THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES
RACINE, WIS., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 26,1942.
Nation-Wide Gas Ration Program to Start on Nov. I or Nov. 15
Jeffers Appeals to Motorists
To Reduce Consumption and to
Observe 35-Mile Speed Limit
Country Will Follow
Coupon Plan Now
In Use by East
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—(U.P)
—The office of price administration
today rushed preparations to
ration gasoline to the nation's 27,-
000,000 civilian motorists as ordered
by rubber czar, William S. Jeffers,
to keep the country's economic
life from breaking down.
Jeffers did not specify a date
for starting the program but the
unofficial guess was either Nov. 1
or Nov. 15.
His order to OPA was coupled
with an appeal to motorists, to
curtail gasoline consumption until
the new restraints become effective,
and to observe a 35-mile-an hour
speed limit.
Hints More Curbs
Red Forces Drive Deeper
Into German Siege Lines
Timoshenko's
Flank Drive
GainsGround
Nazis Admit Soviet
Attacks for Third
Day; Blocks Taken
!≫Or"V, Sept. 26. —(U.B—
Powerful soviet tank and infantry
forces northwest of Stalingrad
crushed deeper through reinforced
German positions into a vital
range of hills today and inside
Stalingrad the Russians were reported
counter-attacking and
wresting whole blocks from the
enemy.
Front-line dispatches now made
it clear that Marshal Semyon
Timoshenko aimed to drive back
the German left flank and to this
end was throwing larger and
larger forces of tanks into a covin,
ter-offensive that steadily gained
ground.
Hills Are Objective
Japs Withdraw
On New Guinea
GEN; MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, Sept. 26.
(AP) Aggressive Allied patrols,
fighting in driving rain and aided
for the first time by artillery, have
forced the Japanese to withdraw
from some of their advance positions
in the Owen Stanley mountains
north of Port Moresby, General
MacArthur's headquarters announced
today.
It was the first officially reported
retirement on the part of the
Japanese in this theater since they
landed at Gona mission on the
southeast .coast of New Guinea
July 21 and launched an over-
land push which has been stalled
for the past 10 days near Ioribaiwa,
32-miles from Port Moresby.
An Allied spokesman warned,
however, against undue optimism,
declaring the Japanese still were
in force in, that area and that their
movement could not be considered
a general withdrawal.
Patrols Whip Enemy.
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