be at at at at at at at at at at at 12 MORNING, JULY LaboratoryGuards 730,000 From New By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE (Associated Press Science Editor) Baltimore have new war job, canning smoke for use in battle tactics. This came to light in a tour of the industrial hygiene laboratory opperated by the Surgeon General's Office at Johns Hopkins University. The laboratory looks after the safety of the largest and probably least-known group of war workers, 730,000 civilians in 504 army-operated industrial plants all over the country. The expected to reach about September.
are a large increasing proportion of these workers. The smoke-canning was shown to a group of writers last week at Edgewood Arsenal. Here is done much of the pilot work, which inaugurates the new methods, the assembly lines and the safety measures. The smoke pots, to use the official name, are large-size cans, and the canning job is probably the work. filled with a white exacting, of all preserving powder, as fine as For military use, a smoke pot has to burn, emitting a dense white cloud of smoke, for an exactly measured length of time.
Each burns to within a minuteand a half of a time limit fixed by the nature of the pot. This requires dexterous packing. Sealing the cover on each can is another skilled job. Each is triply sealed, so that the pots can be thrown overboard in amphibious operations, to be picked up as they wash ashore. The seal has to be moisture proof, yet a soldier must be able off the cover with his bare hands, Materials for lighting the under the cover and must remain dry.
Once ignited, such a smoke pot will burn and emit its clouds even under water. The third skill in this canning job is smoke avoiding itself all does dust. Althouga the smart the eyes, and one of the ingredients, zinc oxide, is a common skin lotion, any dust would be a hazard. Some of the white be seen without a microscope. powder particles are too smallyte precisely these tiniest particles are the most dangerous kind to get into workers lungs.
In getting rid even of this invisible dust, the hygiene laboratory has done an astronomical job. The scientists are not satisfied with merely crystal clear air about the canning process. Periodically a man goes through the vanning rooms small box slung over his With shoutider. one hand he grinds a suction crank on box, and with the other pokes small glass nozzle about the, in the air, sucking in air along with any existing, invisible particles. These particles are SO tiny that each one has a coating of air sticking to it, enough to float it like a balloon.
The suction draws these particles down the tube at a speed faster than wan airplane can fly. Each particle is shot to the bottom of a small bottle of water, Arcade FASHON 4TH AT TRADE osnik's For Lasting Quality Fashions BUY GOVERNMENT BONDS and STAMPS BOBBITT'S COLLEGE PHARMACY Hawthorne and Lockland PHONE 8-1867 Guards 26, 1943 Workers Hazards and hits bottom so hard the air overcoat is knocked that. The particle then gets wet and poisonous fumes. High explosives manufacture and spray paints raise other hazards through exposure to chemicals. stays in then water, while the air bubbles through an escape tube.
this way, the scientists trap the invisible smoke powder particles. Then they count them, knowing how many cubic feet of air they came from. It seems incredible, but it works. This is only one small part of the safety work Edgewood, and elsewhere. Some of the hazards are far more dangerous and just as hard to detect.
So well do the tests work that last month this arsenal, with nearly 10,000 civilians employes, had only 24 accidents that cost man-hours, and the time lost averaged less than a week per injured person. The safety advices are one factor which has made possible the employment of women where no women were ever allowed. The hygiene laboratory is in charge of Lieut. Col. Raymond G.
Hussey, formerly of the Johns Hopkins faculty. Heading the safety division at Edgewood is Major R. W. Franks, former. industrial hygiene engineer of the Utah State Board of Health.
Col. Hussey said this military hygiene work may lay the foundation for better health and longer life generally in the future. The gain will come from the nature of the industrial hazards that have to be solved. They are not all new, but many have not previously come so sharply into focus because they did not involve such numbers of workers. The methods the army develops will be available to everyone.
The workers on luminous dials that require radium or other radioactive minerals, periodically breathe into small bags. Their breath samples are snt to the U. S. Bureau of Standards in Washing. there tested for radon, gas given off by radium or radioactive materials.
