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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-12
ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE

While MOuntbatten' ultimate
purpose, in view of China's ur-
gent need for supplies, must be
10 reopen the Burma Road, it
is not considered compelling
that his first blows should be
against Burma detectives He
might coordinate an initial land
offensive in that direction with
an attack on the enemy occupied
Andaman Islands in the Bay Of
Bengal Or, given an adequate
amphibious force, he might by
pass both points to strike at
Malaga or at Sumstra at the
western tip Of the Dutch Indies
opposite Singapore.
Whatever the direction of the
attack and whatever its force. it
would serve the immediate pur-
pose of dlverting Japanese
strength from resistance TO the
main American drive in the
south Pacific.
How soon Macarthur will be
able TO bring his campaign 10 D
climax, presumably in a battle
for the enemy's south Pacific
strong point at Rabaul. can not
yet be determined The con.
quest of the Island OF Bougain-
vile, where Marines and army
troops are now fighting, is re.
garded here as an essential pre-
lIminary 20 an assault on Rabaul
and the., Japanese are said 10
have $4,000 or more troops in
Bougalnville.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-12
Pacific
Continued from Pare One

ANuAAHhtu AiNAll AAf OAAN
ply lines arc cut American
stratcRiSts have no intention Of
taking all the numerous posi-
tionS which the Japanese hold
there The plan rather is 10 cap
ture certain key islands with
airbaSe possibilities and leave
the enemy TO his fate on the
others
KY AIR ROLE
The importance being attach
ed 10 air-borne strategy was un-
derscorcd by yesterdays an
uOunComent that an air officer
had been appointed commander
of Marine forces in the south
Pacific He Is Mai Gen Roy 5.
Gciger, an aviation officer well
verSed in amphibious and aerial
warfare.
The central Pacific offensive
could start any time. Admiral
Nimltz said IN HAWAII this week
that the fleet now has the ships,
planes and men with which to
do the job Nimitz spoke so
frankly OF what was IN store for
the Japanese in that region that
he seemed 10 some Washington
observers to be inviting them TO
Try 10 stop him
Less is known Of Mountbat-
tens strength than of Nimitz's.
British and American spokes-
men have made clear that the al
lied conquest of the Mediter-
ranean released British fleet
units for service against Japan
and presumably they have now
been based on India Moreover
Mountbatten has a stable force
OF British, colonial and Chinese
trnAnr
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30

and trailers, as well as binders,
combines, picking machines and
other mechanical aids to planting
and harvesting essential war crops.
Facilities for storage Of crops are
sometimes another item for him to
handle.
Assistance in the various loan and
purchase programs instituted by the
Food Distribution administration
and Commodity Credit corporation
is made available through the AAA'
committeeman. Increased produc-
ton of peanuts, soybeans, hemp Gum
der special program), castor bean
seed, Irish potatoes, and many 9TH
er crops has been greatly aided by
such programs. New applications
for insurance on the 1913 cotton crop
will be handled by the committee
man, and he will in addition keep
farmers informed of the availability
of loans, insurance and payments
under the program.
Program detectives Of AAA also
vary in certain instances from past
planning. Emphasis is falling still
more heavily on the need for better
yields, per acre. To achieve this,
more attention is being given to pro-
duction practices which immediate
ly increase yields.
About activity in the use of lime
and phosphate, contour cultivation
and terracing, for example, is being
urged. Over three-fourths of 1943
production practice payment funds
for the country as a whole will be
used to promote such "quick" helps
to better crops. In the East Central
region, about 80 per cent of such
payments are going for promotion of
this immediate-yield program.
Production practices, reports
show, are feeling the "localizing" in
fiuence just as are other branches
of the AAA program. Formerly the
rates of payment for different prac-
tees were worked out on what might
be termed national basis. This
year the various regions determine
the soil building allowances for the
farms in their particular areas, with
relation to the particular problems
involved. In the Southern region
each state has its own basis for de-
termining soil building allowances,
Reason for this localization is OBJ
vious. Production practices may be
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30

