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dren, Beverly and David, Of North
wood Park. and Mrs. Donald Staley
and her daughter. Susan, left yes
terday to spend a week at Capon
Springs. Mr.. Wright will join his
family next week end and they
will remain another week and Mrs
Staley will return.
Mrs. Charles p. OFT OF Silver
Spring Is spending 10 days with her
sister, Mrs. Ella Wagner, at Nor
gantown, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shirley Workman
and their children have returned
10 their Silver Spring home after
spending their vacation in Rehoboth
Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm Rice Of
Bloomington, Ind, are now making
their home at the Piney Branch
Apartments In Silver Spring.
Mrs. Peter Langmuir and hel
children of Silver Spring are spend
ing the summer at Marthas Vine.
yard.
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arlington County
Social Ne1Vs

Mr.. and Mrs. William r. McCoach
and their small daughter Julie of
Arlington Ridge are motoring to
Los Angeles, their future home.
Their home here has been pur-
chased by DR.. Juan j. Osuna, for
mer minister of education for Puerto
Rico, now connected with the Of
flee of Inter American Affairs. DR..
and Mrs. Osuna, with their daugh-
ter Ann and son Jimmy, will occupy
the home.
Mrs. Cecil Tolbert, with her
daughter, Martha Jane, and son
John, are spending several weeks in
San Antonio.
1t. Col. and Mrs. Harry E. Ly-
man, with their family and Mrs.
Dorothy @. Pendexter of Aurora
Hills, are at Virginia Beach for two
weeks.
Miss Mary Dixons Goucher and
Miss Betty Conrad of Cherrydale
left last week for a two-week yaca-
ton at Ocean City. N. j. Miss
Goucher's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin P. Goucher, have as their
guest the latter's brother, Mr.. J. B.
Hale of st. Petersburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Henry of Vir-
ginia Highlands are visiting Mrs.
Henry's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Law
renee Buchanan, in Webster, N. c.,
and before returning will visit their
son-in-law and daughter. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fletcher Little, at Auburn, Ala.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dexter Lutz have
as guests in North Arlington their
son-in-law and daughter, the Rev.
and Mrs. Robert Lindsey, who came
from Princeton, where Mr.. Lindsey
has been studying at the Theological
Seminary. They will leave later as
missionaries to the Holy Land.
Miss Betty Gay Callahan, who re-
turned to Arlington with her BROTH
er and sister-in-law. Mr.. and Mrs.
w. Guy Callahan, from their visit
in Utah, will remain with them until
fall, when she win resume her stud
les at Brigham Young University
in Provo, Utah.
Mrs. William H. Webber and her
children, Marybelle and William j.,
are spending month with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. jeff Jason. In
Lancaster. Pa.
Mrs. Arthur George, Miss Mildred
Golden and Miss Elizabeth Yeat-
man. all of Clarendon, are vacation
ing at Virginia Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace L. Schubert
of North Arlington. with their
daughter jeanne, are spending a
week at Ocean City, N. j.
Mrs. Geoffrey B. Marriott has as
her guest in North Arlington her
sister, Mrs. Robert S. Hawthorne
of Kenbridge, Va, who also came
to visit her daughter -in-law, Mrs.
Robert s. Hawthorne, jr., and the
latter's young son, whose father Is
In service in Iran.
Mrs. Preston A. Littleton, with
her two daughters, Joan and Pal,
of Bancroft, who are spending the
summer in their cottage at Reho-
both Beach, will be joined later by
Mr. Preston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Quade and
son John of Lyon villege are in At
lanta for q months visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Per Lee and
son James Of North Arlington are
spending two weeks at Charlestown,
r
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Leesbnrg

The Rev. and Mrs. j. Armstead
Welbourn, have with them for a
week their son, Mr.. ]. Armstead
Welbourn, jr.
Mrs. william Bullock entertained
at party during the week at the
home OF her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
David N. Rust The function was
given in honor of Miss Helen
Thomas of Richmond.
Mrs. Marshall Rust has had as
her guests for several days, Mrs.
A. B. Veazey. and Mrs. Francis
Borden of Bethesda.
Mr.. Kelley Garges of jackson
Heights, Long Island. has joined his
family in Leesburg for short stay.
Mrs. w. II. Behrens entertain q
group of young friends during the
week In compliment to It. and Mrs.
John A. Gibson.
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Devonshire Gardens Is spending July
and August at her summer home
Reydon Shores. Southold. Long Is
land. While there she will be joined
by Mrs M. Petit, jr. and Miss
Francis A. Webb OF Arlington, Tex.
Mrs. John Joss and her two chill
dren left Thursday for two weeks
vacation at their summer home on
Lake Michigan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Kellogg will
have as their dinner guests this
evening Capt. and Mrs. George
Bladholm Of Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph McCaskill
left this week end for a short vaca-
ton at Nags Head, N. C.
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WarrenfOn

