S h r C o l o t t t n C o u r i e r VOL. 44 C O L O M A , M I C H I G A N . F R I D A Y , A P R I L 30, 1943. NO. 39

LOMA THEATRE FIRE WAS BAD BLOW TO ENTIRE COMMUNITY

Bad Blaze Monday Morning Wiped Out One of Coloma's Most Prominent Business Places, Causing a Loss of $40,000 to the Theatre and $1,000 to the Loma Barber Shop-mFourth Bad Fire in City in Eighteen Months—Otitcers Are Investigating, Believing That a Firebug Was Responsible for Some of the Fires,

steel and concrete construction, as near fireproof as could be made at the t ime of its construction, with a cement floor and insulated walls. Only about a week before the f ire an inspection of the property had been made by insurance men who

8renounced the building as safe. Irs. Ethel Kilmark, manager of the

theatre, reports that before she left the theatre Sunday night she and the motion picture operator, R. Crawford, made sure tha t the elec-trical equipment and the oil burn-

"WHO DONE r r r

The above was the title of the show which was given at the Loma Theatre last Sunday afternoon and evening, and "Who Done It?" is the question that is uppermost in the minds of hundreds of people fol-lowing the destruction of the Loma Theatre early Monday morning, April 26, 1943.

Coloma. suffered another heavy loss by f i re early Monday morning of this week when the Loma Thea-tre building and its entire contents and the Loma barber shop and its equipment were completely wiped out by the fourth mysterious f i r e tha t occurred in the City of Coloma within the past eighteen months. The cause of none of these fires had not yet been ascertained but there a re suspicions of sabotage in each case.

The f i rs t of the f i res which arous-ed suspicion was the destruction of the foundry in Coloma on October 23, 1941, with a loss estimated a t $6,000. The second bad f i re was tha t at the Coloma Frui t Exchange, which occurred on March 15, 1942, with a loss of about $10,000. On April 22, 1942, a mysterious f i re caused a los of about $25,000 to the Michigan Shore Lumber and Sub-ply Co. On the morning of J a n u -a ry 15, 1943, another f ire destroyed a big barn and a score of head of f ine cattle and hogs on the f a rm of Dr. T. C. Tiedebohl in North Co-loma, the cause of which has not yet been ascertained. Then on the morning of April 26, 1943, the Loma Theatre and the Loma barber shop were wiped out by a f ire of un-known origin.

LOMA THEATRE FIRE LOSS

ESTIMATED AT $40,000

Loss of Barber Shop Owned by Ben

Zielke Estimated at $1,000.

To the majori ty of the people of the community, .the destruction of the Loma Theatre is taken as the most serious loss, for the theatre was the chief place of amusement for the residents of the vicinity, as well as f rom many surrounding towns.

The f ire which destroyed the Loma Theatre was discovered short-ly a f te r 3:00 a. m. on Monday morn-ing, April 26th, by Mrs. Louise Wheat, who was on duty as an op-erator for the' Michigan Bell Tel-ep . . of Coloma, who turned in the alarm. ephone company

lichiR, in thi e State Bank

At about the same time the f i re was also discovered by Herber t Winkler, night watchman, who has just re turned f rom a tour of the business district.

Both Mrs. Wheat and Mr. Wink-ler report tha t just before the f ire was discovered they heard a pe-culiar noise as tha t of the starting of an automobile, which was fol-lowed by an explosion which was heard for some distance. At first there appeared to be a light f lame from the rear of the building where the stage was located, but the blaze spread rapidly to the front of the structure. Two other explosions followed.

The f i re started in the rear end of the theatre near a side entrance which was used only in case of an emergency. The force of the explo-sion was so great that a heavy drape was hurled more than f i f ty feet f rom the rear of the building and a light reflector was found on Lo-gan street about 75 eet f r om the rear entrance.

The theatre building was of brick,

ing furnace were in good condition. They explained that there was noth-ing of an inflammable nature in the building aside from the oil furnace, which was in the opposite end of the building f rom which the f ire started, and that the oil had been turned off the furnace.

Loma Barber Shop a Total Loss

The equipment in the Loma bar -ber shop which was located in the theatre building and which was owned and operated by Ben Zielke as a total loss. Mr. Zielke managed to save several of his razors and scissors, but the barber chairs and other equipment were damaged be-yond repair. Also in the barber dhop was a quantity of laundry and men's and women's garments which had been left for cleaning and which had been returned to the barber shop but had not been called for by the owners. The loss is estimated at $1,000, partly covered by insur-ance.

Firemen Did Fine Work

The Coloma firemen and the vol-unteer firemen deserve much credit for the very efficient manner in which they handled this f ire and prevented its spread to adjacent buildings. At times sparks f rom the theat re were blown across the street, and the heat f rom the f i re threaten-ed other buildings. The postoffice building, which is ju&t south of the theat re building, escaped with but slight damage, and the Kolberg gro-cery bilding on the north suffered little loss. The windows on the north side of the State Bank of Co-loma building, where the telephone office Is located, were cracked by the severe heat. Buildings across the street became real hot and oc-cupants kept a close watch that the f ire did not reach them. The Wat-ervllet fire department, which is a l -ways ready to cooperate with the Coloma boys, was on hand to give assistance ,but the local department handled the situation without their assistance by laying four lines of hose to be played on t^e fire.

The Coloma firemen worked un -til late in the morning to supervise the work of guarding the ruins and clearing the street of the debris which had fallen on Paw Paw street, and later in the day they returned and took charge of the removal of some- of the dangerous walls which had been left standing, in order tha t nobody might be injured.

Postoffice Moved Out

Postmaster Neva J . DuVall and her assistants. Miss Mildred Sparks and Dee Halstead, took no chances on the loss of the government pro-perty. They were on the scene shortly af ter the . f i re started and took the precaution to remove al l of the contents of the .postoffice t o a place of safety un t i l r the f i re In the theatre was subdued. It was a big job for the postal employees but they did not complain. Of course this extra work caused a slight delay in the handling of the mall on Monday morning, but t h e patrons were very considerate and little complaint was made.

Theatre Loss Heavy; Plans Made to Re open

Mrs. Ethel Kilmark, manager of the Loma Theatre, Informed this pa-per th^ t It Is hoped that arrange-ments can be made so that the thea-t re can be rebuilt as soon as possi-ble and that In the meantime a tem-porary place may be found so that the business may be continued. The loss on the theatre building and Its contents Is estimated at about $40,-000, most of which is covered by Insurance.

There is no question In the mind of Fire Chief William Martin and Mayor Chester W. Hocker that the f ire was on incendiary origin and of a chemical nature. Members of the state police and the f ire mar-shal's department have been in Co-loma this week checking up on the fire, but as yet they have made no announcement as to their conclu-sions.

Mrs. Louise Alguire, mother of Mrs. Kilmark and owner of the theatre, has been spending the win-ter at St. Petersburg, Florida, and was advised of the loss on Monday, which, of course, was a great shock to her .

The Loma Theatre building was one of the most modern and f i re-proof buildings In the City of Co-loma. It was erected for the Ford garage by P. B. Friday, was of brick construction, and had a frontage of 46 feet on Paw Paw street and was 100 feet long.

The building was purchased by Mrs. Louise Alguire and was com-pletely remodeled Into one of the finest theatre buildings to be found in a town many times larger than Coloma. The auditorium of the thea-tre was 40 x 65 feet with a stage with a 26-foot opening. The theatre had a capacity for seating about 400 people. In front of the building was a lobby 20 x 16 feet and a room 12 x 16 feet which was occupied by the Loma barber shop operated by Ben Zielke. There was also an office room on the ft-ont which was 8 x 12 feet, and a canopy In f ront of the building which was 11 x 22 feet.

Fine Picture Equipment

The new Loma Theatre was op-ened on November 7th and 8th, 1935, with the very latest equip-ment that could be secured at that time. Since the opening there have been many changes In the interior of the building and In the entire picture equipment. New seats were Installed; the interior was complete-ly redecorated and other equipment added to make The Loma Theatre one of the most attractive motion picture houses In Southwestern Michigan, which drew many people f rom the twin cities, f rom Water-vllet, Hartford and many other points because of the many fine at-tractions tha t had been booked by the management.

History of Theatre

Much might be written of the history of the Loma Theatre, but let us i e brief in stating that the Coloma Theatre was established in the year 1913 by Clinton and Claude Alguire in the Baker building north of the Pere Marquette railway; in the year 1917, the management of the theatre was taken over by Mrs. Louis Alguire and Mrs. Leona Vogt. Following the death of Mrs. Vogt, the business was taken over by Mrs. Alguire and has since been operated by her and her daughter, Mrs. Ethel Kilmark, who have made a marked success of the business. The theatre in the Baker building proved such a success that the crowded quarters were outgrown and larger quarters were needed. It was then that the Ford garage building was purchased and remodeled into the Loma Thea-tre building which was destroyed last Monday morning.

LOMA THEATRE COLOMA, MICHIGAN

We Thank You All!

We with to ezpr«tt our very sincere thanks to the members of the Coloma and Watervliet fire de-partments and the volunteer firemen, the Goloma telephone exchange operators and all others who volunteered their services in the fire which destroy-ed our theatre.

We wish to give voice to our appreciation for the many expressions of symathy by our friends and to thank all of our patrons for their loyal support.

We hope, as soon as possible, to be able to secure quarters for the reopening of our theatre.

Sincerely,

MRS. LOUISE ALGUIRE,

MRS. ETHEL KILMARK

Edward Velek in Navy Edward J . Velek of Coloma was

recently inducted into the navy and has reported to the U. S. Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, Ills., for twelve weeks of "boot" training.

Biff Loss to the City

The burning of the Loma Theatre was a distinct loss to Coloma and vicinity, aside f rom the financial loss, as it supplied the people of the community with wholesome en-tertainment when there was nothing else to attract the people to Coloma. The management of the theatre was always among the first to contribute to any community enterprise and had been very active since the war started In the sale of War Savings Bonds and Stamps.

Second Theatre to Burn

The loss of the Loma Theatre was the second loss that Coloma has sus-tained In a theatre fire. In the year 1913, a small theatre which was op-erated by Eddie Burgan and lo-cated in the old Baker building north of the Pere Marquette tracks was destroyed by a fire which also destroyed the Wm. Grant shoe store and building. The Baker building was later rebuilt and was the first home of the Coloma Theatre, and the William Grant building was al-so rebuilt and Is now occupied by the Town Tavern.

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Recreation Center Gets Off to a Good Start

Civic Association Endorsed Plan at

Meeting: on Monday Evening

The proposed Youth Center move-mynt in Coloma was given the hearty endorsement of the Coloma Civic Association at Its monthly meeting at the Hub restaurant on Monday evening, when Hon. Mal-colm Hatfield, Berrien county's judge of probate was the guest speaker.

In the absence of W. L. Alwood, president of the Civic Association, Charles Kelley presided. Rev. H. B. Loom is, pastor of the Congrega-tional church, who is deeply inter-ested In the youth movement, was the first speaker. He outlined the plans that have already been made, stating that the Coloma Hotel build-ing would be made available for the Youth Center when the plans are completed. He stated that volun-teers have agreed to place the lower floor of the hotel building in shape for the use of the young people and that it was estimated that the sum of about $500 would be necessary to carry the project through the first year. It is proposed to raise this money by volunteer subscriptions, several of which were made Mon-day evening. It is planned to have the Student Council of the schools in charge of the programs at the center when it is under way.

Judge Hatfield complimented the people of Coloma in the action they have taken In the youth movement, declaring that the supervision of children is of the utmost import-ance and suggested that the high chair Is far more important than the electric chair. He also cited the decrease in juvenile crime in Ber-r ien county over a period of years. At one time Berrien county stood third in child delinquency in the state and now it is in the twelf th place. He stated that now that so many parents are engaged in war work It Is more necessary than ever tha t some organized program be made for their children af ter school and evenings. Judge Hatfield also spoke on a number of other timely matters that interested those who were present.

Anyone who is interested In mak-ing a contribution for the Youth Center movement may do so by calling Rev. Loomis or Kenneth Miller.

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YOUNG PORKEES NEED CARE

Seventy-five per cent of all p ig losses occur within the first week af te r farrowing, according to hog specialists of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

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Kay Smith, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Smith, is able to be out again a f te r being seriously 1111 with Intestinal flu.

Labor Placement Center Established in Coloma

Coloma Civic Association Will Co-

operate With Farmers in Securinr

of Needed Help.

Under the auspices of the Coloma Civic Association a farm labor place-ment office has been established. The work of this office will be to help coordinate the demands from the grower for help and the supply of labor from the migrant groups and from the community Itself. The Coloma placement office will work in close cooperation with the exist-ing movement which has Its central office in the county agents depart-ment.

Each grower in the vicinity re-ceived recently a questionnaire from the state college requesting them to state their needs for fu ture labor. The directions for the use of this form were that each grower would bring the form to the nearest place-ment center to be filled out. Their needs would be then filed and as the labor was available would be met thru this agency. To date there has been little response on the part of the farmer and this Information is vital to a satisfactory solution to the labor shortage. The grower is urged to bring his blank form to the office of the placement center as soon as possible or come in to the office and get another if necessary. This service is without cost to the farmer and should prove to be of the utmost help in securing proper labor.

The Civic Association committee In charge of this work is composed of Kenneth Miller, John Walters, Fred Lombard and Matt Steffen. The committee has secured the of -fice of Eric Kerllkowskl which Is situated on Highway 12 just west of the stop light. Af ter a short period of organization this office will be open to receive calls for needed labor. The management of the placement center will In the next few weeks contact all of the farmers possible in order to speed up the registration before the press of work begins. The office wishes to help every farmer and the only way that can be done is to have the informa-tion for which we ask. Don't wait till you need help to bring in the form. Get it in now . . . take or send it to Kenneth Miller, Coloma Fruit Exchange or H. B. Loomis, manager of the Placement Center.

A ( V i > ; ! U ( i A . i N M K ; i V c » i W

Maj. John L Smith of the U. S. Marines has 19 Jap planes to his creditr-Have you as many War Bonds?

Show all our American boys that you're doing your part on the home front to win the war. You've done your bit; now do your best—Buy more War Bonds.

VxStTrpuwryDnft,

0 . E. S . 1 0 HOLD V

ION IN

Welding School Has Place for More Trainees If You Are Interested In This Course

Consult Supt. W. L. Alwood or

Dorl Sawatzki.

Free training in acetylene welding is still available for men and wom-en of this area at the Sawatzki Welding Shop in Coloma, with class-es three nights weekly for a period of twelve weeks. Many already have availed themselves of this op-portunity for training In war work and have been placed in essential Industries by the United States Em-ployment Serice or by the trainee's own initiative. A few vacancies in the classes make it possible for more trainees to enroll at once, and other openings occur almost every week as those who have been in training complete their courses. The t ra in-ing classes run continuously and trainees may enter and complete their work as rapidly as vacancies occur. It is not necessary to wait a single day to enroll.

Women especially are needed for war work and immediate employ-ment is practically sure for those who are trained. The instruction is individual in nature and the trainee may advance as rapidly as his capabilities permit, under the skilled guidance of the instructors and the use of modern welding equipment. All courses are state approved and there is no tuition fee, the only requirements being a willingness to learn and fai thfulness in attendance.

The welding courses are sponsor-ed by the Coloma Public Schools, approved by the State Board of Con-trol for Vocational Education, Lan -sing, and by the United States Em-ployment Service. William L. Al-wood, Superintendent of Schools, is the local director; Dorl Sawatzki and Tom Hembree, skilled welders at the Sawatzki Welding Shop, are the instructors. One class meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday eve-nings and the other meets Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings, each week, f rom 7:00 p. m. to 11:00 p. m.

If interest in securing this t raining by men and women of this area con-tinues, the courses will run Indefin-itely. Prospective trainees should contact Superintendent W. L. Al-wood at the Coloma school offices. Dorl Sawatzki at the Sawatzki Weld-ing Shop, or the United States Em-ployment Service in Benton Harbor. This should be done immediately, as trained workers are essential to the successful prosecution of the war.

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KEEP DOGS UNDER CONTROL

Notice is hereby given to all dog owners that they must not permit their dogs to run at large as much damage Is being done to Victory Gardens. The owners will be held responsible for any damage done to gardens by dogs.

Notice is also hereby given to boys that the firing of air rifles is pro-hibited, and that boys found damag-ing property with their rifles will be arrested and turned over to the courts.

CHESTER HOCKER, Mayor of City of Coloma

Fine Program Prepared for 34th An-nual Meeting at High School on Friday Afternoon and Evening, April 30th.

Coloma Chapter No. 307 O. E. S. will have the pleasure of enter ta in-ing the Berrien County Association Order of Eastern Star at the "Vic-tory," or 34th annual session at the Coloma high school auditorium on Friday of this week. There will be an afternoon and an evening ses-sion, fine programs having been ar -ranged for each meeting.

Local Chapter Officers

The officers of Coloma Chapter are—Emma Clark, worthy matron; William Wood, worthy patron; Florence Watts, associate matron; Orrin Schaus, associate patron; Ger-trude B. Stratton, secretary; Emma Mast, treasurer; Elsie Paul, conduc-tress; Evelyn Butzbach, associate conductress; Mattie Newton, chap-lain; Marian Davidson, organist; Beatrice Wood. Marshall; Harriet Whitney, Adah; Irene Stoltz. Ruth; Florence Davis, Esther; Alice L. Arent, Martha; B e r t h a Carter ,Electa; Mabell L. Wolff, warder; Peter Clark, sentinel.

