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+'.
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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-
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`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,
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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
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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.
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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.