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KANSAS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1942 PRICE CITY Sc Young America Takes Over At Fair Grounds Ford County Boy Manager; Full Week For Young Farmers TOMORROW'S PROGRAM 8:00 a.m.—Pcrchcron horse 1:30 p.m. Harness and running races. 2:30 p.m.—Sheep shearing contest. 8:00 p.m.—Slate Fair Rcvnc, Young America took over the Kansas State Fair' today. With the gates free to children, and special programs of entertainment held for them, and schools closed for the day, the boys and girls by the thousands flocked to the fair.

And with them went Dad and Mother, and the big sisters and brothers, as well as aunts and uncles. In keeping with the spirit of the Victory Fair of war time, the children's program in front of the grand stand opened with the big crowd singing "God Bless Am erica," led by Bernard Regier, while the Hutchinson high school band Star Spangled Banner," and all joined in a salute to the colors. A patriotic program, with a military theme was given by the group of about twenty-young poo pie from the Dorothy Woods School of Dancing, and this was followed by other entertainment. Tomorrow Scrap Iron Day Tomorrow, Scrap Iron Day, all will have a chance to salute America in another way at the fair by taking scrapiron for throwing at the Japs and Nazis. Fifty pounds of scrap iron will admit an adult, 25 pounds, a child, to the fair at the entrance gate at 21st and Main tomorrow.

The entertainment in front of the grand stand this afternoon was by the Circus Olympia, a special attraction coming here from the National Dairy show at Waterloo, specially for the state fair. The first horse races will tomorrow. A fireworks display will be held tonight following the night show, "On to Victory." Girls Cookies Best Fifteen year old Alberta King, 324 East ilth, daughter of A. R. King, county superintendent of schools, will have the honor of presenting the Governor's Cooky Jar to Gov.

Payne Ratner at the grand stand Thursday. Her jar of cookies, a large glass jar of ornamental type, filled with a variety of cookies won the blue ribbon award in the judging today. Mrs. L. C.

Brittaln, Hutchinson RFD 3, was awarded the sweepstakes priie in the sponge cake class on an angel food cake, and Mrs. N. F. English, 10 West 21st, took the sweepstakes in the but- tercake division, on a burnt sugar cake today. Three state fair officials, Dr.

O. O. Wolf, Ottawa, president of the fair, Eugene Conklin, Hutchinson, and R. H. Vawter, Oakley, member of the fair board, officiated as judges to pick the winners, although, of course the technical judging was done by a staff from the state college nutrition division at Manhattan.

Real Arsistry What the judges called the most interesting cake In the show was a loaf cake cut out In the shape of a cottage, with lawn and shrubbery. It took the first prize in that class. It was the artistry of Mrs. W. D.

Smith, 405 Hyde Park. The blue ribbon for best cocoanut cake was awarded a woman who It developed later, has only one arm, and made It literally with one hand. The special award In the Children's division for best jelly was won by a South Hutchinson girl, Barbara Frazey, on a jar of ripe, grape jelly. Teams Go to Work Demonstration teams started their competitions on the stage in the 4-H club exhibits building this afternoon, teams from Jewell. Labette, Sedgwick and Wyandotte counties presenting home improvement demonstrations; teams from Labette, Sedgwick and Pottawatomie counties, conservation demonstrations; and Sheridan, Clay and Finney county teams competing with miscellaneous displays.

While the boys and girls generally were enjoying themselves at the fair, three other groups of Kansas youth were engaged in something more serious than sightseeing and having a good time. Norton County Man Is Wheat Champion The grand champion loaf of bread, hi the Wheat Quality class was made from Turkey Red wheat grown by 3. .1. Lchrmeyer of Logan, Norton county, who today was awarded 525 cash prize and the title of Kansas champion quality wheat grower. Ills wheat graded No.

1 dark hard; lest of 62 pounds, and Milling test showed It yielded flour. In the baking test the sample produced the largest leaf and made highest score. The reserve champion award to a loaf baked from Tenmarq wheat grown by Jean Miller, of Ulysses, Grant county. Other placlngs: Ratzlaff, of Elkhart, Morton county, Klackhull. E.

Hanson, Topeka, Shawnee county, Kawvalc. G. Clark, Sedgwick, Harvey county, Red Chief. Intercepted Letters LT. CDR.

W. C. KING NATL. BANK BLDG. CITY Dear Butch: "Captain," "Commander," or "Mister," the town feeling is you're still a King.

