Sabotage Seen By Official In Row Over Oil
In a Senate inquiry Ralph K. Davies acting petroleum coordinator warned of possible sabotage behind east coast gasoline shortage rumors and urged motorists to reduce use. He cited 2,500,000 barrels of heavy fuel oil bids lacking and said private tankers were unavailable. He urged a 10 percent cut in consumption to endure winter.
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Ralph K. Davies
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Senate
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Standard Oil Company of California
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Navy
Gulf Coast
United States Navy
Leon Henderson
Atlantic Seaboard
Henderson
Associated
Philadelphia
Association
Medicine Keeping Pace With Armies
Col. Robert C. McDonald of the Third Army says medical service mobility keeps pace with rapid mechanized warfare. Four wheel drive ambulances and hospital supply vehicles back up field care. a rolling laboratory counters epidemics. Over $1 million in supplies and 2,000 physicians and dentists aim to keep illness and injury around 25 percent below expected levels.
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Robert C. McDonald
Third Army
Col. McDonald
Second Army
McDonald
Marshall to Speak at Legion Session
General George C. Marshall will address the national American Legion convention on September 15 at a dinner for distinguished guests. National Commander Milo J. Warner will host the event with Secretary of the Navy Knox and New York Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia among the attendees.
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Knox
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York
Montgomery Named For Defense Education
Arizona’s E. W. Montgomery, superintendent of Phoenix Union High Schools, named to the national commission for the defense of democracy through education. The group includes one state teachers association rep from each state and an executive committee of ten, aiming to mobilize education in service of the nation.
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Phoenix Union High Schools
National Education Association
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Psychology vetoed at Burlington County board meeting
Freeholder LeRoy Church suggested posting signs reading Free Beer Stop Here at dangerous intersections to slow traffic. The board rejected the idea and kept the standard Dangerous Crossing legend.
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Mount Holly
Pa. U.A
Burlington County
LeRoy Church
Church
Maricopa Opposes Liquor Licenses Near Defense Centers
Phoenix August 28 The Maricopa county board of supervisors expressed disapproval of liquor establishments near Salt River valley defense centers. They refused a transfer of a liquor license from an east of Mesa site to near Luke Field main entrance and earlier declined a license transfer to open a tavern near the Goodyear Aircraft plant at Luke Field Park.
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Phoenix
Maricopa
Gold shipments from Britain boost weekly world total
British empire gold imports reached 13,058,374 last week the highest in months. Australia supplied 6,559,053 Canada 3,235,137 and British Malaya 1,807,218. Foreign deposits rose 2,871,174 to 1,966,596,222. Silver imports were 874,274 led by Mexico 512,794 Canada 147,511 and Peru 126,024.
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Russia
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British Malaya
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Peru
Mexico fears ban on U S gasoline
Mexico government orders official study of ways to meet a potential U S export ban that could create a severe gasoline shortage in northern Mexico. Despite being a major oil producer, refined gasoline stocks are reported insufficient to cover the shortfall.
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Mexico City
Mexico
United States
World War Flier Nominated as Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Artemus L. Gates, prominent World War flyer and president of the New York Trust Company, was nominated by President Roosevelt to be assistant secretary of the Navy for aeronautics. The position had been vacant for years, with a similar vacancy recently filled in the war department.
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Artemus L. Gates
New York Trust Company
Roosevelt
the Navy
Aeronautics
War Department
Unauthorized Flight Fatal at Nichols Field Crash
Army staff sergeant William B. Rowland attempted an unauthorized takeoff in a Martin bomber at Nichols Field near Manila. The plane stalled after liftoff, wrecking near four native huts and killing two Filipinos Boni facio De La Cruz and Dorothea Tabanag while injuring three others including Rowland.
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Natchez, Miss
Air Corps
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Bonifacio de la Cruz
Dorothea Tabanag
YMCA Joins United Appeal in Tucson Drive
The Tucson YMCA board voted to join the United Appeal financial drive at a noon meeting in the Pioneer hotel. President L. A. Lohse pledged unanimous and enthusiastic support while General Secretary Hervey F. Smith urged pooling resources. last year’s YMCA contributions totaled $13,300 with campaign to start late October.
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United Appeal
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Babel Chorus Is Latest Army Plan
The 27th division’s radio unit in the Arkansas war games uses multilingual operators who translate messages on the fly rather than relying on coded speech. Lieut. Col. John Reynolds says teams fluent in Polish Chinese Gallic Spanish French and German confuse enemy listening posts by translating messages as received.
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Ark
New York
Aransas
John Reynolds
Judge vows suspended sentence for hat thief in Staunton
Staunton, Virginia Justice W. Terrell Sheehan jokes that he loves his four year old hat and offers a suspended sentence to the person who returns it from his office. The lighthearted remark shows the judge’s humor amid a minor office theft incident.
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W. Terrell Sheehan
Reclassification Lists Ordered Up By Tuthill
Maj. Gen. A. M. Tuthill, state director of selective service, ordered all local boards to post in headquarters the names and classifications of registrants reclassified since August 18. The move follows a new law allowing deferment for those over 28.
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A. M. Tuthill
Selective Service
Roosevelt
Blonde Mrs Shields Plans Jungle Trek To Palenque Lost City
Tiny blonde Mrs Ka Rena Shields of La Crescenta California flies to Mexico City to begin a Central American jungle search aimed at Palenque near Campeche and Guatemala. She will travel with the plantation manager and native boys while two Californians previously working for the Mexican national museum pursue the Mayan city on foot.
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Palenque
Campeche
Guatemala
Dana Lamb
Santa Ana
Mexican National Museum
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Te Air
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Comitan
Agua Azul
Hurricane district renamed to Arizona Strip Grazing District
North western Arizona stockmen won official renaming of the Hurricane grazing district to the Arizona Strip Grazing district. They argued the name reflects a geology feature but better fits the cattle region north and west of the Colorado River. Regional Grazier John Ray Painter reported the stockmen favored the new title.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Colorado River
Arizona Strip
John Ray Painter
Arizona Strip grazing district gains official name change
Officials confirmed the River region known as the Arizona Strip will keep its name after painter's agreement. The grazing district covers 3,500,000 acres with more than 250,000 head of livestock grazing across the area.
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Arizona Strip
Painter
Two Army Planes Damaged In Phoenix Mid-Air Collision
Two Army training planes collided in mid air over Luke Field in Phoenix. Both cadet pilots escaped injury with one returning to base and the other making a forced landing. The mishap was blamed on a gusty wind current.
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Phoenix
Luke Field
Navy buys surge to support fleet purchases soar since war era
Secretary Knox announced the Navy spent 2.196 billion dollars in the last fiscal year ending June 30, far over quadruple its WWI level from 1917 to 1918 and more than twenty times its 1938 39 buys. The range covered ships and canned sailor rations.
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Knox
Navy
Three New Motors Planned at Fort Huachuca Power Plant
Fort Huachuca will install three new engines and generators, each 700 kilowatts, next week. Old engines will be removed and bases demolished as nearly 1,000,000 pounds of concrete are poured to form bases for the motors.
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Norwegians urged to take jobs in Germany
Norwegian workers are encouraged to accept employment opportunities in Germany as labor markets shift. Authorities promote cross border mobility and highlight potential gains in wages and experience for skilled and unskilled workers seeking new opportunities.
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Germany
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