Mrs. Melville Bearns and her
two sons Of Claremore. Okla, are
spending month here with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Keith.
1t. Bearns win join them later.
1t. Col Marshall Wallach, who
has been in the European campaigns
for q year, has arrived to spend
30-day furlough with his family
here.
Misses Diane and Welby Hamil-
ton Of Baltimore are spending the
Evening star., 1945-07-22

United States tin reserves are
rapidly disappearing. The japanese
control 80 per cent OF the normal
source. Don't mix tin cans with
garbage. Put in separate containers
by garbage bins for collection.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Sagalook, the Eskimo, wanted
to do his share in fighting
the Japs. And his patriotism
brought unexpected dividends
A Short Story

n oHOt StUJ
1.-TWO years flying over Europe; some med
i ais; couple of wounds, and battle
fatigue" Finally the fight surgeon said to
me: What you need, Dan, is reversion to
type. Your happiest days were bush flying in
Alaska = pitting plane, skill and wits against
the elements, or taking sides in some brawl
over mining claim. Sometimes pill will
quiet those nerves of yours; but more often
I've watched you calm down by just talking
bush flying to the gang So my verdict for
you is Scamp
That's how happened to say good-by to
Uncle Sans service.
But found that Alaska when got there,
wasn't the same place l remembered. The
CAA had fouled it up with range stations,
landing strips and weather bureaus A pilot
was no longer his own weather man. Turn a
switch - and gal transmitting from some
bleak spot would give you all the dope on the
weather. including the speed and direction
of the wind on the landing strip.
Sure, this new set up was better all around,
but was just selfish enough to want the old
days at least until got again control of
my jittery nerves.
HEN happened to meet Jack Mosher,
partner of my bush flying days. He'd gone
modern too, and was flying DC3 for the
CAA.
''And that isn't all" he said. Captain Ike
Cramm has gone modern also. Pack ice has
stalled his schooner, and he wants to hire a
plane and chart a course through the foes.
Now go ahead and cuss."
When Jack and | hadn't known where our
next gallon of fuel was coming from, we had
tried to sell Captain Cramm on the idea of
schooner plane cooperation. But it was no
dice. The old man was worth half million,
but was too tight to charter plane. Also, he
was afraid to risk his precious carcass in a
land plane flying over the Arctic. Now, appar-
entity, with CAA range stations to give courses
and weather conditions, he was ready to take
chance. 1t was the old story of one bunch
of men pioneering - then the Cramm breed
cashing in on their labors
'Cramm's schooner is anchored not far
from here" Jack said. He wants to get to
old Sagalook's Island. No trading schooner
has reached the island in two years, and the
natives must have an accumulation of fur
and ivory worth couple of hundred thousand
dollars = at prices they're paying now in the
States. Also, the village is probably out of
tobacco, ammunition, knives, and so on,
and ripe to trade"
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instead, he showed up at Nome saying, ME
damn good 'Merican. fight" The Signal
Corps grabbed Sagalook and his brother -
they could relay critical Army orders in their
dialect "a trick which drove the Hun de-
coolers crazy. The brother was killed lust
before the armistice.
After the war Jack and | flew the first
plane to reach Sagalook's village The con-
traption wasn't much more than an egg crate
with windmill on the front end, but we made
it. We were wondering where to set her
down when two Eskimo kids dashed out,
carrying red flags which they planted on a
strip of tundra.
me know plane come sometime, "Sagalook
had said. Make field"
Sure enough stretch of tundra had been
cleared of whale bones and the other debris
you found around an Eskimo village, and the
high spots had been leveled down. But the
pay-off was Sagalook's American Legion but
ton pinned to his parka. He looked at the
field and the plane and said, with pardonable
pride, me modern"
YIN tftAl l<StCiIiDCl I'LL, WilCH WOIlQ war Ill
hit us. Sagalook had been icebound. He didn't
get the news till early in August, but late that
month he was in Nome with three umiak
loads of young men. He wanted uniforms.
guns and space on the first transport bound
for Japan, His young men got by the doctor,
but the medcs turned Sagalook himself down.
He hung around Nome for weeks, trying to
work angles. He'd keep saying, "Me good
Merican. Gotta get in this war;" They eased
him out of the picture only by promising to
call on him if he could be useful
Now you know something of Sagalook -
an American of different color and back
ground, but right guy for my dough-"
Cramm caught up with me the next morn
ing after my talk with Jack. He didn't offer
to shake hands, and was glad of that. He
said, "You and have no use for each other
but business is business. Name your figure
for flying two tons of trade goods to Saga
looks village and two tons of fur and ivory
back"
named my price, which was fair and he
knew it, but he was long time in accepting
Finally he groaned and agreed. Now let's
have a look at the weather" he said
looked up with my old bush pilots eyes,
"Weather's okay," forecast
II want the CAA forecast" he snapped.
They have stations scattered all over
Alaska. AS taxpayer I've contributed my
share, and intend to get the benefit"
I'm not arguing" answered.
We WENT into the Nome station and
looked over the weather map. Each station
had reported, and flying all over the territory
looked good. Daylight was practically con-
tinuous.
stflna fhipu mora ba c,;L arI h;e ax,oe
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of low fur prices and hard times outside, then
made Sagalook a proposition that was steal.
In the end the Eskimo accepted - only to
had traded them was condemned Army stuff,
and the rest of the trade goods shoddy One
Eskimo boy was killed and two badly clawed
by bears before Sagalook ordered the ammu-
milton dumped into the Arctic Ocean.
When he heard of World War l, you'd have
thought the Eskimo would have said, THE
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"Hell!' / exclaimed "Sagalook and his
people would starve before they'd do business
with Cramm again" lit cigarette with
shaky fingers. Theirs is thirty-year feud."
1t was more than that 1t was an Arctic
classic in treachery and double dealing. Saga
look was twenty-five when it started, and he
had an Eskimo's friendliness, faith and admi-
ration for the whites. Cramm, who was
thirty, pushed through the ice with schooner
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Extension Service
Receives u. S. Funds

