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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
FARM CROPS:
Light Prospects

Winter wheat and rye crops will
be the smallest since 1886, the de-
partment of agriculture predicted
early this month.
Production of winter wheat should
approximate SIS million bushels, al
most 200 million bushels less than
last year, the department said.
Yields per acre should average 15.5
bushels.
Thirty-six million bushels of rye
should be harvested, over 20 million
bushels less than 1912, the depart
ment reported. Each acre should
yield lit bushels.
Condition of tame hay was placed
at 81 per cent of normal. Pastures
were said to be 10 per cent of nor
NAL. Stocks of hay on farms early
in the month totaled over 10 million
tons, well over last years.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
PACIFIC:
Air Warfare

Striking back at Japanese bases
northwest of Australia, Allied air.
men destroyed or damaged % enc
my planes in heavy raid on Babo,
Dutch New Guinea. Bombs also
were dropped on oil tanks and docks,
and flames visible for 80 miles licked
the installations.
In China, heavy and medium
bombers of the 18th American air
force swooped down on the Japa-
nese airdrome at Canton, razing
hangers, fuel storage dumps, re-
pair shops and factories. Accom-
panying fighters shot down 10 enemy
planes, and Liberator tail gunners
accounted for three others.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
Air Corps Cuts Red Tape
With Absorption Of CAP
Student Pilots of Civil Air Patrol Are Vital Link
In Nations Defense Chain; Valued
Services Now Recognized.
By BAUKHAGE
Ne,Us Analyst and Commentator.

is about to give them pay as active
reservlsts and as soon as there is
equipment enough to accommodate
all of them, those unqualified for
cadet combat training will probably
have jobs as instructors or transport
pilots soon.
Status Unchanged
The last named group, the airplane
spoilers, operate under the Fighter
Command, and their functions are
such that their status will not be
changed, they are part of the Of
flee of Civilian Defense.
This group is made up of volun-
teer workers working with armed
force experts, in connection with a
vast network of telephone and radio
connections which lace our entire
coastline, east, south and west.
They total million and a half
people and the OCD calls this work
done by the volunteers, the most ar
duous and technical job trusted to
civilians. 1t consists in spotting, re-
porting and recording all activity.
Not plane appears in the skies that
is not checked and accounted for.
If it can't be identified, blackouts are
ordered until it is.
Most of the volunteers are women
and many more are needed. The
job is described as being both ex-
citing and tough. The anti-aircraft
centers where these people work are
guarded by soldiers and no one gets
in who doesn't work there or is on
official business.
Here dozens of girls work on a
gigantic table map of the area. They
wear telephone headsets and mouth
pieces like regular telephone OPP
orator, listening to the information
and moving little markers called
"pips," representing planes, about
the map with long wands.
These girls are the end of series
OF operations which go like this:
The spotter out on top of some
building or hilltop sees plane. The
message comes in in semi-code,
Bomber on bi high west 80 Posy."
The girl puts the pip on the spot on
the map corresponding to the spot
ter's report. The details of the size
and description of plane are record
ed on marker on the pip. AS the
plane moves, it is reported by each
spotter in succession and pushed
along on the map. But until three
spoilers have made the same report,
it is not considered correct-because
geese look like planes sometimes.
Method of Operation
After the third report, a teller
watching the board from balcony
above, reports it to the operations
room, which may be in another city.
This point is the nerve center and
here again, the planes are plotted.
Army men and Civil Aeronautics ad-
ministration officials who are con-
tinuously receiving information as to
every plane leaving the ground,
check this information with the map
below them. Every plane has to be
accounted for. If not-they, you and
I, if we live in that vicinity, know
about 1.-THE air raid warning is
flashed. If the flier has left the
ground without clearance or through
some mistake hasn't identified him
self, he is likely to see big bomber
after him or he might even have to
duck anti-aircraft fire. That is how
careful our anti-aircraft defense has
to be.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28

Production board. Arthur D. White
side was appointed to head the re-
organized office after protests that
the WPB had sidetracked civilian
industry in its concentration on war
production.
Opponents of Maloney's bill con-
tended the WPB office should be
given an opportunity to operate be-
fore another new governmental
agency is created.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
Acid INDIGESTION

