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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news CHICAGO: With an abundance of billing and cooing, 5,605 fast-flying doves were drafted in Chicago for the army, reducing the city's peacetime peace-time pigeon population by one-sixth. The war first drafted a big group of racing pigeons from the city a year ago. These traditional symbols sym-bols of peace were reported in action ac-tion from Bataan to Britain, according ac-cording to a report received here. WASHINGTON: How Lieut. Chester Ches-ter W. Nimitz Jr., son of the Pacific Pa-cific admit al, won the silver star medal was disclosed in a navy report. re-port. The citation made public here says young Nimitz served with "conspicuous "con-spicuous gallantry and intrepidity" as torpedo and gunnery officer and later as executive officer on two war patrols. During a third patrol near Java, he also won distinction. |