The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940 Page: 16 of 16
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THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
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NORTH SYDNEY, N. S.—"Gone
LUMBER—PAINT—BUILDING MATERIAL
3021 Oak Grove
5-5124
A. J. SMITH
2200 Elm—2 Stores—1024 Elm St.
GREETINGS TO LABOR
Higginbotham-Bartlett Co.
BUILDING MATERIAL
. #
2514 Commerce
7-6566
DALLAS, TEXAS
GREETINGS TO LABOR
GREETINGS TO LABOR
GEO. W. PAYNE
CORNER PACKAGE STORE
CONSTABLE
No. 1—2320 Thomas, corner Leonard
WINES, LIQUORS AND CORDIALS
7-0194
7-0508
3-0266
Subscribe for The Craftsman.
GREETINGS
Greetings to Labor in Dallas and Dallas
County
AND BEST WISHES
GREETINGS:
TO DALLAS LABOR
Jonn Deere Plow Co.
CRYSTAL ICE CO.
TO DALLAS LABOR
DALLAS, TEXAS
F. & W. GRAND-SILVERS STORES
Dallas Title & Guaranty Co.
OLDEST TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY IN TEXAS
For Perfect Motor Performance
Home Owned—Established 1906
Over Labor Day
STATE-WIDE SERVICE
1301 Main Street
Phone 2-8121
USE
GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES
That Good Gulf Gasoline
BEN CRITZ
So Named By Those Who Use It
MANAGER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Gulf Oil Corporation
Texas-Brand Products
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0. H. CARLISLE, Division Manager
FOR TEXANS
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GREETINGS TO LABOR
HOME LUMBER CO.
its capacity as the American na-
tional bird, does something besides
occupy his perch on the “tail" side
of a half dollar, findings of fish com-
missions and universities in Colo-
rado, Wyoming and Idaho reveal.
Ascents high into the Rocky moun-
tains to photograph eagles’ nests re-
vealed that the big birds feed pri-
marily on prairie dogs during early
summer.
C. C. Spencer, staff technician of
the Pike National forest in Colo-
rado, said that the rodents consume
a total of 26.2 per cent of available
Government Acts to Build
Reserves; Manganese,
Tin, Offer Problems.
A Federal Judge and a score of law-
yers and attendants were routed from
a Newark courtroom when a tear-gas
bomb exploded in the coatpocket of a
lawyer arguing a case.
Mrs. Mary Lyons of West Virginia
who had been unable to speak for four
years, was terrified by a daring circus
act and screamed, after which she was
able to talk again.
Before she would accept a $5 dole
check, Mrs. Ann Tenho, 70-year-old
widow of Nairn Center, Can., insisted
on working for three days with a pick
and shovel.
Sees Too Many Going
Nowhere for Nothing
WASHINGTON. — Sarah Todd
Cunningham, a visiting senator
from tranquil Hawaii, has this
impression of the mainland:
“Too many people in too many
cars in too much of a hurry go-
ing in too many different direc-
tions to nowhere for nothing.”
Golden Eagle is Given
Clean Slate in Survey
Harbor Pilot Enjoys
Vacation by Accident
Newfoundland.
Brenton passed through here on
his way home after traveling 4,500
miles on a trip that was expected
to be only two miles at the outset.
He piloted a steamer out to pea
and when he attempted to get
aboard the pilot boat to go ashore,
heavy winter winds kicked up the
seas so that he had to abandon his
plans.
There was nothing to do but stay
aboard the steamer and continue on
to Florida, the ship’s destination.
Although such trips have disad-
vantages, mainly through limited
wardrobe, Brenton was able to have
a nice southern vacation with full
pay and got a Florida tan in the
bargain.
Wright & Patterson Packing Co.
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DALLAS
UNION MADE
Suits, Overcoats, Dress Trousers, Leather Jack-
ets, Hats, Dress Shoes, Work Shoes, Dress Shirts,
Pajamas, Underwear, Belts, Suspenders, Ties
and Sox. Also a full line of the
FAMOUS "LEE" BRAND WORK CLOTHES
can be bought at either of my 2 stores at
NO EXTRA COST
I Faces Shortage
In Vital Metals
End Piece: The Ninth avenue ele-
vated line, which ceased to operate
a short time ago and which during
the summer will become scrap steel,
was the oldest railroad of its kind
in the world. Construction started
July 1, 1867, and the first car ran
over it July 1, 1868. The original
route was from Cortland street to
Battery place.
