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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10

hydrated food can carry upward of
10 times as much food as ship
loaded with bulk food.
Improvements in dehydration
technique have followed two major
trends. One has been to compress
the food into an incredibly small
space. The other has been to pre-
serve the foods palatability and nu-
tritional value.
Many foods normally average 80
per cent water. Dehydration as
originally practiced meant remov-
ing most of the water. Now the
food is not only dehydrated but ode
bulked" as we'll, by having the air
pressed out of it. The result is food
compressed into blocks or bril-
quotes. Thus it is possible to have
a vest-pocket serving Of meat, car
rots, cabbage, milk and eggs that
would provide all the elements of a
hearty meal and yet take up no
more shipping room than package
Of cigarettes.
Typical food volume reductions
as a result of dehydration and COM
preston are: sauer kraut, 80 per
cent; cabbage, 80 per cent; pota-
toes, rs per cent; onion, beets and
carrots, IS per cent; egg powder,
so per cent; hamburger, so per cent;
dehydrated soups, SO per cent. One
pound of potato bricks yields "a
helpings. A five-gallon container Of
dried tomatoes swells to a quarter
of a ton when water is added.
Dehydrated Foods Flavorful.
AS contrasted with their crude
predecessors of World War I, to-
days dehydrated foods are flavor
full. Dunked and cooked in water,
these foods emerge with almost no
sacrifice of flavor and with practi-
cally no loss of proteins, carbohy-
drates, and minerals. They suffer
no greater loss of vitamins than
when occurs when fresh vegetables
stand for a time in a store.
Hence it is no surprise that Amer
lean soldiers can relish scrambled
eggs made from dehydrated pow
der. Or that Englishmen eat and
like meat loaves and stews that
crossed the Atlantic as tiny shreds
of dried meat. Thus milk, butter,
citrus juices, as we'll as potatoes,
peas, spinach and a host of other
food products are being successfully
dehydrated.
The extent to which dehydration
has already caught hold with the CT
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10
Tests Show Milk Should
Be Stored in Cool, Dark
Place to Save Vitamins

Sunlight destroys ribof1avin or VII
tamin BIZ Of milk and therefore this
valuable food, which is such an i'm
portant part Of the everyday diet,
should be stored in a cool, dark
place, experts who have made in
tensive studies declare.
Recent studies at the North Caro-
lima Experiment station show that
the ribof1avin is rapidly destroyed
when milk is exposed to sunlight in
standard bottles under normal con-
ditions. The tests showed that d
per cent of this valuable vitamin
was lost in one hours time and
that only % per cent of the ribofavin
remained after the milk had been
exposed to the sunlight for three
hours.
The scientists report that milk and
meat are two of the most important
sources of the vitamin in the hui
man diet, although it is also found
in green leafy vegetables, the whole
cereal grains, liver, eggs and yeast.
Practically none of the vitamin is
found in such foods as butter, fats
of all kinds, unenriched flour, and
white potatoes.
The Importance of riboflavin in
the daily diet and the results of
these tests, showing that the vita
min is rapidly lost when milk is
exposed to sunlight, suggests that
handlers of milk and housewives
should cooperate in the proper stor-
age of milk so that its full food value
may be maintained in time when
energy is doubly needed.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10
Originate Deep the Earth

wake the sleeping forces far below.
In the case of a slightly active vol
cano; even the explosion of the big
gest bombs would do little more
than splash lava about the crater.
Bombs have been used advan-
tageously in controlling one kind of
volcanic phenomena. On the slopes
of Mauna Loa on the island OF Ha-
wall, lava streams that threatened
to flow into villages and even into
the city of Hilo, have been turned
aside by bomb explosions.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10

course, the lava in the pipe cools
and solidifes. If it completely seals
up the pipe with a plug Of rock,
the volcano becomes dormant or ex-
tinct. If the pipe is choked down
to very small proportions, so that
a trickle of lava and hot gases rise
to keep a little cauldron of molten
rock bubbling in the crater, the
volcano remains slightly active.
All the bombs in existence
dropped on the top of the cold, solid
plug Of a dormant volcano could not
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10

