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Show I.EHI FREE PRESS. T.EHI. ITTAH With Ernie Pyle at the Front FARMERS SURPASS THEIR OWN MARK AMERICAN 1944 Wounded Sergeant Disgusted TO PRODUCE ANOTHER RECORD FOOD CROP IN 153 Million Ton Grain Harvest Second Best. 25 Billion Pound Output of Meat Vi pre-Pea- 'Shoot Them Says Commander When Ashed What to Do About Advancing Foes IO.DIT By V. I oiir; $1 -- V :tr w ' K W ; one-thir- d. some long and A w peak year of 1942, but 10,000,000 tons more than in 1943 and ranging from 12 to 28 per cent in excess of the harvest during the five years before 1942. Hay production of some 98.000.. 000 tons in 1944 would mean a har vest of this imoortant feed greater than in any years but 1916, 1927, 1942 and 1943. Acre yield of all tame hay is estimated at 1.39 tons, with California's average reaching 2.84 tons per acre, and Arizona s Z.40 tons. California also leads in acre yield of alfalfa hay with 4.20 tons compared with the national figure of 2.21 tons per acre. Arizona is again second, with 2.75 tons per acre. The state of Washington tops California for clover and timothy hay with 2.10 tons per acre compared with the national acre yield of 1.32 tons, and 1.85 tons per acre in California. Peanut production may set a new record. The anticipated 1944 harvest is 2,365,630,000 pounds picked and threshed, 7 per cent more than in 1943 and 76 per cent more than the 1933-4-2 average production. Acre a The oats crop is estimated at bushels, 4 per cent more than last year and 16 per cent more than the 1933-4average. Acre is only slightly higher than last yield season and about 5 per cent above the 2 average. Washington and Wisconsin have the highest acre yield among the states, probably influenced by the new Vicland variety which is hardier and particularly adapted to those areas. Washington's 46 bushels per acre and Wisconsin's 42.5 bushels compare with the national average of 30 bushels Utah with 41 bushels, and Nevada and Idaho with 40 bushels per acre also report good years. Good crops of buckwheat and d barley, and a rice crop, when added to the other grains, Indicate a total grain harvest of 153,000,000 tons. This would be slightly less than the 1.190,540,000 2 1933-4- near-recor- y,,,, -- -- esti- - from the bloom of 1943. The eight major deciduous fruits, including apples, peaches, pears and grapes, will probably be 21 per cent greater than last season, and 10 per cent more than the 1933-4-2 average. Apples, for example, are expected to exceed the 1943 pick by 38 per cent, with 33,583,000 more bushels than last year, or about the same as the average for 1933-4The peach harvest probably will total 30,092,000 bushels, 71 per cent more than 1943, and 25 per cent above the 1933-4-2 average. Some 4,640,000 bushels more pears are indicated, exceeding 1943 by 19 per cent and 1933-4-2 by 2 per cent. The condition of most fruits is reported greatly improved over the condition at the same period last year. Commercial vegetables for fresh market are up over the 1943 tonnaei by approximately 18 per cent, and exceed 1933-4- 2 by 22 per cent. They are expected to top the 1942 record of 7 million tons by 11 per cent. New highs are indicated for cabbage, lettuce and onions, with the harvest of the latter crop reported as some 52 per cent greater than last year and 45 per cent more than the 1933-4- 2 average. 2. 00 I took him to be a farmer. He talked like a hillbilly, and beneath his whiskers you could tell he had a big, droll face. He had found crooked, raggedy all-ti- 150,-000,0- 00 Hi his . Busy with harvest on farm nrtr Trsnn vmiiion. crew leave field with four bushels of tomatoes, infinitesimal part of AAA limA ....... ih Tonnage of vegetables for processing is reported as about 10 per cent more than in 1943 and 51 per cent above the 1933-4-2 average. These crops include snap beans, green peas, sweet corn, tomatoes, beets, lima beans, kraut cabbage and The tomato harvest is estimated as 19 per cent in excess of 1943's total of 2,659,100 tons for a new high of 3,173,800 tons. High acre yield of cotton, partly influenced by dry weather that held the boll weevil in check, has resulted in the picking of slightly more than last year's 11,427,000 bales, for a total of 11,483,000 bales from a million and a half fewer harvested acres. Fred Marshall of Minnesota epitomizes the American farmer, whose estimated 1,115,402,000 bushels of wheat for 1944 represent an e high for the C. S. all-tim- yield is up 13 per cent over 1943, although it is 6 per cent less than the average for 1933-4Dry beans, dry peas and flaxseed are considerably below the large 1943 production, although compared with prewar harvests the production is of good size on all three crops. Production of white rjotatnoa i pected to be down substantially be- iow me ism record harvest, although exceeding the 1933-4aver age by about 4 per cent with a production of 377,589,000 bushels. Acre yield is down about 11 npr opnt this year, although some 4 per cent aDove tne iyjd-- 4 average yield per acre. The crop of sweet potatoes is estimated at about 2 DPT ppnt above average, although some 5 per cent Deiow 1SH3 s hign. Banner Vegetable Output. Housewives interested in umniiai of fresh fruits and vegetables are expected to look with favor nnn the record or d fruit and vegetable harvests indicated for 1944. Fruit suDplies for th 1944.41? season are estimated to be 10 to 15 Tonper cent greater than in 1943-4nage of citrus from the 1944 hi is expected to be as laree or laroor than the record 1943-4production 2. a. 2 near-recor- 4. 