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KENOSHA EVENING NEWS
Times Have Changed
Time was when it was generally believed
that General Forrest of Civil War fame said
the last word regarding winning wars when
he picturesquely remarked that it consisted
of "getting there fustest with the mostest
men." That still applies to some extent but
modern warfare is much more complicated
than the Forrest formula indicates.
A group of'Wisconsin, Michigan and Illi-
nois newspaper men, of which the writer
was a member, recently had the opportunity
of seeing what some of these new comphca-
tions are and how they are being efficiently
met when they were privileged to visit
Wright Field, near Dayton, Ohio, where the
U. S. Army Air Force Materiel Command is
located.
There are many army airfields throughout
the country but Wright Field is different
from all of the others. It is the laboratory
or the proving ground--where the weapons
and all the equipment of the U. S. air forces
are conceived, developed and tested. A $150,-
000,000 institution, it has proved its value
over and over by the advances which it has
made possible in military aviation for this
country. It has been doing this for years,
long before the present war, but during the
present conflict has stepped up its activities
to meet the challenge which was presented.
These newspaper men were shown in con-
fidence some of the achievements which
have been accomplished at Wright Field
and some which are now in the process of
development. For security reasons all of
these cannot be made public. But every
newspaper man there was convinced that
Wright Feld has more than kept abreast of
the times and is producing for the American
fliers the best and most efficient airplanes
and aviation equipment that the world has
ever known.
Wright Field is a place where many of
the things which at the outset appeared fan-
tastic have become practical Those in charge
welcome suggestions which appear at the
outset to be most impractical. They work
upon them and from them develop those
things which become practical. Failure in
some particular idea becomes the stepping
stone for later success. TheAmerican planes
which have been strafing Hitler's Fortress
Europe so successfully during the past year
and those which are now protecting Allied
soldiers in the invasion of Europe came as
a result of the experiments carried on at
Wright Field some time ago. Now the Wright
Field force is working two or three years
ahead so that if the need continues, America
will still be in the lead in military aviation.
It is not the purpose here to list or to re-
count any or all of those achievements. It is
rather the purpose to pass on to the public
the conviction gained by those visiting news-
paper men that the American and Allied
troops when they "get there fustest with the
mostet men" will also be there with "the
bestest" air equipment that the world has
ever known. This will be because of the suc-
cessful, untiring and continuing work which
is being done at Wright Feld.
Unquestionably similar planning and
achieving is being done for other branches
of the armed services of the United States.
Wright Field is the example of it for military
aviation.
As a part of passing on this confidence to
the readers of th newspaper, there is being
published, starting today, a series of arti-
cles, prepared and released by Wright Field
and describing the various types of U. S.
Army warplanes. The first of these articles
appears elsewhere on this page today.
It is our hope that these will be generally
read so that along with comments made
above they will convince the reading public,
just as those visiting editors were convinced,
that there is more than a catchy phrase in
that part of the Army aviators' song which
declares "Nothing can stop the Army Air
Force."
Wrap Them Securely
Many package which are being sent to
our fighting men overseas never reach their
destination because they are improperly
wrapped. This happens despite the most
painstaking work of the postal department
to attempt to deliver them. Postmaster A. C.
Grosvenor of Kenosha has received a post-
office department bulletin which calls atten-
tion to tllUs situation and urges the parents,
relatives and friends of men in service to
take more care in preparing the packages
which are being sent overseas.
It declares that each week the postmas-
ter at New York -- and this probably ap-
plies as well to the postmaster at San Fran-
cisco or any othl postoffice where a large
bulk of mail pases through to the men in
serwce reports the receipt of several thou-
sand parcels addressed to members of our
armed forces overseas, which are in broken
or torn condition due to improper packing
and insufficient wrapping. This necessitates
the assignment of a large number of employes
to the sole task of assembling loose articles
and endeavoring to associate them with their
respective parcels and of strengthening and
rewrapping the parcels. Some of them are so
far gone that they never reach their destina-
tion.
The Postoffice Department makes the fol-
lowing suggestions:
"The containers of these broken parcels are
usually of thin cardboard, generally a shoe box.
In some cases containers which have been ap-
proved by the Department for domestic mailings
within the United States are used for overseas
mailings. Boxes for overseas shipment should be
stronger than containers used for parcels which
do not leave our shores. Owing to the great dis-
tance these parcels must be transported, and the
handling and storage they must undero, it is ab-
solutely necessary that all articles for overseas
be packed either in boxes of metal, wood, solid
fiberboard, or strong double-faced corrugated
iberboard. Each box should be securely sealed
with strong gummed paper tape or tied with
strong twine, or both, and should contain suffi-
cient cushioning material to prevent any rattling
or loosening of the articles within the parcel."
