Jap Tactics Fail in Panama Canal Zone Maneuvers
The Panama Canal Zone conducts its largest field maneuvers since the war began, testing invader tactics modeled on Japanese methods. The force of U S Army Panama mobile units with air corps and Marines fail to breach Blue defenses over four days of night attacks, marches, and raids in jungles and along rugged coasts.
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Canal Zone
Chandler Difhs
U. S. Army
Panama Canal Zone
Panama
Pacific
United States Army
Air Corps
Marine
Canal
Frank M. Andrews
Natural gas rationed as floods cut big pipeline
Floods disrupted a Texas to New Mexico gas line causing rationing across 12 Colorado and Wyoming cities. Emergency welding restored some supply while Denver and nearby towns faced curtailed or shut off gas use amid heavy rains and by passes.
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Denver
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico
Texas
Amarillo
Corrumpa Creek
Clayton
N. M
Pueblo
Cheyenne
Wye
Greeley
Fort Lupton
Brighton
Colo
Public Service Company
No Greater Sin Anti Syphilis Film At State Theater
The State Theater shows No Greater Sin starting Tuesday. The documentary style film tackles the syphilis problem in America with seriousness and drama while keeping entertainment value high. It notes that 1935 to 1940 saw about three in every 100 adults infected, with infections highest among jail inmates and lowest among students.
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America
Medium Bomber Destroyed by Fire at Mitchel Field
Fire today destroyed a medium bomber that was warming up for a routine operation at Mitchel Field New York. No crew members were injured according to Lieutenant Harry Kelliher public relations officer. No signs of sabotage reported. A U.S. Marine detachment was first stationed on Midway Island on May 4 1904.
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Mitchel Field
N. Y
Harry Kelliher
U.S. Marine
Midway Island
Rift Seen as GOP Committee Meets over War Stand
Chicago April 20. GOP national committee members meet to map fall campaigns and vote on resolutions on war policy. Willkie proposed isolationsm doctrines while Taft Brooks split with Weeks on postwar peace and aggressive wartime prosecution.
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Chicago
National Committee
Wendell Willkie
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
C. Wayland Brooks
Illinois
Sinclair Weeks
Massachusetts
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Committee
Weeks
Willkie
Republican Party
Brooks
Taft
Tam
Must Have People's Peace Labor Minister States
Labor Minister Ernest Bevin declared that a decent civilization requires peasants to be fairly paid fed and not in poverty. He called for a people s peace at an emergency meeting of the international labor office, speaking for the war cabinet.
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Willkie
New York
Republican Party
America
Taft
London
Ernest Bevin
International Labor Office
War Cabinet
Italian Alien May Remain in War District
Salinas Calif April 20 Mrs Victorio Santo an Italian alien can live in her Castroville ranch house for the rest of the war the army has decided although the house lies in a district from which enemy nationals have been evacuated The reason she has four sons in the army three of whom were on the Bataan Peninsula
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Salinas
Calif
Victorio Santo
Castroville
Bataan Penisula
New drug saves lives on bad wounds at Pearl Harbor
Medical officer Capt Reynolds Hayden reports sulfanilamide therapy revolutionized wound treatment after Pearl Harbor. He notes massive lacerations, fractures, and early surgery with powder yielded excellent results on day two or three. Clothing protected against flash burns. Orrs Technique plaster encasement aided healing and transport.
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New York
U. S Naval Hospital
Pearl Harbor
Reynolds Hayden
Third Naval District
Hayden
Orr
Wage-Hour Broadens Coverage to In-state Production
The Wage-Hour Administration issued a ruling extending the wage hour law to cover employees whose in-state produced goods aid interstate commerce. Noted examples include workers creating electric energy steam fuel or water used by rail terminals telephone exchanges and radio stations. Walling cites appellate decisions in Philadelphia and New York involving Kirschbaum Co. and Arsenal Building Corp.
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Washington
L. Metcalfe Walling
United States
Philadelphia
New York
Walling
A. B. Kirschbaum Company
Arsenal Building Corporation
New York City
Prefabricated Food Aids Wounded Soldiers At Physician Meet
At the American College of Physicians convention in St. Paul a prefabricated food was shown as a possible aid for wounded soldiers. Made from meat cereals skim milk and yeast it delivers amino acids ready for absorption without digestion and may support recovery in burns wounds and infections.
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ST. Paul
American College of Physicians
J. H. Frazer
Arlington Chemical Co
Yonkers
N. Y
U. S. Department of Agriculture
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