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Show KELLY-NASH: Team Broken Death came to Patrick ("Pat") Nash in his 81st year, breaking up th( rtnlifiral rombi- nation ol Kelly-Nash, Kelly-Nash, for 10 years the principal power o Illinois' Democratic Demo-cratic party. Chiefly through their close organization organiza-tion of 10 of Chicago's Chica-go's West Side wards, Kelly and Nash rnnlr! rarrv Cook county by 300,- Pat Nash 000 votes at every election. Although the late Gov. Henry Horner broke their hold on the state in 1936, he made peace with them in 1939, and since then their power lay unquestioned. Nash mixed politics with business. As he rose up the political ladder through 50 years, he kept his sewerage sewer-age business, at one time drawing 14 million dollars in contracts from the sanitary district. Boss of his party, it was Nash who chose former Sanitary District Engineer En-gineer E. J. Kelly to succeed Mayor Anton Cermak after the latter's death in 1933, thus creating the famous fa-mous Kelly-Nash combination. FARM: Higher Meat Goals Because stocks have outgrown feed supplies, the War Food administration admin-istration will call upon farmers to market three million head of cattle in 1944 which they might otherwise keep for milking, breeding or fattening. fat-tening. In all, the WFA will work for an increase of two billion pounds of meat over this year, to bring total production produc-tion to 30 billion pounds. But because be-cause military, lend-lease and other government agencies will ask for 25 per cent more meat next year, civilian civil-ian rations are not expected to be raised. Because of the feed situation, WFA will ask for a 17 per cent cut in hog production. Restrict Feed Sales In a further effort to bring meat production in line with feed supplies, sup-plies, the Commodity Credit corporation corpo-ration prohibited sale of its wheat stocks for feed for fattening hogs over 200 pounds or building cattle beyond fair to good finish. CCC also stipulated that feed mixers mix-ers purchasing CCC wheat must sell their product only for dairy cows and hens. With weekly wheat sales averaging averag-ing 10 million bushels, CCC stocks stood at 123,013,000 bushels. As of September 25, sales approximated 119,298,000 bushels. Of the 23,721,000 bushels of wheat purchased from Canada, CCC reported virtually all delivered. RUSSIA: Crack Dnieper Storming the Dnieper river at three points, Red troops cracked the Nazis' last strong natural defense line in Russia, and the enemy struggled strug-gled valiantly to check the new drive before it could gain momentum. Principal breach in the Dnieper front was 50 miles north of Kiev, where the Reds poured reinforcements reinforce-ments and supplies onto the west bank after gaining an initial foothold. foot-hold. The Nazis' problem was to keep the Russians from building up a force strong enough to drive forward for-ward and then swing back and take Kiev from the rear. In the north, the Reds recaptured the important rail junction of Nevel, a main artery leading to Leningrad from the south, with lines branching off into Poland to the west. MOSCOW: New Mission Whatever has been passing in the brain of Joseph Stalin might become t 1 f " known to U. S. and j British statesmen I when they gather in Moscow for confer- ences with the Russians Rus-sians on present and ! postwar questions. Mysterious Russia's Rus-sia's mysterious man has already laid claim to parts of Finland, all of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, eastern W. Averell Harriman Poland and sections of Rumania. Courted by Germany for an armistice, he has told the Germans they can have peace with him provided they chuck the Nazis. To hold Russia in the war against Germany, and yet work out means of satisfying her territorial demands without impairing U. S. and British interests, is the problem confronting confront-ing Allied statesmen. Leading the American delegation at the conference confer-ence will be Secretary of State Cor-del Cor-del Hull and the new U. S. ambassador ambas-sador to Russia, Banker W. Averell Harriman. EUROPE: Sufficient Food Germany's conquest of Europe early in World War II has assured her of sufficient food to carry on the conflict. At present, German rations are three times higher than they were at the close of the last war. . Besides being able to draw on all of Europe for food, Germany's own 1943 production was at top levels. Bread and cereal crops were said to be one-third higher this year than last. |