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Show THE RICH COUNTV REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH In Heart of Southwest Pacific Fight, Islands There Assume Strategic Role Dont let leaves and dirt pile up Potatoes that are to be French around exposed wood at the foun- fried should stand in cold water dation level of the house. It en- at least an hour before cooking. courages rot. Store mayonnaise in a cool but If the bottom of the scouring not too cold place in the refrigpowder can is dipped into hot par- erator. If chilled mayonnaise is affin it will not leave marks on apt to separate. bathroom fixtures. Here is a new way to use minceh When yon fire your furnace, meat. Spread a layer leave a section of glowing coal on of mincemeat on a sheet of rich top beside the new coal. It will biscuit dough. Roll it and quickly ignite the gases coming off the fit it into a greased loaf pan. Bake green coal, make it bum better, 30 minutes and serve with lemon . sauce. and give more heat. . one-inc- No. Z9371, 15 cents, gives accurate Cutting guide, color suggestions, yardage and directions. For this pattern send your order to; AUNT MARTHA Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Box 166-- Name Address 'T'HE new Lattice Fan quilt is blocks and composed of offers many possibilities for arrangement and combination of colors. One print may be used for the entire quilt, or an heirloom rich in tradition may be produced by using the many different print scraps which have accumulated 12-in- Lands of Allies in War Far-Flun- g Zone. As the Yanks, Aussies, Dutch subs, ships of war with crews alert, and transports of both the Allies and the Japanese. Here in the Celebes sea zone are also thousands of islands as in the On the west edge of Philippines. the sea is the largest island of the group. It contains Borneo, North Notice on Borneo, and Sarawak. the map how the westernmost tip of Borneo is on a direct east-weline with Singapore. The same sea that touches the western islands of the Philippines, the Sulu sea, touches the northern shores of North Bor- and British colonial troops battle fiercely with the Japs in the Pacific area, any news coining out from those various zones is eagerly awaited, and read. As a result, maps, atlases and neo. Important Historic Strait. almanacs having information on A short time ago you read about this Pacific war area, especially the blasting the Dutch and the the southwest Pacific, are being Americans gave the Japanese fleet well thumbed today. when it moved southweard through st The names and the locations of many of the places mentioned both in the newspapers and radio dispatches are unfamiliar, if not vague, to millions of Americans. Many of the hot spots in the southwest Pacific are almost hidden on the maps. They were formerly peaceful, slow moving little sections of the world where the weather was always warm and not inducive to hard work. Even radio commentators, and ace newsmen in the United States have been keeping their maps and reference books on the fighting area in the Pacific handy. For formerly such names as the Sulu Arthe Shan States . . . chipelago Sarawak . . . Banda and Celebes ... seas . . Marshall and Caroline islands were names, and seemingly nothing else, to them, too. someAlmost everyone knows thing about one or two of the more well known important war centers down there in the fighting zone. Such ones being Singapore, Manila, Darwin and Batavia. But to get a or comprehensive understanding as humanly possible workable of the location of the Allies idea g while thrusting and with their enemy, those interested in the southwest Pacific news reports are attempting to know more about the important centers of war activity and their locations to other centers. First in Importance. To U. S. war news readers, first in importance are the Philippines. These islands, not one or two big ones as some suppose, are over 7,000 in number. The Philippines were ceded to the United States after the war of 1898 with Spain. (It was Remember the Maine then, as it is now, Remember Pearl Hacounter-thrustin- - - rbor.) The importance of the Philippines in the war of the western and southwestern Pacific is seen in that the east coast of China is but a mere flying distance of only 600 miles. But Japan proper is northeast of these islands, 1,600 miles. To the southwest is Borneo and Sarawak. Directly south of the Philippines is Celebes. And New Guinea is to the southeast. These places are outlined on the map. v You can see, then, why the Japanese will have almost full control of that sector if the strategic Philippines is theirs. Sugar, hemp, minerals are the important exports from these islands. Mindanao and Luzon, the two largest, supply the most. South of the Philippines is the Celebes sea now full of prowling the Strait of Macassar. This strait is the one which separates the eastern coast of Borneo from the Celebes islands west coast. It is through this comparative very narrow neck of water that is afforded the most direct route from the Philippines in the north to the Java sea Dutch possessions in the south. It is the connecting link between the Celebes and the Java seas. Years ago the shrewd Dutch Netherlanders controlled trade between the Orient and Europe for over a century and a half by dominating shipping through the Macassar strait. Wien the British took Malaya, which is tipped at its southern end by Singapore, this domination by the Dutch was ended. Today, both of these nations are fighting side by side to stop the domination of