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Show HIGHLIGHTS in the ek's news TRAINING : Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell, commanding general of the Services of Supply, U. S. army, called upon schools and colleges to become pre-induction training centers cen-ters for the armed services. His prediction was that some colleges may be required to devote all facilities facili-ties for such purpose. OBDURATE: Despite British broadcasts to the contrary, the German Ger-man high command in a recent communique com-munique claimed that an Allied operational op-erational order seized during the raid on Dieppe showed the raid was intended to be the opening of a second sec-ond front in Europe. ACTION: Back to Washington came Brig. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, former secretary of war. He had been wounded three times in Pacific naval action. He had been assigned to get supplies through the Jap blockade when Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur was in the Philippines. ESCAPE: Of the more than 1,000 officers and men interned when the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled in Montevideo, more than 100 have escaped internment in Argentina, Juan Antonio Solari, chairman of a senate committee investigating in-vestigating anti-Argentine activities, said. DEATH: Dr. Belisario Porras, 85, three times president of the Republic Re-public of Panama, is dead of a chronic respiratory ailment. He was one-time minister to the United States and represented his country at The Hague conference and in the League of Nations. POTATOES: Germany's 1942 potato po-tato crop, according to Nazi spokesmen, spokes-men, is a record one. Admitting that there were no potatoes to be had in Berlin last winter, authorities are promising the population nine pounds of potatoes per person, per week. |