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Show wmmgim - a1 . . A ..... . nr-.Trrt, rfl Washington, D. C. PROFESSOR VS. SIBS Governor Rex Tugwell of Puerto Rico was flying from his post to the British island of Jamaica a short time ago, and just before he stepped into the plane, the young naval pilot said: "I don't suppose we'll see anything. any-thing. But we might as well be ready just in case." So they loaded the plane with hall a dozen depth charges. It was a snxill transport plane, had no regular regu-lar bomb bay, so the depth charges were merely placed on the seats. Out over the Caribbean, suddenly the pilot looked down, said, "There she is." Below them with its conning con-ning tower above water, was a Nazi submarine. Both the pilot and Governor Tug-well Tug-well reached for the depth charges, opened the window. But before they could drop even one, the submarine sub-marine had submerged. The ex-braintruster ex-braintruster came home with no submarine scalp in his professorial belt. Buy War Bonds EYE TRICK The war has spawned a number of rackets, designed both to gain deferment for unwilling draftees and to aid others in passing their physical phys-ical examinations. But the most ingenious to date was uncovered by the navy department. A Washington doctor has been restoring re-storing 20-20 (perfect) eyesight to applicants for commissions long enough to enable them to pass their "physicals" by injecting a high-powered high-powered drug. The trick was brought to light during an examination examina-tion of a young commission-seeker with defective vision. He had been examined three ( times and each time was told to go home and practice eye exercises. But his eyesight remained 31-9, far below the required standard. After the third test, the applicant was told he would be given one more chance. If he flunked again, he would be rejected. When he returned the fourth time, he amazed the navy eye doctor by passing with a 20-20 mark. Doubting Doubt-ing that the exercises had achieved such a phenomenal result, the doctor doc-tor decided to make a check. He sent the applicant into an adjoining room and kept him there five hours. Then he was given another examination. exam-ination. This time his vision was found to be 31-9 again. The applicant finally broke down and admitted that his temporary perfect vision had been due to a shot in the arm given him by a Washington doctor. This doctor, he said, had told him to make sure he was examined within "four or five hours" after the injection, as its effect ef-fect would last only that long. NAZI FOOD SHORTAGE Word from inside Germany makes it clear that Nazi officials are anticipating an-ticipating a hard winter, even if Hitler Hit-ler does take the vast granary of South Russia. They have already completed arrangements for emergency emer-gency food distribution, in anticipation anticipa-tion of serious shortages. The plan calls for community feeding throughout Germany. It would mean that families would no longer sit down to dinner in their own homes, but would line up at a community feeding center for a government gov-ernment handout. Under this system, the hausfrau would not buy her own provisions, ration cards would be replaced by meal tickets, and one-dish meals of the "stew" type would be handed out several times a week. Under this system, the Nazis will be able to distribute food supplies more efficiently, with greater use of substitutes, and with equal treatment treat-ment for all. Hitler may not see the irony of it, but this system brings him to communism, from which he professes pro-fesses to be so eager to "save Europe." Buy War Bonds MERRY-GO-ROUND C. Opening prayer in the senate was offered recently not by a clergyman but by a member of the U. S. senate itself Berkeley L. Bunker of Nevada, a former bishop in the Mormon Mor-mon church. C. "Whenever I come to Washington," Washing-ton," says Walter Winchell, "I am amazed at the number of big men supposed to be working for the country coun-try who spend their time working against each other." C Curtailment of musical instrument instru-ment production will save enough metal to build 12.000 six-ton trucks, more than 100 big tanks, 500 pieces of heavy artillery, and 50.000,000 rounds of machine-gun ammunition. C. The OPA soon will crack down on a number of tire recappers on charges of incompetent workmanship workman-ship and waste of vital materials. d Hon Wu, chief of the 500 Chinese residents u Chicago's Chinatown, points proudly to the fact that his group was one jf the first in Chicago to be organized for civilian defense. C. Northrop Aircraft company has evolved a new welding process that is claimed will revolutionize plane making. The new me"iiod will per-nit per-nit the construction of all-magnn-sium planes. Magnesium is one-third one-third lighter than aluminum. |