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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-25
FIRST CROP:
OF Natural Rubber

Harvesting of the first natural rub
Der to be produced in the United
States was announced by the de-
partment Of agriculture less than a
year after the nations guayule rub.
Der program was begun.
The harvest, in the Salinas valley
of California, amounted to about
600 tons Of raw rubber. 1t was grown
on $50 acres. The source was a
small desert shrub. which must be
planted annually.
The department of agriculture re.
port disclosed that the army made
an investigation 10 years ago into
the possibilities Of the guayule plant
as a rubber resource in the event of
One of the two officers max
ing the report was Maj. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, now a general and COM
mander in chief in the North Afri-
can theater Of war.
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Still Growing

The United States is spending at
the rate of $40. 600, OOO, 900 annually
to supply its Allies with food. i'm
plements Of war and necessary in
dustrial products, Edward R. Stet-
tinius Jr., lend-lease administrator,
told a senate appropriations SUBJ
committee.
Stettinius' lend-lease table showed
that 1928. 900, 900 worth of material
had been sent to Great Britain and
its territories while only $160, 900, 900
worth was sent to China.
The 1913 requirements of the va
rious lend-lease countries have been
submitted, he said. ION the basis
of our best present estimate =.
1943 requirements for food will ap-
proximately double 1912 require
ments." Good requirements up to
January 81 totaled ST, lis, 900, OOO.) 1t
is expected that lend-lease require
ments for other materials will ex-
coed those for 1912.
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sleeps until four at least. Perhaps
twice a week she walks across town,
she is a great walker, and shares our
six o'clock dinner with her father
and me. Also she sometimes drops
in on Donna; she is very fond of the
baby. Perhaps once a month, on her
free Tuesday. she comes to take me
to a movie.
But what ELSE does she do? We
have no idea. She has never been
expansive with US; we don't know
who her friends are, where she usu-
ally dimes. how she spends her
money. It seems a foolish waste to
have those girls sharing a $45 rent,
when there are three empty bed
rooms up stairs in our house, and
good bus lines to the factory. After
all. Emily is our child, still to us the
dear baby whose coming caused such
delight to uncles and aunts and moth
er and father, and we cannot quite
abandon her to what may be a most
foolish and reckless course! That
any fine man will want to marry a
gun-turret worker in blue denim
Stacks is incomprehensible to me,
and of curse I wish marriage for
her, and the happy life of a normal
woman. Both Doctor and I are losing
sleep over it, and think and talk of
little else. I am wondering if you
cannot give me some argument that
will bear weight with Emily, con
vince her that until she married the
best place for her is at home"
My argument my dear Laura
Parker, would be directed toward
you rather than toward Emily. I
think you are the one who is making
the foolish mistake. From what you
unconsciously reveal in this letter l
gather that Donna, the younger
daughter, was pretty and popular,
which Emily obviously is not. Donna
at 10 danced and laughed herself
into an entirely suitable marriage
with her fathers partner, and pro-
duced a fine grandson in record
time. Emily looked on at the bridal
finery and the wedding presents,
went to dine in the new dove-cote,
heard nothing but praises Of gallant
little Donna and her baby.
Emily Develops Own Life.
Emily is human, and she's jealous.
She doesn't want to be just that
rather plain smart older daughter of
the Parkers. coming home at night
to set the table, glance at the paper,
listen to the radio. She's hard at
work now, important work, she's sur
rounded by other workers, all in
dead earnest. She goes back at
night, or rather in the morning, to
her own little place, where she can
loaf and gossip and give impromptu
suppers, and develop her own soul
and personality.
Every day I have a letter from
some frantic mother who puts to me
your problem. Sometimes the girl
who leaves the parental roof-tree is
only 10; sometimes she goes affec-
t%ionately, regretfully and sometimes
dehantly, running away. This trying
out of wings is as natural as breath.
ing and, in most cases, it works no
harm. Left to herself, the girls ma.
ture expands.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-25
SOUTH PACIFIC:
Score: l5-2