The scientist teams up with the
farmer in ushering in new era of
agricultural production.
cred that there are more than 200
dehydration plants in the United
States today, compared with only
five in 1910.
J. B. Wyckoff, of the Agricultural
Marketing administration recently
estimated that the United States will
dehydrate vegetables at the rate OF
$50 to 400 million pounds in 1943 as
compared with 100 million pounds in
1912 Yet last years totals were
seven times the 1910 volume.
'To meet the 1943-44 dehydrated
food requirements as presently
KNOWN" he added, twill require ev-
cry third egg, and one out of every
IL pounds of whole milk produced.
Requirements for dehydrated meat,
practically non-existent year ago,
will be approximately 60 million
pounds in 1943."
Dehydration Saves Shipping.
The remarkable impetus given de-
hydration grew out of shortage of
shipping space, cans and containers,
to meet lend-lease demands and the
food requirements Of our fighting
Allies. One ship loaded with de-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10

dustria1 products or to help feed
the world in the critical postwar Pc
riod, will depend on the fertility OF
the soil that produces those crops.
In learning new industrial uses for
farm products, science has likewise
expanded its knowledge of soil
chemistry. One important thing
learned is that chemurgy can work
proftably for farmers only if it is
built on a foundation of high soil
fertility.
Vincent Sauchelli, agricultural re-
search expert of Baltimore, Md, in
an address before Farm Chem
urgic conference once said: Chem
urgy can succeed only on farm land
where plant foods are returned to
the soil in the form of commercial
fertilizer at a rate which at least
balances the amount removed each
year by growing crops and live
stock.
zone of the significant steps for
ward" he added, lis that which
helps the farmer learn more about
his particular soil and it's plant food
needs. State agricultural expert
ment stations are prepared to as
sist farmers not only in soil tests
to determine the proper fertilizer
analyses for various crops, but also
inform them on the placement to
insure best results"
The importance of Mr.. Sauchelli's
observations is evident when it is
considered that after the war Amer
lea will be faced with the greatest
soil rehabilitation job in its history.
This is because vast wartime farm
production demands are drawing
fertility resources on an unprece-
denied scale and because fertilizer
applications at present cannot bal
ance the depletion rate.
"Growing crops to win the war is,
of course, the farmers No. / job,
said a statement of the Middle West
Soil Improvement Committee. "a
heavy draft on the farmers saw
ings account of plant food elements
is a relatively small contribution to
victory, if proper steps are made to
repay the borrowed soil wealth when
the war is over"
eff our farms are to be kept pro-
ductive, if we are going to be able
to take advantage of the opportu-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10

In most cases the mighty forces
that start and continue volcanic
eruption-the squeezing force of
gravity and the explosive forces of
steam and other gases-originate
deep in the earth, probably many
miles down. The melted rock or
lava that is an essential part of
most eruptions, also starts from
these great depths. It is pushed up
the pipe Of the volcano to the crater,
where it flows out or is exploded out.
When an eruption has run its
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10

Dehydration is not new. In fact,
1t is as ancient as the sun that has
been drying the water out of things
for ages. But to the old dehydra-
ton processes have been added new
techniques that have SO revolution
lied its future possibilities, that
some economists predict that food
dehydration plants may become as
common in agricultural areas as
canneries and condenseries are to-
day. An idle dream, you say? Not
SO idle, perhaps, when it is consid-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10

nifty for permanently higher farm in
come from such developments as
food dehydration and chemurgy,
then the major job Of replacement
will have to be started as early as
possible after the war is won.
Money to pay for this can best
be provided by setting aside part
of the present farm income surplus
for this purpose. One very practi-
cal means Of accomplishing this
would be for farmers to earmark
part of their present War Bond pur-
chases for peacetime soil rebuilding
expenditures. Thus War Bonds can
be made to provide the ready cash
to restore plant food and general
fertility level Of the farm
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10
Part of Mountain
Moves Into Valley

SANTA ROSA, CALIF.-A sew
en-acre chunk Of mountain moved
down into the famed Valley of
the Moon at a two-feet-an-hour
pace.
The massive movement of
earth, trees and boulders began
before dawn.
Engineers said the slide was
caused by the erosion Of springs.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10
Substitute Paper for Metal

About TOO, 600, 900 cans Of tobacco
formerly packaged in steel now have
been diverted to paper, at saving
of $4,000, 900 pounds of steel year.
The dog food industry has also turned
from metal cans to paper; it is esti-
mated that one billion packages are
used a year-the third largest food
pack in the country.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10
No End Wonders! Dehydraton Packs Tasteful Dinner
Into Vest Pocket Field Crops Are Source of Plastcs
Wdter and Air Removed From Produce While Nutritious
Values Are Retaned Milk Becomes Kitchen Curtains

