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Show BRIEFS ... by Baukhage Ernesto Lecuona, thief -song writer writ-er of Cuba and cultural attache of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, has recently signed one of the larg-ect larg-ect song publishing contracts of Broadway history. o Colombia's entrance Into the war November 27 makes it the 14th American republic to join actively In the struggle against the Nazis. 00 The Hamburg newspaper Frem-denblatt Frem-denblatt recently urged residents not to molest the police and law courts with trifling thefts because the authorities au-thorities were fully occupied with Important matters. ' The housewife now receives one brown ration point for each half pound of salvage kitchen fats in addition ad-dition to four cents a pound. Nearly a million cases of tomato catsup soon will be released to civilians. Suspender .buttons are to be restored re-stored to men's work pants, according accord-ing to an amendment of WPB's Order Or-der L-181. e a o The navy's famous PT boats and all they have accomplished is owed to the mahogany tree of Middle America and to the men of historj who discovered its value in ship building. 00 A joke among German soldiers, according to a report reaching the OWI recently, runs: "It is very easy to recognize Allied planes. If you see more than three at a time, you know they are Allied planes." 0 0 With 22,000 fewer locomotives ant! half a million fewer cars, railroads are transporting 55 per cent more freight than during the last war. Venezuela is biggest producer ol petroleum for the United Nations, aside from the United States. . |
