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...malnutrition. Figures published in Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Statistical Bulletin show that in Poland in 1940 typhus increased ten times over 1939, in 1941 three times over 1940. In London last week Anthony Eden told Parliament that typhus was epidemic from the Russian front through eastern and southeastern Europe. Lithuania and Rumania were reported full of it. The Warsaw ghetto, crammed with Jews by Nazi command, was said to be a hell of typhus. Elsewhere in Poland the Nazis were capitalizing on the disease with anti-Semitic posters. One, picturing a gigantic louse and a horribly caricatured Jewish...
...Long ago they sent in their advance guard of barbers, fishermen, photographers and loggers, who became bug-eyed at Borneo's wealth and military secrets. Last week the Japanese had not yet made their all-out assault on Borneo. The preliminary landings were designed mainly to secure the southeastern rim of the China Sea, insuring communications with Indo-China, Thailand, Malaya. The Dutch expect a heavier blow...
...Fordham-Missouri game, and the adopted East-West game the following Saturday, Sugar Bowl week includes a track meet (exhibiting the country's top-notchers from Leslie MacMitchell down), tennis matches featuring Don McNeill, Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder and other top-ten amateurs, a basketball game between Tennessee (Southeastern Conference champions) and Long Island University (Madison Square Garden champions), boxing matches, crew races and a sailing regatta on Lake Pontchartrain. Months ago, New Orleans hotels were already turning down reservations for Sugar Bowl week. Last week beds were being set up in Turkish baths...
...flaming torches carried by relays of Indian runners have been moving towards Mexico City from the jungles of southeastern Yucatan and the arid hills of northwestern Sonora. The torches, symbols of freedom, were supposed to reach the capital for the Day of Revolution, Nov. 20. But last fortnight one torch was extinguished. Padding through a little village in Sinaloa, the torchbearer was arrested as an arsonist...
WASHINGTON--The Office of Production Management tonight appealed to residents of seven southeastern states to immediately "black out" all athletic field flood lighting, shop windows, gawdy electric displays and similar non-essential illumination to conserve vitally-needed energy for national defense production...