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Ivans Relates Interesting History of Trojan Company In Talk For Local Groups Trojan Powder its origin, its development, its integration into the community life of Sandusky and its outstanding contribution to victory in the present war and in World War One supplied the subject for an interesting and highly informative address presented at a joint meeting of Rotary and Kiwanis clubs here at Hotel Rieger by W. H. Evans, public relations director of the company. Evans labeled his talk "Pardon Me, I Believe We Have Met Before." "To almost everyone of you here today, Trojan is no stranger, whether or not you know it," said Evans. If you walked on cement or on flagstone on your way here to the Rieger today, the chances are, 10-to-one, that Trojan blasting powder wrested the cement rock or flagstone loose from the quarries to make those sidewalks.

The cement or stone foundations of the very homes you left this morning were, 10-to-one, forced from quarries by Trojan powder for it may surprise you, nearly 80 1 percent of all blasting powder that annually entered Ohio before the war, came from the Allentown plant of Trojan Powder Co. Some of this powder was stored near Fostoria where Trojan magazines have been located for years. A great deal of it has been coming to Kelleys Island, Marblehead and the Wagner Quarries for many, many' years. "There's another manner in which many of us may have met before. And that is through our common ancestors.

Walk down the streets of the names on the shop windows, a look through the telephone directory and one would lain believe he were back in Allentown or in adjoining "Bess-le-hem" as the famed Pennsylvania Dutch would call it. From these peoples, the settlers of Sandusky and Allentown inherited their love for order and neatness as reflected in the marked cleanliness of both communities and the wonderful park systems and beauty spots. Theirs too, was a common inheritance that demanded honest and efficient government. In that sense, we have met not you and then our forebears. "Trojan Powder Co.

may be said to have had its beginning when J. B. Bronstein, now vice-president arid general manager of the company, and then a rising young chemist, succeeded in completing successfully what a Russian had stabilization of nitro- starch powder. Bronstein's success gave to the world a powerful explosive that did not contain glycerin, and because it did not contain glycerin, it would not freeze. It was also non-toxic.

Because of these distinctive qualities, it immediately enjoyed great demand for quarrying, mining, tunnelling, general construction and also for certain phases of agricultural activity. Huge quantities of this nitro-starch powder were used in the great cement rock operations not far from Allentown. One of the largest users was General! Harry C. Trexler, one of the organizers of Trojan and often called the Cement King of America. "Then came one of the great engineering feats of all Panama Canal.

The United government had recognized at the distinctive qualities of Trojan's nitro-starch powder for blasting and vast quantities of il went southward to blast out me Big Ditch. In passing, perhaps it is pertinent to mention that Dr. Walter O. Snelling, Trojan's Director of Research, was engaged at that time by the U. S.

Bureau of Mines on certain work at the Canal, and, incidentally, succeeded in producing a detonator that could be fired under water. The well-known volume WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA, credits Dr. Snelling with this invention and says that it saved the U. S. government an estimated $500,000 a year.

Dr. Snelling's Enemy Scores on Coast Guard Landing Boat creative genius has been available to Trojan for many years. "As one of the really few explosives plants of the country at the outbreak of World War One Trojan found itself waited upon by the British, French and Italian purchasing commissions. When the allied commissions learned that Trojan's nitro-starch powder did not require glycerin and that the matter of obtaining fats was not a problem, Lheir relief was unbounded. They soon realized that as long as there was a single ear of corn or a pound of potatoes available, the supply of Tro.Vsn nitro-starch powder would be well- nigh inexhaustible.

Mr. stein's invention, therefore, may be said to have saved the day for the Allies, in one sense at least. "Our country's entrance into the great war, made new demands upon Trojan. One of the characteristics of the conflict was trench warfare and to get at the enemy in the trenches, great quantities of hand grenades "Were needed. Trojan's nitro-starch powder was selected by the government for these grenades and Trojan was given the contract to make all the grenade powder in this country.

Aside from the exclusive contract to manufacture all the grenade powder. Trojan was also given contracts for loading the grenades. Starting with a loading record of about 50,000 grenades a day, improvements in loading methods soon stepped production up to 150,000 a day. Toward the close of the war, Trojan research invented an air-loading machine that made it possible for one operator to load 1.000 grenades per hour. Trojan gave this machine to the government so that competitor companies who were using Trojan's nitro-starch nowder for grenade loading, could keep pace with the demands of General Pershing and his staff for more and more grenades.

