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in 1943. He also argued that even If cryptostegia cost dollar pound to grow, it would be cheap at the price if our wheels of transporta- tion could be kept turning.
 Finally. Sherover argued that cryptostegia was the fastest. grow ing of all rubber plants, maturing in about six months, therefore was the only possible means of filling in the year and half before Jesse Jones' synthetic factories could get into large scale production.
 However, Sherover got nowhere with the lesser bureaucrats, finally proposed resigning from the gov ernment and offered to raise mil- lion dollars from private business to finance the growing of several hundred thousand acres of crypt0- stegia. ..
 In the middle of these behind- the-scenes debates, the New York Daily News sent reporter to Mex ico to investigate the plant and he brought back glowing account of its possibilities. This electrified the hitherto sleepy rubber experts, and on the same day the story was pulp lished they called meeting to reconsider their previous lack of en- thusiasfn for cryptostegia.
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More Than Uniforms
lCincinnati Ennuirer)


 So much has been said and written of the trim uniforms and clever insignia of the Women's Auxil- iary Army Corps that most citizens probably have overlooked the serious usefulness of the new organi- zation The War Department has just one problem to win this war It is not interested in cracking the society pages nor is it interested in providing an outlet for the energes of some young ladies seeking coIorful adventure Bu. it does have work for en to do.
 A modern army is a gigantic and complex enter prise with great deal of work comparable to office work in commercial life It also has specialized tasks ness but not for sheer physical strength endur- ance other words, t has diversity of tasks that women can do at least as well and in many cases distinctly better.
 They are serious jobs, and some will perhaps be hazardous. They are jobs at typewriers and range finders at telephones and nerceptor command plot ting maps, and in many other capacities. They are vital in the wagng of successful Inevitably, there will be a surplus of popusr interest in the cut of the WAAC uniform, and there is no harm in this. But no one should harbor the notion that the WAAC is fppant extravaganza and therefore imped- ment to the war effort
 As matter of fact might fairly raise the question whether the members of the WAAC are be- ing treated justly for some of them will be taking risks and yet they will not have the status of sol diers They are not now eligible for risk insur ance as soldiers are They not fully part of the army If none of the WAAC is to serve overseas and none is to take the risks of service in combat areas this may not matter But if the contrary is true the law as it TOW stands is discriminatory against women volunteers
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RUSSIAN RUBBER

Meanwhile, it has been revealed that experts of the Agriculture De- partment had been sitting on two kinds of natural rubber which can be grown in the southern United States and Mexico Filed away among the learned tonnes of the Departments scientists are reports on kok-sagyz and cryptostegia, both >quick-groWing rubber plants. But the Department of Agriculture sci entists had been doing very little about them.
 In contrast, the Russians in 194l planted the amazing total of 5,000,- GOO acres of kok-sagyZ, which grows in temperate climates. Being more far-sighted than Jesse Jones, they foresaw the possibility of war with Japan and loss of rubber sources.
 After Pearl Harbor the United States gathered up all the kok- sagyz seed it could get from Russia and flew it here by plane, and tt is now planted. But the amount Of seed we could get was limited.
 Meanwhile, a botanist in Browns vile, Tex, named Peter Heinz was bombarding Jesses Jones, various rubber experts and almost every member of Congress with letters pointing to a rubber weed called cryptostegia, which grows in Mex ico, Haiti, southern California and Florida. The letters which Heinz sent to Washington constitutes a file more than a foot high. But nobody would listen to him.
 It should be said for the Agri- culture Department that ever since 1922 it's experts have been asking Congress for money to experiment with natural rubber yielding plants. But Congress appropriated only in- finitesimal amounts.
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Against this, Sherover urged planting about half million acres.
 "Is there any one of you who won't admit we can get rubber?" Sl1erover asked ss
 The answer was No.
 Then" persisted Sherover, Its chiefly matter of price--whether we pay fifty cents a pound or one dollar; But I don't see that price is important when the economic life of the nation is at stake. I admit it's gamble, but gamble we can't afford not to take.'
 Discussions are continuing. Ap- parently Sherover has made dent. More far-sighted executives of the
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20 YEARS AGO tyiGTE EMPIRE
JUNE 30. 1922