This newspaper joins with Postmaster
Grosvenor in appealing to Kenoshans to fol-
low these regulations in mailing packages to
the fighters in our armed services overseas
so that there will be a greater possibility
of them reaching their destination intact.
Question for Bowles
Housewives have taken rationing restric-
tions pretty well, especially since Chester
Bowles took over. He has obviously made
an honest effort to keep them from being
any more of a nuisance than necessary, and
he has patiently explained many whys and
wherefores. But Americans do not under-
stand about sugar.
They know the submarine interfered with
sugar, coffee and bananas at first. Then the
submarine campaign was won and coffee
began to flow with ever-increasing smooth-
ness. Bananas began to appear, too, not free-
ly, but growing more so. But sugar has the
housewife baffled.
Americans know much sugar goes into al-
cohol for the war. But what about Cuban
sugar? What about Puerto Rico? It is true the
half-starved natives of that American island
ought to vary their crops for the improve-
ment of their own lives. But sugar for ex-
port is still their main crop. Americans are
on a short sugar ration and warned that it
may be shorter before the summer is over.
If Mr. Bowles wants the American house-
wife to keep on supporting OPA, he Will
have to explain more clearly about sugar.
Where is it, and why cannot she have it in
comfortable amounts for baking and for
canning?
War Smoothness
The smoothness with which the American
war machine is operating, in comparison
with some other wars that might be men-
tioned, is often commented on nowadays. It
is one of the most reassuring things about a
vast, costly, complex undertaking.
KENOSHA EVENING NEWS
The Fuse Is Lit, and He Can't Let Go
:#
Washington Views
By Peter Edson
By PETER EDSON
KenOsl vetlng NCW Washington
Correspondent
The big rumpus over Navy's can-
cellation of the Brewster Aero-
nautical C o r p o r a t ! o n contract
brought forth a strange rallying
cry that sounded a good bit llke a
plea to continue "War as usual!"
Remember the old wail of "Busi-
ness as usual!" back in the days
before Pearl Harbor, when indus-
try was reluctant to convert to
all-out war production?
"Was as usual!" is the successor
to "Business as usual!" It is in-
spired by the same selfish motives'
and you are apt to hear it a lot
from here on.
The prayer to continue war busi-
ness as usual comes from business
and labor groups who, having once
been persuaded to convert to war
production and having made money
out of It, want it to go on forever.
While moaning out of one corner
of the mouth about hardships of
government wartime controls and
restrictions, they are yelling out of
the other side whenever there is
a move made in Washington
towards relaxing government con-
trols that would give an advantage
to a competitor.
The result is a reconversion babel
that beats anything heard in the
days of conversion, and it indicates
that the country is in for a long
spell of reverse headaches in get-
ting back on the tracks of peace,
unless preventatives are adminis-
Saturday, June 10, 1944
DeWitt Mackenzie Views the News
%
ington knows where all the sub-
contracts or the sub-sub-sub-con-
tracts are placed, and who will be
thrown out of a job in Connecti-
cut, Kansas or California when a
contract is canceled in Portland,
Me., or Portland, Ore. Nobody in
Washington knows what the inven-
tories of parts or stockpiles of raw
materials are in all these sub:con-
tracting plants, nor does anyone
know to what each of these plants
could be reconverted.
The "Free Enterprise" Theory
The second theory on bringing
an end to "war business as usual"
was advanced as long ago as last
October by the Senate Truman
committee investigating the war
production effort. It is that the gov-
ernment should not determine nor
even strongly influence determina-
tion of what civilian goods are to
be put back in production by whom,
in what quantity, or when. In other
words, remove restrictions on use of
materials as fast as surpluses de-
velop, then cancel contracts as
fast as possible and leave the rest
to industry.
This is nothing more nor less
than exercise of the free enterprise
system that business has been yell-
ing for. Mrbe business doesn't
want this freedom of enterprise as
much as it lets on. The Brewster
case would seem to indicate that
labor as well as management wants
government controls left on.
No reconversion of one automo-
bile company, for instance, until
all can get back into the game.
