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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1941 lm f Aftaraooa (Excepting Satardar Bonder) Sunday Hrm!4 Published Sunday klornt&f FvbUahad fcr tao Herald Corporation. M Boot Jtrat Wwt etreet. Proro, Utah. Entered na second elans natter at the poetoffic la Prera, Utah. rider ttos act March . It7. Gllmin, HI col A Rattunan. National Adrttnc rr-aantatlvea," rr-aantatlvea," New York, baa frtuclMa, Detroit. Boston. Ijam Angeles, Chicago. Member United PTaa, W. X. A. Berrien, Bettors' X? en an a, the Serippa Learua ot Kswspapars and Audit ureaa mt Circulation. Subscription trmi by earrler tn TJtaa eetrnty. M anta the monlli, f I for stl months ra advance: ti.lt the year, la advance; by mail a eoaoty. $i.t; eatalJe aoaaty lt.1l the year la adranea. 'III Til , Itomfh aS Tk liberty Tn Herald vUl no aaauma financial reaponalbHlty tor aay err ore whlek aar appear la advertisements published h lta coiurona. Ia those lntnoe earn tae ye per la at tea It, it will reprint that yaxt at lae advarUaamaat a araaaai taw trpearaphieai aalataaa aecara. Verily, verily, I say unto you. everlasting life John 6:47. To take up half on trust, and bungling bigotry- Dryden. Congratulations To State Champs Congratulations go out today to the Provo high school, its crack basketball squad and Coach Glenn Simmons, from the entire community for bringing to the Garden City the state high school basketball championship. The honors garnered gar-nered by the Provo team are especially significant since it's the first time in the history of the state event that a local team has "brought home the bacon." The Bulldogs, off to a slow start in regional play, earned a place in the 16-team tournament the hard way, but once they got into state-wide competition, they left no doubt of their superiority over their opponents, the cream of the state's high school teams, whom they encountered in -the four-day competition, to emerge undefeated with the coveted championship trophy in their possession. The members of the championship squad are all representative repre-sentative students of the school. The honors which have come to I hem, their coach and their school, constitute a well-deserved well-deserved reward for conscientious and diligent application to the task at hand. The community and the school are proud of them for having brought the honors to Provo. The Herald takes pleasure in extending congratulations to them. Must Somebody Dominate? Typical of a line of reasoning that is all too prevalent in the world today is this, from Japanese Rear Admiral Gumpei Sekine, a naval critic. He was discussing the political fate of all the Asiatic lands lying to the south and west of the Japanese islands. Japan has no territorial ambitions, Admiral Sekine asserts, as-serts, "but the crux of the matter lies in the question: If Britain is defeated under whose control would the southerners southern-ers fall?" . The simplest answer never, seems to occur to anyone today. to-day. It is: whjr anybody's control? Why not let them control themselves? " . ... More Money There is more money in the country today than there has been for 10 years. We mean literally more money, more dollar bills and five dollar bills. At the end of 1940 there was 60 per cent more money outstanding than in 1931, Federal Reserve Board people estimate. It's not all in circulation, of course. During the past two years, $117,000,000 is thought to have gone abroad and not returned, while more than a bil-lion bil-lion dollars appears to be in hoarding. The Bureau of Engraving En-graving is scheduled to produce 20 per cent more money this year than last. As everybody knows, the actual amount of money in existence ex-istence is not as important as the speed and number of transactions trans-actions made with it. That is the key to how well off we all are. Matsuoka V -aV m 11 - A X 6 " rec:- -Atl cpi rW .A7 hi I ks-; . lull lui y r 1 He that believeth on me hath half to try, name it not faith but Has a Nice Visit With Hitler OUT OUR WAY ( WH ATT ARE. THESE PRESENT ARMS SAV j BOVS IN TRAINING NOW, LISTEN PONT Pp POING HERE IN VOU GO TO LEARN IN IP THIS picture? that stuff jis because $jWz& wHAT DO VOU CALL I YOU'RE A CORPORAL THE WAV THEV'RE Ni OUR COMPANVI 4, !SWpI HOLDING THEIR GOT ENOUGH HOME ' Jfc "I V WORK AS IT IS - :H y 1 1 PLEASE, NOYV'x ' ' ' COP. 141 BY Hit ERVICC. INC t. m. sea u. a. pat. orr. s- Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued From Page One) ihivered in unsanitary shelters. The story behind