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CONSUMPTION HIGH

Rice production and consump-
ton, while as I mentioned above,
Monsoon, Asia, produces and con-
sumes approximately 95 per cent
of all rice grown and consumed,
it must be borne in mind that the
per capita consumption in the
! Asiatic countries is as much as
twenty times higher than that of
this country.
Burma alone produced in normal
times approximately so million
tons of rice, As million of which,
or 80 per cent, were consumed there
or in directly adjacent territories,
while million tons were exported
to foreign countries, mainly in the
Orient. The per capita conSump-
ton in this country has averaged
only about six pounds per year
over a period of approximately Is
years. The average rice produc-
ton in the United States for about
ten years has been close to 20 mil
lion bags of paddy, or about ten
million bags of consumers rice
The 1942-43 crop year has produc-
ed record crop of close to @6 mil
lion bags of paddy, or about l3 mil
lion bags of consumers rice. Only
one-fifth of this quantity is pro-
duced in the state of California,
principally in tho Sacramento Val
ley the San Joaquin Valley. and a
small portion in the Imperial VAL
ley.
Rice is one of the cheapest
heal'hfUl foods obtainable. At
present great part of this coun-
trvs production is being purchas-
ed by the government for lend
lease and our armed forces.
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yard poultry raising by pur-
chasing hatchery eggs, day-om
chicks, started chicks and part
.ly-grown or we'll developed pull.
lets. Ordinarily, the two latter
methods are preferred because
it usually is inconvenient for the
city dweller to hatch eggs or
raise chicks.
1t is advisable to obtain chick
ems from a reliable breeder who
is known to have healthy stock
bred for high egg production.
From 8 to Is birds should pro-
vide the average family with a
liberal supply of eggs for most
of the year.
The more common breeds are
suitable for a backyard Victory
flock Among these are Ply
mouth Rocks, Rhode island
Reds, Wyandottes, New Hamp-
shires and Leghorns. The Leg
n =
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man is Donald NJ. Nelson. Re
ieving him of administrative
"details is Charles E Wilson, ex-
ecutive vice-chairman. ReportinE
directly to Wilson are four vice
ehairmen, ]. A. Drug William L.
Bait, Donald d. Davis and Ralph
]. Cordiner
Krug's responsibilities include
the Controlled Materials Plan,
the determination of prioritiss
and the distribution of materials.
Bats chief job is to sit on the
Combined Production Resources
Board, a United Nations group,
10 help decide how raw and fin
ished materials shall be distri-
buted among the Allies. Davis
runs WPB's industry divisions,
which carry out priority and con-
servation orders and other poll
cies originated in Krug's office.
Cordiner heads up a number
of varied WPB activities. Among
them are the Planning Commit
tee, Procurement Policy DiVi-
sion, Statistics Division, and the
Facilities Division. A number OF
I WPB operating units, including
William NJ. LETTERS rubber Office,
report directly to Wilson.
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The meaning Tor YOU is tnat
you too will be paid promptly
and without hitch as soon az
your man is called into service.
If you do your part.
Seven million dependents arc
getting theirs now.
It's a bamulous battle because
a year ago the agency wasn't
even on paper. Now, discussing
at the rate of $2,000,0O0,OOO a
year in an ever-growing month
ly avalanche Of green checks
the lusty infant has proved, to
the joy of Army men, that the
War Department isn't always
snarled in red tape.
The agency is known officially
as the Office of Dependency Ben
efits. It's director is Col. Harold
N. Gilbert, six-foot, sandy-hair-
ed veteran of q years Of Army
life.
If you do your part he is con-
fident Obj will stay on a current
basis even when the Army reaches
its currently estimated full
strength of 8 or 9 million.
$4,000 Applications Day
New applications for family al
IowHnces are flowing in at the
rate Of 10000 a day.
To handle these applications,
{, read 10000 letters day, write
another $4,000, answer 10000 tel
ephone calls. interview hundreds
of applicants and do all the paper
work behind each one of the more
than 100000 monthly checks re-
quires the efforts of 10000 work
ers now. Col. Gilbert estimates
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SEALING: l S of these CAD
gets stuff and seal IS en-.
velcpes a minute.

