HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1942-05-28, Page 7BLIMP= —A CONVOY'S EYES IN FOG BLANKET
Hovering protectively over a U. S. troopship, somewhere on the Atlantic, Navy blimp helps guard
convoy carrying troops and supplies bound for one of United Nations' many battlefronts. (Passed
by censor.)
Japanese Volcano
Erupts Violently
Asern,a-Yatna, the largest, active
volcano in Japan, about 100 miles
northwest of Tokio, erupted with
neat violence not long ago, do-
nee unestirnated damage, mord-
Mg to the Berlin radio.
The broadcast, quoting dis-
patches from Japan, said the erup-
tion was the worst in many years
and the German -controlled Bras -
eels radio characterized it as "a
Catastrophe." A thick rain of
ashes blanketed the countryside
for miles around, the Brussels
version added.
Asarna-Yams, regarded as the
most treacherous volcano in Ja-
pan, has a long history of erup-
tions, the worst of which occurred
in 1783, lasting 88 days and kill-
ing thousands.
Following this outburst the vol-
cano was comparatively quiet un-
til 1908. when it awoke to re-
newed violence, Parties of sight-
4.aers were killed by sudden erup-
tions in 1911 and 1912.
Since then its activity has been
neanifested largely in occasional
showers of stones and ashes.
The mountain is 8,280 feet high
and has a crater three-quarters of
mile in diameter. The most vio-
lent volcanic outbursts, sometimes
felt in Tokio and Yokohama, oecux
In May and December.
HOW CAN 1?
Q. Flow can I `stiffen scatter
rugs?
A, By stretching then tight
and. true. and then tacking face
down. Sprinkle the backs gener-
eualy with a solution made by
dissolving tl, pound of flake glue
in ',4 -gallon of water. This
zshould be prepared in a double
boiler or a container surrounded
by hot water, Allow the rug to
airy for twenty-four hours.
Q. How can I make notes or
"Aerations on blueprints, or auto-
israph,s, or metros on snapshots?
A. Dip a pen into a solution of
ordinary bicarbonate of soda, and
the result will be gratifying.
Q. How can I make a grainy
cake icing creamy?
A.. If a teaspoonful of vinegar
ie added to grainy cake icing, it
arils render it creamy.
Q. How can I mend the broken
wire of an electric light globe?
A, It can oftentimes be mended
by turning on the current and tap-
ping lightly on the side of the
globe with the finger. This causes
bhe broken wire to vibrate and
touching one of the other wires
while vibrating, it becomes weld-
ed.
Q. How can I give a different
flavor to apple pie?
A. Try gratieg a little orange
.rind into the sugar, Sprinkle this
over the apples in the usual way,
and see what a different and de-
.iteious flavor it imparts.
Hitler Makes Visit
To Napoleon's Tomb
A description of how the Nazis,
from Fuehrer Adolph Hitler down
to the common soldier, react to
their first contact with Paris has
been brought back ,by an Ameri-
can woman who escaped from oc-
cupied France. German soldiers,
officeis and cabinet ministers are
now making themselves at hone
in hundreds of places which were
familiar to Americans before
1.939, -
Hitler, for instance, she reports;
made his first visit to the historic
sites of Paris between 3 and 7
a.m. so that his whereabouts
would not be known to the public.
His visit to the Opera House at
4 o'clock one morning alinost
frightened the watchman •out of
his wits. Hitler insisted on in-
specting every corner of the his-
toric building, from the marble
foyers to the dressing rooms back
stage. Then he gave an order to
have the edifice scrubbed from
top to bottom, and issued a state-
ment that it was the finest build-
ing in Europe.
"Both acts offended the French,"
the woman said. "They liked the
'patine' of age-old dirt, and beau-
ty loving Parisians had always
apologized for the Opera House
as a baroque monostrosity.
"Hitler's next calls were at the
Invalides and the tomb of Napor
loon, his patron saint. He bas had
the tomb raised froin the crypt to
the ground floor, it is said, and
every German soldier is required
by military order to visit it. Lines
of these troops, 'les touristes', as
the French call them, can be seen
daily lining up for blocks to carry
out these orders with proper awe-
struck admiration."
Jap Planes Drop
Prisoners' Letters
Japanese planes, flying high
over Port Moresby, New Guinea,
dropped a packet of four hundred
letters from Australian prisoners
in enemy -held' territory, the Mel-
bourne radio reported in a broad-
cast heard by CBS.
