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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
FARMING WITH FIRE
Government Tests Weed-Killing Flame Cultivator Which Promises 20-To-1 Reduction Of Labor
By BETTY MACDONALD NEA Staff Correspondent

Washington, D. C., July 7-T'he skeptical Hawaiian overseer survey ed the acres of newly planted sugar cane, then gave the order to his Filipino gang boss:
 "Okay start her slowly over this section Hit a little over half a mile an hour. .'
 The overseer watched as the tractor nudged past him and strad- dled the first long mound of cane. The bright green spears were about two feet high, laced with weeds that needed immediate attention.
 The Filipino turned in the tractor seat.
 Now, boss?"
 The overseer nodded. Let CT go, boy!'
 Twin flames shot out from the front of the tractor through two pincer-like tubes. The driver ad- justed the burners like a careful housewife until the flames narrowed to scarcely perceptible blue lines held close under the leafy tops of the weeds.
 FOUND WEEDS DEAD
 All day long the gang boss thread ed his tractor back and forth across the field, That evening he turned in his report-45. .45 acres. He had used six gallons of Diesel oil.
 The overSeer and plantation of- ficials were no longer sceptical the next morning, whe nthey rode out to the field Scarcely weed was standing! Instead, the men saw thinned, waving lines of young cane. The flares had blighted the leafy weeds but the heat wasn't strong enough to harm the thick lower stalks of cane.
 Several weeks later, the inventor of the flame throWer, Major Price | McLemore, received an enthusiastic account Of his machine from the Honolulu Plantation Company. The | letter was similar to reports he'd had from many southern planters. The fame-thrower works. Addition al experiments in heat and timing were being carried out
 Major McLemore, an Alabama planter spent ten years improving, perfecting studying the device in his own fields.
 If the cultivator can be put into mass production in the near future, it promisse to be of great aid in relieving the critical manpoWer shortage that threatens the war effort from the cotton plantations of Alabama to the pineapple and cane lands of Hawaii The back breaking work that 200 laoorers did in day with hoe and spade now can be done by crew of 10 and flame thrower, which will work day and night, rain or shine. OTHER TESTS MADE
 Already at government experi- ment stations Department of Agri- culture experts are testing the culti- vator in the corn, cotton and cane fields of Alabama, Iowa, Mississip- pi. Texas, California and Louisiana. Once their approval is given, WIPE material alocations alone are neces- sary. Metal involved is about 1,500 pounds. Total cost runs around
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

near Belgorod, large German pan- ger forces pushed as far as the Soviet forward positions, where they finally were dispersed with heavy losses by Russian mortar and artil- lery fire.
 Front dispatches said the Ger mans were supporting their attacks with huge air fleets, but despite large endorsements from the west had not achieved aerial superiority. Red air force fighters ripped and even tommy guns in the hands of infantry contributed to the toll of enemy aircraft.
 The Germans paid with more than 100 tanks for the capture of the two villages near Belgorod. 50 miles above Kharkov, the Soviet Tuesday midnight communique said, and then were forced to give ground slightly in the face of the Russian counter-attack.
 A special communique placed Ger man losses between Orel and Bel forod yesterday alone at 433 tanks ~~-%N NAA tiNAASso, pdG llCtd IlSlJdlCllcS said the German commanders were hurrying fresh units into battle in an attempt to achieve large-scale break-through at all cost.
 A hint that the Smolensk front, opposite Moscow, also may explode into action soon was seen in the Soviet high commands report of active reconnaissance hv hotb sides" in that sector. At one point. a Soviet patrol penetrated barbed wire entanglements, broke in to the enemy defense line and killed nearly 200 troops in a hand-to- hand struggle.
 On the Kalinin front, northwest of Moscow, German troops and tanks twice attacked height wrest- ed from them only late last month. Concentrated rifle and ~-ortar fire dispersed the first attack.
 The second attack, launched after
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
26 Waterbury Youths
 Join Navy In June