dependency allowances. Another
case was that of soldier separat-
ed from his wife who met an
other mans estranged wife, de-
cided to get her his dependency
benefits-used the certificate OF
marriage to the other woman for
proof. 1t didn't work.
Many odd requests come in,
but perhaps the ODDS weirdest
assignment was set in P.S. to q
letter from a soldiers mother who
refused to accept her allowance.
IF you have any safety pins, y
the afterthought confided, please
send me three dozen. Daughter
in-law is going to have a baby.
Please send pins. This is serious.
I'll pay postage"
The ODDS feminine staff oblig-
ed.
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to accrue the first of the month
after the application is approved,
and begin issuing the month fol-
lowing that"
The Reasons for Delay
{ Another ggrumbling factor is
Idiscloseds By the fact that 10000
checks a month come back heeguse
rayees lave moved and left no
forwarding , address. rAhd = there
have been 34O,0O0Hother changes
in Independently cases, each neees-
stating a complete rehandiing.
For example, 10000 payees have
died since the checks began is
suing last September.
Then there was the company of
soldiers which carried a trunkful
of dependency applications all
the way to England and North
Africa. -.
The job of issuing the monthly
checks becomes a highly mech
anized job of stencilling ma
chimes, computers, counting de-
vices, ledger printing machines,
enveloping and mailing contrap-
! tions, once the application is APP
proved.
The seemingly effortless, quiet
| job of getting out the monthly
vouchers is maze of checking
and counterchecking devices.
! And-let the superstitious be-
ware = the family allowance
checks are signed and mailed or
/ the 18th floor.
Precautionary admonitions
are constantly given paYees TO
prevent grafters from getting
their money. Equally important
to the government. a staff of
filed investigators is on the Job
TO make sure frauds don't cheat
Uncle Sam either. At present
$4,000 cases are Investigated
each month because of some
incomplete. suspicious or du-
| bious factor.
/ One woman was found to have
! married three soldiers to get their
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Glass B, consists of parents, broth
ers, sisters or grandchildren. The
allowance scale is lower and the
soldier contributes a smaller
amount. One of the ODDS biggest
headaches, says Col. Gilbert, is
putting over the fact that Class B
individuals receive allowances
only if direct dependency can be
shown and if the soldier wants to
contribute to their support.
I'VE had one letter." the colonel
recalls. (which said We under
stand the government sends
checks to the parents of a soldier.
Please put us on the mailing list F"
ODB, which issues one-fifth of
all the checks paid by Uncle Sam,
is housed in an HISTORY, buff brick
skyscraper in which the plaster
was scarcely dry when the brand
new agency moved in from Wash
lngton last October.
Col. Gilbert is an infantry Of
ficer who has served around the
world. In 1899 he directed Amer
ica's greatest peacetime recruit
ing campaign and originated the
now famous Keep En- Flying
slogan.
His slogan now. emblazoned
IN every corner of the building.
is Get En- Paid"
In spite of everything, grllm-
bling does occur.
The most generally misunder-
stood factor is that people believe
FAMILY allowances begin imme-
diately after the application, the
colonel says. Instead they begin
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are pouring INTO the department
of Agriculture at q rate more
than double thatlof. pre- rationing
days. I1SIQu pS4sI
Keeping a small Victory flock
of chickens TfoEvJSesh eggs and
poultry meat iS,a good way fof
families in small toWns and the
suburbs to cities to augment
their food supplies. This year
there has been heavy trend to
broiler raising.
Government poultry specialists
estimate that Is hens and 90
other chickens for meat and re-
placement purposes will produce
372 pounds of solid food in a
year. Eighty pounds would be
the meat of young chickens, %
pounds in stewers and roasters,
and 30 pounds in eggs.
How To Start
You can make a start in back
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he will need about 800 more for
peak production. They are as inn
portant as an armored division,
for they have to keep up home
morale. More than 80 per cent of
them are women, teen-aged las
sizes to grazing matrons. There
are fewer than 200 Army officers
supervising.
Ironically, the office which ham
dies the mandatory family allow
anccs for the four lowest ranks
duck private to line sergeant,
hasn't one enlisted man on duty.
The family allowances comprise
about two-thirds of the monthly
checks. The rest are voluntary al
lotments of pay by soldiers, from
private to general, sending more
money to the folks back home, for
bank deposits or for insurance.
Forty-five per cent of the FAM
lily allowance disbursements are
deducted from soldiers pay; the
rest is a government contribution.
For Class A (wife andIor chill
dren) dependents which the SOL
diers must help support, he con-
tributes So a month; the govern
ment S28 for the wife, $12 for one
child and $40 for each additional
youngster under 10.
All Not Eligible
Another group of dependents,
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How You Can
Help Speed Checks

