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Show Action Cooperative au Unlets Some Cities Talk' Housing; - Memphis Actually Builds 7 ? fc 4. WNV Features. Like every American girl and boy, the children of our country's soldier dead are entitled to a normal home atmosphere and a happy childhood. To assure them of that American birthright, Veterans of Foreign Wars maintain the V. F. W. National home in Eaton Rapids, Mich., for widows and orphans of From this home every spring a little girl, daughter of a deceased goes to Washington to present to the W'NU Service, 1616 fair-size- d brick-makin- hard-to-ge- President the first Buddy Poppy. " ' THEY SOLVE HOUSING PROBLEM . . . Confronted with a housing problem, Dee Ainsworth and Mrs. Marion MacConnell of Los Angeles purchased a wartime LCVP (landing craft, personnel) for $700 and converted it into this trim boat with living accommodations. They will sail to Central America ports aboard their floating home. NEWS REVIEW Tornadoes Wreak Havoc; Blast Kills Eight Miners TORNADOES: Path of Destruction Just Like the Movies Devastating tornadoes cut a wide swath through midwestern and eastern states, leaving a wide path of destruction in their wake. Striking in a thickly populated rural area south of Fairmont, N. C, a twister killed at least one person, left an estimated 300 homeless and caused severe damage to tobacco crops. The death toll from a tornado which leveled the communities of Bright Water and Garfield in northwest Arkansas was placed at nine. The business section of Bright Wahigh-ridin- Just like in the movies, Film Actor Errol Flynn was the hero of real-life a rescue of Tom D' Andrea, another actor, who was thrown his horse. The actors were from galloping in the Battle of Gettysburg with the Union payroll when D'Andrea's horse stumbled in a gopher hole and threw him. Flynn grabbed him from under the flying hooves. To provide a typical movie ending, neither was injured. g Screen husbands and wives must sleep in twin beds one foot apart in films shown for the British public, British censors ruled. That, they explain, "discourages cuddling." Because censors spotted a scene in Wife" in which "My Awful Franchot Tone and Lucille Ball snooze in twin beds pushed togethCost, er, the scene must be Si0,000. ter, population 100, was virtually destroyed. Most destructive of the twisters was one which tore through small towns in Missouri and Iowa, causing 13 casualties in the small town of Worth, Mo. More than 50 others were injured and property damage derailing its engine and was estimated in the thousands of freight, tender. on dollars. The same tornado lashed The collision occurred at Boyer across into Iowa, striking at Clio, where extensive property damage Ridge, near Huntingdon, not far sites of the previous Red resulted but no loss of life was re- from Arrow and Sunshine Special train ported. wrecks, both of which also were In n Narrowly averting the heavily the hours. populated city of Dallas, Tex., a tornado smashed briefly to earth on PALESTINE: the city's eastern outskirts, then bounced skyward and disappeared. Explosive Issue In its wake, two persons were dead The explosive Palestine question and four were injured. Two other was marked by the usual wrangling Texas twisters caused less damage. and confusion. In action before the steering committee of the United MINES: Nations general assembly. The steering committee Another Tragedy rejected requests from the Arab Disaster struck again in the countries for the assembly to debate coal mines, an under- at this session the question of canin Small the ground explosion celing the British mandate over Hill mine near Terre Haute, Palestine and freedom for the Holy Spring Ind., snuffing out the lives of eight Land. miners. Three others survived the Dr. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil, blast. assembly president, failed to effect 11 The miners were repairing and a compromise be improving the ventilating system of fore the the mine to prepare it for federal committee meetiinspection. Closed since the general ng. safety shutdown of April 1, the mine The Arabs denied had failed to pass the first federal that their proposal inspection. called for immedi-- a The disaster was the fourth serit e independence ous mine accident of the year. Mafor Palestine. They insisted they merejor catastrophe was the Centralia. of March 25, which 111., explosion ly wanted a full took a toll of 111 lives. Ten miners discussion of the Dr. Aranha were killed April 10 in a gas exploproblem and recogsion at Exeter, Pa., and 15 lost nition by the assembly of the printheir lives