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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Planes Tested

Flawless performance of Amer
lean combat planes at the warfront
is die in no small measure to the
fact that before they can 60 into
service their functional operations
mus undergo the most searching
inspection and scrutiny to which any
thing on wings has ever been SUBJ
jected *
Not only do our fighters and bomb
er planes undergo rigid checkups by
company test pilots but they must
again be taken over the hurdles by
army pilots who have to approve
each ships performance before it
goes into service. ~. -.
Company pilots, experts that they
are in detecting minor irregularities
in a new warplane, can usually
check up on the"ship's performance
in test flights lasting from 20 to 40
minutes, and the army fiers use
about the same length of time. COM
pany pilots are not permitted to
fly plane containing secret army
equipment, although certain COM
pany employees, trained on such
equipment, at times are permitted
to go along with the army pilots in
their test flights.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Women Work Hardest if
They Look at Their Best

Every daughter of Eve knows in
stinctively that the woman who looks
we'll and feels well does more and
better work. The men who manage
our war plants are learning this
truth through study and experience.
When women employees are given
becoming uniforms and an opportu-
nifty to wash, fix their hair, and put
on fresh makeup during rest peri
DDS, up 60 the production charts.
In one plant, smart turbans were
provided after the workers had de-
feated the purpose Of the original
protective head coverings by wear
ing them at rakish angle. In an
other, each worker has been given
becoming uniforms in sufficient
quantities to allow for frequent
laundering. Throughout the coun.
try, sanitary facilities in factories
are being stepped up to meet the
workers demands for clean, we'll
kept wash rooms and for plenty OF
soap and fresh towels. Many of the
wash rooms have adjoining rest
rooms with makeup bars where free
cosmetics are furnished and where
workers may rest, read, or smoke.
Great Britain's experience with
women workers during more than
three years of war has pointed the
way to American production ex-
perts. In one large English plant
where the output had been steadily
waning, it rose q per cent within a
month after the installation Of sani-
tary facilities. regular soap supplies
in the wash rooms, and cosmetic
stand. These improvements were
requested by the employees when
their executives asked for sugges-
tons on lettering working condi-
tons.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Emergency Landings

Instances in which flight strips
along public highways have prevent
ed plane crashes and saved lives are
cited by the war department. Con-
structed as auxiliary landing fields,
these strips saved the life of a SOL
dier at one northern post when they
accommodated a plane bearing two
army medical officers being flown in
to perform an emergency operation.
The regular airfield could not be
used because of snowstorn, but
army trucks lined up to illuminate
the auxiliary flight strip. In the
East, a heavy bomber which was
unable to locate large airport dur
ing sub-zero weather, landed on a
1000 foot concrete strip. These
strips also can be used for disper-
sion of military aircraft in case of
enemy attack.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Subway Attractions

National interests and distinctions
are evident in the worlds subways.
The Japanese love Of newsreels is
expressed in the newsreel theaters
built in Tokyo's subway stations.
Paris subways have first and second
class passage. The station walls in
Buenos Aires are covered with mu-
rails picturing Latin America.
Each station of Moscow's subway
system is done in different archi-
tectural style and with different
kinds of stone. Blending utility with
beauty, these underground stops are
reached from street-level by photo
electrically controlled escalators.
New York's subways, comprising
the worlds largest system, are
among the most severely purposeful
in design. The SYSTEMS tracks, laid
in a single line, would reach to
Charleston, S. G.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Expert Answers Questions
For Baby Chick Buyers

