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a** 'tw!w 3^ t Pl bby QERTIE As '. fs ')M w " "A '(air Bier' jenertlly |!«ik an altitude record lie i* only a fair flier." 'BOGEY MAN* Something to scare children--and Nazi fliers--is this fearsomely bedecked Canadian flier. This ace avi- "ator is shown dressed in his highflying headgear, with new type goggles and oxygen mask that permits action in extreme altitudes. ^ DEBUNKERl By John Harvey Furbay, Ph.D. I m i mi . BOMBS ARE NOT AS IBAMGEROUS AS SUPPOSED flThe idea that every bomb dropped on a city kills hundreds of people is quite erroneous, according to military men who say the results are highly exaggerated. The Russians were reported to have dropped 2,000 bombs on Finnish towns in one day and to have killed only 18 people. The idea that terrific sound waves are set up by exploding bombs is also mostly myth. Bombings are more to demoralize '.he general populations than to kill off great numbers of people. (Public Ledgwr--V71TO Service.) DINNER WEAR ,JBiack dramatically accented by gold makes this heavy crepe creation one of the season's smartest dinner gowns. The long tight fitting sleeves and waistline are studded with diamond-shaped pieces of golu metal. h% Spanish Prisoner, Swindle Ring fs Smashed by G-Men Racketeers Make Mistake of Picking Congressman as Prospective Victim. Phosphorus b Now Made and Shipped in Tank Car Lots w WASHINGTON. -- By carelessly picking a United States congressman as one of their prospective victims, "Spanish prisoner" racketeers have brought upon themselves a sweeping federal investigation of a swindle that, over the course of years, is estimated to have cost credulous Americans millions of dollars. Using a hidden fortune and a beautiful French or Spanish girt as bait, the racketeers prey exclusively on wealthy American business men--calculating rightly, apparently, that they are hungry for romance, especially when it entails the additional possibility of profiting to the extent of $100,900 or more.; , _ _ Hit Hornet's Nest " • : The racketeers ran into 8 hornet's Best, however, when they addressed one of their "come-on" letters to "Mr. Bertrand F. Gearhart" of Fresno, Calif. For Gearhart is also a California congressman. He turned the letter over to J. Edgar Hoover, chief of criminal division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Crack G-men and postal inspectors were assigned to run down the swindlers and, after a far-reaching inquiry, obtained evidence that resulted in the indictment of five men and four wemen by a federal grand jury in San Francisco. Warrants were sent to Mexico, the favorite operating headquarters of the racket and, recently, three of the plotters were taken into custody. They will be extradited and brought back to this country for trial. By such drastic measures the department of justice believes it has at last struck a vital blow to one of the most profitable and colorful international rackets of all time. Nationality Changes. "The Spanish prisoner" sometimes is a "French prisoner" and, in recent years, as a result of the European situation, frequently a "German prisoner." But one thing is invariable--he is either in prison himself or is trying to rescue his beautiful young daughter from similar durance vile. Usually, he is the man behind the bars. In that case, the daughter is at liberty, and will reward with ardent affection any knight errant who rescues her father. And there is the $100,000! All preliminaries are conducted through the mails, making the racketeers liable to prosecution the postal laws. Gold Lode Rediscovered After 45 Years' Idleness BAKERSFIELD, CALIF.--A ledge of gold-bearing ore, originally- discovered 45 years ago and lost when the prospector left the claim, has been rediscovered and is being worked. A prospector named Clark made the discovery in 1895. The ore ran $60 a ton. Clark abandoned the diggings when his mother in the East became ill. Later he followed the gold rush to the Yukon. The ore vein is in Sand canyon, tributary of Goler gulch in the Randsberg region on the Mojave desert. The owners are Bruce Carrol and Ernest Larkin. Patient's Hip Replaced With Joint Made of Metal COLUMBIA, S. C.--Two surgeons Jlemoved the entire hip joint and Upper part of the thigh from a 224- pound Negro here and replaced the bone with a metallic hip. It took the surgeons three hours to perform the unusual operation recently. Today the patient's comdition was described as "satisfactory." The metallic hip joint was made of vitallium, an alloy of cobalt chromium and another metal. It was fashioned by hand by one of the surgeons who operated--a member of the faculty at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. My Neighbor » Says := Raisins, dates, curranis and tig* Wend better with other ingredients and are improved in flavor if they are soaked five minutes in a little boiling water. Two tablespoons of boiling water for each half-cup of fruit is the correct amount. • • • A sure seal for jellies, jams and #ther home-made delicacies is two layers of paraffin. Place a thin layfr of melted paraffin on the food frhen it has cooled and cover it With more paraffin, slightly cooled (it thickens quicker) and extend it Over the edge of the glass or jar. • • • When making rolled cookies it is advisable to chill the dough (over flight is not too long). The dough can i>e handled more easily and the tookies quickly cut out. Our grandfathers frequently rolled the dough in a large board and chilled it out ~ doors for several hours. Hole on Rim of Volcano Yields Buried Treasure SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVAiX> R.