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Show U. S. Army To Be Ready If And When Gas . Again-Becomes Weapon Of War I .., Masks Given Thorough Field Tests in Southwest Maneuvers WITH THE THIRD ARMY IN LOUISIANA, Sept. 8 - Chemical warfare officers have a healthy respect for the army mule. ' The use of training gases in the giant war marieuvers in the area of south Arkansas, west Louisiana Louisi-ana and east Texas has shown again that army mules and cavalry caval-ry horses take much more readily to gas defenses than do soldiers. "The' 'army ', mule and cavalry horse have enough sense to keep their mouths shut when gas has been ? laid - dowiV" s"aP weary chemical warfare men ' in explanation. explan-ation. Toxic lachrymatory gases rarely rare-ly bother the war -animals. The horse and mule breath only through - their, nostrils and for this reason, the mask for them is merely an impregnated cloth bag, covering only their nostrils. Gas masks for men must be more elaborate, covering t the entire en-tire t ace. .The service mask is a marvelous mechanism developed in army laboratories at the Edge-wood Edge-wood Arsenal in Maryland. It provides protection against the known war gases because air is drawn through a canister containing con-taining filters,, through a carrier, and into; the nostrils through an air-tight face piece. - There is alchemical filter and a mechanical If liter.' The mechanical mechani-cal filter strains the air clear of dust and toxic smokes. The chemical chem-ical filter ' neutralizes or absorbs the gases with a mixture of acti-cated acti-cated charcoal and soda-lime. The'life of the canister, in continuous contin-uous use is approximately 120 hours. -s-Mask Can Be Used In 87 ttuiereot ways The three parts of. the service mask are interchangeable, and also there are special devices for special uses. Altogether, a soldier can make 87 different combinations combina-tions in his mask to meet various types of attack' or for special needs quite like a young lady shifting her wardrobe to fit various vari-ous social events. . A special diaphragm can be screwed into the mouth-piece, permitting a gnal corps soldier to continue" to talk over an army field telephone even during a gas attack. Special, lens can be screwed screw-ed into the eye-pieces, permitting a! soldier on an observation post to continue to look through his binoculars. Intensive ' training- is given in chemical warfare defense because the-war analysts have found that 33Tper "cent of TSie American doughboy casualties in the past world war were caused by gas. Gas is considered a strictly stalemate weapon. Chemical war-tare war-tare officers account for the fact that no reports have been heard pf gas use in the current European Euro-pean war by explaining that light so far . has been moving combat. They believe that the moment the war becomes a giant battle of positions and a deadlock seems to have been reached, gas will be brought into play. , ; Soldiers in the field are taught how to protect themselves, given demonstrations . on how to make their shelters or dugouts near gas-proof by stopping cracks and putting chemically impregnated blankets over the doors. Tests are given a special gas-proof uniform, uni-form, which covers the entire body and protects against vesicants. vesi-cants. However, the gas-proof clothing cloth-ing is still some distance from perfection it is very heavy and cumbersome, and is practically air-tight because it is also chem ically impregnated. The body "breathes" also to a certain extent ex-tent and a soldier "can't wear the gas-proof uniform more than half an hour at a time, particularly in strenuous exercise. " " American Tanker Arrives at Port NEW YORK, Sept-8;IE -A Sydney, , Australia, radio broad. cast announced, today that the last of three American tankers taking oil to , Russia ''had arrived this 20 Qfc LISK Seamless Enameled Enam-eled Cold Pack CANNER Quality ....... $1.29 PRESERVING KETTLES ALUMINUM or ENAMELED Of?i ' WHILE THEY LAST . . . ........ . . . V CSV CONSOLIDATED WAGON & MACHINE CO. perex of THS were 1M TME - THE OUOeX? ViHO RNDS wew TO SNNOvce. vuu fee houorso S -or EDCEMONT MRS. EVA GILLESPIE Reporter Phone 0404J-2 Mrs. Jane D. Meldrum is at home again after spending the past two months with her daughter daugh-ter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Myers and family at Craig, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Myers accompanied her home and left to spend a ' week at Milford before be-fore returning to their home. Aaron Clinger spent the weekend week-end in Salt Lake. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Lott and son, Jimmie of Harbor City, Cali fornia spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Sharp GillespSe. TheyMargaret-Greenwood, during the were enroute to Duchesne, where they will spend the next month with Mr. and Mrs. Vaun C. Lott. Set. Milton Bellows and Reed Glazier arrived Sundav from San Luis Obispo, for a short furloUgtr.) Mrs. Bellows has been st'sndinfir the past month with her mother, Mrs. Margaret Pulsipher. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Fowler and four children of Salt Lake were guests at the Sharp Gillespie Gilles-pie home on Sunday. The Edgemont Literary club will meet Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the hbme' of Mrs. Joanna' Boyce. All members are urged to be present. Stake Honor night was held Sunday evening in the ward chapel with Scoutleader Harold Woolston in charge. Mrs. Merle Hansen was at the . organ for alT, musical numbers. Scout Glen Pinegar played a saxophone solo, "Serenade," accompanied on the piano by his sister, Miss Max'ine Pinegar. Scout Jack Meldrum gave a splendid- talk on "Our Flag." Scout Commissioner Arnold Burn-ingham Burn-ingham presented the awards to all boys of the stake, Rex Scho-ney Scho-ney and Glen Pinegar of Edgemont receiving theirs. J. Wiley Seas-ions, Scout Chairman Chair-man of the District Council was the guest speaker, and urged more interest in scouting. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Burgi and daughter, Lacie, of Midway spent Saturday here with friends. morning at Vladivostok, NBC reported. re-ported. It was assumed the tanker was the 6,716-ton Standard Oil of California tanker J. C. Fitzsim-mons, Fitzsim-mons, which left Los Angeles Aug. 15. Washington announced last week the arival of the 8,066 ton Union Oil Co. tanker L. P. St. Clair, which left Loa Angeles Aug. 16, and the 8,428 ton Tide water Associated Oil Co. tanker Associated, which left San Francisco Fran-cisco Aug. 19. Heavy ALUMINUM Food Press, or Kot- A ff! aryRicer... ?AUy up err -ntAH - 0 PAYS ON MRS. A. K WILSON . . Correspondent--Phone M Mr.' and Mrs. J. Milton Beck announce the engagement of their daughter, Carol, to Wynn Johnson John-son of Pleasant Grove. The marriage mar-riage will take place September 10 in the Salt Lake temple. Miss Beck is a graduate of Brigham Young university and Mr. Johnson John-son recently returned from . a mission. Mr. and Mrs. Will McClellan entertained at dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Clayton, Mrs. Deibert Greenwood and Miss homecoming celebration. Mrs. Carolyn Stanger of Ogden, and her sister, Mrs. Jennie Spiegel of Salt Lake City, visited with the Wilson family over the homecoming. Mrs.. Jennie Gwil- liams visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson. Mrs. Emma Wilson and Mrs. Etta Jeppson. took the boys and girls of their Sunday school class, the senior department of the First ward, to the Salt Lake temple tem-ple Thursday for baptism work. Miss Lois Bigelow, Mrs. Vera Staheli, Ann J. Loveless and Ronald Ron-ald Crump accompanied them and the following class members: Ruth Jeppson, June Houser, Evelyn Eve-lyn Partridge; Betty Keele, Nelda Gasser, Gwen Law, Florence Box, Erma Jean McClellan, Dorene Money, Winston Taylor, Kile Bigelow, Bige-low, Clark Law, John Bissell, Af ton ; Haskell, R. L. Flanders, Latimer Simons and Fred Winnie. Miss June Ericksen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Evan Ericksen, left . last week for the General hospital where she will train for nursing. She is a graduate of the Payson high school, and was the winner of th Wightman medal in the speech contest for 1941. Mr. and Mrs. Veron Cloward, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pace and children left for their home in Los Angeles after spending several sev-eral days in Payson for the Homecoming Home-coming celebration. . They were the guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Evan Ericksen and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Mayer. The employes of Duke Page Auto company and Utah County Implement company, their partners part-ners and guests numbering 80, held thejr annual outing Friday night at The Hot Pots in Heber. A banquet was served and Elmo B. Wilson war toastmaster. Dancing completed the evening's entertainment. LAKE VIEW MRS. SADIE SHAW Reporterphone 018-R-S . ery inte"sting social was held Sunday evening in the form of a testimonial honoring Miss Helen McClure Hadden, former school teacher at Lake View, fif. ty years ago. Mrs.'