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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH rHE RICH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. YORK. A little more than year ago, on a cold' wet night, a transport was making ready. At the dock a parked car waited. When fJEW a ' Mrs. Patton Gives . the ship First U. S. Landings on Gilbert Islands Reveal New Strategy in Jap Campaign; Diplomacy Claims European Spotlight; Chinese Battle for Provincial Capital they Me those of (EDITORS NOTE! When opinions ore expressed in these columns, of this newspaper.) Western Newspaper Unions news analysts and not necessarily Raieauii hv Western Newspaper Union. slipped at 3 And Follows Her Own Prescription away a- - m- - car was still there, the last thing George S. Patton Jr., the commanding general, saw as he left for a secret rendezvous in Africa. His wife, he knew, ' waited inside the car. Now Mrs. Patton broadcasts over short wave to the women of France, announcing herself as the wife of a man in the i service. She has earned laurels at that job since the day in 1940 when Boston socialite Beatrice Ayer, of the American Woolen company Ayers, married a hell- young cavalry lieutenant. Beatrice Ayer Patton likes the army. In no other career except the ministry, she says, can a wife ! for-leath- er bright-eye- d roaring general used to give his men 'those famous pep talks, she listened on the sidelines to report reactions. At dinner parties she sometimes reads aloud from the poems the general so surprisingly writes. She herself had authored a g novel, Blood of the Sharks, and a volume of Hawaiian legends. She, and the general like to cruise in their schooner the If and When. They like to ride; their old farm-- ' house at Hamilton, Mass., is full of horse show ribbons. One son is in West Point; two daughters are married into the army. Mrs. Patton advises army wives not to listen to rumors, to write cheerful letters and to keep busy with war work. best-sellin- A USTRALIANS, grumbling cheer-full- y under their wartime scarcities, often turn a critical eye toward distant Scotland. Scotland gave them John Johnstone Ded-ma- n and Dedman has given them so many broad Scotch Nos they wonder how he can have any left. Dedman is minister for war organization of industry. More than any other of Prime Minister Curtins aids, he has nailed down the commonwealths ausBut he has terity program. also managed to preserve the fabric of civilian industry. And this is true even though he has reduced all industry, eliminated many plants and put enough Australians to equal 14,000,000 Americans on a population basis into direct war work. When the First World war started, Dedman was studying at Edinburg university, and figured to teach enHe got to Gallipoli, gineering. Egypt, Iraq, India, France, was wounded, invented a rifle grenade, won a captaincy, and afterward shipped to Australia figuring to be a farmer. But shortly he was in politics up to his neck. He organized the milk producers of Victoria, became a leading Laborite and a member of parliament. Nowadays, to help in his tough job, he studies economics at Melbourne university, keeps healthy by rowing, walking and riding. non-essenti- al i 'T'HOSE Russian divojee rules, though tempered, do not bring out the Darby and Joan in every pair, but the Litvinoffs keep ably togeth- - Many HaveTched But the Litvinoffs Remain Together er no mat ter where they ride on the Soviets There she goes, diplomatic out of warm Washington, to rejoin her Maxim in Moscow which this winter is certain to be colder than a January The trip is necessary because of his unexpected transfer from the red plush embassy back into the foreign ministry. When Ivy Low married, her London friends were full of tch! tch! tchs! Her father and a couple of titled uncles were good journalists ; her mother, too, had a name as a writer. Moreover there was a cousin destined to marry Anthony Eden, no less. But Litvinoff was a refugee from the czars beagles, no more. That was in 1916. In 1929 his friends were tch! tch! tching! He was then, as now, a Red sachem. She was suspected of .bourgeois taints. His adherents told him to cast off. But he only turned his diplosee-sa- corn-shoc- k. hard-presse- d matic ear. OIL: it is to stroll tkrouqk life Hov nice litk time To capitalize on the 17,000,000 barrels of oil and gas underlying the Gilberts -- Landing under cover of the booming guns of American warships, Cerritos channel between Los Ana geles and Long Beach, Calif., the U. S. army and marine forces swarmed ashore on Tarawa, Makin and S. government invited private opU. amid stiff in the fighting, in the Gilbert islands and pushed back Japs erators to submit bids for leasing coconut palms and jungle brush. to develop the properties. Midway between Hawaii and Australia, the Gilberts lie astride U. S. privileges Besides obtaining a bonus for use communication lines to the South Pacific area. Consisting of numerous islets, Tarawa, Makin and Apamama are fronted on their western sides with sunken of the land, the U. S. will also rereefs, sandsplits and coral patches; but on the east, ships can approach within ceive a royalty of 16 per cent on e or mile from shore. a production from the area. Under As U. S. forces poured ashore, Japanese artillery sought to break up terms, 10 wells must be drilled to and landing formations. On the islets themselves, Jap machine gunners operated production within 12 months, delivfrom pill box defenses hidden in the dense foliage against advancing U. S. six more within 18 months of ery of the lease. infantry. Highest bonus ever paid for drilloil on federal lands was $1,407,-50- 0 MEDITERRANEAN: ing DADS DRAFT: for 262 acres in the Elk basin Slowed Again Turkey in Picture field in Wyoming. To President Roosevelts desk for As the Allied attack slowed before bill the Nazis strong mountain line some U. S. PAYROLL: signature went a senate-hous- e which would put all fathers in the 85 miles south of Rome, attention in Lop Off 131,058 U. S. at the bottom of the draft list the Mediterranean area was focused During the period from June to by requiring the induction of all on the diplomatic front, where Turof this year, 131,058 emSeptember key maintained its delicate relations eligible single men first. were lopped ployees Approved by voice votes of both with both sides. off federal the paylegislative chambers, the bill also Following conversations between roll, Senator Harry would abolish the present practice of representatives of the two govern- F. Byrd, Va., redrafting men according to their em- ments in