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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH fHE RICH Cnttred ca second class matter Feb. 8, 1928 bet of March 3. 1879. t (he Post Office. Randolph, Utah, under th Wnt, E. Marshall. Business Manager SUBSCRTPTION ll.SO Per Year in Advanca I.srton Marshall. Editor and Propriatew SUGAR: Press Conservation WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS REAPEF COUNTY Fire Bombs Raze Jap Cities ; Unemployment Expected to Rise Soon as War Production Tapers Declaring that the present sugar ilshortage hdd been aggravated by obof originally supplies legal use tained for home canning, the OPA took steps to tighten allocations for such purposes and prevent further drainage of shrinking stocks. In addition to having special investigators check into the diversion of home canning sugar into bootleg liquor or illicit bottling, OPA announced that pledges must now be signed assuring that use of home canning rations will not be used for other purposes and reports made later as to food put up; district offices will suspend allocations until fruits and vegetables become available for preservation, and review all applications so as to spread supplies over Released by Western Newspaper Union. . are those o When NOTE! opinions are expressed In these columns, they (EDITORS .) Western Newspaper Unions news analysts and not necessarily of this newspap Reduce Size of Cobs By Increasing Grain . svvv 1 wwmwvw - & Proper Fertilization Produces Better Corn growers can avoid on themselves shortchanging amount the grain yields by reducing of cobs per bushel through soil improvement practices was described by H. J. Snider of the Illinois college . of agriculture. Professor Snider cited tests at the near colleges experimental fieldto show 111., Ewing, that the proportion of grain to cobs is How corn increased improvement are obvious. At the Ewing field, U. S. Hybrid No. 13 was grown on land treated with limestone, phosphorus and potash and in which nitrogen-fixin- g legumes had been plowed under, Snider reported. The same hybrid was planted on untreated land and at harvest the results were compared. The com grown on fertilized land contained 10.5 pounds of cobs per bushel of ear corn weighing 70 pounds. The hybrid grown on untreated land contained 14 pounds per bushel. This means that each 100 bushels of corn grown on unfertilized land contained 350 pounds more cobs than 100 bushels of the same hybrid grown on treated land, Snider said. On this basis, a farmer who does not treat, shortchanges himself by 5 bushels of grain in each 100 bushels of corn produced. Moreover, when he buys ear com grown on this type of land, he is subject to the same shortchanging process. The extra poundage of cobs must be handled out of the field into and out of the crib and into the feeders. sixth division marines recline behind protecting wall near Naha after bitter fight for city on Okinawa. Battle-wear- While there has been talk and ex- perimentation for several years about obtaining several from corn stalks and other farm waste, the United States department of agriculture now comes out with a program for extracting liquid motor fuel from corncobs, peanut shells, flax shives, oat hulls, cottonseed hulls and burs and sugarcane bagasse and other farm waste. The department says that experimental laboratory investigations by their chemists indicate that from 90 to 95 gallons of liquid motor fuel can be obtained from a ton of corncobs or cottonseed hulls and that about half of this is in the form of ethyl full-fledg- ed alcohol. . . Experimentations have advanced s to the stage at the D. of A. northern regional research laboratory at Peoria, 111., and results are so promising that the work is to be enlarged so that it now may be evaluated on a scale. semi-work- semi-commerci- al tKe, country needs. And then no cb-rn- pknts I guess They.werent patriotic, up e seeds. IV'YC""' WNU Features. SNAPPY PACIFIC: Cities Burn One by one, Japans great industrial centers are being razed by huge fleets of Flying Superfortresses, with the firing of Osaka and Yokohama cutting further into the enemys potential to produce weapons needed for the expanding Pacific front. Considered the Orients greatest industrial center, Osaka smouldered strikes at after heavy Super-Fo- rt its iron, steel, copper, cotton, hemp and wire plants. Japans second biggest port, Yokohama was left in flames by hundreds of with strong winds helping to spread the destruction block by block. Approximately 60,000 houses were said to have been wiped out after the first assault, leaving 250,000 homeless, and communication and transportation lines disrupted. In explaining strategy in laying down the greatest number of