Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 51]

SATURDAY, MARCH 8,

1947

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THE, FLINT SPOKESMAN: rile ~eiclly

| To Gall Police

~Holdup Men Had Scooped

| Up $61,230 When Cops
Arrested Them.

| DETROIT, MICH. ~ Two gunmen

~who scooped up $61,230 in an at-.tempt to hold up a downtown bank

'were nabbed within two minutes as]

the bank manager tricked them into
)sounding the burglar alarm.
| The men were captured at gun
~point by police as they tried to flee
jout the rear door of the bank, load-:ed down wWith money bags and a:eardboard box full of currency.
Nine employes and two custom~ers were in a branch of the Detroit
| bank when the two men, posing as
~customers, entered in midmorning.

ot | Suddenly they whipped.out revolv
lers and forced Robert Burns, bank
imanager, and 10 other persons into

- la corner near the vault.

Robber Presses Button.

They ordered Burns to open the
~vault. cage door, which was locked,
~but he said he was unable to do it
~alone and asked one of the bandits
'to-help. The unsuspecting gunman,
acting on Burns~ direction, pushed
la button as the manager turned the
lyault handle. The button was the
burglar alarm. *

As the bandits herded the 11 into
~the vault and. crammed,.money into
ithe cardboard box, police cars
~rushed to ~the scene, Two offieers
~arrived at the rear of the bank just
as the bandits started out. The latter surrendered without a fight,
| Police identified the men as Andrew Firth, 28, and his cousin, Richard Firth, 27, both Detroiters, and
charged them with armed robbery.
| Officers, seeking the driver of the
getaway car who fied when~ police

~approached the bank, took Rich
_ lice over prosecution,

ard~s brother, Woodrow, 29, into custody a few hours later.

| Admit Other Crimes.

| While the FBI conferred with poAndrew and
Richard related to Police Inspector
Marvin Lane the details of 26 robberies Lane said they admitted
icommitting since last July. He said
the men told of holdups of drug~stores, jewelry stores, laundries,
groeery stores and loan offices. in
ithe Detroit area _~ netted them
$14,600!" = ~'

Both men, Sane ai admitted
~grand slam~? that would end their
I career in crime. They hoped the
robeery ~would net them $200,000,
Lane said, after-which Richard said

he was going to buy a farm and |

~settle down.~~ Andrew said he

_ ~planned to return to the life insur
/

ance. business.

The bank is a member of the federal reserve system and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., making a holdup a federal violation.

Girl Wed in Church Where

Her Funeral Was te Be Held

GLENDALE, CALIF.~The church
in which the funeral of Lisa Wolff,
19, was to have been held three
years ago was the scene of her wedding recerttly to Milton J. Palmer,
23, former army private.

Miss Wolff was stricken with peritonitis in 1943 and lay near death.
Her. family, told she had only a few
~hours to live, arranged for her funeral, ordering a casket.

The girl was flown to Mayo clinic,
however, and recovered after hos
- pital treatment paid for by Bud Ab
bott and Lou Costello, the comedians.

Stray Holstein Cow Takes

Good Samaritan for Ride
SEATTLE. ~ Fred. J. Johnson
vears he~ll never approach a stray
ow again.

~NI Deputy sheriffs rescued Johnson

ve after a healthy Holstein had dragged

him more than.a mile down the high
way:
Officers corralléd the animal and

_ Johnson explained:

~Almost ~hit her with my car and
stopped to tie her up to a fence post.
She took off with me holding the
rope. Never realized a cow could
travel so fast.~ ~

Collie Saves Master From

Death by Garbon Monoxide
GLOUCESTER, N. J.~A small
collie, braving frigid winds to keep
a vigil outside a garage, was credited with saving his master~s life
after a neighbor noticed the dog and
decided to investigate. ~

Inside the garage, Mrs. Laura
Miller found. the.dog~s. owner,
George Geockler, 35, overcome by
carbon monoxide,,

~ police who remoyed him to a hospital where physicians revived him.

