Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 21 July 1939 — Page 2

THE POST-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1939,

FORD PROJECT TO HOUSE 16,000 GOES FORWARD

First Construction Will Be 15 Apartments, 53 Homes

Dearborn, Mich., July 21—Henry Ford, whose sociological experiments have been directed principally toward a back-to-the-farm movement, is building a compact housing project that eventually will provide homes for 16,000 persons. Immediate construction of 15 apartments housing 203 families, 53 single homes, and a two-story community business center has been announced by the Ford Foundation, organized in 1936 as a nonprofit corporation “for scientific educational, and charitable purposes.” The cost of the project will be approximately $1,525,000. In addition, the foundation plans construction within the near future of 176 additional single homes and apartments to accommodate (15$ more families. Ultimately, the community will cover 1,069 acres and provide homes for a population of 16,000. Site In Farm Area The building site lies in a farmland district between Ford’s Kiver Rouge factory and Greenfield Village, Ford’s “history-book” town. • The new homes will be for sale to >the public and apartments will be for rent “in the medium price range.” Home sites later will be made available to any purchaser provided a home is built within a specified time. Prices of the homes built by the Ford Foundation will be $5,500 and up. The apartment rentals have not been decided. The homes will be of five and six rooms with garages attached. Apartments will be from two to six rooms with air conditioning and electric garbage disposal plants. The apartment buildings will be of fireproof construction with brick sidewalls and floors of reinforced concrete covered with hardwood. They will be two stories in height. Large Space For Gardens Approximately 80 per cent of th f ' land in the apartment area wil 1 be I devoted to gardens, the fovrv' .uon | announced. A school an 1 attorning { playgrounds will cover < 1-2 acres | and other play spaces and parks will- embrace about six acres. The community business center will have space for nine shops on the first floor and office space tor physicians, dentists and the Ford Foundation on the second floor. The land where the housing project, to be known as the Springwells Park Subdivision, was donated to the foundation in December, 1937, by Henry Ford. The foundation, as incorporated, has the purpose of “distributing future charitable gifts by Edsel Ford’s son and president of the Ford Motor Co.” Work already in progress at the site includes the removal of trees from reposed streets, grading in preparation for paving, the laying of sidewalks, and installation of water and other utilities.

Why be a Ham in Carving One? Expert Shows Easy, Modern Way

If they snicker when you staft to carve, you’ll be comforted by these kind words from Max O. Cullen, carving authority. “It’s basy to learn the right way, and the right way is the easy way,” says Cullen, who is shown at the right explaining to Pete Smith, producer of motion picture shorts bearing his name, and Ann Morriss, M-G-M player, the fundamentals of carving a ham, during the recent filming of “Culinary Carving,” an educational short in which Cullen was featured. Proper tools and a sharp knife »are of first importance, says the expert. Then you can proceed with confidence, if you will follow his simple d sections as shown by the diagrams and instructions below. 1. Place ham with fat side up, shank end to carver’s right. Cut two or three slices parallel to the length of the ham from the smaller meaty section. 2. Turn the ham so that it rests oh the cut sui’fa^e. Holding firmly with the fork, cut a small wedge shaped piece from the shank end. Then proceed to cut thin slices down to the leg bone until the aitch bone is reached. [ 3. With the fork still in place, release the slices by running the ’knife along the bone and at right angles to the slices. For additional servings, turn and carve other side of ham. 4. If more servings are required, the ham is turned back , in its original position on the platter with the fat side up and the slices are carved at right angles to the bone. These slices are not so large as those from the cushion section, but they make attractive servings for second helpings.

Science Uses Pure Iron As ‘G-Man’ To Track Down Metallic Elements

Good News From West Dust Bowls The “Dust Bowls,” American and Canadian, are staging a remarkable “comeback.” The same story comes from the semi-arid areas in Colorado, Oklahoma and other Western states, and from southern Saskatchewan. “There is a lush greenness where here was once bald land,” is the way one writer phrases it. A few years ago the “experts” were telling us that these “Dust Bowls” were going back to the desert. Now there is a danger that other “experts” will set up the claim that Nature has relented, and that in the future we may expect good crops in the “Dust Bowls.” Official records of rainfall will not sustain either set of “experts.” When “Dust Bowl” lands gel enough rain at the right time, splendid crops reward the farmer’s toil. But in the United States, at least, that does not happen more than one year in five. If Nature would only take the farmer into its confidence and tell him when he could cotmt on rain, the problem would be simplified. But Nature refuses to reveal its secret, and the “Dust Bowl” farmer is forced to guess and the gamble in the long run proves disastrous. The cattle men say “Dust Bowl” lands were intended for grazing and should never have been cultivated. The chances are they’re right.