American agriculture will emerge from the with
pattern of crop production that will not only give
everything and wear but provide much Of the
materials used in industry.
During World War the emphasis the production
of cereal Today although cereals essentially
essary heavier emphasis being placed dairy products
meats vegetables eggs and oils If the present trend
tinues American milk goals in the reconstruction period
will be double present output of 22 billion pounds year.
The nation farms will be permanently producing
and eggs vegetables and oyieldng crops such
soybeans.
developments credited with adding impetus to the
new farm production trend Both have been spurred by
scientific research and the necessity of meeting wartime
problems One dehydration the dry preservation of
food The other is chemurgy the science OF transforming
farm crops into industrial products
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-06-10

william population here in America
is indicated by the fact that house.
wives are buying dehydrated soups
at the rate of 100 million packages
a year.
If dehydration offers challenging
possibilities for future farm markets,
then chemurgy, its industrial coun-
terpart, offers even more interesting
opportunities as a contributor to fu-
ture farm prosperity.
Farm Products to Factories.
Already the products of 40 million
acres of American farm land are 60
ing into our industrial plants. And
this is but the beginning. Already
chemical engineers have come to
think of all America as an indus
trial farm and of farm products as
the raw materials for factories.
Perhaps the classic example OF
chemurgy's effort to turn farm
crops into vitality needed industrial
products lies in the field of syn
thetic rubber. 1t took the world a
century to raise the production OF
crude rubber to a billion tons a
year. The United States now ex-
poets to develop like capacity for
synthetic rubber-much of it is
made from corn and other farm
products-within the next year and
a half
The chemurgic scientist busy
among his test tubes performs such
miracles as turning milk into kitch-
en- curtains; corn into tinfoil SUBJ
stitute; sunfowers into paper; sor-
ghum into insulating board; barley
and sweet potatoes into ethyl alco-
hol.
Furfura1 made from oat hulls is
now being used in oil refining and
in the processing of wood resin.
Anti-freeze fluids and fuel alcohol
come from Gull potatoes. Glycerol
from animal fats is being used in
the production of dynamite for
war purposes. Then there is Zein,
a protein product of corn starch
which lends itself to the manufac-
ture of yarn, buttons, wallpaper
coating and quick-drying ink.
In the field of plastics, gluten, a
residue of corn, is being effectively
used, as is casein, by-product of
milk. But perhaps the biggest con-
tribution to plastics is being made
by soybeans. Thanks to soybeans,
the automobile of the future may be
grown from the soil. Already, gear
shift handles, steering wheels, win
dow frames, distributors and con-
siderable variety of other parts are
made of soybeans. The basic mold
ing material for numerous plastics
is soybean compound. Thus radio
cabinets and plumbing fixtures in
postwar America may be merely a
mold of soybean cakes.
Yes, farms can be made the
source of our future prosperity. Sci
entists and industrialists can get
farm materials from which to make
new commodities and promote in
creased factory production from
which prosperity springs.
In this era of definitely new agri-
cultural development, one factor will
loom big in determining success or
failure. That factor is productivity
of the soil. For the extent to which
our farms can continue to yield
crops for the new dehydration indus
try, for chemurgic utilization into in
Evening star., 1943-11-29
herridee Foresees
Canada's S ABSORPTION

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Nov. 20.-W. D. Her
ridge, Canadian Minister to WASH
ington from 1881 to 1895. said here
Saturday that II the United States
"pursues its imperialist way and If
Canada continues on its passive way,
then I beliese the absorption Of this
country by our good friend and
neighbor is but matter Of time"
In an address, he said Canadians
were disunited, but ready for a
lead"
To most Of the leaders of democ-
racy in America and elsewhere. the
present conflict is mot a war to
build new world but to restore the
old one," he said. He said that were
the United States to imperialize
Canada, the step would mark the
end of freedom IN both countries.
IF, at this time OF crisis, Canada
could strike out a plan for the re-
generation of democracy-if Canada
could get behind that plan with
fervor and intelligence and prove
that 1t would work-then I believe
it altogether possible that America
might adopte that plan.' Mr.. Her
ridge said.
The said there were "some rea-
sons to support the hope that Can
ada had the capacity for self
regeneration, since Canadians still
were a pioneering people. predis-
posed to change and economically
more mobile than the United States
Evening star., 1943-11-29
DR.. Hens Suspended
From Hospital Post
BY the Associated Press,