APP Features
If you are a soldiers depen-
dent, the Army's Office of De-
tendency Benefits says your
monthly check will arrive
promptly if you help by:
l.. Making sure the applica-
ton bv the soldier or yourself
is ACCOMPANIED bv documentary
proofs. such ss marriage and
birth certificates.
Q. Understanding payments
do not begin until the month
following the first full month
that the authorization is In
force.
3, Notifying the oDB office
at 2l3 Washington street. New
ark. N. j.. of any change of ad-
dress.
a. Including the soldiers
name. his serial number and the
authorization number in any
correspondence.
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horn is. a good egg layer but a
poor meat producer. Plymouth
Rocks, Rhode Island Reds and
New Hampshires are good all
purpose breeds.
b Chickens should have proper
food, good housing and careful
watching to prevent the spread
of disease. Most backyard poul-
try keepers find it more practical
to use commercially mixed feeds
than to mix their own feeds.
Grain may be fed in a litter but
a more sanitary method is to
feed it in hoppers.
Indoor Hens
A large space is not needed
for a small flock. Laying hens
can be kept indoors the year
round. They will lay well and
keep healthy if they have com
Portable, well-ventilated houses
and are fed suitable rations con-
tanning cod liver oil or some
other source of Vitamin d.
The sun porch is an important
Development in backyard chicken
housing. This should be about
the Same size as the house with
a wires eihder or concrete floor
which tkeeps the chickens off
he soil and is easily cleaned.
Poultry ! specialists say sick
birds should be removed from
the flock as a precaution against
loss. In case of an outbreak o.
disease, consult a veterinarian or
communicate with your state
agricultural college, giving a
descriptino of the symptoms
and conditions under which
flock is kept.
A Victory Garden and a Vic
tory flock of chickens, well con-
fined, make a good backyard
combination. The chickens VIII
consume garden waste as Wen
as kitchen scraps, which will
help to reduce the feed cost.
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By BILL GLOVER
APP Features Writer

NEWARK, N j., May 22.-Aong hidden battlefront
that extends from headquarters here to Cherokee City, Six
Mile Run and every other town aEdhamet in the u S.
the Army Obj making good na Fabulous battle to quar-
antee that Johnny Doughboys dependents get monthly al
lowance checks swiftly and surelygb
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PRINCIPAL FORMS

BALTIMORE Shintoisrn and
Buddhism are the principal forms
of religion in Japan
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By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE
Alp Features Writer

WASHINGTON, May 22The may put "a chick
in pot but lot people going
acquainted with chickens the hoof
The meatratoning pinch big increase in back
yard chicken raising REQUEST for information poultry tending
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NEW YORK.-There are about
900 inspectors in England assign
ed to apprehend black marketeers.
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MATTRESSES for day or night
work. Apply 4l6 Southland
street, next to Skating Rink.
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REMAINS Found

BOSTONFossn reuzzns q
grOur d sl0ths IS large as eisphsa1s
have been fouud-
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Sidewalk Sarcasm

