Gasoline Rationing After War Pushes Higher Oil Prices
Oklahoma City dispatch reports the Independent Petroleum Association of America urging higher crude prices to end postwar gas rationing fears. The IPAA seeks federal action to override the OPA ceiling, arguing current prices deter new oil discoveries and threaten extended rationing while labor costs rise. Rep. Disney cautions Congress may delay help.
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Oklahoma City
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Office of Price Administration
United States
Frank Buttran
IPAA
Ickes
OPA
Buttram
Disney
D-Okla
Congress
Labor Chief bearish on unity in AFL ranks
Chicago August 17 4 President William Green of the American Federation of Labor is bearish on labor unity. He said unity within six months is not likely and noted complexities with CIO unions. Green cited 1938 peace plan as possible but insufficient. Also reports on regulatory tests in multiple states and cooperation from state attorney generals. HA! WA! BOUNTIFUL Utah two gunmen robbed a filling station, forcing the attendant into a car and failing to open the strong box. They found $2,700 in another safe and drove off.
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Chicago
William Green
American Federation of Labor
AFL Executive Council
Green
CLO
AFL
CIO
United Steel Workers
United Auto Workers
Joseph A. Padway
Colorado
Texas
Idaho
Alabama
Kansas
Florida
North Dakota
Bountiful
Utah
Wyoming Trout Species Count in State Waters
Wyoming rivers and lakes contain seven trout species namely black spotted brown brook California golden olden mackinaw rainbow and Ronspee golden, reflecting diverse sport fishing opportunities across the state.
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Wyoming
Community Honors Sgt Bill Anderson With Victory Crop Drive
FAIRMONT Minnesota August 17. The town honors Sgt Bill Anderson killed in North Africa at 21 by naming today Sgt Bill Anderson Day. Hundreds join as his mother Mrs Lottie Anderson flips the switch to start the victory crop drive and feed the city’s quick freez ing plant with sweet corn. Volunteers from Fairmont and nearby towns work in fields and the plant to ease manpower shortages and support the war effort.
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Fairmont
Minn
Bill Anderson
Bill
Lottie Anderson
Dreng Bijomnaraa
War Manpower Commission
Dan Larin
Harry Allen
Minnesota
E. B. Nelson
Pete Cory
Wilbur A. Korfhage
Adolph Herber
Pvt
John Jorgenson
New Guinea
Allied military currency in Sicily described as liberating aid
The Treasury War Department said Allied military currency issued in Sicily supplements local money under international law and aims to aid liberation and rehabilitation. It notes records of issuance and exchange maintenance, while clarifying occupying powers’ authority to provide currency needs.
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Washington
Sicily
United Nations
Treasury War Department
Ing
Walter E. Spahr
New York University
Economists’ National Committee On Monetary Policy
Treasury-War Department
Supreme Court of the United States
Prison Labor Help Is Denied Three Counties
RALEIGH Aug 17 Despite Governor Broughton classifying New Hanover Alamance and Forsyth counties as having critical labor shortages they will not receive prison labor for farm work The state highway commission refused the counties request to use prisoners for silage help The commission cited declining prison population needs in the highway system and road improvements for winter and linked schooling to good roads
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Raleigh
Broughton
New Hanover
Alamance
Forsyth
State Highway Commission
D. B. McCrary
Housing Shortage in Chandler Scarce Dwellings Salvaged
The coal camp once bustling with a rich vein mining activity now loses its citizenry as buildings are salvaged for other locations leaving many dwellings empty. Ghosts may haunt vacant rooms until new homes arise.
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Chandler
Cole
Silver Star awarded to bomber crew for gallant shadowing mission
Allied Headquarters in the Southwest Pacific reports eleven crew members received Silver Star decorations for remaining on station and shadowing an enemy convoy between New Britain and the Manua Islands. The aircraft withstood eight Zero attacks as four Japanese planes were shot down and no crew members were hurt despite anti aircraft fire and damage to the bomber.
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Southwest Pacific
George C. Kenney
Stanley C. Weaver
Winterpark No. 3
Wilmington
N. C
New Britain
Manua Islands
Feed shortage threatens North Carolina livestock output
RALEIGH Aug 17 North Carolina livestock and poultry growers face a critical feed shortage. Dean I O Schaub of the State College Extension Division warns production may have to fall unless feed supplies rise. Western shipments are down and local small grain crops cannot meet higher livestock and poultry production. Schaub urges increased small grain acreage and higher yields per acre through soil preparation, noting farmers and farms have boosted hog cattle and chicken production for the market. First diamonds ever discovered in actual rock peridotites were found at Murfreesboro Ark in 1906.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Dean I. O. Schaub
N. C. State College Extension Division
Schaub
Murfreesboro
Ark
Angel Face thief jailed after New York pickpocket spree
Marjorie Long Katenkamp, 29, known as Angel Face, confessed to an 11 year crime record and six prior arrests. In New York she slipped purses at Macy's but targeted Judge George L. Donnellan as a victim. she pleaded guilty to petit larceny and was sentenced to three months in the workhouse.
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New York
Marjorie Long Katenkamp
Chillicothe
Ohio
Angel Face
Cleveland
General Sessions
George L. Donnellan
K. H. Macy's
Donnellan
Man Walks Backward for Reading Faces
San Francisco police stopped a sober pedestrian who walked backward as an odd reply to why he did it. He said he liked to read the expressions on followers faces, then walked away with the officer.
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San Francisco
Page
Water Unfit Without Boiling or Distillation
Tests at Fort Snelling Minn report water unfit for human use without boiling or distillation. The article notes successful tests of the model indicating safety concerns and the need for treatment before consumption.
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Fort Snelling
Minn
Extra Special Delivery Key Found in North Africa
A postal service between the United States and North Africa reports success with a package marked Exhibit A. The key to room 556 was posted from a North African field on August 9 and reached a local Charlotte hotel a week later. Seven unnamed U.S. soldiers, not previously in Charlotte, said they found the key somewhere in North Africa.
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Charlotte
Uncle Sam
U.S
North Africa
Charoltte
First Game Preserve In America at Ottawa Estate
The note states that America’s first game preserve was established and stocked by Judge J. D. Caton on his Ottawa Illinois estate in 1860. The claim ties a named individual and place to a pioneering wildlife effort in the mid nineteenth century.
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America
J. D. Caton
Ottawa
Hungary’s Premier In Berlin For Conference
Premier Nicolas Kallay of Hungary arrived in Berlin for talks with German leaders amid reports of rising anti Axis sentiment in Hungary. Recent London dispatches via Turkey cited a cabinet flare up after student riots and threats of ministerial resignations. Jethro Wood, inventor of the modern plow, began with potato models.
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London
Paris
Nicholas Kallay
Hungary
Berlin
Turkey
Kallay
Jethro Wood
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Karl Solner
Germany
University of Minn
Maurice B. Visscher
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Visscher
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ONDE
Mth
Lai
Chamber of Commerce
International
Turvey
Katra
Ln Ow Sports Department
Flarllee
van Heusen
Jantzen
Clearance Children’s Wear
Woolens Rayons
Bemberg
Parllee
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