(Ball Syndicate— WNU Service.)
grazing land each year. Other ro-
dents bring the annual total to 35.5
per cent, he said.
The original purpose of the ex-
peditions was to determine what ef-
fect eagles have in the increasing
depletion of western Big Horn sheep
herds. ' Spencer said no evidence
had been found that eagles prey on
the sheep, although further investi-
gation will be conducted.
While the mercury pushed the 98
mark in Detroit, Charles James, col-
ored, stole a furnace.
Enterprise: A chap who conducts
a newspaper stand at Broadway and
Forty-fourth shouts, “Here y’ar! Git
your latest paper. If you haven’t
got the money, a small deposit will
hold it until you call for it” . . .
In most Manhattan delicatessens,
you can buy one slice of bread if
you wish ... A hole-in-the-wall
refreshment stand has this sign:
“Yes, we sell loose cigarettes” . . .
Meaning of course that you can buy
less than a pack . . . Sign in Fort
Tryon park observed by Lucille
Manners: “Let no one say, and say
it to your shame, that all was beauty
here until you came” . . . Sign on
a laundry wagon: “We wash every-
thing except your baby.”
Mrs. Antonia Riasanovsky, whose
pen name is Nina Fedorova, recently
won the 1940 Atlantic novel prize of
510,000 for the story, “The Family.”
Anna Laur, formerly a graduate
nurse and laboratory technician, is
now Philadelphia’s only woman weld-
er.
Falls Are in Lead
In Home Accidents
Chemical Test Is Used
To Show Damaged Corn
WASHINGTON.—Grain specialists
of the agriculture department have
developed a simple and rapid chem-
ical test to determine damage to
com by heating or fermentation.
That method consists of the chem-
ical determination of the degree of
deterioration undergone by the fatty
oil in the corn. It is believed that
the new test, which measures “the
degree of soundness” in corn, is
simple and rapid enough to meet
commercial requirements.
In current grain-grading practices
condition and damage are appraised
by a guesswork appraisal by odor
and by the percentage of weight of
damaged kernels present in the
grain.
“In the absence of more precise
methods,” a grain specialist said,
“these methods of determining
soundness may have been used suc-
cessfully in grain-inspection proce-
dure.”
It was pointed out, however, that
the new chemical test will indicate
the degree of damage in the grain
more accurately and will serve more
fully as an index of market and
processing values.
By L. L. STEVENSON
Background : He works as a check-
er in a large department store. Qui-
et, unassuming, yet efficient and ac-
commodating, no one paid much at-
tention to him, it being assumed
that he was merely another young
man who, not being fitted by school-
ing or training for any specific job
or profession, had taken whatever
would return him a living wage.
Recently he went into the bcok de-
partment and asked for a volume
which was not in stock. The de-
partment head, before ordering it,
thought he should inform the check-
er that the book was expensive, the
list price being $5.50. The checker
replied that cost made no difference.
He was qualifying for his doctor's
degree and had to have that par-
ticular work. Then it developed that
he is a graduate of Columbia uni-
versity, New York university and
Boston university. P. S. He has
the book.
WASHINGTON. — Virtually com-
plete dependence on foreign sources
for tin and manganese may com-
plicate efforts of the government’s
national defense administrators to
build up a large emergency reser-
voir of strategic war materials for
the United States, according to min-
eral experts.
Unlike chromium and tungsten,
which the government plans to buy
in large quantities, tin and manga-
nese are produced in very limited
quantities in this hemisphere. Large
quantities of all will be needed for
the defense program.
Heretofore, government experts
said, more than three-fourths of the
tin used in the United States has
come from British Malaya, with the
remainder divided between England,
the Dutch East Indies, the Nether-
lands and Bolivia. Except for that
of Bolivia, the supply from these
sources is likely to be curtailed and
even completely shut old because of
the war, they believe.
Smelters Not Available.
Even if Bolivia could supply all
the tin required by the United States,
neither country has commercial
smelters capable of refining what the
experts termed “refractory and re-
bellious” Bolivian ore.
The situation in regard to man-
ganese is similar. In 1939, Ameri-
can industries required more than
782,250 tons of the metal—essential
for hardening armor-plate steel.