The letters were dropped April
28, the broadcast said, and since
have been forwarded to their ad-
dresses by Australian Arrny au-
thorities.
Beakers
_Many British housewives, tem-
porarily relinquishing the struggle
to replace broken crockery in the
usual manner are buying beakers
—handleless cups_instead of cups
which are becoming more and
more scarce.
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TORONTO ONTARI
Have You Heard?,
There is a story going around.
of a big tough citizen who bellig-
erently walked into a store and.
demanded a new truck tire. For
a gag, he was sent to a trucking
concern where he repeated his
request,
"Sure," he was told, "we'll self
you a new tire." So he was hand-
ed one and told the price would
be $10,030.
"What!" yelled the belligerent
buyer.
"Why, of course," the seller„ sac-
plained. "That's $30 for the tire
and 510,000 to pay the Federal
fine."
She: ,"Darling, it's just a year
today since our honeymoon, when
we spent that wonderful day ott
the sands."
He: "We never thought then
that we'd be spending our fust
anniversary on the rocks."
An oral examination was in
progress. • The professor picked
upon a , dumb -looking character
for his first questions.
"W 11 o signed the Magna
Charter
No answer.
"Who was Bonnie Prince
Charlie?"
No answer.
"Where were you ou Monday?"
"Drinking a beer with a friend
of mine." •
"How do you expect to pass thia
coarse if you drink beer when you
are supposed to be in class?"
"I don't, sir. I only came in to
fix the electric heater."
At a club gathering • held in
Concord, New Hampshire, one
couple proved to he champion
contestants. The wife won the
rolling pin contest. Her husband
was fleetest in the 30 -yard dash
for men.
Creeping downstairs in his bare
feet, the householder surprised an
intruder packing the family sil-
ver into a bag.
"By Jove, a real burglar? I
say, wait a minute, will you?"
"An' you'll call a cop !'r snarled
the bu1'gler. "I don't think."
"Oh, no; only while I call my
wife. She's heard you every night
for 20 years, and I'n1 sure it will
be a real pleasure to her to meet
you at last."
Bill—"I hear they have taken
the early morning train off your
route. Do you miss it?"
John—"Not since they have
taken it off!"
"Pa," said the boy, looking up
from his book, "what does a man's
`better half' mean?"
"Usually, my sone' replied the
father from behind the evening
paper, "she means exactly what
she says."
Teacher: "Now, _Freddy, why
does a polar bear wear a fur
coat?"•
Freddie: "Oh-er, well I suppose
he would look funny in a tweed
one!"
Fish For Rubber
Eire must fish for rubber. The
supply is so short that coast resi-
dents are asked to report all rub-
ber washed up. It is considered
the only source of additional sup-
plies.
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Women who suffer pain of irregular
periods with cranky nervousness—
due to Monthlyfunctional i
d sturb-
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(with added iron) very effective to
relieve such distress, Pinkham's Tab-
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build up resistance against such
annoying symptoms. Follow label
directions, Ueda la Canada.
Sub.Contracting
In War Factories
Skill and Accuracy Metas.
nary In "Bits -and -Pieces"
Program
An interesting example of the
success of sub -contracting in war'
work, known to the Department
of Munitions and Supply as the
"bits -and -pieces" program, is that
of an Orillia, Ontario firth. Form-
erly known for its marine en-
gines, this company has taken on
other lines. until now engines,
though still important, are only
a part of the plant's output.
Despite the cry for quantity
production of war weapons,
meticulous meastayement is the
rule. As an example, a steel at-
tachment for a gun turned out
on this firm's lathes has to be
accurate within 1-10,000th of an
inch. No larger a margin of er-
ror is possible, for even a hand
laid on this particular steel bar
for three or four minutes would
cause sufficient expansion to in-
crease its size.
In taking on more of this Gov-
ernment precision work, the Oril-
lia firm asked to be supplied with
a set of gauges, in order that the
extra checking might be done at
the benches before the official in-
spectors' visits. He was informed
that only one set of gauges used
by the Government inspector was
available in Canada. So the com-
pany received permission to fabri-
cate a set. Now it has its own
gauges that will measure down to
1-20,000th of an inch.
