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The Bulletin, Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pa., Thursday Morning, October 16, 1941

Whalers fade
Great U. S. Force Century
Ago Included Some
809 Vessels.
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WASHINGTON. — America’s last
To Lone Fleet

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whaling concern, the remnant of a;
whaling force that included about
800 ships a century ago, soon wiil
be pursuing Moby Dick off ‘northern :
California.
The San Francisco Sea Wood Prod- |
. ucts company recently received a
.».of calves
license from Secretary of Interior |
Ickes to operate a shore station at
and is
its next
Humboldt bay, California,
making preparations for
trip.
The company is the last whaling |
company in the United States,
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though there is another one in Brit- |
+'ish Columbia. Accord
received here, the Canadians also
plan to go to sea this year.
Season Now Open.
The whaling season on the West;
coast begins about this time of the
year and lasts until well into the
fail.
Last year American whalers
caught 29 whales, including six fin-
backs, 19 humpbacks and four sperm
whales. A 70-foot finback was the
largest caught during the season,
most of the others measuring be-
tween 50 and 60 feet in length.
One hundred years. ago the United
States boasted the largest whaling
fleet in the world. Between 600 and
800 ships flew the Stars and Stripes.
Modern whaling ships differ as
much from those that sailed the seas
£100’ years ago as the stratoliner dif-
(fers from the Wright brothers’ first
“airplane.
~~ No longer do whalers have to low-
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in the crow’ nest cries, “Thar’ she
« blows!”
Nowadays,. the whaling ship,
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equipped with special engines that!
Swill not emit strong sound waves
‘through the water and disturb the
whale,
2 discharges a harpoon from a har-
slips up to the mammal and |
~poon-gun mounted in the bow.
x When the weapon strikes the
it is discharged by a shot of
«powder and four prongs open within
=the whale.
-Modern whalers usually operate
a radius of approximately 150
“miles from their land station.
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i Whale fat. is processed into oil,
““fwhich in America is used primarily
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in perfumes, as a base for
face creams and fly sprays, as a
in the manufacture of soaps.
lubricant for machinery, and in
leather tanning. In Germany, where
all possible ersatz foods are used,
“whale soil is used as a shortening,
replacing lard.
In the United States, whale meat
js used for cat and dog foods, but
in Japan, the interior department
said, it is used for human consump-
“ion.
The catch last year was es-
at Sr most of which
the Antarctic by |
en {rom
Norwegian and Japanese
were tak
English,
whalers.
In 1935 an
ment, signed by
who agreed on w
measur went into effect.
an d females ns
by calves was prohibited.
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Census Report Shows U. S.
Accident Rate Is Lower
WASHINGTON.—The census bu-
reau has come out with the cheeri
news that the United States is
pretty safe place to live, and getting
safer.
The 92,623
1839, it said,
of 1.3 per c¢
death rate from

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idental deaths
rep nted a deci
nt from 1935. And the
accidents was only
70.9 for each 100,000 of population,
the third lewest on record. Both
1921 and 1922 had better records.
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From its data the bureau figured !
ance |
that you have only about one chix
in a million of dying from a poicon-
ous snake's bite, a fale

102° persons in 193 And your
chance of being killed hy lightning is
only one in 238.000. Lighining took
590 lives in 1939.
As many people no doubt suspect-
ed, highway mishaps were the prin-
cipal ‘cause of accidental deaths in
1939. There were 30,468 fatalities in
automobile accidents. Falls; the
second chief cause, killed 22,878
Other causes and the number of
deaths were drowning, 5,450; rail-
way (other than crossing mishaps),
3,394; firearms, 2,582; burns, 1,794;
agricultural accidents, 1,604; mines
and quarries, 1,540; suffocation,
1,226; sunstroke, 527; motorcycles,
439; airplanes, 396; lightning, 390;
streetcars, 356; attacks by animals,
279: excessive cold, 190.
hode Island was the safest state
in the Union, with an accident death
rate of 51.3 for each 100,000 popula-
tion, while Nevada had the highest
rate, 203.1.
Recruit Misses Adicus
And Turns in Fire Alarm
BRIDGETON, N. J.—A 23-year-
old army volunteer was unhappy
about the empty train platform and
lack of farewells at the depot as
he left for his induction station, so
he turned in an alarm at a near-by
fire box.
Sirens, bells, scores of townsfolk
and firemen complete with hook and
ladder -and chemical truck greeted
him as he waved good-by from the
departing train.
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In Jungles of Burmese |
Another odd kind of Burmese]
boat is fitted with long-handled|
oars, The oars are so long that they | |
cross each other in the boat. The|
man who is rowing hclds the right-|
side ‘oar in his left hand, and the!
left-side oar in his right hand. i
Among the rivers of Burma is the
Irrawaddi. It runs for 1,300 miles, |
from the mountains in the northern
part of the country down to the Bay |
of Bengal. One of the cities on its]
banks is Mandalay, which was!
made famous through a poem writ-|
ten by Kipling.
Burma is a big country, with]
about a quarter of a million square |
miles. The population is close to
16,000,000.
A great deal of the country is
covered with forests and jungles.
In the jungles there are dense
bamboo thickets. The bamboo
stalks grow so closely together, in!
some parts, that a person could not
push his way through them. The]
Wabo bamboo in Burma has stalks
as much as 10 inches thick, and
they reach a height as great as 150
feet. That is rather tall for a plant,
which is classed as a grass!
Among: the wild animals are
tigers, bears, leopards, apes and
monkeys. The rhino and the ele-
phant also roam the land.
Rangoon, the capital of Burma,
contains more than 400,000 people.
It has a fine water supply system,’
and many modern built homes.

