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Show RANDOLPH. UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. IHE RICH COUNTY daw matter REAPED Cntered cs second Feb. 8, 1928 Aft of March 3. 1879. 8 (be Post Office, Randolph, Utah, nnder tb Wra. E. Marshall. Ilntiness Manager SUBSCRIPTION 31.50 Per Year in Advanei Layton Marshall. Editor and Proprietor Postwar Preparation Allied Columns Thrust Toward Industrial Belt in Rhineland ; U. S. Carries War to Philippines Released by Western Newspaper Union. they NOTE: When opinion areexpressedintheseeolamns oi in s Western Newspaper Unions news analysts and not necessarily (EDITOR-- of the war Taking full advantageaviation both time stimulus given in the development of equipment and transportation service, three for postwar major airlines planning 93 for super sky traffic placed orders comAircraft the Douglas ships with $50,- than pany at a cost of more 000,000. In filling the orders, Douglas will furnish DC4 ships carrying 44 pasof sengers and cargo with a speed DC-6- S and a minute, four miles accommodating 56 passengers anda cargo with a speed of five miles minute. Both planes are a developmilitary carment of Douglas .. r-- ) Ksirmr larly and Proper C-- 54 Marketing Urged go ship. and powered by the. planes motors, Whitney Wasp will cut coast to coast schedules to 8 hours, officials said, and reduce2 the Chicago to New York flight to hours and 40 minutes. Prompt Cattle Sale Four-engin- Urged as Necessity Farmers are urged to give some lonsideration to their cattle market-D-g plans for the remainder of the tear. Because of possible market jluts, M. P. Mitchell, at Purdue calls to their attention the 'ollowing points: 1. Low grade beef cattle may be lent to market soon, before western :attle begin to move in volume. This vould include cull aged cows of loth the beef and dairy types, graz-n- g cattle that are not to be grain ted nor kept for breeding, and, n some cases, surplus breeding lattle that are now on farms in exjess of the farms normal carrying :apacity. 2. Although beef cattle prices inder the controls now in force may lot behave normally, there are good reasons for expecting prices of most jrades of cattle, except the better uni-rersit- y, men dress Belgian pedestrians stand by as U. S. medical corps wounds of German soldiers caught in withering machine gun fire. EUROPE: Sight Rhineland Quickly catching their breath after their drive across France and Belgium, the valiant U. S. First and Third armies renewed their offensive against a reorganized enemy in a supreme effort to knock the Germans out of the war this year. While the Nazis regrouped behind their vaunted Siegfried line, or west wall, Lieut. Gen. Courtney Hodges First army and Lieut. Gen. George Pattons Third rolled forward again, with the formers strong armored forces thrusting against the fortress city of Aachen, gateway to the rich industrial Rhine valley to the northeast, with its great manufacturing centers of Cologne, Dusseldorf, Duisberg and Essen. As General Hodges troops gathered strength for their smash into the Rhineland, General Pattons men worked their-wabeyond the bitterly defended Moselle river, against the rich Saar coal and manu--' facturing country, which curves off sharply- to the east with the winding German border. To the south of General Pattons Third army, Lieut. Gen. Alexander Patchs Seventh drew up its ranks before the historic Belfort Gap, great open plain lying between the Vosges mountains and the Swiss border and leading into southern Germany. As the Seventh armyt with its complement of French troops smashed at the enemy here, it encountered stiffening resistance and heavy artillery fire from the hills Texas Steers for Market trades of grain fed cattle, to work lower levels. This is especially xue at the time that markets ;each a glutted condition, in late tummer and autumn. 3. Cattle now on grain feed jrobably will continue in a strong relative price position for the remainder of this year. However, costs )f gains in the feed lot are high relative to market values. There is, Jierefore, not a great deal of for feeders to hold such :attle for further price advances. 