B-29 SUPERFORTS
PLANES TO CREWS
Gun Turrets ( Outside Pres
sure Chambers Aimed,
Fired By Remote Control
Wichita, Kans., Nov. 14 (U.R)
The mighty B-29 Superfortresses
mean destruction and hardship
to the enemy, but to their Amer
ican air crews they are known
as "luxury bombers" because of
the comfort they provide while
flying over great distances
through the thin, cold substrato
sphere. A party of newspapermen has
Just completed a flight in one
of the huge aircraft delivered by
the Boeing plant here and can
testify to the great degree of
.engineering skill that is used to
make the planes safer and more
comfortable for the crews.
Pressurized Cabins
The pressurized cabins do the
trick. At more than 30.000 feet
over Kansas, the Instruments
showed that the' temperature
outside the plane was 67 degrees
Deiow zero while the air pres-
sure stood at 3.5 pounds per
square incn not nearly enough
to maintain human life.
Yet inside the plane the crew
was working in an equivalent of
the Comfortable air pressure
found at only 10,000 feet alti
tude and in a temperature of
about 70 degrees.
Three Compartments
There are three of the pres
surized, sections in the plane.
The control compartment in the
nose houses the pilots, bombar
dier and engineer. About two
thirds of the way ack is the
gunners' compartment, which
also houses the radiomen and in
the tail itself is a tiny pressure
tank for the tail gunner.
The nose and gunners' com
partments are connected by a
tube about a yard in diameter
and 25 feet long through which
crew members can crawl nn
hands and knees from one cabin
to another. The tail gunner,
however, is isolated at high alti
tudes The gun turrets them
are outside the pressure cham
selves are outside the pressure
tnamuers ana are aimed and
iirea Dy remote control.
Air From Enaine.
The compressed air is supplied
from the encine sunpr-r.haT.anfa
Emergency oxygen masks are
suppnea at each crew position
as a precautionary measure.
: When a layman climbs for the
first time into the pilots' cabin
of one of these ships he sees the
most complicated instrument
pane to be found In any plane
jn roe worm. The Job of prepar
ing the plane for a takeoff re
quires nearly a half hour while
tne engines and other working
parts of the aircraft are tested.
Once up in the air, however,
the plane belies its approximate
120,000 pounds gross weight by
being extremely maneuverable
and traveling, especially at high
altitudes, with pursuit ship
speed.
I've just met the most near
ly perfect husband, father and
citizen I've ever known In my
life. Thank goodness he's
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EfnfS' T? ,before the t0mb 01 America's Unknown Soldier on Soth eommemorai oTmls
iZm i Qen- Edwlu Waton the President's wreath. Standing beside the President are
james ForrestsJ. secretary of the navy; Henry SUmson, secretary of war. and Rear Adm. wuaoo Brown.
'Roosevelt's naval aid.
neither kith nor kin of mine!
Which doesn't make sense, for
wnen i try to put my finger on
a reason for this Inconsistency,
I can't.
' The man has no bad habits,
i in the commonly accepted mean
ing of the term. He neither
smokes, drinks nor gambles. He
never looks at another woman,
comes straight home from his
job and immediately starts in
to improve the house or grounds.
And yet I
r Also he's what we call a
good provider. His children are
well clothed, the home is
equipped with all the modern
housekeeping gadgets. He's tak
en out insurance policies for
each child as it arrived. The
older children have a horse to
ride, the younger ones a pony.
His wife lately had an opera
tion and he's concerned lest
she work too hard. And yet I
Maybe I'm blinded by the fact
that I simply must have a hand
in the management of both my
government and family life
even though neither be run as
efficiently as they would be if
I'd stay out of the picture. ,. I
can't bear to be a supine re
ceiver of the largess of a dic
tator, no matter how noble or
capable he may be. I want my
finger in the pie even if'to do
so botches the whole works. I
want a part in making my own
destiny though- that destiny be
the poorer for my interference.
I want no pattern laid out for
me to follow in whose making
I've had no part.
This man's wife hasn't been
to town fof over a year. "She
doesn't need to go. I do every
thing," the man told me. "I buy
the children's clothes and tend
to all the household needs.
know how to drive a bargain
while my wife doesn't and
would come home with all sorts
of silly things if allowed to do
the buying." He smiled at her
tenderly; she might be a moron,
but he still loved her. bie heart
ed guy that he was, was the in
ference. He's proud of his home; it's
nis. rroua of his children:
they're his. And mighty lucky
kids they are, to have him for
a father; his wife is lucky je
cnose ner. i rather think he
feels the very boards and nails
which went into the making of
nis nouse snouid be grateful
that he selected them instead
oi others. And he decides ev
erything for the whole family.
Then there won't be any mis-
umes ior tnem to regret.
If I weren't unreasonably
prejudiced, I'd say his wife and
children are fortunate, for he'll
always be a good provider.
tney 11 always be looked after.
And yet I
BROTHERS TO RETURN
FROM PACIFIC THEATER
First Sgt. Kenneth B. Black,
who has served 31 months with
the field artillery corps, and Sgt.
