Gas Rationing Arrives Amid Texas Car Crunch
In a wartime rush last night, Texans faced gasoline limits as rationing began. Citizens and officials debated who should get fuel while private drivers and Navy recruiters voiced frustrations. Amarillo officials opposed broad government exemptions, warning civilians share the burden.
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Texas
Porter County
Amarillo
Ccivil
Internal Revenue Farm
le Winy
State Comptroller’s Office
Republic
Army
Navy
FRD Seeks Extension of Salary Limitation Policy
President Roosevelt asked Congress to extend the $25,000 salary cap to investment income starting in 1943. An official noted the wage stabilization act limited executive pay but did not cover investment income. Critics, including Senator George A. Gal, call the move unwise, while supporters push for higher brackets reductions and broader tax reform in the next revenue bill. Senator Arthur Vandenberg warned of opposition.
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Washington, Dre
Thea
George 9-Gal
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Schatar Vandenberg
Small Papers Back AP in Monopoly Suit
A coalition of newspaper executives backed the Associated Press in a federal monopoly suit, urging equal access to AP news for small papers. The stance emphasized unbiased, factual reporting as vital to a free press, with supporters citing cooperative news gathering and democratic vitality.
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Decatur
Associated Press
Chicago Sturt
Chicago Tribune
The
Sun
Gamimiltec
Chicago Mornaing
Chicago
United States
Associated Press News
AP News
Roy Eddins
Marlin
Tex
Lindsay
Association of
A. H. Washburr
Star
Hope
State Revenues for November Hit All Time High
Revenue Department data show Arkansas November tax collections reached a record $4,624,128. A large share came from a February-like sales tax of $607,441 and peak monthly remittances from cigarette income severance and liquor taxes plus auto division fees. November 1942 receipts rose about 25 percent from November 1941. Alcohol taxes did not meet Baker-Lovett Act budget needs, with remaining revenue to support old age pensions and school equalization funds.
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Little Rock
Revenue Department
Arkansans
Cashier News Schulfield
Rules Jap Colonists Not State Citizens
In Little Rock on December 1 1944 Attorney General Jack Hart ruled that newborn babies in the Robwer and Jerome Japanese colonies in Southeast Arkansas are not part of Arkansas. He said physicians at the colonies cannot issue birth certificates for babies born there, noting such doctors are not licensed to practice in Arkansas and are performing a federal function. Separately at Yakima Washington Agency employees cut automobile driving by one third, riding horses to save gasoline and rubber.
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Little Rock
Jack Hart
Robwer
Jérome
Arcanigas
Mtelt
Grayson
West
Hinwai
Ameren
Arkansas
Yakima
Suiijesources
Gisolne
Joshua K. Shepherd
Pulstski County Defense Council
Motor Vehicles Go On Gas Diet During Ration Start
As nationwide gasoline rationing begins, about 27 million passenger cars and 5 million commercial vehicles join the program, with Eastern states mostly using A ration. Officials defend controls amid pro and anti ration sentiment while motorists rush to register, stockpile, and obtain permits. In Little Rock, rationing sparks panic buying and fears of hoarding as dealers report peak sales and storehouses.
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John H. Wiggins
Washington
Ares
Office of Price Administration
West Virginia
Robert P. Patterson
Patterson
Vandenberg
R - Mich
Senate
lHe
OPA
Focal Boards
Iocal
Tomorow
Honel
Railway Express
Cillette
D-lown
Avrientive
William M. Jeffers
Frisco Adjusts Passenger Train Schedule
The Prison Railroad announces a schedule change for the Hope line. The passenger train originally departing Hope at 9:10 a.m. will now leave at 8:90 a.m. due to operational adjustments. Storks in Holland are noted as decreasing as a sanitary asset, attributed to poisoned grasshopper control. (South Africa notes)
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Hope #1
Holland
South Africa
Submarine Sinks Eight Jap Cargo Ships Near Japan
An American submarine within sight of Japanese cities sank eight enemy cargo ships totaling 70 000 tons and damaged four others in a bold strike on Japan s far drawn supply lines. Commander Klakring praised the feat as he arrived at Pearl Harbor to receive the Navy Cross.
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Associated Press
Japan
Thomas Burton Klakring
Klakring
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
New Guinea
Bank Robbery Foiled by Clerk Daughter Wound in Hickman Mills
Elizabeth Slaugher, 15, helped her father, John Slaughter, stop a bank robber at the Hickman Mills bank in Missouri. The attacker, hiding in a storm door, forced entry with a gun, fled after a scuffle, leaving his gun and hat. Slaughter was shot in the ankle during the struggle, then the bandit fled on foot as townspeople alerted police. The suspect was a red haired man, 25 to 30, wearing a black overcoat and bathrobe cord.