The following were the commit-tees named ot arrange for the "Vic-tory" session: Arrangements—Emma Mast, Marian Davidson, Violet Han-son, Adelaide Brown, Mabell Wolff, Evelyn Butzbach; decorations—Edna Morlock, Emma Clark, Elsie Paul, Florence Davis; reception committee —Past matrons of Coloma Chapter, Nancy Tiedebohl, chairman; proper-ties committee—William Wood. Bea-trice Wood, Orrln Schaus. Bertha Carter, Peter Clark; program com-mittee—Elsie Randall and Adelaide Brown.

County Officers—1942-43

The following were the county of-ficers for the year 1942-43—Presi-dent, Gertrude Stratton, Coloma; 1st vice president, Wllma Boone, Buchanan; 2d vice president, John Klipp. Watervliet; 3d vice president, Emma Clark, Coloma; secretary-treasurer, Helen Adams, Three Oaks; chaplain, Wahneta Lindt, Berrien Springs; marshall, Adele Wasson, Niles; organist, Margaret Crampton, Benton Harbor; sentinel, John Mc-Dowell, St. Joseph.

Afternoon Program Call to order by President Ger-

trude B. Stratton; "America;" Flag Service by Adele Wasson, assisted by Beatrice Wood and Elsie Paul; Bible ceremony by Mattie Newton; invocation by Waheneta Lindt; re-ception of distinguished guests; ad-dress of welcome by Adele Criplean; response by Rev. H. B. Loomis; in-troduction of past presidents; read-ing of minutes; roll call of chapters; chapter reports; miscellaneous bus-iness: election of officers; musical selection by Marian Davidson, ac-companied by Marjorie Furman; quartette, Coloma high school s tu-dents; address by Frances Reed Clover, worthy grand matron; me-morial service by Niles chapter; an-nouncements: ad journment for sup-per.

Evening Program

Musical program by Coloma high school band; formal opening of Co-loma Chapter No. 307; Introduction of distinguished guests; address of Worthy Grand Matron Frances Reed Glover of Midland; exempli-fication of ritualistic work by the following officers—Worthy Matron, Emma Clark of Coloma, assisted by worthy grand matron; worthy pat -ron, Claude Yates, Watervliet, as-sisted by William Wood of Coloma; associate matron, Sarah Smart, Ben-ton Harbor; associate patron, Ar -thur Saathoff, Niles; conductress. Alberta Krager, St. Joseph; asso-ciate conductress, Genevieve Blx-by. Berrien Springs; secretary, Eva T. Leonard, Benton Harbor; t reas-urer, Helen Adams, Three Oaks; chaplain, Hattie Haskell, Watervliet; Marshall, Nettie Moyer, Niles; or-ganist, Marian Davidson, Coloma; Adah, Eleanor Merrihew, Benton Harbor; Ruth, Mabel Knapp, Bu-chanan: Esther, Leona Ludwig, St. Joseph; Martha, Orpha Andrews, Buchanan; Electa, Helen Seeley, Three Oaks; warder, Mary Hoop-ingarner. Berrien Springs; sentinel, Peter Clark, Coloma; soloist. Bertha Woodward. Coloma; floral degree, Welcome F. Mason Chapter 296; closing of Coloma Chapter No. 307; reports of committees; installation of association officers; "God Be With You 'Till We Meet Again."

Supper for those attending the convention and others who wish will be served a t the Coloma school promptly at 6:00 p. m. Reserva-tions must be made with Mrs. George Stratton or Mr. W. L. Al-wood.

Name Local Stations For Rationing Board

Places Have Been Named at Co-

loma, Watervliet, Millburg and

Riverside.

The establishment on May 1st of ten sub-stations In the north end of Berrien county to relieve crowded conditions at the rationing head-quarters in St. Joseph and to better serve the public, was announced by Leslie Speese, coordinator for the Berrien County rationing board and the civilian defense council. Volun-teer workers from civilian defense units were given instructions at a meeting at the city hall in St. Jo -seph this week and they will be assigned to the ten sub-stations. Persons in each of the ten desig-nated districts will be able to se-cure their gasoline and kerosene r a -tioning books.

Rationing board officials are anx-ious to serve the public bu t at the same time they would like to warn applicants to be more careful In making ot their applications. Many times the applications are made out wrong and the time required to make the corrections causes much delay. The new system to be s tar t -ed In May Is expected to relieve the crowded conditions at the St. Jo -seph office and also will be a great convenience to residents of the rura l areas of the northern part of the county.

New Sub-Stations Named The new sub-rationing boards will

be as follows: 1 — Riverside — Rosenberg &

Forbes. 2—Watervliet —Watervliet Hard-

ware store. 3—Eau Claire—Eau Claire Frui t

Exchange. 4—Sodus—Sodus Frui t Exchange. 5—Coloma — Coloma Frui t Ex-

change. 6—Millburg—Millburg Frui t Ex-

change. 7—Stevensvllle—Berrien County

Frui t Exchange. &—Baroda—Prlebe Frui t Package

company. 9—Bridgman—Bridgman Farmers

Exchange. 10—Arden—George Stover's store.

WILL COLLECT TIN CANS

IN COLOMA ON MAY 5

Announcement is made by Mayor Chester Hocker that the collection of tin cans which have been saved by housewives will be made In the City of Coloma on Wednesday, May 5th. Collections will be made by the city truck. It Is Important that all tin cans to be picked u p must be clean f rom rust, tha t the labels must be removed and the cans set out In front of the homes where they can be picked up without delay.

Boat Service Will Mean Much to Local Resorts

The Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Company, which owns and operates the S. S. City of Grand Rapids be-tween Benton Harbor, St. Joseph and Chicago, has received formal authorization to operate the steam-ship this season by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

The 1. C. C. authorization was granted the steamship company which satisfied the federal commis-sion that there is "immediate and urgent need" for the Twin City-Chicago boat service.

The entire resort district of South-western Michigan, and especially Coloma. Watervliet. Paw Paw Lake and other resorts will be part icu-larly fortunate in having boat ser-vice. as it will give war workers and vacationists throughout the Chi-cago area an opportunity for excur-sions and to reach nearby resorts quickly and easily. Resort owners in Michigan report an unprecedent-ed number of Inquiries for summer cottages and resort reservations and all indications point to the greatest season in history in spite of the cur-tailed use of automobiles.

Last season the City of Grand Rapids left Chicago every forenoon, arriving here at 1 p. m. Returning to Chicago, the ship left at 5:30 p. m., making moonlight excursion trips out of Chicago. Daylight ex-cursions f rom here were featured Saturdays and Sundays and were particularly popular with organiza-tions and clubs. The same schedule is understood to be contemplated this season.

The City of Grand Rapids la moored at the Central docks, and work of outfit t ing the ship for r e -sumption of service is expected to begin shortly.

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Bay Detenu BonOr

D i t t t h e a t r e W A T E R V U E T

SOL WINOKUR. Manager Shows Dally 7:15. & 9:30—Sun. con.from 4 Admission: Adults 80c:ChlIdren l ie . Tax Included. . Comfortably Cool.

Friday - Saturday April 30 - May 1 See the first Chapter of "Gang Baiters"

Double Feature Roy Rogers No, 1 fiowboy In

{tRidin Down The Canyon" plas "Jait OffBroadway"

You do not have to go to the front to fight for your country. You can serve just as well by Investing your money in War Savings bonds.

CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our apprecia-tion to our fr iends and neighbors for the floral offerings, kindness and sympathy during the sickness and death of our wife and mother and also wish to thank Rev. Loomis for his comforting words and kind-ness.

OSCAR ERICKSON AND FAMILY

Sun.-Mon.-Tues. May 2 • 3 • 4 2 First Run Attraclons

"Reveille With Beverly" Plus

"At The Front" March of Time Mr. and Mrs. America

Wed. - Thurs. May 5 • 8 Double Feature

"Between Ua Girls" Plus

"Manilla Calling"

Friday - Saturday May 7 • 8 K. Grayson and Van Heflln

"Seven Sweethearts" And

"Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Qneen" 2nd Chapter of "Gang Buatera"

THE COLOMA COURIER, COLOMA, MICH.

© G R E G O R Y

THE STORY SO FAR: Ann Lee and Cole Cody, benefkiarlei under two Identi-cal wills of Old Dill Cole, (ought to dli-cover who had fired the fatal bullet at Old Dill. Suspicion centered around Ranee Waldron, who posed a i Old Bill'i

A C E S - H O l E ^JACKSON GREGORY

nephew, and wai living at the ranch when Ann and Cody arrived. Doc Joe and the Jodce were returninK to town from the ranch (each with a will In hit pocket for lafekeeping) when they were waylaid and ahot by a masked bandit

W.HU. RELEASE

whom they recognlted a t Ranee Wal-dron. To divert suspicion. Ranee killed his accomplice, Tom Goueh. Mscn-while, Cal Roundtree had discovered Old Doc Joe still lived.

Now continue with the story.

CHAPTER XVIII

Those were the days when Ann Lee. remained in the big, still old house. She moved softly through the dim rooms, the shades drawn against the glowing outside heat. She trailed her fingertips along table tops, along the backs of chairs; she smoothed the time-darkened walls with a palm of her hand. " I love you. Old House," she sometimes whispered when quite alone. "You've got your secrets, haven't you, Old House? All sorts of memo-ries; heaps of 'em. Good ones, and bad ones, too, I bet! Dear old Early Bill was young once here, wasn't he? What was he like then. Old House? Why can't you tell me? And who was 'Sylvia'? Did something happen to her, did she die, long and long ago? When she was just a young girl like me? And did young Billy Cole, before he got to be old Ear ly Bill, love her terribly? Did she love him, too, and was she, oh, so faithful and true to him?"

Dear, dead, faded rose leaves of romance, these were what she was finding everywhere. Folks thought that they knew old Early Bill from the crown of his ragged old Stetson to his spurred boot heels—but they didn't know him the way she did— the way "Sylvia" had known him when both were young.

" I love you. Early Bill! You're an old darling, that 's what you a re !"

And sometimes, alone in an early morning hour or in a hushed twi-light, she would stand or sit very still, and would whisper,

" I know you a re what folks call 'dead, ' Early Bill—but I don't be-lieve you've really gone away, not for one minute! I can feel you right here somewhere. Why, you're even near enough for me to reach out | and touch—if only I could see you! And is Sylvia with you, too? You're laughing. Early Bill, you old scampi I know you are!—Oh, why couldn't 1 have come sooner? Why couldn't I have known you?"

She wandered up to the three pines. Early Bill's beloved pines un-der which that part of him which no longer lived lay at rest; the body of an old man, wearied, now resting. She put her a rms as far as she could around the biggest of the pines and pressed her cheek against its rough bark. Those long, long years ago young Bill Cole and Sylvia had loved to loiter there together. Sylvia loved dawns, too, the way he did. But somehow never could little Ann Lee feel his nearness here as she could in the patio or under the red-tiled roof.

And it was in the patio of early mornings and in the summer magic of the long, lingering twilights that Ann Lee and Bill Cole Cody grew into the pleasant habit of meeting, to speak little, to dwell in a warm awareness of each other that was a glow like that lying about them over the hills and valleys; some-t imes they looked at each other, each seeking what lay deep down in the other's eyes, a little searching their own hearts. Aunt Jenifer spied on them at times from a safe, se-cre t distance, then went her quiet way smiling.

Thus they had been sitting on a particular evening, with even fewer words and with longer glances be-tween them than ever before, when three occurrences burst upon them with the effect of sudden, unrelated and unexpected explosions. They had heard no sound of footsteps, so en-wrapped were they in the concerns of their world which at the moment was far away from their immedi-a te surroundings as was the s tar f rom which the girl's eyes came now so swiftly to try to read through the shadowy half-light what was written on his face, when of a sudden Por-flrio stood before them.

"Don Codito!" he burst out in some tremendous excitement. "Come quick! For the love of God, Senor, come as fast as lightning! No, no, no! Not the senorita! You a re to come alone. You won't be-lieve it—I cannot tell you—it is a miracle, Don Codito!"

•"Are you drunk, Porfirio?" snapped Cody.

Porfirio caught him by the sleeve and fairly heaved him up from his place at the girl's side and willy-nilly, short of a fight. Cody had to accompany him some few steps. Then Porfirio began whispering in his ear; and then Cody understood and went willingly enough, hurrying long-stridedly, eager and glad that one sequence of a tragi-comedy, a farcical one at that, was at an end. At the darkest corner of the house where a groat live oak almost swept the ground with its lower branches Porfirio brought him to Doc Joe.

When almost immediately Cole Cody came rushing back to Ann Lee. all but breathless, he found her standing in the patio, her slight body rigidly held, her hands at her sides, her chih lifted, her eyes on the stars. She hadn't known that he was really coming back at all; Por-flrio's abrupt appearance had star-tied her. she was vaguely frightened —and for some reason her heart was pounding.

"Ann! Something^ wonderful! Lis-ten, Ann—don't let it bowl you over. Come into the house; quick. And get Aunt Jenifer. There 's some-thing I want to tell both of you; i t 's just about the most wonderful news—you won't be able to believe It."

Aunt Jenifer ' s appearance must have smacked of magic ; there she was as they came, hand in hand, into the lamp-lighted living room.

He released one of Aim's hands then and took one of Aunt Jeni-fer 's. She saw how earnest and eager he was ; she said quietly,

"All right, Cole. I t ' s something

to surprise us, but we won't be silly about it. especially since it 's good news. We can take heaps of that, Ann and I . "

When he told them, Aunt Jenifer sat down right in the middle of the floor; Ann reached out and clung tight to him and didn't seem to note that he had an a rm about her.

Then Doc Joe came in. Jenifer scrambled to her feet and

kissed him. Ann Lee deserted Cole Cody and put both arms about Doc Joe and gave him a mighty hug.

"Oh, Doc Joe! Doc Joe ! " she kept saying over and over.

Doc Joe beamed all over. He made them each a bow; he kissed first Jenifer 's hand, then Ann Lee's.

"Ladies!" he exclaimed throati-ly, his face red. "I never thought anything could make a man so hap-py! It would have been worth it to be dead for sure, just to know that you cared like you do! I 'm power-ful happy and proud. Proud, la-dies—shucks, that 's no name for it ."

"Aunt Jenny!" cried Ann Lee. "Listen!" cut in Cody. "Doc Joe

wants us to hide him a little longer; for only a few minutes or a few hours, I don't know. He knows a lot about Ranee Waldron; he'll tell you what it is. And while we didn't

Cody strikes.

struck the way lightning

know where Waldron had gone, he knew and was having him watched all the time. And he knows that Waldron is on his way right now to the ranch and ought to be here any minute. So it 's up to us to get Doc Joe under cover in a hurry, then be ready for Waldron's coming."

"That 's it, my boy, that 's i t !" said Doc Joe hurriedly. " I don't want any beans spilled until I do the spilling. Get me out of sight, can you, ladies? I'll try to do a mite of explaining to you while we wait. And that Waldron dog will be show-ing up in a jiffy. He's not to know I 'm alive until I can up and tell him he's as good as dead. Whcre'll we go?"

"Into our rooms!" said Aunt Jeni-fer, and started leading the way. "That 's the safest place." Then she said, "Shush!" and all stood at at-tention, straining their ears. Through the silence which shut down about them they heard distinctly the thud of hoofbeats not too far away.

"Hurry along," said Cole Cody. "I'll be in the main room. If i t 's Ranee Waldron, I'll find out what he wants."

Ranee Waldron wanted the ranch and meant to have it and already counted it as good as his to have and to hold or to coin into good hard money and toss where he liked, the way the wind tosses dead leaves.

He didn't knock; why should he, coming home, returning to his own place? He shoved the door open and strode in; his thumbs were cocked into his belt, his hat was far back on his thatch of hair, his eyes were bright and arrogant as they con-descended to traffic with Bill Cole Cody's.

He was wearing riding gauntlets, new, ornate and expensive ones. His hands looked white and well cared for, the hands of a gambler whose fingers knew each card in the deck. He drew his gauntlets off, whipped them against his leg, tossed them along with his hat to the big table and sat down in the old com-fortable chair before the fireplace. "Still hanging around, eh, Cody?"

The sight of a reptile, of a taran-tula, say, of a rattlesnake, of any spider or snake — with some men it's a naked knife—can move a man tremendously, shooting into his blood a turbulence which may be com-pounded of abhorrence, of fear , of hate, of sheer animalism, of a tangle of complex instincts. Right now, looking at Ranee Waldron's not un-handsome face. Bill Cole Cody's bloodstream was ruffled all but be-yond endurance; it ran cold and it ran hot, and queer, blazing streaks of fire, like miniature stabs of light-ning, shot through him. Here was the man who had killed the good old Judge, killing him as a man may tread under his careless boot heel some creeping thing he hardly no-tices. The Judge I Here was the

man who had connived at the death of old Ear ly Bill Cole, who had engineered, who had the same as shot the old man down, shooting him in the back. The man who had cold bloodedly murdered his own henchman, Tom Gough, and though Gough had undoubtedly needed kill-ing, perhaps even he did not de-serve his death the way he got it, the way this damned Ranee Waldron, so cool now and contemptuous and sure of his high destiny, had meted it out.

Cole Cody's throat constricted. He came close to choking on his gorge. He didn't say a word. With-in himself, and in his own fashion, he was praying, "Make it quick now. Lord! I can' t stand it much longer."

"So you're still here, Cody, are you?" he said curtly. "You know, you're a fool, Cody, for sticking around in any hope of catching any few drops that might spill out over the top of the bucket. Because, if you listen to me, there won't be any drops spilled over. It might be a good time if you tucked your tail between your legs and got out of here. You haven't any claim here. I t ' s common knowledge, told in ev-ery saloon, that you had some sort of a trumped up 'will,' a faked thing—and that you haven't even got that now. So you can get out in a hurry, Mr. Cody. Am I r ight?"

