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Washington, D. C. MOBILE HOUSING Harried by the national criticism of failure to provide housing for de fense workers, Defense Housing Co ordinator Charles F. Palmer finally has proposed to Roosevelt that the government buy fleets of trailers and rush them to the most congest ed industrial spots as temporary liv ing quarters. In submitting his plan, Palmer carefully avoided the term "trail ers" and has cautioned his staff to refer to them as "mobile units." But never mind the fancy terminology. Plain, ordinary auto trailers are what he proposes to use. Palmer contemplates the pur chase of thousands of these homes on wheels, but where he is going to get them remains to be seen. A check of trailer manufacturers dis closed two interesting facts: First, available at present are not more than 2,000 trailers, a drop in the bucket compared to the tens of thousands of housing units needed. Second, the plants are working day and night on urgent orders for the army, and unless they suspend such operations, can't make trailers. Meanwhile, with a vast army of migrated workers jammed into makeshift quarters, the defense housing problem daily becomes more alarming. Public health au thorities are scared stiff over the danger of epidemics. • • • ALIENS IN CONGRESS Amid all the breast-thumping on Capitol Hill about aliens, it is in teresting to note that 20 members of the new congress are foreign-born. Three are veteran senators —Rob- ert F. Wagner, New York New Deal er, author of the Labor Relations and Social Security acts, born in Germany; James J. Davis, Pennsyl vania Republican, former secretary of labor, born in Wales; and James E. Murray, Montana Democrat, born in Canada. The 17 in the house came from all parts of the world and some of them still have strong foreign ac cents. B. J. Gehrmann of Wisconsin and Leonard W. Schuetz of Illinois were born in Germany. Karl Stefan of Nebraska and Rudolph Tenerowicz of Michigan were born in Austria. Incidentally, when Stefan gives a radio talk for the folks back home, he says good-by in four different languages, including German. Two were born in Russia—Samuel Dickstein of New York and Herman Kopplemann of Connecticut. Rep. Samuel Weiss of Pennsylvania was born in Poland, and Adolph Sabath of Illinois, the genial, popular dean of the house, in Czechoslovakia. There are two Canadian-born members of the house—Charles Eaton of New Jersey, and Albert Rutherford of Pennsylvania. Wil liam Barry of New York was born in Ireland; and Frank Crowther of New York and Robert Ramsay of West Virginia in England. Robert Crosser of Ohio and George Gillie of Indiana were born in Scotland; Noah Mason of Illinois in Wales, and Pehr Holmes of Mas sachusetts in Sweden. Outside of congress a number of high placed officials are foreign born, prominent among them De fense Commissioners Knudsen and Hillman. But the delegate fiom Alaska, Anthony J. Dimond, was born in New York! • • • FINGER-PRINTERS Most sought-after jobs in the gov ernment recently are finger-printers in the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion. One reason for this is that finger-printers often are promoted to C-men. There was an inundation of appli cations for these jobs after enact ment of the Alien Registration law, many from young lawyers. The starting pay is $1,440, and being a finger-printer is no sinecure. For one thing, it is hard on the eyes. Finger-printers are required to classify an average of 90 prints a day, and after a time the optical strain becomes serious. The aver age "life span" of a finger-printer is four years, and most of them seek promotions or transfers to other po sitions, the ablest becoming G-men. G-men have a new method of tak ing finger-prints. The old ink pad, with smears, is out. Instead, they use a nice clean pad saturated with an invisible iron salt solution. The fingers are pressed on the pad, then the imprint is made on a card which is sensitized with an other chemical responsive to the iron solution. This produces a perfect impression of the finger's loops and whorls without soiling the skin. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND According to the congressional Anti-monopoly committee, there are 5,800,000 uninhabitable homes now being occupied by tenants in the U. S. For its ultra-modern army, the quartermaster corps actually is buy ing tomahawks. This is the proper catalogue term for a certain type of small hatchet used in the army. Wendell Willkie is signed up to write a book on the campaign and his British experiences. Bobbs-Mer rill has the publishing contract. Here Come the Marines—Out of the Sky! Uncle Sam believes that parachute troops may come in handy some day. These pictures, taken at the U. S. naval air station at Lakehurst, N. J., show how U. S. marine parachutists are being trained to meet the threat from abroad. Shown in oval are men waiting to go aloft for a jump. The other pictures show what happens later. In six plane trips aloft 52 marines jumped. Army Engineers 'Jacks of All Trades' ..; _ aßfe n ;■'■ iimß'~f' nKSWrelffft IS v> jt - .