Rockefeller Foundation reports two major wartime advances
The 1942 Rockefeller Foundation annual report highlights two key finds. It notes that Japanese control of the Indies disrupted rubber and quinine supplies, while synthetic chemistry bridged the gap. It also details the foundation's account of yellow fever vaccine-related jaundice in troops, identifying a human serum component as the cause and reporting the vaccine has been redesigned to remove it, improving safety for soldiers overseas and enabling vaccination in Africa.
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Rockefeller Foundation
French
Dutch East Indies
W Foundation
Foundation
International Health Division
Army
Navy
Brazil
England
Russia
United States
Liberia
Africa
Rockefeller
Amervica
Pacific Area Policy Making Council Suggested for UN
A report from the Institute of Pacific Relations proposes a United Nations Pacific Area policy making council with a regional Pacific zone. The plan, presented at Mont Tremblant, calls for an executive council including major powers and regional participants to oversee war and postwar peace, governance, and economic arrangements.
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Washington
United Nations Council
Pacific Area
Mont Tremblant
Quebec
W. L. Holland
Pacific
Duncheon
Sumner Wells
United Nations
Sio Ke Alfred Sze
Executive Council
United States
Great Britain
China
Soviet Russia
Lord Hailey
Pacific Zone
Changinie
Pacific War Council
Wis
Virginian Appoints Arkansas Vital Statistics Chief
Sife Rack reports Dr. W B Shoxds named head of Arkansas Bureau of Vital Statistics by Grayson. Former West Virginia official brings 18 years in public health. New duties include mortality and morbidity statistics, birth certificate distribution, and data support for health workers.
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Sife Rack
Fran B. Rhoads
Vital
West Virgin
Charleston
Vital Statistics Bureau
Grayson
Shoxds
Rhoads
University of Washington
Johns Hopkin Univerity
Boards Cannot Hold Teacher Salary Funds
The attorney general ruled that school boards lack authority to withhold funds earmarked for teachers under the Rozzell Teachers' Salary law even if extra pay was not in contracts. The ruling, announced by Attorney General Guy Williams, states boards may not ask teachers to waive rights to earmarked funds or divert salary money to other purposes.
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Rozzell
Guy Williams
Gillian
el Dorado
Williams
Floyd Sharp Named Manpower Chief in Kansas City
Floyd Sharp, former state WPA director and utilities commission member, was approved as the new War Manpower Commission area director. The appointment was announced today in Kansas City, Missouri, by Regional WMC Director Ed McDonald.
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Little Rock
Floyd Sharp
WPA
Utilities Commission
Agling
War Manpower Commission
Kansas City
WMC
Ed McDonald
British Surfer Setback on Burma Front
British forces on the Mayu peninsula withdrew to counter a Japanese outflanking move near Donbaik as Gen. Wavell reshapes positions awaiting the monsoon. Separate reports say Allied aircraft bombed villages in the Aree Islands and set fires at Salamaua, with further strikes at Alitit and Gasmi tay.
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Associated Press
Sir Archibald P. Wavell
Mayu Peninsula
Wong
Bay of Bangal
India
Akyab
TilOiting
Mayu
Kwig
Donbaik
Wavell
Maxu Peninsula
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MaccArthur
Aree Islands
Australia
Salamaua
New Guinea
United Nations
Alitit
Im Sheaninbar Islands
Gasmitay
New Britain
Barkley Urges Action on Parity Measure
Senate leader Barkley urged immediate action on the Bankhead farm parity bill to pressure John L. Lewis and the mine workers. He warned against delaying the veto fight and suggested the bill could be used as a club, while recalling Webster Hayne and Calhoun to argue against such tactics.
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Washington
Barkley
Agriculture Committee
John L. Lewis
John T. Lewis
Lewis
Congress
Roosevelt
Ile
Webster
Hayne
Calhoun
Senate
Kelly Re elected Mayor of Chicago
Kelly wins a third four year term in Chicago defeating Republican George B. McKibbin by 116,160 votes as about 70 percent of 1,814,000 registered voters turn out. The 66 year old Democrat will begin his fifteenth year as mayor in 1947, extending a long public life and a possible tenure record.
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Chicago
Edward J. Kelly
Denocgut
Chicagpo Miyor
Kelly
George B. McKibbin
Wnitneis
McKibbin
World Banking Plans Advanced by U.S. Britain
London April 7. Great Linkin proposes the most far reaching world banking and currencies plan for expanding world trade. Lord Keynes calls an international clearing union to borrow for temporary needs and to accumulate credits for surplus nations. The U S treasury proposes a $5,000,000,000 stabilization fund with flexible quotas and a bank like system to balance global payments. Morgenthau says the plan would not cost the government extra and could repurpose existing domestic funds for a new world pool. Calls for legislative sanction and invites United Nations participation, with France and Axis powers not invited.
