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Died. Edsel Ford, 49, Henry Ford's only son; of post-operative illness complicated by undulant fever; in Grosse Point Shores, Mich...
...staff of Henry Ford Hospital formally announced that "death was due to a condition which developed from a former stomach malady for which an operation was performed 16 months ago. Undulant fever was also present." The New York Daily News picked up the rumor that death was due to cancer, pettishly demanded why this was not formally announced, if true. † Stock of the Ford Motor Co, is of two types, voting and nonvoting. The exact ration is on a closely guarded Ford secret, but comparison can be made to the stock structure of Ford Motor Co. of Canada...
...enemy pushes down the peninsula. The task of Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his men is to cover the retreat, hold a bridgehead as long as possible, destroy the bridge as often as the Japanese attempt to rebuild it. One by one, through several days of sweat, fever, exhaustion, din and death, the entrenched men fall to Jap action. The last of his group alive, Sergeant Dane stands in a grave which he has marked with his own name and machine-guns hordes of advancing Japs...
...Berlin radio said King Mihai of Rumania, son of ex-King Carol, had measles. Rome radio said it was scarlet fever...
...Army was the first to adopt compulsory immunization against yellow fever. It was the first to require physical examinations of officers...