If person any in his body, it settles in his bones, and radon gas comes off in his breath. The breathing bags identify persons who have absorbed radium to the safety limit. A device which looks like a fountain pen is carried by workers exposed to X- and radium rays. The pen reads the amount of radiation and shows whether it is beyond the safety limit. Breaking up old ships in large numbers has emphasized a leadpoisoning hazard, because each ship has a dozen or more coats of lead paint.
Getting the grease off machines and metals has become another large-scale hazard, due to Lt. M.A. Gayle's Body Is Found In California A report out of Lakeport, early yesterday morning announced the body of Lieutenant Miles A. Gayle, 24, of High Point, army pilot missing since July 7, had been found floating in Clear Lake Saturday, The body was strapped to the seat of the soldier's fighter plane. Lieutenant Gayle had been stationed at Oakland Airport.
Lieutenant Gayle was the son of Mr. and. Mrs. Sidney Gayle, High Point. He was a graduate of High Point High School and attended Duke University for three years.
He completed the four-year course at West Point in three years, entering the air service from there in 1942. He was trained at Fort Moultrie, S. C. He was married to the former Miss Marian Louise DeJarnette of Miami, Fla. ACE TEST PILOT Joe Parker Chief test pilot of Republic Aviation, who test-dived an Army P-47 Thunderbolt faster than the speed of sound! CAMELS SUIT ME TO A 'T YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM FOR FLAVOR AND THEY SURE ARE EASY ON MY THROAT CAMEL THE ZONE TURKISH -WHERE CIGARETTES DOMESTIC ARE JUDGED The "T-ZONE" -Taste and Throat -is the proving ground for cigarettes.
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C. War Training Plan Favored By Bradshaw Chapel Hill. Dean Francis F. Bradshaw of the College for War Training of the University of North Carolina has wired Senators Bailey and Reynolds and Congressman Durham a strong endorsem*nt of Brig. Gen.
J. McA. Palmer's recent proposal of universal service legislation for the postwar defense program. "I hope you can support Brig. Gen.
Palmer's proposal for postwar military legislation carried in this week's newspapers," Dean Bradshaw's telegram said. "Our experience in the first World War and in this one reveal urgent need for such unified planning and for a plan of universal training and service. It will add to American education long needed elements of physical hardening, vocational skill and training in fedral citizenship and democratic equality of obligation." Dean Bradshaw's position grows out of a long study of the question of universal military training beginning while he was an undergraduate and leading him to a Plattsburg Training Camp in 1916. After the last war he remained 14 years in the organized reserves and last Summer was one of four mem- bers of a planning group which worked out for federal authorities the basic pattern of the present Navy V-12 and Army Specialized Training Programs. He is convinced that the stability of world peace will depend on American power and participation in continuous policing of the world.
"Every young citizen," he says, "should be trained and should carry loyally share of our country's international, obligation. One-sided is as dangerous to world peace as one-sided armament. We should never again ask our boys to pay in blood for selfish isolation and consequente amateurish, hasty and expensive war Dean Bradshaw said he hopes that "like-minded citizens, especially school and college people concerned with youth's training and welfare, will join hands in supporting such a statesmanlike army proposal." He points out this proposal originated with President Washington. "What untold sacrifice of blood and treasure," says sac Dean Bradshaw, "might have been saved if the nation had in this matter followed our first President's leadership?" Special Services To Start Tuesday (Special to The Journal) Elkin-A series of special services for young people will be held this week at Elkin Presbyterian ning and continuing FriChurch beginning Tuesday, eveday evening, Rev. O.
V. Caudill, pastor of the church has announced. no Billy Summers and Ralph Ritchie, ministerial students of Union Seminary, Richmond, will be in charge of the services. The services beginning at eight o'clock each evening will open with a conference period for singing and other exercises and will close with vespers. Surry Red Cross Makes Shipment (Special to The Journal) The Production Corps of the Scurry County Chapter, American Red Cross reports that a recent shipment of garments to the U.
S. Army and Navy depots. One lot, which went to Sea Girt, New Jersey, included 148 sweaters, and mufflers, for the army and 442 assorted garments for war relief, including quilts, sweaters, mittens, petticoats, bootees, slips, bed jackets, gowns, night shirts, operating gowns, blouse and infants sacques. Another lot addressed to Brooklyn Navy Yard, included 61 sweaters and scarfs. George B.
