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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13

Mark Twain wouldn't like this, but he can't do much about it now The Post Office Department has taken his birth place - Florida, Missouri, off the postal map. It doesn't handle enough mall today to warrant post-office Few Of us link any other cities but Hannibal, MO, and Hartford, Conn, with the great writer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13

and boy grew up together. and the boy found that within a few years he had a gteed that loved him and responded to his every desire.
 The farmer had another colt which was allowed to run W lid for several yearE and then was brok etl to
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e. When was General Douglas MacArthur born?
 A. On January 20. 1880. A four page leaflet about his life may bo obtained from the Waterbury Dem- ocrat Service Bureau, 1913 Thir- teenth St., Washington, D. o, for five cents.
 o. Is the Townsend National Weekly" still being published?
 A. Yes; the address IS 450 E. Ohio Street. Chicago, Ill.
 o. Has Andre Roosevelt always lived in South America, and what is he related to the President2
 A. He is an American photog- raphtr and explorer, and he has not always lived in South America. Tn March, 1886, he departed from the United States for an exploration in Ecuador. While there, he and British Minister Guy II. Bullock, ascended Mount Cotopaxi. 19. SIS feet, one of the highest active vol- canoes in the world. MT. Roosevelt is distantly related to the President.
 e. What is lampblack?
 A. It is one of the purest forms of amorphous carbon, and is used in making printers ink and certain black paints. It is prepared by burr- ing certain oils and resinous sub- stances, rich in carbon, in a limited supply of air. The dense smoke. which is mainly finely divided car bon. is passed through series of condcnsing chambers, where 1t is collected upon coarse cloth or cold surface. It's formation is illustrated on small scale by smoking lamp, the deposited soot being substantial ly the same as lampblack.
 @. Which of the Latin American countries have blue and white flags without red?
 A. Nicaragua, Fl Salvador. Guat- emala, and Honduras-all in Gen. tral America.
 o. When public official is "im- peached," does that mean that he is guilty?
 A. No. 1t simply means that he has been arraigned before an in- peachment court. which may find him innocent or guilty.
 e. Who played the role of Dor- othy Lamour's roommate in "The Fleets In?"
 A. Betty Hutton.
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Questions
 and Answers

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
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 vice Bureau viii answeF for you free, any question 0f fact CT in-
 formation, not involving exten.
 siVe research. Write your quaS-
 0on clearly, sign namo and ad- dress, enclose . three cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advice cannot be given. Address Water bury DenlocTnt's Washington Ser
 vice Burean, 10l3 Thirteenth Street. Washington. D. c.
 O. How many miles of road are required to serve an average army campP
 A. A typical S0OOO man camp requires about IS miles of primary, seven miles of secondary and three miles of tertiary roads, exclusive of surfaced parking centers for the cantonment area.
 Q. Is 1t still necessary for person to prove his U. s. citizenship, or show birth certificate to ob tain employment in war plants2
 A. Birth certificates to prove American citizenship for persons seeking jobs in plants where work on secret or confidential or other Government contracts Is being per- formed are no longer required. A declaration must be signed by the worker in the presence of an Army or Navy District Procurement Factory or Plant Protection repre- sentative, that the applicant is . citizen. The United States Employ ment Offices, located in numerous cities throughout the States, have been instructed to assist employers and workers in carrying out this plan.
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
UO NEED OF LASH
By EARL L. DOUGLASS D. D.

A father once gave his son colt the day the animal was born and made the boy responsible from that time for It's care. The boy trained the growing colt so carefully that 1t really never had to be broken. Colt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Cargo Plane Row Recalls
 Sad Situation
BY PETER EDISON CWaterbury Democrat Washington CoFrcspondentl

Waterbury Democrat Washington
 All this excitement about cargo planes, touched off by aircraft designer Grover Loening. big-build- CT Henry J. Kaiser and Senator Josh Lees Military Affaires 6ub- Committee bearings, is a bit path etic. It is pathetic because in a
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Propose means t0 offer and is
 wrongly used in the sense of
 to purpose or to intend. Say T did not intend tor pur- pOse) to divulge the secret;"
 not, 'H did not propose, etc."
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A Thought for Today