Relieved In minutes or double money back
When excess stomach acid causes painful, suffocat-
ing stomach and heartburn, doctors usually
prescribe the fastest-acting medicines known for
symptomatic relief-medcines like those in Bell ans
Tablets. No laxative. Bell-ans brings comfort in q
fifty or double your money back return of bottls
10 u.s. 25c at all druggists.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
UNEMPLOYMENT:
100000 Still With Us

Despite booming business, there
were still 100000 unemployed in the
United States in April, the census
bureau reported. OF the number,
however, were many merely enjoy
ing an interval from one job to an
other.
While non agricultural payrolls
dropped 100000 in the month, agri-
cultural employment jumped 6O0, 900,
thus showing a general increase of
100000 over the month of March.
According to the census bureau,
the boost in agricultural employment
reflected the return of many indus
trial laborers to the farms, and the
early working of school boys.
CIVILIAN SUPPLY:
Agency for Consumers
If the U. S. senate has its way,
the supply of civilian goods in Amer
lea will become the responsibility of
a powerful new independent agency
ansWerable only to Sterilization Di-
rector James F. Byrnes.
A bill introduced by Senator Ma
loney of Connecticut and passed by
a "A to 90 vote, provides for the Gre
alton of a civilian supply admins
tration which would determine the
essential needs of consumers and
then place its orders for materials
and manpower for the production of
the goods. These orders would have
the same high ranking as those of
the army and navy.
The new administration would re-
place the recently reformed office of
civilian requirements within the War
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
About Nutrition

I received the following card from
listener in Miami, Fla:
"Those who know will tell you that
the introduction of synthetic vita
minis into white bread is all the bunk
or sales talk. Canada and Great
Britain will not allow it. The Pure
Food Act boys know it too. But
just look it up and laugh. Suckers
are not born today, they are made by
propaganda and high-powered ad-
vertising"
l called up the Food and Drug ad-
ministration C"Pure Food Boys").
Commissioner Campbell said to me:
$50 far as the nutritionists know,
synthetic vitamins are just as eff
fective as natural vitamins. This has
been shown by extensive experiment
tation."
Before the order was given to en-
rich white flour with synthetic vita
minis, lengthy testimony was taken
by leading MISUNDERSTANDING
men with no axes to grind.
My listener was undoubtedly sin
cere. He was sincerely undoubting
of his misinformation.
l wonder who started it?
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
KelIogg's AI-Bran Meat Patties

egg tablespoon
teaspoons salt chopped parsley J
Il teaspoon pepper cup milk
tablespoons u cup catsup
minced onion cup Kellogg's
All-Bran
pound ground beef
Beat egg slightly, add salt, pepper.
onion, parsley, milk, catsup and
All-Bran. Let soak until most of mois-
ture is taken up. Add beef and mix
thoroughly. Shape into IL patties.
Bake in hot oven (450oF.) about 30
minutes or broil about 20 minutes.
Yield: servings (12 az inch patties).
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
MEAT PATTIES With
ALL-BRAN MAKE
MEAT GO FURTHER

Are you looking for ways to stretch
the meat supply? Then try this won-
derful recipe for All-Bran Meat Pat
ties! They are made with famous
KELLoGG'S ALL-BRAN-which adds de-
licious crunchy texture to the dish
with all the valuable vitamins, min
erals, proteins and carbohydrates Or
dinarily found in ALL-BRAN.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
@SzsN
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Hadn't Mr..

Hadn't Mr..
She was peeved and called him
Mr..
Not because he went and kr.
But because before
She opened the door
This same Mr.. kr. ST.
No Saving
"My, ,Uhat beautiful hands you've got!
Tell me, after you're cut your nails, do
you file them?" asked chorus girl.
"Oh, no" replied her typisf friend, Il
hroip them aiUay."
"T's silly" said the philosopher,
ITO say women are as young as
they look. They can't all be under
thirty"
Shuffled Up
Mrs. Green - Dinah, did you
change the table napkins?
Dinah-Yes'm, 1 shuffled 'em
and dealt 'em out SOS no one would
get the same one they had for the
last meal.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Allied Leaders Review Grand Strategy
AS Casablanca Promises Are Renewed
Following Finale of Tmisia Campaign;
Winter Wheat, Rye Dip to 1886 Levels

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dbx Wsssrn NeYspap upou.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
INVASION:
To Hit UnderbelLy?

