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Show MISCELLANY: Washington: The army had commandeered com-mandeered 85 more air liners for use in transporting troops and supplies, sup-plies, taking over one-fourth of all the air liners now plying the commercial com-mercial lines. London: Beatrice Lillie, Lady Peel in private life, received a telegram tele-gram of the probable death of her son, 21-year-old Sir Robert Peel, in action on a ship on which he was second-class seaman, as she was about to sing before a rural English audience. She finished her concert. New York: A federal judge declared de-clared that General Motors high officials of-ficials had mismanaged bonus funds, had made an unauthorized distribution of stock in the company, and ordered four, including Alfred P. Sloan, Junius S. Morgan, George Whitney and Donaldson Brown, to reimburse the company by more than four millions of dollars. Washington: The WPB said daily government expenditures for war purposes during March averaged S114.900.000. |