"war business as usual" until
all the selfish pressure groups have
Turninq Back the
Pages of History
June 10, 1919
By DEW*ITT MACKENZIE
Associated Pre War Analyst
The Allies are making slow but
steady progress in the battle of
Cherbourg peninsula with the
crisis of the main Nazi counter.
attack still to come.
There's encouragement in sever-
al developments. Highly important
is the fact that Allied resources,
both in men and equipment, are
being built up vital preparation
for the coming German assault.
Along with that we must rankl
gains in the drive against the great l
port of Cherbourg which the Al-
lies must possess as a hopper
through which they can send an
avalanche of men and materiel.
Cherbourg has come nearer Al-
lied grasp with the capture of Ste.
Mere-Eglise, 18 miles to the south,
which enabled invading troops to
drive towards the port along main
highways, On top of that success
American troops have taken the
important rail and highway junc-
tion of Isigny, increasing the
threat. Berlin reports that a violent
Allied attack has been launched
against Cherbourg•
I Another hot spot is in the area
of the city of Caen, strategic rail
and road center. Here our Cana-
dian and British comrades have
'thrown back heavy Nazi attemptS
to break up the neighboring bridge-
head and are pushing towards the
city itself.
Would Mean Hitler's End
Looking with realistic and not
over-optimistic eyes at the penin.
suls. Hitler's own newspaper, the
Voeikischer Beobachter, admits
that success of the Allied invasion
would "simply mean the end."
Probably the question uppermost
in the Fuehrer's mind, and in ours,
is: at what point will it be possible
to label the invasion a success?
That isn't a difficult question. A|
I see it we can say safely that the
invasion will have achieved suc.
cess as soon as the Allies hve dem.
onstrated their ability to develop
and hold a major base through
which a great army can be poured
onto the continent. It isn't neeesw
sary that we should have com.
pleted this operation in order to
make it clear that we are capabla
of finishing the job.
TODAY on the HOME FRONT
State federation of Catholic ing secure with a round-trip res-
Woman's Clubs meeting in Keno-ervation. The return reservation
sha brings suggestion to federate might be cancelled if it was for a
all such clubs in the nation and Pullman suddenly pulled into use
make a national organization, for the wounded•
The more Pullman cars taken
By JAMES MARLOW and ]of the armed services are traveling
GEORGE ZIELKE monthly on furloughs or assign.
Washington ---{P) This is why] ments" • ....... _
here zs zne pzcture ot wna na
the government has asked the pub- a " Am " "
lic to spend vacations at home this!n ppenea m ...erlcan ransporm,
uon $o xar m m war:
summer and not travel on railroads In 1918 th w r 61 ^^^
or inter-city busses ere e:re- ,vv p, as-
Firs*' To ro];o-'- *h o aTead senger cars -- o,wu any coacne|
............ and 7,000 Pullmans -- and they'
heavy burden on transportation, traveled 43 billion passenger miles.
Second: Within 30 to 60 days
European war front casualties will In 1943 there were only 45,000
be coming back, perhaps many passenger cars. They traveled 87
thousands of them, and will need billion passenger mile&
This was twice the traveling of
Pullman cars for shifts from ports 1918 when there were 26,000 mort
to hospitals and from one hospital
to another, passenger cars.
You might go on vacation, feel- The reason for the decrease in
cars: Starting in the 1920's. the
automobile and bus drained off
travelers from the railroads. With
fewer passengers, the roads did not
replace worn out equipment•
The number of pengers car.
Marriage license issued to Claus out of civilian use. the more ried -- not to be confused with
Anderson and Edna Verona Kleist. civilians will turn to inter-city'passenger miles by the railroad|
busses for necessary travel, in 1943 was 885 million.
Mrs. G. M. Phelan elected to About 3,500 of the nation's 7,0001 This will show the increasin
succeed Miss Millicent Northway Pullman cars and about 12,500 of]ion d on inter-city busses" -- "
as president of First Wisconsin Dis- fhe 38 000 day coaches already are In 1941 "h " " - " .......
• '" n-use shifti t ey ravelea la oluzon
trict Nurses' association, in seaay governme t , ng • r " " "
nn nnn + , a * ,,.t miles, ca rymg 395 million persons:
Mustered out of service: William : ........ .-v ...... . ......... iin 1942 it was 22 billion miles and
in orgamzea movemems ....
• _ . 1680 mflhon passengers- in 1943 t
Kefes, Jr., Albert V. Fonk. Ane:dl'o:TeAm::ut?;: 'n 2Lsbe?:2s.mlles and 975 rail.