January 15 at Plymouth, ciple of ultimate independence. Pa. st Dooms Old Trees Underpass friends sat better I looking How much would we be, I insisted, with our surreys through a window on Lafayette with the fringe on top instead Square Just as the leaves reached of our automobiles and our the point where they screened Antrees instead of parking space? drew Jackson, sitting on a horse which somebody described as havA survey made by the highway ing two feet firmly planted (like a director of the District of Columradical) in the air. Soon the foliage bia. H. C. Whitehurst. shows that will come down like a hood, cover52,000 vehicles skirt the circle ing the skeleton branches which not counting buses and now are still showing through the every day, cars. It is estimated that in trolley green less than 10 years 68.000 cars a day Trees were on our minds for we will be nosing by. That is the reason had Just walked down Connecticut for the underpass. avenue, which for several blocks is The two circles operated being dfforcsted so that a tunnel upon were Thomas already Circle, an eight-poin- t can be drilled underneath Dupont intersection, and Scot Circle, Circle Washington is famous for its Since then the accident trees but of late years the automo- rate has dropped 75 per cent, the bile ha- - caused the destruction of commission reports. many of the finest. Widening of It is going to cost $3,800,000 to streets sometimes necessitates removal of trees. Frequently ancient operate on Dupont Circle and the odks, elms or ginkgos are cut down trees. and replaced with saplings Underpasses to take care of the triillic have burrowed under two of out circles already and no "my" circle Dupont (I live only three blocks from it). Is to experience a similar operation. It will never be the s;ime. Of course, Dupoil Circle is nut quite the same as it was when I first saw it three decades ago WASHINGTON. Prices of farm when it was the center of the social products declined about 1 per cent and diplomatic section. during the month ended April 15 after reaching record levels in I was bemoaning this "official according to the monthly vandalism" which robs these spots of their charm, as we looked out summary compiled by the bureau over the five varieties of rims in of a irricultural economics. The index of prices received by the park before us. One of our was 276 per group, a naturalist, identified the farmers in 1909-1average comelms as American, English, Scotch. cent of the index of Du'ch and Smoothleaf, not to men pared with a tion the horsechestnuts. maples, 280 and with 107 for the 1935-3beech, dogwood, a beautiful deodar average. Prices paid by fanners for proan ah, wh!ch he reminded us was the mystic tree of Yggdrasil. its duction materials and cost of living crown In the heavens and Its roots items, including interest and taxes, an upward trend which t continued in the nither world. mid-Marc- flowers. V.F.W. was the first veterans' organization to undertake the poppy sale on a nationwide scale. Entire proceeds of the sale are used for welfare and relief activities among veterans and their dependents, including an allotment to the V.F.W. National home. Houses 250 Children. The site of the home, now covering 640 acres, was the gift of Corey J. Spencer and his wife, Mattie Ebb Spencer, in 1925. The home WRECKS: Third for Pennsy In the eerie pre-daw- n hours, the third wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad's middle Pennsylvania di- vision in three months killed four persons and injured 34, eight seriously. The American, New York to St. Louis flyer, jojted Into rods of sheet steel protruding from the sides of two gondola cars of a moving freight train, the Impact ripping a tremendous hole in the side of the fourth car of the American and damaging the engine, mail car and another coach. No cars were derailed. A moment later another freight train ripped into the sheet steel protruding from the other side of the has been under way for many months. The index for these prices in was 230 per cent of the 1909-1average compared with 227 in averand 128 for the 1935-3age. This advance in the index for prices paid pushed farm parity mid-Apr- il mid-Marc- h prices slightly higher. Parity prices ore theoretical standards used by the government in determining levels at which it will support prices farm products. Increased prices paid by farmers occurred primarily in feed, clothing and building materials, although of 1 Iff fl I ZP o AVIATION NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER Frank Hartman, Denver real es- tate agent and a commercial pilot with 15 years of flying