Excited Owner: l left my midget
car here five minutes ago and it's
gone.
Policeman: Have you felt in
your pockets?
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DAILY AVERAGE

NEW YORK.-A human being
consumes a daily average of 10
milligrams of manganese.
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MATTRESSES WANTED-Side-
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MATTRESSES and FOUNTAIN
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SPECIAL-One thousand Manila
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CANNON FIzE

CEICAGO-Con1lnuzl cznnun
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ELECTRIC FRlGIDAIRE and
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TWIN BEDROOM SUITE. ma
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All Not Eligible

Another group Of dependents
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You can make a start in back
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-01

LONDON. Feb. / - tP -
Germany menaced the Allies to-
day with the threat of a greater
submarine war, backed by the
total power of the Nazi Navy.
Her warning of what the Al
lies were expecting, a desperate
effort to win the war by an all
out campaign against Allied sup
ply lines, came with the week
end elevation of Grand Admiral
Karl Koenitz to commander-in-
chief of the German Navy.
Doenitz, master Of submarine
warfare, hoisted his new flag
q black cross on a white field
over his headquarters yesterday
and the German radio broadcast
his declaration:
II will put the entire concen-
trated. strength of the Navy in-
to the submarine war, which
will be waged with still greater
vigor and determination than
hitherto. @
THE entire German Navy will
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-01
Japs Dream-Up Fantastic
Account of New Sea-Battle
Tokyo Says Two BottIeships,
Three Cruisers Sent to Bottom

acknowledged the loss of ten
planes, made no mention of any
japanese surface forces involv-
ed, s 800. Z j.
OFF GUADALCANAL
Shimada said the fight occur
red last Friday and Saturday
west of Rennell Island, less than
100 miles south of Guadalcanal.
General MacArthur's head
quarters announced continued
sporadic fighting in the Mubo
sector of northwest New Guinea,
southwest of the enemy's base at
Salamaua, but it appeared that
action was tapering off after the
repulse of several enemy attacks.
Over the weekend Allied air.
men attacked shipping at Ra-
baul, and an airdrome at Cape
Gloucester, New Britain; dam
aged an enemy merchantmen off
nearby Pilelo Island, caused
heavy damage at an airdrome at
Koepang, Timor; pounded the
Wewak and Finschhafen sectors
of New Guinea, and attacked
shipping near Amboina in the
Dutch East Indies and installa-
tions at Tanimbar Island, in the
Arafura Sea.
Dispatches from the Burma
See TOKYO-Page 2
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Civilians
Pour into
Stalingrad

MOSCOW, Feb. 1-(P)-Hun-
dreds of former inhabitants of
Stalingrad were pouring back
into the city today to set up life
anew as the Red army rolled OF.
its winter offensives which have
left this shattered town hum
dreds of miles from the main
battle lines.
Two columns are moving
steadily in this Volga city, one
composed of hundreds of Ger
mans who have capitulated or
been captured and the other
made up of former citizens of
Stalingrad coming in by sledge,
on horseback and afoot, Soviet
accounts said.
Many appalling sights were
See STALINGRAD-Page 2
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henceforth be put into the serv-
ice of memorable U-boat war
fare. The German Navy will
fight to a finish"
Doenitz, originator of the
"wolf pack" attacks by U-boats
against Allied conveys, succeed
ed Grand Admiral Erich Raeder
who, il was reported, would be-
come Adolf Hitler's first advis-
er on Naval affairs"
Such an about challenge to
Allied seapower has been fore
cast for many weeks.
Last month A. v. Alexander,
First Lord of the Admiralty, told
the men of Britain's home fleet
that "this is the crucial year in
which the enemy has made up
his mind to have a last throw in
the battle of the seas. The enemy
is now using new U-Boats in
larger packs and with new tao
tics"
SAVAGE AIR BLOWS
A part of the Allied campaign
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DESPERATE NAZI UNDERSEA STROKE LOOMS
Expanded U-BOat War Menaces United Nations Shipping

