Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1943 — Page 8
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LIFE TO BE AIDED Suve Is @ Cosmopolitan City, Writes Pvt. Cotton, Who Expected To Find Fierce Cannibals and Headhunters Overrunning Fiji Islands
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BY ELECTRONICS
Automatic Lighting, Smoke Elimination, ‘Easy’ Living | Post-War Promise. | By DALE McFEATTERS
Times Special Writer PITTSBURGH, July 12.—Chil-| dren will step from a dark bed- | room into a magically lighted bathroom—without touching a switch. And the light will go out as they leave, | Refrigerators will destroy bacteria
and the food within will not spoil.|
Smoke will no longer belch from factory chimneys. Homes will have air entirely {ree of dust and germs. Garage doors will open automatically as your car approaches. Great happenings of the world] will be heard home, This
seen and
preview of some of the
in your! §& RX
wonders that science has in store §
for us after the war, was afforded | today as the Westinghouse Electric! & Manufacturing Co. shed light on! that amazing new science—elec-, tronics, i Already in Use Issuing 8 booklet, a description of “Electronics at Work,” Westingscience of much but little of its
house the
of glamor. “Yet to many,” the publication points out, “electronic applications are already familiar in everyday life.” Radio, sound movies, the fluorescent lamp, the electric eye, the dentist's X-ray tube are electronic devices, Heart and soul of electronics is the electronic tube—a tube mysterious in appearance but simple in operation, according to Westinghouse. It can rectify and generate current, amplify power and sound, control the flow of power, transform light into electricity and electric current into light,
strips
its mystery
War Uses Secret
Post-war miracles of electronics now are being readied on the battlefronts where the science is proving the war's outstanding industrial development, Mos§ war uses of electronics are secret, but its success in the form of “radar” now is widely appreciated. Electronic devices enable ships to locate unseen adversaries, direct gunfire, They help locate enemy planes, tell how far they are above the ground, guide planes to safe landings under “ceiling zero” conditions. In the field of medicine, Westinghouse reported, “a recently developed electronic device is being used at base hospitals to remove shrapnel and other materials from human tissues,
Measures Body Oxygen
“Another device, used by the air force, sends a beam of colored light through the ear to a photocell, to measure continuously the oxygen saturation in an aviators blood.” At seadromes, landing lights are turned on automatically as planes come in to land. “Red, green or gold fluorescent lights, battery powered, are supported by a buovant rubber float” the booklet explains. “The heart of the buoy is an electronic device that operates the light and is controlled by radic. When an incoming ship
dicating a clear landing lane to the pilot.” “Immediately after landing lights are extinguished—blacked out by radio—conserving battery power and leaving no telltale beacons for enemy scouts. “From radio, the single application of electronics developed in world war I,” Westinghouse officials said, “a dozen or more great new industries have grown—and more are still to come.”
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APPLICANTS TESTED FOR AIR FORCE HERE
Applicants for army air force cadet training are being interviewed and tested with the aid of local doctors and high school instructors at the headquarters of Comdr. Lavelle Gossett, post 908, Veterans of Foreien Wars, 701 King ave, from 7 to 9 p. m, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Candidates meeting army requirements are recommended to cadet examining boards for enlistment or voluntary induction into the air force
These Fijian warriors are ready for their war dance. The hooked clubs are vicious weapons.
LIP READING CLASSES
TO START THURSDAY
Lip reading classes will be started by the Indianapolis Society for the Hard of Hearing at the Roard of rade building next Thursday afternoon.
“Dear Pop,” writes Pvt. Buren Cotton, ‘restrictions have been lifted and I can now tell you that I was in the Fiji islands.” Pvt. Cotton's parents. Mr. and Mrs. L, V. Cotton, and his grandmother, Mrs. Mabel Cotton, live at 1142 W. 32d st. “Whenever we get a letter,” his father said, “it is passed around
the neighborhood.” One letter savs: “We departed from New Zealand —and pulled up our pants for another hitch.* We had a pretty good idea where we were going, but we all thought there were cannibals and head-hunters and all sorts of ferocious wild animals at the end of our journey,
Dock at Suva
“We docked in beautiful Suva harbor—the town was very mod-ern—business-like, “We got off the boat carrying two barracks bags, rifles, sidearms, packs and steel helmets and were loaded into trucks to go to our new camp. It was drizzling—the heaviest drizzle I have ever seen. You should see it when it rains! We were soon wet through and remained so, more or less, for the next three weeks as it never let up for more than an hour or two. This was the dry season—we all wondered what it would be like ‘when the rains came.” “At first we were quartered in a spacious estate with the pardens, tennis court and swimming pool, all within a few hundred feet of the house. And later we lived in ‘Bures’ built by native labor.
