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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-06-04, Page 6A FAST AND HIGHLY MANOEUVRABLE AMERICAN SINGLE -SEAT FIGHTER USED BY THE BRITISH FLEET AIR ARM The Grumman Martlet low -wing at 13,500 ft. and a range of 1,150 eantilevar monoplane, which has been su essfully flown in action by pilots Britain's Fleet Air Arm is a fast and highly manoeuvrable fighter of American manufacture. Of all -metal constuction it is powered with one 1,200 h.p. Wright "Cyclone" engine and has a speed of 325 miles per hour The News is general Fight Against Cancer Gaining, Doctors Say That many types of cancer can be cured f properly diagnosed in early stages was the optimistic note struck by obstetricians and. gynecologists at the opening ses- sions of the Pacific Coast Society, of s Obstetr' , and Gynecology in Pasadena, Calif. " More optimistic approach was re- vealed by Dr. Frank W. Lynch, for 25 years professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California. in Berkeley, when he stated that cures during the past decade •have, doubled from 22 to 44 per cent despite the fact that 25 per cent of cancer sufferers have neg- lected warning signals until too late for anything but palliative treat- ment. He said no definite relationship with heredity in humans can be es- tablished definitely, yet there are undoubted cancer families in which many cases of the disease will oc- cur inside three generations. On the other hand, he stated, there have been cures where cancer occurred in one generation, and there was no recurrence. The university doctor pointed out that next to heart disease, cancer is the second ranking killer disease in the United States. Dr. Lynch also made note of the fact that the present generation of laymen is cancer -minded and that in the past many deaths have been attributed to cancer when some oth- er disease was the cause of death. miles at 285 miles per hour. Two machine-guns are carried in the wings and two fire through the airscrew- disc.. . A Fleet Air Arm pilot climbs into the cockpit of a Grumman Martlet, aptly named "Nevada Nemesis+'. e AMERICAN TANKS AID IN THE B A largenumberof American tank= delivered to the .British and Imperial forces in the Middle East under the Lease -Lend Act have played a vital part in the British offensive against the Axis fortes in Cyrrenaica. Amer- ican instructors were brought speci- 134th Infantry Solved d This One -But Quick One of the outstanding character- istics displayed by today's service men is ingenuity. No situation,• no matter how difficult, seems to stump them. When the 134th Infantry gave a party at Camp Robinson, Ark., ,somebody neglected the all-impor- tont item of girls, an oversight which went unnoticed until the party was well under way. But Private Bob Skinner,..a more than usually personable infantryman from Lin- coln, incoln, Neb.,, proved equal to the oc-• casion. Commandeering a truck, he dashed over to a quartermaster out- fit's dance, unerringly picked the prettiest blonde on the floor and cut in. Without loss of time the enter- prising infantryman suggested a stroll in the moonlight. The girl agreed and he escorted her to the truck. Excusing himself, he re- turned, cut in on the second pretti- est blonde and brought her out also. When the truck was full Private Skinner -roared back to the 134th's party with his giggling booty. The quartermasters haven't gotten over it yet. RITISII .OFFENSIVE IN LIBYA ally to Egypt to instruct British dri- vers in the handling of the tanks, The picture shows the crews of two of the tanks—members of a famous Irish regiment—discussingplans be- fore a sortie. U. S. Card Player Survey Reveals. Popular Games There is ample evidence to show that Uncle Sam is the best card player in the world today and sits down more often than anybody else to enjoy an evening at the card table. Not long ago the Association of American Playing Card Manufactur- ers decided to find out just how much of a card player Uncle Sam is. They sent a corps of fact finders to 24 cities -big ones, medium-sized ones and small ones. These investi- gators rang doorbells of thousands of homes — mansions, prosperous homes, just ordinary dwellings and "dumps." They asked people in these houses New Design Takes Jolt Out of Railroad Cars Railroad history was made re- cently with the initial test run of a new "free-floating" type of coach developed in - Los Angeles. Embodying radical departures in design from the standard car, it is hung from the railroad tracks in- stead of being balanced on top of them. , The car is remarkably free of swaying and jiggling, even at a speed of 102 m.p.h., attained during a trial run. "Smooth as silk," observed vet- eran eteran railroaders aboard the car. "The nearest thing to an airplane iyet built to ride on rails." The coach has the first fundamen- ;,tal car engineering innovations in more than 100 years of railroad his -1 tory, according to Courtlandt T. Hill, president of the Pacific Rail- way ailway Equipment company, builders. The point of suspension in the oar is above, rather than below, the center of gravity. Consequently, in