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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-30

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-30

RHih Mlllsti sailors and marines are glad to get those letters,
 For when seTYieemen who have heen long away from home talk about the thlngs they look forward
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-30

Washington. Aug. 30--Looks as N the homef0lks will have to eat their way out of the war. A national campaign will start in September to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-30

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-30

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-30
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 Written for NEA Service Nursing the sick back to health B a difllcult task at all times, but ln hot weather it challenges Che ingenuity of an expert because lt
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Evening star., 1944-07-09

they heard the plane for the first time
those who have flown it say that the
jet plane is good deal quieter than
the average modern fighter and that
its high pitched scream" is due
mainly to the air currents created by
its terrific speed and not to the motor.
The jet-propelled plane is the be-
ginning of a new cycle in the history
of air power, and it comes at the very
moment when the conventional air
plane has reached the peak of per-
Torrance. 1t is rs though a new
runner had just grabbed the ba-
ton in q relay race.
The airplane propeller is a very
efficient tool up to point. but as soon
as the speed of the propeller tips
reaches the speed of sound, the over
worked air begins to rebel. The mod
ern fighter is already operating within
10 per cent of this speed.
Duilt-ln SEpstxeasn
lHE jet plane has cut out the need
for propeller by providing its own,
''built-in" slipstream.
Whittle's engine is not at all fussy
about its fuel. 1t is perfectly happy on
kerosene, crude oil or even powdered
coal. This is good news to an oil
hungry world.
Today the Gloster Fighter is in
production in Britain. A young army
of workers is on the job, and the old
foundry is hidden by acres of new
buildings surrounded by high wire
fences and patrolled by guards.
Though the Gloster is still a we'll
kept secret, hundreds of people in
Britain have seen and heard it - and
most of them know better than to look
for propeller. You couldn't fool even
a country policeman on that now.
The End
Evening star., 1944-07-09

machines. and they complained of the
noise. When the engine was ready for
its first test there were nearly 40
employees. You can see their sigma
lures on champagne bottle in Walk
er's Office today, for they stopped work
just long enough to drink to the sue
cess of the test. Then they broke their
glasses and went back to work.
First Amazing Flight
ALL through the Battle of Britain
the work went on. and seven months
before Pearl Harbor came the first
amazing fight.
In July, 1871, all information on
the jet plane was turned over by the
British Air Ministry to General
Arnold, and in September. Whittle,
Warrant Officer King, ''Old Bozzy,"
and Walker flew to America with the
wonder engines parts.
From this early example of reverse
lend-lease grew the American jet
propelled plane, now being manufac-
tured by the Bell Aircraft Company
and General Electric.
The American jet plane is two
motor ship, in contrast to the Gloster,
which is single-engined. When the
original British plane was taken out
for testing, it was carried quite openly
on a trailer truck with no attempt at
concealment, other than a false nose
complete with dummy propeller. The
speed is still secret, but the Air Min
istry has permitted the release of one
significant figure: The speed of the
jet, when it leaves the tail of the
plane, is TAO miles per hour. Experts
have also revealed that the Gloster
has quick take-od and an excep-
tionally good rate of climb.
Strangely enough, after all the sto-
ries of people rushing for cover when
Evening star., 1944-07-09

Ger James King of the RAF, and
Giordan Bruno Bozzoni. born in Lon
don of Italian parents.
Whittle and his back room boys"
moved into an old disused foundry
standing in field few miles out
of Midlands town in England. They
had little equipment. Bozzoni -
"Old Bozzy," as everyone calls him -
soon showed his genius. He made
miraculous machines out of scrap and
thin air. kept them running night and
day, and filled in his spare time by
cheerfully sweeping the factory floors.
The local people believed Whittle
and his boys were making sausage
Evening star., 1944-07-09

