THE EAST HAMPTON STAH. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1942 SEVEN

ASK THE SCIENTIST

If you have a question to ask the scientists, mail it to the New York Press Association. The Castle, Syra­cuse, N. Y. The Science Board of the Radio Workshop at Syracuse Uni' sity will answer each week in ’ Star those questions considered n interesting and timely.

Question 1. The serious typhus epidemic among Hitler's troops has been mentioned frequently in news What is the nature of typhus fever and its relationship to typhoid

Answer. Typhus fever has no re­lationship whatever to typhoid fever. The similarity of names is purely co­incidental and does not connote any similarity in the infections. Typhoid fever is caused by the ingestion of food or beverages containing livi typhoid bacilli while typhus caused by a very minute and peculi organism which is usually introduced into the body of the patient by the bite of the body louse.

Typhus is a very serious disease with a high death rate, occurring chiefly, due to its mode of transmis­sion. among men who are overcrow-

may exist in army camps, prisons, and on ship board. Nazi concentra­tion camps are likely places for out­breaks of typhus.

Principles of modem sanitary science when circumstances allow their application are very effective in preventing and checking typhus in this age, but in earlier times it wrought terrible havoc. For an in­teresting discussion of the important role of typhus fever in history, the questioner is referred to the book entitled, "Rats, Lice, and History" by Hans Zinsser.—Prof. Henry N. Jones, bacteriologist.

Question 2. Now that there is war in / the Pacific, will your science board name those essential raw ma­terials that we must import across the Pacific and how essential are they?

Answer. The United States uses about half of the rubber consumed in the world. In 1939, 95 per cent of the world supply came from south­eastern Asia and its isjand fringe. By reclaiming old rubber, making rub­ber synthetically, and getting rubber from other sources, we can obtain about one-third of our annual needs at present from non-Asiatic sources. This is one of our essential raw ma-

Many of the other raw materials are minerals which are found in abundance only in a few places. One of these is tin of which Asia supplied 80 per cent of the world stocks, Eur­ope 19 per cent, and South America 1 per cent. The United States used— when it could get it—as much as all the rest of the world. If we could easily get along without cans for food, bronze and babbit metal for

bearings, and solder, tin would be less important.

Tungsten, an ingredient of high speed tool steel, was produced by China in quantities several times great as the total North Americ production. Mica, isinglass, used radio tubes, condenser sheets, a plane spark plugs, and as insulating sheets in many electrical devices, comes mostly from India and Mada-

Manganese is another raw material coming from abroad. We import over 20 times as much as we produce and over a third of it from across the Pacific.—Dr. Earl Apfel, geologist.

Question 3. If it were possible for a person to ascend in a balloon and remain in a stationary place in the

t, after a period of 12 hours upon descending, would the world have turned beneath him so he would land

a different place?Answer. The answer depends on tc meaning of the term “a station­

ary place in the air or in space.” All particles and objects in the universe apparently are in motion and hence

e know of no place or object which absolutely stationary or absolutely rest Therefore, when we speak

of an object being stationary we al­ways mean that it is stationary with

rference to some other object. For example, when we say that an auto­mobile is stationary or at rest we

t it is stationary with ref­erence to the ground.

w that the earth is rotating, making a complete rotation in 24 hours, and revolving about the sun, making a complete revolution in a year, and also traveling through space together with the sun and planets at a speed of 175 miles a second in the direction of the con­stellation Cygnus. In this motion the

above the earth follows with the

Hence if the man in the balloon stationary with reference to the

r, he would be going through all the motions of the earth and when he descended he would land at the

place from which he ascended, we specify that the balloonist

remained stationary with reference i for 12 hours, the earth

would have moved away from him a distance of 15,000 miles. If we speci­fy that the balloonist was at rest with reference to the center of our galaxy for 12 hours, the earth would have moved away a distance of about125,000 miles.—Dr. William Freder- ickson, physicist.

Hearing Dunea with AgeHearing is dulled a little from

year to year after one reaches ma­turity. This dulling is greatest for high notes, especially the overtones which give the quality to a soprano voice. The soprano’s voice has un­doubtedly improved, but her hear­ing is not as good. Every adult experiences this. The young person hears qualities in the artiste’s voice which his parents, and even the artiste herself cannot hear. Music critics should be young people: the older critics, even with normal ears for their age. are missing a part of the performance.

