Nation-Wide Gasoline Rationing Ordered by Jeffers
Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers ordered nationwide gasoline rationing to conserve tires. The OPA will extend eastern restrictions nationwide with a possible November 1 start and a 35 mph limit to cut consumption. Jeffers urged drivers to slow, noting tires and rubber crucial for military and civilian needs.
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Washington
William M. Jeffers
Special Rubber Committee
Union Pacific Railroad
Office of Price Administration
Leon Henderson
United States
Seaboard
Jeffers
Bernard M. Baruch
OPA
Office of “Defense Transportation
Office of Defense Transportation
Transportation Service
ODT
Axis unity and American might frame war broadcasts
War Today discusses Axis coordination and the fear of Allied sea control. It notes Japan's fleet ties with Berlin and Rome, the Tokyo Asahi claims a strengthened Axis striking power, and remarks on American industrial power. The piece also cites the U S Navigation Bureau founding and Canada sheep census to provide context.
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Berlin
America
Aladdin
United States
Tokyo
Rome
Atlantic
Asahi of
Japan
War Front Demands Harder Home Front Before 1943
The article outlines price ceiling policies for 1943 with parity calculations and a 130 percent target. It notes expected meat shortages for civilians while livestock slaughter rises. Wickard warns of millions more Americans joining the war effort, prompting possible crop reshuffles. Nelson compares US civilian economy cuts to wartime needs, projecting a rise from 40 to 60 percent of total output to fuel production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
England
JAP BOMBER THE FOXHOLES FACES HEAVY AA FIRE
A World War II scene depicts aircraft engagements as bombers struggle through anti air bursts to reach a general target area. Major John L. Smith of Lexington Oklahoma tops local scores with 15 enemy planes shot down in five weeks while his wife resides in Norfolk Virginia.
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John L. Smith
Lexington
Okla
Flo
Major Smith
Norfolk
Australians Continue From Page One Battle Report
Allied air and sea actions unfold across Asia and Pacific fronts. U S Army planes hit Hanoi air drome and downed three Japanese aircraft while likely destroying two more. American fliers also hit truck columns in Yunnan, destroying 12 to 20 of 30 vehicles. In the southwest Pacific, B 29s bombed transports and damaged two enemy bases in the northern Solomons amid a transport assault against opposition by 20 fighters. Allied patrols push the Japanese from near Mubo, twelve miles from Salamaua, as Port Moresby reports a retreat. More than a quarter of auto industry employment lies outside Michigan in normal times.
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Anhwei
Joseph W. Stilwell
China
Hanoi
Indo-China
Yunnan
Southwest
Pacific
Navy
Solomon Islands
Port Moresby
Mubo
Salamau
New Guinea
Horizontal and Vertical Word Puzzle Clues List
A mixed list of crossword style clues arranged as horizontal and vertical entries with numbers and irregular spellings across two grids. Clues include depictions of states senses organs roots and various everyday items plus abbreviations and foreign terms.
Quisling Split Deepens as Norway Crisis Expands
German occupation in Norway tightens as Quisling party fractures while British air raids widen across Scandinavia. Stockholm reports four dead and 40 injured from recent raids as Sweden faces German pressure over neutrality. British planes conduct mines in German shipping lanes as the Oslo raid lingers in uncertainty.
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Stockholm
Oslo
Scandinavia
Exchange Telegraph
Britain
Sweden
Baltic
Norway
London
Quisling
Nikolaus von Walkenhorst
Norwegian Quisling split on plan to Germanize Norway
Reports say the Quisling faction is divided and snubbed by Norwegian labor and industry. Norwegian industrial associations align with labor leaders in rejecting the plan for a cooperative parliament under a Fascist order. Outbreaks continue in Oslo during weekend meetings.
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Hitler
Quisling
Patriots smash Quisling rally as Oslo raids cause damage
The Norwegian agency reports patriots broke into Bislep Sports Stadium buildings where the Quisling party gathered for a parade and burned Quisling newspaper stacks. Buildings caught fire, several arrests were made, and Oslo faced a state of emergency as pamphlets urged boycott of the Quisling youth group amid clashes.
