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I- Bird ' 'Pink Tfiartr.
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iwTim me American Airmen In France,
i July 10 (by mall)
A d better translate tome of this
jjjgtmper talk Into honert-to-gosh Amerl
ssearl, or the Unlttd Press readers won't
$ able to stop It," observed Lieutenant
SEdde Rlckenbaeker, American ace and
vjjormer auto racer, as he "beenn
i. , ..
glmper talk," which li the
Word for aero slang
iU , "We'll start out with the rudiments of
Mn avlatiJr's laneuace." said Rlrken.
fDAker "It Comnletelv Icrnnrea lha et.irl.,
I Cf grammatical formation Th. nni..
formations we know are aero forma
tions, which Is feroup flitng.
"First of all, there's an airplane With
,U It Is never an airplane It's always
'known as a 'can' Pmhahtv n t
Lvthat because It cairles such big gasoline
iann.3, ana wncn you stop to think of
how easily the OermanR could set the
'can' afire If we didn't let them hno It
first, jou understand why an airplane is
a can.
"Lettinir them havo It to tuet v. nu.
l"Hl6n way of saying you're firing the ma-
-cnine gun as fast as she'll go Into Heinle
You almost always hae a chance when
you go to a pink tea
"Going to a pink tea Is going up In the
ir aner a uerman l uckoo birds are
, always talking about pink teas, though
,they never have them A cuckoo bird is
if wi aviator wno aoes an nis ngnllng
wniia none of the glmpers, Is around and
i, uien comes dbck and tells about it.
ir you spot something .which Is Fee
ing another plane, you jockey for'posl
tlon. That Is trying to get where you
can shoot at him without nil thootlng
you. Usually jou try to 'get under his
tall,' which is behind and under him
and coming after him. He can't shoot
then and you can.
"He would niobablv 'zoom' or 'dive' or
"vrlir then If he zooms he runs for
home ; If he dives he goes straight
,gr6undward without turning, while If
he allies he dives, turning around like
a. top so its difficult to shoot him.
Glmper Ghn the Signal
"If It's a glmper you've pltiued on
- and pique Is only the aviation way cf
s&ylng attacked or charged at he wob-
blep his flappers frantically, probably,
to signal you. That means he moes his
i wings up and down You know he is
'American then, because jou can see the
Allied coquards on his wings.
" iT t n ViAdhk tic. trt t A Ha !.
At, uc ncio a, uutuc nc wuiu -"- iti
ting you hae it, probably, and you'd
try to get Into the blind spot. That is a
point between him and the sun, wheic
he can't see ou, but you can see him.
It is a 'point of antage' technically
speaking.
"Good luck and your gun doesn't Jam
and you've 'bot. a boche,' which means
bringing him down. Let him get awa
to Hunland and the glmpers with jou
.will razz jou with the serpentine action,
which Is going up and down by moving
the wings abruptly.
"Probably by this time the archies
have discovered you and begin to pepper
you. That means the German anti-
, aircraft guns are shooting tTrey're
A called archies and tyey pepper you be-
r MnaA the r-iniirla thev leae behind you
l.. iiii hitLr Mine Vmi ran kid them
nrc nine vm-r ..." - -
along if you wish, which is getting first
out of range and then doing stunts,
usually loops. It's bad form, though,
unless you're trying to draw their Are
from some other activity of another
srimper. S
' "Uoinir stums over archies Is the
worst insult you can give the Germans
and they will never fall to pepper j-ou
If you're wise jou'll zoom oft for home
about that time or you're liable to be
on panne, which means the same as
cuckoo. Cuckoo is aero slang for bro
ken down somewhere.
Zlnag Fov In Heinle
"It's all right If some Heinle hasn't
shot out of his belly at you unexpectedly
: before you could zigzag out of range.
7ii,,it.-lnF usuallv foxes him as we say.
? Anyway, you want to be near enough to"
the line when your moior cutnuus on
'you so you can glide back. Then the
i iAn o ..rJna iit nnd t?et their
'eklmo, as they call the aviators In their
ifur suits, and if you haven't scared
; Heinle to death maybe tneieu db a
1 tplnk tea at me renQwuus cv j
;!uWhen the can is hummlnB(agaln."
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i ShinvttA Coo Would Take Fhwer to
Front
1 -James A JIaher, assistant chief of the
, Cheater shipyard police department. Is
I.i ., inlnlnr- Ha is in the draft.
llnd hai been eamlned for various
p tranches of the military serv ice, put
'4Ja.td ira nnt eertous. tnoueh. and
the hopes to overcome them in a short
NEW JERSEY SHIPYARD, GLOUCESTER, AND ITS MEN
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This U n tvpical noontime crowd at this vard. These men have had their Itimhcs and frequenlly find lime enouih
left to pose en mas&e before the camera
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K. OF C, SECRETARY
SEES ACTION OVERSEAS
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I'' ' nnlv one thing about leaving seems
to worry Maher. and that is his "tin
Eh. lizzie." He lives. at Oak View, Deia
... rnnniv nnrl th car has been a
. great comfort to him. If he goes away
SYed Mumford may take the care off his
,,hands.
