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It is our intention, however, to see that every firm that uses these columns is required to live up to their obligations Therefore, should vou apply >n any advertisement on this page and services are not ren dered as advertised. The Star News wants to know it. The C S. postal regulations are very strict in such matters, as such an act would be misuse of the U S. mail and The Star-News will see that any attempt to defraud is promptly handled by the P. O. department._ _ 1 Announcements DR. N. A. CULBRETH, DENTIST. Trust Bldg. Front and Market St. Phone 3211. LADIES’ AND MEN’S SUITS Tailored-to-Order — Alterations Remodeling — Prices Reasonable Rlioiey Tailoring Cc.. i!7 So. Front 2 Automotive CLEAN 1941 BLUE DE LUXE Ford 2-Door. Good rubber, con dition perfect. Call Harriss Has kett. Dial 9973. 1940 PACKARD CONVERTIBLE Super-8. Radio, heater, good tires. Long Motor Co., 216 No. 2nd. Dial 3211. 1941 PLYMOUTH DE LUXE Coupe; 1940 Ford 4-Door DeLuxe Sedan. These cars have excep tionally good rubber. Baugn McConnell Motors, Dial 7554 or 9544. 1937 4-DOOR PLYMOUTH DEL Luxe Sedan. Westbrook,' Brown Motor Co, Dial 5874. SNOW'S ESSO SERVICENTER, 3rd and Market. Dial 4279. Com plete auto repairs. Dodge-Ply mouth Parts-Servlce. 1940 MODEL PLYMOUTH 2-DOOR sedan. Good condition, good rub ber. Peterson-Barnes Motor Co. 213 Chestnut St. Dial 5676. FOR SALE: CHRYSLER SEDAN, good condition. Price reasonable. Terms cash. Dial 5063. 1941 PLYMOUTH COUPE. 8,000 miles. Excellent tires. Cash Dial 5063. NOTICE TO ALL HUDSON CAR owners! We are still operating our Hudson service department with factory-trained mechanics. »e also carry complete line ot genuine Hudson parts. Mills Motor Co., 517 North Third _ street. Dial 5397. CHEVROLET AND OLDSMOBILE Sales and Service R1XEY CHEVROLET COMPANY - 406_ Princess St. Dial 9621 SACRIFICE! OWNER MUST SELL, 1941 BUICK 6-PASS. SUPER SPORT COUPE ® Like new, one owner, fi'e extra good tires; accessories Priced For Quick Sale! MacMILLAN BUICK CO. 108 No. 2nd Street DIAL 9574 T'tion> f°.R SUMMER LUBRICA c^- i L'et our experts prepare youi Am, 5Umme" weather. White’s if-2!? Service, 3rd at Walnut. miW^OUTH COUPE. 8^001 Dial 5063EXCel!ent tires' CaSh -- -r-__ Boats_ E1THE, NEW 1942 EVINRUDEt st,H roll Reverse and Simple! tranre % .Fvinrude Motors, en Cinderella Booterie. ll^Jliu'ders’ Supplies p ',1 !'e Most Complete Line “Ev^,FDERS' SUPPLIES v r hmg to Build a House” CastlUu ' GODWIN’S SONS le Uayne Road Dial 774’ V ■ 12 Builders’ Supplies ROOFING BY BIRD & SON Since 1795 BeaTrt.i{VL, ?“rable ' Economical HANOVER IRON WORKS 111 No, Water St. Dial 3257 NOTICE: SASH, DOORS, BLINDS Windows, Door Frames, Screens. Turned Columns, Cabinets, Oldest, Best Equipped Shop in City. Roderick & Land. Dial 6229. WHEN PURCHASING YOUR AS bestos Siding for your home, select K and M “Century” As bestos Siding, oldest manufact urer on market of Asbestos Sid ing. Dial 3339. Smith Builders Supply, Inc. DON’T PUT UP WITH WASTEFUL discomfort, install the perma nent benefits of Rockwool Insula tion which assures balanced weather and a life time of com fort. Dial Becker’s, 7761. 13 Business Opportunities FOR SALE OR RENT: GREEN field Tavern, immediate posses sion. W. M. HEWLETT, REALTOR 214 Princess St. . Dial 7138 EARN EX'. R A MONEY BY renting your spare room to war workers! If you have the room ... We have the beds and bedding. Rent-a-bed service will rent you a single bed, mattress, pillow, pillow case and two sheets for only $1.25 per week All new bedding. Dial 9563 for information. 20Cleaners-Dyers MODERN LAUNDRY—CLEANERS Dyer3 - Hatters • Shoe Repairers 118-120 So. 17th St.Dial 7761 Clothing MEN! you CAN DRESS WELL, save real money on clothing bill at Finkelsteln’s. Front and Mar ket. UNIFORMS FOR OFFICERS, EN listed men. Other Army equip ment. Army and Navy Store. 