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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
Enlist Farm Cooperation

with every available agency to keep
shortages from holding production.
Most of the goals were set higher
than production had ever been be-
fore. Only few were lower. Wheat,
for example, was down IL per cent
from the 1941 level because there
was already a two-year supply of
wheat on hand. We couldn't afford
to use land, labor, and materials for
a crop that isn't needed, any more
than we can now afford to build
pleasure cars and luxury gadgets.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
Triple-A Committeeman

Even while Japanese bombs were
exploding on Hickam Field and
spreading ruin over Hawaii and the
Philippines, Triple-A committeeman
were covering the country enlisting
farmer co-operation-voluntary CO.
operation.
There were shortages to contend
with-shortages of labor, shortages
of machinery and equipment, short
ages of burlap, baling wire, and doz-
ems of other supplies. The state
and county war boards have worked
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
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Washington, d. C.
WAGE STERILIZATION

WAGE SIAb1LlLAllON
You can write it down that the
President will use his executive
powers to keep wages in check
rather than ask congress for any
new legislation dealing with wage
sterilization.
There are two reasons for this:
(1) Wage control legislation would
be sure to stir up another bitter
congressional controversy, as bad
or worse than the brawl over farm
parity prices. 1t might even re-
quire months to get both houses to
administration.
(2) The President believes that the
policy proposed by the War Labor
boards recent steel wage decision
limiting wage increases to ID per
cent over scales prevailing on Janu-
. airy l, 1941-plus additional ration
ing of consumer goods, will be suf-
ficient for the time being to brake
imitation threats to the working
mans pocketbook.
lIlSluG ldCI Is lIldI llle w al AdOOA
board is contemplating only one fur
Their step in it's wage sterilization
program, and this is not so much
an anti-infation move as a conceS-
sion to certain labor groups and
contribution to the prosecution Of
the war.
Wages in certain industries, in
Guiding shipyards and tool-and-die
plants, are above the Is per cent in
crease ceiling set by the board. This
raises the question-shall wages in
these industries be brought down to
conform with scales in other war
plants which pay below the ceiling?
The answer is-there will be no
reduction in wages. The President
has decided definitely against this.
Instead, to prevent piracy and mi
grafton of workers away from vital
war plants paying below the Is per
cent ceiling, the War Labor board
is planning to amend its wage policy
to permit the payment of ''premi-
UNI wages" (above the ceiling) in
such plants.
Note: One industry sure to be al
lowed premium wages" is aircraft,
which has lost many workmen, by
piracy and migration, to higher-pay-
ing shipyards.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13

officials: "Give us the meat, eggs,
and cheese, and we'll increase pro-
duction Is to 20 per cent
Again, an appalling loss of pro-
duction is suffered annually through
sickness of workers. In 1941 more
than 20 times as many man-days
were lost by sickness as by strikes.
The most common sickness is the
ordinary cold, and the best preven-
tive for it is good diet.
So, it's the job of our farmers to
keep our men fit-as fit as our ma
chimes. It's their job to provide the
vitamin A which helps fliers see at
night; the vitanin B which helps
curb sea-sickness, nervousness and
digestive troubles; the vitamin G
which wards off scurvy, bad teeth,
irritability, listlessness and plaques
which in the World war took big
ger toll of lives than bombs, bull
let's, shells and gas combined.
Yes, vitamins and good food are
war weapons. But to get them
and especially to get the right
amounts of the right things-is
colossal task
That is why goals are just as
necessary for agriculture as they
are for plane or tank manufacture
ers. We want a specific number of
fortresses, or medium bonbers, or
pursuit ships, or training planes.
So, too, in agriculture, we want a
specific amount of pork, of beef, of
milk, and all other farm products.
Fortunately, our farmers are ready
for the job. Eight months before
Pearl Harbor they began turning
out war products requested by the
British for lend-lease shipment.
Three months before Pearl Harbor,
farmers were fully organized on a
wartime basis.
Farm Production Is Planned
Production.
On April 5, 1941, Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wickard called for big
expansion in the products which the
British had just made known they
would need under lend-lease: evapo-
rated and dry skim milk, cheese,
eggs and pork. And our farmers
set out to see that neither our own
folks nor the British would run
short.
During the summer of 1941-still
several months before Pearl Har-
bor-the department of agriculture
went to work on a plan to get war
production goals for all farm prod
ucts. The production goal idea had
been used for years by Triple-A
on basic crops, but it was a new
departure to apply it to all farm
products. 1t meant estimating our
own needs, those of our Allies, the
allowances necessary for food re-
serves, and finally the ability of
farmers to produce. 1t meant break
ing down the national goals into
state, county, and finally into indi-
vidual farm goals. 1t meant the
contracting of practically every pro-
Queer by Triple-A farmer commit
teeman.
Size OF this undertaking is al
most beyond comprehension.
The six million farm plants in
the United States are more than
twice as many as all the other
business establishments in the
country = factories, mines, oil
stations, country stores, city re-
tail shops. To get six million
farmers cooperating in war pro-
duction is by far the biggest lob
OF subcontracting of the entire
war. But it has been dOne-and
the United States is the only ma
ton that has gone into this war
with plenty of food ammunition.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13