-.gl ■r W. ' _ I 14H) fW A fI9PjBEER| « / i ? lag?? > i f "jl i • int * K#j^ These photos, taken at Fort Belvoir, Va., one of the largest engineer corps training posts in the country, show army engineers in their diversified occupations. Left: A chemist checks the amount of chlorine being used in a portable purification unit. Center: Camouflaging a dummy gun. If correctly done this will fool even the all-seeing aerial camera. Right: Officers operatp a machine which determines ground contours from an aerial photograph. Baby 'Missing' at Own Birth in Snowdrift mjam Mrs. Grace Armstrong, 35, in her hospital bed at Park Falls, Wis., where she was taken by Dr. H. A. Smith after the automobile in which he was taking her to the hospital for confinement skidded into a ditch. A passing motorist took both to the hospital, where it was discovered the baby had already been born. Hurrying back to his stalled auto, Dr. Smith found a farmer with the baby—an eight-pound boy whom he had found in the snow—wrapped in a blanket. Birth took place while the half-conscious mother was being transferred into the second automobile. Hospital attendants nick-named the baby "Snowball." Boy Returns to U. S. After Siberian Exile 1 - H ' x > jHP # . if- . 1 * Safe at home after a long exile in Siberia, Leonard Pluto, 15, shown above, is greeted by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Pluto, after he stepped off a plane in Cleveland, Ohio. Studying at school in Poland when the nation was divided, Leonard was captured by Russians and sent to • Siberian prison camp. The U. S. consulate finally secured his release. THE DANBURY REPORTER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941 'Defender' "«Sf '»- fft£- - ■>"* l A sentry stands framed in the doorway as workmen at Baldwin Locomotive Works, Eddystone, Pa., put finishing touches on new eight inch railway gun (or V. S. army. The gun, which fires a 65-pound shell 18 miles, is the first built in a pri vate plant since 1916. Ex-Red Found Dead : IF ./' ■1 ~J...LJM Walter Krlvitskjr, foreign head of the Soviet foreifn spy ay item, who was found shot to death in a Wash ington, D. C., hotel. Authoritlea in clined to the beUef of auiclde; oth ers that it waa the work of the Ruaaian OGPU. i Memos of a Girl Friday Dear Mr. W.: Madame Chiang Kai-shek is in the U. S. Her arrival was kept very sotto voce, as she was ill and in no mood to see any one. Mervyn Leßoy and Jack Benny had a bet. Both swore to stop smokf ing cigars, the first one,to light up to forfeit SSOO. J*3tk ■ promised to do a benefit, an 4. he always smokes a cigar on the stage. Absent-mind edly, he lit one—and had to forfeit the SSOO. Mervyn is donating it to charity . . . You can be sure that "Tobacco Road" is a hit picture. Darryl Zanuck, who has been reti cent about attaching his name to every production at Twentieth Cen ' tv, is prominently credited on this. The report on the state of Britain, which Harry Hopkins is bearing to FDR, is written on celluloid as well as on paper. As soon as he reaches the White House, Hopkins will exhib it a film short tagged "This Is Eng land," a gift from Herbert Morri son, home secretary, via Hopkins, to the President. Drew Pearson and Robert S. Al len, in an exclusive story in the March issue of Click, administer a stinging reply to Sen. Burton K. Wheeler and reveal new incriminat ing evidence on the late Senator Lundeen's activities . . . They name George Sylvester Viereck and prove with affidavits that he was the "chief Nazi agent," who collaborat ed with the late senator in furthering N?zi propaganda in America. This propaganda was mailed out under Lundeen's frank. Suggestion: Why don't the "Bun dles for Britain" outfit, which is now ■ offering cigarette cases, watches, etc., for British war relief, sell "R. A. F. fatigue ties"? They are worn by the fliers in the R. A. F. They're very ducky (black and red, I think) and most men would be proud to wear a necktie like that. You might toss scallions at NBC and the Mutual Network for not per mitting the Greek War Relief pro gram to be broadcast over the inde pendent New York stations. If those smaller stations had carried it, their listeners would have had an oppor tunity of hearing the program and the appeal, and swell the funds with their contributions. Marian Anderson, the thrush, has moved in on the D. A. R. territory with a vengeance. She just bought a home in the snooty Brewster, N. Y., sector.