Sound Waves From Depth Bombs Cause New Injuries
Navy doctors describe hidden injuries from underwater explosions at 0.8 mile per second sound waves. Abdominal damage from tiny vessel injury may cause visceral ulcers and perforations. Survivors include swimmers on their backs less affected. chest injuries are uncommon. Swallowing flash burns and inhaled heat risk require rapid transfusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Navy
American College of Surgeon
Camille M. Shaar
U. S. Navy Hospital
Philadelphia
Shaar
Press Censor Rules and War Time News Pieces
A portrait of OWI control over information shows Elmer Davis’s limited authority while policy firms like State War Navy avoid his reach. Reports describe a White House press corps scene with a female Army chauffeur and a treasury guard. A New York talk discusses Dr. R. Brito Foucher urging US Mexico exchanges and a heroic but tragic Mexico story. Easter labor wear debates rise at the Standards Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Davis
Washington
OWI
Elmer
Agriculture, Interior, Commerce
Post Office
Labor
War Production Board
National War Labor Board
Roosevelt
Henry L. Morgenthau, Jr
William M. Jeffers
William H. Standley
Moscow
White House
WAAC
Treasury
WPB offers booklets on inventory limitation for Carolinas
Charlotte district WPB office provides booklets detailing the inventory limitation order affecting thousands of retailers wholesalers and jobbers in the Carolinas. Merchants with 1942 sales of 26000 or more or ending inventory valued at 50000 or more must file reports. A government man who hands out jobs to relatives in a nepotist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
The
War Production Board
WPB
Carolinas
Horse meat shipments reported to consumers in section
Wilson March 23. Shipments of horse meat were reported today being sent consumers in this section from New Jersey. Retailers knew nothing of the shipments when asked. In a few short months, over ten million V Mail letters have been delivered. V Mail has arrived from Australia in seven days, from Hawaii in three days, and from Africa as fast as planes can bring it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
New Jersey
Australia
Hawaii
Africa
Axis Talks in Tokyo Signal Harmony on World Order
Tokyo conference participants included Masayuki Tani Shimada and diplomats Stammer and Indelli as Berlin radio hailed Axis unity on a new world order. Reports cited Italy to send workers and potatoes to Germany in exchange for war factory labor, while U S and Britain remained central foes. Military casualty notes from Wilmington reported Pfc Arthur W Davis wounded in the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Tokyo
Germany
Japan
Italy
Associated Press
Hideki Tojo
Masayuki Tani
Navy
Shigetaro Shimada
Heinrich Georg Stammer
Mario Indelli
Domei
United States
Great Britain
Terest
Britain
Reich
Wilmington
Arthur W. Davis
Charles H. Davis
Carolina Beach
Pacific
War Department
Dorton Named To WMC Post In North Carolina
Dr. J. S. Dorton of Shelby is appointed head of agricultural manpower for the War Manpower Commission in North Carolina. He will focus on farm manpower problems after previously directing manpower for the state since 1942. The OWI notes industrial manpower issues shift to the U S Employment Service. Dorton formerly led the North Carolina State Fair and regional fairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
J. S. Dorton
Shelby
North Carolina
War Manpower Commission
Office of War Information
Dorton
U.S. Agriculture Department
OWI
U. S. Employment Service
Dr. Dorton
Charlotte
Cleveland County Fair
Do Not Park Car in the Sun Says Warning
A reader warns that parking a car in direct sunlight can cause gasoline to evaporate faster and may lead to engine trouble or reduced fuel efficiency due to heat exposure.
Rector Held For Shooting Man and Wife
In New Orleans a 50 year old Episcopal rector, stabbed yesterday, is held at a hospital after admitting he shot and wounded his former secretary and her husband. Rev Charles Monroe said the secretary Mrs McBride and her husband threatened him by phone and he claimed the woman was accidentally hit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Charles Mellon
Charles Monroe
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
John Merride
Monroe
McBride
Railroad Struggles Amid War Demand and Turmoil
Amid wartime strain railroads face mounting volume and relentless challenges. Officials note the endless obstacles of transport, supply, and scheduling as freight and troop movements intensify nationwide.
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BY Howard W. Blakesler
Associated Press Science
MLO Irlicie
By Ray Tucker
Albert Leman
Mexico
New York
R. Brito Foucher
National University of Mexico
Rio Grande
Avila Camacho
Uncle Sam
Latin America
Cortes
U.S.A
Princeton
Foucher
Mexico City
Dr Foucher
America Standards Association
Solomon
A.S.A
Milady
Antwerp
Churches of England
Downing Street
Tory
Herbert Hoover
Belgium
British Board of Economic Warfare
Herbert Lehman
Houdini
Huey
Popeye Cartoon
Uta
Spencer Tracy
Katharine Hepburn
Keeper of Flame
Honaida
Underground
Leslie Brooks
Bruce Bennett
Edgar Kennedy
Sportlight
Paramount
Sweater Girl
Dune
Kiddie Bracken
Rialto
Claudette Colbert
Ray Qeanee
State Theatre
Salem Street
Lon Chaney
Ilona Massey
Royal Canadian Navy
North Atlantic
Universal Pictures
Axis
Europe
Mussolini
Vichy
Pierre Laval
WMC
N. C
U.S.M
Raily Post
America
Mom
Sis
Kid Brother
Southern Railway System
Southland
New South
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