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Hickman Mills
Dee
Elizabeth Slaughyler
John Slughter
Raul
Slaughter
Hickman Mills Bank
Norrell Opposes Aid to Small Sawmills
Rep Norrell of Arkansas today joined opponents of a 100 million program to aid small sawmills He urged President Roosevelt not to sign an executive order making loans available saying the peak of war construction has passed and lumber demand would fall He argued existing mills could meet needs if they have labor and suggested deferment to keep production steady.
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Washington
Norrell
D-Ark
Roosevelt
Norvell
Nazis Claim Toll of 166 Allied Vessels
Berlin reports a German High Command broadcast claiming November sinking 466 Allied ships totaling 1,085,200 tons. The claim lacks independent confirmation and echoes prior exaggerated pronunciamentos. Also notes a Belgian refugee firm that manufactured Lewis guns in 1915, credited to an American inventor.
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Berlin
Lewis Guns
Belgnion Refugees ii
Bringham
England
United States Army
Flashes of Life Spelling Bee at Bethlehem Era
Lehigh University students report a spellings frenzy with 62 variants of the word Nuclear. A Pittsburgh meat house faces rationing and staff discuss gasoline deliveries as wartime controls take hold. Ray R. Smith, a gas station attendant, recalls a tense rationing moment witnessed near Avalon. Roosevelt receives a vegetable crates note marked with Vs from Chicago enemies.
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Associated Press
Bethlehem
Harold Anson
Lehigh University Lust
Csuerly
Bown and White
Suiry
Avalon
Ray
Smith
Allies Rapidly Expand Wedges in Enemy Lines
Allied columns strike across Tunisia as air superiority grows and two wedges push toward severing Axis forces from their last land route to Tripoli. British and American units approach Tunis and Bizerte while others race along the coast to lock the Tunis Tripoli road.
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London
Tunisia
Tunis
Bizerte
Tripilo
North Africa
Navih Africa
Pont du Fahs
Pierre Boisson
French Equatorial Africa
Jean Dar Jan
Boisson
Dakar
United Nations
Auguste Nogues
Morocco
Michelier
Darlan
Algiers
Mediterranean
Sicily
Pantelleria
Rome
Berlin
Bone
Algieria
Palermo
Gela
Trapani
Tunisian
Libya
Ankara
Greece
Egypt
Rommel
Africa Corps
el Agheila
Cancer
Beeen Bizerte
Rationing Hurts Quail Season in Arkansas
Gasoline rationing grips open season for quail dove and fur bearing animals in Little Rock Dee. Tom Mull of the game and fish commission predicts many hunters will trek on foot as quail bumper crop spurs large hunting turnout. Open season for doves runs through December 30 and for quail and fur bearing animals through January 15.
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Little Rock
Dee
Tom Mull
Game and Fish Commission
Fire tragedy at Cocoanut Grove Club inquest testimony
Boston witnesses testified on a crowded Cocoanut Grove blaze that killed 449, with an inspector saying exits were sufficient and that artificial palms helped fuel the fire. A survivor described flames racing 106 feet behind them as they fled toward a revolving door.
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Boston
Coteanut Grove
Maurice Levy
Levy
Cocoanut Grove
Boston Fire Department
Boston Committee On Public Safety
Charles ‘Buckl J Jones
Frank J. Linney
William Arthur Reilly
Onny
Linney
Walsh
John W. Bradley
Melody
Bradley
Hitler Appeal Spurs Nazis to Desperate Fight
Adolf Hitler's appeal reportedly spurred a desperate Nazi effort to recapture rail links south of Rzhev and southwest of Velikiy, as Red Star and other reports describe brutal fighting on the central Russian front near Moscow. Russian forces ringed Stalingrad and edged along approaches, while Axis troops struggled to hold supply lines divided by winter snows and heavy bombardment.
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Europe
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Adolf Hiler
Rzhev
Vel Luki
Red Star
Hitler
Bere ‘Lin
BBC
New York
CBS
London Evening News
Stockholm
Stalingrad
Tikhorelsk
Kotekovski
Volga
Rustans
Red Army
Vyazma
Rzhev-Riga
Battte
Tarasov
Povetkin
Red
Russia
War Power to FDR to Control Tariff Laws
Washington December 1 The House Ways and Means subcommittee unanimously agreed to draft a new modified war powers bill for full committee action. It would grant Roosevelt discretionary authority to suspend tariff laws and regulations, with a key change expanding to suspend immigration and customs provisions when necessary to prosecute the war.
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FDR
Washington
Ua ‘House Way
Mesas House
Roosevelt
White House
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