WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Italy’s Unconditional Surrender Marks
Real Beginning of the End’ for Axis;
GOP Outlines Foreign Relations Plank;
Reds Recapture Ukraine Farm Lands
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ITALY SURRENDERS:
One Down. Two to Go
Five days after British and Cana
dian troops stormed across the Mes
sina straits to land on the Italian
mainland. Italy surrendered uncon
ditionally to Gen. Dwight Eisen
hower.
When Marshal Pietro Badoglio s
government gave up, it marked the
first split in the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo
Axis. First indications of the Italian
collapse came with the ouster of
Benito Mussolini.
Left to hold Hitler’s vaunted Euro
pean fortress were German troops,
themselves engaged in a major re
treat in Russia, and the Nazis
smaller Balkan allies. While capitu
lation of Italy exposed central
Europe to heavy bomber attack, the
Alpine district presented a formida
ble obstacle to an Allied ground ad
vance into southern Germany.
Hundreds of thousands of her
troops killed or captured In North
Africa; her elaborate railroad sys
tem torn to shreds; her fair cities
smouldering in ruin, and lacking
the natural resources to carry on
war, Italy sought the easiest way
out of the conflict.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
Isolate Japs
Australian troops were hacking
their way through Jungle brush to
the northwest of _
Lae, New Guinea,
when a cloud of
American planes
appeared over
head. The next |
moment the sky
was filled with
tiny white puffs
marking out Al
lied paratroopers
floating to earth
to assist in the
encirclement of
20,000 Jap sol
diers.
0
Gen. George
Blarney
Previously. Australian units under
Gen. George Blarney surprised the
Japs by landing In force to the east
of Lae. Moving quickly, they ad
vanced on the big enemy base even
while the Aussies and U. S. para
troopers were sealing off Lae to the
northwest.
General MacArthur's trigger ac
tion not only cut off the Lae garri
son from reinforcement from the
north, but it also was designed to
choke off stubborn Jap troops re
sisting an Allied advance before
Salamaua, farther to the southeast.
HEALTH:
Holding Up Well
Civilians are maintaining a better
level of health than federal authori
ties expected, despite food rationing,
longer work hours, and fewer doc
tors and nurses available, the Of
fice of War Information reports.
While mortality and sickness rates
•re slightly higher, the statement
comments that the rise is not more
t|)an could be anticipated, consid
ering Wartime strain.
The only serious epidemic condi
tion is the increase in infantile
paralysis (poliomyelitis) and spinal
meningitis. More than 4,500 cases
of infantile paralysis have been re
ported throughout the nation this
year, the largest number since
1934. Spinal meningitis cases total
13,368, the greatest number since
1914, when records began.
2,000,000 OVERSEAS:
Marshall Reports
Of 7.000,000 men In the army July
1, *.000.000 were overseas, Gen.
_ George C. Marsh
Gen. George
Marshall
all, U. S. chief of
staff, revealed In
his biennial re
port to the nation.
Of the 7,000,000
men. General
Marshall said,
521,000 are of
ficers, with 1,065
; generals. More
than 2,000,000 men
are serving in the
| air force.
Ex p e rie n c e
shows that six
tons of shipping
are necessary to
transport a sol
dier and his accessories overseas,
and his supply requires one ton a
month, General Marshall said.
At the time the Japs attacked the
Philippines, General Marshall stat
ed, six troop ships and nine cargo
vessels were en route to the islands.
WACS
Most of the officers of the Wom
en's Army Auxiliary corps (WAACS)
have taken the oath in the new
Women's Army corps (WACS) the
war department announces. Of
5,977 WAAC officers, 5,656 have
transferred to the new organization
without change of rank. Of the 319
women who have not been given the
oath, 41 may yet join, but their
cases are pending. The others have
dropped out for failure to meet phys
ical requirements or other reasons
it was said.
MANPOWER:
Control Coast Jjobor
With 160,000 more persons re
quired for shipyards and 100,000 for
aircraft factories.
on the West coast.
War Mobilization
Director James
F. Byrnes an
nounced that the
WMC received
control of the su
pervision of labor
in that area.
A copy of a pro
gram already de
veloped in the
Buffalo. N. Y.. jamM F. Byrnes
area, the WMC’s
West coast plan involves: 1. Deter
mination of necessary production
schedules in various factories; 2.