negotiating curves at high speed, it does not lurch outward. Experiment With Grape Seeds to Replace Oils Among substityte items already well advanced on their commercial career are plastic shoe lace .tips, the use of which could save 500,000 pounds of metals; wood and plastic hairpins are to replace those made of wire) and may prove more satis- factory. Tough hickory wood will take the place of high-grade steel in golf' club shafts and buttons will be of bone and plastic. Experiments are being made with a substitute for rubber in bowling balls. The growing of soft southern pine for newsprint will be stimulated and hardwood pulp is to be tried out. So far no practi- cable substitute has been found for chlorine as a bleaching element and soon paper may be expectedtotake on a yellowish tinge. Refrigerator doors will be made out of hard board which will also be tried out in washing machines as a substitute for scarce or unobtainable metals. In Germany and Italy the search for substitutes is being carried to extremes. In the latter country, for example, farmers are trying to ex- tract from grape seeds something to take the place of linseed and olive oils. In Europe the search is based on the requirements of life itself while in the United States it is to maintain a standard of living long since abandoned in Nazi -dom- inated regions. if they played cards. And if they did, what their favorite games are. Among other things these wander- ing statisticians discovered that 83 per cent of American families play cards — 77 different and distinct games ..ranging all the way from Auction Bridge to Old Maid. This is more than the whole state Saving Aluminum During one month . recently, a large eastern electric company re claimed enough aluminum scrap—' 120,000 pounds—to build 10 large twin -engined army bombers. Good Coffee Making a cup of good coffee is. really an art, but a simple art, in which anyone can become profi- cient. It is only necessary: to select a brand of coffee which has prpved that it can be depended on for uni- formity of quality year after year; then devote the same careful at- tention to the brewing of that coffee as is given to the preparation of other articles of food that are brought to the table. For coffee rich in flavor, as well as strength, one heaping tablespoon. (or two level tablespoons) of coffee is recommended for each six -ounce cup (teacup size or three-fourths standard measuring cup) of water. of New York recovered in the gov- 3:11U,KK, JUIN.I'; 4, ly4G `Cockeyed' Turkeys Set Dizzy Pace before `Kill' Nowhere else on earth is the ritu- al of killing and preparing a turkey observed in such a strange manner as in Ecuador, South America. As in North America, the, bird is penned 'and fattened several days in advance of its Waterloo. On the appointed day, early in the morn- ing, the Quichua or Cholo servants approach the turkey pen with a bot- tle of Aguardiente. It is a cheap but powerful brew of native rum. One of the servants holds the tur- key in a firm grasp, while the other pours a little Aguardiente down its throat. Then the bottle is passed around among the household staff. This process is repeated over and over again until the turkey is well stewed without having seen the stove. Next, a long cord is fastened to the turkey's neck, not too tight, just a comfortable fit. The elected serv- ant then pulls the staggering bird out into the patio or courtyard and urges it into a lumbering trot at the end of its tether. Round and round the turkey goes in a dizzy cir- cle. If it stops or hesitates, the by- standers toss pebbles and the chap at the other end of the rope runs around, towing the turkey at an m- creased speed until the unfortunate bird, drunk and exhausted, falls to the ground in a stupor. Known History of Moscow Dates Back 800 Years Moscow! That is the city to which Russians have looked most of the time through the centuries. It is the largest of all Russian cities, with a population above 4,000,000. The known history. of Moscow goes back about 800 years. There probably was a village of some sort at the.- same spot on the Moskva river even longer ago than that, but we do not have clear records of it. For a time Moscow was the cen- ter of an area ruled by a prince. This prince was under the power of the Mongols. The emperor, or khan, of the Mongols- was his "overlord." As the years passed, the princes of Moscow gained more power. A much larger area of land was placed under them, but the khan was still. their overlord. At last the Muscovites (or . Rus- sians) rose in revolt against the khan. The struggle was long and hard, but in the end they won their freedom. Their ruler was called a "grand prince" until Ivan IV had himself crowned. "czar." He is known in history as "Ivan the Ter- rible." ernment drive for old pots and' I pans. - In the same month, the corn -I pany also salvaged some 1,180,000 pounds of non-ferrous metals. At the company's reclaiming plant near Pittsburgh, an official ex- plained how the mixed scrap runs the gauntlet of great magnetic sep- arators which pick out all ferrous type magnetic metals. What re- mains goes into a melting pot