Show VAL i it t W EA OW Washington D. D C. C LESS GAS-LESS AUTO RACE An automobile race was staged in Brazil recently which should interest less gas-less Americans two 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 charcoal charcoal charcoal char char- as producing a coal gas whose combustion takes the place of the combustion of gasoline in the ordinary automobile engine These devices have been so successful successful successful suc suc- in Brazil that they are being produced at the rate of 40 a day selling for about each Some of the units are capable of generating a thousand horsepower and are used even on the inter-city inter buses between Santos and Sao Paulo Brazil has practically no petroleum um resources of her own TANKERS DELIVER PLANES Everybody knows that bombers have long been delivered to England I under unde their heir own power But the big problem has been to deliver fighter I planes which have had to be taken I apart crated then reassembled on the other side Now however a new system has been devised whereby U. 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S tankers are carrying fighters on deck deck 20 20 to each tanker tanker and and setting them down downa I Ia a few days later in England The War Var Shipping administration is keeping the army cleaned out of fighters by this method of delivery delivery delivery de de- de- 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 d' d tankers a NO GERMAN IAN SAUSAGE The diplomats' diplomats grapevine reports that the German food supply is running running running run run- ning low A new cut has been made in the meat ration This coming at ata a time when the greatest muscle must be exerted in defense of the is expected to be a severe severe severe se se- vere blow to German morale The basic ration of meat for normal normal normal nor nor- mal uses was grams at this time last year But now the ration has been cut to grams which grams which is about half a pound per week including including including fat and bone An I Imade ing effort is being made to compensate this reduction by the substitution of cheese and groats hulled and crushed oats and wheat During the winter however er it was reduced to grams In Inthe Inthe Inthe the spring the cut was partially restored restored restored re re- re- re I stored when the ration was moved up to grams recognizing the necessity of more nourishment with the coming of the season of greater m military activity ARMY IY iL AND D 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 construction construction tion crews are coming along the same trail and are staking out claims for the gold which U. 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S soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers could not touch Boys from almost every state were sent to Alaska on that pioneering pioneer pioneer- ing job job cutting cutting a road through tall timber where none but Indians had passed before They worked from Dawson Creek in Alberta to Fairbanks Fairbanks Fairbanks Fair Fair- banks Alaska but the place where they saw the gleaming gold was inthe in inthe inthe the Yukon near Whitehorse At first there was little time to think about private projects for one ba battalion was racing against another to complete its mile 20 stretch of highway But when a lull luU came in inthe inthe inthe the work the men asked permission permission permission 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 pioneer pio pio- pioneer neer road is being replaced by a permanent highway built by big construction companies companies Elliott Elliott Construction Construction Construction Con Con- Co and Price I and Callahan These companies have mining engineers engineers engineers en en- attached to the construction gangs and they are not bound by military discipline Note Finally the army has modified modified modified mod mod- 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 soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers sport in their spare time Washington wives with backs aching aching aching ach ach- ing from work in their Victory gardens gardens gardens gar gar- dens wish they had top sergeants to hoe their gardens as do the wives of ranking high-ranking army officers at Ft Myer across the Potomac ROUND MERRY-GO-ROUND C. C Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce made one of he her rare public appearances appearances appearances appear appear- ances outside of congress when she spoke at Haverford Pa School re re- Her husband Harry Luce is law in of Haverford Headmaster Headmaster Head Head- I master Leslie R. R C. C l Coast Guardsman Warren H H. H Kimzey Pacific hero who has seen men killed under all sorts of battle conditions says he would rather be bein bein bein in Pacific action than fishing long- long drowned duck hunters out of the Detroit river |