Shift of labor to essential employ
ment from less essential work or
services; 3. Allotment of manpower
to the more important industries in
the area; 4. Distribution of farm
help wherever most needed through
out the West coast.
Time to Switch
Along with adoption of the West
coast plan, the WMC's selective
service bureau sought to co-ordinate
its draft program with industrial
needs.
First, the bureau ordered that all
non-deferrable workers seeking to
switch to essential production be giv
en 30 days, or till October 15, in
which to find such employment
through registration with the U. S.
Employment service. The WMC
previously ruled that essential occu
pation, and not dependency, be the
basis for draft deferment
Second, the bureau instructed lo
cal boards that before they induct
any workers skilled in 149 critical
occupations, they must submit the
names of such men to the U. S. Em
ployment service. The service will
then determine whether these men
are more urgently needed by an
other employer.
GOP:
Keep Sovereignty
Co-operation in the preservation of
peace without the loss of U. S. sov
ereignty const!
Harrison
Spangler
tutes the basis
of the Republican
party’s post-war
advisory commit
tee’s recommen
dation for future
American foreign
policy.
Meeting on his
toric Mackinac
Island, Mich., un
der National
Chairman Harri
son Spangler, the
GOP committee
struck the theme (or its 1944 plank
on foreign affairs.
While declaring that “we must do
our full share in a program for per
manent peace amqng nations." the
GOP committee members said, "we
must preserve and protect all our
own national interests." If any
proposed international co-operation
should conflict with our best inter
ests, the committee said, “then the
United States should adhere to the
policy which will preserve its con
stitutionalism as expressed in the
Declaration of Independence . . ."
For conquered countries, the com
mittee recommended disarmament
and destruction of war industries.
RUSSIA:
Regaining Wealth
Under the weight of massed Red
attacks. German troops slowly fell
back to the broad banks of the Dnie
per river in southern Russia.
With many of the rich coal and
iron deposits of the Donetz basin in
Russian hands again, advancing
Red armies also reclaimed much
of the fertile farm land of the
Ukraine, famed for its black earth
and wheat and cotton fields. Slicing
into the heart of this province, the
Reds severed the Nazis' main rail
connections to the north.
With the natural resources, Rus
sian troops also recovered many for
mer industrial cities, like Kharkov.
But having been wracked by war
fare and their manufacturing facili
ties demolished by the Germans, re
construction will be necessary to re
store them to production. In the
north-central sector. Red troops
pounded at the gateway into White
Russia, adjacent to the former state
of Poland.
MISCELLANY:
OCTANE GAS: High octane gaso
line that will give motorists 50 to
70 miles to the gallon is predicted
as a post-war development of the oil
industries by William Carney, a re
search chemist for a large refining
company. The new automobiles us
ing this 90 to 95 octane gasoline will
have smaller motors and lighter
bodies, made of alloys or plastics,
It is believed.
U. S. TREASURY:
Seeks Billions
High finance has come to the fore
front with the treasury’s efforts to
raise 100 billion dollars for war ex
penditures during the present fiscal
year ending June 30.
Approximately 50 million bonds
valued at 15 billion dollars are ex
pected to be sold
during the treas
ury’s present bond
selling campaign.
All of the money
will be sought
from individuals
and businesses,
with banks of
fered a limited
number of securi
ties after the
close of the pub
lic drive. Howev
er, the treasury
Rep. Robert
Doughton
has been obtaining 100 million dol
lars weekly through short term
bill sales to banks.
With congress reconvened, Repre
sentative Robert Doughton’s house
ways and means committee was
looking forward to consideration of
new tax legislation to raise an addi
tional 12 billion dollars requested by
President Roosevelt. Present levies
will yield 38 billion dollars.
RAIL WRECKS:
High Toll
Crowded with passengers return
ing to New York, the Pennsylvania
railroad’s mighty Congressional
Limited streaked through the North
Philadelphia station. On it whizzed
to Frankfort Junction, Pa. Then, a
burned journal on the seventh car of
the 10-car train gave, throwing the
coach high into the air.
Hurtling against a steel girder of
a signal tower, the upper section of
the coach was sheared right off.