As rejected parts, in addition
to the loss of time and effort it
their making, become nothing
more than scrap, the importance
of the closest possible precision is
readily seen. In this Ontario fac-
tory, the return of defective parts
has become almost a curiosity aha
an event. From a recent shipment
of more than 6,000 pieces to a
Government plant, for instance,
not one piece was rejected,
* * *
This company i5 now busy on
contracts covering approximately
fifty different "bits and pieces"
essential to inunitions output.
They include , various parts for
naval and field guns, as well as
machinery and inspection fix-
tures.
One of the principal products
at present is an armour -piercing
shot. In manufacturing this small
projectile, only a few inches long,
a dozen operations are involved,
demanding accuracy in weight to
within three drains and in dia-
neter to within a minute fraction
of an inch. The Orillia factory
is producing hundreds of shots a
day, and every one mast be weigh-
ed and pleasured before going on
to the Government plant for
further testing.
- A particularly interesting ma-
chine in use at the factory calcu-
lates the hardness of steel. This
is done by a diamond to which a
-pressure of 130 kilograms is ap-
plied, and a gauge indicates the
penetration into the small block
of steel. This penetration is so
slight • it is virtually invisible to
the naked eye. An indicator
shows just what pressures are re-
quired to cut this particu]at' steel.
What Science
Is Doing
RADIUM AND BOMBS
The Memorial Hospital of New
York, one of the largest institu-
tions in the world devoted to the
treatment of cancer, has decided
not to bury its nine grams •of
radium in case of air raids, despite
British practice. Five grams will
be kept in a safe resting on bed-
rock in the sub -basement, and sur-
rounded with concrete two feet
thick. Four grams are in a 600-
poumi lead container known as a
"pack," which is also well pro-
tected.
FERTILIZER
Lightning is useful as well as
frightening, Pathfinder quotes
scientists as saying. It has been
estimated that the some two bil-
lion lightning strokes annually re-
lease 200,000,000 tons of nitro-
gen from the air in the form of
nitric acid, to help fertilize the
earth,
SHRIMPS
Of the half a million eggs laid
by a single shrimp in her life-
time, an average of only two sur-
vive, yet that is sufficient to sup-
port an industry with a $15,000,-
000 annual take, according to
Lealon E, Martin Jr, in "Natural
History."
LINOLEUM
A young English inventor,
Frederick Walton, got the idea
for linoleum when he left a pot
of paint uncovered, and the sur-
face hardened into a rubbery
film.
Saving Paper
As part of the big "save paper"
drive one of Britain's biggest rail-
ways is issuing half-size single -
journey tickets. This railway uses
more than 5.000,000 single tickets
a year.
Modern Etiquette
1, Haw do guests at a house
or week -end party ascertain when
they are expected to arise in the.
morning?
2. When one receives a formal
invitation, and is very busy,
wouldn't it be all right to phone
the hostess one's acceptance?
8. Isn't it all right to talk to
one's companion while a motion
picture ie in progress?
4. What should be the keynote .
of a wedding ceremony that is be-
ing performed soon after a death
in the family of one of the prin-
cipals?
5, May one ever leave the
spoon standing in the coffee cup?
6. How should the visiting
card of a doctor and his wife
read?
Answers
1. It is up to the hostess to let
them know when to arise and
when breakfast and the other
meals are to be served. The tact-
ful guest usually can acquaint
himself very easily with the gen-
eral routine of the house. 2,
Never. A formal invitation re-
quires an answer on note paper,
acceptance or regrets written in
the third person. 3. No. It is
extremely rude and ill-bred to do
so, as it is sure to disturb other
persons nearby who are listening
to the play. 4. Simplicity; and
only a few near relatives and -in-
timate friends should attend.
There should be nothing elabor-
ate in the flowers, decorations, or
the procession. 5. No; the spoon
should he placed in the saucer. 6.
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year round for poultrykeepers
prepared with the right stock.
Orders for June delivery should
be sent now. fray Hatchery, 130
John N., Hamilton, Out.
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RAISING JUNE CHICH;5 CAN BE
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if you purchase Tweddle high
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fast maturing' chicks. IVe can
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BAKERS' OVENS AND MACI3IN-
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ways on hand, Terms arranged,
Correspondence invited. Hubbard
- Portable Oven Co„ 103 Bathurst
St., Toronto.
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MEDICAL
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