Cody swallowed. He answered very quietly, very slowly.

"Waldron, if I 'm taking a big dose of you now, you'll know why later on. Suppose until time comes that you keep your mouth shut? I 'm not asking a lot; the breath of the thoughts you think—stinks! bout up ! "

Waldron chose to laugh, and nev-er was there a man who could put a nastier sneer into laughter which should be a pleasant thing and which can be detestable beyond most sounds.

"I t 's hard to swallow, huh, Cody?" he jeered. "Thought you had an edge on the situation, didn't you? Thought I 'd take it the way you dished it out! Thought that if you couldn't take it any other way," he said, and jeered, "you'd gobble it along with that nifty piece of girl-meat, that little cuddly, pink-and-white female thing Ann Lee, that a man can buy a dozen of in town for—"

Cody struck the way lightning strikes. Leaping yards across the floor. Bill Cole Cody swung with his left hand and struck a blow for any hard-striking man to be proud of. Only—Ranee Waldron wasn' t there, wasn't at the end of that per-fect short arc. He was three or four quick leaps behind it, jerking out his guns. And he was in high heaven, with full provocation to burn his man down. Attacked without warning, he had every right to go for his guns, to kill his man. And it would be so easy! If there were only a witness to his predicament, that of a man defending himself against a murderous attack.

That witness he had, but he knew that only later. It was Ann Lee who had stolen a-tip-toe from the room in which Doc Joe and Aunt Jenifer , two sentimental old fools, were ex-plaining and talking two-at-a-time, and blinking against fat tear drops; a tremulous Ann Lee who was wondering where a certain William Cole Cody—"William," she thought; "that must be his real name; the name his mama and papa gave h im" —had betaken himself. She heard and she saw, and she nearly dropped dead, hearing and seeing.

Now as Bill Cole Cody had leaped forward and the watchful Ranee Waldron had leaped back to be out of his reach, Waldron fired and Cody struck again—and little Ann tried to scream and tried to shut her eyes, and could do neither. In a sort of trance she saw how it was that Bill Cody struck: Not with his fist this time, since that would have been too late; but as a bullet clipped through a loose fold of his sleeve, he struck with his whole body, launching himself like a long lean catapult with bullets ripping the air where he had been a split second before. And as his feet left the floor and he became a sort of giant's arrow in horizontal flight, and his head struck Ranee Waldron in the middle, his long a rms with those tremendously gripping hands of his grappled with the man he sent toppling and crashing to the floor.

Now, Bill Cole Cody didn't miss all the bullets which swarmed about him like angry bees. Two of them scraped him, barely laid the skin back, and their effect was to cause him to lose all temper which he hadn't had time to- lose already. There was a scratch along the top of his head, and blood ran down into his left eye; there was a twin scratch six or eight inches long down the back of his left shoulder. Ann Lee saw the blood and thought he was surely dead, and came run-ning; she'd grab Ranee Waldron's guns and shoot him all to pieces!

But no intercession was needed. As Waldron spilled back on the floor one of his guns flew out of his hands; Bill Cody, though with one eye dimmed, could see that. The other gun swung in its brief arc to blow his brains out, but Cody's hand swung quicker. He caught Waldron's wrist; he all but broke it in the pow-er of his grip; slowly he twisted it so that the muzzle of Waldron's gun was against Waldron's temple. And then Bill Cody spoke his little speech:

"Pul l the trigger now, Waldron, It you like. Or drop the* gun—and drop it quick!"

(TO BE CONTINUED J

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Kathleen Norris Says: Paying the Piper

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CHRIST'S CHARGE TO P E T E B

LESSON TEXT—John 21:13-24. GOLDEN TEXT—Greater love hath no

man than this, that a man lay down hla life for his friends.—John 15:13.

Breakfast for a hungry fisherman —that is what our loving and thoughtful Lord had provided on the shore of Galilee. He wanted to talk to Peter, but He knew this was need-ful first. There are some folk who think that following Christ is a dole-ful matter , devoid of every pleasure. Jesus never taught any such thing. He attended weddings and dinners even in the homes of those despised by men. But remember that He al-. ways did it for their spiritual good, not merely for His own enjoyment; and that He always brought the gath-ering up to His own spiritual level, rather than stooping to any worldly cr wicked standards.

Here we find Him with a glowing fire upon which fish is broiling, and with bread ready for these hungry men. It was just like Him thus to meet in most delightful and satis^ fying fellowship those who serve Him. Draw up to the fire, Christian friends who a re standing a far off. You may be so timid that, like the disciples, you will not dare to call Him by name (v. 12), but if you will come, you will find that the precious fellowship will soon warm your heart.

With the meal over, Christ turned to Peter and in their conversation we find the latter required to

I . Face Responsibility (vv. 15-17).

With kindly persistence our Lord brought Peter face to face with his responsibility of full-hearted devotion to Him. Before service can be ren-dered there must be a fight relation-ship to the Lord.

Three times Peter was asked to declare his love for Christ. Such a public confession was quite in place, before the man who had thrice de-nied his Lord was restored to a place of leadership. The words " m o r t than these" (v. 15) indicate that Jesus was asking of him a high measure of devotion. It is no m o r t than He has a right to expect of us.

The conversation af ter breakfast that morning was a very profitable one. One is reminded, by contrast , that few of our mealt ime discussions are very useful. Many (perhaps most) after-dinner speeches and conversations yield little profit. Here is an occasion when such was not the case. One wonders whether we would not be wise to take the sug-gestion and turn our thoughts and those of our dinner guests to spiritu-al things. Surely it should be so among Christian friends and in a Christian home.

D. Feeding Christ's Flock ( w . 15-17).

We review the same verses to point out that an expression of love to Christ means nothing except as it manifests itself in service. Like Peter, we are to be diligent about feeding His flock, whether they be the young and inexperienced lambs, or the mature sheep of the fold.

We tend to specialize. Even in soul-winning some give themselves to child evangelism while others reach only adults, and would hardly think of dealing with a child. True it is that we have varying gifts, and one does one type of work better than another. But let us avoid over-specialization. Every needy soul is a challenge to us as we present the gospel.

The word " f eed" should be stressed. Here again the church has frequently failed. Men and women a re won to a decision for Christ, and then forgotten. Sheep must be fed if they are to grow. A teaching ministry must accompany the evan-gelistic effort. They belong together, and to neglect either is to fail, at least, in that measure.

m . Follow Him to the End ( w . 18-24).

Endlessly ingenious are the de-vices of Satan. He who had sifted Pe ter like wheat (Luke 22:31) and had rejoiced in the weakness of his denial of Christ, now saw him step-ping out into victorious living. Ho heard the prophecy of the mar tyr death of Peter . So he put into his heart a question. Why should he suffer? What about John? What was the Lord going to do for him?

When our enemy cannot t r ip us up with temptation to personal sin, he resorts to the device of jealousy. Many promising Christian workers have become useless because they have taken their eyes off Jesus and put them on the persons and work of other Christians. Doing a work which was difficult and unnoticed but very important to God, they have felt the urge to quit because some-one else seemed to have the easier task and receive more recognition.

The answer of Jesus in verse 22 plainly states that it is not the place of one disciple to judge the course of life of another, nor to gauge his own devotion to Christ by another 's place or service.

The word of Christ to us is the same as to Pe te r : "Follow me . " We have all we can do to live our own lives in a manner well-pleasing to our Lord.

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Thoughts for Today I am a s t ranger with Thee and

a sojourner as all my fathers were. —Psalm 39:12.

In all places where I record my name, I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.—Exodus 20:24,

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There is no virtue like necessity.

The measure of a man ' s real char-actsr is what he would do if he knew it would never be found out.

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FAMILIAR TUNE As Kathleen Norris points out

this week, if you insist upon call-ing the tune you must be pre-pared to pay the piper. But at least once in her lifetime, every woman forgets that. Usually it is when she falls in love, or thinks she does. It's an old, fa-miliar tune, that song of love, and one for which she is nearly always_ unwilling to pay with the stiff price of a broken heart, a tragic divorce or the bitter dis-illusionment that is the special torture of very young hearts.

The average mother ihrinks from the thought that any other mere woman is going to win her ton away from her.

By KATHLEEN NORRIS H E R E is a famil iar old saying to the effect that when you call the tune

you have to pay the piper. One reason why older women, moth-ers and teachers and guardians of girls, a r e so extraordinarily fussy about what girls do and don't do, is because the years between 16 and 26 a re the years when most of us call the tune.

Because she is young and confident and spoiled, full of h a l f - f o r m e d yet very a m b i -tious d reams for the yea r s to come, a girl will quite readily call the tune. She's going to marry Paul and reform him, and they will inherit all his uncle's money and live in the smartest of Park Ave-nue's apartments. That's the tune.

When Paul doesn't reform, and the uncle 's wealth turns out to have been a handsome annuity that end-ed with his life, and when the smart apar tment turns out to be a forty-dollar fiat in the Bronx, that ' s when the piper calls for his pay.

Small children can ' t make impor-tant decisions. People in the tnir-ties and forties usually have had some experience, and occasionally have some sense. Old people, have called all the tunes, and paid—and double paid—the importunate piper, and their deciding t imes a re over. So the dangerous t ime is in the late ' teens and the early twenties, and we older women watch our girls fearfully and sorrowfully a t that t ime, hoping that whatever we have been able to give them of code, of sense of duty, of wisdom and un-derstanding, will guide them safely through.

Girls Better Prepared . For it is a terrible truth that most

of our young men are completely uniirepared to make good husbands. Girls have a better chance for sev-eral reasons. One is that many girls know something of housekeep-ing, managing, wifely obligation just f rom watching mother. Another is that the success of a marr iage de-pends much more upon the wife 's disposition than upon that of the husband.

Boys have no such training. The average mother shrinks f rom the thought that any other mere woman is going to win her son away from her . She'll not anticipate this ca-lamity by helping him see what is fine and trustworthy in any girl, and what is not. They're all vampires trying to capture her Robert, and she'll not help them! So she is very apt to misrepresent them to him, criticize them, warn him that al-though Ann is a very fine girl, she 's going to get fa t like her mother, and although Susan seems a per-fectly delightful creature, there is tha t uncle of hers who misappropri-ated funds ten years ago.

So R o b e r t goes afield to find his sweetheart , and the result is a par t of our tragic national story of di-vorces.

Here is the case of an Oshkosh woman; a case that is typical of many, and full of bewilderment and suffering. Mary Bates is 25, a capa-ble office worker, with a small girl of four. A small girl of four, a s some of us know, can be a rather bewitching person, and the picture Mary Lee sends me of Janey-Jo could go on any magazine cover with general approval.

"When Janey-Jo was 11 months old I left her f a the r , " writes Mary. "The reasons were complete incom-patibility, boredom, continual draw-ing apa r t ; it was a marr iage that never should have taken place, a s my own father and mother and all my friends knew well. But I was 19, Sidney 29, we were both infatu-ated, and although the honeymoon

. . . my little girL

was hardly over before quarrels be-gan, I think any young couple, feel-ing a s we did, would have marr ied as we did.

Tended Baby Alone. " I wanted a child; Sidney didn't.

He hated the idea. Before Janey-Jo was born he treated me with real, if not always purposeful, cruelty. Night a f te r night he was away until one or two in the morning, and I lay awake worrying about him. The baby was ' that damn kid,' and, as dancing, tennis, t r ips became im-possible for me, it was an incessant 'well, what did you have it for? ' Finally, I was to be forgiven if it was a son. His mother came to stay with us, and stated that the Bates babies always were sons. My ador-able baby was bom tiny, weak, a nutrition probfem from the begin-ning. Neither Sidney or his mother showed any concern. I brought my little girl through her first hard weeks alone, bearing all the anxiety and fatigue as best I could. Sidney was away more than ever; I felt like a mere paid housekeeper, keep-ing my f r r t fu l baby out of his way as much as I could, sleeping in the nursery to be sure tha t she survived the nights, and spending long lonely days with a book and a perambula-tor in the park.

"Then I went to m y mother, and here I have been for more than three years . Janey-Jo is a glorious-ly sturdy little c rea ture now, and the delight of both our lives. Sidney asked me not to get a divorce for business reasons, and I agreed, glad to be spared publicity. He was trav-eling a good deal, and only a few intimates knew tha t we were living apar t . Also, at the t ime of the sep-aration he stated that he wished half-custody of his child; very sturpris-ingly, for he hadn' t seemed to know she was alive. But I think his moth-e r put him up to it.

"You can guess the rest; the good, fine, protecting m a n who has come into my life, to show me what love is, and what life might be. He is my mother ' s doctor, 38 years old, fine in every way. He lost his wife two years ago; is childless, and loves my child.

Pr ice of Happiness. "And now Sidney won't consent

to a divorce unless I surrender Jan-ey-Jo entirely! His mother and a widowed sister want her, of course, and he wants to please them. So between them they would sacrifice the little thing who owes her life to me, who would never have weath-ered a thousand crises but for me. Is this fair? I become so frantic with resentment when I think of it that I know I am not regarding the situation reasonably, and I want your opinion. What is my best way out?"

How to avoid paying the piper? It was headstrong 19 that called the tune; it was an inexperienced, in-fatuated girl who leaped into the mar r i age ; it is a saddened, hurt, wiser woman who has to bear the result.

Mary 's only solution lies in pa-tience, but time goes slowly for sep-arated lovers, and .her resentment will break forth again and again.

Perhaps if she had been less ex-acting, perhaps if the great affair of bearing a child hadn't seemed to her a t ime of loneliness and jeal-ousy, but a strictly individual and gloriously important job, independ-ent of Sidney's comings and goings during the months of waiting; per-haps if she had been a little more resourceful, a little more inclined to regard herself a s an individual rath-er than a wife; this difficult situa-tion wouldn't have arisen. But it haa arisen, and the piper is waiting for his pay. She insisted upon call inj

e tune, and now she must pay.

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You have to cultivate good habits. Only the bad ones grow wild.

The m a n who sings his praises is usually a soloist.

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high gear until you a re sure your brain is turning over.

"The man who wants to marry should make a little money first," says a social worker. Afterwards his wife has to make a little money last.

Success comes from cans. Fail< ore is packed in can ' ts .

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Desirous of bucking up business, the proprietor ot a large depart-ment store engaged an "efficiency expert ," whose chief delight was changing the departments round.

One day a section would be a t the top of the building; the next it would be in the basement or where the res taurant used to be.

After three weeks of this an old lady approached a worried-looking shopwalker and asked if he could tell her where the hardware de-par tment was. ment was .

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Farmer Plots Crop Acreage Under New ! AAA Program; Agency to Assist Drive

To Meet Record Wartime Production

Committeemen Will Carry Grievances to War Boards; Goal Is to Raise Yields Per Acre; All Problems Will Be Dealt With on Local Basis.

The 1943 fa rmer is on his honor!

Like the boy taking an exam-ination at school, i t 's up to him and him alone. He's strictly "on his own."

Under the 1943 agricultural adjustment agency plan, the f a rmer for the first time has the full responsibility for measur-ing his a c r e a g e s on specific crops and reporting the results he gets. Formerly this was done by A A A employees, but the new scheme will conserve travel, cut down wear and tear on tires and cars, and decrease the use of gas and oil.

Now it is up to the fa rmer to check on his own fields.

He appears to be happy about this change in program admin-istration, department of agricul-ture reports show. While AAA committeemen — t h e m s e l v e s farmers—will continue to give him every assistance, the re-sponsibility for carrying out pro-duction plans and doing his share in the national program rests with the individual opera-tor.

Spot checks will be made periodi-cally to determine the status of com-munity and county production, and fa rmers are being asked to keep records and lay out their crops so that reports can be made easily and quickly.

Goals this year call for about 5 per cent more production than in 1942. Basis for the 1943 AAA pro-gram to reach these goals is "local action." It recognizes that the job of production adjustment—of shift-ing crops to meet war needs and planning acreage to the best ad-vantage—must be worked out and carried out on the individual fa rms . I t can ' t be done in Washington, say the committeemen. It must be done locally, to conform to the local situ-ation.

Instead of a national over-all goal "formula ," each state and county has been left f ree to adopt the means which seem best suited to the par-ticular section concerned. Wide lat-itude is given the committeemen in making goal assignments. They are not only allowed to determine such assignments on a "capacity of the fa rmer to produce" basis. They are expected to use such a yardstick.

Capacity to produce varies accord-ing to the character of the fa rm land, machinery and labor availa-ble, and many other factors. Each region has its individual problems which must be taken into considera-tion in determining what the specific area may reasonably do in a given period. AAA Committeeinaii Will Keep Gorernment Informed

The role of the AAA committee-man will be that of an important go-between who keeps the govern-ment informed on the f a rmer ' s prog-ress and problems, and the farmer informed on what the government

\ f i • tft •

Committeeman will hear grievance.

expects ot him and what it is doing to help him circumvent obstacles tha t present themselves.

Adjustment, the process of help-ing the f a rm operator to scale his crop production upward or down-ward to fit into the national agricul-tural picture, has always been one of the major activities of AAA. It helps f a rmer s meet production problems by providing guidance and assistance in producing the kinds of crops that a r e needed in the re-quired amounts, Working in co-oper-ation with other units of the depart-ment of agriculture.

Community fa rmer committeemen in 1942 totaled 89,000 regular elected committeemen and about 58,000 al-

ternates. County committees totaled 3,029 with 9,087 members . The coun-ty committeemen a re responsible to the state offices, which in turn re-port to the regional offices. Uncle Sam's millions of f a rms depend upon the AAA committeemen to keep them informed of changing phases of the over-all national program, of the state 's particular part in the 1943 f a rm plan, and of the numerous de-tails having to do with production goals and how they can be met .