Prime Minister Churchills twangy
reference some months ago to the
Mediterranean shoreline as the "un-
derbelly of Europe" was ill received
in the Axis capitals. 1t was much
better, Axis officials said, to refer
to the territory as the abdomen"
But "underbelly'' or abdomen"
they both look alike to approximate
ly million Allied troops, facing
Europe's southern boundary from
one end of North Africa to the other.
The big question on everyone's mind
was: When will the United Nations
swing the knockout punch at the en-
emy's midriff?
To counter the expected blow, the
Nazis were feverishly completing
coastal defenses in southern France.
Whisked from North Africa, Mar
shall Rommel was reported inspect
ing Notifications in Greece, where
the Germans have worked out an
elaborate outer ring on the many
Aegean islands leading to the main
land. Bulgaria was said to be put
ting the finishing touches on defenses
facing neutral Turkey.
Matching the large Allied forces
in North Africa are well over two
million troops in England, poised for
a thrust at any point, or series of
points, along the whole occupied
European mainland from Norway to
southern France. When the invasion
comes, several landings undoubted-
ly will be made, to spread the Nazi
defense forces.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-05-28
SUPREME COURT:
Free Air

In decision read by Justice Felix
Frankfurter, the Supreme court
broke the grip big radio chains re-
putedly held over smaller stations.
Whereas it was alleged the chains
could compel afiliates to carry GER
tain programs, and deny them the
right to present others through con-
tract terms, the Supreme court YER
dict now allows the smaller stations
a free choice.
The Supreme court ruled that the
Federal Communications commits
sion's order of 1941 providing that
no licenses shall be granted to sta
tons or applicants having specified
relationships with networks was
within the law.
The two big chains contesting the
Fees order argued that the agency
lacked the authority to formulate
such regulation. However, the S
to 2 majority, speaking through JUS
tice Frankfurter, declared:
"The act gave the (FCC) not mig
gardly but expansive powers :"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03

Behind the screen: Back of any
big motion picture which flows SO
serenely on the screen is usually
history of something akin to
chaos. Particularly is this true OF
films made "on location" More
particularly is it true Of the mo-
tion picture. Commands Strike
at Dawn" which was made by
Producer Lester Cowan on loca-
ton at Vancouver Island, British
Columbia, 1400 miles from home
plate. Any distant location usu-
ally proves troublesome.
When that location is in a for
cign country. and there's war 60
ing on, and transportation is up
set and communicatiCnS not up to
standard, you can expect that pc
culiar things will happen. They did
with Commands Strike at Dawn -
When cast and crew of 95 were
assembled for the 1400-mile trip it
was discovered that all males in the
group must have releases from their
draft boards. In some cases these
could not be obtained. So weeks
went bv before a complete crew
could be found.
Birth certificates were another
headache. American immigration
officials said no one needed birth
/ certificate to get into Canada, but
no one could get back without it.
Joe Lefert, Belgian who was as
/ signed as assistant director, got as
! far as Seattle, Wash, and spent
nine weeks in a hotel there with
out ever getting to his job in Can
ada.
The Canadian military authorities
who turned over their Commandos
and all required military equip
ment for use in the picture gave
the utmost of their time and eff
forts to the making of the picture
The soldiers were placed ION call"
just like Hollywood actors and this
worked fine except on a few occa-
sions. At these times not a SOL
cier showed up What became of
them was a military secret.
For the big Commando raid on
a Nazi airport. great clearing of
farm land was used The farmers
of the area gave the land without
charge, but after two days of shoot
ing the raid in which hundreds of
+ pounds of dynamite and thou
sands of rounds of ammunition
were used, the COWS within a "a
dius Of three miles dried up and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
laps Offer Proof
u. 5. Tofterinu