2U Market St. 35Drugs USE HALL’S SUN-BURN LOTION Gives Some Relief in 3 Minutes! Cooling—Soothing—Non-Greasy 50* Bottle, Delivered HALL’S DRUG STORE 5th and Castle Sts. Dial 5265 Let Us Fill Your Next PRESCRIPTION See Us For Your Drug Needs! BROOKLYN PHARMACY „ 902 No. 4th St. Dial 6676 NO ONE SELLS FOR LESS! 38 Dry Cleaning-Pressing YOUR CLOTHES ARE VALUABLE! Let your “Old Reliable Cleaner' Dry Clean and Press them often! BRINSON'S ODORLESS CLEANERS We Appreciate Your Patronage 2413 Market St. Rd. Dial 6267 41 Eatables CALL 6585 FOR YOUR NATIVE meats and groceries. A. T. Brown Grocery. 4th and Brunswick Sts. 45 Electrical MASON ELECTRIC CO. Electrical Contractors 107 No. 3rd St.Dial 6782 48 Feeds PURINA FEEDS—FOR STOCK, poultry and pets. Leonard Mills, 517 Mb. 3rd St., Dial 5397. VITA-LIFE POULTRY MASHES contain buttermilk, and cod liver oil. Manufactured fresh daily Dial 4926. Keith Milling Co. FUL-O-PEP MASHES AND THE Ful-O-Pep feeding plan are de signed to help you realize bigger profits from your flock. J. J. Allen & Son. Dial 5762, Dock and Water Sts. TUXEDO FEEDS The Feeders Silent Partner CROSS SEED CO. 150 Floor Finishers FLOOR SANDING AND FINISH ing. “Serving Wilmington Twen ty years.” Dial 4758, M. L. Brothers and Son. FLOOR SANDING • REFINISHING Estimates Cheerfully Given Dial 9479 B. A. SHARP 51 Florist CUT flowers! pot plants. corsages, funeral designs. Quick deliveries. Blossom Shop, 31 So. Front. Dial 6030. 52 For Rent LIST your house s and apartments with us for quick rental. Marshall Realty Co. 210 Princess Dial 2-1752. 2 APTS. FURNISHED—ONE FUR nished house, $40 mo. 2 small houses for sale, cheap, on beach. 3 houses, sale, Wilmington, $3500.00; $ 4 5 0 0.0 0; $4750.00 Tucker Real Estate Co., Carolina Beach. Phone 2491. ._ 53 For Rent At Resorts FOR RENT:. 5 ROOM FURNISH ed cottage. 8 Latimer Street Wrightsville Beach. Open for in spection. Address John Bomtz, Greensboro, N. C. 55 For Rent-Apartments CHOICE SMALL APARTMENT, everything furnished. By week or month. 502 Market St. ___ 60 For Rent—Rooms BEAUTIFULLY FURNISHED corner bedroom, delightfully cool, connecting bath, hot water. Love ly home. Gentleman. Dial 3bb9. COOL NICELY FURNISHED BED room convenient to bath, not water, gentleman or busviess lady. Private home. Dial 7689 ROOM WITH TWIN BEDS AD ioining bath. Near shipyard. 602 No. Blvd. Dial 5692.__ 63 Room and Board room and board, NEW good home cooking, hot watei, six baths, two shower baths. 14 or 908 Market St. __ ROOM AND BOARD, 3 MEALS, $9.00 week. Friendly Inn on high way below second stop hgnt, Carolina Beach. Mrs. G. O. i_oe. 63 Room and Board ROOM AND BOARD. EARLY breakfast, packed lunches. Spa cial accommodations for night shift from 4 to 6. 411 N. Sec ond St. 70 _For Sale HAVE ONE THOUSAND BUSHELS of Corn for sale. Advise if in terested in buying in any quan tity. Can deliver if want as much as one hundred bushels. Price in line. A. H. Carter, Wal lace, N. C. GENERAL ELECTRIC 20-INCH Floor Fans, $39.95 FIRESTONE 220 Market St. WELL LOCATED LOT IN PINEY 2-2646 CaU W' R' Davis’ Dial SPRAYERS — DUSTERS SPRAY MATERIALS — DUSTS CROSS SEED COMPANY 12 Market St. Dial 6868 SUNSH’NE LAUNDRY DIAL 3386 Rug and Upholstery Cleaners Dry Cleaners — Launderers COLORFUL SUMMER FIBRE summer rugs, sizes 8x10, and 9x12. Pender Furniture Co., 28 So. Front St. ADDING MACHINES Used and Reconditioned TYPEWRITER INSPECTION CO FOR SALE: ROLL TOP DESK. Good condition. Coopers’ News stand, 604% Castle St. Dial 2-1426. bEAI COVERS FOR ALL CARS All colors and styles in stock Taubman’s, 16 So. Front St. FOR SALE: RESTAURANT GAS range used 9 days. Apply Bus Station Restaurant. PORCH ROCKERS, STEEL GLID ers and furniture at 20% to 30% lower than elsewhere. Thrif-T Stores, Inc., 25 So. Front St. Dial 3972. 