704a. January 16, 1945. Resolution No. 46, Ministry of Commerce, fixing official prices for specified pharmaceutical products (List No. 9). (Gaceta Oficial, February 9, 1945, p. 2950.)

706. (Corrected copy, Gaceta Oficial, January 27, 1945, p. 1953.)

7064. January 19, 1945. Resolution No. 292, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, requiring peanut oil manufacturers to sell all the peanut cake and flour obtained as by-products to forage manufacturers and dealers, who must in turn sell 70 percent of the quantity they acquire to milk producers; fixing ceiling prices for peanut cake and flour; and making other pertinent provisions. (Gaceta Oficial, January 31, 1945, p. 2209.)

706b. January 19, 1945. Resolution No. 293, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, fixing rules and regulations governing the surrender of used tires and tubes by those entitled to receive new ones. (Gaceta Oficial, January 30, 1945, p. 2114.) 706c. January 20, 1945. Resolution No. 47, Ministry of Commerce, fixing official prices for specified pharmaceutical products (List No. 10). (Gaceta Oficial, February 9, 1945, p. 2953.)

706d. January 22, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 297, authorizing the Institutes of Secondary Education to grant the proper degrees to students who have completed their course of studies but who because of the war have not been able to present their birth certificates. (Gaceta Oficial, February 3, 1945, p. 2438.)

706e. January 22, 1945. Resolution No. 294, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, fixing quotas of tires and tubes to be distributed among the companies engaged in interurban and interprovincial passenger transportation and those engaged in public motor freight transportation. (Gaceta Oficial, January 30, 1945, p. 2117.)

708. January 24, 1945. Resolution No. 48, Ministry of Commerce, fixing official prices for specified pharmaceutical products (List No. 11). (Gaceta Oficial, February 12, 1945, p. 3077.) 709. January 24, 1945. Resolution No. 295, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, suspending until further notice the effectiveness of Resolution No. 245 of July 28, 1944 (see Cuba, 628, BULLETIN, November 1944) regarding sales of wheat flour. (Gaceta Oficial, January 30, 1945, p. 2117.) 710. January 27, 1945. Resolution No. 297, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, requiring that beginning February 11, 1945, all types of

packaged rice shall be sold at the same official prices which are in force for rice of the same type sold in bulk. (Gaceta Oficial, February 3, 1945, p. 2436.)

711. January 30, 1945. Resolution No. 49, Ministry of Commerce, partially amending Resolutions Nos. 38, 34 and 40 of December 27 and 13, 1944 and January 4, 1945 (see 692a above and Cuba 6886 and 696, BULLETIN, April 1945), fixing official prices for specified pharmaceutical products. (Gaceta Oficial, February 12, 1945, p. 3080.)

712. January 30, 1945. Resolution No. 296, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, requiring proprietors of establishments selling milk to post the ceiling prices established for grade A milk by Presidential Decree No. 2,725 of August 26, 1944 (see Cuba 645, BULLETIN, November 1944) and for grade B milk by Presidential Decree No. 103 of January 16, 1945 (see Cuba 704, BULLETIN, April 1945), and making other pertinent provisions. (Gaceta Oficial, February 2, 1945, p. 2339.)

713. January 31, 1945. Resolution No. 50, Ministry of Commerce, fixing official prices for a specified dietetic product. (Gaceta Oficial, February 13, 1945, p. 3109.)

714. January 31, 1945. Resolution No. 52, Ministry of Commerce, dictating the measures necessary for the proper enforcement of Presidential Decree No. 89 of January 12, 1945 (see Cuba 703, BULLETIN, April 1945), which granted a subsidy, amounting to exemption from customs duties, on imported wheat flour; and creating the Wheat Flour Import Subsidy Office to administrate the decree. (Gaceta Oficial, February 13, 1945, , p. 3110.)

715. January 31, 1944. Resolution No. 6, Coffee Stabilization Institute, declaring the sale and transfer of sixty percent of the existing stocks of ordinary raw coffee allotted for national consumption to be subject to the control and regulation of this Institute; and making other provisions designed to prevent speculation and to insure a supply of ordinary coffee at a reasonable price. (Gaceta Oficial, February 2, 1945, p. 2374.)