4 Tobacco production is expected to be the second largest on record, with a total of 1,730.680.000 Dounds ail types combined, compared with the ism record crop of 1,880,793,000 pounds. This year's tobacco harvest is estimated at 24 per cent in excess of 1943. Another record egg production on farms is indicated. During the first eight months of 1944 total production is reported as up 6 per cent over the same period last year, and 48 per cent over the 1933-4- 2 average. Although chickens for market dropped substantially below last year's high about 3,500,000,000 pounds of chicken meat, or 42 per cent more than the 1933-4- 2 average, are expected to be produced in 1944. An increase of some 4 per cent in the production of all meats is indicated for 1944, compared with the 1943 record. A total of 25,000,000,000 pounds is expected this year, of which 10J90,000,000 pounds will be beef and veal. Beef production is estimated at about 10 per cent more than in 1943, with veal possibly 20 An indicated per cent more. 13,250,000,000 pounds of pork would be a little less than the large production in 1943, due to lighter market weights, but lard production will probably total about 3,390,000,000 pounds, or 11 per cent more than last year's peak. Lamb and mutton production of about 970,000,000 pounds compares favorably with prewar years, although it would be 12 per cent below the 1943 record. French cigars, and he kept lighting these funny- and looking things putting them about three inches into his mouth. He wasn't nervous in the least. Capt. Lucien Strawn, the battalion surgeon, started to put him in a jeep to go back to the aid station, but the soldier said: "Now wait. I know where there's two more men wounded pretty bad. One of them is a lieutenant who just got back from the hospital this morning from his other wound." The soldier said they were right up where the bullets were flying, but that if the aidmen would go he Ernie Pyle could walk well enough to guide them up there. So the doctor named off half a dozen men to go with him. The doctor also told the unwound-e- d German to go along and help carry. But one of the aidmen said: "We better not have him with us. Our own men are liable to start shooting at us." "That's right," the doctor said, "leave him here." And he named off one other American to go. After they had left the doctor said, "That's the truth, and I never even thought of it." The doctor and I sat a while on the stairway inside the farmhouse, for shells had started hitting just outside again. But in a little bit the doctor got up and said he was going to see how the stretcher party was getting along. I said I'd like to go with him. He said 0. k. We struck out across a sloping wheatfield. It was full of huge craters left by our bombings. There was a lull in the shelling as we crossed the field, but the trouble with lulls is that you never know when they will suddenly come to an end. As we picked our way among the craters I thought I heard, very faintly, somebody call "Help!" It's odd how things strike you in wartime. I remember thinking to myself, "Oh, pooh, that would be too dramatic-j- ust like a book. You're just imagining it." But the doctor had stopped, and he said: "Did you hear somebody yelling?" So we listened again, and this time we could hear it plainly. It seemed to come from a far corner of the field, so we picked our way over in that direction. Finally we saw him, a soldier lying on his back near a hedgerow, still yelling "Help!" as we apThe aidmen who had proached. started ahead of us had got down in a bomb crater when the shelling started, so the doctor now waved them to come on. The wounded soldier was making an awful fuss. He was twisting and squirming, and moaning, "Oh, my God! Oh, my God!" He had a bandage on his right hand and there was blood on his left leg. The doctor took his scissors and cut the legging off, then cut the laces on the shoe, and then peeled off a bloody sock and cut the pants leg up so he could see the wound. The soldier kept his eyes shut and kept squirming and moaning. When the doctor would try to talk to him he would just groan and say, "Oh, my God!" Finally the doctor got out of him that he had had a small wound in his hand, and his sergeant had bandaged it and told him to start to the rear. Then, coming across the field, a shell fragment had got him in the leg. The doctor looked him over thoroughly. There were two small holes just above the ankle. The doctor y, a 3 1 tV With manpower shortages one of the farmer's pressing problems during the war years, with many men drafted and others seeking