Blood Given ‘Sun Bath’
To Combat Infecticns
A new method of treating blood
poisoning and other serious .infec-
tions, including childbed fever, was
announced by Dr. George Miley of
Philadelphia, at the annual meet-
ing of the American Medical asso-
ciation.
The method consists, essentially,
of “sun-bathing”’ the patient's blood.
The sun-bathing is done not by the
sun's ultra-violet rays themselves,
but by artificially produced ultra-
violet rays. A measured amount of
blood, the amount depending on the
patient’s weight and condition, is
taken from his veins, and after ul-
tra-violet irradiations of from 9 to 14
seconds, is put back into his veins.
The irradiation is done as the blood
is put back. This method of treat-
ing infection has been attempted be-
fore, but did not succeed until de-
velopment of a special chamber in
which a system of baffles keeps the
blood turbulent while the ultra-vio-
let rays are hiiting it. Credit for!
development of this device, Doctor
Miley said, belongs to E. K. Knott,
electrophysicist of Seattle.
Out of 27 patients with severe in-
fections, 22 recovered. Doctor Mi-
ley has had the treatment himself
and reported that neither in his case
nor in that of any others were there
any bad effects on the blood or on
kidney function.

Eating
for
vegetables was Sylvester
Scientific

advocate of whole-meal Gr aham
bread. In Manhattan a Graham
bosardingh e was founded, and

1S tellectuais eagerly
took up vegetable dicts along with
bloomers and female suffrage. (At
this time some zealots founded a
“Society for the Suppression of Eat-

middle-cla

ing.”’)
Next great food crusader was
Wilbur Olin Atwater, who in the]
1870s, following European methods,
ficured out the number of calories
different occupational groups should
consume. No vitamin faddist, At-
water urged U. S. workmen to fill
their calory quotas with greater
“epnergy-yielders'’—meat, potatoes,
and bread-—instead of watery stuff
low in calories.
In the early 1900s, Henry Clapp
Sherman, now a professor at Colum-
bia, discovered the value of min-
erals—iron, calcium, phosphorus. |
Then came the researches on vita-
mins, beginning with the discovery
of a *‘vitamine” (B) by a Pole,
Casimir Funk, in 1911,

ight en Pole Vaulting |
Jumping over a light beam is a
new sport made possible by the use
of the electric eye in connection
with the pele vault. It was tried
recently for the first time at the!
Schenectady Patrolmen’s associa-
tion interscholastic track meet. In-|
stead of the usual pole across the
uprights, four parallel beams of
light shine from one standard and
impinge on a series of four photo-
electric cells in the other standard.
If a jumper fails to ‘clear any one
of the beams any of four red but-
tons indicates the fact, A narrow
ribbon of paper stretched parallel to

and at the height of the lowest
beam serves as a target for the
jumper.
Spinach Spurned
The child whose deep-seated sus-
picion of spinach made him refuse
broccoli had the right of it. So said
Chemist Roger William Truesdail
of Los Angeles to the mothers and
fathers of Redlands, Calif.,, last
week. “After all,” said he, ‘‘young-
sters have been exactly right in
their tearful resistance to the sup-
posed builder of sturdy bodies. The |
calcium properties’ of spinach are
not available to the human system.
Only 20 per cent of its iron is avail-
able. But this is not the worst of
it. The oxalate radical in spinach
precipates the calcium from other
foods and carries it away.”