75 Household goods FOR SALE—PRACTICALLY NEW kitchen cabinet—See Shue 111 N. 5th. SEE UC FOR BLACKOUT shades, 36 inches and 42 inches widths. Peoples Furniture Co., 257 No. Front St. SPECIAL! CHROME BREAK fast suites, with porcelain tops Terms. Home Furniture Co., 23 Market St. JUST ARRIVED! FLORENCE table top oil ranges. Only $89.50 Terms. Home Furniture Co.. 23 Market St. Mattresses Remade — Sterilized NEW WAY MATTRESS CO. 102 So. Frrnt St._Dial 6173 PORCELAIN TOP CHROME breakfast room furniture, red and white; and black and white. Jones Furniture Co. QUALITY GAS RANGES SLIGHT - ly used. $18 00 to $35.90 Bost Fur niture Co., 29 So. Front St. MAPLE BEDROOM, KIMBALL piano, chifforobes, breakfas nook, breakfast suite, kitchen cabinet. Batson’s Transfer. 8C Houses For Sale Beautiful Homesites FOREST HILLS Special Low Prices This Week W. A. McGIRT MANAGER 215 Princess Street BUNGALOW OF FOUR ROOMS and bath, short distance from Market St. Road, not far beyond City Limits, for $1850.00; early possession. H. F. Wilder. Phone 4932. 523 DOCK STREET, 7-ROOM TWO story corner home, at reduced price. H. F. Wilder. Phone 4932. Ill NORTH 2ND ST., 13-ROOMS. See Wade Realty Co., 205 Prin cess St. Dial 4406. 85 Help Wantec-—Male MEAT CUTTER AND CLERK wanted at once. J. G. Carney Gro. 1116 N. 4th. EXPERIENCED COLLECTOR with car or bicycle. Straight salary. Clark’s Clothiers, 219 No Front. ‘PHOTOGRAPHIC DARK ROOM man with general experience. Camera experience desired but not essential. Good salary and overtime for right party. Photo finisher also needed Clipper Photo Service, Portsmouth, Va. WOOL PRESSERS Dixie Laundry & Dry Cleaners 412 So. 17th St. OPTICAL HENCHMAN WANTED for wholesale optical RX; 45 hour week, $50 guaranteed: steady and permanent work. Wholesaler, P. O. Box 1528, Nor folk, Va. 90 Help Wanted—Female INDUSTRY TRAINING YOUNG women—To replace men now oe ing withdrawn from industry tc defend our nation. Young wom en and young men. between the ages of 16 and 20 may prepare themselves as linotype operators in from eight to ten months in the Southern School of Printing, Nashville, Tennessee. This school has been in continuous operation for twenty-three years and has graduated more than 2000 students who are now em ployed in the Industry. Write H F. Ambrose. Secy -Treas. about special inducements offered young women entrants, and for free catalog. The call for work ers is urgent. Prepare now. COLORED GIRL FOR GENERAL housework— Experienced— Re ferences. Phone 2-1856. WANTED: EXPERIENCED bookkeeper.. Laundry experience preferred. Write “Laundry,” care Star-News. WANTED: EXPERT TYPIST. Hours 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Start ing salary $18.00. Write P. O. Box 503. Immediate employment Great Crowds Of Prospects Will Bead Your Star-News Want Ad Thousands of prospective buyers, renters, em ployes, etc., read the Want Ads in every edition of the STAR-NEWS. IT PAYS TO BEAD AND USE STAR-NEWS CLASSIFIED WANT ADS Place Your Want Ad Today! 90 Help Wanted—Female WANTED: EXPERIENCED COOK —Serve early breakfast. 312 North 2nd. WANTED EXPERIENCED COL ored giry for housework and care for infant. Apply Mrs. Arth ur Respass, Shipyard Trailer Camp, No. 11068. 95 Insurance F. E. LIVINGSTON & CO. Real Estate — Mutual Insurance Wallace Bldg._Dial 6047 100 Instruction STENOTYPE COMPTOMETER, Burroughs Calculators, and a 11 commercial subjects taught. Mrs. Motte’s Secretarial School, 313 Church St. 104 Loans $5.00 AND UP On Your Signature Alone WILMINGTON FINANCE CO. 202 MURCHISON BLDG. MONEY TO LOAN On Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Men’s Clothing, Type writers, Shotguns, Musical Instru ments and Anything of Value: FINKELSTEIN’S LOAN OFFICE “Wilmington’s Oldest and Largest!” Front and Market Streets OUR LOANS ARE QUICK AND liberal on shotguns, cameras, jewelry and clothing. Gapp Fear Loan Office, 12 So. Front. 