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"Only the united effort of every man and every woman,

no matter where employed, can give us that victory.

We must face this fact squarely—we must never forget

it."

C O N T E N T S

AUGUST. 1943

Products From Corn 5

Staley Product Plays Part in New "V" Board 10

London Manager Reports on Americans 1)

Girl Workers Want Beauty Along With Safety 16

Soft Ball Substitute for Baseball 20

Help With Home Canning Arithmetic 23

Staley Company Fighting Men 35

Published Monthly In The Interest Of The Employees Of

A. E. STALEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Manufacturers of Corn and Soybean Products

DECATUR, ILL.

Editor: Ruth E. Cade • Cartoonist: W. R. Van Hook

Volume XVII • Number 2

SHORT AND BUSY SUMMERENDS WITH BUSY SEASON AHEAD

After one of the shortest and busiestsummers in history here we are bang upagainst September again. I have beenmaintaining for a long time that the newyear should start with September. Inthese present day United States at least,there is a much sharper change in ourroutines and our lives when August givesway to September than when Decembermerges into January. ,

Theoretically the v a c a t i o n seasoncloses with the arrival of September.Schools all over the country formerlyopened then after their summer holiday,although the modern trend is a littleaway from that. The last summer holi-day—Labor Day—falls early in Septem-ber, and straw hats are supposed to beterribly de trop (although no one wearshats any more either before or after thefirst of September). Theoretically, too,the hottest weather is over by the first ofSeptember, although again there is oftena slight slip-up, and September has beenknown to make July and August look likepikers at producing torrid weather.

Still and all, there is a definite changewhen September arrives. People withideas to put over generally wait until Sep-tember to start them. Advertising folklike to start campaigns then, and showpeople like to open new plays during thatmonth. It is altogether fitting that theUnited States Treasury Departmentshould announce that it is going to opena big War Bond Drive in September.This, the third War Bond Drive, is look-ing forward to that invasion of Europe

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which the Allied World has been askingfor. Invasions come high and if we wantthis one we will have to back it withmoney as unstintedly as the men in theArmed forces are backing it with theirlives.

In the first big drive, almost a yearago, we were asked to subscribe ten per-cent of our income toward War Bondsand most of us at the Staley plant did.Don't get the idea that everyone did itwillingly. There were several people whoinsisted it was going to be a sacrifice forthem to give up that much of their earn-ings each month! As if any sacrifice forus here at home is even worth talkingabout. But there are always people likethat. At any rate nearly everyone atStaley's signed up for ten percent.

Then last spring came the next drivebut while a number of Staley people in-creased their holdings then, no intensivecampaign was put on. The drive whichopens in September is going to be aimedat all of us again. Everyone, no matterwho he is nor how many Bonds he hasbought, is being urged to buy at least onemore $100.00 Bond at this time.

Even if you are putting ten percentinto Bonds, even if you are doing morethan your neighbor, even if you feel thatto buy more will mean that you must dowithout some of the clothes or furni tureor movies you planned on, you still canfigure some way to do it. Far too manyof us have not yet learned that when wehave ten dollars we must not dash downand spend it for something we do not ab-solutely need—but we must put it intoBonds.

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There is another thing far too many ofus have not yet learned. We have notlearned to distinguish between the thingswhich we absolutely need and the thingswe want and think we need. Withoutrealizing it we have been a nation ofterribly extravagant people for genera-tions. We have been generous, to be sure,but our generosity has never cost manyof us any great sacrifices. Very few ofus have ever given of our worldly goodsuntil it hurt. Most of us have been will-ing to give—after we and ours havebought everything we wanted, and havesaved out enough for the extra extrava-gances we may think of later.

In ordinary times that plan seemed towork very well, but now things are dif-ferent. We are not being asked to giveour money, actually. We are being askedto invest it, and the investment is thebest in the world. It is well worth goingwithout those little extras which seem sodesirable just now, if the money whichwould be used for them, goes into WarBonds which will help bring about theAxis collapse that much sooner.

Among the things we have been askedto forego are vacation trips. Since travel-ing is not at all comfortable in these war-times, it is really much more of a pleas-ure to stay home, and I have found byexperience that a vacation at home isgrand. It is delightful to wake up in themorning and suddenly realize that thereis really no need to get up then unlessyou want to. You are at home, in yourown comfortable bed and you can event-ually have breakfast on your own cool,shaded porch—but there is no reasonto rush. What vacation, any place, couldoffer more to the person who ordinarilywakes with the guilty feeling that heshould have been up and started on hisdaily routine a half hour earlier!

But those of us who lead active livesmost of the year—and only extremelyunfortunate people do not—find life

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pretty dull unless we have something def-inite to do, even on vacations. Withouthalf trying I found several "definite"thing to do. The most pronounced onthis list was canning. A few years ago Iwould have exploded into irate pieces ifanyone had suggested that I spend partof my vacation canning tomatoes andbeets for later consumption, but, again,this year is different. The vegetableswere there, garden-fresh as the advertis-ing writers say, and before the first batchwas out of the process cooker, I was en-joying myself. I hope next winter to en-joy even more the fruits of my labor.

There is just one big mistake most ofus make when we spend a vacation athome. We think of things that need do-ing at the office and "run out for a fewhours to take care of it." That little"running out'' can get to be a daily habitand almost before he knows it, the manwho was going to stay away from the of-fice for two weeks—is away actuallyabout half time. Again that is all themore reason why, if one takes his vaca-tion at home, he should plan to do some-thing definite.

Those who have done it, tell of anynumber of things they can do to amusethemselves, right here in Decatur. Be-cause it is our own home town most ofus give in to the good old American cus-tom of finding few virtues in it, but itmust have some. It might be a good ideato check over what you do in a strangecity and then see what the possibilitiesare for doing the same things here.

There is always the lake for those wholike to swim or take boat rides. Peoplehave been known to come miles to enjoythose pleasures on Lake Uecatur. Theparks offer golf and unusually fine picnicfacilities and tennis. If you like movies—there are a number of cooled theatersin town, and for those who like theirnight life set to music there are evenplaces where one can dance.

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•

TAKE YDUR PICK"Nothing will prevent me from tearing up Christianity root and

branch . . . we are not out against the hundred and one differentkinds of Christianity but against Christianity itself. All people whoprofess creeds . . . are traitors to the people. Even those Christianswho really want to serve the people . . . will have to be suppressed.I myself am a heathen to the core"

—ADOLPH HITLER.

"There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepareto defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanityon which their churches, their governments and their very civilizationare founded. The defense of religion, of democracy, and of good faithamong nations is all the same fight. To save one we miist now makeup our minds to save all.

—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.

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PRODUCTS FROM CORNPlay Highly Important Part in World's Manufacturing Scheme

BY NORMAN KENNEDY,Director of Research, Corn Industries Research Foundation

A crisis which threatened disastrouseffects to the war effort now, and to thewelfare of the farm producer in the fu-ture, reached an acute stage earlier in thesummer. The corn refining industry,which manufactures literally hundreds ofproducts going into scores of industriesvitally affecting both war production ne-cessities and essential civilian needs, wasfaced with the prospect of early shutdowndue to lack of its most vital need—anadequate supply of its basic raw mate-rial—corn. And this matter of adequatesupply may be a serious problem formany months.

Even though the industry uses only asmall percentage of the total crop, 130,-000,000 bushels out of a total 1932 cropof 3,000,000,000 bushels, the nature ofthe product which it supplies to a vastgroup of industries is so essential thata deprivation of those supplies wouldconstitute a national calamity.

Vital Problem

Thus, the quantity of the corn cropwhich under peace time conditions wasthe cause of much concern and govern-mental action in order to eliminate andcontrol the creation and disposition ofsurpluses, has under the demands of acountry at war, become almost the mostvital problem of the hour (not the day).

The simple fact is that there is notenough corn to go around in relation tothe demands on the available supply.AUGUST, 1943

The causes of the shortage, such as thealcohol program, conversion to syntheticrubber, and the many other wartimeneeds for alcohol, the needs for feedbrought about by the large increase inanimal population are of less concernthan the present acute necessity to allo-cate the available supply to those con-sumers whose activities contribute mostvitally to the conduct of the war, as sub-sequently indicated. How this allocationcan be accomplished is the problem of thepolicy maker and the administrativeagencies and other governmental agen-cies in Washington.

It cannot be done by ceiling prices oncorn while failing to put adjusting andcompensating ceiling prices on the pro-cessors of corn, whether in the form ofhogs or other products. A ceiling on cornand none on hogs and other live stockwill not provide allocation on the basisof the relative national importance of theuses to which corn is put. The corn re-fining industry is convinced that alloca-tion can be accomplished if there is adefinite realization that it must be ac-complished.

Uses

A glance at the uses to which the prod-ucts of the industry are put should indi-cate that they transcend in importancethe effects of the relative small percent-age of withdrawal by the industry fromthe total supply.

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What are such uses? The attachedchart will give some idea of their varietyand the list given is by no means com-plete.

In breaking down the list to strictly es-sential uses it is found that steel anda l u m i n u m foundries must have over100,000,000 pounds of starch productsyearly for casting and mouldings; thata l u m i n u m plants require 10,000,000pounds for making aluminum; that an-other 100,000,000 pounds of starch arerequired for fibreboard waterproof ship-ping containers for overseas shipment offood and other supplies for the armedforces and for lend-lease; that textiles(both cotton and rayon) must have over300,000,000 pounds of starch yearly forarmy and navy contracts and essentialcivilian needs; that paper products musthave over 200,000,000 pounds of starchfor armed forces and essential civilianneeds; that lend-lease must have over300,000,000 pounds of various products;that the army and navy now are using400,000,000 pounds of corn products,(starch syrup and corn sugar) principal-ly as food. This is only a partial list ofessential uses.