Shaw Says Birthday Sore Subject By RUSSELL LANDSTROM London (AP). George Bernard Shaw, who says his 87th birthday today is a "sore subject," says in a statement written for the occasion that "we shall have to look to our step between the U. S. A. and U.
S. S. R. if we are to keep our eminence among the powers." "America's astonishing feat of shipbuilding," he said, won for her command of the seas." Shaw praised the American war effort generally and remarked specifically that the United States hac been "extraordinarily generous to us considering how strong the antiBritish feeling is in America. The lend-lease act was a very welcome surprise but it will leave the balance of power in the hands of America west." a Asked what he thought the Washington, Casablanca, Moscow and similar conferences accomplished at long range, Shaw said: "Conferences are very useful because the parties get to know one another as human beings, not as epithets in the papers.
Before the war Stalin was nothing to Mr. Churchill but a blood-stained tyrant and, and Mr. Churchill was nothing to Stalin but a type of Bourgeois imperialist. "Now they know one another as Winston and Uncle Joe. That is an enormous improvement.
The same thing is true of Mr. Churchill in Washington hob nobbing with the President and treating Congress to one of his oratorical performances. "Conferences are all to the good. But the Atlantic charters they issue are not worth the paper they are written on: They are mere high-falutin' abstract phrases without particulars as to measures or quantities or duration or anything that makes words mean something. "Men assent to them enthusiastically and then oppose a catertrade act that should have been passed century ago, and over the pennyworth of ransom suggested in the Beveridge report." (Catering trade-factory act legislation recently passed by Parliament for improvement of wages and conditions for workers in taurants and hotels.
The Beveridge report proposed advaneed social reforms for period.) Discussing the postwar reactions of peoples who have been fighting, Shaw said that mostly they won't like the lessons they will have to digest, but "they must lump them." "Anyhow, they will not be consulted, they after were the war consulted any before more it. If there is an election, lots of them will vote for hanging Hitler, who will not be hanged, just as they voted after four years of war for hanging the kaiser who died in his bed 20 years later. are declared by the diplomatists the people go mad with patriotism and pugnacity. When the armistice is announced they go equally mad with relief and maffick (celebrate hilariously) for a fortnight because the war is over." Shaw lives most of the time at his home at Saint Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, visiting London only occasionally. He rarely entertains visitors.
Although he remarks dolorously. that good beefsteak would kill him and that old men should take a back seat, he endures well and continues active. He has spent the war years writing, being "too old for anything am finishing a sort of child's guide to politics," he disclosed. "I rather have written a few plays in the time this very tough job has cost me. But I am tired of hearing politicians, editors and voters shouting without understanding what they are shouting about." He concluded: "Please do not remind me of my birthday.
Consult an actuary before wishing me many happy returns." Chamber Officers Open Convention Charlotte (AP). Chamber of Commerce of the Carolinas were assembling here last night for a convention today and Tuesday. Early arrivals were entertained at a social gathering last night by Clarence O. Keuster, executive vice-president of the Charlotte Chamber. Governor Olon D.
Johnston of South Carolina, Senator Burnet R. Maybank, also of South Carolina, Governor Broughton, and Representative Cameron Morrison of Charlotte, will speak at a banquet tonight. Other addresses will be delivby Warren T. White of Norfolk. general industrial agent of the Seaboard Air Line Railway; State Agriculture Commissioner Kerr Scott of Raleigh; Carl Bolte of the War Production Board's Washington staff; Dr.
Emerson Schmidt of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington and Dr. W. P.
Jacobs of Clinton, S. chairman of the South Carolina defense council's industrial development committee. A number of round-table conferences also are planned, MISS HAYES HELPS Helen vaged kitchen fat to the local Hayes, vacationing from the meat dealer. Max Heymann, in Broadway stage at her Nyack, the campaign to save materials N. farm, turns in her sal- for explosives.