WhOsoeveF cOmmltteth sin transgresseth also the law; for sin Is the transgressOn of the Iaw-I John 3:A.
 Who to himself is law, no law doth need, of- lends no law, and Is king indeed. - George Chapman
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Washington Merry y-Go-Round
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BY DREW PEARSON

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Whats Your I.Q.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.
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Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon sets s:4O D. m. (war time). Sun rises 6:68 a. m; sets 7:O3 ?, m (war tine). All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13

@. Who played the role of Dor- othy Lamours roommate in "The Fleets In?"
 A. Betty Hutton.
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Copyright, 1942. by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Steel Mills Rely on Scrap to Boost Output
And Conserve Materials, Time, Transportation

buy it and use 1t in the war pro-
duction program.
Steel mills inventories of scrap
iron and steel have shrunk approx
imately 40 per cent over the past l8
months of record breaking steel
production and now represent an
average for the entire steel indus
try of between two and three weeks
supply at the present rate of con-
sumption.
Compared with the total of 1884
900 tons of scrap on hand at Amer
lean steel plants on January l, l94l,
the latest figures reveal that on
July l of this year only 2.429 900
tons of scrap were In the mills
storage yards.
Shortage Shaves Capacity.
The tonnage on hand at the OPEN
ing OF 194l was satisfactory stock,
representing over six weeks sup
ply at the average rate of consump-
ton during 1940 The shrinkage
since then has put the steel indus
try on a hand to-mouth basis in
solar as scrap is concerned and has
prevented steel production from
reaching full capacity.
Ordinarily the steel industry it
self produces about 60 per cent of
its total scrap requirements, in
the form of y-products from it's
own manufacturing operations.
Forty per cent of the scrap needed
is purchased from outside sources.
so far this year scrap purchases by
steel producers have been at a rate
slightly higher than in 1e41.
Oftsetting this. however, is the
TACT that the steel industry has been
unable to recover quite as much
scrap as usual from its own opera
tions. Large exports of steel in
gots and semi-finished steel to Eng
land and elsewhere have deprived
American steel producers of part
of one of their major sources of
home scrap-the groupings from
ingots, blooms, etc.
Furthermore. current demands
for steel products are heaviest for
products like plates. structural
shapes and bars, which yield the
steel mills less scrap per ton pro-
ouced than peacetime products like
sheets and strip.
More Pig Iron to Rescue. /
Despite their inability to secure
their full requirements of scrap for
steelmaking. steel producers have
nevertheless been able to produce
more steel in the first half of 1912
than in any previous six month
period on record. This has been
accomplished by using a greater
than normal proportion of pig iron
in steel furnaces and also by charg-
ing large amounts of iron ore into
steel furnaces.
Iron ore has long been used in
relatively small amounts in steel
furnaces, chiefly for its chemical
Evening star., 1942-09-15

scrap and ship 1t to mills at a
steady pace
Printed signs will be on the
trucks, designating them as official
collecting vehicles. Each also will
be adorned with an American flag.
In addition to newspaper articles,
there will be radio announcements
urging residents of the September
20 designated area to help not only
the war effort, but also their neigh
borhood organization by placing
scrap near the curbing. To prevent
the possibility of accidents at night
donors are especially requested by
the committee in charge not to
place the scrap on the curbing until
Sunday morning in daylight hours.
The Special Metal Scrap Com
mittee appointed Saturday by the
Commissioners drew up their def
mite program at their first meeting
yesterday. Commissioner John
Russell Young told the committee
of seven that the District govern
ment would place all its resources
at the committees disposal, if nee
essary, to put the National Capital
high on the list of American cities
rallying to the steel mills call for
more scrap before winter arrives.
Executive Secretary Named.
The special committee, headed
by 1t. Col. Beverly C. Snow, Assist
ant Engineer Commissioner of the
District. then named Horace Walker.
executive secretary of the District
Salvage Committee, as secretary of
the special committee. The other
five MEMBERS. B. Gordon, District
OF Columbia director of sanitary
engineering: Mr.. Xanten, Philip
Smith, wholesale junk dealer: Will
liam j. Mileham, chief AFRAID war
den, and James E. Colliflower,
chairman of the District Salvage
Committee-also were present.
Mr. Mileham said he would con-
vey the special scrap drive message
to deputy wardens of Sc defense
areas at a meeting tonight. 1t was
his view that neighbors should be
contacted in the patriotic effort to
help provide ornaments of war for
men In the fighting services.
The District needs to collect ap-
proximately 26,500,0O0 pounds of
Evening star., 1942-09-15