Shipworker Wants to Fight
"Jimmte" Mehorter, of the Sun Ship
C6mpany, at Chester, has tried to enlist
in almost every branch of the military
ervlce. but all the medical examiners
" eo far have declared him too short But
i c "-jirnmie is sua anxious 10 enusi in
1 aomething. and says he will not give up has brought him several local challenges,
until somebody takes him. all of which he Ignored
Letter to Friend at Camp
Meade Tells of Bombing
and Gassing
Camp Meade, Md., Aug 7
Joe Melnernej', who used to b one of
the K of C. secretaries at this can
tonment, but who went tverse.is a few
weeks ago. has been getting a red-hot
recptlon from the bodies over In
France A letter from Joe received by
one of his friends In camp shows that
ho has been in the thick of things over
there He has seen men killed about
him, has been shaken up a, bit by shell
explosions and was deprived of the use
of his voice for three weeks as a re
sult .
That must have been some punish
ment for Joe. There's nobody in the
world who can bat him nt long-distance
talkl"g. as hundreds of persons who have
heard him lecture can festlfy
Joe packed a lot of news in his little
letter as can be Judged by a peiusal of
it. It reads as follows
"I suppose j-ou think that I have for
gotten all about the iroys at aieauc.
"I have been kept quite busy since I
saw j-ou last. I have seen quite n little
action In the air and have spent a few
hours in a dugout during a homhard
ment I hav e- had a smell of gas and
can assure jou that the after-effects are
not verj- nice
Five boche avions came into town the
other night, spiaying the roads with
machine gun file. When thev got across
the street from me they aroppeu iu
'500-pound bombs on the railroad station
and killed five Frenchmen who were
sleeping In. the station. Five Americans
in the next room escaped with a severe
shaking up I got slammed around in
good style, but luckily escaped
"These boches met with quite a little
success in the next town They blew
hell out of one of our hospitals and
killed several of the patients.
"When boche Eees a Yank opposing
him, he loses all Interest in the war. We
have them bullied on the water and they
won't fight man to man In the nlr. When
., n Yank regiment sending 500
prisoners through In one day it begins
to look as if the spirit of the Germans
is very low When the prisoners go
through, they all seeni glad that It is all
ovei ... ,
"Here's hoping for an early finish and
a trip to the land of good clean water
and soap and good placed to go to when
j-ou have a little time off. Best wishes
to all. JOE"
The news of the loss of Joe's voice
came in an indirect way to Bernie
Flynn. general camp secretary of the
Knights of Columbus. The news is true
all right
Joe was one of the tallest men In camp
when he was here. He stood six feet
three and was built, In propoition He
would have had good company In Private
J P. Hurley, of Sprlngdale, W. Va , If
he had remained behind Hurley stands
six feet seven Inches In his stocking
feet and weighs 210 pounds. He was
a farmer at home. He was also a school
teacher for six years In a little West
Virginia town and Incidentally the star
baseball pitcher In that section. Thus
Hurley already can tack behind his
name school teacher, farmer, baseball
plaj-er and soldier.
Some of the men want Tommy Gib
bons, the boxing Instructor at Meade,
to try to develop Hurley into a contender
for Jess Wlllard's honors. Tom has
some hankering after those honors him
self He has challenged Jack Dempsej-,
who flattened out Fred Fulton. Persons
in charge of the big Salvation Army
benefit in Chicago would like to see Tom
my and Dempsey get together on
August 14 in the windy city.
M - ji - - i
NOT A "REGULAR" PUGILIST
Dean Snyder, employed In the service
department qf the Chester Shipbuilding
Companj-, has a locker filled w-lth boxing
gloves, and nothing delights him more
after he has had a good lunch than to
get them all out and try them on.
Not with anybody else. He Just tries
them on himself to see how they feel,
h- urA Snviltv la a neaceful man. but
I his habit of playing with the sheepskins
BAND PLAYS AT LUNCH HOUR
Noonday Concerts Twice Weekly
at Chester Shipyard
The Chester Shlpvard Band hereafter
will glvp two concerts every week In the
vard The concerts will begin at 12 05
,, .v, nnrt onrl .it 12.40 The IllllSl-
ciins will delay their own lunches to
entertaltn the other shlpworkeis with
their favorite selection" These are nevei j
Amva" nffalt-K i
rtlght from the forges In the black 1
smith shop and other Jobs equally dirtj I
tho musicians co to the bandstand with !
out even washing the grime fiom their
hands Theie Is no time for that Be.
sides, they siy. dlit of that kind nnvei
hurts music ....