Masked Man in Restaurant,

It Appears, Wasn~t Burglar
BALTIMORE, MD.~Two central
district policemen spotted a masked
man in a downtown restaurant at 3
a. m.. and noticed that the waitress
usually there at closing time was
missing. They burst in with pistols drawn~only to discover that
the masked man was an insect ex:
terminator. Fumes from his spray
had driven the waitress into the
basement. ~ - -~~<

Suspect Boys of Threats
~Phoned to London Police

LONDON. ~ Scotland Yard
theorized that either a dangerous
maniac or a group of irresponsible boys were telephoning anonymous warnings that various key
buildings in London would be
blown up. In four days 21 such
calls have been received, but
there was no report of terroristic violence.

a hte summoned,

a

Robbery Vietim ~Profits *

~ From Attempted Holdup
LOS ANGELES, CALIF~. Mrs.
Nadine Rathbone told police that
two men attempted to rob her in
-her flower shop.
Her reply to the stickup order
was: ~If you need the money
worse than I and my four chil| dren, take it.~
Instead of taking her money,
~| they gave her $5.

Hand Without a Body
Nabs Girls in Night

Mysterious Events Are Puzzle |.
To Men of Science.

LANGLEY, ENGLAND. ~ One
night last April an 18-year-old girl
named June Buckland awoke, she
said, to find a tall, misty figure standing by her bed. She thought it
strange but, being a reserved girl,
she didn~t mention it to her family.

Even'so, the family soon got the

idea there was something unusual

about the 300-year-old house into
which they had just moved. Strange
knockings were heard. Strange
moanings and creakings came out of

nowhere,

Then one night last winter, June~s
brother, Jackie, 5, fell sick in the
night, Their mother, Florence, got
upto attend him. A hand gripped
her wrist~and, she said with a worried furrow between her eyes, there
was no body attached to the hand.

~Two days later,~ Mrs. Buckland
said, ~I awoke and there was this
misty, figure standing by the fireplace. I put my head under the bedclothes, but felt I just had to look
again. The figure was still there.~~

That~s the way things have been
ever since in the troubled household
of the Bucklands in this dreamy village near London,

Something pulls the bedclothes off
sleeping members of the family...
doors open and footsteps are heard
~but nobody comes in.... Edna
Shelock, 10, who lives with the Bucklands, found herself sleeping under
the bed one night. She didn~t know
how she got there.

The British Society for Psychic

Research said it planned to send a
man around,

Relates How He Survived

Being ~Beheaded~ by Japs
TOKYO, ~ An Australian soldier
told the war crimes court that he had

\that the bank robbery was to be a dived Mee 8: TED reece

attempt to behead him and eventually had crawled to safety after recovering consciousness buried in a shallow grave.

The soldier, Colin Fleming Brien,
23, was ordered to sit down with
his feet and legs in the grave, his
wrists were tied behind his back,
and a towel was tied over his eyes.
The officer, sword in hand, loosened
Brien~s shirt collar -and bent his
head forward.

~After a few seconds I felt a |

heavy, dull blow on the back of my
neck,~~ he continued. ~~I fell over on
my side, then lost consciousness.
When I regained consciousness, I
was lying at the bottom of the grave
underneath some wooden palings and
clods of earth. I had a large wound
in the back of my neck. I managed to crawl out, and staggered into
the jungle grass, where I lay all
day.~

After three days he reached Singapore.

Belt Saves Woman Hanging

From { ith Floor Hotel Ledge

PHILADELPHIA.~A thin, silken
belt of a negligee saved a 32-yearold blonde from possible death as
she hung precariously from an 11thfloor lédge of the fashionable Drake
hotel,

The woman, who identified herself
as Mrs. Helena Hall of Philadelphia,
was rescued 15 minutes after she
plunged through a closed window.
The belt caught on a hook and held
her suspended in midair, head downward,.Three men pulled her to safety.

Police said the woman told them
she was trying to throw a glass of
water through the window which
she thought was open. She lost her
balance and fell.

