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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news RUBBER: In addition to vast amounts of regular crops, Siberia will produce huge quantities of material ma-terial for synthetic rubber this year, a Moscow report disclosed. REFUGEES: Spokesmen for the British - American conference in Hamilton, Bermuda, on the European Euro-pean refugee problem said that any large-scale rescue of Nazi-oppressed people seemed out of the question. EXCHANGED PRISONER: First American soldier freed from an Axis war prisoner camp is Alan Stuyvesant of New York, who was released from a camp near Rome after 10 months' imprisonment. SECRECY: Former President Herbert Hoover in a public statement state-ment said "there can be no real justification for secrecy" at the Allied Al-lied nations' food conference scheduled sched-uled to open May 18 at Hot Springs, Va., adding that "no secrets exist concerning the food situation In any country in the world." Ft. -v" SAILORS: More than 6,000 German Ger-man naval personnel, mostly officers, offi-cers, arrived in Italian ports for assignments as-signments aboard Italian warships, according to reports received in London. FEDERATION: Ezequiel Padilla, Mexican foreign secretary in a book-published book-published in New York wrote that a federation of American nations "is a pressing and imperative duty." SURPRISE: Vice Adm. Jonas H. Ingram, commander of the United States Atlantic fleet, predicted "disagreeable "dis-agreeable surprises" for the enemy off the Brazilian coast soon, but did not amplify his statement. "CAN OPENERS": Specially equipped 2-D Hurricane fighter planes, known as "can openers" and armed with two 40-mm. guns firing shells weighing 2 pounds each are being used as tank busters by the RAF in North Africa, the British air ministry announced. The tank busters have proved very effective. |
