OPA Moves Against L A Gas Black Market Operators
Federal prosecutors file charges against 17 men tied to a San Antonio gas coupon racket linked to Kelly Field workers. Complaints accuse two men of selling coupons at 25 cents and 15 others of purchasing one to 56 coupons each. A new system will require coupon checks by distributors and dealers to curb illegal gas sales.
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Federer Autores
San Antonio
Willingham Motor Lines
Bawson Street
Gilbert Sharpe
U. S
William V. Dobbins
OPA
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Ine
Kelly Field
Sharpe
Mey
Ing
OFA
Atd
Drivers Face OPA Panel Over Pleasure Trips to Mexico
The Bexar County war price and rationing board will hear appeals next week from 32 automobile owners charged with using occupational mileage for pleasure trips to Mexico. Some drivers were caught at the Laredo bridge by OPA investigators. The panel can revoke gasoline allowances, even for books, and enforcement officials helped secure names. A board member stated a stricter policy to curb unlawful gasoline use.
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Antoniais
Mexico
Bexar County
OPA
Laredo Bridge
Weyl
Berlin Raid by RAF Hits Target in Night Bombing
RAF heavy night bombers struck Berlin sending vast fields of explosions as records were contested. the air ministry reported the raid used about 1460 long tons of explosives, likely aimed at the nerve center and key facilities near dawn with American bombers joining earlier actions.
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Berlin
Air Ministry
Borin
London
R.A. FL
Berlin Armin
Nad
H. H. ‘Arnold
Miller
Europe
Faye
All-Negro U S Fighter Squadron Downs 28 Planes
Algiers reports an all Negro U S fighter unit credited with downing 28 enemy planes in dog fights over the Nettuno front. The squadron, active for months, claimed multiple kills in morning and afternoon actions as Focke Wulf 1905s were pursued toward Rome and news of American negro pilots reached London papers.
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U. 5
Algiers
Rhe Agin US
Nettune
Stachhead
Rome
London
Italy
Trominehee
Bonds Fixed in 2 Federal Cases
Josefina Olivia de Siguentes of 1530 West Travis street was placed under $100 bond after traveling to Mexico on a visit and borrowing a friend's birth certificate to return. Two other suspects Guadalupe Espitin and Lily Fuentes, of 317 Morales street and 628 Martin street, were each bound at $300 on related charges.
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Josefina Olivia de Siguentes
West Travis Street
Mexico
U. &, Commissioniera
W. Knigitt
Obbers
Guardalupe
Beachhead battles as Allies push near Anzio
Allied headquarters report Fifth Army widened its bridgehead north of Anzio and captured German prisoners. German Tenth Army, backed by planes, attacked the beachhead but was repulsed. Allied air forces claimed a major victory over German bases in Italy and southern France, while German defenses along the Gustav line held firm south of Cassino.
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Van
Tenth Army
Netluno
Buble
Carcoceti
Via Anziate
Anzio
Rome
France
Sire Fields
Marveille
Montpelier
Malian
Tome
Beathbrad
Clark
Fifth Army
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Harold Alexander
Fallan
Hitler
Gustav Line
Cassine
de Rapides
Cass
Allies push through Pacific raids in dawn offensives
Allied forces reported heavy air and sea strikes across the Marshall Islands and island groups from Eniewetok to Maloelap and Kwajalein. Bombers and fighters hit Japanese installations, sinking small ships and destroying fuel dumps as Allied forces press the Pacific campaign.
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Philippines
Bataan
Marshalls
Coral Islands
Mawaii
Solomons
Navy
Dead prisoners claim shocks of war urged by Hoyt
Palmer Hoyt former domestic director of the Office of War Information asserts in an article that about 50 000 prisoners taken in the Philippines were brutally murdered by the Japanese and faults wartime censorship for delaying vital news. He criticizes security excuses and stresses the need for fuller, faster public reporting of wartime events including Tarawa and other invasions.
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JINS
Palmer Hoyt
OWT
Philippines
War Department
Bataan
Hoyt
Office For War Information
Tarawa
Trepeas
Portland
Orr
Oregonian
Hull says US will pursue war crime punishment for Jap atrocities
Secretary Hull announced that the United States will pursue punishment for Japanese war criminals after the war. He cited the Batasa and Corregidor prisoner abuses and said exchanges of prisoners and civilians with Japan would continue if feasible. He noted uncertainty about whether relief supplies delivered by Gripsholm reached prisoners.
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Hull
United States
Army-Navy
Batasa
Corregidor
Japan
Gripsholm
Witb
WAC Major Dies In Cliff Plunge
Major Lillian Reilly, WAC regimental commander, fell about 60 feet from a cliff at Lookout Mountain. An officers' board and Chattanooga detectives investigate. Reilly, a Phoenix native, is survived by her husband Captain Joli A. Reilly and son John A. Reilly Jr. in the army.
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Renn
Dan
Lillian Reilly
WAC
Col
Howerd Clark EH
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga
Keely
Louis
Chattanooga
Reilly
Lhe Wac
Phoenix
Ariz
Joli A. Reiily
John A. Reilly Jf
Army
Patton Letter Regrets Slapping Incident to Atlanta Woman
General George S. Patton expresses deep regret over slapping an enlisted man at a hospital, replying to Mrs. Massengale of Atlanta. He acknowledges a very bad mistake, thanks her for understanding, and notes the lesson learned by armed forces while defending his temper and conduct.
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INS
George
Patton
Seventh Army
Sichly
St. Rime
Atlanta
Massen
Feale
Wad
Massengale
United States
March of Death Spearheads Japanese Prison Camp Atrocities
The article recounts grim eyewitness accounts of the Bataan Death March and subsequent wartime brutality. It cites officers Melvin H. McCoy, S. M. Melnik, and William T. Dyess, detailing mass prisoner deaths from starvation and abuse at Camp O’Donnell and related camps in 1942.
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Melvyn H. McCoy
U. B.N
Tiniapolis
Liewl Cel
S. M. Melnik
Coast Artillery Corps
Dunmore
Par
Llent
Gol
William T. Dyess
Air Eneps
Alebany
Texas
Dyess
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Cali
Paciflc
Moelik
MacArthuy
Southwest Pacific
McCoy
Ehely
United
Camp O'Donnell
Cabanaruan
Bataan
Mariveles
Bataatt
San Fernando
Pampanga
Calcutta
Weather forecast for San Antonio area
Partly cloudy to cloudy with cooler conditions. Friday afternoon through Saturday show light winds and minimal temperature change. Low Saturday morning around 60 degrees with no major shifts expected.
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Meridia
Orcasional
Prouthwest
Exlteier Porkiday
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Driday Yacht
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