Thieves Get $600,000 Cash

And Gems in French Hotel
MAISONS-LAFITTE, FRANCE.~
French police. said that $300,000 in
American currency and jewelry
worth another $300,000 were stolen

from Mrs. Lucienne Denitez-Resach, -|.

wife of a Puerto Rican industrialist.

The. police said that burglars
broke inte the woman~s room at.a
hotel in this resort town while she
was at dinner and stole a casket
containing the banknotes, two platinum bracelets, a five-row pearl necklace and clips,

Auto Driver Forgets His Wife

And Sets Off Police Alarm
BEDFORD, PA.~A ~calling all
cars ahd stations~ alarm went out
over the state police radio system
to watch for a motorist speeding
eastward in a convertible coupe.
Stopped by troopers, the tourist
was surprised to hear that he had
~forgotten~ his wife in Bedford, 30
miles back. Sheepishly he turned his
car and started back to get his wife
and probably~as any married man
kgows~an ear beating. >

et of Kindness to
_ Stranger Rewarded

haired Hospital Receives Gift
Of $6 (5,000 for Charity.

CHICAGO.~Thirty-five years ago
a penniless stranger made his way
to Mercy ~hospital and asked to
see the mother superior.

~Sister, I am siek,~~~:he said. ~I
need medical care that may require
weeks or months. I -have no money.
I am not even a Catholic.~:
~The Sisters of Mercy took in the
Stranger, just as they had taken
many before him. He received the
best care the hospital could give and
several weeks later went on his way
in good health. The sisters marked
it down as a charity case.

They had forgotten all about the
~incident when, nearly a year later,
~a check for $250,000 arrived from
Paris, France. The check was signed

Yorker living in Paris with his wife.

Thompson wrote that the man the
sisters had treated was his friend.
~He added that ~he never had heard
of the Sisters of Mercy and was not
a Catholic, but that he wanted them
to use the money to treat others in
need. ~

Thereafter the sisters received
each year a check for $5,000~$165,000 in all, Thompson died in 1913,
but the checks continued to arrive,
signed by his widow, the former
Countess de Beau Repaire.

In 1930 the Sisters of Mercy erect~ed a nurses~ home near the hospital
and named it Ferris Thompson hall,
in memory of their benefactor.

One day recently Sister Mary
Therese, administrator and superintendent of Mercy hospital, received
a letter from a New York law firm
informing her that Mrs. Thompson
died last August 20. The estate had
been probated, the lawyers wrote,
and they were awaiting word as to
where to deposit the $200,000 Mrs.
Thompson had ~left the. Sisters of
Mercy in her will..

The money brought to $615,000 the
~return from one humane deed, and
Sister. Mary Therese said the final
bequest would be regarded as an
anniversary gift, commemorating
the 100 years since six nuns arrived
here from Pittsburgh to begin their
long and extensive service to the
community.

Radioactive lodine Helps

Patient With Gland Tumor
CHICAGO.~Radioaetive iodine~a

tered to a patient with a malignant
thyroid gland tumor brought ~~def
ment,~~ the Journal of the American
Medical association said.

An article in the Journal, describing the 25 year case history of
a male patient with a malignant tumor, said that treatment with radioactive iodine X-rays ~~pointed to an
arrest if not a regression of thé disease,~~

The compound, produced in large
quantities in nuclear chain reacting
piles, was given orally in the form
of sodium iodine in water.

The study by three New York investigators concluded that radio-active iodine /~~seems to be an effective
therapeutic agent in the control of
this type of tumor.~ The report
~was made by S. M. Seidlin, L. D.
Marinelli. and Eleanor Oshry of the
medical division and department
~of medical physics of the Montefiore
~hospital and the physics department
io Memorial hospital in New York.

sagaaeial ba Takes His

Life by Freezing to Death
| TOEYO.~A Japanese colonel ac
dered for nine days how to destroy
~himself and then froze to death at
the foot of Fujiyama, Allied head~quarters disclosed.