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. a.
UP)-Premier Gen. Hediki
TOjO cited proof today that
America, having been deprived
of rubber and tin, is on her
last legs, according TO a Tokyo
broadcast.
AS matter of fact" Toio
said. they (the Americansl
are building wooden airplanes."
tAmerica has been expert
menting with and building plas-
tis and wood aircraft for sew
cral years. and il has been no
military seeret.l
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
u. S.. jap Naval Forces
Meet i'm Major Struggle

HEADQUARTERS, UNIT E d
STATES PACIFIC FLEET, Pearl
Harbor, Feb. 3 - (UP)-United
States and Japanese naval forces
are fighting a major engagement
in the fourth attempt by Japan
TO retrieve its position in the Solo
mons islands, it was indicated to-
day.
Extent of the engagement was
still a naval secret But it was
known that both sides had con-
centrated an important part of
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
HOLLYWOOD
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON.

most of them lost an appalling
amount of weight The farmers
could not afford this and there is
a charge on the pictures production
budget of $500 for special milk"
Unlike most big movie scenes,
the raid sequences were shot with
out "retakes," and Director John
FarroW and his assistant spent
many a sleepless night plotting each
bit of action in great detail This
vas because of lack of annual
ton. Twenty thousand blank ma
chine gun and rifle cartridges we're
taken from Hollywood, but once in
Canada it was estimated another
10000 would be needed.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
BY ROBERT c. MILLER
wright, 1913, by United Press


III THE AMERICAN FORCES
Oh UADALCANAL. Jan. 26. de-
layea i-cUP)-A group OF shabby
japanese, arms raised in surrender
walked toward the American lines
Leading the way was Pvt. AkiEoshi
Hasamoto, 23-year-old veteran of
the Japanese campaigns in China
5orneo, and the Philippines.
For almost the first time in 1000
years Japanese soldiers were violat-
ing the warrior code of their coun-
try and giving themselves up in
battle.
Private HaSamOto was hungry and
tired and his nerves were thread
bare from inceSSant American she'll
ing and aerial bombing. But this
wasn't any group of raw recruits,
shaken by their first experience
under fire, that he was leading up
to the lines to surrender. These
men we're members of the 224th
japanese regiment, one of Nippon'S
crack outfits which was cited by
the emperor for its work in the
Malayan campaign.
PROP G ANDA WAR
Il = 81 been defeated by words
as VIC! IS bullets. The Americans
know a few tricks about psychologi-
cal warfare, too, and for several
daTS loud speakers have been blar-
ing up at the front calling on the
hungry. tired japanese to surren-
der. American planes have been
flying back and forth across the
japanese lines, dropping leaflets
printed in japanese and advising
the enemy troops to give up or face
death from steel or starvation.
An interpreter walked up to pri-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
SMALL POCKETS

There are just small pockets of
resistance surrounded by American
troops" he continued. Some of
them are surrendering and a num-
Der gave themselves up while we
were there"
He said that the number of VOL
untary Surrenders by Japanese. who
heretofore have been reported as
fanatical fight to the death" men.
has been greater than ever before.
Those surrounded by American
troops are in a hopeless position. 3"
he continued. They can't get any
ammunition or supplies and their
iood is probably all exhausted"
When 2 reporter told Knox that
tie Australians feel that he is more
optimistic than the situation in
the South Jacific warrants. Knox
grinned and remarked:
Sorry to olSappoint them
I think that my estimate of the
situation on Guadalcanal is bet
ter than that of some ANONYMOUS
Australians"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
BY WILLIAM u. DICKINSON

LONDON, Feb. 3-'UPl - Mar
shal Erwin Rommel was reported
ready to make 2 stand behind the
Mareth Line in !ower Tunisin tc-
day. as strong American forces
hammered Axis positions along
strategic Faid Pass.
A United Press dispatch from
The battle front said Rommel was
believed TO have set up hcadquar-
ters in Gabes, 100 miles above the
Tripolitanian frontier. and was di-
recting the deplo.ment Of his hf-
rika Korps for a stand against the
British eighth army.
II Rommel had decided to fight
it out, a battle of great proportions
was expected shortly. because the
eighth army was pressing the Af-
rika Korps closely along the border.
The Mareth line is so TO 55 miles
inside the border
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
WEDNESDAY,, FEBRUARY 8, 1913
Knox Says Bottle
Not Yet Engaged

