Gas Rationing Affects Eastern States As Pumps Must Share
The Office of Price Administration orders a 10 percent cut in gasoline deliveries to service stations in 16 eastern states and the District of Columbia with essential vehicles exempt. Station operators must distribute remaining supply without discrimination while records of all deliveries are kept. Ickes links the move to bolstering defense and aviation fuel while urging voluntary curtailment elsewhere.
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Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply
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New York
Pennsylvania
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Georgia
Florida
Apalachicola Caves
Columia
England
Nazi Germany
Theatre Attractions This Week At Local Cinemas
Sunday to Wednesday features Manpower starring Edward G. Robinson Marlene Dietrich and George Raft plus Tillie the Toiler from the comic strip Tracy Daphne Pollard. Thursday to Saturday presents Singapore Woman with Brenda Marshall Wild Bill Elliott Wildcat of Tucson and Harold Bell Wright’s Shepherd of the Hills in Technicolor with John Wayne. Tuesday to Saturday Walt Disney’s Reluctant Dragon with Robert Benchley and Lew Ayres in Dr Kildare’s Wedding Day.
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Edward G. Robinson
Marlene Dietrich
George Raft
Tillie the Toiler
William ‘Tracy
Daphne Pollard
Singapore
Brenda Marshall
Bill Elliott
Wildcat
Tucson
Harold Bell Wright
Walt Disney
Robert Benchley
Lew Ayres
Frances Gifford
Effort to Mislead Over Roosevelt Churchill Meeting
Topeka August 16 A Lan don Republican candidate in 1936 accuses the Roosevelt Churchill conference of being a staged tilt to mislead Americans about its purpose He argues high naval and military officers signaled military collabora tion not peaceful means and questions why worship freedom was omitted.
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Topeka
Alf M. Landon
Britain
Landon
Russia
Baldwin Mitchell to speak at Oberlin marker dedication
Baldwin Mitchell assistant attorney general will speak at the dedication of a Dull Knife Indian raid marker in the Kansas historical marker series on August 26 at Oberlin. Wallace Wolfe of Oberlin chairs the local committee as the highway department announces the marker will stand at the junction of U.S. 183 and U.S. 36 in Decatur County.
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Topeka
Baldwin Mitchell
Dull Knife
Oberlin
Wallace Wolfe
Highway Department
Kansas
U.S. 183
U.S. 36
Decatur County
Help Wanted Ads Signal Extra Help at Home or Office
Classified notice suggests need for extra help at home or in the office and provides a contact phone number 22 for applicants. The brief item emphasizes labour tasks and immediate assistance demand.
Mechanic Pilot Mackey Believed Dead Then Found Alive
Mrs Joseph C Mackey of Kansas City learned her husband a 31 year old pilot was listed as killed in the British transatlantic crash but the Royal Air Force ferry command corrected the error. The London report said the aviator was not aboard the ill fated plane and confusion with Canadian radio officer G W Mackay accounted for the mistake.
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Montreal
Joseph C. Mackey
Kansas City
Arthur Purvis
British Supply Council
North America
Mackey
G. W. Mackay
Climate History Project in Kansas Ahead of Publication
Topeka report states Federal meteorologist S D Flora is preparing a Kansas climate history for Kansas State College set for publication this winter. He wrote much of the manuscript 20 years ago and will update it to include 1940 with detailed year by year statistics since the state began keeping weather records.
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Topeka
Pi—S. D. Flora
Kansas
Kansas State College
Fiora
Danger to Nation Cited by Stimson
Washington reports say Secretary Stimson warned soldiers that the nation faces dangers from Germany and Japan, and from potential Axis activity in the Americas. He stressed defense readiness, denied plans for foreign expeditions, and framed the armament program as purely defensive.
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Washington
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Atlantic
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Germany
Russia
Alaskan
Aleutian
Alaska
South
Central America
Dakar
Brazil
Khy
South America
Russians Attack Germany Bomb Berlin and Stettin
Russian bombs heavily struck Berlin and the Baltic port of Stettin overnight, reported by Moscow radio heard in New York via CBS.
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Berlin
German Baltic
Stettin
New York
Moscow
CBS
Bomb Drops on Berlin and Stettin Reported by Broadcast
The report claims many incendiary and high explosive bombs of heavy caliber struck Berlin and Stettin. It notes numerous explosions and fires in both cities while all allied planes reportedly returned to base.
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Berlin
Stettin
Six Brumpton children killed in RAF crash at Newark
Six of R. W. Brumpton’s seven children died when an RAF plane crashed into their Newark Nottinghamshire home. Two fliers also perished. Mrs Brumpton and her youngest disabled daughter escaped by leaping through a window as flames engulfed the house. Ages ranged from 5 to 15. the father was at work.
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London
R. W. Brumpton
R.A.F
Newark
Nottinghamshire
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