716. February 1, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 304, suspending, until such time as Congress shall legislate on the matter, evictions ordered from urban property, provided that the lessee or sublessee pay the rent owed at any time before the execution of the order; and making other pertinent

provisions. (Gaceta Oficial, February 1, 1945, p. 2305.)

717. February 1, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 345, declaring necessary to the public interest the occupation and supervision by the state of a specified sugar mill in order to insure its normal operation, and making provisions to implement the enforcement of the decree. (Gaceta Oficial, February 7, 1945, p. 2754.)

718. February 1, 1945. Resolution No. 298, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, fixing special quotas of tires and inner tubes to meet the needs of the Ministry of Public Works and of the carriers and harvesters of small crops in the region of Güines. (Gaceta Oficial, February 8, 1945, p. 2786.)

719. February 2, 1945. Resolution No. 843, Ministry of Labor, explaining that the provisions of Presidential Decree No. 117 of January 17, 1945 (see Cuba 705, BULLETIN, April 1945), which granted increased wages to workers in the sugar industry, are in effect from January 1 to December 31, 1945. (Gaceta Oficial, February 7, 1945, p. 2758.)

720. February 7, 1945. Resolution No. 54, Ministry of Commerce, supplementing and partially amending Resolution No. 27 of November 15, 1944 (see Cuba 680, BULLETIN, March 1945) regarding price determination and declaration of stocks of imported pharmaceutical products. (Gaceta Oficial, February 13, 1945, p. 3113.)

721. February 7, 1945. Resolution No. 299, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, allotting a specified quota of tires and tubes to the National Development Commission for use by vehicles employed in highway repairs and construction. (Gaceta Oficial, February 10, 1945, p. 2981.) 722. February 7, 1945. Resolution No. 300, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, fixing a special quota of tires and tubes for the Cuban Electrical Company to equip vehicles used in maintenance of electrical equipment. (Gaceta Oficial, February 13, 1945, p. 3113.)

723. February 7, 1945. Resolution No. 301, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, fixing ceiling prices for specified iron, steel and copper articles, and making other pertinent provisions. (Gaceta Oficial, February 13, 1945, p. 3113; corrected copy, Gaceta Oficial, February 15, 1945, p. 3365.)

724. February 7, 1945. Resolution No. 7, Coffee

Stabilization Institute, requiring declarations of all stocks of unhulled coffee and coffee in parchment and requiring detailed statements covering the subsequent sale of such coffee. (Gaceta Oficial, February 8, 1945, p. 2786.)

725. February 8, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 409, putting the National Transport Commission in complete control of civil air traffic in Cuba; providing that for the duration of the war any airport or landing field of any commercial aviation company will be considered of public utility and may be used by other authorized transport companies, domestic or foreign, upon payment of a fee fixed by the Commission; and making other pertinent provisions. (Gaceta Oficial, February 12, 1945, p. 3014.)

726. February 8, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 410, clarifying the provisions of Presidential Decree No. 349 of February 19, 1944 (see Cuba 532, BULLETIN, June 1944) regarding the reduced freight rates on sugar acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation or other agencies of the United States government. (Gaceta Oficial, February 12, 1945, p. 3016.)

727. February 8, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 431, repealing paragraphs one and three of Presidential Decree No. 3,371 of September 29, 1944 (see Cuba 660, BULLETIN, January 1945), and raising the wages of port and maritime workers 20 percent over the basic wage in force on September 1, 1944. (Gaceta Oficial, February 14, 1945, p. 3233.)

728. February 8, 1945. Resolution No. 302, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, allotting quotas of fuel and of tires and tubes to the National Development Commission for use by vehicles employed in highway repairs and construction. (Gaceta Oficial, February 14, 1945, p. 3205.) 729. February 9, 1945. Resolution No. 303, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, fixing quotas of tires and tubes for the company in charge of bus service in Habana and for companies engaged in interurban and interprovincial passenger service throughout the country. (Gaceta Oficial, February 15, 1945, p. 3299.)