Americans Working Ip Ireland Enjoy Everything

Continued from Page Onecians. There arc men of this 'clan' working . . . On the latter base, as you probably have already read in the papers, a group of T. A. F. boys were captured by the Japs. I haven't heard since how they are making out. I have just heard that our next job •ill be . . . I'm keeping my fingers

crossed" — for I sure would love to go there to see the . . .Wet Canteen""We have an athletic director here

vho handles all recreational ties wonderfully. We have a ‘wet

n' where one can play billiards, chess and checkers

free-of-charge. Three times a week e shown and every Sunday

night a minstrel of native talent is held. As mentioned before all our entertainment is free for T. A. F. nen only. We also have a 'dry can- een’ where one can purchase Am­erican cigarettes, tobacco, candy, oilet articles, and other necessities.

“We are still getting wonderful bod with no kick coming. We have

all American kitchen help except chef, who is an Irishman. As

you probably know the natives are ioned in everything thinkable,

while we Yanks are given the run the land. Each morning we have

juice, hot buns, eggs and bacon, ham, hot or cold cereal and cof-

e. At noon we have soup and a 'hot plate.' At supper we have a change of hot or cold plates. The kitchen

just introduced American ice cream which really tastes swell. Af­ter the shows or recreation at night anyone can go into the wet canteen for hamburgers, hot dogs, coffee, etc.

“This afternoon there was quite a lot of excitement around town when

couplc of Hurricanes and Spitfires ere practicing dive bombing. One

of the Hurricanes just missed one tall chimney near the place where. I'm working.Plenty of Rain

“When I'm home again and some Irishman starts bragging about the beautiful weather on the Emerald Isle, I’ll put up a good argument with him. It has rained here so much that by the time I get home I'll probably have web feet. We have had very little snow lately, but the

beautiful sight I've seen in a long time are the snow-peaked mountains of Donnegal in the dis-

ried to get to London on Christmas but no Yank was Allowed

leave the country.‘This Easter I'm planning to go Dublin. The capital of the Irish

Free State. There isn’t any blackout there and it certainly will be nice

; bright lights once again. How- I went to Belfast for a short

vacation. I spent only two days there I had to get back to work. I cer­

tainly took in all the bombing dam­ages in the city . . . That Hitler cer-

l wreck a place when he wants to. I also visited a place . . .

‘The tea epidemic around here is tough. Every time you look around for your helper he is off making tea for himself. The natives have us get

_ ir and tea because they are rationed on these food stuffs. A na-

is allowed half pound of sugar, ounces of butter, two ounces of

fourths of a pound of meat, and two ounces of jam per week.

'The natives never saw oranges, lemons, or onions until our supplies

•d. Every day there is always .somebody who asks you for these various articles of food.

“Work agrees with me very well er here because I have lost over 38 ■unds—and still losing. I can't think

of anything else to say except about of the fellows from Suffolk

County. There is Tom Gilbride from Sag Harbor who is a Police Chief on

ir jobs in Scotland. Then there is Mel Wood of Sag Harbor and Jack Whitby of East Hampton

the Civil Engineering Works. Mel Wood is the son of Mr. Wood on the Selective Service Board in South­ampton."

Blind Man Is SkilledTrainer of Guide Dogi

One of the most skilled trainers o “ seeing-eye” dogs for the blind ii Otis Gathright of Los Angeles, who is blind himself.

Gathright uses a special t>four months. He has trained 10, now is at work on Prince, a tawny German shepherd which he rescued from the pound as a pup.

“ Prince first had to learn tl was blind," said the trainer. “ I would step on him purposely and then have someone else avoid hi as he lay down. Thus he so

"I use a close chain, with whi to teach Prince to stay on my left side. Thus I can carry my w! " cane in my right hand and hold dog with my left."

Pride spurs the dog to learn job. The dog learned that his work is to look after the blind n ter. Only about one in 50 German shepherds is fitted for the task.

"Prince already can guide around with only elementary ti ing," he said. "He stops at intersections — which is something many automobile drivers can't seem to do. When we cross a street he hurries me along to get out of the

I Lit' AB~N~Last Will and Testament of said

eased, and Letters of Administra- with the Will annexed issued

thereon to said petitioner, and fur­ther to show cause why Letters of Administration of the goods, chat-

and credits of said deceased should not be issued to said peti­tioner in the event that said paper writing be not proven as a Will of said deceased.

AND such of you as are hereby cited as are under the age of 21 years may appear by your guardian, if you have one, or if you have none you may apply for one to be appointed, or in the event of your neglect or failure to do so a guardian will be apointed by the Surrogate to repre-- “nt and act for you in the proceed-

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We ave caused the Seal of the Surro-

.. ite's Court of our said County of Suffolk to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS,

HON. RICHARD W. HAWKINS Surrogate of our said County, i Riverhead, N. Y., this 3rd day of February, 1942.