How, what, and when are the first
three questions of the baby chick
buyer of today who wants to get a
living from his focks of poultry as
well as to produce the food needed
by our nation, declares w. F. Lamo-
reaux of the New York State college
of agriculture.
when" means right away to the
chick buyer, he says, or even earlier.
There won't be enough good chicks
to meet the demand this year, so
early orders for good chicks are only
wise.
r What price to pay is varied an
swer, he agrees, but poultrymen
who pay more than an average price
for their chicks usually get enough
extra eggs to pay for the higher cost
of the chicks several times over.
The last few dozen eggs that hen
lays in year may mean the diff
ference between profit and loss.
How to tell which chicks are the
best to buy is perplexing question,
Lamoreaux admits, but acquaint-
ance with the seller, experience Of
past years with his stock on your
own farm or a neighbours is worth
consideration.
If you can't make up your mind
to pick one seller of chicks, he says,
pick out the best two or three
sources. Get all the chicks at the
same time, mark them with toe
punches or wing bands and mix
them together in the brooder houses.
In the fall, the marked pullets of
the different lots of birds can be
separated, and records on their
mortality and egg production will
provide the answer for another year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Lag in Subways

Contrary to popular belief, the
United States is behind Europe in
the number of cities with su5ways.
While we have three subway-served
cities, Europe has at least eight. In
the rest of the world there are five.
Latest addition to foreign systems is
the new four-mile section opened in
Moscow. The worlds first subway
opened in London in 1868, long be-
fore construction began in Amer
lea. Glasgow followed in 1886. Bos-
ION was the first American city to
t2':e to the subway idea, beginning
operation in 1895. Budapest, Paris
aid Berlin all antedated New York,
a'hch opened it, first underground
- ""t2ti"n artery in 1904.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Mine Floats Ashore in
Ireland and Kills 20

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRE
LAND.-A mine floated ashore and
exploded near the west coast village
of Donegal, killing 20 men and in
juring five. Two others are miss
ing.
A large crowd had gathered near
the mine and several men were try
ing to loosen nuts of the explosive
with monkey wrenches. Others were
prodding it with sticks. The expIo-
sion shattered windows in village
houses and was heard for so miles.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Devise Alcohol Plant

Using broken-down railroad tank
cars for cookers, securing junk
yards and salvage heaps for odds
and ends of disable equipment, turn
ing scraps into piping, controls and
all the multitude of mechanical con-
trivances that make up an alcohol
plant, are all part Of the latest war
production story to come to light.
There was no new plant equipment
available and the plant had to be up
and running in the shortest possible
time. Only $4,000 Of original equip
ment was used.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Two-Year-Old Boy Kills
Rat After Father Fails

ATCHISON, KAN.-Sam Munson
Of Atchison had been trying for days
to kill a rat that he had seen around
his home. No luck.
One day he was cleaning the fur
mace. His twe-year-old son Mike
was watching him and he also was
pounding a poker, aimlessly, on the
aoor.
Suddenly a big rat jumped out
from a hole and ran right under
Mikes descending poker kerr
DlunkI-for a lethal blow.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Using Ne,u Formula
To Defeat U-Boats
Results Attested by Drop
In Submarine Successes.

SOMEWHERE IN GREAT BRIT
. ANA formula for defeat of en-
envy submarines in the Atlantic has
been found and is being applied with
success. high British naval officer
revealed &-@ s@a
The Battle of the Atlantic recently
has taken a most favorable turn for
the Allies. In some periods of sew
eral days, no sinkings of Allied ships
were reported. On other days there
were only single sinkings.
''It would be jumping to conclu-
sions to claim that the U-boat crisis
has been averted or the Battle of
the Atlantic permanently won," this
officer said. But the record for
April and May shows that we now
know what it takes to defeat the
U-boat packs. ALI we have to do
now is to continue to apply this
same formula.
Here is the complete formula for
victory in the Battle of the Allan
tic:
Increased and improved escort
craft.
Sufficient tactical air strength
escort carriers, plus intensified and
extended land-based air cover.
Excellent use of strategic air
strength-the bombing OF U-boat
construction yards and base facili-
ties at the source.
Improvement of the old stand-bys
of anti-U-boat warfare-Asdic Qis-
tening device) and depth charges.
Secret new anti-submarine de-
vices, already mentioned by Frank
Knox, secretary Of the navy, and A.
". Alexander, first lord of the British
admiralty. s-.
Continued victory In the Atlantic
depends on whether the units in
volved continue to receive sufficient
amounts of this formulas ingredi-
ents. -;
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Alert Youths Win Look
At Secret Army Plane

