Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 5 December 1941 — Page 2

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1941

MODEL PLANES TETHER FLOWN AS NEW SPORT

Wire Control Of Craft Permits Wide Range Of Maneuvers Long Beach, Cal. — Where the youths of the early 1900’s were con tent to spend their time flying kites and watching daring men on flimsy trapezes, 1941’s streamlined youngster generation has developed a new sport — maneuvering' swift, gasoline-powereu model airplanes. The new sport, which older fans term their “hobby,” is called teth-er-flying of model planes, and it embraces all the excitement of flying a roaring dive-bomber or a speedy racing plane without stepping off the ground. The required equipment for this sport, or hobby as ^the case may be, is one model airplane with a tiny gasoline motor attached; about 100 feet of piano wire, and a layman’s knowledge of the fundamen tals of flying a plane. Plane on Wires The small plane, known as a fireball to enthusiasts of the new sport, is attached to wires and the wires made fast to “controls” on the ground. When the motor is warmed up the fireball takes off and proceeds to race through the air at high speed. Every maneuver of the model plane is controlled by the “pilot” by means of a ground control similar to a saw handle. Strands of wire are connected to the bottom and top of the control, and to the ship’s “stick.” Some fireballs are flown with wide-open throttle and have wires to vary the small plane’s only stick control, while others speed and even bomb release cables. The motor of the fireball resembles an actual airplane engine and a couple of thimbles-full of gasoline serve as fuel. The pilot can put his speeding fireball through every trick in the book of flying, frofn looprr, barrel rolls and wing-overs to Immelmann turns. All of the thrilling acrobatics performed by real planes can be duplicated by these tiny counterparts. REVEALSECRET NITRO PROCESS

San Francisco. — The United Btates now is in a position to proiluce 1,000,000,000 pounds of TNT annually—nearly five times as much as in 1918—by a new process which has been a closely guarded secret for six years. The existence of .this new secret process was revealed to the American Petroleum Institute by Dr. Gustav Egloff, director of research of the Universiay Oil Products of Chicago, and himself one of the men who developed the method. Uncle Sam’s superiority in the production of TNT might in itself be the deciding element in the winning of the war, he said. In the last war, Dr. Egloff explained, production of TNT—trinitrotoluene—was held up by the lagging production of toluene, one of the basic elements of the explosive. The liquid was then made entirely from coal and It was impossible for the army to get the quantities demanded. Following the close of World War I, oil chemists went to work on the problem and six years ago discovered a method of seeming the vital element from gasoline in unbelievable amounts. Details of the process were taken to army officials in Washington, and although at that time there were only rumors of another war, tey decided to take no chance.

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Soldier’s A.W.O.L. Reaches 22 Years

Body Plant Combats Machine Tool Bottleneck

Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 5. —A private who stretched a ten-day leave to 22 years was back on duty at Fort McPherson today. Fort officers said the private, whose name they withheld, left on May 19, 1919, with a ten-day leave slip and reported back in yesterday. “He is now a prosperous businessman, and wants to serve his country,” the officers said. MAClNESDiG, PICK POTATOES AT FAST GUP

Two Models Tried Out Successfully In Oregon Klamath Falls, Ore.— One of the farmer’s most back-breaking tasks, “picking” potatoes, soon may be handled entirely by machine, if recent experiments on two big potato ranches in this area continue to prove successful. Developed independently by two ranchers of the Klamath basin, the mechanized diggers have eliminated from 60 to 70 per cent of the labor required to hand-sack the same amount of potatoes which they handle in a day. They may reduce harvest costs by an equal amount, the owners said. With national defense industries and their high pay drawing heavily on the available supply of labor, the machines promise to solve the pressing need of growers of the area for farm hands at harvest time. Adoption To Be Slow Because a farm labor shortage already exists, there seems little chance that introduction of the machines on a wide scale will bring about any economic or labor dislocations. When the mechanized cotton picker was introduced in the South, it was done gradually, giving displaced pickers time, if possible, to find work in other fields. Despite the greater speed and efficiency of the two machines, at least one important defect in both remains to be ironed out, according to the inventors. Neither will work successfully in anything but sandy loam-type soli. It is expected that developments will make each practical for use in any type soil. Frank Bell, Tulelake, Ore., farmer and an electrician, mechanic and World War veteran, produced the first machine of this type. According to Bell, he got the idea for the picker eight years ago, but it was not until 1939 that he built and operated his first one. Working one row at a time, the picker is manned by nine men and can pick about 2,000 field sacks in a 10-hour day, covering about five acres and doing the work of 20 to

24 men.

