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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-11-19, Page 6PAGE 6 tosiseessesersiessetsom THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., NOV. 19, 1942 BRITISH INFANTRY ADVANCING in the El Alamein area, take advan T E1.1 AL' AMEIiN—British infantry tage of •sparse cover while advaneing" A ;nen taking. part in thefierce battles against an enemy position. which halted Rommel's A'frika Corps • • A BRITISH BOMBER CREW RE- PORTS ON A JOB WELL DONE AFTER HEAVY RAID ON DUSSEL DORF An R.A.F. Intelligence Offic- er cross questions bomber crews on their return from one of the most con- centrated attacks ever made on Ger- man industries.' The occasion was the 50 minute attack which on July 31 • saturated the defences and deluged the industrial areas of Dusseldorf, cep- tae of Germany's iron and steel in- dustry. The crews reports; orfs' snruPu - lousily checked and cross-checked, and• subsequent reconnaissance photo- graphs, have proved the success of the Paid. BRITISH BOMBSWHICH BLASTED THE GERMAN DEFENCES AT DIEPPE( -During the biggest yet coma biped operations raid on Dieppe on A,ugust 19, the R.A.F. fought the fiercest air battles since the Battle of Britain. Air ;co-operation in which the R.A.F.'s new Command, Army Co- operation, took part was perfectly timed. Over 261,000 Ib of anti -person - rel and high explosive bombe were dropped. Once morel and this time fare front their bases. the R.A.F. proved their saperiority over lie Luftwaffe, inflicting heavy fosses. Picture shows: Some of the bombs that were rained on the cietman, defences at Dieppe. They were tarried by 'Boston aircraft taking part in theraid. BIGGEST YET DAYLIGHT AS- SAULT ON GERMAN DEFENCES AT 'DIEPPE, AUGUST 19,. On August 19, 1942, Canadian and Special Service Troops, a U. S. Rang- er.Battalion detachment and a contin- gent of Fighting French took part in the biggest -yet Combined Operations raid on German defences at 1Yerpe. The force was carried and escorted by •the Royal Navy, and protected by the R.A.F. Tanks were landed for the first 4' Individual Hens Doing • More Than Their Part The hen does not take a govern:: ment challenge lightly in war time. Demand was made for 50 billion eggs in 1942—and the hen is laying, at the rate of well over 50 billion eggs a year, almost 115,000 eggs a minute, day and night. In May alone, hens •on' farrris in this, country laid 5,789,000,000 eggs, a record high, exceeding' May, 1941, by 16 per cent. Totalegg produc- tion during the first: five months of this'year'has been exactly 'that per- centage higher than for the same period in 1941. The increase is 26 per cent above the 10 -year average for 1931-40. While much of the increase has been due to more layers, individual hens are laying more eggs than ever before. They set a new high of 17.6 eggs per layer for May, compared with the 10 year average of 16.7 eggs for that month. The average hen in !arm flocks laid 70.4 eggs during the first five trionths of 1942, which was 3 per cent more than she laid during the same period last year. Interest incident' to 'egg produc- tion, feeding problems and health maintenance centers upon vitamins, particularly A and D. Use of dehydrated alfalfa and shark oil are helping the vitamin A poultry situation. There is no vita- min D problem, because of research conducted by chemists for more than 10 years. A chemically' stand- ardized source of vitamin D is satis- factorily filling atisfactorilyfilling vitamin feed require- ments making for healthy, pro- ductive stook. Drouth Takes Heavy Toll Of Canadian' Waterfowl Nearly 75 per cent of the pros- pective crop of wild ducks on thein great breeding grounds in Canada's prairie provinces isdestroyed by natural and ` man-made catastro• phies. • Tlie destruction, principally of eggs and newly hatched ducklings, is estimated at as high, as 80,000,000 during a single nesting season, the. nationally known conservation'writ- er reports. The principal cause of mortality is drying up of marshes before the young are able to fly. Drouth and faster evaporation of surface water due'to increasingly higher summer temperatures in recent years have made -countless prairie ponds death traps for the wildfowl. Describing an exodus of drouth- stricken ducklings, an investigator related "Across the prairie start- ed the broods, putting one webbed foot in front of the other in a brave trek