metal scrap between now and jan
uary ! to meet its quota The short,
intensive campaign was decided
upon as a supplement to the or
derly scrap collection which will
last for the duration.
Approval Expected.
Chairman Snow said the special
committees recommendations would
be placed today before the Com
missioners, who had authorized the
committee to draw up definite
plans. Official approval under the
circumstances will be a formality.
Col. Snow called another meeting
OF his committee for o'clock to-
morrow afternoon in room 518, Dis
trict Building, to report on the Sep
tember 20 organization progress.
Washington has witnessed many
drives, but nothing to equal the all
out plans devised for bringing out
scrap from every local household
September 20 and September 27.
About seven tons of metal scrap
have been gathered in the Cathedral
Heights-Cleveland Park area and
space in the Cathedral grounds has
been designated as the scrap pile
Tor that area. The Cathedral
started the collection Monday. It
Is estimated that 1000 tons will be
obtained from the Cathedral extra
scrap alone. 1t includes wrought
iron fences, buckets, cables and.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Milne Buy
Continued From First Page J

12o japanese and wiped them out
to man.
AS the japanese retreated they
left snipers among their dead to
leap up suddenly and fire. Rifemen
and grenade throwers were tied in
palm trees to attack Allied patrols
The Allied troops left these laced
10 the trees AS they disposed of
them.
AT other times the patrols met the
japanese in the open The Japan
ese fed and, as the Allies charged
with oayonets, the japanese dropped
TO the ground and others behind
them cut loose with machine guns,
In the last phase. after the jap
enese were smashed back past the
Gill Gill village mission. their
cruisers and destroyers entered the
bay They brought in considerable
relnforcements and took off
wounded.
Eight japanese warships entered
the bay one night to find an Austria
han hospital ship anchored inside
The warships turned searchlights on
the green and white vessel. and it's
big red crosses but left it unmolested
Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey. Austria
han chief of Allied land forces esti-
mated that approximately 1000 jap
anese were landed and TOO killed in
the battle.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Scrap
Continued From First Page J

Continued From First Page
raid warden service. as we'll as Bov
Scouts and Girl Scouts, will be
asked to ring doorbells on Saturday
September 49, to remind residents of
Southeast and Northeast Washing
ton that trucks will begin collecting
scrap the following day, beginning
at 8 am. 1t will be a curb collec-
ton, the truck crews not to 60 on
premises.
Only scrap metal is desired. Ma
terialS not wanted are safes. re-
frlgeratofs, pianos, tin cans. tin
coated material, rags, paper Or
rubber.
ITO City Trucks.
Emergency scrap piles will be
created only in the event that regu-
lar stock piles are exhausted. Off
clals in charge of the established
salvage depots will be on hand Sun
day 10 supervise the local area
operations.
The District Refuse Division in
charge of Supt. William Xanten will
have ITO trucks, each with four men
and a driver. making the block by
block collections. Efforts will be
made to obtain the services of an
equal number of trucks and working
crews from manufacturing and busi-
ness concerns as Washington makes
an all-out effort to keep steel mills
turning out weapons of war.
Offers of voluntary cooperation
in providing trucks and crews
should be conveyed to C. N. EN-
mons, truck division chairman. at
his offices at the District Depart
ment, telephone National 6000
Women's organizations headed by
Mrs. Newton C. Wing as chairman
of the women's division of the Dis
trict Salvage Committee will have
part in the scrap drive.
Newspaper executives will serve
in an advisory capacity,
Timed for Handling.
, BY spacing the two-day collec-
ton a week apart and concentrat-
ing on specific areas, time will be
given junk dealers and scrap pro-
cessing plants to sort and bale the
Evening star., 1942-09-15