o Dallas Host To Scientists Dec. 29 Week Dallas, Tex.—Four thousand research workers, industrial scientists, college, university and high school professors will convene here Dec. 29 for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The convention wilf continue one week, with some 30 or more panels or groups representing the widespread interests of 20,000 members of the AAAS. Southern Methodist University is host school to the convention. Other meeting auditoriums will be in hotels, at the First Baptist and First Methodist churches. Exhibits will be arranged on the mezzanine floor of the Baker hotel with skilled personnel in attendance. These exhibits will be open in the public on the last day of the convention. Society members attending will see footballl games, including the see football games, including the Day featuring the Southwest Conference champion and a challenger, shows and. side trips to scenic and industrial Texas points. It will be the first time the AAAS has met as far west as Dallas, and one of the few times it has come so far south. o— HIPPO IS FROLICSOME

Monrovia—The seven pound pigmy hippopotamus found by native women in a Liberian stream has been named “Skippy” because he enjoys water frolics in a wash basin.

Adjustments on this cutting machine are so fine it could be brought down on the crystal of a watch without breaking it

Here is the finished planer, one of the largest type in existence, ft will help to relieve a serious machine tool bottleneck.

TO HELP relieve a shortage of machine tool equipment the OPM asked Fisher Body to manufacture 100 mammoth planers because the company which normally builds them had insufficient capacity to supply the full requirements ef the defense program. Backed by the tremendous resources of General Motors and more than 30 years’ experience in fabrication of the huge dies and special tools needed in. automobile body manufacture, the body-build-ing division swung into its new task. Less than two months after the contract was signed the first planer was delivered by the Grand Rapids, Mich., stamping plant. Fur-

thermore, it agreed to build 125 instead of 100, and in only 10 months time. Ordinarily six months are required to build even one. This is an outstanding case of how General Motors, like others in the automobile industry, is swinging wholeheartedly into defense work. The Grand Rapids plant’s equipment and facilities, never before used for anything but body work, "were so adaptable for this particular job that it was able to step into the task at high gear with virtually no new machinery. To help speed up the job, the Grand Rapids plant called upon another Fisher Body unit to assist. Shown in the upper left photo is

Fisher Body’s pattern shop in Detroit, which produced patterns fop the huge planers. The men in th* foreground are completing the center bed for a planer which, when finished at Grand Rapids, will bn more than 43 feet in length. In the oval a workman is machining the front section of a planer. The lower left picture shows the assembly section at Grand Rapids, where a virtual assembly line was set up, believed to be the first of such magnitude ever created. And at the lower right is shown a completed planer which will be immediately shipped for the OPM and put to work at once on the nation*# defense job.

CARMODY ORGES SLOWER DRIVING

Washington—Federal Works Administrator John M. Carmody urges motorists to reduce their drivg speed to conserve gasoline and her national defense materials— it the “saving” would cost state” id federal governments $10,000,)0 annually in taxes. Carmody recently said that the WA’s Public Roads Admmlstraon estimated motorists would ive 185,000,000 gallons, or $35,>0.000 worth of gasoline a year if iey would reduce their top speed > 45 miles an hour. Such action, 3 said, also would conserve tires, 1 and prevent “wasteage of huan material resources of the naon through accidents.” According to Public Roads Adinistrator figures, although the slow down’’ would save gasoline id materially aid national demse, it also would deprive state id federal governments of $10,>0,000 in annual revenue received om gasoline taxes—money now sed mainly for road construction. Carmody said the need for a mservation drive was emphasized y the 17 per cent increase in affic during the first four months ’ this year and a corresponding ’ per cent increase in motor talities. The PRA study indicates that l per cent of passenger car travel i rural highways at speeds of 45 lies an hour or less, about 10 per mt at 46 to 5’0 miles, 6 per cent ; 51 to 55, fewer than 2 per cent ; 56 to 60 and fewer than one ir cent at 61 miles an hour or

ore.

Estimated average gasoline mileje for passenger cars at different >eeds is: 17.5 miles a gallon at i; 16.4 at 48; 15 at 52.5; 13.4 at and 11.2 at 62. „

Composer Hits ‘Stupid, Lazy,’ Opera Singers Philadelphia—Opera in America seldom is sung in English because, according to composer Deems Taylor, “many of our opera stars are lazy and one or two are downright stupid.” “They tell you English isn’t a beautiful language. You can take it from me, any opera that sounds silly in English sounds just as silly in the original,” he told more than 700 subscribers and friends of the Philadelphia Opera Co. It is “the sign of a timid and primitive culture to be ashamed of one’s own language,” Taylor said. His talk was part of a reception given him by the officers and Board of Directors of the company, which will present his opera “Ramuntcho” at a world premiere in February. Taylor pointed out that few Americans understand the words of operas given in Italian or German and that those who do are apt to be “about five emotions behind” because of slowness in translation. “Europeans never have been able to understand why we in this country prefer not to understand our opera,” he said.

