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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-10-29

the pillar and came back into the
lobby. 1t was empty except for a
man sitting on wicker sofa between
the center arches, reading a Span
ish newspaper.
Pete went over to the desk. The
clerk pushed the pile of registration
cards across to him. Anne's was on
top, under it Mr.. Richard Taussig's.
Pete glanced through the rest of
them quickly and handed them back
to the clerk. He pushed Taussig's
across the desk.
"Phone messages and callers" he
said.
The clerk nodded.
Sand Miss Haywood would like a
room on the second floor as soon as
it's possible"
The clerk nodded again. The man
on the wicker sofa folded his news
paper and strolled out into the gal
lery.
Zone oh eight" Pete said as he
passed him. He would have liked to
add "One ten," but Military Intelli-
gence, once in motion, was like the
mills of the gods, and he didn't want
Anne Haywood ground exceedingly
small. Heaven only knew what she'd
get into before she got out.
He switched on the ignition. Some
thing else was worrying him too, an
old story he'd picked up a long time
ago when he was covering Spanish
speakeasies. Why Don Alvaro's
name stuck in his memory he didn't
know, except that names and dis
jointed facts had a way of sticking
there and were part of his luck as
q newspaperman. He shrugged his
shoulders. The whole thing was fam
tastic, probably all a speakeasy pipe
dream. The idea that Don Aware,
or any man alive today, knew the
Conquestadores' secret of San Juan,s
water supply, and could choke off Ell
MORO and her sister fortress San
Cristobal, was absolutely cockeyed.
II he took story of the sort to
G 2 they'd have him in the nearest
insane asylum in nothing fat. The
water supply was certainly one Of
the chief strategic problems of the
Island, but it was a problem in en-
cheering, and he wasn't going to
believe that the old Conquistadores
had left q secret the Army engi-
neers couldn't figure out.
He stopped abruptly as something
else flashed into bis mind. It was
an order he'd seen . couple Of weeks
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-10-29

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Hardest Wood Used for 4
Shaft Bearings in Ships

= Many of the ships being built
today use wood as material for
stern shaft bearings-the hardest
wood in the world-usually called
1ignum-vitae. According to the
dictionary, lignun-vitae is also
known as the zygophyllaceous
genus guaiacum-but this term,
obviously isn't often used around
shipyards.
The wood, in addition to being
very hard, is also very heavy--it
is SO heavy that it will not float in
water-so hard that shaping it is
most difficult procedure-yet each
block is worked to a .004 inch
exactness. In a six-foot stern shaft
bearing, there are 1913 separate
blocks. Channels between the.
blocks permit the circulation of
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THE STORY SO FAR: Anne Haywood,
beautiful daughter Of a wealthy New
York newspaper publisher, goes ON an
assignment to Puerto Rico where Pete
wilcox, q reporter ON her fathers pa.
per. Is stationed as q U. 8. Army
Intelligence ofiicer. On the boat she
meets q young Puerto Rican, Miguel
valera, and an engineer named Richard
Taussig, Of whom she Is Immediately
suspicious in spite Of the fact that he
looks like typical tourist. She does not
know that he is, In fact, German agent
ordered to destroy Puerto Rico's water
supply. Anne knows something Is wrong
but doesn't want Taussig to know she
suspects him. As the boat docks she and
Miguel Valera are at the rain together.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-10-29
Buried in Busy Street

So that he might never be for
gotten, Saint Said Bou Ahmed
years ago left orders that he be
buried in the center of busy
street in Tunis, which is so mar
row that the native passersby
must step around his tomb.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-10-29
MERRY-GO-ROUND

d American doughboys in Iran have
found a good way to dodge u. s.
military police and get out Of camp
at night. They take advantage Of
the Mohammedan custom Of yelling
their women, and slip on a full
length, cover-all veil which Iranian
women wear from head to toe. Mil
itary police have been instructed to
protect Iranian women and prevent
all flirting, so they don't dare stop
yelled figure to ask her Cor him).
to lower the ven, and see whether
an American doughboy Is behind It.
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Se essoDoolz Lesson
Lesson for October 81
BY HAROLD L. LuNDQUIsT, d, D.
OF The Moody Bible Institute Of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.

Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se.
lected and copyrighted by international
Council Of Religious Education; used BY
permission.
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BIBLE TEACHINGS ON
ABSTINENCE
fTnferna tional Temuerarce Sunday

LESSON TExT-Leviticus 1911. 2. Sill;
Proverbs 31:4, s; Luke 1:13-16.
GOLDEN TExT-Beware. pray thee.
and drink no wine nor strong drink
Judges 1854.
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CABOOSE SLEEPERs

Cornfed Senator Ed Johnson OF
Colorado got his start as q railroad
telegrapher, still proudly carries a
union card. So he was well qualified
to preside over the War Mobilization
committee when A. F. Whitney,
president of the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen, testified on manpow-
er and other railroad problems.
Whitney objected to the policy Of
some railroads in refusing to let
train crews sleep in idle cabooses.
Trainrnen away from home frequent
ly can't get hotel accommodations,
but railroad officials argue that it is
unsanitary and also dangerous for
them to sleep in cabs" which
sometimes have to be switched.
.'When was working trainman,
we always lived in our cabooses,"
Whitney said, mot because rooms
were not available at hotels. but
because It was more convenient"
"Many's the time / have slept in
cabooses myself" reminisced John
son.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Brown
Continued From Page C-lD

Is playing fair in the Far East and Is
following line which can suggest no
official criticism from us
The administration has done every-
thing to comply with every request and
demand from the Soviet All criticism
against Russia is being frowned on as
giving aid and comfort to Hitler All
Crltlslsm from Russia is accepted with
true Christian humility and it is
regarded as unfair and hindering the
war effort even to suggest that Russia
may have some natural selfish interests
in the war
Yet critics of the administration fire.
quentlv say that we are not following
the right policy toward our great war
associate and that the men who 60 to
Moscow should be chosen from among
those who have a real understanding
OF Russian postwar problems.
Because Secretary Hull has very def
mite "old American ideas they regard
him as hostile to Russia and in so-called
liberal quarters it is hoped that he will
not be able to 60 to the Moscow meeting
where the basis of the new world will
be sketched.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Tire Trouble Grows

BUENOS AIRES tP>.-Argentina's rub
Der shortage is growing more acute each
month.
Cut of from preWar sources In the
Far East and able to import from South
American sources only fraction of her
action for preservation Of her slim rub
ber stockpile by increasingly severe re-
strictions
The government is making fresh efforts
to get Brazilian rubber by Offering food
stuffs in exchange, but Brazil's entire
export supply is being shipped to the
United States The rubber distribution
commission long since banned sale Of
tires for 'unessential' cars. Reduced the
allotment of rubber for essential autos
to IS per cent of the l94l output and
for buses and trucks to 54 per cent.
New plans call for the manufacture
of tires composed of 5 per cent crude
rubber and 95 per cent reclaimed rub
Der. This, it is said, would permit the
manufacture of 10 tires with the amount
of crude rubber formerly used in one.
Such tires, however are designed for
use only on light vehicles operating at
low speeds.
Synthetic rubber production and ex-
traction of rubber from guayule and
similar plants have been considered but
only in terms of a long-range program.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
European Front

American Flying FortreSses, hopping
400 miles across the North Sea Monday,
smashed heavily at the U-boat base and
shipbuilding facilities of Emden, while
to the south Marauders hit the airbase
at Beauvais-Ti As miles north of
Paris.
These two raids followed lighter at
tacks Sunday on Rheims. On both day
no fighter resistance was encountered.
Monday night the Royal Air Force
struck heavily at Hanover, the center
of the German synthetic rubber in
dustry. 1t was the second raid within a
week and led some observers to believe
that Hanover is about to receive the
same kind of treatment as almost COM
pletely devastated Hamburg. Returning
planes, which left 38 of their corr Mons
behind them, reported that t, dous
fires were visible for many n..ies after
the raid was over Hanover, in addi-
ton to her rubber industry, has large
oil production, accounting, perhaps, for
the flerceness of the conf1agration.
Guided to Emden by the fires left
raging by the Fortresses' daylight at
tack, other British bombers struck the
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Italian Front

