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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, 3. APRIL 2, 1943 I. S. Steel Reports 1942 Produetioo 28 Per Cent Greater Than World War I Peak United States Steel Corporation's An- nual Report lor 1942. reporting attain ment of a steel ingot tonnage production financial story—ol a great war effort. Production by U. S. Steel in 1942 of more than 30,000.000 net tons ol ingots i well as the manufacture of a steady war were , _ _ _ Chairman ol the Board ol Directors, in his review ol the year contained in the Corporation’s forty-first annual report. The victory parade ol steel Ingots was as only one of several principal contributions ol U. S. Steel to the war effort. These contributions were enu merated as follows: 'Tirst, a record vol ume of steel and other materials needed not only lor the fabrication of essential war products but also lor the creation of new facilities to make such war products has been produced. Second, the technical ability representing many decades ol accumulated research and experience has been made available lor the requirements ol the Government. Third, the construction and operation of vast new facilities for the Govern ment in connection with the war effort have been undertaken. Fourth, millions ol dollars ol U. S. Steel's funds have been expended lor various facilities contributory to the war effort.’’ A one-page condensation of the «n»nrlai record ol the Corporation lor . nple disposition was made 51.SB2 r the year describes in simple language 'e ol the : from sales of its products anTser- the yi what L »I.865.951.692 received by the tion from sales of its product! vices during 1942. Employment costs of *763 million in 1942 were 25% greater than for the previous year: 1942 taxes of *204 million were 21% more than in the preceding year; while dividends to stockholders remained uncbangad. ’"he amount carried forward for future needs of the Corporation was 78% less than in 1941. Among achievements cited is the de velopment ol the airplane landing mat. The serious problem of handling plane landings on hastily built air fields was solved with the war-time invention by Caraegle-IUlnois Steel Corporation, a U. S. Steel subsidiary, of a landing mat. consisting of portable interlocking steel sections. It was pronounced the out standing development of the year in the field of aviation by the Chief of the Array Air Force. As mass production methods were evolved, other companies were licensed to use the process, and thirty smaller manufacturers are now producing these landing mat sections in quantity. Tne report reveals that in 1942 one subsidiary. Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, completed more destroyers for the Navy Department in shorter building time than any other shipyard in the country. A new ship yard built by this subsidiary for the Navy Department began operations five months after ground was broken. A fully equipped shipyard for the produc tion of the latest type of tank landing craft was constructed and is being operated for the Navy Department by American Bridge Company, another . /in Interesting comparison of the use of U. S. Steel's own resources and of Government funds for the expansion of emergency facilities undertaken by U. S. Steel from June, 1940. to the end of 1942, shows that the ratio of U. S. Steel's investment to the use of Gov ernment funds was 65c of its own money to every dollar of Government funds used. This compares with a ratio for all industry of 27c of private funds to one dollar of Government funds. In this expansion program, U. S. Steel's private investment was *282.000.000, as compared with *436,000,000 of Govern ment funds expended, making a total of *718.000,600 expended in the program.— Ado. Maine Shipyard* To glimpse the new maritime activity in its old-time setting it is fitting that one go to the 300-year-old ship building city of Bath, Maine, near where the Virginia, the first vessel built on the American conti nent, was launched in 1608. Kittery, where the Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones, was built on Badger island, offers ships of today. Almost as famous a* the ships they sailed were the homes that Maine sea captains owned ashore. These precious symbols of file past show the fine old Georgian mansions seen in Maine's coastal houses. Of inter est to visitors is the “Captain’s .Walk’’ on the root Tradition has it that the captain ashore would pace the “walk” as if it were a quarter deck. When they were afloat and homeward bound their wives would utilize it a* a vantage point from which to watch for the returning vessel. Watch Army