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Show B R I E F S . by Baukhage Six hundred former seamen and officers of-ficers of the American merchant marine ma-rine who had been inducted into the U. S. army from shoreside employment employ-ment in the last eight months have been released to return to sea. The American Red Cross purchased pur-chased more than 2,760,000 pocket-sized pocket-sized books last year for free distribution dis-tribution to servicemen. United States mints last year turned out nearly one-tenth as many coins as have been produced in the past 152 years. ... Nazi Minister of the Interior Hein-rich Hein-rich Himmler, in ordering the registration regis-tration of a new class of 17-year-old German girls for labor service, ruled that all applications for de-j de-j ferment will be useless. |