--When Juan Ernesto Castillo and two other students climbed a volcano in San Salvador they were not searching for buried treasure. While walking along the edge of a crater Juan stepped into a hole, and when he investigated he found a small box closed with an ancient lock. Inside the box he found 20 gold pieces and a quantity of jewelry of antique design. Juan shared some of the gold with his friends, but will use the rest of the treasury to complete his education. Science Deadens Thrill For Firemen With Axes BOSTON.--Science is taking the fur. out of flrw for the firemen. Once it was the rookie's delight to smash windows and hack roof and wall in search of a stubborn but smoldering blaze. Now Fire Commissioner Arthur Reilly is experimenting with a sensitive heat detector that looks like a camera but is able to uncover flames in walls through an electriceye «M>chaaism. ...»Wf1* • New York.--Phosphorus, the chemical element which bursts into flame when exposed to air, is now being produced, and shipped, in tank car lots to open up a new field for chemical industry. This achievement is being hailed as one of the outstanding chemical industrial developments of the year. It has just been recognized by the presentation here of the Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering award to the Monsanto Chemical company for this development. Elemental phosphorus has long interested scientists. Its spontaneous burning is fascinating as well as dangerous. Because it ignites easily and glows in the dark, the ancient alchemists named the element phosphorus mirabilis--"miraculous bearer of light." Of Vist Importance. la life and death, peace and war, industry and agriculture, phosphorus is an eiement interwoven with modern civilization. When you eat cakes or other bakery products made with baking powder, the action of phosphorus is entering your existence. When you strike a match the sparks and flame come from the phosphorus present. There is phosphorus in your bones and those of any animal. And the farmer requires phosphorus fertilizer to replenish his soil so that crops will grow. In war--in the air, on the ground or on the oceans--phosphorus comes into its own as the creator of dense smoke screens which shield a military force from its enemies. Deadly poisons--used commercially to exterminate rats--contain phosphorus. For years the phosphorus in animal bones was the principal source of the strange element. But gradually it was found that by heattreatment the phosphorus in certain rocks could be removed as a vapor and condensed under water to yield the waxy-colored element. New Method of Production. The newer way, arid the method for which the Monsanto Chemical company received the current award, is to obtain the phosphorus with the heat of an electrjc furnace. Sand, rock containing calcium phosphate, and coke are fed into the electric furnace. In the high temperature of the carbon arc (6,620 degrees Fahrenheit) the three raw products react to create carbon monoxide and elemental phosphorus in the form of a vapor. Because the phosphorus readily and dangerously combines with air, the whole industrial operation must be carried out under reduced pressure or elsc|; in a vapor of hydrogen or nitrogen. Purification of the phosphorus vapor condensed under water can be accomplished by melting the element and stirring it. Or certain ox* idizing agents like potash can be used to remove impurities. With the air still excluded, the purified phosphorus can be seahkf in steel drums or even in tank car^ and shipped to the chemical plant# which turn the element into any of the many ^uses just described. „ Streamlined Highways Urged by Road Experts Mrs. Celia Do we 11 and daughter, Jennie, were callers at Woodstock on Monday afternoon. Otis Phillips was a caller at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sd Johnson on the Flats Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and daughter. Frances, were callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Davis near Wauconda last Monday afternoon. Mrs. Ella Parks and son, Hugh, and Mrs. Thompson of Park Ridge and Ray Cook of Zion and Wilbur Cook of Wauconda were callers Saturday moraine at th# home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks. W. E. Brooks and son, Chesney, attended a farm auction sale near Druce lake last Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Frank LaBelle visited with friends in Chicago last Wednesday. , Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kane, Sr., and sons, Rollin and Melvin, of Diamond Lake and Willard Darrell were Sunday dinner and supper guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Espinsr spent Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews at Oak Park. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner and son, Gerald, spent last Thursday evening' at the home of the former's •parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Wagner, near Round Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wagner and daughter, Joan, and Mrs. Catherine Wagner were dinner and afternoon guests last Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wagner at Waukegan. > Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mazanek of Wauconda spent Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. JFnuik La Belle. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner and son, Gerald, were Sunday dinner agd afternoon guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Obenauf at Libertyville. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren spent last Thursday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lundgren at Wauconda. Mrs. Lundgren returned recently from the South Shore hospital in Chicago. Harry Matthews, in company with James Davis of Wauconda, Herman Dunker and Wm. Wirtz and son, Melvin, of Volo, attended the Waukesha Breeders' sale of quality Holsteins at Waukesha, Wis., last Friday. Willard Darrell, in company with A. D. Smith of Libertyville, Eb Harris and Dr. Nordhausen of Grayslake and representatives of the Lake - Cook farm supply company, and Harry Matthews, in company with Clarence of Diamond LafcTand H. C. QOfcerttn of Lfbertjnrffle, aa wpreeeetath* of the Lake county farm fareau, left Tuesday morning to attend the three day session of the twenty-fifth annual convention of the Illinois Agri* cultural association at St. Louis, M<%. Mr. Darrell and Mr. Matthews went as voting delegates from the respeo* tive companies. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Sorensen of Wauconda visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Webster last Sundajr evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren were callers at McHenry last Friday mom* ing. « Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Buxkhart of Wil. liams Park spent Monday and Tuesday with relatives in Chicago . Mr. and Mrs. Marlett Henry, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews and son', Lyle, and Willard Darrell and Misses Mayme and Estella Dowell were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell last Friday evening; Pinochle was played and honors won by Mayme Dowell, Harry Matthews and Mr. and Mrs. Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews and sons, Robert and Lyle, and Willard Darrell attended the farewell party at the Libertyville high school, honoring! Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gilkerson and children of Libertyville. Mr. Gilkerson will soon leave the farm bureau as farm adviser, having served in that capacity fourteen years. Booms With Recessed Wtadmri A deeply recessed window lined with beige-pink mirror glass gives a warm and sunny effect to a breakfast room. Smallest of Monkeys The pigmy marmoset, ope of the smallest of monkeys, we] than a pound. Tbmjfay, January 30,1941 .NKE Y LISTEN, BROTHER"^ IW DOING YOU AM- •JO / CJTHER FAVCKIXXJCA* PICK [ TRAC* IN THAT PILE US UP OP JUNK HERE A* AFTER 1 FIRST fHYMENT ON THE \ A REAL CAR THAT1L V4RECKI. BE FOOLPROOF SPEEOVO AND YOU WONT -- RISKINCt ~ NECK. .BE CARMN6S r-cjs ;',i! 'fa-Xiss ue Motr NOfmew# sr/m /ft Tueu-e. k Ncrr BUT \ mwescfH ••V" OtrHeE aUt.*S .CHEMIQU. COMPANY rrr.ooo saucws OF SB* VETERA MINUTE TO extract Sftumt. vim ingredient W M6H-TESr«AC By "DICK wom BBtAK-Mfc r VrtlV SPMBV*«- WITH ASWeU. CAR, THB SAME KINO OF NWHTAND CHANCE TO A C*TE "THIS SME0V S P E E D Y " ROSSMAN MOTOR SALES TTHHAEN "Kn#S- TFHOBR I ACNADRSA SA6 P0CIPM tfASfi - LaFAYETTE - PACKARD See the 1941 tASH AMBASSADOR 6 RUTHDRIZED j , k ; ; SERVICE f R0SSMRN MOTOR SRLES . today at tift w RIVERSIDE DRIVER PEARL STREET - PHONE 13 ---- '• ••• vvtiiponjr w • vii VIB1C1IW " •* • . • • • ' ' ' - . ^ .. "" , • 5 * ' • plea® high- Washington.--A chorus of for streamlining America's ways was voiced here at sessions ot> the highway research board of the National Research council. America's 15,000,000 pleasure-* bound drivers, and the 9,000,000 oth-» ers who make their living on the? road, deserve and need highways that are safe ahd relaxing, it wa$ stated generally at the session of the joint committee ob roadside de* velopment. j Telephone poles, unsightly ditches, narrow shoulders, bare slopes attacked by erosion that endanger*; the road itself were all thoroughly criticized by leading highway engi^ neers from every part of the United States. Pointirig to a photographic ex* hibition of the type of work that has been done and to what can b$ further done, H. J. Neale, chairman of the committee, asserted thai these modern streamlined highways will prove cheaper in the long run. "I don't know whether they will be 20 per cent or 80 per cent cheap, er because we haven't got suitable figures yet," he declared, "but highp ways whose sides and shoulders are properly designed cost considerably less for maintenance once the roa is built." Wide shoulders--to allow cars to park well off the road and to remove the hazard represented by the ditch; wayside rests--to allow the fatigued driver a chance to relax slopes planted with grass and shrubs--to prevent erosion from carrying earth and rocks down on to a road cut through a hillock or to prevent erosion from under-cut ting the bed of a road raised above the countryside, were among the things urged on the board by speakers. The old type of road with its unsightly ditches is expensive to maintain, Mr. Neale further declared. Erosion from bare slopes fills the ditches. "It costs money to clear them," he pointed out. In addition ditches are dangerous to the automobilist. 1 Prices sharply reduced on a wide selection of I. E, S. and other choid) lamps (only a limited number of many models and styles). t * * "5 IHEU JABTF A few vacuum deanors# toasters,' waffle Irons, sandwich grills, irons and other small appliances... Reduced For Clearance! <OU SAVE noc pace, but twice in this great satei Because these lamps were purchased before mug** frcturexs* prices were advanced, we can offer you a savi^ there. And with prices drastically reduced for clearance you save again. Thus everyone of these outstanding bargains represents a double-edged saving / Positions of Crescent Mole The positions of the crescent mobft are the result of the relative post tions of the sun, moon and earth and can be predicted in adv Fresh Eggs Defined Seven states in this country d* fine fresh eggs as merely "Eggs laii within the state." Snakes Shed Outer Fila* AB species of snakes shed the out* er film of their eyes when the j she#* their skins, declares Collier's. Included ate boudoir, end table, door, pin-ic-up, novelty and bridge models .in metal, glass, china and wood fintsties. But may wt iwnr ye* . . . although cheteHB^i wide variety to choose from, many models and styles ate strictly limited in number. 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