PAGE TWO INSPECTS WAR MAIL INTERCHANGE UNION PRESS.COURIER, Thursday, May 6th, 1943, ) HIS EXCELLENCY ARCHBISHOP AMLETO GIOVANNI CICOGNANI is shown above as he inspects the work of sorting and preparing for remailing communications to prisoners in warring nations. As the Apostolic Delegate to the United States, Archbishop Cicognani supervises the Vatican information office established by Pope Pius XII for war vice tims of all creeds and races. (International Soundphoto) f WEEKLY HEALTH JALK{Cicccmams: smote sins she. ies “Willst not confess? Then stretch the rack and turn the thumb screws! kok k¥ “So you won't talk, eh? Then termed ‘“ballistics”—is a recent de- velopment. wham, biff, bang! ok kok E For thousands of years trial by or- deal has been used in attempts to|in many sections of the country. deok kok establish the guilt or innocence of to a common, everyday procedure. Fk kok #kk kk Finger printing has developed in- Scientific firearms identification—- kkkEw Mechanical lie-detectors are in use persons accused of crime. 5 ok ok ok of the prosecutor and police. * kok kk ed and all were mistreated. Ekkkk FkEER swallowing nervously. Fhkkk Torturous procedures varied thro-|most 1,000 criminal cases and report ugh the years but they were all ex-!a high degree of accurate, scientific pressions of frustration on the part humane results. Under such treatment many guil- | which records changes in blood press- ty escaped, many innocent confess- ure and breathing. When most persons tell a lie they manifest certain physical reactions. These reactions may take the form of blushing, dryness of the throat, or Criminal investigation has had Enjoy Furlough U. S. ARMY NURSES Julia Masha- nany (left), a full blooded Indian from Black River Falls, Wisc., and Margaret Bell of Windber, Pa., en- Joy their first furlough atop Mt. Eden, New Zealand. They are studying a map of the city and en- virons of Auckland. (International) AND RED oN THE OTHER Aw = WHAT 15 He GREATEST] HEIGHT AT wich BALLOONISTS HAVE ON THE EARTH 7 20,000 FEET SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK Awo-fonE BEARD - AEN EARL GRADY - BAYFIELD, wis, HAS BLACK BEARD oN ONE SIDE of Hi$ FACE os CHured- Built ENTIRELY oF HEARD SOUNDS MADEL i<eARDED 011 TiN CANS THE NATIVE. TowWN of WINDHOEK WHARF, SOUTHWEST AFRICA COPYRIGHT. UNA, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE bie WORLD NGITTS RZSEAYED The Michigan State Police have us- ed a lie-detectur in investigating al- | si fo 8 The detector used is an instrument | | Employment of blood grouping ex- laminations in cases of contested pa- ternity and scientific determination of alcoholic intoxication are valuable procedures of recent years. dk k Ek The medical profession has contri- buted to the development of criminal investigation. FWO MILLION PAIRS OF HOSIERY ARE NEEDED / FOR WAR EFFORT HERE Pennsylvania women have been asked to turn in a total of two mil- uon pairs of discarded silk and nylon nose this month and to save one ta- wiespoonful of waste kitcizen fats ev- coy uay In the year. Pennsylvania led all other states in i10siery collections during the four aionds ending March 15th, but the j State Council of Defense Advisory | valvage Committee emphasized, in | wetting the new goal, that “every dis- | carded pair of silk hose is needed | a.gently for ihe manufacture of the powder bags.” ! In many parts of the state house | to house collections of hosiery are | oeing made by the Girl Scouts, wo- I men’s organizations and schools. De- | Jositories in stores and other centers also are receiving the donations. | Pennsylvania's mothly quota in the | fats salvage program is 1,428,500 pounds. | “Only by having every housewife | save at least on tablespoonful every |day can we meet this qouta and do |our part to keep American fighters | supplied with ammunition,” the Sta- te Committee asserted. | Although Pennsylvania stood third {in total fat collections last month, | the amount collected was below tne | official quota. —_—V —Bonds and Stamps, bought now and bought in the future, are the best weapon you can put forth in jrelegating Hitler, and his cohorts to {the ash pile. By R.J.SCOTT Chinese Translation Of Britannica Begun CHUNGKING.