Col. Masao Kusonose, about to go
on trial for ordering the bayoneting
and shooting of 140 Australian. soldiers and some civilians on New
Britain, was found dead in his boy
d barracks.

Near the body was an open diary
in which the colonel wrote to the
end. His neatly folded overcoat and
carefully aligned boots lay nearby.

Entries in the diary showed that

tire period mulling over how to kill
himself.;

Two Children and Driver

Of Jeep Killed In Crash
' WHITE EARTH, N. D.~A man
and two children were killed and two
other children were severely injured
near here when a jeep being used to

through

about 15 feet into White Earth creek.
The dead were Lee Noakes, driver
and owner of the jeep; Ina Marie
Anderson, 8, and her brother, Monte,
5. ~The injured children were Lary
and Linn Noakes, sons of the driver.

by Ferris Thompson, a native New |

product of atomic energy~adminis--

inite. and lasting clinical improve.~

~cused of wartime atrocities pon-.

the Japanese officer spent the en-|

ae renee

~|; Money Is Bore,.:
| Comes Too Easy
Pe ~For This Man)

Dog-Track k Owner Has to
| Have Goilars Made From
| His Shirt Tails,

t LONDON. ~ Money always came
easily to Sydney E. Parkes, so eas~fly that at 65 he is: fed up. with
~being a Midas. At least he said as
much when London reporters found
him at home recently.

~~What~s the use of a big fortune~~
~Parkes~ income is something like
430,000 pounds a year ~ ~~when I
have to get my collars made of
material cut ftom my shirt tails?~~
he demanded gloomily, adding with
a soupcon of bitterness: ~Well,
perhaps you can understand how it}
feels to be rich.~ |

The reporters could not, but they

that making one pound every minute was one of those. things in life
that couldn~t be helped and had to
be put up with as stoically as might
be.

~T~d give every penny I have to
be 30 again,~ Parkes sighed as he
sank back in his armchair and
clouded the cireumambient air
with smoke from one of his 100
pipes. *

Owns Three Dog Tracks.

Parkes was ensconced beside the
fire in his Georgian home; Devonshire house, Wandswerth, which he.
had bought a few weeks previously
with its 28-acre estate, said tombe
the largest private property in the
London county council area. He
owns three greyhound racing stadiums and was bi interviewed
about a dispute between bookmakers and Wanhdswofth stadium over betting pitches, which
had just been decided in the high
court. It was during this talk he
revealed that his personal income
last year was 430,000 pounds.

~It mostly went in income tax,~
he said. ~I got 4,800 pounds on the
first 20,000 pounds, and after that
only 6 pence in the pound ~ 10,000.
at the most. The rest I didn~t even
see. ii

While Parkes pondered the eter
back across the ever-widening gulf
of time, no staying the flight, all
too swift, of the winged years,
his visitors departed and headed in
the general direction of Fleet street.
Being reporters, therefore skeptics
by nature and cynics: through daily
experiences with all and sundry,.
they harbored the suspicion that
their host derived at least a modi
edge that the hard-realities cf the
present were cushioned for bim in
a measure by his dog tracks.

Soft, Eh What?

Totalisator receipts at -Wandsworth stadium alone last year wete
3,250,000 pounds, of which Wandsworth stadium: limited received 6
per cent. In 1942, the company _ netted 70,000 pounds; 1943, 74,000
pounds; 1944, 89,000 pounds; 1945,
197,000 pounds.

~Pretty soft, what!~ soliloquized
Archibald. rae soft,~~ echoed
Percy.

At 27 Parkes | was a successtul
real estate operator. Before he built
the Wandsworth stadium 13 years
ago he had sold on one development in. seven months houses to the
value of 750,000 pounds. He put up
the stadium, he explained, ~~to. give
employment to 400 excellent workmen~~ who had served him well. His
intention was +o sell it and get out.
But he went on a summer cruise
and on his return foutid that the
venture was doing so.wéli he decided to stay in the greyhound
racing business for good.

