New 4-in-1 Watch
Think of getting, for only $19.75—not only a more accurate time piece, but ALSO :-

1. A STOP WATCH that at the touch of a lever checks off the time in seconds and fifths of seconds!
2. A TACHOMETER that gives you at a glance the exact speed at which any moving object is traveling over a measured distance!
3. A TELEMETER which tells the distance you are away from any simultaneous source of light and sound!

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Smart, trim and compact, the Pierce 4-in-l Watch is simplicity itself to operate. And it’s unconditionally guaranteed against any mechanical defect for one full year! See this amazing Pierce Watch at any good dealer today. If he cannot supply you mail order direct.

PIERCE WATCH CO., Dept. 14, 22 W. 48th St.. N. Y. C.

PAY AS YOU LOOK. Small television receivers will shortly be made available for home use by Tradio Inc., of Asbury Park, N. J., at no initial cost to the subscriber. Payment is made by feeding a coin meter fifty cents for each half hour of operation. The receiver may later be offered on a fixed rental basis, and will also be installed in hotels and, other public places. It is said to be the world’s smallest television set.

These 1930’s era articles about pot always make it sound like they’re talking about PCP or something. I have never seen anyone who smoked pot go into a “delirious rage” causing them to commit murder. According to this article whenever anyone got killed, the police would go looking for pot-heads to blame it on. Of everything in the article that’s what would scare me. Smoke pot and the cops will frame you for murder.

I also think it’s odd that in all of these articles the authors never mention that pot gives you the munchies. I bet that if you asked a hundred people to name an effect of marijuana at least half would say it makes them hungry. Granted “Local teen empties fridge on pot fueled rampage, will cupboards be next? ” doesn’t make the scariest headline.

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Uncle Sam Fights a New Drug Menace…Marijuana

How an Innocent-Looking Plant, a Roadside Weed In Many States, Presents A Grave Narcotic Problem

By William Wolf

ONE DAY last summer, a squad of men suddenly descended upon a vacant lot in a large eastern city. Attacking a patch of innocent-looking weeds, they first burned the stalks down to the ground and then spread chemicals to make sure that every vestige of life in the roots was destroyed.

The weed was marijuana—better known as Indian hemp—and within that one vacant lot there was enough, if converted into cigarettes or “reefers” and peddled through underground channels, to be the potential cause of half a dozen murders and other brutal crimes.

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Wow, that’s a new one. Use Eveready batteries or you will poison your child!

“I POURED A DEATH POTION FOR MY SICK BABY!”

LONG ISLAND MOTHER LIVES A NIGHTMARE IN DARKENED HOME

1. “Our year old son was seriously ill with whooping cough, my husband was down with the grippe … and to add to my problems I blew the electric fuses as I was going to bed,” writes Mrs. Camille Dearkin of 222-09 135th Avenue, Springfield Gardens, L. I.

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Britain Reveals Diving Canoe
Called the world’s smallest submarine, this one-man craft is no bigger than a canoe. Britain built it secretly for wartime attacks on shipping in enemy harbors. PTs or regular subs took it to vicinity of target.

You’d think that if their owners were really so swinging they could think of something better to do at the beach than watch TV…

TV Goes Out

A GROWING demand for TV sets that, like their swinging owners, go-go anywhere has led Exide to produce the Personal Power Pack. The unit contains a lead/acid storage battery and a charger. The output is 12 volts DC. The new carry-around TV sets being offered by Philco, Sony, Panasonic and others operate on either 117 volts AC or 12 volts DC. A home-type portable that operates on AC only also can be powered by Exide pack if an inverter (costing about $60) is put between pack and set to change the DC to 117 volts AC. Exide now is working on a pack that will include an inverter. One charge runs a small TV set about eight hours; battery life is put at 1,000 hours. The price is $39.95.

GAS WITHOUT COUPONS was a lucky break for this boy who had a can handy when a gasoline tank truck went over a bank and 3,500 gal. of gasoline were spilled. Which all goes to show that even an ill wind can blow someone some good. H. T. Warren, of East Braintree, Mass., had a camera instead of a can.

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Machine-Made “Stars and Stripes” Replace the Flags of Betsy Ross’ Day

Uncle Sam’s Factory Turns Out Nation’s Colors

IT is a far cry from the handmade flag of Betsy Ross to the production of flags by machinery, and yet the cradle of the “Stars and Stripes” has remained in Philadelphia since the symbol of our nation was born there 145 years ago. The traditional scene of this woman patriot patiently fingering the colors of a new nation, has shifted to the operation of scores of machines, increasing production a thousandfold.

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Alphabet Macaroni Used for Ship-Model Names
Small alphabet macaroni sold for use in soups will sometimes serve effectively for the name of a ship model. Select the necessary letters, taking care to have them all regular in shape and size. Paint them first the same color as the surface to which they are to be applied. When thoroughly dry, paint the face of each letter to contrast with the hull. Then cement them carefully on the stern.— M. H. Osterberg.

TOM EDISON WAS A GREAT BOY… BEFORE HE WAS A GREAT MAN!

MICKEY ROONEY as Young Tom Edison

with FAY BAINTER- GEORGE BANCROFT • VIRGINIA WEIDLER • EUGENE PALLETTE
• Original Screen Play by Bradbury Foote, Dore Schary and Hugo Butler
• Directed by Norman Taurog Produced by John W. Considine, Jr.
• A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE

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“Ammonia Suit” for Rescue Unit Protects Skin from Burns

To protect firemen and rescue squads from irritating and dangerous gases, a combination suit and mask enveloping the entire body is provided. One of the most commonly encountered irritants is anhydrous ammonia, used extensively in commercial refrigeration, which can burn the skin in a very short exposure. The “ammonia suit” is made of rubberized airplane fabric, tested to prove it will shut out the gas. The trousers have feet attached, and fit well up to the armpits; the blouse has a drawstring at the waist, the blouse, hood and mittens being one piece. The mask, with breathing apparatus and fogproof eyepieces, is built in the front of the hood.

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WHAT’S WRONG With Uncle Sam’s Navy?

A naval officer frankly discloses just how badly American defense has suffered through inadequate building program.

by Lieut. John Edwin Hogg, U.S.N.R.

(Note: The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author and should not be construed as reflecting the official views or opinions of the Navy Department.)

AS THESE lines are written the American navy is in the worst condition of decrepitude and impotence that has ever marked its history.

Pacifist domination and sheer neglect has left us with a navy so skeletonized and anaemic as to threaten our national security. Among some none-too-friendly neighbor nations armed to the teeth and in a world seething with social, political, and economic unrest, we find ourselves with a run-down battle fleet that is only 65 per cent of the estimated strength necessary for national defense. Moreover, this precariously weakened “first line of national defense” is only 85 per cent manned!

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