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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1942)
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Red Communiques Admit Grave Peril As New Flank Attacks Harass Nazis; CIO President Proposes Peace Plan; Cargo Planes Get Qualified Approval Yh „Lv:*xn; R eleased by W estern New spaper Union Six Million Farmers Throughout VI. S. Producing World’s Largest Food Crop Vi ar Material Vital, hut Soldiers and Workers Must Get Nourishing Food Uncle Sam’s farm—the whole United States—will produce this year the biggest food crop in the world’s history! Harvesting of this planned production for the wrar effort has begun and the im mensity of it all is an all-time tribute to the American farmer. Off Uncle Sam's farm assembly line every minute of every day throughout 1942 are coming some thing like 108,000 quarts of milk. ALL FARM PAOOUCTS Take that swift-winging army Acr- onca plane up there. In its wings, tail and fuselage arc 650 square feet of cotton linen. Yea, Uncle Sam 's farm ers are turning out war crops this year. Corn and wheat, for example. Mest of it goes for feed and food, but some is used in making ethyl alco hol which in turn is employed in making explosives, synthetic rubber and other products. Peanuts and soybeans are used to make oil which replaces other oils employed in cooking, and releases them for use in nitro-glycerine ex plosives. Oil from soybeans and flaxseed is used in the paint und . varnish covering our ships and planes. Flax is a source of linen for parachute harnesses und rigging. ! Wool from our sheep makes uni guns turned out this year be de termined largely by the kind and amount of food our workers eat. 'tne newest type planes need high M ilk and Shipping In 1912 we are building 8 m il lion Ions of shipping—a trem en dous amount. Itut (he farmers of Minnesota and Iowa alone will produre more than 8 million tons of m ilk in 1912. octane gas no more than our war workers need highly nutritious foods. Metier Food Means More fiuns. Good food, in fact, can be trans lated more or less directly into guns. For example, the British minister of labor has said to our agricultural • Si»* * FOOD TOMATOES «0« CâlM iM One of Uncle Sam’s newest weapons for the arm ored force, the Ml tank, is shown on special demonstration at Fort Knox, Ky. Here the 28- ton tank plows through a barn to demonstrate its ability to negotiate obstacles. It has a 75-mm. cannon in a revolving turret and a completely welded hull. RUSSIA: Flank Tactics PEACE PLAN: For CIO-AFL SOYBEANS COVER CROR I ' 5YU SEEO While Moscow's official radio was A proposal that the Congress for telling the Germans in their own Industrial Organization and the language that the United States and American Federation of Labor “ ini- 10% TURPERTIWE < RO SIR Russia had come to their agreement { tiate discussions regarding possible on the creation of the second front establishment of organic unity” was in 1942, Soviet troops were busy with made by Philip Murray, CIO presi flank attacks on the Nazi forces all dent, in a letter to William Green, along the 300-mile Don river front. AFL chief. German drives had pushed far be Peace proposals between the two yond Rostov, toward the Caucasus, organizations have been discussed but the Russians were claiming that for several months as a step toward their new flank attacks were netting | speeding war production. In his peanuts w h to l it rM only comrtod.ty fo# o dxrffo»« it dturobl« • to% a terrific toll of Nazi tanks and men. letter, Murray proposed the estab At Voronezh, northern anchor of the lishment of a comm ittee composed American farm goals for 1942, showing increase over 1941 production. Don front, the Russians had been I of representatives of both organiza holding out doggedly while their col tions. with an im partial arbitrator, umns were being pushed back in the to settle all jurisdictional disputes 45,000 pounds of potatoes, 73,000 forms for soldiers and clothes for officials; “ Give us the m eat, eggs, pounds of beef, veal, pork and lard. civilians. Aviators’ jackets, pants, other sectors. and cheese, and we'll increase pro between the two groups. Think of it! EVERY MINUTE. If Germans in the homeland had helmets, and boots are lined with duction 15 to 20 per cent.” M urray named a committee of If you saw the U. S. navy riding been listening to the Russian radio three to discuss the problem of “or shearling sheep skins. In fact, the Again, an appalling loss of pro tell of the coming of the second ganic unity.” He named himself, m ajestically in a sea of mj.1«, average soldier uses 100 pounds of front, they heard too that their coun R. J. Thomas, president