Fight Looms Over Federal Spending Bill
Washington Apr Yo Bonin reports looming battles over the omnibus spending bill. Hearings begin on a massive package funding agencies including the War Production Board, Office of Price Administration, Office of War Information, and Office of Civilian Defense with sums like 14.9 million, 29.998 million, and 33.56 million plus 38 million in contracts. Prominent officials will justify wartime budget needs amid calls for retrenchment and possible curbs on nonessential activities.
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Washington
Cangrean
House
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Information
Office of Civilian Defense
Cannon
D-Mo
Ofice of Defense Transportation
Office of Censorship
Office of Coordinator
Inter-American Affairs
Prentis Brown
WPB
Donald Nelson
Paul McNutt
Senate
Representative Taber
United States
Chinese Cadets Honor Chiang Kai-shek Wife In Los Angeles
Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the Chinese leader, postponed her East Coast departure and remains confined in a Los Angeles hotel. She received two Chinese air cadets from Thunder Bird Field Arizona in her rooms after cancelling a San Diego trip.
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Los Angeles
United States
Mme. Chiang, Kai-shek
Madame Chiang
San Diego
Thunderbird Field
Arizona
Mme
Chiang
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Renai
Shi-Liang
Ma Yu
Rabies Rush Sends Pasteur Serum to LA Coast
Emergency Pasteur treatments were flown to Los Angeles from San Francisco as health officials fight a surge in rabies. At least 13 people and more than 145 dogs were bitten by a mad Spitz dog the previous day, with several children among the victims.
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Los Angeles
San Francisco
F. C. Segelken
OCP Announces First Of 38 Personnel Meetings
The Office of Civilian Protection outlines a spring and summer series of 38 educational meetings for personnel officers and women residents. The initial session for Sector 16 residents will be at Betts Memorial Universalist Church at 7 P.M. tomorrow, led by Sector personnel officer Mrs. William Murphy.
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H. Paul Nelligan
Frederick A. Kreuzer
Office of Civilian Protection
Betts Memorial Universalist Church
S P.M
William Murphy
Bradlee attends New York meeting of school leaders
Charles W. Bradlee headmaster of Pebble Till School and president of the Country Day School Headmasters Association is in New York City for the College Entrance Examination Board spring meeting. He will preside tonight at the executive committee meeting of the Headmasters Association at the Princeton Club.
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Bradlee
N.Y
Charles W. Bradlee
Pebble Till
Country Day School Headmasters' Association of
United States
New York City
Headmasters’Association
Princeton Club
Shortage of Meat Threatens Passover in Boston
Six of seven kosher meat wholesalers in Greater Boston are shut, risking no meat for Passover. One wholesaler still operates with a 50 percent cut in slaughtering. About 60 percent of dealers formed a group to push a cooperative slaughterhouse amid claims that OPA price ceilings and high farm prices squeezing supply.
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Boston
OPA
Member of Commons Killed in North Africa
Lt Col Edward O Kellett well known hunter and Conservative MP for Aston Birmingham was killed in action with the British Eighth Army in North Africa announced today.
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Member of Commons
N. Africa
London
Edward O. Kellett
House of Commons
Aston
Birmingham
Eighth Army
North Africa
Berle Denounces Buffer States as Postwar Folly
Washington observers report Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle declaring in a Sunday broadcast that the idea of buffer states between Soviet and Western Europe is dead. He argued there will be no restoration of Estonia Latvia Lithuania or eastern Poland borders after the war, amid concern from smaller European states.
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Russia
Europe
Adolf A. Berle
Ina
Berle
United States
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Baltic States
Poland
The
Daily Worker
Balkans
Darlan
Soviet Union
Switzerland
Belgium
Germany
Italy
Albania
Greece
Thermos Bottles And Whistles New Nazi Booby Traps
The War Department described new Nazi booby traps designed to injure soldiers. A whistle explodes only when blown, a thermos bottle detonates when tilted, and earphones trigger via electric circuits.
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Washington
The
War Department Today
Public figures debate World War II aggression and buffer states
A speaker who requested anonymity argued Hitler cited Belgium and Holland as pretexts for invasion, but the speaker noted the League of Nations history shows major powers initiated aggressions. The challenge of reassuring Russia without alarming smaller European states highlighted the broader complexity.
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Adolf Hitler
Belgium
Holland
Germany
League of Nations
Russia
City College designated center for Army trainee testing
Dr. Warry N. Wright announces CCNY is designated by the Army as the assignment and reclassification center for the Second Service Command. Trainees will be housed at the old Hebrew Orphan Asylum dormitory and sent in small groups for testing, classifying, and assignment, with prior engineering and pre medical instruction roles maintained.
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CCNY
New Classification Center
Army New York
Warry N. Wright
City College
Army
Second Service Command
Wright
Jeffers predicts year to ease rubber crisis with synthetics
Washington April 7 William M Jeffers Rubber Director says the tension over rubber should ease in a year as synthetics gradually meet demand He urges continued production of South American rubber as insurance and notes synthetic tires have not yet matched all needs If plants fail to produce by June he will stay on He also foresees keeping plants operating after the war Douglas H Allen predicts over 75 percent of 35000 to 40000 tons of wild rubber will come from the Amazon Valley this year
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Washington
William M. Jeffers
America
Jeffers
Douglas H. Allen
The
Rubber Development Corporation
Brazil
Allen
Amazon Valley
Public Roads Admin Notes Rubber Gasoline Rationing Effects
Domestic effects of automotive rationing programs are observed in the Public Roads Administration. Indications point to shifts in distribution, usage, and policy impact on transportation and fuel accessibility.
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Public Roads
Rural Road Traffic Drops 52 Percent in February
Government report shows Eastern rural road traffic fell by 52 percent in February from the same month in 1941. Officials cite wartime shortages and fuel restrictions as contributing factors to the decline.
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Istration
Trafic
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