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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
Let's Face Facts
British Farm Leaders
Give Sense of Nearness
To Vicissitudes of War
By BARROW LYONS
WNU Staff C«
Barrow Lyons
WASHINGTON, D. C.
, One gets a little closer to the war
When one talks with a British farm
er, who has been cultivating fields
under the wings of Nazi planes, who
can’t light a lamp without being sure
that no gleam shows through the
window shades, and who must use
all the ingenuity known to science to
get the most from his acres to feed
the workers and fighting men of
Britain.
Such a farmer is Hubert Rae, the
new agricultural attache to the Brit
ish embassy in
Washington, who
just arrived from
the University of
Reading in Eng
land, where he
was professor of
agriculture. He
also managed
an experimental
farm which has
pointed the way
toward larger
crops in Britain.
"I’ve only just
arrived—still in a stage of schoolboy
wonder at being able to turn on the
lights without pulling down the
blinds,” he told a group of Washing
ton correspondents at a joint inter
view with James A. Scott Watson,
who has been recalled to England
and whom Mr. Rae is replacing.
The talk with these men reminded
the American writers that farmers
of England are allies of our own
farmers In supporting the greatest
military effort man has ever made
—the defense of the democratic
world against forces which would
destroy it. Mr. Scott Watson has
been here two years, chiefly to help
get for British farmers American
farm machinery and adopt the best
of our farming methods.
Likes TV A Superphosphate
Incidentally, Mr. Scott Watson
had strong praise for the Tennessee
Valley authority’s concentrated su
perphosphate, which has been
shipped to England in considerable
quantities. The TVA superphosphate
has been available to our own farm
ers in limited quantities, because of
our large supply of lower concen
trates, and the necessity for con
serving ocean shipping space.
Mr. Rae said that in spite of Eng
land’s usually damp climate, this
winter has been abnormally dry,
foreboding an inadequate water sup
ply this summer. One result, how
ever, was,, that spring plowing and
planting was much ahead of sched
ule.
Before the war, he said, England
produced only 34 per cent of its
food supply, but now produces 70
per cent. Reduction of food con
sumption by about 10 per cent has
contributed to this increase, but ac
tual food production has been al
most doubled.
There has been no slackening in
the food program, and the ministry
of agriculture plans to maintain
present operating schedules for an
other four years—through 1947. Eng
land recognizes that if victory comes
this year, the need for food on the
continent will be tremendous for a
year-and-a-half to two years after
the fighting stops.
Mr. Rae thought that the need for
American agricultural machinery
would be very much less from now
on. Some forms of tractors will still
be needed for replacements, but vir
tually all of the areable acreage is
now under mechanical cultivation,
he said.
During the last two years England
has used a considerable amount of
soldier labor, particularly for har
vesting crops; but with invasion un
der way this labor will mot be avail
able. He said:
“We expect our biggest headache
this year will be in getting harvest
labor. If we can’t get a little more
combine equipment, there will be a
waste of grain.”
Large Stockpile of Food
There is a considerable food stock-
pile in England, he said, but this is
considered minimum insurance. If
the invasion of the continent is
successful, some of this will be used
for feeding destitute populations.
“We can’t sit back as long as
there is an acute shortage of food on
the continent,” he added. Mr. Scott
Watson put in a word at this point:
"All of our friends from England
who come over here seem to have
a craving for your citrus fruit. They
apparently have felt the lack of or
anges, grapefruit and lemons more
than meat. Of course, there will
be a tremendous pent-up demand
for citrus fruit as soon as we can
get the ships to move it. It’s no
.military secret that all of the ships
that can be spared are now being
held in readiness for invasion.”
| Both Britons cited examples of
exchange of technical information,
which was enabling English and
American farmers to raise larger
and better crops. The visitors also
thought that American agricultural
economists were getting from Eng
land some good points regarding
farm tenancy. English laws pro
vide a far greater sense of security
for tenant farmers, and assure to
them full benefit of improvements
they make in building up the soil
and facilities of owners. Eventu
ally this will be reflected in Ameri-
Chinese and Jap Forces Fight for Pass
Savage fighting between Chinese and Jap forces in Honan, west of the strategic rail point of Chengchow,
now centers on Hnlao Pass, which the enemy is reported as rapidly fortifying, following its capture, to pre
vent counter-attacks. Arrows in the map indicate centers of fighting outside Mihsien, where the Chinese have
circled the enemy, and Yingshang where the Japs have been more successful. Diagonal lines in map at right
indicate the general zone of action in relation to China.
Mass Baptism on Anzio-Nettunio Beachhead
Squatting on the sand, this choir of American doughboys (left) supplied hymnal music during a mass
baptismal ceremony held at the Anzio-Nettunio beachhead, Jn Italy. More than a score of U. S. soldiers
were baptised by Div. Chaplain Leroy W. Raley of Cameron, Texas. Picture at right shows some of the
soldiers standing in Hie surf, awaiting their turn to be baptized.
