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Show B R I E F S by Baukhage More than 10,000,000 servicemen per year visit USO clubs in this hemisphere outside continental United Unit-ed States. According to the Swiss newspaper Journal de Geneve, cigarette butts are at a premium in Berlin and an increasing number of persons may be seen collecting them on the street. The Nazi - dominated Jugoslav press recently disclosed the establishment estab-lishment of a "propaganda school" in Jugoslavia to teach techniques for spreading German propaganda. The slave labor system which the Japanese have imposed along with military conscription on the men of occupied Manchuria in the name of Asiatic prosperity entails a 10-hour day, 7-day week and the study of the Japanese language during tree time, according to a Nazi reporter who broadcast to Germany. Five hundred Cuban youuis are fighting in the armies of the United Nations, according to General Beni-tez Beni-tez Valdes, special Cuban delegate to Mexico. Ten thousand Mexicans are fighting in the U. S. army. Fourteen and 15-year-old school boys are being used to man antiaircraft anti-aircraft defenses in Germany, it is said. The Japanese-controlled Bangkok radio in a domestic broadcast reported re-ported to the OWI warned Tha danders dand-ers to raise more food or face starvation star-vation and then urged them to increase in-crease the population as quickly as possible. . , The underwear industry says that unless federal agencies move quickly quick-ly to stem the loss of manpower in this business, civilian requirements cannot be met and the situation is rapidly growing more and more serious. |