Old Glory Flies Proudly in Australia
U. S. troops are marching on the wharf (top) at an unidentified port In Australia after landing. They
are part of the new contingent. Below: Over hill and dale, somewhere In Australia, Old Glory flies at the
head of the U. S. troops. Cities of tents have sprung up everywhere.
ROTC Students Learn Proficiency in Arms
Nowadays at ROTC units throughout the country the accent Is on guns as well as books, and college
students are learning to be proficient in the ufee of arms. In picture at right, ROTC students are drawing
rifles in the gun-room of the recently constructed drill hall built at City college, New York, by the federal
government. Left: Two young army officers assigned to-City college ROTC demonstrate use of bayonets.
Nazi Soldiers Surrender to Reds
This radiophoto from Moscow shows an episode in the great war on the
Eastern front. A group of German soldiers are raising their hands in sur
render while the bodies of regiment mates are strewn around the trench.
Cuban Review
President Fulgencio Batista,
sword raised, inspects his newly en
listed volunteers In the Caban army.
General Bernltez marches in front
with his musket.
Two Changes in Detroit Assembly Lines
Production lines are moving again in Detroit factories, but planes
are now being made instead of automobiles. Then, too, there are women
in the plants. At this large plant, which formerly made auto bodies, we
see an entire assembly line (left) made up of women. The line at the right
Is made up of men. They are fabricating engine nacelles for bombers.
Goes ‘Upstairs’
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A cadet at the bombardier school
in Albuquerque, N. M., waves all
clear to the ground crew as be
makes his way through two racks of
bombs to nose of bomber. Be has
passed all tests.
U. S. Sub Brings Home Golden Bacon
This photograph, released in Washington, shows the actual delivery
of the treasure snatched out of Corregidor (before the arrival of the Japs)
by a U. S. submarine, whose commander and crew were honored by the
army. Stealing Into Manila bay under Jap batteries, the sub brought in
a cargo of shells and loaded up with gold, silver and securities.
New York’s Gas Rationing Begins
A little leas than one-third of New York city's 900,000 motorists regis
tered for gasoline rationing on the first day of the three-day registration
period. Registration in the city took place In 753 public schools, and
was particularly for motorists whose last names begin with A to L. Photo
shows a desk registering an applicant.
Eagle’s Nest Afloat Again
The British aircraft carrier Illustrious which was damaged in a sea
battle is now in service again, after having been repaired and refitted at
an American shipyard. Photo at top shows the ship as she rides at
anchor at a British port. Bottom photo shows crew members of the
Illustrious running to their stations as an alert Is sounded.
Leatherneck’s Balloon Barrage
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You have seen U. S. marines In many roles. Now you see how the
versatile “leathernecks” handle their barrage balloons. At the marine
base at Parris Island, S. C., barrage balloon base group 1 operates Us
stable of great gasbags. The balloons are captive, flown on steel cables.
Above, a quartet of balloons is being Jockeyed into position by marine
ground crews.
Gains Freedom
Earl Browder, U. S. communist
party leader, shorn of bis mustache
during his 14-month imprisonment in
the federal penitentiary at Atlanta,
Ga., shown in his Atlanta hotel room
shortly after his release. Browder’s
four-year sentence was cut short by
President Roosevelt “In the Interest
of national unity.’"
Chief of WAAC
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Mrs. Oveta Hobby of Houston,
Texas, who has been appointed di
rector of the Women’s Army Aux
iliary corps by Secretary of War
Stlmson. She Is the wife of Former
Gov. William Hobby of Texas.
‘Pleasant Dreams’
Quarters are rather cramped
aboard submarine because of the
amount of machinery she must car
ry. These bunks may seem tight to
the landsman who is used to lots of
room In which to toss, but sub-men
find them comfortable.
Sniffing Death
To enable students to learn varl- j
ous gases by sniffing—safely—Rev.