Pittsburgh—This center of the world’s steel industry, long accustomed to record its supremacy in millions of tons, has tallied up a few hundred pounds of metal to support, its claim as leader in the production of the world’s costliest iron, a metal 99.99 per cent pure. Resembling pig or scrap iron as little as an Oxford accent sounds like the mumbling of an Ubangi savage, the iron is 100 times as expensive as ordinary iron. It is so free from impurities that it has become the “G-man” of science in tracking down the wave lengths of all metals. Although not more than 1,000 pounds of the metal is used each year, it is vital to the chemist and metallurgist. Its spectrum is used to compute that of all other metals. By comparing spectrograms (wave length pictures) of samples with! the pure iron standard investigators are able to analyze all metallic elements. Dr. Trygve D. Yensen, manager of the magnetic division of Westinghouse Research Laboratories at East Pittsburgh and the man who was responsible for development of the spectographically pure iron, explains Atom Smashing Modified Spectographs actually result from a modified form of “atom smashing.” When an electric current is passed between two pieces of pure iron, forming the electrodes of a spectrograph apparatus, the electrons in the metal atoms are excited, bombard one another, and give off radiation. This radiation, when focused through a prism of the snectograph, is recorded as a series of lines on a photographic plate. An iron atom has 26 electrons, which aie negatively charged particles revolving about the central core of nucleus of the atom. When excited, each electron can jump from its normal position in the atom, and each jump corresponds to certain lines in the resultant spectrogram. Every line produced by an electron in an iron atom will be characteristic of iron, as the arrangement of the electron is diffnem for every element. Even in the ultra-pure spectrographic iron there are slight traces of many other elements. During the atomic bombardment, the electrons of these alien elements also give off radiation in their own peculiar wave lengths. Comparison of the spectrogram of a test metal with the pure iron standard provides the investigator with a measurement of the wave lengths of all metallic elements in the test piece. Electrolysis Process Used A raw material low in its content of copper, nickel and cobalt

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is used tc make the “ pure iron.” This metal is used as one of two electrodes in an electrolysis process. When an electric current is introduced into a chemical solution of iron salts, the iron molecules travel through the solution to the lead block used as the second electrode. The first electrode is found to be almost absolutely pure, except for .01 per cent of carbon. The pure electrode is then heated to a high temperature in a hydrogen atmosphere to remove the oxides formed during transfer and storage. A high frequency induction -fiurnaoe then is used in an attempt to remove the remaining carbon. In some cases Dr. Yensen has been able to reduce the carbon content to as little as one-tbous-andth of 1 per cent. Dr. Yensen’s concern over carbon is caused by its effect on the lattice structure of iron crystals. In crystals of pure iron the atoms form a lattice arranged with one atom at each corner of a cube and one atom in center of the cube. If a carbon atom comes along, it occupies a space in between the other atoms and distorts the lattice. Since the desirable physical properties of the iron depend on the regularity of the lattice structure, the addition of one or more carbon atoms upsets the balance and is undesirable. Iron “Melts Itself” The high frequency induction furnace is used to eliminate the equally undesirable oxygen atom.

An electric current of 10,000 cycles —a current changing the direction of its movements 20,000 times a second—passes along copper tubing in which is cold water and a crucible to hold the iron. By changing its movement so rapidly, the current sets up a high frequency field in the water and the iron. As a result, the iron produces a temperature ranging as high as 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus the iron literally melts itself. The carbon and oxygen combine as carbon monoxide and are drawn off by a vacuum system. Despite the comparative purity of the iron, the metal still contains a mixture of 27 elements, including silicon oxygen (each with less than .01 of one per cent); carbon, sulphur, nitrogen, phosphorus, zinc, molybdenum, copper, lead, tin, barium, titanium, silver, aluminum, arsenic, boron, calcium, cobalt, chromium, gallium, iridium, magnesium, nickel, vanadium and tungsten, ranging from .004 of 1 per cent to only traces. Through the Yensen method it is possible to produce a year’s supply v/ithin a week’s time. The iron is cast in 200-pound ingots so soft they can be pounded into billets at the relatively low forging temperature of about 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit. To prevent surface oxidation the billets are rolled into long rods and again heated in a hydrogen atmosphere at a temperature of more 2,000 degrees and held at this temperature for 24 hours.