105 Lost and Found LOST—SUNDAY" MORNING: POC ket-book—blue and white cotton bag—on Highway between Ocean Terrace Wrightsville Beach and East Wilmington. Finder please phone 5860 or Wrightsville 7628-m keep money and return bag with other enclosures of value only to owner. LOST — WALLET CONTAINING diamond ring, indentfication card, and important papers. Finder please call Victoria Pat acca at 2-2976. LOST: SUGAR RATION CARDS and letter in Kress bag between Belk’s and James Walker hos pital, on Walnut St. Reward. Return to address in bag. LOST: BLACK FEMALE PEKIN gese dog. Answers to name “Inky”. Liberal reward.- Tele phone 4901. LUST: KEY KING UONTA1JN1JNG 3 keys near Morris Plan Bank. Reward. Return Morris Plan Bank. 110 Livestock SADDLE AND DRAFT HORSES; nice mules; 2nd-hand buggies with harness. J. P. Newton. Dial 3580. 120 Office Equipment TYPEWRITERS & ADDING MA chines. All makes adjusted and repaired. L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Alien-Wales Adding Machines. H. F. Wolfe, Agt., 114 Princess. Phone 5783. 125 Paint-Papering PAINTING DONE BY A SELECT crew of neat, fast, sober men For estimates dial 2-2951, Wil mington Decorating Company. 136 Poultry BLOOD TESTED BABY CHICKS Feeds and Poultry Supplies T. W WOOD & SONS $$$ IN POULTRY BUY OUR bloodtested baby chicks. Profit able fryers, early layers. Rouda bush’s Seed Store. 139 Radio and Repairs FRENCH RADIO Co] HALL1 crafters radios. Complete serv ice, any make. Public address systems for rent 1304 Market St Dial 9878. SHACKELFORD’S RADIO RE pair Service. Any make—any model. 123 Grace St. Dial 7817. Commercial Frigidaire Refriger ation. CLASSIFIED DISPLAY r Charleston Court Grants Restraining Order In First Complaint On Gas Jobbing WASHINGTON, June 29— UR — Attorney General Biddle announc ed today that a Federal court at Charleston, S. C., granted a tem porary restraining order today in the first civil complaint filed to enforce a War Production Board order covering the jobbing of gas oline. Hearing was set for July 6. Biddle said that he had acted at the request of Chairman Donald Nelson of the WPB, which advised him that the respondents in the case had sold and purchased gas oline in excess of quotas fixed by the board. The action was directed against J. S. Limehouse, Jr., owner and operator of a service station, and J. Preston Richardson, a gasoline jobber and wholesaler in the Char leston area. The government charged that Limehouse purchased from Richardson 6,700 gallons of gasoline in excess of the 23,499 gasoline quota for May. -V CONFIRME D WASHINGTON, June 29.—— The senate confirmed today Pres ident Roosevelt’s reappointment of James Lawrence Fly as a member of the federal communications commission. 150 Real Estate LIST YOUR RENTALS & SALES With US — A-l Service Frank G. Harriss 216 Princess St. SALES, RENTALS, INVESTMENT MOORE-FONVIELLE REALTY CO. We are equipped to serve you 155 Seeds-Plants-Bulbs QUALITY SEEDS Soybeans, Cowpeas, Velvet Beans, Crotolaria, Sudan Grass. Complete Stocks of Seasonable Seed. CROSS SEED CO. 12 Market St. Dial 6868 WOOD’S YELLOW SOY BEANS, early spreckled, Osceola, and Bunch Velvet Beans. Cow Peas. Sudan Grass. T. W. Wood and Sons, 317 No. Front St. PROTECT YUUK UAKUEJN from insect; by spraying or dust ing regularly. We carry a com plete line of sprayers, dusters and insecticides for the Victory Gardener and Truck Farmer. Let us help you with your spray problems. T. W. Wood and Sons, 317 No. Front St. Dial 4620. ROUDABUSH’S — MOST COM plete seed service in the Caro linas. Seeds of all kinds Vegetable, flower plants fresr. daily. Fertilizers, flower pots, poultry feeds. Roudabush’s Seed Store, Corner Frpnt and Docs Sts. 157 _Shoes