my Crowley WILL be
able to get winning
teams with squads
that come and go,
with almost no stars
from. the pros or
from the colleges.
The odds are all
against them. But
football is a big part
of their training,
and this happens to
be the main idea.
These four Naval
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13

stronger university teams, facing
one of the toughest schedules of
the year.
Other Games
In the meanwhile the pros and the
army squad are both on their way
to camp, to many camps, for the
eight games scheduled this month
and through early September.
This army division, under Bob
Neyland and Wallace Wade, will set
at least one football record. They
will finish up their schedule by Sep
TENDER 20, just about the spot when
most of the others are swinging into
action.
Coaches Neyland and Wade have
the crush act" to handle. They have
the material-many of the great
football players of recent years-but
the job of whipping these men into
a football machine in short while
is no simple job.
You can gamble that the Washing
ton Redskins, the New York Giants.
the Green Bay Packers, the Brook
Ign Dodgers and others will be some
thing to shove around, despite the
fact they have lost close to hun
dred star men to the services
Messrs. Steve Owen, Curly Lam
beau, George Halas and others still
have enough good material left to
keep any team busy, no matter how
many stars my be working against
them. They, also, are out to win.
And these games will play a big
part for Army Relief. They are
big part of the bigger game And
they will be something to see.
Stout Combination
The Big Nine, plus Notre Dame
may easily be footballs stronghold
for the new campaign. And thi
isn't overlooking Iowa, which woul
be serious mistake.
There are Iinemen on hand
match the backs, especially at Mil
nesOta, where Morse forwards u.s.
ally have the call. Minnesota's b
line will be led by Dick Wildun.
one of the greatest forwards in 49,
"a sure bulwark in the season tn,
is not too far away, and which I'll
fans are looking forward to.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
NEW ARMY FOOD

To save shipping space, the army
is sending food overseas in deny
drafted form. Experiments in taste
preserving dehydration have been
carried out and tested on a group
of army cooks.
At the Chicago depot of the quar-
termaster corps, the cooks sat down
to meal of dehydrated foods, prin-
cipal item on the menu being scram-
bled eggs made by adding water to
a yellow powder.
1t has been discovered that one
pound of dehydrated turnips will
serve % persons, after water is
added.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13

fall came along,
and the dog days
were over. That
meant football. We
began practicing
around September
Is, and the season
came to an abrupt
finish on Thanksgiv-
ing day.
It's all different
now. Football is al
ready at full swing
in many colleges
and manV c9mpS
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13

.ocrane gas no more than our war
workers need highly nutritious
foods.
Better Food Means More Guns.
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
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
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DIAG pAK7ZAM0