JOSEPH S. ARATA Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court

(SEAL)

BOWLING AT PALMA'SMonday night scores at Palma’s avern bUeys were:

Long Island Ice CompanySalisbury ......... 161 154 177 492Griffin ............. 133 158 108 399Conklin ............. 161 165 174 500Thiele .............. 190 224 179 593Winkler ......... 14l 157 181 473

786 848 819 2453 Fred Wilson DistributorsBasile................ 168 203 116 487Wilson ............. 128 140 164 432Worth .............. 133 119 143 395Tabor................ 195 222 146 563Aldrich ............. 187 145 119 451

811 829 688 2328 R. S. ParsonsSkretch ............. 154 186 179 519Parsons ............. 154 128 175 457Cook ................ 150 131 170 451Fitzgerald........ 181 186 149 516Smith................ 196 159 150 505

835 790 823 2448 Hamptons Department StoreWilson ............. 122 122 122 366Mason ............. 137 145 136 418Dippel ............. 131 144 157 432Dragotta ......... 186 178 191 555Setek ................ 153 141 154 448

729 730 760 2219 Smith Lumber CompanyN. Dakers......... 118 118 118 354Lynch ............. 159 150 157 466Ernest .............. 174 157 175 506Amann ............. 180 154 182 516

.................. 220 145 201 566

851 724 835 2410 Joseph HrenTiska ................ 148 160 168 476D. Dakers......... 113 110 117 340

................ 140 142 161 443McLeod............. 186 177 175 538Hildreth ......... 148 172 184 504

735 761 805 2301 >t night's scores were: me Trust Company

Cullum ............ 169 143 152 464Luther ............. 90 120 99 309Perrottet ......... 159 171 151 481Tiffany ............ 96 196 166 458Sheades ........... 178 181 161 520

692 I 9 2232White's PhiFrankenbach .... 181 159 195 535Schaefer ......... 198 193 167 558Baldwin ......... 136 136 136 408Embro ............. 146 146 146 438Cicero .............. 213 235 157 605

874 869 801 2544 Hampton Star

Woolnough ...... 156 168 \64 488- ‘ er ............. 141 144 158 443

is ..... ....... 146 154Smith ............ 134 168 166 468Rinnc.................. 144 181

T R U S T IN G TO M EM O RY SHOWN MAIN CAU SE OF

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< o r ? e y A m o n g T e le p h o n e U se rs d N ew Y o r k S ta le P ro v id e s

H elp ul S u g g e s t o n s

a "wrong number" answered. Whei her second try she had no better cess, she was angry. But suddenly thought, "1 wonder If the number Is 5732 or 9372?" Looking In the <

but 9273."Wrong number In mind." as

phone engineers call the condition Il­lustrated by the case of Mrs. Blank. Is shown In a recent study by the York Telephone Company to be the largest single cause of wrong-nu difficulties. Memory plays strange tricks. Confusion of numerals Is a mon experience, even In numbers i one calls frequently. Many telephono users solve this problem by keeping hand a personal list of the numbers they often call, re-checklng them for accuracy with each new dlrectoi

ber wastes the time both of the caller and the "other fellow." Avoiding this as far as possible Is especially Impor­tant these days when the needs of the government, war organisations an fense Industries for fast and acc

The recent survey was mainly a study of dial service, as more thantelephones are on this basis. It was1.000 calls result in wrong numbers, less than three are the fault of equip-the trouble is avoided If callers first consult the directory.

company reports, and this contrlbut substantially to tho quality of the ser-for themselves.

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY COURT. COUNTY OF SUFFOLKCARRIE M. EDWARDS.

Plaintiff, against

SARAH K. MORFORD, also known as Sadie K. Morford,EDWARD L. MORFORD, CHARLES H. MORFORD, OSBORNE TRUST COM­

PANY,S. KIP FARRINGTON, JR. WILLIAM ELLIOTT, JR.