730. February 9, 1945. Resolution No. 304, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, making illegal the slaughter of cattle on Tuesday, as well as the distribution, sale and consumption of the meat of such cattle. (Gaceta Oficial, February 16, 1945, p. 3402.)

731. February 12, 1945. Resolution No. 847, Ministry of Labor, clarifying the provisions of Presidential Decree No. 117 of January 17, 1945 (see Cuba 705, BULLETIN, April 1945), which granted increased wages to workers in the sugar industry. (Gaceta Oficial, February 16, 1945, p. 3403.)

732. February 12, 1945. Resolution No. 848, Ministry of Labor, further clarifying the provisions of Presidential Decree No. 117 of January 17, 1945 (see Cuba 705, BULLETIN, April 1945), which granted increased wages to workers in the sugar industry. (Gaceta Oficial, February 16, 1945, p. 3404.)

733. February 14, 1945. Resolution No. 850, Ministry of Labor, fixing provisional minimum wages for highway workers. (Gaceta Oficial, February 17, 1945, p. 3497.)

734. February 14, 1945. Resolution No. 305, Office of Price Regulation and Supply, fixing a general quota of used tires and tubes to meet the demands of the services entitled to them; making a special increase in the quota of the Ministry of Public Works; and making other pertinent provisions. (Gaceta Oficial, February 17, 1945, p. 3496.)

EL SALVADOR

97. November 17, 1944. Executive Decree amending the Executive Decree of July 7, 1944 (see El Salvador 89, BULLETIN, November 1944) so as to allow tires and tubes needed for the harvest to be admitted directly by the Customs on the authorization of the Committee on Economic Coordination. (Diario Oficial, November 22,

1944.)

98. November 17, 1944. Legislative Decree No. 132, permitting for a thirty-day period the dutyfree entrance of unrefined Central American sugar. (Diario Oficial, November 22, 1944.)

99. November 28, 1944. Legislative Decree No. 152, authorizing distillers to use molasses, pressed brown sugar and cane juice indiscriminately in making the chichas from which alcohols and aguardientes are distilled. (Diario Oficial, December 6, 1944.)

GUATEMALA

129. January 18, 1945. Decree No. 49, Revolutionary Junta, repealing Presidential Decree No. 2,981 of October 20, 1942 (see Guatemala 44,

BULLETIN, February 1943) and lowering the tax on matches of domestic manufacture. (Diario de Centro América, January 18, 1945.)

130. January 20, 1945. Legislative Decree No. 31, approving Decree No. 32 of the Revolutionary Junta (see Guatemala 126, BULLETIN, April 1945) which put telegraph, cable, and radio offices under government control. (Diario de Centro América, February 3, 1945.)

131. January 22, 1945. Decree No. 53, Revolutionary Junta, withdrawing the recognition extended by Guatemala in 1936 to the Falangist government of Spain. (Diario de Centro América, January 24, 1945.)

HONDURAS

35a. July 19, 1943. Presidential Order No. 117, approving the regulations drawn up by the Governing Board of the Faculty of Pharmacy concerning the importation and domestic consumption of quinine. (La Gaceta, February 3, 1945.)

PARAGUAY

50a. October 21, 1943. Resolution No. 168, General Office of Industry and Commerce, requiring flour millers to maintain a reserve supply of wheat in their warehouses. (Mentioned in Paraguay Industrial y Comercial, Asunción, September 1944.)

551. April 29, 1944. Decree No. 3,491, empowering the Office of Industry and Development of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to determine the length of time wheat flour should remain in storage at the mill. (Mentioned in Paraguay Industrial y Comercial, Asunción, September 1944.) 571. August 3, 1944. Decree No. 4,706,, fixing prices for roasted yerba maté for domestic consumption. (Mentioned in Paraguay Industrial y Comercial, October 1944.)

572. August 11, 1944. Resolution No. 15, Office of Industry and Development, fixing monthly quotas of coconut oil and tallow to be furnished the soap manufacturers by the oil manufacturers for the period from July to December, 1944. (Paraguay Industrial y Comercial, Asunción, September 1944.)