WASHINGTON, D. enhancing
of the u. S. Extension service pro-
gram for l945 on practically the same
basis as in 1914 was assured here
when the 18th congress in one of its
last acts appropriated $28, 600. 900
for this purpose.
The amount was contained in the
Deficiency Appropriation bill which
provides that not less than 7 mil
lion and not more than II million
dollars of the new funds are to be
specifically earmarked for the use
of the Extension service.
The bureau Of the budget had
originally submitted a preliminary
estimate calling for continuation Of
the unspent funds left over from the
calendar year of 1914, amounting to
about 8 million dollars, to be avail
able only until the end of the fiscal
year June 80. l945. Proponents of
the program. however. declared this
proposal unsatisfactory. asserting
it would not provide adequate as
surance to farmers that facilities
would be available to obtain neces-
sary farm labor through the year.
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bushels. Nearly So per cent of the
corn acreage was planted to hybrid
varieties.
Very few barren plants are found
in a field Of hybrid corn, and a much
smaller per cent of nubbins. Hy-
brid corn bears ears at a more uni
form height than open-pollinated
corn, and the plants stand up better
under husking operations.
Agronomists emphasize that n.y.
brid seed corn will not produce
yields in spite Of poor soil and poor
culture. Where fertility or moisture
is available for an acre yield of no
more than 20 bushels Of corn this con-
dition is a limiting factor for both
types.
Some hybrids show decided resist
ance to disease, and several tend
toward immunity to chinch bugs and
corn root worm. Resistance to the
European corn borer and to the corn
ear worm has also been found.
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Return Flights Glue
Boys the WooUies