With Naples, Italy's third largest
though temporarily useless port, in Allied
hands, Gen. Clark armies paused only
long enough to be certain that the Nazis
had withdrawn completely and then
struck on northward after the rapidly
retreating Germans, who are expected to
make another stand on the Volturno
River, about 20 miles north of Naples
Clark's troops. moving forward around
Vesuvius on both the eastern and west
ern sides, began closing in on Naples as
the week started and considerable ad-
vance by the column on the eastern side
threatened to flank the Germans, who
began Immediately to speed up their de-
struction of Naples prior to abandoning
it. All week long, as the 5th Army moved
forward, the city was Systematically de-
completely useless as possible
When finally on Friday the Nazis
abandoned the city, American engineers
were quick to investigate the damage,
efterward estimating that in less than
two weeks deep-draft vessels will be able
20 move into the harbor and DISCHARGE
their cargoes, materially tightening the
problem of moving up supplies to the
armies which are striving now in what
President Roosevelt termed a form of
holy crusade to free Rome and the
Vatican from the hands of the Germans.
Everything possible will be done to avoid
destruction in the Eternal City
Over on the Adriatic side of Italy, the
Evening star., 1943-10-03

Versatile Jeep

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Unlike nearly every
other weapon in the Allied arsenal the
jack = of all trades jeep is steadily
strengthening its claim for a place in
world at peace with daily displays of
battlefront versatility that range from
fighting mosquitoes to hauling munitions
laden freight cars.
Dispatches from correspondents in
every zone of action and the statements
of servicemen convalescing in this coun-
try read like a citation of valor for the
tiny scout car. They say 1t is used by
prvates to run errands and by generals
to run battles. With few additions, it
makes an excellent ambulance that will
haul four wounded men. 1t will pull a
37-mm. antitank gun without a groan.
and can be carried on the back of a
truck like papoose, or inside plane
like baby kangaroo
Helps Fight Fires.
In bombed areas they report, the jeep
has been outfitted as a self contained
fire-fghting unit for defensive use
against incendiaries. 1t has been equip
roads and landing fields. Doubling in
brass, it has seen duty as a field tele-
phone unit, portable radio station and
mobile searchlight mount.
These observers agree that if the vehi-
Gle retains even half of its front-line
versatility when it dons civies, it will be
assured of steady employment in the
postwar era.
Although teen-aged youngsters yearn
for the jeep as smart runabout, re-
suits of preliminary tests conducted by
the Department of Agriculture indicate
that great bulk of jeeps will stage
reunion with Johnny Doughboy down on
the farm.
At the conclusion Of these tests, held
at the departments Tillage Machinery
Laboratory near Auburn, Ala, R. B.
Gray, head of the Farm Equipment Re-
search Bureau, pronounced the mechan-
ical midget to be highly useful in pow-
ing, narrowing and other field work"
During one experiment conducted by the
department the jeep pulled a finch
furroW in an acre of cotton bottom
land in l72 hours per acre. using 232
gallons of gasoline.
Farm Blood in Veins.
The Government farm experts later
tested the jeep on their dynamometer
which shows the draft of various plows
in different soils, and its 63-horsepower
engine with four wheel drive pulled as
much as 1900 pounds without wheel
slppage
The scout car was also used to culti-
pack and harrow a 24-acre field in one
operation, repeating the performance
three times. This experiment required
only six hours and the jeep consumed
only 2125 gallons of gas per acre
From the results of this tests and
others, it doesn't take a Claude Wickard
to conclude that the jeep has a great
deal OF farm blood in it's mechanical
veins. With few changes it can also
be converted for the operation of milking
machinery; it can be utilized for cutting
wood, clearing land, herding cattle.
Its dual role of either tractor or auto
mobile makes it the ideal all-purpose
vehicle for a small farm. After un,
hltchlng the plow or power take-oT, the
farmers son-not to mention that
perennial favorite. the farmers daugh-
ter-can use it to go to town.
Evening star., 1943-10-03

Greek forces launched the drive that
Knocked Bulgaria out of the war.
Hitler's Balkan satellites, like italy. are
generally believed incapable of offering
substantial resistance to invasion. Now
IN the Balkans are an estimated IS
German divisions. 20 Bulgarian and II
Rumanian divisions. and about 100000
Hungarian troops. These latter forces
are regarded as second rate.
The Allies on the other hand. have
tremendous pool Of manpower upon
which to draw. This consists of four
British and two American armies now
IN North Africa, Italy and the Middle
East; the French forces of Gen. Giraud,
an army Of 100000 superbly trained
and equipped Poles. organized in the
Middle East, and another army of
Greeks
III addition. there are an estimated
100000 guerrillas in the Balkans. Some
Of these are Australians and New Zea-
landerS who fed to the hills after the
fall OF Greece and Crete and have since
waited for the word to strike.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
By Bernard G0duvn.