DAYTON, OHIO.-The army air
corps shared a secret with two Day
ton boys. giving them closeup look
at a new combat plane undergoing
experimental tests at Wright Field.
The boys, Joe Kaiser, IL, and Harry
Wombold. 10. are members of a
plane Identification class at school.
Sunday they saw strange plane
over Dayton, and telephoned the air
force. There's a Nazi plane up
there" The experimental plane was
up for test. Today in recognition
OF their alertness the two boys were
allowed to inspect the plane. g..
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Cadet Pilot Goes From
Grand Opera Arias to Air

MAXWELL FIELD, ALA.-From
arias to the air is the story of Avia-
ton Cadet James Pease, who is TAX
ing pre-fight training at Maxwell
Field. March of this year the 27-
year-old aviation aspirant of Frank
lin, Ind, was adjudged one of the
winners of the Nets addition of the
air, heard over the National Broad
casting company. Cadet Pease
hopes to achieve fame in the air
ways of war now.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Navy Recruit Doesn't
Believe I'm Numbers

ALBANY, N. Y.-Frank Palai-
mo, %, who enlisted In the navy
July Is and has followed "13s"
from birth, insists II don't be-
lieve in numbers. It's a lot of
bunk" Palaino and his wife both
were born January Is. 1913. They
have two daughters. one born
June IS, 1910. the other August
-. 1871.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Extension Service
News
Prepared especially for the Courier
Reporter by Miss Dorothy Reaugh
Home Demonstration Agent for
Benton County

A bag of salt, 5 or 10-gallon
crock, a cellar 20 to rs degrees F.
and you have the set-up for saw
ing those garden snap beans and a
dozen or so other vegetables by
sailing or brining. Brining is a
safe and successful way of pre-
serving many vegetables that will
not can safely without a pressure
cooker. No war-scarce equipment
is required. So the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture advises house
wives to put garden vegetables
down in brine rather than putting
them up by risky canning meth
DDS.
Many vegetables may be put
down in light salt or weak brine
an. vinegar and then allowed to
ferment for about two weeks by
the same natural process that pro-
duces buttermilk. After ferment-
ing the vegetables can be packed
in glass jars and processed in boil
ing water as in canning. They
will keep safely for winter use.
Little or no soaking is necessary
before using. The vegetables are
simply removed from the jars,
rinsed and boiled at least ten min
utes. They have picked taste,
like cooked vegetables seasoned
with salt and vinegar.
Vegetables suitable for preserv-
ing in weak brine are: snap beans,
green tomatoes, carrots, cauliflow-
er, green's like kale, mustard and
turnip and beet tops. Cabbage,
turnips and head lettuce can be
shredded and preserved by light
salt. Snap beans, one of the best
vegetables for brining, are prepar-
ed by five minutes in steam or
boiling water to soften them for
easy fermenting and help hold the
color. Other vegetables are wash
ed and prepared as for cooking.
To preserve in weak brine put
the prepared vegetables in a clean
crock or wooden tub and cover
them with a brine made of half
pound of pure granulated salt and
a cup of vinegar in gallon of wa
ter. To preserve by light sailing,
sprinkle dry salt between layers
of vegetables using one-fourth Id.
of salt for each ten pounds of veg
etables. Cover the vegetables with
several layers of white cheesecloth
tucked down inside the crock, then
with a plate that just fits inside
the crock, and weigh the plate
down with a stone. The brine
should come. up over the plate.
Remove the white scum as it forms
on the surface of the brine by lift
ing off the stone, plate and cloth,
washing thoroughly and replacing
Fermenting takes about 2 weeks.
When the brine stops bubbling,
fermenting is finished and the veg
etables ready to pack in jars and
process in boiling water. Pint jars
need Is minutes processing, quart
jars 80 minutes. ~.
Salt may also be used to pre-
serve corn, peas, lima beans, green
peppers and onions, but these veg
etables need heavy salt or strong
brine. After fermenting they can
be put in glass jars for conven-
fence but do not need processing.
Before using they require soaking
overnight in fresh water. 49,,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19