by tne Associated ffeSS.
CANTONSVILLE, Md. Nov. 90
Dr. Silas w. Weltmer. Superintend-
ent of Spring Grove State Hospital
said today he had suspended DR.
James S. Hens, 52-year-old psychi-
artist, pending the outcome of a
charge DR.. Hens tried to aid a
selectee to evade military service
DR.. Hens arrest followed a tip
given the Federal Bureau of Investi-
CATION by Ferdinand A. Nauheim,
1916 Military road, NV, Washing
ton. MI Nauheim worked With the
FBI to set strap for the psychi-
artist after DR.. Hens had offered to
show Mr.. Nauheim, the selectee, how
to feign psycho-neurosiS the FBI
said.
DR.. Hens, who came to Baltimore
from Switzerland 20 years ago, had
been in charge of the criminal divi-
sion at the hospital. The doctor had
been on the staff since February
l941. He also served part time at the
Army induction center in Baltimore
United States Commissioned James
K. Cullen, Baltimore, heard DR.. Hens
plead innocent to the charge and
fixed December for further hear
ing. He was held under SIS, 900 bond
The psychiatrist was arrested
Friday night by Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents who said he wa.
dining in restaurant near the
Pennsylvania Railroad Station with
the inductee, who had just handed
DR.. Hens a dummy package which
the doctor believed contained $4,000
The FBI said the money was sup
posed to be partial payment for
instructions in feigning psyche
neurosis.
Evening star., 1943-11-29
Photographer Aids Injured,
Ruins Cameras at Tarawa
BY the Associated Press

by the Associated Press.
WITH UNITED STATES MARINE
ASSAULT TROOPS ON TARAWA
ATOLL, Nov. 20 Delayed Prank
Fllan, Associated Press photog-
rapher, ruined both of his cameras
IN mad dash to the beach with one
OF the first groups of marines land
ing on Tarawa.
Although weighted with equip
ment, Mr. Filan turned back to help
a man who had been shot and was
trying to return to the landing boat
several hundred yards behind.
After going back a considerable
distance under heavy fire, Mr.. ,Filan
saw they would never make the boat.
He persuaded the wounded they
should try for the beach again.
They made it, but since he Is a short
man, Mr.. Filan often went over his
head in water when he stepped into
holes made by bombs-and his cam
eras were ruined.
Five correspondents made the
beach the first morning-William
Nipple of the Associated Press, Rich
ard Johnston of the United Press,
Robert Sherrod of Time and Life
Magazine, Don Senick, movie pho
tographer, and Mr.. Filan. Other
correspondents were forced back and
had to wait until the following day.
Evening star., 1943-11-29
Joseph Wilmer, 66, Dies;
BeIyoir Printing Executive

Joseph Wilmer, 66. veteran of the
Spanish American and World Wars
and for 81 years superintendent OF
the printing plant at Fort Belvoir
Va, died yesterday at Mount Alto
Hospital.
Funeral services will be held at
1890 pm. Wednesday at the Dan
zansky funeral home. 350l Four
teenth street NV, with Rabbi Nor.
man Gerstenfeld of1ciating. Buria
will be in Arlington Cemetery
A native of Boston, Mr.. Wilmer
served in France during the World
War and was a member of the Army
of Occupation. He lived at Fort
Belvoir.
A member of the Maj. Gen. Ed
wards Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, he also belonged to Occoquan
Lodge, No. $40 and Virginia Con-
sistory OF Scottish Rite Masons OF
Alexandria, He was affiliated with
the Yankee Division Veterans here
and the local Craftsmen Club.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Josie Witkowski Wilmer; a daughter,
Mrs. Harry Toltz of Boston; a son
Sergt. Marshall Wilmer, in the Army
at Tucson, Ariz.: two sisters, Mrs
Annie Bloom and Mrs. Lottie Frank
and brother, Ben Wyman, all OF
Brookline, Mass.
Evening star., 1943-11-29
BuchuIter
Continued From First Page \

since the Federal sentence was i'm
posed first.
Gov. Dewey deferred the execu-
tions of Buchalter and two associ-
ates in Murder. Inc, for a third time
on November 20. shortly before leav-
ing for Georgia vacation from
which he has not yet returned to
Albany. In his absence. the Gov
ernor's Office had no comment today
Buchalter, Louis Capone and
Emanuel Weiss are under death SEN
tences for the murder of Joseph
Rosen, Brooklyn florist, in 1896
Their conviction has been affirmed
by the Supreme Court, and by the
Court OF Appeals, highest New York
State tribunal. Capone and Weiss
are in Sing Sing Prison in New York
State.
Gov. Dewey, deferring the execu-
tions-last set for December 2-untiI
January 6, said in statement that
counsel for the three have sought
clemency hearings and said:
Il have twice respited the execu-
tions of Capone and Weiss because
will not consider their cases while
the principal defendant is protected
from punishment by the failure oil
the President of the United States
to grant the customary conditional
pardon"
Evening star., 1943-11-29
Hamilton |. Perrine Dies;
Retired Insurance Broker