Addresses If a soldier writes you that his ad dress is “A.P.O. No. ’’ care of postmaster at a certain city, don’t try to visit him in that city, for you will not find him there, the war department has warned. ‘‘A.P.O.” merely means “Army post office,’' and mail is sent in care of the postmaster of a particular city from where it Is forwarded to the soldier who may be either with troops on maneuvers somewhere in this coun try, or with those serving overseas. The soldier to whom the mail is ad dressed will not be found on duty in the city to which the mail is ad dressed in care of the postmaster. Cnt Smoke Pall Salt Lake City’s anti-smoke ordi nance. stringently enforced during the last year, has cut in half the density of the smoke pall that used to hang over the city, whose sur rounding mountains make a natural smoke harbor. Gets 500 Transfusions A young victim of regenerative anemia recently received his 500th blood transfusion in a New York hospital. Nine-and-a-half years old, the boy’s system is unable to build up red corpuscles, and it is neces sary for him to get a pint of blood whenever the deficiency recurs. Otherwise, the youngster is normal. He roughs it on the outside and stands at the head of his class. He talks freely and finds much amuse ment In comic magazines. He has a three-year-old sister in perfect health. Army Salvages Material Salvage materials, including tires, tubes, scrap rubber, scrap metals, clothing and textiles and other mis cellaneous items, are being collect ed at overseas bases of the United States army and returned to this country for further use in the war effort It is planned that where mil itary operations permit, salvable materials will be gathered from bat tlefields. Salvable materials, how ever, will not be returned to the United States, when disposal in for eign areas will aid in the successful prosecution of the war. THE BLUEPRINT FUTURE No more worries, no more care. No more future need to fret; Everybody’ll get his share From his country. Wanna bet? No more forging to the front— It was something of a crime— Dead the “rags to riches” stunt; Laws will do it all in time! Gone the old trail-blazing way Of the fit and tough and free, Government will see that they Find trails opened by decree. No more “shack to palace” stuff— Out with “May the best man win!” Smooth’d will be all journeys rough— Congress will protect YOUR chin! No more strong types pressing on— No more extra-feathered nests . . . Bid the pushing type begone! Bar the whiskers from all chests! No more Algers—not a one! No more bootblacks making good; Legislation will, my son, See to that, it’s understood. No more hare-and-tortoise game— (Hares will be controlled, and how!)— Tortoises will get the same Breaks that hares are getting now. No more “Upward, onward!” cries No more praise for ambish keen; Everybody lives and dies On the lower mezzanine. No more bothering to plan, No more “upward to the sky”; Welcome to the standard man, Each one like the other guy! No more “hitch your wagon to Some far star that brightly gleams”; Hitch it to the planners who Also standardize your dreams. • • • DELAYED (There is the spring that should be here? IT here are the songbirds, gently hum ming? Cone are the snotvs of yesteryear— But more keeps coming. —Ethel Collins. • • • A half dozen men convicted of black market meat operations have been given jail sentences in New York. We understand they are al ready figuring out ways to “cut” the terms, evade the sentences and get around the whole matter. • • • If the black marketeers go to the hoosegow we trust the food will be of a quantity and quality to give them plenty of cause for complaint. • • • The height of irony would be one of these meat racketeers be hind the bars lamenting, “The place ain’t so bad, but the food is awful.” • • • The trouble with many people is that when they speak of getting down to bedrock they think more about the bed than the rock. • • • It may be true, but it seems highly im probable that a man turned on his radio recently and did NOT get a war commen tator. • * » Elmer Twitchell thinks there should be some sort of a flag or insignia to paste in the windows of the homes of husbands whose wom enfolk have gone to war. • • • He suggests a design, the back ground of which shows a sink full of dishes. In the foreground would be unwashed plates, denoting: 1 plate—Wife in uniform. 2 plates—Wife and daughter in uniform. 3 plates—Wife and two daugh ters in uniform. 