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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER RANDOLPH. UTAH The Burma Road 71 Chinas Life Line Is Packed With Heroicism While Death Always Lurks By CLIFF LANGE . (Released by Western .Newspaper Union.) can of pineapple Applesauce and cranberries water when you make a delicious combination to baste meat. It gives it a new and serve with roast pork. different flavor. ' The potato ricer can be used to Use juice and one-ha- lf one-ha- lf i Stainless steel utensils have to wring out hot cloths and save be heated slowly over a low flame many burned fingers. or the foods being cooked in them will scorch. In planning meals, bacon should be considered as fat rather than The continual ripping off of meat, because it contains very buttons by the clothes wringer can little protein. be prevented by folding the buttons inside the garment and holdWaxed paper placed under ice ing it flat as you turn it through pans in the refrigerator will prethe wringer. vent them from sticking. Dispatches to the newspapers in the United. States have been keeping the people well informed on the Japanese activity in i bombing the Burma road, life line of China. Since the United States declared war on Japan, news coming out on this famous road has been pushed to inside pages of newspapers because of other war activities closer to the people in the United States. Nevertheless, this road which means so much to China still plays an important part in the activity of the Allies against their enemies. This famous road begins at Ran- Sweater Style Simple to Knit Crochet directions for a Jack Tar bib in red, white and blue are also on the pattern sheet. Send your order to: AUNT MARTHA goon, India, as a rail line northeastward to Lashio, near the Chinese frontier. At Lashio the goods for embattled China are transferred to trucks and carried along the twistThis unusual shot of the Burma Road as it twists and curves over ing, dangerous, wreckage - strewn mountains to Chungking has been compared to a snake. Possibly it to the Chungking, headquarters highway will as the story notes be the "snake that will help strike down Japan of Generalissimo Chiang in her present fight against the democracies. government. the at From the railhead Lashio, so badly. The present con- ton figure is reached, providing the Burma road in its 726 miles, crosses needs flict between the Soviets and the force of the Japan military machine mountain ranges 10,000 feet high, Nazis has practically cut off the doesnt achieve and keep the upper and then plunges into canyons of which had been coming hand of the present battle now ragtwo of the worlds greatest rivers: supplies from Russia, in the north. ing, the turning point in the war the jungle hedged Mekong, and the Recently, American truck line over here will be reached. verdant trimmed Salween. Within For then goods will be moving in transportation experts came through the distance of 40 miles easily an here sufficient volume to permit Chinas invitaon General hours travel on a highway in the tion on to undertake their first maarmies to the their advinspect way United States this fascinating, A sustained was to put jor enture-packed highway rises and road. Their purpose and e will make which efficiency greater dips twice from 2,500 feet to 7,500 in its operation. For reports of in- the recent one against the Japs who feet. . . difference, lassitude, and perhaps were moving in on the beleaguered Throughout its tortuous length the graft began to reach the Generals British atf Shanghai, small in comroad twists and turns through some ear. With a parison. westerners Watch the military activities of the most hazardous driving ter- reaction he didtypical something about it. Box Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address , Kai-she- ks Kai-she- counter-offensiv- e. counter-offensiv- . 166-- . WARM-AS-TOAS- outfit is T this simple knitted threesome consisting of sweater, cap and mittens. The 3 to 5 year old who boasts this will be the envy of the neighborhood, his mother the envy of her friends. Awaiting Discovery There are whole worlds of fact Detailed directions for knitting the three-piec- e set and explanations of knit- waiting to be discovered by inferting stitches are given on Z9447, IS cents. ence. Woodrow Wilson. .. rain in the world. The roadbed, in The some places is just about nine feet wide, but never more than twenty. It hugs the edge of seemingly A bot- tomless chasms, and sneaks over g ridges. Engineering Feat. It is no wonder that engineers consider this road as one of the worlds greatest engineering feats, comparing with Chinas other great defensive effort, the Great Wall. Fortunately, this important highway carrying supplies to the capital of China was completed to its present condition before Japan attacked not chassis-breakin- . U. S. transportation officials came over for a check-uOver 400 trucks a day are rolling over the road loaded with American military supplies sent by terms e of the bill, and relief supplies sent through the United China Relief. These same trucks returning from China carry tungsten, tung oil, wolframite and other strategic U. S. defense-programaterials to pay for these supplies. Sudden Death. Many lives were lost in building this road. Today, the loss of lives continues. Not so much from bombing by Japanese airmen, continually blasting away at it, especially the two major suspension bridges across the Salween and the Mekong, but from the drivers and the road workers on it. Since the road opened, 1,300 trucks have been destroyed by falling off the precipices along the hundreds of hairpin turns such as shown in the picture above. Thousands, too, have fallen victim to malaria, for the road traverses the worst malarial swamp in the world. Medical relief on the road today is under the care of the American Society of Friends, member agency of United China Relief. Since the inspection of the road by the traffic experts invited over by Generalissimo many projects calculated to eliminate inefficiency and truck delays have been instituted. A complete system of auto repair, gasoline and dispatching stations is being established along this vital route. A school for automobile mechanics, to teach the essentials