—Work has been started on translating the Ency- clopedia Britannica into Chinese, it was announced officially. This ‘‘colossal undertaking’ will require several yeers. The national institute for compilation and translation of the ministry of education of the Chinese govern- ment is in charge. Most Envied Man Butter ‘Detective’ Expert Grader Can Judge Feed Cows Have Eaten. It may be news to even the farm folks that the conditions under which they milk their cows and the care] they give the resulting product can be told immediately by an individu- | al when he samples a portion of but- | ter churned from the cream pro-| duced. Where the milk or cream has been stored and what the cows have been eating are but a few of the odd bits of information that R. E. Eldred, rated as one of the country's best butter graders, can usually detect by putting a pat of butter into his mouth. Mr. Eldred is chief butter inspec: tor for the Atlantic and Pacific Tea company’s Chicago warehouse. Ac- tually, he doesn’t sample each pound —nor does he swallow any of the butter he is inspecting. A three- ounce sample, taken by a metal trier from a fiber box or wooden tub with weights ranging from 54 to 64 pounds, is sufficient. An inspector can, in most in- stances, tell by tasting and smelling a sample of butter under what con- ditions the cream was produced and handled. Quality of the finished prod- uct is largely determined by the perfection of the raw material and care given the processing opera- tions. So acute is a grader’s sense of taste and aroma that he can, with fairly consistent degree of accura- cy, determine by the feed flavors the territory or origin of the but- ter. Skunkweed in Oklahoma, sage- weed in the Dakotas, peppergrass in Nebraska, onion ur garlic in Mis- souri, and the heavy feeding of al- falfa to cattle on the West coast, each imparts its own distinctive characteristics, although they are usually too faint to anyone but an expert. Science of Hydroponics Speeds Victory Garde nia “Mother Ne Te 1 stfeamlined this spring to help win the food war on the home front. With a recent discovery in the science of growing vegetables in a preparation containing all the nec- essary nutrient elements, Victory gardeners may now shorten nature's growing season by as much as 30 days. Known as hydroponics, this sci- ence has been perfected to a point whereby gardeners can now get a head start in growing their cabbage, lettuce, green peppers and other vegetables merely by adding water to a specially-prepared soilless plant ball containing seeds, spagnum moss, vitamins and plant food. With no muss and a minimum of care, as many as 50 vegetable slips can be grown from one ball without the necessity of using “flats.” This new development is the re- sult of years of experiment on the part of a Barryton, Mich., organiza- tion which has in the past devised similar methods of raising flowers. Plant balls are approximately three inches in diameter, which swell to nearly six inches when moistened. They should be placed in a warm spot, preferably a win- dow sill, watered once a day to keep moist, not saturated. The seeds contained in each transplant ball begin to grow within seven to ten days, reaching sufficient maturity to be transplanted to the garden within 30 days. When ready for the outdoor gar- den, each slip should be carefully separated from: the moss and trans- planted to the garden, where it will grow and produce vegetables through the season. 13 Is Lucky Number for Lucky Yank Bombardier MEMPHIS. — Thirteen unlucky? Don’t try to peddle that stuff to Sergt. James F. Gates Jr., bombar- dier in the army air forces, who says he— Was born May 13, 1917— Was in two consecutive battles in the Solomons on the 13th— Was under shellfire on Guadal- canal on the 13th— Was on one of the longest air-sea bombardment missions of the war on the 13th— Was away three years, seven months, 13 days—and arrived home March 13— And was not greatly surprised when his mother gave a luncheon for him and invited—13 guests. BERKELEY, CALIF.—When do women talk the least? The Welsh IMPORTANT foop HEM AMONG THE NATIVES oF AUSTRALIA had an answer to that puzzler, con- tained in “A Collection of Welsh Rid- dles’’ published by the University of California Press. The answer to the riddle is February, the month hav ing the 1 “~* number of days. nomic Stabilization, heard that two senate committees were arguing over which should go to North Af- rica, he said: ‘“‘Isn’t that another argument for two fronts?” OVERSEAS LETTERS Many an American mother is hearing from her boy: “Why don't | you write? I haven't had a letter | from home for ages.” And she | knows she has written faithfully ev- ery day. | The explanation is the U-boat, | which the war department regrets | to say caused the loss of ‘‘several million pieces of mail” during pe first three weeks of March alone. But still the mother wonders why some of her daily letters don’t get | through. Even if a third of them | were sunk her boy should have re- | ceived 20 letters in the month. { Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that | way. If she writes 30 letters a month all those letters may have | accumulated in the Port of New York or some other port waiting for | a convoy outward bound. Convoys cannot leave every day or two. So all 30 letters might go into one ship and if that ship is sunk her son will have no mail for a month. There is no solution to this prob- lem except to