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Show j B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage Uncle Sam'i fighting sailors, guarding an Island outpost in the Pacific, conducted a third war loan drive of their own and bought 658 $25 bonds and one $100 bond. Twice as many bobbie pins and hairpins, necessary feminine items, will be produced during 1944 as at present, under a recent War Production Pro-duction board action. A Zurich dispatch to the Swedish newspaper Aftontjdningen said that the loss of the Kuban area in Russia had deprived the Nazis of 50,000 tons of tobacco a year. A census of the German people, the first since the outbreak of war in 1939, will be taken October 10, the Nazi home radio has informed the German people. |