^TheDifference Is 100 Years
The accidental discovery a century ago which gave birth to the
chemical dye industry also liberated women from one of the toughest
of home chores. Today’s easy, quick and effective home-dyeing
wouldn’t have been possible hadn’t sharp-eyed William Henry Perkin
noticed something while trying to synthesize quinine back in 1856.
ne discovered tnat coal tar dis- i
solved in alcohol would dye cloth.
This momentous finding—
whose centennial is being cele
brated by a grateful world—
sparked research that led ulti
mately to scenes like that in pho
to at right. Today’s homemaker
merely buys some all-fabric dye
and lets the automatic washer do
the work for her on bulky arti
cles. But for yesteryear’^ women,
according to Tintex Home Eco
nomics Bureau, dyeing meant
long hours of back-breaking toil
over messy tubs and steaming
kettles, as in left photo. On top of
it, she had to know a lot about
cloth textures, moi'dants and even
dye-making. Colors were confined
to blues, reds and yellows, and
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results were uncertain evep for
experts.
Today, you need know little
about textiles. The same all
fabric dye works on all of them,
man-made and natural fibers
alike. The cost is trifling. You
can even dye plastic furnishings
or stain unpainted furniture
with the all-fabric type. And
you can choose from 50 true-hue
colors.
Tintexing oulky fabrics in
the washer is simplicity itself.
Here, you just pour in the dye,
dissolved in hot water, and the
machine does the rest. The
washer is cleaned later by run
ning water and soap through on
the last rinse.
Death Ends Career of Noted Explorer
Rear Adra, Richard E. Bvrd
BOSTON, —Retired Naval
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd,
68, noted explorer who headed
two arctic and five antarctic expe
ditions, died in his sleep at his
home Monday night.
His' doctors said he died of a
heart ailment brought an by over
work in connection with his many
activities.
He was the over-all head of the
Navy’s huge Operation Deep
Freeze in Antarctica in this Inter
national Geophysical Year, but
his failing heart kept him from
assuming cin-the-spot supervision.
His wife and four children were
at his bedside when he passed
away.
Byrd was the first man to fly
over both the North and South
Poles and held numerous decora
tions, including he Congressional
Medal of Honor, for his explora
tions of the world’s frozen wastes.
He is credited with charting
some 2,000,000 square miles of the
earth’s surface previously unseen
’ by man. No one has ever equalled
that feat.
! Once Byrd estimated his nose
had been nipped by frost some
| 200 times. His face bore many
tiny freezing marks.
His last trip to the South Pole
was in late 191*1 and early 1956,
flying over the heartland of Ant
arctica despite his advanced age.
Having paved the way to the
possibility for America to claim
at least a third of the antarctic,
he urged in 1956 that America set
up claims to South Polar regions
which he felt were immensely
wealthy in untapped natural
wealth.
On a 1947 expedition to Antarc
tica, Byrd found that food left 10
years earlier in his Little America
camp was perfectly preserved.
This led him to suggest that the
antarctic could serve as a vast
I natural refrigerator to store crops
| in bumper years.
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Discovery Ship on Display
1 Damaged by S. F. Vandals
i SAN FRANCISCO, Ml — The
i historic ship Gjoa, in which ex
plorer Roald , Amundsen discov
ered the Northwest Passage, was
found damaged by vandals yes
terday.
Vandals broke all the hatch cov
ers, cut lines supporting a big
spar and left it hanging over the
side, and tore a big pump from
the deck.
The wooden ship has been an
exhibit for years in Golden Gate
Park where vandals last week
ripped all buds and many lower
branches off a rare 40-year-old
rhododendron plant.
Arctic Living A
| Matter of Knowing
Tricks, Says Prof.
SEATTLE, UP) — Three medical
researchers on physiology agreed
here Saturday that understanding,
prevention and adaptability are
the keys to man’s survival in cold
climes.
“The secret of living in the cold
does not lie so much in the physio
logical changes, but in the psycho
logical ... in learning how to live
there,” Dr. Alan Burton said.
Dr. Burton, professor of 'bio
physics at the University of West
, era Ontario, is president of the
Physiological Society of America.
Dr. Loren D. Carlson, professor
of physiology and biophysics at the
University of Washington, and Dr.
Hugh . Montgomery, associate pro
fessor of internal medicine at the
jUniversity of Pennsylvania,
j nodded in agreement.
An Eskimo, Dr. Burton said,
never allows himself to become
overheated; he’s learned how to
i live in his environment.
“We’re hoping to provide new
concepts on cold by experiments
and to correct errors in previous
treatee by learning more about
fundamental bodily processes,”
Dr. Montgomery said.
In a sense, said Burton, man
moving into cold environment
must undergo any indoctrination
to cold.
Monster of Loch Ncis
Seen by Five Scots
In Early Appearance
DRUMNADROCHIT, Scotland,,
(!?)—’Tis spring and the famous
Loch Ness monster is around and
about again.
Five Scots, including a police
inspector, said they saw the great
beast sporting in the warm sun
for six minutes Monday. They
agreed it was vast, black, and
made a great commotion on the
surface of the lake.
This is early in the year for the
monster, which is seldom sighted
until the weather becomes warm
enough for the tourist trade.
“As it submerged, it reminded
me of a basking shark,” one of the
Scots told a reporter. “Whatever
it was, it caused a considerable
commotion on the surface, leaving
a big wash, altho it was traveling
quite slowly.”
Basking sharks, which are fond
of warming their hides in the
sun, grow to 40 feet or more in
length. But they are totally lack
ing in the horns and horse-like
neck which some past observers
have attributed to the monster of
Loch Ness.
Bartlett’s Bill Would
Help Judicial Employes
WASHINGTON, (iP> — Judicial
employes stationed outside the
continental United States would
get allowances for higher costs of
living under a bill offered Mon
day by Delegate Bartlett.
The bill would provide cost of
living allowances based on costs
“substantially higher than in the
District of Columbia” but not
more than 25 percent of the rate
of basic pay for such workers.
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