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JUDGE DIVORCES NAMESAKE Fort Worth, Tex.—The cour k , record showed: “Judge Morris o the 67th District Court granted a divorce to Judge Morris in 67th District Court.” But the Judge Morris who won a divorce from Alta Mae Morris was a packing house worker, and not the judge of the court.

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RHODES! AT AXES UP.

Southern Rhodesia’s net increase in taxation for the current fiscal year is slightly more than one-

third of that of 1940-41.

JACKSON DINNER ON FEBRUARY 20

Hoosiers Will Meet In Riley Room Of Claypool Hotel Indianapolis, Dec. 5.—Democratic State Chairman Fred F. Bays announced today that the annual Jackson Day dinner to be held in every state has been set for Friday. February 20, 1942, by members of the National Committee. Hoosier party leaders have begun preliminary plans for the Indiana dinner to be in the Riley room of the Claypool hotel at Indianapolis. They are anticipating one of the largest crowds in history because of evidences of increased harmony and political -interest at meetings held in the last few months. Chairman Bays will call a meeting of the State Committee in the near future to arrange details and select a prominent speaker. A general chairman will be named to have charge of the ticket sales and arrangements. Following custom, officials will set the price at $25 a plate, proceeds to go to the national and state committees for use in the 1942 campaign. Last year Indiana’s dinner was one of the most successful in the nation. The state, ranked first in proportion to population for attendance and funds raised. It was fifth among all the states regardless of size or populatfon. • O :— PAY $2 TO SEE MOVIES

First $2 movies were shown not on Broadway but in Alaska durthe gold rush of 1901 ... A ham sandwich cost $1.5*0 and a slice of pie a silver dollar.—Film Index.

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LIGHTHOUSE IS SIGN OF TRUST

Man Remains True To Man In Fighting Disease This would be a desolate and fearful world if we could no longer believe in man and in certain institutions that men have established. If there were no longer lighthouses along dangerous coasts, no longer other symbols showing that man still protects man, times like these would be terrifying. But, there are symbols proving that man looks after man. One of the best kown is the double-barred cross, spotlighted by the beam of the lighthouse pictured on this year’s Christmas Seal. Americans have confidence in the double-barred cross, the insignia of the National Tuberculosis Association and its nearly 1,700 affiliated associations. This confidence is deeply rooted in the victories over tuberculosis that have been gained in the United States since 1904, when the National Association was founded. Time and experience have proved that the menace of tuberculosis can be abolished even though science has not yet found the specific drug for cure, or for immunization. The death rate from the disease has been cut three-fourths in the last thirty-odd years. Utter despair- has been taken away from the doctor’s verdict — tuberculosis. We know now that the disease can be cured if found in its early stages and if proper treatment is given. The social stigma that once hovered over the disease has been completely dispelled. From a hopeless, shameful disease, tubercu- ■ losis has become simply an illness which affects rich and poor alike, black and white alike. It can be conquered, not only as an individual handicap, but as a national handicap. The associations carried on life-saving work through the First World War, through the depression years, and not only will carry -on through the years to come, but are now steadily tightening the “reins” on tuberculosis. Millions have gone back to work. Billions are being spent for defense. And billions of these billions are going into pay envelopes. From these billions there are surely enough dollars to build up the additional financial support the tuberculosis associations will need during the coming year. A faithful group of Americans havs financed the associations’ work even during the depth of the depression. By buying Christmas Seals, just as they will buy them this year, they have protected those who were unable to protect themselves. This Christmas surely the millions who have gone back to work will again assume their responsibility—a small responsibility: one or two dollars in the fight against the disease that still kills more young people in Ameri-ca-Ahan any other cause of death. -— o Old Catalogue Lists 7-11 Oil,’ Jinx Remover Cleveland, O. — Howard Bejcek for years has collected occult lit erature which includes everything from instructions concerning the best way to end a bad luck streak to a detailed explanation of how to hypnotize a burglar. One of Bejcek’s books is called “Dr. Pryor’s Good Luck Catalogue.” “If you want to remove a jinx and get good luck, the catalogue recommends Jinx Removing Incense, priced at 25c ents,” Bejcek pointed out. Dr. Pryor said in his catalogue that the incense was much more effectively when used with Jinx Removing Spray, priced at 50 cents. Especially designed for the gambler was a four piece kit consisting of Seven-Eleven oil. Dr. Pryor’s Bath Crystals, an Algiers Luck Bag and Controlling Powder (all for $4.) A 504-page catalogue published by the de Lawrence Co., of Chicago, is in Bejcek’s collection also. Before the world ever heard of Adolph Hitler, this company was selling swastikas—as good luck pieces. . “One is said to invite ill luck, and bring unto themselves misfortune if they dare harm or disturb any person who wears or carries a swastika talisman,” the catalogue warned. O : — . USE NATURAL DYES

Natural dyes indignous to the country are being used in dyeworks in Indo-China. o—-—-— Dairying and stock raising are important industries in Nova Scotia.