3rain fed cattle, because of their icarcity, undoubtedly will be less affected by market gluts than the plainer grades of cattle on the market. Grain fed cattle will continue m strong demand. :o Agriculture In the News Cotton Goes to War Approximately 11,000 different terns made of cotton are helping the U. S. army and navy fight. Cotton is used for gun camouflage and shelters, truck tarpaulins, munitions, all types of uniforms including ski and air suits, blankets, sleeping bags, parachutes for dropping supplies by air, tents, cord in tires for military vehicles, hammocks, ashing nets, helmet linings, plane g parts, gasoline tanks for planes, life rafts, and scores of oth-s- r items. A major part of the total national cotton production is currently going to equip Uncle self-sealin- Sams fighting men. Although some low grade cotton can be used, most of the article mentioned grade. re a high Reportj on production, supply and carry-ovindicate that the United States is producing more irjtton than is needed in grades below "middling, and needs to build up the production of the better grades. The cotton crop last year totaled er 11,478,000 bales from 21,874,000 acres with the yield averaging 252 pounds per acre. CROPS: Huge Harvest With August rains checking the serious deterioration of the crop in the drought area east of the Mississippi, the U. S. department of agriculture predicted a bumper corn harvest of 3,101,319,000 bushels for 1944, second largest on record. With the wheat crop set at an high of 1,115,402,000 bushels, all-ti- oats production at 1,190,540,000, barley at 290,036,000, soybeans at 179,- 024.000 and sorghums at 149,962,000, a total grain harvest of over bushels was predicted. Because of the bumper crops and reduced feeding, the live stock and poultry industry should find sufficient grain available throughout the coming months, the USDA declared. But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the snow falls in the river A moment white then melts forever -- burns. Odd People of Belgian Congo Are S Shaped The smallest known race in the of the world, the Belgian Congo, Africa, are only four and a half feet tall. They have an extremely protruding stomach, the back curving in so that the body takes the outline of an S. Very long arms and short legs, bent inward, and protruding lips add to the odd appearance of these people. PACIFIC: Homecoming Two and the Japanese years after the Philippines, U.S. naval forces under Admiral Chester one-ha-lf over-ra- n Nimitzs co- I mmand have come back to subject enemy installations on the islands to withering aerial nd PETROLEUM: Draw on Stocks With military requirements approximating 800,000 barrels daily out of total production of 2,000,000, there is little possibility of an easing in gas rationing until after the end of the European war, the Office of War Information declared. The tightness in the gasoline situation exists even though the output of crude oil for petroleum production has averaged an all-tihigh of 4,470,000 barrels daily, natural gas output has approximated 269,000 barrels daily, and imports are above the 1941 level. With demand outrunning supply, the- industry has been compelled to into reserve stocks at a rate of dip 2.500.000 barrels of crude OWI said, bringing holdingsmonthly to the lowest igyel since 1922. - os $ no-stri- ke Miners Meet While the biggest union in the the union John L. Lewis world was meeting in build to helped T E AVERAGE I E F A C T YEARLY INCOME IN 1939-194- 3 13,370 tT N M mart 'Tsrtfi-- s 0ttDt With the USDA reporting excellent crop prospects, prices on leading grain markets , dipped, with only wheat bearing up under purchases of the Commodity Credit corporation and information that the agency was interested in deferred shipments. ' That conscience approves of and attests such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Butler. Trifling troubles find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent. Seneca. Markets Dip enth armies smashed against Germanys western frontier in a quick move to end the war, British troops, and artillery worked their way slowly against bitfire. ter opposition through southeastern At the same Holland, where the enemy contesttime, marine and ed their advance in strength in an army assault effort to protect the far northern forces under flank of their Siegfried line, report--edl- y swept its weakest link. ashore on the Palau islands, 600 miles east of the Philippines, while Do or Die units under Gen. Douglas MacAr-thur- s As the reinforced U. S. Fifth and leadership invaded the MoBritish Eighth armies threw their luccas, 300 miles south of the Philfull strength at Germanys Gothic ippines, thus establishing a menacline in northern Italy, guarding the ing steel ring around the islands. rich agricultural and industrial valPresaging major ley of the Po, Nazi Field Marshal against the Philippines operations guarding the Albert Kesselring went all out in an enemys vital lines from the supply effort to hold his ground. Indies to the west, U. S. naval airWith his 19 divisions of roughly craft swept over the southern string 250,000 men outnumbered by the of islands, lashing at enemy planes Allied forces, Kesselring was placwhich had been