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Farm Machinery Output
At Double 1943 Level}
But Remains a Problem
By BARROW LYONS
. WNU Staff Corrmipondtnl
Several senators from farming
sections are predicting that the War
Food administration is going to
have a rude surprise within a few
weeks when it discovers that farm
ers are not planting the acreages
expected of them this year — partly
because they cannot get farm ma
chinery they need to make up for
the shortage of manpower.
Equally positive are officials of
the War Production board that there
will be enoueh
machinery with
which to plant,
cultivate and har
vest all crops.
War Food admin
istration points
confidently to
early reports of
acreage planted
and says that if
average weather
prevails, crops
will be adequate
for domestic
needs — but with less to spare for
feeding foreign populations than
UNRRA will request.
Here is the argument that WPB
gives: Last year only about 40 per
cent of the machinery manufactured
in the base years — 1940 and 1941
— was produced; but this year
about 80 per cent of the base year
production is planned. Production is
running close to schedule on some
items and lagging on others. Har
vesting and hay gathering ma
chinery seems to be furthest behind.
Harvesting machinery is in much
greater demand than the supply. In
this field authorized schedules are,
on the whole, almost 125 per cent
of base period production, but it is
not now expected that schedules will
be met. How far output will lag de
pends largely upon labor supply
and the demand of the military for
critical components.
Scheduled Increases
Combines with width of cut over
10 feet are scheduled for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1945, at 118 per
cent of base output, those between
6 and 10 feet at 110 per cent and
smaller ones at 75 per cent. Sched
ules for binders are not as great in
proportion to base output. But the
programs for potato diggers and
pickers, beet and vegetable har
vesters are much higher.
Furthermore, repair parts may be
manufactured in whatever quanti
ties needed. Altogether, the farm
machinery industry is programmed
to turn out nearly twice the volume
of equipment it did last year —
but, frankly, the program is not go
ing to be completed.
However, an indication that the
situation is not as serious as last
year is that the volume of com
plaints is far less. One WPB official,
who last year at this time was re
ceiving from 50 to 55 telephone calls
a day from congressmen requesting
him to look after constituents, is at
present receiving very few urgent
requests for farm machinery.
There is one certainty — farmers
must give more attention to repair
of equipment than ever before. In
this country they have hardly begun
to take repairs as seriously as farm
ers in England or in enemy nations.
Those who have been to England
say the British are far ahead of us
in that respect, and reports coming
from Germany indicate that a fine
job is being done there on the re
pair problem.
Dealers throughout America, how
ever, have been advised to order re
pair parts by telegram, and manu
facturers to ship by airmail. No red
tape or forms are required. All a
farmer needs to do is to tell his
dealer that he needs the repair
parts.
Many Repairs Needed
Recently the results of a surve^
of repair needs made by the WPB
Office of Civilian Requirements was
published. It showed that in 1943
owners of 42 per cent of the mow
ing machines of the country required
repairs for their equipment, and
that 13 per cent of those needing
repairs did not get them; 42 per
cent of the owners of combines re
quired repairs, and 8 per cent of
those requiring them were" not serv
iced. These were among the worst
repair records.
But it is the belief in WPB today
that repair troubles should be vir
tually a thing of the past, and that
normal servicing will be obtained.
In Indiana, cooperative repair
shops have been established which
have been a great aid in obtaining
speedy repairs. In a few other states
repair shops have been established
as part of the agricultural college
extension services, and farmers
come from all parts of the counties
to avail themselves of these facili
ties.
On the whole, machinery manu
facturers are handicapped by labor
shortages, lack of motors, chains,
malleable iron and castings.
To obtain the best distribution of
farm machinery, manufacturers this
year were authorized to dispose of
80 per cent of their output where
they thought it would do the most
good. Twenty per cent was under
allocation of the War Food adminis
tration to supply in areas where
supply appears to be short. The
opinion of those responsible for this
program is that it has been working
fairly welL
(1) German prisoners of war have their own band at Fort Dix, N. J. Here they play overture to play
staged by other “P of Ws.” (2) A scene from the play “Froh und Heiter” (Bright and Gay). Scenery
and costumes are the work of the prisoners made from waste material during their spare time. (3) A scene
in the kitchen of the prisoners’ mess hall showing them preparing the evening meal for their fellow Naxis.
These men appear anything but unhappy.
Navy Crewmen Find Antidote for Battle Strain
Once the business of conquering Roi island was completed, these crewmen of a United States navy aircraft
earrier take the antidote for pest-battle nervous strain by an invigorating swim in the warm waters of a lagoon
in the Marshalls. After the heat of battle a dip is a soothing tonic for the nerves, the men declare.
French and English Generals in Italy
General Juin, commander of the French Expeditionary corps in
Italy; General Leese, commander of the Eighth army; and Gen. Sir
Harold Alexander, commander in chief of the Allied forces in Italy, are
shown engaged in conversation when General Alexander paid a visit to
the Eighth’s headquarters.