and pure aluminum and pure copper are first separated. All the rest of the metals are divided into a large fam- ily of alloys or mixtures of metals. Mineral Losses Avoid losses of minerals in pre• paring and cooking foods; refrain from scalding, parboiling and blanching. Don't soak vegetables in cold salted water to make them crisp. Don't peel or scrape vege- tables, Long -cooking methods will deprive your vegetables of more minerals than by using shorter ones. The mineral, losses are de- creased when foods are baked, steamed or cooked in double boil-' ers. The greatest mineral losses occur when foods are boiled and the more water used the greater the loss; as much as 10 to 40 per cent is lost in calcium and phosphorus: and 20 to 50 per cent of iron when foods are boiled. Origin of Fertilizer' The Pilgrims discovered the Indi- an secret of placing two fish and a handful of wood ashes in every sedd.hill. To the Indians, this was "good .medicine." To the corn, it was nitrogen, phosphoric acid, pot- 'ash,.and lime. When these essential plant foods were added to the soil, ,crops thrived and there was food for the long New England winter. The use of this crude fertilizer marked the beginning of the Amer- ican fertilizer industry. Today, mil- lions of tons of low-cost, high-grade fertilizers protect America's abun- dant production of food, fodder and fiber . provide every American with extra reason for thanksgiving. Battleship Names Battleships are named for the states, cruisers for the cities, de- stroyers are named for deceased naval and Marine corps officers and enlisted men, former secretaries of the navy and congressmen who have been closely identified with na- val affairs; mine sweepers are named for birds, submarines for fish and oil tankers for rivers in oil producing states; repair ships: are named for mythical . characters or places; gunboats for islands and cit- ies; navy tugs for Indian tribes; transport ships for famous battles; supply ships are . given synonyms for cold, and hospital ships are giv- en S iven' synonyms for kindness; aircraft carriers are named for famous fight- ing ships and important battles of our early American history. Phenisopropylamine Want a lift? The development of a streamlined benzedrine that, eaten in the form of a 'tablet, gives a "lift" without affecting he heart or alimentary tract to,,the extent that the drug previously did, was announced re - BRITISH Dr., Gordon A. Alles, i � ENTERTAINED BY MUNITION' Y by BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'S wIPp Cal - Residential clubs are being con- structed for alb• the i,.chief • British' IdoY al•.Ordaiance •factories, where girl munition workers may live in, and in- dulge in recreational pastimes. Mrs. Winston Churchill is here seen during coinmodates 140 former shop girls-L.=• a factory employee • a Pt an dance. ' Many more of these in£oiarial don nY.}, clubs are being planned. ` A million women have already) been taken into p.44;4, . ry •.�+ih�f.Y1, ill' ietriee. and a_ Claim Bacteriophage Cured 34% of Patients Dr. Ward J. MacNeal of Colum- bia university told how he had used bacteriophage in treating osteomye- litis (an infection of bone often caused by the staphylococcus), had saved not only limbs, but lives. Dr. MacNeal said that in the last 10 years he had given bacteriophage to 500 patients with severe infec- tions, had cured 34 per cent—a high proportion. Bacteriophage is almost as elusive as filtrable viruses; it can scarcely be seen under a high-powered microscope, and must be cultured on a special nitrogen compound called asparagine. For every pa- tient, said Dr. MacNeal, he must send a sample of blood or pus con- taining the bacteria to special labo- ratories, have the bacteriophage made to order. It is injected into the veins, as much as a quart in eight hours. Since it is difficult to .culture, doctors seldom think of us- ing it until the "extreme stage" of illness. According to Dr. MacNeal, bacteriophage first weakens bac- teria with special enzymes, then most probably joins forces with the white blood cells which eat the .in- vaders. Post Office Uses Mules <, To Deliver Ton of Hay; It took $14 worth of stamps and a lot of pack mules to do the job— but Uncle Sam's postmen came td the rescue the other day out ins. Durango, Colo., when a feedcorn- pany ompany needed to ship a ton of hay and couldn't find any means of transportation. Sending hay by mail certainly/ wouldn't be practical in ordinary/ times but this was a drastic situa- tion. A customer in Silverton hada tohave hay to feed thecows that furnished milk for all the babies in that community. And everyone, knows babies must have milk—and on schedule. Roads and railroads were com- pletely snowbound. Original think- ing plus desperation, sent the feed - store manager to the post office to. make a bargain, and get instruc- tions about sending hay- by parcels post. He returned somewhat cheered) and packed the whole ton of cow, feed into small packages of a size the post office would be permitted) to handle. The postmaster loaded these on pack mules and delivered them. `Oyez, Oyez'. Everybody who has ever been in a United