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Show ! HIGHLIGHTS in the week's news WASHINGTON: Newspaper men covering this wartime capital now need about 40 press passes to get them into the various buildings and offices around the city. Up until stricter measures were taken to guard against spies, saboteurs or traitors one pass, that admitting the bearer to the White House, would get newsmen almost anywhere any-where they wanted to go. NEW ORLEANS: Andrew J. Hig-gins, Hig-gins, shipbuilder extraordinary, is definitely going to build 1,200 cargo planes for the U. S. army. Contract for this number of aircraft was signed some time ago and the planes are to be built largely of non-critical metals. ALGIERS: U. S. doughboys in Africa are now getting a weekly edition edi-tion of their own newspaper, the Stars and Stripes. This North African Afri-can edition is the product of combined com-bined efforts of the London staff of the Stars and Stripes in Britain and the staff of Yank, army magazine. WASHINGTON: A bill to grant flat pay increases of 15 to 20 per cent to federal workers in lower salary sal-ary brackets was pigeonholed by the senate civil service committee. The committee agreed to support a measure allowing time and a half overtime pay for work beyond 40 hours a week. The sidetracked nasure would have provided increases in-creases of 20 per cent on all salaries sal-aries up to $2,100 and 15 per cent on higher salaries with a proviso that on a salary above $2,900 the 15 per cent would apply only to the first $2,900. , CHICAGO: Three Nazi sympathizers, sympa-thizers, under sentence to die January Janu-ary 22, were granted a stay of execution exe-cution while the U. S. circuit court of appeals studies the findings of their recent trial. They are Hans Max Haupt, father of Herbert Haupt, executed Nazi saboteur; Otto R. Wergin and Walter O. Froehling, friends of the Haupt family. LONDON: Continuance of the German reign of terror in Bohemia and Moravia was charged by the exiled Czech government, a spokesman spokes-man for which said that 35 more Czechs had been executed by the Nazis. Twenty-nine men were shot on one day for allegedly possessing arms and explosives and participating participat-ing in anti-Nazi activities, the Czech spokesman said. Six Czechs accused of being ringleaders in a sabotage and terror gang were executed in Prague. In Jugoslavia one official report said that guerrilla warriors had retaken almost half of that country. RENO: Thousands of acres of valuable Nevada rangeland, burned over by disastrous summer fires are being reseeded by a U. S. airplane. Clyde Bryant, an employee of the Bureau of Entomology, is specially trained for the dangerous job of re-seeding re-seeding a task that is more hazardous hazard-ous than the highly publicized job of airplane crop-dusters. Flying never more than 15 feet above the ground in his specially built plane. Bryant sows one ton of seed per hour, covering the ground at the rate of two to three pounds per acre. |