"The same results were obtained in the special explosive made for, what avas called in those days, airplane drop-bombs. requirements were that the bombs should not explode in the air when hit by enemy bullets. Trojan developed such a powder. Tne French had developed a rifle grenade to be shot from an ordinary rifle which produced greater certainty of hitting the mark than the hand-thrown grenade. To propel the grenade from the rifle it was necessary that the impact of the rifle bullet on the grenade would not set it off at the moment of leaving the l'ifle.

Unbelievable as it may seem, Trojan succeeded in pi'oducing a nonsen- sitive powder, lacking none of the brisance or shattering potentialities. "Thus, gentlemen, if you ever tossed a "pineapple" in World War One, or used a rifle grenade, or dropped a bomb from a plane or used a trench mortar, you had already met Trojan before Trojan came to Sandusky a few years Trojan wraDped up in brass, or copper or steel and didn't know it! But vour enemy did! "The records that the local plant, your plant, have established here, are well known to you. Coast Guard landing boat bursts into flame just before reaching shore, result of Nazi machine gun fire. Explosion in boat is that of a soldier's hand grenade which was hit. (Coast Guard photo.) U.

S. Task Force Commander MOST VICIOUS OF SKY BATTLES SAY RETURNED BOMBERS gaged in that "toughest air battle" include: Lt. Charles W. Frayne, Springfield, Ohio, navigator, and Richard I. Grose, Coldwater, Ohio, radio operator.

Rear-Adml. Alan G. Kirk, USN, commander of U. S. task forces operating as part of the combined naval forces which stormed northern France, leans on rail of his flagship and watches operations.

Naval losses were described as extremely light. married your sons. Many of these marriages, will, undoubtedly, result in local permanent residence and, so, we will meet again and again. "Trojan will never cease doing its part to get this war over as quickly as possible, to bring all Sandusky sons home safe and sound. With the exception of a few days beyond our control, we have never stopped working 24 hours a day, day in and day out, Sundays and holidays for two and one-half years.

We feel that our job is never done in trying further to reduce our already splendid low rate of absenteeism, to increase further our purchase of war bonds, to donate more blood for precious plasma, to enhance further our highly successful safety record, to intensify further our share-the-ride and conservation programs to increase our production, and to decrease our cost of production always with the supreme sublimation of hastening the end of the war, of keeping faith with those sons of yours." REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS say, pointedly. YOUR PLANT, because, after all, you are a stockholder in this government investment at Plum Brook. We operate it, but your government owns it and your interest in it should be a serious one. How we run that plant, how efficiently and economically we manage it, is of the greatest concern to you because, lifter all, YOU ARE PAYING THE BILL. We arc always mindful of the fact that we must given an account of our stewardship (o stockholder.

"Permit me to observe that if you acknowledge our achievement of 18.000.000 man hours worked at Plum Brook without a single, fatal accident, that it is only a case of Trojan accomplishing in a big way what Trojan did on a smaller scale back in Allentown in World War One. Trojan pioneered in safety methods and practices and established a most enviable record in those days when safety was also the watchword. If you are cognizant of Trojan's splendid war bond pur chase record of nearly $3,000,000. in a little over two years, through the payroll deduction plan, which we were among the first to adopt in Erie-co. let me say that it finds its counterpart in Allen town Trojan's outstanding Liberty Bond purchase record back in 1917 and 1918.

"When Trojan began attracting manpower here for the great job nearly 600 of our employees wore young men, not long out of the colleges of the country from Maine to California, from the Great Lakes to Florida. They were fine young men from the best homos in the land and they, in appreciable number, have taken local young women to wife. Many of our young women have DRESS UP! USE YOUR CREDIT! aaaBBi wupaMneMai Men's end Boys' SLACK SUITS LOAFER JACKETS Men's and Boys' SPORT SHIRTS Short and Sleeves CREDIT CLOTH I COLLINS Mrs. Luella Stratton has returned to her home here after spending a month's vacation in Chicago, Iowa, Cleveland, and Chagrin Falls. Miss Mabel G.