— Your Girl Friday. Private Papers of a Cub Reporter After the premiere of a new show, some of the first-nighters who were talking about it at the Hurricane were overheard to say: "Boy, they sure knocked that show, didn't they?" "Yeah," said Harriet Hilliard, "A regular first-knife audience." Somebody asked Bobby Byrne, the kid bandleader, how it feels to be in the big dough with a commercial airshow. "To me," Bobby said, "the only difference between a $25 suit and a S6O suit is that a S6O suit has only one pair of pants." Clare Boothe tells this about her trip to Rome last spring. She no ticed how incongruous it was to see all the famous ruins right in the heart of the city. She asked about it and the answer was: "Mussolini has an Imperator complex, and since he is unable to build an em pire—the only thing he can do is excavate one!" What this country apparently needs is more flying heroes in planes instead of in politics. The G-Men are holding a "John Brown," who, was caught with cop ies of applications for Nazi spy work. The chump doesn't know what a good Nazi he is. With his record as thief and forg er, plus two Sing Sing terms, he could be a big man in Berlin—may be at the head of the bureau of education! The Detroit Times editor forwards the scoop that Mr. Knudsen's name is not pronounced "Ka-noo-sen," as his colleague Leon Henderson stat ed the other day. And it isn't pro nounced "Ka-noodsen," either, as a I countrywoman of the defense chief | wrote us. It is: "Nood-sen," as i some of us contended right along, j "That's the way we pronounce it," explained Martha Nood-sen, "I'm I sure father pronounces it that way." The films rewrote Maugham's sto , ry, "The Letter," to make Bette Da ' vis die at the finish. This was neces sary because Miss Davis was a mur deress. The movie censors' penal code orders that all criminals must be punished for their crimes. | Veriwell. But the half-caste wom an (known as the Eurasian eraser) daggered Bette and got off scot free. So did the lawyer who suborned a witness to save Bette's neck—a disbarring offense. And what about Herbert Marshall, who | aiinnlied the coin to fix the witness? Make Scroll Design For a Hooked Rug r By RUTH WYETH SPEARS HALF the fun of hookingmigs is in making your own designs. All you have to do is to mark the pattern on burlap with a wax crayon and then go over it with a warm iron to set it. Simple flow-,, ers are easy to draw. Scroll de signs combined with flowers are popular now. The scrolls of the handsome rug shown here were hooked in gold color outlined in brown. The edge medium blue; the center darker blue and the flowers in tones of red and deep rose with leaves in two tones of green. This diagram shows you how to make a scroll pattern that you may use in different ways. Just rule a piece of paper in one-inch squares and then follow the dia gram outlining the scroll so that its lines cross the squares exactly as they do here. Now, cut the scroll out and trace around it on the burlap repeating it at each corner; then fill in the flowers. • 9 • NOTE: There are several other rug de signs with directions (or knitting, crochet ing and braiding In Booklet No. 6 of the series of home-making booklets which Mrs. Spears has prepared (or our readers. Copy o( Booklet 6 with description o f Hie other numbers in the sories will be mailed to readers who will send name -id ad dress with 10c in coin to: MRS. RUTH WVETII SPEARS Drawer 10 Bed(ord Hills New York Enclose 10 cents (or Book 6. Name Address COLDS . . . such as tough coughs, chest tight- 41 A| AC ness. Rub with uULIIa Penetro pleasing, quick disappearing, I MISERIES mutton-suet base. Extra medication. Rub tonight to help you get extra benefits of rest, one of Nature's greatest colds fighters. 10c, 25miz83. PENETRO Angling Like Virtue Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to it self.—lzaak Walton. DON'T BE BOSSED BY YOUR LAXATIVE-RELIEVE CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY • When you feet gassy, headachy, logy due to clogged-up bowels, do as miltiont do—take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Not morning thorough, comfortable relief, helping you start the day full of your normal energy and pep, feeling Ilka a million! Feen-A-Mint doesn't disturb your night's rest or interfere with work the next day. TVy Feen-A-Mint, the cheving gur laxative, yourtelC It tastes good, ifs , handy and economical... a family supply FEEN-A-MINT To* Rebound Tells Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it re bounds.—Samuel Johnson. Increasing Evil The love of pelf increases with the pelf.—Juvenal. 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