this delay borders bord-ers on the fantastic. V MIGHTY ICEMAN I A 1'ascagouia, Mississippi, ice man was the cause of it all. Ills name Is H. F. Gautier and he plus his congressman, William M. Col-mer, Col-mer, were able to block the urgent urg-ent bill affecting scores of communities com-munities and thousands of men. The story goes back several months, when the navy began buying buy-ing land in Pascagoula to erect a housing project for shipyard workers. work-ers. Some of the needed property belonged to Gautier, who was willing will-ing to sell but who had fancy ideas about price. So the navy instituted condemnation condem-nation proceedings, and a federal court fixed the price of Gautier's land at considerably less than he asked. Gautier had to abide by this decision, but he had one consolation. con-solation. As the operator of a local ice plant, he looked forward to a brisk business supplying the tenants of the housing project with ice. But this hope was short-lived. Gautier learned that electric refrigerators would be Installed in the new houses. The navy had balked him on the land deal, but now Gauthier hotfooted to Washington and told hi." tale of woe to Congressman Colmer. Colmer took his cinstitu-Colmer. cinstitu-Colmer. Colmer took his constitu-that constitu-that the refrigerators be eliminated. elimin-ated. But the navy refused to be pressured. f I NO FRILLS It looked as if Gautier once more was out of luck. But just CORPORAL PUNISHMENT then the $150,000,000 housing bill reached the rules committee of which Colmer Is a member. The bill contained a provision for refrigerators and ranges similar simi-lar to those to be installed in the l'ascagoula project. Colmer saw his chance. With a flurry of pre.ss statements he denounced such appliances as 'frills," and demanded demand-ed that they be barred in low-cost dwellings. For ten days the battle raged over the issue. Meanwhile Colmer, Col-mer, realizing that even if the ban were approved it still wouldn't take care of hl3 iceman constituent, constitu-ent, since there was no way of making the provision retroactice, did a little horsetrading with De-f De-f e n s e Housing Co-ordinator Charles Palmer. Palmer, to expedite the urgent bill, finally agreed to "request" the navy to cancel the Pascagoula refrigerators. re-frigerators. With this assurance, Colmer un-gagged the bill in the rules committee and It was passed by the house next day. ..Note While they won this battle, bat-tle, Gauthier and Colmer may yet lose the war. The Pascagoula project will be completed in a few, weeks, and navy housing officials intend to install refrigerators regardless of Palmer unless ordered or-dered otherwise in writing:', by Secretary Frank Knox. It now remains to be seen whether Col mer can' pressure Knox into axing the refrigerators Gautier doesn't want. ' .- I MEKKY-GO-ROUND ( State Department mail clerks eyed with deep suspicion an en velope addressed to Secretary Hull bearing in one corner a red derby with mysterious lettering .under neath. It turned out to be an in vitation to Hull from the Univer sity of Wisconsin chapter of the Sigma Delta Chi (journalistic fraternity) to attend an annual gridiron banquet. . . . Wayne Coy, able young lieutenant of Federal Security Administrator Paul Mc- Nutt, is being considered for promotion pro-motion to a vacancy on the White House secretarial staff. Interesting In-teresting observation on the defense de-fense program in the monthly economic eco-nomic report of the National City Bank of New York: "Considering what has been done, it is remarkable remark-able that disturbances of business up to this time, through government govern-ment controls or otherwise, have been not so rfTany, but so few. . all without development of major shortages or restrictions, dangerous danger-ous disturbances of commodity prices, or significant rise in the cost of living." (Copyright. 