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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . n the week's news RICKENB ACKER: Capt. Edward Rickenbacker visited the Russian front while on an official mission to Moscow for the secretary of war. MILK: Synthetic milk, made of vegetable oils, was pronounced an unsatisfactory substitute by the two government experts. The artificial product failed to stimulate growth and development properly in feeding feed-ing tests. BALLOONS: A ring of barrage balloons protects New York city metropolitan area, it was revealed, when 34 of the sky barriers were tested lately. WHEAT: The loan rate on the 1943 wheat crop has been increased by one cent to $1.23 a bushel, the Commodity Credit corporation announces. an-nounces. HOSIERY: There will be little sheer hosiery available for women this winter, manufacturers are predicting. pre-dicting. Heavy rayon or cotton will have to substitute. They blame OPA price ceilings. CORNSTARCH: Corn refineries are facing shutdowns because of insufficient in-sufficient supply of corn, executives of the industry warn. Only about 5 million bushels are believed to be aijailable to processors for the year. SERVICE: A law making almost all adult men and women subject to wartime service' wherever needed, need-ed, is being urged by Rep. Wads-worth Wads-worth of New York. FISH: Forty-eight species of fish are included in the OPA wholesale price ceilings recently placed on the fish industry. Top price for cod will be 12 cents a pound. JUGOSLAVIA: King Peter of Jugoslavia, Ju-goslavia, in exile in London, urged all factions of Jugoslavians to unite in a national front against the Axis. He praised the guerrilla bands, fighting fight-ing with little equipment. VICTORY: Victory may be far ahead, in the opinion of Secretary of the Navy Knox. War may continue con-tinue for three or four years more, he stated. |