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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Let's Face Facts Container Shortage A Primary Headache For Farmer in 1944 By BARKOW LYONS It is the advice of this correspond ent that every farmer and shipper who requires wooden or paperboard containers to ship his crop to mar- ket make ar rangements as soon as he can with used con tainer dealers to supplement his supply of new con tainers. It would be well to get those used con tainers into his possession just as soon as possible. Barrow Lyons This advice is given because the demand for containers, both new and used, is certain to exceed the supply this year. If you do not know the address of a used container deal er, hunt one up in the nearest ter minal market, or if you cannot do so yourself, get your commission house to send you the address of one. The reason for this caution is the fact that for several years consump tion of forest products has exceeded production, and stockpiles in most instances are at an irreducible mini mum. Yet military and industrial requirements this year will be at an all-time peak. Lumber has be come one of the scarcest commodi ties in general trade, and it is going to be scarcer. The War Production board has an nounced a system for allocating lum ber to each type of user according to the importance of that type to the war effort. No doubt adjust ments will be made as experience indicates errors that have been made in this allocation. V»e Local Committees t Coordinating with this order, local committees under War Food admin istration will determine specifically what each shipper will receive with in the quotas for packaging of va rious classes of fruits and vegeta bles. Quotas of containers for the less essential vegetables will be cut down on the basis of a percentage of what the shipper used in the 1942 crop season. Each shipper will be expected to offer proof of the quan tity of containers used in 1942. The general situation was outlined by R. A. Palen, chief of the Con tainers and Packaging Branch, Of fice of Materials and Facilities. WFA. “It is impossible at this moment to know just how short of forest products we shall be,” said Mr. Pa len, “because it is impossible to cal culate exactly what military de mands will be. “We do know that inventories have been practically exhausted. Al though we expect to get some addi tional help in lumbering from war prisoners, this will not compensate for the loss of men drawn into the armed services, and additional num bers that will leave the forests for shipyards and industrial plants. “There will be no relief from this situation, so far as we can fore see, except when direct war require ments decline, or men return to the woods after their release from the army and navy. Mil'.tary Needs High “So far as machinery goes, trac tors and trucks will be required in greater numbers for beaching op erations and military transport, and the tires on this heavy equipment are the same as those used on guns and military trucks. “Packaging of food requirements for the army and navy are way up, and are hkely to continue very high. We shall have to move vast quanti ties of foods off shore for lend-lease and other governments. Of course, we must preserve a flow of essential civilian suonlies—but the word es sential will come to have a new meaning to most of us. “Restricting the less essential crops that require a large amount of containers, implies getting the maximum use possible from the con tainers we have. However, the size of containers must be increased and lighter materials must be used. “While the demand for pulpwood has mounted enormously, production is not sufficient. The amount avail able for essential uses is far below minimum requirements. Huge quan tities of paper are now being used for waterproofing purposes by the army.” The greatest deficiency. Mr. Palen said, would be in hampers and bas kets to supply growers in the Middle West, Northeast and Middle Atlantic sections, although scarcity will be felt from Florida north, including the Mississippi valley and Now Eng land. There will be no more con tainers than last year, but a con siderably larger crop will be har vested. In one area farmers cooperated with box manufacturers to insure their supply of containers by bring ing the lumber into the mills them selves, and then helping out in the mills by processing the lumber. It is hoped that in the fall many other sections will adopt this plan. In the meantime, it will be well for each farmer and shipper to ob tain used containers if he can do so. The next best plan is to contract for supplies, not overlooking the used container dealers. If one cannot be located, write Mr. Palen in Wash ington. Gives Trench Concert in Italy Corp. T. Gallacher, at the organ. Seated at the console of a captured organ in a trench in Italy the corporal is about to begin an impromptu entertainment for the English Tommies seen with him. Just 800 yards from the soldiers’ position another concert—shellfire—is being given for the Italians by the British Fifth army. Admirals Tour Green Island Admiral William F. Halsey, USN, commander of the South Pacific forces of the U. S. fleet, chats with Vice Admiral A. W. Fitch, commander of aircraft in that area, as they pause on inspection journey of Green island. This island is 120 miles from Babaul bastion, which is being pound ed by U. S. forces from time to time. Steel heimeted Rear Admiral R. B. Carney is seated in rear of jeep. Stump Didn’t ‘Stump’ This Play Hy Gotkin (12) of St. John’s (Brooklyn) dribbles down the court with Gene Stump (92) of De Paul (Chicago) in