The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-02

WhANdELLs AL that be became aware that indust- rial employees, working long hours and hard, couldn't maintain any higher efficiency on short rations than fighting soldiers.
 ] Almost hand in hand with ex- banded food production, rationing ana price controls, WFA and OPA started their campaign to see that war workers get more than the or dinary civilian share of food. Tn plant" feeding was the answer. Cheap. nutritious lunches an q breakfasts, with, al some instances, mid-shift snacks Of fruit or vege- table juices, milk and sandwiches and not a crumb or drop of it requiring extra ration points and all of it at prices glued to the floor. In some cases the results have been phenomenal. In one big Evans vile, Ind, plant, S5 per cent of the lunch" exclusively-and absentee ism, from this stimulus alone. is estimated to have dropped 19 per cent.
 Some industrialists are so de- lighted with the results that they testify that come peace they'll nev- CT let the dinner pail come back, even if they have to set up free lunch counters and take it out of the stockholders pockets. Capital in Wartime ' The Army has hair in it's hair. In spite of numerous protests from the Army that it does't use human hair-or spiderwebs- in its bonn bsights, the bewhiskered story still keeps popping up and along come patches of raven or golden tresses-or at least offers of same.
 The latest story (and the Army would like to snatch the guy that wrote it) is that milady's locks needed for those precious bomb sights should be z1 inches long. That '21 inches" must have been stuck in to confuse the enemy. It SUI GOuluSeQ Iue ATmy.
 The prize offer, however. came from a patriotic midwestern woman who suggested trun1ng over a room in her home to black widow spiders in which sanctuary they might spin all the webs the Army could carry away. It's a nice idea if the Army had any use for black widow spi- derwebs.
 The Army's only explanation is that it has better bombsight cross hairs than ever were spun by a spi- der or fathered by follicle.
 The White House isn't the only place in Washington where Harry Hopkins carries weight.
 The other night, prowlers broke into an apartment house here. From one apartment, they stole eight S25 war bonds and other things In an- other they copped a perfectly good camera-and other things. They ransacked a third of all valuables and in fourth, they picked up S22.50 in cash.
 To the local police, it was just another housebreaking and investi- gation proceeded in the routine manner, which is slightly slow. Then came a call to the District commissioners from the White House - Harry Hopkins speaking. It was, it seems, the Hopkins maid who had been robbed of that $225O.
 In less than 30 hours, three de- tectives, concentrating on the case. had broken it", and two suspects were under arrest, with a large DOT ton of the loo. reportedly discov- cred, but not the $22.50. The de- tectives are a little worried about that.
 Some folks laughed when Rep. Walter H. Judd, Minneap olis Minn., Republican, former Mayo Foundation fellowship surgeon and medical missionary to China. stop ped outside President RooseveIt's office door the, other day and tied a sterile gauge mask over his mouth and nose.
 When some kidder asked why
 the disguise, the Congressman ex- pialned simply that he had a cold Some loUiaal +h;aIo