AAA county chairmen are also chairmen of the County F a r m Transportation committees, which issue certificates of war necessity for mileage rationing, and the Coun-ty F a r m Machinery Rationing com-mittees, which ration many types of f a rm equipment. In the mat te r of labor shortage, the community committees report localized needs to the county committee and war board chairman, the lat ter then car-rying the problems on to the proper authorities.

Chairmen of AAA state and coun-ty committees head up the war boards which correlate the efforts of department of agriculture agencies to assist fa rmers in their war pro-duction.

Getting the right fields into the right kind of production and getting higher yields out of every acre through better farming practices is the basic theme of the committee-man 's work in 1943.

Committeeman Will Help Arrange Cooperative Action

Among his activities is helping to arrange co-operative use of scarce machinery and co-operative trans-portation programs. Many locali-ties already have worked out suc-cessful schemes for sharing trucks

Mr. Farmer's on his own.

and trailers, as well as binders, combines, picking machines and other mechanical aids to planting and harvesting essential war crops. Facilities for storage of crops are sometimes another item for him to handle.

Assistance in the various loan and purchase programs instituted by the Food Distribution administration and Commodity Credit corporation is made available through the AAA committeeman. Increased produc-tion of peanuts, soybeans, hemp (un-der a special program), castor bean seed, Irish potatoes, and many oth-er crops has been greatly aided by such programs. New applications for insurance on the 1943 cotton crop will be handled by the committee-man, and he will in addition keep fa rmers informed of the availability of loans, insurance and payments under the program.

Program objectives of AAA also vary in certain instances from past planning. Emphasis is falling still more heavily on the need for better yields per acre . To achieve this, more attention is being given to pro-duction practices which immediate-ly increase yields.

All-out activity in the use of lime and phosphate, contour cultivation and terracing, for example, is being urged. Over three-fourths of 1943 production practice payment funds for the country a s a whole will be used to promote such "quick" helps to better crops. In the East Central region, about 80 per cent of such payments are going for promotion of this immediate-yield program.

Production practices, reports show, are feeling the "localizing" in-fluence just as a re other branches of the AAA program. Formerly the ra tes of payment for different prac-tices were worked out on what might be termed a national basis. This year the various regions determine the soil building allowances for the fa rms in their particular areas, with relation to the particular problems involved. In the Southern region eachi state has its own basis for de-termining soil building allowances.

Reason for this localization is ob-vious. Production practices may be

more easily adapted to the individu-al areas and the individual fa rms within them. In turn, available funds may be used to the best advantage and with the greatest efficiency.

Acreage limitations have been re-moved on a number of crops which previously had such limits. Except for short staple cotton, tobacco and perhaps one or two other crops, farmers are urged to exceed their goals in 1943. This is particularly

Will aid cooperative plans.

true of dairy products and meat. Goals for most crops are mlnl-

mums, calculated a s the least pos-sible amount which will keep the na-tional efficiency at a reasonable lev-el, and at the same t ime provide for the armed services and war plant workers and give assistance to America 's Allies.

AAA committeemen and the farm-ers, working hand in hand, are do-ing their best to develop and carry through the most efficient and pro-ductive individual f a rm programs they can. Problems of every sort stand in their way—labor, machin-ery, transportation and mater ial shortages being paramount.

By their close personal co-opera-tion, however, they make possible an equally close relationship be-tween the farmer and his govern-ment.

America 's f a rmers have a tre-mendous production job ahead of them. Demands for food such as they a re now attempting to fill have never before been made upon any nation. Last year they upped pro-duction 12 per cent over '41. Another 5 per cent increase is hoped for in '43.

Grandma Learns Blueprinting in Aircraft School

In San Diego there 's one school in a great building left over f rom the San Diego exposition—another in a church—another even in a once-vacant storeroom. They're c rammed with students the like of which has never been seen before.

Two grandmothers, one white haired, the other pink-cheeked and marcelled, bend together with com-pass and rulers over adjoining desks. They a re both learning to be me-chanical draftsmen, to turn out their share of the ten acres of blueprints required to build a single flying bat-tleship.

"How on ear th ," you ask the Con-soliilated Vultee teacher, "do you manage to guess that a grandmoth-er can learn some engineering, when she decides she wants to help in the w a r ? "

" I t ' s not so difficult a t tha t , " you are told. "F i r s t we look for evi-dence of artistic talent. Perhaps a woman has done painting, or draw-ing, or fine a r t s design. Perhaps she laid a career aside to bring up a family. If she can draw, and if she is intelligent, we can easily teach her mechanical draftsman-ship. She is straight on her way into the engineering depar tment ."

In California, where the a i r f rame industry of the nation centers, lit-erally hundreds of thousands of peo. pie have gone to school, and are to-day a t work doing precision jobs. Most of them were never before in a factory.

In an age that has been called revolutionary, here we have the real revolution.

The lure of wart ime money is not enough to have done this. In San Diego, for instance. Consolidated early realized that the sort of work-ers needed must be appealed to on the basis 'of their patriotic willing-ness to serve.

Kentucky Once Government plans to grow nearly

half a million tons of hemp annually promise to restore to Kentucky the hemp industry for which the state was first distinguished.

Kentucky's blvs grass section was adapted to hemp. Seed had come to the Colonies from Europe; Vir-ginia supplied Kentucky's early planters. In time practically all hemp m ths United States was grown f rom Kentucky seed. A generation

Was Center of U. S. ago, the state was still producing nearly a quarter million pounds of seed a year . Grown for its fiber, the hemp shoots up seven to ten feet, and 14 feet when cultivated for seed.

Homespun cloth was woven from the fiber by wives and daughters of settlers. A later use of the fiber included the making of bagging, cot-ton baling, rope and sailcloth. Early in the last century Kentucky had a dozen mills making hemp bagging;

Hemp Industry 40 producing hemp rope for fas t clip-per ships and other merchantmen, and for the growing U. S. navy. Lexington was a market for hempen goods.

Foreign competition cut domestic output. Abaca, so-called manila hemp, from a plant of the banana family, made better rope a t less cost. Jute supplanted hemp for many uses. Also Kentucky planters found tobacco a more profitable crop to raise.

Crowd Raced First English Locomotive on Maiden Trip Prime Minister Churchill's recent

r emark in his radio address, that England was "the earliest in the world with rai lways," was a ref-erence to the opening of the Stock-ton and Darlington railway.

The 27-mile line was built from Stockton-on-Tees, where the first rail was laid on May 23, 1822, on oak tics. The line's first two engines were built by George Stephenson who, with Edward Pease, promoter of the railway, had opened a loco-

motive works at Newcastle-on-Tyne. One branch line, less than a mile

long, was laid to Yarm, where a tablet on an inn credits the town with being the birthplace of the world's railways. Yarm provided the band for the opening of the line, September 27, 1825, three years and four months af ter construction be-gan.

A c row' came from near-by towns to see : o new engine perform. George Si..i;henson was at the throt-

tle. When the engine blew off steam, the crowd scattered. Turnpike pro-moters and their stockholders were hopefully present, but the engine did not blow up as a new era in transportation ppened.

Accommodations were inadequate for all persons wishing to make the trial trip. Some unable to hang on, followed the train in wagons or rode cross country on horseback. As the train started, spectators ran alongside until outdistanced.

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FIRSSSAID r 'tO ih&

AILING; HOUSE by Roger B, Whitman

Rojer B. Whitman—WNU Features .

Tea ni»y not be able to replace worn or broken household equipment. This Is war . OoTern raen t priorities come flnt. So take eare o( what yon have . . . as well a e you possibly ean. Th i s column by the homeown-er 's friend tells yon how.

nOUBLE-GLAZING

Question: I intend to double-glaze my steel casement windows instead of putting on storm sash. Natural-ly, extreme care would have to be used to avoid soiling the glass. What do you think of the possibility of condensation between the glass, causing spots on the surface of ei-ther pane?

Answer: The possibility of con-densation between the two sheets of glass will depend entirely on how well you seal the spaces between the two pieces of glass. Eventual-ly, the inside surfaces of the glass will become soiled by infiltration, making it necessary to remove one pane of glass in each f r a m e for a thorough cleaning. You can get a double glass that is factory sealed, with a dehydrated air space be-tween. Ask your glass man about this.

Time to Paint

Neat Trick for Stretching Meat-Scrapple (See Recipe Below)

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With the winter months behind, year home may be doe for a coat of paint. Surface dirt should be brushed off with a wire brush, then wipe off with rag . Blisters should be scraped.

Dark Woodwork Question: The woodwork in my

house is oak, finished quite dark. I wish to paint it ivory, semi-gloss. How should I go about doing this?

Answer: For the best job, remove the present finish with varnish re-mover, which will soften the finish enough to be scraped off. Clean off all t races of the remover with ben-zine—being very careful of fire. Sandpaper, wipe off dust and then refinish with two undercoats of ivory and the semi-gloss enamel. An al-ternative method is to roughen the old finish by sandpapering, wipe off dust, apply a sealing coat of shel-lac—thinned half-and-half with de-natured alcohol—and then one un-dercoat of ivory, to be followed by the final coat of enamel.

Wood Floor In Basement Question: During the past two

years a new wood fioor has been laid twice in our basement, and each t ime the wood decayed. What can be done to stop the fioor f rom warping and rotting within a year?

Answer: I presume that it is a cement floor. For a good job, you could use the following method: First , mop on a coating of liquid tar or asphalt. Then put down a layer of heavy asphalt or tar-satu-rated felt, overlapping the sheets half their width, with a mopping of liquid ta r or asphalt between the laps. The wood flooring, in parquet-like blocks, then is laid in an as-phalt mastic cement. Most flooring contractors a re familiar with this method.

Faded Curtains Question: Grayish-tan crash win-

dow drapes were drawn most of the time, so that the folds exposed to the sun became faded, the under-folds remaining as they were origi-nally. What can I do to them to get a uniform color?

Answer: Have the curtains dyed a slightly darker shade. If done by a reliable dyer, the color will be uniform.

Cracked Door Panel Question: I have a cracked panel

in a bedroom door that I should like to fill before giving the door a coat of fiat white paint. How can I fill the crack?

Answer: You can get a prepared crack filler, which is on sale a t hardware and paint stores. Or you could try filling the crack with thick-ened paint, scraped from the upper part of a half-used can. After dry-ing, smooth with fine sandpaper.

Pitted Laundry Tubs Question: Can you advise m e

about my two-part laundry tray in the basement? The bottom is pitted and very rough and it has been in this condition for a considerable length of time. Is there something I can put on it to make a smooth job?

Answer: If the tray is made of soapstone or slate, the bottom can be smoothed by rubbing with a block of carborundum stone. If the t ray is made of china or enameled iron, nothing can be done to make it smooth.

Make Red Points Work!

Making red points fit your menus ind still give you plenty of valuable

proteins and fa ts on which to do a man - sized day 's work is like work-ing out a jig-saw puzzle. But you remember how they all can come out if you try

hard enough? The answer is in budgeting your points before you spend them, getting meats with low point value, and extending flavor of meat as much as possible.

Firs t of all, let 's realize that meat Is a high quality protein, and that the body needs it for repairing and building t i ssue-which is a full-time job. We designate proteins as com-plete and incomplete, the ones which a re complete do a complete job of body building and repairing. Com-plete proteins are meat , cheese, fish, poultry, eggs and milk.

Pork is our foremost source of thiamin or vitamin Bj—sometimes called the pep and energy vitamin because of its important contribu-tion to mental health. Here pork sausage is combined with a cereal for a really delicious "s t re tched" i l sh :

All-Bran Scrapple. (Serves 8)

1 pound f resh pork sausage 2 cups water 1 teaspoon salt W teaspoon pepper ',4 teaspoon powdered sage Few grains cayenne % cap commeal % cup bran cereal

Brown sausage in heavy skillet, itirring occasionally; pour off and lave fat . Bring water to a boil, add salt, pepper, sage and cayenne. Stir in cornmeal gradually; cook uncil thickened, stirring constant-ly. Add bran ce-real and sausage and mix thorough-ly. Pour into dampened loaf pan; chill until firm. Unmold. Cut into %-inch slices and brown in sausage fat on hot griddle. Serve with ma-ple syrup or apple butter.

This Week's Menu •Stuffed Veal Hearts

Buttered Noodles Quick-Cooked Green Cabbage

Grated Carrot—Fresh Grapefruit Salad

Whole Wheat Rolls Jelly Rhubarb Sauce Cookies

Beverage

•Recipe Given.

Lynn Says: The Score Card: With 35 mil-

lion homemakers carrying ration books to the grocers, new ways for managing limited foods a re the order of the day.

Many of these homemakers are accustomed to pulling off cans from their shelves, or taking quick-frozen food from their stor-age lockers. Now they will have to glean all possible facts f rom labels of these processed foods, budget their points carefully.

I t ' s smar t to buy the size of can most profitable for her own individual family. Keep a table of equivalents handy in your purse until you become proficient. Usually, 16 ounces or one fluid pint will fill two measuring cups. The 32-ounce size will fill four cups.

Remember canned vegetables are already cooked and need be brought only to boiling to be ready to serve.

Buying fresh fruits and vegeta-bles relieves pressure on canned

Kidney beans are a second-class or incomplete protein food, but they are fine to use on that extra day when there are no red points left over for meat . Dried peas and len-tils have a low point value which makes them fine for tide-overs on meatless days: Grated cheese adds food value, takes only a few red points:

Kidney Bean Loaf. (Serves 6 to 8)

2 cups dry kidney beans 2 cups water 4 cups stale bread crumbs 2 cups grated cheese M cup chopped onion

cup shortening 1 egg V/j teaspoons salt % teaspoon pepper

Soak beans overnight in the 2 cups water . In the morning, bring to a boil in the same liquid and then s i m m e r u n t i l beans are tender. Mash beans fine and add all other ingredients, mix-ing well. Pack in-to a loaf pan and bake IMs hours in a 325-degree oven. Baste occasionally with 1 tablespoon melted butter and % cup water.

Fish Loaf. (Serves 4)

2 cups flaked, steamed fish H teaspoon salt 2 eggs, separated 1 cup medium white sauce

Combine, fish, salt, beaten egg yolks, white sauce and beaten egg whites. Pour into greased baking dish and bake in a moderate oven 20 to 30 minutes.

•Stuffed Veal Hearts. . (Serves 5)

2 veal hearts 2 tablespoons chopped onion l i cup chopped celery 2 tablespoons shortening IV2 cups fine bread crumbs % teaspoon salt

teaspoon pepper M cup water 3 tablespoons shortening 2 cups stewed tomatoes 2 whole cloves 1 bay leaf 1 teaspoon salt H teaspoon pepper

Clean hearts by cutting through side to center, open with a sharp knife, cut out all veins and arteries. Wash well. Make a dressing by cooking onion and celery in shorten-ing. Add crumbs, salt, pepper and water . Stuff the hearts with dress-ing and tie together with string. Roll hearts in flour, brown in short-ening. Add tomatoes, cloves, bay leaf. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover with tight fitting lid and cook on low heat for \Vi hours.

Lynn Chambers welcomes you to sub-mil your household queries to her problem clinic. Send your letters to her at Western Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines Sueet, Chicago, III. Don't forget to enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply.

Released by Western Newspaper Union.

T ^ E E P your home attractive through Spring and Summer

with airy, cool-looking curtains. Use inexpensive materials like theatrical gauze, fish-nct, other sheers. Even unbleached muslin will do for those shown. They're so easy to make, too.

• • • Pattern 7413 contains all information

for making curtains and drapes in varied styles.

Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time Is required in filling orders for a few ol Uie most popular pattern numbers.

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Weight of Birds

Hummingbirds, which weigh about one-twelfth of an ounce, a r e the lightest birds in the U. S. Heaviest birds are the wild turkey, t rumpeter swan and the Canada goose, which weigh from 15 to 31 pounds.

Boom in Second-Hand Buying Predicted As Consumer Goods Supplies Dwindle

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By ELIZABETH MacRAE BOYKIN With new consumer goods becom-

ing daily more scarce, it doesn't take a crystal ball to predict a boom in second-hand buying—espe-cially of "durable" household goods that can and do outlast the wear and tear of years. But any antiqi-er or auction-haunter will tell you that there are many tricks to be learned in this business of buying and get-ting your money's worth.

Here, as in other buying, the re-liability of the dealer is your best safeguard in wise spending. And there a re responsible dealers in sec-ond-hand stuff and in antiques just as in other categories of merchan-dise. As a matter of fact some of the most famous department stores are enlarging their stocks of used furnishings, though so f a r most of them specialize in the mote fastidi-ous things that can be dignified by the term antique. And usually they sell such merchandise only a f te r it has been fully restored. As present

shortages become more pressing, these stores may expand such de-par tments to include used furniture of modern make, generally called frankly "second hand." Even before the war, the selling of re-built or renovated vacuum cleaners and sew-ing machines had become accepted practice.

When you buy antique, second-hand or re-built furnishings f rom reputable stores, you can count on an honest appraisal of their quality. But in the coming months—maybe years—we may not always be able to confine our shopping to the relia-ble stores. We may have to take what we can get where we can find it—even if thatte a little junk store that sells things " a s is ." Many a t reasure has been found at such places—many a lemon too.! To shop wisely a t such stores you have to be a good judge of value on your own . . . If you are, the prices may b quite low.

Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.

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Kidneys Must Work Well-For You To Feci Well

24 hours #v«ry dsy, 7 dsys irtry week, never stopplni, the kidneys filter waste matter from toe blood.