Cairo, Turkey reaffirmed vealed as chairman ployment in essential and her military alliance with Great of the joint economy industry classifications set up Britain, calling on either nation to committee. This left by the War Manpower commission. help the other in case of attack in The bill provides for the review the Mediterranean area. Turkeys 2,964,405 still at work for Uncle Sam. of any occupational deferments by, entrance into the war would give the The total disthe appeals board within the district Allies a stepping stone into eastern amounted where the person works, and would Greece and eliminate complex sea charged to but the 157,997, establish a special medical com- operations against the country, but mission to study the possibility of the question appeared to be whether figure was brought down by the navys lowering physical standards of the the wily Turks would consider an employment of services. Allied offensive as a protection of new workers, their interests, putting the alliance and an increase of Senator WHEAT: into effect. 7,920 in the post of-Byrd Harry Loan Stocks Down In Jugoslavia, guerrillas continued fices personnel. The war department trimmed its Through the second week of No- vexing operations against German vember, 117,677,380 bushels of 1943 communication lines and industries payroll by 139,968; the War Manwheat were under government loan, supplying the Nazis with war ma- power commission by 11,931; the Panama canal by 3,548, and the agas the feed situation remained tight terials. On the Continent, 1,000 RAF heavy riculture department by 2,550. with many areas in the corn belt unable to produce sufficient stocks. bombers struck at Berlin, firing The loan figures compared with every section of the German capital RUSSIA: of 5,000,000, and disrupting gas, Nazis Hit Back 312,884,567 bushels held by the government at the same time last year. electricity and street car facilities. Duplicating their tactics used at Of the current stocks, 37,339,271 Kharkov last winter, the Nazis bushels were on farms. With mar- CHINA: struck at the Reds extended posiket prices at practically all termiAttack tions at the important rail junction nals favorable for redemption, more Japs Toward Hunan provinces capital of Zhitomir and hurled them back than 2 million bushels of 1943 loans 20 miles to the east in heavy fighting. of Changsha, two columns of a Japhave been liquidated. s As Field Marshal Fritz von To counter the tight feed situaanese force of 80,000 men launched 150,000 Nazi troops attacked tion, an Iowa State college bulletin a determined attack, making prognear Zhitomir, the Russ sought to suggested marketing pigs at 200 to ress in early fighting. 220 pounds this fall instead of 270 The attack marked the Japs ease pressure on their lines in this pounds to assure maintenance of hog fourth major effort to take Chang- sector by intensifying their drive to numbers next spring. sha, the other campaigns failing the north near Gomel, within 100 when wily Chinese commanders miles of the old Polish border. INDEPENDENCE: struck at the enemys extended lines. As the Nazi forces held fast to the i This time, however, the Japs iron and manganese centers of For Lebanon, Syria Rog and Nikopol in the south, Under League of Nations mandate, made every attempt to bull their Reds probed the enemys lines France was entrusted with supervi- way through, massing men and ma- the on side of these strongholds, either to and bombers terial smash using sion over the small an in to find a weak spot effort Chinese at defensive positions. Lebacountries of To counter the Jap attack, the for a non and Syria, to Chinese sprung a drive through the Fighting Russian units on the east the north of the mountains to the rear of the fight- coast, the Nazis clung to the Crimea, Holy Land. ing, designed to relieve pressure on which dominates the Black sea. When Gen. Charles their main front. de Gaulles Free WAR LOAN: French took over WAR PRODUCTION: these territories in To Begin 4th Drive 1941 with i British Experience Counts With the third war loan drive well aid, they promised over Because of its goal of 15 billion dollars, better management, their people they greater effort by labor and more the U. S. treasury announced plans would grant them trained workers, U. S. arms output for a fourth drive beginning JanuBut independence. in October registered its biggest ary 18. t when the Lebanese gain since last April, the War Pro14 the billion took matters into dollar goal Although duction board said. of the new drive is below the last their own hands reStimulated by its experience, U. S. mark, individual investors will be cently and revised their constitution to industry can now be expected to asked to contribute 5 billion dolfunction at peak efficiency, WPB de- lars, more than they were requested accomplish their freedom, the Free Frenchs resident clared, with this efficiency mostly to do during the third campaign. To meet investment requirements, supervisor disbanded the govern- accounting for increases in producment and placed the president and tion, since a limit has been practical- savings deposit departments of comly reached on material and man- mercial banks will be allowed to purpremier under arrest. Rioting ensued, and to Lebanons power. chase limited quantities of a 2 per ancient capital of Beirut flew Free October, WPB said, stress cent issue maturing in 1970, and a. During Gen. was laid on output of aircraft, which 2 per cent Frances No. 1 security due in 1959. Georges Catroux. Lebanons off- showed a 10 per cent increase over To sell as securities as posmany icials were released, and not only September; ships, up 5 per cent; sible with current purchasing powbut also was told 11 Lebanon, Syria, ammunition, up per cent, and er, the government will ask banks to that Free France would enter into communications equipment, includ- refrain from loaning money for negotiations for their independence. ing radar, up 9 per cent. speculative purchases. Apa-mam- To $etker people e.s we o And revoke choice bouquet' of Friends. RntcwH. WNU Features. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT INSURANCE LOWEST COST PROTECTION FOR THOSE YOU LOVE $1,000.00 LH Insurance now costing only $ & year. Pays full amount in cash to your loved ones "when something happens to you." Largest com Over $40,000,000.00 Insurance now pany of its kind. 48,000 over families. Open to men and protecting women 10 to 65 in good health. Write for complete information and FREE application form LIFE ASSOCIATION Mitehdl, S. 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