This is one OF series OF character
sketches and drawings By the Anleri-
can portrait artist, Bernard God1Uin.
II could look into the muzzle of a gun
and feel more at ease than sitting in a
posing chair" smiling Admiral Horne
told me as I started to work in his
Washington office. Shoot away, I'll get
used to it
The CHEEKY smile makes him winner
from the start. 1t breaks out at the
least provocation: bursts on you like the
sun breaking across the sea he loves
early in the morning He may be
fathoms down in work when a guest ar
rives, but he's sure to come up smiling
and shake hands with a grip that goes
deep.
Grave responsibilities accompany his
discharge of duties and when he is ab-
sorbed in naval problems a dignified
expression of complete absorption diff
fuses his features But the smile is ever
ready, as I found in interrupting him
with, How about little smile, sir?"
I'll try" was his quick rejoinder, but
1t is an effort when one has big task
like beating those little Japs into King
dom Come. 1t won't be easy and it will
take some time, but We'll do it and do
it so it sticks, make no mistake about
that"
He said it with an easy assurance a
conviction born of his surprising knowl-
edge of the Navy and of the Japs, too
Tall, we'll built, his is commanding
appearance, denoting the fighting type
of man and executive. But he's the
quiet sort, unceremonious yet always
businesslike and hard worker
Thinning gray hair covers his large
oval head that is marked by a rather
Evening star., 1943-10-03

long, receding forehead. His unusually
sympathetic eyes are blue gray and mis-
nose long and equaline. Of course, the
ARTIST IN me noted his high cheekbones
ana strong, attractive hands that de-
noted worker.
Admiral Horne's knowledge of the Japs
and the Asiatic conditions is founded on
sond ground. Immediately after gradu-
atlon at the Naval Academy he was as
signed to Asiatic service. That was in
1899 and he went back there in 1912. He
was captain OF the yard at the Olongapo
Naval Station then and from 1915 to
1919, as lieutenant commander. he was
naval attache at the American EMBASSY
at Toxic. For praiseworthy work in that
service he was awarded the Navy Cross.
Action under fire came earlv in the ad-
mlrals career. Born in New York City,
63 years ago, he had not yet finished his
course at Annapolis when he was as
signed to duty in the Spanish-American
War and participated in the battle of
Santiago Cuba, while on the U. S. S.
Texas. At one time he was an Inspector
OF naval ordnance at the naval station
at Cavite and later an instructor in navi-
CATION at the Naval Academy.
Several Of his posts have been in con-
junction with aviation. He commanded
the U. S. S. Saratoga, flagship of the
aircraft squadrons, and in 1890 became
commander of the Aircraft Squadrons
Scouting Fleet. In 1884 he was president
OF the Naval Examining Board and Re-
tiring Board and year later commander
OF aircraft base force. then commander
OF the aircraft battle force. His appoint
ment as vice chief of naval operations
with the rank of vice admiral was made
by President Roosevelt in March, 1912.
released by the Bell Syndicate, Ipc.)
Evening star., 1943-10-03

held Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece,
the withdrawal Of Italian policing
forces has led to new and more vlrulent
uprisings.
Allied capture Of the Adriatic ports Of
Bari and Brindlsi in Italy. and reported
guerrilla occupation Of 100 miles Of Dali
matian coastline. have opened one road
10 the Balkans. British occupation of
Coo and Lero in the Dodencanese Island
group off Turkey, and Samos of the
Aegean group. may be the first step in
a drive to open another lane-to chase
the NaziS from their strongholds in
Crete and Rhodes and other islands in
the Aegean Sea. Such a campaign
would open the way for an invasion
through Salonika. And it was from this
Greek port in 1918 that combined
French, British, Serb. Italian and
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Pacific Front