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War Once More
Booms Halifax!
Busiest Port in the World |
Has Thrived on Ships
For 120 Years.
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.—This
is the city that wars built.
For 180 years this Anglo-Saxon
citadel of the North American con-
tinent has thrived—and suffered—
in wartime; struggled for economic
security in peace. Today the story
is the. same. The boom is on again.
Halifax may not be the biggest port
in the world but tcday it probably is
the busiest. It moves the most
ships, a large percentage of them in
convoy for Britain.
“It's a pity we must always thrive
on war,” says Port Manager Ralph
Hendry.
He wishes there were no such
tragic design for prosperity here.
faxers, that you can’t beat fate and
geography. Nova Scotia sits out on
the eastern fringe of the continent,
some 2,700 miles from Liverpool.
So Halifax once more becomes the
Gibraltar of the Western world, the
! great crossroads of empire, where a
Hindu turban is almost as. common
as a New Zealander’s overseas cap.
+ Evidence of the crossroads nature
of Halifax is on every side.
Port Is Ice Free.
Ask a native Halifaxer - why it
prosperity and he'll answer you
short and easy.
Geography. Halifax has.one of the
finest natural harbors in the world.
Farther inland, connected with the
outer’ harbor by a deep narrows,
lies a huge anchorage basin, where
scores of ships may lie awaiting
The port is ice" free all
winter.
Geography also made Nova Sco-
tia, and mecre particularly Halifax
harbor, a British perch to flank the
French in North America in the
Eighteenth century. Parliament
subsidized a colony in 1749 and sent
it to the Harbor of Chebucto in Aca-
dia. That colony became Halifax.
There followed the French and In-
dian wars, when British navy pay-
masters brought prosperity to Hali-
fax. Then the American Revolu-
tion. Halifax remained loyal to the
end, supplying blockading fleets and
privateers for the British.
During the Napoleonic wars the
royal navy kept big fleets in the har-
bor. Wolfe planned the capture of
Quebec here. And it was here dur-
ing the War of 1812 that the world’s
first modern convoys were made up
and escorted through the American
blockade by British men o’. war.
Prospered in 1914,
The story was the same in the
Crimean and Boer wars. The big-
gest prosperity came in 1914. It
was the same business of supplying
rendezvous for convoys, a North At-
lantic base for the British fleet, and
later for the Americans. Supplies
for great waves of France-bound
soldiers were furnished here, too.
Halifax was in the money agzain,
Through it all, Halifaxers have
not rested content to reap the profit ' By
of war. They've also taken the
risks. You can name hardly a
battle fought by British forces any-
where in the world without running
into a Halifax hero.
And it was at Halifax that a mu-
nitions ship explosion in the World
war killed 2,000 and left
homeless.

‘Greatest’ Fighling Plane
Is Announced by Britain
LONDON.—Britain’s new
airplane, the was
scribed as ‘‘the
strument ever put into the air.”
Performance figures of the Ty-
phoon were disclosed as it was re-
de-

vealed that the successor to the Spit- | §
fire and Hurricane: fighters was in|
mass production.
The plane is a single scater with
mixed machine gun and air caanon
armament. It flies more than 400

with a 2,400 horse-
Its ceiling is
said to be higher than anything the
German air force has put into
action.
‘Ugly Duckling’ Ships
To Float Ahead of Time
WASHINGTON.—Its vast emer-
gency ship construction program is
“well ahead of schedule,” the Mari-
time commission reported and ships
will go down the ways in November,
a full month ahead of contract
dates.
The emergency program, distinct
from the commission's long-range
construction program, cufs for 412
vessels, most of them to be built in
newly established yards, but in-
formed scurces predicted the pro- |
gram might be increased fo provide
additional tonnage for this couniry
and Great Britain.
Two Wooden Legs Used
For Summer and Winter
CORNISH FLAT, N. H.~Harry E.
Chircpody Was Painful
Early History Operation
In the early Nineteenth century.
itinerant U. S. barbers traveled
from town to town, carrying bags
of dirty knives, and even old steels
fronr corsets, for paring customers’
corns. They usually charged 25
cents an operation, raised howls of |
One day, !
pain from their victims.
while lounging around a hotel lobby,
a lush-bearded young man from New
Hampshire named Nehemiah Keni.
son met a Scotsman who had a new,
painless method of removing corns.
Instead of digging with a scalpel,
he first softened the corn in acid,
then carefully shelled it out with a
dull bone blade.
Nehemiah Kenison knew
business when he saw it.
amined the acid, went to Boston,
where he set up an office opposite
Old South Church. Nehemiah gener-
ously taught his {rick to his
and half a dozen relatives, who
taught others. So began the science
of chiropody in the U. S.
Today, although a few
dists practice in barbershops, chi-
ropody is a highly respectable hand-
maiden of medicine, requiring two
years of college {raining, three or
four years in one of six approved
schools. Chiropodists like to be
known as podiatrists. because,
their horror, they are often confused
with chiropractors.

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