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...Apedwa, subchief of Akim Abuakwa. disappeared. The Odikro's servant and two pygmy followers also vanished. For nine months Gold Coast authorities quietly investigated. Then they arrested eight natives, charged them with murdering the Odikro. In time the eight stood in the prisoner's dock in Accra's white, sweltering courthouse. They rolled their eyes, cast covertly accusing glances at each other, sweated while witnesses testified...
Last week, in Accra, eight zealous followers of Sir Ofori were sentenced to be hanged for seeing to it that he was buried with all the honors they deemed due to a man of his position...
Army education authorities reported last week that in Accra, on the African Gold Coast, two G.I.s had refused furloughs so that they would not miss their classes at the "G.I. College of Accra." From Accra to Adak in the Aleutians, in informal Army and Navy "colleges" which supplement the correspondence courses sent out by USAFI (TIME, Feb. 21), servicemen are studying everything from reading to calculus. Some of the 700,000 students to date...
...Accra, one Adumua, Esq., a candidate for the local town council, bought space in the African Spokesman, modestly catalogued (in the third person) his qualifications for office...
...will suppress all infections. Among British forces near Panafrica's stations, about 30% of those on 0.3 gr. of quinine hydrochloride daily, and 23% of those taking 0.4 gr. of atabrine dihydrochloride weekly, developed clinical malaria (incidentally, "no toxic effects from atabrine were noted"). Panafrica had to abandon Accra, a bad malaria spot on Africa's Gold Coast. In spite of quinine, in about two months 46 out of 284 men occupying partially screened quarters had malaria...