Food Industry

The food processing industry is usingnearly 2,000,000,000 pounds of starch,syrup and sugar corn in the compoundingof staple food items, many of which arefurnished the army and navy directlyand indirectly.

The confectionery industry could notoperate without corn syrup, and candyproducts are particularly in demand bythe armed forces and defense workers asa concentrated energy food of high pala-tability. Candy is regarded by the Quar-termaster's Corps of the Army as notonly a valuable food for various rationsbut a distinct morale item. The JerseyCity Quartermaster Depot is reported tohave shipped 335 carloads of candy kitsduring 1942. The baking industry usesPAGE 6

large quantities of corn syrup and sugaras a yeast food for breadmaking proc-esses and as a sweetener for cakes, cook-ies and other pastries. The canners offruits, vegetables, soups, tomato catsupand many other canned products regardthe sweeteners and starches of this indus-try as essential in their processes. Cornsugar is used in the curing of meats toprevent deterioration; the jam and jellypackers require corn syrup and cornsugar in their products and the ice creamindustry uses large quantities as sweet-eners and to improve texture. In fact, useby processors of compounded foods is al-most universal, and, of course, greatquantities of these foods go to the armedservices.

Tobacco Industry

Because of lack of shipping facilities toprovide normal cane sugar supplies fromoffshore areas, the corn refining industryhas been under severe strain to make upfor the deficiencies in many competingessential items. The cigarette and tobac-co industry has added its insistent de-mand for a large amount of corn syrupand sugar for use in conditioning andprocessing of tobacco products. The to-bacco industry insists that their productsare morale items for the armed forces andcivilian workers and that productionmust be maintained.

Pharmaceutical IndustryOutside of the uses which go directly

and indirectly to the armed forces, thereare a great number of essential civilianneeds. The medical profession directs theuse of large quantities of the corn syrupand corn sugar, (dextrose) both in thefeeding of infants and as part of theirarmamentarium in dealing with manytypes of disease. A survey made withinthe last 10 years in the New Englandarea indicated almost half the artificiallyfed babies in that area used corn syrupfor the purpose of modifying the milk in

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infant feeding formulae, and the practiceis almost universal today. Dextrose fromthe corn refining industry is practicallythe sole source of intravenous glucose forthe alleviation of shock and is used in themajority of hospitals in the country. Themedical uses of dextrose are so in-numerable that a book has been pub-lished on the subject "Dextrose Thera-py" by E. Martin (1937) published byHarpers Bros. In this book an extensivelist of therapeutic practices are givenwhere dextrose has proven of great medi-cal value. Dextrose is the bacteriologicalnutrient for the growth of many healingand aseptic agents, such as the recentlydiscovered penicillin used on openwounds. These many medical uses, are,of course, practically essential in war-time, not only for their rehabilitation ofwounded armed forces but in the preser-vation of the health of the civilian popu-lation.

Chemical Industry

Perhaps the farmer does not realizewhen he puts his land into corn that he ismaking a vast contribution to humanwelfare. Outside of the many essentialand humanitarian uses which have beendeveloped out of the fruits of his toil aremany others that are looming above thehorizon due to extensive chemical explor-ation. In fact the corn refining industrymight be said to be a wartime necessityand a peacetime hope. In its hands is thedevelopment of a carbohydrate chemicalindustry where many new products arepossible as the result of fundamental dis-coveries in the chemistry of starch. If thecorn refining industry were shut down, amajor prop would be taken out of thetotal war effort and the development ofextensive peacetime uses would be dan-gerously retarded.

New uses are coming in every day. Forexample, there has been a recent develop-ment in the use of starch in the drilling ofoil wells. Also several members of thisAUGUST, 194S

industry have developed plastic mate-rials out of the protein in corn, which isunder government allocation for specificwar uses, and has unusual propertieswhich are not found in other plasticmaterials.

The industry, a number of years ago,instituted a mass attack on the chemicalproblems involved in the chemistry ofcorn starch as an organic raw material.Fruits of this investigation today aresmall in comparison to what they will bein the future. To mention one in passing,there is the production of sorbitol whichthrough fermentation methods using dex-trose has produced vitamin "C", one ofthe major nutrients in an adequate diet.Sorbitol and another cousin of the samechemical process called "mannitol" haveproven so useful that the Federal govern-ment has absorbed most of the output forwartime use. In order to insure the futureutilization by industry of corn, the vari-ous leading scientific investigators in theuniversity laboratories and in the govern-mental Regional laboratories, togetherwith the applied chemists of the indus-try, have been mobilized to conduct amass investigation and attack on thechemical problems of corn, which shouldgo a long way toward insuring a stabil-ized and continuous future use of thismajor agricultural crop.

"Conclusion"

The corn refining industry has dedi-cated its laboratories in this way to thecontinuous welfare of the corn producer,and it should be evident that the farmergroups should insist that the industry bekept alive and in operation by insistingthat supplies of corn be provided, mainlyfor the reason that such supplies make avital contribution to the war and fromthe point of view of his own self interestwill tend to preserve his welfare after thewar.

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curtail its activities at the present time,it may be some months or even years be-fore its function of serving a large groupof other industries and of providing acontinuous and expanding outlet for thefarmer can be re-established. Eventhough the demand on his production is

a small percentage of the total produc-tion at present, the potential demand inthe future should require a much higherpercentage, and the small percentage re-quired now, in view of the vital necessi-ties for it, should be the immediate con-cern of the farming community.

List of Products Made from the Corn Kernel

Starches

AlkalineBakers'BinderBoraxedBrewers' GritsChlorinatedConfectioners'CrystalGelatinizedLumpNon-CongealingPearlPowderedSolubleThick BoilingThin Boiling

AsbestosBakingBaking PowdersBrewingConfectioneryCosmeticsExplosivesHouseholdLaundryPaperPastesPharmaceuticalsSizingsSoapsTextiles

Dextrins

British GumCanary DextrinFounders' MixtureSpecial DextrinsSpecial GumsWhite Dextrin

Syrups

Brewers' Corn SyrupHigh, Low and Me-

dium Convers ionCorn Syrups

Mixing Corn SyrupSpecial Tanners' Corn

Syrup

Sugars

Corn Sugar EightyCorn Sugar SeventyCorn Syrup SolidsDextrose, AnhydrousDextrose, HydrateRefined Bread Sugar

And Their Uses

CarpetsColorsFireworksGluesGumsLeatherMucilagePaperPastesSizingsTextilesTwineWindow Shades

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BakingBrewingCanned FruitsC a r b o n a t e d Bever-

agesConfectioneryFood SaucesFruit ButtersFruit JuicesIce CreamInfant FeedingJams, PreservesJelliesMarmaladesMayonnaiseMeat ProductsPharmaceuticalsPicklesRelishesTable SyrupsTobacco

BakingBrewingCanned FruitsCaramelConfectioneryDieteticsFibre Silk (Rayon)Fruit ButtersFruit JuicesIce CreamJams, PreservesJelliesMarmaladesMeat ProductsPharmaceuticalsPicklesSaucesSoft DrinksSugar ColorTanningVinegar

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Corn Oil

Black GreaseCorn Oil, CrudeCorn Oil, RefinedCorn Oil, SolidifiedSoap StockSolid Soap

Feeds

Corn BranCorn Gluten FeedCorn Gluten MealCorn Oil CakeCorn Oil Cake Meal

Miscellaneous

Calcium LactateCorn Sugar Molasses

(Hydrol)Lactic AcidPudding PowdersSodium LactateYeastZein

Commercial BakingPharmaceuticalsSalad and Cooking

OilSoapsTextiles

Beef CattleDairy CattlePoultry

Sheep

And Their Uses

DietaryExperimentalFoods

MedicalPlasticsTanning

Uses

Define Rights of MenIn All Armed Services

Guarantees to American soldiers andsailors of rights and privileges whichthey are fighting to preserve were re-viewed today by the Office of War Infor-mation. Acts of Congress pertaining tothe welfare of the servicemen and theirfamilies, state laws and the program ofthe American Red Cross, provide:

A serviceman's civil liabilities, such asincome tax, suits for debts, and insurancepremium payments, are suspended andremain suspended until six months afterthe war. Free legal advice is availableto him.

His right to express preference at theballot box on those who are to govern theCountry, his State, and to make laws, ispreserved inviolate.

He is eligible for unemployment com-pensation in 44 States and Hawaii in theevent he is unable to find employment onbeing discharged from the service.

His former employer is required bylaw to reinstate him to his job and senior-ity rights upon discharge from the serv-ice. He will be given civil service prefer-ence in seeking employment with the Na-tional Government.

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His concern over the health and otherassistance and services which may berequired by his wife, his children, hisparent or parents, or his sisters, broth-ers, and grandchildren is alleviatedthrough systems of insurance, allotmentsand allowances, quarter allowances andmaternity and infant care.

He may receive free medical and hos-pital care after the war. If wounded orinjured he may be eligible for veteranspension commensurate with his degree ofdisability and to vocational rehabilitationand placement in employment.

Lichtenberger Home

Harry Lichtenberger, who has been inMacon County Tuberculosis sanatoriumsince last January, is home now where hewill spend another month resting. Afterthat, his physician says, he may returnto his job as statistician in the manufac-turing department, for part of each day.By the middle of October Harry hopes tobe back on the job full time.

He promises to surprise his friendswhen he does come back. He was neververy heavy but now, after seven monthsof complete rest, he weighs 205 and feelsfine.

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Slalny Product Plays Important Partlew "V" Board Used for War Supplies

By L. 0. GILL,

Technical Service and Products Development Laboratory

After about two years of experimentalwork, the Staley Company completed itspart in the first phase of a vital war de-velopment some eight months ago. Ourpart, from that time on, has been a mat-ter of furnishing a large quantity of aspecial starch.

