Bathtubs and milkshakes i
INTEREST NURSES ON RETURN
HOME AFTER ACTIVE DUTY
SAN FANCLSCO — Shopping
modern plumbing and chocolate
milkshakes were the objects of
city "spree,” when forty-four
Army nurses arrived here after
Sixteen months in the South Pa
cific. They were stationed on New
Caledonia, the Hebrides and Fiji
Islands, and in Auckland and
Melbourne, Australia.
They got a thrill out of light
Switches in hotel rooms bath tubs
and upholstered chairs.
They hadnt shopped for so
long, they insisted on carrying
each package separately instead
of in one large bundle, “just to
get the feel of packages again.”
“It’s the first time in months
and months we’ve been able to
walk on real rugs or sit in real
upholstered chairs,” exclaimed
Lieut. Joan Douglas, Philadel
phia. “Boy, this is simply won
derful!”
“On New Caledonia we lived in
Army tents,” Lieut. Hettie Hop
kins, Goode, Virginia, recalled.
“But they weren’t bad. One of
the boys built a little white pic
ket fence around ours and it was
homey.”
“Between three and five of us
lived in a tent,” she continued.
“Each tent had a dog for a pet.
The dogs went by a variety of
names, Askit, Rodgers. MacGreg
or. Then we had a couple of par
rots, a pair of love birds who
weren’t very much in love, two
cats and one billy goat.”
Baths were terrible, according
to Lieut. Constance Finney, of
Philadelphia. “We bathed in a
sheltered place up the river. But
we had to bathe in pairs. One of
us would take some leaves and
fan the other to keep from get
ting eaten up with mosquitoes.”
NEW WRINKLE
IN COTTON
GREENWOOD. Miss. (AP) — j
There is a new twist in the an
cient art of cotton picking as
practiced in the Mississippi delta.
At the Luther Wade plantation,
cotton plants—heavy boiled and
blowing clean white puffs—are
being defoliated to speed picking
and eliminate trash from the
staple.
Airplanes skip back and forth i
over the fields trailing powdered
cpanamid in advance of the har- 1
vest. The chemical causes the
leaves to drop from the plant:
sunlight streams around the
naked stalks, drying and ripen
ing the bolls; from top to bottom
of the plant the fibre leaps to
meet the pickers’ fingers.
Planters in the area sav the de- 1
foliation improves the yield, rids
the plant of trash and makes the
harvest easier and cleaner—all at
a cost of $1.65 an acre.
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“Now,” says one old timer, “if
they could only find a way to i
take out the sore fingers and
aching backs, they’d have some
thing.”
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A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE
WELL DONE
FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga.
(AP)—Theres one FAC at the
third training center here who
knows practically all the an- I
swers—well, down through "b”
anyway.
Private Louise M. Kable of
Kabletown, W. Va., had a job in
New York rewriting an encyclo
pedia, but she’d finished only one
volume before deciding to join
the WAC.
XMAS MAIL RULES
FOR SERVICE BOYS
The sound of Santa's sleigh
bells may seem far distant, but
the Army already is making
preparations for the cheerful old
gentleman’s next visit.
A special "Christmas mail
month’ has been designated, from
September 15 to October 1’. Dur
ing this period, only packages
labeled “Chrismtas Gift Parcel”
will be accepted for overseas
shipment to American soldiers.
Packages may not weigh more
than five pounds, must not be
more than 15 inches long and
width and length combined must
not exceed 36 inches.
Persons mailing Christmas
packages will not have to show a
written request from a soldier.
Only one such package may be
mailed to any one service man
in any one week by the same
person.
NEW FLAG SALUTE
IS DECREED BY LAW
A new law, recently passed by
Congress, takes note of the fact
that our popular flag salute, in
which the right arm is raised to
ward the flag, is too much like ,
the Nazi and Fascist salutes to
suit our American taste.
It is decree that this salute is 1
no longer good form, or for that ;
matter, permissible. The correct
salut® now is given by merely ,
placing the right hand over the
heart and keeping it there while
the pledge is repeated.
Experience keeps a dear school
but fools will learn in no other.—
Benjamin Franklin.
MISS FAYE ALLEN
NOW WITH Y. W. C. A.
Miss Fay Allen, daughter of!
the late Scotty Allan of Nome |
fame, has accepted a position with j
the Y. W. C. A. as a representa- j
tive in Argentina, South Ameri- j
ca. i
PADRE OF DIOMEDE
ISLAND IS CITED
Edwin W. Jones, Brigadier
General, A. U. S., commanding
general, has issued a citation in
appreciation of services rendered
by Rev, Thomas Gunnmg$ham,
S. J., who has been stationed on
Diomede Island the last ten
years. Gen. Jones said: “Rev.
