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C. C. C. C. MONTANA STANDARD, BUTTE, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1943 Five ew Army Transport Built for Job By HENRY C.

NICHOLAS (Central Press Correspondent) MIAMI, very long ago plane roared down a in Florida and lifted gracefully TunWay, the air. It circled the field, dipped its wings in a salute, and headed out over the ocean. There were no speeches, cheers or ceremonies any character. But the group of Army officials who watched the plane until it was lost in the distance knew that they were witnessing one of the notable developments of World War II-one that will play a tremendous part in the defeat of Germany and Japan. For this was no ordinary plane.

It was no bomber or commercial transport hurriedly converted into cargo plane such as our Army had been forced to use during the early days of the war. It was no slow and lumbering cargo, ship which was an easy target fighter planes, such as Germany had used in its desperate efforts to bring, troops Rommel and in Africa. supplies to the Here at last was the CurtissWright C-46, the first giant transport plane built exclusively for Army transport work and handled by a crew especially picked and trained for that purpose. Their Number How many cargo planes Secrese are now in operation is a military secret. So is the section of the globe where they are regularly delivering their cargoes.

But there are other facts which the OWI has permitted to be disclosed, and these facts will provide neither aid nor comfort to the enemy. The C-46 is as high as a twostory house, and has a wing spread more than one-third the length of a football field. It was built to carry, even with a full load of gas, an amazing tonnage over oceans and continents. It can be loaded with men and jeeps, or crated fighter planes and tanks with their crews, or millions of pounds of medical and technical supplies needed on some distant battle front. Traveling high in the air at a cruising speed of 200.

miles an hour, drawn by roaring engines having the power equivalent to FLYING FREIGHT CAR-The new 4,000 galloping horses, this giant plane in one or two quick hops will carry this cargo to Africa, India, China, Russia or Australia. While these planes were being tested at the factory the crews will pilot them on their long flights were being trained at the Homestead Army Air base near Miami. This training is under the ALL ABOARDI-Into the capacious interior of a C-46 marches a de tachment. of fighting men. Note comparative size of the plane.

War's Demand for Food Is Pushing the Once Powerful Agricultural Adjustment Agency Into Background By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON, July The war's demand for food and more food is pushing the once powerful Agricultural Adjustment Agency (AAA) into the background. Many post-war thinkers predict that it never will regain its former position. In its efforts to expand production of American agriculture to the limit, the War Food administration (WFA) has, with the exception of a single non-food crop- tobacco tossed aside the tools which the AAA used for 10 years to guide and control farm output. These tools were acreage allotments, crop benefit payments for complying with allotments, and marketing quotas with stiff penalties for sales in excess of- allotments.

These tools were invented in a time of crisis but a different crisis from that confronting the country today. They were brought into use to combat unmarketable surpluses and ruinously low prices of farm products. Their purpose was to adjust production to the effective market demand-that is, the quantity of a particular commodity which consumers would buy at prices deemed fair to both farmers and users. There is little dispute over the effects of the AAA programs from 8 financial angle. Farm prices improved.

So did farm incomes. Surpluses- that is, supplies for which there were no ready markets were reduced. Agriculture as an industry arose from the brink of bankruptcy. Critics accused the AAA of promoting scarcity and food shortages. Some charged it sought to subject agriculture to the will and control of a strong federal government.

Others declared the AAA deprived farmers their economic freedom and independence of action. Involved in this criticism was a states' right issue. Prior to the AAA, farmers had looked to state and county governmental agencies for advice and guidance. Those agencies were the state extension services and county agricultural agents. The extension services generally were connected with the state agricultural colleges.

The AAA quickly shoved these state agencies aside. Jealousies naturally developed. Now the situation is reversed. Farmers are no longer plagued by so-called surpluses. There is a ready market for everything they can produce.

And prices are good. Producers don't need to lean on the AAA for benefit payments or Substitute for New Clothes Every smart Miss in America knows that it's her duty to conserve whenever and wherever she can, beginning with her own wardrobe! Fine clothes will last longer and stay newer if cared for in the proper way. Have them cleaned regularly by New Method. PHONE 3265 New Method Laundry Launderers Dry Cleaners Hatters 53 East Silver at Wyoming Nazis Have Special Army Ready to Maintain Order in Reich When the Regular Army Collapses By LYNN HEINZERLING -In the blustering days before Sept. 1, 1939, Germans were fond of speaking "der tag" -the day when Adolf Hitler's armies would fall upon his enemies and bring Nazi culture, prosperity and "the new order" to a misunderstanding world.