TURNING back the pages of
many, many calendars, your cor
respondent still recalls the thrill that
came when the first breath of early
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
BEHIND THE AIR CORPS

This war will be won or lost in
the air. But despite that fact the
air forces will win or lose the war
on the ground. In other words, the
success of operations in the air de-
ponds on ground crews, who out
number air crews ten to one.
Featured in the headlines and the
newsreels every day are the pilots
and machine gunners. But the un-
sung heroes of this war are the
ground crews.
Real fact is that it takes only one
man to pilot a fighter plane, but it
takes eight or ten maintenance men
to keep it in shape to fight. A four
engine bomber requires a flying
crew of nine, and a maintenance
crew of Is. Often ground crew
will be assigned exclusively to one
plane, and will become attached to
it with the affection a stable boy
has for race horse.
Chief of Staff General Marshall
has revealed that the overall
strength of the air force is expected
to reach 1000, 900 men by the end of
1912, and 100000 by the end of next
year. If the war is won in 1913, it
will be won by these 100000 men.
But 1900, 900 of them will be eight
ing" on thu ground.
They are the overall-boys, the
grease monkeys, the men who spend
all day overhauling an engine which
has been flying all night, the men
who know what heat is like in the
deserts of Africa, because they don't
get up in the air for relief. as do
the pilots.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
Six Million Farmers Throughout U. S.
Producing Worlds Largest Food Crop

guns turned out this year will be de-
termined largely by the kind and
amount of food our workers eat.
The newest type planes need high
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
AFRICAN CAMEL CREWS

They are the mechanics, the ar
morers, the metal workers, the
welders-yes, and they are the pick
and shovel men who build the land
ing fields in foreign posts, and re-
pair them after enemy bombers
have passed over. They are also
the cooks and the mess boys. the
pay masters, the doctors, and the
truck drivers. In short, they are
the men who perform every duty
that keeps plane in the air.
They do everything except replace
the African camels.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13

NEW YoRK,-It would appear
= What the blizzard OF report
forms with which war agencies snow
under business isn't entirely pre-
Seeking to Check md som =.
Report Blizzard body ought
By War Agencies 70 40 s ahn,,+
it, if anybody can. At any rate, the
War Production board co-operates
with a committee of business men
who will try to cut down the paper
overhead, by evolving sinplifed
systems of reporting and account
ing. They are waist deep in gov
eminent blanks and battling their
way out. The government seems
sympathetic.
Hearing the newly organized de-
Tense forces against the paper blitz
is W. ]. Donald, president of the
American Trade Association Execu-
tives. He is chairman of special
advisory committee which will work
with the WPB, a King Canute WELD
ing valiant broom against the pa
per inundation.
Possibly this is the "mana-
gerial revolution" which young
Prof. James Burnham described
in his provocative book of
year or so ago. AT any rate,
Mr.. Donald is a fair laboratory
sample of the oncoming men of
management of the professors
discourse, a John the Baptist in
the managerial wilderness for
many years, urging the man.
ayers to shake leg and do
something on their own account
before being swamped by the
bureaucratic. He was director
of the American Management
association from 1921 to 1882,
scolding the managers, during
this period for being ''too
SNUG" and not considering what
might happen to them unless the
metes and bounds between man
agement and finance and finance
and management and govern
ment were more clearly defined
and regarded.
Mr.. Donald, Canadian born, natu-
rallied in 1923, naturally will have
to use up lot more paper in his
education and explorative cam
paign among the individual mem
bers of 1000 trade associations,
whom he will consult. He wants
comments and suggestions. In Sar-
MIA, Ont, where he was born in
1890, he attended the Sarnia Cole
giate institute, and later was gradu-
ated from McMaster university at
Hamilton, Ont He came here in
1911 as manager of the installation
staff of the American City bureau,
making his U. S. A. career in bust
ness economics.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
OVERSEAS CANDY