F. IlickVy, head of physical chemis
try at Providence college, Provi
dence, R. I., has manufactured
"sniff sets" of five noxious gases. He
Is shown above with one of the sets. j
Farm Acreage Yield
Increase Is Needed
Conservation of Soil
Must Still Be Practiced
Greater emphasis on increasing
yields to the acre to meet wartime
production goals is urged by the
wartime committee on conservation
at the New York state college of
agriculture.
This is recommended in place of
expanding tilled land acreage
‘‘which should be the last resort,’'
the committee said. Other recom
mendations include:
Any necessary expansion of
acreage for clean-tilled crops
should be first on land least sub
ject to soil and water losses.
All agricultural leaders and work
ers should encourage and help farm
ers to plant all sloping land on the
contour.
Greater use should be made of
existing demonstration farms in con
nection with small community meet
ings and to show results of various
crop practices.
Efforts should be made to have
all new sloping orchards and vine
yards planted on the contour.
A rough, trashy tillage type of
cultivation should be encouraged in
sod orchards which will be broken as
a source of nitrogen.
Farmers should be encouraged
to practice conservation to pre
vent a recurrence of the tremen
dous waste of soil resources that
occurred in World War I.
The committee making these rec
ommendations consists of agrono
mists, economists, pomologists, ag
ricultural engineers, and soil con
servationists at the college.
AGRICULTURE
IN INDUSTRY
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By FLORENCE C. WEED
(Thu it one of a it net of articlot show
ing bow firm products are finding an im
portant market in industry.)
Sugar Beets
Napoleon might be called the fa
ther of the sugar beet Industry since
tie fostered the research by which
chemists learned how to extract
sugar from beets. In our western
states, it is an important cash crop,
valued at 63 million dollars annually.
The chief product is refined beet
sugar which competes with cane
sugar. This infant beet sugar in
lustry has received some govern
ment protection through the Sugar
Act of 1937 which requires that 23
per cent of our national requirement
of sugar shall be the beet sugar
variety.
By-products of the industry have
oot been widely developed. Wet beet
pulp from the factories is converted
Into animal feed and the green beet
tops are fed to livestock.
Beet molasses is not palatable
as cane molasses is, so it is subject
ed to the “Steffen process" which re
covers a great part of the sugar with
the aid of finely ground lime. Mo
lasses which has not been treated,
is sold for cattle feed and for the
manufacture of yeast and alcohol.
Experiments are soon to be made
to find ways of utilizing beet pulp
as a base in fermentation industries
and as a source of pectin and some
other acids.
The main beet-producing states in
order of their importance are Colo
rado, California, Nebraska, Michi
gan, Utah, Wyoming and Montana.
Midwest states which have some
beet-growing sections are Indiana,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa
and North and South Dakota.
About 80 factories are being op
erated to produce the 1,500,000 tons
of beet sugar used in this country.
Roof Laying Faults
Faults in laying metal roofs and
use of improper paints to protect
them after being laid will cause
trouble or unnecessary expense lat
er on farm buildings.
Many metal roofs on farm build
ings are laid over slats. G. R.
Shier, specialist in agricultural en
gineering, Ohio State university,
says that only corrugated metal has
enough stiffness to be laid over slats
without courting trouble. Other
metal roofing should be placed over
solid sheathing.
All types of metal roofing should
be nailed every eight inches along
the side lap even when the spacing
of the sheets makes it necessary to
insert short strips to provide places
for nailing. It is almost impossible
to lay metal roofs which will not
leak on nearly flat-topped sheds at
tached to barns.
Tree Tobacco Insecticide
The possibility that tree tobacco,
now a worthless weed in the arid sec
tions of Mexico and southwestern
United States, may become a valu
able cash crop is seen by United
States scientists who have extract
ed from it anabasine, a valuable in
secticide. The product was not dis
covered in the tree-tobacco plant un
til 1935, although it had been pro
duced synthetically and found in an
Asiatic plant six years earlier than
the first test in the U. S.
