Bargains Are Still
Rolling Out
We offer the things that you need at prices
that are way below the present retail level...
Its your opportunity to save from one-third to
one-half on every dollar. Really worth while
to shop at The N. C. these days!!
Check These Prices
$32.50 Men’s Down Filled Jackets . . .
Now going at 19.85
$24.50 Men’s Sheep-lined Jackets . . .
Very Warm 13.75
$3.,85 Men’s Blue Bih Overalls . . .
Sale Price * 2.89
$19.90 Ladies’ Raincoats . . . Reduced to 12.85
One Lot of Girdles That We Are . . .
Closing Out at One-Half Price
$1.75 Boys’ Winter Weight Unionsuits . . 1.15
$2.25 Men’s Undershirts and Drawers . . . 1.19
$7.50 Men’s All Wool Sweaters . . .
Selling at . . . 4.85
50c Williams Famous Shaving Cream . . . 33c
35c Dr. Scholl’s Foot Powder for comfort... 23c
35c Pond’s Cold Cream, while they last . . . 23c
65c Kreml Shampoo. A good buy at ... . 45ft
$4.75 Stainless Steel Kettles, only.3.19
Extra Good Quality Razor Blades . . .
Pkg. of 5 ... 6c
$2.25 White Enamel Percolators .... 1.39
$2.65 Galvanized Wash Tubs ...
Limited stock . . . 1.98
$3.25 WTiite Enamel Kettle.2.49
$2.95 Enamel Tea Kettle, while they last . . 1.98
$2.25 Ironing Board Covers. Sale Price . . 1.69
$12.50 Electric Irons, Nationally Known . . 9.95
Northern Commercial Co.
POD CARRYING PLANES
TO SPEED UP ASSAULTS
BELLY DROPPING PACK PLANES—An artist's conception.
(By RENE J. CAPPON—(/P) Newsfeatures)
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (A*i—An airplane with a removable belly
in which to carry troops and supplies—somewhat like a highway
trailer-truck—is being developed at the Fairchild Aircraft Division
here.
Military strategists have been predicting use of such double
fuselage craft for some time. They expect it to have far-reaching
effects on airborne combat and supply tactics.
Beyond that, however, the detachable-fuselage plane offers the
"logical approach" to the time when air freight carriers will ap
pear as "a serious competitor with surface freight carriers."
This statement had been made by Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Knerr,
U. S. Air Force secretary general, in the "Military Review."
He proposed that "time and manpower wasted in forward
areas should be eliminated through use of pre-packed and pre
equipped 'pods' deposited by air carriers."
An answer to this and similar requests of other military lead
ers is now shaping up in Hagerstown.
Fairchild engineers said preliminary designs of the new craft
call for a two-story plane. The basic idea behind it is similar to
that of the trailer-truck in surface transportation.
In the new C-120 Pack-Plane, as the ship is to be named, the
"tractor" would be the actual plane—engines, wings tail surfaces
and pilots' compartment. This would fit on the back of the bigger
fuselage and carry it along.
The removable belly—pack or pod in technical parlance—
could be detached either while the plane is in flight or on the
ground the first instance, parachutes would be used. In the second,
the plane would land, release its cargo compartment, and fly off to
pick up another.
Another possibility, also studied by designers, would be skid
ding the detachable fuselage along the ground from a low altitude.
The pack, according to present plans, would hold nine tons. If
used as a medical unit, it could accommodate 36 litter patients and
three attendants.
Cruising range of the C-120, fully loaded, would be around
2,000 miles.
The ship, still in the drawing board stage, is being developed
for the Air Forces. Security reasons prevent disclosure of technical
details.
Eskimo Women
Arrive; Oilman
Collecting Bets
FORT WORTH, Texas, </P) —
Dallas oilman L. L. Horne planned
to set out yesterday with four Es
kimo women, a penguin, a polar
bear skin and a parka to collect
more than $20,000 in bets.
The women—Miss Molly Blatch
ford, Mrs. Lona B. Welch, Miss I
Alice Walker, and Mrs. Lorena
Gray, chaperone—flew here so
Horne would win bets he made
with Texas friends while at Flat
head, Mont, for a rest.
Their first reaction to Texas
when they landed Wednesday
night was not unexpected. “Oh, it’s
hot down here,” said Miss Blatch
ford and Mrs. Gray, almost in uni
son.
Then they scrambled into a re
frigerated van for a trip to their
hotel. “I’m going to get into a
tub of cold water as soon as I get
there,” declared Mrs. Gray, a na
tive of Kotzebue, Alaska.
Horne said he would take the
girls with him to several cities to
pick up his winnings.
Horne said that when he was in
Flathead he called Dallas to place
some baseball bets and wound up
by wagering he could bring Eski
mos and a penguin to Texas.
He said he has bets with book
ies, oil men, and real estate opera
tors. Horne said they amounted to
more than $20000. Associates said
$100,000 would be a more accurate
figure.
Horne said his friends believed
he wouldn’t be able to bring Eski
mos to Texas because they are
wards of the federal government.
“I called my lawyer,” Horne said.
“He’s the best lawyer in the
United States. He told me, ‘You go
ahead and get them Eskimos and
don’t worry’.”
Horne said his worst problem
was finding a penguin. “I thought
penguins were an Arctic bird,” he
said. “Then I find out they come
from the Antarctic.”
He finally located the penguin,
which is named Lucious, at the zoo
in Portland, Ore. He found the
women, all natives of Alaska, in
Seattle, Wash., and hired Lew
Leach to fly the party to Texas.