The quartermaster corps is in the
market to buy 2,500,00O pounds of
hard candy: peppermint, orange,
lemon, lime, anise, and cherry.
The hard candy is being bought
for overseas troops, as part of the
regular field ration. Official expla-
nation is that candy is an excellent
source of energy
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
Milk and Shipping

Milk and Shipping
In 1912 we are building 8 mill
lion tons of shipping-a tremen-
dous amount. But the farmers of
Minnesota and Iowa alone will
produce more than 8 million tons
of milk in 1912.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
Routine These
Days Outruns All
Previous Stunning

Previous Stunning b h ! = h e t s +
mountain in the world by full
mile. For the young colonel, this
was a detail of work-a-day hop
from India to China.
War regulations build like coral
reef. Off and on for the last few
weeks there has been dribble of
news about the long, lanky, Colonel
Scott of Macon, Ga, working him
self as a "one-man air force" in
Burma and China On June 26 he
succeeded Col. Caleb V. Haynes as
chief of the India-China air COM
mand That means that he and the
21st pursuit squadron, which he
commands, are the heirs of the
"Flying Tigers" or the American
Volunteer group which bombed it's
way to glory along the Burma road.
Early in this encounter, Colo
mel Scott demonstrated what we
have fondly supposed to be our
national aptitude for quick and
resourceful action. A troop of
Japanese was moving steadily
up the Chindwin river in West
Burma. The colonel had only
small pursuit plane. He swung
a 550-pound bomb in it, and with
it scored bulls-eye on the adj
vancing troop. These and SINH
lar exploits won him silver
star.
He is a former West Pointer, "a
years old, indentured in rough and
tumble flying, when, with Colonel
Haynes, he flew the mails, in 1884.
He later commanded the 18th pur-
suit squadron in Panama.
Colonel Scott celebrated his 34th
birthday by plotting a Flying Fort
ress across the South Atlantic to
India and making a quick jump to
North Assam in a Tomahawk Fight
err.
1t seems to, this onlooker that the
new Owl would do we'll to piece to-
gether the stories of self-starters
like the colonel and deal them as
hot news. The necessity of plan
ming and organization being what it
is, the fact remains that these lads
are the real spark plugs of our
fighting forces and the public would
like to receive more news of them.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13

NJ EWS values shrink like depre-
I y ciated currency in time of over
issue. Col. Robert L. Scott Jr.
caught eight or ten lines in the pa
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13

over 40 games scheduled with the
stronger university teams, facing
one of the toughest schedules of
the wear
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-13
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

Consolidated Features.-WNU Release.
NEW YORK.-It would appear
= THAT the blizzard OF report
forms with which war agencies snow
under business isn't entirely pre-
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CLERK
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non-defense steady position Apply 6ls
Fox Bldg
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2-64sf.
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Evening star., 1942-06-29
British Air Raiders
Blast Nazi U-boat
Base al St. Nazaire
AirfieIds and RoiIwoys
In Fronce Pounded in
Bremen FolIowup
b. the Associated Press.