for that element which ducks must have or perish.; "The food they had to have wasn't available on the way. Small bones and muscles`weakened. - Cactus' spines penetrated` tender .throats, bellies and feet, and took hold to stay. In the end a distracted hen lay down and died beside the last of her offspring." In addition to drouth, voracious pike, or jackfish, are estimated to eat some '9,000,000 ducklings, other predators take 8,000,000, marsh fires destroy 13,000,000. and other factors including farming operations alpnost the same number. Chukar Partridge Found To Be Winter Toughened The chukar partridge,first intro- duced in Minnesota four ;and a :half years ago, when 200 birds were re- leased in Ave counties, shows'prom- ise of becoming an important addi- tion to the state's upland game spe- cies, according to the department of conservation. A• state-wide survey late last. winter resulted -in actual observation of 461 covies totaling 8,790 chukars, mainly in the east- ern part of the state. I1,. as has been estimated for pheasants in Minnesota, only 10 per cent of the birds present are actually seen, this would mean. more than 50,000 chukars now. present. In addition, approximately' 15,000 of these birds will be released this spring from the Carlos Avery game farm. The chillier has proved .unusually • hardy under winter conditions. Fol- lowing 1940's Armistice day storm, it was observed that birds "pecked their way out of ice -covered snow drifts in about the same way chicks emerge from the egg shell." Tubeless Tire Invention of a revolutionary heavy -vehicle tubeless tire—the goal of tire engineers for half a century-.. has -been announced. - • • • - The new invention is of -primary importance because of .the sav- ings it makes possible in rubber or- dinarily required for inner tubes and flaps. , -• . „ . • Use of a specially designed lock-, ing7member Which retains the air in the casing is the secret of the new development. Already substantial test results obtained demonstrate its usefulness and ability to perform under all sorts of difficult' road conditions. Further tests under other auspices. are now being conducted. The new device can be mounted In a tire with ease in a procedure which is simple to learn and re- quires no special tools, In the event the tire is cut or otherwise becomes deflated, valuable time can be saved in repairs as there is no inner tube to be patched or replaced: • time from the new British tank -land- ing craft. One of the most significant factors arising from the operation is that for; the 9 daylight hours during which the assault took place, the large British naval escort force was able to remain without undue ,loss off the enemy -occupied coast. Picture Shows: Canadian soldiers drinking tea on their arrival back, from the raid. ' Chicago's Magnesium Metal A great body of a potential ore of the strategic metal magnesium lies under Chicago, 111., it is pointed out by Henry W. Nichols, chief cura- tor of geology at Field Museum • of Natural History there. "This city is built upon a bed of dolomite (the carbonate of lime and magnesia) which is from 200 to 450 feet thick," he says., "Although this rock is mined elsewhere as a source of magnesium, such use of here Is unlikely,' because large deposits are available in regions where land val- ues are much lower. Too few anal- yses of the Chicago bed rock have .been reported to determine its aver- age value, but five analyses made on rock from our local quarries all show a .Content of magnesium metal between 12 and 13 per cent, or near- ly the theoretical maximum for ore of this kind." List Made of Important • Rivers That Flow North The Red river of the North, form- ing the boundary between Minne- sota and North -Dakota, flows north for part of its course; the Monon- gahela onongahela flows north from West Vir- ginia to Pennsylvania; the Niagara river, the Tennessee river, the Snake river(where it forms the boundary between Oregon and Ida- ho), the Missouri river and the Salmon river in Idaho all flow north in part of their courses. The John Day, Deschutes and Willamette riv- ers, tributaries to the Columbia riv- er in Oregon, flow north. Others 'with courses between north and northwest are the San Joaquin and Eel rivers in Califor- nia, Kootenai river in Idaho, Mouse river in North Dakota, Kentucky and Licking rivers in Kentucky and Kanawha river in West Virginia. Carlisle Indian School The