If more people were aware of how UM kidneys must conatanlly remove sur-plus duici, excess acids and other wast* matter that cannot stay In the blood without Injury to health, there would b« better understanding of wA|t the whole system is upset when kidneys fsil to function proporly.

Burning, scanty or too frequent urina-tion sonu'timc-s warns tha t somethinc Is wrong. You may Buffer nagging back-ache, headaches, dininess , rheumaU# pains, gettinir up at nights, sweiling.

Why not try Doan'i PilUt Vou win b« using a medicine recommended the country over. Doan'si t imuiato the func-tion of the kidneys and help them to flush out poisonous waste from the blood. They contain nothing harmful. Get Doan't today. Use with coulidcnce-At all drug stores.

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Coloma School News S C H O L A S T I C H O N O R R O L L

FOR P A S T S I X W E E K S

The following is the scholastic honor roll for the Coloma high school for the six weeks period end-ing in April:

Seniors—Highest honors—Don Ar-cus, Virginia Babcock, Earl Fischer, Alice Kreiger, Barbara VanDervort. Seniors—Honors—Wilbur Coleman, Viola Culver, Ray Prillwitz, Gerald-ine Warman, Isabelle Warman, Don-avie Kittell.

Juniors—Highest honors—Jeanne Alwood, Carter Beach, Eloise Pum-fery, Lois Wolff. Juniors—Honors-Alma Arent, Verio Carter, Delores Cingros, Rayma Clark, Delores Knutson; Wilbur Pudell, Don Wil-liams.

Sophomores —Highest honors — John Alwood, Gloria Antoniwitch, Gladys Cluster, Sam Nicosia. Sopho-mores — Honors — Rosamond Becht, Duwaine Biastock, Phyllis Carter, Betty Kibler, Virignia Thar.

Freshmen—Highest honors—Mari-lyn Babcock. Gordon Knutson. Kath-ryn McCrery. Margaret Muenchow, Margaret Umphrey, Mary Lou Young. Freshmen — Honors—Joan DeField, Shirley Hallman, Dorothy Jackson, Duane Rockwell.

Eighth grade—Highest honors— Howard Gale, Donald Geik, Trevor Hallman, Janet Lyon. Eighth grade —^Honors—Helen Anderson, Jacque-line Andrews, Eleanor Johnson, Genevieve Schutz.

Seventh grade—Highest honors— Lilas Hanson, Donald Young. Sev-enth g r a d e — Honors — Violette Adams, Elaine Geik, Joyce Hocker, Joan Lyon, Marilyn Wilson.

Superintendents Held Meeting

The final meeting of the Berrien County Superintendents' Association for the 1942-43 school year was held Monday evening, April 26, at Ber-rien Springs. Following dinner to -gether the school men held their business and discussion meeting, in-cluding election of officers for 1943-44. Superintendent Alvin Norlin of Eau Claire was elected president and Superintendent Victor Whittemore of Three Oaks was elected secre-tary for the coming year.

A resolution of commendation and best wishes to Superintendent P. J . Jenema of New Troy was adopted by the group, as he is leaving Ber-rien County at the close of the present to head the school system at St. Clair Shores. Michigan.

Superintendent W. L. Alwood of Coloma and Superintendent Harold Crocker of Watervliet represented their schools at the meeting Mon-day evening.

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FIRST AID FOR CHICKS

Too many baby chicks drown in poor type open water pans or get wet and catch cold, according to Michigan State College poultry spe-cialists. If approved type drinking fountains are not in use and are not obtainable, a homemade fountain can be prepared. Two small holes, punched into the side of the open end of an empty tin can, will permit enough flow of water. The can should be punched about an eighth-inch from the open end, filled with water, and inverted on a saucer. The lips or outer edges of the saucer should be slightly deeper than the holes In the can. Water will seep out fast enough to supply the chicks with a safe supply.

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CARD OF THANKS

Mrs. Fred Koerber wishes to ex-press her thanks to her friends who sent her flowers and other remem-brances during her recent illness. She is now at home and is recuper-ating nicely.—Adv.

Mrs. Consuella Combs to Entertain

The Social Union of the Congre-gational church announces with pleasure the engagement of Mrs. Consuella Combs of Benton Harbor for the Blossom Tea program being held Tuesday, May 11 at the church. Mrs. Combs will present the success-ful 3 act play, "The Eve of St. Marks" by Maxwell Anderson. Spe-cial music will be given by Mrs. Adella Case Copeland of Watervliet and orchestra numbers from the Co-loma school orchestra. The program Is In charge of Mrs. Helen Prince Vogt and begins at 2:00 o'clock.

Cloverleaf Club Completes Years Program

Cloverleaf Club ladles concluded their years work Monday evening with a cooperative supper served at 6:30 o'clock at the Congregational church. About 25 members were present. Tables were very pretty with centerpieces of spring flowers. Hostesses included Mesdamea Paul Davidson, Max Smith, Harold War-rlner and Ray Krieger. A chorus of grade and junior high students from Coloma school, directed by Guy Mlxter, sang three selections. Reports from officers and standing committees completed the years bus-iness. A social hour followed.

Honoring Mrs. Bailey

Miss Bernice Scott entertained Sunday evening at a cooperative supper, in honor of her neighbor, Mrs. Myrtez Bailey who leaves this week for Rochester, Ind., to make her home with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Noah Shivley. Guests Includ-ed friends and neighbors of Mrs. Bailey, who presented her with a nice gift. Mrs. Bertha Woodward has purchased the Bailey home on St. Joseph street.

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The Jirmy— The Navy — The Marines

Thejtir 9orps—The "Paratroops

Norval Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Martin, was inducted into the army last Thursday and is now located at Fort Custer, Norval's wife and son Lee, six months old, will remain with Norval's parents.

Robert Hoffencamp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Hoffencamp has com-pleted his basic training at Great Lakes and arrived Wednesday for a nine day leave.

Word was received by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Truhn on Easter Day that their son Donal, stationed at Fort Sam Huston in Texas, has been promoted from the rank of Corporal to Sergeant.

Word has been received by local friends that Howard Walther who has been in the armed service for some time has been promoted to corporal.

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WANTS MORE LETTERS

FROM BOYS IN SERVICE

The following letter from Pvt. Charles Shine shows how much the boys in service appreciate receiving The Coloma Courier. The letter was dated at Camp Robinson, Ark., on April 21st, and was as follows:

"Dear Fred—I wish to thank you aagin for sending me The Courier It was in there that I first heard of the death of my grandfather. Nel-son Woods. I was also surprised to read a letter from my brother, Luth-er, that you published. He later writes and asks me if I read some articles in The Courier.

"I am feeling fine, in fact I have gained twelve pounds since I enter-ed the service. I was very much interested in the article pertaining to Sgt. John Miller, and I am sure that many other boys were, too. Your columns covering the boys in service is the first thing that I read and I would enjoy it more if it were only longer and more of the boys would write. I have been transfer-red several times and the paper is often a week late by the time I get It, so please change my address. Thanks, Pal."

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Oldest Bird Refugee British Nearly 1,000 swans are in the old-

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Phone 110 Coloma, Mich.

Colomaites Go To Eau Claire For Reunion

Easter Sunday was chosen for members of the Kinyon family for a reunion held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Mack at Eau Claire. Attending from here were Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Kittell and daughter, Donavie, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Kin-yon, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lingham and family, William Kinyon, and Miss Mary Warmun of Coloma and Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Apple of Ben-ton Harbor.

Celebrate Birthdays of Two

-A dinner party held Sunday in Hartford celebrated the birthdays of Mrs. Etha Smith of Benton Harbor and James Kibler of Coloma. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Sa-watzki and Mrs. Smith of Benton Harbor and Mr. and Mrs. James Kibler and Miss Jean Kibler of Co-loma.

Surprised With Birthday Party

Sam Newnum was pleasantly sur-prised Sunday in honor of his 42nd , birthday when 35 of his relatives j from Bangor and Battle Creek ar-rived for a cooperative dinner and social afternoon. Many typical mas-culine gifts were received by Mr. Newnum as well as the traditional birthday cake.

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Church Announcements

First Congregational Church

Horace B. Loomis, Pastor Sunday, May 2—hurch school at

9:45 a. m. Morning worship at 11:00 o'clock. The Mathetes will not meet Sunday afternoon.

The Maroon choir will rehearse on Wednesday at 3:30 and the church choir on Thursday at 7:30.

The 95th annual meeting of the Kalamazoo Association of Congrega-tional churches will meet at the Federated Church of Dowagiac Sun-day afternoon, May 2d. The meet-ings will start at 3:30 and continue thru the supper hour into the eve-ning. A good number of people from Coloma shold attend this meet-ing. Anyone wishing to go should contact Mr. Loomis as soon as possi-ble so that reservations may be made with the host church.

Christian Science Services, Coloma

Christian Science services are held at 11:00 o'clock every Sunday morn-ing at the church on Paw Paw street. Sunday school convenes at the same hour. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend. The reading room will be open on Sat-urdays from 2:00 until 4:00 p. m.

Fats Imported During the second quarter of 1940,

the United States imported 337,828 pounds of edible animal oils and fats.

Bird Feathers The feathers of birds are more

closely related to tho scales of rep-tiles than to the hairs of mammals.

Anniversary The United States marine corps

celebrated its 166th anniversary on November 10, 1941.

Sulphur Supply The United States produces three-

fourths of the sulphur supply of the world.

Gilder Clubs Glider clubs in Argentina now

have 1,000 members and 30 instruc-tors.

Library on Battleship A U. S. battleship's library con-

tains approximately 2,000 books.

Permanent Plates Connecticut has used permanent

auto license plates since 1937.

Priority on Parts Taking part in exercises outside

his barracks, Sergt. John H. Wise of headquarters fietachment. Camp Barkeley, Texas, was doing a "dou-ble time in place" in three-quarter time. "What's tho idea. Wise?" de-manded Platoon Sergt. Corliss Por-ter. " I 'm using a larger sprocket this morning," came back the Wise retort.

The Courier is In receipt of the following letter from Richard L. Holden, who is located at Fort Cus-ter, Mich.:

Dear Fred—Well, I guess it is about time for me to write and tell you that I still get The Courier and enjoy it ever so much. Have been here for five months and doing a hard schedule of training. Have been training recruits for over two months steady now and it gets very tiresome, but I guess the army knows what they are doing, so who am I to complain. Spent the first three months I was here in school and did not even have time to write to my folks as I should.

Fred, there are times when the boys In the army do not have time to write home and their parents get the idea that they are out having a good time and get to the point that they do not write unless they get a letter. To change the minds of some of the parents, one would only have to follow some of the boys thru one week's schedule and they would know why we sometimes go to bed at 3:00 o'clock, rather than sit up and write a letter. The longer you are in the army the more difficult It is to write a letter as we have to be so careful what we write and how we write it. After a few months in the army you lose contact with the outside world, as you seldom have time to read a newspaper, and if we did I doubt very much if we could learn any-thing from it, as we get all the news of the war from our instructors.

That is one of the best things about The Courier, for there are other things in there that we are Interested In besides the war news. I am In a position right now where I have to listen to the complaints of all the men In my company, as I am now In charge of the recrea-tional time and I have to plan all of these things ahead of tlrtie, and it really is a job. The N. C. O.'s in my company are already calling me the good chaplain of the fighting 237 Military Police Co. If any of the boys have troubles they bring them to me and if I cannot do anything about them it is my duty to take it up to some one higher up and see if they can. One of the most com-mon things is the fact that they haven't heard from home for over a week and they are afraid some-one is ill and they will not let them know about it.

Fred, if you ever hear any of the people you know complaining that they have not heard a word from Junior, please tell them, just for the sake of Junior, that he is more than likely a busy man and will write if and when he has time.

Pvt. Robert Potts Writes

The Courier

The following letter received by The Courier from Robert Potts of Coloma will be of much interest to his many friends both in and 6ut of the armed service. The letter was dated at Truax Field, Madison, Wis., on April 21st:

"Dear Mr. Cochrun—I'll bet you are surprised to hear f rom me. I have been in four camps since en-tering the Army Air Corps, and this is the first camp I have been In where I have plenty of time to write letters. That is because I am in the hospital with scarlet fever. My first army residence was Fort Cus-ter; after being there three days I was sent to St. Petersburg, Fla., for basic training and classification. After a month of that training, I was sent to Scott Field for radio operator and mechanic training. Af-ter completing only six weeks of school there I was sent to Truax Field, Madison, Wis., for advanced radio mechanic training. I have qualified for college training which I hope will come af ter I complete my radio training here.

My folks have been sending me The Courier; It Is very nice to read about things happening In my home town and to read the letters of other service men from Coloma. I look forward to getting the paper each week. When I have more news, I shall write you again.

Pvt. Jack Becht surprised his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Becht, by spending Saturday and Sunday with them, having a three-day pass from Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.

Corp. William Home returned on Monday to Camp Shenango, at Greenville, Pa., after spending five days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Homey.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bloomlngdale have received word from their son, Sgt. Wlnfleld Bloomlngdale, who has been transferred to Nashville, Tenn., that he Is fine health and says to tell all his friends "Hello."

The Courier has been advised that Pvt. William Bridgman is now lo-cated at Fort Ord, Cal., and Aviation Cadet Ralph W. Mast is at Bakers-field, Cal.

W A S T E C O R N E R S

GIVE WAR CROPS

Michigan's waste farm land loses some of Its poor reputation after a look at the meat, fur, wild fruits and recreation that such otherwise idle land Is offering during war months.

A suggestion that untllled areas on farms receive protection comes from R. G. Hill, representing the Michigan State College extension service and the State Conservation Department.

In 1942, he points out, this so-called waste land produced more than 7 million pounds of dressed meat from small game and fur an-imals. An estimated 800,000 fur an-imals were trapped on Michigan farms, used in part for fur vests for the American Merchant Marine service. From other unplowed areas came crops of cranberries, blueber-ries, wild grapes, wild blackberries and dewberries. Gullies and other eroded areas on farms may also con-tribute to this production If vege-tation Is encouraged.

Farmers can protect the sources of this meat, f u r and frui t . Such spots should not be pastured and should not be burned. On marshes, according to Mr. Hill, a minimum depth of four to six Inches of water will aid fur animals and waterfowl and keep the marsh from being just a mudhole.

Feathers from waterfowl are need-ed in war. Such feathers substitute for those of the wild elder duck us-ually obtained from Iceland and Norway. Short body feathers o f , ducks and geese are proving a sat-isfactory substitute for lining sleep-ing bags and for clothing for fliers who soar into the chill of the high altitudes.

Even the fishing done on farm ponds comes under the heading of wartime economy, combining recre-ation with a search for unrationed meat. Hill points out.

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BRUSH BURNING UNWISE

Burning of grass and marsh lands < on Michigan farms after April 20 will destroy nests of cottontail rab-bits, pheasants, quail and other ground nesting birds. Thousands of acres of land are burned over each spring by farmers. The practice Is wasteful, says R. G. Hill, Michigan State College farm game extension specialist. Such fires destroy organ-ic matter and frequently kill annual grasses, allowing less desirable per-ennials to grow. Fires also burn off fence posts and damage the gal-vanized protection on wire fencing so that rusting occurs. Even build-ings are sometimes destroyed when fires get out of control.

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'Swordflsh Measure 15 Feet A fully grown swordflsh may

measure 15 feet in length from the tip of the sword to the end of the tail.

Order For Publication Appointment Of Administrator.

State of Michigan. The Probate Coarl for the Couuty of Berrien.

At a sebslon of aald court, held a t the pro-bate office In the city of St. Joseph In said Oount^, on the ?6th day of April, A. D. IMS,

Present ; Hon. Malcolm Hatfield, Judge of Probate .

In the Mailer of the Kstate of Joseph Barnes, deceased.

Walter H. Hamilton having filed In said conrt hU petition praying tha t the admlnls tra (loo o< said es ta te be grunted to John W. Rody or to some other suitable person.

I t IB Ordered that the 24th day of May A. D. IMS, at ten o'clock In the forenoon, at aald Probate office, be and la hereby appoint ed tor hearing aald petit ion:

It la further ordered, tha t publ ic notice thereof be given by publication of u copy of this order, for three aucresalve weeks, pre-vious to aald hearing. In the Coloma Courier, a newspaper printed and circulated In said county.

MALCOLM HATKIBLD. A true copy. Judge of Probate.

Elsie Kra]cl, Beglater of Probate . 80ii

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W A R B O N D S Barbed wire used by Uncle Sam ' i

fighting forces is vastly different from that used on American farms. Army and Marine barbed wire is much heavier and the barbs, about three inches in length, are more vicious than ordinary barbed wire.

The Marine Corps pays fifty cents for each twelve yards, or 36 feet of this specially manufactured barbed wire. The Army and Marine Corps needs thousands upon thousands of feet for defensive warfare. Your purchase of War Bonds and Stamps will insure sufficient quantity for their needs. Invest at least ten percent of your wages in War Bonds every pay day.

I/. S. Tnuury Dtfarlmtnl

Rationed Farm Machinery Fa rm machinery now in dealers'

hands was released for distribution through the county farm rationing committees. Farmers wishing to buy rationed equipment must make application for its purchase through the county boards, which are expect-ed to place the machinery on the fa rms where it will produce the mdst.

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Flavoring and Gravy Sour cream poured over the meat

balls and allowed to simmer slowly for a few minutes sends a delicious tar t flavor into the very center of each plump meat ball and eventual-ly cooks down into a thick sauce, just right for serving as gravy.

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Lessens Poultry House Work Dropping pjts in the poultry house

will reduce tf>e number of times the house should be cleaned. Litter can be added as needed.

Batterfat Production Increases Since 1895, when the first cow test-

ing association was started in Den-i mark, the average production of but-

terfat for each cow has increased from 138 to 285 pounds a year.