States courtroom knows that whenjudge the ascends the bench the court crier drones:. "Oyez, -oyez, oyez, the honorable court is now in session." But not many persons know that the crier says, "Oyez, oyez, oyez," instead of "Harken, harken, hark- en," because of a visit William the Conqueror made to an English court almost 900 years ago. - William had overrun England, seized the government, and placed *himself at its head. Entering a 'courtroom, he heard the tipstaff call )the assemblage to order in English. The king rebuked him, and on the ;spot decreed that the business of all British courts should be transacted lin Norman French, his native 'tongue. Afterward, however, the courts went back to English,but to this day, "Oyez, oyez, oyez" still clings to court procedure wherever the English language is spoken. To 'Frighten' Evil Spirits It' is said that the Egyptians sought protection for their ships and their crews by placing the lotus, the insignia of Isis, the phoenix, or some other sacred symbol at the prow. The Phoeniceans, Greeks and Ro- mans had the same custom of seek ing to place themselves and their boats under the protection of one or another of the deities. The Norse- men used terrifying objects to. frighten evil spirits of various kinds. Great Britain favored lions, drag- ons and fighting warriors. Patriotic France used winged figures with upraised trumpets. American clip- per ships, carried a few figureheads and these were mostly emblematic of their names. Meat for Blood Pressure . In high blood pressure, it is im- portant to eat sufficient meat so that the blood will not lack proteins. The best. medical opinion holds that diet, so long as it is not ab- normal, has nothing to do with high blood "pressure. Electrocardiograph tests made un- der conditions of exertion .,lay the patient or when pain is being felt by him will reveal .a heart defect un- discoverable under other conditions.. Frequently such minorchanges as moving from upper to , lower floor l or (nearer to a car line which con- nects with his place of ' work will prolong a, heart patient's life for many years. ke tech ;research associate and lectur- er at the University of California' medical school. Administered only with • the ad-' vice of ,physicians; the tablets are ,reported to •have.,been.' extremely, successful in treating narcolepsy, (people who fall asleep at the most embarrass ng moments). the. most 1 Dry:Sudsing' Your Home Best Cleaning Metlioii On some bright, airy morning, clean the downstairs of your home.: Or, plan to "shampoo" your tuft- ed chairs or other pieces, or the rugs, so their colors will be reju- venated. This whole process has been termed "dry-sudsing," and it's one of the best cleaning methods with the least labor. The word "dry" is relative, for the expression means a very thick suds with a minimum of water. Use this "dry- sudsing" for upholstery, tapestries, rugs, painted walls, .painted furni- ture—in urniture—in short, any cleansing where much wetting is undesirable. The basis of a dry suds is a soap. jelly made either from packaged soap, bar soap, or soap scraps, Shave or cut small, and mix in the proportion of five cups of water to one-half cup soap. Simmer until dissolved. Remove from heat and cool, when it will have the consist- ency of a gelatin. For use on up- holstery, rag rugs, braided wool' rugs, etc., use a mild white neutral soap; for washing walls or wood, use a stronger soap. i Careful Coddling Though the silkworn does nothing', but sleep and eat and spin a cocoon during the 65 days of his existence, he requires careful coddling during all of his stages, and that's where the labor difficulty comes. He has to have a nurse to feed him by hand and change his bed and keep him out of a draft. And he's very particular what he eats -tender young mulberry leaves that are just as old as he is (silkworms hatch just as the buds„on the mulberry break into leaf), not damp, not hot, not bruised nor torn, but "slightly wilt- ed" and cut up fine. Each silkworm eonsumes about 2,200 pounds of leaves during his life cycle, and is fed four to six times daily during his more ravenous stages. He must have fresh air during feedings, but never be in a direct current. Dur- ing thunderstorms the windows must be kept closed! In Japan the heat for hatching the worms used to be applied by contact with the human body, but now simple in- ' cubators are used. It requires 30,000 silkworms to yield 12 pounds of raw silk; so there's the labor problem. definitely. Courageous Pontiac In 1763, when the war between France and England for the posses- sion of Canada ended in victory for the British, a certain great war chief wrathfully declined to abide by the defeat of the French, with whom he had been allied. His name was Pon- tiac, courageous, crafty leader of the powerful Ottawas, O jibwas and Potawatomis. Believing that Eng- lish control of the continent meant the doom of his race, the "red Napo- leon" conspired with other tribes to destroy all the British forts, sweep away the frontier settlements, and drive the enemy into the sea. The Redskins furiously attacked all the English posts on the Great