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NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1941

Filing Stations Limit Sales to Spread Supply
Gasoline Shipments From Vacation Areas Awaited to relieve City Shortage
Restrictions on retail gasoline sales were tightened yesterday at many garages and filling stations in New York City in an effort to spread dwindling supplies until revision of September allotments is completed by the oil companies, as authorized by Federal authorities in an emergency move to prevent a threatened serious shortage here before Oct. 1, when new regular quotas will be available.
A few garages were reported to have exhausted their September quotas during the morning, but representatives of trade associations were of the opinion that nearly all of their members would be able to scrape by until additional supplies were brought here from vacation areas, probably tomorrow. Several garages and filling stations in the city ran out of gasoline Friday.
Rationing of gasoline was followed strictly by operators of numerous garages and filling stations. Many of them confined sales to regular customers and commercial vehicles. Some cut by 50 per cent or more orders from their customers.
Although this situation is expected to be alleviated when excess motor fuel is brought here from other section of the Eastern seaboard, vigorous opposition to the plan for revision of individual September quotas was expressed by officials of some retailers' organizations. They contended that it threatened continuation of the 7 p. m. to 7 a. m. curfew system by favoring dealers who violated it.
"The legitimate dealer, who has co-operated in the conservation program with the government, has been left holding the bag again," Nathan Gelfer, president of the Gasoline [[cut off]] COuncil of Metropolitan [[cut off]]
gas they could night and day. This will tend to upset the observance of the curfew in new York City."
George Marxhausen, president of the Inter-City Gasoline Dealers Association, representing 150 stations in Manahattan and the Bronx, predicted that the [[cut off]] would weaken effective [[cut off]] curfew [[cut off]]
the new plan might kill the curfew system.
Nathan Handelman, chairman of the gasoline committee of the Metropolitan Garage Board of trade, Inc., said adjustments in the current allotments were necessary because of the inequitable manner in which the quotas had been computed, based [[cut off]]

A Welcome to New York for a Chinese Woman Flyer
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Lee Ya Ching, left, being greeted at LaGuardia Field yesterday after a flight from Middletown, Ohio, in an Aeronca plane which will be auctioned nationally for the benefit of United China Relief. The welcoming group, left to right, includes Jacqueline Young, five-year-old Chinese refugee; Meiling Dai, three, daughter of Dr. Bingham Dai, professor of sociology at the University of Tennessee, and Dr. Tsune-chi Yu, Chinese Consul General in New York.

First Flying Boat to Span U. S. Lands in N. Y. Waters
Pacific Clipper at LaGuardia Base After 18 1/2-Hour Trip
The Pacific Clipper, a new forty-two-ton flying boat, made the first non-stop transcontinental flight of a big seaplane of that type yesterday, landing in the waters off the LaGuardia Field trans-Atlantic base at 7:50 a. m., 18 hours and 28 minutes after leaving the Pacific waters off Los Angeles.
The big, broad-bellied, fish-shaped plane, a much wider ship than the sleek, streamlined land planes that are usually seen in the interior of the country, flew over El Paso, Memphis, Richmond and Annapolis, most of whose residents had never seen a trans-oceanic clipper before.
Why the clipper was brought here was not announced officially but it was indicated it will be place in the tans-Atlantic service as a replacement for the American Clipper.
The clipper, built by the Boeing Company, of Seattle, has been used for several weeks in the Pacific service to China and New Zealand. It is one of an original order of six, only three of which have gone to Pan-American Airways.
The departure of the Yankee Clipper with forty-five passengers was postponed yesterday until 10:30 a. m. today, because of bad weather.

3d Avenue Line Grants Pay Rise, Averts Strike
Signs 2-Year Contract With Transport Union
A threatened strike of 3,500 employees of forty streetcar and bus lines in Manhattan, the Bronx and Westchester was averted when a two-year contract granting pay rises was signed at the New York State Mediation Board, 250 West Fifty-seventh Street, early yesterday morning. 
The contract, signed by officials of the Third Avenue Railway System and the Transport Workers' Union, an affiliate of the congress of Industrial Organizations, granted an eight-cents-an-hour increase and time and a half for overtime to all employees of the company. Terms are retroactive to July 1, when a two-year contract expired [[cut off]]

Record Postal Receipts Predicted by Goldman He Attributes Heavy Increase to Defense Program Postmaster Albert Goldman of New York, speaking to 500 postmasters at a luncheon at the Hotel Astor, estimated yesterday that receipts of the New York City Postoffice for 1941 should reach an "all time high" of more than $80,000,000, the record set in 1929.
He attributed the increase in the flow of mail to industrial activity resulting from the national defense program.  His estimate was for the calendar year of 1941. For the fiscal year of 1941, which ended June 30, the receipts of the New York office were $[[first digits poked out]]736,432.
The guest at the luncheon were returning to their homes from the convention of the National Association of Postmaters, in Boston

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