ship, and began flying in 1926. By
1880 he was probably the most bril-
liant pilot in the RAF.
Like many really great men he is an
amazing mixture of cold deliberation
and crazy daring. Men who remember
him in those days tell how he took
up plane and did ''bunt." the fan
tastically difficult outside loop, to the
stupefaCtion of the experts and the
horror of his friends, who knew that
it was impossible" in that type of
plane. 1T wasn't difficult or even
dangerous" said Frank Whittle.
''You see, I'd worked it all out
on q slide rule
Whittle stuck to his slide rule. At 22
he patented his engine. There had
been jet propulsion patents before.
but this was the first machine to
combine turbine with the jet
Toy-DAIlooa Principle
HE simplest way to demonstrate
how a jet-propelled plane operates is
to blow up toy sausage balloon and
then let 60 of It. The balloon will fly
quite distance That is the crudest
form Of jet propulsion.
Whittle's "Gyrone," as the power
plant was originally called. carries the
toy-balloon principle one stage fur
ther. 1t takes air in. congresses it and
then passes it into a combustion
chamber. where sprayed-in fuel is
burnt. The heat causes the air to ex-
pand. driving turbine at speed we'll
in excess of 10000 revolutions a min
ute The exhaust from this turbine.
rushing through the ducts in the tail
with almost explosive force. is the jet
which makes the plane go.
In April, 1887. Whittle's first en-
glne actually ran. and two years later
the British Air Ministry placed an
Evening star., 1944-07-09

order for the first jet-propelled air
plane The Gloster Aircraft Company
was to design and build plane, and
Power Jets Ltd, to whom Squadron
Leader Whittle was loaned for the
purpose, was to make the engine
The >-DAck-Roozn Boys"
Early in 1899, Whittle started to
collect recruits for his team. The only
things alike about the three men he
chose we're their ages - they were all,
like Whittle. 30 - and their genius
for mechanical improvisation.
The first was Daniel Walker, Scot,
and the other two were Warrant Off
Evening star., 1944-07-09

War-workers are discovering the
priceless value of Sweetheart Soaps
purity and mildness. With countless
elean-ups every day-harsh soaps may
give your complexion a dry, rough
look. Crime and grease wash off
quickly and easily with Sweetheart
Soap yet it's SO pure, so mild, it
helps your skin look soft and smooth.
SweetHeart's creamy lather is rich
and abundant - so velvet-sOft and
gentle, it agrees with even sensitive
skins. You'll love its fragrance, too
delicate and fower-fresh.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-04
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
STATE OF OHIO
Department of HIGHWAYS

Columbus, Ohio, April %, 1914
Engineer of Sales Legal Copy No. 44-l0S
UNIT PRICE CONTRACT
Sealed proposals will be received at the
office of the State Highway Director of Ohio.
at Columbus. Ohio, until 10 100 A. M. Ohio
Standard Time, Tuesday. May Is. 1914. for
This project is divided into two bidding
parts.
The State will. in awarding the, contract
or contracts this project. consider these
bidding parts separately unless the bidder
indicates a combination of parts in the space
provided. In case the contractor wishes to
bid on separate parts and also a combina-
tion of these parts and wishes TO use different
unit prices in so doing, he shall submit sep
| arate proposals indicating in each which parts
or the combination for which he wishes his
bid considered by appropriate marks in the
space provided
Alen-22-Bluffton (Part), M
Hancock-22-G (Part)
Allen and Hancock Counties. Ohio parts
of Sections Buffton and G and Section M of
the Lima -Sandusky Road, State Highway No.
Blufton. Richland and Orange Townships.
by resurfacinp with asphaltic concrete.
Width: Pavement variable Roadway variable.
Length: 7.6S2.65 feet or 1.445 miles.
Part No. 2
Hancock-22-G tPart)
Hancock County. Ohio. on part of Section G
of the Lima -Sandusky Road, State Highway
No. %. u S. Route No. 25, in Orange and
| Union Townships, by resurfacing with asphalt
tic concrete.
Width: Pavement 20 feet Roadway 36 feet.
Length: 1924 feet or 3462 miles.
Estimated cost .................. S35,700.00
Contract to be completed not later than Aug
| ust Is, 1914.
The minimum wage to be paid to all labor
employed on this contract shall be in accord
ance with the Schedule of Prevailing Hourly
Wage Rates Ascertained and Determined by
The Department of Industrial Relations appli-
| cable to State Highway Department Improve
ments in accordance with Sections 17-3, 17-4
l7-4a, 17-5 and lisa of the General Code of
Ohio"
The bidder must submit with his bid cer-
titled check in amount equal to five per
cent of the estimated cost. bot in no event
more than ten thousand dollars.
Plans and specifications are on file in the
department of highways and the office of the
resident district deputy director.
The director reserves the right to reject
H. G. SOURS,
Q State Highway Director
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-04
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prise package-1ike the new F model
is now.
"And when something is really
new, the combat boys who have to
take it up don't want it blabbed
around. For instance when we were
still out East, copy Of an Ameri-
can magazine arrived which gave q
complete diagram of the E. II
showed everything-the angle of fire
of every gun, even the break in the
fire angles for the propellers. There
weren't many blind spots on the E
where an enemy fighter can sneak
in, but this diagram showed every
one.
"Our gang talked over that
damned picture for days. Holy
Smokes!' we said, why don't they
give the japanese set of blue
prints!' In addition, it showed the
exact position of every man on the
plane, SO the Japs could work in
through the blind spots and pick us
off.
1T was all stuff we knew the
Japanese didn't know, because all
the Els we had lost up to then had
either dropped in the ocean or
burned after bleaching. My God the
other gunners said. They're SELL
ing us out back home. They might
just as well take the guns off the
plane and let the Japs shoot us
DOWN. That picture knocked our
morale for days.
'But what the hell! Now the F
model is out-nobody knows the ex-
act improvements on that yet, and
when the enemy fighters hit the F,
they'll find out they've picked up a
real hot potato.
Lets get back to the trip over, /"
said the Bombardier. "In my plane
we left the States December %. I'd
had blue Christmas-missed din
ner because we were out testing
guns-but didn't mind much, be-
cause we were itching to get over
and into it.
AS we were approaching Brazil
we ran into hell of front, couldn' I
get over it SO our navigator could
take sun shots and find out our posi-
ton, weren't sure where in hell we
were. My pilot, Captain Duane
Skiles, first went up to $4,000, but
there wasn't break. Then he went
back down through it, staying just
100 feet above the Atlantic. We
hoped we were headed right for our
field at Belem, but we didn't know.
Finally I called to him over the
interphones and said that in my old
geography book, it said you could
see the line where the yellow Anna
zon mixed into the blue Atlantic
as far as four hundred miles out to
sea-maybe he could pick this UP
and follow it in.
"Sure enough, we found this line
between yellow and blue. But we
were farther out to sea than we'd
figured. BY the time we hit shore,
we were plenty low on gas and an
hour overdue. 1t was getting dark,
and there are no lights in that jun
gle-now and then you'd see a CLINT
of native with torch down there.
We couldn't pick up, Belem, and we
had just twenty minutes gas left.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-04