Lakes and in most cases massacred the entire garrison. The uprising failed in its final purpose, for the two main points, Detroit and Fort Pitt, were successfully defended and the Indians were forced to flee. Pontiac died as violently as he lived: In 1769 he was tomahawked by a Kas- kakia Indian in Illinois. An Idea That Clicked. As many as 2,000 years ago the. Chinese had mixed tooth paste from powder and water. But the first tooth paste to be made in America appeared in jars about 1849. A year later it came out in collapsible tubes. Nobody paid much attention to it then, though. But, some 50 years later, it began to be adver- tised in a big way. People liked tooth paste — and they liked the way it was packed. No finger could be dipped into the air -tight --.tube. It was handy and economical, and it was unbreakable. So other pastes, creams, jellies, soaps and salves began to be put up in tubes, to be squeezed out a little at a time. Some, liquids and pow- ders were deliberately ` made int paste so they could join the parade, Along came glues, cements, waxes, greases, printer's inks, pastry deco- rations and ' many other semi - liquids. Partridge Cochin The partridge Cochin was one of the hardest breeds of bantams to produce because good partridge col- or is hard to get. However, the past few years have brought out many fine birds. These birds are the result of crossing the buff and black Cochin, then crossing their offspring with the large partridge Cochin fowl. By un- tiring efforts, they were bred down in size until they were the proper proportions for a bantam._ The partridge Cochin in the male is likened to the -black -breasted red games in color' but not in type. The male birds are beautiful .with their red body, top colorand, black breast .and blacic,tail. Even though .they i tle, higher, o .;.the ground are' lt.. ,g .�;.. , han our`'.other Cochins, they have he true Cochin type ^in other re - meets. as Food Prof. -A. C. Hardy of University college, England, who is an expert on plankton, has found that it is very nutritious; full of important proteins, fats, carbohydrates and probably some very necessary vitamins. Many minerals vital to man's health are found in ocean water and proba- bly exist in all the ocean -bathed plankton, too. These minerals would be passed onto any human con- sumer. But any nation planning to feed its people on the contents of the ocean's great "vegetable -meat" soup will first need to devise a good way to skim out the plankton in large enough quantities. A British scientific committee has been suggested to work on this prob- lem, investigating spots where the most plankton can be found and how it can be removed without having Hitler's submarines join the fishing party uninvited. No Such Food? There is a certain weight at which you look your best, feel your best and act your best. Perhaps you don't make the effort to keep . your figure trim because you think it is too unpleasant a job. There is no such thing as a `'re- ducing food',' or a "gaining food." There is no magic short cut to a slender waistline. Any successful reducing diet will make it necessary for you to deny yourself some of the good things you like, until your waistline has reached a point where, you can again eat, all of them in moderation. secret is a diet containing l ation. the essential food elements to main- tain health -but- low enough in calo- ries to compel your body to con- surne, its own fat for energy pur- poses. First Thanksgiving One of the most gratifying inci- dents in American history was the first Thanksgiving celebration, held in Massachusetts in the autumn of 1621. Massasoit, majestic chief of the Wampanoags, had been a friend of the settlers ever since the Pil- grim Fathers had disembarked from the "Mayflower" at Plymouth the preceding winter. He had pro- tected them from the hostile Nar ragansetts and had helped them es- tablish their colony. Now, after serious struggles with starvation and disease, the time had come when the colonists enjoyed food in abundance as the result of a bounti- ful harvest. Gov. William Brad- ford thereupon proclaimed a great feast of thanksgiving and to it in- vited Massasoit and some lesser chieftains. Clad in deerskin and. feathers, the red men came and joined merrily in the festival of re- joicing : . . Good -will between the. Indians and the English endured un- til 1674, when King Philip, Massa- soit's son, .figured importantly in a war against the Puritans. Avoid Abrasives Never use an abrasive cleaner on your shiny new nickel kitchen and bathroom fixtures. Instead wash thein first with soap and wa- ter, then polish with whiting mois- tened with fine -quality household, ammonia, When a harsh abrasive is used'. on nickel it eventually will wear• it off and after that cleaning is an:. ever-present task. Whiting made into a paste with, household ammonia will .also re- move egg stains from silver and is fine for polishing mirrors. Howev-' er, with the latter it is very impor- tant to avoid getting dampness on the back. The best way to, use the -paste is to coat the glass with it, then. rub it off and polish with a clean drys cloth. a.