Santa letters and gasoline rationing stir state notes
A fragment discusses a girl named Helen in Ontario California who wrote about Santa and gasoline rationing fears. Mentions Sanders McGee of Milwaukee Wisconsin offering to wrap himself as a gift plus requests for five gallons of gas and worn tires. Santa holds the offer while the girl possibly replies. Car dealers have sold over 85 million cars and trucks since the industry’s start.
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Ben Helen
Ontario
Calif
Helen
Santa
Sanders McGee
McGee
Vautomobile
Japanese raid on Port Moresby and Timor actions reported
Allied war communique notes enemy craft attacked Vila De Aviz near Timor and Port Moresby with incendiary and explosive bombs. One Japanese plane dropped its payload early yesterday but the report says little damage was caused at Port Moresby during the sixth raid on the southern New Guinea port.
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Vila de Aviz
Timor
Port Moreby
New Guinea
Jeannette Continues on U S Aid and Pacific Policy
Jeannette argues that to gain U S aid wartime policy must not embroil the nation with Japan. She says the Sept. 3 1941 requirements demanded Japan accept non disturbance of the Pacific status quo, equating it to asking Japan to guarantee the inviolateness of the white empire in the Orient, largely controlled by the British empire.
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United States
Japan
Pacific
Orient
Allied naval actions and air attacks in Tunisia and Sicily
Allied and axis reporting detail naval losses and aircraft strikes near Tunis, Bizerte, and off Sicily and Sardinia. The Cairo and admiralty dispatches note supply ships sunk or damaged by submarines, and RAF attacks with Albacores from Malta. Fighting persists around Tunisian towns as Eighth Army advances toward Tripoli amid weather and mud.
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Tunis
Cairo
Sicily
Admiralty
Tunis-Bizerte
Sardinia
Rome
Algerian
Tunisia
High Command
Rommel
Sirte
RAF
Middle East
Malta
Wellington
la Goulette
Tunisai
Tunisian
Kairouan
Pichon
Sousse
Libya
Eighth Army
Buerat el Hun
Mediterranean
Tripoli
el Agheila
Erwin Rommiel
Medjez-E-Bab
Mateur
Bizerte
Medjez-El-Bab
Morocco
Pont-Du-Fahs
U. S
Auto crash on street ends with accusation
Mrs. Nicholas E. Burke found her parked car damaged on the sidewalk after a collision with another car. The other driver claimed she was driving on the wrong side of the street. A stray remark underscores the aftermath of the wreck.
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ST. Louis
Nicholas E. Burke
Wearby
Weather Notes North and South States Cool Slightly Tonight
NORTH CAROLINA continues to run rather cold with slightly lower temperatures tonight. SOUTH CAROLINA predicts slightly cooler conditions tonight with little change in the extreme northwest portion. GEORGIA also expects a slight decrease in temperatures tonight. Also mentioned is a possible future substitution of windshield stickers date tabs and wooden plates for metal license plates to conserve steel.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Pay raises urged for low salaried state workers
Raleigh reports a general pay raise for state employees in the low salary bracket as a key recommendation of the state advisory budget commission to the next general assembly. The commission and Governor Broughton finalized the report after a day of work, with no figures released by the budget bureau though some sources cite the raise as likely.
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Raleigh
State Advisory Budget Commission
General Assembly
Broughton
Budget Bureau
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Lynne Roberts
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Hollywood
Erskine Johnson
NEA
Annie
Rosie
Edna Harris
New York
Victory
Washington
Hunter College
Crash Pictures
Pete Smith
Chime
Elephant Boy
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Naval Air Base
Australia
Theatre
Thomas Ville
Tomorro
Andrews Sisters
Don Daily, OR
Grace McDonald
Hangtown Mesa
Johnny Mack Brown
Fuzzy Knight
Bert Lahr
Patsy Kelly
ORE Mercer
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Pitt
Gen Foods
Shell
Socony
Sperry
Aviat Corp
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Tel & Tel
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Stewart Warner
Studebaker
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Bendix
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Consol
Ohio Oil
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