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 by thousands and you have a pie ture of what is going on all over young America today.
 3.-The Civil Air Patrol, although held up for months ill the Office of Civilian Defense, will get the "take-off' sign any minute now and add a patriotic stimulus to civilian flying that will give not only women flyers but men who are unfitted for actual military service an opportunity to spread their wings for national defense.
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BUY DEFENSE STAMPS
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The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
'COllapSibIe Dinghy

On board every plane of Eng.
lands coastal command is slung at
least one 'collapSible dinghy. "
Folded. it is a mere bundle of rub
berlzed fabric, no larger than a suit
case. Flung out into the sea. a CYL
ndcr of compressed air comes auto
matically into action and blows il
up into an adequate boat-raft capa-
bic of holding the entire crew. 1t is
virtually unsinkablc and equipped
with firSt-aid outfit. provisions, oars
and a compass. These dinghies
are painted vivid yellow-a color
which shows up more distinctly and
at greater range than any other.
And lately substances have been
developed which caA be sprayed on
to the water so as TO form big vel
low patch, visible from many miles
away, around the craft.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Tommies Avoid Girls in
Khaki-and Give Reason

NDON.-Complaints that their
uniform is a hindrance to romance
and scares soldiers away are made
by some of the auxiliary territorial
service in a big northern command
training center.
Soldiers seem TO think that the
A. T. S. is either the old maids last
hope or else that to be seen out with
one of us indicates that soldier
has been unable to get a girl out
side the barracks" said one of the
girls.
What do the soldiers say?
eve want girls who are not in
khaki" said one of them. eve see
too much uniform. The A. T. S. is
a part of the army just as much as
the officers and clerical staff are
part of it, and We treat them ac-
cordingly.
"Just as few men fall in love with
the girl who works in the same Of
flee as themselves, so the soldier
wants to get his girl friends from a
different atmosphere from that in
which he spends his working day."
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Highway of Silver Runs
Through Utah Community

PARK CITY, UTAH.-There is no
record of any one ever having seen
the mythical street of gold" but in
northern Utah there is a highway
of silver"
1t also contains deposits of lead
and zinc
The highway, which runs through
Park City's main business section,
has been surfaced with talings from
the nearby Consolidated Mining
company containing silver, lead and
zinc.
Although the material is not valu-
able enough to ship to smelters, it
does contain metals from small fiS-
sures crossed by miners in running
exploration drifts, raises or cross
cuts. The ores, although rich, were
found in too small quantity to be
saved.
The white piles of debris have
provided a new and interesting
pastime for Park City youngsters.
Many small boys are equipped
with toy outfits for melting and
molding metal soldiers. They search
the waste piles, removing chunks of
ore containing lead, silver and zinc.
The pieces are then cleaned, melted,
and cast into toy soldiers.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Birds Save Our CrOpS

The humming bird is one of our
tlnieSt and lovelieSt birds, one you
usually see lowering daintily before
a blossom as he sips nectar. But
substantial portion of his diet
consists of spiders-some nearly as
big as he is. This is one of the birds
that eat the insects that would eat
the crops that we eat. AS long as
they stay on the job we eat. Other
birds that protect our crops include
the woOdpeckers, who are death on
insects that live in trees; Cedar
Waxwing and the Indigo Bunting
that destroy insects, desert cater
pillars and grassho ppers; the Car.
dinalS that belong to a large group
of birds that keep down weeds by
eating tons of weed seeds yearly !;
and the Junco lodgings that eat
insects and weed seeds.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Doubling Cp in SIeeD

When people retract themselves
in bed. they usually assume a typ
ical doubled-up position. This same
position has been found in all the
peoples of the world, while sleep
ing. DR.. A. L. Epstein, Russian
scientist, after a long series OF
studies on this subject, concluded
that the doubled-up position was a
subconSClous effort to return to the
embryonic position. 1t is this same
position that an embryo first as
sumes IN the uterus (womb) of the
mother. Various diseases also were
found to be represented by various
characteristic sleeping positions.
Some people experience a desire to
assume these positions when they
first begin to feel sleepy. but do
not take these positions in sleeping.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
For Aching Heels