experience, combines his flying and selling skills to advantage. He recently closed a large ranch sale in a single day after showing the property to a customer from the air. The ranch buyers said they learned more about the property from the air In a half hour than they could have learned during a week riding g horseback. . . . After the Pacific ocean for 26,074 miles on a survey flight to Singapore and the Royal Netherlands East Indies in a Skymaster plane, Mrs. big DC-Mamie B. Nelson, 67, Is convinced she is "just as batty about air travel as my son." Her son, with whom she made the flight, is Orvis Nelson, president of Transocean Air Lines and vice president in charge of international operations for Philippine Air Lines. . . . Fred Richol-son- , farmer near Davis Junction, 111., finds it convenient to allow Roger Lace, local air enthusiast, to use part of his pasture for a landing field. The arrangement works out to their mutual advantage, Richolson finds, since Lace frequently makes trips to nearby cities for farm equipment. . . . Cranberry bogs in Massachusetts are being dusted and sprayed with a helicopter, purchased by National Cranberry association for use of its members. Airplane dusting, used for the first time last year, is being continued on larger bogs but the helicopter supplements its work on small and inaccessible bogs. criss-crossin- 4 badly-neede- d "There were no complaints received or arrests made for Intoxicated flying in Pennsylvania during 1946." That evidence of the lack of tipsy fliers is taken from the Pennsylvania Aeronautics commission's annual report on aeronautical violations. BUDDIES AID THEM . . . Funds derived from the annual Buddy Poppy sale will aid children and widows of at the V.F.W. National home in Eaton Rapids, Mich. Two of the children are shown here enjoying life in the nursery. cotconsists of about 22 family-siz- e tages, no two exactly alike in architecture and furnishings. There also is a $35,000 hospital constructed by the V.F.W. auxiliary in 1931. Approximately 250 children, sons and daughters of deceased or total- disabled war veterans, are living at the home. They receive the benefits of an ideal home environment, food, clothing and education. In return, the V.F.W. hopes only that these children will grow up to become useful and patriotic citizens. Children are divided into family ALEMAN: groups, each group occupying a cotCordial Welcome tage supervised hy a "house mothFirst Mexican chief executive er" who keeps strict watch over ever to make a state visit to Wash- their welfare. Wherever possible, ington, Pres. Miguel Aleman was the "house mother" is actually the given a cordial reception on his trip mother of one or more of the chilto the nation's capital. dren. As the personal guest of President Honor Navy Dead Truman, the visiting dignitary parEach year, as part of its poppy ticipated in a full schedule of events program and the Memorial Day'ob-servancarranged in his honor by the state, the V.F.W. places a giant war and navy departments and wreath fashioned entirely of popMexican embassy officials. ples at the Tomb of the Unknown In speeches before the Soldier In Washington and at the union and congress. President of Woodrow Wilson. World crypt Aleman urged Western Hemisphere War I president, in the National republics to assure "the independ- cathedral. Thousands of similar ence of each nation through the soli- smaller poppy wreaths are placed darity of all." at the graves of our hero dead The Mexican chief executive utithroughout the country by V.F.W. lized the visit to begin preliminary posts. discussions on an American loan. Another highlight of the organization's program is the presentation of a huge anchor of popples to the secretary of the navy. He, In turn, presents the wreath to the Peary Ship post of the V.F.W., an unit, for appropriate services on Memorial Day. At that time the anchor is cast into the ocean as a tribute to the men of the navy snd the bureau reported that "prices of marine corps who have lost their nearly every group of products lives at sea. bought averaged somewhat higher than the final figures for March 15,' based on quarterly reports from Cat Disgraces Himself more than 16.000 merchants." And Police Chief Owner Leading the general decline In meat animal prices, hog prices reOf all the BEAUMONT. TEX. ceived by farmers fell $2.10 a hun- cats In town, the one belonging to dredweight in the month to an aver- Police Chief Artie Pollock had to age of $24.30. Butterfat prices fell disgrace himself (and the chief) by 5 cents to 69 5 cents a pound and going to a local hotel and getting milk