready
President Roosevelt plans to submit the largest budget in history to Congress on Monday. The proposed outlays total about 10 billion dollars for the next fiscal year starting July 4. He will not appear in person to deliver the message and is expected to seek a new revenue bill to fund the plan. The proposal reportedly favors compulsory savings and higher taxes, with most refunds to taxpayers later. Specific tax recommendations are not expected. the state of the union theme emphasizes postwar needs and broader employment ideas.
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Washington
Jun
Roosevelt
Congress
Reid
Econgress
Allied Aerial Strategy Seen Hastening Victory
Cairo dispatch reports Air Chief Marshal St Arshne William Nedder, recently named RAF vice chief of staff, stating airpower is a separate arm of war. He says Britons and Americans now understand air power accelerates the end of the war, whereas Japan and Germany have not grasped this.
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Cairo
St Arshne
William Nedder
RAF
Fire Still Blazes In Pursgrove Mine
Morgantown January 3 rescue crews battle fire at Pursgrove No 13 mine after a blast that trapped 42 miners and a foreman who died heroically. Four bodies brought up and three more prepared for removal, eight men believed still inside nearby.
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Pursgrove
Bodiex
L. S. McGee
State Mines Department
Frank
Pressure Kept On Lae Harbor
Allies kept incessant air pressure on the Japanese beachhead at Lae in New Guinea after a three day battle. About 42 to 46 Japanese planes were shot down and 31 damaged while three transport ships were sunk or crippled in a convoy that MacArthur’s airmen reduced to fragments. A fourth transport was severely damaged, suggesting only partial landings at Lae.
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United Nations
Australia
INS
Lae
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Law
Buns- Gona
Heroism At Midway Decorated Navy Announces
Navy reveals that all 84 pilots and aerial gunners from two Marine squadrons at Midway were decorated for heroism after defending the island against more than 100 enemy bombers and fighters on June 4. Seventeen others were wounded and many returned to active service. decorations include 2 Medals of Honor, 52 Navy Crosses, a Gold Star, and 30 Distinguished Flying Crosses.
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Washington
Marine Aire Force
Battle of Midway Island
Navy
Midway
Hawaiian
Hese
Staut Bombing Squadron
Marhine Aircraft Group
Mose
White House
Richard E. Fleming
St. Paul
Minn
Lofton R. Henderson
Lorain
Marion &, Carl
Woodburn
Oregon
Guadalcanal
Solomon
Russians Nearing Donets Confluence
Soviet forces pressed closer to Rostov and Salsk as four-pronged advances hacked through rain and fog. Units captured several Caucasus towns, with thousands of Nazis killed, and railways and minefields disrupted as pincers closed toward Georgievsk and the Donets confluence.
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Rai
Georgievsk
Rostov
Salsk
Donyal- Jev
Caucasus
Sapporz
Sulak
Andrey I
Yeremenko
Barren
Steppe
Mozdok
Stalingrad-Black Sea
Nother -Runaing
Tured Ae
Gevorgievsk
Inane Sona
Ee Vauking
Nakchile
Prokhlidnaya
Pyatigorsk
Denely
Georgievsk Sad
Sal -River
Don
Germany
Donets
Orlovka
Stalingrad
Zimovniki
Peace Plan Studied At Welles Seminar
Washington reports under secretary of state Sumner Welles led a private State Department seminar for influential senators and representatives on the postwar peace and global economic rehabilitation. Attendees were tight lipped, and the discussion covered peace terms and postwar work reorientation as part of a policy by top officials.
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INS
Sumner Welles
State Department
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