Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1943 — Page 5

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SCOTLAND DOES

17S BIT IN WAR

Outnumber Men

Women In Factories and Shipyards.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK MAUR Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

LONDON, May 25.—From John

Curare, Indian

By Science Service NEW YORK, May 25.—Curare, the South American Indian arrow poison, may develop into a potent healing weapon as a result of latest discoveries about it reported by Dr. 0. Wintersteiner and Dr. J, D. Dutcher of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research in the forthcoming issue of Science here. Physicians have already found curare helpful in treating spastic

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paralysis, for moderating the convulsions of shock treatment of mental sicknesses, and as an aid to anesthesia for banishing pain during operations. The chief obstacle to its use so far has been the widely varying strength and uncertain composition of the preparations of curare. As used by the Indians for poisoring arrow tips, curare was prepared from a number of poisonous plants. The active chemical ingredient of

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tube curare has already been isolated by an English scientist, H. King. Now the Squibb researchers report that they have isolated crystals of this material, d-tubocurarine, from velvet-leaf, a single plant species botanically named chondodendron tomentosum. This species, therefore, turns out to be the plant which furnishes the active ingredient of certain types of curare, as scientists had recently begun to suspect.

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From this same plant species the Squibb researchers obtained two other chemicals which could be converted into active material. They were able, also, to increase greatly the strength of the chemical by changing slightly its chemical structure. As a result, physicians and medical scientists will have material more suitable for treating patients and for investigating further the possibilities of the old arrow

poison as a healing agent.

PREPARE FOR RUSH

OF AIRCRAFT ABROAD

LONDON, May 256 (U, P.).—Col. Paul E. Burrows of the American air transport command, said yesterday that the command was ready to rush the greatest number of planes in history across the Atlantic for the battle of Europe.

“We will do everything possible to see that tactical aircraft will be received and delivered in first class condition for immediate use in air battles over Europe,” Col. Burrows

said at a press conference. He said the new allied air base on Labrador would be an immense aid in ferrying record numbers of planes to Britain,

TERRE HAUTE ARMY NURSE WORKED HERE

Second Lt. Mafalda Arney, one of three army nurses killed in an airplane crash Saturday at Peterson field near Colorado Springs, Cal, was a member of the staff at the Veterans’ hospital here for nine years until last month, She was a native of Terre Haute and received her nursing training

to be returned to Terre Haute for funeral services and burial, arrange ments for which have not yet been completed.

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O'Groats to Solway Firth and Aberdeen and to the Outer Hebrides, Scotland is as much in the war as though it were part of the teeming industrial midlands. From Cameron highlanders, who had such heavy losses in Flanders and Gordon highlanders, who were cut off at Singapore, to the new contingent of Camerons, who fought so gallantly, in Tunisia, Scotland has donated a fair share of men to British forces and that is omitting the navy and air force, in which all Scottish dialects can be found. But Scottish women have been doing a great and little publicized job. Twelve thousand Scottish girls have come to England to work in munitions and war factories. Other and unestimated thousands are in the British women’s services.

Outnumbered Men

In shipyards and factories and in through Scotland, women now outhighlands and remote country disother important factories scattered number men. Driving through the tricts it is women whom one sees plowing the land, herding the sheep and cattle and weaving the tweeds for which the Isle of Harris, particularly, is so famous. And high on the sides of lofty mountains, girls’ lumber corps are felling timber. Many of Scotland's famous fishing and resort hotels are closed but some are kept open for convalescent service men and vacationing war workers, Dozens of small isiands are accessible mainly by small boats. The people on those islands are raising enough food for themselves, and sheep and cattle for export. These islands are so remote and untouched by the industrial age that it would seem that the war might have passed them by. But quite the contrary. Some have developed an industry from seaweed and are making drugs formerly only obtainable from Japan. All gather Spagnum moss, used in hospitals for dressings. In the peace of these deep glens and highlands, it is difficult to believe that there is a war but the radio has brought the Highlanders nearer the rest of the world and they are all eager for the latest news. They are particularly interested In the United States and what American women are doing for the] war effort. Y Yanks Fill Club

Suddenly, in the most unexpected places, one finds a solitary American soldier or two walking, wandering in the streets of a Highland village, or staying in a whitewashed crofter’s cottage miles from anywhere, The streets of Edinburgh throng with them and the United States Red Cross club there is always full, although there are very few stationed in that part of the world. It seems to be the one idea of most Americans—to get to Scotland and quickly as possible if leave time permits. They sit happily by the hour in the big bay window of the Red Cross club, looking across Princes st. to Edinburgh castle. They all say that Scotland is so friendly, the girls so nice and their families so ready to take them in. They are offering stiff competition to the Polish troops, who were once the darlings of Scotland.

New Legs Make Him Feel 'Swell’

PITTSBURGH, May 25 (U. P.). —He never expected to walk again, but today Lt. Richard Frederick Wood, youngest son of Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, stood up for the first time since last Dec. 30, when a 500-pound Nazi bomb ripped off both his legs. As he was lifted on to artificial legs, for which he is being fitted here, Lt. Wood straightened to his full height and, his face still tanned from over a year spent ith the British 8th army on desrt sands, broke into a broad grin. “This is swell,” he said proudly. “Makes me feel like a man again.” After a few minutes of testing his artificial limbs, the 22-year-old soldien sat down and said quietly: “I never thought I'd be §Some that again.”

DIVORCES RFC AID

RENO, Nev, May 25 (U. P).— Mrs. Magda Ducas, daughter of Lord Mowbray Stourton of England, yesterday divorced Robert Ducas, Washington, D. C. executive of] the reconstruction finance corpora- | tion. MYs. Ducas is the guardian of Henry Ernest Simpson, motherless child of Ernest A. Simpson, former husband of the Duchess of Windsor.

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N EARLY EVERYBODY seems to know that the Chrysler Corporation makes Army tanks and that those tanks give a good account of themselves in battle, throughout the world.

For well over a year these big fighting machines have been produced in ever increasing quantities, but they are, after all, only a part of the total war production of this corporation.

That total war production includes twenty-one distinctly military products, for the use of our

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“GUNS AND CANNON FOR ATTACK AND DEFENSE"

armed services and for the protection of civilian populations.

For the soldier we not only make tanks in which he engages the enemy in battle; we also make the trucks and combat vehicles which haul him and his equipment about. We make the stoves that heat his tents and barracks and the field kitchens on which his meals are cooked. We make refrigeration units which preserve his food in camp and in the field. We make the ammunition to defend him and the guns and cannon with which to shoot the ammunition.

For the Air Service we make bomber fuselages for the Army, and major bomber sections for the

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=m Navy. We make landing gear for planes. In Chicago we are just completing a very large plant to make big airplane engines for long range bombers. We make the bomb racks to carry the

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bomb loads of the planes. We are making thousands upon thousands of Duralumin forgings and castings for all types of aircraft purposes.

For the Navy we are making vital parts of searchlights that the Navy uses to spot its targets. We are making the gyroscopic compasses that steer the ships of the Navy and Merchant Marine. We make pontoons for lighterage and for the

"COMBAT CARS TO HAUL MEN AND EQUIPMENT « [INTO BATTLE"

raising of ships that have been sunk. We make both pusher and puller types of tugs which are used all over the world from Iceland to Guadalcanal, on the rivers of South America, India and Russia. We make thousands of marine engines for many purposes—some of them for commando boats and things of that nature.

When we saw the war coming we knew that it would be a mechanical war and that no concern the size of the Chrysler Corporation would remain out of the picture.

We felt that institutions like ours should hold themselves free and in readiness to take tough

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jobs—those things that require intense cooperation on the part of scientists, metallurgists, engineers; the volume jobs that require intimate knowledge of the tooling and mechanical processes necessary to make duplicate equipment in large volume.

""BIG AIRPLANE ENGINES FOR LONG RANGE BOMBERS"

Today finds us employing eight thousand subcontractors. Fifty-eight cents of every dollar we receive for our war effort is passed on to somebody else who supplies us services, materials or parts. We are not only prime contractors ourselves, but we are also subcontractors for a number of other companies, ranging from such concerns as General

Electric and Westinghouse, employing great num. bers of people, to small and remote outfits of a few

hundred men. =

Many people ask “What about your postwar plans?” Our only plan is the present urgent one to win the war and win it quick. For every moment that we can. shorten this war we feel that, as a people, we are lucky, and, as a Nation, fortunate;

Of course we think that after the war people will be driving automobiles and eating bananas, washing their clothes, wearing shoes, and that the styles of ladies’ hats will change, We feel that business is an economic thing and that it tends to follow cycles. We think that if we keep our minds onthe fact that we are sailing a boat on an economic sea, and that if we sail it according to the charts

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and the weather, and to the conditions we find, that this Nation can go into its postwar effort with the same enthusiasm and the same desire to do a service to our 135 million people that is now being exhibited in this all-out war effort.

"THE MARINE ENGINES FOR COMBAT AND COMMANDO BOATS”

+ President, Chrysler Corporation

WAR PRODUCTS OF CHRYSLER CORPORATION

Tanks . . . Tank Engines : : . Anti-Aircraft Guns ; : . Bomber Fuselage Sections . . . Bomber Wings . . . Aircraft Engines :: ; Wide Variety of Ammunition : : . Anti-Tank Vehicles . ; : Command Reconnaissance Cars . . : Cantonment Furnaces : : : Troop Motor Transports . . . Ambulances : . : Marine Tractors« ; ; Weapon Carriers . .. Marine and Industrial Engines. ;: GyroCompasses. .. Air Raid Sirens and Fire Fighting Equipment i: Powdered Metal Parts... Navy Pontoons .:. Field Kitchens ::; Bomb Shackles...Tent Heaters...Refrigeration Compressors.:a Aircraft Landing Gears...and Other Important War Equipment

in the production of this war equipment Chrysler Corporation is assisted by 8,079 subcontractors in 856 cities in 39 states

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