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Show t THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH wEEKLY BOLIVIA: Revolutionists In news analysis Congress Debates Discharge Payments To Veterans; House Considers Amount; Labor Studies, Rail Wage Settlement; 43 Food Production Tops All Records they are those of trniTftRS NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, of this newspaper.) Western Newspaper Unions news analysts and not necessarily Released by Western Newspaper Union. Never Again! Always peppery, South Americas politics took another sensational twist with a nationalist revolution in Bolivia, upsetting the government of Gen. Enrique Penaranda, and installing the administration of sociologist Paz Estenssoro, once locked up for activities. In Washington, D. C., U. S. officials were concerned with the development, since Bolivia now remains the Allies chief source of tin following the loss of Malaya and the Indies to the Japs. But as the smoke from the rifles and machine guns cleare'd in Bolivia, the new regime announced there would be no change in friendly relations or business with the Allies. Bolivia long has been in a stew over pro-Na- zi FEUD NORTH-SOUT- H IN CONGRESS WASHINGTON. Extraordinarily bitter attacks by Senator Joe Guffey upon his fellow Southern Democrats have raised curiosity as to what he is up to. Penarandas tactics, Guffey is an old huckster for the especially since troops broke up special New Deal line of goods, and One New Years resolution to strike demonstrations in the tin when he tries to tear up his own that diet! isnt going to be watch mines with gunfire. Democratic party without any apBut there At least not broken. parent cause, all politicos naturally are 364 more days to yet! time Only go. In 1925, a father took his suspect the left wing New Deal boys son on a railroad trip to Minne downtown, who usually furnish his will tell. sota on the Northwestern lines, not material, have decided on a new paying fare for him because of his course of action. small size. The personal bitterness of his atEighteen years later, the railroad tack on Senator Byrd and other got a letter with $31.60 enclosed. It Southerners is known to reflect the . . I am sorry we did not anguish of the White House New read: pay the (boys) fare then, and we Deal crowd at their inability to get are asking you to forgive us for that the soldier vote bill through conwrong . . . With compound interest, gress. our debt totals $31.60. They assumed the soldiers would il! vote for the commander-in-chie- f Among the events of historic sighanbe could of ballots collection Rail Union Heads Summoned to White House for conference on set- RUSSIA: the nificance which have taken place on dled under federal jurisdiction. Bui; January 1, one of the most beloved tlement of wage demands of railroad unions are, labor chieftains (left to Baltic Push M. Fraser, conductors; A. F. Whitney, now that it is to be handled by the to Americans occurred in 1776. right), T. C. Cashen, switchmen; H. were Nazis the as Even locomotive reportedly Deal Demotrainmen; Alyanley Johnston, engineers, and D. B. Robertson, states with It was then that Gen. George organizing 250,000 Estonians, Latvifiremen and enginemen. (See: Rail Strike.) in control of Washington raised over his camp at ans and Lithuanians for military crats or Republicans all states the blow is Cambridge, Mass., a flag which, alservice, the Red army pushed to- practically DISCHARGE PAY: RAIL STRIKE: than people outside the po- though it had the Union Jack in greater Baltic of borders these ward the tiny have litical trade appreciated. Vets the canton, had the 13 alternate red or states. Settlement Sought Com reason. is another But and white stripes, representing the there As the Russians reported that the Terms of a senate bill sent to the Declaring a railroad strike would will senate be 13 colonies. This flag was referred in the vets Nazis were shuttling troops' from ing up shortly be a serious blow to the conduct of rouse for approval would give bill an to in the correspondence of the day tax the bill; poll the war, President Roosevelt busied with 18 months or more service the Ukraine to the north to meet the is in the court a and as the American colors, and may Supreme offing, himself seeking settlement of a overseas since December 6, 1941, Reds latest drive, action on the decision on the white primary in safely be regarded as the first Amer1500 upon honorable discharge. Vets 1,200-mifront assumed the shape wage dispute involving 1,450,000 rail imminent. is Texas ican flag. Since the 13 colonies rep12 to 18 months abroad would reof a game of military chess. Preemployees who threatened to walk resented in the 13 stripes, although North the between war old 12 The ceive $400 and those less than viously, Nazi pressure on Russian out December 30 unless their deDemocratic within the fighting for their rights, had not yet South and reRed drawn Kiev had lines before months $300. mands were satisfied. to broken entirely away from the motha is coming up party, therefore, Vets serving within the continental inforcements to that area. First to threaten to strike were er country, the British Union Jack series of battles, and Guffey limits for 12 months or more would Threatened by the Reds surge in new the five operating brotherhoods of was retained to show their connechim are behind men the or rather $300, and those serving less than the north were the rail lines supplyget and firemen trainmen with tion switchmen, for it. England. Six months lat12 months $200. With approximately Nazi forces in the Leningrad re- laying the ground the ties which bound however, enginemen, engineers and conduct- a million men removed from the ing Severance of these er, reasonDont ask me to offer any would lines a $3 for asked