sAiiu e1iioliici sun, ddTioH MdTludIl
who had been inducted into the army.
left two hours later for camp.
Two weeks from the day Tom Coma
way, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Con-
way, left Bluffton to return to duty
with the Navy in the Pacific he met
his classmate, Richard Augsburger,
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Augsburg
er, in the Hawaiian islands. After ar
irving in Hawaii, Conaway had an
opportunity to look up young Augs-
burger, and surprised him at work.
They then spent the day together, af-
ter Augsburger had received a pass
for that purpose.
Mrs. Robert Benroth who reported
seeing the first robin early this
spring, also found the first mushroom
reported this season. She found it
in a woods north of town last
Wednesday while hunting wild flow
ers.
Fast time will mean nothing at the
polls next Tuesday, because the state
of Ohio officially remains on slow
time. Consequently, the voting places
for the primary election will be open
from 6:30 a. m. until $50 p. m. slow
time, which will be 7:30 to 1880
Bluffton time.
In the traditional rivalry of the
army and the navy, it is the navy
that holds chief place of interest in
the Henry Hilty household. Their
daughter, Rosann who enlisted in
the Waves last March is now in
training at Hunter college, New York
city and a son, Lieut.. (j. g.) Joe
Hilty is at the naval training center
in Gulfport, Miss.
An early Mothers day remem-
brance was dozen red roses re-
ceived Monday by Mrs. Leonard
Stager of North Main street from
her son Cpl. William Stager station
ed with the army somewhere in Eng
land.
Happy springtime days are these
for the two year old twins of the
Don Pattersons, especially when go
ing down town. The trip is made
with mother riding a bicycle to
which is hitched a little red wagon
in which the two Misses ride, getting
the thrill of their young lives.
The Boy Scouts of yesterday are
the soldiers of today-and there are
now seven stars in the service flag
of Bluffton's two scout troops dis
played in the News window.
April showers make May flowers
and also April showers make the
grass grow in Maple Grove ceme-
terry, so Custodian Lee Coon is oiling
up the mowers to start the seasons
work. Just for the record, we'll tell
you that the twelve acre expanse Of
Maple Grove was moved % times
last year with one power and two
hand mowers. Also there were 80
burials last year. This year, to
May /, there were 16.
Musical talent of another Bluffton
man has been discovered by the
army. This time it's Herbert Oyer,
erstwhile Bluffton tenor. He hadn't
been long in Camp Beale, Calf, un-
til he was being given regular as
signments singing to hospital groups
and at army social functions, ac-
cording to word received here recent
ly.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-04
Chapter X Continued