“When labor is needed you go to a village and contact the chief, who puts all available men in the village on the job. The pay is turned over te the chief when the job is finished, He takes his fourth or half, and the lesser chiefs in turn take theirs. The remainder is distributed to the people of the village. It works out very nicely.” The men in Pvt. Cotton's contingent were the first Americans to land on the island. “We ogled the natives, who in turn ogled us. We walked past, in turn, a British soap factory, a New Zealandowned biscuit factory, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian tavicab establishment and an AmericanBritish steamship office. I had my hair cut by a Portuguese barber—for cosmopolitanism the town of Suva can't be beaten.
Finds Market Interesting
“The police force is native and the cream of Fijian manhood. They were magnificent with their bushy hair, navy blue blouses and spotless white sulus (a wraparound worn by both men and women). You never saw a busier cop at the corner of Washington and Illinois sts. They take their work very seriously.”
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Four native girls dressed for the song fest. for the dances,
Pvt. Cotton found the market place extremely interesting. The frantic efforts of the natives to out-shout and to out-bid each other led him into an adventure when he bought fish as a favor for one of the women, Overwhelmed with gratitude, she sent her small son to insist that the American come to her house for supper. The small boy, Mbali, led his visitor home by the hand. The whole family was there to honor him. A clean linen cloth was spread on the reed mat on the floor. The precious fish were on a large platter in the center. There was a native dish. dalo, corned beef, buttered bread and jam—and steaming cups of lemon tea.
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man measles, a mild childhood ail‘ment quite unconnected with Ger- | mans, Nazi or otherwise, is giving health authorities a new puzzle.
proportion of this type of measles than of true measles has been oc-|
MEASLES CASES
German Brand
ARE PUZZLING
Increases While True Type Stays About Normal.
By Science Service
WASHINGTON, July 12—Ger-
In certain cities a much larger
curring, city health officers report | to the U. 8. public health service
here,
Health authorities are won-
| dering whether the increase means |
The costume is also worn
Guests arrived later and there was entertainment by dancers and women playing guitars, Besides the collection of photographs their son has sent home, his parents have also received an old saxaphone he “picked up,” a jade luck charm made by New Zealand natives and a rare necklace of the gum of native pine trees, The gum Is mined in fossil state. in it are bugs with wings. Pvt. Cotton was formerly emploved by the BE. C. Atkins Co. He is now regimental photographer and is somewhere on active serv-
famous Embedded irridescent
uation. cases of German measles and 10.343 cases of true measles in that city. This year the figures were almost the same for the two diseases: 2163 cases of German measles, 2607 cases
the disease is also becoming more | | serious.
More Than 15 Per Cent In New York, for example, there
| were 1000 more cases of German ' measles than of true measles during the first three months of the year. | | Never before have New York City’s health department records shown a | larger proportion of German mea- | sles than of the other kind.
For more than 20 years, German |
' measles cases have averaged less | | than 15 per cent of the total numand is | ber of measles cases.
Los Angeles reports a similar sit-| Last year there were 1323]
ice with the intelligence division. |of true measies. |
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Divil's a man who can say a word agin’ me. H-—-A— double R—I—G—A—N, you see, Is a name that a shame never has been connected with, Har-ri-gan, that's me!——mel THAT SNAPPY refrain is from “Harrigan,” one of the hig song hits of the voluminous output of the late song and dance man,¥ George M. Cohan How men in uniform overseas would like to hear a recording of it! They'd like to hear a lot of other Cohan hits, too—"“So Long, Mary,” “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “You're a Grand Old Flag.” It's possible if you'll contribe ute broken, scratched, discarded phonograph records to the “Rec ords for Fighting Men” cams paign of the 11th district Amery ican Legion to get 150,000 o them in Marion county. They'll be reprocessed and new records made. Records may be left at branch libraries or fire stations, a Boy Scout or Legionnaire will call y for them. ! And air raid wardens in 47 dig tricts have volunteered to help by making a house-to-house cans
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