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Show - THE ppnrrRPRRTvre OPINION " ' fik Pattern 7002 has transfer twiT"" Hons for doll and clothes Si ' i in coins brings you this patter ct?4 Due to an unusually large de current war conditions, slishtlv J is required in filling orders for the most popular pattern numW' Send your order to: Sewing Circle NeedterIirT Box 3217 Enclose 15 cents (pius ' C cover cost of mailing) f ptnl No Name Address Scallops for Your Cupboards, Windows CCALLOPS are in fashion. Big! scallops, little scallops, pointedi i or round scallops; deep or shallow,; convex or concave; also cut-o-curves and scrolls they are used for .cornices over windows in bed-- , room, bath, kitchen, dining room, dinette and living room. They are PLYWOOD ORYf WTrs!i3!!!2i& COMPOSITION I 41 J r BOARD-US- A 0 J. v COPING SAW II T OR TAKE TO P ? WOOD W0RKING- - 0 M r 5M 77 r1 p - patTSnpieces'L- - TQ BE COMBINED AS NEEPED" used also to frame or to .partly frame cupboards of many different types ranging from gay kitchen cupboards to a dignified break-fro-nt for the living room. You can have all the scallops you want even in these times. They may be cut out of any thin wood or, if that is not available, composition board may be used. It is easy to cut simple scallop designs by hand with a coping saw. NOTE: Mrs. Spears has made a pat-- tern with 10 basic scallop and scroll de- - signs with illustrated directions for com bining them in many different ways for windows and cupboards of all sizes. Other suggestions for using scallops for home decoration are also Included. Ask for pattern No. 207 and enclose 15 cents. Address: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Pattern No. 207. Name Address HW; 1 MAKE this freckle-face- d tyke your mascot ... let her mischievous eyes and tousled yarn hair chase your gremlins, too. "I STOPPED GOES MY CONSTIPATM A YEAR MO!" Says Happy KELLOGG'S ALL-BRA-If you are still dosing your m stipation, don't fail to read Hi. unsolicited letter! "I'd been troubled with conmm mii. pation for years. Tried many Id, medicines for it Then, just about , , ago, I tried KELLOGG'S Vr ate it regularly, without missing ad.',' helped so much, I have not taken ox im of medicine for constipation since, Mr hm I confined myself to any diet!" Mr S.P loebe, Charleston, Missouri. Sounds like magic, doesn't if But, scientists say, KELLOGG'S ALL-BRA- N can really "get at" a common cause of constipation -- lack of dietary "cellulosic" el-ements because it is one of N-ature's most effective sources of these elements! They help tie friendly colonic flora fluff up and prepare the colonic contents for easy elimination. KELLOGG'S ALL-BRA- N is not a purgative! Doesn't "sweep you out"! It's gentle-actin- g, "regulating" food! If you have constipation of this kind, eat KELLOGG'S ALL-BRA- or several ALL-BRA- N muffins regularls. Drink plenty of water. See if yea don't find real relief. Insist oi genuine ALL-BRA- made otij b; Kellogg's in Battle Creek. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT fe) RUBBER Navigation Is impossible even for a canoe on some of the tiny branches tn the Amazon headwaters In the remote Bolivia rubber country. Air transport Is now serving in the rub- - ber development En these areas. Tappers cot their way through the jungle, with from 100 to 150 wild rubber trees serving as each tap- - per's route. Tire experts hold that greater mileages are returned from truck tires if, when they are new, they are "broken in" for several thousand miles under normal or al conditions. Using new tires on front wheels before shifting them to the rear is one way of "seasoning" tires. vy.l.nlT.ml(l1,rrlJWrlllrllwl,L BEGooflrich Soothe, cool, reliev Anil diaper rash often pre- - II 11 M II vent it with Mexsana, II II 1 1 the astringent medicated llflUII powder. Get Meisana. WMJTED RAW EmTEHSMS FIRE CLAY KAOLINITE SOAPSTONE KAOLIN BENTONITE SILLIMANITE SILICA BAUXITE FELDSPAR TALC KYANITE DTASPORE CLAY GANISTER FLINT FIRE CLAY DIATOMACEOUS EARTH Please send 5 pound samples, plainly marked, including address and the name of owner to: EIJIXaSTATE CRESX CC"?IY P. O. Box 144, Sugar House Station 3 1 OO South 1 1 East Salt Lake City 5, Utah Manufacturers of Heavy Clay Products Building Brick Fire Brick Flue Lining Vitrified Clay Sewer Pipe Drain Tile Clays GEE-S- HE LOOKS OLD TODAY ( i - s r r,. ' J sfijv snnETOC YOU BET you show i, when those ,&rte;.t7otS soothes fast COLD IIEfJ AGTIOH 2- - Check muscular cramps. , 3. Enhance local circulation '" " 4. Help reduce local spelling. MUSCULAR LUMBAL Pooped by the famous McKes- - OR BACKACHE AtllXctl MUSCULAR PAINS agent. For fastest ac-- 11 " W Wesson makes it" J iff t ' PLANT FERRY'S SEEDS When you garden for abundant food, plant Ferry's Seeds. Many outstand ing vegetable varieties are on display at your local Ferry's dealer. FERRY-MORS- E SEED CO. DETROIT SAN FRANCISCO DON'T LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP When bowels