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) EDCEMONT MRS. EVA GILLESPIE Reporter Phone 040-J-2 Darrell Lunceford, son of Mr, and Mrs. Horace Lunceford Is convalescing at home, following his recent major operation at the Utah Valley hospital. Mrs. Louise Trotter will be hostess to members of the Edgemont Literary club Friday afternoon at her home. A full attendance is desired, beginning at 2 o'clock. Attention all former students of Lincoln high schooL The alum ni association is planning their annual day next Friday, March 2Sth and tckets for the banquet and dance are available. Please contact Robert Gillespie for your tickets. Mrs. Ellen Bellows will leave this evening for Los Angeles, California, where she will visit for some time with her sister, Mrs. Clarence Schuman and fami ly, and will later join Srgt. Bel lows, who is stationed with the national guard at San Luis Obispo. Classleader Louise Trotter will give the Literary lesson at Relief society Tuesday afternoon. It will be the final section of the fine book "The Tree of Liberty" and all ladies of the ward are invited to attend. All ladies of the ward, are urged to attend the Utah Power and Light company cooking school to be held Wednesday and Thursday" at the Lincoln high school audi- by Williams CT. f?. vn ll i a M3 3- 2. Around The World With United Press NAIROBI, Kenya British em pire forces, seeking to cut the import im-port Addis Ababa-Djibout railway, rail-way, last line of communications from the Ethiopian capital, occupied oc-cupied Harda Pass, only 60 miles from the railroad, an official communique com-munique said today. :0: MOSCOW Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka conferred con-ferred today with Premier Viach-eslav Viach-eslav Molotov on Russian-Japanese relations and plans to leave tcnight for his visit to Germany and Italy on which, he told foreign for-eign correspondents, - the question of peace or war may depend. Matsuoka, Mat-suoka, with 15 aides, arrived yesterday. yes-terday. :0: CAIRO British troops are advancing ad-vancing again after beating off seven heavily Italian counter-at-uicku at Keren, a , general, head quarters communique said today :0: - ATHENS, Greece (Jreek pa- trol3 crossed the Italian lines in Albania at several points during the week end and returned vvitii prisoners, a government spokes man said today. :0: BERLIN An official news agency dispatch said today that British planes raided Kiel during the night, causing some dam age in "residential areas" and killing or wounding a number of civilians. ... :0: ROME Newspaper dispatches from Barcelona reported today that Enrique Lister, one of the most brilliant of the republican military leaders in the Spanish civil war, had been killed in re cent fighting in Libya. :0: - BERLIN British planes drop ped explosive and incendiary bombs indiscriminately in the heart of Berlin, causing insignificant dam age and killing or wounding sev- eral civilians, a communique said today. Several attic fires were caused but were put out quickly it was said. -:Or TOKYO The newspaper Yomiuri predicted the United States would be in the war by May or June at the latest because it would be forced to use its own ships to transport munitions to Britain while Britain used all her own ships for food importation. :0: BUCHAREST, Rumania Fire destroyed the large Malatz textile tex-tile factory today. Authorities said the cause was unknown. Damage was heavy. Cranium Crackers FAMOUS DRAFTEES Draft boards make no distinctions distinc-tions for wealth or fame when it comes to inducting selective service ser-vice soldiers, as many well known conscripts have found. Can you identfy the following famous youths now in the army or liable to be inducted soon? 1. The grandson of a famous oil magnate. 2. Two leading golfers, one of which is also a New York socialite. 3. A New York playwright. 4. The son of a former Ohio senator who voted against the draft bill. 5. Moving picture- star who gained ten pounds to be eligible for draft. Answers on Page Eight torium. The ward having the largest larg-est per cent of members present will receive a lovely lamp for their Relief society room. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pinegar and children of Spanish Fork spent Sunday here with relatives. Mrs. W. F. Giles, Mrs. Emmett Fowler and daughters, Janet and Jane. Misses Sara, Ruth and Cynthia Giks of Salt Lake were visitors here on Sunday. America's Men Dr. A. F. Blakeslee Gives Plants Poison to Grow Bigger Vegetables This In the first of a series of 12 articles Introducing you to America's foremost scientists. BY WATSON DAVIS Director, Science Service Written for NEA Service A few years hence, when bigger big-ger and better pears, peaches, grapes, strawberries, raspberries, as well as more prosais vegetable, vegeta-ble, come to your dinner table, you may remember that the man who took the first botanical steps toward them was Dr. Albert F. Blakeslee, geneticist who heads Carnegie Institution of Washington's Washing-ton's department of genetics, at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. An old-fashioned gout cure, extracted ex-tracted from the bulb of autumn flowering