Russ Beggar Worth Fortune

Had Saved 260,000 Rubles

MOSCOW.~A 71-year-old Moscow
street beggar~a former monk~was
discovered to have amassed a personal fortune of 260,000 rubles. (The
official ruble rate is 5.3 to the dollar, the diplomatic rate is 12 to the
dollar.)

Press reports said. Vasily Yefremovich Vasiliev, formérly a monk
from a monastery on Lake Ladoga,
had aroused suspicion. by~ begging
in the capital~s Yelokhov Square.

Upon investigation, the reports
continued, it was discovered that
from 1930. until 1940 Vasiliev was a
collective farmer and had a home
garden in a village near Vologda
but ~was not satisfied with this,~ and
came to Moscow to beg in 1940,

The paper said he had saved the
260,000. rubles in the six years since
and that the whole sum had been
~discovered.~ =>

Need Extra Bars to Keop

90-Pound Boy in Jail Gell
BOONEVILLE, KY.~A boy so

- slipping out was held for Pon grand.
j on a murder.

Gesity Coats Tits. Pt
said he ordered eke
por ager eter
in connection: with the fatal. shooting of the boy~s cousin, Price Little,
23, Lester weighs only 90. pounds.

The cousins and. four. other boys
were engaged in ~ shooting mateh,
the sheriff said, and the Littles became involved in an argument over
a watch chain.

nodded agreement with the notion

_ protected against it,

nal veritie: that there is no way |'

cum of consolation from the knowl
ing on new carpet binding. Starting

spnall -thed. eftph tate ~had. $0 bet
pdaced in his cell to keep) him from |.

| Lien Form of ~

~ Provides Adult Immunity

Thirty ~per cebt of the Américan |

people probably have had mumps.
without knowing it, result being
a high degree of immunity to epidemics of this common, but sometimes quite serious, diseasé of childhood, according to University of
Pennsylvania and Harvard ~university medical scientists under a contract with the surgeon geheral~s office of the army.

Mumps and measles usually are
paired as childhood maladies. Each
is caused by a ~specific filterable
virus. Both diseases afe very contagious. One virus presumably is as
widely. disseminated in the population as ~the other. Yet the studies
show that about 33 per cent of young
adults have a probable. acquired immunity to the disease indicating
some past infection of which they
were unaware. One attack of mumps
is believed to protect an individual
against further attacks of the virus for the rest of his life. Statistical studies have shown that whereas about 90 per cent of the American
population suffer from measles at
some time or other only 60 per cent
are victims of munips. |

The immunity of a péfson was
determined by the so-called ~~complemenfixation~ test of the blood
serum with mumps virus cultivated
in incubated chicken eggs, and also
by a skin test with similar material.
In this hidden reservoir of acquired

ity, mumps seetmns te bear
some likeness to poliomyelitis, also
a virus disease of.children. It ig believed that about 90 per cent of the
populétion have had polio in a subclinical form at séme time, with the
result that they are permanently

a ane
ee amr

Winter Dusk Hazardous
Thme for Highway Travel

During the ~fall. and early winter
months, 100: pedestrians are killed
in the three hours immediately after
sunset for every 24 killed in the three
hours: just before sunset, according
te records of the National. Safety
Council.

Early evening {s not only a period
of heavy automobile traffic, but: it
ig algo the titne when motorists have
the greatest difficulty in seeing. Motorists should not'be expected to ot
sume the whole responsibility for
safety of pedestrians walking along

ghways and other roads.

alk to the extreme left side of
the road: facing oncoming traffic,
pedestrians aré warned. Walk on the
une of the road if'there is ade
pry ne Sy Teac sation

rtf for a eae traffic before
starting to cross the highway. When
walking; along: the road at* night,
wear. something white or carry a
light so that you can be seen easily,
If it is necessary to travel along the
highway in a wagon at night, be sure
to display a light that is plainly yisible from both directions. ~- {:

Repairing Rugs i
~Frayed. edges, worn hems or
fringe~such damages ~as these are
often among the first to develop in
rugs. They can be repaired by sew
where the damage is deepest, cut
off the worn edge of the floor covering. ~Large shears or, if you~re cares,
ful, -a- single-edged razor blade or
knife may be used, and cutting should
be done from the wrong side, following a crosswise. or lengthwise yarn
as the case may be. Overgast the
raw edge. To sew on the binding, lay
its right side against the right side
of*the carpet, edges even. Using
a~heavy darning needle and carpet
thread- and working from the wrong
side of the carpet, sew them together, with slanting stitches. The needle
should come ~out through the~ binding-about one-eighth inch from. the
edge. Fold the ~, to the underside, ~arid. sew the loose edge to the
carpet: back, catching - only a few

yarns. of the.carpet; or you may
fabteh the binding with household
comment

~Searched ~ta: Vain
Searches rivaling those for the

Fountain of Youth and. the Seven
Cities of Cibola in North America
furnished a pretext for extension of
sie exps fermen Ge
e es: hun e
fabulous aatr of the Caesars. of
phe pae The | ean clyde of a
ous. Ejropean ~ léep in
Patagonia whose residents, known
extremely

America and in opening the way
for future. settlement of the region.

Giant Spud Gave Famed

2 Actress ss ~Lift~ for Show!
Some interesting stories have been}

told concerning food ~fads~ of famous people. One of these stories
concerns Sarah Bernhardt, the famous French actress, and her passion for giant-size baked potatoes.

Miss Bernhardt was scheduled for
a performance at Keith~s Hippodromé theater in Cleveland in 1917,
but shortly before curtain time she
wired John F. Royal, manager of
the Hippodrome, that she was too
ill to make/her appearance. Royal
knew that Miss Bernhardt, then 73
years old, was under constant medical care. One leg had been amputated three years before. So he
made elaborate preparations for
Miss Bernhardt~s comfort~even installing a kitchen range in her dressing room and borrowing the Hotel
Statler chef who had cooked for her
ona previous visit to Cleveland.

The chef had informed Royal that.
Miss Bernhardt had a great passion
for giant baked potatoes served with
big slabs of butter. So the grocery
stores of Cleveland were scoured for
Idaho titans. When Miss Bernhardt
arrived at the theater, she revived
a bit at her first sniff of baked potatoes, and quickly consumed two of
them. In the miiddle of her third
baked Idaho, the -great actress.
looked up, announced that she felt
better, and would make her appearance after all.

~Operation Crossroads~ Aid
To Ship Design, Says Writer

The atom bomb tests at Bikini

atoll must be regarded a8 ~~the most
widely misunderstood scientifie ex- |:

periment in all history,~ Philip W:
Swain, editer of the technical magazine, Power,
that Operation Crossfoads was
~brilliantly planned and managed,~
Mr. Swain said that the tests were
conducted primarily to ~~get points
on a set of curves,~ and that data
so obtained were worth many times
the expenditure. The intelligent. use
of these curves by the men who
build and operate the navy will be
worth many times the estimated
$100,000,000 cost, he said.

Asserting that ~~both Bikini tests
were brilliantly. planned and managed,~~ Mr, Swain said that while |
the air burst bomb. missed the target ship Nevada by 1,500 to 2,000
feet, falling astern and slightly to
port that ~~this will not greatly hamper the primary curve-plotting op- |
eration, based~on the measured di&- |
tance of ships from the actual
burst.~ =:

The editor~s own summary of. the
effect of ah air blast on today~s
typical warships was given as follows: up to one-fifth mile, une

~to one-half mile, heavy damage; to

three-fourths mile, moderate damage; to one mile, slight damage. He
estimated that the underwater bomb}
can sink ships up to 2,000 or even
2,500 feet away.