Defendants.In pursuance of a judgment of

foreclosure and sale, duly granted in the above entitled action, and en­tered in Suffolk County Clerk's Of­fice, on the 14th day of January, 1942, I, RAYMOND A. SMITH, the undersigned. Referee in said judg------* named, will sell at public auc-

at the front door of Osborne Trust Company in the Village of East Hampton. County of Suffolk, N. Y., on the 28th day of February, 1942, at 10 o'clock A. M.. the premises de-

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTscribed in said judgment, as follows,riz.:

ALL THAT TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of East Hampton, County of Suffolk, and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the Westerly property line of Main Street, which point is the intersection of the northerly property line of land of Otto Simmons and land herein con­veyed. running thence along lands of said Otto Simmons North 42° 18' 10' West one hun­dred thirty-one and fifteen hun­dredths (131.15) feet, thence still along the lands of said Otto Sim­mons North 63* 33’ 40' West one hundred fourteen and ninety- four one hundredths (114.94) feet, thence following along the southerly side of a reverse curve, which said curve runs in a northeasterly direction and whose chord is North 78* 52' East ninety-eight and seventy- one one hundredths (98.71) feet and has a radius of eighty-two and sixty-one one hundredths (82.61) feet, thence still along the southerly side of the afore­mentioned reverse curve whose chord is North 78‘ 52' East fifty and ninety-one one hundredths (50.91) feet and has a radius of forty-two and sixty-one one hun­dredths (42.61) feet, thence South 64* 27' 10" East one hun­dred seventy-five (175) feet, to a point on the westerly property line of Main Street, the last three courses being along a proposed road, thence along the westerly side of Main Street South 48* 10' West one hundred fifty-two and thirty-three one hundredths (152.33) feet to the point or place of beginning, bounded Norther­ly by a proposed road. Easterly by Main Street, Southerly by land of Otto Simmons and Wes­terly by land of Otto Simmons and a proposed road. Together with the buildings thereon.

RAYMOND A. SMITH Referee

Dated at the Town of East Hamp­ton. N. Y., this 14th day of January, 1942.

CLIFFORD C. EDWARDS, Plaintiff's Attorney East Hampton, N. Y.

East Hampton Business and Professional Directory

Carpenters and Builders

TELEPHONE 472 FORSKILLED MECHANICS E. MARVIN CONKLIN

CARPENTER CONTRACTOR-BUILDER

Shop Next to School

EDWARD V. BROOKSPLUMBING AND HEATING

TELEPHONE EAST HAMPTON 871 BOX 822

FRANK B. SMITH

Shop—Newtown Lane Telephone 49 East Hamptoi

CONRAD AND SHOTTCARPENTERS AND BUILDERS

Contracting and Percentage Jobbing Telephone 540

FRANK JOHNSON

CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Telephone 500 P. O. Box 1012

East Hampton

Attorneys-at-Law

Home News. The Star, $2.50 a year.LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

721 815 789 2325 idstone Market

Miller ............. 117 155 152 424Thayer ............ 129 129 129 387Kelly ............. 147 147 147Flack ................ 184 178 155 517Muller .............. 223 140 201 564

800 749 784 2333 Palma's Liquor StoreAmaden ......... 131 131 131 393Clark ................ 164 144 149 457Fedi ................. 158 163 135 456Palma ............. 140 160 210 510Anderson .......... 162 166 146 474

755 764 771 2290

.. 160 152 145 457 ... 181 172 163 516

125 140 163 428 .. 183 180 245 608

202 163 179 544

851 807 895 2553

Swett------Hand .......Marley .....Nowrocki ...

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKTo HAZEL F. BARTMAN. STO- WELL T. KING. MADELEINE EASTMAN. GEORGE A. SCHULTE. JOHN W. SCHULTE, LAWRENCE SCHULTE, LUCILLE KING, MAR­GARET STANLEY, MARY HOW­ARD. RITA FIELDS. HAROLD SALISBURY. BERNARD SALIS­BURY, WILLIAM SALISBURY. THOMAS SALISBURY, DOROTHY FERRAIDA, GERTRUDE SALIS­BURY, LOUIS McGUIRE, ALEXAN­DER McGUIRE, FRANK McGUIRE, HERBERT McGUIRE, DOUGLAS McGUIRE, ROBERT W. McGUIRE, RICHARD ALLEN McGUIRE. LEON L. McGUIRE. GEORGE McGUIRE. CHESTER GOODWIN McGUIRE. HELEN BARTER. MARGARET MacDONALD, MARY ANN Mc­GUIRE, KATHERINE MacDONALD, ALICE HERMAN, WILLIAM Mc­GUIRE, THOMAS McGUIRE, AR- LINE AYDELOTTE, ELEANOR VIOLA McGUIRE. being all persons interested in the Estate as heirs at law, next of kin and distributees or otherwise of NELLIE ILLE, late of the Town of East Hampton, County of Suffolk, deceased, SEND GREETING:

Upon the petition of EDWARD M.

way of ciGathright said it "takes a lot of

courage" for a blind person to go t upon a city street at first. But

eye" dog the hazards vanish and the blind acquire an amazing self- confidence.

