Retread Recap Tire Rationing Start Feb 19
Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced retreaded and recapped tires will be rationed starting February 19. He warned that little or no rubber will be available for passenger tires during March, with regulations to ration camelback rubber across passenger autos trucks buses farm equipment and motorcycles. List A and B eligibility covers clergy healthcare transport public safety and essential war effort services with truck tire certificates issued only after A demands and possible leftovers.
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International News Service
Washington
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Delay In Unfreezing Of Car Stocks Probable
A likely postponement of releasing frozen new passenger cars bought before January 1 is reported. The OPA planned February releases via local boards from February 12 to 26, but Canton board secretary Mrs. L S Hamaker said she lacks necessary certificates and instructions. Columbus and state headquarters reportedly have not received the material.
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OPA
Washington
L. S. Hamaker
Canton
Defense brokers profit assailed by congressional panel
A House subcommittee report charges defense brokers earned untold millions in war contracts. It calls for war department reform, recovery of losses, and caps on commissions, citing Remington Arms contracts and New York broker Leon Shanack as key examples.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Rep. Faddis
Pennsylvania
House
War Department
Remington Arms
Bridgeport
Conn
Remington
Leon K. Shanack
New York
Hart Relieved as Allied Navy Chief in Orient
Admiral Thomas C. Hart is relieved at his own request from command of UN naval forces in the Far East. Vice Admiral C. E. I. Helfrich of the Royal Netherlands navy becomes acting commander ABDA forces. Hart remains in U S service while Helfrich assumes leadership in the Pacific theater.
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United Press
Washington
Thomas C. Hart
U. S. Navy
United Nations
Far East
Hart
Navy
Abda Pacific
Co. E. I. Helfrich
Royal Netherlands Navy
Far Pacific
Japan
Southwest Pacific
United States
Britain
Netherlands
Australia
Admiral Hart
Macassar Straits
C. E. I. Helfrich
Abda
Helfrich
Semarang
Java
U. S. Naval Service
Glassford
United Command
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Archibald P. Wavell
United
Wavell
William A. Glassford Jr
U. S
Southwestern Pacific
U. S. Asiatic Fleet
Netherlands East Indian Navy
Singapore
Volunteer Blood Donors Sought Ahead of Cleveland Unit
Red Cross registration at headquarters lists 400 prospective donors as the Cleveland chapter mobile unit will visit for three days starting February 23. Volunteers are needed to ensure a sufficient supply. those with recent colds are ineligible. A toll free telephone, 42821, handles registrations.
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Red Cross
Cleveland
Armed Services
Banks and Public Offices Observe Lincoln Birthday Holiday
Banks courts and all city county and state offices and divisions will be closed all day Thursday in observance of Lincoln's birthday in Ohio. State officials also announced that Washington's birthday on Feb 22, a Sunday, will be observed Monday Feb 23. Closings affect state liquor stores and tax offices. post office will run on full Thursday schedule. U S employment and social security offices remain open.
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Lincoln
Ohio
Washington
U. S
Apple House Cider Stand Sells Fresh Daily in Fulton NW
Sweet cider available daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Apple House in Fulton Northwest. The ad promotes fresh daily offerings and convenient hours.
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Apple House
Fulton
Nazis Defenses Grow Stronger In Early War Fronts
The Associated Press reports German defenses stiffening as winter fades and fighting intensifies along the 1,200 mile front. Soviet dispatches claim advances in the southwest and Donets basin while Leningrad breaks out attempts are repulsed. Turkish talks hint at diverting some Allied supplies to Russia.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
London
Hitler
Leningrad
North African
Red Army
Moscow
Donets Basin
Lozovaya
Dneper
Kholm
Mozhaisk
Turkey
Istanbul
Russia
Naval Blimp Patrol Expands Off Coast for U Boat Hunt
The U S Navy airship patrols hunt submarines along the coasts with large helium blimps cruising at over 50 miles an hour. Lieutenant Bob Antrim leads a crew eager to deploy depth charges on marauding U boats as sister ships operate nearby.
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United Press Naval Air Patrol Station
Navy
Atlantic
Pacific
Lieut. Antrim
Bob Antrim
Naval Academy
Americans Win in Air Dog Fight in Cavite Bay
The Associated Press reports heavy fighting around Bataan and Manila Bay as Japanese and American forces clash. Six enemy planes were shot down by American fighters over Cavite, one American plane missing, signaling a fierce air battle in the Philippines as MacArthur’s forces resist ongoing Japanese pressure.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
War Department
Bataan
Manila Bay
Cavite
Philippine
MacArthur
Roosevelt
United Nations
Indies
Fall of Singapore Looms As Allies Struggle To Hold City
British forces endure two violent counterattacks to slow Japanese assault on Singapore while evacuations for women and children proceed amid coastal bombardment and rising peril. Reports from Batavia and Domei describe heavy fighting, dwindling stores, and an island near collapse.
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Singapore
London
Sungei Kranji
Johore Strait
Jurong
Mandai
Batavia
Great
Singapore Naval Base
Laura Ingalls Talks Inspired By Hitler’s My New Order
Letters from Miss Laura Ingalls reveal she used excerpts from Hitler’s My New Order in her America First speeches. She wrote of breathing inspiration from every paragraph, while intermediary Julia Krauss identified the black book as the referenced work during testimony in federal court.
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Laura Ingalls
Hitler
My New Order
International News Service
Washington
Aviatrix
Federal District Court Today
America
Julia Krauss
Baron von Grenath
Germany
Miss Krauss
Miss Ingalls
M. Neil Andrews
Bombs Rock Reporter Typing His Last Story
C Y McDaniel reports from Singapore as fires light the sky and bombs fall around a battered city. He describes Japanese air assaults, British fighters in peril, and anti aircraft crews fighting through a nightmarish siege.
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Bombs Rock
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