‘Get the Message Through’ Is Job of Signal Corps
In this war, instructions and reports, not only from plane to base but from ship to shore and field com
k mander to officers, are sent by wireless. These pictures show some of the phases of signal corps training.
At left, Moon Young, Chinese student, tries to perfect his diction so he can become a member of the signal
corps and get out to the Southwest Pacific. He has a score to settle with the Japs. Center: Type of equip
ment used by planes to keep in touch with home bases and other planes during “dog fights.” Right: Skilled
fingers beat out messages on semi-automatic telegraph keys. _
Captor and Captives in British 8th Army Push
One of the first trains to get to Cairo, Egypt, from the Alamein front after the British Eighth army started
its victorious drive is shown at left. The train was jammed to the doors with thousands of Axis soldiers
taken in the early stages of the fighting. At right, Lieut. Gen. George Montgomery, head of the Eighth army,
poses for his picture right at the front. The general leans on a tank and smiles for a photographer, as if
be were in some London studio. Shells are bursting less than a half mile away.
Aids of Saboteur Get Death Sentence
“This looks like payday,” said Hans Max Ilaupt (front right) shortly
• after he heard the death sentence pronounced on him and two other Ger
man-Americans who had given aid to his executed saboteur son, in Chi
cago. Behind Haupt is Walter Froehling, and behind Froehling is Otto
Wergin, both condemned to death. The wives of the three convicted men
were sentenced to 25 years in prison, and fined $10,000 each.
Fathers and Sons Inducted Into Army
A pair of fathers and their sons were Inducted into the army the
other day, in New York. Photo shows, left to right, George Spencer
Goodacre, 43, and his son, George, 21; Edward Dondero, 21, and his
father, Robert Dondero, 41, as they handed their clothes to Pvt. Nathan
Rubin, prior to examinations for army service.
A
Paved Way in Africa
Tall man In center is one whom
the writers of the history of the U. S.
coup in North Africa will particular*
ly mention. He is Robert Murphy,
head of our consular force in France
and its African colonies. Murphy
prepared the groundwork for our
occupation of North Africa. He is
shown during a visit to Dakar being
welcomed by M. Chapoulie, the co
lonial governor (in whites).
‘Priority’ Dolls
With our second wartime Christ
mas approaching, American toy
manufacturers are faced with prior
ities. Instead of dolls being made
•f rubber they are now made of
wood pulp. Here an aid to Santa
paints faces on the new kind of doll.
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Removing Victims of Night Club Fire
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Fire and rescue workers enter the smoldering ruins of the Cocoanut
Grove night club in Boston to remove bodies of the dead and injured.
This Are, the nation’s worst since the Iroquois theater Are in Chicago
in 1903, took a toll af about 500 lives. The Are was caused by a 16-year
old bus boy who lit a match so he could see to replace a ceiling light bulb.
The match started an artlAclal palm tree burning.
Always Being Bossed by Corporals
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Members of the German armistice commission In French Morocco,
captured by U. S. forces who landed there during the North African op
erations, are shown being marched off for internment by an American
corporal. Taking orders from a corporal is nothing new for them. That
was Der Fuehrer’s rank in the German army.
Marine Chiefs Visit Guadalcanal Island
Lieut. Gen. Thomas Holcomb (left), marine corps commandant,
squints through field glasses at Guadalcanal field positions during his re
cent air trip to the Solomon Islands. Maj. Gen. R. J. Mitchell, marine
aviation chief, who accompanied General Holcomb, and Maj. Gen.
Alexander A. Vandergrift (right), commander of the ground forces in the
Salomons, also trains bis field glasses on a distant object.
Army Coffee Rationing Helps Civilians
More than a year ago the army quartermaster corps look steps to
ration coffee. As the table top rotates, the army officers sniff and taste
each sample of coffee, at the quartermaster depot, In Chicago, where
48,000 pounds of coffee is roasted daily.
Sinks French Fleet
The scuttling of the French fleet at
Toulon, when the Germans stormed
that great French naval base, was
ordered by Admiral Jean de la
Borde (above), commander-ln-chlef
of the fleet. Sixty-three vessels, In
cluding three battleships, were in
the harbor at the time, and 61 of
these were believed lost. Thus were
the Nazis deprived of the fleet on
which Hitler had banked so heavily.