Striking Scenery

Nature has created striking effects in the Wurttemberg-Baden region of Germany. The great rift valley of the upper Rhine, part of
which forms the western border of
Baden, is a broad trench of fertile
farmlands, orchards and vineyards,
dotted with industrial towns. Be-.yond the Rhine gap, the wooded

hills that spread across Baden into
Wurttemberg present another type
of country, one of lonely lakes and
waterfalls, rocky gorges and the
solitude of the firs and beeches of
the Black forest. In this historic section of central Europe, old towns
and fined castles depict events
from Roman to late medieval
titties, when feudal barons struggled
for:-power. At Ulm, on the Danube
in~ ~the southeast corner of American-occupied Wurttemberg, the Austrian General Mack surrendered to
Napoleon: Baden~s Heidelberg, with
its farmious castle ahd university,
claimed: nearly 200,000 visitors every year. ~

Oscillating Bed.

An oscillating bed which aids infantile paralysis victims in breathing, and which public health officials
say may have many other uses in
treating respiratory diseases, is now
béing used in the treatment of polio
sufferers. The bed is mounted on a
motor-driven frame which an electronic drive see-saws in rhythm with
the patient~s normal breathing. The
patient may sleep in any position
without losing the effectiveness of
the treatment. Neither the bed nor

A clever rocker device eliminates
the jolt ordinarily present when an
oscillating bed changes its direction
of motica,

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To every action there is at aqual

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is the basic cause of fecc~!,~~ says
Dr. C. S. Cummings, ball'stics expert for Remingtom Arms company.

The gases generated by the burning of the powder in a_ shotshell
exert a force which pushes the shot
charge and wads out of the barrel,
Cummings said. In so doing an
equal force is exerted in the opposite direetion against the breechblock. If the gun is free to move
then the above law of motion tells
us that the weight of ~~charge~~
(shot, wads, and one-half the pow:
der) times its velocity equals the
weight of the gun times its velocity.
Thus the speed with which the gun
recoils is inversely proportional to
the ratio of the gun and charge
weights, 1, e., the heavier the gun,

the charge, the faster the gun recoils. B

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Pork Liver Helps in
Regulating Person~s Nerves

Pork liver, often neglected by the
housewife, is | worth almost its
weight in gold in food value, according to nutritionists. Lean meat
and liver of pork contain the B-complex vitamins ~ riboflavin, niacin
~and thiamine ~ which are essential in keeping the nerves on an
~even keel.
regulating substances that even a
slight deficiency may result in
_*nerves.~~ Other sources of supply
are milk, cheese, whole grains and
~meat,

When the family~s nerves begin to
get on edge, serve them a godd
meal of well-cooked pork liver,
| baked potato, green beans, whole
~wheat bread and milk, nutritionists
~advise. One servigg, or a fourth
|pound of liver, whether it is fried,
t baked, canned or boiled, provides
~an excellent supply of the B-comi plex vitamins. Although brining and
' smoking destroy some of these

\pound, spareribs supply lesser!amounts than do ham or shoulder
cuts because of the greater proportion of bone.

Only the lean meat and the
| liver of the hog, or about one-fourth
its total weight, supply these nutrients, The remainder of the carcass
has no value as far as B-complex!

r} vitamins are concerned,

Fireproofing Precautions

For fireproofing Christmas trees
and greens, weigh your tree or
| greens. For every four pounds of
| tree or other Christmas greens use
~One pound of ammonium sulfamate
~or calcium chloride. Put the chemi| cal in a large vessel and dissolve it,
| using one quart of water to each
i pound of chemical. Stir until thoroughly dissolved. Stand the tree or.
| greens in the soRition in a cool
~place and let it absorb the chemical solution. Many dangerous burns
tmay be prevented by fireproofing
children~s cotton clothes and other
i very inflammable cotton garments
~such as cotton flannel or other
| fleecy garments. To fireproof cotton
| articles, dissolve seven ounces of
| borax and three ounces of boric
vacid in two quarts of hot water.
| Stir until liquid is clear.. Dip dry, articles in solution until thoroughly
| saturated, Hang up to dry. They
~may be pressed with a warm iron; When nearly dry. When garments
{ate washed they should be dipped

~V-D Bats meee

riage is prohibited at least as long
as the disease is in the commu
Transplanting Evergreen
If you plan on landscaping your
yard with evergreen trees, these

Their roots, which contain a substance known as resin, must not be
left exposed to the air because the
resin will harden. This prevents the
tree from taking needed moisture
and nourishment from the soil because water will not dissolve the
hardened resin, and even though
the evergreen may appear to be in
good shape, it will die during that
same season or at the beginning
of the next growing season.

and. opposite reaction. This is one}.
of the so-called laws of mo~ on and

the slower it recoils, the heavier!