Lewis Blood has a party for his 000 men
ninth birthday. [Barbs
Ann°uncement made °f the en" U S Army
gagement of Charlotta Cooper,
daughter of the late Charles Coop- , ,
er, and Gilbert S. Lance, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Lance. ' IWar Planes ooo sets may slow down due
to the heat but they always come
Married at Bristol, June 5: Vera back strong.
Lucille Gaines and John Alexan-
der Smith. I If the Germ j really want to
.... avoid destruction they honid
Edward Dayton named chmrman[ Wrzght Fzeld, Ohm--War Planes ......
of campaign to raise $100,000 for for the invasion were ready! The gv__e_ce t: 'r a..rm y as mey an-
, noun y a rome
St. Catherine's hospital in a ten-iAAF Materiel Command" which is
day whirlwind campaign. Icharged with the ...... development, I When you neJect to take care
procurement, producuon ann m r w at
• . . "lof you la n regular interval
St: Barnabas Guild conduct suc- spectlon of all Arrn.y Axr .ForceSlcomes the unkindest cut of all.
cesszu[ aance uurzng program i men r z
• .equ p ,nas p OVlOea Dr e , au-i
special numbers were provided by thoritative facts on each one thatl Many people are afraid o dive
Hazel Mikkelsen Florence Peters
and Howard Sershon. The commit-
made sure that they are going to tee comprised Mrs. Joseph Clark-
be taken care of, regardless of cost son, Mrs. Alexander Ebert, Mrs. W.
tared quickly before invasion suc-.tothe taxpayer. J. Cavanagh, and Miss Margaret
' • ' kllen.
cess makes cancellatmns of war } =:-___: ...... _-: ....... .-:_-_--:
contracts the rule instead oft *
:JWa Y Ag0 therarity" 00iews of Others
There are two principal schoolsl .... =:---------------- ..... -=-------:-----
of thought on how to go about end-I June 1O, 1943
Lug '%var business as usual.' Allied bombers batter island of D-DayV-Day
(Editorial Note: The following let-
The first is to set up some kind of
agency in Washington to plan and
boss the job. A somewhat faltering
step in this direction was taken
toward the end of May when War
Production Board Chairman Don-
ald M. Nelson announced the nam-
ing of a new committee of Army,
Navy, Maritime Commission, Man-
power and WPB executives to
make plans for reconversion on X-
day--the date of Germany's col-
lapse.
Can WPB do this job? Can any
agency of humans be set up that
will be big enough or smart enough
to deal with all the problems of
business reconversion by govern-
ment control?
For example, there is still no
place in Washington where anyone
can go to determine what effect
will be used by American forces.in shallow water. We need more
The data on a different plane will|like them.
appear daily, l
............ | A common dog is the best watch
the -za-'tztcnen- |dog, says an animal trainer• Buy
The "Mitchell" medium bomber|one with a pedigree and a burglar
is being widely used in all theaters.lis liable to steal him.
Lt. Gen. Doolittle used a fleet of/
them to bomb Tokyo and they Uncle Kync3-'S
have been exceptionally successful
in the South Pacific and Mediter-
ranean theaters in destroying
enemy shipping. Come[
DESCRIPTION: Twin-engine me-
dium bomber constructed as 'an
all-metal, midwing, land mono-
!plane. Twin tail. tricycle landing
gear. Crew of 5 or 6. Manufac-
tured by North American at Ingle-
wood, Cal. and Kansas City, Mo.,i
and modified by Materiel Command
engineers.
DIMENSIONS: Span: {]7 feet,
inches. Height: 15 feet, 9 inches.
Tread width: 19 feet, 4 inches. Wing
area: 610 square feet. Length: 51
feet, 11 inches. Approximate max-
imum weight: 35,000 pounds.
POWER PLANT: Two Wright
R-2600 air-cooled radial 14-cylin-
der 1,700 hp engines, with 2-speed
turbo superchargers. H a m i I t o n
Standard 3- bladed, hydromatic
full-feathering propellers.
PERFORMANCE: Rated in 300
miles per hour class. Approximate
service ceiling 25,000 feet. Tacti-
cal radius of action---400 miles.
BOMB LOAD: 2.000 pounds.
ARMAMENT: Attack version:
Ix.75 mm. cannon. 14x.50 caliber
machine guns, including four in
power turrets. Bomber version:
Regular bombardier nose, no can-
curled smoke over Mount Yesuv,
non. 12 guns. !ius, except that it was white with
PROTECTION: Armor for all ia green tinge. The whole sky
crew members at battle stations, around it Was like a heavy fog.