true of dairy products and meat.
Goals for most crops are mimi
NUNS, calculated as the least pos
sible amount which will keep the ma
tional efficiency at reasonable lev
ell, and at the same time provide for
the armed services and war plant
workers and give assistance to
Americas Allies.
AAA committeeman and the farm
ers, working hand in hand, are do
ing their best to develop and carry
through the most efficient and pro-
ductive individual farm programs
they can. Problems of every sort
stand in their way-labor, machin-
cry, transportation and material
shortages being paramount.
BY their close personal co-opera-
ton, however, they make possible
an equally close relationship be-
tween the farmer and his govern
ment.
Americas farmers have a ire
mendous production job ahead OF
them. Demands for food such as
they are now attempting to fill have
never before been made upon any
nation Last year they upped pro-
duction IL per cent over Al. Another
5 per cent increase is hoped for
in '43.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
Grandma Learns
B|ueprinting in
Aircraft School

In San Diego there's one school in
a great building left over from the
San Diego exposition-another in a
church-another even in a once
vacant storeroom. They're crammed
with students the like of which has
never been seen before.
Two grandmothers, one white
haired, the other pink-cheeked and
marcelled, bend together with COM
pass and rulers over adjoining desks.
They are both learning to be me-
chanical craftsmen, to turn out their
share of the ten acres of blueprints
required to build a single flying bat
tleship.
"How on EARTH" you ask the Con-
solidated Vultee teacher, do you
manage to guess that grandmoth-
er can learn some engineering, when
she decides she wants to helpsinsthe
war;"
cts not so difficult at that" you
are told. First we look for evil
dence of artistic talent. Perhaps a
woman has done painting, or draw
AlS, VI AllC al 10 0CSlSA. CAAioRo
she laid a career aside to bring up
family. If she can draw, and if
she is intelligent, we can easily
teach her mechanical craftsman
ship. She is straight on her way
into the engineering department"
In California, where the airframe
industry of the nation centers, lit
orally hundreds of thousands of peo-
pie have gone to school, and are to-
day at work doing precision jobs.
Most of them were never before in
a factory.
In an age that has been called
revolutionary, here we have the real
revolution.
The lure of wartime money is not
enough to have done this. In San
Diego, for instance, Consolidated
early realized that the sort of work.
ers needed must be appealed to on
the basis of their patriotic willing
ness to serve.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
PLAIN TALK:
Business Gets Lecture

Silver-thatched Commerce Secre-
tary Jesse H. Jones gave business
in general some of his native Texas
"plain talk" when he appeared as
a speaker before the Committee for
Economic Development in New
York.
Pointing out that the nation can
not indulge in another depression"
but must pay the costs of this war
which he said had been estimated
at around $50 billion dollars, Jones
said 'the problem will be to pro-
vide jobs at a living wage for every
person willing to work"
Business must form its own post
war plans and meet the problems
ahead with its own practical solu-
tons if it does not want the govern
ment to step in and do the planning
for it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
AIR RAIDS ~-
Sardinia to Stuttgart

From Sardinia to East Prussia,
Allied bombers struck at Axis-held
Europe with increasing fierceness
as the tempo of "softening up" raids
continued to rise. British, Ameri-
can and Russian planes had stimuli
taneously taken the offensive. ~
Among spectacular raids was the
vast British foray against the big
German industrial city Of Stuttgart.
Observers reported that planes on
this raid could be heard roaring
across the British Channel toward
the continent for an hour and half.
Nazi radio broadcasts were the
authority for reports that Red air
forces had raided Koenigsburg in
East Prussia three times within a
five-day span. sa It. q
American Flying Fortresses con-
tinued to destroy Axis shipping IA
cilities with Furnishing attacks on the
port Of Cagliari in Sardinia.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30