NOTICE TO BIDDEHS

Noti££_ is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals and bids at the office of said Auditor up to the hour of 10:00 o’clock A. M. on Monday, .Inly a4, 1939 for the furnishing of COAL for tlie institutions of Delaware County, Indiana, viz: Infirmary, Children’s Home, Jail and County Garage. Said coal to be delivered to.said institutions as ordered during the year following date of contract, free from freight and hauling charges. Each bid shall he accompanied by a non-collusion affidavit and by bond in the sum of $500.00. • Specifications for said coal are on file in the Auditor’s Office. Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Done this 14th day of June 19:>9. GUS AUGUST MEYERS Auditor Delaware County, Indiana. July 14-21 1939 -ONOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OI HEARING ON APPROPRIATIONS

In the'.matter of the passage of certain ordinances by common council of the City of Muncie, Indiana, Delaware County, providing for special appropriation of funds. Notice is hereby given taxpayers of the C|ty of .Muncie, Indiana. Delaware County, that a public hearing will be In the City Hall," Muncie, Indiana, on tlie 7 th day of August, 1939 at 7:30 o’clock P. M. on ordinance making special and additional appropriation AN ORDINANCE TRANSFERRING THE SUM OF $30,000.00 FROM AND OUT OF BUGET ITEM 4 MATERIALS IN AND INTO BUDGET ITEM 2 SERVICES CONTRACTUAL, ALL IN THE SPECIAL GASOLINE TAX FUND, AND MAKING ADDITIONAL APPROPRATION OF SAID SUM OF $30,000.00 TO THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY FOR SUCH PURPOSE. Taxpayer's appearing ^hgli hdve the right to be heard thereon. If said additional appropriatios are determined will be filed with the ebunty auditor, whb will certify a copy of the same to the State Board of Tax Commissioners, and said State Board will fix a time and place for the hearing of such matter as provided by statute. COMMON COUNCIL of the City of Muncie. Indiana J. Clyde DUnnington, City Clerk July 21-28 . '

STORM RAVAGES! PITCAIRN ISLAND!

Oakland, Cal.—A detailed description of a three-hour cloudburst, which ravaged Pitcairn Island, where the survivors of the mutiny of the Bounty still reside, has just been received here by Mrs. Kathryn Greenwood, who keeps a constant correspondence with inhabitants of the island. So terrific was the cloudburst, Mrs. Greenwood was informed, “that if the village had been struck by the full force of the storm, we would have been washed out into the Pacific Ocean.” The letter to Mrs. Greenwood was written by Lucy Christian, great, great granddaughter of Fletcher Christian, leader of the Bounty mutineers. The cloudburst, she said, washed out roads, orchards and everything that felt any great amount of its force. Land Washed Away. “When it ceased,” Lucy Christian wrote, “there was damage on all sides, some of the land had been washed into the ocean, and 7 inches of water stood in the little settlement and in the island valleys.” But severe as it was, the cloudburst was no great catastrophe to the sturdy survivors of the mutineers, the letter said. Instead, it was regarded by many of them as merely an interesting event that would provide work for both men and women who have little to take up their energies. “They were particularly interested,” the letter said, “in the damage on the west side of the island where orchards were ruined and all the trees—banana, cocoanut and oranges—had been washed into the sea—leaving only a deep gully and barren waste. Houseboats Washed Away. “There was another slide on the south side and some of the seven houseboats in Bounty Bay were washed away. “Streets in Adamstown, the settlement in the northern end of the Island, were flooded, but a huge cliff protected the village from the worst of the storm. It was necessary to fell trees to save the houses from damage.”

Summer Salad Accompaniments

Bread sticks and Melba toast are ; a crisply 'flavorsome pair with which to give taste and texture contrast to a salad luncheon. Thinly sliced bread, spread with cheese and rolled, makes dainty tidbits to serve with fruit or vegetable salads. Toast the tiny rolls just before serving and bring them to the table hot.

Poppy seed are good with tossed vegetable salad. Brush strips of bread with melted butter, sprinkle with poppy seeds, and toast. Serve hot. . Crusty French rolls cut diagonally into slices a fourth of an inch thick, brushed with butter, and toasted, made a delightful salad accompaniment.

Toast fingers, brushed with butter and sprinkled with cheese before they go into the broiler to toast, are good with fruit salads.-

Toast rings, cut from slices of bread with a doughnut cutter and brushed with butter before toasting, are delicious with salad.

La Porte, Ind., July 20—Elon M. Seymour, a LaPorte county farmer, died late yesterday from injuries suffered last week when he fell off a load of hay.