Few things will work a hole in
the heel of a stocking more quickly
than a rough patch of skin on the
area where the back OF the shoe
comes against the foot. Particular
care OF this part of the foot during
the daily bath, and special attention
during the nightly beauty care. will
soften and smooth this troublesome
heel-scallng. Battle the feet well in
warm, soapy water, letting them
soak for q good five minutes. Then
use a fairly stiff brush on the area
Rinse the feet we'll, and dry thor.
oughly with clean, soft towel. Lu,
bricate the heel section with vase
line or cold cream. and wear Light
cotton anklets to bed so that the
cream will stay on the feet instead
q on the sheets.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Durability of Canvas
Makes Luggage Lighter

OldtIme luggage was made only
from leather or coWhide. This nat
ural heavy skin was durable and
bags made of this lasted a lifetime;
but it gave the bag excessive
weight A bag for men, of the type
known as the Gladstone" with
straps and extra protective riveted
corners, often weighed 25 pounds
empty.
Today, about IS per cent of all
luggage is manufactured following
a radically different construction
principle-that on which the air
plane itself was built 1t was about
1888, when the aeroplane became a
popular mode of passenger travel,
that the luggage It carried was also
forced to adapt itself to the urgent
demands for less bulk.
Aeroplane engineers discovered
that canvas, when stretched tightly
over a frame of light wood or ten
sIle steel, was durable but light,
with numerous other advantages,
and quite naturally Milady's lug
gage followed suit and the new type
became quickly known as aeroplane
luggage
1t is to the introduction of canvas
as covering that present-day suit
cases owe many of their smart
features.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Gas Stove in Condition

A gas stove may be kept in good
condition by washing with soap
and water, or soda and water if it
is very greasy. When the stove is
cold, wipe with kerosene or mix
ture Of two parts kerosene and one
part turpentine. Burners of oil and
gas stoves may be cleaned by de-
tachlng them from the stove and
placing them in pan large enough
to hold them and covering with
washing soda and water. One-half
to one pound of soda may be used
to a gallon of water. Boil them un-
til the grease, SCOT and charred food
IS diSlodged. Wipe them with pa
per and then use an old brush, rinse
with hot water and put the burners
back on the stove and dry them by
lighting the fame.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Mexican Jungle Trees
Yield Gum Ingredient

Every year the people of the
United States spend $1,000 900 on
chewing gum. Yet comparatively
few are acquainted with the dra-
matte story behind the manufacture
of this masticatory substance.
The Sapodilla or Sapota tree that
yields the chicle grows in Yucatan,
the heart of the Mexican jungle.
The chicle is obtained by gather
ing the latex, milky substance
which forms the chief ingredient Of
the chewing gum.
The Chicleros, or chicle bleeders
as they are commonly called, are
recruited from among the peasants,
for the urban population is Consid-
cred unfit to endure the hardships
of the ChiClero's life. The Sapota
tree grows to great heights. It's
wood is very hard and the latex
IS obtained by making an incision
into small branches and into the
stem of the evergreen leaves. This
is a very delicate operation and re-
quIreS great skill. The chiClerO can
either kill the tree or make it eXude
the milky fluid in abundant quality,
depending on how skilfully he han
dies his machete. Moreover, he
must be an agile climber since the
tree tops are usually 20 to 80 feet
above the ground.
After the sap is gathered it is
boiled in gigantic kettles The pic
ture of the half-naked Indians is a
weird sight and invariably recalls
visions of cannibals boiling their
victims for the feast. Once the sap
is cooked it turns pure white. 1t
is next poured into wooden molds
where it rapidly forms into solid
blocks. Each of these blocks bears
the mark Of the chiclero who gath
cred the sap.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Leaky Faucet Wins
Fame for Engineer
Research Into TASTE Turns
Up Mass of Figures.

WAUKESHA, VISA leaky fau-
Get brought fame to Arthur P. Ku-
ranz, superintendent of the Wauke-
sha water department.
Kuranz was attracted one day by
the trickle of water from worn
faucet. Scientifically minded, he
brought out his slide rule and stop
watch and did some calculating with
the result that he became pioneer
IN the field of counting drops of
water.
His study of the subject with a
view to preventing waste has result
ed in state and national recognition.
Winner of the national Fuller
award, presented for achievement in
the water industry in the state last
year.
Some amazing figures on the
amount of water lost through leaky
faucet were turned up by Kuranz' S
calculations. For instance, a tap
leaking at the rate of l20 drops a
minute adds up to 1900 drops lost
daily. Taking Kuranz's estimate of
$4,000 drops to a gallon, that means
waste of almost three gallons from
the single faucet
Add to this total from other worn
faucets in the building and, in the
case of a hot water tap, the cost of
heating the water (about IS cents
a month in Waukesha for one tap)
and Kuranz's seemingly insignificant
job of counting water drops becomes
something significant. The problem
grows in Importance when a COM
munity has limited water supply.
One of the difficulties encountered
by Kuranz has been to determine
the number of drops of water in a
gallon. The National Water Meter
institute at Washington admitted
that the problem has not yet been
studied "in anything approaching a
scientific way and solicited its
members for suggestions.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Science Produces Tumor
With Mice Experiments