Smotas of 81 Dreher avenue, Ray mond w. Martineau of 15 Fourth street, George R. Huntley of 206 Willow street, Raymond Naylor of 51 Catherine avenue, Arthur J. Nelson of 46 1-2 William street, and Rudolph Maxwell Dickerson of 51 Goss street, all of Waterbury, Joseph A. Cenicola of Seymour, George Mikulak of ForeStville, Harry R. Master bone of Bristol,
 Thomas Dickson of Thomaston, William H. Judd, 3rd. of New Haven, John F. Gracy of South bury. John P. McDermott of Nau- gatuck, Ronald L. Norton of Northfield, Michael J. Brunette of Bantam, Everett L. Linnell of Terryville, Wallace E. Truss of Southington, and Charles B. Cur tisS of Bantam.
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(Continued from Page D tWo-Way night assault on the Cat ania area.
 RAF Wellington bombers and American and South African med ium bombers from the Northwest African forces bombed the main Gerbini airfield and it's four satel- lite landing grounds, as well as the Port of Catania.
 Almost simultaneously, RAF heavy bombers from the middle eastern command raided railway in- stallations and yards at Catania. Bomb bursts were seen in the rail- way station area and on sulphur refineries. Anti-aircraft defenses also were attacked.
 All bombers from the middle east earn command returned safely from both daY and night attacks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

sive actions must and will be taken In proper time," implying that the oew offensive in the SouthWest Pa- cific is at least one phase of the promised attack on Japan.
 He reminded China that on April 28, 1922, he said ways will be found to deliver airplanes and munitions of war" The people of Chungking had only to look skyward to see the first step in the fulfillment of that promise-the air transport route from India-bringing in precious, though limited, supplies
 On Feb. 12, 1943, Roosevelt told she Chinese that "our policy toward our Japanese enemies is a policy of lighting hard on all fronts and end- ng Uar as quickly as we can on the uncosnpromising terms of uncondi- .ionsa surrender"
 Finally, as encouragement to China to have faith that her long light will be rewarded, the president suotod his words to Congress on Jan. 7, 1943: From this war, China will realize the security, the pros perity and the dignity which Japan has sought so ruthlessly to destroy"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
FOR AND JONES
 WALLACE DISPUTE
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be avoided. The record so far indi- cateS that lot of congressional Democrats are reluctant to mix in- to the Wallace-Jones dispute.
 The House Rules Committee yes- terday voted to 5 against an in- uuiry. The vote was said to have been on a strictly party division. : However, that may have been, the record showed that Democratic membership of the powerful com mittee was reinforced by one mem Der before the vote was taken. Be- tween a morning hearing by the committee on the investigation resolution and voting time in the afternoon, the house filed vacancy by electing Representative George J. Bates, D., Mass. He replaced Representative Jack Nichols, D., Okla, who resigned from congress.
 Reports of grass roots repercus- sions ae likely to be especially eff fective in guiding the Wallace Jones dispute to some kind of public adjustment. AS it stands now, each of the highly placed officials says the other is lying about the circum- stances under which adequate SUD- plies of certain strategic materials were or were not obtained.
 Washington is accustomed to off, cial disputes, but in this instance appears to have under-etsimated the impact upon the public of so gaudy an affair as that which sud- denly developed between the Vice President and a cabinet officer
 As it stands now, Walalce has the advantage of having gotten in the first lick. But he suffers from the disadvantage of having been the individual who decided that the spectacular controversy should be fought out in public. There is en- phatic denial here that MT. Roose- welt was aware that Wallace in- tended to go to the public with his charges against Jones.
 Representative Richard B. Wig ellsworth, R., Mass, author of the rejected house investigation resolu- tion, told the house today that the people will demand a full inquiry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

strong artillery preparation, carried through to the southwest slope of the height, but a Russian counter attack restored the situation. More than 200 Germans were killed and five tanks destroyed.
 The Germans hurled 400 tanks and strong infantry forces against a single narrow sector of the Orel- Kursk sector of the southern front yesterday, the communique report ed. but ran into whitening fire from Soviet artillery, infantry and tank busters that destroyed or disabled no tanks and wiped out 5000 off, cers and men without yielding a foot of ground.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

Total munitions, no change; air. craft, up five per cent; ground ord- nance, down three per cent: navy and army vessels (dollar value) ur two per cent; merchant vessels (dol- lar value) down fsIr per cent; mis- cellaneous, down seven per cent.
 The report advanced no explana. tion of the May slump.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

(Continued rom age D ough investigation of the various clements of the case, it was report ed.
 The labor recruiting drive plans are progressing satisfactorily, it was reported, with several separate plans of action under consideration by the committees. Meetings have been ar- ranged with newspaper advertising, theater. and radio officials and de- tails of the campaign are being formulated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

