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Show Folks Rush to Autograph Bombs Intended for Nazis CINCINNATI, OHIO. Crowds of citizens, eager to send their autograph auto-graph to Hitler on a bomb, thronged the unique sale conducted by the Cincinnati ordnance department and American Legion Auxiliary officials here at the new demolition depot on Fountain square. Fifty-caliber machine gun bullets went for 20 cents a unit; 37-millimeter high explosive shells at 50 cents apiece, armor-piercing shells at $1.25 and so on up to the big 105 millimeter shells at $18.75. There were plenty of takers not only for these but for the much more expensive jeeps and tanks. Every- thing, plainly marked with the purchaser's pur-chaser's name, was consigned forthwith forth-with to the fighting front and the particular enemy of the purchasers' purchas-ers' choice. As bombs and high explosive shells marked for the personal attention at-tention of Hitler or Hirohito piled high for shipment, everybody expressed ex-pressed high satisfaction, which turned to positive glee as the sponsors spon-sors began returning all the purchase pur-chase prices in war bonds and stamps. |