. Hadden now is living at Cardiff -by-the-sea in California. The speakers were Mrs. Hadden, Christian Jeppeson and Charles Madsen. Virginia and Paul Taylor sang a duet, accompanied accom-panied by Alene Johnson at the piano. Many from other wards attended the testimonial. The senior class ; in Sunday school motored to Saratoga Friday Fri-day i;. evening after-which all gathered at , the home of Miss Alene Johnson, where luncheon and a melon bust were enjoyed. After which games were played by Norma Nelson, Dorothy Taylor. -- - wwiuwum, . Aiene Reed Boulton, ; Earl Johnson, Johnson, Sheldon Madsen, Khail Keith wyuc wunamson. "Mr. JtnA Xfra TnVin ov wvuu Buaw ui Inglewood, California Is visitinsr Of " ... mm . un, j osepn snaw. ; The many, friends of Mrs. Ray Judd .expresses sympathy iover the death of her. mother, Mrs.,MM. Steele who passed away Friday at her; home jji Delta, Utah. Merry-Go-Round (Continued From- Page One) right requisitioning or what ameunts to the same? thing, payment" pay-ment" in Berlin-Issued paper francs. . , ; : For example, ninety per cent -of the former huge French ' cement industry was requisitioned- by Nazi occupation authorities and the other ten per cent "bought" with Berlin francs, worthless printing-press money. : s These seizures mean much to the Nazi war , machine, for the Paris area is the principal . industrial in-dustrial district of France "and includes shipyards, metal and woodworking plants, arms, auto, cement, leather, .varnish and pajper factories, as well as practically prac-tically the whole of the former French dye industry. This is now incorporated in. what the secret report calls the "Franco-German Union." All the plants are work' ing day and night producing goods for Germany. This is true also of other occupied occu-pied Industrial centers, according to the French bank managers' reports. - In Nantes, the heavy-goods heavy-goods industries are operating at record levels. Note: The secret document also confirms the reports of. growing unrest among the French populace popu-lace and fury at Vichy, which is being blamed for the Nazi looting loot-ing of supplies which the French themselves can't even buy with ration cards. -f - I A SWELL GUY I : One of the first things William H. Harrison, plain-talking, hard-work hard-work A. T. & T. vice-president, did when he succeeded John Biggers as OPM oroduction chief was to summon a group of steel makers for some blunt talk about expansion plans. One of those attending at-tending the conference was short, hard-boiled Tom Girdler, antiunion anti-union boas of Renublip sti r.n The meeting lasted hours and no words were minced. The steel men spoke up and so did Harrison. At times the air was blue. But when it was all over, Girdler walked up to Harrison, extended his hand and said, "Bill, I want to say this. You are the nicest tough ?'fj and ?' I have ever met." I NO RAIL STRIKE I i The "overwhelming strike vote of the raJroad workers came as no surprise to President Roosevelt A week before the count was announced he was tipped off about it by George Harrison, brainy Brotherhood chief, who called at the White House to present their case in the wage dispute with the "carriers. Harrison Harri-son assured the President that the unions stood ready to accept the award of the fact-finding board he will appoint tp hear both sides. This means there will be no strike, for under the mandatory "cooling off period of the Railway Rail-way Labor Act there can be no work stoppage for 30 days before or after a fact-finding board is named. . x Harrison told the president that railway labor "had no alternative oui io can a sriKe, out felt that the president should he advised ho. forehand of the Brotherhood's in tention in view of the seriousness of the times. "The revenues nf ii thA hir roads have shot up tremendously in the past year," Harrison . declared, de-clared, "vet thev hv rofmuwl tn grant our wage increase proposals in the face of the fact that rail road workmen are getting anywhere any-where from 30 : to 100 ner cent less than the wage levels of cor- - Does 'The Punishment Fit the Crime? 