573. August 14, 1944. Resolution No. 16, Office of Industry and Development, requiring flour mills to keep flour in storage for a certain length of time, and to maintain a specified amount on hand; and making other pertinent provisions. (Paraguay

Industrial y Comercial, Asunción, September 1944.)

57. August 18, 1944. Presidential Decree forbidding official institutions to acquire merchandise of any kind from firms on the proclaimed list. (Paraguay Industrial y Comercial, Asunción, September 1944.)

57a1 August 26, 1944. Resolution, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, fixing the percentages of yerba maté that exporters should allot for domestic consumption, and fixing prices for processed yerba maté. (Paraguay Industrial y Comercial, Asunción, September, 1944.)

(Correction) Item No. 57a, BULLETIN, March 1945, should have been numbered 57b.

(Correction) Item No. 57b, BULLETIN, March 1945, should have been numbered 57c.

61. (Correction) October 4, 1944. Presidential Decree No. 5,439. (Paraguay Industrial y Comercial, Asunción, October, 1944.)

68. December 21, 1944. Resolution No. 5, Paraguayan Meat Corporation, fixing summer prices for beef cattle from a specified locality destined for public consumption; repealing articles 1-5 of Resolution No. 1 of September 18, 1944 (see Paraguay 58, BULLETIN, January 1945); and making other pertinent provisions. (El País, Asunción, December 23, 1944.)

69. December 23, 1944. Resolution No. 6, Paraguayan Meat Corporation, establishing new wholesale and retail prices for meat for the capital. (El País, Asunción, December 28, 1944.)

70. December 28, 1944. Announcement by the Paraguay Meat Corporation of the postponement until January 31, 1945, of the deadline for the presentation by livestock owners of the declarations called for in Resolution No. 3 of October 26, 1944 (see Paraguay 62, BULLETIN, March 1945). (El País, Asunción, December 29, 1944.)

PERU

144. November 26, 1944. Supreme Decree putting into effect the recommendations of the commission created by the Supreme Decree of July 20, 1944 (see Peru 130a, BULLETIN, March 1945) to study wage readjustments, and increasing the minimum wages of private employees in the provinces of Lima and Callao to enable them to meet the increased costs of living. (El Peruano, November 29, 1944.)

145. December 29, 1944. Supreme Resolution

authorizing, in view of increased costs of operation, a new system of fares on city bus lines in Lima. (El Peruano, January 3, 1945.)

VENEZUELA

163a. August 28, 1944. Ratification by Venezuela of the UNRRA Agreement signed provisionally by its representative in Washington on November 9, 1943. (Gaceta Oficial, December 4, 1944.) (Correction) Item No. 163, BULLETIN, January 1945, should have been numbered 163b.

185a. November 10, 1944. Resolution No. 43, Ministry of Labor and Transportation, taking measures to end a labor conflict detrimental to the war effort: granting an increase in pay to employees of a certain wage level in the oil industry; and denying the petitions presented by two specified unions of oil industry employees. (Gaceta Oficial, November 10, 1944.)

193. December 13, 1944. Resolution No. 130, Agricultural Economy Office, Ministry of Agriculture and Stockraising, requiring producers and owners of specified kinds of rubber to sell their product to the Agricultural and Livestock Bank at prices fixed by the resolution; and repealing Resolutions Nos. 2-E. A. of October 9, 1942 and February 18, 1943 (see Venezuela 67c and 96, BULLETIN, April and July 1943). (Gaceta Oficial, December 13, 1944.)

194. December 20, 1944. Resolution No. 133, Agricultural Economy Office, Ministry of Agriculture and Stockraising, requiring producers and owners of a specified kind of rubber to sell their product to the Agricultural and Livestock Bank at the prices fixed by the resolution. (Gaceta Oficial, December 21, 1944.)

195. December 22, 1944. Resolution No. 19, National Supply Commission, repealing Resolution No. 14 of November 16, 1944 (see Venezuela 186, BULLETIN, March 1945); fixing new sale prices for raw milk in specified regions of the country; and making other pertinent provisions. (Gaceta Oficial, December 22, 1944.)