Wheat growers can 60 the limit
next year. The government has
removed all restrictions on acre.
age to be planted.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19

II Hitler wins, the issue
- for you will be living itself
AVS and not just the cost of liv-
ing. Think that over and fig
VIZ ure it out for yourself how
much beyond 10 percent of
your family income you should put
INTO War Bonds every payday. :
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-28
son Is BORN

DETROIT. Oct. PIP, - An
a;aht-pound son was born today
70 Mrs. Bull Ford 2nd. daughter
Of the late Edsel Ford and grand
dacghter of Henry Ford.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-28

The Army's malaria rate for
overseas units in 1912 was about
80 men out of 1000.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-28
POLICE ARE USED
TO PROTECT GABLE
Famous Movie Star Nearly
Mobbed Before Inter-
view at CAPITAL

WASHINGTON. Oct. 81. -iR -
Back from the European air front,
Captain Clark Gable held a press
conference in the Army's nearly
impregnable pentagon building to-
day and the police were called out
to hold back the women.
When the conference was over,
the movie star confessed it just
as well could have been omitted.
Gable made his way to the con-
ference room through Railways
crowded with giggling women, and
made his way out again nearly
an hour later through even bigger
lr.obs. They we're held in check
by special details of building po-
Ice, while colonies growled about
the indignity to which an officer
and gentleman was being SUBJ
rlitted. and refused to allow the
surging female admirers to be
photographed.
At the conference, Gable, hest
tant and embarrassed by the whole
business, gave courteous answer to
questions that ranged all the way
from what kind of cameras he
used in filming the air war to
this one that floated in soft fem
mime tones:
Captain, would you say that the
personal discomfort of flying at
nigh altitude dulls your sensitivity
to battle?''
81 beg your pardon G b G
gulped at first. But he recovered
quickly and, with the famous smile
added:
mo 1 wouldn't say that-you
have your oxygen mask ard as
long as you have that you're all
right. You can't IN owe around
quite as freely. of course
For six months Gable has di-
rected crew of six, shooting a
color film record Of all the actlvi-
ties of heavy bomber group IN
England. In about 10 days he Will
take the $4,000 foot record to Holly
wood and supervise the process OF
cutting and editing it into train
ing film.
Other questions elected the in
formation that he hasn't given any
thought to what he will do when
the war is over, but there's no
reason to believe he won't go back
to Hollywood.
(which seems the more real to
YOU, captain, the world you left
or the world you're in noW?' ask
ed woman reporter.
Gable laughed and the 70 m
reared, but he replied evenly:
1.-The one I'm in now"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-28
WAC INDUCTION

RALEIGH, Oct. 27.-R-The sec
ond mass induction of Women's
Army Corps recruits since the cur
rent stepped-up enlistment cam
paign in North Carolina, will be
held here November 3, 1t. Lucy
Page. liaison officer between the
Wacs, Governor Broughton and the
State Office of Civilian Defense,
said today.
The new recruits will be sworn
iii by 1t. Col. L. c. Longshore OF
Charlotte, director of Army re-
cruiting in the Carolinas. and Will
be presented a state flag.
Each contingent of new Wacs
will carry the North Carolina nag
throughout training and will be
identified as a North Carolina unit.
They also will replace soldiers des-
ignated specifically as replace
ments for North Carolina battl.
casualties.
The first mass induction cere-
mony was held here October 70.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-28
One-Sided Scene Painted
OF Prisoners Treatment

on which they were travelling,
American censorship here ponder
ed at length before deciding to
permit these names to be used
under a Liverpool dateline.
The censors did eliminate h e
names of all men who are still in
Germany who were mentioned by
their comrades and also details OF
how they were taken prisoner and
what they are doing.
Some American correspondents
did not cover the repatriation be-
cause censorship restrictions re-
-duced the story virtually to a list
of names.
Correspondents noted that Brit
ish censorship was more liberal
than the American, although Brit
ain has a far greater stake in
prisoners than the United States
and has seen one exchange of pris-
oners fail in October 1941, after
the prisoners were aboard ex-
change ships. Disagreement arose
because the Germans insisted on
exchange of prisoner for prisoner,
while the British wanted an ex.
change of sick and wounded with.
out regard for numbers.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-28