Things have changed. "Der tag" now means the day when the special Nazi army known as "die waffen-SS" will go into action -to maintain Nazi order in a Germany, crumbling from blows of the Allies and the collapse of the regular armed forces. Nearly 500,000 Men This army, conceived by Hitler and Heinrich Himmler as the vehicle for thwarting any attempt to overthrow the Nazi regime or incite civil war, now consists of eight divisions with front-line experience, three special divisions and enough men in training or assigned to various tasks to bring the total personnel up to 500,000 men, German sources here estimate. This does not include the thousands of men active in the secret police or Gestapo, the safety service and various other police and administrative bodies under Himmler's jurisdiction. The fighting divisions of the SS organization actually comprise only a small part of the huge network of policing, fighting, spying and terror which Himmler has created.

Separate High Command a Hitler himself has called his SS army an "army in itself." Although SS units are under the direction of the regular army command when on duty at the front, there is a separate SS high command headed by Obergruppenfuehrer Hans Juettner. Most of the officers of the SS have never been inside the halls where the officers of the regular army receive their precise training and indoctrination in German military tradition. The SS now has four armored divisions and four motorized divisions. The armored divisions the death's head division, the reich division, the Viking division and the Adolf Hitler division, some of whose members descended on Holland as parachutists in May, 1940. The motorized divisions are the Prinz Fugen, police, cavalry and of mountain.

which In have addition to service, these, there all seen is the Fuhrer's guard battalion outfitted with the most modern tanks and equipment. Have Special Status Certain formations of the regular army also have been given a special status with the SS and presumably may be counted on to operate with the SS in a crisis. Such formations include the armored grenadier division and the Hermann Goering armored grenadier division, both specially outfitted. Recently the Feldherrnhalle division has been added to this group. This formation, formerly called the 60th motorized division, was destroyed at Stalingrad but is now being reestablished.

The SS formations are constantly enlarged and strengthened and Himmler is reported to have assured himself of first selection of recruits from the ranks of the Hitler recruits which normally would into the ranks youth of the regular army. Slugs Slugging Japs and Nazis RICHMOND, machine slugs have gone to war. Walker C. Cottrell, amplification expert who is making "loudmouthed jeeps" for the Army, decided to use the slugs for washers when he could no longer obtain ordinary iron washers, due to war shortages. The "loud-mouthed jeep" has gained much favor with the armed services for instructional purposes; it is a mobile loud speaker several designs.

One model be cans used as a jeep trailer, another can be thoved on wheels by hand, and a third fits the back seat of a jeep. Wisdom Briefs WISDOM, August June Willey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Willey arrived home Monday from Portland, where she is employed in defense work. She will remain for several weeks before returning to her work.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Clennan of Great Falls, with their daughters, Carl Su and Floydena, are vacationing at the home of Mrs. parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Hopkins in Wisdom. Guests spending the summer at the Fred Wilson ranch are Mrs. Lena Nelson, and Mrs. Blanche Hayne of Dillon, and Coleen Murphy and Waynne Murphy, daughter, and son of Phil Murphy of Townsend. Dies in Fall MANHATTAN, August has been received here of the death of Paul Clark at Fontana, where he was employed as a painter at the Kaiser plant.

Death was caused by an accidental fall from 3 60-foot scaffold. He was a former Manhattan resident. Most of American Casualties in Battle of Attu Are Now in U.S. By DANIEL MARSTON SEATTLE, July 27. (AP) The first American casualties in the battle of Attu reached the comfort and care of Pacific coast hospitals even before final Japanese organized resistance on the island was overcome, the Seattle post surgeon has disclosed.

Colonel Louis Brecheman, said nearly all the wounded have been brought more than 3,000 miles back to the States from the fogridden beaches of the Aleutian outpost. "I should says that close to 95 per cent of them are down here now," Colonel Brecheman said, in an interview. "A few may remain well-equipped garrison hospitals in the Aleutians, but most. have been brought south, either on transports or flown Colonel Brecheman, veteran of many years in the service, and his staff meet all transports bringing wounded. A hospital train was at the dock when one arrived this month and stretcher cases and the "walking wounded" immediately were placed aboard to be taken to a Northwest hospital, (The War department announced at Washington on June 4 a total of 1,535 Attu casualties; 342 dead, 1,135 wounded and 58 missing.

