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Show HIGHLIGHTS in the week's news Ottawa, Ont.: United States tourists tour-ists entering Canada will be given ration books entitling them to only 20 gallons of gasoline on a yearly oasis, not for each entry. Washington: A ;five-pointed white star within a blue circle has been adopted as a new insignia for all U. S. combat aircraft to remove the possibility of confusion with enemy planes. London: The 800-year-old cathedral cathe-dral at Exeter suffered a direct bomb hit and was damaged badly. New York: Glenn L. Martin, pioneer pio-neer aircraft manufacturer, stated that America's warplane production is nearly twice that of Germany, but is a "mere trickle compared with the increasing flow that is to come." Holland, Mich.: Approximately 80,000 persons attended the 14th annual an-nual tulip festival. Washington: The army will substitute sub-stitute steel and zinc buttons, coated coat-ed with brass, for those made of solid brass. Washington: Nine-tenths of all factory workers earn 40 cents an hour or more, according to Secretary Secre-tary of Labor Frances Perkins. One-tenth One-tenth of the factory workers earn $1.10 or more. San Francisco: Ten thousana Japanese, Jap-anese, evacuated from Pacific coastal coast-al stales, will be moved to a relocation reloca-tion center to be built in the Big Horn area of Wyoming. AIR SCORE: Against Nazis ' Three German planes are being lost to every British plane downed in Africa, according to British, Canadian Ca-nadian and Australian airmen visiting visit-ing in New York. However, they pointed out, that the Axis still holds a 50 per cent superiority in the number of fighting planes. Special praise was heaped upon the Curtiss-Wright P40 American pursuit planes. The men are touring U. S. plane factories. |