only one step in the effort to
keep Allied supplies flowing
that other measures are neces-
Sary.
The pace of Allied sinkings of
U-Boats has presented Germany
herself with desperate problem
in the matter of qualified sub
marine crews.
Already boys as young as Is
and l. have been reported being
taken into the service and OBJ
servers said the concentration of
the entire German Navy in the
service of U-Boat warfare might
entail the TRANSFER to submarines
of sailors from battleships and
cruisers.
Delegates attending an Inter-
national Seamen's conference in
London adopted a resolution
yesterday calling for greater
protection for Allied conveys
and the majority opinion was
that the U-bcat campaign would
reach its height in the Spring.
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SAN DIEGO, Calf, Feb. l.
(P) - Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox has returned from
an. inspection of far-flung Pa
cific outpoSts with the predic-
tons that there are darn good
prospects of an air attack on
Tokyo" and that within the
next 80 days all organized resist
ance on Guadalcanal will disap-
pear
The secretary, who stopped
here briefly yesterday en- route
back to Washington on his TO-
CO0-mile inspection trip, twice
within the past two weeks was
under Japanese air attack. The
first attack was short one at
Espiritu Santo in the New
Hebridcs and the second, a
much heavier one of seven hour
duration. was on Guadalcanal.
No casualties were reported in
either attack.
With Secretary Knox during
the attacks were Admiral Ches-
ter w. Nimitz, cormander-in-
chief of the Pacific fleet. and
Admiral William F. Halsey,
commander of the South Pacific
force.
II think there are darn good
prospects of an air attack on
Tokyo" the Secretary said at
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IL Pound EDGE
Gave Lillian
the Decision

Lillian Sfangster, %, of 1872
Main street, Armada, today held
Referee" Jack Perin's decision
over Mildred Morris, 33 of 1907
East Jefferson, Detroit, follow
ing their fist fight on down.
town streets Sunday but Justice
Donald j. Parent may reverse
the decision next Friday.
Perrin, a city patrolman, said
the Slangster woman had all the
better of the fighting when the
two squared off on Macomb
street in front of the New Court
lunch at 1920 a. m. Sunday.
A 12-pound pull at the
weights decided the outcome
Perrin said. Miss Slangster
weighted 1877, Miss Morris, 155.
Arraigned before Justice Par
ent today, the Slangster woman
pleaded guilty: the Morris wom-
an innocent. Judge Parent de-
ferred sentence until Miss Nor
ris stands trial before him Fri
day.
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Bond Drive
0ver.the.T
Fishter-PIone
Quote Assured

Mount Clemens residents are
juHilsnt today over the success
of the bonds-for-warplane CAM
paign, which closed Saturday
night $4,000 lover the top"
With the drive tagging more
than $4,000 behind Friday
night, there was much fear and
doubt that the giant undertake
ing could be successfully COM
pleted. Loyal Mount Clemens
turned out in droves on Satur-
day, buying $4,000 worth of
war bonds in that one day alone,
to bring the drive to a rousing
good finish.
WAIT IN LINE
The enormous last minute
rush kept many persons wait
ing line for many minutes. Both
banks maintained bond selling
facilities two hours past the reg
ular closing time of ? o'clock.
Three clerks at each bank were
selling bonds as fast as appli-
cants could be mace out. The
post-office experienced the same
rush, which lasted later in the
day. Hundreds took the respon-
sibility to see that the fighter
plane was a sure thing.
Mount Clemens lis now assur-
ed that a $4,000 fighter plane
named "City of Mount Glenn
ems" will enter the war, and has
also satisfied the January bond
quota of S163 900.
WORKERS APPRECIATIVE
Officials of the Board of Com
merce-sponsored project, which
opened Jan. 10, today expressed
their deep appreciation to eve
ry cooperating organization
United patriotic effort from all
made the huge job possible, they
said, and the tremendous amount
of work in contracting bond
buyers was efficiently accom-
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