Guaranteed Shoe Repairs LITTLE JOE SHOE REPAIR 115 So. Front St. Dial 7524 170 Wanted WANTED — TO RENT A HOUSE furnished or partly furnished suitable for rooming and board ing house. Close in. Write Mrs Frank Walker, Route 3. Black stone, Va. WANTED: MATTRESSES TO RE build and sterilize. Guaranteed work. T. C. Barefoot Mattress Co., Dial 9909. WAN' TED! LARGE CLEAN RAGo Bring To Press Room STAR-NEWS WANTED: BY COUPLE, 3 OR 1 room furnished apt. Permanent “D. S. C.”, care Star-News. WANTED: 2 OR 3 ROOM UN furnished apartment. Dial 9697. WANTED: 3 OR 4-ROOM HOUSE or apt., unfurnished. Write 240 Pinecrest Parkway. Phone 22075. CLASSIFIED DISPLAY COLONELTURNAGE GETS PR( )TION North Carolinian Now Com manding New River Marine Barracks NEWRIVER, June 29 — Briga dier General Allen Hal Turnage, promoted to the rank of general shortly after his assignment as commanding officer of the Fleet Marine Force units at the training center here at the Marine Bar racks, received his commission here Friday and hi3 new star in signia was pinned on by his broth er-in-law, Lt. Col. Donald C. Ken dall. A native of North Carolina, born Jan. 3, 1891, at Farmville, General Turnage expressed keen pleasure at being thus stationed for the first time in his home state and near his mother, Mrs. William J. Turn age, who still resides at her old home place in Farmville. In his 29 years of service in the Marine Corps, he has served ap proximately 13 years on sea and foreign duty in a colorful career. But he has strong ties which still bind him to Nort hCarolina. be sides his relatives. He attended the old Horner military school at Ox ford and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, then Secretary of the Navy, ap pointed him as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in 1913. For two years he was a student officer at the Marine Barracks at Norfolk, then was with the Marine Expedi tionary Force to Haiti and the Gen darmerie d’Haiti. As a company commander, he left for France in September, 1918, with the 13th Regiment of Marines, commanded by the late Gen. Smedley D. Butler. Shortly after his arrival in France, he was plac ed in charge of the Machine Gun Battalion of the Fifth Marine Bri gade stationed at Brest. He return ed to the United States and de mobilized his battalion at Norfolk in August, 1919. After service at the Marine Bar racks at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, as instructor in the Marine Corps schools and adjutant of the 5th Regiment at Quantico, then again going with the Marines to Haiti, he was on duty at the Ma rine Corps school at Quantico, then from 1926 to 1929 was with the di vision of operations and training at the Marine Corps headquarters in Washington. From 1929 to 1932 as a major he was on the Battleship division staffs of Admirals Schofield and Pringle and for' six months was executive officer of the U. S. Elec toral Mission to Nicaragau under Admiral Woodward. For the next three years, as lieu tenant colonel, he was again on duty at headquarters in Washing ton, then became director of the Basic school at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The next two years kept him busy as battalion com mander and regimental executive officer of the First Marine Brigade at Quantico. An important assignment was illed from 1939 to 1941 as com mander of the Marine forces in North China, which included the American Embassy guard in Pe king and the Marine detachments at Tientsin and Chinwangtao. Upon his return from China last year, Colonel Turnage went to duty at Washington headquarters, first as executive officer and then as director of the division of plans and policies. It was from this duty that he was recently detached and transferred to New River. 