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Show . , 1 HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news London: It was purse "blackout" for Britishers. The postman brought them their income tax bills. They called for up to one-half of all their earnings in the year ended April 5. New Orleans: Hurricanes of September Sep-tember revealed a new menace to defense. Five hundred and fifty war planes had to be moved to points of safety when a hurricane was reported in the vicinity. Atlanta: Air line night trips in a wide area were cancelled out because be-cause there were "too many army planes taking part in maneuvers in the area west of Birmingham." Capetown: The story was current here that 15 submarines, flying the French flag, but with crews whose only language is German, and that they used Dakar as base. Rome: Myron C. Taylor, who has returned here as personal envoy of President Roosevelt to the Vatican, was charged in Fascist circles to have asked the pope for a clearer stand on Hitler. Vichy: Marshal Petain made the use of his prerogative to save the lives of condemned men when he commuted two such sentences. The men had been charged with fomenting foment-ing a strike in 1938. Washington: Charlie Chaplin was subpoenaed to testify concerning his motion picture "The Great Dictator" Dic-tator" in which Hitler was lampooned. lam-pooned. Moscow: Arrangements have been completed for the ferrying from Britain to Russia of large numbers of American-made warplanes. Buenos Aires: A German beer hall was bombed in the general protest pro-test against Nazi activities culminating culmi-nating in a congressional movement , for the expulsion of Edmund von Thermann, a Nazi agent. Washington: 'Although two more plants have been arranged for to be placed in the output of metallic magnesium, the supply of this vital material for planes is still insufficient, insuffi-cient, it was reported. |