Their lot is a tough one. The worst
part is that they're over water every
inch of the way to Japan, every inch
of the way back. And brother. it's
a lot of water. The average time
for one of their missions is more
than IA hours.
The flax and fighters over Japan
are bad enough, but that tense peri
cd is fairly short. They are over
the empire only from 20 minutes to
an hour, depending on their target.
Jap fighters follow them only about
Is minutes off the coast.
What gives the boys the woollies
is Sweating out" those six or seven
hours of ocean beneath them on the
way back. To make it worse, it's
usually at night.
Some of them are bound to be shot
up, and just staggering along.
There's always the danger of run
ming out of gas, from many forms
Of overconsumption. II you've got
one engine gone. others are liable to
quit.
If anything happens. you 60 into
the ocean. That is known as ditch
ing" I suppose around a BIO base
you hear the word "ditching'' al
most more than any other word.
"Ditching" out here isn't like
'ditching' in the English channel,
where your chances of being picked
up are awfully good. "Ditching'' out
here is usually fatal.
We have set up a search and res
cue system for these "ditched" liers
but still the ocean is awfully big.
and it's mighty hard to find a couple
of little rubber boats. The fact that
we do rescue about a fifth of our
"ditched" liers is amazing to me.
Yes, that long drag back home
after the bombing is a definite men,
tai hazard. and is what eventually
makes the boys sit and stare.
Maybe you've heard of the buddy
system" in the infantry. They use
it in the B-29s too. For instance, if
a plane is in distress on the way
back and has to fall behind. some
body drops back with him to keep
him company.
They've known planes to come
clear home accompanied by a bud
dy." and you could 60 so far as
to say some might not have made
it were it not for that extra courage
given them by having company.
But the big point of the buddy
system is that if a plane does have
to ditch. the buddy" can fix his
exact position and get surface res
cuers on the way.
The other morning after a mission,
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Japs Inform Sun Goddess
Of All Important Events

Japan's most sacred shrine is a
small wooden building at Ise, $50
air miles from Tokyo, which is
dedicated to Amaterasu, the Sun
goddess, who has been informed
of all important events in that
country for $500 years, says COL
liers. The emperor, for instance,
goes there to announce the birth
of a royal baby, and the pre-
mier to tell of a declaration of
war.
Millions of ordinary pilgrims
also visit it annually, although
they are forbidden to pass
through even the first of the four
fences surrounding the temple,
which contains, incidentally,
nothing but Amaterasu's mirror.
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CANS,

THE "sitting ROOM of two gen.
L erations ago was coy and
planned for use. Not the least of
it's comforts were the late footstools
to be used with the most frequent
ed chairs. These were covered
with bright carpet or other heavy
material and, if you examined
them, you found that inside there
were cans filled with sand for
weight and then bound together
and padded.
Such a stool costs not a cent. You
can do the same. The diagrams in
this sketch show exactly how to 60
about it.
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developed cloth for women's clothes
from straw. Butadiene, the princi-
pal ingredient in the synthetic rub
Der process. can be obtained from a
wheat by-product.
Wheat is used in the manufacture
of industrial alcohol, is utilized in
the manufacture Of starch and
starch syrup.
For years wheat has been used for
paper, paperboards and wood CON-
positions.
Pound for pound, wheat is equal
to corn in hog, dairy cow. cattle.
sheep and poultry feeding.
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weather are other things. The
weather over Japan is their best de-
tense. AS one pilot jokingly sug-
gested, 1.-The Nips should broadcast
us the weather every night, and save
both themselves and us lots Of trou-
ble."
Almost the first thing the B-29
boys asked me was, do the people
at home think the BIOS are going
to win the WARP"
I told them the papers played up
the raids, and that many wishful
thinking people felt the bombings
might turn the trick. And the boys
said:
That's what we were afraid
of. Naturally we want what
credit we deserve. but our raids
certainly aren't going to win the
war;"
The B-29 raids are important, just
as every island taken and every ship
sunk is important. But in their pres
ent strength it would be putting
them clear out of proportion if you
think they are a dominant factor in
our Pacific wal.
I say this not to belittle the B-29
boys. because they are wonderful. I
say it because they themselves want
it understood by the folks at home.
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Ernie Finds It's a Small World, After All

"Oh for Gods sake. of course" l
said. The Rangitiki was the ship
that took us from England to Africa
in the fall of 1912. Colonel Griffith
was In a nearby cabin OH that trip
and we became well acquainted. But
the war is big and time flies. and
you do forget.
Colonel Griffith has also flown COM
bat missions both out OF p igland and
Africa.
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The B-29 squadron that my neph-
ew is with is commanded by 1t. Col.
John H. Griffith Of Plymouth, Pa.
He walked into our Quonset hut
the first night l was here and
grinned sort of knowing like as we
we're introduced. l felt our paths
crossed somewhere in the dim past.
but I couldn't recall it.
Finally he said. Remember the
Ringitiki?"
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friend Maj. Gerald Robertson
was lying in his cot resting ant
reminiscing, and he said:
"You feel SO damn helpless
when the others get in trouble.
The air will be full of radio calls
from those guys saying they've
only got two engines or they're
running short on gas.
"I've been lucky and there I'll
be sitting with four engines and
a thousand gallons extra of gas.
l could spare any Of them one
engine and 500 gallons Of gas II
l could just get It to them. It
makes you feel 50 damn help
less"
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Hybrid Corn Raises
National Acre Yield
Ease of Harvesting
Proves Advantageous

