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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1944
Page
6
The red and blue ration tokens approved by the Office of Price Administration will begin circulating Sunday in Troy. Banks and merchants prepared for the change since December with advance token orders and shipments in February. By now over 715000 tokens are ready for use in local stores.
The Office of Price Administration outlines vulcanized fiber tokens valued at one ration point each, color coded to match stamps. Tokens, issued in boxes for merchants, serve as change for red and blue stamps and can be spent anytime, with strict non interchangeability and no expiration.
Italy forms a five man Purge Commission to imprison or execute collaborators. Tito Zaniboni heads the panel, a WWI Alpini colonel previously jailed after a 1926 assassination attempt on Mussolini. The body will function as an investigative and court body with death penalty power in extreme cases.
Joseph C. Grew, former U S Ambassador to Japan, urged the Allies to avoid harsh isolation of Japan after the war. He told the Illinois Education Association that a punitive approach would create a festering sore, advocating a helpful cooperative, common sense policy instead.
Seattle report on L. W. Van Dyke production manager at the Seattle-Tacoma shipyard who acts as a standby christener. He carries two champagne bottles, one for the sponsor to break and a spare for his stand, but so far no sponsor has missed the bow thus he has not cracked a bottle. He remains hopeful for a day someone misses.
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