So many spectacular developmentshave come out in the last year or so thatmany important but less newsworthy de-velopments have received little or no at-tention from the general public. Every-one has at least heard of radar, cannoncarrying planes, automatic bomb sights,and dehydrated, compressed foods, toname only a few. Not many people, onthe other hand, have even wonderedwhat sort of material all of these thingswere being packed in for shipment. Theanswer is that several things are beingused, and the new weatherproof "V"board is one of the important ones. Allof these packing materials must be goodfor no matter how good the product is,unless it is delivered in good condition,it might better never have been made.

War Brings Problem

Fibreboard cases have been used formany years for packing civilian goods,and to some extent by the army andnavy, and they had done very well withthe relatively careful handling of peacetimes. The story was quite different,however, when war conditions were en-countered, first by Lend-Lease shipmentsand later by shipments to our own warzones. It was quickly found that not

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even the best of the then existent fibrecases were good enough to stand the ex-tremely rough handling, and long periodsin damp ships' holds. In addition, manyshipments were piled on bomb-blasteddocks or in open fields for long periodswithout any protection from the weather.All too often the fibre case was reducedto a sort of soggy porridge, releasing itscontents. The labels would then prompt-ly wash off of everything and a wholemountain of supplies would sometimesbecome very difficult to sort out and putto use.

Rough and Wet

Conditions were even more difficult inthe South Pacific where supplies areoften delivered by being thrown off ofbarges into the surf. When this method

This .100 all-Kraft solid fibre box stoodup well under rough treatment. When thispicture -was taken it had been bangingaround in the ocean for 24 hours, and thenhad been dropped 15 times from a table 32indies high. The box looks in condition totake some more punishment.

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is used, the cases may be submerged insea water for days besides being bangedabout by the waves. Even after they aretaken from the ocean they are often piledseveral high while soaking wet, and thisin itself is pretty rough handling. Withall of the abuse that the containers takethey must keep their contents intact andin good condition if they are to be suc-cessful. It is really no wonder that prod-ucts which had been entirely satisfactoryfor peace time purposes were found tohave fatal faults when put to such testsas these.

The solution to the problem from thestandpoint of the military authorities wasthe traditional nailed wooden box, but ashortage of lumber made it imperativethat some other answer be found. More-over, as one of the accompanying illus-trations shows, the wooden box is notthe complete answer when the conditionsit has to meet are as extreme as they arein this war. Fibreboard manufacturersset to work at once to develop a boardwhich would be far superior to anythingthey had ever made before, or, in fact,had even considered a possibility. Theirnew product had to have tremendous drystrength, it had to be scuff resistant tostand being rolled and shoved around bywaves on a rock strewn beach, and it hadto be practically impervious to water. Itwas recognized from the first that such aboard would have to be made of severalplies of thinner paper and that thesesheets would have to be combined witha waterproof adhesive.

All Kraft Sheet

We are not familiar with all of the de-tails of how the paper manufacturersolved his problems but we do know thathe did a good job. The section of theindustry with which we have workedmost closely has made a dense, strongsheet from all Kraft pulp, and has sizedthis sheet with special chemicals to give

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This picture of this nailed -wooden boxwas taken after the box had been tossingabout in the ocean for 24 hours, and thenhad been subjected to nine falls from a table32 inches high. Most of the box couldn'ttake the beating.

it water resistance far beyond the ordi-nary standards. The consequence is thatthe new paper loses only a small partof its strength upon soaking and regainsnearly all of it upon redrying, its surfaceis smooth, hard and tough, and the made-up board is resistant to all kinds of abuse.

As you can see, the paper manufactur-er had a big job to do and did it well, butit would have made no difference howgood the paper was without an equallygood adhesive to combine the separateplies into a perfect board. We had fore-seen the potential usefulness of a water-proof board adhesive and had startedlaboratory work on the problem nearly ayear before the demand actually devel-oped. Consequently, we were at once ina position to offer a process and productswhen the demand suddenly did develop.A great deal of work was still necessarywhen we came to apply the laboratoryprocess to large scale production, but this-was done so efficiently by our IndustrialSales Division's technical staff, that therewas never any doubt from the first thatwe had the answer.

Find Solution

The problem the laboratory faced tostart with was to make a non-waterproofadhesive water resistant, and still retain

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the good qualities of the starch adhesive.Many things were tried—our own andother proteins, various resins, asphaltemulsions, wax emulsions, and variousstarch derivatives. The outcome of allof this work was that we finally settledupon a combination of one of our modi-fied starches, Eclipse K, and urea-for-maldehyde resin. The Eclipse K contrib-utes the stickiness, body, and quick setof a good adhesive, while the resin actsto make the complete glue waterproof.

Urea-formaldehyde resin is a commer-cial product made by several large man-ufacturers, and their cooperation wasextremely valuable in the application ofthe process to practice. Urea is madefrom carbon dioxide and ammonia. For-maldehyde is made from wood alcoholand air. When these two chemicals arecombined in the right proportions andunder the proper conditions of tempera-ture, acidity, etc., a solid resin is formed.Many products with different propertiescan be made by merely varying the con-ditions of the reaction, but the one weare interested in is soluble in water whenwe use it, and gradually becomes insolu-ble upon aging under mild conditions oftemperature and acidity.

Use Eclipse K

The glue made from Eclipse K, resin,and an acid or acid-forming salt willcombine the plies of the special water-proof paper at high speed on a commer-cial board machine and weld the separatesheets of paper into a dense, rigid unit.After this board has aged for from sevento ten days, sections of it can be soakedin water for 24 hours or more withoutany separation at the glue line. In fact,it is often found that if the wet board ispulled apart, the glue is still strongerthan the paper.

Boxes made from this board were firsttested in the surf of the Atlantic Oceanand they came through with flying colors.PAGE 12

The men making the tests did not alwayscome off so well for some of them almostlost toes to vicious crabs, and on at leasttwo occasions had to talk themselves outof arrests by Coast Guardsmen. Sincethese initial tests, millions of containershave been given the hardest kind of prac-tical tests under actual service condi-tions, and to the best of our knowledge,they have been doing all right.

It may appear to the reader that thisaccount of our part in the developmentof "V" board is not as modest as goodtaste might demand, but we have someofficial sanction for our attitude. R. J.Zaumeyer, Chief, War Products Devel-opment Section, W.P.B., speaking beforethe American Pulp and Paper Mill Super-intendents Association, said, "The fa-miliar V box is thoroughly representativeof the technological advance that can bemade under war pressure. This has beena very dramatic development and mostof you are familiar with it" . . . "Thisachievement is an outstanding one andpart of its credit must be attributed tothe use of urea-formaldehyde resin inconjunction with starch as a waterproofadhesive."

Think Before You Stop

The American soldier does not like thenecessity of waging war. And yet—if helays off for one single instant he may losehis own life and sacrifice the lives of hiscomrades.

By the same token—a worker here athome may not like the driving, war-timeconditions under which he has to work orlive. And yet—if he gets complacent orindifferent and slacks on his job, he, too,may sacrifice the lives of American sol-diers and contribute to the loss of an im-portant battle.

—President Roosevelt, in his radioaddress to the American people,July 28, 1943.

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Mrs. M. A. Marshall is the only one in the group above who has left the companysince this picture was taken. She was secretary in the London office for several yearsbut has left now to be with her husband, a soldier, who is to be in England for sometime. Others in the group are L. C. Ambrose, managing director, H. W. Reeves, auditorand H. Tomkinson.

London Manager Finds AmericansEnjoying Themselves All Over City

London is being swamped by Amer-icans in uniform, it seems, according toL. C. Ambrose, our British director, butEngland seems to like them. Mr. Am-brose wrote recently:

"The whole country here has gotteninto its .stride as far as war is concerned,and is simply working all out in order toget it finished as quickly as possible.

"London has been completely occupiedby the U. S. Army. There are alwaysthousands of them, it seems, on leave inthe West End and they certainly seem toenjoy themselves when they get to town.It would be much easier to entertainthem if it were not for the rationing posi-tion and the transport problem as whenthey visit anybody they are prohibitedfrom taking them for rides in cars dueto the present petrol restrictions, and ofcourse, it is not easy for people to feedthem out of their limited rations, but tak-

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ing it on the whole these things are man-aged very well indeed.

"The noticeable difference in the coun-try at the moment is the absence of mo-tor traffic, especially on Sundays, whenthe roads are deserted except for a fewcars run by doctors, and a few bicyclesand service trucks.

"Mr. Roxborough of David Sclanderscalled at the office the other week, andam pleased to say his son, Lt. WilliamRoxborough, has been recommended forthe D.F.C. in view of his good workagainst submarines whilst in command ofa Flying Fortress.

"In view of the fact that so many largehotels at various holiday resorts havebeen taken over by the government, andalso the restricted accommodations nowavailable, taken into conjunction withtraveling difficulties it is practically im-possible for anyone to get away for a

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holiday, and most of the populationseems to be spending their holidays athome. This, of course, is just what thegovernment wants, and there is no doubtabout it that everybody is looking for-ward to the time when they can travelwithout any restrictions or worries aboutaccommodations. As the war, for us, haslasted four years you can imagine thata large number of people feel that theycould do with a good rest, but neverthe-less they are determined to get along asbest they can until the thing is settled.

"As far as the food situation is con-cerned, it is still about the same level as ithas been for the last two or three years,and we really cannot grumble in this re-spect, as we do get enough to eat, al-though we do not get the variety that weused to. Now that summer is here we cer-tainly do enjoy all the fresh fruit wecan get in the way of strawberries, rasp-berries, cherries, etc. On the other handwe very much miss not being able to ob-tain oranges, lemons, bananas and grape-fruit, and also the tinned fruits which weused to get in such varieties from theStates.