JUNE 30 1922
 At meeting reports indicated than for celebration Included program airplane both junior Explorer and the Unalga a smoker and the usual parade.
 Roy F. Jones' Ketchkan aviator flight to Ketchi July enter service of paolng search of Service cruising timber locating sites.
 George A. of the the celebration parade the features of day well baseball and other field sports
 Miss Nadia following night Francisco She first at the University of California.
 head of Presbyterian Missions Alaska, left meeting the Presbyterian Church State of Washington Seattle.
 Indications were Fourth At o'clock to get Standing Ciraber Miss Honoah Kelly and Dorothy Olson LIT.
 dispatch the of the Master Sempi other British aviator Japan officers flying their
 would not required after the the The Japanese stated the opinion that te had sufficient the aviation branch of the service without the O foreign instructors
 great demonstration Capt Amundsen ship Maud
  the North Pole Muhers from the interior arrived during proclaimed holiday remained with temperature minimum of 5o
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Miles Sherover, assistant rubber chief of the Bureau of Economic Warfare, who had previously or ganized rubber factories in Chile and Venezuela.
 He pointed out that despite the billion dollars being spent by Jesse Jones on synthetic rubber, and despite all we could scrape together in the Amazon, the nation would be at least half million tons short
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HOROSCOPE E "The stdrs incline
 bat do not conspeW
WEDNESDAY, JULY l


 day. It is date most fortunate for letters, contracts and agree ments of every sort but not aus picious for beginnings.
 HEART AND HOME: Routine work will be best for women of all ages today It is a time when all the household arts should be practieed and it is promising for the conservation of food. Girls in greater numbers will be employed in factories concerned in canning and drying fruits and vegetables. Those who become farmerettes will meet with success although there are limitations to their strength. The use of agricultural machinery will enable women to demonstrate ex- pertness in harvesting tasks.
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS: This will be slow day in retail trade al- though general business will con- tinue to be prosperous. Many for mer heads of small concerns will profit as employees as the United States mobilizes the talent and ex- perience of all men and women be- longing to the nation. Full under standing of the meaning of the conflict in it's potentialities for the western hemisphere will greatly stimulate effort to contribute to production in all lines of manufac- ture. Speed will be more and more necessary each day in all that per- tains to war needs. The influence of Uranus in Gemini will be strong ly evident.
 NATIONAL ISSUES: Government efforts to equalize the sacrifices im- perative in supporting the struggle will be inadequate to produce re- suits and there may be dissatis- faction among persons who have contributed most in service. h. justices are unavoidable, the seers declare, and they urge each man and woman to give all possible, without regard for inevitable dif- ferences or seeming privileges. En- " and jealousy have no place in the highest standard of patriotism.
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS {: IT. boo h.a,, ,,roopootiootadf from tho beginning of the Second World War that many reverses and defeats must be suffered by the democracies before the tide toward victory could be definitely discerned. Astrologers have forecast, as the price for final triumph over the Axis, the great est expenditure of manpower, long suspense and terrible property loss es in cities and on the high seas. Warning is given that optimism following summer successes, large or small, should inspire dogged per- sistence and continued offensiveS until the Axis is completely over come.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of fair prosperity. :. It is good for changes and expansions.
 Children born on this day should have avid minds that cas- fly absorb knowledge They prob ably will excel in public work. Suc- cess is indicated for both boys and girls.
 Copyright, 1942)
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URGES BOLD POLICY

At this meeting the experts large ly reversed their negative report of last January. But even so, they still wanted to do what Jesse Jones at first did with synthetic rubber. Just as he contracted for "piiotv plants to test out the product. they wanted to plant only ten or fifteen acres of cryptostegia. Then after several months of experimentation, they proposed planting more.
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Bureau of Economic Warfare are now supporting him, and believe that a large scale experiment in this new rubber weed must be un- dertaken-even if it is costly.
 So, quick growing cryptostegia may yet help to fill the rubber vacuum otherwise bound to occur between the exhaustion of our present re- serves and the time, when Jesse Jones synthetic rubber will be on the market in 1944. Dy Je
 Copyright, 1922, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
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 A blue whale is about g feet long at birth.
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On the other hand, Agriculture Department experts certainly were not on their toes regarding crypto- stegia For as late as Jan. 5, 1942, one month after Pearl Harbor, they published a very discouraging re- port on its possibilities.
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By the end of the year, it is estimated that 90 percent of the nations disteries will have been verted to the production of industrial alcohol, but there is enough drinking liquor hand for at least four years and if the lasts any longer than that reckon people will start making home brew in their blackout
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leaves Jesse Jones Rubber Reserve, the outfit which was so short sighted last year, virtually with final control.
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Even Harold L. Ickes has gotten tangled up in the alphabetical designations Of the New Deal, but not his severest critic blame him much for that
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l. HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JUNE 30 Mary Jean McNaughton George Smith
 Patricia Brewer Marvin c. Rhodes Gertrude Cunningham Mrs. F. D. Dempster Mrs. Caroline Ferris Claude Thomson
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Washington Merry
 Go-Round

tContinued rom Page Ono,
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RED TAPE UNwINDER