crocus, called the meadow mea-dow yellow flowers, is responsible for a promising spurt in plant breeding. This drug is called colchicine. col-chicine. Dr. Blakeslee used it first on handy but not particularly useful plants like jimsonweeti and chick-weed chick-weed with which he had been experimenting ex-perimenting for years. The heredity hered-ity of these plants, the way in which their chromosomes were passed on from generation to generation, gen-eration, was intimately known. Products Plant Giants From his tests on a few miscellaneous miscel-laneous plants ranging from radishes rad-ishes to phlox, Dr. Blakeslee soon became keenly aware of the practical prac-tical possibilities of using the poisonous colchicine fox creating new varieties of plants. Today scores of scientists in the U. S. Department of Agriculture ' and elsewhere are injecting, spraying or washing this drug on the leaves and stems and flowers of plants in the hope of producing new giants for field and garden. The , trick that colchicine performs per-forms is the doubling of the Chromosomes, which I reduces a giant generation, capable of being perpetuated. Many ordinary hybrids hy-brids are sterile.- But colchicine-produced colchicine-produced giants can be' made., to breed true, which is what the commercial plant grower is looking look-ing for. Dr. Blakeslee has been one of those who has greatly speeded man's control over experimental evolution. Grow Weeds to Increase Crops-- This year Dr. Blakeslee holds one of the highest offices In Amer-1 important and perhaps crucial ex-ican ex-ican science, the presidency of, . . ....... O SERIAL STORY BY EDITH ELLINGTON YESTERDAY I Beralr and Mr. Bradley quarrel, then, strangely, make ap. Lnaealaa; together. Dee . dlaeoTers that he la ambitions, aaxloaa to Improve Huntington's. She la delighted, eompllment him. lie aaka for date. ' ::' BEE KEEPS A DATE CHAPTER XIII JJEATRICE could scarcely wait until she had cornered Toby Masters in - one of the fitting rooms. "Mr. Bradley asked me for a date!" Toby's eyes flew wide open and her mouth gaped. "Eureka!" She looked at Beatrice knowingly "And you're kinda worked up about it, too. Aren't you the gal who said she wouldn't be inter ested?" The store was mobbed with cus tomers, they Iiad to hurry back to the floor. But all through the afternoon Beatrice was happy and excited. She wore a Scotch Sale badge, now. She pointed to it, once, when Mr. Bradley's eye caught hers, and he grinned. At 5:30, when the closing gong sounded through the store, he bent over her as she totaled her sales. I don't know where you live," he whispered. "Flatbush." She scribbled the address hastily on the edge of her tally card. He looked at it, then she erased it There was a rule in the store that employes must not have dates. Grandfather, evidently, evi-dently, had come to the conclusion that it ruined efficiency. On the subway, she wondered why she had never been as eager and expectant about her dates with young men who bore the names of famous families, young men who spent more money in a week, probably, than Mr. Bradley earned in a year. She caught Toby's sleeve. "Mr. Bradley! I don't even know his first name!" "Neither do I," said Toby. "But 111 ask him as soon as he sticks his nose in the door. By the way, do you want Vera and me to evaporate?" "Oh, no!" The Idea of entertaining enter-taining Mr. Bradley in the apart of Science -.gr Dr. Alfred Blakeslee Inspects pollen of jimson weed flowers. Treatment with colchicine produces larger flower. Vlxat t rubt, untreated, has normal-sized flower. - the American Association for the periment3 are being performed. Advancement of Science. He is also playing an important role in the work of the National Academy Acad-emy of Sciences. Dr. Blakeslee can be picked out of scientific groups by his. closely cropped goatee and alert and friendly manner. On a typical dav In the experimental ex-perimental .'gardens and greenhouses green-houses of his laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, the 67-year-old scientist may be found among his associates and graduate students llQ t"' rt 1 n cr n'iy nlonto nnnn ti'VtiV DOLLARS TO DOUGHNUTS ment alone left her panicky. "No, you must stay. - "This is Wednesday," calculated Toby heartlessly. "Not likely that he's got much money, so close to pay day. So he won't be taking you out. Are you sure you want us to stick around the whole evening?" eve-ning?" A S soon as they reached home, Toby told Vera - the news. "She's - captured the idol of the department. Handsome