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...filling-station curfew (TIME, Sept. 22, et ante), which had annoyed the Eastern Seaboard and aroused more shouts of outrage than anything Harold Ickes had done since the last time, was called off last week...
...Ickes announced that the British, doing better in the Battle of the Atlantic, would soon (by next month) return 40 of the 80 tankers they had got from the U.S. This addition to the U.S. tanker fleet, plus the savings effected by the curfew and a 10% cut in deliveries to dealers, said Mr. Ickes, ended the threat of oil shortage for the Eastern Seaboard...
When two Frenchmen slipped up to the Nazi military commander of Nantes early last week and riddled him with pistol bul lets, the Germans knew exactly what to do. They stationed military patrols around the city, imposed a 14-hour curfew. From Paris General Otto von Stülpnagel, commanding the German Army of Occupation, issued a terse communique. He offered a reward of 15,000,000 francs (to be paid by France) for the killers, promised he would execute 50 French hostages if the killers were not arrested in two days...
...Preparations. This week the first and most pressing piece of business was Moscow. Joseph Stalin declared a state of siege in the Capital. His proclamation, like all his speeches, was dull, factual, uninspiring. It limited traffic, decreed a curfew from midnight to 5 a.m., pointed cryptically to the double danger in the rear of the troops defending Moscow and in the rear of Moscow itself, concluded quietly: "The State Committee for Defense appeals to all toilers in the Capital to keep calm and orderly and to render the Red Army defending Moscow all possible help...
University of Oklahoma's new President Joseph A. Brandt announced that he would establish a curfew for men students (women already have one), said he hoped to give professors less work so they could have more ideas...