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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER RANDOLPH. UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER Intered as second due nutter Peh. 8. 1I2 U the Post Office. Randolph. Utah, under th Act of Karsh I. 1ST. Win. E. Marshall. Badness Manawer SUBSCRIPTION 1.S0 Per Tear hi AdeanaS Layton Marshall. Rdttor and Proprietor 1943 PROPHECY: Tough Year Ahead WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Darlan: Tree France and Then Retire; MacArthurs Victories in New Guinea First Milestone in Long Trek to Tokyo; British Cut Rommels Forces in Two Cockroaches Found Where Food Stored Infestations Stopped When Their Habits Are Known (EDITORS NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those ot Western Newspaper Unions news analysts and not necessarily ol this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. - Cockroach infestations may be curbed by understanding the habits of the pests and approved methods of control, according to Dr. E. W. Lowrance of the department of biology and consultant of the agricultural extension service, University of Nevada. Roaches are likely to establish themselves anywhere that food is stored or handled. They are found most frequently in old buildings, but new houses may be infested and overrun by ani- starch-containin- have even been known to attack books. They seem to like the starch and glue in the binding. Associated with a relatively heavy infestation of roaches, the consultant said, is a nauseating fetid roachy odor. This comes from an oily secretion in the scent glands of the animals. collapse of 1929. No collapse or panic was in store in his forecast for 1943. But the Cleveland banker did predict it would probably be our toughest war year, both for individual business men and corporations. Among Ayers prognostications for 1943 were: Despite recent good war news we probably shall still be engaged in active warfare a year from now. National income in 1943 will be 15 to 20 per cent larger than the 112 billion for 1942. Cost of living up 10 per cent in 1942 will advance 5 to 10 per cent more. Civilian employment of nonfarm workers will be up 3 to 5 per cent. Dollar volume of retail stores will be down 10 to 15 per cent. The holiday trade just closed will be the last big season for the duration. NAZIS STIFFEN: Defenses in Russia mals inadvertently transported to them from outside sources. The animals have a liking for g foods, he said, and These two workers in a Gallatin, Tenn., cheese plant are hooping the cheese before it is pressed. Brig. Gen. Leonard P. Ayers first made fame as an economic prophet when he predicted the stock market Soldiers of Gen. Montgomerys British Eighth army cant complain that they are kept in ignorance of the news on their front and elsewhere. For the British commander has newspapers flown from Cairo to his men at the front. The newsboy here is Pvt. Sam Hayworthy who was a newsboy in Manchester, England, before enlisting. NEW GUINEA: MacArthur Milestone TUNISIA: Darlan s Finesse Jean Darlan showed his adroitness as a politician when he issued a statement disclaiming any personal ambitions and announcing his intention of retiring to private life after helping free France from The oil is deposited on foods, dishes the Axis. While the statement did or any other utensils over which not please the Fighting French nor the animals may crawl. Because completely answer Darlans critics, of their pollution of foods, he said, it nevertheless was a significant they may be classed as disease car- document. riers. The catch in the admirals promise to retire, observers pointed out, Cockroaches are active at was that it was not to take place night, and, during the day, hide until the war was won. Meanwhile, in dark, sheltered places. They he would have political sway over can usually be found under North Africa. baseboards, behind drawers, wall cabinets, and drainboards, To friend and critic alike, howand beneath flooring. ever, Darlans record of collaboration Lieutenant General EisenTheir hiding places can some- howerwitfy and the Allied forces was imtimes be found by the sudden turnand formed a sound basis pressive d ing on of a light in a on which to defend the arrangeroom, which will cause them to ment, temporary or otherwise. run from their hiding places. Emphasizing his lack of personal To prevent roach infestation, the Darlan said: I have anambition, food all supbiologist suggests that nounced that my sole purpose is to or containers cartons and the plies in which they are delivered be care- free France and then retire to private life with the hope that future fully inspected. not are only leaders of France may be selected found, If cockroaches should they be destroyed, but the by the French people themselves carton should be burned immediate- and no one else. ly, as it may be infested with roach Rains Came eggs. Windows and ventilators of buildTropical rains had intervened to ings should be tightly screened, he bog down American and British said, food supplies should be stored ground forces in the Tunisia warcarefully, and garbage removed as fare, giving the Nazis a respite. i Land actions had dwindled down to rapidly as it