Tire Rationing Plan Tightens for A Card Holders
The Office of Price Administration and War Manpower Commission issued a new tire rationing priority order. A cards receive no preference, while four groups set who may obtain limited passenger tires. Group 1 covers emergency and critical war production workers. Group 2 includes farmers and essential farm-related leadership and government recruiters. Group 3 covers those who service essential establishments on request. Group 4 grants remaining Grade 1 eligible drivers access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Price Administration
War Manpower Commission
Two Marines Die In-Plane Crash Near Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill Ind March 27 second lieutenant Robert Walter Bur ett twenty and Aviation Cadet nis William Duffey eighteen both of US Marine Corps died in a crash during shipborne training near the Bunker Hill Naval Station. Duffey was the son of Laura O Conner Duffey of 214 Fulton street Butler Pa.
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Bunker Hill
Ind
Robert Walter Burett
U. S. Marine Corps
Japa
Calif
Nis
William Duffey
Butr
Omshia
Bunker HU Naval Station
Duffey
Laura O'Conner Duffey
St Fulton Street
Butler
19 Year Old Kills Mother Then Commits Suicide
Jamestown, March 27 Roger Gregg 19 of Gerry township murdered his mother Ruby Nelson Gregg 49 and then killed himself with a shot through the temple. He crushed her skull with a rolling pin after firing from a small caliber pistol. He telephoned his father in Hope Windows coal plant and said he had killed his mother before shooting himself. The father heard the shot as police found the son dead on a living room Davenport near the telephone. The weapon was a Spanish automatic pistol fired once. Coroner Samuel T. Bowers will return a murder and death by own action verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
Roger
Gregg
Gerry Township
Samuel T. Bowers
Hope Windows
Gerry
Bindairville
Ruby Neil
Grege
Peter Grege
Bowers
West Ridge
Falconer
Wesson Paplow
Young Gregg
Greggs
Ration facts outline stamps validity and future schedules
The notice lists meat and fats stamps from Book Four Q5 to X5 with various end dates through June, blue sugar stamps and fuel allocations, airplane shoes, and gasoline coupons. It notes next vatamp validation May 1 and that OPA has no cancellation plans. Indefinite validity for some airplane stamps and extended coupons for fuel and heating gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Melville Morgan sues Doris Coons in Erie County Court
Melville A. Morgan of Fairview files a $1,000 trespass action in Erie County Court against Doris Coons of New Cumberland. He seeks damages for personal injuries from an auto crash at West 12th Street and Cemetery Road on September 21, 1944, when his eastbound car was struck by Coons driving south on Cemetery Road.
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Erie
Melville A. Morgan
Fairview
Erie County
Doris Coons
New Cumberland
12Th Street
Cemetery Road
Morgan
West 12Th Street
CAP Gets Armory at Jamestown
Jamestown March 27 A cloak of mystery surrounded a meeting Saturday of Major Johnny Welent the Jamestown squadron Civil Air Potted and Armory officials over the CAP use of Armory facilities for storage and training A new request for use of the facilities will be filed detailing pre flight teaming organization The meeting’s attendees and even the identity of an Albany official remain unclear amid a protest reportedly filed with Governor Dewey
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Jamestown
Johnny Welent
Jamestown Squadron
Civil Air Potted
State Armory
CAP
Peacheil
GAP
Albany
Dewey
Warren High Grad Killed in Action in Germany
March 27 Mr and Mrs Otto Peterson of 8 Sixth Avenue learned from the War Department that their only son T-5 Fred W Peterson was killed in action in Germany on March 4 He was a 1941 graduate of Warren High School where he played trombone in the Dragon band and later with Wilson Brydon s swing band He belonged to First Presbyterian Church and earlier to Warren Chapter Order of DeMolay He worked for National Forge and Ordnance in Trine before volunteering for aviation cadets Entering service two years ago he transferred from aviation to engineers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Forge and Ordnance Company
Trine
Engineers
Stamps Aid Veterans War-Healing Effort
Voice of the People letter explains used stamps from many collections feed Red Cross efforts in New York chaired by Ernest A. Kehr. Stamps are sent to hospitals for wounded veterans to lift spirits and aid recovery. Roosevelt reportedly sent thousands from his collection after meeting Kehr. The writer urges continued sending to New York for veterans’ morale and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Voice of the People
the Red Cross
New York
Ernest A. Kehr
Roosevelt
Kehr
Robert Steves
Man's Last Request Fulfilled Before Dying
Rudolph died after asking to hear clarinetist Lytell play Happy Birthday at his bedside in Williamsport. He faintly sang along as Lytell performed then faded off with his mother present, while Lytell later returned to New York.
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Associated Press
Williamsport
Lytel
Lytell
New
Orig
Morton Downey
Rudolph
Lyell
New York
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Phillips
North Center Street
Gorenttigl Hae
Auker
the National Bank OF Corry
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Warren High
ST. Corry
O. J. Wynn
Orlie Wynn
Fonner Leon Spercer Fyr
Freedom
Pennsylvania Gas Company
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