Doctors do not know the cause OF
cancer, but scientists have pro-
duced tumors by rubbing mice with
certain coal-tar substances and syn
thetic chemicals. The great re-
search problem now is to grow tu-
morS In mice with extracts from
human cancer victims Recently,
DR.. John Frederick Menke of STAN
ford university hospital announced
that he had injected mice with fat
soluble essences from human
breast cancers. For the first time
in cancer history, he claimed, two
of the mice had grown tumors.
Meantime, DR.. Paul Eby Steiner
of the University of Chicago was
working on a different track, Since
human bile salts are close chem
ical relatives of the cancer produc-
ing Synthetics, he concentrated on
the liver. He announced: AN eX-
tract has been prepared from the
livers of persons who died of can
Ger, which on injection into
mice produced sarcomaS (cancerS)
at the site of the injection"
DR.. Steiner procured over 20
pounds of livers from persons who
had died from cancer of the stom-
ach, lung, esophagus, pancreas,
rectum. All the livers were per-
fectly normal. He ground them, ex-
tracted the fat, dried the residue to
"a faky brown material"
In June, 1899, he injected a solu-
ton of the powder into Sc mice. Re-
suits to date: Cd 36 mice have died
of various diseases; (2) seven are
still alive and healthy; CD "l3 tu-
mors have appeared"
To check this experiment, Dr.
Steiner made a like preparation
from the livers of persons who had
died from a variety of diseases 9TH
er than cancer, injected the extract
into 63 mice No tumors appeared.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Population Density Up;
Now 44.2 a Square Mile

WASHINGTON.-D of popu-
lation per square mile in the CONT
mental United States increased from
All in 1890 to 442 in 1910, the bu-
reau of the census stated.
The first 10 states in the 1910 cen
sus. ranked by population per
square mile, are Rhode Island,
6742, New Jersey, 553l; Massachu-
sets, 5459; Connecticut, 3489; New
York, 28l2; Pennsylvania, 219.8:
Maryland, 1912; Ohio, 1880; Illinois,
l4l2; and Delaware, f347.
This ranking was the same as in
1880, except for New Jersey and
Massachusetts, the former capturing
second ranking from the latter.
Nevada achieved a population Of
one person per square mile for the
first time in 1910. In 1880 it was 0.8.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Despite War
Show Goes On
British Producers Busy in
London and Provinces;
Writing Perks Up.

LONDON.-OldV Vic is closed, Cow
ent Garden dark, Drury Lane CIV
en- over to shows for the troops, the
electric glitter of London stage life
gone, but the theater in Britain is
far from moribund.
Both in the capital and the prov
inces producers are active, giving
audiences the best plays and musi-
Gals and the biggest stars that war
time conditions permit.
The war has brought about de-
GENERALIZATION of the British theater
and the development of a genuinely
national theater. Many towns that
in the old days seldom saw any
thing but the shabbiest theatrical eff
forts now enjoy the frst-rate regu-
larly.
Players returning from extended
tours report an amazing response In
the provincial communities and con-
slider ii bright augury for the post
war theater of which the nation
dreams even now.
Playwriting, itself, producers and
managers say, has perked up, fur
ther stimulating the theater at a
time when Stagnation would be un-
derStandable and exCusable.
Plays Above Par.
1T has been some while" one
theater man said, since so many
good manuscripts have been sub
mitted. 1t is a significant and
healthy sign that a marked improve
mCnt in the quality of dramatic and
comedy writing should come at this
time
Some of the best-llked productions,
however, are revivals, and there is
growing desire to see American
plays. Among the major London
successes is S. N Behrman's mo
Time for Comedy" in which Kath-
arine Cornell starred in the Unit
ed States couple of seasons ago.
In the next several weeks the city
will have ballet, opera, symphonic
programs, recitals and a bit of
Shakespeare, the late spring and
summer days with their extra two
hours of light making possible
greater variety of entertainment and
more frequent performances.
Opera in Road Show.
Meanwhile, the theater doubtless
will continue to flourish in the prov
inces. Forthcoming shows for the
road include a production of Will
liam Saroyans THE Time of Your
Life which will be seen later by
LondonerS who are inordinately Gu
rious about it.
The provinces have had their
taste of opera, too, and have liked
it. In one city La Traviata" played
to capacity house on a Saturday
night after a solid week of blitZes.
The back of the theater had been
bombed and a chill wind blew
through the damaged scenery dock,
but neither performers nor audience
minded.
Actors have faced raid dangers,
entertained amidst ruins, and under
gone numerous hardships; some
have been injured. One company,
appearing in Cardiff some time ago,
played through to the final curtain
while an air attack on the Welsh
city was in progress.
Most of the trouperS hold that it
is essential to keep the theater alive
and consider that their job on the
home front is by no means the least
important.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Finest Fossil Pearls
Found in Western Kansas