are sluggish and you feel irritable, headachy, do as millions do chew FEEN-A-MIN- the modem chewing-gu- laxative. Simply chew FEEN-A-MIN- before you go to bed, taking only in accordance with package directions sleep without being dis-turbed. Next morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you feel swell again. Try Tastes good, is handy and economical. A generous family supply FEEHHIKTIw WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS Russian Blitz Clears Crimea Path as Allied Bombers Pound Western Europe; 'Stop Aiding Nazis' Neutrals Warned; Japs Press 3 -- Pronged Drive in India (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinion, are expressed In these columns they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ol this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. . KQJ& i"M 0 Jifi.aW-:- : Italy New Zealand troops dole on German sniper in Cassino ruins. WHEAT: Good Prospects Because of improved prospects as a result of a recent rainfall, the U. S. Department of Agriculture wheat crop of predicted a winter 601,759,000 bushels for 1944, 72,153,-00- 0 more than 1943 production. Based on official returns, the domestic supplies of wheat for 1944-'4- 5 were estimated at 1,130,000,-00- 0 bushels, compared with last year's 1,440,000,000 bushels. Although moisture deficiency in western Kansas and the adjoining wheat sections in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado was off-set by rainfall, Nebraska was re-- S ported in need of precipitation. U. S. ACES: 'Rick' Topped To army air force Captains Eich-ar- d I. Bong of Poplar, Wis., an4 Don S. Gentile of Piqua, Ohio, went the honor of breaking Capt. Eddie famed record of shooting down 26 enemy aircraft, established in World War I. Operating in the South Pacific in a Lightning fighter with the portrait of his fiance, Marjorie Vattendahl of Superior, Wis., painted on the nose, Captain Bong was credited with destroying his 27th enemy craft in the air on April 12. .Previously, Captain Gentile had been credited with bagging 30 enemy planes in Europe, but seven of them were shot up on the ground. During World War I, Captain total of 26 included five observation balloons, so that Cap-tain Bong paced the field in the number actually knocked out in sky fights. Of all of war's experiences, few were as harrowing as Sgt. James A. Raley's, who was trapped In the tail ' t J section of a Fly-- yC" J ing Fortress when It broke off from F the rest of 1 plane duringa f K -- bombing mission I and fell 19,000 f V feet down to L.45- 1 earth. fi When the tail section finally Sgt. Raley. landed miracul-ously on a tree top, the sergeant from Henderson, Ky., emerged with only a slight cut on the chin. POLITICS: FDR, Dewey Lead With the Democratic and Repub-lican conventions still two 'months off, the candidacies of President Roosevelt and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, N. Y., have picked up steam as a result of the popular favor shown them in the selection of nominating delegates. As of April 12, 46 delegates were openly pledged for the President and 157 others claimed for him, for a total of 203 out of 236 already picked, At the same date, 25 delegates stood pledged to Dewey and 123 others were claimed for him, for a total of 148 out of 356 selected. While the President polled a large vote in the Nebraska preferential primary, big highlight was the heavy write-i- n vote Dewey obtained. EUROPE: Invasion Path While Russia's land armies car-ried the war into the Balkans, Al-lied bombers continued pounding Axis military and industrial installa-tions throughout Fortress Europe, concentrating on the invasion path in the west. As the Russians stormed into Rumania, other Red forces drove ahead in the Crimea, huge chunk of land thrust into the Black sea and guarding the water route to the east-ern Balkans. As the Russians ap-proached the Rumanian rail junc-tion of, Jassi, they encountered stiffening resistance from native troops, fighting by the side of Ger-man soldiers, strengthened by shorter defense lines. In continuing their whirlwind as-saults to smoothen an invasion path, Allied bombers struck at airfields, railroad junctions and military de-fenses throughout the French and Belgium area. Far to the southeast, TJ. S. bombers based in Italy ham-mered Nazi airplane factories in the Vienna and Budapest regions. In. ground fighting below Rome, both sides were reported making exten-sive troop movements in prepara-tion for a resumption of bitter fight-ing. Warn Neutrals Having suspended oil shipments to Spain and announced restriction of steamship service to Ireland, Great Britain and the U. S. next de-manded termination of Sweden's g trade with Germany in a determined campaign to halt the neutral countries' commerce with Axis Europe. PACIFIC: India Threatened With their backs against the rug-ged slopes of the Naga hills in cen-tral India, British and Indian troops fought desperately against per-sistent Japanese