Careening wildly, the car behind
smashed into the wrecked coach,
and the rest of the train left the
rails and plowed along the right of
way. Fire broke out in some of the
cars. More than 50 dead and 125
injured were removed from the
wreckage.
Several hours later, the New York
Central’s Century Limited was roar
ing along near Canastota, N. Y.,
when its locomotive exploded, derail
ing nine of the 15 passenger cars.
The first four cars lunged down an
embankment; the others were
strewn all over the tracks. Heavy,
steel rails were plowed up and twist
ed into fantastic shapes. Three
crewmen were killed; approximate
ly seven passengers injured.
U. S.-BRITAIN:
Tongue Common Bond
Speaking at Harvard university,
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
declared the United States and
Great Britain must march togeth
er "in those realms of thought which
are consecrated to the rights and
dignity of man.”
"It would be a most foolish and
improvident act on the part of our
two governments . . .to break up
this smooth running and immense
ly powerful machinery the moment
the war is over,” Churchill added.
Commenting on studies being
made by a special commission to
construct a basic English language
for use by all people, Churchill said
such a common tongue offers far
better opportunity for understand
ing between people than "taking
away provinces and land or grinding
them down in exploitation."
Stating that a common speech had
drawn the United States and Great
Britain close together in war,
Churchill said that it may well prove
the foundation for a common citizen
ship.
ECONOMIC DIRECTOR:
Appointed for Italy
Former assistant to Vice Presi
dent Henry Wallace when he was
secretary of agriculture, and more
recently head of the Farm Security
administration, 41-year-old Calvin B.
Baldwin was named area director
of economic operations in occupied
Italy.
As area director, Baldwin will
have the task of co-ordinating the
various programs
of supply and pro
duction instituted
by the Allies’ civ
il commissions in
governing the
captured territo
ries. With Italy
essentially an ag
ricultural coun
try, particularly
in wheat and
fruits, Baldwin’s
experience in
Calvin Baldwin
farm administration undoubtedly
determined his appointment.
Joining attacks on Baldwin's po
litical philosophy. Senator Harry F.
Byrd charged him with admitting to
a joint committee on nonessential
expenditure that FSA representa
tives had formulated a long-range
plan of using the government’s
power of eminent domain for break
ing up large land properties into
smaller holdings.
JEFFERS
William M. Jeffers, director of the
wartime rubber program, has re
signed his office, stating that he
believes that his main task is ac
complished. and that he wishes to
return to the railroad of which he
is president.
About 30,000 tons of synthetic rub
ber will be turned out this month,
in contrast to the 67,000 tons which
is the goal of the program, Jeffers
stated, explaining that difficulties
have been encountered in expanding
factory caoacity.
Canadian, U. S. Colleges
Offer Plan for Prosperity
Two Schools Offer Prescription for Post
War Depression in Pamphlet Entitled
‘The Midcontinent and the Peace.’
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
Out of the part of the world farth
est from the fighting, literally and
figuratively, has come an interest
ing international prescription for the
cure of the world’s post-war head
ache—the spell of depression that
we have to be ready for.
The formula is summarized in a
43-page pamphlet that I wish every
one could read. The title is "The
Midcontinent and the Peace.” The
cover is an earthy brown embel
lished with alternating rows of gold
en grain sheaves, fat porkers and
trucks.
It is a report made Jointly by the
Universities of Minnesota and Mani
toba. It has nothing to do with de
partments of state, it has no official
status beyond the fact that the
American and Canadian governors
asked their respective state univer
sities to do the job. It is a splendid
down-to-brass-tacks example of the
recognition of the common interests
of two important areas lying on op
posite sides of an international
boundary line.
The gist of the report is this:
I. Western Europe must arrange
greatly to increase its imports of
wheat, lard and pork after the war.
II. Canada and the United States
must reorganize their automobile
producing industries so that a maxi
mum employment in Canadian fac
tories can be maintained; cost of
autos be reduced to Canadian buy
ers and American car output in
creased.
III. Agriculture in the prairie
provinces of Canada and the central
northwest United States must con
tinue along the lines of agricul
tural specialization developed out of
necessity during the war.
The Connection
Now, at first glance, the connec
tion between these steps may not
be evident, but the report makes
the whole effort clear and also
shows how the program can be car
ried out. There is nothing new or
revolutionary i» the methods dis
cussed, nor in the reasoning con
cerning their results, but a striking
assemblage of data gathered and
arranged in such a manner that it
offers what appears to be a logical
program of action.