of repair and maintenance, has been opened in Chungking by the College of Science of the University of Nanp. lend-leas- m fL evolving about the Burma road. There, too, you will read more tales of great heroicism such as have surrounded the road ever since it was first begun. The fate of the Burma road will decide the fate of the battle of the Pacific and the battle oi the Atlantic, too. DOD(O0D(6 fiteforn for; (Tire fteru I oG QEEGDg QsgS) Wide Powers Given To State Governors For War Emergency !l!' that is set; on the contrary, he Beyond in Evil Armed with emergenHe who imitates what is evil who imitates what is good always cy war powers granted recently by always goes beyond the example 1 falls short. Gicciardini. their legislatures or by state statutes of 1917 still in force, most of the 48 governors are prepared for speedy mobilization of military and civilian resources of their states, a survey DIFTTTUHS ADVOCATE WIDER USE Of WHUT by the Council of State Governments indicates. So broad are the governors powers that it seems unlikely states will have to enact the mass of legislation found necessary during the first World war. For this reason, special sessions of the states in 1942 It is made from the finest Northern Wheat an year may be less numerous than anticipated. and contains in their natural state, Vitamin The governors war emergency B, which promotes digestion, Vitamin A, powers, in addition to complete suthe state defense councils, Vitamin, Phosphorus and pervision of cover a wide range of subjects, Calcium. All necessary to the daily diet. from organizing state guards to conA delicious cooked cereal with a flavor all its own. trolling oil supplies. Twenty-seve- n Ask your grocer for a package today. states adopted state guard acts in and in 26 of them the governor has authority to dispatch the MONTANA CEREAL CO. Billings, Montana guard in response to calls for help from neighboring governors. Mobilizing State Resources. In two states Massachusetts and Industrys Reward Why We Boast New Jersey governors last year God gives all things to is but an art our feari Boasting were authorized to undertake unusuto blind. Homer. Franklin. Benjamin ally wide wartime mobilization ol king. state resources, according to the The awakening, and fighting, Chinese arent going to let it be said survey. The governor of Massachuthat they, once being shown how, setts is permitted to take any didnt do anything to prevent their measures which he may deem proper to carry into effect any request e from functioning properly. At the present time the trip over of the President of the United States the Burma road requires from, 10 to for action looking to the national defense or to the public safety. Mas12 days of hard, tough driving. After the improvements recommended by sachusetts last year also the experts are made, the trip will a 1917 statute authorizing the govertake a week or less. Asphalting will nor to take possession of any equipimprove the efficiency of the road ment and supplies in the state for and also- reduce the ever lurking service of the state or country. This act further permits the governor to risks. Hewn by Hand. seize, sell or distribute gratuitously Choice oftheDiscriminatingTraveler The Burma road will then be cattle, poultry, provisions, fuel, gasinhabito oline and other materials different from the when Hhrr greatly day it was first completed by 150,000 tants of the state. 400 ROOMS 400 BATHS The New Jersey act, approved late peasant men and women, working entirely with hand tools, and who last month, directs the governor to Rates: finished the job in a little more render the United States in the presassistance within the than a year. (American and Brit- ent crisis any Our $200,000.00 remodeling and refurnishing program has ish engineers estimated the job power of the state. To accomplish made available the finest hotel accommodations in the would take four years to complete.) this, he may organize and employ West AT OUR SAME POPULAR PRICES. The immensity of the project is any and all resources within the near appalling when it is remem- state, whether men, properties or inCAFETERIA bered that those peasants actually strumentalities, and is directed to DINE DANCE all or BUFFET exercise convenient out of ROOM road DINING power any the granite hacked the The ffof teavf cliff edges. Within a very short time or necessary in his judgment to give MRS. J. H. WATIRS, fmidtnt d such assistance. rock the and gravel MIRROR ROOM Managtn Nine other states, under 1917 stattopping this SUTTON HOLMAN and W. ROSS J. wants IYHY SATURDAY EVENING will be asphalted. utes, give the governor power to orIn a short time, when the 30.000- - ganize all of the states resources. CHICAGO. CREAM of ike WEST is the Answer anti-infecti- Kaj-she- k, Another Burma road casualty on one of the hundreds of hair-picurves along the route bringing war supplies to embattled Chinas capital in the interior. Since the road opened at least 1,300 trucks have been destroyed by rolling off precipices. This "off the road casualty is not as bad as some of them. Sometimes "off the road means a mere drop of something like 7,000 feet. n' only the possessions of the United States in the Pacific, but also those of the Dutch and British. The United States, way before the attack by the Japs, fully realized the great value of China as an ally. For over a year now the U. S. has been sending supplies over this road. And more recently she has been seeing to it that the frequent bombings by the Japs wouldnt go unchallenged, by having volunteer corps of U. S. aviators patrol the road, ready for a scrap at any time. Military authorities are not reticent in saying that this tortuous, grueling road may decide the battle of Asia now well under way. For without supplies going to General capital, China would soon be forced to drop out of the way possibly ask for terms with her hated enemy, Japan, who has been attempting to batter her into submission for at least five years. Literally the Burma road is the to China and her armies. e Except for the overland route from Soviet Union Turkestan, it is the only inlet for material which China Kai-she- life-lin- ks 1940-194- 1, " life-lin- - HOTEL sis hand-crushe- " highway-for-freedo- m I $2.00 to $4.00 |