carefully husbanded to resist U. S. advances. Big bating his chief reliance on the mountainous terrain, and other impro- tleships, riding with smaller cruisvised obstacles dotting the rugged ers and destroyers, raked enemy countryside, such as tank traps and shipping, using water routes to supburied tank gun nests, etc. ply the disconnected jumble of isU. S. officers looked to "tough lands. fighting ahead. With manpower always Russia's strategic military trump, the Reds were making full use of it on the eastern front, where four major actions were in progress against the Germans shortened, but strained, defense lines. In the north, the Reds were grinding their way forward against the enemys stiff East Prussian lines, and attacking heavily around Warsaw with armored columns that were drawing a steady stream of Germans into the fight. To the south, strong Russian forces held up about 100 miles from Germany proper, switched their attack to the mountain passes leading into Czechoslovakia, while deeper in the Balkans, the Reds were pressing on Hungarys Transylvanian wheat fields. the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. From the Arabian. Akka-Negrill- Predicting that the "Little Steel" wage formula limiting wartime pay increases to 15 per cent over Januto ary, 1941, levels would be altered meet labors complaint that living costs have soared far above the permitted boost, CIO Pres. Philip Murray joined United Automobile Workers union officials in pressing membership to maintain the nostrike pledge for the duration of the war against Germany. Although 3,801 votes were mustered against keeping the pledge at the UAWs convention at Grand Rapids, Mich., a majority of 6,463 favorably responded to the bigwigs plea to retain it. 6,000,-000,0- beyond. As the U. S. First, Third and Sev- Utilize Manpower POUR things come not back 1 ed NO STRIKES: UAW Keeps Pledge - quire Gems of Thought AIR TRAVEL: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS- - 1943 MKHAMCM WOKa 1939 1939 WMTt COUAI 1943 WOK SSoomed, we;goli,wood stars informed Powder. Inc, McKesson Grand Rapids, the United Mine Workers were holding their biennial convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. Here, in all of his glory, shaggy, portly John L., who seemed to have ridden out a rebellious movement for led by one of his in the union, railed district self-rul- e against the record of mine disaster victims as "butchery" and a "crying national shame. The time is Said Lewis: union will have to this when coming take stem action to abate this slaughter of our people. Were this war not on, I would be prone to recommend that the coal miners . . . stop coal mining for a -- time until we receive assurances from the operators of a greater degree of safety. Bridgeport. Meet in Quebec Although selection of a supreme commander for the Pacific and master overall plans for dealing a deathblow to the Japanese chiefly occupied the attention of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill at their second historic Quebec conference, postwar European problems also loomed importantly in tho discussions. Foreign Secretary Anthony Edens dramatic last-minu- te air- plane dash to Quebec following talks with the Polish government-in-exiles cabinet officials led to reports that the conferees went over Premier Stalin's claims to eastern Poland, and his suggestion that Poland be compensated for this loss of territory through annexation of German soil. Because of the eastern fronts pressing demands on his time, Premier Stalin regretted his inability to attend the discussions. ARMISTICE: Pattern Set Coon- - CAL0X SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT "... BIG TWO: well-man- y RUBBER Consumption of reclaimed rubber in the United States increased more than 50 per cent from 1940 to 1943. Reclaimed rubber may fre- quently be used in the manufacture of the ' same articles from . which it was reclaimed. 1943 gasoline and motor vehicle tax revenues combined accounted for nearly 30 per cent of the total state revenues. In Next year will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the use ef motor vehicles in the rural free delivery mail mail service. Rubber-tire- d cars had a bearing on the passing of the first federal aid highway law In 1916. REGoodrich IRSTii niru BBER x Armistice terms under which Romania agreed to pay Russia in goods, industrial equipment and foodstuffs in six years was considered to constitute a model for other dealings with enemy countries. Because of Romanian participation in the war against Germany under Russian command, however, the reparations payments reportedly were scaled down. 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