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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Dove was a 2d Lieutenant in the Air Service, serving 13 months in France. In 
1931 a paper on the transmission of endemic typhus through the bites of tropical 
rat lice, prepared by Dr. Dove and Dr. Bedford Shelmire, was awarded the silver 
medal of the American Medical Association. His previous service with the 
Bureau embraces a series of responsible assignments in the field of insect research 
and control, including the direction of an educational program for the control of 
screwworms in livestock in the southern United States and the direction of 
grasshopper control work in most of the States west of the Mississippi River. 
He has recently been in charge of research work on mosquitoes and other insect 
pests of man and livestock in the Southeast. 
S. B. FRACKER NAMED COORDINATOR OF INSECT AND DISEASE RESEARCH; It 
SUCCEEDED BY J. F. MARTIN 
[Press notice] 
May 8, 1942. 
The United States Department of Agriculture today announced the appoint- 
ment of Dr. Stanley B. Fracker as Research Coordinator on the staff of Dr. 
E. C. Auchter, Agricultural Research Administrator. Doctor Fracker will 
coordinate research dealing with plant diseases and insects affecting plants and 
animals. In addition to his attention to research in these fields, Doctor Fracker 
will also review plant pest control programs and will be responsible for Depart- 
ment cooperation with industry in insect and plant disease research. 
At the same time the Department announced the appointment of Dr. James 
Francis Martin to suceed Doctor Fracker as Chief of the Division of Plant Disease 
Control, of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. This Division is 
responsible for the control and prevention of spread of white pine blister rust 
and black stem rust of cereals. 
Doctor Fracker was born at Ashton, Iowa. He received the Ph.D. degree 
from the University of Illinois in 1915 and has been active in entomological 
research and control work for the past 27 years. 
In 1915 Doctor Fracker was appointed Assistant State Entomologist and later 
was promoted to the position of State Entomologist of Wisconsin. In June, 
1927, he entered the Department of Agriculture as Senior Plant Quarantine 
Administrator in the Federal Horticultural Board, in charge of Domestic Plant 
Quarantines; from 1928 to 1942, he served in the same capacity in the Bureau 
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
Doctor Martin was born in Amherst, Mass., November 17, 1888. He attended 
the public schools in Amherst and graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College (now Massachusetts State College) in 1912, and in 1914 received the 
degree of M S., and in 1915 the degree of Ph.D. from the same institution. 
Doctor Martin started his work with the United States Department of Agri- 
culture in 1913 working in the parasite laboratory of the gypsy moth investigations. 
In 1915 while working as a deputy nursery inspector of the Massachusetts State 
Department of Agriculture he discovered the general distribution of white pine 
blister rust on native pines in Massachusetts. Doctor Martin has been associated 
with white pine blister rust work in the Department of Agriculture since its incep- 
tion, and was placed in charge of this work in 1934. 
P. Q. C. A. 310, Supplement No. 5 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS. REPUBLIC OF PERU 
June 1, 1942. 
Executive Orders of July 19, 1941, Lima 
regulations governing the importation of coffee and the introduction 
of parasitic insects 
Orders of the President of Peru dated at Lima, July 19, 1941, prohibit the 
importation into Peru of coffee plants, and parts thereof, including the seeds, on 
account of the possibility of introducing the coffee berry borer, Stephanoderes 
coffeae Hag., and: 