Yours, flUTCII. Start Your Junk Pile Immediately Trucks to Pick Up Contributions Here Next Sunday Hutchinson's opening gun In the nation-wide "Get in the Scrap" campaign will be a tremendous collection effort next Sunday covering every residence block in the city. H. generalissimo of the campaign, announced that volunteer trucks organized under direction of Charles Ragland and manned by veterans of the first World war under command of Don Innia will call at every home Get That Scrap Into Big Scrap Pigeons Help Even pigeons are collecting scrap metal these days. Chet Lyman, Masonic bodies secretary, found a nest made of a double handful of old nails and in the Masonic sign on the Morgan building.

in the city in the unprecedented opening day canvass. Everyone Can Help Success of the day's collection, which will open a campaign to continue throughout the country for three weeks, depends on every householder, his wife and all their children. Their task will be to comb their premises from attic to basement, not forgetting the garage and back yard, and to pile the proceeds on the terraces in front of the homes, ready for loading by the volunteer pickup army. Parent-Teacher organizations of the city are being asked to assume the vital task of contacting every home this week, to ask citizens personally for support and suggest some of the sources of scrap. Contribute Anything Iron and steel are the critical scrap items, but if there is any doubt in householder's mind as to the need for his particular variety (Page 6, Column 8, Please) Weather Kansas: Slightly cooler northwest portion tonight; continued cool Tuesday forenoon.

Hutchinson weather (US reports): Sunday temperature extremes, 37 and 58 degrees; low today, 39; at 2:30 p. m. 75. Year ago 89; low, 68. Kansas weather: Kansas' preview of early autumn weather over the week-end pushed temperatures dangerously close to the freezing line but no damaging frosts were reported, said Weatherman S.

D. Flora today. Slight moderation Sunday and today dispelled the threat of frost tonight, the forecast asserted. Ellis recorded the low 33 degrees Sunday morning. Last night 's low was 43, also at Ellis.

Light frost occurred in the Kaw Valley of northeast Kansas Sunday morning. Manirlpal Airport (By CAA Communlcmiuiu Station) I n.m 89! 3:30 6SI 4:30 8 :30 it 6:30 41 7:30 571 48 51! S3 63 11:30 IS.l 12:30 p.ra 00 S2i 1:30 72 481 2:30 Yejterday: 3:30 p.m. 4:30 5:30 6:30 7:30 8:30 10:30 11:30 TMay: a.m. This is no cry of "wolf You and I and 130 million other Americans are engaged in a war for the preservation of ourselves as a free people. It is a war of machines.

Machines mean metal. Primarily steel. Our steel mills have been developed to the point where they could turn out 90 million tons of steel lliis'ycar. Every ton of it is needed to get our war machines into the battle. That 90 million tons, however, won't be produced unless you and I get in the scrap.

Our steel industry has been so developed that scrap metal is as necessary as virgin iron for production. To produce 90 million tons of steel this year the steel mills have got to have 32 million tons of scrap. So far they only have 15 million tons in. Unless another 17 million tons of scrap is collected for them between now and the first of the year, this country's steel mills will fall 5 or 10 million tons short of maximum production. And the more than 2,000 Reno county boys who already are in service will lack the guns and shells and fighting machines on which their very lives depend.

It's up to all of us at home to get in that junk. It's there in our homes, our business offices, our factories, our farm yards and our fields. It's up to us to see it gets started on its way to the mills. There have been scrap campaigns earlier this year. In some communities they have been con- spiciously successful.

If they hadn't been a total of 15 million tons wouldn't have been collected. But the surface of the scrap heap has only been scratched. Lying around are two times, three times, five the 17 million tons more that is so urgently required. We've got to get it in. It doesn't make any difference where you turn it in or how.

It is equally patriotic to sell it or give it away. It doesn't even make much ence what kind of metal it is. There is urgent need for it. Get in this scrap. An abandoned bridge or a discarded boiler will come in handy, but don't overlook the old flatiron, bed springs, furnace grates, toys, shovels, kitchen pots, plow shares, horse shoes, and fence wire.

All have their place at the fighting fronts. An old lawnmowcr will produce steel for six 3-inch shells. A single wash pail will produce steel for three bayonets. An old set of golf clubs will produce steel for one machine gun. 175 old kitchen sinks will produce steel for one medium tank.

One old flatiron will produce steel for two helmets. You have the scrap. The few pounds of it lying about your home will produce the equipment necessary to save some boy's life. Get that scrap in. Sell it.

Donate it. Dispose of it any way you please. The only point is to get it started on its way to the mills where it can be transformed into the machines and munitions we've got to have to win this war. There are markets in Hutchinson and all surrounding towns for the scrap you have to sell. Next week there will be trucks to call at your home for the scrap you may wish to donate.