accumulates. the extent of patrol sorties, with the Fumigation is perhaps the Allies apparently continuing to sacmost effective way to eliminate rifice forward territory to reduce roaches, the consultant said, losses pending the launching of a but this method is exceedingly offensive. dangerous unless handled by an Operating from main bases in Alexpert. geria and from forward makeshift fields in Tunisia, Allied fliers kept Plenty of Spuds! up a harassing bombing attack on the Axis-hel- d ports of Tunis and Rains, however, kept the action from the forward air fields to intermittent flights. Any stretch of good weather which would dry these fields would permit the Allied air forces to step up their attacks. Adm. roach-infeste- full-sca- le With the capture of Buna, following the fall of Gona, Gen. Douglas MacArthur scored a significant military success in New Guinea. For by regaining this territory from the Japs, the Allied forces had accomplished their first step in the gigantic job of recapturing the vast territories Japan acquired in its three g months through the South Pacific following Pearl Harbor. That the first accomplishment was modest compared with what still lay ahead few strategists denied. The Japs proved tenaciously irksome even after Bunas fall by landing small forces in the vicinity for sniping and guerrilla war. It had taken more than five months to expel the Japs from the comparatively small slice of north central New Guinea they occupied after their first a beachcapture of the heads. Still in Jap hands in New Guinea were the ports of Lae and Salamaua, several hundred miles up the coast. Their capture would probably be the next milestone on ' MacArthurs march. Southward in the Solomons, the enemy had pursued its persistent tactics of trying to supply and reinforce its stranded troops on Guadalcanal. And again the attempt was frustrated by forces. ' American bombers drove off the enemy, sinking either a destroyer or a cruiser from among 10 warships that tried to reach the island. blitz-krie- Gona-Bun- assaults of their own. FOOD ARBITRATOR: Byrnes Gets Power ' Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes already had responsibility to spare in fulfilling his critical wartime job. But on the shoulders of this willing official were piled new powers, when President Roosevell vested him with the task of arbitrating any disputes that might arise over the operation of Claude R. Wickards Office of War Food Ad- ministration. What those disputes might be, neither the President nor Mr. Byrnes But Washington ob- - six-poi- nt s Potatoes for a fighting nation pour in from Americas farmlands at The Chicago & Northwestern Rai- lroads Wood street huge Potato Yard, in Chicago. Some 4,000,000 pounds of spuds arrive daily from every state in the Union. The yard has a capacity for 600 freight cars, each carrying 600 bushels of cloud-fancie- and rs However, he rainbow doesnt make the fans. mis- take of Ibsens brand, which led his people up so high they froze to death. High Tor is to Mr. Anderson the symbol of resistance against totalitarian quarry companies which would grind the cosmos through and also the their symbol of certain ideas with which he garlanded it in his play, High Tor, of 1937. It has high visibility and has rallied behind Mr. Anderson citizens far up and down the Hudson, and we know that remotely heard thunder is not Rip Van Winkles elfin bowling team. As head of the committee to save High Tor, Mr. Anderson is engaged in an effort to prove himself a poor prophet. In his play, he prophesied that the man who owned it ultimately would sell it to the quarry company, to be hacked down. Old Elmer Orden, the owner, died last April and High Tor was thrown on the market. Mr. Andersons neighboring poets, artists and playwrights are swarming out of their remote hideouts to save the mountain. Among them are Amy Murray, much beloved poet, who two years ago published a book of verse, poignantly beautiful, much of it about the mountain, and worthy of more attention than it received, and Henry Poor, the artist. Mr. Poors painting of the mountain hangs in the Metropolitan museum. He and g Miss Murray head the subcommittee to buy the mountain and turn it over to the Palisades Interstate Park commission as a permanent bird and game sanctuary and a high hurdle for hikers for Pegasus, too, it would seem as many a chaplet of verse has been hung on the mountain. Somewhat farther down toward sea level, Mr. Anderson is promoting a prizefight for the Fighting French Relief committee. He seems always to be asking himJust self What price glory? now he is gathering in slathers of money from his hit play, Eve of St. Mark, ringing up $300,000 for the movie rights alone, and such glory always drives him to unforeseen endeavors. When he hits a jackpot he is apt to summon relatives and friends and say: Have a farm or an education on me. Mr. Anderson and his fellow craftsmen of the arts have led the up our way to conclude that poets and artists are all right if they behave themselves. The latter meet them halfway. There has been a new community solidarity in Rockland county, New York, which has stirred it to more than its acpopulation share of tivities. Mr. Anderson has made High