4 or more plates—Every fe male relative in uniform. Come in and help dry the platters. • • • Ima Dodo can’t get the withhold ing tax idea straight. She thinks it means congress is going to put a point valuation on money and with hold everything from salaries over eight ounces. • • • There will be a 5 to 10 per cent rise in liquor prices soon. This is fair warning just in case your pres ent bank won’t accommodate you with a big enough loan for another bottle. • • • Elmer Twitchell can’t wait for shellfoods to be rationed so he can annoy the waiter by asking how many blue points he will have to give up to get a half dozen blue- points. * • • The National Resources Planning board’s 40,000-word plan for taking care of everybody from the cradle to the grave eliminates all troubles and responsibilities. Except those that will arise if its methods of elimi nating them are ever tried. • • • BLACK MARKET OPERATOR His grasping hands and itching palms Grab all that they can snatch. He sports a scheming mind as black As coal—with heart to match. Who’s News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. XJEW YORK.—When Maj. Gen. ^ ^ Robert W. Crawford talks in earnest, his thin, small mouth twists and the words come out of one eor- mr sv ner after the Keeps Cans, Gas, manner of Grub Rolling to t h e 1 a t e. Men in N. Africa Cohan. The gener al is in North Africa now, talking in earnest to keep guns and grub and gasoline rolling to the American army there. He commands the Middle East Service of Supply. He reached Africa around the middle of January and had a whole month of ease before work caught up with him. Before that he commanded an armored division at Fort Knox. The chances are that in Africa he has lost weight. For him it would be an easy matter, because he has al ways been one of our plumper men- at-arms. In the last war the guys in the trenches used to rib the SOS with pointed mention of non- fighting soldiers. They talked that way even when the supply trucks ran Roche barrages like ducks diving into a shower of No. 3 shot. Very likely the talk in African fox-holes is the same and with even less reason, for in these days of fluid fronts the Crawford cargo crews are as likely to find themselves along side a Mark VI tank as a purely American supply point. In snch a dilemma the general instructs the crews to say “Vot iss!” in a loudly deceptive voice if they feel it will help, but above all to get a-rolling. General Crawford is of the army’s elite on two counts. He was gradu ated from West Point. He took the best post-graduate courses, War Col lege, Command and General Staff school. He is a New Yorker, 52 years old and was three years out of West Point when we went to war the last time. A captain then, he finished a lieutenant-colonel. This was fairly close to par for the year and a half course. A MBASSADOR CLARENCE E. ^ GAUSS, starting toward bond- weary Washington from bomb-weary Chungking for consultations, should OnWayHereWith n^w^w'e First-Hand Tale of need about War-Weary China p u hin ® the tip of his tongue. Except for a couple of turns in Paris and Australia, he has served all his diplomatic career there, and his career runs back to 1907. Shanghai wes his first post. He was deputy consul, after a while spent at stenography in the house of representatives. Then he was consul at Amoy, Tsinan, Mukden, and finally counselor to the legation at Peiping. Washington was his birthplace and he got back now and then, marry ing a Los Angeles girl on one visit. Maybe her preference turned him to the Paris consulate. The Austra lian assignment came later. He was our first minister there. But when an ambassador to China was need ed two years ago he packed up and went back to his old stamping ground. He has been a quiet ambassador. He has a lean, quiet look and a shrewd one too, behind neat spec tacles. When he smiles a dimple that is practically a sinkhole appears in his right cheek. This is because he smiles so much more with the right side of his sharp mouth. The effect, though this description may ipake it seem otherwise, isn’t bad at all. TN RUSSIA a Bolshevist by any A other name is just as Red. Thus Trotsky was really somebody else. So is Stalin. And Vycheslav Mikai- ,, , lovich Molo- Lthe Trotsky and toff whose Stalin, Molotoff department Altered Moniker of foreign af fairs consid ers Admiral Standley’s brusque speech, was bom Scriabin. Molotoff means hammer, plainly a better way to call a man who set out at 15 years of age to break the old Imperial government. Molotoff’s official biography says he was bom the son of a shop assistant. That was 53 years ago. By 1905 he was a professed Marxist, and a year later joined a bolshevik group. Ten years later he was on the Bolshevik Central Committee. Meanwhile he and Stalin had met, and started their newspa per, Pravda, and Molotoff had been arrested or exiled thrice. Both Lenin and Stalin schooled Molotoff, and he likes to tell of this. He likes, too, to boast that he is an old Bolshevist, an early bird among the revolutionists. In Russia he is called Stalin’s chief aide. He is, actually, vice premier as well as commissar of foreign affairs but when the Russians say chief aide, they mean to point to his loyalty to his superior. He is Stalin’s Har ry Hopkins. Molotoff is heavy, but not fat. His hair has grown gray, but his thick mustache is still black. His mouth is strong, confident. His wide fore head tops off a face more than ordi narily good looking. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. G RACIE ALLEN sets an ex ample for all radio and movie stars to shoot at. Asked to pose digging in a Victory Garden at a huge department store in New York, she ar rived right on time — though she’d been up late doing a benefit — liked the clothes she was to pose in, complimented the store because she wasn’t mobbed for autographs. “Sometimes when we’re traveling we hardly get a chance to eat, because people want to talk to us,” she said, then added, “But if it weren’t for the radio pub lic maybe we wouldn’t be eating!” Incidentally, broadcasting still scares her, because she gets to think ing of all the thousands of us, who are listening to her! * Danny Kaye, one of the most amusing men on the stage, has re ported to the Samuel Goldwyn stu dios for his first picture, “Tip in DANNY KAYE Arms”; he should be a riot on the screen, but sometimes what’s funny on the stage just goes flat before the cameras. * A touching scene in “The Human Comedy” takes place between Mick ey Rooney and five-year-old Bntcb Jenkins, who plays his brother. Butch had to wear a long night gown—and flatly refused. Finally Mickey, with Bntch riding on his shoulders, disappeared, to retnrn with Bntch in the nightgown. “I told him that Back Rogers and General MacArthur wear ’em, ev ery night,” Mickey explained. —*— In addition to his regular weekly radio appearance with Guy Lom bardo on “Three-Ring Time” Ogden Nash, is collaborating on the script of a new musical, “One Touch of Venus,” which will star Marlene Dietrich; he says that she’s not just beautiful and movie-wise, but is also a very creative woman with decid edly individual ideas of her own. What Marlene thinks of the humor ist we don’t know. * Most actors of dramatic parts in radio yearn for a good comedy spot which will land them on the road to fame, but Alan Reed, “Solomon Levy” on “Abie’s Irish Rose,” re versed things; he started as an ace stooge for Fred Allen and other comedians. After getting a good start that way, he branched out into straight character acting both in ra dio and the theater. * Everybody’d like to know how Grace George, the celebrated ac tress, was persuaded to make her motion picture debut in “McLeod’s Folly,” the first picture which the new producing firm of William and James Cagney will make for United Artists release. —*— Donald Duck’s voice made a per sonal appearance in the lobby of the New York theater where Walt Dis ney’s “Saludos Amigos” was play ing. It belongs to Clarence Nash, who’s been doing the Donald Duck voice since 1934, beginning with “The Wise Little Hen.” * The first scene that Zoltan Korda planned to shoot for Columbia’s “Somewhere in Sahara,” on loca tion in the desert near Brawley, Calif., called for a search by a unit of Nazi mechanized troops, dying of thirst, for an abandoned, dried-up water hole. But—came torrential rains. So Director Korda thought fast—and the script’s dried-up wa ter hole became a brim-full water hole, poisoned by Bedouins! The famous 19th Bombardment group, America’s most - decorated squadron, will be glorified in “Suzy Q,” forthcoming film about our fly ing forces in the South Pacific. It will have an all-star cast. * ODDS AND ENDS—Ginny Simms made some extra dollars by selling half a dozen cows from her San Fernando ranch to Bob Burns . . . “‘Madame Curie" sets a new record for props, with more than 7,200 in dividual items . . . That cute dog you’ll see in “Swing Shift Maisie" passed the tests for “Dogs for Defense" with high marks, but didn’t get in because his legs were too short . . . Harry James and his band, appearing in the film version of ‘Best Foot Forward" have been signed by Metro for another picture; in it James will play a role ... Maybe Merle Oberon really is retiring from the screen to become a housewife! U. S. Sub in Jap Waters By Lieut. Slade Cutter, V. S. N, (WNU Feature—Tbroufb special arrangement with The American Magaiine.) Our United States submarine had been operating against the enemy in the vicinity