4
ton Of Real Estate Boards, the OPA
ruled that any such changes would
be in conflict with the Presidents
orders ITO hold the line" against
imitation.
Commenting on the realtors sug-
gestions, Price Administrator Prem
tiss M. Brown said that while the
proposals do not explicitly request
any general increase in the rent
level, their adoption would clearly
achieve such a request"
While the OPA is considering a
few minor changes in its rent rules,
Brown asserted that so far as the
basic program is concerned, 81 do
not intend to alter either its method
or administration.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30

expects Of him and what it is doing
to help him circumvent obstacles
that present themselves.
Adjustment, the process Of help
ing the farm operator to scale his
crop production upward or down.
ward to fit into the national agricul-
tural picture, has always been one
of the major activities of AAA. It
helps farmers meet production
problems by providing guidance and
assistance in producing the kinds Of
crops that are needed in the re-
quired amounts, working in cooper
alton with other units of the depart
ment Of agriculture.
Community farmer committeeman
in 1912 totaled $4,000 regular elected
committeeman and about $1,000 al
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30

Government plans to grow nearly
half a million tons Of hemp annually
promise to restore to Kentucky the
hemp industry for which the state
was first distinguished.
Kentucky's blue grass section was
adapted to hemp. Seed had come
to the Colonies from Europe; vir-
GINA supplied Kentucly's early
planters. IN time practically ~
hemp ia the United States Was gzQNn
from Kentucky iced. 4 generation
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30

ago, the state was stilI producing
nearly a quarter million pounds OF
seed a year. Grown for its fiber,
the hemp shoots up seven to ten
feet, and IA feet when cultivated for
seed.
Homespun cloth was woven from
the fiber by wives and daughters Of
settlers. A later use Of the fiber
included the making Of bagging, cot
ton baling, rope and sailcloth, Early
ii The last century Kentucky had .
dozen mills making hemp basginG;
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
Battle for Air Control

While Gen. Menryo Sato. chief of
the Nipponese military affairs bu-
reau in Tokyo threatened Jap air
raids on the United States, enemy
planes continuing battle for con-
troll Of the air over a wide area at
the approaches to Australia mount
ed 100-ship raid at Milne Bay,
New Guinea. Allied fighter planes,
alert to the danger, shot 80 of the
enemy raiders out of the sky.
Meanwhile, Allied air forces rang
ing over the vast battle area de-
scribed by Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thur as "our bomber line-the first
line of Australian defense attacked
a Japanese convoy of six merchant
ships and three warsf1ips approach
ing the enemy base at Wewak, $50
miles north Of Pert Moresby, New
Guinea. Three Of the merchantmen
were hit, including i've 8,000-ton and
one 5,000-ton ships.
IN answer to warnings from Cen
erals 4MacArthur's headquarters of
the Increasing strength Or Jap air,
sea and land force concentrations
threatening Australia, Secretary Of
War Stimson promised that enough
planes would be sent to the South
Pacific to- counter the rising Jap
power. ae8e -f~ -7
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30

The 1943 farmer is on his
honor!
Like the boy taking an exam
ination at school, it's up to him
and him alone. He's strictly ION
his own"
Under the 1943 agricultural
adjustment agency plan, the
farmer for the first time has the
full responsibility for measur-
ing his acreages on specific
crops and reporting the results
he gets. Formerly this was done
by AAA employees, but the new
scheme will conserve travel, cut
down wear and tear on tires and
cars, and decrease the use of gas
and oil.
Now it is up to the farmer to
check on his own fields.
He appears to be happy about
this change in program admin
istration, department of agricul-
ture reports show. While AAA
committeeman - themselves
farmers-will continue to give
him every assistance, the re-
sponsibility for carrying out pro-
duction plans and doing his
share in the national program
rests with the individual opera
tor. u
Spot checks will be made periodi-
cally to determine the status of COM
munity and county production, and
farmers are being asked to keep
records and lay out their crops so
that reports can be made easily and
quickly.
Goals this year call for about 5
per cent more production than in
1912. Basis for the 1913 AAA pro-
gram to reach these goals is focal
action" It recognizes that the job
Of production adjustment-of shift
ing crops to meet war needs and
planning acreage to the best adj
vantage-must be worked out and
carried out on the individual farms.
1t can't be done in Washington, say
the committeeman. It must be done
locally, to conform to the local stu
alton.
Instead Of a national overall goal
formula" each state and county
has been left free to adopt the means
which seem best suited to the par
ticular section concerned. Wide lat
itude is given the committeeman in
making goal assignments. They are
not only allowed to determine such
assignments on capacity Of the
farmer to produce" basis. They are
expected to use such yardstick.
Capacity to produce varies accord
ing to the character of the farm
land, machinery and labor availa-
BILE, and many other factors. Each
region has its individual problems
which must be taken into ,considera-
ton in determining what the specific
area may reasonably do in given
period. .e M
AAA Committeeman Will
Keep Government Informed
The role of the AAA committee
man will be that of an important
go-between who keeps the govern
ment informed on the farmers prog
ress and problems, and the farmer
informed on what the government
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
HIcHLIGHTs -. in sh. ssst'. nsv.