Folks in Washington, D. C., have been complaining about the unusually hot summer there. * * * $ 170,000 extra copies of Fortune’s New York City number were sold recently at $2.00 each. * * * * In South Africa a 12-year-old Negro lad was found living with a colony of baboons. /The lad had evidently lived with the baboons since he was a baby. * * * * It took 23 stitches recently to sew the pieces together when Joe Louis got through with Tony Galento. * * * * Phenix City, Alabama, has neither book store nor public library. A survey shows that there are 40 cities in -the U. S. with a population of 10,000 or more which have no library. * * * * New WPA building projects have been limited to $52,000 each. # * * The Dionne quintuplets have been placed on a prescribed diet— they were getting too fat. * * £ <! Leland Eager, an Allen County, Indiana, farmer, lost his pocket book containing $53 three years ago while breaking his ground for corn. Recently when plowing the same field for soy beans, Mr. Eager found the pocket book and money. The bills were more or less delapidated but were promptly redeemed by the U. S. Treasury Dept. i * * * * President Roosevelt is planning a vacation trip to Alaska as soon as Congress adjourns. ■&<?** Tony Galento has announced that he is going on “the water wagon” and train according to the customary training rules in hopes of getting his second chance at Joe Louis and the heavyweight championship. * * * * WLW, Cincinnati, has been ordered by the Federal Radio Commission to decrease the station’s power from 500/000 watts to 50,000 watts. * ❖ % * Eddie Cantor has a new $500,000 home including a 10-acre garden on Long Island, N. Y. However, the Cantors lived there only six months and then moved to California. This Long Island estate is for sale. * # * * In Illinois, on an average, there is one death each day due to some sort of violence, the nature of which is unknown. Since dead men tell no tales the Coroner’s jtlry is not able to decide whether death was accidental, suicidal or homicidal. * * * * s' A good acre of pasture will produce from 150 to 500 pounds of meat a year, according to a prominent authority. * * * * A health and accident insurance

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

In the Delaware Circuit Court, April Term, 1939. Complaint to quiet title to real estate, No. 12808. State of Indiana, Delaware County, SS: Clem V. Powell

vs.

William A. Mendenhall et al Notice is hereby given to each and all of the defendants in said cause, to-wit: William A. Mendenhall, Carrie Mendenhall, his wife, William H. Hawkins and Hawkins, his wife, widow-, widower, child, . children, descendants, heirs, surviving spouses, creditors, administrators of estates, devisees, legatees, trustees, executors of the last wills -and, testaments, successors in interest and assigns respectively of each of the foregoing persons named: all of whom are unknown to plaintiff; •All of the women once known by the names and designations above stated whose names may have been changed and who are now known by other names, the names of all of whom are unknown to plaintiff and this affiant, and the spouses of all of the persons above named, described and designated as defendants in this action, who are married, the names of all of whom are unknown to plaintiff. All persons and corporations who assert or might assert any title claim or interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint in this action, by, under or through any of the defendants in this action named; described and designated in the complaint ip the above entitled cause of action lias filed his complaint .in the Delaware Circuit Court to quiet his title to the following described real estate in Delaware County, State of Indiana, to-wit: Lots number 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in Bloqk number 19, In -Norvan Johnson’s Addition to the City of Muncie, Indiana: Together w ith an affidavit .that the residence of each of above named defendants, upon dilligent inquiry is unknown, and that unless you and each of you be and appear in the Delaware Circuit Court of said County and (State on Wednesday, the 6th day of September, 193&, the 3rd day of September Term, 1939 qf said Court at the Court House Ja the City of .Muncie, in said County and State, the .said cause will be heard and determined in your abscenee. Witness the Clerk and Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie, Indiana, this the I2th day of July, 1939. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Clerk of the Delaware Circuit Court. Elmer E. Botkin, Attorney for petitioner.

July 14,

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all I said was ‘Isn’t the new Servel Electrolux a beauty?’ I could have hugged him when he said, ‘Let’s get it in time for the party!’ The new 1939 Gas Refrigerator is thd best thing you’ve ever seen! But even more important (to us, at least) is the silent way it does its work, with NO MOVING PARTS. Jim says no noise means no wear... and low operating cost that stays low. Do you wonder J f m so thrilled?”