"We are very much bucked to see theoffensive which has just been opened inthe Pacific by the U. S. and the Allies,and we are all eagerly waiting the otheroperations which have been promised inthe European theater. (This letter waswritten July 2,1943.) We of course real-ize that we have a very tough job in frontof us, although it would never surpriseus if the whole thing folded up like it didin North Africa, but this is one of thosethings we cannot count on except as a re-sult of our own efforts in that direction.It would seem that the recent heavybombing of the Ruhr is having a verymarked effect on the German capacity formaking war, and although they keepthreatening us with the most terrible re-prisals, we just feel disposed to wait andsee if they do carry out their threats.

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We usually get disturbances during themoonlight nights, when apparently theenemy send their fast fighter bombersover in very small numbers, just suffi-cient to arouse us during the night.

"I do not think there is a lot more totell you except that everybody over hereis very confident regarding the outcomeof this war, and might add that we are allextremely pleased to see such large num-bers of U. S. Troops and Airmen in thiscountry.

"It looks as if now that we are enter-ing the age of air travel, representativesfrom our respective offices will be able topay week-end visits to each other whenthe war is over, which will be useful incoming to decisions."

If now, while we fight together, nowwhile we depend upon each other for ourvery lives, men in Russia, men in China,in France and in India, men in Brazil,men in Great Britain and in the UnitedStates—men everywhere—come to knowthat this dependence upon each other isindispensable for the well-being of all,we can shape the world of the future. Wecan make it a place where men and wom-en everywhere may have an opportunityto achieve in their own way, life, libertyand the pursuit of happiness. As a stepin that direction, I propose that we inthe United States, who one hundred andsixty-seven years ago formulated our ownDeclaration of Independence, now add toit another declaration, a Declaration ofInterdependence among the nations ofthis one world.—WENDELL L. WILLKIE.

New Salesman .

Ed Gottman has recently taken the po-sition as package division salesman inthe C i nc i nna t i territory, succeedingJames Moore who is now in the Army.Mr. Gottman paid his first visit to theplant late in July while he and his wifewere on a vacation trip to Chicago.

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Galloway Playground Dedicated

An east side playground which the lateJames H. Galloway had been instru-mental in opening, while a member of thepark board, was named for him and dedi-cated at ceremonies in the park late inAugust. Mr. Galloway, Staley plant su-perintendent, who died last year, was amember of the Uecatur Park Board fromthe time of its organization, and was atireless worker for a system of play-grounds in connection with the parks.

The playground which has been namedfor him grew from the old Pines Com-munity center, which was originally inMr. Galloway's neighborhood. Later it

was moved just across the road fromNelson park, where it continued to servethe same district. While Mr. Gallowaywas interested in all city play grounds,he was particularly interested in this one.

At the dedication ceremonies talkswere made by A. E. Staley, Jr., president;W. H. Walmsley, plant superintendent;Harry Bell, from the Independent StarchWorkers, and Dan Dayton, Fellowshipclub. G. H. Morton, of the Staley com-pany, was master of ceremonies. Amongthe others who spoke was H. C. Schaub,who served with Mr. Galloway on thepark board and was a close friend of hisfor many years.

Dudley Boren, electrician, celebrated two anniversaries in July by working in his vege-table garden. He and Mrs. Boren, shown with him, were married 40 years on July 17,and he came to the Staley company 30 years ago. That anniversary fell on July 14. Theirgarden is one of the show places in the river bottoms across the river from Decatur nearthe Mueller plant.

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Girl Workers Want Beauty AlongWith Safety in Working Clothing

By MYLO ROBERTS, Director of Safety

Last winter we began to see a goodmany girls in the plant wearing neat, tanjumper suits. These suits looked as serv-iceable and sensible as they did attrac-tive. They had no long sleeves or frillswhich could catch on anything and theywere well fitted. The management haddecided that there was a need for such agarment at a reasonable price and so, aft-er considerable investigation of materialand styles by Lou Doxie, under whommost of the girls worked, a large numberof uniforms were bought. They were re-sold to the girls who wanted them, atcost, and went like hotcakes. Lately, asimilar suit of a lighter weight, whitecloth has been obtained, so the girls canhave their choice.

This spring the mere men supervisingwomen realized that another item in thegirls work outfits needed attention. Thatwas a hat or head covering of some sort.The majority of the girls like to wearsomething on their heads in order to keeptheir hair clean and in place. As moregirls began to take over more jobs, therewas a need for head protection from thesafety angle. It has been said that awoman's hair is the greatest hazard in heremployment wherever there is movingmachinery. Hair is easily attracted bythe static electricity built up on movingbelts and pulleys and can become easilyentangled in any fast moving machine

part. The results are nearly always dis-astrous.

A hat was needed which would com-pletely cover a girl's long hair withoutmussing it up too much, which wouldhelp protect it from dirt, and whichwould not be apt to get caught itself.Quite definitely it must be attractive.There were a lot of hats on the market,ranging all the way from plain hairnetsand snoods to turbans and high peaked,military style caps. However, the onewhich came closest to filling the bill andwhich we finally got, is called the"Guardi-Ann" Hat. It has a ventilatedfront crown and bill of felt and a heavynet snood back into which a lot of haircan be tucked. It is definitely attractiveand becoming. The bill is designed sothat it can be kept down while workingand turned up to wear away from work.

So far we have only those bright redones which can be seen a long way off,but soon we expect to have blue and tanones also so that the girls can suit theirown tastes. Regardless of the color, wefeel that when someone sees a Staley girlin her uniform and cap they'll think"There is a neatly dressed girl preparedto do her job and to do it without gettinghurt." There is no rule compelling thegirls to wear either coveralls or these hatsbut most of the girls find them more com-fortable, sensible and attractive.

The girls on the opposite page all find the new red safety hats not only a protection butbecoming. The girl at the top, left, is Ina Gipson and the one at the right is Evelyn Trawick.In the center is Virginia Stimmel. At the lower left is Bessie Manck, sweeping the court,and at lower right is Imogene Gilliland. Each girl has her own idea about the proper angleat which to wear her hat.

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Gen. Marshall WarnsAgainst Two Big Evils

"Two things we must guard against,"said General George C. Marshall, Chiefof Staff of the United States Army, re-cently before the Governors' Conferenceat Columbus, Ohio.

"There must be no divisions amongthe Allies!

"There must be no let-up in ourpreparations!

"The failure today to surge forwardwith every ounce of power and effort wepossess would be to write a tragic pagefor history. The temptation to ease up af-ter initial and relatively minor successesseems difficult to resist. The Axis nations

probably count on this as a weak ele-ment of allied psychology. Their opinionhas been contemptuous of our soft wayof living, of our toughness and our mili-tary stamina.

"We are just getting well started. Thegreat battles lie ahead. We have yet tobe proven in the agony of enduring heavycas.ulaties, as well as the reserves whichare inevitable in war. What we need nowis a stoic determination to do everythingin our power to overwhelm the enemy,cost what it may, to reduce him to a sup-plicant under the impact of aroused anddetermined democracies.

"The most forbidding prospect withwhich we can now confront the enemy isthe continuation in full measure of me-thodical, ruthless preparations to over-whelm them in the same manner that theArmy of von Arnim was eliminated inTunisia. The Allies have unified theirmilitary effort. We must all do the sameat home."

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Dr. K. J. Seulke, director of researchdevelopment, and Mrs. Seulke, went asfar west as Colorado, late in July andtheir son, Don, came that far east fromCalifornia, and thus they had their vaca-tions and visited together. The youngerMr. Seulke is in charge of some import-ant phase of military plane designingwith an aircraft company on the westcoast, and could not take the time tocome all the way to Illinois.

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The four daughters of Ed Gottman, pack-age division salesman, and Mrs. Gottman,looked much happier than this a jew weekslater when Pal, their farm shepherd, re-turned from the Army. This picture wastaken just before he left, but he got sohomesick for his four little friends the Armysent him home. The girls are Joan, 12,Janet, 10, Lois Ann, 5, and Marlene, 3. Theirhome is in Cincinnati.

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How Elevator Men Can Help Win War—

Harold Wilber, superintendent of Ele-vator C, who was elected a vice presidentof the Society of Grain Elevator Superin-tendents in Duluth this summer, has re-cently written an article on how grainelevator men can help win the war. Thearticle appeared in the July issue of"Grain", the official organ of the Socie-ty. In part it follows:

"Most of us have tried to solve a lotof trying problems which different lots ofgrain throw at us. This is no doubt atime to redouble our efforts, since as cus-todians of food for several nations not apound must be lost or be permitted to de-teriorate if there is any way to save it orimprove it for future use.

"The realization that more of our foodmust come direct from cereals withoutdue process of running it through ani-mals to make the palatable meat dietechoes the importance of the quality ofthe job that is expected from us.

"Our job is to see that no lot of grainheats from any cause and becomes unfitfor human consumption. We might alsoconsider that food is lost even though theheating process never goes near the pointof actual physical damage. Let us con-sider a bin of corn within which the nor-mal metabolism process is working along-side of the life processes of the micro-organisms to which it is the host. Tem-peratures increase during the old chickenand egg cycle. Based on the rough figuresof about 5,000 Btu. in a pound of grainand a specific heat of around .5/10, atemperature rise resulting from changewithin the grain amounts to fuel con-sumed out of the grain of about a pound,per thousand bushels.

