Dear Doug: 
Unfortunately in this letter I have aethiag but 
bad news and eosplalnts. I will start with the supflles 
The pressure ©f the war is beginnlmg t® be felt. 
Most leather goods are beeoBlnf searoe and expen®ive. 
This ineludes Plight Gloves.I have acquired ail the 
gloves available and the dealers tell »e there will be 
no sore available, s@ try t© conserve what y@u have. 
I have less than fifty pair here, 
I a* forwarding for»ald8hyde and ©otten at every 
opportunity. 
I®u will be getting elosve to 200,000 nuaber 3 
bands before Christaas. They will be eoalng la several 
different sr; Ipaents. 
How does that new guaffied tape »achiae work? 
I finally got hardwood sawdust and have forwarded 
several drures of It. 
D® you know anything about the scope which was 
sent back here'’ The eye lense Is »lssing, Is it to be 
replaced? 
Upon unpackaglng the last specliBen shipment it 
was noted that several skins were damp with s©*ethlng. 
Since the smell ©f moth flakes was s® strong I ©®uli 
n©t detect any other ©dors. Then I noticed the dampness 
was only on these speclaens that were with In a few 
Inches ©f the a@th flakes. I have never seen napthlene 
i© this before s@ I asked Dick Her111 about the flakes. 
It see®es that the moth flakes were n©t napthlene 
but para-dlcloro-b^^s*^-, a pot^^^.tdrawing agent. 
Evidently the P.D.B. had drawn the fat and anyother 
moisture fro® the skin ©f the ...b 1 rds fact 
that they were locked in the irunks f®r several weeks 
during the Air Strike, probabley added t© the 
®f the dampened skins. You night keep this la sind 
and posslbley refrain froa: using P.D.B.. P.D.B. l®@ke 
and sffells like napthlene, although it usually ©®»es 
In crystal fora rather than flakes and is transparent 
rather than whitelsh like napthlenejYlakes. 
There were als® a number of skins with ®ut Kc Bee 
Cards. Their field numbers are listed below- 
1517 2012 2237 20567 
1601 2029 20520 30592 
1603 2035 20565 