Hamilton Lansing Perrine, 10, of
1861 Crescent place NV, a retired
insurance broker, died yesterday
after brief illness.
Mr. Perrine came here 10 years
ago from New York City after his
retirement from business. He had
lived here as young man.
A lover of fine music, he was the
friend of many concert and opera
artists. He also was student of
Languages and religions.
Mr. Perrine is survived by three
cousins, Mrs. Hugh Barbour Hutchi-
son and Miss Mary Chase Steele
both of Washington, and Mrs. Hol-
lister Sturges of New York City.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. tomorrow in st. Johns Epis-
copal Church, Sixteenth and H
streets NV, where his parents were
married 70 years ago.
Burial will follow at Chestnut
Grove Cemetery, Herndon, Va.
Evening star., 1943-11-29
BY the Associated Press.

6y the ASS0claCeQ Pre8e.
BOSTON, Nov. 29.-American
light and medium tanks are the
best desert f1re-flghting equip
ment in the world, Col. Ward E.
Becker, Army ordnance officer,
said today.
Recently returned from Bizerte
Col. Becker told Brig. Gen. Vurton
0. Lewis, Commanding general OF
the Boston ordnance district, how
the f1re-flghting tanks saved the
bulk of the ammunition In a North
African dump.
He said that during the Tunisian
campaign fire started at a man.
moth ammunition dump which sup
piled the American I'd Corps. More
than 1000 tons exploded as white
hot fragments of metal few dis
tances OF 400 yards and successfully
fired other piles of ammunition.
Twenty light and medium tanks
Evening star., 1943-11-29
Raleigh Hoberdosher
To Distribute Bonuses

Three hundred and twenty five
employees of Raleigh Haberdasher
1910 F. street NV, will be given
Christmas bonuses, it was an
nounced today.
Those who have been with the
firm more than 10 years will receive
s25; from five to 10 years, $40;
from three to five years. SIS; from
one to three years, $40; from six
months to one year, IS, and less
than six months. $3.50.
Evening star., 1943-11-29
Arthur B. Whittet, s.,
Head Army Ordnance
Engineer, Is Dead

Arthur B. Whittet. So. head ord
nance engineer in the War Depart
nent and one of the leading special
lists In designing and developing field
and coast artillery material, died
yesterday at his nome, 3271 Van
Hazen street NV.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am tomorrow at the Hines fu-
neral home, 2901 Fourteenth street
NV, with the Rev. Clarence E..
Wise of1ciating. Burial will be in
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
A native of Atascosa County, Tex,
Mr.. Whittet was the son of the late
Thomas and Mary Stiggins Whittet
He was graduated with honors from
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical
College in 1908, and was appointed
craftsman in the Ordnance Depart
ment in Washington in 1909
Mr.. Whittet had worked in ord
nance for IS years and was especial
ly interested in the design of mobile
artillery. Officials in the War De-
partment said that his engineering
talents contributed greatly to the
development Of many of the weap-
ons now in use by our armed forces,
He was a member of Federal
Lodge, No. l, of the Masons, the
Society of Automotive Engineers,
the American Society Of Mechan-
tcal Engineers. the National Capital
Texas a. & M. Club and the Chevy
Chase Presbyterian Church. He was
formerly active in the Chevy Chase
Parent-Teacher Associa ton.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs Edna
Topham Whittet; a daughter, Mrs.
David j. Hogan; two sons, 1t. George
A. Whittet Of the Army, and David
S. Whittet; two brothers, Chester of
Birmingham, Ala, and Harry E.
Whittet of Texas; sister. Miss
Louise Whittet, also of Texas, and a
granddaughter.
Active pallbearers will include B. A.
Gurney, w. F.. Beasley, M. D. Yocum
T. A. Conlon and o. L. Beardsley
while honorary pallbearers will be
Maj. Gen. Andrew Moses, Maj Gen
G. NJ Barnes, Brig. Gen. G. M
Wells, Col. w. R. Gerhardt, Col R. H.
Summers, Maj. J. L. Delaney, E. E.
Honsbrg and A. A. Alderman.