"Take one other little facet in our ev-ery day operations. One of the leadingdistilleries has found through consider-able research that ordinary corn pro-duces from two to three per cent less al-cohol than the similar qualities of nat-AUGUST, 1943

Janet Mertz was recently named officemanager in the personnel office, succeedingRitth Sutherland who has gone to Spars' of-ficers training school. Janet, a Millikin grad-uate, has been with the company a year.

ural corn. In fact they have found thatK D corn that has had poor considera-tion in the drying process will probablyyield from four to six per cent less. Applythat loss ratio to our needs for alcoholfrom corn and the results run into wartime figures.

"At the same time authorities havefound that corn dried under favorableconditions may actually yield more thanthe similar lot of natural corn. Thatproper consideration is tied up in intelli-gent grain drier operation. Maximumtemperature of grain within the drierplus the proper time element can helpus solve part of this loss problem. Intimes of plenty we did not worry a lotabout the finer points of our work be-cause it seemed a little far fetched toworry about such trifles, but in thesetimes it may be that the accumulatedtrifles will win the war for us."

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SOFT B A L L L I V E L Y S U B S T I T U T EWAR TIME FOR BASEBALL

One of the things the boys overseas aresupposed to be interested in is baseball athome. Since so many of them are gonethey will have to understand that thegrand old American game isn't what itwas was at one time, but soft ball fansare being very noisy, so evidently somepeople are enjoying that game. Staley'shave had both a men's and a women'steam in the Industrial league this year,and those games, played at night in vari-ous playgrounds about Decatur, have

Just before the Army began taking itschoice from the Men's Soft Ball team, thispicture below was taken. But it was the lastnight for three of the boys.

In the group, seated, are Carter, Ellis,Coidson, Williams, Hilberling and IrvSmith. Standing in the rear are Shay, Camp-bell, Paczak, Siweck, Atkins and Koshinski.Absent when the picture was taken wereHomer Boyer and A. Smith.

frequently brought out as many as 2,000people.

The games have been good, althoughthe Staley company team did not bringhome all the honors. To be perfectlyfrank and honest, the men's team didn't

Early in the seasonthe Girls Soft Ballteam had too little ex-perience, or buck fe-ver, but now in thesecond half the girlsare showing consider-able improvement.Seated are Cofjey, En-gle, Hackert, MorrisFisher, manager, Fer-guson and McGarry.Standing are Pete Co-:ad, score keeper,Corbridge, Mauck,Baitman, Garrison,Brown and Doris Co-zad.

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place in the first half but picked up con-siderable speed later and ended in secondplace, which is not at all bad. The firsthalf was won by Moore Brothers and thesecond half by Morehouse & Wells, whohad to defeat the Staley team to win thatplace.

This team had better luck in leaguegames than it did in outside games.About the only outside teams the Staleyplayers could defeat were those who

On their last night with the soft ball teamthe three men on the left were presentedwith gifts to take with them when they leftfor duty with the armed services. Jos Hil-berling, left, manager of the team, pre-sented the gifts which were leather, fittedtoilet kits. The men receiving them are RoyShay, who goes into the Navy, and HarryAtkins and Clarence "Tiny" Koshinski, bothof whom are now in the Army. Russell Wil-ber, who also played on the team earlier inthe season, went in to the Merchant Ma-rines a few weeks before these boys left.+played on Decatur diamonds. When theboys traveled away from home the tripwas too much for them.

The Staley girls gathered speed as theseason progressed. Perhaps when it endsthey will hold top honors. They wereconsiderably heartened by their defeatof the crack team of the league—the Chicteam, which the Staley girls defeated 6-5.Most of the girls' games were played asthe curtain raisers on a double header billwith two of the men's teams closing theprogram.

M o r r i s Fisher again managed andcoached and generally bossed around thisteam which every year seems to be hisown special responsibility.

Howard Stiibblefield is a prisoner of theJaps, according to a recent telegram fromthe War Department.

Howard Stiibblefield IsWar Prisoner of the Japs

A telegram from the War Depart-ment recently confirmed A. L. Stubble-field's belief that his son is a prisoner ofthe Japs. The young man, Pvt. HowardStubblefield, was in the Philippines atthe time of the surrender in the spring of1942, and between that time and thissummer the only word his father had wasa message from the War Department inMay 1942 telling him that his son wasalive and well up to three days before thesurrender. The last telegram, whichreached Mr. Stubblefield this summer,simply stated that his son was a prisonerof war held by the Japs in the Philip-pines.

Mr. Stubblefield, who works in thefeed house, writes his son regularly butso far has not received any letters directfrom him. The letters that go from De-catur must be sent to New York in careof the Red Cross. Strict rules govern

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what he can write, but he is hoping thatthe letters, even sketchy as they mustbe, are reaching his son.

Pvt. Stubblefield is an only child. Hismother died two years after he was born,and the young man has spent much of hislife with relatives in Missouri. He en-listed in February 1941 and was sent outto the Philippines in May of that year.His father has been with the Staley com-pany 20 years.

Excellent Church Publication

A great many Staley men now in serv-ice are receiving "The Servicemen'sFriend", a newsy and inspiring bookletbeing published each month by St.Johannes Evangelical Lutheran churchin Decatur. The booklet is published forthe men of the congregation who are inservice, and a great many Staley men areincluded in that list.

In a recent issue there was a letterfrom Pvt. \Valter Lenover, who workedin our paymaster's office before induc-tion. Now, he writes, he is working in abuilding that reminds him of the Staleybuilding, but is in Australia. He is at-tached to Gen. MacArthur's headquar-ters.

The booklet is published by a commit-tee of church members, of which Eman-uel Novak, former Staley printer, is amember. The cover for August was de-signed by him.

On Mary JoanThompson's fourthbirthday this picturewas taken. Her fa-ther is RichardThompson, of the lab-oratory.

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HELP WITH HOME mm ARITHMETIC

By GERTRUDE S. SMITH,

Nutrition Director, Corn Industries Research Foundation

With 18 million or more Victory Gar-dens growing, many a homemaker willhave homegrown tomatoes, berries, andother garden food for summer meals, andnow and again some over for canning. Inlocal markets, also, there may be at timessome fruit or vegetable sufficiently abun-dant, fresh, and reasonable to attracthomemakers on the lookout for food toput up.

For home canners, it's useful to learnto judge how far a garden surplus or foodin market will go in filling jars. Homeeconomists of the U. S. Department ofAgriculture say:

Learn to know what can be done withsmall quantities, as well as large. Thisyear especially it's well worthwhile to putup even three or four jars at a time, al-ways provided you have the right equip-ment for canning. On the basis of blueration stamps needed for commerciallycanned foods, every jar of home cannedfood represents a saving in ration points. . . .besides all the other advantages ofstoring up summertime food for winter.

To help thrifty homemakers figurehow many jars of canned food to expectfrom fruits or vegetables as bought orpicked, the home economists offer thefollowing table—with the remainder thatsuch figures can be only approximate:

Home Canning Arithmetic

Apples—1 bu. (50 Ib.) cans 20 qt.2*/2 Ib. (7 to 8 apples) can 1 qt.

AUGUST. 1943

Beans, lima—1 bu. (28 Ib.) cans 6 to 8 qt.4 to 5 Ib. can 1 qt.

Beans, snap—1 bu. (24 Ib.) cans 16 qt.\/2 Ib. can 1 qt.

Beets—1 bu. (60 Ib.) cans 24 qt.2^ Ib. can 1 qt.

Berries—24-qt. crate cans 18 qt.\/4 to \y2 Ib. (5 cups) can 1 qt.

Carrots—1 bu. (50 Ib.) cans 20 qt.2}^ Ib. can 1 qt.

Cherries—1 bu. (56 Ib.) cans 25 qt.\Yz to 2l/2 Ib. (6 to 8 cups) can 1 qt.

Corn—1 bu. (72 Ib.) cans 8 to 9 qt. wholekernel.

6 to 10 ears can 1 qt.

Grapes—1 bu. (48 Ib.) cans 20 qt.2l/2 Ib. can 1 qt.

Greens—1 bu. (12 Ib.) cans 5 to 7 qt.Il/2\.o2y2 Ib. can 1 qt.

Peaches—1 bu. (50 Ib.) cans 20 qt.2 to 2l/2 Ib. (8 to 10 peaches) can 1 qt.

Pears—1 bu. (58 Ib.) cans 24 qt.2 to 2l/2 Ib. 5 to 6 pears) can 1 qt.

Peas—1 bu. (32 .Ib.) cans 12 to 16 pt.2 to 2l/2 Ib. can 1 pt.

Plums—1 bu. (56 Ib.) cans 30 qt.ll/2 to 2 Ib. (24 to 32 plums) can 1 qt.

Squash.—! bu. (40 Ib.) cans 20 qt.2 Ib. can 1 qt.

Strawberries—24-qt. crate cans 12 qt.2 qt. can 1 qt.

Sweet potatoes—1 bu. (52 Ib.) cans 20 qt.2J/2 to 3 Ib. can 1 qt.

Tomatoes—1 bu. (56 Ib.) cans 15 qt.2l/2io3l/2 Ib. (8 to 10 tomatoes) can 1 qt.

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Staley Children Give Recital

Betty Mossman presented her pianopupils in a recital in the Decatur Wom-an's club in June, with a number of Sta-ley's employees' children on the program.Miss Mossman, and her sister Betty whoplayed an accordian solo, are daughtersof William Mossman, boiler room.

Beverly, Freda and Warren Dale Car-ter are children of Ezra Carter of theboiler room. Nancy and Larry Briney arethe children of LeRoy Briney of the elec-trical department. Sharon and DuaneDudley are niece and nephew of RussellDash of the package sales office and of

Guy Dudley of the packing house. Rose-mary Trimble is the sister of Corp. Clar-ence Bowman who worked on the extraboard before going into the Army.