employment at higher wages in industry, many women took to the fields beside the menfolks to help in the production of record food crops. Picture shows young women on farm near York, Pa., assisting In hay harvest, which was expected to approximate 98 million tons, fifth largest on NOSTtlLS n Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q rnvi back over the bandage. He said the wound "didn't amount to a damn" and he wished they hadn't sent him back from the lines. He said he had gone Leave It to the Irishman through Africa and Sicily without getting wounded, and now he'd To Find a Bright Side got nicked. He was disgusted. You could sense that this guy was Two Irishmen, employed :n a said they hadn't touched the bone. a fine soldier. He looked old, but stone quarry, were blasting with I think the doctor was disgusted. probably wasn't He said: "He's a hell of dynamite when one of them was t" 1933-4- 2, COLO STUFFINESS Mittholotmw not jm one, but all ten of these diiicom-lort- s. That's why ao many thi u. sands keepsoothing Mentholatura slwaygonhand.GetMentholatunt today. Jan, tubea S0. ON THE WESTERN FRONT. The soldier had a white bandage around the calf of his left leg. He had loosely laced his legging rl 2 Ernie Pyle (Editor's note: Ernie PyU is how back at his homt in Albuquerque lor his still at sing promised rest cure. This column was among the notes while he uu the front.) 1. el I. HUD 2. CHAPKD SKIN 3. CLOGGED UP NOSTIIIS 4. CHEST COLO TIGHTNESS 5. SWT, CRACKED LIPS 6. NASAL MUTATION 7. SOU, ACHING MUSCLES . WINOSUtN 9. NEU1ALG1C HEADACHE When Ordered to Hospital All-Hig- h. America's soil and America's farmers are an unbeatable combination. That's the belief of N. E. Dodd, chief of the agricultural adjustment agency of the U. S. department of agriculture, as he points to the eighth successive record food production soon to be completed, and the all-tihigh for total farm production that is also being entered on the books for 1944. In all the history of the world, says Dodd, no country has before provided from its own farms enough food for all its civilians and all its fighting men. and had some to sharo with itc nlH J . - Vrrnf cnvt ran ha tnuriA in n review or trie record. The 1944 harvest, according to department of agriculture figures, is estimated at 4 per cent more crops reaped and threshed than last year, while food production Is op 5 per cent over 1943's record and 29 per cent over the Harbor average for 1937-4Beginning in 1939, when war engulfed the European continent and America began to receive calls for supplies of all kinds, both food and total agricultural production have increased each year, building up to the 1944 records that top anything in the nation's history. Yield of crops appears generally excellent, despite the hard use the soil has had of necessity during the war years. It is pointed out that only seven major crops show a lower yield than the average for which includes 1942's phenomenal yields. These crops are buckwheat, rice, dry beans and peas, peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. Leading crop this season is wheat. It is the second billion-bushharvest in U. S. history, exceeding by 10 per cent the previous record set in 1915. Estimates are for some 1,115,402,000 bushels in 1944, 33 per cent more than last season and 47 per cent more than the average for the 1933-4decade. Yield per acre exceeds 1943 by 10 per cent, and the earner decade by 30 per cent. Biggest average acre yield for winter wheat is reported from Nevada, with 80 bushels per acre, compared with the national average of 18.8 bushels. Idaho is next with 29 bushels, followed by Washington with 28.5 bushels and Utah with 27 bushels per acre. Idaho and Utah lead in acre yield of spring wheat other than durum, with an average of 33 bushels per acre, compared with the national average of 17.5 bushels. Bumper Corn Harvest. If the anticipated corn harvest of 8,101,000,000 bushels is realized, it will top last year by about 25,000,000 bushels and exceed the 1933-4- 2 aver-aa- e by 732 million hnshols m no-i- n This is only a little below the record set in 1942. The acre yield this year is slightly under out per cent more than the Iowa heads the average for 1933-4list lor acre yield among the states with 52 bushels, compared with the national average of 31.8 bushels. Idaho takes second place with 47 bushels, followed by Illinois with 45 bushels, and New Hampshire, Vermont and Wisconsin tied with 40 bushels per acre. seed Hybrid vu uu small part in increasing corn pro tection, according to the department of agriculture. Hvbrida ha found to raise yield as much as 20 per cent, and in 1943 it was estimated that 669,000,000 bushels more corn were produced than would have been possible without the hybrids. Nearly 52 per cent of the corn acreage last year was planted to hybrid varieties, government figures show. A third more sorghums for grain than in any previous season is anticwith the ipated harvest of about bushels compared with bushels in 1941, the highest production to date. The acre yield is 15 per cent