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Show HIGHLIGHTS in the week's news Washington: Walter Nash, first New Zealand minister to the United States, urged that an American naval officer be placed in supreme command in the Pacific. Hamilton, Bermuda: Survivors from a torpedoed British freighter said that the German submarine tried to crush and upset their lifeboats. life-boats. Buy Defense Bonds Washington: Automobile rationing, ration-ing, following the end of auto production, pro-duction, will start on February 26, Leon Henderson announced. He will make an effort to release some half-million half-million "frozen" new cars ordered but not delivered since sales were stopped the first of the year. Washington: One type of hoarding hoard-ing that has actually been recommended recom-mended is the purchase of coal. Fuel Co-ordinator Ickes urged consumers con-sumers to "build up their stocks of coal" while they can. London: Quisling has assumed in Norway the German-designated post of "Prime Minister of State" equivalent to dictator. Buy Defense Bonds Belfast: Americans in the British Isles were reported as clamoring for chances to enlist in the A.E.F. Many of them already were serving in the British army and wanted transfers to American units. Washington: General Johnson Hagood, army critic who resigned following the fracas over his remarks re-marks that WPA money was "stage money," had blamed the Pearl Harbor Har-bor debacle squarely on the inefficiency in-efficiency of the war department itself. it-self. Buy Defense Bonds Bern: When Hitler made his anniversary an-niversary talk before the reichstag recently, it was said that Goering, Von Ribbentrop and Admiral Raeder were missing from the "honor bench" near the fuehrer. |