BERNIE: Germany which melted
out aerial punishment to Britain
three years ago has learned what q
bitter experience it is to be on the
receiving end of Allied bombings. A
statement quoted here from the
Strasbourger Nachrichten says:
1--WE must admit the war has taken
q turn we had not foreseen, Sad, too,
Is the fact that we have no means Of
preventing air raids. * '3'a'.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
Farmer Plots Crop Acreage Under New
AAA Program; Agency to Assist Drive
To Meet Record Wartime Production
Raise Yields Per Acre;
poblemsW Be DeatW ION Loc1

more easily adapted to the individu-
al areas and the individual farms
within them. In turn, available funds
may be used to the best advantage
and with the greatest efficiency.
Acreage limitations have been re-
moved on a number of crops which
previously had such limits. Except
for short staple cotton, tobacco and
perhaps one or two other crops,
farmers are urged to exceed their
goals in 1913. This is particularly
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
Kentucky Once Was Center of u, S. Hemp Industry

40 producing hemp rope for fast clip
per ships and other merchantmen,
and for the growing U. S. navy.
Lexington was market for hempen
goods.
Foreign competition cut domestic
output. Abaca, so-called manila
hemp, from plant Of the banana
family, made better rope at less
cost. Jute supplanted hemp for
many uses. Also Kentucky planters
found tobacco Z more profitable cxop
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30

BUEA10Es AIRES: Seven members
of the 'creMlqf the scuttied German
pocket battleships Efaf Spec ESCAPED
during leave here from an intern
mepta camp ON Martin Garcia -
land, government sources were in
formed. Authorities were reported
searching for the men, More than
800 Nazi sailors from the ship have
escaped since they sWere inferned ia
Argentine threo years ego.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30

ternates. County committees totaled
1929 with 9,087 members. The coun-
ty committeeman are responsible to
the state offices, which in turn re-
port to the regional offices. Uncle
Sans millions of farms depend upon
the AAA committeeman to keep them
informed of changing phases of the
overall national program, OF the
states particular part in the 1943
farm plan, and of the numerous de-
tails having to do with production
goals and how they can be met.
AAA county chairmen are also
chairmen of the County Farm
Transportation committees, which
issue certificates of war necessity
for mileage rationing, and the Coun-
ty Farm Machinery Rationing COM
mittees, which ration many types
of farm equipment. In the matter
of labor shortage, the community
committees report localized needs
to the county committee and war
board chairman, the latter then car
rying the problems on to the proper
authorities.
Chairmen Of AAA state and coun-
ty committees head up the war
boards which correlate the efforts of
department of agriculture agencies
to assist farmers in their war pro-
duction.
Getting the right fields into the
right kind of production and getting
higher yields out of every acre
through better farming practices is
the basic theme of the committee
mans work in 1913.
Committeeman Will Help
Arrange Cooperative Action
Among his activities is helping to
arrange cooperative use of scarce
machinery and cooperative trans
portation programs. Many locali-
ties already have worked out sue
cessful schemes for sharing trucks
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
DIES COMMITTEE

Although its publication was de-
layed a year because Of an intra-
committee split, the Dies commit
tees special report to congress on
prewar Nazi espionage nevertheless
served the purpose Of further con-
vincing the American people Of the
far-hung plans Of the Axis for world
domination.
More than FIVE years ago, the re-
port set forth, Hitler and his Maxi
party had put into operation in this
country . .'diabolical scheme for
spreading Naziism.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
MEAT,
Ceilings Deferred

