Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features feature service NEW YORK encouraging news is that we may keep our rubber heels and if we have to travel on them instead of on rubber tires sma 11 still voice voica it wont be S the fault t of of scientists now dr elmer W brandes br more audible andieu head of the bureau of plant industry of the department part ment of agriculture for many years dr brandes has been exploring rubber jungles wherever he can find them studying rub ber yielding plants and staking out tor for the government useful data and techniques currently he tells the house agriculture committee about the urgency of planting large areas of the guayule shrub this time the committee is listening more intently germany is far ahead of us in synthetic rubber production on occasion dr brandes has worked up a pleasant friendship frind ship with head hunters and should be able to get on friendly terms with congressmen it was in august 1928 that he landed his hydroplane in a jungle river in new guinea it scared the wits out of the pygmy head hunters but the genial and conspicuously unarmed dr brandes lured them into his camp by friendly gestures and they became friends and operators cooperators co he has flown many thousands of lone jungle air leagues on many research expeditions to central and south america asia and the pacific islands in july 1940 congress provided for or a study of crude rubber in the western hemisphere dr brandes flew to brazil and is now offering to congress the result of his researches there he bacs was born in washington in 1891 was educated in science at michigan state college cornell cornel and the university of michigan taught at michigan state and entered the government service se ivice as a plant pathologist th at the puerto rico agricultural experiment station in 1914 he served in the world war as a second lieutenant in france 0 THERE HERE is one section of the alace 1 lace which wont be bothered much by all this rationing of food clothes automobile tires and house A toot for one of hold h ol 01 okd goods s it I 1 is i s the group r ou P our indispensable which is for fo morale Buil ballder dere the star most part a stran ger to such luxuries one of them asked me for a dime today we gotta work fast he said before the government gets all the loose dimes if as reported morale is good amo among ng people who are hungry and cold the salvation ion army has helped and will help greatly to this end and rating many new stars in his crown or cap is col john J allan just now becoming the ardys lieutenant commissioner for 11 central states with headquarters at chicago when as a young mang man getting a start as a jeweler john james allan decided to give his life to the salvation army he disguised himself as a derelict when he went down into new yorks bowery he shared their theira flophouses flop houses wore ragged clothes and took his handout hand out where he found it condescending to men of low estate in the scriptural phrase he found reciprocal understanding der standing when he shared their troubles that was the be start of his career of kindly and aggressive friendliness as an evangelist and champion of the down but never outs and as a cornet for the bowery and tor for king george of england at a command performance in 1904 lie he was for three years a soloist with reeves american band of providence K R I 1 he is the father of the united service organizations it was on october 11 1940 that he met with executives of the YM YMCA CAf the knights of columbus and the jewish welfare organization for united effort among the soldiers and out of this meeting came the USO he is married the father of five children he was born in hazelton pa in 1887 his mother having been born near nottingham england a stones throw from the home of ge general n booth |