Watch for the details to be announced in The News and Herald later this week. Tn the meantime: GET IN THE SCRAP Nazi Artillery Joins Attack On Stalingrad Heavy Field Pieces Add to Inferno With Russians Continuing to Deny Hitler His Supreme Triumph; Laid Waste By James M. Long, AP War Editor Germany's mightiest battleship, the Tirpitz, was reported today to have left the shelter of Trondheim fjord under cover of Nazi warplancs, challenging America nand British naval power in a hunt for Allied convoys carrying aid to Russia on the hazardous Arctic route to Murmansk. In a siege stand surpassing Sevastopol, the lied army fought on desperately at Stalingrad amid the shell and bomb-torn wreckage of the stronghold on the stemming the Nazi onrush for the fourth consecutive day and in some places hurling the Germans back by the fury of its counterattacks. The stubborn strcet-by-strect.

i ar house-by-house battle for the JNon-tombatants Uut A Fair Within A Fair Organized By Boys And Girls Girl, 15, Adjudged Champ Cooky Baker For 1942 Fair BUI Turlcy, Ford county farmer boy, was elected manager of the Four-H club encampment, at the state fair ground last night, at the organization meeting held following the opening dinner program. Eugenia Beezley, of Girard, Crawford county, was chosen assistant manager. The following were elected members of the encampment council: Warren Kirkpatrick Dodge City: Bill Vogel, Labette county; Phillip Montfordt, Iola; Ivan Levin, Phillipsburg; Dorothy Henningsen, Jewell City; Carolyn Shields, Wabaunsee county; Margaret Howland, Allen county and Lora Young, Larned. Supervisors elected are Vernett Gibbs, Clay county; Elmer Pelton Lyons; Norman Charbannen, Cloud county; Everett Scott, Phillipsburg; Charlene Leece, Jewell county; Harriet Stott, Abilene and Hope Leland, Riley county. More Than 700 in Camp More than 700 boys and girls champions of 4-H contests in various counties over the state, are here for the encampment.

They are living in the 4-H club building at the fair ground. Most of them are competing on teams, in demonstration and judging contests, or have exhibits at the fair. In addition to these, who are official delegates to the encampment there are hundreds of. other 4-H club members attending the fair, as exhibitors and visitors. M.

H. Coe, of Manhattan, state director of club work Is superintendent of the encampment, assisted by J. Harold Johnson, Mary Elsie Border, and Roger E. Rcg- nier, all of Manhattan. Parade Tomorrow Night The young people will have a parade tomorrow evening, in front of the grandstand.

During the EUGENIA BEEZLEY, Girard, Bill Turley, Dodge are managers of the 4-1! encampment of more than 700 Kansas farm boys and girls at the state fair. Miss Beezley, IS, daughter of K. C. Beezley, superintendent of gates and member of the executive committee of the fair, is here for clothing Judging, style revue and a first aid demonstration. Turlcy, 16, from a 500- acre Ford county wheat farm, has an Angus steer in the baby beef show and will compete in the livestock judging contest.

Both have been In club work six years. They were elected last night. (Staff Photos) week a number of gold medals and trophies will be awarded, including two sweepstakes gold medals Six High Stepping High School Bands Entertain Fair Throngs Crowded Main street got the first of its annual fairtime thrills today as six high school bands paraded to the exposition grounds. Carrying on despite worries about their' "mascot" were the Meade musicians. In a car accident near Pratt early this morning, Phil Brown, 6 -year-old first, grader in the Meade schools, suffered a broken collar bone and was taken to a Pratt hospital, The child was riding in a car driven by Mrs.

George Schwartz, wife of the Meade superintendent. Her car and a gasoline transport crashed. Other occupants of the auto escaped with bruises. Nearly 300 musicians were included in the six bands which pa raded through the business sec tlon, refreshed themselves with listed pop at The News office, and then went to the fair grounds to entertain and be entertained. The 85-piecc Sterling high band was the day's largest.

Other3 wore Nickerson, 50 pieces; Buhler, 42; Meade, 38; Langdon, 35, and Little River, 40. The musicians came in private cars, cattle trucks, by train, and by bus, the tire shortage having made transporatlon a major problem. Listed for tomorrow are Pawnee Rock, Pretty Prairie and Larned. A total of 21 bands will come to the fair. Secretary R.