Doris Mossman, standing at the extremeleft at the back, presented this group of herpiano pupils in a recital in the DecaturWomen's club this summer. She and her sis-ter Betty, shown in the group and in theinset, are daughters of William Mossmanof the boiler room. Betty was graduatedfrom Decatur High school this spring.

Others standing in the rear are Marilyn Watsob,Joyce Moore and Freda Carter.

Those in the center row are Shirley Kaminski, Shir-ley Hamm, Mary Wheeler, Ruth Wortman, JamesMoore, Donald Batson, Warren Dale Carter, EunicePeters, Beverly Carter, Sharon Richardson and Doro-thy Allen.

In the front row are Larry Briney, Sonna Hamm,Sharon Dudley, Nancy Briney, Suzanne Wood, LoisWalker, Beverly Stallard, Rosemary Trimble, DuaneDudley and Joan Hill.

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Not Too Early to MailChristmas Packages

Christmas packages may be mailed toAmerican Army, Navy, Coast Guard andMarine servicemen without presentationof a request from September 15 to Octo-ber 15. Packages will be accepted formailing only within the present limita-tions of weight and size—five pounds inweight, fifteen inches in length and thir-ty-six inches in length and girth com-bined, and should bear the indorsement"Christmas Gift Parcel".

Perishable articles will not be accept-ed for mailing, and every effort will bemade to discourage mailing of fragilearticles. Only one package will be ac-cepted for mailing by or on behalf of thesame person or concern to or for thesame addressee during any one week.

For the purposes of Christmas mail,the term "Overseas" personnel meansmen who receive their mail through aFleet Post Office, or with an APO num-ber through the Postmaster, at San Fran-cisco, California, New York, N. Y., orSeattle, Washington, and several otherdesignated cities. Letters and parcelsshould contain in address:

ARMY—Name, rank and serial number—

Capt. John Doe, 0468777Company, Battalion, Regiment —

67th Armored Field Artillery Bat-talion

Army Post Office Number—A. P. O. 126

Postmaster—c/o Postmaster, New York City.

NAVY, COAST GUARD ORMARINES—

Name, rank or rating—John Doe, MM 1C (MachinistMate 1st Class)

Naval unit or ship—USS Benham

AUGUST, 1943

Post Office—c/o Fleet Post OfficeSan Francisco, California

Senders are cautioned that delayscaused by the necessity for censorshipwill be minimized if the wrapping is se-cured so as to permit easy inspection ofcontents. All articles should be packedin metal, wooden or solid fibreboard orstrong fully telescoping cardboard boxes.Parcels should not include any weapons,perishables, intoxicants, poisons or in-flammable articles such as matches orlighter fluid, and in general the public isurged not to send food or clothing.

Only through the whole-hearted co-operation of the mailing public in com-plying with these mailing rules and dateswill it be possible to deliver on time thetremendous volume of Christmas mail toAmerican servicemen overseas which isexpected this year.

Dr. R. E. Greenfield, assistant generalsuperintendent, and Mrs. Greenfield, willgo to Grand Rapids, Mich., late in Au-gust for the marriage there Aug. 28 oftheir son, A/C Paul Greenfield, andBetty Zeldem. Miss Zeldem is a GrandRapids girl. The young man had threeyears of college—one at Oberlin and twoat Purdue—before entering the air corpsmeteorology school at Grand Rapids. Hewill finish his training and be commis-sioned in September.

Pvt. and Mrs. Ed-ward Kazmierski arethe parents of this fineboy, born in Febru-ary. Mrs. Kazmierski,the former Kathryn(Under, works in 17building while herhusband is in theArmy.

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Gloria Hirsch wore the traditional wed-ding gown when she became Mrs. Ray Will-more.

Hirsch-Willmore

Gloria Hirsch and Lt. Ray Willmorewere married in the First C h r i s t i a nchurch in Decatur Tuesday night, Aug.10, in the presence of a large number offriends. The bride, given in marriage byher father, William Hirsch, wore a gownof white brocaded satin, made princessstyle with a full train, and a finger-tipveil. Her matron of honor, Mrs. E. J. In-man, wore blue marquisette with aquaint blue bonnet and veil. Rev. W. T.Nichols performed the double ring cere-mony. Emadee Gregory played the wed-ding march and during the ceremony. Lt.Willmore had Jack Robinson as his bestman. The church was lighted with can-dles.

Following the ceremony there was areception for a small group of relativesand friends in the home of the bride's

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uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. JamesWalker. After a short trip the young peo-ple returned to Decatur and later in themonth Lt. Willmore will return to Ft.Eustis, Va., but his bride will not joinhim until later.

The bride is the daughter of WilliamHirsch and of Mrs. Gladys Hirsch, ofDecatur, and has been employed in thestenographic department for some time.She plans to continue her work there fora few weeks, before joining her husband.Lt. Willmore is the son of Mr. and Mrs.G. W. Willmore, of Decatur, and hasonly recently returned from service inPanama.

Busy Superintendent

If Harry Walmsley comes in to his of-fice some days looking sleepy don't thinkthe plant superintendent is leading a wildlife. Probably he was up late the nightbefore canning some of the vegetablesout of his garden.

Not Color Blind

Howard File says he doesn't think heis color-blind, but the white tomatoesseeds he planted have grown into vinesthat bear tomatoes that look as red asany others to him.

Parties for Spar

A group of girls who worked with RuthSutherland in personnel before she en-listed in the Spars, gave a dinner for herin the Decatur club shortly before sheleft for New London. Earlier in the weekthe personnel department entertained herat luncheon in the office cafeteria. Shewas presented with gifts at both parties.

Augusta Walter resigned her positionin the order department and went toWashington, D. C., where she has a posi-tion in the office of a large Y.M.C.A. Sheleft in July.

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Busy, Busy Soldier

Life in the American desert is busy andwarm for the Army, according to Pvt.Stanley Dejanes, who has recently writ-ten to his former colleagues in the feedsales department. He says, in part—

"Since I last wrote we have moved intothe desert and are entirely surrounded byabout 40 miles of it in any direction, ifyou cared to start walking. The weatherhere is 'rather' warm—averages about136 in the daytime but cools off at night.

''We were out on the rifle range lastweek and the rifle I used kicked so muchI had to crawl up about two feet everytime I shot it. However I did manage toqualify as a sharp-shooter.

"I was on an ammunition detail theother day—hauling ammunition fromBarstow. I was seated on top of about50 cases of ammunition when I lookedup and saw a buzzard following ourtruck. I could have sworn he had his eyeon me.

"We have been getting up about 3:30A. M. and getting in about 9 P. M. It'sa great life, but you can tell Mr. Morrismy lily-white hands are no more. I stillhave blisters from that ammunition de-tail and my hands are so tanned theylook like leather.

"Tell everyone I said 'hello'."

W. H. Roberts, formerly on the extraboard, is now a sergeant in aviation ord-nance. He is somewhere outside theStates but a sharp knife wielded by akeen-eyed censor cut out an importantword so that his last letter reads, mostincompletely—"Everything is going fineout here in the ."

Student Officer

Allen Burwell, son of T. C. Burwell,traffic manager, has recently been madeaviation student captain and supply offi-cer at Susquehanna university. This is acollege training detachment of the ArmyAir Corps.

AUGUST,

Sgt. Schull Moves

Sgt. Murl M. Schull is that unique in-dividual—a soldier who asked for some-thing in the Army and got what he askedfor. Murl asked for a transfer to NewOrleans and got it. Ever since he hasbeen in the Army he has been makinghimself valuable since he was not onlyunique but the possessor of a rare train-ing—stenography and traffic rates androutings. He got the latter in our starchshipping office.

Lenover in Australia

Pvt. Walter E. Lenover, formerly ofthe paymaster's office, writes that he isstill doing office work, in a building thatreminds him of the Staley building, ex-cept that it is Gen. MacArthur's head-quarters in Australia. He was one of asmall group of men who made the tripfrom the States to Australia in recordtime. Before being sent to Australia hewas given special training at Fort Harri-son.

Official announcements from JeffersonBarracks tell of of the promotion of RichardE. Heyl to the rank of major. Before goinginto service two years ago, he was dairytechnician in our sales department. Majorand Mrs. Heyl live in Webster Groves, nearJefferson Barracks.

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year ago. He is stationed at Camp Camp-bell, Ky.

Cpl. and Mrs. Charles Bass posed for thispicture after their wedding July 4.

Abell-Bass

When Corp. Charles F. Bass foundthat he could get a furlough in July hecame home to Decatur and he and Ger-aldine Abell were married. The weddingtook place Sunday afternoon July 4, inthe First Christian church, with Rev. W.T. Nichols officiating. The bride wore anaqua dress with a shoulder bouquet ofgardenias and pink buds. Her matron ofhonor, Mrs. Elvin Eskridge wore beige,with yellow roses.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. andMrs. Joel Abell, of Nokomis, III., butmakes her home in Decatur. She is creditmanager at the Decatur and MaconCounty hospital. Corp. Bass, son of FredBass, worked in our oil refinery beforebeing inducted into the Army almost a

Major S. M. Wagenseller has been sta-tioned on the west coast for some time.Major Wagenseller was the Staley companysurgeon before he left for the Army lastfall.

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Son Missing in Action

M;ix Furman, a member of the RoyalCanadian Air Force, has been reportedmissing in action. A message to his fa-ther, Cornelius Furman, Staley drafts-man, was received from the British AirMinistry. Later in August another mes-sage from the same office carried the in-formation that his plane was seen to fallin enemy territory.

Max Furman had lived most of his lifein Decatur and was educated in theschools here. About two years ago heenlisted in the Royal Canadian Air forcesand had seen considerable action beforehe was reported missing.

