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Show I HIGHLIGHTS . " the week's news I 1 FLU: Almost a thousand people died of influenza in Great Britain last week, the highest since the epidemic epi-demic began. In the previous week 709 succumbed. NURSES: Plans to conscript registered nurses for service with the armed forces have been dropped, Representative Bolton said, after a conference with war department officials. of-ficials. FIRES: Losses from Are during November were 31 per cent higher throughout the nation than for the same month last year. For the first 11 months of 1943, total losses were the largest since 1932, was reported by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Un-derwriters. COTTON PICKERS: Spindle-type cotton picking machines will be manufactured under the Berry patent pat-ent next year, Deere and Co., of Moline, 111., announce. Officials said that probably some machines would be on sale for use during the 1944 season. ' HONESTY: A 43-year-old Briton of American descent has been sentenced sen-tenced by a London court to nine months' imprisonment for receiving stolen goods. His name is Abraham Lincoln, and he claims to be a grand-nephew grand-nephew of "Honest Abe." Lincoln was charged with receiving a calculating calcu-lating machine which he knew was stolen from U. S. army headquarters. headquar-ters. CEILINGS: Removal of price ceilings on all fresh fruit and vegetables vege-tables was asked in a resolution passed by the Vegetable Growers Association As-sociation of America, meeting in Chi-cago. Chi-cago. The association also opposed any form of subsidies on their products. prod-ucts. MATRIARCH: An 89 - year - old woman, who died recently in Clay county, 111., was mourned by 214 direct di-rect descendants. At the funeral were two sons, eight daughters, 70 grandchildren, 128 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren. |
