Oil Shortage Plans Span Cards and Seaboard Cuts
Flow shortages push officials to consider ration cards for marshalling oil use in the East as embargoes and government oversight loom. Ickes says he does not know how a card system would work while urging rapid, coordinated action to avert a national emergency. A parallel plan envisions a vast fleet of tank barges moving Louisiana oil up the Ohio and Mississippi to Pittsburgh, with river carriers surveying equipment and expanding terminals to relieve the Atlantic Coast fuel pinch.
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Petroleum
Britain
Ares
Ickes
Iekes
Europe
Cincinnati
Louisiana
Ohio River
Atlantic
Allegheny Mountains
Office of Production Management
Defense Emergency Council
Ohio
Mississippi
Nesr
O’slack Barret
Mississippi River System Carriers Association
Texas
Baton Rouge
Mississippi and
Pittsburgh
Monongahela River
Allegheny
Harrisburg Governor Signs Eight Bills On Mines Labels Fire Police
Governor James signed eight measures including a mine map requirement for coal stripping operators under Mines Department rules with fines or jail for violations. Other enactments include labeling reclaimed oil, permitting volunteer firemen as special fire police, extending fireworks permit times, allowing certain army officers as Notaries Public, county treasurers to issue taxes for lands sold, and asset distribution rules for simultaneous deaths and insurance payments as if the insured survived the beneficiary.
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Harrisburg
James
Department of Mines
Clarence ©. Williams
Washington
Harry P. O‘neill
Army
Small fellows to get share in defense program
Washington reports that a War Department official told the Senate Military Committee small manufacturers will share more in defense work as sub contracts reach 177,000. He urged authority to requisition private machine tools. senators feared tool seizure would harm small firms. Also Philadelphia reunion of jurors from a contempt trial plans a picnic at J. Hensell French’s farm.
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Washington
War Department
Senate Military Committee
Ray M. Hare
Army- Navy Munitions Board
Hare
Johnson
D-Calu
Downey
D-Calif
Philadelphia
U. S
J. Warren Davis
J. Hensell French
U.S
River traffic concerns shift toward Wheeling and Steubenville
River men suggest stopping towboats at Wheeling West Virginia and Steubenville Ohio to ease congestion in the Pittsburgh district. The Monongahela draining West Virginia coal fields already carries the world’s heaviest river traffic density.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Steubenville
Pittsburgh
Monongahela
West Virginia
Ohio Girl Weds Vanderbilt Heir in Plymouth Ceremony
Eleanor Searle former opera soloist wed Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney heir to the Vanderbilt fortunes in a church founded by the bride’s great-grandfather. The surprise wedding stirred strong excitement in Plymouth Ohio.
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Eleanor Searle
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Plymouth
Incoherent training notice from Pennsyvania CCC district
An unclear clipping from Satliamsport Pennsylvania notes a training program announced by the CCC District ending officer. It mentions civilian training and a connection to schools and observers but contains many garbled words and lacks readable specifics.
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Satliamsport
Utmont i Pennnylvania
CCC District
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