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Show Washington, D. C. GAS-LESS AUTO RACE An automobile race was staged in Brazil recently which should interest gas-less Americans. Thirty-two cars took part, and not one of them used a drop of gasoline. Each car was equipped with a charcoal burning apparatus known as "gasogene," producing a charcoal char-coal gas whose combustion takes the place of the combustion of gasoline in the ordinary automobile engine. These devices have been so successful suc-cessful in Brazil that they are being produced at the rate of 40 a day, selling for about $200 each. Some of the units are capable of generating a thousand horsepower, and are used even on the inter-city buses between Santos and Sao Pt.ulo. Brazil has practically no petroleum petrole-um resources of her own. TANKERS DELIVER PLANES Everybody knows that bombers have long been delivered to England under their own power. But the big problem has been to deliver fighter planes, which have had to be taken apart, crated, then reassembled on the other side. Now, however, a new system has been devised whereby U. S. tankers are carrying fighters on deck 20 to each tanker and setting them down a few days later in England. The War Shipping administration is keeping the army "cleaned out of fighters" by this method of delivery, de-livery, and is rapidly building up the strength of the Eighth Air Forces command which is battering Germany. Note: PT boats are also being delivered to England on the decks of tankers. NO GERMAN SAUSAGE The diplomats' grapevine reports that the German food supply is running run-ning low. A new cut has been made in the meat ration. This, coming at a time when the greatest muscle must be exerted in defense of the Vaterland, is expected to be a severe se-vere blow to German morale. The basic ration of meat for normal nor-mal uses was 400 grams at this time last year. But now the ration has been cut to 250 erams which is about half a pound per week, including includ-ing fat and bone. An effort is being made to compensate this reduction by toe substitution of cheese and groats (hulled and crushed oats and wheat). During the winter, however, howev-er, it was reduced to 300 grams. In the spring the cut was partially restored, re-stored, when the ration was moved up to 350 grams, recognizing the necessity of more nourishment with the coming of the season of greater military activity. ARMY AND GOLD MINING American soldiers who spent dreary winters tracking through the Arctic forest to build the Alcan highway to Alaska frequently saw the sparkle of gold in the stream beds, and wanted to stake out claims for peacetime development. They were not allowed to do so. Now, however, civilian construction construc-tion crews are coming along the same trail, and are staking out claims for the gold which U. S. soldiers sol-diers could not touch. Boys from almost every state were sent to Alaska on that pioneering pioneer-ing jolj cutting a road through tall timber where none but Indians had passed before. They worked from Dawson Creek, in Alberta, to Fairbanks, Fair-banks, Alaska, but the place where they saw the gleaming gold was in the Yukon, near Whitehorse. At first, there was little time to think about private projects, for one battalion was racing against another to complete its 20-mile stretch of highway. But when a lull came in the work, the 'men asked permission permis-sion to try their luck at panning gold. The officers, however, ruled this out. Another season has rolled around, and things have changed. The pioneer pio-neer road is being replaced by a permanent highway, built by big construction companies Elliott Construction Con-struction Co., and Becketel, Price and Callahan. These companies have mining engineers en-gineers attached to the construction gangs, and they are not bound by military discipline. Note: Finally the army has modified mod-ified its regulations to permit a little amateur gold panning by soldiers in Alaska, for recreational purposes. This activity will be in the same class with fishing, to give the soldiers sol-diers sport in their spare time. Washington wives with backs aching ach-ing from work in their Victory gardens gar-dens wish they had top sergeants to hoe their gardens as do the wives of high-ranking army officers at Ft Myer across the Potomac. MERRY-GO-ROUND C. Conresswoman Clare Eoothe Luce made one of her rare public appearances appear-ances outside of congress when she spoke at Haverford (Pa.) School recently. re-cently. Her husband, Harry Luce, is brother-in-law of Haverford Hcad- 1 master Leslie R. Scveringhaus. ' C Coast Guardsman Warren H. Kimzey, Pacific hero who has seen men killed under all sorts of battle conditions, says he would rather be in Pacific action than fishing long- , drowned duck hunters out of the Detroit river. |