The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
INVENTIVE CTS GET FULL SWAY
 IN C,p.I, AREAS
BY JACK QUINN (Unlted Press staff COrrespOndent)

New Delhi. India, Oct, 93--tUPl-- Americans at homo who may think the present generation of young cltl- aens has lost the inventive genius of their pioneering ancestors, and are no longer capable of building houses with wooden pegs and the like, should take trip around the China Burma -fndia theater of war,
 Americans fighting the Japanese In this part of the world have inc vented everything from 46-ealiber pistols to electric fans, Including such other luxurious articles as bur9- lar alarms, semi-comfortAble beds, reading lamps, portable eookstoveS and means of cooling beer In Q hur- ry,
 All of which, stacked up against grandpa's woQden-peg house, puts him pretty much in the shade.
 Non. Hammock
 Down below Mogaung, and in other sections of the theater where living conditions are on the minus side of Park Ave, American 0t'S have devised bed which, taking everything Into consideration, Is rather comfortable. In that sec- ton, everybody sleeps in Q jungle hammock. Sleeping In . jungle hammock requires certain sense of balance without which the sleeper is liable to have to be eXtrlcated from his bed with Q knife, To avoid rolling over in the air, d1's have built Q rectangular frame from ban. boo covered 1t with Q ground sheet and then placed the hammock above this, Thus, when the CT gets In his hammock, 1t rests on this cot-like frame and acquires considerable stability,
 In the same sections, where the time of arrival of flashlight bat teries Is Q question which is not even debated any longer, inventive CTS have constructed general util- ity lamps, used for everything from reading Go lighting oneself to bed, These lamps are made from dls- carded c ration cans, Q short length of parachute rope as Q wick, and e fuel, believe 1t or not, of insect re- pellent,
 It Is generally easy for CTS to acquire small supplies of coffee, They have the little bag out of K rationS, or they get it somewhere else, But the problem of heating the water was . stiff one until some genius invented the sand stove, The sand stove, like the lamp, is made from Q c ration can. The can Is filled with sand and then gasoline ia poured over the sand. When ig. nited, the stove will burn for long enough to make hot coffee, In Q country where not even the air you breathe Is pleasant, hot coffee is e luxury of iu%uries,
 How To Cool Beer
 Cooling beer, when df can get beer, is another trick with gasoline, A hole Is dug in the ground and the beer Is placed in the hole and then covered with dirt, Gasoline Is poured over tho covered hole and lgnited. When it burns out, the beer Is dug up-and It's cool.
 Farther back from the front sev- eral CTS at ai Army ordnance mas chine shop have been making single shot .4b pistols from serapped parts of various devices, Working in their spare time, they have turned out some neat looking firearms, using in ono instance, part of the barrel from c tommygun. Fancy handles come from iSinglAss from wrecked planes,
 one burglar alarm, Of c sort, was built by a unit which kept missing articles of clothing from It's clothes line. The boys In the unit finally tied 920 volts to the line, which mado wet drawers too hot to han- dle.
 The electric fan was recorded in the dremlln, published by the per- sonnel of an air base in India, The fan is made from m electric razor,
 Says tho dremlin:
 "The process is simple, The men simply take tho razor motor out of the case, remove the cutting head, and place e paper fan blade under the screw on the spinning wheel, Then place tho motor back in half the case upside down, The gadget puts out q real breeze, and iS easily hung inside the mosquito net"
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