The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-11-29


United States since the war ended.
The Victory Ship Tucson carried
5000 bales of Mexican cotton from
Los Angeles harbor to Shanghai,
which is a leading textile center
of the Orient.
Some of the forty-two inmates
suffered from shock and exposure
after being rescued recently from
the blazing Virginia Rice Nursing
Home at Huntington, West Virginia
Several thousand dollars worth of
war bonds belonging to Mrs. Rice,
the proprietress, were saved by a
negro attendant.
A thirteen-year-o school boy, of
Monmouth, Illinois, was sentenced
several weeks ago to fifty years in
the Illinois State Penitentiary for
numbering Mrs. Mary A. Johnson,
rs, because she had scolded him for
walking across her lawn. The boys
father is dead, and his step-father
who adopted him is serving in the
Navy.
United States military and naval
personnel have been warned to
watch for an increasing amount of
counterfeit U. S. currency, which is
being passed. in Shanghai. Three
arrests have been made on charges
of counterfeiting S., $40 and $40
notes by bleaching and reprinting
dollar bills. Washington's portrait is
left intact.
A successful treatment of scarlet
fever with penicillin was reported in
the Journal of the American Medical
Association. Four groups of nine
patients each have been studied at
the Boston City Hospital, between
January and May, 1945. 1t use
eliminates the germ-causing infec-
ton from the nose and throat with
in 48 hours.
Two Army doctors have recently
discovered successful use of a
penicillin mouthwash for trench
mouth which has proved effective in
twelve cases, two of them falling to
respond to other treatment. The
Army Medical Bulletin states that
once the mouthwash is properly pre-
pared the patient can treat himself
without difficulty.
According to the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics, Department of
Agriculture, the national supply of
glycerine is the lowest in years and
this lack may slow down production
of peacetime products. Glycerine, a
by-product of soap-making, was in
short supply at the beginning of the
war, and the shortage is due to the
demand for industrial fats and oils.
A report from Cape Town, South
Africa, states men in the United
States fleet are buying rings and
loose diamonds like peanuts. More
than 5000 officers and men are go
ing crazy over the vast assortment
of gems, leopard skin bags, curios
and other souvenirs. The highest
price reported paid by an American
was $4,000 for pure white diamond
weighing four and one-half carats.
Five hundred carloads of used
truck tires will be sold within the
next ninety days by the Office of
Surplus Property. This was announc-
ed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation of Chicago, which also
stated the tires are at military
depots along the Atlantic and Pa
cific seaboards and would be sold to
priority claimants in carload lots.
They are being offered in two CLASH
fications, one at $50 ton, and the
other at $40 a ton.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker,
daredevil of the automobile racing
tracks thirty years ago, sold the two
and-one-half mile Indianapolis
motor speedway to Anton Huffman,
Jr.,- Terre Haute, Ind, head of the
Clabber Girl Baking Powder Com
pany. Preparations will begin at once
to resume Memorial Day race, which
had been suspended during the war,
next May 80. No official announce
ment has been made Of the purchase
price but it is understood to have