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Show -- Thursday, February i, ls. a cereals at than December year in over 1 just 3 higher pw BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER. TREM0NT0N, UTAH Page fcix In-n ment and stocks so that the lationship with feed supplies. the slaughter cations are that from a war to peace basis will be made with the least possitoJ will be met since the indusble disruption to the national eco- try' tas already displayed its to war. needs tc nomy. But there must be no let und there is general agreement on town in the production of food." the importance to the industry of 1914 Livestock Kill adjusting numbers to the Established Record average feed and pasture resourThe 112.622.447 cattle, calves ces. hegs and sheep slaughtered under Federal Meat Inspection in 1944 Ammunition For e record and near- Farrwr was an above the 1943 head 9 million Shotgun shells dJid ctvr ammuly kill. Exceedingly large slaughter nition are again available to farof hogs in the early half of 1944 mers for use in protecting their and a consistently "heavy kill of livestock crer.s, and other pi c, ' cattle and calves through the year against pests WFB has releasresulted in a record slaughter for ed ammunition stocks, "frozen" both of these kinds of livestock, since Leccmlxr 30, to farmers, while the sheep kill was only the ranchers, and law enforcement Sales to fortsien, howsecond largest on record, nearly 1.5 million below the 1943 record. ever, are still prohibited. di tran-siio- FARM WAR NWS will-..,.- .; rc-po- i'l Kj XS) DREW PEARS an Washington, D. C. STOET BEHIND MO.VTGOMEEY-BEADLECOMMAND SHIFT There is significant background behind the appointment of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery to command two American armies, thereby taking away most of the command of Lieut. Gen. Omar N. Bradley. There are also interesting reasons why it was kept such a hush-hus- h matter from the American public. General Bradley has now been awarded the bronze star by Eisenhower and congratulated by Churchill to take the sting ' out of bis loss of the First and Ninth armies. The Idea that Bradley made the transfer him-- : self also has been publicized. Despite these maneuvers it is known inside the war department that highest U. S. war chiefs opposed the transfer to Montgomery and that It was put across by General Elsenhower anyway. Background of the reshuffle goes back to the landing in Normandy last summer when Montgomery was given Caen as his objective, while Bradley was to take Cherbourg. Bradley reached his objective ahead of schedule in a new type of offensive fighting, in which U. S. troops did not wait for supplies to come up nor for snipers to be wiped out. Montgomery, using more conservatactive, tics, sat with his army at Caen and either could not or would not break through until long after schedule, and until Bradley, ignoring Montgomery, smashed the Nazi lines to the south and started the lightning dash to Paris. 'Montgomery Demoted.' Afterward, the Stars and Stripes carried a story that Bradley waa being promoted to the rank of full general and would supersede Montgomery. The Stars and Stripes being an official army newspaper, the story naturally was true. But pub lication in London caused such a furor among the British that the British broadcasting company wenl on the air with an emphatic denial. After that the shift of armies wai held up for a while, until Montgomery could be made a Field Marshal to appease both him and Brit Ish public opinion. Bradley then took over command of all the American and armies under Eisenhower, Montgomery was left only with th two British and Canadian armies is Holland and Belgium. Since then Monty has been wait lng for his chance to stage a come back. His friends of the British press of whom he has many havs been doing the same. So Immediate ly following the German breakthrough, he began pressuring Eisen hower to give him the American First and Ninth armies. Montgomery is a superb defensive ngner. When his back was to th wall at El Alameln lust a few miles from Cairo, he did a great Job. When given offensive jobs as io Sicily, at Caen, and at Arnhem h failed to make the grade. How much of Eisenhower's decision to put Montgomery In command of the two American armies depended upon his ability as a defensive fighter, and how much on British pressure Is not known. It Is known, however, the transfer of commands was opposed in the war department and was carefully hushed-u- p for two weeks and not even all of the executives in the Pentagon building knew about It. Also it is a significant fact that Eisenhower is answerable to Chur- chill as well as Roosevelt. He can not be removed by Roosevelt with out Churchill's O.K. and he has to get along with both. That is an im portant point not realized by many But not to be forgotten. Note: Rivalry among high rank big generals exists in every war probably worse in the last war. Gen eral Pershing and Gen. Peyton March, U. S. chief of staff, were hardly on speaking terms. General Pershing also sent Gen. Clarencs Ransom Edwards of Boston, hero of New England, home from Franca because of clashing personalities. Y Bigger Job Than 1944 The size of the job confronting farmers in meeting the 19 v duction Goals is illustrated by the latest revised estimates of 1944 crop acreage which is about 9 million acres less than the acreage required to meet this year's production goals. Final tabulations of goals recommended by states total 303,635,000 acres, while the revised estimates place the 1944 crop acreage at 254,000,000 acres all-tim- j Army Official Sees No Food Dumping liveries were 331 mlu' compared