The early-February rumors of a
major fleet engagement in the Solo
mon Islands turned out to be no
more than rumors-but only be-
cause the Jap fleet decided against
it.
A navy communique announced
that IS Japanese ships. including IL
~destroyers, were sunk or damaged,
and two American warships were
lost in a week Of furious fighting in
the area-but the fighting was all
of air attacks on surface vessels.
There we're no reported incidents of
warship battling against warship.
Reports indicated that the Jap fleet
preferred not to risk another large
scale naval battle.
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ian economy programs. Eberstadt'
duties were transferred to Charles
E. Wilson, WPB vice chairman.
The move was thought in Wash
ington quarters to foreshadow more
important changes in the WPB
structure. With Eberstadt's dis
missal came rumors that Nelson's
tenure of office was strictly limited.
AS the rumors spread, Bernard M.
Baruch. 7~2-year-old chief of the War
Industries board of World War I,
was the most prominently men.
toned as Nelson's successor.
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ALTERATIONS:
In Nazi Strategy

There yer definite signs in Ber-
lin that German military strategy
with respect to the war in Russia
was undergoing some rather vital
alterations. Some sources indicated
that Hitler himself was no longer
making the important strategic de-
cisions. Rather, said these reports.
the German general staff had taken
over.
If true. there was reason aplenty
for the change. For now the Rus
slams have regained virtually all Of
the territory they lost to the Nazis
when the latter began their 1912
spring offensive. Spring, summer
and fall last year had seer the Rus
slams fall back from a line running
roughly from Leningrad down
through Kursk, Kharkov and Rostov
to as far eastward as Stalingrad on
the banks of the river Volga. And
almost to the Caspian sea.
All this was now lost. For the
Russians had in turn encircled the
Nazi troops before Stalingrad and
then retook that city; the siege of
Leningrad was lifted; Kursk fell,
then Rostov and last to be retaken
was the anchor city of the German
lines-Kharkov. Most experts pre-
dicted that the German generals had
convinced the political leaders that
a retreat to the Dneiper river was
in order. Here, they reasoned, it
would be simpler to stop the Rus
slams. Moscow sources could not
r The Red army fought on
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-25
PRICE CEILINGS:
Here to STAY

The Office of Price Administra-
ton is committed to a policy of
firm price control and, contrary to
reports, does not intend to permit
a gradual increase in the cost of
living.
That was the statement of Price
Administrator Prentiss M. Brown,
who asserted that it was the inten,
Of congress under the emergency
price control act to hold prices to
the general level Of September Is.
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Covering Everything

The Lloyds of London, famous
for underwriting policies insuring
the legs of dancers, the vocal
chords of singers, the heft of cir
Gus fat ladies, etc., have also in
sured the weather. One Hollywood
film production insured itself
against all kinds of weather ex-
cept snow for a "shot" in the
mountains where snow was vital.
Theater managers in England
insure the royal family against
death because this event closes
the theaters during a period Of
national mourning.
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r
Shin Losses Small

Adm. Andrew B. Cunningham,
commander in chief of the Allied
Mediterranean naval forces, has an
nounced that American and British
shipping losses had been less than
2 per cent in bringing 780 ships
totaling $500, 900 tons to North AZ
RIGA since November 8. At the same
time the admiral reported the Ger
man and Italians in January lost
nearly one-third of their ships in
trying to supply their Tunisian
forces.
When asked If the Axis could mo-
Billie enough ships to get their
forces out of North Africa, Admiral
Cunningham said:
Eyes, but I wouldn't like to say
what would happen to them"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-25
WPB SHAKEUP:
And More Rum0rs

When Donald M. Nelson, chair
man Of the War Production board,
dismissed Ferdinand Eberstadt as
vice chairman of the WPB, informed
observers Immediately forecast q
widening Of the already gaping
breach between the WPB and the
army and navy.
Eberstadt, New York investment
banker and chairman of the army
and navy munitions board before
he came to WPB, has been looked
upon as the top authoritative liaison
in co-ordinating military and civil
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-25
ID Ii rs . in the weeks neus

RETREAT: Usually reliable re-
ports from Turkey declare that the
Nazis are fortifying the C%arpathian
mountains in the northeastern ex-
tremity of former Czechoslovakia.
Other reports say that the Germans
have constructed a series of defense
lines in the eastern section of Po-
land. All Of which would indicate
that the Nazis r preparing for q
broad retreat into western Europe.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-25

ALEUTIANS: Weather stations off
Siberia allow Jap air and naval units
to follow fog and storm eastward to
the Aleutians for military action.
The elements which move eastward
in this region, give the Japs per.
feet cover.
INDIA: Prominent Hindu bust.
ness men Joined in the plea to the
Indian government to rele are Mo.
handas Ghandi.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-25
Coolidge's Rebuttal