2 areaTescape RENTAL CONTROL Pending Further Survey, Charleston, Gaines ville Wait ATLANTA, June 29—(jP—Region al rent executive Frank C. Ralls announced today that pending a further survey Federal control of rents would not be imposed in the Charleston, S C., and the Gaines ville-Starke, Fla., areas Wednes day as had been tentatively an nounced earlier. These two areas were among those in which it was said last week that indications were t hat satisfactory local action to reduce rents would not be taken before expiration of 60-day periods yes terday. Ralls also announced that reg istration of rental properties in the five southern areas in which Federal control already has been instituted would continue until July 15. The areas affected are Colum bus, Ga., Birmingham and Mobile, Ala., Wilmington, N. C., an d Hampton Roads, Va., where rents were placed under Federal reg ulations on June 1. The registra tion of landlords renting houses, flats, tenements and similar dwell ings originally was scheduled to end tomorrow. Rails said the enormous job of printing registration forms and the press of work in connection with the registration caused the [extension. i Side Glances com. IHi BY NEA StBVICt. INC. T. M. »tC. U.«. PAT. Off, “I try to be extra nice to him these days, because nobody gives him lumps of sugar any morel’* Aberdeen Houses The Brains Behind The Guns Of America ~—— M-— - BY JAMES E. HAGUE ABERDEEN, Md., June 29— (Wide World)—A building no big gerthan a far-sized high school contains the brains behind the na tion’s guns. Its scholarly atmosphere seems to muffle the sharp crack of the 90-mm. anti-aircraft rifles and the boom of mortars, loud enough out side. This is the Ordnance Depart ment’s Ballistics Research Labora tory at the Aberdeen proving ground. Inside, high-powered mathemati cians talk of problems which seem to be in another world. Men who once followed the flight of stars across night sky have been borrow ed from the observatories to pon der the path of a high-explosive shell. In one room, two girls attend a machine full of long rods and click ing gears. It is a differential ana lyzer, a mechanical wizard which solves in minutes or hours the problems which once took a corps of mathematicians weeks. In another room off the blue tiled corridors, two more girls operate bookkeeping machines which do the work of 19 mathematical mas ters. Dr. Leland E. Cunningham, formerly of the Harvard Observa tory, suggested the change - over from minds to machines—a sug gestion which may pay off soon in increased accuracy of American anti-aircraft crews. These machines and the scholars behind them master problems which to the average layman seem to be in a never-never land—of the flight of projectiles. nut me proauci oi meir mmas is as closely related to war as the crash of guns on the testing range not far away. For without the figures evolved by these brains, American gunners and bombardiers would be hand cuffed. They had to find out what every bomb made would do under all conceivable circumstances — ac count for variances in weight, air density, speed of the plane, alti tude, dozens of things. They had to reduce all this, by endless hours of mathematical la bors, to a simple table. The bom bardier reads the table and sinks an enemy ship. Laboratory errors have to be inches or less in order that combat errors will be less than yards. The artilleryman needs more than a gun and shell before he can fire at the enemy. He needs a table tod—one that tells him where his shell will fall. The brains at Aber deen make the original findings and turn the complex chores over to the analyzer. The result is a firing table which the battery com mander carries. Those RAF gunners fighting over Cologne and over France owed a warm vote of thinks to the wizards of Aberdeen. When they fired at the defenders, the armor-piercing