effects in reducing the amount OF
carbon present in the molten steel.
In the present emergency, how
ever, much larger amounts OF ore
are being used in steel furnaces TO
provide an additional source OF
metallic iron.
Rejecting these emergency prac-
tices designed to maintain steel
production at peak volume despite
the scrap shortage, producers of
open hearth steel now are consum-
ing $50 tons of pig iron for every
thousand tons of steel they produce.
as against their l94l average of
using 557 tons of pig iron per thou
sand tons of open hearth steel.
Similarly, 46 tons of iron in the
form of iron ore and mill scale are
now being consumed in the open
hearths per thousand tons of steel
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Union Shop
Continued From First PageD

mendatlons in behalf of himself and
the labor member. He said:
The issue in this case is not
whether the board should direct the
company to accept a union shor
provision in place of an open shop
Inc issue is rather whether the
board should direct the union to re-
ilnquish the union shop provision of
It's last contract with the company. ,
He argued that if the workers
claim FOR union shop, based on
their last contract, was to be defeat
ed because they returned to work
Under truce without contractural
union shop provision, the effect
would be ito penalize resumption of
work during negotiations and to en-
courage continuance of strikes =. &.
Freezes Open Shop.
The maintenance of membership
clause" said DR.. Shulman, is a de-
vice for freezing the open shop dur
ing the emergency, so far as board
orders are concerned, where the
open shop prevailed before the
emergency. Thus the unions are
prevented from taking advantage of
the crisis in order to achieve the
union or closed shop and to threaten
production for that purpose.
1T is entirely equitable that the
theory be applied consistently by the
adoption of the Complementary no.
tlon that an employer should not be
permitted to take advantage of the
crisis in order to achieve the open
shop in a plant which was thereto
lore union or closed shop, or to
threaten production for that pur-
pose"
Expected Organization.
The company contended it made
q union shop contract in the belief
that the union would organize the
loose leaf and blank book indus
try, The union then was called
the United Loose Leaf and Blank
Book Workers of America. Such,
the company argued, has not been
the result. Rather, the industry
still is organized by otherwise affi-
lated unions and the company said
it could therefore no longer ex-
pect the benefits which it had an
hclpated from al union shop con-
tract with an industry union.
1t was further contended the
union had been unable to provide
a necessary supply of skilled crafts
men, and the company could not
obtain such craftsmen so long as
membership in the union remained
a condition of employment.
The panel chairman proposed
meeting the latter objection by a
proviso that whenever skilled help
was not otherwise procurable. the
company could hire AFL union
members and they would be exempt
from the union shop.
Evening star., 1942-09-15

produced. compared with "a tons
in l94l
On the other hand, the use OF
scrap per thousand tons of open
hearth steel produced has declined
from 523 tons in 194l to 507 tons
this year. Producers OF electric fur
mace steel have likewise made sons
changes in their practice. Since
scrap is only minor material in
making BeSsemer steel, however,
there have been no such drastic
changes in Bessemer practice.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Posters Go on DispIuy

More than 100 American war post
ers will go on display today in the
windows of the Longfellow Build
ing, Connecticut avenue and M
street NV. The exhibit, COM
panion to the one devoted to Brit
ish war posters last month, has been
arranged by the Office of War In
formation in cooperation with the
Federal Public Housing Authority
which occupies the Longfellow
Building.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
u. s., Canada Agree
To Continuation Of
Professional Sport
Stotus of Hockey Players
Settled; No Special
Consideration Planned
Iy the Associated Press.

