Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1943 — Page 2

PAGE 2 - mss ___ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _____ — WEDNESDAY, AUG. 4, 1943

CASTOR OIL HELPS ALLIES WIN WAR

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Mussolini Used It to Pour Down His Enemies Throats, But U. S. Uses It to Lubricate Bombers

To Smash Fascism in Europe.

By DAVID DIETZ Times Special Writer

CLEVELAND, Aug. 4.—Castor oil is playing as important a role in destroying Fascism as it did in the rise of Mussolini two decades ago. But whereas the bullies of the duce’s party poured the stuff down the throats of his enemies, Uncle Sam is using it to deliver bombs over Sicily,

Italy and Germany. YY " etic] : : + of making camphor synthetically The stuff 1% employ ed Jas a from turpentine. Synthetic camlubricant in bomber and fight- phor is chemically indistinguishable er planes flying at high alti- from the product of the camphor

; cd ra [THOS tudes, as a hydraulic fluid mi The chemist, therefore, may be

the retractable landing gear and as expected to take a hand in many,

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jeca’s supply of |

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for the paint and S———— varnish industry. Today thousands Draft Status Advanced of tons of castor oil are eta | Only to Meet Need, ing for tung oil.

American de- Hershey Says.

mands for castor Mr. Diets oll have quad-| DENVER, Aug. 4 (U. P) —Maj.

rupled since Pearl | Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective Harbor and the government is tak- | service director, said yestarday the (ng active Steps to INSure a oon: g,ei that all the nation's fathers of

tinued supply. Through the Com- | ‘ Joe to 241%. modity Credit Corp. arrangements draft age have become subject to «Fashion Dress Department, —Coat Department,

have been made to purchase 225000 induction does not mean “every Downstairs at AYRES Downstairs at AYRES tons of castor seeds during the next rather in the country is going to see two years. | service.” Recently the United Fruit Co.| Hershey, in an interview, said the planted 500 acres of castor plants new order for induction of prein Honduras, near La Lima. Brazil, | Pearl Harbor fathers had not been however, remains the chief source made at this time to forestall possiof castor seeds in the Western ble congressional action forbidding hemisphere. {the measure, but that the call was being made because of demands of | the armed service, The United States has had to] Hershey said that “separations” tum increasingly to tropical Amer- from the army alone now averaged ica for supplies that once came spout 50,000 men per month, all of

from the Middle East, half-way whom have to be replaced. The Forty is not necessarily an age... it’s also a

around the world. number of replacements—for men

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