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...last of the great State fairs of the season opened in Shreveport, La., with all attendance records broken from Minne sota to Texas. The farmers were better dressed and had more money to spend; the exhibits of farm machinery were bigger & better than ever. At Dallas the farmers, getting $100 a bale for their cotton, worried about the shortage of farm labor next year, wandered through five acres of farm machinery: green and yellow John Deere harvesters, bright red International Harvester caterpillars, the sleek slate grey of Ford Ferguson tractors. But of farm equipment, there is already a grave shortage...
Pattern. For this last battle of the maneuvers, Ben Lear gave up the crack Second Armored Division to the Blues, started with a force smaller than he had had in the preceding week. With his reserves based on Shreveport, he flung his advance elements far to the south. He employed all combat bodies, including his Red air force, in widespread reconnaissance, a function in which neither side had shown up too well the week before...
...tanks soon ran into the work of Lear's engineers. Trying to force a crossing of the Sabine River near Carthage (45 miles south of Shreveport), they found that the red-necks had blown up everything usable. But Colonel William H. Morris, commander of the 66th Armored Regiment, learned of a ford downstream. He led his regiment down a dirt road toward the river, and ran into a slambang battle that for two hours threw the 66th back on their caterpillars...
Meanwhile Georgie Patton at the head of the fast-stepping wheeled column had driven close to 400 miles through Texas. He swung sharp east and flung himself on the defenses at the back door of Shreveport. His 41st Armored Infantry made a pass at the Reds' airdrome, reportedly were repulsed. They also established a temporary hold on Shreveport's vital waterworks...
...stage was set at Shreveport's green-swarded Barksdale Field. Across the field and less than a mile from the spectators was a plot 2,000 feet long, 1,000 feet wide (eight big city blocks), spotted with 100 obsolete tanks, a few reconnaissance cars, patches of cardboard to represent troops. Rearing above the junk were two white pyramids, each the center of a 100-foot circle. These were the bull's-eyes for the high-altitude bombers...