In the first place, the report shows
how domestic economic policies
(the ones I briefly summarized in
the three points above) are, in fact,
international policies. It demon
strates with figures and explanation
that “sound and strong internal
economies in Canada and the United
States” must have “resoundingly
important effects on the external
world.”
Examples offered to prove this in
clude the figures which show how
the rise and fall of demand in Can
ada and the United States affected
other parts of the world up to and
after the depression hit us in 1929.
In less than three decades, im
ports in the United States of ten
different commodities increased
from 300 to 1,700 million dollars
worth. Take silk: the yearly aver
age importation of silk bought by the
United States from 1901-05 amount
ed to 45 million dollars. In 1929.
it had jumped to 432 million dol
lars. But when the depression
struck, it fell to 114 million dollars
in 1932.
The total imports of the ten com
modities dropped from 1,718 mil
lion to 534 million dollars—and you
can imagine what happened in the
producing countries when these
markets disappeared.
One interesting point brought out
is that in this period of expanding
trade (both import and export) in
which Canada and the United States
shared, the MUTUAL interests of
the two countries greatly IN
CREASED and their competitive in
terests declined.
Industry Predominant
The report shows how agricul
ture has ceased to be our greatest
source of wealth, how industry has
become pre-eminent and to main
tain our agriculture, a healthy con
dition of industry must be main
tained. The old statement is quot
ed: '•Tell me the amount of factory
payrolls and I will tell you the price
of meat and butter.”
Th,e plans for our own agriculture
are fairly simple—maintenance of
the same type of specialization now
going on. The plan for Europe is
more complicated but since the
question of whether the people of
western Europe eat at all for the
next few years, depends largely on
what Russia, the United States and
the other grain producing countries
do, these countries may be able to
get western European countries to
do what we want.
According to the Midcontinent
planners, an arrangement should be
made whereby western Europe for
a period—perhaps 15 years—would
absorb our surplus wheat, pork,
lard and other farm products. Pro
duction of these products would be
stopped in western Europe and re
sources saved would be put to ef
ficient use. The producing countries
would assist in reorganizing Euro
pean agriculture to this changeover.
The producing countries would also
agree to reduce certain tariffs so
that the Europeans can pay for the
agricultural products they absorb
with goods they can make. (Of
course, there is the tough spot.)
As for changeovers in agriculture,
it is pointed out that they are not
new. Minnesota was once the great
est wheat producing state in the
country. That is no longer true.
“Mixed farming" has greatly in
creased. Diversified farming rose
in Denmark and improved the stand
ard of her people—these changes
come about automatically because
the new type introduced pays bet
ter. Similar changes, it is implied,
could be brought about by ukase, too.
Unfortunately, space does not per
mit a detailed review of this report
but quite as important as its actual
content are the forces which initiat
ed it—in the first place, it brings to
our consciousness the mutual inter
ests of this country and our northern
neighbor which are plain to any
American familiar with Canada and
her people but which many in both
countries ignore. Again, it shows
how groups in two separate coun
tries can get together and work out
steps mutually beneficial and like
wise advantageous to the whole
world. The most important thing of
all, however, is the emphasis on the
fact that domestic problems are fre
quently international problems.
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Diary of a Broadcaster
Let me tell you of another crazy
rumor story that I heard today It
is so old that it has whiskers but
people up and down this land are
listening andTbelieving it.
A reliable, otherwise hardheaded
man told me that an acquaintance
of his wife had a friend or relative ;
who had a letter from her boy, a
prisoner in Japan. The boy said
that he was being well treated and
then made a reference to his stamp
collection.
He had none, so the remark got
the people to thinking—they repeat- |
ed it “then the FBI or somebody” j
took the letter, steamed off the
stamp, and under it was written—
Well, before the man finished tell
ing it, I said: “I know what was
under it—They’ve cut my tongue
out.”
How did I guess? Well, I heard
that story a dozen times in the last
World war.
But to make sure, I made a few
inquiries, simply to check the pro
cedure. In the first place, prisoners
of war don't use stamps. They can’t
write direct to their next of kin. The
messages all are relayed through
the International Red Cross anyhow.