Carlisle Indian school operat- ed from 1879, when 82 young Indi- ans ndians arrived from the Sioux ' reser- vations, until its close in 1918, ,The school originally" was an old army post which the war department turned over to be used as a' school; for Indians. Capt. H. R. Pratt, who later be; came a brigadier general,became interested in the idea of educating young Indians in non -reservation schools, away from all influence of their traditional tribal customs. At the time the school was given for that purpose it was agreed that if needed it would be returned to the war department. At the end of the First World war it was trans- ferred to the war department for use as a "field school by the medi- cal corps. • Richardson's Owl Into the life of a bird -bander there comes now and then a special thrill, as it did to Herbert B. Southam, ertlrouse Supervisor Gives Tongue Twisters If your, tongue tangles on such daily iiussian communiques from Ryazhak, Voronezh, and Borisglo- besk, try pronouncing the scientific names of plants in the Pennsylvania State college ,botany' garden, says Albert F. Hildebrant, college green- house superintendent. For a starter, try Cochlearia amorocia,-horseradish in ordinary American and named after the Greek goddess of love, Hildebrant suggests. Another is Saxifrage mi- chauxi, a juicy morsel that rabbits had no difficulty in eating up de- spite its name. ,Started last year to satisfy scien- tific needs, the botany garden con- tains more than 50 families of plants. Among the plant groups are • Baptista autralis, indigo plant for- merly used in the manufacture of dye, and Cassia marilandiea, ordi- nary -edible peas and beans. The after-dinner excuses for chew- ing gum, onion and garlic, are called allium cepa and allium sativum, Visitiers who have Kentucky , colo- nels in their fainiliee maywant to learn how to pronounce Melisso of - final's, a highly scented mint. If a few persons have survived the articulation test, they may try their mettle on the nightshade family which includes Solanum cap- sicastrum, the Jerusalem cherry; Nicotiana tobaco, "fags" to the smoker; Solanum melangena, egg Plant.; m ; or Solanuthberosum, . the lowly "spud." Climbing Lofty Peaks Is Dangerous Sport Mountain climbing -the scaling, that •is, of authentic major peaks— combines the aspects of one of the world's most dangerous and exact- ing sportswith exploration in the broad sense and a developed skill which has become one of the most specialized and stylized on the globe. , Loftyherghts are a challenge to venturesome men, and because of the test of physical stamina and courage, and because also there is a distinct scientific side to moun- tain climbing, techniques have been worked out which the experts all employ, writes Paul I. Wellman• in the Kansas City Times. The nomen- clature of mountaineering is enough to show how specialized this is: Aiquille, a rock spire; arete, a ridge; crampons, climbing irons at- tached to the soles of boots for use on ice or snow; crevasse, a deep fissure in a glacier; glissade, sliding down a snow -slope; piton, a metal spike to be driven in rock ,or ice to afford a foothold; traverse, the hori- zontal or diagonal crossing of -a Toronto ornithologist, who was sum- mountainside, and so on, maned toa near -by woodland and Amateurs are warned never to at - swamp by a small boy who had tempt really serious heights, unless "found an owl." they have with them expert guides In this particular spot near Lake or companions, and even then only Ontario the snow does not°!reilQep'4?er much practice and condition - mice and rabbits appear in numbers, mg. And above all they should not and' owls arrive Por food, :writes go without the proper equipment of Hugh M. • Halliday in Nature' maga» clothing, climbing shoes, ropes and zine. No net was needed to captui;e,,gae for all wen had to do Vila's to'lift it+ .,e« TV• illow Ware from its branch. In Contrast with the $ There is a story about the figures saw whet owl it was gentle, and on the blue willow ware dishes. This when we replaced it, on its branch legend is associated with the Willow it rewarded us with a far-off liquid Ward pattern: Koong Shee, daugh- note like the voice of a fairy from ter of a mandarin, despite her fa - some bubbling spring in a woodlandp dell. ther's opposition loved his secretary, In its ho 'in the••north ther in' pavillion by the lake, over e owI Qllang.,.The mandarin