attempts to cut off their supply lines and entrap them in a huge pocket. While the British and Indians were locked in their death struggle, U. S. bombers operated over a wide range in the Pacific, blasting Japa-nese installations in the Kurile islands, strung out to the north of Nippon, and plastering enemy bases on New Guinea, as part of the grand strategy to wipe out their strongholds on this flank of the Phil-ippines. In India, the Japs' continuing three-pronge- d drive pressed against British and Indian supply routes running both north and south and also to the west to the Assam-Beng-railroad, used to feed Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell's American and Chinese troops clearing a com-munications highway in northern Burma to China. INDUSTRY: Postwar Reserves Looking forward toward the prob-lems of postwar readjustment, U. S. industry has set aside hun-dreds of millions of dollars out of profits for switching back to civilian production, rebuilding plants or pro-viding lay-of- f payments to workers during the period of change. To meet the emergency, United States Steel company has estab-lished a nest egg of $104,153,557; General Motors, $76,051,805; Gen-eral Electric, $73,562,337; E. I. Du Pont, $31,613,430; Sears, Roebuck, $28,500,000; United Aircraft, $28,004,- - At the same time, it was an-nounced that the Allies would look into Turkey's increased chrome shipments to Germany during the last three months, with a view to-ward limiting the traffic through a curtailment ol our own trade with the Turks, whose lend-leas- e aid already has been cut down. In hearing the Allies' demands, the Swedes said they were in no position to comply without breaking their formal agreement with Ger-many, which, they said, the Al-lies approved last September. Al-though there was objection to the g shipments, Sweden's iron ore deliveries to the Nazis were hot emphasized. WOOL: Big Stocks With an h stock of foreign and U. S. wool, the Commodity Credit corporation was directed to go into the market to support the 1944 domestic clip estimated at 450,000,000 pounds. Whereas XJ. S. stocks stand at rec-ord levels today, there were pros-pects of serious shortages when the Japs launched their South Pacific drive, threatening the Australian and New Zealand producing areas. Approximately 400,000,000 pounds of foreign wool is now owned by this country, with the Defense Supplies corporation holding 330,000,000 pounds and dealers and manufac-turers the rest. At the same time, 550,000,000 pounds, is being held in this country for British account. Because the U. S. clip sells about 18 cents a pound above foreign wool, the CCC has encountered difficulty disposing of the domestic stock, al-though the army now specifies its use in purchases and about 10 per cent of navy orders are expected to call for it. 464; International Harvester, Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, $15,462,912; Borden com-pany, $11,305,185; National Dairy Products, $10,000,000, and General Foods, $4,492,712. Since such reserves cannot be taken out of income before taxes like deductions for depreciation, debt retirement and depletion, they must be put aside dut 'of industry's profits. Economic Protection To prevent a repetition of the widespread bankruptcies and fore-closures which fol- -' lowed World War I, p5!5WW!R7"5 the Commodity i $ Credit corporation is empowered to make loans at 90 w per cent of parity S , ,1 on basic crops for E- ' SM " two years after the H end of hostilities, War Mobilization f t3 Director James F. Byrnes declared. James Byrnes While outlini-ng the protection for farmers, Byrnes also proposed to help labor laid off from slackening war indus-tries, through a system of federal unemployment benefits to be paid in addition to regular state payments. To relieve the problem of future un-employment, Byrnes suggested that workers be shifted from lagging war plants to busier ones now while jobs were available. Byrnes advocated legislation for quick settlement of cancelled war contracts to aid industry in the re-conversion to civilian production, and he also called for congressional action to facilitate the orderly dis-posal of surplus war goods without disruption of regular markets. U. S. NAVY: Plan Bigger Growth To provide for the heavy fighting ahead, congress was asked to pass a naval appropriations bill of $32,647,000,000 for the fiscal year be-ginning July 1. By July of 1945, the navy will have 10,244 ships, 74,925 other craft, including landing ves-sels, and 37,735 airplanes. Also by July of 1945, naval per-sonnel is expected to reach 3,657,000 officers and men, including women. Biggest planned expansion is for the marine corps to a total of 478,000. LABOR: Hit Poiver Politics Asserting that territorial and frontier problems of Europe should be settled by popular vote of the affected pepple, the American Fed-eration of Labor's Vice President, Matthew Woll, assailed Soviet Rus-sia's alleged alteration of the