With little preparation or advanceplanning, Dorothy Minick, receptionclerk, and her sister-in-law, Mildred WiseMinick, our telephone operator, left forthe west coast in August to join DaleMinick, Mildred's husband and Doro-thy's brother. He called them and sug-gested they join him and they left thenext day, Dorothy for two weeks andMildred maybe for longer.

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loins the Spars

Virginia King left her job in the ac-counting department in August to jointhe Coast Guards. She was sent, laterthat month, to a Spar training center atPalm Beach, Fla., and for the present isliving in the Biltmore hotel which theCoast Guard has taken over there. Vir-ginia, who has been with the companyeight years, was given a farewell party bysome of the girls in the company beforeshe left.

Dorothy Swartz, who has been in theaccounting department for several years,has taken a leave of absence to join herhusband who is in service.

Florence Martin, assistant to Mrs.Wheeler in sales stenographic, left in Au-gust to join her husband, Leo "Pat" Mar-tin, who is in the Navy, and stationed onthe west coast. She is taking a leave ofabsence.

Laurene Coffey, who works in theplant, left in August for a short visit atan eastern port with her husband, Jimmy.He is in the Navy and had just returnedto port when he wired her to come on fora visit. Before going into the Navy Jim-my worked in the plant.

Just before Estol Thompson, painter, leftfor the Navy he had this picture taken withhis wife and small daughter Bonnie Lynn,five months old. Mrs. Thompson formerly•worked in 20 building, but is devoting allher time now to her blue-eyed baby, herhome and her garden.

Visits in Honolulu

Cpl. Robert Brix writes from Hawaiithat he recently called on Lt. ClarenceYoung's family in Honolulu and enjoyedhis visit with them very much. Bob andClarence were both in the laboratory,Clarence a chemical engineer and Bobworking in that same department, andboth have been in the Army for sometime. Bob has been stationed in Hawaiibut unless he has been transferred hasnot been hi Honolulu.

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Lt. Richard F. Nazette writes that he iskept so busy at the Texas camp where he isstationed that he hardly has time to write.Before going into the Army he was a pack-age salesman.

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Full-Fledged Navigator

Lt. Clarence Young, chemical engi-neer, who has been in the air corps forsome time, is now an navigator in a bigArmy bomber, and in a recent letter tellsthat he actually can "navigate". He wasin charge when the big ship made a tripfrom this country to Australia and ex-cept for one incident he says, things wentfamously. This one "incident" probablyhad Lt. Young worried for a while but heseems to have come through. He writes—

"Our trip over was most enjoyable andgave us considerable experience in ournavigation. Some of those islands arepretty darn small, but with the many aidswe have we didn't have much troublepicking them out. However our shipnearly had to pull a Rickenbacker. Butby the grace of God we came in on thecourse. Just a few hundred miles out ofthe States I discovered we were about120 nautical miles off our course—a veryconsiderable distance. At that particularmoment my sextant broke down. We

Sgt. D. H. Hardcastle has seen a greatdeal of action as radio operator in a bomberoperating in the southwest Pacific. Recentlyhe has been based in New Guinea where thispicture was taken. He worked in the plantbefore induction.

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Pvt. James Emert, Jr., worked in the lab-oratory before going into the Army. Hisfather works in M. & L., his wife is on theextra board, a brother, Charles, works in thesoybean warehouse and two uncles, Fredand Cal Emert, work in the plant.•<—took a chance, corrected our course con-siderably, estimating winds as we wentalong. Later when we were able to checkourselves, we were-smack on the course.The rest of the trip was almost a picnicand we had a wonderful time preparingour meals in the air.

The best stop for me was when I calledat home (Lt. Young's family home is inHonolulu) and gave my folks quite asurprise. However our stay was too short,a matter of a few hours.

"Our camp here is good. Food is betterthan some we had in the States and meatis plentiful. A visit to any of the near-bycities will convince one that this countrydepends much on the U. S. Many of thepopular brands of articles are found onthe shelves of shops here. Movies are al-most entirely American but are usually 1or 2 years old."

Prosecutor: "Now tell the court howyou came to take the car."

Defendant: "Well, the car was stand-ing in front of the cemetery and I nat-urally thought the owner was dead."

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Pvt. Delmer Osborn, now stationed in thesouth, worked in the syrup house before go-ing into the Army.

McEvoy-Carleton

Norma McEvoy, order department,and A/C Dean Carleton were married atMaxwell Field, Ala., July 24. Later thebride returned to Decatur and for thepresent will continue with her job. Be-fore going into the Army Cadet Carletonwas a clerk in the manufacturing depart-ment offices.

Wants Mail

Mail arrives too seldom to suit Pvt.Kenneth Buechler, according to a letterhis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Buechlerrecently received. Kenneth, formerly ofour mailing department would like verymuch to see one of the mail sacks he usedto heave into the Staley truck, dumped athis tent door, with every letter in it fromhome for him. Kenneth is with a hospitalunit and is stationed on a jungle islandand writes that the entire unit is living intents. Since mail has been going to himregularly he probably will get a who^sackful some day.

PFC Dale E. Durnil and his wife vis-ited in Decatur for a while in July, butthey didn't mind the heat. Pvt. Durnilis stationed in Georgia and Mrs. Durnilmakes her home there too, so a little hightemperature shouldn't bother them. Be-fore going into the Army he was on theextra board.

Lt. Verle Rusk and Lt. Robert Hop-kins, who played basketball together onthe Staley team a few years ago, are nowneighbors at the Army Air Base at RapidCity, S. D. Both men are now pilots ofArmy bombers.

Cpl. Edward C. Neuendorf, formerlyof personnel, writes that he feels he didlearn something in the electrical trainingcourse he has been taking at ChanuteField. "I think I could put in a new lightbulb now, but we haven't been able tofigure out how a lightning bug lights up,but we are working on it."

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Pvt. Jack Greenwood has been fromcoast to coast since he went into the Armyin March, 1942. At present he is in NewYork. He worked in 48 building before be-ing inducted.

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Jprom ©Id Journal J

News evidently was scarce in August1918 because that Staley FellowshipClub Journal contained only eight pages.Most of it was devoted to the war, and tosafety within the plant. There were 65Staley men in service.

The Commercial Baseball league sea-son was over for the season with theWabash team the winner. In explainingwhy Staley's didn't win the editor wrote,"We had the material but some little op-position was encountered when playingseveral of our employees whom the otherteams classed as professionals. We meek-ly allowed these men to be barred fromplaying, while some of the other teamsplayed not their own employees butraked the city to reinforce their teams.

"Why we entered into an agreementwhose terms only we were compelled tolive up to is more than several of us canunderstand. It is hoped that if our teamis entered next season matters will behandled in a more business-like manner."In other words the editor was displeased.

In August 1923 the Journal carried acomplete story and many pictures of thebig celebration with which Decatur for-mally opened Lake Decatur. Many Sta-ley people took part in the pageant andentered boats in the Venetian Night Boatcarnival. Charlie Ellis, west yard office,was on one of the most attractive Staleyfloats entered. Alice White, now Mrs.Harry Walmsley was in the same group.

A few days after the big celebration astorm did considerable damage to theStaley club house and other buildingsaround the lake.

Listed as news of the month, 20 yearsago, was the marriage of Mabel Strocherand Jim Rickey ; the fact that Dr.PAGE 32

Kutsch had bought a car; Ed Lahnierswent fishing, and Al Lukey drove to In-diana; Carl Waltens gave a dance at theclub house, and Frank Rucker picked100 gallons of cherries.

The Transportation club had its mid-summer party with a baseball game onthe Staley field. Worth noting, even then,was the fact that T. C. Burwell was go-ing to play ball.

The Staley Journal for August 1933featured the men who had charge of theupkeep of the office and the grounds sur-rounding it.

Also featured was Frank Moore, whoten years ago, had been.with the Staleycompany for 20 years—which meansthat Frank, millwright foreman, has beenwith the company 30 years now.

The World's Fair was on in Chicagoand everyone was spending at least partof his vacation there.

After trying for three years, John But-ler finally cut the last bit of red tape andgot his wife and two children into thiscountry from their native Scotland.

Eddie Heer Dies

Many Staley people were interested inthe newspaper stories of the death ofEddie Heer, in St. Louis July 18. A fa-mous baseball scout he often visited atthe Staley plant with his brother, thelate William "Bill" Heer, our syrup mix-er who died a year ago.

Eddie knew a great many Staley base-ball fans who were always eager to heartales of his scouting experiences. Hescouted for the Cardinals, New YorkYankees, Tigers and the Cleveland In-dians.

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This is the first Stay store display to reach the Staley, Journal office, and one of thefirst made, because when Jack Hauck put this up in the Acme Market in Harristown, Pa.,the first test sales were just being started there and in a jew other cities over the country.Stay, Staley's new soy flour, is still sold only in test markets, but the early sales have beeneven bigger than the most enthusiastic member of the advertising and sales departmentsthought they would be. Mr. Hauck, a territory manager, used 15 one-pound and ten three-pound packages in this attractive display. Stay is sold only in one and three pound packages.

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Michael Duggan, laboratory,and Mrs. Duggan and theiryoung son, whose name is alsoMichael—the fifth generationto have that name. Young Mi-chael is wearing a cowboy outfitof which he is extremely fond.

What Do You Eat?

What a well-fed foreman eats (orshould eat) was one of the subjects dis-cussed by Gertrude Smith, corn indus-tries nutritionist, when she met withStanley foremen late in July. Miss Smith,who has been writing articles on nutritionfor the Staley Journal for several months,conducted a successful canning demon-stration for Staley wives in Decatur earlyin July. This meeting with the foremenwas her first meeting of the kind at theplant.

Later Miss Smith spent several daysgetting acquainted with men in the vari-ous departments and talking foods andbalanced diets with them.

