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WASHINGTON. Ott.. l>
n one ally of the Gorman K d. or.
;> has att rented to inter ore with
Shipbuilding p '»l »m ha." o«*r to
oat. Tho latent is tho n;os«j •»
lost of tho ’•hipyaros ha'o
it marshland." bordering
•>. ha>' • ts.
•os are tho favorite breeding plae
of the nio."». t<* riiii 1
jvarieiou."!' ot them r . : n, •
ships that, at time>. t ey were
•ed to leave the ways and product
ion was retarded. I tut now a gnat, j
national mosquito-fighting army has j
>.. n m ated and this foive is conduet - i
inu a continous offensive against ti e |
insect hosts.
The >ta ' of this army is comn ‘>"i
of nu»quito fighting experts, "ho
nave fought an.l battered down mo.'
luito off. n>iws not only in thl coir*
*r\ but also in the fever-infected t o
a yore where the posts ha\e been
at their wo st Among these is l.t.
Col. Philip Schuyler Doane. a mem
ber of the staff of Surgeon-Cenernl
ilorgas who eliminated the pe>t from
the Panama Canal Zone. He is linn-t
or of the Department of Health and
Sanitation of the I'nited Slates Ship
ping Hoard and is organizing ti e w-»r
against the nm-quito in all parts of
the country .
Th - co»'i): ration of state, mimic pa!
and p' ivate eo’-**vnte interests has
wen enlisted in this war. .Miles of
:i nclv s h.iv * h o? dug in lowlands
•out Cninhuilding plants so that the
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HORSE AND SIDE-CHAIRS FOR THE WOUNDED
An artillery horse am! shle-ehulrs ure impressed Into the service of trans
porting wounded Tommies to the rear.
marshes may be drained and the
breeding places destroyed Where •! s
impossible to drain of? the stagnant
I water, oiling is restored to.
At the Hog Island plant near Phil
adelphia, the work is being earned on
with the cooperation, of the State ol
Pennsylvania, the City of Ph’ladel,
phia. t ie Westinghousc Corporation,
the Altai tic Oil Refining ( ompa i\
and other private interests. A Pimu ol
$2oO,t)iM) has been contributed and in
addition the Atlantic Oil Refining Co.
contributes all the oil used. D.100 arm
tract of March land had to be icca' d
by sprinkling pools, cutting down ted
weeds, dredging and draining and
within three months after work stall
ed, the water area had been reduced
!).*» percent . Several big dumping stat
ions have been erected and employed
in this \\o»k and more are planned.
Three thousand or more acre . of tlm
land thus ft claimed, it is estin ated
will be sui’able for agricultural pur
poses a d t has been suggested th: t
tlii.> land I. ‘ turned over to tit** Roy
Scouts of Philadelphia for war gar
dens, as the land is within six m'V.> f
the central section of Philadelphia.
The State of New Jersey is cooper
ating with Camden and (Roue-ter
counties and the shipping board in
work about the shipyards on the New
Jersey side of the Deleware rive It
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Dept. 256-25-27 W. Austin Ave., - - Chicago, U. S. A.
' is planned to spend $10,000 in til's
trii-t this year.
Chester, l*a. an important c* rter
for a!I kinds of war work, ha.* a com*
' mittee that is working with tne .-t »te
1 and tin* Shipping Board and the State
has agreed to appropriate $40,000 if
S(>0,000 can he obtained from otln r
sources Other places at which w >:k
is being carried on along this line arc ,
Wilmington. X. C„ which ha. ru's d j
$.*>0,000; Alexandria and Hampton.
Va.; l.os Angeles, Calif; and abo.o i
the yanls on the (iulf of Mexico.
COMPASS OF |
AIRPLANE IS !
SAFE-GUARDED1
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AN AMERICAN AKRODKOMK 1A
KNGLAND, Oct., IN— (Correspond
ence >t l lie Associated Press)— Ore
f ,u safest ))laces in the airplane
| cockpit is given to the compass, l ■
without its aid the airman who is fly
ing over sea or land on a misty day i
is hopelessly lost. Great attention i.
paid by American pilots training in
Kngland to the problem presented 1 v ;
“drift". If an airplane starts to fly
from one point to another due east,
and there is a wind blowing fifteen
miles an hour northeast, he must take
that element into consideration by al
tering his compass course, before as
cending, according to the total dis
tance of the journey.
/ Many difficulties had to he over
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come in tin* production of a satisfact
ory compass for aerial work. Chief
among these was the problem of neu
tralizing the magnetism of the eng
ine and particularly the magneto,
and of preventing the effect of con- j
trifugal force which tends to cause
the dial of the compass to swing m
a direction quite independent of Nor
th when the airplane is banking on
a turn. These difficulties, however .
have all been surmounted and the
compass in use on present-day air
planes is a fairly satisfactory instru- j
ment. It is said to be far superior to
anything which the Germans have yet
been able to evolve.
The airman’s next most important
instniment is his aneroid, or height
indicator. This is fitted with an ad
justable dial which can be move 1
round so that on leaving any given
aerodrome the reading is zero, wher
ever the height of that aerodrome
above sea level may be.
An American pilot left his aero
drome for a cross country flight re
cently on a very misty day, carefully
setting his aneroid at zero. After fly
ing for two hours by compass he
thought he must be nearing his des- j
tination. He could see nothing below
and so descended to 500 feet. He flev
at this height for five minutes and
decided to land. He was about to vol
plane down into the mist when sud
denly the mist cleared and he saw the
ground immediately underneath him.
about ten feet below. His aneroid still
insisted that he was 500 feet high, j
The explanation lay in the fact that
the place he was about to land on was
500 feet heigher above sea level than ;
his own aerodrome.
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No,Maude, dear, it isn’t necessa y j
to be a laundress to realize the irony
of fate.
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