Main sources of manganese ore have
been the African Gold Coast and
British India. Minor quantities are
produced in the Philippines and
Brazil.
Tin and manganese, the expert
said, undoubtedly will provide Ed-
ward R. Stettinius Jr., materials co-
ordinator of the national defense
commission, with his most difficult
problem. President Roosevelt has
said fears of such shortages are hys-
terical and that Stettinius has the
situation under control.
Under the strategic materials act
passed at the last session of con-
gress $100,000,000 was to be spent
over the next 10 years for essential
war-time commodities not readily
available in this country. Approxi-
mately $13,000,000 has been spent in
the current fiscal year.
More Funds Sought.
With the invasion of Belgium, Hol-
land and France, the administration
decided it was essential to the na-
tional defense to speed up purchases
of strategic materials. Since May1
10 the President has sent two re-
quests to congress for $47,500,000
for the acquisition of such supplies.
Another $100,000,000 would be avail-
able indirectly if needed under
terms of the 1941 fiscal year military
and naval appropriation bills.
Experts regard the tin situation
as the most acute. During 1939 in-
dustrial consumption in the United
States totaled approximately 70,000
tons of pig tin. Since last Septem-
ber the government purchased 6,124
tons at a cost of more than $6,000,-
000. But this would not be suffi-
cient to last more than a few days
if the country found itself at war, ex-
perts said.
The rubber situation is more in-
definite, but probahly not so seri-
ous, experts said. The procurement
division has no quota on rubber,
since all imports are handled on a
barter basis for American cotton by
the state and agriculture depart-
ments.
Chromium ore, necessary for the
manufacture of armor plate and
highly important in the manufacture
of tool steel, is fortunately widely
distributed over the earth’s surface,
the experts said, with the Philip-
pines and Cuba among the major
producers.
Home Economics Infant
Has 8 Foster Mothers
AUBURN, ALA. — Baby Grady
Leon Young hasn’t become spoiled
—despite the attentions of his
“eight mothers.”
Baby Leon lives in the college
hotne management house at Ala-
bama Polytechnic institute.
His eight “mothers” are home
economics seniors studying infant
care.
The youngster’s parents, also stu-
dents at the college, lent their baby
to the management house at request
of Mrs. Marion Spindle, dean of the
school of home economics, to per-
mit home economics students to get
practical training in care of babies.
CLEVELAND.—The safest place
isn’t in the home, according to the
Cleveland Safety council.
Home fatalities for the first time
in the past decade—figures before
that time are unavailable—exceeded
traffic fatalities in Cleveland.
According to the council’s report,
the comparative figures were 127
deaths in the home and 115 by traf-
fic. The council warns to be care-
ful going up and down stairs be-
cause that is the time that acci-
dents are most likely to happen,
which cause deaths.
By far, of aU home accident
deaths, falls were responsible for
most. The council figures reported
83 in that manner. It reported that
29 deaths were attributable from
falls while on stairs.
Contrary to popular belief, the
bathroom is not the most dangerous
place in the home or where an acci-
dent is most likely to happen.
Only one person in Cleveland suf-
fered a fatal fall in a bathtub. How-
ever, two others slipped on bathroom
floors and received fatal injuries.
Twenty-one persons died of bums I
in the second ranking cause of
death, and carbon monoxide gas poi-
son claimed nine lives.
In one of the oddest accidents re-
ported, a wringer fell from the hand
of a woman, struck her knee and
foot, and caused an infection that
proved fatal.
Teeth Lost for 12 Years
Found in a Potato Patch
HARTINGTON, NEB. - Twelve
years ago Emil Evanson lost his
false teeth out of his pocket while
stacking straw on his farm. Mrs.
Walter Nielsen, who now lives on
Evanson’s farm, found them recent-
ly in her potato patch. Evanson
now has spares.
COLORADO SPRINGS—The gold- l“~” oiN, it. "Gue
en eagle, only recently accorded with the wind” is what happened
protection by an act of congress in । to Capt. David Brenton, pilot and
harbor master of Port aux Basques,
t;750
General Julian F. Howell, com-
mander-in-chief of the United Confed-
erate Veterans, announces that he will
recommend that the reunion to be held
in Washington in October shall be the
last Of the remnant of Confederate
soldiers still living only a few are
physically able to attend this year’s
reunion.