—V Early Shorthand

The Roman poet, Quintus Ennius, devised a system of shorthand in 200 B. C. He employed 1,100 signs to enable him to write them swiftly

V E m m a Laiarns

Emma Lazarus (1849-87), the American-bom Jewish poet, whose sonnet, written the year before her death, appears on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, also was known as an essayist. She wrote impas-sionedly against the persecution of her race in "Songs of a Semite." In addition she wrote "Alide," a romance based on the life of Goethe, and translated the poems of Heine. During the 1880s she gave great as-sistance to the Russian Jews.

Meant Just H u t Synthetic rubber has been a fas-

cinating subject ever since a few years before the last war when valu-able work was done on the constitu-tion and synthesis of natural rubber. In those early years of the present century the term "synthetic rubber" meant just that—namely, the prod-uct formed by the actual synthesis of the rubber hydrocarbon which is the chief constituent of natural rubber.

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May as Well It 's fun to scold about the things

that deserve it. If one can't scold when he wants to, he may as well keep still. Better than to utter a lot of pcllyanna.

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Speeding Woodchopping Labor The woodchopper who carries a

small oilstone in his pocket can speed his work by keeping the cut-ting edge of his axe keen and sharp for the entire day.

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5 CONVimiNT TUMI

THI SKRET OT WHITE KNIGHT

• Loyers of all-white itaple cotton on top and bettom.

• "Inside moHrtts" of mere felted staple cotton In its own doth cover.

• lK«h)iive, prebuilt border — keeps edges even.

• leautyreit tailoring, ineluding Beautyreit cover and other features.

If you need a new mottrew we urge you to come in toon to tee White Knight, it's hard

to believe that a cotton-felt mattreii can be to downright comfortable. But then it wai

made by Simmom, world-leader in ileep p r o d u c t i . . . and Simmons hai i n c l u d e d many

of their Beautyreit features in this new mattress. Perhaps that is why people are

calling White Knight "the Beautyrest of felt mottresses."

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STORES TROOST BROS. St Joseph

Benton Harbor

THE OLD JUDGE SAYS. . .

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"I was just tellin' my brother Fred this morning, Judge...there's never been a time in our lives when we got to live up to that old sayin" United we stand, divided we fall' more than we have, to today."

"How true that is. Herb. And for the life of me, I can't figure out why, at a time like this, some folks insist on raising a ques-tion like prohibition. I can't imagine any-thing that would tickle our enemies more than to get us folks over here taking sides

against each other, arguing about an issue like that. We've got a he-man's job on our hands to win this war and we can't be wasting our minds, our money and our strength fighting about something we tried for nearly 14 years and found couldn't work.

"I say there's a time and a place for everything, and this is no time or place to be doing any fightin' except the kind that's going to win the war."

Con/irtnee of AleokoUe Bntrat* Induttrin, Inc.

THE COLOMA COURIER, COLOMA, MICH. APRIL 30,1943

Will Continue Advertising Michigan's Resort Areas

GRAND RAPIDS—Michigan will contlne to advertise Its second In-dustry this year. "We have selected papers in the nearby industrial cen-ters to carry our advertising this ear, "says William Palmer, Secre-tary-Manager of the West Michigan Tourist & Resort Association." We believe the resort Industry will help solve the housing shortage In many of these centers. Housekeeping cot-tages near war industries are being | snapped up by war workers who; are moving their families Into the j state. Other war workers are mov-ing their families to the country and I renting their city homes to essential war workers from still other centers.

"We will concentrate our advertis-ing close to Michigan, realizing that most vacation trips will be short this year. We are asking people to fit their vacation to the war-time program. Industrial leaders and high-ups In Washington have said that vacations are needed to pre-serve the health and morale of the nation, so we feel that we are doing a duty In Inviting war workers to spend their vacations in our glorious out doors."

While most of the Wsst Michigan Tourist Association and all-state advertising appropriation will be spent in newspapers, there will be some time on the air and some out-door advertising in industrial cen-ters.

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Erosion In Chesapeake Bay The pounding surf eroding 3,600

miles of shore line of Chesapeake Bay is presenting a costly prob-lem alike to waterfront property owners and breeders of oysters.

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Babbit Skin Commonest Fu r Rabbit skins are used more ex-

tensively by the fur trade than any other kind of fur .

Policeman No. 1 Bond Salesman

DETROIT—Police Inspector Walt-er Stelt Is this city's proudest citl-

| zen today and It's No. 1 bond sales-1 man. Pledged to raise $10,000 by

the end of April in the second war I loan campaign, Stelt canvassed the

Packard Motor Car Co. offices and was introduced to Hugh Ferry, the company's secretary-treasurer. Ferry turned down the suggested $10,000 bond purchase. Then, taking the pen from the crestfallen policeman. Ferry signed an application for two million dollar bonds.

CHINESE MEALS FOR

AMERICAN TABLES

There's more to Chinese cooking than chop suey or chow meln. The Housewife's Food. Almanack In The American Weekly with the Sunday, May 2d, Issue of The Detroit Sun-day Times recipes for other delicious dishes which will help the American home-maker bring delight to the menu. Be sure to get Sunday's De-troit Times.—Adv.

Organised Labor ShoW^ Ability Shearing operations during the

current season In New South Wales, Australia, have provided a magnif-icent demonstration of organized la-bor established and improvised un-def war conditions. In this state

j whose 53 million sheep comprise hah' the sheep population of the en-tire Australian Commonwealth, 30,-000 workers are employed. With the peak of the shearing season passed, sheep ranchers have reported un-usually efficient operations. A big factor in this succfess was the graz-ers' willingness to co-operate in al-tering normal shearing dates, and the fine national spirit shown by em-ployees belonging to the Australian Workers union, one of Australia's biggest and most militant labor or-ganizations.

Dynamite Helps Make Food Because of dynamite, American

farmers can grow more wartime foods, feeds, fibers, and fats by im-proving farm lands through ade-quate drainage. The labor shortage Is causing farmers to use more of their most fertile land, some of which has not been in cultivation because of poor drainage. Agricul-tural explosive experts point out that dynamite is less expensive and far more available for use in ex-cavating ditches than are labor, power shovels, shovel teeth, truck bodies, and replacement parts fur manpower-using equipment To blast a given length of ditch, only enough manpower and time are needed to make the he'es and place the cartridges. Stumps, boul-ders, and sunken logs—so difficult to rsmove by hand or even by ma-chine—are thrown high in the air by dynamite. New and fertile top-soil is usually added to nearby area.

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Mostly French Europeans French Somaliland's population of

50,000 includej only 2,000 Euro-peans, mostly French. With few exceptions the Europeans are num-bered among Djibouti's 20,000 inhab-itants. Pearl fishing is a coastal industry, in the waters of the 100-mile-wide strait that ranks after Gibraltar and Suez as a military point of control of through-Mediter-ranean shipping.

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Locust, Malaria Seoarge Of Spanish Morocco's 800,000 in-

habitants, mostly Moslems, the high-landers raise sheep and goats; the lowlanders grow grains, beans, olives and fruits. Sizable export items included almonds, oranges* potatoes, canary seed, oxhides, wool, sheepskins, millet, fish and eggs. Malaria and locusts are scourges fought in large-scale campaigns by the government.

H Motor Coach and

Electric Train

To CHICAGO

This schedule conforms to regulat ions of the Off ice of Defense Transportation. The South Shore Line is co-operat ing 1 0 0 % with government agenc ies to facilitate war traffic.

Chicago South Shore A Sooth Bend Railroad

Lam Benton Harbor Central War Tim*

5:45 A.M. • 6 : 3 5 A.M.

7 : 3 5 A.M. • 8 : 3 5 A i l

9 : 3 5 A.M. • 1 0 : 3 5 A.M.

11:35 A.M. 12:35 P.M.

1:35 P.M. 2 :35 P.M. 3 :35 P.M. 4 :35 P.M. 5:35 P.M. 6:35 P.M. 7 :35 P.M. 8 :35 P.M.

* Eso.pt Sunday

LMV. S t JOMpIl Central War Time

5:55 A.M. • 6 : 4 5 A.M.

7:45 A.M. • 8 : 4 5 A.M.

9:45 A.M. • 10:45 A.M.

11:45 A.M. 12:45 P .M.

1:45 P .M. 2:45 P.M. 3 :45 P .M. 4 :45 P.M. 5:45 P .M. 6 :45 P.M. 7 :45 P.M. 8:45 P.M.

Loav* Bridgmaa Central War Time

6:23 A.M. • 7 : 1 3 A.M.

8:13 A.M. • 9 : 1 3 A.M. 10:13 A.M.

• 1 1 : 1 3 A.M. 12:13 P.M.

1:13 P.M. 2 :13 P.M. 3:13 P.M. 4 :13 P.M. 5 :13 P.M. 6:13 P.M. 7 :13 P.M. 8 :13 P.M. 9 :13 P.M.

Arrivo MIcMcan City Central War Time

7:15 A.M. • 8 : 0 5 A.M.

9 :05 A.M. • 10:05 A.M.

11:05 A.M. • 1 2 : 0 5 P.M.

1:05 P.M. 2 :05 P.M. 3 :05 P.M. 4 :05 P.M. 5:05 P.M. 6:05 P.M. 7 :05 P .M. 8 :05 P.M. 9 :05 P.M. •

10:05 P.M.

Arriva Chicago (KtrnMph »L)

Central War Tim* 8:45 A.M.

• 9 : 4 5 A.M. 10:45 A.M.

• 1 1 : 4 5 A.M. 12:45 P.M. • 1 : 4 5 P.M.

2:45 P.M. 3:45 P.M. 4:45 P.M. 5:50 P.M. 6:50 P.M. 7:50 P.M. 8:45 P.M. 9:45 P.M.

10:45 P.M. 11:45 P.M.

At* Ticket AgMt tor Official Time Table BENTON HARBOR: Union Boa SUUon, 216 W.

Main. Phono 9086.

ST. JOSEPH: Carlton Waltora* Storo. Phono 3-ie2L

STEVENSVILLE: El.In*a Drug Store. Phono S t

Too 3-7332, Bridgman S O - f l l . Pnidak'i "66" StaUon, Phono S t loo 3-7730.

BRIDGMAN: Andoraon Filling Station. Phono Bridgman 91S7.

HARBERT: Tornqulat Stow. Phono Lakoaido 3143.

"They Give Their L i v e s - Y o u Lend Your Money" U. S. Treojury Deparlmtnl Couttesy King Feitutet

Will Americans Be More Tender With Their Money Than Lives of Their Sons

Washington, D. C. — A blunt challenge—whether Amer-icans will be more tender with their money than with the lives of their sons — confronts U. S. citizens as they prepare to meet the appeal of the government to put an additional 13 billion dollars into the fight in the next three weeks.

American dollars which run off to 9

LOOKING AHEAD

IY GEORGE S. BENSON ?rttidtHt-J{araing College

Scaref, Jikansat '

some cozy shelter to hide while American boys are dying to defend our cities and towns from destruc-tion and invasion will face a rising demand from all classes of patriotic citizens to come out and fight.

Millions of workers who now are buying War Bonds regularly out of current income must lend extra money to their government during the Second War Loan campaign (which started April 12).

In recognition of the spirit of sac-rifice which is sweeping over the land as our troops swing into of-fensive action in Africa and await the signal for a landing in Europe, the Treasury Department is offering a series of government bonds to fit every pocketbook.

No matter whether Americans buy the familiar Series E Bonds or 2% per cent bonds or 2 per cent bonds or tax certificates, they will be doing their part to make the Second War Loan drive a success.

Consumer Spending Too High. Consumer spending in 1942 was

much too high to meet the war situa-tion of 1943. Last year more than 82 billion dollars of our soaring na-tional income went to feed the de-sires of Americans for clothes, rec-reation, foods and luxuries. As these items grow scarcer, more of our in-come must be diverted from such expenses into government bonds.

During 1942 millions of our fathers, sons, relatives and friends were in

were a. were

g uready In action, beginning unity. Wa

Casualties to bite into every

community. War Bonds became a vital link between the home and fighting fronts.

Today sacrifice has become a way of life for America's fighting men. Civilian spending on the 1942 scale must go out the window if the home folks are to attempt to match the heroism of our boys at the front.

Not every American can take his place in a bomber or in a foxhole or on a fighting ship but he can fire away at the enemy by lending money to the government.

Coal Plastic Material Source Coal is an important source of

material for the plastics industry. The prospects for a tremendous in-crease in the volume of plastics production will render the future for coal derivatives extremely bright, if every effort is made to maintain re-search, reduce basic cost of manu-facture, increase yields, and produce • varied and flexible number of in-termediates.

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What Shall We Do About It? Grasshopper damage can be pre-

vented only by a cold ^nd wet spring and timely control measures.

New Air Raid Warning Signals Effective throughout Michigan May I, 1943, by authority of State Director of Civilian Defente

When you hear

BLUE W a n i n g Two-minuta Maady blast of Mrana, horna

or wbiadaa.

BED W a n i n g

Fluctuating

abort bUata oa factory whifdaa, for thraa minntaa.

BLUE W a n i n g (followhf M )

Two-minute staady blait of lirtna, boms or whistlaa.

WHITE AllCleai

Thraa one-minute (teady blasts, alternating with two-minutw silent perioda.

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It means

URBJUD PROBABLE

AIR RAID DUIINENT

RAIDERS MAT RETURN

( t t l f A l l I T )

RAIDERS HAVE GONE; DANGER IS PAST

Yon do this

1. Gvilian Defense mobilizca.

2. All lights out, unlaas specifically exempted.

3. Traffic continues, rahide lights on low beam.

4. Workers remain at job*.

5. Pedestrian movement permitted.

L DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE.

1. Gvilian Defense mobilized.

2. Traffic stope, except for emergency vehicles.

3. All lights blacked out, except authorised emergency lights.

4. Public takes shelter.

I . DO NOT USB THE TELEPHONE.

1. Gvilian Defense remains mobHixad.

2. All lights continue blacked o«t, unless spe-cifically exempted.

3. Public leaves shelter and reeumes activities.

4. Traffic resumes, vehicle lights on low beam.

B. DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE.

1. Gvilian Defense demobilizes.

2. Blackout ends. 3. Community returns to normal status.

4. DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE UNTIL SOME TIME AFTER THE ALL CLEAR.

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Michigan Bell Telephone Company

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leamna Leonora straightened the objects

on her desk with great care. She had put her desk at the end of her room facing the door so that when her mother came in she would have to cross the whole room under Leo-< nora's s tem executive eye to get to her. From movies and pictures in the newspapers Leonora had gotten a good Idea of how the desk of a busy woman of affairs should look.

With an Important scowl, Leonora picked up a sheet of paper. Now she was two people—herself, the busy woman, and her own stenographer. "Miss Simpkins, take a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, will you?" she murmured under her breath.

"Yes, immediate-l y , " she m u r -m u r e d b a c k a t herself.

Leonora cleared her throat and looked at the cell-ing for i n s p i r a -tion. Miss Simp-kins bent over the s h e e t of p a p e r

on the words about to fall. )ear Mr. Morgenthau," — "Got

tha t?" — "Yes, madam." " I am — ahem — thirteen years

old and anxious to be of all possible service to the country at this time, ahem!

" I earn a weekly income of from $1.37 to $2.12 by helping with the housework and by shovelling snow. I am at present in possession of one War Savings Bond and am buying stamps weekly. I want to become a memoer of the 10 percent Club. I feel It to be — ahem — not only my duty, but my privilege' ("How do you spell privilege? asked Miss Simpkins. "Don't bother me with these details," said Leonora)—my privilege as an American to invest at least ten percent of my income in War Bonds.

Yours truly," "Get that off at once. Miss Simp-

kins," said Leonora. "Yes, Ma'am I You certainly are an important woman, ma 'am," said Miss Simp-kins.

(Letter from an actual communi-cation in the files of the Treasury D e p a r t m e n t . ) V. S. Treasury Deparlmtnl

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Fuel Oil Shortage The present fuel oil shortage will

last the duration. Now the shortage which requires rationing In 30 states is due to transportation difficulties, but an actual shortage of fuel itself is foreseen by government pe« roleum experts. The campaign to Induce homeowners to convert to coal is nation-wide In proportion. Now the campaign is voluntary, but may lat-er be compulsory. Coal is the most plentiful and economical fuel.

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Frozen Uncle Sam has adopted a new

policy of buying quick frozen vege-tables for his army, thus saving hun-dreds of tons of tin and steel for war production and giving the armed forces better food.

V Use Hot Water

Hot water is the easiest material to use in cleaning caked fertilizer out of a grain drill before it is stored for the winter.

Dictator-Proof Production of essential war ma-

terials in the United States grew several months ago to a point where the daily output of the United Na-tions exceeded that of the Axis pow-ers. Gradually since then good news from fighting fronts has come with more frequency; setbacks have been less often. No longer is America fighting a losing fight, although no one predicts a sudden and smashing victory.

Nevertheless there Is hope that peace will come to the world again, and all except a negligible few hope it will be soon. Pledges, made by the Ear th ' s most powerful leaders, that peace will bring victory to America and her Allies, are backed by men, materials and machinery as well as determination. Now the best of all things possible in the world seem to await only the bells and whistles which ultimately will proclaim an armistice.

Complicated Tears It will be a joyful sound but as

certainly as it proclaims an end of carnage it will also announce the beginning of another struggle, an undertaking to make peace perma-nent. Many big questions will de-mand answers, such as: Will cap-italistic Britain or communistic Russia dominate Europe, and who will help them decide? And all these questions will bespeak humanity's highest hope; hope that no more military maniacs can take posses-sion of powerful peoples (as Hitler grabbed Germany ten years ago) and rob a whole generation of its rightful peace and progress, and centuries of accumulated wealth.