bombs in the shortest time over Japanese targets, 21st Bomber Commander Curtis Le May declared: If you lay them down like that the city burns down. If you dont, they put it out. With raising havoc with Japanese industrial centers, the enemy continued to chiefly center his aerial opposition against American naval vessels in the Ryukyus, with Kamikaze (suicide) pilots continuing to score hits on light units. Indicative of the ferocity of the Japanese attacks, the navy reported the greatest casualty toll in all the Pacific fighting off of Okinawa. da land, U. S. forces herded the enemy onto the southern corner of Okinawa following the collapse of his Shuri line after some of the bitterest ground fighting in the war, with troops compelled to dig the Japs from deep cave positions in rugged s, for such skilled help as electricians, sheet metal workers and machinists, and the War Manpower commission gave the yards No. 1 priority in hiring. Transportation and housing also were guaranteed East coast workers desiring to shift to the west. As an example of the critical labor shortage in the West coast yards, the famed aircraft carrier Franklin had to be hauled all the way to the Brooklyn navy yard for repairs. NEAR EAST: Rubber contracts and ripples Into unstretched state in much the same way as an earthworm moves across the surface of the ground. an low-payi- ng Shipyard Problem In the face of rising layoffs in war production industries, West coast shipyards are experiencing a shortage of help at a time when the demand for repairs is increasing as a result of the damage to U. S. vessels in the quickened Pacific naval warfare. Twenty thousand workers below their labor ceilings, three West coast shipyards lost an average of 600 employees last month. In an effort to solve the problem, selective service announced blanket deferments ' 214,-14- Busses now carry more than half the total number of persons transported by intercity public carriers in the United States. Previously, Reps. John Rankin (Miss.) and Frank Hook (Mich.) went to it hammers and tongs Behind all the trouble in the Near East lies the specter of oil the great natural resource indispensable to a modern machine economy. While fighting flared in Syria, the French charged that what appeared to be a mixup between them and the natives really was an incident cooked up by British agents to jeopardize the French pipeline carrying oil across the embattled country from the Mosul fields in Iraq. At the same time, French commentators sharply pointed out that any Arab , uprising in Syria could very well lead to similar disturbances throughout the whole Arabic bloc of states, where both Britain and the U. S. have substantial oil concessions. Oddly located nearby the Suez canal, providing Britain with a convenient gateway to her oriental empire, the Arabic states are said to possess oil deposits the equal of those in the U. S., with the English holding 40 per cent of all concessions in the area and America 60 per cent. U. S. interest in the near eastern oil situation was pointed up by the governments proposal to erect a $150,000,000 pipeline across Arabia and join in a partn nership with the Oil company and Gulf Exploration company for its operation. Shelved in the face of hitter opposition, the plan called for the private companies creation of a billion barrel petroleum pool for the army and navy, and repayment for the pipeline over a period. Oil also prqminently figures in relations between the U. S. and Britain and Russia, what with the Arabic states situated virtually at the Reds back door and Moscow having already put in a bid for development of the Persian fields, monopolized by the English. 25-ye- ar EUROPE: Displaced Persons One of the most difficult of postwar problems in Europe, the return of displaced nationals to their homeland has become even harder with the reluctance of many to leave the occupied zone of Germany, it was revealed. Though some 600,000 Poles are showing the greatest antipathy to be ing sent east, Latvians and Lithuanians also are not eager to return Even substantial numbers of the 1.500.000 Russians in the zone do not wish to be repatriated, but though the other nationals cannot be forced to go against their wishes, an agreement reached at Yalta makes the return of file Russians compulsory. Besides the nationals mentioned above, there still are 1,200,000 French in the U. area along with 350,000 Italians, 200,000 Belgians, 200,000 Dutch, 100,000 Yugoslavs, 60,000 Czechs, 10,000 Greeks, 10.000 Danes, 10,000 Norwegians nd 10.000 from Luxembourg. Anglo-Americ- From April 1, 1942, to August 31, 1944, the total amount of natural rubber imported into the United States was 8 long tons. India and Africa supplied 35.3f 31.9 