ES tTe ASSOCIATED Press.
OTTAWA, Sept. 15.-Canadisn
and United States manpower au-
thorlties today approved the con-
tlnuation of professional sport in
wartime. bat said that no special
consideration would be given under
mobilization regulations to profess
sional athletes
The decision was reached after 9
request from the National Hockey
League for information as to its
status in light of manpower regula
tions.
Today the following statement
was issued simultaneously at Ottawa
and Washington:
While neither country Canada
nor the United States has any in
tentlon of granting exemption from
military service to hockey PLAYERS
or other athletes, there is no obiec-
tion to allowing any men who are
not subject to military service to
continue their professional athletic
activities unless and until thev are
requested to engage in some non
military war duty"
While this statement apparently
leaves selective service officials free
to direct professional hockey play
ers, or other professional athletes.
INTO other work if such action is
deemed necessary in the future, the
announcement from selective serv-
Ice headquarters here said: In the
meantime there would be nothing to
hinder the National Hockey League
from engaging in the winter sched-
ule OF international games"
In Washington Chairman Paul V
McNutt of the United States War
Manpower Commission said in
statement that Canadian hockev
players will be welcome to plav in
the United States during the COM
Ing season."
Evening star., 1942-09-15

Wig ,eould shortage OF iron
and steel scrap, threatened for
the first time in American his
tory, affect our production OF
steel for lcar purposes?
Why can't this shortage be
overcome bu increased production
OF steel from pig iron, Smeted
from ore?
These questions and Others on
the tongue OF eUeru American
interested in Donald Nelson's an
peal to get out the scrap metal
are GnslUered in the tollo,Uinq ar
ttcle reprinted from Steel Facts:
Scrap iron and steel have been
major raw materials for Steelmaking
for three quarters of century. Prior
to that most steel was made from
pig iron obtained by smelling iron
ore in a blast furnace.
Introduction of the open hearth
steel furnace in 1868, and the later
development of the electric furnace
process enabled steel producers to
use scrap iron and steel as we'll as
pig iron.
Almost four tons of iron ore, coal
and limestone are consumed in max
ing one ton of pig iron. Substitu-
ton of ton of scrap for a ton of
pig iron thus helps to conserve pre-
cious mineral resources, and also
lightens the burden upon the Ma
tions transportation systems.
Also Cuts Time.
Furthermore, an open hearth fur
mace can produce steel from the
usual mixture of half scrap, half pig
iron in less time than would be
needed if nothing but pig iron were
used The reason is that scrap Is
steel which has already been refined.
Electric furnaces, which are used
to produce the highest grades of
steel, including alloy steels, operate
almost entirely upon scrap Some of
the finest alloy steels produced are
made 100 per cent from scrap ma
terial.
During 1941 the steel industry set
q new record by producing 81, 1899 900
tons of steel, In so doing, it con-
sumed As 100000 tons of scrap-10,-
1000 tons more than ever before.
So far in 1912 steel production
has been at the rate of over 85,000,-
300 for the year and the steel in
dustrys scrap piles are dWindling.
Similar reports are coming from
other scrap-using industries, in
cluding producers of rubber tin,
copper. glycerin and other materials
vital to the war effort
Millions of Tons.
AS many as s to 10 million tons
Of iron and steel scrap alone are
believed to be lying dormant in
homes, farms and industrial plants
the country. The ma
Lional salvage campaign seeks to
recover as much Of that tonnage as
possible so that steel producers can
Evening star., 1942-09-15

eventually, the big derricks on top
of the Cathedral.
John H. Bayless, Cathedral cura-
tor, is in charge of the collection in
an effort to augment the scrap pile
with all metal parts not in actual
use at this time.
Meanwhile, Gov. O'Conor of Mary
land in statement yesterday called
on citizens of that State to redouble
their efforts to bring in the scrap
and in Baltimore Mayor Howard w.
jackson made similar appeal.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Pilgrimage to Be Planned

Plans for the annual pilgrimage
to the Tomb of the Unknown Sol
dier will be formed at a meeting
of the Top Notch Tent of the Mill
tary Order of the Cootie tonight in
the Woodmen of the World Hall.
935 G street NV.
Evening star., 1942-09-15

Contribute your junk to the
greatest junk pile Of the future
ambitions of the Jap militarists.