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Highway System Has 127 Contracts Now In Operation Reports of the State Highway Commission show that 127 construction contracts are now in operation on the state highways throughout Indiana, S. C. Hadden, chairman, said today. Eighty-one of these contracts are for paving and otfier road improvement work while 46 are for the building of bridges and grade separations. At the same time contractors reported that they were employing 3,941 workers in carrying out these construction projects. This is a record number to be engaged in highway construction at this time of the year and reflects the widespread program of highway work continued into the fall months. TYPHUSSPREAD FEARED LIKELY IN WAR LANDS

U. S. Laboratories Busy Preparing Vaccine For Emergency Hamilton, Mont.:—With the outbreak of typhus fever in Spain and the danger of its passing northward into France and war-torn Europe generally the U. S. Public Health- Laboratory here for the production of anti-typhus vaccine constitutes the chief possibility now existing in the world for checking the epidemic. Typhus fever, which is known to be a rat-born plague, has been one of the greatest scourges of all history. It nearly always follows great wars and the dead It leaves frequently js greater than the number killed in battle. In the World War, 6,000,000 peo pie died of typhus in Siberia, Serbia, sections of Central Europe and the Near East. From information received at the laboratory here, it is known that one of the reasons why Adolf Hitler has kept out of Spain, was the almost certain fact that typhus might develop as a result of the Spanish civil war. Well Known to Germany The German army suffered serious losses during the World War. but gained enough knowledge of the disease to know that it was almost certain to develop among the ruined villages and devastated regions of Spain where rats 1 come in contact with human beings. These post-war outbreaks of typhus or blamed by historians for contributing much to death of the Golden Age in Greece, the catastrophies that followed the Thirty Years War in Europe and the decimation of Napoleon's armies in Russia. —, o—: WOODEN RAILS USED

On a track of wooden rails covered with sheet metal, Canada’s first railroad made its opening official run from Laprairie to St, Johns, Quebec, on July 21, 1836.

TRAFFIC SAFETY IS INDIVIDUAL

Self Control Of Motorist Is Principal Factor Safety on the highways is and will always be largely a responsibility of the individual motorist determined by the c-egree or selfcontrol which he exercises while behind the steering wheel, S. C. Hadden, chairman of the State Highway Commission, asserted today. The experience of highway engineers has demonstrated, he pointed out, that safeguards provided in the construction of roads do not in themselves eliminate accidents. The building of dividedlane highways and the widening of pavement, shoulders and bridges are important contributions to the safety of the highway users but are not the final answer to the demand for fewer accidents and fatalities on the roads. Highway officials hesitate, he added, to impose'speed restrictions since they feel that speed in itself is not hazardous except when abused and that excessive limitation of the movement of vehicles will discourage rather than encourage the purposes for which the roads are built and maintained. Extensive use of speed zones imposes a penalty on the majority because the few fail to exercise selfcontrol. Each employe of the State Highway Commission, Mr. Hadden said, has been assigned a part in the promotion of motoring safety both in the carrying out of his regular duties as an engineer or patrolman and as a motorist. The participation of every motorist in this safety movement through the exercise of personal self-control on the highways, is invited as furthering the proper use and not the abuse of the roads. o LARGEST SHIP LISTED

A motor-driven tanker just cbmpleted in Sweden is the largest ship registered at Stockholm. o THE MOTORING PUBLIC

Total motor vehicle registrations exceeded 30,000,000 for the first time in 1939. o Staigul fort in Ireland was built by a Celtic tribe some 2,000 years ago. —o Legal Notice

State of Indiana c Delaware County, ss: In the Matter of the Petition of James Coleman Fredrick. To change name In the Delaware Circuit Court September Term, 1941. No. J 4 388 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF NAME Notice is Jiereliy given that 1 hav.! applied to the Delaware Circuit Court if said County and State to have my name changed from James Coleman Frederick to that of James Frederick Holt; and that said petition and application will be presented to and heard by said Court on the ttlst day of January, 1942. Dated this 2Sth day if November, 1941. JAMES COLEMAN CKKDllt/'K

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