shell—the business billet - followed the path of the tracer to the foe. It isn’t so simple as pulling a trigger. If the tracer bullet starts from the gun at the proper veloc ity, it will hit the enemy if it’s aimed right. But if the business bullet had only the same powder charge as the tracer, not even a sharpeyed Sergeant York could make it fol low the pilot light of the tracer. It’s all a matter of air resistance. The tracer burns and fills its wake with hot gases, thus reducing the air pressure on its tip. That makes a little velocity go a long way. But the armor - piercing bullet runs into more air pressure be cause there is a vacuum of its own creation at its tail. You need more powder to make it sing along the same trajectory as the tracer. How much more? That’s what the British wanted to know. That’s what the men at Aberdeen, under their director, Lieut. Col. Leslie E. Simon, found out. Colonel Simon had a bomber fitted out with a gun and a high speed movie camera mount. For the test, the pilot puts the bomber into a dive. As the ship screeches toward the sea, Simon shoots at surveyed taargets in the waters on Chesapeake Bay below. The camera r e c o rds the splashes. The Ballisticians know which bullet made which splash. From this point, it’s just a matter of measurements and mathematics before they know how much oomph the business bullet should get. Then they tell the small arms man ufacturer. In an even higher mathematical plane are the computations which go into tracking the flight of bul lets from a bomber'* power turret —without tracer. •E'Ven xoaay, some turret gunners fire by mechanical sights which al low for all the differents entering into the three - dimensional firing from the moving gun platform, his own plane, to the moving target, the enemy ship. Tomorrow the technique may be improved and the need for the computations greater than ever. When the bullet leaves the gun, it goes not only in the direction aimed but also in the direction the plane is traveling. This puts a greater pressure on its side and makes it wobble. Density changes that wobble and that path. So does temperature. So do many things. The sight manufacturer must be given the information about those wobbles so he can allow for them. Otherwise the gunner never will put his shots where he’s aiming them. Aircraft gunnery in the last war, Simon says, was “chiefly by guess and by gosh.” This time, it’s ten-thousandfold more complicated. But Simon and the other scientists in this brain behind the guns are taking th e guess out and putting accuracy in. NURSES’AIDES WILL GRADUATE First Class To Receive Certificates At Exer cises Friday Night Graduation exercises for the first class of Red Cross Nurses Aides will be held Friday, July 3rd, at 5 p. m. in the nurses home of James Walker Memorial hospital. At this time and aides will re ceive their certificates, caps and pins. The public is cordially invited to attend. The aides, by their enthusiastic and untiring efforts have won the praise of both the personnel of the hospital and the patients. After they have finished their eighty hours course and received their caps and pins they will give a min imum of 150 hours free service a year to the Red Cross, usually in the hospital. Mrs. Sandy Marks, .as instruc tor, is largely responsible for the success of the class for they are well trained in every way, Red Cross officials declared. Due to the shortage of nurses this is a much needed branch of Red Cross volunteer service and it is hoped to have many more vol unteers for the night class begin ning in July.-. This is open to working girls es pecially. Any one interested in taking the course please get in touch with the Red Cross office, Phone 5366, or call 6854- j ' ') •
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