Calvin Coolidge once debated q
bill in four words, while serving
in the Massachusetts legislature.
A fellow senator, who opposed the
bill, had viewed it from every
alarming angle and had begun
each one of his objections with,
1T is -" Mr.. Coolidge rose to
answer him, and, speaking sol
EMMY and a little YEARLY, re-
piled, "Mr. Speaker: It isn't"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-25
ONE PLUS ONE
Why is it, that the more vol

Why is it, that the more you
huve to do, the more you can
do? A married ,uoman uho
works can usually manage to
get her houseuork done in the
few minutes she has left at the
end of the day. When she
giues up her job to devote all
of her time to her house,vork,
it takes all of her time. One
reason may be, that the busy
Woman sees her job Tor her
house,Uork) as a lot of sep
arate tasks and doesn't worry
too much about the total. "One
plus one" you kno,U, is far less
terrifying than "two." Why
not try it yourself ,Uhen you
feel you haze too much to do?
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-25
FINLAND:
Ryti Again

The attention Of three strong ma.
tions-the United States, Russia and
Germany - conferred on Finland
when that small nation reelected
Risto Ryti president, thus extending
his tenure in office to March /, 1915.
Germany hailed Ryti's reelection
as a "plebiscite Of the people" ap.
proving Finland's foreign policy.
Transocean News Agency reporting
from Helsinki said: This election
was a demonstration for Ryti and
his foreign policy, and thus against
the Anglo-American war Of nerves."
Americas attention was drawn q
short time after the balloting by the
college Of electors when the domi.
nant Social Democratic party council
in a manifesto urged friendlier rela-
lions between Finland and the United
States. It was hoped in many
sources that relations between the
two nations, troubled for some time,
might be smoothed.
Russia looked with sardonic y
upon the Finnish press which en-
phasized that Finland was independ-
ent of Germany. One newspaper
noted that Finland is fighting a
purely defensive war. Our alliance
with Germany is purely accidental"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-25
Acid INDIGESTION

Relieved In S minutes or double money back
When excess stomach acid causes painful. suffooss.
ing gas. sour stomach and heartburn, doctors usually
prescribe the fastest-acting medicines known II
symptomatier eief-medicines like those In Bellies
Tab1eta. No laxative. Bell-ans brings comfort In
fifty or double your money back on return Of bottD
10 q. 2e 1t al druggists.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-25
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

Department of Agriculture Forecasts
frightened Civilian Rationing Orders;
Losses Alter Nazi Military Strategy;
Lend-Lease Reaches 10 Billion Yearly
EDITORS NOTE: When opinionss arr expressed in these eolqmn. they are those Of
Released by Western Newspaper Union. -
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Peace Proposal?

Authoritative reports that the Fin.
nish government has requested Swe.
den to sound out London and Wash.
ington on the prospect of a separate
peace between Finland and Russia
have been received by the Allied
governments.
Finland's conditions for peace
stipulated Finnish independence, a
frontier compatible with Finnish
honor and interests, and that the
United States and Sweden should
guarantee that independence and
territorial integrity.
Although Britain is at war with
Finland, it was natural that the
Films separation from the Axis
would be welcomed. The view pre-
vailed in London that Finland should
enter into discussions direct with
Russia,
Evening star., 1943-04-09
SendtePasses
Libera|ized j, :,
Pay Increases
$500 Minimum Set:
Ceiling Eliminated;
Conference Due
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