The man who finally blasted out into the open was
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George be celebration the day baseball other field sports
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Miss Nadia Kashevaro to following night Francisco to year the University California
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S. Hall Young, head of Presbyterian Missions in A meeting of the Presbyterian Gnu State of Washington at Seattle.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-12-05
COP Wins
Senate Fight
Revitalized Minority
Forces Accounting OF
RFC Funds Spent By
War Agency

Warrington. Dec. 5-(AP)-A re-
VIialIzcd Republican mirorlty APP
p"ar"d Victorious today in Il be-
h'nd-ihc- scenes Senate battle 20 inrcc
." ,,.punI.n" 81 Reconstruction
FinHnr" Corporation funds spent by
The board o. economic wrr."~c un.
der executive order ISSUED by Pvc,i-
dc"t Roosevelt
Administration leaders. ,Cck.n.
Scnatc approval OF Il house bill at
'hnriZinG $1,000. 900. 900 increase in
REC borrowing and lending author
~. Wcr" reported to- have agreed
unw!llincly 10 an amendment deny
g any funds tu The BEW or nih".
'gcnCjcs until the RFC board of di-
""c;"rs gives advance approval %.
n!"no-Cd expenditures
Senator Danahcr. Republican.
Connecticut. said nc would offer
thI> amendment a. u compromise
whc" Senator Brown. Democrat.
Michigan. rcncWs efforts Ia obtain
a"tIun on the bill nest week. Brown
declined comment ON the amendment
bat was ready 20 accept il.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-12-05
Churchill Predicts
Very Hard Fighting
To Come In Tunisia.
British Prime Minister
Tells Yorkshire Gro wd
That Driving Enemy
-o,g1 final 20 Miles
sh,i Sc strongly Con-
Ioctecl

Bradford. Eng. Dee. =.
lNlr--l'r:mc Minister Chur.
chill predicted ,"d;:y hat her.
would be yer, n;ird fighting"
J., the allies in TuniSia
could cross the final 20 mites :.
dtiN. 'nr enemy frum i'uni> and
BiHcrlc.
ihy prime minister spoke Ia
thromgS which turned uut 10 Sc.
HIM on II weekend inspection Of
this Yorkshire city. center OF
HritHin'S w""Icn industry.
y" - .aS
arrr.arhiiH lis ;rnSc : pi:,>".
SO g ~! ii
= - ''r"t 49," hard core of
r'H RESISTANCE and viIilany has
+ - ."a:,ri II u:r
" 80; cred up al r.r
.'.r r... .',r,.. ..'.
.>i act god ii,n.@ CONG To- Il.
1rt' g.. 40 &C.,
...,. gro n5' vn,.h Sc MA. .r.
ant upon" he said.
... d, -. confident
'f...i, ,a.'..' is ...'.
e.. .. iu' ,ymrrd E3i'rn. no, +,
".' Co.," ui.ra.. E. aI.tIrGj....
',,. f..' ai... t.yg. - ..
%. r.Y...
.,.n .....c" 'in rrr,H Ni..,
..r. Dor. e., o.. --'
.a.r. ~ . snort time. advanced from
.. .|0.n'I" coast almost To- the cen
g.. a.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-12-05
Stocks Stage
Slow Session

" York. Dec. ;. tNp) Th.
,,,'"i'r battle picture ~ north
''''' tended tn dcprc>~ recently
"'F'ni G"uCC stock, today bu;.
,,'N"l~ "lv. failed ~ touch oft any
,'' ".iyng OF the markets war is
... H'.h'iv uneven trends appeared
q" A" Start Of the brief session ard
.uN dealings sluggish Throughout
".''' losses we're u shade IN ihC
.,'i"ItN near the close. Transfer,
", 'f"'lnn 20O.OOO shares were aru~u-
smallest ~ more lhIn tw'
, ,, ms. DCmu"d cNivcd to, s,,,rd
''"I ponds and ,ouu,"d tics r".c..
E. 90 .l-oIt.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-12-05