Following through on President
Roosevelt's directive to froli bach"
thatcost- of living items found too
high, rOPA Chief Prentiss M. Brown
suspended until May II the price
ceiling schedule ON beef, veal, lamb
andz1nutton. .sgs4s4 49, u sr. =. X
Meat trade sources disclosed that
the slPA.had received complaints
that ats previously proposed stand
ard spRices on these meats would
hasel resulted IN higher prices. -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
FOOD:
You'll Get Less u, '43

Controversies might rage over
whether the Office OF War Informal
ton had or had not sugar-coated its
estimates of forthcoming food short
ages, but the sober fact remained
that civilians will have at least s
per cent less to eat this year than
they consumed last year.
Warming that the food situation is
serious, owl experts said, 'There
will be more or less continuous
shortages of some kinds Of food
such as canned vegetables !.
candy meat products. Civil
ians, however, will get enough to
eat. In fact, compared to the pre-
war years they will have about 8 per
cent more food.
Among food supplies on the debit
side for 1913, owl roughly estimat-
ed: II per cent less meat, 81 per
cent less butter, II per cent less
cheese, 3 to Is per cent less canned
vegetables, q per cent less canned
and shell fish. Among items on the
credit side, owl calculated: 80 per
cent more chickens, 81 per cent more
margarine, Is per cent more frozen
fruits, z per cent more wheat and
IS per cent more rye. Listed among
food supplies that will be about the
same as last year were: Fresh and
frozen fish, eggs, fluid milk and
cream, lard and other cooking fats,
fresh citrus fruits, potatoes and
sweet potatoes. IS
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
RUSSIA:
Spnrirsg. Tactics

Still sparring like prize-ighters
seeking advantageous openings, the
Red and Nazi. armies on the far
flung Russian front held each other
off in preparation for the cudgelling
blows that fall when dry ground
makes movement possible. tl
! Military activity was confined to
minor skirmishas. In the Kuban
valley of the Caucasus, the Russians
mounted attacks which resulted in
the capture of a series of pillboxes
and trenches from the German de-
tenders. 81
In the Donets river area the Ger
mans attempted another offensive in
the Izyurn sector, but were repulsed,
a Soviet communique said. North
Of Chuguev in the Kharkov area,
Russian artillery was credited with
dispensing German infantry batal-
lion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
TUI:NISIA:
81 to 3

AS the Allied armies closed in on
the Axis last mountain. bastions in
Tunisia.q the gravity of Marshal
Ronmel's supply problem was shown
BY the heavy, German reliance on
aerial transport from Sicily.
That this supply problem would
become even more critical was evil
dent from two facts: 1.-The Axis
had lost all but three airports in Tu-
nisia; 2-RonamePs thin supply line
was being tmenacingly depleted by
American, Flying, Fortress attacks.
Typical Of the potency of the
American aerial offensive was a
raid on Axis rear bases at Castel-
vetrano and Milo in Sicily in which
"a enemy planes were destroyed
with the loss of but three American
aircraft. {. /, fl,
With. the Mediterranean at their
back, the forces Of Rornnael and Col.
Gen.o Won, Arnirn were 'hemmed into
an area less than the size Of Con-
necticut in dNortheast DTunisia.i The
Axis Gid, hdweuery ihave the aadvan-
tage. Of holding mountainous posi-
tions difficult for the Allies to storm.
The strongly fortified ports Of Tu-
mis- ana HizeTte were the Allies final
goal. Operating under the supervi-
sion of Commander-in-Chief Gen.
Dwight D.. Eisenhower, 1.-the British
First army in the North, American
and French forces in the center
and General Montgomery's British
Eighth army on the South steadily
closed the trap. on the Axis, A9
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
RENTS:
No Boost No,U

Landlords and tenants were in
formed by the OPA that present
rent regulations will be continued.
In rejecting rent control change
proposals by the National Associa
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
owl Predicts so Cut in Food Supply;
Bombers Strafe Italian Supply Ports
AS Allies Close Axis Tunisia Trap;
u. S. Promises Macarthur More Planes

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sReeae dby NewApapef Union.