Bradley, six feet .two in his stocking feet. Wait till you see him, Vera. He puts.Terry definitely in the shade." "I don't value-Terry for his beauty," said Vera. She cupped her chin in her hands and asked dreamily, "Shall we hang Japanese lanterns around the place in honor of your floor walker, Bee? Or would a little judicious dusting he plenty?" "I'll clean up myself," Beatrice told her. "And if you two will kindly keep the lid on your own particular brand of low humor, I'll appreciate it." "I can only answer for myself," said Vera. "But you know Terry." "What? Is that egg coming around tonight?" Toby cried. "He is." "Be a sport, Vera," Toby sug gested. "Take him walking in the park." But Terry, who arrived shortly afterward, refused to walk in the park. "I want to see this guy," he insisted. "Here I've been working on Bee for days, trying to fix up a date for a friend of mine, and she's too highhat. Yet this wonder crooks his finger " "If you tell him that. I'll mur der you!" Terry settled himself on the studio couch. "You can't object if I merely point out to him that you re a very, very tasty dish; miles above my ilk: a user of impeccable diction; an abominable cook, but beautiful?" Terry nearly always made Bea trice uncomfortable, for he had shrewdly discerned too many things about her. She went straight to the point. "Mr. Bradley possesses a Harvard accent to match my own high-brow diction, darling. He, too, is not a toothpick tooth-pick addict." "We guttersnipes enjoy gawping at the upper classes," said Terry. "No sir, no park for me. I stay right here!" Beatrice was feverishly comb ing her hair, trying for the dozenth time to make the curls stay put the way they used to. when the doorbell rang. She ran out of the bedroom. "Terry, one wisecrack and I slay you!" She went to the door. .1 X !1 f 1 t t 1 r , From these scientifically pamper ed weeds are likely to come knowl edge which not only will affect the food crops of the future but even the tomorrows of the human race. NEXT: Wizard of television. Worms in England are estimated estimat-ed to eat and deposit on the surface sur-face 320,000,000 tons of .soil annually. an-nually. According to a Russian scientist, scien-tist, the human eye moves involuntarily invol-untarily about 100 times a minute. COPVRIGHT, I 041. NEA SERVICE. INC. JR. BRADLEY stood in.the hall with his hat in his hand. "Come in," Beatrice greeted him. She leaned forward.. "What's your first -name?", she whispered. "Toby's going to say something dreadful the first chance..she gets and I want to be prepared." "Anthony. What's yours?" "Bee." They went in together. He seemed to dwarf the tiny living room ond Terry cried out at onae, "Watch it! You'll knock your head on the door framef "Mr. Bradley." Beatrice said. "This is Mr. Terence Donahue. Guaranteed worthless. This is Vera Conlon, and, of course, you know Toby Masters." Terry moved over on the sofa, and Anthony sat down. Beatrice thought "What do I do now?" At home, she would have rung for the maid and cocktails on a tray would have appeared. But cocktails cock-tails were sinful luxuries in Flat- bush. Terry came to the rescue. "Bee doesn't want me to talk to you, Bradley," he said with a perfectly straight face. "That makes things a little complicated. Because I'd like to know how it feels to spend most of your waking hours in a dress department. Surrounded by dames and bargains." "It feels awful," said Anthony. "What do you do?" "I'm a photographer." "I used to be a nut about cameras cam-eras when I was at school. I still have a Leica I trot out when I can manage to buy a film. What kind of photography do you do?" 'T'HE awkward moment had been bridged, and half an hour later Beatrice was wondering whether Anthony had come here to see her or to talk cameras with Terry. "You see what happens when a gal has no privacy," Toby said, when they kent into the closet-kilchenet closet-kilchenet to moke cofTee. "This Is what broke up every one of my four romances." Terry and Anthony were still talking when the two ajrls carried car-ried in the filled cups, t Beatrice thought "Is tjiis what he came for? To sit around, talk to Terry and waste time?" Her own resentment and sharp disappointment amazed her. She looked at Anthony's dark hair, rumpled as always, and the clean line of his jaw. Something stirred inside her. And then Anthony's eyes lifted. He smiled at her, and the smile was like a signal, above the heads of the others. "How about you and I going out and leaving these people flat, Bee?" (To Ee Continued) ! |