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Show MOTORISTS MUST ENDORSE GAS COUPONS NOW All motorists should immediately immedi-ately endorse their gasoline coupons, cou-pons, Francis J. Quinn, chairman of the gasoline rationing panel of the Bingham war price and rationing board, said today. During the week of March 6, OPA investigators will begin a nation-wide check of gasoline coupons, principally at service stations, the chairman said. If all stamps are not endorsed, the motorist will be required on pen-. pen-. alty of having his rations revoked, revok-ed, to visit his Jocal board within with-in ten days to show that he has reported. "This is the opening of an intensive in-tensive drive against the black market," said the chairman. "The good citizen will cooperate. Immediate Im-mediate endorsement of coupons protects the motorist by preventing prevent-ing others from using his rations, if coupons are lost or stolen. It saves time and trouble for the service station operator. It makes it impossible for unscrupulous persons to sell or give coupons for use in other vehicles." Every gallon of gasoline lost to the black market, the chairman chair-man pointed out, cuts into civilian civil-ian supplies, impedes Uncle Sam's vast military offensives planned for the summer, and multiplies tne need for a reduction of mo-i mo-i torists' rations. |