The Senate today passed and
sent back to the House an
amended wartime pay bill for
Government employees, continu-
ing the present temporary in
creases in most cases and treat
ing more literally those in the
low salary brackets.
The principal Senate change in
the House measure would give a
$500 increase after April 30 to those
for whom the present 216 per cent
increase is less than 500 for a 48-
hour week.
The Senate measure also gives a
fiat $500 to those now receiving a 10
per cent increase above November
salary levels in agencies where work
is not on an hourly basis-princi-
pauy In the legislative and judicial
establishments.
A third Senate provision elimi-
mates the $4,000 ceiling in the tempo
rary law, which means increases may
be granted above that limit, but
computed only on the first $4,000
OF annual compensation.
Held in Line With New Order.
1t is expected the two branches
will now send the bill to a confer
ence committee for final settlement
Of differences next week.
Asked by Senator Vandenberg,
Republican, of Michigan during the
debate whether the bill collides with
President Roosevelt's drastic but
appropriate order forbidding wage
increases above the Little Steel"
formula, Senator Mead. Democrat,
OF New York, sponsor of the meas
ure, declared:
This in no way violates the
Presidents new order. There is
nothing in it at variance with his
message"
A Senate committee amendment
to deny the benefits of the bill to
any Government worker belonging
to union that Disseminated on
grounds Of race. color or creed, was
Kept in the bill on division vote.
Extension rails.
Senator LANCER, Republican, of
North Dakota. failed. however, in a
motion to extend the discrimination
ban to wage-board workers In NAVY
yards, who are paid under other
laws.
Senators Mead and Brooks Re-
publican, of Illinois, defended the
LANCER amendment, asserting it was
intended to prevent discrimination
by unions whose members work in
Navy yards. The amendment was
opposed by Senators Russell, Demo-
crat: of Georgia, and Byrd, Demo-
crat, of Virginia, who urged the
Government has no control over the
management of unions, as private
organizations.
A last-minute effort, launched last
night, to put employees of the Fed
eral and District governments on a
regular time e-and-a- half basis for
overtime, which would have made
the wartime increases 80 per cent
instead of 2l,6 per cent for 48 hours,
was abandoned today. No one in
Evening star., 1943-04-09
Agreement. TO Place
Ceiling on Live Hog
Prices Reported
Decision Called First
Result of RooseveIt's
Anti-|nfIotion Order
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Government intends
shortly, it, was learned authori-
tatively today, to roll back the
market price of live hogs from
current levels Of nearly SIG a
hundred pounds to about $14.5O,
and at the same time provide
support prices" to give hog pro-
ducers additional payments.
Officials, who asked that their
names be withheld, indicated that
Price Administrator Brown and
Food Administrator Chester c. Da-
Wis had agreed on such a program
and would issue a public statement
later in the day. 1t was understood,
however, the statement merely
would announce that the action
would be taken soon, and the actual
order was not expected today
The action, which actually has
been pending several weeks, was
described as the first major result
of President Roosevelt's order last
night to hold the line" on all farm
prices and wages.
On Capitol Hill Mr.. Brown him.
self said that in line with the Presi-
dents order regulations now are
(see HOG PRICES. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1943-04-09
VINO Helps Create
Turnover Problem,
Spokesman Admits
Army Anxiety Grows
Over Shift of War
Workers to Forms

The War Manpower Commits
sion has helped to create the
turnover problem now harassing
industry, a VINO spokesman ad-
mitted today.
His statement came in the wake
OF growing War Department anx-
iety over migration OF men in war
production back to the farms.
Speaking in defense of VINO
stabilization programs. the spokes-,
man commented that the rate of
turnover doesn't always measure
the effectiveness of stabilization
efforts.
The War Manpower Commits
sion,'" he said, sometimes creates
turnover itself"
He cited as examples the nom
deferrable list which threatens the
draft for men in non-esSential work
who fail to transfer to vital activi-
ties; the back-to- farm pressure
and the effort to remove men with
logging experience from Pacific
Coast shipyards despite a shortage
of shipbuilding workers.
Asked if there was some hope for
finally getting men into permanent
work. without shifting them from
agriculture to industry and back
again, he replied that the whole
problem is dividing up a total of
too few men. Future production de-
mands. shifts from one type of pro-
duction to another and new tech
nical methods which may replace
men with machines, he said, are all
factors in influencing stabilization
He indicated that the back-to-
the-farm movement had been ini-
tiated because we've got to be sure
we have enough farmers. We can't
gamble with food"
VINO spokesmen confirmed, how
ever. the protests of the War De-
partment over the drift back to the
farms and disclosed that commit
tees from VINO and the War De-
partment will get together next week
to discuss the problem.
Evening star., 1943-04-09
so Fl. Be|voir Soldiers
Become Citizens Here