So necessary are these |

jmerve regulators, cured ham ~still |
}\4s a good source of them. Pound for.

called strepogenin, found im ~
proteins whica stimulate

growth of mice; a substance cals

Factor X which is ob~
liver and is necessary for the g
of rats on a purified diet; a tactot.
present in liver, fish meal and cow
manure which is needed by chickens
for growth ang hatchability when
they are on a yellow corn meal and
soybean diet, and a factor
licocaic, found in pancreas, which
prevents fatty liver in rats and dogs.

Whether these unidentified vitamins have any effects on human
beings. cannot be determified until
they have been isolated and obtained
in large enough quantities for cline
ical tests. e

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Variety of Ingredients

Adds to Salad Popularity

To. tempt the family appetites,
keep salads bright and attractive.
to the eye, as well as cold, erisp
and well flavored. Variety in the ingredients also helps to keep the raw
salad one of the favorite dishes atfamily meals. The best sources of
food values are the foods we eat,
not the ones we put on the table
and merely look at.

Chopped salads are_ favorites
with most families because a variety of odds and ends can be used
as ingredients, and the leafy vegetables are chopped in with the rest
and not merely used as a base for
the salad to be thrown away un
~eaten. While head lettuce is stand
ard in salads, watercress, spinach
and endive are all good greens fiche
er in vitamin A, that also me 6X.
cellent flavor to a tossed

To make salads the best
prepare them as close to pres
time as possible, and have them.
well chilled. Wash all the.

~dients carefully, but do not 1

~vegetables well
in salad. Use a

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them soaking in prongs 1
sors fot cutting or ch
foods, mix the valgae'~

add the dressing just befc serv~ing the salad,. avoid wilting. |

Cheap Glasses
Many poorly fitting and chen
glasses cause ocular distress and
headaches, according to the Journal
of the American Medical Associa
~tion. In discussing the harmful or

ry

) where they are usually used. They,
reduce the total amount of light

beneficial effects of the average sun
glasses~ on the eyes, the Journal
states: ~The average sun glasses,
obtained in drug and ten cent stores,
if sufficiently dark, are as a rule
comforting to the eyes of the avers
age wearer on an average bright
day, on the water or on the bedch,
en|tering the eyes. The idea that cer
tain makes of glass do. not transmif
the ~harmful~ ultraviolet - ~ light+is
mostly sales talk, as the ordinary,
white glass allows but little ulttaviolet light to pass through. In fact,
in. order to obtain passage for.

violet through a window pane'it~Hiag~

to be specially made for that:
pose. A certain amount of viol
light is beneficial to the eyes; if
_is for-this reason that vacations ard
~taken at~ the seashore and in the

~mountains, and in the winter-pa
tients are sent. many clitnes.~~

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Alaska is a land paradoxes,

Generally known as ~the ~
north,~ the territory offers a elim
that, in its variations,;

~bles the climate of the fio
United States. Indeed, most of the
territory lies within the north temperate zone. In spots, of course oe

tures range upward from 70

above. Alaska is known. too, er
course, as the ~land of the

sun.~ And, thanks to this character.

istic~the long summer day:
crops grow faster than they do ta

most regions in the states, and they

grow bigger.

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the world by a few
was launched at Erie, Pa.,
This ship, the iron barkentine
Michigan, was commissioned
next year for use on the Great
and saw varied service
many years as a patrol vessel,
ship and training ship duriug t
Spanish-American war. In 1905

name USS or epae ig was taken trom.

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transferred to a carrier in perl she
was laid up in Erie Harbor almost ~
exactly one ~undred years ater. Bosc
launching. 6

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