Principal in Sedition Trial
A principal in the biggest sedition trial of this war, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hilling of Chicago, appears quite unconcerned before the camera. She
is shown here with her daughter, Elizabeth Joan, and her ex-husband,
Albert Hilling, who acted as her counsel at Histrict court trial in Wash
ington. Mrs. Hilling, along with 29 others, is accused of conspiracy.
He Missed the Boat
Coastguardsmen heave a line
from their destroyer and haul in a
mid-Atlantic swimmer who missed
his boat—badly! Repatriated sea
man Earl N. Phillips tumbled from
one ship in a west-bound convoy and
was picked up half an hour later by
the coast guard.
Betty Gets Medal,
ACTORS come and actors go,
■tV but it looks as if the Ameches
would go on forever. Although
Jim Jr., now barely six, says he
wants to be a mounted cop when
he grows up, he’s doing right
well as a regular member of
the cast of CBS’s “Big Sister”; he
got the role a year ago when none of
the child-imitators suited Director
Tom Hutchinson. Jim Jr. can’t read,
so Jim Sr. coaches him in memoriz
ing the lines, then stands behind the
cut-down mike and cues the boy
with gestures; young Jim looks at
JIM AMECHE JR.
him instead of at the rest of the
cast, and it’s one of the most amus
ing and delightful things to be seen
in any of New York’s many broad
casting studios.
*
Fernando Alvarado was a veteran
actor when he was young Jim’s age.
He’s ten, and has been in pictures
nine years and four months, has
had speaking roles in 50 feature pic
tures. His newest one is “The Fal
con in Mexico.”
*
Wild Bill Elliott tried for 12 years
to convince Hollywood casting direc
tors that he really was a cowboy.
A series of pictures in which be
played Wild Bill Hlckock gave him
his screen nickname, and at last
he’s been recognized as cue of the
best horsemen the screen has ever
had, a cowboys’ horseman. He’s
creating the role of “Red Ryder” in
Republic’s new series based on Fred
Harman’s cartoons.
When Anns Shirley showed up on
the set of “Here Comes the Bride”
with an inflamed eye, Producer-Di
rector John Auer didn’t send her
home; he had Anne and PhD Terry
play tiie picture’s five kissing scenes.
You will please shut your eyes
when you kiss him, Anne,” said
Auer. “We will make it come true
that love is blind.” And the camera
never picked up a glimpse of her in
flamed eye.
—*—
Helen Holmes was a star of silent
films. Now she’s on Hollywood movie
sets again. One of the actors in
RKO’s “The Falcon in Mexico,”
which stars Tom Conway, is Black-
ie. Helen Holmes directs him.
Blackie is a cat.
—*—
Swimmer Betty Shields of New
York is presented a medal by Gov.
John W. Bricker of Ohio. The award
was made at Oakland, Calif., where
Betty placed second in the 100-yard
backstroke event.
"Lives of great men an remind
us”—of Warner Bros; Following
The Adventures of Mark Twain,”
the studio has eight other famous
Uves lined up for us. “Rhapsody in
Blue,” film story of George Gersh
win, is completed; on the way are
the life stories of W1U Rogers, Aud
ubon, Marilyn Miller, Cole Porter,
Vincent Youmans, Broadway’s Sime
Silverman, and Marine Sergeant AJ
Schmid.
—*—
Carlo Ross is thanking his stars
for fan letters. Six weeks ago this
young war worker was engaged by
J. L. Grimes, originator and pro
ducer of “Musical Steelmakers,” to
sing just eight bars of the program’s
theme song each week. Those eight
bars of song every Sunday impressed
1,418 listeners so hnuch that they
wrote to Carlo, in Wheeling—and
now he’s a featured vocalist on each
“Steelmakers” broadcast.
*
When visitors to Hildegarde’s
“Beat the Band” program hail her
as “Charlie” she’s delighted. It was
her father’s name, and when she
was a child in New Holstein, Wis.,
it was the custom for the children
to call each other by their father’s
given names. Hildy was born in Mil
waukee and acquired her famous
continental manners in Europe.
—*—
Beatrice Kay, singer-comedienne
j of the air’s “Gay Nineties,” will
I make her picture debut in the very
I near future. “Billy Rose’s Diamond
Horseshoe,” in which she has a fea
tured role, is going into production
much sooner than expected
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Irene Dunn will
play her original role in “Penny Sere
nade” when it’* done on the air May 8
. . . Ingrid Bergman, toon to be teen in
Metro’s "Gaslight,” was chosen a* the pin
up girl of “Yank,” army weekly, for one
> issue . . . Al Jolson will make his debut
as producer by handling Columbia’s re
make of “Burlesque,” with Rita Hayworth
in the role done originally by Barbara
Stanwyck . . . After a two-months’ vaca-
turn, Errol Flynn has checked in at
Warner Bros, to begin his next starring
role, in “Objective Burma” . . . In “Road
to Utopia” Bob Hope wears a mustache
copied from the one Colonna mad*
famous !
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