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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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Vichy French government orders severe food rationing with monthly quotas for sugar, noodles, rice, soap, and fats; bans cakes/pies and certain restaurant servings. Travel cut 90% due to low gasoline; fuel limited to essential uses, promoting charcoal alternatives; factories to produce gazogene equipment and vehicles.
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VICHY, Aug. 3. (UP)—Drastic food and travel restrictions were imposed by the French government today, including establishment of a rationing system by means of food cards.
The government planned to reduce motor car travel by 90 per cent and it was said that rationing was designed to "insure an ample supply of food on a severely restricted quota for the entire population throughout the winter."
Henceforth, it was ordered, the Frenchmen will be entitled each month to only one pound of sugar, 1½ pounds of noodles or macaroni, 3.5 ounces of rice, one cake of soap and seven ounces of margarine or other animal or vegetable fats.
Cakes and pies will disappear entirely from French tables.
Restaurants may not serve fish or cheese with any meal which includes a meat dish.
Dinners served after 3 p.m. may not include butcher's meat, sausages, chicken or other fowl, game or rabbit except on Sundays or holidays.
Normally France consumes 200,000 tons of gasoline monthly but since present total stocks are only 240,000 tons, barely five weeks' supply, drastic restrictions on motorcar travel were essential.
Henceforth fuel will be rationed only to cars and trucks performing some public function and to physicians, hospitals and dairies.
Motorcycle police will patrol roads and halt all cars to ascertain the reasons for which they are being driven. Cars operated without valid reason will be confiscated.
To encourage the gazogene (substitute gasoline) industry all cars run by natural gas or charcoal will be allowed to operate.
From her great forests France expects to be able to furnish enough charcoal to operate 500,000 trucks.
The national aeronautical factories at Limoges, which built planes in wartime, henceforth will manufacture charcoal burning equipment.
It was announced that the Peugeot, Renault and Citroen factories in Paris, which made munitions, tanks and aviation motors in wartime, will reopen soon, providing work for 500,000 men in the peace-time manufacture of automobiles which will be fitted with gazogene charcoal burning motors.
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Vichy
Event Date
Aug. 3
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monthly rations: one pound of sugar, 1.5 pounds of noodles or macaroni, 3.5 ounces of rice, one cake of soap, seven ounces of margarine or fats per person. motor travel reduced by 90%; fuel rationed to public functions, physicians, hospitals, dairies. cars without valid reason confiscated. charcoal for 500,000 trucks; factories to produce gazogene equipment and automobiles.
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The French government imposed drastic food and travel restrictions, including a rationing system via food cards to ensure supplies through winter. Cakes and pies banned; restaurants restricted on serving fish, cheese with meat; no meat after 3 p.m. except Sundays/holidays. Gasoline stocks low, leading to restrictions. Promotion of gazogene industry; aeronautical factories to make charcoal equipment; auto factories to reopen for gazogene vehicles, employing 500,000.