of Japanese-held is lands when, one afternoon, our cap tain, Lieut. Parks, called me to his cabin. I thought his eyes gleamed with unusual excitement, but he only said casually, “Good news, Slade,” and handed me a wireless he had just received. I held it to the light and read: “Proceed at once to the coast of Japarf—” Sometimes it is difficnlt to re press an impulse to whoop with delight, and this was one of those times. This was the mo ment we had lived for, the mo ment every submariner dreams about. A Surface Engagement. We turned and cruised steadily westward. The Japanese coastal pa trol system extends many miles to sea and is painstakingly thorough. The first time we got very close to shore before we were spotted. Just before daylight, as we were preparing to dive, a patrol boat came at us with its guns spitting. We didn’t want to waste torpedoes—we were a long way from replacements —so decided to fight it out with our deck guns. It was our first surface engagement and it proved almost disappointingly brief. One of our first shells struck the enemy’s magazine and he simply disintegrated. We cruised over the area, but found no survivors. Sink Tanker in 3 Minutes. A day later, in the same neigh borhood, we spotted a big tanker about sunrise. After some maneu vering we gave him three torpedoes. All were hitr. The third struck aft, and must have exploded his boilers. There was a terrific blast that threw parts of his bridge clear over his mainmast, and he sank in three min utes and four seconds. He went down by the stern, his bow rising high in the air, to give us an excellent view of the rising sun painted on it. We surfaced and cruised among the men in the water, intending to give them emergency supplies, but a bomber came winging out from the land and we had to dive. At this time we were in the busy steamer lane between Yokohama and Singapore where important tar gets might be expected. So, when Lieutenant Pleatman saw a heavy smudge on the horizon, we hurried over to investigate. It proved to be a troop transport of 13,600 tons, heavily loaded with men and sup plies and escorted by a large de stroyer. It was headed for Singa- po^re. Sink Transport and Freighter. We had a ticklish problem. The destroyer was weaving a zigzag course which could not be predict ed. It was a long time before we could maneuver into a position off the transport’s port beam. We gave- her two torpedoes. Both hit. Be fore we could turn, the destroyer was coming for us full speed, fol lowing down the torpedo tracks. We dived and maneuvered to safety. When the destroyer had to leave us to pick up surv vors, we raised our periscope in time to see the trans port settle slowly on an even keel. An interisland freighter was our next target. We decided to attack with our deck gun to save torpe does, so surfaced at point-blank range and let go. We had fired 17 rounds, when three things happened simultaneously: Our gun jammed with a projectile wedged in the bar rel, their ship caught fire, and the Japs surrendered by striking their colors and running up a weird as sortment of white cloths rang ing from sheets to underwear. They took to their rafts, and their ship continued to burn until she sank. During the daylight we cruised along the sea lanes at periscope depth seeking worth-while targets. Nights, we would surface in a quiet spot, usually in the lee of one of the many small islands, to charge our batteries. It was there that I smelled for the first time the strange, haunt ing fragrance of the Japanese for ests. At dawn we lay offshore for a long time, watching the people. Lieutenant Connole, standing periscope watch one morning, electrified the ship by reporting: "Target off the starboard bow!” As we moved up to let her have it, we discovered that she had been masking an escort destroyer. He was on her opposite side; we couldn’t hope for a more favorable opportu nity. Without delay, we fired a bow torpedo. It had barely left the tube when the destroyer swung sharply and came charging toward us. We fired another torpedo into his path. What followed was a submariner’s dream. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT WOMEN’S HOSIERY Mall orders accepted for Full Fashioned improved Rayon Stockings. Two good shades of tan. All sizes, $1.00 a pair. JOHN RICK - West Leesport, Pcnaa. RAZOR BLADES KENT BLADES BULBS Brighten Tear Garden. Plant Ranunculus. 100 flowering size bulbs prepaid, $1.00 cash. Full cultural instructions. 10 Anemone bulbs free if you mention this paper. Peter son Bros., 239 Olive St., Inglewood. Calif. MISCELLANEOUS After “Armageddon” What???? 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