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Washington
Washington—This city has be
come the official war capital of
the United nations with com
bined chiefs of staff forming a
board to take charge of all joint
Anglo-American action in the
prosecution of the war. It is in
tended to assure coordination of
the war effort and its jurisdiction
will include production and dis
tribution of war supplies.
Members for the U. S. are Ad
miral Harold C. Stark, chief of
naval operations, General George
C. Marshal, army chief of staff,
Admiral E. J. K;ng, commander
in-chief of the U. S. fleet andLt'
Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the
army air corps.
The British members are Field
Marshall Sir John Kill, former
chief of the Imperial General
Staff, Admiral Sir Charles Little
Lt. Gen. Sir Colvill Wemyss, air
marshal.
j.ue new agency is simuiar in
many respects to the inter-Allied
command of the first World War
but apparently possesses more
actual power to act.
Washington (.£*) — Delegate
Dimond has announced that the
Dstfeose Housing division of the
office of emergency management
has approved priorities for build
ing 200 family units at Seward
by private enterprise. There is a
possibility the FHA might assist
with loans.
The housing is designed to re
place part of that lost in the
Seward fire last November.
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Washington (TP)—The Justice
department announced that the
Federal Grand jury, Newark. N.
J , indicted the National Whole
sale Drugs association, 23 of its
members and 29 officers, on a
charge of conspiring to violate
the anti trust law. The indict
ment charged the association
with fixing the margin of profits
on drugs sold at wholesale.
Washington GP)—With a
warning that the home front
cou’d look for hostile aeral at
tacks, the H use ppropr t ons
committee recommended that
$100,000,000 be voted for the
Civilian Defense program.
The committee 3aid “enemy
air raids on the continent of the
U. S. are to be expected, but the
general military opinion is that
they cannot be conducted on any
scale approaching the degree of
intensity or frequency of the
raids on England and the Euro
pean continent.
Pacific Front
(JP)—Germany’s famed air
force, the instrument which pul
verized the resistance of Belgium,
Holland and France, called on
Italian war planes for help in the
battle of Russia it has been dis
closed by the Nazi command.
The disclosure was coincident
with the announcement Goering
just completed a visit to Italy.
A bulletin from Hitler’s field
headquarters said “in lighting
yesterday against the Soviet air
force in which the Italian air
force took part, 38 enemy planes
were shot down or destroyed on
the ground.” It was the first
time Italian planes had been
mentioned in action on the
Soviet Front.
Whether the Germans suffer
a shortage of planes or pilots
was not disclosed, but recent
Soviet communiques emphasized
heavy German air losses. A Red
Army bulletin reported 38 planes
destroyed Wednesday against 10
Russian planes missing. -
Coincidentally, German’s pro
paganda minister Goebbels ac
knowledged that there was con
siderable dissatisfaction stirring
in the Reich over the campaign
in Russia over food and fuel
shortages at home, and exhorted
the Ge-imans to maintain “de
portment and morale.”
(A-3)—Japanese are reported
landing on the western shoies
of Singapoie island amid heavy
fighting. A British communique'
indicates the Japanese arriving!
in large forces, i he landing was
effectsd on the opposite end from
where the Japs seized undefend
ed Palau Ubin island, in the
Strait of Johore yesterday (Sun
day) Toyko radio reported that
Japanese tank and infantry
units had landed and were con
solidating positions under heavy
fire.
San Francisco 05*)—The
Alaska Packers association had
the best profit in recent years,
last year’s annual report showed
The net profit was $977,066,
which amounted to $117.0/ a
share, as compared to $126,944,
or $2.20 for the preceding year.
San Francisco (-4?)—Stock
holders of the Treadwell Yukon
corporation will consider liquid
ation of the mining firm at the
annual meeting here April 20.
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