In the fusty Workrooms of the
Smithsonian inStjtction recently re-
posed some so hard little balls, one
half inch to one inch in diameter.
To a layman's eye they looked like
dull, dirty gray or yellowish-gray
pebbles. Actually. they are pearls
and, as pearls 20, huge. Their
value as jewels is zero, but they are
precious to science. They are fossil
pearls.
In the Chalk age of 100000, 900
years ago, when the dinosaurs
reached their lurid climax before
extinction, there lived in the sea
shadows big mollusk, Inocera-
mus, with a shell width up to four
feet. InOceramus was not much diff
ferent from modern oysters, made
pearls the same Way-surrounding
a foreign irritant inside its shell
with concentric layers of the
calcium-carbon-oxygen compound.
These Inoceramus pearls were
found in western Kansas in 1885 by
George Fryer Sternberg of Fort
Hays Kansas State college. Since
many other fossil pearls had been
previously discovered, the college
museum did not pay much atten-
ton. Recently Sternberg shipped
his stony, lack-luStre treasures off
10 the Smithsonian for an expert
appraised. The Smithsonian crack
paleontologist, Roland Brown, ex-
amined them with enthusiasm,
dashed off a scientific report, and
pronounced them the finest fossil
pearls, for size and shape, ever col
lectcd.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Uses Eight Bushels of
Apples In Single Pie

FREMONT, OHIO.-A 43O-pound
apple pie was baked here in local
bakery by Boyd NJ. Frazier of To-
ledo to show the Apple Growers in
stitute how it should be done.
Frazier took four hours TO prepare
the pie and another four hours to
bake it. The ingredients included
eight bushels of apples, IS pounds of
sugar, 10 ounces of cinnamon, 2lz
ounces of nutmeg, two pounds of but
ter, half pound of lemon juice, a
pound of cornstarch, 48 pounds of
-four, 80 pounds of lard. six quarts Of
water and half pound of salt.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Mexico Claims villa

Mexico has refuted the claim that
Gen. francisco (Pancho) Villa, the
notorious bandit chief whose life and
exploits have been the theme of nu-
merous books and motion pictures,
was Colombian. When the claim
was made recently in Colombia,
Mexico produced proof in Mexico
City that the bandit was born in
Rio Grande on June S. 1873, and was
chrlstened Doroteo Arrange, but con.
sidered Francisco Villa more pic.
turesQue.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Fireman Driver Has No
Need for Fishing Tackle

PRINCETON, ILL.-Pixley Berry,
Princeton fire truck driver, has been
an ardent rod and reel fan for many
years, but now he believes his costly
equipment unnecessary.
One recent evening, with his wife
and daughter, he was enjoying a
boat ride near Wyanet. Just after
dark there was splash and COM
motion In the bottom of the boat
Berry found that the noise was
caused by black bass which had
Jumped into the boat It measured
20 inches, but Berry released the
fish after showing it to guests in the
clubhouse to prove his story.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
u. S. Army Gets the Most
For Its Clothing Dollar

WASHINGTON. - The army is
making sure Uncle Sam gets full
value for his soldiers-uniform dollar.
The quartermaster depot at Phila-
delphia has established 'house of
magic" which tests all army cloth
ing materials for strength, wear,
warmth and water repellency. Ma
chimes there can detect the tiniest
hole in a raincoat, crush buttons to
see how much stress they can stand,
and create artificial transforms and
windstorms to test waterproof quail
ties of the cloth.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Government Corn Pops
In Storage; Walls Topple

