Nation's medical advances aid war injured and postwar plans
The piece notes improved wartime medical care led by President Roosevelt reducing fatalities, boosting rehabilitation, and expanding plastic surgery and convalescent housing. It covers psychiatry, civilian centers, and allied research with Russia along with plans to retain top specialists in the armed forces for years. It also touches on leadership battles over reciprocal trade, seeds in the Senate park, and Japan's wartime expansion with looting networks.
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Pacific
United States
Washington
Roosevelt
Russia
United Nations
Army
Navy
District of Columbia
Senate
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Senate Building and Grounds Committee
Tom Connally
Texas
Henry
Congress
Academy Award Winner to Four Pictured Actor Walked
The list presents a crossword style puzzle with clues and answers across vertical and horizontal entries. Names, numbers, and abbreviations cue entries such as Academy Award winner, “Empire State” abbreviation, chemical symbol for uranium, and various everyday terms.
Tar Heels End Banner Spring Sports Season
University of North Carolina athletic teams capped a strong spring with three varsity championships. The track team, led by co captains Mike Mangum and Rich Van Wagoner, won the Southern Conference meet by a wide margin despite a loss to the Naval Academy. Mangum led the conference scoring with 12 1/2 points, Van Wagoner added 11 1/4, and freshmen Julian McKenzie and Ted Shultz contributed nine points each.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
R. A
Bob) Fetzer
Dale Rawson
Naval Academy
Duke
Virginia
Tar Heels
Mike Mangum
Rich van Wagoner
Carolina
Mangum
van Wagoner
Julian McKenzie
Ted Shultz
Street Workers Join Charlotte's City Strike
Charlotte May 17 four workers in the street division joined the sanitary department in a five day old work stoppage. Spokesmen call it a protest against retaining John Barbee as head of the department. About 80 street division workers participated and 16 of 22 sanitary trucks were operating, with full operation expected.
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International
Sanitary Department
Barbee
Railroad Act Works Slowly to Keep Trains Moving
In a peaceful handling of a large wartime labor dispute, 900,000 non operating railroad workers and 350,000 operating staff shape a lengthy arbitration process under federal law. The dispute centers on wage demands and a claimed closed shop, with mediation and government panels guiding steps toward a final report for the president.
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Carroll Rrimond
Chicago
United States
National Railway Mediation Board
Federal Railway
National Mediation Board
George A. Cook
Francis Biddle
Federal Emergency Panel
I. L. Sharfman
University of Michigan
John A. Fitch
New York School of Social Work
Walter T. Fisher
Labor
Yank Airmen Catch Nips By Surprise
Pilots of A-20 attack bombers hit Lae New Guinea in a midday strike catching Japanese by surprise. Captain Donald Good leads a flight with Lieuts Turent Messick Charles Mayo Jack Taylor John Conn Joe Moore Hayes Brown William Neel and Staff Sgt Wade Wright in the raid that destroyed at least three serviceable bombers and silenced ground fire.
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New Guinea
Douglas McArthur
Lae
Donald Good
Eugene Ore
Ieader
Elis
Lieuts
Turent Messick
Burlington
N. C
Charles H Mayo
Greenville
Jack Taylor
Canton
John C
Asheville
21 Die Violently Over Weekend
A North Carolina survey reports 21 deaths from violence over the weekend. Eighteen soldiers died in a troop carrier crash near Morganton. A 42 year old woman was killed crossing a Gastonia street. A Clover SC child perished in a Morganton bus truck crash injuring 11. Haywood Loy was shot near Graham, Alamance County. Rivers held on murder charge.
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Morganton
Haywood Loy
Ralph Rivers
Graham
Investgating
Alamance County
Rivers
North Carolina Elk Lodges Elect Officers at Convention
The North Carolina Association of Elk Lodges held its annual convention and elected officers today. Local delegates gathered as part of the statewide meeting, marking a milestone event in the lodge organization's activities.
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Gaston A. Johnson
Thomas W. Sprinkle
A. Lee Gibson
Alexander Jones
Jerry McAuley
New York
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
North Carolina Association of Elk Lodges
John F. Jones Jr Commissioned Second Lieutenant Abroad
John F. Jones Jr son of Mr and Mrs J F Jones of 217 Steele Street has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U S Army Air Corps in England He enlisted January 24 1942 and today marks a year of overseas service He attended local schools and was a UNC junior when he entered the Army
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John F. Jones, Jr
J. F. Jones
Steele Street
U. Army Air Corps
England
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