1 I ' ' A ' ; a "v V i7V--: i t , V y (NEATehphot Center of the latest ; controversy between t the , Army and . Congress . Is 1 Colonel Charles B. Elliott, obmmander of Port Bragg, N. C where John Habinyak, 28, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for insubordlna-, tion. The draftee refused to obey orders or work for $21 a month, arguing argu-ing he received $10 a day in civilian Jfe. Calling the sentence "amazlnf and outrageous," Rep. Stephen M. Young, Ohio, asked that Colonel ; , llott be'removed from hia-command.-' -'' -f -.vs responding crafts in other Industries." Indus-tries." The president listened quietly to the bill of grievances and then asked If he could depend on' railway rail-way labor to cooperate with the government "to the; extent of .accepting .ac-cepting the settlement terms proposed by a fact-finding board. He pointed out that a" tieup in transportation would be a crushing crush-ing blew to the anti-Axis program. pro-gram. "You can depend on the railroad rail-road unions to cooperate 100 per cent with you, Mr. President," Harrison replied emphatically. ILLITERATE DRAFTEES I . : , One ' of the uncomfortable facts disclosed by the selective 'service system Is that thousands of young men in this great country of educational edu-cational opportunity are unable to pass a simple test of reading and writing. In a recent two-months period. May 15 to July 15, a itotal of 91,919 draftees were 'fexcused" on account of illiteracy. Of these 37,217 were white, and 54,702 were negro. . , , y The Southern states have the heaviest percentages of illiteracy. In Louisiana, 4.8 per cent " of the whites and 23.7 of the the negroes were rejected on this score. In Georgia and Florida, the percentage was only slightly less. Other states of high illiteracy are Virginia, .Mississippi and North Carolina. Partly to offer the benefits of education, partly, to increase the number of men. fit for military service, ser-vice, WPA is setting up a project pro-ject to teach reading and writ-ting writ-ting to the rejectees. " - j . ! CAPITAL CHAFF , Under Secretary of State Welles has gone off for a much needed holiday in Maine, Mrs. Welles says the holiday will last a month; Mr. Welles says two weeks. Question: Which will win? ... Ned Laughinghouse and Frank Vicovari, two Americans wounded during the shelling of the ZamZam, were taken aboard a German warship for treatment. When the State Department asked for a report on the two men, the reply was that the warship was still under way, and no report was yet ' available . . Texas's new Senator W. Lee CDaniel is still talking by radio to the folks back ihome. In. Washington, he makes each week a transcription of a half-hour radio talk, orders 14 records and mails them , to Texas radio- stations . . . Departing Depart-ing from nautical terms, Admiral Emorv S. Land, chairman of the Maritime commission, qutnped, "Horse sense is stable thinking." . . . Lt.-General Ben Lear, able commander of the second army, loses no opportunity to keep his qf fleers abreast of world devel-oftinents. devel-oftinents. When Richard C. Hotte-let, Hotte-let, crack United Press foreign correspondent who was expelled by the Nazis, was assigned to teover the second army's maneuvers, maneu-vers, Lear invited Hottelet to give he officers a talk on European conditions. ; (Copyright. 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Birthdavs Tuesday, Sept. 9 ' JOSEPH M. CRAWLEY ROGER W. CREER JOHN FERRE MRS. C. A. BARTLETT REED C. GAMMON and THORNLEY S. GAMMON, brothers. Asbestos can withstand heat of 3000 degrees F., on an average, although some grades will withstand with-stand as much as 5000 degrees F. , - 1 x ; ' v f. e 4 i-"- S Judge Dismisses Congressman's : Lav; Suit Against Merry-Go-Hound A public officer or candidate cannot go about "with his feelings on his sleeve," according to U. S. Judge James V. Allred of Texaa in an opinion just published in whie$ he dismissed the suit of Congressman Martin L. Sweeney of Cleveland against the Corpus Christ! Caller-Times. This was one of the extended chain libel suits brought, by Congressman Sweeney against the Washington Merry-Go-Round column and its clients. Judge Allred, is one of the mostJ vigorous defenses of the freedom of the ' press handed down by a federal Judge in recent years, states regarding the column which Drew. Pearson and Robert S. Allen wrote about Congressman Sweeney Swee-ney that "public officials and candidates can-didates are