imprisoned had learned no fear of man, and in'h 13 years there had been only three which willow trees hung their records of the appearance of this boughs, from which she was res - species in the Toronto area, Rich- cued by Chang. An alarm notified orison's owl is a nocturnal bird the father who pursued them across known to the Eskimos of Alaska as the bridge, but love triumphed and "the blind one;" the pair entered a boat, usually - shown in the design, and found safe- ty on the opposite shore. Their hap- piness was disrupted by a former jealous suitor who discovered their abode and set fire to it, killing the lovers. Their souls were united in the form of two doves, who are rep- resented flying above the, willow trees. 'First Planters' Landed In Virginia April 26, 1607 The "First Planters" of "the Southern Colony of Virginia" landed at Cape, Henry on April- 26, 1607. Crowded aboard three small ships— the Sarah Constant (100 tons), the, Goodspeed (40 tons), and the Dis- covery (20 tons) — the colonists sailed from London on December 19, 1606. Sir Christopher Newport, mas- ter of the Sarah Constant, "a ;mari- ner well practiced for the western part of America," was commander in chief"pf the fleet. On April 20, the fleet having been riding out a storm for the last week, Captain Newport•took soundings, but in vain, writes Joseph Reed in the Richmond Times -Dispatch. They were again taken each day until April 26; when at four o'clock in the morning land 'Was sighted: Concerning the landing, Capt. George Percy writes: • 'The same day we entered into the,' Bay of Chesupioc .(Chesapeake) directly without any let or hindrance. There we landed and discovered a. little way, but we could find nothing worth the speaking of, but large nieadows and goodly tall trees with such fresh waters running through the woods as I . was almost ravished at the first sight` of." With Captain Percy, who made that visit ashore on the first day; were some 32 other colonists. "At night," according to Captain Percy, "when we were going aboard, there came the savages (five in number) creeping upon all fours, from the hills (sand dunes), like bears with their bows in their mouths, hurt Capt. Gabriel Archer in both his' hands and a sailor in two places of his body very dangerous. `States' Flowers' Range From Violet to Goldenrod . They are: Alabama, goldenrod; Arizona, Sahuaro cactus; Arkansas, apple blossom; California, golden poppy; Colorado, columbine; , Co n necticut�mountain laurel; Dela- ware, peach blossom; District of Columbia, American beauty rose; Florida, orange blossom; Georgia, Cherokee rose; Idaho, syringo; I1Ii- nois, wood violet; Indiana, zinnia; Iowa, wild rose; Kansas, sunflower; Kentucky, goldenrod; Louisiana, magnolia; Maine, pine cone and tag sel; Maryland, blackeyed Susan; Massachusetts, mayflower; Michi- gan, apple blossom; Minnesota, moccasin flower; Mississippi, mag- nolia; Missouri, hawthorn; Montana, bitter root. Nebraska, goldenrod; Nevada, sagebrush; New Hampshire, purple lilac; New Jersey, violet; New Mex- ico, yucca; New York, rose; North Carolina, dogwood; North Dakota, wild prairie rose; Ohio, scarlet car- nation; Oklahoma, mistletoe; Ore- gon, Oregon grape; Pennsylvania, mountain laurel; Rhode Island, vio- let;,'South Carolina, jessamine; South Dakota, pasque; Tennessee, iris; Texas, bluebonnet; Utah, sage Illy; Vermont, red clover; `Virginia, American dogwood; Washington, rhododendron; West Virginia, 'rho- - dodendron; Wisconsin violet; Wyo- ming, Indian paintbrush. `Stuttering Eyes' Stuttering usually shows up as a speech defect, but one can have feet, hands or eyes that, stutter, ac- cording to the Better Vision insti- tute. Stuttering often is the result of a nervous condition which is based upon a hereditary predispo- sition to emotional instability. Many persons whose eyes tend to squint can be classed as "stutter- ers," a fact that is recognized in an old French saying: "Squirters stam- mer with their eyes." In squint a condition where the two eyes experience difficulty in focusing in unison, only one eye may be out of line, or the condition may alternate from eye to eye. Some squints are continuous, others are intermittent. When continuous, the squint is present for all dis- tances, but when the squint is in- termittent, the deviation is present either in near or , far vision, , but not in both:' No Water, No Eggs When laying hens -don't drink enough water, egg