LONDON, Oct. 27.-(RAA one
sided picturee of respatriated Am
erican soldiers accounts of their
treatment at the hands of the Ger
mans and NaZi reaction to defeats
in the past year were presented
tc the American public as the re-
suit of drastic United States Army
censorship yesterday.
The net effect of the censorship.
which eliminated $50 words from
enc Associated Press dispatch re-
cording the repatriates' arrival at
Liverpool, was to leave the inn
preston that returning Americans
had nothing but good to say about
the Germans.
All complaints against German
treatment and food were eiin1i-
mated. Only reports of kind treat
ment were passed by the censor.
Earlier dispatches from Stock
holm, where the prisoners first
were interviewed, already had in-
d1cated that their sojourn in Ger
many was not a love feast. But
no such remarks were permitted
in the stories from Britain.
THE Germans are down n
when they are down, they talk, -
said British soldier who was ex-
changed on the same conditions
as the Americans and who was
quoted in the Daily Herald. Every
ordinary man and every woman
is praying for an end to this war.
They know they are Finished"
American Army regulations linn
tied stories of the returned pris-
oners to facts concerning camp
welfare only.
Although the names of all but
one of the repatriated Americans
had been picked up in Stockholis.,
and printed in the United States,
along with the name of the ship
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-28

died by non-prccessing slaughter
ers-those regarded as squeezed
by the flat rate-will begin on
November /.
The statement by the OES, seek
ing to clarity disputed points in
the live cattle price control plan
announced yesterday;
However, as an aid to small
business, the additional payments
to non-processing slaughterers
will be provided for all cattle
slaughtered by them on and after
November l, 1913.
1.-The Sised general subsidy
program Slounced yesterday will
apply only to cattle slaughtered
during accounting periods after
November 30, 1943."
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-28
Only Cattle Slaughtered
After November 30 Will
Come Under New Setup

WASHINGTON. Oct. 27. -P)-
Only cattle slaughtered after No
vember 30 will be covered by the
new graduated subsidy program
Tor live cattle, the Office of Econ
omlc Sterilization ruled today.
OES announced that payments
Tor cattle slaughtered before No
Vember 80 will be made at the
old flat rate of s1.1O per hundred
weight.
Inc special subsidy of 80 cents
1or hundredweight for cattle han
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-28
MAGAZINE PAPER
CUT IS SIGHTED
Periodicals May Use Is Per
Cent Less Stock
In 1912

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27-R-A
further Is per cent cut in paper
tonnage for the magazine indus
try, effective January l, has been
recommended to the War Produc-
ton Board by the Magazine and
Periodical Industry Advisory.
Committee, WPA, magazines will
be using
If the cudtailment is ordered
by WPA,, magazines will be US
ing Is per cent less than in 1912.
a previous cut of ten per cent
already having been ordered.
Walter j. Risley, Jr., chief OF
WPA's magazine and periodical
section, said the recommended
ton was based on disclosures OF
depleted inventories of wood and
pulp and the need for tiding the
paper consuming industries over
the critical period in early 1914
before the pulpwood production
program shows results.
An amendment to the order
limiting the magazine consump-
ton of print paper will be draft.
ed shortly, Risley said. The rec
commended restrictions provide a
sliding scale curtailment as fol
lows:
Magazine publishers using more
than 70 tons quarter will have
a total cut of Is per cent below
1912 usage;
Publishers using more than five
tons, but not more than Is tons,
will be curtailed ten per cent be.
low 1912;
! Publishers using five tons or
less a quarter will be allowed
1912 usage without curtaillnent.