(Contrasting with the care given American wounded, the Associated Press Staffer William L. Worden told in a Cories lake, Attu, dispatch on May 30 how a Japanese prisoner said seriously wounded Japanese were shot by their own officers, before the last final desperate counter-attack.) The first casualties arrived here by transport on May 27, Colonel Brecheman said. It was not until May 30, according to a Navy department communique, that the last main enemy resistance. on the island was overcome, although scattered pockets remained to be "cleaned up." The first landings were on May 12. Worden said in a May 31 dispatch that the battle of Attu ended that day, with the capture of Attu village.

Both he and Eugene Burns, also an Associated Press staffer, told of the many casualties from frostbite which men suffered fighting in the snow for days. The Army and Navy transports the Attu beaches took wounded which landed the first, forces on a few days later, Col. Brecheman said. After touching at intermediate points, the transports brought wounded south to Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego. A "shuttle service" was maintained in the Aleutians from one island point to Attu, with one ship making several trips.

The Navy, in one flight with a specially -outfitted plane, brought 22 Army casualties south, landing at a northwest city on June 6. Sheridan Briefs SHERIDAN, August Bill May, who is home on furlough from his training camp, left Sunday, for Salt Lake City to visit his mother. Jean Hakes returned Sunday from Big Timber, where she visited for several weeks with Arthur Jackson, home from Farragut Naval Training base, on a furlough, spent several days of this week, in Helena. He was accompanied by James Schneider. Conducts Wedding BOZEMAN, August Justice of Peace Charles Waterman officiated at the marriage Wednesday evening of Frederick Eugene Plymale and Pauline Marie Sterrett, both of Townsend.

Mrs. James Forristell and Loretta Gillespie attended the couple. SAVE SAVE SAVE Final Clearance 3 Days Only DRESSES, SUITS and COATS At Price Cash or Credit No Refunds or Exchanges Marans Outfitting Co. 15 West Broadway This Thief Went Fishing BECKLEY, W. culprit who obtained $38 from the home of Mrs.

C. Crockett of Bluefield apparently has inclinations as a fisherman. She told police that the money was taken from the clothing of 8 roomer at her house. The money was stolen when a pair of trousers was pulled through a window of the room with a wire, Mrs. Crockett explained.

Pony Briefs PONY, August -Mr. and Mrs. Howard Welch and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Marshall and son, Harvey, returned Wednesday from a week's visit with relatives in Miles City.

Mrs. John A. Muir and daughter, accompanied by Mrs. Winnie Kemp and Mrs. S.

B. Glenn spent Wednesday in Bozeman. Sergeant Helen Davis entrained at Logan Thursday evening to return to her station at Daytona Beach, following a furlough of two weeks in Montana. Mr. and Mrs.

F. I. Johnston left Friday for Creswell, where they expect to spend the remainder of the summer. Mae McLeod returned to her home- in Pony Thursday, following several months' visit in Salt Lake City and Butte. Mrs.

Nellie Thomas of Butte, accompanied her to Pony, for an extended visit. Mrs. E. S. Adkins arrived Saturday from Summerfield, to spend the remainder of the summer at her home in Pony.

Mrs. Effie Pannell returned Saturday after a two weeks' visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. H. E.

Stone of Alder. Mrs. Lillian Seideman of Alder is spending a few days with Mrs. Pannell. Whitehall Briefs WHITEHALL, August -Mrs.

W. D. Manlove left Friday for her home in San Pedro, after spending the summer in Whitehall and other Montana towns. Mrs. Alice Harris spent the week in Pony with her mother, Mrs.

Josephine Howard. Mrs. Lillie Cline, her daughter, Mrs. Franklin Yotter, and Neil Yotter left by train Friday for Iowa to spend two weeks with relatives. Miss Jean Stewart of Minot, N.

is a house guest of Miss Betty Taylor. On Wednesday morning Miss Taylor and her guest were entertained at breakfast, with Mrs. Ralph Marston the hostess. Miss Norma Hall of Seattle arrived last week end for a visit with friends in Whitehall and relatives in Sheridan. Mrs.

Francis Opie and two children, Roberta Ann and Everett, left the first of the week for East Portal to spend the remainder of the summer with Mr. Opie, who is employed there. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard May and family left Wednesday to make their home in Hanford, where Mr.

May is employed. Bridge Party Is Social Highlight Selectees Feted at Picnic Party Curtiss Wright C-46, the Army's first supervision of Col. B. H. Griffin, pilot in the first World war and a fiyer of the old school.