LONDON, June 29.-The Ger
man submarine base at ST.
Nazaire on the occupied French
coast was attacked sharply last
night by Raj raiders in a follow
up to the devastating Saturday
night assault on the port Of
Bremen, where many Of the
undersea raiders are constructed.
British fighter planes also blasted
German a.rflelds and railway objec-
tives in Northern France during the
night, the Air Ministry said. LOSS
Of one plane was acknowledged.
Two Canadian pilots attached to
Hurricane bomber squadron which
participated in the forays against
the occupied coast were reported to
have damaged a heavily escorted
enemy merchant ship in low-level
attack. leaving the vessel stationary
and healing over at 45-degree
angle.
The Saturday night assault on
Bremen was the second raid on that
city in three nights. and was re-
ported to have left the port-Ger-
manys second largest-a mass of
charred ruins.
There can't be much left of
Bremen now" military quarters de-
clared as they scanned reports filed
yesterday by British airmen who
set new fires blazing in the city in
the mass attack Saturday night.
sequel to Thursday nights 1000
plane assault.
Eleven planes bombers and
two flghters-were lost by the Raj
in the Saturday night raid, the 96th
aimed at Bremen since the start OF
the war.
Off1cial quarters indicated that the
devastation in Bremen was compa-
rable to that previously wrought by
the Raj in mighty assaults on Co.
logne and Essen and it appeared
that Prime Minister Churchills
pledge to blast German city by city
with overwhelming power was being
fulfilled swiftly.
British Coast Bombed.
In retaliation the Germans bombed
the British southwest coast last
night for the second successive
night, striking sharply at one town
for 40 minutes. but the government
indicated the raids were insignifi-
cant in comparison with the RATS.
ton-Super-Mare drew this
heaviest assault and it was an
nounced offlcially there were a num-
Der Of casualties there.
1t was acknowledged, however
that numerous fires were started
by the German raiders and some
still were burning at dawn today
Two Nazi planes were reported shot
down last night and one Saturday
night.
The Moscow radio meanwhile said
the Stockholm press quoted Swedish
sailors recently returned from Ger
many as saying the results of Brit
ish air assaults on the German
North Sea coast were visible every
where.
The masts of sunken ships. these
reports said, could be seen jutting
out of the water lin rows" espe-
Gladly at Emden.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Monpower Shortage Expected
To Reach Peak in October

for an additional IL 900 900 workers
in industry and 2,500,000 on the
farms, and said 100000 to 8.00O,-
900 Of these probably could be re-
cruited from peace-time industry,
1000 900 from professional and other
sources, 100000 from the unem-
ployed, and 100000 from among
housewives, youths and retired
workers"
To enable the War Manpower
Commission to recruit, train and
place this vast army of workers,
the committee approved an ap-
preparation of $3.114O00 for the
agency headed by Paul v. McNutt.
The impact of the labor shortage
Mr.. McNutt told the committee, has
not reached its peak "by any means
but may come in october.
AS much as possible, Mr.. McNutt
said, the commission hopes to keep
the migration Of workers down
to the lowest possible point" by
taking war work to areas where
the largest reserve pools of labor
are to be found, instead of by NOV
ing the workers to the work areas.
Evening star., 1942-06-29

getting an overcoat, due to their
method of rationing. We will not
have to go anywhere nearly that
far here" he predicted.
Essential Driving May Be Met.
But, he added, it may not be pos
Slble to have all the kinds of shoes
a person might want; new homes
cannot be built and there may be
insufficient rubber for other than
essential auto driving, but Il be-
lieve that by some method we will
be able to take care of their needs
in essential driving; by that I mean
getting them to and from work"
During a discussion Of obtaining
essential materials, Mr.. Nelson said
there was an adequate production
OF ingot steel. then added: But
we must remember this. today we
are supplying materials for all the
rest of the world with the excep-
ton Of the Axis powers. If any of
the Allied Nations are short on
production. we make it up. ."
Chairman Cannon asked Mr.. Mel
son about getting supplies across"
Shipping is tight" Mr.. Nelson
replied, but we are getting all the
essential things across. We have
had to curtail imports tremendously
and we have had to curtail exports,
and we will probably have to cur
tail imports of very essential criti-
cal materials, in order to get more
ships"
Business Labor Amity Seen.
Hishlights of other testimony by
Mr.. Nelson and many other high
WPB officials:
l. Business is cooperating 100 per
cent: Labor has decided not to
strike on war jobs and is eliminating
potential difficulties by cooperation
with management.
2. Mr. Nelson has employed men
who warn me" when the war pro-
duction program is going too slow
or when We may be undertaking
too much: warning me when we may
be breaking down the civilian econ
Omy. We cannot wait TO see whether
it is going to break down. We do
not want it to break down"
3. Mr. Nelson cannot look at our
record on small businesses with any
great amount of pride. We have
tried, but it Is difficult thing"
Evening star., 1942-06-29

To warn its people Of what might
come, Valparaiso, Chile, held an ex-
hibition of war posters.