gion. who were severed ors, originally by the Declaraable accounting as to why this is them cut off essential German communiand then the of a day raise, but balked when they tion Independence, merely will cations, forcing them to rely wholly so. The attacks on Byrd resulted in were awarded only a 4 cents per new banner a for need his on water more furnish political upon their Baltic sea routes, and a Union the with Jack; hour boost. As a compromise, FDR the away doing drive to the shores of these waters wheel in the South. The Southerners Then came the historic resolution of suggested payment of overtime to of intention no have surrendering, would make the Nazis positions alrail employees, who at present are June 14, 1777, the stars were placed and will block all action of the most untenable." not eligible for. such extra compensin the canton and the' flag of the and ation until they have passed 48 The charge that they are in an United States became the Stars SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: hours. Stripes. the with alliance Republi'unholy Next to join in the walkout threat Gird The War of 1812 saw another imJaps can Joe Pew is only remote political rail 15 were the place on New In an effort to further delay the banter. The basis of the Guffey portant event taking on January 1, was For it Years unions, following congress failure to day. U. S. drive westward to the heart charge is that the former Delaware their first made British act on their petition for an 8 cents the Austin that 1815, Bridces the chairman ci as Barkley of the Japanese empire, enemy Senator Townsend, a week and New on an hour raise, disapproved by the attack Orleans, December 6, dispatched increasing air strength the Republican senatorial campaign decisive the engageoccurred later solgovernments stabilization director enlisted ranks since the with worked Pacific South parto the area,: teomtnittee, against 1941, and 70,000 being discharged, who offered an alternate plan grantiment in which Old Hickory Jack-so- n ticular increases noted in the Mar- dier bill. cost would the to lower program boost so decisively defeated Paken-ham- s monthly, ng a 10 cents hourly , shall Islands. Townsend is more Du Pont than start. the at 4 cents $300,000,000 a veterans. hourly and paid employees With the Gilberts in our hands, Pew, and neither Rene Du Pont nor Bearing the name of Senator 1, 1822, the first AmerOn increase to the highest paid. January to northward cast and Allied eyes Pierre has closely with ican settlers arrived in Texas, an Barkley (Ky.), the bills pay- the strategic Marshalls, U. S. Lib- Pew. There is no evidence that they event which forecast the struggle for ment provisions were worked out by RATIONING: bombers initiated a heavy are in a working league on any suberator Senators Styles Bridges (N. H.),and a second war of independence in What U. S. Misses Most against the lat- ject, and probably may be against North Warren Austin (Vt.). The bill now bombing campaign America and the addition of detheir candito soften up each other on presidential With shortages of civilian goods in goes to the house, where there has ter islands, Southwest to the United Great the U. S. dates. wartime America, what do the peo- been agitation for even higher dis- fenses. At the same time,the On States. January 1, 1831, William big fliers continued assaulting But to fight the Democratic civil ple miss most? the Abolitionist, charge payments, with much sym- enemy supply center of Rabaul, on Garrison, war all over again once or twice Lloyd To get a straight answer, the govissue of the first the pathy for Representative William New Britain. published each year in the senate without reernments civilian requirements of Lemkes proposal giving vets $100 As U. S. bombers droned over sult, has enabled the Northern Demcanvass upon release from the services and fice made a these objectives to drop tons of ex- ocrats in the past to make special 1 in 120 counties, discovering that up to one years pay. plosives, the Japs sent up strong personal appeals to the votes of the butter; 2 meat; 3 sugar; and 4 waves of fighter planes to disrupt liberal groups in their own commuAGRICULTURE: soap topped the list. the attacks. Further, strings of con- - nities (CIO likes it). This strata5 canned were in Production 1943 Following order, voys were observed bringing up re- gem, however, seems to have outgoods; 6 fruits; 7 elastic tape; 8 4 1943 inforcements for strengthening was worn its effectiveness. Total food output for coal; 9 satisfactory hosiery; 10 the than previous cent The same old farce, therefore, larger per washtubs. Gregorian Calendar of 1582 harin a with grain slump year, likely is to be played through again Said OCR: The items which civilother products. without change in the plot or ending, First administrator of the AgUniversally Adopted. ians urgently need are for the most vests made up by one the corn and act bushels, At 3,076,159,000 ricultural but with Mr. Guffey in a leading Adjustment part fairly simple, calling for neidown from 3,131,518,000 in of the two men who laid the corrole that no one else seems to w&zA. ther elaborate processing nor for crop was Astronomers, geologists, and sciMcNary-Hauge- n to 836,298,000 declined for the nerstone wheat 1942; Earlestimate the age of the earth entists complicated component parts. bushels from 974,176,000, and oats farm biU, George N. Peek died FACTORS three or four bilUNDESIRABLE at approximately ier, OCR announced a 15 per cent of from to 1,143,867,000 bushels at 70. Formerly an executive IN SUBSIDY BATTLE boost in production of civilian goods dropped lion years. the Moline Plow company and 1,349,547,000. in the first The food subsidy fight seems to be However, the Egyptians were apquarter of 1944 over the was noted for & Co., Peek saw eye