Sixty soldiers of % nationalities
from the Fort Belvoir Corps of En-
gineers today were sworn in as
American citizens in special cere-
mony before District Court Justice
F.. Dickinson Let's.
Only officer in the group was 1t.
Cy Rose, %, Of Chicago, a native of
London, England
Those naturalized included ma
tives of Mexico England, Germany
Italy, Sweden. Norway, Greece, Rus
sia, Spain, Ireland, Rumania, France,
Austria, Holland, Canada. Scotland
Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Portu-
gal, Czechoslovakia, Cuba and Yugo-
Slavia.
Evening star., 1943-04-09
| st. EHzobeth's
Visitor Given
| Bike by Patient

Warning him that he should never
accept gifts from strangers, Judge
George D. Nelson today sentenced
George F. Lucas, colored, to a $50
fine or 80 days in Jail for the theft
CT bicycle from DR.. Winfred Over
holser, director of St. Elizabeth S
Hospital.
Judge Nelson's warning and SEN
tence came after the defendant told
the following story:
Il went to visit friend who was
a patient in the hospital. When I
came out man was standing by the
bicycle rack. He said, DO you want
a bicycle?' I said, Sure He said.
Take any one you want thanked
him and took the shiniest one there.
Judge, 1 didn't know he lived
there" said the defendant.
Evening star., 1943-04-09
New Pay-Go Tax Plan
Proposed in House

A compromise pay-as-you-go tax
plan designed to put all taxpayers
on current basis by July was ad-
vanced today by Representatives
Newsome, Democrat, of Alabama
and Compton, Republican, of Con-
necticut.
The proposal by the two freshman
Representatives would reassess levies
on 1912 income on the basis of 194l
rates and exemptions and provide
that the March Is installment, al
ready paid, and the June Is INSTALL
ment be treated as payments on 1943
income
This, they said, would exempt ap-
proximately 100000 new taxpayers
from any Indebtedness prior to l943,
while all other taxpayers would re-
ceive an abatement equal to As per
cent OF their 1912 taxes. The re-
manning SIS per cent would be paid
over a period of five years in equal
annual installments. Effective July
l. a 20 per cent withholding tax
would be placed in effect.
Evening star., 1943-04-09
| Markets Tumble
| As Spectators
| Rush to Unload
BY the Associated Press.

by lne Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 9.-The Presi-
dents new anti-inflation drive to-
day touched off the heaviest selling
in securities markets since the Nazi
smash at France.
Stocks tumbled 81 to Sc share in
dealings that approached the 3,OOO,-
000-share level and the ticker tape,
near the close, fell three minutes
behind actual transactions on the
floor of the stock exchange.
Bonds were equally weak, Com
modties, however, cut early losses at
the finish.
At Chicago wheat was down about
2 cents a bushel at the opening but
ended with net recessions of l to
l3s. Hogs lost 10 to 20 cents. Cot
ton gave up SIS cents to $l05 a bale.
Evening star., 1943-04-09
558,551,000-BusheI
Winter Wheat Crop
Estimated by u. 5.
703,253,000 Produced in
1912; Acreage Total
Is 81 ,482, 900
A. P. Photo.

The Agriculture Department
estimated today that the l943
winter wheat crop will yield
558,55l 900 bushels, compared to
703 ,253 900 bushels produced last
year, and l0-year average pro-
duction of 55O,181 900 bushels.
The estimate was based on April
l conditions.
I The area planted to winter wheat
last fall was 37,482 900 acres, COM
pared to SO, ,339 900 acres the pre-
Vlous year and l0-year average
planting Of 48,039, 900 acres.
The Crop Reporting Board last
December forecast a production of
624 ,504 900 bushels, based on condi-
tions 88 per cent of a normal on
December l. indicating an acre yield
of 1877 bushels.
Winter damage, the board said.
has resulted in loss of acreage
indicated at 1914 per cent. This COM
pares with abandonment of ST. per
cent in 1912.
Conditions April /, the Crop Re-
porting Board said, indicate a yield
of l49 bushels of winter wheat to
the seeded acre. compared to 1873
bushels year ago and 1l4 bushels,
the l0-year average acre yield.
The condition of rye April l was
81 per cent of normal. compared
with 81 year ago and IS, the 10
year average.
Pastures were 80 per cent of nor
NAL, compared with 81 per cent a
year ago and 73, the 10-year aver
age.
Early potatoes in Southern States
were 78 per cent of normal, COM
pared with rs year ago and rs, the
l0-year average.
Peaches were 48 per cent of nor
NAL, compared with II a year ago
and IS, the l0-year average.