prices were lower because drunk. Lcaming that scraps of food of seasonal production Increases. from the hotel provided his three Wheat prices averaged 4 cents square meals a day, the cat decided lower and rye was off 34 cents a to Inspect the place. His trip, howbus) el. ever, was interrupted when some rascal give Kim a bottle of beer. ly AVERAGE PILOT The average airline pilot and copilot in the United States is 32 years old and has been piloting planes 4,859 hours. This is a part of the picture of the average airline pilot as produced by a Civil Aeronautics administration study looking toward possible reduction of the human element In air accidents. The program for redetermination of physical standards for airmen will take into consideration the physiological effects of extended occupation as an airline pilot and the possibilities of increasing air safety through use of pilot selection methods other than those of proficiency determination. The average pilot and weighs 165 pounds and is 5 feet, 10 Inches tall. There were fewer than three chances in 100 that he wore glasses, only 2.7 per cent requiring a lens correction. The group average for solo flying, 4,859 hours, included flying of all kinds and In aircraft of any description. During 1946 this group averaged 63 hours a month, 37 during daylight hours and 26 at night. CAA allows an airline pilot to fly 1.000 hours a year, an average of about 83 hours a month. will be lots gayer with U OME you in these pretties! Merry A morning glories decorate a practical apron, bandana, oven mitt. Simple stitches. Be haDDV while you work at these I Pattern 902 has transfer in these motifs; pattern pieces; charts. are 20 cents each. and of Patterns Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. Box 3217 San Francisco 6, Calif. Enclose 20 cents for Pattern. No Name Address CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. Earn t&Q day with a portable popcorn ma- c. chine! Complete mach. $135. Write for par-tiAlso popcorn, seasoning, baes, boxes. Blevlns Popcorn Co., Nashville, Tenn. SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC. TOMATO, CABBAGE, Broccoli Plants. 100 Onion plants. postpaid $1, 1500 collect $5.25. Sweet Spanish, Crystal Wax. 500 postpaid SI. 6000 collect S7 .50. Catalog. LAKE MEAD PLANT FARMS, Overton, Nevada. WANTED TO BUY WE BUY AND SELL Office Furniture. Files. Typewriters. Adding Machines. Safes. Cash Registers. SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE SSS South State St.. Salt Lake City. T'tah Buy U. S. Savings Bonas! To hold your loose uppers and low-e- ra comfortably secure all day and every day. try dentist's amazing discovery called STAZE. Not a "messy" powder! STAZE la pleasant-to-us- e paste, uet sac iure at druggist today I Accept no substitute! Hills All Dsy tf A 5 m. T17 4t.MMU H Moan Back I Ywr H3 BLACK LEAF 40 roost snd up along heat of fowls imeir body releases nicoiioe fumes and which kill chicken-lir- e feather-mileCap- - Brush saves nicotine. Applicator Insist on original faciory-teale- d packages to insure full strength. t tobicci CIEHICU CUPOUIIOK iNCoaroitTEO LOUISVILLE 2. KENTUCKY GIRLS! WOMEN! try this If you're e, On CERTAIN DAYS' Of Month. Do female functional monthly d In turn-ance- s make you feel nervous. Irritable, so weak and tired out at such time? Then do try Lydla K. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound to relieve sucb symp- n Farm- Product Prices Decline mid-Apr- million popples has been set for the 1947 sale. Made by Veterans. Buddy Poppies, made by dis abled ex - servicemen patients in government hospitals as a phase of their occupational therapy work, are distinguished by a green label copyrighted by V.F.W. French poppies, made by women and children of areas devastated in World War I, were used by the V.F.W. when, it Inaugurated the Buddy Poppy sale in 1922. The present plan was developed in 1924 to extend the relief afforded by the poppies to men disabled and needy but still capable of making the of 21 pre-daw- COSTS UP, INCOME DOWN mid-Marc- This presentation is preliminary to opening of the general sale of Buddy Poppies, which Is conducted an nually by the V.F.W. throughout the nation during the week preceding Memorial Day. A national goal re-sh- crucial Community cooperation aids home builders of Memphis, Tenn., in completing badly needed housing projects. These homes are typical of the low-coprojects completed by Wallace E. Johnson. On Practical Apron Poppy Sale To Provide Funds For Children of Soldier Dead ? By BAUKIIAGE A nalyst and Commentator. N. W., cuts his own timber, hauls it to his Street, Eye own sawmill