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company finds that six jitterbugs, collect benefits for every injured boxer who claims benefits. * ❖ ❖ * A homo burglar at Camden, N. J., accidentally hit his head against a kitchen sink and was found unconscious. Now he is in the New Jersey state penitentiary. * * # * In the United States naval service are three brothers who are triplets. They are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Taylor of Tennessee. *P * * * Marian Anderson, Negro contralto, was awarded the Springarn medal for having made the highest Negro achievement in 1938. $ « * * “What the average man means by tax reform,” says the Greensboro (Georgia) Herald-Journal, “is to shift the tax on somebody else.” “* * * ♦ “Nobody knows of the anxious

fears,

Lest darlings may not weather The storm of life in after years, Nobody knows—but mother.” NO SUGHANIMAL WILL BE FOUND

GOP is Looking For Composite Leader in 1940 Campaign Apparently there is a wide difference of opinion between the rank' and file of the Republican party and the Republican leadership. The rank and file is for a “more liberal” party platform in 1940. The leaders are demanding a hate-Roosevelt and damn-the-New-Deal program. Seventy-seven per cent of the voters are asking for a liberal candidate for the Presidency and declare that their chances of winning can be increased only by such a candidate and such a program. But the 7 per cent will have little voice in the management of their party or the selection of their candidate. Since the days of Mark Hanna, it has represented not only Big Business, but privileged interests. It has ^turned the government over to those who paid the bills and who later demanded their pound of flesh from the people in the form of tarriff laws, in the naming of men in key posts on the Interstate Commerce Commission, in putting in charge those who had plunder as their only objective. Under Harding they looted the oil fields of the navy in return for vast contributions by oil magnates and took out a share for those in high office and in public power. They now have their eyes on the labor of the country and hope to repeal or destroy every progressive law passed by the New Deal to take the worker out of the grip of the employers. They are again eager to loot the farmer and the small business man. They hope to get back the gold buried in the Kentucky hills and use it for themselves. So when the rank and file asks for a liberal candidate and a liberal platform, they will call in vain. Those Republicans who have tried for years to bring abouj; this state of affairs have joined the New Deal. They have no LaFoilettes left in their ranks. They have only the Tory Senators, such as Bridges, who has fought every act of administration. Republicans who ask for this combination are looking for the impossible. There just isn’t any such animal. o A snowman keeping quite cool over a furnace blazing at 800 degrees is an exhibit at the New York World’s Fair, to show how asbestos

insulates.

TOURISTS VIEW BIG LOG RUNS

Riverton, Wyo. —Wyoming timber operators, who engage in one of the state’s oldest and most picturesque industries, have discovered their work is a valuable tourist attraction. Several highways pass near the widely-separated logging camps, providing visitors with a firsthand view of spectacular log runs. Most of the operations take place during the summer months, giving pleasure-seekers ample apportunity to witness the lumberjacks float the rough logs to sales

points.

One of the largest producers of ties, poles and mine timbers in the state is the Wyoming Tie and Timber Co., which operates in scenic Fremont county. The firm employs approximately 300 men during the summer at its camps scattered along the Wind river in the Washakie national forest near Dubois, 110 miles northwest of Riverton. Logs Floated 110 Miles After the timbers are cut and trimmed, they are dumped into Warm Springs creek. There they are floated into the Wind river, making the 110-mile trip to Riverton where they are sold to railroads, telephone and telegraph companies and mining firms. The log runs require as much as two months, officials said. At Riverton the logs are treated at a plant operated by the Chicago & Northwestern railroad for sale. A feature of the drive is the sixmile trip through a picturesque gorge in the Wind river canyon. In places flumes have been constructed to facilitate passage of the logs, which negotiate the distance at the rate of 70 per minute to make the entire six-mile trip in 23 minutes. Last year the firm floated 364,000 ties and 34,000 posts to Riverton. Officials reported that almost daily groups of visitors appeared along the route to watch the hardy lumberjacks route the tree trunks down the meandering and frequently flooded river. Other drives operated annually in Wyoming include those from the Medicine Bow national forest, 42 miles northwest of Laramie; along the Green River in southwestern Wyoming; and in the Bib Horn basin. o Elected Head Lions International Chicago, July 21.—A new King Lion was crowned today in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when the initernational convention of Lions clubs ui^inimously eleicted Alexander T. Wells of New York City president of Lions International. Wells, who is a lawyer^ served the past year as first vice president and was United States representative upon the International Council of Lions Clubs. He succeeds retiring president Walter F. Dexter, state superintendent of public instruction in California. The voting concluded a four-day convention climaxing the association’s greatest year of growth. In the past twelve months charters were issued to 557 new Lions clubs*, an all time high, and more than 17,000 net gain in membership was reported to the convention by Secretary General Melvin Jones of Chicago, Lions Clubs are now the most numerous service club in the United States and Canada. There are 3,500 in the association, with a membership of 125,000.

SEE AND DRIVE THE NEW 1939 GRAHAM 4-Door Trunk Sedan

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