Fernald, Norwalk, was a recent visitor at the home of Mrs. George L. Evans and son. here, and also at the home of her parents, Mr. and-Mrs.

Fay Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Duane A. Stacey and son, Donald, Lakewood, spent several days with he former's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. George Stacey, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. L.

Ryan and children, Cincinnati, have returned to their home after spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. Vernal Wcisenbcrger. (A. C.

Close Agency) John A. and Eva V. Daniels to Wm. J. and Daisy P.

Mowry, Lot 4 and 6, Follett-st. Minnie Hyman, deed, to Wm. Hyman, Int. Sublot 410, Bay Bridge. Rita J.

Benkarth to Sterling and Cora L. Andrews, Pt. Lots 54 and 56, Shelby-st. Carl J. and Helen Klueg to Arthur J.

and Edna E. Pomerson, Lot 6 and Pt. Lot 7, Cooke-st. John A. and Ida R.

Voight to Alfred and Elizabeth Egger, Lot 262 50th-st. John P. and Minnie Smith to Clifford and Wilma McVetta, .666 Sec. 3, Margaretta-tp. Glen F.

and Evelyn R. BecMel to Carolyn Hasel, Lot 340 and 341, Old Homestead-on-the-Lake. Chas. F. Miller, to Margaret Murray, Pt.

Lot 95, Wash- ington-st. F. F. Hinman, to Carl J. and Jacob O.

Kamm, 48.82 Sec. 4, Berlin-tp Annex. Ellsworth and Mildred Bickley to Otto H. Boker, Pt. Lot 7, Pros- pect-st.

Clarence and Frieda Vcttel to Walter and Ethelyn Richards, 1 Sec. 2, Margaretta-tp. Hilda Miller, et al to Lena and Verna Dahs, Pt. Lot 5, Vine-sl -Wevin--H. and Mary Decker to and 12, Block 70, Cedar Point, Harryette V.

and Vernon Williams to Patsy F. Taylor, Sublots 60-61-62, Bluebird Beach, Vermilion. Virginia M. and John M. Wentling to Fred Elsperman, Sublot 642, Bay Bridge.

The Toledo Edison Co. to Marquis Martin, Lots 115 and 117, Sanford-st. Gordon E. and Anna L. Millott to Carl and Helen Klueg, Pt.

Lot 6, Central-av. Adam and Muriel Burre to Preston Levis, 24.50 Sec. 3, Margaretta-tp. Margaret B. Capron to Erwin C.

Hitz, Sublot 7, Nokomis Park, Vermilion. Edward J. Rosino, Commissioner to Richard J. Grubbe, Pt, Lot 45, Pearl-st. Otto Hogrefe, deed, to Frederick Hogrefe, et al, Lots 15 and 16, Edward Elenz, Huron.

Mary Weasner to Albert and Helen Danbeck, Lot 17, Rudolph Kugels Margaretta-tp Elenor E. and Edmond J. Cousino to Clarence Weasner, Lot 12, Rudolph Kugels Margaretta- lp. Elenor E. and Edmond J.

Cousino to Albert and Helen Danbeck, Lot 18, Rudolph Kugels Margaretta-tp. Anna Walsh to Pennsylvania. Ohio and Detroit R. R. 5.37 Sec.

3, Perkins-tp. Robert and Charlotte to Frank L. and Nell Clutts, Pt. Lot 25, Meigs-st. Geo.

A. and Margaret K. Wagner to Wilson and Esther Me Laughlin, Lot 156, Wilson-st. Norman J. and Wanda Thomas to M.

E. Bowen, Lot 4, Matthes- Schiller Al. Wm. C. Ferbach, to Karl Alter.

Bishop, Lot 2 and Pt. Lot 3, Tiffin-av. Edward J. and Eleanor E. Rosino to Myrtle Ommert, 15.41 Sec.

3, Groton-tp. (2) KELLEYS ISLAND Mass Production Origin Eli Whitney, in 1798, took a government contract to manufacture rifles. He made machine tools that turned out gun parts which, for the first time, were interchangeable. From this he is known as the "Father of Mass Production." Mrs. Mary Perkinson and daughter, Helen, Lakewood, spent some time at their home here.