con-tinent in defiance of principles of the United Nations. Taking his place beside Woll, David Dubinsky; president of the AFL's International Garment Work-ers Union, deplored the development of policies designed to divide the world up into spheres of influences, in which the big nations would dominate militarily and politically. Decrying the proposal to compen-sate Poland for the loss of terri-tory to Russia by giving her part, of eastern Germany, Dubinsky de-clared: " . . . This means that Po-land, or what remains of her, will "remain a center of bitter and con-stant struggle a football for the powers." BLACK MARKET GAS So extensive has the black market in gasoline become that it is im-perilling the whole civilian motor fuel program, Petroleum Adminis-trator Ickes warned. He said that more than 2,500,000 gallons a day is sold through illicit channels, with counterfeit coupons one of the most widely used means of evasion. The most hopeful possibility for an increase in the allowance to civil-ian drivers is through the crushing of the nationwide illegal traffic to gasoline, Mr. Ickes declared. ELECTRIC IRONS Hope that there would be a sub-stantial number of electric irons for sale to the public faded when the War Production board reduced the quota for the year. The WPB authorized production of 2,000,000 irons for 1944 in January but later slashed it to 200,000. Quotas will be granted to nine of the thirty com-panies originally accepted, and these nine are allowed to make elec-tric irons only "to the extent thai this production will not interfere with war contracts." Sheep in Near East Need Cart to CarryJIeavyTail Do you know that in the N East there are sheep whose ? are so large and ponderous the animals are provided ? small four-wheel- carriages in der to relieve the weight of tail and prevent it from coral into contact with the ground? The oriental passion for foods has led to the develop of this type of sheep in Which? fattest portion of the animal it tail, combines excessive adip'oi with enormous length. 'Independent' Miners Dig, Sell 2,000,000 Tons Coal About 2,600 "independent" min-ers in Pennsylvania still dig and sell more than 2,000,000 tons of anthracite coal a year from prop-erty owned by large collieries, de-spite the war that has been waged against them for almost a decade, says Collier's. Recently, they organized and even sent an appeal to Washing-ton for help in stopping further action against them. More Germs Are Useful To Man Than Otherwise Germs are living things, eating and drinking, moving and repro-iucin- g just like human beings. As Jogs come only from dogs, so germs come only from other germs like themselves. Someone, work-ing out their rate of reproduction, computed that one germ can be-come seventeen million germs in eight hours. Germs are the small-est living things. Five thousand Df them end on end would scarcely measure an inch. Most germs are useful germs; indeed, the world could not go on without them. They break up the things we have finished with the leaves, the dead animals and send them back to the soil. They are the scavengers of life. The war against germs is a war against a minority of disease germs, not a majority of useful germs. mpmif (ft Released by Western Newspaper Union, QUICK ADJUSTMENT OF WAR CONTRACTS ON NOVEMBER 12, 1918, the daj following the armistice that closeo World War I, I called at the office of Col. Henry M. Bylesby, American army purchasing agent in London. The war was over and Colonel Byles-by was preparing to leave for home when General ' Biddle, American commander in England, came into his office. He asked the reason foi the hurry and informed the colonel he could not leave England until all American war contracts had beer) adjusted. I knew of three of those contracts. One for five million army uniforms, a second for five complete hospital trains, and a third for millions ol feet of mining timbers given to a Swedish concern. They were but three of many. I left England for America on No-vember 15, arriving in Chicago on Thanksgiving day. From Chicago I returned to New York on December 15, and, on December 18 boarded the Century at New York to return to Chicago. On the train I met Colonel Bylesby. "How come?" I asked. "How about those war contracts?" "All settled. Washed up. Sealed, delivered and paid," he replied. I asked for the "how" of the job, and especially on the three contracts of which I knew something. "Easy," said the colonel. "I asked those with the uniform contracts to tell me the number of undelivered uniforms that were cut or partially made up. To tell me the yardage of material they had purchased, but not cut. I knew the number that had been delivered to the quarter-master corps. The contractors were as' jubilant as I was over-th- ending of the war and were in a generous mood. I asked if they could dis-pose of the partially completed or cut uniforms as workmen's cloth-ing. They could. They could also utilize for other purposes