196. December 27, 1944. Resolution No. 20, National Supply Commission, fixing ceiling prices for a list of specified drugs, medicines and articles of medical equipment, and making other pertinent provisions. (Gaceta Oficial, December 29, 1944, Supplementary Edition No. 116.)

197. January 10, 1945. Resolution No. 22, National Supply Commission, providing that a

BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL MEASURES 156a. August 8, 1944. Ratification by Venezuela of the UNRRA agreement signed provisionally by its representative in Washington on November 9, 1943 (see Bilateral and Multilateral Measures 123, BULLETIN, February 1944.) (Gaceta Oficial, Caracas, Decembc: 4, 1944.)

166c. September 28, 1944. Contract between the Government of Costa Rica and the ExportImport Bank of Washington, supplementing and amending the contract signed July 9, 1942 (see Bilateral and Multilateral Measures 26a, BULLETIN, January 1943), which provided credits to aid in the stabilization of Costa Rican financial and agricultural economy and to supply the necessary dollar exchange to enable Costa Rica to maintain indispensable imports. (La Gaceta, San José, December 15, 1944.)

1721. December 12, 1944. Agreement between the Governments of Brazil and the United States extending until March 31, 1946, the effectiveness of the agreement signed February 8, 1944 (see Bilateral and Multilateral Measures 137, BULLETIN, April 1944), providing for the payment by the Rubber Development Corporation of a premium of 33% percent on the basic price of 45 cents per pound, f. o. b. Belém, for Acre fine rubber, washed and dry. (Diário Oficial, January 11, 1945.) 1734. January 8, 1945. Agreement between the Governments of the United States and Haiti clarifying and supplementing the agreement concluded January 24, 1941 regarding a program for cooperative rubber investigations in Haiti. (Bulletin, United States Department of State, February 11, 1945.)

175. February 11, 1945. Statement issued by President Roosevelt, Premier Stalin, and Prime Minister Churchill following the Crimea Conference, regarding plans for the military defeat and occupation of Germany; the establishment of order in liberated Europe, and specifically in Poland and Yugoslavia; the Polish boundaries; and the calling of a conference of United Nations to meet at San Francisco in the United States on April 25, 1945. (Bulletin, United States Department of State, February 18, 1945.)

176. February 14, 1945. Signature by Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru of the Declaration by the United Nations of January 1, 1942 (see Bilateral and Multilateral Measures 1, BULLETIN, April 1942). (Bulletin, United States Department of State, February 18, 1945.)

177. February 19, 1945. Wartime agreement between the Governments of the United States and Canada regarding military air-transport routes operated by one country over the territory of the other. (Bulletin, United States Department of State, February 25, 1945.)

178. February 20, 1945. Signature by Venezuela of the Declaration by the United Nations of January 1, 1942 (see Bilateral and Multilateral Measures 1, BULLETIN, April 1942). (Bulletin, United States Department of State, February 25, 1945.)

179. February 21, 1945. Agreement between the Governments of Guatemala and the United States providing for the detail of a military aviation mission by the United States to serve in Guatemala. (Bulletin, United States Department of State, February 25, 1945.)

180. February 24, 1945. Signature by Uruguay of the Declaration by the United Nations of January 1, 1942 (see Bilateral and Multilateral Measures 1, BULLETIN, April 1942). (Bulletin,

United States Department of State, February 25, 1945.)

181. February 28, 1945. Agreements between the Government of the United States and the Provisional Government of France negotiated under the provisions of the Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, on the principles applying to mutual aid in the prosecution of the war. (Bulletin, United States Department of State, March 4, 1945.)

182. March 8, 1945. Final Act of the InterAmerican Conference on Problems of War and Peace, signed at Mexico City by delegates of twenty American governments, providing for extensive cooperation in the prosecution of the war, the transition to a peacetime economy, and the maintenance of peace; strengthening the interAmerican system; and making other pertinent recommendations (see pages). (Report on the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, Mexico City, February 21-March 8, 1945, submitted to the Governing Board of the Pan American Union by the Director General.)