Leak-proof tanks. I "'The smoke kept on curling /or
The Jet-Propelled Fighter r fully a minute, and then slowly
rV';C'TP'PTCN. 'Pwin-enine et-[melted away. It was at lem fivo
pro;ulon--figlr.--Manttctured[ minutes before the sky cleared
by Bell to Materiel Command ape-i up aga,n.
cifications. I " "reave wondered whether any.
POWER PLANT: Two General one else saw that. It would be in.
Electric jet-propulsion type an- teresting to know."
gines. No propellers. A mumber of persons saw the
PERFORMANCE: Secret. In gen- hundreds of bright meteors which
eral the aircraft has high speed!crossed Canada and went out over
and hlgh ceiling. ! the Atlantic. They moved in groups
ARMAMENT AND PROTEC-Iof from three to 40 meteor, and
TION: Heavily armored and
Lrled
The main reasons are not hard to discover.
Not only are there good men in charge of cancellation of any one prime
contract will have. Nobody in Wash-
the war militarily, but there is political °00lSide] Glances
operation to a surprising degree. There are
Republicans and Democrats in equal num-
bers on the Foreign Relations committee, and y Ga/bfl
they confer regularly with the Secretary of
State. The President is readily accessible, ..
so that there is general understanding of
war policies and measures. These facts alone
are as important as the winning of battles.
And, indeed, they help to win the battles.
! In this war crisis, where is Mussolini's fine
i Italian hand?
Further Adventures of/ames Caesar
ter regardinS D-Day wall written by
a Kenosha Wave. now stationed at
Lambert Field, St. Louis, to her
parents ia Kenosha!.
June 6, 1944--D-Day--The day
the whole world has been waiting
forlooking forward to the begin-
ning of eternal freedom for all
people, white nd black, yet dread-
ing it because so many )f our boys
will not be here to enjoy the free-
dom and peace for which they so
gladly are giving their lives. There
ar no atheists in the world to-
day -- everyone, rich or poor,
American, GetTnan or Japanese,
are praying, pouring out all their
hopes and putting their trust into
God's hands. He and He alone will
inspire us with an unquenchable,
unconquerable spirit to fight and
die for what is right---our Amer-
ican way of life. From where I am
sitting now, I can see our Flag
proudly, oh, so proudly, flaunting
in every stripe and star, the fact
that though they were bitter, it
has come through all our former
bloody conflicts and that it will
come through this one, too. Let us
all get down on our knees and
that this D-Day is just a short
to V-Day our day of
victory.
BETTY STAR, Sp(T)3/3,
U.S.N.R.
t
But the National Association of Broadcast En-
gineers and Technicians feels that perhaps a man
with a degree from M. I. T. or Prdue can put on
and take off records, and even place the needle in
the right groove aa part of their regular work and
at no extra charge. They're being a bit stubborn
about it. They threaten to walk out ff a long-hair
from the A. F. M. so much a lays an irreverent
hand on a recorded singing commercial.
And there the matter rests at the moment. Our
sympathies are with the engineer|. But, since you
can't ignore past performances, our money is on Mr.
PetrRlo.
Most of all, however, we are intrigued with the
future possibilities for the musician that the lateat
Petrillo contention opens up. If a wax disc contain-
ing grooves which under certain conditions give off
musical vibrations should be handled only by a
member of the musicians' union, then the musicians'
pstwar employment problems are solved.
The piano mover will have to hold an A. F. M.
card. A union musician will have to ride on every
moving van to handle the family radio and Juniors'
fiddle. The boys and girls who sell radio, phono-
graphs, record& instruments and sheet music
have to join up.
And you won't catch us touching our portable
radio until Mr. PetriUo has passed upon our fitness
and accepted our initiation fee.
i
Pantelleria for 18th straight day.
In London, Maj. Gen. Ira C.
Eaker discloses that our air force
in Britain has doubled since March
and will be twice its present size
by October.
In Australia. Prime Minister
John Curtin declares that the Jap-
anese can no longer attack his
countr] and that Australia is ready
to take the offensive.
Argentina cancels facilities that
would have permitted Axis groups
to send code messages to their
capitals.
Soviet Army is reported by Ber-
lin to have pushed across the Mius
River, west of Roster.
President Roosevelt signs the
pay-as-yougo Tax Bill.