Charles Morris, George Hanklns and
Joe Welsh, all members of the bind
work In the blacksmith shop. Mortis Is
leader of the band, and he, .Hanklns
and Walsh are all old shlpworkers. So
Is Alfred Hanklns, the director, and
Johnny Roberts, assistant director
WOMEN AS TRACKHANDS
' and in giving attention to the sennphore
I slcml lights fco efhclpnt lnvo the
vomen proted to be that emplovmeiit
has been oftered to a number of otheis
RIVET BOSS'S CLERK
HAS TO VENTILATE HAT
Harry Ranken Busy at Noon,
When Every One Wants
Something
It's luck for George Sttute. bns of
the riveting department at Cramps' ship
yard, that he lias a clerk to help out at
noon As oon as tne nnon wmnf
shrieks there Is n rare for Suite's little
sanctum from every direction The bovs
all have to get pasres to leave the ard
"Gimme a pas' ' hotlts the first man
up This is when Clerk Harry nanken's
fun begins The applicant must give
name and check number and Itankn has
to keep a record of both Spelling or
pronouncing )iiie of these mmes Is too
much for this or any other Amilcan
clerk these hot d,ijs. But it has to be
done
N'nt many. If any. natlomlltles weie
overlooked In this jaid Thete are .ip
pnrently all kinds of mme Sometimes
the clerk has one shot at him that
sound something like Zxprbvtkgvskl,
but he has to do the best lie tan In
writing it down
Three different colors are ued In these
little passes For one dopirtment they
use white, for one blue and for the thild
jellow
Thev sometimes come so fist that
Ranken jells for help and an offU-o boj
lelieves him of the recording of the
names etc , in the book
It is not always a pas that Is w-tnted
Olinnie a discharge paper ' sometimes
hipaks the monotonv This means that
the man has either quit or liern jkd
to quit and Is now after the necessarj
paper to what pij Is coming to him
WANAMAKER'S
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DOWM STAIRS STORE
August 7, 1918
at Wanamaker's
Reading Railway Finds Them Efficient
at Shamokin
Slmnioliln. Pa Aug 7. Handicapped
for labor because of the draft and war
munition plints, Reading Railway offi
cials have given emploj-ment to women
as trackhands nieven are now em
ployed In keeping open sw Itches and
frogs, In cleaning debris from the tracks
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Wi:T OF BELLKVLE-STRATFORD
Summer Apparel
We are clearing our wardrobes of all
Remaining Summer Apparel and readjusting
our stocks to Mjd-Season conditions. Excep
tional low price in:
Dresses- Suits - Coats
Blouses and Hats
Planked Lobster I 1
I: A Treat A Delicacy
P ' Hanover Sea Food is always the "talk of I ij
?i B the town." We buy, prepare and serve II
B only one kind '"The Best" V 1
i? n Cold COMsomm HB" 'fwj,Twf M
If B IJ Julismw Potqtoe) "V.l . H II 111
B) V-P IO Cream 0'" Cak b lJ-i -fTv.oj a HI
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Packers' Profits
Large or Small
Packers' profits look big
i
When the Federal' Trade Commission
' reports that four of them earned
$140,000,000 during the three war years.
Packers' profits look small
When it is explained that this profit was
earned on total sales of over four and a
half billion dollars or only about three
cents on each dollar of sales.
This is the relation between profits and sales:
Profits I Three cents on each dollar of sales.
Sales WEHEKKEKinKMKKKKEEKKKKEKMKKBM
If no packer profits had been earned,
you could have bought your meat at only
a fraction of a cent per pound cheaper !
Packers' profits on meats and animal
products have been limited by the Food
Administration since November 1, 1917.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
Seven Wholesale Distributing Markets
Central Office, 9th and Girard Ave 3.
F. M. Hall, District Manager
THE DOWN
STAIRS STORE IS
A BOON TO
THRIFTY PEOPLE
It isn't always easy these days to
be thrifty and devote all extra money
to War Savings Stamps and Bonds,
but it is much easier when you shop
in the Down Stairs Store, for you are
bound to save money on everything
you buy.
If quality were sacrificed it would
not be true thriftiness, but as the
Down Stairs Store is bound fast in all
the Wanamaker principles, you know
that quality is always first.
A Shower in the Morning
prepaies you for the daj's work or play. Bath
sprays of fine white lubber with unusually large
heads are only 05c each.
(Onlrn!)
.
Little Socks Are Cool
for Children
Thece are of mercerized white cotton with
trayly stiiped tops to match the frocks. In si.es
5H to 9 at 2oc a pair.