to Record Deere production offered are parently the first to figure out any alternatives The last three months of 1943. cooling. meats, milk, poultry and eggs, along eye with the then Secretary of both undesirable. The idea of pay- exact measurement of time. They peasoybeans, with peas, potatoes, Agriculture Henry Wallace on EUROPE: ing secret price increases out of the were astronomers, besides having nuts, rice. Gains also were regisprocessing taxes, but split with treasury of the United States in or- the Nile which overflowed pretty regloin Jugoslavs him on the crop reduction printered for nuts, hemp, snap beans, der to conceal them from the public ularly every 365 days. As a result, 12 peWhile U. S. and British troops ate carrots, lettuce and other commerciple. Always independent politis a policy which the administration they divided the 365 days into 1928 Peek left the GOP in to justify only on the riods of 30 days each and added the ically, deeper into the Nazis winter line-i- cial vegetables. has attempted to support the Democrats farm At 464,656,000 bushels, the 1943 southern Italy, the Jugoslav govgrounds of necessity of avoiding a remaining 5 days to the last period new a at was high. harvest ernment of Gen. Josip (Tito) Broz potato plank. greater evil wage increases and or months. Historians have accredmore direct price inflation. Some ited the Egyptian calendar as havjannounced that U. S., British and Winter Wheat Acreage iRussian officers had been added to commentators have attempted to de- ing been established some 4,000 a 25 per cent increase in CANADIAN OIL: his staff, and for scribe it as a tax on economic busi- years before the birth of Christ. on Despite plans agreed extension of the guerrilla campaign winter wheat seeding, indicated proness, but it is far more than that Now, the Babylonians, having no Project Defends Army who vs. the Germans. all duction for 1944 was set at 526,957,-00- 0 people is a It Nile to assist them in their calculalevy against The war departments less actaxes. bushels, or 2,649,000 bushels conin pay tions, fitted up a lunar calendar Pecking steadily at Nazi defenses dollar oil development project is not new wants Because 1943. a on snow-cla- d rye that observation higher to The the than opposition mountain slopes, Lieut. cording northwestern Canada was sharply Gen. Mark days Clarks Fifth army sidered a war crop, many farmers defended by the armys service sup- prices, which is likewise an un- moon appeared about every12 29moons desirable goal for the great majority and that the passage of worked its way around German po- reduced plantings. SomBrehon Gen. Lieut. ply chief, of the people who pay them. Because dry weather hampered brought the star clusters into the rtions guarding the long road leadwho declared that the venaftervell, to is continued truth the prevail and of you course, to reBut, same position again accompanied by comseeding ing Rome, 80 miles away, as 21.9 per cent ture not only fit into the high anyto prices are get higher a corresponding season of warmth. rewas er planting, as much as going also ports revealed the enemy be mands strategic plans, but bewheat without may subsidies, or crop winter with of the The resultant lunar calendar soon of a huge way Evacuating certain districts of the inand lower acreage sulted in the discovery dominant a controlling of cause Paternal City to abandoned, After barrels. mines. proved to be about 11 days short field of 100,000,000 plant eastern the petroleum situation pressing economic result. Only ner of the solar year, necessitating the yields may jsitff fighting on the Adriatic coast, To be completed by next March, toward that conclusion (the current addition of extra has been fabelt com the of days. sector will Bernard pen. Montgomerys Eighth the project, known as Canol, bill involves only the few Caesar detested inefficienJulius vored with good weather, but the a pending and of $rmy broke into the key town of miles 600 pipeline which subsidies are cy. So, he tackled the calendar and region, on include in the war to commodities on blocking the approach to the important greathasplains early Begun infrom refinery. suffered paid). being hand, called the Alexandrian scientist, Sohighway hub of Pescara further the other U. S. forces op- already supply not shown has reportedly administration The 'Orth. sufficient rainfall. sigenes, to his assistance. Sosigein the Alaskan theater with the in erating decline, compromising rye interest atsteady strong nes explained the differences beAnnouncement of Allied representCanol has been bitterly selded a fuel, to 4,992,000 even congressional though dropped matter, tween the solar and the lunar years. ation in General Brozs communist-jacke- d acreage other U. S. agencies. subtacked by North In is against obviously last year. As a result, the Julian calendar diPartisan army indicated from 5,805,000 One strong objection raised to majority Mobilizer War 59 per down continuance. were vided the year into 12 solar months fhat the U. S., Britain and Russia Dakota, plantings was that the U. S. will lose its sidy in defense Canol air cent on 25 the went Dakota per South the sum of which totaled 365 days conByrnes flight make an attempt at equipping cent, in field after the war, even with an extra day added every thres administration program 22 per cent. Increases rights to the of the he 250,000 Nebraska and Canadian guerrillas who form the trol reverting to the in the face of coming defeat. or four years. orce, but have been fighting Naz were recorded in the South, chiefly Mechanized troops with light arms. for pasture and roughage. high-hand- ed ld Many Historical Firsts Fall on New Years Day non-Ne- w anti-lynchi- le Guf-fcyit6- Si non-operati- ng Al-b- en door-to-do- or Egyptians First To Measure Time - 134-milli- Or-on-a, |