Washington. Dec. 5-tNpD Sec
rc;ary WiCkard and War ManpOwCr
ChICi Paul V. MCNuit were expected
today 10 DC assigned two ui the ma
ton, toughest Jpb--C"uplctC war
time control over all food and man
power problems ranging from IA
tIOnIUg 10 recruiting.
10 curb the spread OF a score of
difficutic, which have sprung from
the pair of problems. President
Roosevelt was reported ready TO
sign executive orders naming Wick
ard food administrator and transfer
ing control u! sClCCtivc service and
the federal employment service To-
The war commission headed by Nc
Mutt.
Administration sources said the
orders were 81 the Presidents desk
awaiting his signature.
The President plans 10 place Wick
ard in charge ui the nations war
time food production and empower
him To- rulc on what {" ration and
when. these sources said.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-12-05
Battleship,
2 Cruisers
Hit In Raid
Italians Admit Heavy
Damage and Civilian
Casualties; Battle in
unlsla Apparently
Going Hard For Allied
Forces

tBy The Associated Press
Four-mot"rcd /. $. Liberia
tor b0mb"rs. b"IdIy challenging
the powerful axis air fleet has-
ed in Sicily. were credited TO-
day with hitting an Italian bal
t!"$hIp and two cruisers in a
smashing daylight raid on Ma
pies. Italy.
Dl>pitchc> from Cairo said the
raiders scored heavy. bomb hits
ON the three warShips. blasted
othcr vessels alongside the Wit
torio Emanuel mole. and pound
ed me cI'N'> rail yard, To diArupt
Traffic III the key west coast uor,.
All 81 nh" D-2i'S. among tho b,r-
rN' o"mDCrr ~ the United Statc. ay.
sect. returned safely
me Italians officially admit, II
cav damage and listed lLg E,lIr.,
ana 81" wounded among the "CIv,I.,,
pppuiatiuu."
While these blows raincd on
ohc ul lie main axis sunni,
ports, the battle in Tunisi5.
across the Mediterranean, was
apparently going hard Tor the al
iil>.
American pagaChUiI>,s ana rIca,i
loops rCnIrG 90 close success. u,
..h'T"I IUu!-!a. routing German
''Nt"'rH r1.":tn. sC.ZiuG loo plISpu-
en-, and capturing q town. bU; in the
norm IN" tide had evidently shifted
1"mrniaIIy ~ favor Of the a,r-.
\ k".trr~ 0Bl'!~I ury.. ..rr,,,.,.,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-12-05
Rail Rate
Cuts Asked
ICC Petitioned To
Wipe Out Increases Ia
Freight Rates And
Passenger Fares

Washington. Dee. 5.--thFr--
James +. ByrncS. director al
economic sterilization. and Price
Administrator Leon Henderson
pctitioncd the Interstate Com
mcrCc Commission today {" winc
out increases III freight rates ana
passenger fares granted early
this year. and estimated hN tl'
petition 10 inrUl,c SiDn.oOo.O0O
In yearly Transportation casts.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-12-05

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain tonight and carly Sunday
probably mixed with snow In
mountains. No decided change In
temperature but slight rising
tcndtnty.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-12-05
Wickard And
McNutt Slated
For Hard Jobs

Washington. Dec. j.-(APp-
President Roosevelt worked to-
day on an executive order de
signed To strengthen the man
power controls Oi the govern
mCnt and White House secretary
stephen Early said he expected
IN announcement before night
fall.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-12-05
NAVAL FORCE ATTACKED.

