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Show HIGHLIGHTS in the week's neivs SOAP: More soap is on the way, say spokesmen of the War Food administration, ad-ministration, promising ? 28 per cent increase in supplies Dy November Novem-ber 1. BATTING: Luke Appling of tha Chicago White Sox baseball team is leading the American league with a batting average of .324, slightly above the second place man, Dick Wakefield of the Detroit Tigers. DEBT: Congress may soon be asked to raise the debt limit of the nation to 300 billion dollars, Representative Repre-sentative Cannon, chairman of the house appropriations committee, stated recently. He said that at the present rate of spending, between seven and eight billion dollars monthly, the government is approaching ap-proaching its present limit of 210 billions. |