another empire. The Celebes? Thats an island which you see on the map, located between Borneo and New Guinea. An interesting fact about this Celebes island is that it is bounded by four different seas. On its north is the Celebes sea, on the south is the Flores, on the west is the Java sea, and on the east, the Molucca. Like its companion islands down there, the exports from here are petroleum, copra, various minerals, hemp and spices. Now look at the map again. Note the island that is east by southeast from Celebes. This elongated island is New Guinea. Like Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Java, and the thousands of other smaller islands in this district. New Guinea belongs to the Dutch the Free Dutch. The western half of New Guinea belongs to the Dutch, but the eastern half belongs to the hard pressed British Colonial empire. Incidentally, this group of the Dutch West Indies islands (also called the Netherlands Indies) is the largest in the world. Someone has said that there is no doubt that natives living on the many inaccessible islands still Dont know theres a war going on. Practically the same exports come from this island that come from the others already mentioned. Now to move to another island, another Dutch possession. See on the map where it notes, Dutch East in heavy black printing? Indies, Directly above the word Indies is the island of Java. Batavia is the capitaL Batavia, and a further eastern section of Java, will go down in the war history of the southwest Pacific as being sectors in the heart and heat of the battle. Coffee has al-east-and-we- st ways been one of the important exports from this island. The expression, Cup of java is easily understandable, if not already fathomed, when Javas former export through the years. of excellent coffee bean is remembered. Because of the war, Americans dont expect to have a cup of real Java java when the present warehouse supply is gone. Across a short passage of water to the west of Java (another strait named Sunda) is the embattled island of the Dutch, called Sumatra. Thats the island you see on the map just below the word Singapore. An Island on the Equator. Sumatra itself is one of those cozy little islands 1,000-, miles long, about 250 miles wide- that sits astride the equator. To get an idea of how far south this island would be below the United States, one should remember that the equator which runs through Sumatra, also pierces Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil in South America. Of course, there is a difference in climate in the South American republics because of prevailing wind conditions, and ocean currents. In Sumatra the climate is hot and moist. Tropical diseases there are prevalent, and the eastern lowland is plagued by the often fatal malaria which strikes both the natives and Europeans. An important fact about the Dutch West Indies concerns the world-wid- e hold it has on the quinine market. For about 90 per cent of the worlds quinine obtained from the bark of the cinchona tree comes from the islands around the equator. When the United States saw trouble brewing in the Pacific, quinine was placed on the nations list of strategic Add Indigestion What many Doctors do lor It When excess stomach acid causes pas, sour stomach or heartburn, doctors prescribe the fastest-actin- g medicines known for symtoraatic relief medicines like those in Bell-an- s Tablets. No laxative. If your very first trial doesnt prove Bell-an- s better, return bottle to os and get double your money back, 86e Our Kingdom A good mind dom. Seneca. possesses a king- PMfttmv t w:n7ntrn, Qa GfHb Gtef) QL D00(g0u0(6) ATTENTION! Fanners COLORADO ANIMAL & Livestock Raisers BY-PRODUC- CO. TS "A Utah Corporation" SALT LAKE CITY With plants conveniently located at OGDEN SPANISH FORK GARLAND. HEBER CITY LOGAN AND ITS AFFILIATB COMPANIES IDAHO HIDE & TAUOW CO., Twin Falls, Idaho IDAHO FALLS ANIMAL PRODUCTS CO., Idaha Falls, Idaho IDAHO ANIMAL PRODUCTS CO., Nampa, Idaho Offer You Highest Price a tor SHEEP PELTS, HIDES, WOOL and RAW FURS Write 463 SOUTH THIRD WEST, SALT LAKE CITY . materials. Back in the Seventeenth century a dose of the powdered bark of the tree (called quina-quin- a by the na- tives, from whence comes the word quinine) cured the countess of Chinchon, wife of the viceroy of Peru, of the malarial fever. Not so long after that, the tree from which die quinine bark was obtained was named the cinchona (chincho-na- ) tree because an early scientist left out the first h in the word. It has been so spelled ever since. Northeastward, across the Malacca strait, on the western side of Sumatra is Malaya. Reports of war activity in Malaya coming to America by newspaper and radio have land in a placed this prominent spot, too. Singapore is the base that whowar-slash- ed soever controls it also controls all movements of ships in the Malacca strait between Malaya and Sumatra. Control also grants a very watchful eye on what goes on in the Dutch West Indies. Furthermore it gives a view of what is going on up in the land of India. Whoever Has Singapore. Singapore is at the southern tip, off the mainland of Malaya. North of Malaya is Thailand, now under the protection, so called, of Japan. The nation that fully controls both of these nations, also is well able to smash, or protect, India. Another angle which makes the control of these two nations important is that their control means either a protection or destruction of Chinas, Free Chinas, life line the Burma road. 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