more than in 1943, and S3 per cent greater than the 1933-4- 2 nverage. California sets the for acre yield with 36 bushels pace per acre compared with a 17.9 national average, followed closely by Arizona with 32 bushels, Illinois with 28 bushels and Missouri with 21 bushels per acre. rrranraftnK making a fuss over nothing." Then to one of the aidmen he said, "Better give him a shot of morphine to quiet killed by an unexpected explosion. His mate was given the unpleasant task of conveying the news to the newly created widow. him." Whereupon the soldier squirmed and thoughtfully he Slowly and moaned, "Oh, no, no, no! Oh, plodded to her home. my God!" But the doctor said go "Mrs. he began, ahead, and the aidman cut his when she Flanagan," opened the door, "isn't sleeve up to the shoulder, stuck the it today the collector will be callneedle in and squeezed the vial. ing The aidman, trying to be sympa' ancefor your husband's life insurpayment?" thetic, said to the soldier, "It's the "Sure it is, but what is that to same old needle, ain't it?" But the soldier just groaned again and said, you?" replied Mrs. Flanagan. "Then 'tis yourself that can be "Oh, my God!" Our hillbilly soldier lit another snapping your fingers at him," the skinny cigar, as though he were at man responded cheerfully. a national convention instead of a battlefield. Then one set of the litter bearers started back with our new man, and the rest of us went on with the soldier to hunt for other on ARTHRITIS AH9 RHEUMATISM FREE BOOKLET wounded. Bheo-matis- ra The commander of the particular regiment of the Fourth Infantry division that we have been with is one of my favorites. That's partly because he flatters me by calling me "General," partly because just looking at him makes me chuckle to myself, and partly because I think he's a very fine soldier. Security forbids my giving his name. He is a regular army colonel and he was overseas in the last war. His division commander says the only trouble with him is that he's too bold, and if he isn't careful he's liable to get clipped one of these days. He is rather unusual looking. There is something almost Mongolian about his face. When cleaned up he could be a Cossack. When tired and dirty he could be a movie gangster. But either way, his eyes always twinkle. He has a facility for direct thought that is unusual. He is impatient of the thinking that gets off onto byways. He has a little habit of reprimanding people by cocking his head over to one side, getting his face below yours and saying something sharp, and then looking up at you with a quizzical smirk like a laughing cat. One day I heard him ask a battalion commander what tys position was. The battalion commander started going into details of why his troops hadn't got as far as he had hoped. The colonel cocked his head over, squinted up at the battalion commander, and said: "I didn't ask you that. I asked you where you were." The colonel goes constantly from one battalion to another during battle, from early light till darkness. e He wears a field jacket that fits him like a sack, and he carries a long stick that Teddy Roosevelt gave him. He keeps constantly prodding his commanders to push hard, not to let up, to keep drjving and driving. He is impatient with commanders who lose the main point of the war by getting involved in details the main point, of. course, being to kill. good-natured- ly fuming mad. "Lots of times when I was a kid he'd get me out of bed at two or Ni-O- Remedy Fcr Relieving Miseries of CHILD'S COLDS The modern external treatment most young mothers use to relieve discom- luiu vi umuren s colas muscular soreness or tightness, coughing, irritation in upper bronchial to 7!L tithe Rnh ...o V... 1 1.1 lUSt rim It m nns! rSM- ,relief starts to come as VapoRub . ... T .. pgtlETRArSs to.1 upper bronchial ... . . . wim ira speaaj medicinal vanors cnestana jt5 Daac surfaces like a wanning poultice Often by morning most of the misery of the cold is gone. Remember this... 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When I asked him what he did in civilian life, he thought a moment and then said: "Well, I was a shyster. Guess you'd call me a kind 4244 of promoter. I always had the kind WNU W of job where you made $50 a week salary and $1,500 on the side." How's that for an honest man? Murph and I got to talking about newspaper men one day. Murph said his grandfather was a newspaper Help Them Cleans the Blood man. He retired in old age and of Harmful Body Waste lived in Murph's house. Tear kidneys are constantly filtering But waste good-tasti- I AM 600Q-TAS11- 11 Sergeant Murphy Talks About Newspapers "My grandfather went nuts reading newspapers," Murph said. "It was a phobia with him. Every day he'd buy $1.50 worth of newspapers and then read them all night. "He wouldn't read the ads. He would just read the stories, looking for something to criticize. He'd get U you suffer from Arthritis, Neuritis. Sciatica, Lumbago or any form of ask your druggist for a on NUE-OVor writs to t, Inc., 41t S. 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