New Head of ‘Spars’
Photo shows Lieut. Com. Dorothy
C. Stratton, new head of the
“Spars," the new women’s auxiliary
reserve of the U. S. coast guard,
seated at her desk in Washington.
She wears the two and a half stripes
of a lieutenant commander, on her
union coat sleeve, and the U. S.
coast guard insignia on her coat.—
Soundphoto.
Testing Tank Crews
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There are two big rooms in the
medical research laboratory at Fort
Knox, Ky. One is kept at 130 de
grees above zero; the other at 30
below. Tank crews eat, sleep and
work on their tanks while doctors
take notes. Here a sergeant climbs
up and down a ladder toting a full
pack while army medics measure
his reactions so crews will be bet
ter cared for in tropical climes.
‘Good Neighbors’
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Dr. Carlos Arroyo Del Rio (left),
president of Ecuador, shown with
Gen. Manuel Camacho, president ot
Mexico, when Dr. Del Rio arrived
in the Mexican capital while en
route to the United States. Later he
visited President Roosevelt at the
White House.
Livestock, Poultry
Feeds Need Proteins
Best Closely Resemble
Type in Animal Tissue
Livestock and poultry feeds must
contain proteins, but there are great
differences in proteins from animal
and vegetable sources. The best
proteins for feeds are those which
most closely resemble the protein*
in animal tissue.
The essential factors in protein
feeds are amino acids, and 22 of
these acids have been isolated and
identified from natural feeds. It ia
believed that at least 10 of these 22
amino acids must be available in a
ration for the proper nutrition of
livestock or poultry.
Some feed stuffs lack so man?
of the essential 10 amino acids
that those feeds must be supple
mented by others to supply miss
ing acids. Deficient protein*
' have to be changed over in the
digestive processes before they
can be used, so a pound of pro
tein which contains most of the
essential acids is worth more
money than a pound of protein j
that is partially wasted in being
changed to an available form.
Animal proteins, such as are pre*^
ent in tankage and in fish meal, arw
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Milk is still one of the very im
portant foods needed In everyone’*
diet. Here it is leaving the bottling
room of a Dushore, Pa., dairy on
its way to hard-working w
workers.
better for livestock and poultry fee •
ing than are vegetable proteins d>._
rived from grains or seeds.
Protein from properly pro
cessed soybean oil meal appear*
to stand at the head of the list
of vegetable proteins, but the nu
trition specialists say it is best <
to use two or three different vege
table proteins so that one supple
ments the other in furnishing
amino acids. Peanut meal andl
corn gluten meal lack too many
amino acids to be used as sub
stitutes for animal proteins.
Cattle and other ruminants can
be properly fed with less complete
proteins than can either swine or
poultry. Swine on good pasture can
be fed on vegetable proteins only.,
but animal proteins should be in
the ration for swine in dry lots.
Agriculture
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Industry
By FLORENCE C. WEED
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Apples
New non-food uses are being
sought by apple men so that a mar
ket can be kept for all the apples
raised in this country. From pulp
and peel comes pectin, that gelati
nous substance which makes jelly.
When extracted from apples and
bottled in liquid form, it is sold to
housewives to be added to othsr
fruit juices to make them “jell.”
Scientists also are trying to find a
method to produce apple juice that
will not cloud on standing.
Studies are being made to find
ways to recover wax from apple
skins to nse in stencil sheets and
water proof coatings. Apple seed
oils also are being investigated.
Cider is always a staple crop.
New industrial uses for apples are
expected to develop as soon as Im
proved methods can be discovered
for drying pomace and waste prod
ucts. This would permit indefinite
storage and remove valuable mate
rial from being a nuisance.
Although there are only half
as many apple trees in the coun
try as 30 years ago, the apple
crop has declined only 8 per
cent because poor trees have
been removed and good trees
made to produce more fruit.
Agricultural Notes
Ohio agricultural agents have •
supply of leaflets describing how to
build outdoor storages for fruits and
vegetables.
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Price ceilings on scrap metals set
by OPA will not be raised, according
to OPA officials. There will be no
profit in hoarding—only a loss of
self respect by anyone gambling for
personal gain at the expense of the
common effort to win the war.