increased air activity by both the
Americans and japanese in the last
few days and I'VE can assume that
the American commanders are very
much on the alert"
Discussing his visit to Guadal-
canal, Keystone of American de-
fense positions in the Solomons,
Knox said that he was surprised
at the small portion of the island
involved as the theater of opera
tionS. He said it comprised only
two and one-half per cent of the
area, with the Americans occupy
ing two per cent and the Japanese
a half of one per cent.
He said that substantially all
organized resistance by japanese
ground forces on the island had
been cleaned up.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
20 Unit Breaks
Custom, Gives Up

vate Hasamoto and there was some
rapid conversation. HaSamoto and
his fellow soldiers, had not eaten
for five days. They were fed liberal
portions OF cooked rice. They were
handed American clothes to replace
their rags. Hasamoto carried him.
self with military bearing and apol-
ogized for his appearance when he
was photographed.
Then HaSamoto began to talk,
waving his arms eXcitedly as he
explained to the interpreter his
momentous decision to surrender
The heavy shelling, the lack of REIN
forcements which officers had prom
ised. The shortage Of food-all these
made further resistance unbearable
ne sad.
BEYONC HOPC
FINELY my feelings as a true
Japanese soldier disappeared, he
added. Il was Respondent and be-
yond hope. I was resigned to death
which seemed inevitable and I had
nothing to lose by Surrendering.
MY actions were promoted pri-
marily by thoughts of hot food, to-
bacco and relief from the unending
shelling. Our officers promised US
shiploadS of reinforcements, hum
dredS of planes which would drive
the Americans out of the sky and
an abundance of food.
Many of our officers were killed
and our units were shot to pieces.
Out OF one 200-man unit only rs
are left. Another had only 80 effec-
tiveS left out of 200. We never had
artillery support and only about
one-siXth of the artillery that we
were supposed to have ever was
landed. The rest must have been
sunk on the way.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
NEW JAP EFFORT


The Rabaul concentration, along
with the construction OF new jap
aneSc air bases in the Solomons
northwest of Guadalcanal. were
taken here as meaning that the
japanese had now embarked on a
strong attempt either to regain
control of the Solomons where
United States Army troops have
now taken over from the Marines,
or to prCsen: the extension of
United States control.
The japanese might be planning
the occupation of new islands in
the Solomons from which they
might harass the Guadalcanal sup
ply lines and attack Henderson
Field, the Guadalcanal air base, by
air.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03

1t was indicated that the daily
current attacks by MacArthur's air
force on Rabaul we're a part of the
picture still to be revealed regard
ing the main action in the Solo
mons.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
BATTLE IMPENDING

Hot fighting was believed in pro-
eress at Faid Pass. 90 miles north
west of Gabes. and the Axis radio
Faris said both sides were rushing
up reinforcements, and q big bat
tie might be expected soon between
F'aid and Sened, A miles TO the
southwest.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
IL MILES AWAY

The Middle Eastern command
announced today that the eighth
army occupied zelten 20 miles
from the border, yesterday and
ws,s pressing the Afrika Korp5' real
guard toward Pisida, II miles from
the border.
Radio Vlchy said TO-DAY that vio-
lent fighting ragged throughout
central and southern TuniSia. with
American forces trYirG to spread
out through the mountains and
wrest positions the Axis had taken
earlier.
Both London and Algiers quar-
ters said emphatically. however,
that Allied operations so far in
southern Tunisia were no. q ma jor
offensive as the Axis was claim
ing. in order to enhance any small
victories it might win.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
RommeI to Stand
At Moreth Line

So far, the Americans, though
using artillery, tanks and infantry
were making only small gains. Axis
positions were heavily fortified and
we'll manned.
The Germans were holding not
only the pass at Faid, but a ridge
that runs almost to Maknassy,
miles below Faid. The America
Wno earlier had been driving
walG Maknassy in two colur
apparcrtly had postponed T.!
drive 10! ~ time being, and wcrl
concentrating cn driving the enemy
from Faid Pass ana the ridge.