Girl Harpist Studying
To Be Plane Mechanic
SYRACUSE.—Unable to find em-
ployment in the music world, Miss
Jessie Elinor Walizer, 25-year-old
harpist, is taking lessons to become
an airport “grease monkey.”
Miss Walizer, who says she is
“crazy about tinkering with mo-
tors,” first discovered her mechani-
cal inclinations when the 13-year-old
family car broke down. Lacking
funds for the necessary repairs, she
overhauled the motor herself.
She is now taking a course in
aviation mechanics under a scholar-
ship extended by the civil aero-
nautics authority.
Dinosaur Print in Texas
Hints of 50-Ton Beast
AUSTIN, TEXAS.—A single foot-
print, as long as a bathtub and 40
inches wide, has convinced Dr. E.
H. Sellards, director of a paleon-
tological survey in Texas, that the
world’s largest dinosaur once
roamed over what is now Texas.
From the size of the track, Uni-
versity of Texas experts construe
existence of an animal 80 feet long,
weighing nearly 50 tons.
The foot-deep track was uncov-
ered at the water’s edge of the
Paluxy river, near Glen Rose,
Texas.
Roland T. Bird of the American
Museum of Natural History has
been sent to the spot to supervise
preservation and removal of the
dinosaur track. To do so, men un-
der Bird’s direction will cut away
a one-ton block of limestone on
which the four-toed marks of the
foot are imprinted.
Statute Through Error
Stabilizes Unemployment
SACRAMENTO, CALIF—There
was quite a laugh when the assem-
bly committee on unemployment in-
surance looked up the law govern-
ing jobless benefits.
The original act of 1935 plainly
said that the purpose of the new
law was to assist “in the stabiliza-
tion of employment conditions.”
But the 1939 act, as amended, was
printed “unemployment” conditions.
‘It was found that the inadvertent
error slipped in when the act was
amended in 1937 and was copied into
the 1939 law.
Broadway: George K. Arthur,
well-tanned, walking along with a
little dog on a leash, unrecognized
by passersby . . . and a few
years ago he was one of the stars
of the films . . . Arthur Godfrey,
Washington mikeman, surrounded
by local radio men who want to
know whether FDR will run again
. . . The newsboy who keeps shout-
ing “Allies Win” no matter what
the headlines say . . . Because he
sells more papers that way . . .
Bess Johnson visiting four box of-
fices in a row ... A sign that West
Virginia relatives are coming to
town and will want to see the hit
shows ... An office worker and his
steno girl friend, employed in sky-
scrapers a block apart, using a mir-
ror to turn the sun’s rays into ten-
der message. A phone would be
more practical . . . But not nearly
so romantic.
Gifts: Bob Knight, orchestra lead-
er and steel guitar wizard, bought
his wife a silver slave bracelet as an
anniversary present. The inscrip-
tion read, “I am the property of
Bob.” So the pretty brunette Mrs.
Knight took it right back and had
a last name engraved. “Otherwise,”
she explained, “someone might
think I was the property of Bob
Taylor, Bob Crosby, Bob Burns, Bob
LaFollette or Bobby Breen” . . .
Bess Johnson, mentioned in the pre-
vious paragraph, gave her daugh-
ter Jop a ring. The same day, the
youngster accompanied her mother
to the studio. Much to her disap-
pointment, no one noticed her gift.
Finally, unable to understand indif-
ference or obtuseness longer, Jop
sighed loudly. “Oh, dear,” she said,
“I’m so warm in my new ring.”
No. 2—431 South Ervay, at Young
No. 3—5409 E. Grand
Survey: You all have read or
heard of or possibly met that cer-
tain type of person known as
“Broadwayite.” Well, I decided on
a sort of survey to get a concrete
definition of the term. The first
person I questioned was Benay Ve-
nuta. “You’re a Broadwayite if you
hate to go to bed nights,” she de-
clared. Then on Broadway I met
Johnny Green and he popped back
at me with, “If you eat breakfast
when other people eat lunch and if
you usually eat foods with queer
titles.” Then came Bea Wain who
thinks you are a Broadwayite “if
you read all the Broadway col-
umns.” Ralph Edwards came
through with, “If you usually ride
in taxis" and Sammy Kaye summed
it up this way: “If you have a
hard exterior and a kind heart."
And I’ll admit I’m still at sea.
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