Cunningham assisted the military
men with his expert knowledge
of Seward Peninsula, safeguard
the lives of troops and equip
ment, and saved unnecessary ex
penditure of government funds.
His influence has had a beneficial
influence upon the morale of
troops which were of all faiths.” j
The many friends of Father
Cunningham in the Second and
Fourth Divisions, especially, con
gratulate him upon the recogni
tion and appreciation of his pa
triotic services from such a high
military source
ASSORTED ITEMS
FROM HEAVEN
HAWTHORNE FIELD, S. C.
(AP)—Its not an uncommon thing
hereabouts for a hunter in the
woods, a fisherman in the swamp
or a plowman in the fields to
pick up a pair of sunglasses, a
fountain pen or a love letter from
a girl in Oshkosh.
It’s all because a thoughtless
flying cadet forgets to button his
flying suit pocket before he goes
up for a bit of acrobatic flying.
When he rolls his plane over he
suddenly realizes that things fall
“up” and out of his pocket.
Officials at Hawthorne Field
estimate conservatively that the
value of such objects lost runs
close to $500. A poll indicates the
most frequently lost objects are
sunglasses, pencils and fountain
pens.
One of the first authoritative
works on African commerce was
published in 1705 by Willem Bos
nan.
ADULTS HAVE NO
MONOPOLY ON WORRIES
AUSTIN, Tex. (APi-^Adiiits
haven’t a monopoly on worries
for high school students reported
12.386 individual ones to two Uni
versity of Texas educators.
Prof. A. L. Chapman and H.
Wilson Little made a nation-wide
survey of 3,707 schools to deter
mine what subjects cause stu
dents to worry. Among the 12,
386 individual worries that were
reported, these were the most
troublesome: Social relationships;
home life and personality prob
lems.
Getting along with their fellow
students seemed the most impor
tant problem while the boyis and
girls both revealed they become
greatly concerned over disagree
ments between themselves and
parents and over family conflicts
due to jealousy and partiality.
LEATHERNECK HAS
DOG’S LIFE
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba
(AP)—Here’s what the record
shows about Private Sammy Em
bry, officially a leatherneck at
this post, actually a small black
and white and vivacious canine
of unrecognizable breed.
He enlisted in October, 1942.
His address is “Guard House,
Marine Corps base.” He has
drawn this equipment: harness,
canteen and heat can GI. Against
him are three demerits, one for
fighting, one for stealing laun
dry, orte for chewing socks. And
he is described as possessing “one
tail, siv inches long.” .
His master, a Springfield Va.,
first lieutenant, Dewitt Embry,
reports he marches in parades,
accompanies his platoon on ma
neuvers, never misses “chow”
and is an inveterate movie-goer.
It is estimated that the weight
of gases given off in a volcanic
eruption is much greater than
that of the lava and ashes.
SOUVENIR, HUNTER
WANTS JAP’S TEETH
RAPID CITY, S. D. (AP)—
John Burr, jack-of-all trades vet
eran of World War I., will come
out of World ar II. with what he
believes will be a fine souvenir,
even though he sits it out thou
sands of miles from the fighting.
He fashions and gives to men
in the armed service long-bladed
Commando knives. There is only
one string attached to the gifts
he makes from saw blades, files
and other scrap metal.
He asks for the eye-teeth of a
Japanese soldier and plans to
string them on a necklace.
MEN’S SKIRTS
GET SHORTER
CHICAGO CAP) — Shorter
“skirts” for men are coming soon.
The Linen Supply Association
of America reports that to con
serve cotton fabric, shorter gro
cers’ aprons and bartenders’ jac
kets will be made for the dura
tion of the war.
Waitresses’ skirts will be short
er, too, the LSAA said. New gar
ments will stop just below the
knee.
ENGLISH LIFESAVER
LONDON (AP)—One of Eng
land’s most illustrious war work
ers is the paddle steamer Royal
Eagle, which used to carry holi
daying Londoners to seaside re
sorts. Since the start of the war
it has been in action against air
craft 52 times, has saved 24 lives
at sea, has destroyed two enemy
planes. In addition, at Dunker
que, it made three crossings,
brought home 3,000 troops, was
dive-bombed 48 times.
OVERTIME IN A GRAVEYARD
CHANUTE Kas. (AP)—The
city commission has approved a
$5 extra charge for burials in the
cemetery after 5 p. m. The fee
goes to the sexton and his help
ers as overtime pay.
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