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Show B R I E F S . by Baukhage The Fourth War Loan drive will start January 18 and run until February Feb-ruary 15, 1944. Frau Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Nazi women's leader, has been making a morale-building tour of Germany and Austria addressing women's groups on the glory of German motherhood and the need for matching match-ing the production of men. The Union of German Officers announced an-nounced in a broadcast to Germany over the Moscow radio that in pro-, pro-, test against the crimes and atroci ties perpetrated by Adolf Hitler and in his name, its members would no longer wear German uniforms. Eleven names made famous by correspondents who lost their lives covering the present war will be assigned as-signed to Liberty ships to be launched in December from shipyards ship-yards on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. ! The torpedo plane was first conceived con-ceived by the late Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske in 1911. He got the idea for the new weapon when stationed in the Philippines, as a defense against a Japanese attack. So the Japanese "have never been beaten"? Don't tell that to a Korean. Ko-rean. Korea has defeated the Japs in war not once, but three times. The U. S. liquor shortage has led Nazi propagandists to present in an Austrian newspaper a picture of internal in-ternal warfare in this country in which gangs of hijackers mine highways high-ways and employ expert safecrackers safecrack-ers to attack regular convoys of armored cars carrying whisky. Most people will be able to get Christmas trees this year but they will have less choice, according to the WPB. More trees will probably be harvested and sold locally to j avoid long haulage. |