of the CIO chances are you'd call it a night wool a year, against an average of duction is suffered annually through sickness of workers. In 1941 more try w’ould be confronted with 15,000,- United Automobile Workers, and m are. But could be! Our farm ers 2Vi pounds for civilians. than 20 times as many man-days 000 men, 85,000 tanks, 100,000 guns, Julius Em spak, secretary of the this year are scheduled to produce were lost by sickness ns by strikes. But vital as are these m aterials for 57 billion quarts of milk—more than and 50,000 airplanes. But this was United Radio and Machine Workers our weapons of war, they arc much The most common sickness is the enough to float not only our navy brave talk for even the official Rus union. but every battleship, aircraft c a r less important than the food which ordinary cold, and the best preven sian communiques admitted the rier, cruiser, destroyer and subma nourishes our workers and sustains tive for it is a good diet. gravity of their nation’s peril. Most BEEF: So, it's the job of our farm ers to rine owned by the United States, our fighters. Food is one essential feared was a Nazi break-through in Two Varieties Britain, Russia and all the other without which no man can fight or keep our men fit—as fit as our m a the center of the Caucasus front. work. chines. It's their job to provide the In butchershops from the Bronx to United Nations combined. This would more than likely mean Bataan Proved It. vitamin A which helps fliers see at If you are good at mental pic that the so-far orderly Russian re Boise there was considerable beef Look at Bataan to see how night; the vitamin B which helps treat would stand a chance of being ing about beef. Beef was high Beef tures, maybe you can visualize 50 true that is. Look at Bataan to curb sea-sickness, nervousness and turned into a rout—a result that was hard to get. What was the billion eggs. That’s enough eggs see the importance of food. Ac to make a line reaching seven times digestive troubles; the vitamin C would be disastrous for the cause of trouble? cording to reports, mule meat which wards off scurvy, bad teeth, President Roosevelt told his press from the earth to the moon. the United Nations. and rice were all our forces had Or 22'2 billion pounds of m eat_ irritability, listlessness and pîngues Soviet officials' had other troubles, conference there were three main to eat from early February un which in the World war took a big too. There were reports out of the reasons for the current m eat short enough to pave seven four-lane high til the time of ultim ate surren ger toll of lives than bombs, bul Don valley that large rings of fifth age- (1) this is the off-season for ways an inch thick from New York der. We just couldn’t get through lets, shells and gas combined. columnists had been uncovered. beef; (2, people have more purchas to San Francisco—seven of them. to them with enough pork and Or 91 million acres of corn—an Yes, vitamins and good food are Many of the spies in these groups ing power now, with which to buy beef to do them any good. And war weapons. But to get them — were quickly executed as they were be« e r CUtS °f m eat: and (3) around area one-fifth larger than Italy and what happened? Our last coun and especially to get the right caught trying to co-operate with 4,000,000 men under arm s are now Sicily combined. ter-attack failed, not because of But why all this production of amounts of the right things—is a Nazi parachute troops who were eating much more m eat "than they bullets or bombs, but because of colossal task. dropping behind the Soviet main ever ate on their own dinner tables food and fiber? It isn’t a part of our sheer exhaustion. A shortage of a t home. victory plan to drown the Nazis in lines. That is why goals are just as food and sleep had drained out Meanwhile, through England and necessary for agriculture as they Meanwhile Agriculture Secretary milk or to bombard the Japs with almost the last dregs of vitality. the United States the cry was get Claude Wickard reported that there eggs and potatoes. are for plane or tank m anufactur Bataan fell only after its defend ting louder for military officials to may be some relief in the tem porary ers. We want a specific number of F arm ers Build Planes and Ships. ers no longer had the physical establish the much-discussed second beef shortage this fall when more fortresses, or medium bombers, or Well, food and fiber are not m ere strength to stand. front. From widely diversified cattle are brought in off the range. ly so many bags of wheat and so pursuit ships, or training planes. groups and sections came the urg But other sources looked with dis m