(Central)
Fan Weather eh?
Great big palm-leaf fans aie Fc each.
Palm-leaf fans that are bound and will last
quite a while are 25c each.
Folding fans of all kinds are oc, 10c, 15c and
25c each.
(Onlrnl)
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JlMs wont oe
ecessary Iff Ym Get
Palm Beach Suits, $7.50
Cool Cloth Suits, $7.50, $9.75,
$10.75 and $12.75
((Inllprj Mnrkrt)
Special
Women's Sweaters
Reduced
In this Rathering of a hundred sweaters
and only a few alike you will surely find
just the sweater you ned for your vacation
by the sea or in the mountains. There are
slipover sweaters with sleeves and coat
sweaters in all the gay, pretty colorings.
$1.25.
(Central)
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(Market)
House Dresses That
Are Thin and Cool
One is of white oile with an
inch-wide stripe formed of tiny
dots in lose, pink, blue, lavender
or black. The belt is cut in the
shape of a little vest and is of
soft, green chambray: the over
collar and ciiTs aie of white.
Another cool frock is of sheer
tissue gingham with w o v e n
stripes of pink, blue or lavender
and a wide square collar, tie and
cuffs of white coid piped with the
stiiped material of which the
dress is made.
Both are $3.85.
(Central)
Many Corset Models
at $1.25
Yes, moie models than you
would imagine aie heie in light
weight Summer matirials--light
batiste and thin coutil and ou
may choose pale pink or white.
For All Figures
from the veiy slight to the stout,
there are corsets to fit that will
help toward giaceful lines. Some
of the models are shoit ail top
less, while others aie long nnd
fairly high. Among them is a
coiset with wide insets of elastic
at the bottom and the top of each
side.
(Central)
Interesting Price Clipping
in the Dress Store
Summer frocks are now to be had for
very little, and women whose vacations
come now are taking advantage of it.
Voiles, Percales and
Ginghams Are Reduced
Now $5.50
A group of all soits of voile dresses
not many of a kind, but many kinds.
Some need a pressing, but they are
worth it.
At $6.75, a rose-colored voile frock
with an overskirt in the fprnvof a pleated
panel is trimmed only with a scalloped
edging and hemstitching.
Now $5.75
Pretty percale frocks show white
grounds with small figures in black or
pink. Some are trimmed with frilled
white collars and cuff and some with
many pearl buttons.
The pretty gingham frock sketched is
marked specially at this price. It is to
be had in pink or blue checks and in gay
plaids. Note the new long waistline and
the double low of ciochet buttons. 55.75.
Now $6.50
A gathering of gingham and cham
bray frocks which have become broken
in sizes. There ""are plaids trimmed with
plain colors and plain colors with plaid
trimmings. All are reduced.
i ' Women's
White Shoes
High or Low of Canvas or
Leather
The canvas shoes for women
i are cut to lace high and have
, curved heels. $2.80 the pair.
The leather pumps have much
i the aspect of buckskin and are
I made with light turned Eoles and
covered heels. $4 the pair.
Brown Oxfords
Lightweight, well -cut oxfords
of brown kidskin, with turned
soles and high, coveied heels
women will like their good line.
$3.40 the pair.
(Chestnut)
Oh! Those
Mosquitoes! And
the Flies!
It is no comfort to sit on the
porch "when they bother so!
But they need not' bother you
a single'bit, for heie is incense
that will drive them both
away.
240 sticks of incense and a.
holder to burn them in for 25c.
Result no bothersome flies
nor mosquitoes.
(Central)
10-Yard Pieces of
Longcloth
$2.25 a Piece
which is today's wholesale
price. The longcloth is white,
really good quality and 36 inches
wide.
(Central)
Curtain Scrim
22c a Yard
Both cream and white scrim is
all ready for the hems at top and
bottom that will turn it into cur
tains. That is all it needs, fpr
the borders are prettily finished
with di awn-work and tapes. 36
inches wide.
(Chestnut)
Crepe Bloomers
$1
Two styles of pink crepe bloom
ers aie adorned in some way with
Copenhagen blue. One is trim
med with nanow trimmings, of
blue ribbon and the othei is pret
tied with blue stitching.
(Central)
"Why Are So Many of Your
Rugs Priced Below Wholesale
Cost Today?"
Several thinking people have asked us that question. Thi Is
the answer:
Many of the rugs weie contracted for quite a time ago;
A large number were bought in special purchases;
And a quantity of rugs are reduced.
"Dohe Low Prices Affect the Quality?"
No! The Down Stairs Sore holds the same high standard at
quality, no matter what the piices-may be. However, you are frea
to examine lor yourseu ana me result win b-w&iy yuu. .
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