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London
Great Linkin
U. S. Treasury
Tren- Morgenthau
Hir Pln
Lord Keyne
Lord Keynes
W United Nation
George Cullen Washington
Morgenthau
United States
Treasury
New World Pool
Department
United Nations
Lo Nations
France
U S Bombers Strike Submarines in Heavy Raid
London reports United States heavy bombers struck at German submarine yards near Wooc ack March 1% damaging seven of 16 submarines some capsizing in berth and others near launch. Naval experts say yards will not contribute to Uboat construction for months amid photographs reviewed. German defenses hit back with coastal raids on southeast towns causing damage but few casualties. two planes reported missing.
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London
United States
Woocack
RAF
VMI
Gieked Uwe
Gontinent
Air Ministry
War planners view way to convince Reds
Diplomatic circles in Washington viewed postwar plans to reassure the Soviet Union as a key issue. Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr asserted no postwar barrier of anti Soviet states would be erected. Critics warned the pledge may not cover all Soviet security needs. The Daily Worker questioned whether the plan could allow a Balkan front instead of western Europe. (Continued on Page Two).
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Wade Wenev
Moscow
Associated Press
Washington
Russia
Europe
Adolf A. Berle, Jr
Buffer States
Berle
United States
Etonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Baltic States
Poland
The
Daily Worker
Balkans
Western
Darlan
Soviet Union
Soviets Reported Fighting Inside Novorossisk
Soviet dispatches described renewed fighting along the Donets, Kuban delta, and near Novorossisk as German and Soviet forces clashed with heavy resistance. Details cited German counterattacks near Izyum and a strategic hill north of the Donets, while Red Star reported repeated attempts to seize the hill failed. Leningrad saw intensified German air raids despite weather, with Soviet anti aircraft fire claiming several plane losses.
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Endy Gilmore
Moscow
Donets
Kuban Dela
Caucass
Kuban
Red
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Novorasisk
Northern
Caucasus
Izyum
Berlin
Associated Press
Tdanet
Red Star
Army Organ
Volkov
Leningrad
U S British Advance Capture 5000 Prisoners in North Africa
Allied forces push Rommel’s rear as British Eighth Army seizes two strategic Wadi El Akarit hills north of Gabes and American troops mop up Germans near Djebel Matzila north of Maknassy. Britain claims 5000 prisoners, mostly Italian, as Montgomery pursues Rommel while Americans threaten the Axis line and press toward coastal road.
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Daniel Deluce
North Africa
Eighth Army
Wadi
Gabes
Djebel Matzila
Maknassy
el Guetar
Erwin Rommel
Akarit
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
London
Waki el Akarit
Rommel
Montgomery
el Alamein
Egypt
Bernard L. Montgomery
Djebel Kreroun
Maizila Pass
Furiou
Tunis
Tripuni
Ragusa
Messina
Sicilian
Wadi el Akarit
Ayving
Africia
Djebel Tebaga Fatnassa
Djebel IV Bowmana
Chott Sebkret
Thestii
Mantygomerry
el Akanein
First Army
Seci
Merth
Results of Elections in Arkansas
Arkansas election results show tax measures passing and incumbents losing in several cities. Fort Smith approved a half mill tax for Carnegie library maintenance, while a war tax proposal failed. Jay Medlin defeated incumbent H. Peek. Little Rock approved expansion of territory including Adams Field. Paragould and Stuttgart saw mayoral changes as Hammend and Neel won, respectively.
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Associated Press
Fort Smith
Carnegie
Jay Medlin
H. &. Peek
Seenetastohiae
Little Rock
Adams Field
Asher Avenue
Oak Forest
Japs on Kiska Heavily Hit by U S Planes
The Navy reported that Army heavy and medium bombers raided Japanese positions on Kiska in the Aleutians, with one Attu strike the same day. Liberator and Mitchell bombers, escorted by Lockheed P 38s and Warhawks, conducted five attacks on Kiska and one on Attu, starting fires and scoring hits as the aerial offensive continued since March.
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Washington
Navy
Kiska Island
Aleutian
Attu Island
Aleutians
Communiqtie No. 336
North Pacific
Army Liberator
Kika
Attu
South Pacific
Bila
Solomons
Kiska
MOP Seeks Extension of Bus Service to Little Rock
Missouri Pacific Transportation asks the Corporation Commission to cancel Fugle Transportation’s permit and allow three extra daily round trips between Little Rock and Fordyce for a 190 day trial. Greyhound plans to extend El Dorado to Little Rock. hearings concluded with briefs due in three weeks.
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Little Rock
Missouri Pacific Transportation Co
Corporation Commission
Fugle Transportation Co
Fordyce
Engle
Lite Rock
el Dorado
Supreme Court
Commission
Greyhound
Eagle
Willis B. Smith
EL Dorado - Pardyce
Eagie
Rubber Situation Improves but Synthetic Shortfall Persists
Washington April 7 Rubber Director William M Jeffers says tension may ease within a year as synthetics eventually meet demand yet South American rubber should stay in production as insurance. He noted synthetic output has not yet produced a truck tire meeting all needs and commented on reports of potential resignation.
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Washington
William M. Jeffers
America
Pune
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Herbert J. Bosler
Bosler
Craig
Paragould
G. W. Hammend
Aaron H. Massengill
Stuttgart
Dr. H
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L. J. Buerkle
Barrye C. Slump
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