I'VE soon got our first reinforce
ments," Frank Kurtz continued.
"They were Fortresses of the brand
new E model. We'd heard them
talked of in the States but I'd never
seen one. There were many i'm
provements, but most vital of all
were the new tail guns. The old D
model which l flew had been al
most defenseless there; if a Zero
came in directly on your tail, you
had to depend on the cross fire put
out from the plane flying next you on
your wing. If you were alone you
were a goner.
''The boys who flew these new Els
were old friends of ours, the 7th
Bombardment Group-friendly RI
walls in the Air Corps to our 18th
Group. We'd competed with them at
maneuvers and in practice bombing
at Muroc Lake back home.
'But in January the reinforce
ments were little thin trickle OF
the thousand planes we hoped for.
Of course they were then terribly
short of seasoned pilots, and often
quickly trained kids were flying
them, and cracking them up all
across Africa and Asia. But it was
all they had to send US. Sometimes
six would start out from Tampa
Field and maybe two would arrive
at Malang. During the whole month
of January we got only half dozen.
1--WE were in the old 7th, which
came out to reinforce you," said
Master Sergeant Charles T. Reeves,
the bombardier He had been sit
ting beside the pilot, under the
planes wing.
$50 was l." said Master Sergeant
Rowland A. Boone, the gunner, who
sat next to him.
"On the day of Pearl Harbor, the
7th was sitting on Hamilton Field,
California-poised, waiting for one
new plane to come off the Boeing
assembly line before we took off
across the Pacific for Manila. OF
course the big news from Hawaii
Cancelled that trip. We'd have to 60
around the world another way.
"Then they put me to work ferry
ing E's from the factory to Sacra-
mento," continued the Gunner. II
was picking them right off the as
sembly line, two or three day.
1t would have been wonderful If we
could have had that many in Java.
But the bottleneck then was pilots
the planes were all stacked up
waiting for them, and no matter how
fast you build Fortresses, you can't
jerk a kid out of Beechcraft train
er and put him in Boeing. And by
the way, when we got back to the
States this summer, the bottleneck
was still pilots. They still had sew
eral dozen E's stacked up on the
factory field, waiting for men to fly
them.
I'll never forget my first look at
the E-model Fortress. She had that
big dorsal fin, and she looked lot
bigger-more deadly, too. Because
not only were there tail guns, but
much better side guns. And whole
stack of power turrets. On the old
D model, the angle of fire from the
radio guns and the belly guns had
been very small, but this was
corrected in the E, and the top tur-
ret was a honeyl
'sIt doesn't hurt to talk about the
D model, because the enemy have
captured plenty of them. It's no
more secret than the Model T Ford.
But in those days the E was sur
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-04