$
A day means a period of 12
hours to the Chinese.
By JAMF THRASHFA
Thiz is another chapter in the breath-taking saga
of James Caesar Petrillo, president of the American
FederaUon of Mu$1clams• Mr Petrtilo. as you prob-
ably know by now, is mindful of his own. Year in
and year out. in spite of war and manpower needs,
he hu been bu" dreaming up new and fascinating
fields of employment for du-paying practitioners
of the tonal art.
Mr. Petril]o's zeal has ocoas/onaliy embroiled him
with stubborn people insensitive to his lofty esthetic
purposes, but he always wins. Today: unless you
happen to run into an impromptu barroom tenor, it
is practically impossible to hear • note of non-union
music in public.
It seemed that when Mr. Petrillo succeeded in
getting an unpaid and unspommred symphony or-
chestra of high school children put off the air, he
had removed all dangerous competition. But there
still remained one seriotm rHmlrF which now
threatens a strike in two major networks.
The new trouble hinges on this delicate point: Is
the arduous feat of pl.ing music recordings on a
turntable an engineering or musical operation?
Mr. Prlllo contend that u long u there is music
op the nrds, the handliz of them come within
his union'a field. He got the networks to agree with
him €they long ago discovered that it's futile not to).
They signed contracts to hire trained, sensitive.
dU-lkng mmflcim for this delicate and taxing
work at a mere 12 bucks a day.
"I wish you'd p agreeing with me every time l make a suggestion,
Henry---are you trying to avoid an argument?"
Safety
Any housewife who is listening
can profit from the experience of
Mrs. P. B. Cook, of portsmouth,
Ohio. Mrs. Cook's narrow escape
from serious injury won honorable
mention in the National Safety
Council's recent "Freak Squeak"
And here's what happened:! *
COok, like many another Ship Output Up 250 Pct.
musewife, instead of truing a step-
ladder, perched hers.elf with one
foot on the kitchen table and one
foot on the stove to wash a sec-
tion of the wall• She had completed
the job and was getting down• But
she came down m aceidentally
faster than she had anticipated,
In 1943 our privately operated
shipyards produced merchant ship-
ping of approximately 19,000.000
deadweight tons, equal to one-fifth
of total world shipping at the out-
break of the war and about 2
times 1942 tonnage.
landed sitting snugly in a dish. *
of water. Only her dignity was Plywood Outdoes Steel
tort' but Mrs• Caok l.i%Leien hn i --
own words, a " p g Plywood stronger than steel is
is a hazardous occupation unless claimed by one manufacturer, who
impregnates 45 layers of wood per
inch with a resinous chemical un-
der pressure. The British buy the
material for airplane propellers.
Trade Rubber for Hats
Black derbies are fulfilling a vi.
tat war function in Panama where
adequate equipment and safe
methods are used•"
Sugar Cane Oil Process
A U. S• scientist claims that he
has discovered a process for mak-
ing coal and petroleum from plant&
His process will makeabout 2500
bricating oils from I00 long tons of
dry sugar cane.
medium of exchange for rubber I
among the Indians.
.e
A few weeks ago I spoke about
a great stream of meteors which
passed across Canada and then
across part of the Atlantic ocean.
They seem to have dropped into
the ocean near Bermuda.
That note has brought me an in- .'
teresting letter from J• E. Bayer.
"I am a constant reader of you ]
stories," he writes. "You told of a
shower of meteors seen in Canada ;
on Feb. 9, 1913. At that time my v
job required me to get up at
4 a. m. I was walking away from .;
the house when there was a great {
flash of light• .
"I knew that the sky was clear,
so the thought struck me that the
house was on fire. Seeing no fire .
there, I gazed over the sky and
saw a long bright meteor trail.
coming from the northeast and o.
stopping at about 45 degrees up
from the horizon in the southwest•
"There arose a great cloud of
curled smoke or vapor, like tha
:left glowing streaks behind them.
It is possible that the light seen by
Mr Bayer wa made by one 'oup
of those meteors
Usually people see only one
meteor streaking across the sky at
a certain time. When as many u
40 are seen together, it is SOme.
thing to talk about! Probably they
were parts of a small comet.
Meteors strike the earth during
daytime as well as at night We
are more likely to see them at
night when the sun does not flood
the sky. If they appear during the
twilight of morning or even •
person may see something of theh,
brightness.
Few persons have seen a meto
strike the earth. Yet meteors have
been seen many times as they
passed within a distance of a few
thousand feet.
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