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Bislep
Quisling
Fritt Folk
Navy strength and carrier fleet Britain ready for action
Heavy pulse and Prince of Wales. Aircraft carriers include the Eagle Ark Royal Glorious Courageous Hermes and Audacity. Britain may have 15 battleships 200 destroyers 200 Coventrys nine aircraft and seaplane carriers with 23 000 ton Implacable and Indefatigable due for completion this year and new battleships Anson and Howe reported ready for action.
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Pulse
Prince of Wales
Eagle
Ark Royal
Glorious
Courageous
Hermes
Audacity
Britain
Empire
Anson
Howe
Soviet Red Star reports heavy fighting around Stalingrad
The report describes fierce street battles with German forces advancing and at least 30 tanks destroyed by a guards unit, 285 Germans killed, and Russian counterattacks wiping out a company of enemy infantry while seizing six machineguns six mortars and 130 rifles. It notes heavy Luftwaffe raids on Volga crossings and continued food and munitions flow to defenders.
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Crs
Stalingrad
Red Star
Volga
Red Army
Red Navy
Volga River
Semeon Timoshenko
Don Band
Berlin
Caucasus
Caucasus Mountains
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Mozdok
Central Caucasus
Simyavino
Volkhov
Weather summaries for three states and Russia output
North Carolina may see occasional rain this afternoon and tonight with higher interior temperatures. South Carolina experiences drizzle and showers with little temperature change this afternoon and tonight. Georgia has occasional showers this afternoon and tonight with no major temperature shift. Russia produced 32,000,000 metric tons of petroleum in 1940.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Russia
Thomasville Woman Guilty of Non-Support
Hazel Suggs a local white woman was convicted of non support of her two children in Thomasville court. She received eight months sentence suspended on condition she support her children in the future.
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Thomasville
Hazel Suggs
Carl Wilson
Millard Dunlap
Theo Westmoreland
William Chevalier
Miami
Florida
Edgar Fowler
United States Army
Irene Porter
Ernest T. Sawyer
Charlotte
Irvin Holt
Herbert A .White
Largest wartime convoy to Russia praised by Eden
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said the convoy to Russia delivered the largest total of munitions yet transported in a single voyage from Britain and the United States. He cited aircraft, tanks, guns, ammunition and stores, guarded by seventy five British warships, with cooperation from the merchant fleets of Britain, the United States and Russia.
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London
Anthony Eden
Russia
Britain
United States
Leamington
Admiralty
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Dominion of Canada
Lydia E. Pinkham
Funkham
Wickard
Army
Michigan
John
Juuicly
Lucy
Riam
Dex
Qine
Jax Toe Cendy
Uncle Sam
U.S
Alaska
Australia
Egypt
Iceland
Ireland
West Indies
Post Office Department
Dover Straits
Reuters
Bertin Radio
Weather Bureau
Asheville
Atlanta
Birmingham Charlotte
Chicago
Columbia
New York
Eastman Rod Penney J
Gen Foods
AT & T
Sears AT & Sf
Socony
Int Harvest
Nick Can
Atlas
Tel & Tel
Sperry
Aviat Corp
Cal
Baldwin
Johns Man
Oil Ind
B&o
Barnsdall
Studebaker
Kennecott
Swift Bendix
Aviat Bal
Kroger Groc
Beth St
T Borden
Tex Co
Briggs
Libby O
Ligg & Myers
Tex Gulf
Buda Wheel
Loews
Transamer
A & Lorilard
Trans & West Air Bar
Louis & Nash
Calumet & Hec M
Mont Ward
Unit Aire
Unit Corp
Ches & O
Nash Kelv
Chrysler
Nat Biscuit
Coca Cola
Nat Cash
Colum G & E
Nat Dairy
U S Ind Alco
U S Rubber
US Smelt & Ret
Comwith
É& Su
Nat Pow & Li
U S Steel
Consol
Y Cent
Con Oil
West Mary
Nor Pac
Curtiss Wright
Otis Eley
Woolworth
Davison Chem
P Y del Lack & Way
Pac G& EB
Yes
T& C
Doug Aire
Pac Mills
Youngs S & T
du Pont
Packard A
T ‘Ville
Java
Central and
South America
West End
Gene Autry Smiley
Mexico Way
Secret Service
Guilford
English Street
College ST
South Main Street
Mack’s Fish and Oyster Market
Mack's Market
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