Tor a symbol of a common, endeavor. s, fund-raisin- war-winni- - JAMES F. BYRNES . . . Umpire-in-chie- Bi-zer- te. . of the Pali- the highest eminence sades making the world safe for old-time- rs ROMMEL: His Forces Split Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel found himself in his toughest spot as the British eighth army, commanded by Sir Bernard Montgomery, cut his fleeing Axis forces in two in the Libyan desert, threatening thousands of enemy troops with capture or death. In a sudden flanking movement, advanced British forces reached Wadi Matratin, 55 miles west of El Agheila on the Gulf of Sirte. There the British spearhead slashed southPEACE: ward, cutting off Rommels army. One Nazi force continued to flee to Hoover Offers Plans the west and the other was caught Proposing peace plans before the British main army and actual victory to stabilize conquered between the advanced elements. countries and prevent the tragedy It had been apparent that Romof a second Versailles treaty, forhad only been feinting in his mer President Herbert Hoover pre- mel defense of El Agheila. But it was sented a that program just as apparent that Montgomery would include: had outsmarted Rommel. Total disarmament of the enemy; Even before this latest maneuver, designation of provisional boundaRAF pilots strafed the German colries of nations; repatriation of war umns as they retreated from El Agprisoners and refugees; immediate heila. Early advances necessarily removal of the economic blockade had to be cautious because Rommel once the enemy surrenders; organi- had left his wake strewn with land zation of agencies to prevent fam- mines. ine and disease and aid in reconIt appeared increasingly certain struction; provisional restoration of that the main question was whether commercial treaties. Rommel would succeed in getting Mr. Hoover indicated that he an- his men into Tunisia, 475 miles west ticipated peace in Europe before of El Agheila, to join with the the enemy was defeated in Asia. forces of Gen. Walther Nehring. Saves Mountains rock-crusher- Heavy counterattacks by Nazi forces had been expected in an attempt to lift the pressure on their legions pinched by Russ armies in the Don river bend near Stalingrad and faced with critical difficulties in the Rzhev area northwest of Moscow. But the Soviet armies had been ready for them and had checked the advances after the Germans made some initial gains. The Germans had used all the tricks in their bag dive bombers, tanks and infantry assaults to roll back the Russians southwest ol Stalingrad, but their efforts resulted in costly losses of men and equipment. So effective were the Red operations in the Stalingrad area that despite the bitterness of the fighting, workmen protected by the Red army had repaired an extensive mileage of railroad tracks and supply trains were able to move in for the first time in many months. That the Germans were determined to hold strategic Rzhev at all costs was indicated by the large number of reserves they threw into waves of attacks on that front. The sturdy Russians, however, absorbed these blows and prepared for further would disclose. YORK. Critics of Maxwell Anderson, the playwright, have sometimes suggested that he has his head in the clouds. That might account for his persist-Wit- h a Faith That e n c e in JEW servers pointed out that the complex problem of adequately feeding the nation as well as the armed forces during wartime might result in jurisdictional clashes between Mr. Wickard and Donald M. Nelson, War Production chief Mr. Byrnes revealed, however, that on the day President Roosevelt named Secretary of Agriculture Wickard as food administrator, he handed Mr. Byrnes a letter making him the White House mediation agent. X7TTH college boys being pulled out of school, business men are sent back in. It is Dean Donald K. Shakespeares 7 Ages Fall Into a New Sequence versity ntss busi- - scho1 opens business executives, between the ages of 35 and 40, for a tuition-fre- e course to retrain business executives for war work. He says the aim is to aid in the production of goods necessary to win the war. In 1922, Harvard university set up a consulting staff in Europe, which included Sir William Beveridge ol London, for guidance of business in the reconstruction years. Sir William has been working in this field NAVY RECRUITING: ever since, and is just now out with d a report and recommendaExtended Temporarily tion which is mainly a conclusion Navy, marine and coast guard re- that there wont be any business cruiting offices were doing a land after this war all will be socialoffice business. For with the off- ized. icial order to reopen enlistments in Nothing like that for Harvard these services until February 1, this time. Dean university thousahds of men in the 18 to 37 age who was named head of David, class flocked to the colors. the business school last May, The decision to permit volunteerhas staked out his curriculum on ing temporarily in the three servthe old ground rules and the ices was made because arrangetradition that the pursuit of an ments to draft men for them could honest dollar still will be a stimnot be completed for a few weeks. ulus to enterprise. Harvard to ten-poun- 150 |