came from Latin America, and from Liberia. The re15.3 came from maining 17.5 shipments in transit when sources were lost to Japan. salaries. Oil Oasis Arabian-Amer-ica- With another large stepdown in military orders anticipated, War Production Board Chairman J. A. Krug predicted 4,800,000 persons will no longer be needed for war production six months from now and unemployment can be expected to reach 1,300,000 by then. During the next three months alone, Krug said, an estimated 2,900,-00- 0 war workers will be released, with unemployment jumping 1,100,-00- 0 from the present level of 800,000 to 1,900,000. Because of withdrawals from the labor force and the reemployment of 4,100,000 persons by the rapidly expanding civilian economy, however, the total of unemployed will drop about 600,000 a half year from now. Though unemployment promises to mount in comparison with present indusconditions, such tries as lumber and textiles may experience difficulty obtaining workers, Krug said. Wage increases within the bounds of stabilization policy would probably help remedy such a situation, Krug indicated. FACTS RUDDER Well in the tradition of the good old days when the U. S. took its politics hot and heavy, Reps. . John Taber (N. Y.) and Clarence Cannon (Mo.) engaged in the second fistic engagement of the present session following heated debate over the proposed tax free $2,500 a year expense account for congressmen in addition to their $10,-00- 0 y, UNEMPLOYMENT: To Rise To Convert; Fuel Oil From Farm Crop Waste this spring For food is wtat CONGRESS: Fistic Debate terrain. The above is a direct appeal from the officials appointed by the of our country calling on the farmers of America to grow the sugar that this nation so vitally needs. Ul' over-issuan- ce B-2- 9s Grow Sugar Beets CHERUfi I planted garden coming months. Partly because of of sugar for food preservation last year, OPA said, average table rations have been cut 37 per cent and housewives allocations for home canning have been trimmed ,40 per cent. In addition, the short sugar stocks have resulted in a squeeze on bakers and industrial users, with further reductions in thejr allotments threatening to seriou sly hamper continued operations. when corn is grown on fertilized land. Since cobs have little or no feed value and are so low in plant nutrients that they have virtually no use in manure, the advantages of soil THE CHEERFUL an Anglo-Americ- an the floor of the on house after Hook had called Rankin a REGoodrieh liar. to According d husky, white-haire- Tabers story, he had called upon Cannon at the latters request, only to move to leave the room when the latter became abusive over remarks he had made during the course of debate on the proposed expense account. Returning when Cannon asked him if he was running away, Taber said he stopped a left or a right to the upper lip, and then pinned his opponent to a couch until he cooled down. Claiming on his own account that Taber had hied it to his office when the going got hot, the Cannon declared that the fracas resulted from Tabers insulting remarks on the floor of the house. slight-of-bui- ld APPAREL: Pinch to Persist With military requirements at a high level and labor short because of the attraction of workers to higher paying industries, textiles will remain in tight supply through 1945, the War Production board revealed. Declaring that a substantial amount of clothing materials will be needed to provide a continuous flow of apparel for adaptability to the varying climatic conditions of the Pacific, WPB said the military will take 85 per cent of the cotton duck supply in along with 20 per cent of carded and 50 per cent of combed goods, In addition, WPB said, the military will take 60 per cent of the supply of wool woven goods during the same period, and virtually all worsteds, along with substantial stocks of knit goods. 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WNU CATTLE: For Europe In a program designed to replace per cent of the 5,000,000 animals destroyed during the war in Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland, UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation administration) will ship about 50,000 dairy and draft animals to those countries in the next 18 months. With funds for the project to come from UNRRA, about half of the stock will come from the U. S. and the remainder from other nations in the Western hemisphere. The U. S. of UNRRA s subscribes to cost. Because of her extreme need, Greece will receive the first shipment of 300' dairy heifers and 900 draft animals, it was announced. In bred heifers addition, another-30and 300 mares are scheduled for early delivery to Yugoslavia. 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