the uncut yardage. It took only an hour to arrive at a settlement. They got their money and the contract was surrendered. "One hospital train had been de-livered. Others were in course of construction. The contractor could use the cars or material for other things. He made a price that was more than fair. I accepted and that was the end of that contract. "The Swedish concern was not quite so easy, but when I assured them it was cash on the barrel head then, or wait for a long period of adjustment they came through. All others were settled in the same way. Some in a few minutes,- - some in a few hours. Now they are all set-tled. We have no outstanding war contracts in England, and I am back to operate the Bylesby utilities." It is to be regretted that Colonel Bylesby could not have lived until the end of the present war. He was the type Bernard Baruch would be looking for to quickly adjust our present war contracts and put us back on a peacetime production schedule. The colonel had no place for red tape or unnecessary hag-gling. It was always a quick yes or no. The government praised him for the adjustments he made in Eng-land. V. S. IDEALISM VS. EUROPEAN REALISM NO MATTER what we may think about it, or what we may expect, when the shooting is all over, Eu-rope will continue to have an imperi-alistic England, an imperialistic Russia, an imperialistic Holland, an imperialistic Belgium, an imperial-istic France. We may think, or hope, we are fighting that all peoples may have freedom, but we are not. We are fighting to crush Hitler. When that has been accomplished, imperi-alistic Europe will decide its own course, and we and our four free-doms will have but little to say about it. As in 1919, American ideal-ism will give way to European real-ism. That is what we should expect. TRIBUTE TO FARMER A FARMER from one of the cen-tral states dropped into my home for a call. "I take it you are a farm product," he said. I assured him I could not make such a claim and had never lived on a farm. "But you think like a farmer," he insisted. I do not, but I wish I could. The farmers of the nation think more soundly, have a better grasp of national affairs and na-tional needs, than any other class of our citizenship. What they ask is honest information on which to base their thinking and they will arrive at right conclusions. My caller paid me the highest possible compliment when he said I think like a farmer I wish it could be true. EACH OF US has relatives or friends on the battle lines. To each of us the casualty lists and casualty figures are ominous. Our tendency is to be pessimistic, to fear we shall find the names of those near and dear to us in those lists. They may be but the chances are they will not Ninety per cent or better, of those who are fighting for us will come home again. Each man in the armed services believes he will be numbered among that 90 per cent andthat is the way we should look MANY A BUSINESS has failed be- cause the customers have been as always wrong. WHAT A LESSONin world raphy the war has given us! Iusga' value we had not anticipated HE WHO HAS the least tn LIKE THE SPRINGTIME the dav of peace draws nearer with passing hour. eBcb Broaden at Thirty Men usually begin to decrease in height after the age of 30. HIGHLIGHTS in the week's news EGGS: Another record in egg pro-duction was turned in by America's g hens during March, the third consecutive month of e highs. There were 6,763,000,000 eggs laid last month, 4 per cent 'above March last year and 49 per cent over the ten-ye- average, 1933-4- Number of laying hens in-creased 5 per cent from March, 1943, to 433,985,000. JOBS FOR VETS: About half the men in service want their old jobs back when they are mustered out, according to a sample survey conducted among 3,000 soldiers and sailors from Genesee county, New York, by the Committee for Eco-nomic Development. Twenty per cent hope to get better positions on the strength of skills learned in service. Another ten per cent "don't know" what they intend to do. Of the remainder, five per cent want to start their own businesses and five per cent wish to return to col-lege. MIDGET FURNACE: A tiny fur-nace, weighing only 21 pounds, may be sufficient to heat a house, if a new type of heating unit now used only, in military aircraft can be applied to homes. The little furnaces would be only about the size of a waste basket and would cost about $50. Demonstration mod-els have given encouraging results it was said. FLAX: A hope that America might raise enough flax and hemp to become independent of imports was voiced by Senators Aiken and Gillette, who are asking for a sub-committee to study the possibilities of domestic fiber production. CIGARETTES: More cigarettes were smoked last year than ever before, but there was a decline in cigar and chewing tobacco con-sumption, the Department of Agri-culture repbrts. Tobacco growers have told the department that they will plant the largest acreage since 1939. |