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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1943
Page
6
A World War II era feature highlights the Women’s Ambulance and Defense Corps of America. Organized in 1940 with 200 members, it has grown to about 35,000 members in 130 units nationwide. Members train in gas mask testing, showcasing preparedness for potential Axis attacks.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover warns joking and careless acts hamper war production as seriously as sabotage. He cites scrap metal hazards and a spike on tracks causing derailments, noting limited actual sabotage but urging vigilance against all thoughtless acts that waste resources and endanger lives.
Hoover condemned costly pranks and careless sabotage by workers at multiple sites. In Congerville Michigan a war plant saw 1000 man hours lost due to jammed electrical controls after an employee sought revenge for hidden hammer incidents. In Decatur Alabama a steel plant worker tampered with oxygen tanks endangering others. At a Richmond California shipyard workers were burned by mustard air as a crude joke.
A feature notes cosmetic hacks for eyebrows and mentions mustache wax. FBI agents investigate rail pranks by youths placing obstructions on tracks near Macon Lake Arkansas, where James Howard, 17, admitted placing crossties and got three years eight months. Earlier a Grand Rapids derailment killed a fireman with three children seen placing stones on track.
Practical tips from Phyllis Belmont guide readers on writing to soldiers and sailors. It covers assembling supplies, addressing formats for army and navy personnel, and including proper service details plus overseas substitutions. Emphasizes regular correspondence to troops.
In Sioux Falls and Scott Field a new phase of bombardment radio training uses 65 horsepower cabin monoplane pilots and a ground dispersed radio net to bridge classroom work and B series bomber operations. Students sit behind pilots, use two way radios, and practice with control towers and ground stations in a life sized combat training area.
This feature guides teens on creating themed scrapbooks from fashion, romance, fiction, and USO wartime scrapbooks. It highlights organizing by categories like Jitter Bug Foolery and Nail Polish Nonsense, plus tips on clipping magazines, ads, and patterns for future wardrobes and stories. It ends with light verse and a call for new jokes.
In Urbana Illinois Miss Annette Young a University of Illinois nutritionist notes school lunches hinge on portable, nourishing sandwiches. She urges balance with crisp texture and smart dessert choices, stressing vitamins and minerals in easy to eat forms for children.
Front page feature explains how to turn odds and ends of lumber into a sturdy coffee table with a painted cream finish and an appliqued blue and red morning glory design under glass. Pattern No 254 with full dimensions and material list is available for 15 cents.
French Guiana, though one third France’s size, has no passenger railways and only 93 miles of subpar highways. None of its towns including Cayenne has street cleaners garbage collectors or a sewage system. Five percent of the population suffers from leprosy.
A plate placed over a door in Egypt signals a family has a marriageable daughter. The practice marks an age and social status in local custom.
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