hot pursuit to “stump” him. Action took place at Madison Square Garden in New York where Flatbush cagers trounced Windy City five to cop top honors in National Invitation basketball tournament for second successive year. Secretary Hull Meets Press Secretary of State Cordell Hull is shown (center) chatting to a gather ing of newsmen and newswomen after he had spent several hours ex plaining foreign policy to a group of Republican “freshmen” congress men. Secretary Hull revealed to reporters that be had a full and com plete exchange of information and ideas on international affairs vith 24 Republican representatives. Royal Couple The quiet king and smiling queen of England pictured as they arrived at the Jugoslav legation in London where they attended the wedding of King Peter of Jugoslavia to Prin cess Alexandria of Greece. Helsinki Haven Continual bombings by Russian planes have taught Helsinkiers there is no safe place outside the air-raid shelter. Here two young girls who make it a habit to sleep in the shel ter are bedded down for the night. They bundle up with every kind of available clothing in order to keep snug. Beam Tipper No, this young fellow isn’t throw ing his weight around. He’s just making sure he gets an accurate reading from the scale. This cam era portrait was made by Carl Mans field of Bloomingdale, Ohio. It was an entry in the 31st annual exhibit of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Salon of Photo graphic Art being held in that city. Another Fuehrer? Head man of German minority in Rumania, since Nazis have taken over this Balkan country is Andreas Schmidt, (right). He is shown in specting volunteer storm troopers. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. T HE new “Transatlantic Quiz” show scheduled to start April 15 promises to be amusing; whether it will car ry out its purpose, “to find out, through the participants, what Americans know, about Brit ain and what the British know about America,” remains to be seen. Col. David Niven, the movie star, who has been with the English army since the outbreak of the war, will be a regular member of the London panel when his war assignments permit. Russel Crouse, playwright, and Christopher Morley, author of “Kitty Foyle,” will be reg ulars at this end. Slated for Satur day afternoons, the programs are done by the Blue network and Brit ish Broadcasting corporation. * Bonita Granville's fan mail has shot up considerably since she made “Are These Our Children?”—she’s now second in the volume of mail Bonita granville received by RKO players; averages 2,634 pieces monthly. The list is led by Ginger Rogers, who gets 3,500 letters a month. —*— Jack Lannon, Hollywood’s best- known fog and rain maker, has a new job on his hands. He’s been signed to handle the special weather effects which play an important part in creating the atmospheric setting for Cary Grant’s new "None But the Lonely Heart.” —* Three narrow escapes In raids over German targets and in an RAF torpedo boat are recounted by Dave Oliver, RKO Pathe News camera man who is back after serving for nine months as a newsreel corre spondent. He kept on cranking his camera during running fights with the enemy in the air, at seu, and in the Italian campaign. He lived with a torpedo boat squadron for three weeks. —*— Radio’s “Great Gildersleeve” moved into Hollywood from the San Fernando Valley, primarily to save gas, tires and time—and two days later Warner Bros, sent for him to do a special picture for the Ca nadian government, in the neighbor hood he’d just vacated I * More than 12,000 individual pro grams supporting 60 separate war campaigns were broadcast by Co lumbia Broadcasting system on the home front in 1943, according to a recent announcement. The promise of postwar television, in full, nat ural color, and a plea for freedom of radio are also contained in the report. —* John Loder, host and director of “Silver Theater” on CBS, can’t work at the same microphone with many of his guests whether he wants to or not. It isn’t that he wants to be aloof—a fellow who stands six feet three just can’t get together at a mike with a five foot glamour girl. * It’s an April birthday Jbr “First Nighter,” one of radio’s veteran se rials—625 consecutive performances on its Mutual network. Barbara Lud- dy was selected as “First Lady” of radio twice, in 1940 and '43, for her performances as the perennial hero ine. —*— Victor Borge has been signed to play the voice of a new animated cartoon character who is expected to outstrip Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, etc., in the public’s affec tions. Victor’s Scandinavian accent will be used to portray Wallie Wal rus. * Barbara Stanwyck turns blonde for the second time in her career for the role of the murderess in "Double Indemnity.” “I’d always visualized murderesses as bru nettes,” she protested. “But evi dently blondes are considered more unscrupulous this season.” —*— ODDS AND ENDS—Howard Huwkt h right m his element as technical adviser on sword-fishing scenes in the neu Hum phrey Hogan picture, "To Have and Have Not”—Hawks is rated among the nation’s top game fishermen . . . It’s a fur-lined sarong for Dorothy I.amour for Yukon se quences in the Crosby-Hope "Road to Litopia" ... Alana I Mild, Alan l-sidd's eight months’ old daughter, has already been in troduced to the motion picture world- her mother look her culling on puim during production of "And N-mi Tomorrow" . . . RKO is going alt out on "Adventures of 'iinbud the Sailor"; the studio’s going to make it one of those lavish Technicolor productions. 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