No more straghtne cultivation here This farmer near
Mankao, Kan, is just starting listing in field
where erosion formerly encouraged by farming in
straight rows and down the slopes Contour lines were
laid out by Soil Conservation Service techncans type
OF assistance that is available in soil conservation districts
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-04
g. WHIrE
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER 1: The story OF the famous
18th 18th. and nd, III Bombardment B, Groups. Of
crew in the tremendous air campaign
that saved the day for the United Nations
in the Southwest Pacific Lieut. Kurtz.
who was pilot of the old Fortress. known
as The Swoose," which escaped from
Clark Field. in the Philippines, tells OF
pedals to the wreck of Old 90, finds eight
OF his crew lying in an irregular line.
CHAPTER ii: Lieut.. Kurtz tells how
orders TO camoufage Old 80 were coun-
termanded: instead they were to load
bombs. Then he was ordered to jerk the
bombs, reload with cameras and rush
the camoufage. Preparations made for
shouts. Look at that pretty navy forma-
tion." The navy formation" happens to
be fight of Jap planes.
CHAPTER III: Bombs hit the mess
hall. The Japs move off. They hear
another hum. "P-40s," they think. but
they prove to be Zeros coming in from
duck back into their foxholes.
CHAPTER Nv: The pilots are given
their targets and towering above the
group is Colin Kelly. about to head out
on his first mission. Buzz Wagner is
chased by Japs in his P-40 He meets
Lieut.; Russ Church. and they. bomb a
death of Colin Kelly.
CHAPTER V: Fortresses are kent in
the air to save them from the Japs.
fire on them: Japs begin photographing
the place. No longer safe TO sleep in the
barracks, cots are moved into corn
field. With no fighters left TO defend
tells of last plane trip out in patched
I'D plane. Japs land light tanks at Apart.
Squadron commander Major Gibbs fails
to return from mission. u S. forces flee
from Clark Field to Mindanao.
CHAPTER vi: Navigator Harry
Schneider tells of fight with Zeros in
which Shorty Wheless takes part. He
by Filipinos. The crew buys an outrigger
canoe and sail to the isle Of Panay. Later
they take off for Australia.
CHAPTER Wiz Lieut. Kurtz takes up
the story again. He describes the hot,
dry Christmas day in Australia. and how
U. S. hiers spent it. report comes in
over CIV radio. 1t was from Schaetzel
body aboard. Schaetzel gets in, his plane
a wreck Gen. Brereton lands on the
field and the boys are summoned to
meeting.
CHAPTER VIII: U. S. fiiers arrive at
the Dutch field, and shortly after start
on flight for Davao. in the Philippines,
but run short of gas and come home.
Gas up and take off at midnight for
Davao. but fail to make target. On third
trip over. Kurtz sees tremendous concen-
tration of ships, makes bomb run. Jap
fighters come up. Bombs awayi"
CHAPTER TX: Bombardier says they
had caught Japs fat-footed. AT Malang
Field boys are briefed before dawn,
told about big concentration of Jap ships
NE. of Borneo. They take off, but hit
a frightful fog. Cannot see plane right
ahead. Coming out of fog they see a
huge black cloud resembling tornado II
was the Dutch burning their Borneo oil.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-30
SCHEDULE FOR All
AND III. d. CLUBS GIVEN

The December meeting for the
following All Clubs will be held
at the school buildings.
Green Valley, 1000 a. M, Mon
day, December 4; Trout, 11:45 a.
m, Monday, December 4; River
view, 2:3O p. M, Monday, Deem
Der 4; Healing Springs, 1000 a.
m, Tuesday, December S; Grassy
Creek, 100 p. m, Tuesday, Dec
ember S; Fleetwood, 1000 a. m,
Wednesday, December 6; Elkland,
100 p. m, Wednesday, December
6; Mill Creek, 2:45 p. m, Wednes-
day, December 6; Nathans Creek,
$50 a. m, Thursday, December
Z; Lansing, 200 p. m, Thursday,
December z; West Jefferson, 1000
a. m, Friday, December 8.
The Brandon Home Demons
tration Club has it's December
meeting at the home of Mrs. Ben
Dollinger at 200 Friday, Deem
Der l.
Grassy Creek Home Demons
tration Club meets Friday, Dec
ember 8, at the home of Mrs. Ben
Cornwen at 200 p. m.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-30
Jefferson High
School News

The Thanksgiving dinner held
in the Jefferson lunch room on
last Wednesday was we'll attended
and the school cleared over a
hundred dollars on the affair.
Last week the primary and
grammar grades presented very
interesting Thanksgiving program
consisting of songs, poems, choral
reading and plays.
The Jefferson Mask, the drama
tics club presented a hilarious
and varied program in chapel re-
Gently. The pupils from the ninth
grade gave two stunts, John
Browns Baby and the Human
Ford; the Seniors gave a repres-
entation of Truth and Conse-
quences as given on the radio, and
the tenth grade gave represent
tations of famous songs The de-
votional was a choral arrangement
of the Tooth Psalm and the club
sang several songs. concluding
with God Bless America"
Nearly all the children in the
entire school joined the Junior
Red Cross during the drive.
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notified that an action entitled
as above has been commenced in
the Superior Court of Ashe Coun-
ty, North Carolina, the same be-
ing an action for an absolute di-
vorce; and
She will further take notice
that summons has been issued
which is returnable in the office
of the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Ashe County, on the 80 day
of December, 1914, when and
where the defendant is required
to appear and answer or demur
to the complaint, which has been
filed in said cause within thirty
days thereafter; and. she is fur
Their notified that if she does not
so appear within the time provid-
ed for by law, the relief request
ed in the complaint will be grant,
ed.
This the Is day of November,
1914
c. S. Neal, Clerk of the Superior
Court 11-30-4t