William B. Black, on duty 35
months with the medical depart
ment, are scheduled to arrive in
the United States this month on
furlough from the southwest Pa
cific theater of operations.
They are sons of Mr. and Mrs
William M. Black, 412 Ivy street,
Medford.
The Garand rifle has three
times the fire power of the
Springfield used in the last war,
according to the War Production
Board.
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TALENT LOGGER
IS SUBJECT OF
Logging operations of Charles
Skeeters of Talent was the topic
of a story In the September-October
issue of "Timber Topics,"
a magazine published in the in
terests of the logging ndustry by
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co.
The article stated "On the
present Skeeters logging loca
tion, at Prospect, Ore., 61,000,
000 board feet of timber, the
bulk consisting of Ponderosa
pine, sugar pine, red fir and
white fir are being felled and
skidded to the landings. Accord
ing to Charles Skeeters, opera
tions on their present location
will continue for approximately
another year. .
"During the past ten years the
logging camp has purchased 20
new Allis-Chalmers tractors in
helping to effectively run its
vast organization.
"The Skeeters logging opera
tion has a 'vital wartime- value
since their woods are loaded
with pine and red fir which are
so Important to our fighting
forces. Perhaps it Is significant
to mention that this locality has
about the largest quantity of
sugar pine that is available in
this country."
G. N. STREAMLINER
SERVICE FOR WEST
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 14 (U.R)
Daily . streamliner passenger
train service between Chicago
and the Pacific northwest will
be inaugurated by the Great
Northern railway as soon as new
equipment is available, F. J.
Gavin, president of the company,
announced today.
The Great Northern's stream
liner program is the first to be
announced by the Northern
Transcontinental lines operating
between Chicago and the north
Pacific coast. Gavin also dis
closed that the Great Northern's
board of directors has authoriz
ed purchase of five complete
new trains, including diesel lo
comotives, at a cost of approxi
mately $7,000,000. Construction
of the new trains, which have
been on order for a year, will
begin as soon as materials are
released by the war production
board, he said.
RESIGNATION ACCEPTED
Washington, Nov. 14 (U.R)
President Roosevelt today ac
cepted the resignation of Chair
man James Lawrence Fly of the
Federal Communications Com
mission but with "great per
sonal reluctance."
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BOY SCOUTS TO
RECEIVE AWARDS
Thirty-seven members of five
Medford Boy Scout troops will
receive individual awards from
the war production board for
outstanding achievement in the
recent waste paper drive, it was
announced today by the scout
council office.
Each of the boys personally
collected at least 1,000 pounds
of paper during the period from
August 1 through September 30,
1944. ;
The badges have be-en re
ceived at the local council of
fice and will be sent to Scout
Masters Hamilton, troop 1; Rob
ert Claypool troop 5; R. J. Bills,
troop 7 and L. H. Mitchelmore,
troops 15 and 35. to be presented
to the boys. The following boys
earned awards:
Troop 1 Harold Rickman,
Howard Rlckman, Robert Rick
man, Robert Johnson, James
Johnson, Richard O'Brien, Rich
ard Iven, Philip Horton, Frank
Harden, James Larrabee, Robert
Messen, Lee Pendergast, Billy
Neely.
Troop 5 Bob Claypool, Floyd
Haynor, Jack Ragsdale, Marvin
Epstein, Ardell Mars, Billy Perl,
Ken Brew, Carl Borg, Tom Mot
tern, Herb Wilson, Dale Cover
stone, Dean Coverstone, Dick
McKee.
Troop 7 Richard Grlgsby,
Don Henderson, Tommy Frey.
Troop 15 Gordon Gerner,
Leslie Gree, Thomas Sloan.
Troop 35 Donald Harris,
Ernest Hinkle, Lewis Burnell.
EGG PROBLEM SOLVED
London, Nov. 14 (U.R) The
military problem of obtaining
fresh eggs on the front line in
Holland has been solved by one
enterprising British artillery
man who charges Dutch farmers
one egg for the privilege of pull
ing the firing lever on his gun
and sending a shell hurtling into
Germany, a front dispatch re
ported today.
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HEART FAILS AS
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Pittsburgh, Nov. 14 (U.R) A
60-year-old woman whose eye
sight was restored after a
month's blindness, died of heart
disease today while she was on
her way to express gratitude to
her doctor.
Mrs. Eva Matchett, of Bulger,
Pa., noticed her eyesight failing
months ago and her doctor ad
vised an operation.
" On October 31 the operation
was performed In Montefiore
hospital and her eyes were band
aged to await the proper mo
ment to determine the results.
An anxious group of doctors
and nurses watched as the sur
gean slipped the bandage from
Mrs. Matchett's eyes today.
"I can see, I can see!" she
cried.
Mrs. Matchett insisted upon
being driven to her doctor's
downtown office to express her
thanks.
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Mrs. Matchett collapsed and was
taken unconscious to the eye sur
geon's office where she was pro
nounced dead of heart disease.
ANIMALS IMMUNIZED
New York, Nov. 14 U.R)
A technique by which animals
have been Immunized against
malaria and which may point
the way to successful protec
tion for man against the tropi
cal disease was reported today
by the public health resenrrh
institute of the city of New
York.
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