Washington. Dec. 5.-(APD-
Tho Navv announced today that
dive bombcrS and torpedo planes
from Guadalcanai island had at
tackled i small enemy force Of
surface vessels. hut thai results
lie nI irIu"i ME
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-12-11
His Grenades All Gone,
Majors Rocks Rout Japs

MARINE HEADQUARTERS SOL
ONION ISLANDS.-There are many
reasons why the Japanese failed to
recapture the Solomons in a deter
mined 48-hour assault by land. sea
and air that started at shutdown on
September IL, but here is one in
stance of bravery, GOODNESS and fast
thinking that explains some of the
why's"
Maj. Kenneth d. Bailey of Dan
vile, H.. whose unit ran out of
hand grenades while in a front line
position and had nothing left with
which to blast the enemy from a
clump of bushes. picked up a hand
full of rocks and pitched them into
the bushes.
The frightened Japanese eliev-
ing they were being attacked with
delayed action shells-ran out in the
open, where the marines moved
them down
Bailey. who suffered a leg wound
August z, twice was shot through
the helmet, the bullets grazing his
head. He killed the Jap who fired
the shots from a distance of eight
feet in the darkness.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-12-11
Postwoman Finds
Task Is No Cinch
But Is All Right for Woman
In Wartime.

VICTORIA, B. C.-YeS. folks, the
lob of postman is all right for a
woman in wartime but hlgh-heeled
shoes are neither standard nor COM
portable equipment
This is the view of Mrs Florence
Blanchard, British Columbia's first
woman mail carrier, who says she
enjoys the work and hopes to be
placed on the permanent staff in
due course An attractive woman IN
her 30S, she stands about five feet,
seven inches; weighs l40 pounds,
mas gray eyes and brown hair. Her
oostman's cap becomes her.
Il always liked walking and meet
ing people," she says. Il wore high
-neeled shoes and bliStered my feet
the first day, however. The second
cay put on fiat-heeled shoes with
crepe soles and found il much cas-
Ter"
Mrs. Blanchard admitted the first
10 days were pretty hard, with two
bundles of magazines and a bag OF
letters a common load on her route.
1t got better as she went along She
was bantered by the men but the
women said they were proud of her
and made it pleasant going" She
had invitations to stop for tea but
had to express her regrets and keep
on. She encountered only one dog
that snapped at her.
Born in England, Florence Blan-
chard was brought to Canada when
she was three years old and lived in
Winnipeg for IL years. Her nus
band, shell-shocked veteran from
the first great war, died some
months ago and she has II year
old son graduating from high school
this year. She has two brothers
serving in the present war.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-12-11
Both of These Ladies
Lose Battle of Glares

WILLIAMSPORT. PA.-Patience
hath its reward-so the saying goes
but you can't convince two WON.
en- who went dollar-day shopping.
Out of the crowd at the shoe coun-
ter they limped-each holding the
mate of a pair Of shoes.
Neither would give up her share
of the bargain and both sat down
to wait-and glare at each other.
Four hours later they were still
sitting-and glazing. The manager
came to the counter, took the shoes
of sale and replaced the regular
price tag.
The ladies left.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-12-11
Cadet Bales Out; Causes
Parachute Spy' Scare

NEWBURGH, N. "a parachut.
ist spy scare near West Point was
cleared up by telephone after wit
nesses reported that a man leaped
from a plane.
The report was corroborated by
the public relations office at Stew
art Field. the academy'S training
SCHOOL
But it was during routine train
ing flight that Lieut.. Joel R. Bar
ton Jr of Sterling City. Texas. sent
his plane into twist and ordered
Cadet John r. McNiel of Camden
S. c., to Get out of here"
McNiel didn't waste a moment
He followed orders and bailed out
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-12-11
Eve Test Charts

Use Of charts to test visual acuity
we're inaugurated just a hundred
years ago in the ophthalmic clinic
at Darmstadt, according to the Bet
ter Vision institute. Prior to that
time ordinary printed matter was
used for reading tests. In 1862 the
well-known Snellen chart was devel-
oped at the University OF Utrecht.
On this chart each letter Is de-
signed SO that il makes five-minute
angle Of light rays falling on the
eye. and the individual details Of the
letter make one-minute angles.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-12-11
Vacuum Tubes Help

The currents produced by flowing
gasoline are so small that an or
binary meter will not measure
them. To make these measure
ments in the field, it was necessary
to design an instrument which would
be rugged and portable, operate un-
der conditions of severe vibration,
and yet measure very small cur
rents. The development of the mod
ern vacuum tube used in radio sets
made such a meter possible.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-12-11
Tiny Mistake in Names
Causes Some Confusion

CAMP LEE, wa stenograph
duty roster at camp headquarters
caused confusion when it read /:
Good Sadie Lee substituting for
Long Ruth"
The missing punctuation was sup
piled and then it was found that
Sadie Lee Good had taken over the
Saturday afternoon duties of Ruth
Long.