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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the news I Berlin: Columbia Broadcasting System resumed its broadcasts from Berlin, although the Nazi government govern-ment was told there would be no change in the CBS policy. Germans Ger-mans had halted the broadcasts in protest over the way Elmer Davis had commented on an interview over the air with P. G. Wodehouse, British author interned and then released re-leased to do broadcasting. London: Dramatic story of "wing-walking" "wing-walking" by an H.A.F. pilot over the North sea after a big Wellington bomber had been set afire by a Messerschmitt was told when the smoking plane landed. The German, Ger-man, after his shots , set the wing afire, closed in to finish the British plane, but the rear-gunner got him. Then the navigator clambered out on the wing, stuffed the cockpit cover cov-er into the blazing gasoline feedpipe feed-pipe line, and clambered back to safety. The pilot landed the ship without a crackup. She was badly damaged, however. Washington: Fifty-two D. C. motorists mo-torists were arrested, charged with having "smoky" exhausts on their cars. It was the opening gun in a campaign by Secretary Ickes, controller con-troller of the oil situation, to conserve con-serve gasoline. In the national capital cap-ital motorists were told that they must have their cars adjusted, or their licenses would be suspended as an enforcement measure. Rome: American consuls were leaving Italy, but there was little assurance as to when other Americans, Ameri-cans, also under orders to leave which were issued following the similar sim-ilar action in the United States, would be able to get away. London: Twelve American Red Cross nurses left the U. S. to serve at a hospital here. Two were lost at sea when the ship was sunk, ten were saved. Of the ten four decided decid-ed to go back to the United States, six to continue on and serve in the hospital. The four said they had suffered frozen feet. |