A pilot light, the same type used in an ordinary cook stove. keeps the flame constantly lit despite jogging on rough terrian.
 Weeds aren't instantly burned to a crisp. They wilt, then shrivel up within four hours. A slight scorch- ing of the lower few inches of stalk, an occasional loss of lower leaves, is the only damage done the crop plant. The ratio of heat and speed must be worked out by the operator.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

$500.
 Major McLemore's early design involved flame jets of a commercial pattern made by the thousands in several plants to day. These are mounted on a tractor trailer. The cultivator is fed by ordinary fuel under pressure, spreading pencils of fire close to the soil surface on op- posite sides Of the crop rows. The burners are staggered so that the tongues of flames miss each other
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

His nine sons having joined up in the war, sixty-year-old M. Van Herden of Vasco, South Africa, still hale and hearty, wanted to go too. but his work on the railroad was declared essential.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

Over 1,500 mules were recently imported to the MeXicali area of Mexico to replace farm tractors which are becoming useless because arts cannot be obtained during the lar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

To alleviate the gasoline shortage, Argentina will grant loans to motor bus, truck and tractor owners who will convert their machines to the use of charcoal burners as gas pro- ducerS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
ROOSEVELT SENDS
 CHINA MESSAGE

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
HARD RED BLOWS
 BACK UP AXIS

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
WING HEADS
 GIVE WARNING

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
ALLIES KEEP UP
 SICILIAN RAIDS

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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
Consumers Are Advised
Not To Hoard Stamps

RALEIGH, May 23-Consumers
were advised today by the Office
OF Price Administration that they
will gain no rationing advantage
by holding back purchases of pro-
cessed foods this month until near
the month-end.
, No mid-month changes will be
made during May in the Official
Table of Point Values of Process
ed Foods. AS result, blue stamps
Go" 'H' and -" which are
valid through May 81, will buy
no more and no less in the last
days of the month than they do
today.
The announcement is in keeping
with OPA policy in providing for
the falr-sharing of foods under the
point rationing system, applied
first to processed foods and later
to meats and fats. Under the
policy, point values will changed
at the time new Official Tables
of Point Values are sent to stores
for posting, which will always be
around the beginning of the month.
Interim changes in point values
are made only when developmets
of a totally unexpected and un-
predictable nature arise.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
New Shoe Ration Stamp
Will Become Valid Soon

RALEIGH, May 23-Stamp 18 in
War Ration Book l will become
valid June 16, 1943 for the pur-
chase of one pair of shoes, the
Office of Price Administration an
nounced today.
No definite commitment can be
made at this time, OPA said, as
to the length of the period for
which stamp >18 will be valid.
From present indications, how
ever, rationing officials express
the hope that the number of pairs
of shoes available for release to
civilians will make it possible to
maintain the same one-pair-per:
stamp in slightly more than four
months as provided by stamp II.
Each member of a family has
one stamp 18, interchangeable
among members of the family
living in the same household.
The validity period Of stamp II
will be announced about June Isl
when production and supply data
now being received have been
thoroughly considered by al
agencies involved.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
SAMPSON MAN
HEADS J0UAM
W. E. Hobbs Elected 10
Post of District Coun-
cillor For Group

CLINTON, May %. - Election
of w. E. (BilD Hobbs, well known
Clinton postoffice clerk as district
councillor and Raymond L. Flake,
also of Clinton as district secre-
tary-treasurer, featured the annual
spring meeting of the 26th District
Junior Order United American Me-
chanics held at the Elementary
school building here this week.
Other officers elected for lS43-44
were Vice Councillor, E. R. Carl
ton. Warsaw; Junior Order Home
trustee, M. J. Tornton, Clinton.
State Councillor Flanagan pre-
sided over the meeting in the ab-
sence of the district councillor and
during the business session, a re-
mort on the order in North Carroll
na was presented by State secre.
tarv Shearin of Scotland Neck and
r R. Carlton, retiring trustee for
the district on the Orphan Home
board reported on the affairs OF
that institution.
Before adjournment, the dele.
gates, representing IS councils OF
the 26th district, voted unanimous
ly to accept the invitation OF Gin
ton Council No. $50 to hold the
annual fall meeting here. .. -.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
N. E. MERCHANTS
CONVENE TODAY
Annual Convention To Be
Held In Raleigh For
Two Days