keep on writing. . * * COLONEL HOBBY ROSE Col. Oveta Culp Hobby of the WAACs picked up the telephone one bright morning and called Col. Wil- liam Slater of the war department's public relations branch. ‘Good morning, colonel,” she said. . “Good morning, colonel,” he re- plied. “Colonel,” she said, “I have been told by a large seed company that they want to name a rose after me. What would you think of my lending my name to a rose—the Hobby rose?” That was a new one for the colo- nel. He chuckled, laughed it off, and suggested that horticultural problems were out of his line. In the end, the two colonels de- cided the question was too thorny to handle. * * * RUBBER FROM OIL REFINERIES | It has now been more than a year since far-sighted Oil Co-ordinator Ickes urged that synthetic rubber | be made by converting small oil | refineries, closed by gasoline ration- ing, instead of building the mon- strous new rubber factories which will not be finished until 1944 and which require millions of tons of precious steel and copper. After long delays the first of ‘these converted small refineries will be making rubber on May 1. It is at ston, Texas, and the resu promise to be astounding. Not a single new steel vessel, pump, tank, or piece of piping, so badly needed for escort vessels by the navy, have been used. Further- more, the total new material of oth- er types amounts to only 20 per eent cf the cost of the entire job. However, this Eastern States plant will produce in 12 months enough butadiene to make 2,000,000 tires, | plus ingredients for several thousand tons of high octane gasoline per day. Also, because it was not necessary to build new walls, roofs, equipment, this converted refinery will produce butadiene at a cost equivalent to a | little over $1 per tire, based on the investment. ® * * BRITISH DEMOCRACY A great deal is being written on | the question ‘“What are we fighting for?” but if the American public had looked in on the Servicemen’s Can- teen of the National Press club on a recent Saturday afternoon, they | wouldn't have to be told. | One of the guests was a British naval officer, Rear Admiral S. R. Dight, famed in the British navy for his toughness in battle, and the salti- ness of his sea yarns. At the Press Club canteen, he more than justified this latter reputation to American soldiers, sailors and marines who flocked around him. However, it wasn’t until the party was about to break up that the ad- miral came into his own. It isn’t every day that an admiral, British or American, joins a song- fest with gobs and soldiers, but Ad- miral Dight sang popular American airs with gust and enthusiasm for half an hour. Finally an American sailor called out: “Let's sing this one for the admiral—For He's a Jolly Good Fel- low!” What followed was probably the lustiest rendition of that familiar tune ever heard in the nation’s capi- tal. More than 100 soldiers, sailors and marines joined in the tribute to Admiral Dight, who looked almost as happy as if he had just won a naval battle. It was one of the things we are fighting for—democ- racy. * * * CAPITAL CHAFF Ambassador John Winant’s young- er brother Fred is the American representative in the Middle East Supply Center in Cairo . . . There is a shortage of planes for transport- ing officials to Africa. Some men | cool their heels for a month before getting a seat . . When Jimmy Byrnes, director of the office of Eco- BLATT BROTHERS GRAND THEATRE PATTON Fri., Sat., May 7-8 JOHNSON ESSE REE REE EERE EE] with VAN HEFLIN LIONEL BARRYMORE “RUTH HUSSEY Marjorie MAIN + Regis TOOMEY by LIONEL BARRYMORE Produced'by J. WALTER RUBEN ALSO “Greatest FULL-LENGTH war film ever made!’ —N. Y. Mirror Produced by the Film Units of the British Army and the R. A. F. Sun., Mon., May 9-10 Matinee Sunday at 2:30 Now you can see the sen- ; sational picture based on 6% ; : ‘the book that shocked the oll ARE ITs 5 T VEDUCATION FOR DEATH.” TYAN Nd % wir M HOLT « BONITA GRANVILLE + KENT SMITH + OTTO KRUGER « H. B. WARNER a R LLOYD CORRIGAN + ERFORD GAGE + HANS CONREID GAVIN MUIR + NANCY GATES Produced by EDWARD A. GOLDEN + Directed by EDWARD DMYTRYK Screen Play by Emmet Lavery | From the best-seller | and as told to millions ' in READER'S DIGEST. Also News and Cartoon Tuesday, May 11 The Dead End Kids, in 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge” = also — Buck Jones ... Mona Barrie “Dawn On The Great Divide” Wed., Thurs., May 12-13 ALL YOU'VE EVER DREAMED OF IN ONE GREAT SHOW : AND MORE! CHARLES R. ROGERS presents 2s Gl CAROLE ANNE Y LANDIS GEORGE IRLE Y SH MURPH The Singing Stor of 5 ENJNIIS DAY Introdu 's Radio Program Long-Stemme Jack Benny s §° And The Powers Lot ALAYY MOWERAT EVE Beauties +) 2 BENNY Goopmang £4 and His Orchestra kh Ve. R————— ZARA AS DANAE A ems A a Aas as nas
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