for sawing, drying and Washington, D. C. then hauls it direct to his cutting, series is the a fourth of (This own building sites in size and inAmerican how describing amount wanted. So much waste is genuity is helping to solve one eliminated that the leftover lumber of America's biggest problems from a whole house can be hauled the C.I. housing shortage.) away in one wheelbarrow. hunThirty-fiv- e WASHINGTON. When brick couldn't be had in the dred new homes started in one year Memphis area, Johnson still manis a pretty good record for any He got brick on a swap basis community especially when aged. obtaining critical materials and the year is 1946, and the city, g labor for a concern Memphis, Tenn., had never started which used the items thus supplied more than 2,400 units a year before. Some two thousand of last year's to make brick for Johnson projects. "starts" were completed in 1946. If he couldn't find the mateNow in the spring of 1947 while rials he Deeded around Memsome communities still talk about phis, he went where he could and wish for housing, Memphis is buy them. He has sent emgoing right ahead finishing up the ployees by air all the way to the rest of the 1946 starts and underwest coast to pick up windows and doors, even paying retail taking more. The answer to this old southern prices for them when he had to. city's success in housing lies partly But Johnson couldn't do as well in the coopera- i tive attitude of as he does nor keep his costs to veterans so low without cooperation of city officials who the community. In Memphis the are very conscious of the vet-- e city repays builders of approved r a n s housing subdivisions for their expense in inand stalling utilities. The Memphis light, problem, gas and water division, which is to individpartly ual builders who publicly owned, has gone so far as have been will- to permit utility connections even when no meters were available. ing to make quite a number of houses price sacrifices, Thus, work long hours were finished and families were housed, without having to wait for SiLj and do whatever t meters. was necessary to the As a result of this cooperation overcome short- a6es of mate- Johnson last fall had completed 55 Baukhage houses which went to rials. Take Wallace E. Johnson for ex- Memphis vets for $5,250. Other low, $6,000 ample a builder who started in prices December, 1939, to construct one to $7,000, and even in the lowest house and who now has to his credit brackets Johnson tries for good deseveral thousand. sign. He switches roof lines or the He is devoting all his energy and set of a house on a lot, and utilizes ingenuity to housing veterans these other means to avoid the sameness days. It takes energy and ingenuity generally characteristic of rows of too, but this man who, during the houses in developments. Incidenwar, was completing a house for a tally he recently was awarded a war worker every two and a half prize by National Home Builders association for "Meritorious House hours has what it takes. For example, last September Design in 1947." when lumb'er couldn't be bought for The tenants appreciate this. Not love or money, Johnson bought land long ago one couple, the first tenwith standing merchantable timber ants in a new subdivision, gave a and a sawmill camp near Potts Sunday night supper for all of JohnCamp, Miss., close to Memphis son's workers the shipping clerks, This purchase made possible a timekeepers, the general manager, triple play which has paid oft in the truck drivers and all the people savings of time and money Johnson who helped build the house. News Gay Morning Glories BE A BUDDY H-So-mes 4 With some Thursday, May 15, 1947 THE TIMES- - NEWS. NEPHI, UTAH PARE TWO toms. It's jamout tot thlsl Taken reguPlnkham's Compound belpa larly build up reautanca axalnat aucb distress. Alao a great stomachic tonic I IMA WNU This Is the new , helicopter model designed and produced by Hell Aircraft corporation specifically for service on new helicopter airmail routes to be proposed by the post office department. AIRMAILER' . PIKKHAM'S VSPSSL W 20-- 47 . . . "Airmaller," a OWNF.R DIRECTORY An official directory of registered aircraft owners In each of the 48 states has been completed by Air Review Publishing corporation of Tex., under contractor to Civil Aeronautics administration. For the first time, an alphabetical listing of each owner by states is provided, supplanting the government's former method of listing aircraft by license number. The directory also includes the owner's address, and complete information bout his plane. 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