RALEIGH, May %. - tR - The
North Carolina. Merchants Asso-
citation will open its two-day 41st
annual convention here tomorrow
Meeting in conjunction with the
merchants will be the Credit Wo-
mems Breakfast clubs, the N. c..
Retail jewelers. Association and
the states Associated Credit Bu-
reaus.
President C. c. Shell of Roanoke
Rapids will give the annual presi-
dents address at the first general
session tomorrow. Other speakers
will include David R. Craig of
Washington, president of the Amer
lean Retail Federation, and May
or Graham Andrews of Raleigh.
Speakers at other general ses-
sions will include L. S. Gilbert of
Atlanta, manager of the Credit
Service Exchange; Donald R.
Longman of Washington, chief of
the distribution branch, service d.
vision, of the Office of Civilian
Supply; DR.. Ralph W. Mcdonald
of Chapel Hill, gubernatorial can
didate; Joseph. H. Liston of Wash
ington, chief of the WPB speak
ers' bureau, and Harold D. Cooley.
congressman from the fourth North
Carolina district.
Governor Broughton will make
an address at the annual banquet
Tuesday night.
Officers of the Merchants Asso-
citation, in addition to Shell, are
F. R. Stout of Greensboro, first
vice president; Clyde R. Greene Of
Boone, second vice president; Will
lard L. Dowell of Raleigh, execu-
tive secretary, and T. c. Hinkle
of Charlotte, treasurer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
Dauies Awaits Summons
From Stain To Deliver
Answer To FDR's Letter

SCOW, May 23.-P)-
Joseph E. Davies awaited to-
day another summons from
the Kremlin to receive Pre-
mier Stalin's reply to Presl-
dent Roosevelt's secret letter,
before making plans to return
to the United States.
There still was not intlnia-
ton of what was in the presl-
dents letter.
The special envoy has re-
ceived a reception seldom, II
ever, accorded a foreigner.
His guest house is a scene OF
daily parades of officials who
have talked with him long and
friendlily.
Davies, whose health was SO
delicate he was accompanied
by his personal physician, has
complained twice that he was
very tired, but otherwise mas
shown no apparent strain from
his second mission to Moscow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
Horse Hair Sofas Seen
Only In Antique Shops

CHARLOTTE, May % - The
horsehair sofa, is only a memory
now, unless you collect antiques.
The War Production Board has
announced that horse hair can no
longer be used for civilian pur-
poses, but only for the manufac-
ture of mattresses, parachute
pads and saddle packs for the
armed forces.
The action does not affect inn
ported drawn hair which is only
suitable for the manufacture OF
brushes, but it is expected that
as a result of the order one and
one-half million pounds of horse
name hair will be made available
to supplement the supply OF cat
tie tail hair, which has been IN
sufficient to meet the requirements
of the military
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
OHIO COAL LABOR
TO RESUME WORK
Unionists In Six Bitumin-
GUS Mines Vote To
Return To Jobs

BELLAIRE, O., May 23.-LP -
Unionists who refused to enter SIX
Ohio luminous coal mines be-
cause Of delays in obtaining a
new contract with operators voted
today TO return to work, Adolph
Pacifco, vice president of District
3. United Mine Workers, announ-
ced
Pacifico reported that nearly O.
0DO men would resume work at
midnight tonight in the Willow
Grove and Dunglen shafts of the
hanna Coal Co., the Powhatan
mlne Of the Powhatan Coal Co.,
and the Bradley Of the Jefferson
Coal Co.
About $50 men at the Florence
MI NINE Of the Y. & 0. Coal Co., and
-'O at Campbell's Run of the War
aef ColAery Co. will go back to.
morrow, he added. The stoppages
started last Thursday.
a. raclflco said UNIV members in
s mie SIX mines voted to return tc
n.,ll mulh ourlng efforts to negotiate a
NV So contract before expiration o1
oes oecond truce May 81.
,va. aclleo reiterated that the mer
siens %ere SICK and tired of exten.
ro. iney want contract and it's
;s ;s'soiaole to assume that if there
wo,l h0 contract there will be nc
"Oih after May 81" he stated
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
IN, E. STRAWBERRY
CROP PRICES UP
Output OF Farms Compel
ing Favorably With
Other Areas