H. "Bert'' Snyder of the Chamber of Commerce said that a schedule change Marion on Thursday, instead of Wednesday, as originally Legion Asks Drafting of Younger Boys Elect Waring and Call For Training Of Every Youth Kansas City Waring of Memphis was elected national commander of the American Legion at its national convention by a unanimous vote after delegates from every state had stormed onto the stage with their banners in his behalf. The Legion asked congress to lower the draft age to 18 years and to conscript manpower for war production. By an overwhelming standing vote the Legionaires at the closing session of their three-day streamlined convention, passed the resolution offered by the national defense committee, headed by Wan-en H. Atherton, Stockton, Calif.

For Compulsory Training In conjunction with the request that the draft age be lowered, the Legion urged congress to pass legislation for compulsory military training after the war in youth would be required to have at least one year off training before he reaches the ajje of 22. A demand alsa wag voiced calling for a navy large enough to meet contingency that might arise in a world at war. Supplementing its appeal for a national service act conscripting manpower for war production, the Legion reiterated a demand for its long sponsored universal service act, calling for the drafting of ail resources of the nation, including capital, labor, industry, and agriculture as well as the fighting manpower. The Leginnaires also voted that never again should geographic limits he placed upon the movement of the nation's military forces and added in a resolution from its national defense committee that "it is better to carry the war to the enemy than to have him bring war to us." For Training Colleges The convention approved pre- Inductlon training and education in colleges and secondary schools. Action on the measures was taken after a ceremony in which the Legion's Distinguished Service from the state of agriculture to the most outstanding 4-H club boy and girl.

Leaders will be recognized also, the state board of agriculture awarding two gold medals to the man and woman who arc most outstanding in club leadership. Style ftevue Wednesday The state Style Revue, always a feature of the encampment, be held on the stage of the 4-H club encampment building Wednesday afternoon, at 2:30. The public is invited. At this time the state champions of the Style Revue and Best, Groomed Boy competitions will a de i f5', laB presented. They receive not only gold medals, but also expense- paid trips to Chicago to the National 4-H club congress.

Those competing in this contest are county champions in style revues. The girl must have made the clothing in which she will model, except brassiere, girdle and hat, and, of course, hose, and other accessories, but the sclec- MacArthur. The medal was accepted on behalf of MacArthfir by Maj. Gen. Jamea A.

Ulio, the adjutant general of the army. In accepting the medal from National Commander Lynn U. Stambaugh, Gen. Ulio spoke over a siiort wave radio broadcast to Australia. Lower Standard Ahead Speaking before the convention London A Reuters dispatch from Moscow said today all women and children have been removed from Stalingrad.

Every able-bodied man was under arms and helping in the city's defense, (he dispatch said. Altoona Girl Best Speller Sisters Win Title In Classes tmd Tonsillitis was the only worry of little Miss Louise Ei'bc, 14, Al toona, in the Class A division of the state spelling contest held In conjunction with the Kansas State Fair, at the Junior College building today. Louise didn't have tonsillitis, She just wasn't sure, for a minute, whether it was spelled with one "1" or two. Finally she decided on two "l's." Her spelling, was per cent correct on more than 100 words and Louise took the $10 Class A first prize, the medal and the blue ribbon. Sisters Are Winners Sisters, Loma and Ruth Meyerhoff, of Palmer, in Washington county, were winners in Class and Class respectively.

Loma, 14, was champion of Class for students enrolled in the seventh and eighth grades. Ruth, 11, was almost tripped by the word "gazelle," but spelled it correctly and like her sister had all words correct. Ruth won Class for students enrolled in the sixth grade and below. Class A is for students of the ninth grade or above. Cash prizes were awarded to the first eight spellers in each! class, while ninth and tenth place- winners received ribbons.

Class Winners Winners in each class were as follows: Class Erbe, first; Aloha Ashley, Logon, second; Elnora Lou Wycoff, Solomon, third; Helen Walkemeyer, Udall, fourth; Dale Spiegel, Dorlyn Moritz, Tipton, sixth; Beatrice Dobbins, LaCrosso, seventh; Vera Kemper, Logan, eighth; Ora Jane Schuerman, La Crosse, ninth; Donald Spiegel, Formosa, tenth. Class Loma Mcyerhoff, Palmer, first; Rose Tetrow, Haddam, second; Geraldine Schafer, La Crosse, third; Marlyn Timmons, Bushton, fourth; Anna Schafer, La Crosse, fifth; Pauline Tabor, Dcerfield, sixth; Jo Anna Bowles, Formosa, seventh; Helen Pierce, Osborne, eighth; Virginia Taylor, Hutchinson (formerly of Osborne), ninth; Paula Peffly, Waldron, tenth. Class Ruth Mcyerhoff, Palmer, first; George lletz, Glen Elder, second; Marcella Hanna, third; Harold Miller, Chapman, fourth; Norma June Kaup, Waldron, fifth; Sally Lc; Johnston, Alton, sixth; Jack Dunham, Beloit, seventh; Ramona Goering, Kingman, eighth; Erma Rutli Boldt, Bushton, ninth; Marjorie Oden, Lyons, tenth, Goes By Families Two sets ol sisters and one set of brothers were listed among winners. Loma and Ruth hoff took firsts in Class and Geraldine and Anna Schafer, of La Crosse, were third and fifth respectively In Class B. Dale find Donald Spiegel, Formosa, were fifth and tenth, respectively, in Class A.