KANSAS CITY.-Thirty thousand
bushels OF government owned corn
popped so hard it wrecked a Abby
so foot fve-story section Of an old
brick building in which it was
stored.
AT least, W. r. Wilkerson. man.
ager OF the Empire Storage and Ice
company blamed spontaneous COM
bustion m the corn for the collapse.
Two oox cars were overturned and
almost buried in corn and bricks.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Patriotic Songs Found
At New Peacetime High

BOSTON.-Resulting from "a
wave OF solidarity intense enough
TO find expression in music" a new
peacetime high for patriotic songs
IN America is approaching its peak,
according to DR.. Alfred H. Meyer,
professor of music at Boston Ini-
versity.
DR.. Meyer concluded recent
analysis with a published opinion
that the current popularity of pa
trlotlc songs is due in part to Tin
Pan Alleys attempt to commercial
ize on public sentiment.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Motor Units
Standardized
Army Plans interchangeable
Parts to Speed Up
Repair Jobs.

WASHINGTON-As it organizes a
force of 100000 vehicles, the motor
lied army is concentrating on
standardization of units and inter
changeable parts for speedy repair,
il has been disclosed.
by next winter" observers said.
''the army will have 250,000 trucks
with 81 American makes represent
ed in equipment ranging from mo-
torcycles to heavy tractor prime
movers but exclusive of scout cars
and half-track armored cars"
In contract, the, World war AEF
operated with 216 types of vehicles
of makes that included French,
British, German, Italian and Span
ish, the quartermaster generals of
fee said in a special article in Auto
motive News, Detroit trade paper.
Under the national defense pro-
gram" it said, probably the big
gest job ever given to anybody in
this country in the procurement and
maintenance of motor vehicles has
been assigned to the quartermaster
corps, United States army"
Task Covers Wide Field.
The task covers a 2O-fold expan-
sion of the 14s000-vehicle transport
strength possessed by the army two
years ago, the article asserted. No
report was made on the number of
many-SiZed trucks, tanks and fight
hn
For all of these types of motor
transport units used by the army,
except combat units, the quarter
master corps has designed and de-
veloped standard chassis types
which are used wherever possible" :"
it was explained.
The automobile industry, under
the auspices of the Society of Auto
motive Engineers, is cooperating
with the army toward standardiz-
ing parts and making them inter-
changeable."
Listed among developments made
by the corps were durable and lus-
terless olive drab enamel-the anti
thesis of glossy automobile paints
for day and night camouf1age,
blackout lamps and special repair
tools carried in maintenance or
trouble" trucks. The article went
on:
ITO meet the unusually heavy de-
mands placed upon motor vehicles
by military service, the quarter
master corps has made number of
important changes in automotive
design and technique.
All-Wheel Drive.
"An especially important one is
the adoption of the all-wheel drive
for all tactical vehicles used by the
army. In a theater of operations,
army vehicles must follow the COM
bat units wherever they 60 and so
must be able to leave established
roads and make normally impossi-
BILE crosS-country trips. The use of
all-wheel drive trucks makes this
possible"
While combat and armored units
for reconnaissance and troop carry
ing are obtained by the ordnance
department of the war department..
the quartermaster corps is respon-
slble for procurement and operation
of the planned 28O, 1000 vehicles desig-
mated as "general-purpose" and
special equipment" units. The for
mer include transportation of am
munition, cargo, personnel and
equipment and towing of trailers,
guns and other wheeled equipment
and ambulances. Wrecking and re-
pair shop trucks and other vehicles
are special units.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
New Qu;ck-Drying Oils
Made From Vegetables

MINNEAPOLIS.-A new process
that gives domestic vegetable oils
the same ouick-drying properties as
tung oil was disclosed by the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
Untreated vegetable oils require
some four days to dry into a film.
but after chemica! treatment under
the new process. the university says,
the soils dry in two days into a
clear, though. glossy. nonwrinkJing
tilm.
The Wyandotte herald., 1941-10-10
Snake Plays Trick on
Experienced Trapper

PRESCOTT, ARIA rattle
snake played a mean trick on AL
bert Rhodes.
An experienced trapper, Rhodes
had heard in case Of snakebite
one should clamp the teeth
round the wound and suck out the
poison.
Rhodes was bitten the day. after
he'd had all his teeth pulled.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18
Heart Turns to Butter

THE MAGIC LANTERNS: Hollywood
skipped the world situation in recent
releases and got down to fundamental
meaning love Back Street" is its best
example This is a reissue of the Fannie