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April 1, 1942

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Farish Says German Deals Speeded Our War Industry; Standard Oil Head Tells Senate Committee Arnold's Charge of Curb on Rubber Has No 'Shadow of Foundation' SAYS REICH DEALS HELPED US TO ARM STANDARD OIL EXECUTIVES AT SENATE HEARING

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

U S: Farish denies Arnold charge that Standard Co of N J blocked synthetic output; holds co's relations with I G Farbenindustrie aided development; reveals co gave U S armed services data on its buna and butyl experiments in 1939, Truman Sen com hearing; illus

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Roosevelt Says Pacific Body Fights Powers of Darkness; ROOSEVELT GIVES PACIFIC BODY'S AIM

By W.h. Lawrencespecial To the New York Times

Roosevelt calls Pacific War Council conf; discusses functions

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COUNCIL SHELVES ISAACS WAR BILL, AMENDS MAYOR'S; Sweeping Provisions in His Ban on Waterfront Smoking Cut Out Before Passage EQUIPMENT LAW DELAYED Report Says It Would Drain Vital Materials and Furnish 'Evidence of Cowardice' WAR SAFETY BILL PASSED BY COUNCIL

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Council shelves Isaacs bldgs air-raid equipment bill after com rept scores defense materials purchase required

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Brazil Finds U-Boat Fuel Base; Japanese General Seized as a Spy; BRAZIL UNCOVERS U-BOAT FUEL BASE

By Frank M. Garciaspecial Cable To the New York Times

U-boat fuel base reptd found along Sao Paulo coast

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SOVIET NAVY HELPS IN ARCTIC SEA FIGHT; Nazi Destroyer Sunk, 3 U-Boats Wrecked, London Reports -- Loss in Convoy Denied SOVIET NAVY HELPS IN ARCTIC SEA FIGHT

By Raymond Daniellspecial Cable To the New York Times

Brit version of German attack on USSR-bound convoy; admit 2 ships were damaged; deny merchant ship losses; USSR naval role cited; German claims on Brit losses; Germans rept raid on Murmansk and 3 Brit planes downed over Norway

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1942Samuel R. Delany, American author and critic^[†]

Samuel R. "Chip" Delany is an American writer and literary critic. His work includes fiction, memoir, criticism, and essays on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society.

1942Richard D. Wolff, American economist and academic^[†]

Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs at The New School. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City College of New York, University of Utah, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and The Brecht Forum in New York City.

Headlines from April 1, 1942

Farish Says German Deals Speeded Our War Industry; Standard Oil Head Tells Senate Committee Arnold's Charge of Curb on Rubber Has No 'Shadow of Foundation' SAYS REICH DEALS HELPED US TO ARM STANDARD OIL EXECUTIVES AT SENATE HEARING

Roosevelt Says Pacific Body Fights Powers of Darkness; ROOSEVELT GIVES PACIFIC BODY'S AIM

COUNCIL SHELVES ISAACS WAR BILL, AMENDS MAYOR'S; Sweeping Provisions in His Ban on Waterfront Smoking Cut Out Before Passage EQUIPMENT LAW DELAYED Report Says It Would Drain Vital Materials and Furnish 'Evidence of Cowardice' WAR SAFETY BILL PASSED BY COUNCIL

Brazil Finds U-Boat Fuel Base; Japanese General Seized as a Spy; BRAZIL UNCOVERS U-BOAT FUEL BASE

SOVIET NAVY HELPS IN ARCTIC SEA FIGHT; Nazi Destroyer Sunk, 3 U-Boats Wrecked, London Reports -- Loss in Convoy Denied SOVIET NAVY HELPS IN ARCTIC SEA FIGHT

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