Here Is how It happened: Hitler had no right to rule Germany but there was nobody to stop him. As a political demagogue he had gained some following. The German people were hungry. For three sad years they had endured unemployment and starvation. It took no brains to guess what they wanted. Hitler of-fered them jobs and bread; subsist-ence in return for work—much work.

They Fell in Line With what they believed was "all

to gain and nothing to lose," the Germans followed Hitler, followed him headlong Into what they did not want, the most pitiless war of aggression ever known. Will it hap-pen again? Hitlerism, to be sure, can hardly last, but power-madness will not vanish from the earth with Hitler. Grasping men will always scheme for power. How can the world's right-thinking people keep them from getting it?

Examine records of the past to • learn how despots work and you will see one glaring similarity. Dicta-tors climb to power over wreckage: wrecked lives, wrecked fortunes, blasted hopes. All men have inalien-able rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," and they do not sell their privileges to work and vote and worship God. Only extor-tion takes it from them. When men are doing even fairly well, they hold on to their freedom. They turn it loose only in dire calamity, when their children are weeping for bread.

Safety In Prosperity In a very real sense, prosperity

protects human liberty. No Hitler can hypnotize and enslave a pros-perous nation. People who are eco-nomically independent are dictator-proof. With full employment for la-bor and consequent high prices for farm products, with factories busy turning out marketable things for peace-loving customers, totalitarian rule Is impossible, call it Regimen-tation or what-not.

"Certainly dictatorship is unlikely in America," somebody will say, "but what has that to do with per-manent peace? We are in war now on account of dictatorships in Eu-rope. How can we stop it over there?" . . . That 's a fair question and fortunately it has an answer: Prosperity in Europe depends on prosperity in America. We have only 8 percent of the world's popu-lation, nevertheless, the world pros-pers when we prosper.

Uncle Sam, Buyer In normal years the United States

turns out 40 percent of all the usable things manufactured. In order to do this, factories of the United States utilize 40 percent of the world's output of raw materials. Un-cle Sam is Mother Earth 's big cus-tomer. Prosperity follows the Amer-ican buyer to the four winds. Trou-bles In Germany over which Hitler climbed to power resulted in part from America's big depression that started in 1929. The most important step toward a lasting world peace is prosperity in America.

The brightest spot in world politics today is the fact that business lead-ers in the United States are making plans for full employment through private enterprise, starting with the armistice; and full employment means plenty of buyers and lively markets for farm products. It was private enterprise that made Uncle Sam rich enough to be the world's best customer. Private enterprise made America the bountiful source of world prosperity. Some seek to destroy it, only that they may climb to power over its ruins. Be as-sured, however, if it is destroyed, •ir unique prosperity goes with it.

V Capital of Tunisia

Tunis, capital of Tunisia, is also the chief commercial port of the French protectorate which is becom-ing a leading North African battle-field. The city, less than ten miles south of the ancient harbor of Car-thage, and about 40 miles from northern Tunisia's important naval base of Bizerte, is located at the end of a shallow lake through which has been cut a deep, narrow, six-mile-long ship channel connecting the city with the sea.

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Navy Yard Workers A navy yard ' s 3,000 workers travel

00 to 85 miles, round trips, daily,

How Powhattan County Got Name From Indians

French and Indian is Virginia's Powhattan county—French in ita early settlement and Indian in its name. Neither name has anything to do with that French and Indian war in which George Washington won those figurative spurs which led to his choice as commander in chief of the Continental armies and to his eventual title of Father of His Country.

The French settlers were Hugue-not refugees from religious persecu-tion, for whom special arrangements In the New World were made by their Britannic majesties William and Mary in 1699, writes Elwood Street in the Richmond Times-Dis-patch. These early French settlers are memorialized in place names and still persisting family names and In the romantic name given to Virginia Route 44, which runs across the northern part of the county, the Huguenot Trail.

The Indian name was a product of the Revolution. The county was organized by the general assembly In 1771. Before the Revolution coun-ties had largely been named after British royalty, nobility or places. The Revolution blotted out the de-sire for such signs of allegiance to the mother country. Powhattan was the chief of the Powhattan Confed-eracy and the Indian who made the most powerful impression upon the first Jamestown colonists and their historians.

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Melbourne Nurses' Bravery Two Melbourne, Australia, nurses

have been decorated by the king for bravery and devotion to duty while attending wounded during bombing and machine-gun attacks on one of the last ships to leave Singapore. Staff Nurse Margaret Anderson has been awarded the George Medal, while membership in the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire has been conferred on Staff Nurse Vera Tomey. Their ship was hit three times by bombs from Japanese planes. The nurses were in a cabin attending wounded men who were being smothered by smoke and fumes. They dragged the men to the deck. The enemy planes re-turned, flying low, with machine-guns blazing. Nurses Anderson and Torney carried on their work. On one occasion Sister Anderson threw her body across one badly wounded man who was in direct line of attack.

Rapid Timber Seasoning Urea or carbamide Is finding in-

creasing use as a chemical season-ing agent for lumber. Its use has greatly facilitated the rapid season-ing of timbers and heavy lumber Items urgently needed In wartime-

STATE OF MICHIGAN

In the Circuit Court for the County of Berrien, In Chancery.

Eau Claire Fruit Exchange, Inc., Plaintiff, vs. Henry P. Voorhees; Harriet V. Rice; Harriet Bertha Tut-ton; Charles Harold Tutton; Arthur Woelston Tutton; Henry Voorhees Tutton: Thomas Evans, Herman Esalhorst and David Crawl, Trus-tees of the Eau Claire Business Men's Association of Eau Claire, Michigan; The Michigan & Ala-bama Fruit Package Company, or the Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Lega-tees and Assigns of each of said persons. Defendants.

ORDER FOR PUBLICATION At a session of said Court held at

the Court House In the City of St. Joseph, Berrien County, Michigan, on the 16th day of March, 1943.

Present: Honorable Fremont Ev-ans, Circuit Judge.

In this case It appearing f rom the affidavit on file that the above named defendants are necessary and proper parties herein, and that It Is not known whether the defendants above named are living or dead, or where they reside. If living, or whether the title. Interest, claim, lien or possible right of said defend-ants has been assigned by them, or If any of said persons are dead, whether they have personal repre-senatlves or heirs living, or where they, or some of them, may reside;

On Motion of Harvey & Fisher, plaintiffs attorneys, IT IS ORDER-ED that the said defendants above named, or the unknown heirs, de-visees, legatees and assigns of said defendants, and each of them, cause their appearance to be entered here-in within three months from the date of this Order, and In case of their appearance that they cause their answer to plaint i ffs bill of complaint to be filed and a copy thereof to be served upon pla int i f fs attorneys within fifteen days af te r service on them of a copy of said Bill and Notice of this Order, and that In default thereof said Bill of Complaint be taken as confessed by the said defendants.

And It is FURTHER ORDERED that within forty (40) days the said Plaintiff cause a copy of this Order to be published In the Coloma Courier, a newspaper printed, pub -lished and circulated in said County, and that said publication be con-tinued therein at least once each week for six weeks In succession, or, that Plaintiff cause a copy of this Order to be personally served upon said defendants at least twenty days before the time above prescribed for their appearance.

FREMONT EVANS, Circuit Judge.

HARVEY & FISHER, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Business Address: Benton Harbor, Michigan. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS:

You are hereby notified that the above entitled suit involves the title to the lands and premises herein-after described and Is brought to quiet the title of the Plaintiff In and to the following described lands and premises in the Village of Eau Claire, County of Berrien, Michigan, towlt:

Commencing 133.2 feet north from the southeast corner of Section 32, Township 5 South, Range 17 West; thence running north along section line 1026-2/3 feet; thence west at right angles with the east line of said Section 424 feet to the easterly

I line of the railway right of way; thence southeasterly along said rail-road line right of way to the place of beginning, containing five acres more or less. Village of Eau Claire, Berrien County, Michigan.

(March 26—April 30)

THE COLOMA COUR1HR, COLOMA, MICH. APRIL 30, 1943

Michigan Mirror

News Letter

BY GENE ALLEMAN Michigan Prew A u o c i a l i o n

Why buy war bonds this month? Governor Harry F. Kelly indirectly gave a powerful answer to the ques-tion when he depicted Michigan s post-war problems in an address at a midwest regional conference of the Council of State Governments at Chicago. The fu tu re picture, not a happy one, Is about as follows. Approximately 400,000 bread-win-ners unemployed as Michigan indus-tr ies swing back to peace-t ime pro-duction. An additional 100.000 ser-vice men back home, awaiting an opportuni ty to work now that vic-tory has been achieved.

At a t ime when wages and prices are at Inflationary levels and when there are more jobs than there are workers to fill them, a war bond represents Insurance against hard-ships dur ing the post-war readjus t -ment period. It also Is one of the best business Investments In the world, nett ing substantial Interest to the holder . "All right." you may say, "but why should I buy bonds as post-war insurance against un-emploment? Isn't It the responsibil-ity of the government to keep me f rom starving?"

And r ight then and there you run smack into one of the controversies existing today. It Is a revival of the old "state 's r ight" Issue which once was the exclusive property of the Jef fersonlan Democrats but which Is now, strangely enough, be-ing proclaimed by such Republican governors as John W. Bricker of Ohio, Thomas Dewey of New York, Dwlght H. Green of Illinois and Harry F. Kel ly of Michigan—just to mention a few. Beneath the fears being voiced that the federal gov-ernment will try to subsidize all human needs in some glorified post-war scheme of Utopia Is a significant t rend on the part of Republican governors to present the old Issue of state 's r ights In modern lang-uage: "Bureaucracy vs. Rights of the Individual ." It offers an inkling of what may be the key political Issue of the 1944 presidential campaign.

Governor Kelly believes t h a t Michigan will be confronted wi th the worst unemployment in its his-tory; that the industrial centers, such as Detroit, will become critical zones of unrest and despair; that the financial load of helping workers to t ide over during the 12-month re -ad jus tment period will be too much for the state government alone to shoulder. In the Michiagn Industrial centers today are li terally hundreds of thousands of families f rom other states.

"Few people realize the magni-tude of job losses—sheer unemploy-ment—in our state In the period from 1929 to 1939," said Governor Kelly. "In 75 of the 100 months between May 1929, and December 1937, the number of unemployed gainful workers in the state was never less than a quar ter of a mi l -lion. Unemployment reached or e x -ceeded the half-mllllon mark d u r -ing 25 of the 100 months."

It is the conviction of Governor Kelly that the post-war period will probably f ind a close parallel in the recession of 1937-38. In June, 1937, the employment index was at the highest point since the lush days of 1929; by October a ma jo r decline had developed, bringing the Index down 20 points in seven months. And yet, as the governor points out, al though the year 1936 was the best year f rom the standpoint of employ-ment in a 10-year period, the num-ber of unemployed workers in Mich-igan was ten-fold the amount for the best month of 1929. It also empha-sizes the fluidity of Michigan's mass production industry and its relation to relief. Michigan's relief increase, fo r example, was "nearly 10 t imes that of Pennsylvania" and "f ive t imes that for the country as a whole."

What is the state doing to meet this pos t -war challenge? Among the leading accomplishments of the 1943 legislature was the creation of a post-war reserve fund of f if ty mi l -lion dollars, to which the state ap -propriated twenty million dollars f rom its surplus, and the allocation of eight million dollars for a post-war construction fund for Michigan schools, colleges, hospitals and o th-er institutions. The legislature also reorganized the state planning com-mission to Increase Its effectiveness in dealing with the unemployment problem.

An aid during the post-war u n -employment period will be compen-sation payments available to Idle workers f rom Michigan's one h u n -dred s ixty million dollar reserve. Governor Kelly believes that this fund may reach the two hundred f i f ty million dollar mark If war pro-duction continues at the present rate for another two years.

As Governor Bricker of Ohio sees the situation, state governments must meet the post-war responsi-bilit ies In rebuilding post-war America "or others will move in and do the job," no doubt referr ing to Washington. It Is Brlcker 's be-lief that federal subsides will not cure economic ills and that Wash-ington should confine its activities in the spending field to supervision over the states' use of federal funds.

Governor Green of Illinois e m -phasizes that state governments must plan today for the post-war era and that Illinois was establish-ing a long-range program to provide fo r the re turn of more than 600,000 m e n the state has sent to war.

Governor Dewey of New York says t h a t the farm problem exists today chiefly because the federal g o v e r n m e n t "never saw the problem weeks ago—neven even reversed its crop restr ict ion program in t ime." As t h e Owosso-born New York gov-e r n o r p u t it, " the misfor tune ob-viously arose to a direct consequence of t h e s iphoning of all responsibility and p o w e r into the hands of the Nat iona l government . " Dewey sums u p t h e s ta te ' s r ights issue as a choice b e t w e e n a react ionary to ta l i tar ian-ism, wh ich is a super -bureaucracy of t h e nat ional government , and the r ights of t h e individual for " the f r e e g o v e r n m e n t of a f r e e people."

Gove rno r Kel ly p leads for " the r e t u r n to f i rs t pr inciples ," an o ld-fashioned phi losophy tha t p r iva te in i t ia t ive mus t b e f r eed of h a m p e r -ing res t r ic t ions "If f u l l employmen t

is to be our goal." This is the op- j posite of t h e creed of ambit ious so- I cial p lanners who seek to r emake our world through government con- ' trol and direction.

When the Michigan state execu-tive, a World war hero, reminded us in u t te r f rankness that Michi-gan's unemployment and relief loads were acute during p re -war years and inevitably will r e tu rn when the peace is declared, he provided a most effect ive incentive for the p u r -chase of war bonds today.

Besides being the patr iot ic th ing to do, buying a war bond is also a most sensible investment against the rainy days that are bound to come.

H A R T F O R D FAIR C A N C E L L E D

FOR T H E YEAR 1943

HARTFORD — Directors of the Van Buren county fa i r have voted unanimously to cancel the 1943 fai r in deference to the war program, the second time that the fall show has been suspended since its es tab-lishment In 1913.

No fair was held in 1933 when the depression was at Its depth, bu t It was resumed In 1934 and had wri t ten Its finest record of success in recent years.

"Traf f ic restrictions, food rat ion-ing and difficulty in obtaining both exhibits and enter ta inment features were deciding factors," stated Don F. Cochrane, president of the fair , following the meeting of the direct-ors at which the suspension was voted.

The decision of fa i r officials was also spur red by the action of 400 Van Buren county fa rmers at the i r recent F a r m Bureau meeting. De-claring tha t they would be too busy to p repare their usual exhibits, the farmers recommended that the 1943 fair be cancelled.

The fa i r directors also took the view tha t the fair would d iver t both at tention and manpower f rom the harvest ing of crops, a vital prob-lem In southwestern Michigan. The fair has invested $5,700 of its sur -plus f u n d s in war bonds, and Its officials hold the view tha t the war program will be bet ter promoted by cancelling the fa i r than by hold-ing It.

The fa i r oragnlzatlon will remain Intact and the annual fall show will be resumed as soon as war condi-tions appear to jus t i fy it. President Cochrane said.

Robert Bangs of Paw P a w was elected by the directors as speed secretary of the fair , to succeed the late Charles C. Cole, who had di-rected the fair ' race programs for several years.

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Lincoln an Ent i re Coarse Abraham Lincoln is the only

American whose career , achieve-ments as a s ta tesman and contribu-tions to l i terature are studied as an entire college course leading to a degree. The course is offered by the Lincoln Memorial university in Har -rogate, Tenn.

Par ro t Can Imi ta te A par ro t has vocal cords capable

of imitat ing many sounds, among them human speech. Strictly speak-ing, the parrot cannot ta lk ; he can only imitate . There is reason to be-lieve that a parrot understands what he is saying, many authorities s ta te .

Auto Registrat ion Passenger car registrat ion in the

United States increased by approxi-mately 5,000,000 since 1935. Most of this growth in automobile ownership has taken place among families hav-ing incomes of less than $30 a week.

Lean Pa r t s Nutritious In buying meat r emember that

the lean parts of the cheaper cuts, such as chuck roast , l amb breas t and soup bones a re as nutritious as the more expensive sirloin s teaks and veal cutlets.

The Word Budget The word "budget" which we use

as both a noun and ve rb is a cor-ruption of the French noun "bou-get te" (boo-zhet) which means a "sack, purse, or traveling bag of l ea the r . "

Daniel Webster Star ted I t Daniel Webster s tar ted the cus-

tom of rising for the "S ta r Spangled Banner . " The first t ime a whole audience rose was when Jenny Lind sang it.

B.T.U. B.T.U. is defined as 1/180th of the

amount of heat necessary to bring one pound of water f rom 32 to 212 degrees Fahrenheit .

Ural 's Mines Rich Soviet Russia 's Ural mountains

have produced in some yea r s as much as nine-tenths of the world sup-ply of platinum.

Have a Sardine Few Chinese a re able to buy a

whole can of sardines a t one t ime, so these fish a re sold one at a t ime there.

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What you fcuy. WttU

Wishful thinking will not halt Hit-ler ' s tyranny, nor will " spa re -c h a n g e " financing give us the mon-ey necessary to win this war . So s ta r t today investing in your coun-t ry ' s War Bonds with ten percent or more of your earnings.

