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Show NOTES FROM WASHINGTON The buereau of Mines has Uken measures to protectits plant at OAmarillo, Texas, which is the world's sole producer of helium. Ie was reported today by Dr. li. R. Sayers, Director of the Bureau, to Secretary of the Interior Harold Har-old L. Ickes. The Bureau, said Director Sayers, Say-ers, wants to insure that no interruptions in-terruptions will occur to operations opera-tions at the helium plant so that production of the vital gas and shipment to the Army and Navy for defense purposes may continue con-tinue on schedule. ', Guard towers, constructed of: steel frames and glassed in on four sides, are being erected at strategic points, and the office which was formerlyaccessible dir-, ectly from the highway is cow enclosed in a 7-foot woven wire fence. The Bureau has ordered officials of-ficials at the plant to keep the gates which lead to the grounds locked except during regular office of-fice hours, and to admit no unauthorized un-authorized visitors. STRANGE PLANT Tourists to Washington, D. C-and C-and along the Mohawk and Hudson Hud-son River junctions are warned to avoid collecting a strange plant which is a native onlyto Europe and Asia and which mysteriously appeared in these Eastern waters ilong the Atlantic Coast about 20 years ago. The mysterious plant, known as water caltrop or water chestnut, chest-nut, has bee giving control experts ex-perts ofi-the Fish and Wildlife Service and the U. S. Army Engineers En-gineers a hard time, according to asummary of activities recently recent-ly received by the Secretary of Interior. CRAB ADOPTS PANZER TACTICS The ordinary commercial crab armoured marine gladiator popular popu-lar among sea-food enthusiasts, today stood for the first time as employing panzar division tactics on oyster beds.. The oysters already are victimized vict-imized by a host of voracious foes who anaesthetize, bore, crush, and oterwise commit mortal mayhem may-hem upon them. Now according to A. E. Hopkins, in charge of the laboratory, comes the crab with tactics which resemble a combin-atin combin-atin of panzar attock, safe-cracking, jiu jitsu, and uatience. ASPEN CALLED WEED TREE Aspen replacing pine in many areas of the Lake States causes a loss in forest products, employment, employ-ment, and monetary incom as real as the loss in idle factories, says a report by the U. S. D&-partment D&-partment of Agriculture. The report re-port was prepare by the Forest Service. |