4 DeMille Puts Garden Snails In the Movies By WILLIAM C. PAYETTE COMMISSIONED- -Miss Frances Conrad, former superintendent of Davidson Hospital at Lexington. has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Nurses Corps has reported for duty at cand, Mackall, at Hoffman. The daughter of Mrs. M.
H. Conrad of Lexington, Route 1, she received nurse's training, Island, at N. Flushing and Hospital, had been connected with the Davidson Hospital for the last five years. July Weather Plenty Tough On Auto Tires This hot weather may be getting you down but just look at what it is doing to your automobile. In normal times hot weather was hard on tires, but now that the rubber shortage has put a damper on the purchase of new tires the situation is really serious, accordling to tire dealers and recappers.
For the several weeks the hot weather damaged tires bepast, yond repair and recapping, one tire dealer said. He explained that old tires just won't stand the heat, since the greater the temperature, the less resistance a tire has. The one cheerful note to the situation is the fact that the lowered speed limit saves a lot of said, "Tirts dont' have to be SO wear on A rubber. As one recapper good now tht speed is cut down." Heretofore tires have worn out 25 per cent faster in hot weather than in cool weather. This year that average is not as high since excess speed has been done away with.
Recappers say they are doing all the business they possibly can and that since December, 1941, they have been working to the capacity of their machines. Recap orders have been left unfilled for long periods of time, even with the 24- hour shifts that have been working. They say that the only effect the July heat had on their recap business was that they had to turn more orders Meanwhile automobile owners are doing their best to look after their cars, garagemen say. Many filling station operators have more wash jobs than ever before. Even if owners can't put new tires on their jaloppy, they can give it a shiny coat, and they do.
275 During fires the were past started 10 years, through 1.238,- the careless use of matches, cigarettes and other smoking equipment, according to estimates. CARELESSNESS CAUSES FIRES 10,000 MOUNDS IN STATE Early Indians left more than 10,000 mounds in Illinois. These mounds were built as huge earthen tombs for the dead, as sites for buildings, or as ceremonial effigies. (United Staff Correspondent) Hollywood (UP). Some 400 garden variety snails probably never will know how fate snatched them their lettuce and chives and hurled them unheralded into ch film fame, but here is the story: Cecil B.
De Mille, a perfectionlist, naval is hero, filming Dr. a Wassell. movie about The doc- the tor spent a great many years searching for the carriers of a disease which ravaged parts of China. Snails were guilty. Came that part of the picture, and De Mille justifiably refused to compromise with accuracy.
He needed real snails. With victory gardens sprouting like dandelions, the problem appeared easy. But it developed that the only kind of snails anyone ever caught in their gardens were dead ones, which pleased the gardeners, but not De Mille. The gardeners, of course, could not be persuaded to stop spreading the snail bait and let live snails roam their patches. De Mille could not be persuaded to use dead snails.
De Mille has not been in pictures ever since there were any for nothing. He once made a picture about the Boy Scouts of America. They can do anything, he recalled. Sure enough, they could. E.
B. De Groot, Pacific Coast representative of the Scouts' National Council, said just give him a little time and De Mille would have all the snails he needed. Live, healthy ones guaranteed not to look at the camera. Mrs. Mary V.
Hood, a naturalist, entered here. Snails estivate, she said. That means they sleep in the summertime. But with a little enticement they might be induced to hop out of bed for a midnight snack. So Hollywood's famous Troop watered all the lawns in the neighborhood at night.
Snails, Mrs. Hood said, are just daffy about tender, damp grass, but even for such a morsel they won't go out in the noonday sun. Perhaps an English snail might be different, she said. With the lawns watered, the Scouts sat by to wait. Those who could find batteries for their flashlights brought them along.
There was only a little trouble with people who wanted to know what a gang of bays was doing prowling around at night with flashlights Miss Hood said. When they saw they were Boy Scouts, everything was fine. First thing you know, Troop 121 had 400 snails, which was what De Mille required. The boys' mothers were chary about keeping the snails in their houses, so Mrs. Hood had to tuck them away on her back porch until the troop could make formal presentation to De Mille.