It is no wonderGlenn Clark's eyesshine when his daugh-ter Nancy Lou is men-tioned. She was out inher favorite slack suitwhen this picture wastaken. Her father is aStaley gateman.

To Detroit Territory

John C. Springer, who has been work-ing in the Grand Rapids territory, aspackage division salesman, is now doingthe same work in the Detroit territory.

Blonde: "I am going on a picnic witha young sailor. What do you think Ishould take?"

Friend: "Care." - U.S.S. TrentonTelescope.

Mother (to small son who is going toa party): "Now, dear, what are you go-ing to do when you've had enough toeat?"

Little Tommy: "Come home."

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Dr. Paul Record came bringing in"The Co-operative Poultryman" which,under a picture of an office force at pray-er, was this caption:

"Before opening the mail, let us pausethe usual two minutes in silent prayerfor the strength to face the day's newforms and requirements."

"I'm glad you're being a good boy,Sonny, and not disturbing Daddy whilehe takes his nap."

"Yes, Mummy, I'm just watching hiscigaret burn down to his fingers."

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M O R E \ U I I S A D D E D

To List of Men in Service

The following Staley employees joined some branch of the armed services during

the month of July—

Harry Atkins

Donald E. Blazer

Robert William Cline

Ernest Delmar Cox

Robert Ellis

Kenneth L. Foulks

Gerald Garfoot

Roger D. Kite

Westley K. Knuppel

Clarence Koshinski

Emerson Lawhorn

Robert McCartney

Harry Morthland

Ernest Clyde Williams

Bill Morrison

James R. Peratt

Herbert Pexton

Robert Root

George Russell

Eldon Scroggins

Roy Shay

Rudolph Sowa

Robert Stroyeck

Kenneth M. Stubblefield

Ruth Sutherland

Estol Thompson

William Thompson

Thomas Joseph Walsh

Ellis Williams

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The candle is onPatricia Joan Coon-ey's first birthdaycake, which she hadlast April. Her father,Martin Cooney, Her-ald-Review photog-rapher, took her pic-ture. Her mother, for-merly Dorothy Shaf-er, worked in ourcredit department be-fore her marriage.

Sugar Daddy (as they finished dinnerin a private room at roadhouse): "Er,er, how about a little demi-tasse now,dear?"

Chorus Girl: "I knew it. You weren'ttreating me like this for nothing."

"An instrument has been perfectedthat will throw a speaker's voice a mile."

"How about one that will throw thespeaker the same distance?"

Hostess: "I'm glad your last customerlooked so pleased. That was Mr. Rich-ville. What did he order?"

Waitress: "Me, at seven-thirty."

"Praise the Lord" . . . andBuy 'em ammunitionWith U. S. War Bonds.

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Navy Flying BoatsSet Big Record

A new record for Catal ina FlyingBoats was established recently in theSolomons when one of the big craft tookoff under the nose of the Japs and re-turned safely to home base with 37 per-sons and a heavy cargo aboard. Theprevious record, so far as is known wasa passenger total of 25 persons.

The plane was dispatched to pick uptwo Marine fliers and two Jap prisonerson a small island. The Marine fliers hadbeen forced down after bombing a Japair-field when a shell from enemy grounddefenses pierced their fuel tank. They in-flated their rubber boat and paddledashore only to find it held by the Japs;they paddled farther along and carne to abeach and a native village from whenceword of their plight was sent along to theOffice of Air Operations and the Cata-lina dispatched to pick them up.

When the flying boat dropped to thewater and taxied ashore native canoesdarted out full of Chinese inhabitants ofthe island who for weeks had been pur-sued by the Japs who were still hot ontheir trail. The pilots discovered thatthey were expected to evacuate these 22Chinese and their baggage besides theMarines. Shaking their heads in doubtthey stowed them aboard and finallywith a tremendous effort, the heavy craftlifted gracefully from the water.

Landing was another tense operation,and the passengers braced themselves.The hull hit the waves with a terrifyingscreech as water resistance spread underthe keel, and finally came to a lurchinghalt as smiles spread across the faces ofthe woeful-looking refugees.

The load-record established by thisflight may stand for a long time. On theother hand, it may be broken tomorrow,for these sturdy boats have been per-forming feats hitherto considered impos-sible.

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"Hey, Moe, when you have your ton-sils removed, they call it a tonsillectomy;when you have your appendix removed,they call it an appendectomy; what dothey call it when you have a growth re-moved from your head?"

Moe—"Don't know, Joe. Tell me."Joe—''A haircut."

The rifle fell from his unaccustomedhand; the drill sergeant approached witha steely eye.

"How long have you been in theArmy?" asked the sergeant.

"Er—all d-day, Sir."

The college graduate is presented witha sheepskin to cover his intellectualnakedness.—Professor Hutchins.

"As I understand the case," said hishonor, "You and your husband had adrunken altercation and you were kickedin the ensuing rumpus."

"No, suh, Jedge," replied Mandy. "Ahwas kicked in de stummick."

Hitler, inspecting his troops, asked onesoldier: "What would be your last wishif a Russian bomb fell near you?"

The soldier replied: "I would wish thatmy beloved Fuehrer could be at my side."

Speaking of absenteeism, industrial-ists call it an "alarming incident of un-authorized time away from position andplace of employment." The army has adefinition that is more to the point,"AWOL" . . . and they do somethingabout it!

The other night an announcer was put-ting his all into a recruiting announce-ment for the Army Ordnance Mainte-nance Corps.

"The slogan of this organization," heconcluded, "is 'a gun in one hand and awench in the other'."AUGUST, 1943

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This might be one reason Staley girls areso enthusiastic about their new red hats.

"The boob visitor approached the sol-dier and asked: "My good man, you arenow willing to die for your country,aren't you?"

"Naw," he grunted. "But I'm willingto help some Jap die for his."

This letter was received from an Amer-ican conscript: "Dear Colonel: Afterfour months of army life and much soberreflection, I have decided that I cannotsupport my wife in the manner to whichshe has been accustomed on my armypay. Kindly accept my resignation."

John Creamer, 17building, is going to besurprised when hesees this picture of hisson, Larry John, inthe Journal. The babyis 9 months old andevidently an extreme-ly happy young man.

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THESE-HEN-

ONE - ATTEMPTED TO POLL OUTSHAVINGS WITHOUT STOPPINGLATHE AN&LOST TWO FINGERS

ONE - IN TRYING TO ADJUST THE JAWSOF MILLING CUTTER WITHOUTSTOPPING MACHINE- LOST ONE

FINGER -

Jack: "It's a great world, isn't it?"Jill: "Let me smell your breath."

Pete: "I'm going to get a divorce. Mywife hasn't spoken to me in six months."

Al: "Better think it over. Wives likethat are hard to find."

First Shopper: "Why, hello, you seemto be busy."

Second Shopper: "Yes, I'm trying toget something for my husband."

First Shopper: "Have you had any of-fers yet?"

"I want to die with my boots on,"boasted the gent. And the redheadpurred, "Well, put 'em on! Here comesmy husband."

"Mr. Swiggs, er-ah, that is, can-er I-will you?"

"Why yes, my boy; you may haveher."

"How's that? Have whom?"''My daughter, of course. You want to

marry her, don't you?""No, sir. I just wanted to find out

if you would endorse my note for $100.""Certainly not. Why, I hardly know

you."

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Little Willie, exhibiting his skill in rid-ing a new bicycle, came down the streetin front of his home: "Look, Mama!" hecried, folding his arms, "no hands!"

Again he came into view, this timecoasting with his feet off the pedals:"Look, Mama! no feet!"

Half an hour passed and Little Willieagain put in his appearance. This time,somewhat subdued, he gurgled: "Look,Mama! no teeth!"

Mike and Cassidy met in the lodgeroom.

"Sure, Mike, my boy, and what's theidea of wearing a mourning band on yourleft leg?" asked Cassidy wonderingly.

"Me mither has passed away, an' allan' all," said Mike miserably.

Cassidy scratched his head, puzzled."Why, then do you wear it on your

leg instead of on your arm?" he asked."Well, she was my stepmither," said

the other.

Doris, a six-year-old child from Lon-don's East End, was evacuated to thecountry. The farmer's wife took Dorisfor a tour around the place. She showedher the garden, the chickens, the stables,and finally they arrived at the pigpenwhere an enormous sow reclined in thesun.

"Big, isn't she, Doris?" said the farm-er's wife.

"And no wonder," Doris replied, "Isaw her yesterday and she had ten littleones blowin' her up."

Although never officially married, aNegro woman in Alabama was the proudmother of five children and a staunchsupporter of her church. When finallyshe lay on her deathbed, church membersfelt called upon to show some special rec-ognition of her many years of service. Acommittee met, deliberated, and beforethe old woman died, conferred upon herthe "Honorary Degree of Mrs."

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The great majority of workers in warplants will spend Labor Day on theirjobs, producing the arms, equipment,and supplies needed to defeat the Axis.Workers for whom Labor Day will be aholiday can make their contribution tovictory by spending the week-end athome. By doing that, they will be help-ing to relieve a severe strain on the heav-ily burdened railroads and intercity bus-es, which are providing transportationservice essential to the war effort. It issuggested that civilians—

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4. If at all possible, postpone any es-sential personal trip until well after La-bor Day.

5. Both before and after Labor Day,avoid week-end travel on trains or inter-city buses, and avoid at all times travelthat is not really necessary.

Director: "Have you ever had anystage experience?"

Co-ed: "Well, I had my leg in a castonce."

It takes both . . . warships and war-planes to clean the ocean of Nazi sub-marines. It takes both War Bonds andVictory Taxes to beat the Axis. Buymore WAR BONDS.

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