Be sure your Wedding Invitations or Announcements are right in every detail . . . choose RYTEX-HYLITED WEDDINGS. Traditionally correct . . . beautifully styled . . . modestly priced . . . 25 Invitations or An­nouncements for only $3 at The East Hampton Star Press. Telephone East Hampton 477.

UponKING.IG. residing at East Hampton, New York,

You and each of you arc hereby cited to show cause before our said Surrogate at the Surrogate's Office in the Village of Riverhead and Town of Riverhead, in the County of Suffolk, on Monday, the 16th day of March. 1942. at 1 o'clock in the af­ternoon of that day. why a certain paper writing bearing date the 28th day of October. 1940, purporting to have been signed by said deceased, should not be admitted to probate

STEPHENS and

BOOKSTAVERAttorneys and Counsellors at Law

East Hampton. N. Y. iand Building E. H. 587

RAYMOND A. SMITHLL. B.

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW

NOTARY PUBLIC The Osborne Bank Bldg.

CLIFFORD C. EDWARDSA B.. LL. B.

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW

NOTARY PUBLIC Corner Newtown Lane and Main St

Landscape Gardeners

LOUIS VETAULT 81 SONNURSERYMEN PLANTERS

General Landscape Contractors Phone East Hampton 344

Newtown Lane East Hamptoi

Miscellaneous

EDWARD C. AYLESPAINTER AND DECORATOR

FURNITURE REFINISHED AND SPRAYED PHONE 485

EAST HAMPTON

MARIE MORRISON, INC.CLEANERS AND DYERS

27 Main Street. Southampton TeL Southampton 557

New York, Clen Cove. Greenwich Palm Beach

Plumbing and Heating

OTTO SIMMONS

Expert Engineer for Serv Any Make Burner

Repairs on All Burners Telephone 366

N. FILLMORE MILLERPLUMBING AND HEATING

Amagansett Telephone Amagansett 3464

JOSEPH HENDERSONPLUMBING AND HEATING

PETRO NOKOL OIL BURNERS INSTALLED

TELEPHONE 580

GEO. V. SCHELLINGER Sanitary Plumbing

HEATING SHEET METAL WORK

WELL DRILLING

R. DIGATE & SONSMASON CONTRACTORS

lephone 397 King Sire

IDEAL MASON'S SUPPLY YARD

KING STREET Between Newtown Lane fa Railroad PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO

ALL ORDERS R. DiGate. Proprietor Phone 397

HAMPTON MASON SUPPLY YARD

Dealers in MASONS' SUPPLIES. ALL KINDS

OPEN FROM 8 UNTIL 4:30 YARD: KING STREET

TELEPHONE 388

S. J. LYNCH & SONCONTRACTORS FOR

MASON WORK OF ALL KINDS North Main Street Phone 239

ALFRED FOSTER, Foreman

JAMES O'BRIENAMAGANSETT. N. Y.

Telephone 3521 Amagansett

Typewriters tor Sale—New or Second Hand.—Star Office. Tele­phone East Hampton 477.

Want an Interesting plctur; project? Try making a pictorial record of

AT FREQUENT Intervals, la dis- like. Of course, we could -It down cusslons of picture-making, the and write a book giving them all of

term "Documentary Photography" the details, but there never has been turns np. And to many people It — and there never will be — any seems like the "bad penny" which book which can describe anything keeps coming back. moro clearly than you can. In •

With such a record you're prob- fraction of a second, by means of ably wondering why tho subject Is your camera, oven mentioned here. Well, the rea- In fact, there’s so much that hon son Is that today I’d like to suggest «tly deserves a place In your at- that you try your hand at documen- bum I’d suggest you specialize In tary photography and becomo a two or three principal subjects, photo historian. For Instance, sup- Your section of town, for one, pose you had a picture record of should have a special division all every Important event In your home to Itself.town during the last five years, or Another section I'd devote Just to every Important local characte.. people—the way they dress, their Right now. at your fingertips, yon'd work, and the games they play, have a veritable treasury of local That'a a broad field because things history. change so fast—fashions In clothi ,

There's no reason why you can't for Instance, assemble such an album If you Maybe that Isn't your Idea of docu- start picturing the local scene at meatary photography. Perhaps you once. Thirty years from now peo- think It's necessary to photograph Pie will be wondering how we lived, big. dramatic subjects. Well, you're They’ll want to know what sort of wrong! It's the little personal Items clothes we wore, what kind of —seasoned with human Interest— houses we lived In. what Main that makea Interesting history. And Street looked like, what kind of that Is the type of subject that Is cars we drove, who the Important often overlooked, people were and what they were John van Guilder