We were on hand for the occasion. Scouts John Hood, Al Smith, Richard Porter, John Parks, Stanley Kontcko, Ronald Davis and William Schwarzer, in full regalia, appeared on the set with the box of snails. De Mille waited until Gary Cooper had run aboard cruiser Marblehead amid the shouts of the wounded and then greeted the Scouts. "Mr. De Mille," said De Groot tion, "here are your snails." while the Scouts stood at, you very much," De Mille said to the Scouts.
"I don't know wherever would have got them." The Scouts lined up beside De Mille, who by this time was holding the box of snails, and a cameraman ran around in front. The Scouts smiled, De Mille took off his Itat, and the cameraman clicked his shutter. MOUNT ULLA PRINCIPAL C. M. Cooke, above, has resigned as principal of Sharon High School in Iredell County to accept the principalship of Mount Ulla High School in Rowan County.
A graduate of LenoirRhyne College with the class of 1929, Cooke was principal of Roaring River High School in Wilkes County for five years before he went to Sharon, where he has been principal for the last seven years. Recognized as an outstanding school leader, during his principalship at Roaring River he was credited with placing the school on the State accredited list, with raising enrolment from 150 to 516, and with raising the school from a seven-teacher unit one with 14 teachers. The Sharon school building was destroyed by fire a short time ago. Rhode to Seek Recruits For U.S. Maritime State Deaths JOHN P.
WEBB East Bend- Funeral services for John Pearson Webb, 76, who died Saturday at his home, East Bend Route 2, will be held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home and at Union Hill Methodist Church at 3 o'clock. Rev. G. A. Hovis, the pastor, and Rev.
C. H. Hutchens conduct the services. Burial be in will the church graveyard. Baking Firm Faces Charges Washington The Federal Trade Commission alleged in a complaint announced yesterday that the National Biscuit Company, described as the nation's largest producer of bakery packaged food, has engaged in price discriminations which tended to destroy competition and create a monopoly.
The commission said that the company had a system of "headquarters quantity discounts" in addition to the regular trade discount of 5 per cent and the cash discount of 1 per cent. The "quantity" discounts were available to customers whose monthly purchases were less than while purchasers in larger quantities were favored on a rising scale, FTC said. It added that on purchases between $750 and $5,000 the discount was 1 per cent and it rose to per cent on purchases over $150,000. National Biscuit has headquarters in New York and operates 46 plants and 252 branch sales offices, FTC said. Alamance Honors Dead of All Wars Burlington (AP) -A memorial service honoring Almance County dead in all wars was held yesterday at the cemetery here.
Speakers were R. Gregg Cherry, Gastonia lawyer and candidate for Governor: Rep. Carl Durham of Chapel Hill, Sixth District Congressman; Robert E. Stevens of Burlington, State Department Commander of the Legion; and S. Amos of Americana Greensboro, immediate past commander.
The ceremony was preceded by a parade from the railroad station to the cemetery. In the procession were soldiers from Fort Bragg, the Burlington Legion Post Bugle Corps, the high school band, and a number of floats. The ceremony was sponsored by the Burlington Post, headed by Commander Ray J. Nally. LONGEST GOLF COURSE England's longest golf course is Prince's, at Sandwich, said to have a length of 6,998 yards.
A player walks about four miles in playing one round. Reimer H. Rhode, yeoman second class, recruiting officer for the United States Maritime Service, who will be at the offices of the United States Employment Service in the Reynolds Building Tuesday, would like to see as many men between the ages of 17 years and six months and 50 years of age who would be interested in enrolling in the Maritime Service- provided they have not received their induction notices. The recruiting officer, while here last week stated "any man who is within the age limit and who can pass the physical examination and other examinations will be sent for initial instruction to the U. S.
Maritime Service Training Station, at Sheepshead Bay, New York, in the rank of apprentice seaman." He added that these enrollees will then be later assigned to the school for which have shown preference if pass the aptitude and they other necessary tests. These schools include training in radio, assistant purser-hospital corps, steward's department and engine department. During the first three months, students will receive $50 a month and will be supplied with food, clothing, textbooks, medical care and other facilities of the station. Radio applicants must be between the ages of and 35 years of age. They also must have two years of high school preparation, including one year of algebra.
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