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Show BRIEFS: DAUGHTERS: Cautioning that severe se-vere labor shortages may develop, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard has urged rural families to keep their daughters on the farm to help with war food production. INDEPENDENT Despite Adolf Hitler's surprise visit to Finland, a government spokesman stated that the nation would "continue to steer a strictly independent course." LOSS After two months of operations opera-tions over Burma, the U. S. air forces have announced the loss of their first heavy bomber in that area. Meanwhile they have been doing a terrific job of blasting Japa-nsn Japa-nsn offensive plans. FOOD Approximately 1,300 factories fac-tories employing 20.000 workers will be closed by orders originating in Vichy, France. The workers will be diverted to a labor pool to man farms expected to produce food reserves re-serves for next winter and to provide pro-vide volunteers for labor in German war factories. |