Words which students said caused them the most trouble were: Tonsillitis, cathedral, gazelle, forehead, lilies, particularly, picnicking, hydraulic and interne. Superintendent Talks George L. McClenny, state perintendent of public instruction, was among the city of Stalin was of the same sort that saved Moscow and Leningrad last fall and early winter. Isolated Sevastopol fell in 27 clays. Stalingrad is in its 28th day of battering by tanks and guns and the ruinous rain of bombs.

Artillery Unllmbcrs German long range artillery took over the work of destruction today, shaking the shell-pocked city from end to end in a thundering barrage which all but drowned the clatter of rille and machinegun fire of the troops locked in close quarter fighting In the streets of the suburbs. in Moscow, Wendell L. Willkie declared ho had found the Russians had "no idea of quitting." Bearer of a written message from President Roosevelt to Premier Stalin, Willkie said the Russians appreciated the aid they hud received from the United States and Britain, but "they didn't think our aid has been enough." Want Second Front He said the Russians think that a second front "is the kind of aid they are entitled to" and added: "The second front has become almost like a symbol to them." The report heard in London that the Tirpitz was on the hunt again off Norway was the first word of the battleship since lost July 0 when the Russians said one of their submarines score! two torpedo hits on her in Arctic waters where she lurked along the cci.voy route. The great battleship Is roughly comparable in size and guns to Bi Plain's new King George clas.i two and possibly foui of them ready for and the United States battleships Washington and North Carolina. Observers in England said that the risk of the Tirpitz showed the Germans were calling upon every means at their disposal in an attempt to cut tile Allied sea route to Murmansk.

Claim Great Toll The German high command claimed only yesterday that then- submarines and planes had sunk 38 merchant ships totaling 270,000 tons and destroyed or damaged six escorting warships in a six-day attack on a British and American convoy in Arctic waters. The claim was characterized In London as exaggerated, although unofficial British sources said losses on the Murmansk route over many months undoubtedly had been considerable. Daily farther behind schedule in its hopes to announce a victory at Stalingrad, the German high command said bitter resistance by the Russians continued, with the defense forces bolstered by new reserves from the east. Advance In Caucasus in the Caucasus, however, the Germans claimed gains. They said they had captured the towns of Terek and Vlndimirovka in their thrust toward the oil wealth of Grozny.

Terek, 30 miles beyond the earlier Mozdok battlefield, is only 25 miles northeast of Grozny. Vlndimirovka is 80 miles northwest of Grozny and approximately the same distance from the shores of the Caspian sea. Russian accounts said repeated German attacks in the Mozduk region and along the Black sen coast road south of Novorossisk had been repulsed. Russian forces kept grimly to their diversion assault on the German lines from Vororiezhto tin: Leningrad frojit. hut it was at Stalingrad the future positions of the great battle-locked armies was being determined.

There, through the flaming night and the thundering day, th" gains of either wen: measured in yards, the cost in lives by tens of hundreds. Send In Krrsh Troops Russian dispatches said the mani poured in ever more ic- serves in a determined attempt to widen their penetration into smouldering city from the northwest. In some streets here the Russians said they were forced back, house by house, but they declared that they had won back other streets In bitter fighting. The attackers still were held in the ravines and valleys outside some of its tlon of these must be made by morning, Donald M. Nelson without adult guidance.

I chairman of the war production The boys also must have made, board, warned that the country their.own selection of clothing: accept a very much 0 (Page 6, Column 8, Please) (Page 6, Column 7, Please) visitors at the spelling contest and gave a short talk to contestants It. King, county school super-; ihe cit Intendcnt, and Phyllis Obec izvesthi declared, pride-fully; in charge. "Tho are forced to rec- Reno county teachers that never before have they readers and judges. J. difficulties in their uf- of Liberty, was chairman in Class; fmsivc near Stalingrad." Edna Anderson, Valley Devastated school, was chairman in Class A.

lengthening nights of the and Ethel Witham, South Hutch- approac.iing winter the was chairman In war of Western Europe toward than 300 students took, Inson, More part. (Puje 6, Column 4, Please).