Wishful thinking will not help you to buy that new furn i ture when the war is won. But your money saved in War Bonds will. Join the Payrol l Savings Plan a t your office or fac-tory. Le t ' s "Top that Ten P e r c e n t . "

U. S. Trtatury Diparlmtnt

LOOKING AHEAD

IY GEORGE S. IENSON PreiideHt-JtatdiKg College

Searcy. Mkansat

Sales Taxes Casting about for ways to ra ise

money with which to pay Amer ica ' s huge war bill, the United Sta tes Treasury has s teadfas t ly held " thumbs down" on retai l sa les taxes. "They a re i r r i ta t ing to everybody concerned," it is sa id ; "const i tute a nuisance to retai l mer -chants and an added expense of do-ing business." Truly, experience with t hem in many s ta tes has proved that they give rise to end-less complaint.

I t is only na tura l for the adminis-tration to go slow in ita considera-tion of a sales t a x therefore, be-cause the United Sta tes still is a government by popular consent. Of-fice holders instinctively shrink f rom start ing movements tha t a r e la-beled "unpopular" . But it is m y be-lief that a sensible sales t a x can be m a d e popular; can be sold to the public. Except for the bother of it, nothing fits the nation's immedi-ate needs so well.

Systematic Savings A big advance toward making a

general t ax acceptable to the public has been made al ready by Senator John A. Danaher of Connecticut. He is proposing one that is not str ict ly a tax ; more in the order of an eh-forced loan to Uncle Sam, re turn-able in full af ter the war . You might think tha t such a plan would requi re a lot of costly machinery to operate , since payments would come in such small amounts, but not so. The sen* ator has overcome that .

Here ' s how it would work: F o r purposes of this illustration, call the ra te 10%. Every t ime a cus tomer bought a dollar 's worth of merchat t-dise a t a retail store, the me rchan t would have to demand also the pur-chase of a 10c sav ings-s tamp. Mr . Customer would paste these s t a m p s in a book and when he got $100' worth he could exchange them at the post office for a $100 bond which would bring full face value in cash af te r the war.

The Poor Must P a y Frank ly I am in favor of the Dan-

aher P lan or something very much like it, for several reasons. F i r s t , i t is plain now that f a r m e r s , laborers and low-income salar ied folk a re go-ing to be called upon to pay a great-er par t of the w a r ' s cost. There is no other way. If the government should take every penny of this yea r ' s income f rom every person now earning $20,000 a year or more , the resulting revenue would ca r ry on the war only six weeks a t the present ra te .

Carrying the speculation f u r t h e r : If the government should confiscate the entire income of every person earning $10,000 a yea r or more , the grand total of revenue ra ised in this way would be barely enough to pay our war bills for two months. Dig-ging even deeper into the "comfor t -ably s i tuated" class, suppose the government should g rab every pen-ny earned by everybody receiving $5,000 a year or more . Even this ex t reme measure would ra ise only enough money to keep our war go-ing four months. Obviously the poor must pay .

They Are Williag People of smal l income want to

lielp. They a re anxious to do their pa r t and it is m y opinion tha t they are entitled to pay their sha re the cheapest and most direct way (which is by sales tax) now that Senator Danaher h a s devised a method of making it pract ical ly painless. People of low income al-ready a re paying hidden taxes up to 20% of their earnings, and I call it only fa i r that they be allowed to contribute in a way tha t will bring their money back to them.

The American Federa t ion of La* bor m a d e some recommendat ions to Congress not long ago which con-tained these two significant sen-tences :

"Provision should be made fo r the re turn , in cash, a f te r the wa r , of a p a r t of the present high taxes . We can well be guided by the English policy which proposes to r e tu rn a high percentage of the t axes now assessed against low-income work-e r s . "

A sa les tax should be 100% re* turnable because it is the m a n of smal l earning who is hit ha rdes t by any sa les tax. The reason is ob-vious: He spends a m a j o r s h a r e of his earnings jus t for necessit ies. Necessary food, shelter and appare l cost a s much for a m a n earning $2,000 a year as for one who ea rns th ree t imes as much.

Combats Inflatiea My third reason for favor ing the

Danaher plan is the ma in one. The chief purpose of t a x legislation this yea r is to combat inflation. Infla-tion m e a n s run-away prices. When there is not much of anything to buy and everybody has more money to spend, people natural ly bid p r ices up, trying to get what they want . The less they have to spend the l e v temptat ion they have to bid pr ices sky-high.

Besides, there is an honest and patr iot ic way to escape any sa les tax . I t is by saving money ; the tax is on spending. The D a n a h e r plan is a savings plan. I t p e r m i t s the working m a n to help finance the war . I t helps defea t inflation. I t compels some saving for everybody and inspires more saving for oth-e r s ; save now while money is re la-tively easy to get, so a s to have something a f t e r the war when i t may meet a very serious need.

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Cattle Grubs Controlled These pests a re the young s tage

of the heel fly. They usually appear on the backs of cat t le about this t ime of the y e a r and cause con-siderable irri tation by cutting h o l e r in the hide. If grubs a re present the t r ea tment of cat t le with a powder m a d e by mixing one p a r t 5 pe r cent rotenone content de r r i s or cube powder and two pa r t s of wittable sulphur is recommended. Apply to the backs of the f rom a shaker can and rub in lightly with the hand.

AMERICAN HEROES B Y L E F F

L t Clarence Llpsky, United States Air Forre, from Great Neck, L. 1., was one of the first Americans to particinate in the bombing of German;

>rced down over enemy territory, L t and the occupied countries. Forced Upsky is now in a Naii prison.

To free diis American soldier, as well as guarantee your own future liberty, buy Second War Loan Bonds with every cent not needed for the essentials of living.

t/. S, Trftunry Dtfiarlmfni

Three Latex-Bearing P lan t s Hundreds of scientists and technol-

ogists a re collaborating in the na-t ion 's quest to discover rubber-bear-ing plants which can be grown on a l a rge scale in North America, ac-cording to a report to the American Chemical society by Dr. H. L. T rum-bull, one of the leaders in the proj-ect . Fundamen ta l research , it is pointed out, m a y provide new tech-niques for the recovery of rubber f r o m both domestic and foreign plants . Three latex-bearing plants with annual crop possibilities a r e being specially grown and studied —goldenrod with rubber mainly in ita leaves; kok-sagyz or Russian dandelion with rubber mainly in Its roots ; and cryptostegia with rubber in both s t ems and leaves. The lat-te r , a perennial , m a y be capable of providing many harves t s each year . The seeds of the Russian dandelion were flown to this country f r o m Moscow by t ranspor t plane for widespread planting in the northern s ta tes .

V Fish for Military Consumption Members of the a rmed forces a r e

allotted about 306 pounds of m e a t per year , a s contrasted with the ave rage civilian consumption of 172 pounds annually. The 1942 commer-cial pack of salmon, sardines, and other flsh h a s been ordered for mili-t a r y use.

Rabbi t Brash for Rubbe r? Studies of the rabbi t b rush as a

source of rubber a re being made by federa l scientists. A dese r t dweller like guayule, it is distr ibuted over ten western s ta tes . I t grows well a t elevations around 7,000 feet , f re-quently on inaccessible rocky hill-sides, and rare ly occurs in solid s tands. Authentic analysis of the rubber content, together with cur-ren t es t imates of the exist ing s tands of rabbit brush, indicate that not more than 30,000 tons of rubber could resul t f r om the s laughter of this shrub, the domesticat ion of which is not favored by plant scientists .

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'—Now Overdue, Sir ! ' Things real ly happened the other

day for Lt . Harvey Markley, MRTC Special Training Detachment , a t Camp Berkley. On the s a m e day he received official notiflcation that he had been promoted f r o m second to flrst l ieutenant he received an of-flcial letter, through channels , tha t he possessed two books overdue a t the Camp Library . The books: "The R a m p a r t s We Watch" and "Forg ive Us Our Trespasses . "

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Sheepskins It requires 12 shearl ings, or sheep-

skins, to outflt aa a r m y pilot, re-ports the U. S. depar tment of ag-riculture.

DJedelda Rail Jnnction Djedcida, Tunis, is an impor-

tant rai l Junction between the Tuni-sian capital and the naval base of Bizerte to the north. It Is 15 miles west f rom Tunis on the rai l road which extends across North Africa to Casablanca, Morocco.

The town is on the right bank of Medjerda, chief of Tunisian rivers, which cuts the zigzag course through the mountains followed by the rail-way and highway, says the National Geographic society. In centuries past this river silted up the historic gulf of Utica. Al Djedeida is a dam, built in 1622, to Impound the mountain wa te r s of the r iver which in t imes of drouth may dec rease to one-tenth of 1 per cent of i ts maxl-m u m volume. Water is thus stored for irrigation. The i r r igated fields about Djedeida a r e fert i le and well cultivated.

Judging Fabric QuaUty To Judge the quality of any fab-

ric if you don' t imow the manufac-turer hold the mater ia l up to the daylight. The threads should be close woven and flawless, and the cloth should feel soft. See that it is equally well finished on both sides.

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Bees in Massachuset ts In Massachuset ts alone four tona

of bees a re used to fertilize the apple blossoms.

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W A R B O N D S

Takes Broad Detour Ancient ca ravan trailq, some mod-

ernized and capable now of handling t ruck traffic, a re the only m e a n s of ground transportat ion f rom Lake Chad to the northern war thea te r . Of these, two routes stand out on the map . One (more than 2,000 miles long) makes a broad detour through the Chad colony of French Equator ia l Africa, turning westward finally to join a road that cuts across eas te rn Libya all the way to the Medi ter ranean port of Bengasi. The other (the one which runs f rom the northwest shore of Lake Chad to Tripoli) passes through French Welt Africa and western Libya.

When the Marines get their serv-ice pack, there is included therein a bright shiny new shovel cased in a, muslin ca r r ie r . The shovel costs 68 cents and the car r ie r 39 cents, or $1.07 for the ensemble.

These intrenching shovels a re used by the Marines around camp, digging t renches , sett ing up barbed wire entanglements and in many other ways. Your purchase of War Bonds and S tamps every pay day can readily equip our forces with these necessary implements for war fa re . Invest a t least ten percent of your income every pay day. Buy War Bonds and S tamps f rom your bank, your postoffice and a t re ta i l stores.

V. S. Trtatury Dtpartme*!

Substitute for S teamed Bonemeal Thoroughly s teamed bonemeal i t

not a lways available for use in mak-ing minera l mix tures for hogs, says Ellis V. Vestal, animal husbandry extension specialist of North Caro-lina State college. When it is not available, he says, a mixture of 10 pounds of ground l imestone and two pounds of sal t m a y be used. If it is available, use 10 pounds of ground limestone, 10 pounds of s teamed bonemeal , and five pounds of salt . Minerals should be placed where the hogs can have f r ee access to it, but should be kept dry.

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Controlling Rust on Roof At the first sign of rust , says D. S.

Weaver , extension agr icul tural en-gineer of North Carolina State col-lege, or when the roof shows dark discoloration, the galvanized roofing should be painted with metal l ic sine paint . Before applying the paint, the roof should be put in good physi-cal shape and all gut ters and low places should be cleaned of fallen leaves and dirt . If the roof has been painted with any kind of paint previously, all loose and scaly parta mus t be retnoved with a wire brush, r insing the roof with wa te r , ahd al-lowing it to dry.

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Fel l Out of P l ane At Yorkshire, England, aviation

Cadet Derek M. Sharp fell out of a training plane 500 feet up. As he plunged through space, something bopped him on the head. Instinctive-ly he ra ised his a r m s and found himself hugging the tail of his own plane. He managed to wiggle him-self up on the plane 's e levator sur-faces . All this made the plane bounce, and when the pilot learned the reason he made a quick and ca re fu l landing. Cadet Sharp was unhurt .

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To make one pound of a luminum requires the use of a s much electric current a s is used in the average American home over a period of more than three days.

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GREAT PROSUCTIVE WORKER!

HE a f tag* farmer works from tun to sun and then some. Last year farmers oi the U. 8. A. brought In a bumper crop and now they are being asked to produce

even more, so as to feed our armies, our allies and the civilian population. It won't be easy, but with any kind of luck with the weather, the farmers will produce more food In spite of labor and machinery shortagesk

Certainly farmers deserve and should reoiive the fullest cooperation in this gigantic task. In so far as electricity can help, we are making every effort to assisl in keeping elec-trical farm machinery running and in developing every pos-sible source of electrical farm equipment

We salute the farmers of America who meet the challenge of the elements, working through torrents of ndn at scorching sun with the same faithful dispatch of duty—tending live-stock and crops with steadfast efficiency* We are proud to be partners with these "unheralded and unsung" heroes In the attempt to do everything possible to aid in die increasing of food production for the nation.

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THE COLOMA COURIER, COLOMA, MICH. APRIL 30,1943

FERTILIZER SALES INCREASE

Reports gathered by the soils science depar tment at Michigan State College indicate f a rmers in Michigan follow closely the college ferti l izer recommendations, espec-ially in 1942. In a total of 187,517 tons purchased the past year more than 94 per cent were of the grades or mixtures recommended by the college depar tment . More than 98 per cent of the purchases contained 20 per cent or more plant food, an -other college recommendation. In 1934 only 72 per cent contained tha t much plant food.

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Motorists May Charge F a r e Massachuset ts car owners have

gained an added incentive to " sha re the ride" with issuance of an ex-ecutive order by Governor Salton-stall which permits private dr ivers to collect fees for transporting work-e r s to heir destinations. Any auto-mobile, of e i ther s tandard or station-wagon type, carrying no more than •even persons in addition to the driver, may be classified as a "Work-m a n ' s Livery Automobile," though no special registration is required.

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California Quail The California valley quail is be-

ing advocated for the s tate bird of California.

Number , P lease l Do you have trouble remember ing

numbers? If so, you should call on Corp. John Crapp of Fai rbanks , Pa . , who is stationed at Keesler Field, Miss. Corporal Crapp makes a hob-by of r emember ing army serial numbers and at one t ime could rat-tle off those of 150 of his friends with scarcely a pause for breath—and most a r m y serial numbers run into eight digits.

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Between Ital ians and British Of all F r ance ' s once vast overseas

empire , only bar ren , hard-baked French Somaliland, in northeast Af-rica, had not been severed f rom Axis-captive Vichy by early Decem-ber. This colony between I tal ian Er i t rea and British Somaliland has 180 miles of nor theast African coast-line at the vitally Important Strai t of Bab el Mandeb that leads f rom the Red sea Into the Indian ocean.

V Aud Time-and-a-Half for Overt ime?

In the 60th Bn., Camp Barkeley, Texas, they ' re talking about the bril-liant idea of one of the t rainees. This part icular recrui t approached his commanding officer with the suggestion that he be permitted to serve "twice the duration plus six months" so that he could have ev-ery other week off.

Clean Lighting F ix tu res Don't neglect electric light bulbs

and reflectors or diffusing fixtures. Conservation is Important in these war t imes, and dust cuts down light making it necessary to use more wat tage and cutting down also on the value you get f rom the cur ren t you use. Each week or fortnight, each bulb should be mopped with a d a m p ' s o a p y cloth, then rinsed M d wiped thoroughly dry. Make sure lights a re switched off before you s ta r t mopping. • ^

Skipper Infestation of Stored Meat The best method for keeping skip-

pers out of mea t is to keep flies f rom coming in contact with the mea t while the mea t is being han-dled. A dark, cool, well-ventilated fly-proof smoke house is a g rea t help in this respect . Occasional smoking of the m e a t during summer storage will also be helpful. Another meth-od is to wrap the mea t in paper and muslin and hang in the smoke house.

V Clean Milking Machine

If but terfa t is allowed to remain on the rubber par t s of a milking ma-chine, the rubber becomes oil soaked and loses its elasticity. Cold water should be used to remove milk from the rubber immediately a f t e r milk-ing.

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"Hm-m-m... betcha that's

what it needs this springr

Your car's a year older now! Olvo If th is r a f r o s h e r l Your car will never be any younger than it is to-day, but you can make it act younger —by having your Standard Oil Dealer give it this 10 Star Wartime Tune-up, expertly designed for 1943 driving conditions: • 1 — Bittwy. Check, tdd water; recharge if necessary. • 2—Um. Inspect rubber, rims, valves, etc. Check need for replacement or recapping. (Maintain tires t t wartime pressure—

32 lbs. Switch as needed.) • I—Tnil-•issios u i DiffirMtiaL Drain. Install sturdy summer grade Standard lubri-cant. * 4—Chassis LuWeatloB. Wipe ofi all fituhgs and apply fresh Standard lubricants. * 6—Gas Sa»ta| Sanries. Air cleaner: clean and re-oil. Spark plugs: clean and regap. • 8 — Froat Wbnl Bearings. Clean and repack. • 7—Safety Senrict. Check lights, clean lenses; in-spect wiper. • I—Cooltof SystHB. Drain

and flush radiator, add rust prevenuve. Drain heater. Check hose and fan belt, • I—Afftaraaca-ProtBCtiM. Wash, pel-ish. Wax the body and bright metal. Remove spots from upholstery. • 18— Crariwasi. Drain, flush, refill with sum-mer grade Iso-Vis. Check oil filter. • A nation on wheels is a stronger nation. Help keep America on wheels. • Buy more War Bonds and Stamps. Drive under 35—share your car.

OIL It JUMUHtTION . . . UIM IT ITItMLI

Y O U R S T A N D A R D O I L D E A L E R I S CAR C O N S E R V A T I O N H E A D Q U A R T E R S

Mrfi. George St ra t ton spent tho week end wi th her son Mart in and his family in Kalamazoo.

Kendal l Wilcox and daughter , Miss June were home f rom Ypsil-ant i for the Easter week end.

Mrs. Zi lkah Weber of Benton Har -bor was a guest of Miss Theodora Brune over the Easter holiday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur T ruhn and family were Easter guests at the Wm. Tenter home In Benton Harbor .

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beverldge en-tertained all of their marr ied sons and daughters , with their families for Easter d inner .

Mr. and Mrs. