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Illinois Valley News, Thursday, July 12, 1945 Jap Suicide Planes Cause Tremendous Dam age <T íWW the /N ews ?^ P M By aul allon ji? Released bv Western Newspaper Union. -l' €) DREW PEARSON Season for Winter Cover Crops Nears WAR'S GREATEST SAGA When the final history of the war is told, one of its greatest chapters will describe that branch of the serv ice totally new to war—the Air Transport command. Transporting ’prime ministers and presidents, i wounded men, jeeps and Pat Hur ley’s Cadillac over oceans and des erts has now become commonplace news to the American public. But behind that commonplace news is a ' thrilling story of painstaking, back- : breaking pioneering. Here are some things few people know about the Air Transport com- : mand: LABOR LEGISLATION 1 OBI I I* Bl - I HlKI I WASHINGTON. — A fair-trade practices bill for labor iRichberg) is supposed to lie around congress until the coming expected wave of union strikes generates an irresisti ble demand for its adoption—then it, or something like it. is passed. This, indeed, is the sotto voce program. Such delay may sound like a back end way to handle an expected na- crisis, be- tional Most used air route in the cause the bill pro world Is not between Washing poses to avert the ton and New York, not between ít strikes by providing New York and Chicago, but over machinery for just "The llump" between China and settlements, not on- India. . . . Traffic over this 1 ly in the public in world's highest mountain range, terest, but in the the Himalayas, is so heavy that long range interest planes travel at different alti The U. 8. Carrier Bunker Hill, hit twice by Japanese suicide planes within 30 seconds, shows the ef of the unions. Yet tudes so there will be no colli fectiveness of the newest campaign of Japs against our battle fleet. Nearly 100 men were reported killed you can see what is sions. One plane will have or or missing and 261 wounded on the USS Bunker Hill. Upper left, shows one of holes caused by bomb. Low beginning to happen ders to fly at 22,000 feet, another er left, planes after fire swept the deck. Upper right, Capt. G. A. Seitz, right, and Comdr. Howell J. Dyson, to the legislation in at 23,000, and so on. Three or of the Bunker Hill. Lower right shows photographs of the ship while fire was still raging. the probable ab- four different air routes are used sence of Alabama's across the Hump, also to avoid Senator Lister Hill from the list of collisions. sponsors. This was supposed to be a four- Next most heavily used air route senator bill, introduced by two Dem is across the North Atlantic. The ocrats and two Republicans; in fact, ATC sends a plane across the At- the same ones who sponsored the lantic every 58 seconds. That's about declaration of senatorial peace as fast as traffic moves on the Penn principk B;4I. Burton. Hatch and sylvania railroad between New York Hill. But on this bill. Hill says he and Philadelphia, busiest rail line in was "just too busy" to fill out the the world. . . . The ATC is now fly B2H2 leadership, so it became B2H1 ing returning troops across the At Most people think the real reason is lantic at a rate of 50.000 per that the CIO was instrumental in month. . . . For years, ATC pilots Hill's recent re-election. have been briefed on how to land The "too busy" treatment is like on the difficult airports of Green Now the ly to be applied generally to the pro land, Iceland or China. posal, because nothing in its an ATC has the tremendous thrill of nounced purposes can very well be briefing pilots on arriving at home openly opposed by the unions, or ports—Boston, Portland, Long Is- land. . . . Pilots say that no briefing anyone. was ever more welcome. Basically, the bill would re From Battle Fronts. quire lhe arbitrary unions to moderate their ‘‘public - lie- More than 220,000 wounded men damned" policy. Disruptions of have been carried in ATC planes public service, Nuch as in the away from the battle front. Dur Fifth avenue bus slowdown in ing the early stages of Okinawa New York recently, where the fighting, planes swooped down on drivers just decided to run an makeshift runways, taxied up to am hour or so late, as well as strikes bulances, took off right under the in public utilities, milk deliv noses of Jap guns. Stretchers were eries, etc., would be prevented loaded aboard while the planes re by judicial compulsory arbitra fueled. . . . One big ATC job has tion been getting crashed fliers out of This is in the sound interest of the the Himalayas. Amazing fact is that unions, because all now are suffer 75 per cent are saved. ... Lt Gen. ing from the conspicuous public-be- Harold George, boss of the ATC. realized in advance that crashes damned policy of a few unions President Truman, center, shown speaking to the United Nations delegates at their first meeting after The bill was not written by manu would be heavy over the Hump, so the charter had been signed. Upper left, former Secretary of State Edward R. Stcttinius as he signed the facturers or employers, but by an men were given special training on official charter for the United States. He w ill represent the United States in the permanent organization. Up old union lawyer, Donald Richberg, how to live in the jungles. They per right. V. K. Wellington Koo, minister of foreign affairs for China, was the first of the representatives who composed the most successful were even taken to jungle outposts of 30 nations at the conference to sign charter. labor law ever enacted, the Rail to get familiar with the jungle be way Labor act. Under it the rail fore they hopped. . . . Every plane way brotherhoods have prospered flying the Hump has a small tin better than other labor unions, and chest «with its own parachute) con taining medicine, snake-bite, anti without strikes. Tlie senatorial sponsors are not dote. water purifier, concentrated anti-labor people either, but some- food, signal flares, mirrors, mosqui what left-leaning The way they de to nets. etc. This chest is kept near scribed their generai purposes is the plane's door, It the crew has to jump, the chest is kicked out be- this: fore the last man leaves the plane, ONE BOARD PLAN ... In die jungle, crews are taught They would break up the competi to stay where they are until sighted tive handling of labor through vari by rescue planes which signal in ous government agencies now. and structions as to where they can be put all conciliation and mediation picked up. . . . Natives are usually activities in a new five-man board. friendly and the chances of getting A second board of three would rescued from the jungle are far bet handle complaints of unfair prac ter than if a flier drops over the des tices by labor or employer, not just ert or in the sea. labor alone, as now. Japs khot Down Many. The Wagner act would be fur The Japs shot down many ATC tlier amended tn make unions planes early in the war by painting democratic and to limit the I their DC-4s with U S insignia. . . . closed shop to places where lhe Flying up close, the Japs waited union controls at least 75 per until they had perfect targets, then cent of the workers and is open fired. . . . U. S. planes had to be to all members, and thus is not repainted in itself a closed shop handing employment down front genera Before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt tion to generation in its own ordered special fighter planes ranks, or otherwise limiting rushed to the British in Egypt where workers' rights. Rommel had General Montgomery’s back to the wall. . . . However, fight Further logical limita er planes couldn't make the long cut down the number trek across Africa without refueling strikes now expanding i After four years away from big and there was no airport in the heart try. The Prop Spinners held their sixth annual Northeastern champion league baseball diamonds. Hank of the continent. . . . One day an Labor could stop all I American engineer was dropped off ship event for gas-powered model airplanes at Hicksville, L. I., N. Y., Greenberg, twice selected as Amer opposition arising »gains i plane almoat In the canter ct Af and both the junior and senior class contestants were out in all their ica's outstanding baseball player, states where laws or c< rica, in French territory not far I glory. Above is a general view during one of the events. A contestant returns to the Detroit Tigers of the changes are being ad American league. from the Sudan, He had his pockets . launches his plane. Others prepare their craft for a record flight. enacted, to protect pul stuffed with money, , and his head) against the unions, if the) stuffed with ideas That was about. the mild and reasonable purr all. He also had instructions to this bill, or alter them to s build an airport. . . . Six weeks later situation. If they would s the ATC came back and he had a word to senators like Hill, i 4 3iX)-foot -odded runway, in fairly would go through in u minuti good shape. He had drafted most Unfortunately too many of the camels and most of the na leaders now are shortsighted tives in that part of Africa and paid tionaries who want to defc them plenty to do the job. Fighter status quo and prevent any planes immediately began crossing of existing unsatisfactory con to the Egyptian front and the Brit- So It is quite possible c< ish army staged its comeback. . . . will not only wait until the Today the French are making diplo ns away but the wt matic inquiries as to this airport i burns down, before apparently with a view to taking it ev to lock the door. over J) w * United Nations Delegates Sign Charter r o Model Airplane Fans Compete Tiger Hank Returns If by »ul gin g w I ate st I .1 I n is OU er erw sed to be a leaders r other humans seem un able to realize that power lasti only as long as it is wisely used Those who read this column week ly on the legal power built up by the Black faction of the Supreme court for unions to fix prices, re alize the trend of this faction. Fifty Million Letters. ifty million letters were flown by ATC to Europe in April This < load has now dropped off due ■oop transfers out of Europe, but ATC has been the largest mail ter In history. . . Also it runs world's largest hotel chain. It be prepared to handle l.Oul a night at Natal. Brazil, also them. ATC hotels are scat- all over the world to handle ing and combat pilots. . , . the weather is bad. hotel ties overflow. Winter cover crops are among the busiest workers on American farms. Beginning about September 1, they provide feed for livestock, hold the soil against erosion, aid land to absorb moisture, and when turned under in the spring, increase the soil's supply of essential ele ments. Government reports show that the planting of cover crops is especial ly important in the east centra! and southern states. The south, within a single decade, increased its acre age under cover from a few hundred thousand to several million acres. There is still room for more cover crops, however. Postwar farming profits, as well as production of food, fiber and oil crops essential to victory in the Pacific, depend to no small degree upon the added fertility, reduced erosion and increased production of cash crops derived from the use of a winter cover for the soil. That means more winter legumes such as Austrian winter pea. hairy vetch, smooth vetch, crimson clover bur- Plowing Under Cover Crop clover and sour-clover, and more ryegrass, alfalfa, kudzu and les pedeza. While rotations of crops depend upon climate, location and type of soil, once a farm has a well-planned cover crop program, the benefits will make themselves increasingly felt. Nutrition Knowledge Cuts Loss of Calves Farmers would lose fewer calves if they had a better understanding of a few simple principles of calf nutrition, according to a report of the American Veterinary Medical association. * In the field of minerals, sait, iodine, calcium and phosphoius are the ones to be watched most care- fully. Salt and iodine deficiencies can be prevented by including 1 per cent of iodized salt in the grain mixture, and offering iodized salt free-choice. Calcium and phosphorus deficiencies can be avoided by in cluding 1 per cent of calcium and phosphorus supplements in the grain mixture. If whole or skim milk is fed at the rate of 12 pounds per day, no calcium or phosphor us is needed. Beef and Dairy Cows Selected for Type While it is essential that the characteristics of the breed be un derstood, the temperament, capa city. mammary system, health. Little, but Oh. Mv! Benes Reviews Lidice Troops MV Wider Use of Soil Improvements Sought Tbe body lorm of the dairy cow should be wedge-shaped while that of the beef animal is rectangular, as shown. breed record as well as market de mands, must play an Important part in selection of beef or dairy cattle. Generally the dairy cow will have a good type if she is much wider in the hooks or pinbones and narrow down to a sharp, fine point at the withers or top of her shoulders. Produce Quality Hay Men of the new Csech army present arms as they are reviewed by President Eduard Benes of Csechoslovakla on the site of the town of I idler which was leveled by the Germans in 1!M2 in retaliation for the slaying of llrinhard Heydrich, near Prague. The review followed a memorial service for the thousands of victims of Nasi fanaticism. I I Quite cute are these three-day-old skunks when they arrive in New York and are admired by their new fan. Give them a few months and they will be given a wide berth. Tests conducted at the Wyoming experiment station indicates that the maximum yield of digestible nu trients of hay is dependent upon the stage at which hay is cut. Alfalfa should be cut when one-tenth in bloom. Timothy and grass hays should be cut «hen the plant Is in lull bloom. Leaves or glass or al falfa hay carry the heaviest portion of nutrients, so every attempt should be made to harvest bay when it will retain the leaves. 9 e