Gasoline Dealers Ordered Closed in OPA Hearings
In Erie, two gas dealers faced suspensions and one was fined as OPA Trial Commissioner Allen Caruthers ordered actions. C. P. MacArthur’s State Motor Service in Buffalo received a one week closure and a ban from the business for wartime duration, while Charles P. Reuse’s Reuse Motor Service in Erie drew a two week suspension for alleged inventory shortages. Other Erie stations and additional operators await final hearings.
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Erie
OPA
Allen Caruthers
New York City
Perera
C. P. MacArthur
The
State Motor Service Company
Birge Company
Niagara. Street
Buffalo
N.Y
MacArthur
Larkin
Joseph J. Strohmeyer
Strohmeyer
MacCarthili
Caruthers
Charles P. Reuse
Reuse Motor Service
Sassstras Street
Erie Stations
Death notices and fires mix with school and sports items
Twenty years ago word came of the death of Dennis Parsons formerly of the city who died at home in Los Angeles. A fire on West Pleasant Street prompted the fire department but police made several arrests for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Health authorities reported chicken pox and scarlet fever cases. A local high school game saw Driscoll run for a third quarter touchdown in a 6 0 Erie East High Seconds win over Sheen’s. Arthur Palmer was elected president of the High School Student Council. Other items mention a Knights Templar Conclave in Jamestown.
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Dennis Parsons
Los Angeles
Calif
West Pleasant Street
Duntle
Corry
Driscoll
Erie East
High
Orange and Black
Sheen
Arthur Palmer
Raymond Ewing
John Masterson
Nation's Record Farm Crop Grown With Smallest Labor Force
Washington reports this year’s crop set a national record with the smallest farm labor force on record. With war workers in camps and in plants, farmers used machinery and additional hours from families and nontraditional workers to harvest a record yield. The War Food Administration aided foreign and domestic labor movement to meet shortages, including 12,000 domestic farm workers transported from surplus states to deficit ones.
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U. S. Crop Corps
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
War Food Administration
United States
Carent Farm
Inter
WFA
Office of Labor
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Virginia
West Virginia
Florida
Missouri
New Mexico
Arizona
New York
Wyoming
Colorado
Idaho
California
Maine
Nebraska
Utah
Washington
Montana
Ohio
Oregon
Northland
South Dakota
Indiana
Michian
The
Charles G. Haslet
Armed Services
Isbor
Agriculture Department
Allied drive to restore Europe and fire losses rise sharply
A war era report notes Allied aid to Italy under fascism and postwar recovery, with 200 million dollars in expenditures led by the United States for food clothing medical supplies fuel and agriculture. It contrasts Italy’s recovery with rising American fire losses nearing half a billion dollars and urges personal home fire prevention.
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Europe
Italy
Lot Hg
America
United States
Libel suit results from sale of team
Fragmentary OCR reports a libel suit related to a sale of a team with testimony and names including David I of Cambridge and Warren of Erie. The text is garbled with multiple misspellings and unclear event details.
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David i
Cambridge
Robest
Warren
Erie
Mao
Daily Dozen on the evolution of undulant fever
The article traces the history of undulant fever also called Malta fever and Brucellosis. It notes early Malta references in 1600 and names linked to the disease such as Gibraltar fever and Mediterranean fever. Sir David Bruce identified the germ in 1886 and pasteurization reduced infections. It mentions 2500 US cases in 1936 and 7000 Canadian National retirees receiving pensions.
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Malta
Malia River
Gibraltar
United States
Quiz questions tease readers with old world trivia
Column lists seven trivia questions from a 1940s page, asking who won Game Four of the World Series and score, the nickname Black Jack General, Hertzian waves, Wilhelmshaven location, authors of These Lowns, Belgium’s relative position to Holland, Granite State nickname, surface sine wave cycle, odd cheese note, and a naval hero quote.
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Tmn
Black Jack
Wilhelmshaven
Germany
North Sea
England
Belgium
Holland
Abbott
Cheshire
Silicon
Sevres
Roquefort
Edam
U.S
Captured Kane Man on Ship Sunk by U S
J Walter Johnson, prisoner from Corregidor, reportedly among US captures after a Jap freighter carrying Philippine prisoners was sunk in May 1942. The War Department list includes Pvt Johnson. some survivors rescued, others perished or were recaptured by the Japanese. Johnson’s sister, Mrs. Kenneth Trumbull, relayed the消息 from Erie.
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U. S
J. A. Alfo Td Johnson
Kenneth Trumbull
Erie
Fourth Erie Club Robbery Earns Over $1000
Erie police report a robbery at the Polish Falcons Club on East Third Street netting $1,008.45. This marks the fourth Erie club robbery in six weeks, totaling over $2,000 across incidents. A separate heist at Uthmann Chor on Peach Street yielded $407. Entry was gained by forcing a rear north door. loot included cash from a safe.
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Erie
Polish Falcon Club
Nest 610
East Third Street
Uthmann Chor
Peach Street
Polish Falcons
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G. 8. Peek
Ernest L. Morrow
Sidney B. Elston
Charles P. Paulson
George L. McKelvey
J. Roscoe Dearing
Knights Templar
Masonic Temple
Jamestown
Commandery No. 61
REX Theatre
Sonny Tufts
Paul
Ette Goddard
Insurance
Robert Hinckley
Elizabeth Lanston
Honeywell
Woods Reliable Brand
Crawford
M. Woods
Wimng-Willi
Frank Sanders
R. D
John Spitaman
Chrysler
Guy Rogers
Edward Messenger
Mrs. Mae McCormick
Plymouth Precision Wheel
Wallace
Jet Foley
Mrs
Roy Root
Whinner
Boston House
Gil Donaldson
Harry Lamona
Nyy
Tom Burkhart
Se Phillips Milk OF
Magnesia
Shambaugh
Merle Smith
Ralph Ghiriuzio
West Main
Mrs. Martin Rubay
J.C. Spiesman
Merle Triseult, R, D
Medical Society of the
State of Pennsylvania
Canadian National Railways
I. Q
Kane Man
Wilcox Grocery
Yeggs
Minnesota
Lanston’s
Center St
Dial
Cocal
Gupine
Lee TA
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