THE production Of record corn
l. crops during the war years has
been strongly influenced by the use
Of hybrid seed corn in important
growing areas.
Hybrid varieties, along with good
growing weather, it is pointed out
by the department Of agriculture,
have been major factors in raising
the national acre yield Of corn from
an average Of 25.8 bushels to 1925
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It's Hard to
Figure Japs Out

Soldiers and marines have told me
stories by the dozen about how tough
the Japs are, yet how dumb they
are; how illogical and yet how un-
cannily smart at times; how easy to
rout when disorganized. yet how
brave.
I've become more confused with
each story. At the end of one eve
ming, I said, II can't make head
o tail out of what you've told me.
I'm trying to learn about the Jap
soldiers, but everything you say
about them seems to be inconsis-
tent"
That's the answer" my friends
said. ''They are inconsistent. They
do the damndest things. But they're
dangerous fighters just the same"
They tell story about a Jap
officer and six men who were sur.
rounded on a beach by a small
bunch of marines.
As the marines approached, they
could see the Jap giving emphatic
orders to his men. and then all six
bent over and the officer went along
the line and chopped off their heads
with his sword.
Then as the marines closed in, he
stood knee-deep in the surf and beat
his bloody sword against the water
in a fierce gesture of defiance, just
before they shot him.
What code led the officer to kill
his w men rather than let them
fight to the death is something only
another Jap would know.
Another little story-a marine SEN
try walking up and down before a
command post on top of a steep bluff
one night heard a noise in the brush
on the hillside below.
He called a couple of times, got
no answer, then fired an exploratory
shot down into the darkness. In a
moment there was a loud explosion
from below. A solitary Jap hiding
down there had put a hand grenade
to his chest.
Why he did that, instead of tossing
it up over the bluff and getting
himself a half dozen Americans is
beyond an Americans comprehen-
sion.
On Saipan, they tell Of a Jap plane
that appeared overhead mi bright
monday, all alone. He obviously
wasn't a Photographic plane, and
they couldn't figure out what he was
doing.
Then something came out of the
plane. and futtered down. It was a
little paper wreath, with a long
+ streamer to it. He had flown it all
the way from Japan. and dropped it
I'm Honor Of Japan's Glorious
Dead" on Saipan.
We shot him down into the sea a
few minutes later, as he undoubted-
ly knew we would before he ever
left Japan. The gesture is touching
but so what?
As I've talked with marines,
I've begun to get over that
creepy feeling that fighting Japs
is like fighting snakes or ghosts.
They are indeed queer. but they
are people with certain tactics and
now by much experience our men
have learned how to fight them.
As far as l can see, our men are
no more afraid of the Japs than they
are of the Germans. They are afraid
of them as any modern soldier is
afraid of his foe, not because they
are slippery or ratlike. but simply
because they have weapons and fire
them like good tough soldiers. And
the Japs are human enough to be
afraid Of us in exactly the same
way.
Some of our people over here
think that. in the long run. the Japs
won't take the beating the Germans
have. Others think they will. and
yer mor
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constant bomb
ings it would take
years to reduce
Japan by bomb
ing alone. And
our bombings are
not yet heavy.
Too, we have
lots Of things to
contend with. Dis
tancd is the main
thing, and Jap
fighters and ack-
a c k a n d foul
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Add to the Comforts of Your Sitting
Room With Footstool Made of Cans
By Ruth Wyeth Spears

NOTE-This footstool Is from BOOK 3
of the series offered with these articles.
This book also contains more thai 80 other
things to make for your home from odds
and ends plus inexpensive new materials.
Booklets are IS cents each postpaid and
requests should be sent to-:
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trial color. Since
the time of Ceres,
goddess Of grain
and allegedly the
first to cut wheat,
its main purpose
has been to fur
nish man with
food.
New uses are
developing daily.
Tta1v wears ago