legitimate subjects for news and comment. While they cannot be libeled, they must reconcile recon-cile themselves to occasional yarns which, however hurtful to their feelings, are not actionable." -" "It is not a question of how a judge or plaintiff might feel about it; mere injury to the feelings of a public officer cannot be the basis of an action," Judge Allred said. "All judges, I assume feel in their own minds they are liberal; lib-eral; but a charge against a judge, however untrue, , that he is not liberal or is reactionary would hardly be libelous. As pointed out by Judge Clark in his rissenting opinion in the New York case, the broad sweep of the rule for which plaintiff contends "would take in comments found day after day in the most conservative newspapers, in 11 What W5i 'CI- M either as direct statements or as quotations of ' responsible critics, that a public official, particularly a legislator, is pro or anti-labor, or pro or anti-Nazi; or pro or anti this or that race, color or creed'." The Washington Merry-Go-Round columnists had described Congressman Congress-man Sweeney as the spokesman of Father Coughlin and said that he was opposed to the appointment of U. S. District Attorney Freed of Cleveland to be a Federal Judge because Freed was a foreign born Jew. - Discussing the truth of the column. col-umn. Judge Allred sad that Congressman Con-gressman Sweeney "does not deny that he was known as the congressional con-gressional spokesman of Father Coughlin, or that the basis of Father. Coughlin's opposition to Freed was that he was a Jew, not born in the United States; nor does he deny that the basis of his own opposition was that Freed was not born in the United States. He does not dispute that a hot behind-the-scenes fight was raging in the Democratic congressional congres-sional ranks over Father Coughlin's Cough-lin's effort to prevent the appointment appoint-ment of Mr. Freed, then United States District Attorney, who had an excellent record, endorsed . by the executive committee of the Cleveland Bar Association. True, he denies that the basis of his own oposition was that Freed was a Jew. In conclusion Judge Allred ruled: "It would, in effect be a denial of the freedom of the press to say that reputable newspapers would 9 s ookingl? Here's the answer to that "age-old' question! During each of these, range demonstrationsnew techniques and menus in modern cooking will be demonstrated. The Monarch factory willhave - a trained Authority at each school who brings the very latest , ideas and methods in kitchen cuisine. Come and get the answer to many of your most perplexing problems. A Valiiable Gift TO EVERY LADY ATTENDING A Handy Measuring Scoop A handy measuring scoop which is graduated to cup measure will be given as a special favor to each lady who attends these demonstrations. You'll find it one of the handiest gadgets in your kitchenl Attendance Prizes to AH! SPECIAL DRAWING 14 Lovely Gifts Will Be Given ASK FOR COMPLETE DETAliLS Plan To Attend These Schools in the PROVO D-T-R STORE: "ome and See the Demonstration on Coal and Wood, as Well as Electric Model ; . . TUESDAY AT 7:30 P. M. m mm School? nerfster Todav mm j School bells, rang Monday for students of the elementary .and) secondary training schools ol. Brigham Young university, as registration took place for the 1941-42 school year. Enrollment vtook place under, direction of Professor i Hermese Peterson, principal of the elementary elemen-tary school, and Dr. Golden Li Woolf, principal of the secondary school. The entire faculties of both divisions were on hand to assist students In arranging: classes. 5 Classwork in the training schools will begin Tuesday, 'Just three weeks earlier than the opening open-ing of regular university classes: New teachers on the school staffs are Louis W. Both, music; Dor-tha Dor-tha Reid, home economics, and Aileen C. Smith, girls' physical education in the secondary unit; and Dr. Reuben D. Law and Gladys Hotter of the elementary school, returned .from leaves of absence, . have to defend themselves from such suits as tins. It would make them unduly hesitant, fearful. It would lead -to endless litigation even though the "pickings' at the hands of. juries be small. In my judgment enough facts are admit? ted to justify, as a reasonable de duction or comment, the columnist's colum-nist's statement as to the basis cr plaintiffs opposition to Freed's appointment." f Training |