Before we got into the last war, I
was sitting on top of a Fifth avenue
bus in New York, reading an article
by David Lawrence, which reported
how the department of justice had
run down a story to the effect that
sweaters knitted for the Red Cross
were sold to soldiers. The bus
stopped—a Liberty Bond orator was
making a speech—I listened. He
was telling the same story that the
department of justice had run down
and found it had absolutely NO basis
whatever.
Remember this before you repeat
these charming fantasies. Enlist
ment in the WACS, as fine a corps
of American women as were ever
gathered together, has been slowed
down by a cheap and dirty story
made out of whole cloth and passed
from one drooling lascivious mouth
to another.
B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage
Bombers that will dwarf in size
our present Flying Fortresses,
armed with heavy caliber cannon
of an entirely new principle of op
eration and capable of carrying half
a carload of bombs across the At
lantic and returning non-stop, are
some of tne revolutionary aircraft
developments predicted for the near
future by Gen. H. H. Arnold of the
U. S. army air forces.
*'By the hundreds of thousands,
boys and girls who in other times
would have completed high school,
are now leaving the school before
graduation to go to work,” says the
Educational Policies commission of
the National Education association.
• • •
Entries of aliens during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1943, were the
lowest in 80 years.
By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
QHILE making “Sahara”
for Columbia, Bruce
ett met a marine who’ll
have to be referred to merely
as Joe, the marine. Joe was
on leave after some tough
Guadalcanal fighting, and due
soon to return to the South Pacific.
The actor told Joe about a Guate
malan machete he’d collected when
he was making a Tarzan serial about
ten years ago. ‘‘That’s a little some
thing I’d like to have,” said Joe, so
Bennett sent it to him. Last week
a V-Mail note from Joe said: "My
machete is the pride of the outfit.
I spent two solid weeks sharpening
it. And brother, I ain’t out to cut
hay!” Bennett wishes he'd had
dozens of them to hand over.
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Nobody could be more surprised
than the originators of the air’s WLS
Barn Dance Show are at the way it
has developed. It was started as a
program that would appeal princi
pally to listeners in rural areas, but
HAL O’HALLORAN
come October 2 it celebrates its 10th
anniversary on the network as a
show that many city people love.
It’s one of the few that has a paying
studio audience. The genial Hal
O’Halloran will be on hand as
usual as m. c.
-¥
Metro is certainly rounding up the
popular band leaders; they recently
signed Guy Lombardo and his Royal
Canadians for a musical, and al
ready have Tommy Dorsey, Harry
James, Xavier Cugat, Bob Crosby,
Vaughn Monroe and Spike Jones.
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Watch for a radio quis master to
name three of Hollywood's loveliest
who have not played opposite Cary
Grant. It would be hard to name
one. Laraine Day shares honors
with him in ‘‘Mr. Lucky,” and Is the
latest of a list of 28 of his heroines.
Irene Dunne, Katharine Hepburn
and Sylvia Sidney have appeared
three times apiece in Grant pictures,
and he’s probably onr only ranking
star who has both Joan and Con
stance Bennett on his roster of
"Celebrities I Have Made Love to
on the Screen.”
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The cast of "Mr. District Attor
ney” made money when they won
a wager from the ‘‘Ellery Queen"
performers. Jay Jostyn of the for
mer show was a guest star on the
latter, and his colleagues bet the op
position that he’d solve the mystery.
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Just a natural—The soldiers sta
tioned at Camp Ellis, near Lewiston,
111., were trying to And just the right
girl to name “Miss Camp Ellis,”
and wound up by selecting Anita
Ellis, songstress of the Jack Carson
show on CBS
_afc_
Every now and then Hi Brown,
producer and director of “The Ad
ventures of Nero Wolfe," runs into
an old-timer in radio who reminds
him of his first program on the air.
It was called “High-Brow Readings
by Hi Brown," and he’d rather for
get it.
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Three years ago an aspiring young
actor named Curtis Rudolf failed
to obtain a bit part in a little theater
production in Cieveland, and was ad
vised to try some other line of work.
Recently Metro staged a first show
ing on "Salute to the Marines" in
Cleveland, and an actor named Don
ald Curtis, christened Curtis Rudolf,
had a leading role in the Wallace
Beery starrer.
-♦
A prop man on "The Fallen Spar
row" set laboriously made "snow"
by flaking ice into a freezing bin—
and returned from lunch to find that
John Garfield and Walter Slezak
had returned from their lunch and
used it all up throwing snowballs at
Maureen O’Hara and Director Rich
ard Wallace When they learned
how much labor had been involved,
they pitched in and made more.
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ODDS AND ENDS-The small black
microphone into which folks on the
Bing Crosby program sing has been
named “Skinny Ennis" . . . Bob Hawk,
of “Thanks to the Yanks," has an idea
for a movie quiz in which several stu
dios are interested . . . Fred Astaire's
signed a long-term contract with Metro,
where he made his first picture—“Danc
ing lady," which starred Joan Craw
ford and Clark Gable, in a cast includ
ing Franchnt Tone, and made little of
Astaire’s talents . . . Dickie Jones, the
air’s new “Henry Aldrich," went to Hol
lywood several years ago as a protege
of Hoot Gibson—he was the voice of
“Pinocchio" in the picture of that name
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Rope and Twine Must
Be Made to Last
Supply Is Short, Says
Dept, of Agriculture
Farmers must preserve their ropo
and twine on hand carefully, be
cause very little new can be ob
tained, the department of agricul
ture warns. Fibers for rope and
twine that used to be Imported from
the Philippines and the Dutch East
Indies are now unobtainable be
cause of the war. Small quantitiea
of henequen and sisal fibers ar»
coming in from Mexico, Cuba and
Haiti, but this supply will not aid
the situation much.
Rope for agricultural uses will be
made largely of jute, cotton and
other substitute materials. To take
the best care possible of your rope,
the department gives the following
advice:
1. Store It properly in a dry on
heated building or room. It should
be clean and dry before storing.
Ilang It in loose coils on a peg—not
on the floor.
2. Avoid kinks. Kinks pulled
through a restricted space will
shear the fibers and weaken the
rope.
3. Don’t leave rope where battery
acid, drying oils, etc., can damage
it, or where animals can chew It.
4. Splices are stronger, and eas
ier, on rope than knots.
5. Don’t overload rope. Use the
right size for the job.
6. Reverse rope, end for end, that
runs through pulleys and tackle te
equalize the wear.
7. Save wear on rope by reducing
wear and abrasion that occurs when
one rope chafes another, when it
drags over sharp surfaces, or picks
up sand, grit, etc., when it is
dragged over the ground.
Binder twine will be very scares
this year, according to officials of
Ropes running through pulley*
should be reversed end for end t*
equalise wear. (Picture from U. 8.
Soil Conservation service.)
the department. To make what you
have go farther, they give the fol
lowing precautions:
1. Use twine only on mechanical
binding equipment.
2. Keep all points on binding ma
chines through which the twin*
passes in the best possible operating
condition. This means touching up
or repairing worn needles and other
eyes, adjusting or replacing badly
worn parts and weak or ineffective
springs, keeping the cutter knife
sharp, or replacing it if necessary.
Such precautions are particularly
pertinent when using twine made of
substitute materials.
3. Tie larger bundles to use less
twine.
4. Take care of your present sup
ply—don’t leave it out in the weath
er, or where rats can gnaw it.
New Chemical Kills
Lice on Cattle
A new chemical combination
made up of two parts sodium fluo
silicate, one part phenothiazine, and
one part white flour, has been used
successfully to destroy both chew
ing and sucking lice that infest cat
tle. In the experiments conducted
at the N. Dakota agricultural ex
periment station, phenothiazine
alone, merely diluted with ecjual
parts of flour, in trials on 12 in
fested animals located in various
parts of the state, resulted in a
100 per cent kill of both short-nosed
and long-nosed suckmg lice in every
trial. However, it failed to kill chew
ing lice. When the sodium fluosili
cate was added to the diluted phe
nothiazine, the mixture killed both
chewing and sucking lice.
Pullet Losses Reduced
By Selective Breeding
Under ordinary conditions many
poultrymen lose about 25 per cent of
their pullets during the first year.
In a test conducted by Dr. C. H.
Bostian of N. C. State college,
where matings were made from
stock not bred for improved livabil
ity, the loss was 28 per cent. With
another group of birds, kept under
exactly the same conditions but
from matings selected for improved
livability, the loss was only 11%.