with 500 2 ) ; basis- - 1D3C-3- 9 i T e From Far.r.s Shows Decline in 1944 Delivery cf nearly 7 ?. bWli pounds of food and other agricultural products for shipment to the Ileisons For Boost was u allies under 1914 lend-lcof deliveries 1943 from In 1913 Egg Goal rfcarp drop Meat billion 11.5 recent pounds reasons the for nearly Principal increase in the national goal for nnd meat products topped the list egg production in 1945 are increas- at nearly 2.3 billion, followed by ed requirements for dried eggs fc. daiiy products at about 1.4 and Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces and larger estimated consumption by civilians this year. The goal was increased to 4,350 million dozen eggs from the 3,920 million dozen suggested earlier, which is still a net reduc- tion of about 9 percent from the heavy 1944 production which re- suited in "surplus" problems in many areas. Heavy Marketing in 1945 Asked of Beef Producers Continued heavy marketing of cattle ard calves is the war job in 1945 for the nation's beef producers who made an outstanding response in 1944 to the ca'l for a sharp increase in cattle and calT slaughter. The 1945 sl3ii?ter for cattle and calves of 35 million head compares with 1944's slaugn-te- r record of nearly 34 million and the 1943 slaughter of 27 6 million. The record slaughter rate is needed for war meat requirements since the large decrease in the 1944 pig crops places a heavier burden on the cattle industry. This reChick Hatching sponse to war requirements will serve a future purpose as well by At High Level bringing numbers into safer re- - cutput of chicks was an population of the occupied territories." He urged continued high production of food and pointed out that food needs of the Army itself will not fall off suddenly when Germany collapses because of the continuation of the war with Ja pan. McKenzie quoted Maj. Gen. D. E. Gregory, the Quartermaster General: "I can sincerely say that the Army is doing everything ir its power to regulate its procure- - ' j compared average of about 6to lion pounds. Domestic woT sumption is likely to increase ing the next several months the shift from civilian to m preduction necessitated by Ch es .in the military situation. te rence is given to domestic in awarding army contracts v? have used foreign wool, almost clusively in civilian fabrics Z cause of the lower prices of foT ign wool. Only poZ (grease bsis) of domestic JJ was used by U. S. mills during first ten months of 1944 comZ with 573 million pounds of Z ign wool. 2 Lend-Leas- s. Farmers have little reasn to fear that the Army will hav3 surplus food to dump on civilian markets after the war, according to Col. H. R. McKenzie of the Quartermaster's office, who told a farm group recently that not "even the defeat of Japan will mean any great Army food surpluses for civilian use because we are obliged to assist in the relief of the civili- ?' 261-milU- ho IjourTms ft 15 "3 v a I" i. m i i I u i see us v' fimtut. TIRE nOV SIGKATVM fT HEM) per cent slow-movin- g - rli a A, 1 i V-- h T 1 "'A ; .... : t lit ' ! K A ? J (? ri k 1 n t 1 ; 1 J . i !j a A - t i 1 ' ' if " 5 I aV- 4 ' 1 a; f- i $ will AAAlAl 1 top-ranki- consider barricades. Placed between a man and the War Bonds he's safely tucked away, it would give him pause . . . in case he was tempted to cash in a single Bond. It would make him stop and think . . . Stop and think that those Bond3 will mean income . . . security . . . perhaps evena good measure of financial independence in the unpredictable CAPITOL CHAFF C At the dinner of the Washington radio correspondents, President Roosevelt smoked cigarettes without bolder, while Assistant Pres. Jim my Byrnes used a long black holder. C. In London they tell Americans, "You've got to understand our Win-toHe believes in government for the people, not government by the it a good reminder, sirj This might he an excellent use for some of the barbed wire left over from the beachheads and 4- -w ... Stop and think that holding War Bonds is as vital to Victory a3 buying them . . . and as vital to a secure future for the individual, a secure future for his country. Put your War Bonds in a safe place. And keep them there as you keep on buying more. Ten years from now, you'll thank your lucky stars you did. ... postwar world. Stop and think that every Bond will bring back not just its purchase price but $4 for every $3 at maturity. 1v v ' people." CThe bobby sox brigade has Invaded the sacred halls of congress. Dozens of youngsters crowded the corridor outside the office of Helen Gahagan Douglas last week, hoping lor a glimpse of the comely from Hollywood. Her admirers were acquainted with all the roles she had played from the time they were in diapers. . Frederick Wojtman of Roy How- ard's New York World-Telegra- is releasing a series revealing highest U. S. army posts have been taken over by communists. This will be news to Jot Stalin. mm December of 1943. Strck, ,d Consumption of Weal aie Both High While U. S. wool stocks aw than twice as large as 39 averages, annual mill cor ption is nearly i.Dilliori : long-tim- e ty earlier as a result of the large eu, put of the hatcheries located a'ons the Atlantic seaboard. Eaby chick production by commercial hatcheries in 1944 was 23 pei ce:a t than in 1945. Fairly largo cutp-of chicks is needed during the next six months in order to meet requirements for poultry meat anu eggs. Present supples of pou'.tr at it a:e far short of demand. Report.; from tutcheries on turkey indicate that there if demarid for poults so fa- rtrorg voraVe conditions may result m a tiUbstar.tial increase in Cue 1'31' turkey crop over 1944. vim ... r !J--at , ! t |