THURSDAY, MARCH. 8, 194
Lend-Lease To
Be Eextended To
;Q; : i
France Shortly
Lend - Lease Hiked By
$2,575,000,000.
WASHINGTON, March 7.-The ,
Waited States today announced ex
tension of lend-lease credits to i
nance for civilian supplies totaling
1*575,000,000.
.The supplies are to continue m«*-
Wg to the French under a brood
new lend-lease agreement signed
today with the De Gaulle govern
ment, even after the end of the
war, unless President Roosevelt de
cides to cancel the contracts a» be
ing not “in the national Interest,”
The French agreed to pay for the
materials thus received on a 38-
year basis, the credits to bear in
terest at 2 3-8 per cent annually.
<iThe announcement was made
Jointly by Acting Secretary of State
Grew, Treasury Secretary Morgen
thau and Leo T. Crowley, foreign
economic administrator. The agree
ments, negotiated over the past sev
eral months with French representa
tive Jean Monnet, were concluded
at the state department this after
noon.
They cover a master lend-lease
arrangement similar to those made
sCth Great Britain, Russia and
China a reciprocal aid plan by
which France agrees to devote its
resources as far as possible to the
allied war effort.
In effect, the agreement gives
France assurance of badly needed
civilian supplies for her ecomonic
rehabilitation although it was offi
cially stated that only those Items
having “war connected” uses are
"Supplies required by the French
solely for postwar purposes,” the
announcement said, “will have to
be handled by other means since
the lend-lease act is, and is being
administered as a war supply meas
ure.”
The civilian goods fall into two
categories. The French will obtain
5900.000.000 for long life equipment
Ringing from a fishing fleet to rail
way locomotives. The items in trfe
other schedule, totaling $1,675,000,-
000. are for the most part consumer
goods such as food and raw mater
ials, but include also short life man
ufacturing equipment for war pro
duction.
In the case of the short life sup
plies and consumer goods the French
agreed to make payment for the to-
cost in 30 annual Installments
beginning July l v 1946. Sor the long
life capital goods they agreed to pay
20 per cent, down on delivery with
a balance in equal annual install
ments within 30 years.
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AP To Begin
Indian Service
NEW YORK, March 7.—lnaugur
ation of Associated Press news ser
vice to newspapers and radio sta
tions in India was announced today
at the general offices of the asso
ciation. The news report is that re
ceived at London from AP's staff
all over the world and is wirelessed
from London to AP’s headquarters
in Bombay. At Bombay it is handled
by AP editors and distributed in
ternally by Indian telegraph.
present report averages 4,000
words daily, seven days a week, and
will be expanded as required. The
service is under the immediate sup
ervision of Preston Grover, chief of
Bureau for Indian and China,
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The United States is spending
$8,000,000,000 a month on the war
effort.
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■me PIANUT NOW PROVIDES OIL FOR MANY USES AS WELL, AND - I
LOOKING AHEAD-PLASTICS. ONE OF THE MEN IDENTIFIED WITH
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with the remainder of his division.
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letter, PvL R. s wife told him she was going to mother was desperately ill and without money. burst riddled Sgt. R. Jt M. t left arm. He wan
have a baby. There wasn’t enough money to pay He remembered advice he'd heard and went to losing blood fast. A medical corpsman adminis
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Pvt R. appealed to the Red Cross. In a few days boy’s local chapter to arrange for care. They did. <hey carried him to the field station and gave him
he received word that they had assisted his wife in Now, anxiety lifted, Seaman T. M. is a better * moT * P"*** of P lasma - Without it, he would
applying for emergency maternity and infant care. fighting man. Another example of your Red Cross have died.
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Suppose you were wounded, disabled, job- Suppose your son were taken prisoner? Suppose you’d lest your le§? And yon
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disability. He went home discouraged at the pros- lied Cross sent a welfare inquiry. And then the coming to see him in the hospital. He appealed
pact of making his living again. Unable to take International Red Cross reported that he was to a Red Cross worker to break the news for him.
Up his former trade, in desperation he appealed healthy and well, and was receiving regularly the It was a tough job, but she did ... and soon Mom
*® She Red Cross. They put him in touch with American Red Cross packages that helped keep up was holding his hand while Dad was telling
Me proper agency—he’s doing swell, now. his spirits. Your money gets the packages to him, funny storie»-*nd Sgt, J, T, was smiling happily.
n»* R«d Cross can’t do this work without your help!
The actual cases outlined above illustrate just a few of the thousands of ways MM
in which the Red Cross helps our fighting men—at Borne and overseas. But
without your help there would be no Red Cross to do this humanitarian work. . §C££fi YOi/Jf
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number. Your feats of daring and
endurance in the subfreezing weath
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Forsyth Lieutenant Among
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j either, until there is nothing left
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j afternoons there wasn’t any food of
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! “When the first Red Cross pack-
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Higher Death
Rale Seen In
Auto Accidents
Raleigh, Mar. 7.—Traffic accidents
in North Carolina last year result
ed in 680 deaths,, an increase of 19
over the number killed in 1943.
The figures w re contained in the
annual report of T. floddie Ward,
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“This tragic logs of life is appall- |
ing,” Ward said in his report. “It j
is a challenge to every motorist and
pedestrain to be careful and alert
at nil times.
“Our records show that motor ve
hicle accidents, in tire main, are due '
to the perpetuation of faulty habits
of driving and to carelessness on
i the part of the pedestrian. Motor
vehicle accidents are preventable
i through caution, care, and the con
stant observance of the law. Motor
ists and pedestrians should keep in
mind the fact that motor vehicles
long since have proved to be the
most deadly of weapons.”
Ward’s report shows that there
were 6,194 accidents reported in
1944. A breakdown of the total shows
that 597 of the accidents were fatal;
1,992, non-fatal; and 3,605 involved
only property damage. Persons num-
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, ■ cidents. Pedestrians accounted -Ua
43 per cent of the, total fatalities.
There were 67 automobile anc
. train accidents, which killed 46 inch
jviduals injured 93. Auto-bicycle-acet
dents showed a decrease in 1944, ant
j the year's death toll of eight li
! such accidents was a reduction oi
1 j 20 from the 1943 total.
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Twenty-one persons were ktHet
1 and 42 were injured in accident* ii
•; which vehicles hit objects, and>lß
persons were killed and 575 were in
! juml when the cars in which the]
were riding overturned on the road?
■ There were 247 accidents in whlcl
drivers were exceeding the Stab
•'.speed law; 51 in which drivers wefi
driving on the wrong side of tk»
: road; 21 in which drivers disregard
led warning signs or signals; ant
1 17 in which drivers had no right
• of-way.