Mrs. Andrew Erne and infant daughter, Jane Frances, have returned to their home here from Sandusky. Mr. and Mrs. John Stafford and daughters, Port Clinton, and Mr.

and Mrs. Roy Elfers and children, Rocky River, spent several days with Mrs. Albert Lange. Mrs. E.

Bucker, Miss Isabelle Thiel, and the Rev. A. C. Pesse fall, Worwalk, were recent guests of Miss Mayme Guerin. Mrs.

John Perkinson, Sandusky, spent a few days with her mother, Mrs. William Meyers. Miss Mira Dodge, Lakewood, visited her family here last week BY MURLIN SPENCER AN ADVANCED U. S. LIBERATOR BASE SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, (ff) Weary, war tried American airmen call it the most vicious sky battle ever fought over the western sector of the Southwest Pacific front.

And the score shows that the Yanks, odds against them, won the argument. They shot down a dozen of the 20 Japanese Zeros which challenged the flight of five big American Liberators. The men at this base agree new names were added to America's long hero list during 56 minutes of intense action over the placid Arafura sea. Lt. Robert M.

Dunseth, Los Angeles, fought off 12 Zeros at one time when they pounced on his plane after two bullet-damaged engines had conked out. Sgt. W. R. Miller, the nose gunner, from Dallas, Texas, blasted two enemy fighters out of the air before his life was ended by a cannon shell.

Edward Chmura, Newark, N. was hit in the legs by three Japanese bullets but stayed with his guns. The Liberator men operating out of this remote, far northern base expect trouble when they go on raids. They range too far for fighter escorts as they wage unceasing war on one of the most stubbornly defended areas in Japan's outer defenses. This bombing strike in the closing days of April was aimed at Noemfoor island in northwestern New Guinea.

Tht bombs had been laid when the 20 Zeroes roared in at noon. The Japanese were eager, skillful and daring. From the minute Sergeant Miller spotted the Zeros, high and straight ahead, the Liberators battled in tight formation. TVSgt. Donald R.

Young, Peakville, N. upper turret gunner, sent one Zero down in flames, and Lt. Edward Edwardson, bombardier, Hillside, N. bagged another from in front. Then when Miller got his two, both flamers, as they came at his nose turret, the Japanese decided this wasn't a lame duck after all.

Four Japanese fell to the guns of the Liberator piloted by Lt. Joseph W. Dally, Monroe. N. Y.

The crew of Lt. John Domenico, Aud- bon, N. bagged three, and a gunner for Lt. Merton H. Shaffer, Great Falls, got the twelfth.

Kenneth M. Sims, Ousley, blazed away at a Zero that came toward his waist gun. The fighter was only 100 yards away when it burst into flames. A wing broke off and fluttered down to the sea. Another Zero ran into an unbreakable thread of fire and exploded.

The thread was stitched by the machine guns of John F. Fretchel, Chester, Pa. With only eight of their planes remaining, the Japanese broke off the engagement. The Liberators, too, had taken a pounding. Other officers and men who en- BELLEVUE 1 Father J.

E. Maerder was in charge when 29 children received their first Holy Communion at Immaculate Conception Church. Members of the class were Lucille Alt, Fortunati Artino, Roland Artino, Charles Briehl, Charles Battista, Eugenia Carroll, Jean Farrow, Helen Foos, Sally Foos, Molly Furlong, Judith Godfrey, Patricia Hager, Robert Hart, Janet Koechley, David Lamb, Dorothy Lamb, Anthony Laplata, John Leplcy, Consetta Miano, Marvin Missler, Maureen Moran, Elizabeth Norman, Ann Ruffing, Raymond Ruffing, Gordon Sanders. Vivian Soldano, Loretta Straub, Anthony Straszuisa, and David Vogel. 'MIE.

Kenneth Taylor, Clyde, was hostess at her home when friends met there for a shower honoring Miss Leona Pasch, Fremont, bride- elect of Carl Stotz. Bellevue residents attending were Mrs. Edward Moran, Mrs. D. M.

Godfrey, and Mrs. John Furlong. In celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. John Norman, Sheffield-si Guests at dinner were Mr.

and Mrs. Allen Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lowry, Harrj Andrew, Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Norman, Pvt. and Mrs. Harold Norman, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Miller and Fred Andrews.

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