production will drop as fast, or faster, than when they fall off in eating, says George P. McCarthy, poultry. husbandman of the Texas A. and M. college ex- tension service. The drop in con- sumption of waterin summermost often is traceable to the drinking fountain being left in the open ex- posed to the afternoon sun. Nbr- •maliy, ,hens drink more liquids in hot weather than at other times of ,year, but , if the water in the .,foun- tain' gets too hot the birds won't drink enough. A decline • in con- sumption of water also results in a Gold, •Silver Markings It is easy for amateurs to decipher those Symbols which were first stamped on articles of gold and sil- ver by the Goldsmiths' company at Goldsmiths Hall in London as evi- dence of the purity' of the metal, through the useof key' manuals which any dealer in antique silver has. Oddly enough these marks, which are so helpful to modern col- lectors and dealers in determining the age of English silverware, were first used to indicate the sterling qualities of the pieces and were not intended as a date stamp. As early as. 1300, writes Deborah P. Teel in the Richmond Times -Dis- patch, a law was passed in the Brit- ish Isles whichprovided that a leop- ard's head'should be placed on all solid silver bythe goldsmith. House Numbers for Farms Numbers for farm houses may seem just a bit too citified,• but the plan -has advantages .as is proved in the states of Oregon and Wash- ington where there are about 600 miles of public roads on which ev- ery farm has a nutnber. The num- bers not only indicate the highways, but distance and direction from the courthouse. All numbered farms are then listed in a directory, which also ,gives the telephone number, reduction in the size of the eggs. Principal farm products and .num- Placing the water fountain inside ' ben. of acres in the farm. This di- the chicken house, or under shade rectory is very useful for buyers nearby, will induce the chickens to but the advantages of the plan seer.., drink more freely, f to outweigh any disadvantages, Institute Founder Was Cradle Rocker Inventor The, first self-rociting cradle in. America, with a device for producing its own lullabies, was invented in 1815 by Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Union, free educational in- stitution for the advancement of arts, and sciences. Cooper's nursery aide was operat- ed by a crown wheel, similar to the- main driving mechanism of a clock. After the initial impetus was given, by hand, the cradle remained in, motion until a pendulum -like weight, suspended from the wheel, had. run, down. Describing his contrivance• in a letter to a friend, shortly after re.. ceiving a patent on March 27, 1815,. Cooper,. said "When I was first married, my - wife did all the housework; and aft- er our first'child was born, I used to-, find her rocking the cradle when h: came home from work. "I used to hasten to relieve her;, and while I was rocking the cradle - it occurred to me that the cradle ought to rock itself. 0 went right. to work and made one of the pretti- est cradles you ever saw, with a, musical attachment. "A ratchet wheel and -a heavy: weight operated it. Everybody ad--, mired the cradle. A Yankee ped- dier camealong one day and was, so pleased with it that he gave me - all his goods, and his horse and, wagon besides, for the right to sell,. it in Connecticut and Massachu-- setts." - • • Put Color Around Eyes. It's chic now for a woman to put a dash of color around the eyes— color that_ matches her dress, lip- stick or . nail polish. " The new fad that has caught on in New York, Washington and other metropolitan centers is the use of eyeglasses whose colors match those of lipstick, eyeshadow or other ac- cessory ccessory shades. Some smart wom- en have several pairs of spectacles with different colored frames to har- monize with changing moods and various costumes. College and high school girls in many parts of the country, following the fashion set by the socialites, have: devised an ingenious and in- expensive method of changing, the color of the rims of their glasses— with nail polish. The girls say that a ring of color around their eyes provides allure and heightens per- sonality. Changing the color oeca- sionally overcomes the monotony of sameness. Comores Islands: Cap'n Kidd's Lair Mayotte island, seized by British.. forces, is one of the fourprincipal islands of the Comores groups, an Indian octan