In 1932 Griffin and Jimmy Mattern nonstop from Newfoundland Berlin, flew, cutting 11 hours off the record to that point of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty in their round-the-world flight. One of the technical assistants of Colonel Griffin is Capt. transport plane built for that purpose. of a championship football team. The men must not only know the ship and their work thoroughly, but must have implicit confidence in each other.

Colonel Griffin is never satisfied until each crew has the cocky, confident conviction that it is about the best flying team to be found anywhere on earth, These crews will shortly be PLENTY OF ROOM-This view gives an excellent idea of the roominess inside the new troop-freight transport, the new Curtiss-Wright C-46. Robert Crawford, the composer of the Army Air corps song. Then pilot C-46 a and requires co-pilot a crew are of gradu- five. ates of an Army flying school and have had experience in cross-country and overseas flying in the big transports of commercial airlines. The navigator and engineer must have had similar training.

The radio operator a graduate from an Army school. 1.5 It is the job of Colonel Griffin to take the men sent him at Homestead and create smooth-running, harmonious crews. During the seasoning period he is continuously shifting men from one crew to another until he has obtained the clock- -work precision harmony for programs designed to hold acreages in line with a limited market. In dropping AAA planting controls, WFA officials said that the formula for determining acreage allotments was too rigid to allow efficient utilization of the nation's land resources. All this does not mean, however, that the federal government will cease to exercise a strong influence on agricultural production.

In the future -at least for the duration of the war and a few years thereafter while the demand for American food overseas continues heavythat influence will be less direct, more subtle e-but possibly just as powerful as ever. The federal government will continue to do the over-all planning for production. It will determine needs for various crops. Then it will set up prices which would tend to encourage plantings and production to match those needs. For example, should the government decide that more dry beans and fewer sugar beets were needed, it would provide which would make beans a paying prices.

proposition than beets in areas where the two crops are interchangeable. Shifts in other crops would be handled in similar manner. The government will use price ceilings, price supports and commodity loan programs to set up scales of prices which would tend to encourage the type and character of production needed. In many cases, prices of some commodities might be supported above consumer ceiling prices. The.

government could buy such commodities at the support price and re-sell to distributors at levels which would permit sale to consumers at lower ceiling prices. Such operations would involve losses to the government. Those losses would be, in effect, subsidies. Under future war food programs, the individual farmer will be absolutely free--with the exception of tobacco--to produce what he pleases. The government will conduct intensive educational campaigns on products needed, but the farmer will be allowed to work out his own production goals best suited to his resources.

The AAA organization will continue to play a role, but a much smaller one. Regulations issued recently took away from the AAA's 200,000 state and local farmer committeemen and field workers the privilege of campaigning for AAA programs or for the AAA as an institution or as a philosophy. The federal government notified the committeemen and workers that they were not to distribute, information to press, radio or other SHERIDAN, August Mrs. Jeannette Weeks entertained at a dessert luncheon Tuesday for her contract bridge foursome, and a table of guests. Present were Mrs.

D. W. Raymond, Mrs. O. H.

Junod, Mrs. R. H. Dyer, Mrs. Albert L.

Pence, Mrs. William Callaway, Mrs. Curtis Holland and Mrs. J. F.

Oakwood. Mrs. Frank Jackson, Mrs. Flossie Marsh and Mrs. Harold Fairful entertained with a picnic Friday at the J.

M. Maddison evening, Mill Creek canyon for nine Sheridan boys who are leaving soon for training camps and others home on furlough. Guests included Mrs. James Maddison and son, James; Douglas Marsh, Arthur Jackson, George Anderson, of Dillon; Wayne Lynch, Bill May, Jack Smith, Mr. and Mrs.

James Birdsill, Dale Darby, Doris Garrison, Bonnie Bennetts, Joeen Weidner, Gay Nelson, Mary Ehlers, Beverly Balogh and Beverly Grose. Eight of Sheridan's junior girls responded to a call issued by Mrs. Re V. Love, local chairman of Red Cross, for a meeting at the Library building Friday evening. Work will be started at once on afghans and instructions will be given in knitting.

James Orman Birdsill, son of Mrs. Guy Bowers of Sheridan, and Wanda Donegan, daughter of Mr. Mrs. Sylvan Donegan of Twin Bridges, were married in Missoula July 19. The wedding took place in the Methodist parsonage.

Attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Clovis Birdsill of Missoula, brother and sister-in-law of the bridegroom. After a visit with relatives in Missoula, Mr. and Mrs.

Birdsill returned to Sheridan to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bowers. The bridegroom leaves Monday to join the armed forces of the U. S.