RALEIGH, May 23.-lA-Desplte
competitive shipments OF straw
berries from eight other states
North Carolina berries continue 10
bring high prices on terminal ana
state auction markets, A. B. Har-
less. state Department OF Agrlcul-
+,,re market newsman, said today.
Prices of good berries have rang
ed from $4.25 to $11, mostly
aroind So, per 24-quart crate all
season. Only a small percentage
have sold under Sc. Last season
auction prices ranged from $1.5o
to $6.25.
l.. Auction markets in Burgaw,
Chadbourn, Mount Olive, Tabor
City and Wallace have one of the
highest averages in their history,
Hairless said.
All berry-producing states are
experiencing a short crop, he said
North Carolina producers have
marketed about 100000 crates te
date, compared with almost 500, ,OOt
crates during the same period las
year.
Louisiana growers have shipped
1,O66 cars of berries this season
contrasted with 1889 in 1912, anc
Tennessee producers have market
ed 1876 cars compared with 633 las
year, Hairless said. Shipments
for other states also are compar
atively light.
Hairless said that peak ship
ments have been passed, but tina
recent rains are expected to i'm
prove yields and extend the har
vesting season into early June.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
Camp Davis Mess Head
Tries To Better Foods

CAMP DAVIS, May %. - "Let' s
make the food we serve our sol
diers so good that they will wipe
their plates clean. That will not
only keep our men happy but will
help in the battle to conserve
food" That is the theme Major
Michael M. Mendlow, mess inspec-
tor for the Antiaircraft Artillery
School, Camp Davis, has intro
duced into his daily conferences
with mess sergeants.
Stressing that cooking is an art,
Major Mendlow's conferences are
intended to educate mess SER
geants in the finer points of the
art. ''These men are well trained
in the rudiments of mass cooking.
However, no one can ever know
too much about the art of cook
ing" he made clear. ''1t is our in
tention to make them so proficient
in the art that they will be in great
demand after the war as chefs"
The daily conference with mess
sergeants is an idea instituted by
Major Mendlow and, so far as is
known, is not practiced elsewhere
in the Army. The daily meals are
cooked first 'on paper Just how
each meal will be prepared is dis
cussed before the actual meal is
underway.
Similar classes for mess officers
are planned by the school mees in
spector. These classes will cover
messing in the field, garrison and
even on trains. All that officers
should know to make their messes
'tops" in food will be in the
course.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24

In the short time that Major
Mendlow has been at the AAA
School, bakery for the school S
purposes has been put into opera
ton. He is now working on soda
bar and sandwich grill in the
school area. Baked goods of all
types will also be sold.
Major Mendlow not only knows
his food, but knows the Army
from way back when" In 1917
he made an enviable record as a
regimental supply sergeant in
France. Back in civilian life he
followed his fathers line by going
to work for one of the largest
wholesale packing and grocery
firms in the country, Seaman
Bros. Inc. His starting pay was
about what a private gets in the
Army. But he worked his way up
to be a senior member in the ma
tional firm. He later became
known as one of the best informed
men in culinary arts. No phase o1
the intricate field Of food, its pres.
ervation, distribution and prepara'
ton has escaped his notice. Food
is his business as well as his hob
by.
Prior to coming to the AAA
School, Major Mendlow supervised
mess activities at the School of Ap
piled Tactics at Orlando, Florida
This school gained a well deserv'
ed reputation throughout the Army
for the excellent food prepared
there. Communications from high
ranking Army officials have beer
made to the major on the basis o:
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
fHRYsLER STRIKE
WILL STOP TODAY
INV Union Members De-
UNIV :1.d To Resume La
'''bo bor At War Jobs

DETROIT: IT. MAY Snited d Automobile
Srs Of tllT t1r1o) involved in strikes
Workers we Cl,7ed half dozen war
| rhich paGa,yTslk p: aGrahyTsler. corporation n here
pIants Of tEorn3ally Err today to return
to WORK 'O sar,e time, two union To-
Gals. in n,i9fs 51sss carried the War La
union chlsIs s,s order for an immedi-
a; ste resln,pTTysll Of Leo Lamotte as
! ID the rerlo'sh he unions Chrysler
director u
division, ,o,rse of strikes which WI aaa
. In the e'r- approximately $4,000
/ had maze MAJ !, 'ss six plants, Lamotte
men idle III III 4 +ha+ Walter Reuther,
had charSSsa ch5.a!S}sent t'' Of the union, had I.
vice preslaem, resi-; malkouts in order to
eai5 sails'r political advantage III '''e
UAT,clofi U;cs ocal 8 and chrysler % Lo- L
Dodge 5s IN n0vri unanimous 13 votes de-
"o,.nasdn o, dns2ns3ss, s2mGttss PRESIDENT Of Lo.
Earl = sss'.gesdI' seSssrged at his groups !s 5
meeting s1nge Ua'' a political football out
th;s strike"