hangout for pirates in the Seventeenth century. The is- lands Tie in the northern entrance to Mozambique channel, is formed by Africa on the west and Madagascar on the east, says the National Geo- graphic society, It was while hover- ing in the waters. of these islands— sent to catch pirates—that the no- torious Captain Kidd turned pirate himself. Kidd had sailed from Plymouth, England, in May, 1696, with a royal commission as pri- vateer, to prey on pirates and enemy merchantmen. His crew had been lured by promises of great- booty, and when, the pirates failed to re- turn to their lair, the growing dis- content of the crew turned him to piracy. Now, Private! Private George A. Gransburg was on kitchen . police -duty again at Camp Hulen, Texas. But this time it proved well worth his while. For in the midst of his laboring he yelled: "Why, these are potatoes I grew three years agol" And he could prove it.Neatly imbedded in one of the potatoes was a ring.. he lost three seasons back while dig- ging his potato crop! isnzopurpurine Found 'Fugitive' by Chemists.- Benzopurpurine, a multi -syllable - threat at double talk, has been re- vealed as the reason behind the im- permanent blush discovered in some - of the red cotton garments folks are. wearing these days. ' According . to American Institute • of Laundering research experts, it's- a dyestuff in the "fugitive" class. That means, it is subject to fading and bleeding. And, it's allergic to - a few of the things you yourself- probably like -such, as grapefruit and lemon juices. Good, honest: perspiration affects it, also. Should you be wondering whether - you're sporting a benzopurpurine- dyed-' creation, just get careless. some morning with your grapefruit - and catapult a few drops on your, nifty red cotton flannel shirt. If the. point of contact turns blue--eurekal Benzopurpurine has come down to. breakfast with you. The color change is caused by the fact that benzopurpurine is blue when on, the, "sour" side and red' when alkaline. Your shirt will re- gain its ruddiness if sufficient alka- linity is lntrodueed in the launder- ing process. Attracted Religious Pilgrims The oil that now lures warring, Nazi armies to the Caucasus once. attracted peaceful religious pil- grims. The natural gas found along• with oil deposits fed the mysterious: Eternal Flames of the Caucasus which Fire Worshipers visited 3,000 years ago. The Caspian shores of the Cau- casus were headquarters for Fire. Worship even before Zoroaster, con- sidered by many a Caucasus na- tive, popularized the ancient Per-. sian religion of Zoroastrianism. There pilgrims were awed by flames: hovering over the cold Caspian wa- ters, burning natural gas bubbling up from the sea bottom. Oil der- ricks 70 years ago around Bake closed io on the last of the domed' temples where sacred gas fires: burned for the pilgrims, mostly, Parsees from India. Birds of a Feather, .,cting Corporal Richard Jones: and Private Tubbs were working out on a badminton court at Fort! McClellan, Ala. Nearby stood an officer with two silver bars an his. shoulder. Corporal gave Private Tubbs this order—and we quote -- "Give the captain the bird." The. private was astounded, but he was, new and orders were not to be ques- tioned. So the private emitted the.. raucous noise known as the Bronx., cheer. Fortunately _ the captaia's, back was turned. The corporal pointed to the feathered 'shuttle cock, used in badminton and spoke. convulsively, "That, my friend, is: the birdie!" Cream Separators Liked Beet Of all machines found on the. farm, the cream separator, has most: appeal for the farm housewife, It: is the one piece of equipment that. she understands and appreciates Through daily care she has learned to value the sanitary features of new bowl, discs and spouts and takes an honest : pride in the gay - finish and pleasing design of the. base. ' Above all, she prizes the• thrifty way it puts more butterfat: in the crearn pail, which adds dol.. lree to the family income,. Land Looked Merced Field is definitely an in, land army post. Sergt. Eugene Hal-. sey, chief mail clerk there, received; an eye-opener last week, and it wasn't in liquid form. In sorting_ the field's mail he came across a, letter addressed: "Lieut. J. J. Doe, . U. S. Navy, Merced Field, Califor- nia." Sergeant Halsey returned the• lettertothe sender with the brief = notation: "Merced hasn't been signed any battleships, as yeti"