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Ehlers and Mr. and Mrs. M.

P. Schneider entertained with a picnic Sunday in Mill Creek canyon, in honor of James Schneider, who leaves Monday for a training camp, and their guest, Father Herman J. Mowbry, of Minot, N. D. Announce Marriage called upon to pilot even larger air leviathans than the C-46.

The Martin Mars, described as the largest aircraft in existence, is almost ready for its first trip. So are the Douglas Skymaster and the CurtissWright Commander. The giant Lockheed Constellation is designed to carry cargo and passengers at an altitude of 35,000 feet at a speed greater than that of a Japanese Zero plane. The giant plane of them all, however, is that officially designated HK-1, which is now being built by Henry J. Kaiser and Howard Hughes.

The gross weight of the HK-1 will be about. 400,000 pounds, with a wing spread more than onehalf the length of a football field. mass means of communication or to make speeches in behalf of the AAA or its programs. Visitors Register in Waterloo Homes WATERLOO, August 1-(Special) -Mr. and Mrs.

W. W. Fischer of Butte visited relatives here Monday. Mr. and Mrs.

John Carney of Helena accompanied by their granddaughter, Joanne Donaldson of Seattle, were visitors during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson and family of Butte visited at the home of Mrs. Johnson's mother, Mrs.

Mae Held, this week. Mrs. Hetty Townsend is visiting in Great Falls at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W.

E. Townsend. Mrs. Lewis Rollins, Mrs. Charles Carney and family and Pat Wall were visitors in Butte during the last week.

Mr. and Mrs. George Hunt, and family were business visitors in Twin Bridges this week. Charles Masola and Milton Held were business visitors in Helena Monday. Mr.

and Mrs. J. C. Held of Butte visited relatives here Sunday, Mr. and Mrs.

George Wickham and family of Butte visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rryon Wickham over the week end. Mrs. Terese Lueck Is Laid at Rest SHERIDAN, August Funeral services for Mrs.

Therese Lueck, 70, who died in a Butte hospital were held Sunday at the Methodist church in Sheridan. Rev. H. G. Klemme, delivered the sermon.

A mixed quartet, Mrs. F. A. Brim, Mrs. James Leary, F.

A. Brim, and Robert Julian, sang 'The Old Rugged Cross," and. "Leaning On Jesus." Mrs. Dollis Hodges sang, "In A Garden." Mrs. Glenn Marsh accompanied the choir and soloist.

Pallbearers were five sons of the deceased, Hubert, Oscar, Gus, William and Fritz Lueck; and a nephew, Elmer Lueck. Burial was in Sheridan cemetery. Learn of Death RINGLING, August -Mr. and Mrs. Louis Arthun have received word from Charles Tyman of the death of- his mother, Mrs.

Julia Gumerson who died July 13 in a hospital in California. Mrs. Gumerson is survived by three daughters, two sons, and a grandson. She was. very well known in Meagher and Fergus counties and had lived at Ringling a number of years.

BOZEMAN, August Announcement has been made of the marriage of Ruth L. Dexter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Dexter of Silver Spring, former Bozeman residents, and Ens. Richard Bruce Stedman, U.

S. N. son of Mr. and Mrs. A.

D. Stedman of Montgomery Hill, Md. Mrs. Stedman is a graduate of Gallatin high school and attended Montana State college in Bozeman and Maryuniversity. She is a member land, Beta Phi.

Ensign Stedman was graduated from Harvard university. The couple will reside at Alanton London Bridge, Va. TRAVEL TALK MR. WHAT: AND WHAT DOES YOUR. VICTORY GARDEN GROW, KIND SIR? MR.

WHY: FAT, FRESH BAIT FOR: A FISH FRY. HELP CATCH' 'EM? MR. WHAT: ALL SET? I'VE GOT MY CAR. MR. WHY: WE'RE WALKING CHUM.

EVER HEAR ABOUT EXERCISE AND SAVING GAS? MR. WHAT: I KNOW A REAL FISHING SPOT AND WE CAN GET THERE BY MR. WHY: GO BUT I'M NOT USING THE TRAINS EXCEPT FOR NECESSARY TRAVEL 30 BY AVOIDING UNNECESSARY TRIPS, YOU'LL FIND TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE WHEN YOU MUST TRAVEL. J. J.

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Wilder, Consolidated, Tk. Office 2 North Main St. Phone 3215 EMPIRE BUILDER From Butte to Twin City and East, or West to Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland.