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Show BRIEFS... by-Baukhage Declaring that the German regime in Austria is opposed by practically everybody, the Swedish newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda reports that Austrians are now greeting each other oth-er with the salute "K D F," a pun on the German expression "Kraft Durch Freude" ("Strength Through Joy"). "K D F," the paper said, stands for "Kaputt Durch Fuehrer" ("Defeat Through the Fuehrer"). When a group of American fliers, prisoners of the Germans, were put aboard a German-bound train recently re-cently at Hyeres on the French Mediterranean Med-iterranean coast, they were cheered heartily by a crowd of several hundred hun-dred Frenchmen at the station, Radio Ra-dio France at Algiers reported. The Stockholm Aftontigningen, in a dispatch from Berne reported to the OWI, said that three fully armed Italian divisions were now fighting with anti-Nazi guerrillas against the Germans in Jugoslavia and Albania. WPB has directed manufacturers of flashlight batteries to distribute approximately 20 per cent of their fourth-quarter production to farmers to assist them in the care of young stock during the winter months. Even under point rationing, American Amer-ican kitchens will use enough tin cans in one year to provide steel for almost 23,000 medium tanks or 900 destroyers. With the approach of winter, the Nazi board of forestry and timber has issued an order banning the use of all wood except twigs and bent branches for fuel even the sound parts of trees felled on private property prop-erty are the property of the war economy. A tabulation of state soybean-for-bean goals shows a 19 per cent increase in-crease for 1944. That adds up to 13,654,000 acres of oil beans compared com-pared to the 1943 acreage of 11,-480,000. |