Indlcatlon that the Japs are attempt
ing to concentrate their resistance in the
Solomons on Bougainville came with the
announcement that Allied bombers had
spotted convoy headed south between
Bougainville and Choiseul apparently
seeking to reach Kolombangara for the
purpose OF evacuating the troops which
are now IN Jeopardy on that island.
Attacking singly, American Liberators
sank destroyer and three other vessels.
There were II vessels in the convoy, the
tate OF the others not being determined.
10000 at Airbase.
1t had been reported that the Japs had
a force of 10000 around the airbase at
Villa on Kolombangara, but American fly
ers have found plenty of evidence that
these troops were being gradually taken
out, landing first on Choiseul and then
proceeding on to -Bougainville Manv
barges engaged in the evacuation have
been sunk.
1t was disclosed Wednesday that an
American Marine force had occupied
Nanumea, northernmost of the Ellice Is
lands, on September 4, placing them
about 45o miles south of Tarawa, the
most important Jap base in the Gilbert
Islands
Monday and Tuesday, 200 American
planes combined to bomb the Japs at
Villa and also at Kahili, the main base
on Bouganville.
Down on New Guinea. fall of Finsch-
hafen appeared to be almost matter of
hours, with the Australian forces under
Gen. Macarthur only a half mile from
the harbor where the Japs are paying
bloody price for their resistance.
Drive for Madang
At the same time a ,urust up the
broad Markham Valley has brought
serious threat to Madang, ITO miles up
the coast, another Jap base not too,
heavily manned.
Badly Gripping to the Japs was an
air raid on Wewak, which DESTROYED
huge ammunition dump the Japs had
gathered together after long and costly
transport across the sea. More than so
enemy planes were destroyed also and
seven ships were sunk.
In Burma, attention was largely GEN.
tered on oil depots and communica tions
lines, softening the enemy for the drive
which is soon to open.
Evening star., 1943-10-03

Since the Allies first gained enough
strength 70 dare plan an invasion of
Hitler's Europe, speculative fingers have
pointed to the always-bubbling Balkans
as one area where such a venture might
succeed
With American and British troops now
storming up the Balkan flank in Italy,
Russian forces drawing closer from the
east, guelrillas sabotagng vital COM
munication lines in the occupied countries
and war Weariness and political strains
reportedly draining the satellite powers,
military fingers more than ever seem
impatient to pry open the back door
of Europe.
In recent weeks, reports have multi
piled that Hungary. Rumania and Bull
garla have grown jittery over the pros
poets of defeat for the Nazis. In Hitler
Evening star., 1943-10-03
School for Leaders

The British Fighter Command has
established a school of fighter leaders
where veterans and pupils fly together.
Fighter pilots who distinguished them
selves in the Battle of Britain, in sweeps
over France and Belgium and in the de-
fense Of Malta are now at an airfield in
the west Of England acting as instructors
to promising recruits.
Pupils include older pilots returning to
operational flying after a rest. as well as
future flight and squadron commanders.
They are taught all their instructors
know about individual. section, squadron
and wing tactics, and also army CO.
operation.
When not flying with their pupils the
aces act as the enemy and fly against
them, initiating German fighter tactics
as closely as possible.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Treasures Guarded

1rreplaceable treasures from Lincoln
Cathedral have been buried for the dura-
tlon in chamber hewn out of solid rock
60 feet underground. The chamber is an
extension of a 20-foot shaft discovered
in 1919 on land belonging to the cathedral
and believed to be part of old Roman
stone workings.
Among the storedaway treasures are
18th, 14th and 18th century windows,
rare manuscripts and first editions.
including Millions Paradise Lost" and
"Lycidas'; Spensers "Faerie Queene"
and Don Quixote' in Spanish.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Ross
Continued From Page C-1.)

to prevent unions from stopping the in
PRODUCTION of improved processes or i'm
proved machinery or materials, but the
union should remain free to exact rea-
sonable guarantees that the transition to
the new way of doing things will be made
without any avoidable sacrifice OF the
labor interest. and that a part of the
economies of the new process will 60 to
labor.
The law should prevent the union
from requiring that unnecessary labor
be employed where such employment is
nothing more than kind of private
WPA operated at the expense of a par
ticular employer"