any bales of cotton. They are Fly So, too, in agriculture, we want a That time, food worked for the ing. There was considerable agita favor on what effect this would have ing Fortresses and big battleships, enemy. Given the shipping, six mil specific amount ot pork, of beef, of tion for this move for many people on the normal spring beef m arket. like the Washington and the North lion American farm ers are deter milk, and all other farm products, feared the United Nations would suf Carolina; and aircraft carriers, like mined that from now on food shall f ortunately, our farm ers are ready fer a most severe blow should Rus G IAN T PLANES: the Wasp; and General Grant tanks; work for us. They know that today for the job. Eight months before sia fail to last the year on the Euro and workers in the factories and a tractor used in production of food Pearl Harbor they began turning From Shipyards pean side of the Ural mountains. brave men at the front. Those are is just as important as a tank on the '»“t war products requested by the There was a new answer to the the crops our farm ers are harvest battlefield. They know that what British for lend-lease shipment. ALEUTIANS: shipping problems of the United Na ing this year in 3,022 counties of the they do on their farm s is important. Three months before Pearl Harbor tions looming on the horizon. It United States. 10,000 Japs The number of planes, tanks and farm ers were fully organized on a* war-time basis. Breaking an official silence, a was an unofficial agreem ent from navy spokesman officially estim at the War Production board to give Farm Production Is Planned ed that the Japanese have succeeded the “ green light” to plans of Henry Production. in putting “not more than 10,000’’ K. Kaiser, West Coast shipbuilder, On April 3, 1941, Secretary of Ag troops into the Aleutian island area to build giant cargo and troop trans- riculture Wickard .called for a big port planes in nine of the nation’s and at the same time announced shipyards. expansion in the products which the there was no evidence that the British had just made known they First hitch to be overcome in the Pribilof island to the north had been would need under lend-lease; evapo suggested set-up was the granting of occupied by the Nipponese. rated and dry skim milk, cheese The statem ent came in answer to authority by m ilitary officials to re eggs and pork. And our farm ers lease engines and other parts need a report made by the Alaskan dele set out to see that neither our own gate to congress, Anthony J, ed m the building of aircraft for folks nor the British would run the arm y and navy. Dimond, that between 20,000 and short. 25,000 Jap troops were on the Aleu Donald Nelson, WPB head, ap During the summ er of 1941—still tians and that the Pribilofs had been peared to be willing to proceed with several months before Pearl H ar occupied. the plan if these m aterials could be b o r-th e departm ent of agriculture Questioned about Dimond’s re obtained without hampering the war went to work on a plan to get war ports, the spokesman said that “we effort. This came as a surprise as production goals for all farm prod believe that not more than 10,000 WPB first voiced skepticism on the ucts. The production goal idea had Japanese are in the Aleutians, prob plan. been used for years by Triple-A ably one-half ashore and one-half K aiser’s idea calls for the conver on basic crops, but it was a new afloat.” sion of three shipyards on each coast departure to apply it to all farm The Japs gained a foothold in the to produce 5,000 flying boats a year products It meant estim ating our Aleutians on June 3. So far, the The ships would bo of 100-ton del own needs, those of our Allies, the navy has confirmed the presence of sign fashioned after the 70-ton fly allowances necessary for food re- Japs only on three of the islands: ing boat Mars, now in active use fn r m S’ flnaUy thc abiÜty of Attu, Agattu and Kiska, at the west Support of Glenn Martin, Baltimore farm ers to produce. It m eant break- ern end of the chain. The Pribilofs bomber builder, Tom Girdler, steel stated° Wn Ith® natlonal S08’» into are in the Bering sea, and consist of magnate and all others with knowl v H Î y’ and finalIy int® ¡"di four islands: St. Paul, St. George, edge of production problems of vidual farm goals. It m eant the Otter and Waldrus. The latter two plane building would be sought ac fT l. a. a —A C A A Photo Threshing wheat in Bartholomew county, Indiana. This picture was contacting of practically every pro- are small and uninhabited. cording to Kaiser. tccmanb ï 3 Triple'A farm er commit- taken on the P erry Thompson farm at the height of activities.