His Honor, the Mayor, Samples Some Bacon
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia is a guest of the campfire set up by Troop
617 of the Boy Scouts of America, in New York. He samples some of
the bacon cooked by the Scouts, and finds it good. The camp*site was
set up by way of celebrating National Boy and Girl week, and also
National Children’s week, held simultaneously.
Seaman From USS Lansdale Rescued
can tenant-owner relations.
One of the many rescued by coastguardsmen of two destroyer escorts
during the German bombing attack that sank the USS Lansdale in the
Mediterranean, this navy seaman relaxes as coastguardsmen Virgil
Mathis, St. Augustine, Fla., and Melvin Howard of Pittsburgh, Pa. (left
to right) scrape a thick coat of oil from his body.
Young Hero
Robert Dicey, five years old,
shows how he carried his 15-months
old brother, Kenneth, downstairs
and to safety, as flames raced
through their home at East Ded
ham, Mass.
‘K’ Ration Feast
A Marshallese boy perches com
fortably on a wind-twisted coconut
tree and prepares to open a box of
marine K-rations. The natives found
U. S. rations a welcome change.
By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Onion.
R KO Radio Pictures inaugu
rates a new daily coast-to-
coast radio show on May 29,
“Hollywood Star Time,” featur
ing their film favorites of the
year; it will originate in
Vie studio dining room. Go
ing out over 177 stations of the
Blue network, it will be broadcast
daily from Monday through Friday,
at 12:15 to 12:30 Pacific Coast time,
an hour later in each successive
time zone. And Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer, equally radio - minded,
launches "M-G-M JScreen Tests” on
June 12, over the full basic Mutual
Network, five days a week at 9:15
Eastern war time; it will consist of
actual screen tests, the aspiring
actor being required to play oppo<
site a Metro star.
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In "Going My Way” Bing Crosby
proves that he doesn’t have to sing;
in fact, he sings comparatively little
in the picture, yet has probably the
best role of his screen career. He
and that very talented actor, Barry
BING CROSBY
Fitzgerald, share honors In this
sweet, human story — and anybody
who can share acting honors with
Fitzgerald has to be good. This is
one of the pictures that people will
remember.
—*— i -
Jane Withers, young Republic
star, had two birthday cakes on her
16th birthday, one with a party of
soldiers near her own age, the sec
ond with an 18-year-old elephant
belonging to Ringling Brothers-Bar-
num and Bailey circus. Both sol
diers and elephant let ^ane blow
out her own candles and make a
wish. The elephant also gulped the
cake and then devoured Jane’s
birthday orchids.
—*—
Producer C. P. MacGregor, of the
Hollywood Radio Theater, is directly
responsible for the successful
careers of many leading movie
actors and actresses. When talking
pictures came in, parts were
awarded on the strength of voice
transcriptions—made by him!
—*—
Frank Sinatra won about 1,500
new friends at a luncheon given in
New York for the American News
paper Publishers association; he
sang a parody on "Sunday, Monday
and Always,” the refrain being that
people are telling him to look out,
for Dick Haymes, Dick Todd and
Perry Como are crowding him too
comfortably for his own good. He
wound up by gallantly concluding
’s just one Crosby.”
‘There’s just
A new puppy belonging to Ronnie,
son of George Burns and Graeie Al
len, chewed a hole in an expensive
rug at the Burns’ home. Graeie was
upset, but Ronnie saved the day.
“Maybe if I train him,” said he, “I
can get him so he’ll lie ever the
hole most of the time.”
Around CBS a pleasant glow is
still noticeable, due to the fact that
six of their network ana regional
programs were cited as winners in
the 1943 George Foster Peabody
Awards, gaining CBS top honors in
five of the seven classifications.
*
Bettejane Greer (Mrs. Rudy Val-
lee) whose first national prominence
came when she was chosen two
yeartS ago as official model for the
first WAC uniform, will be groomed
for top starring roles by RKO. For
the past year she’s been under con
tract to Howard Hughes, doing in
tensive work with dramatic coaches.
As soon as her release from that
contract was negotiated she signed
with RKO.
*
Yakima Canutt, seven times world
champion cowboy and famous movie
stunt man, now directs scenes for
Republic pictures demanding hair-
raising stunts. His latest thriller is
the finale of a Kghtning-like chase
in Allan Lane’s "Marshal of Monte
rey.”
ODDS AND ENDS—Remember Wesley
Barry, one-time boy star? An RKO assist
ant when he enlisted, he's in the front lines
with a photographic unit in die Burma
campaign. . . . Phil Baker says the days
of ordering a meal in a restaurant are gone
—nowadays it's an entreaty. ... A new
rose, resembling an American Beauty, has
been named for Dinah Shore. . . . Recog
nizing the advantage of a closer link be-
ttvaen the church and radio, the National
Broadcasting company and the Congrega-
tionalChristian churches wftl award five
fellowships each year to ministers in the
active pastorate, at one of NBC's summer
institute*.
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• • •
When clothing is left too long
in the washer, dirt from the water
goes back into the fabric.
• • •
When washing chenille articles,
shake vigorously a few times
while the articles are drying. Then,
when completely dry, brush with
a clean whisk broom and the
original flufifiness will be restored.'
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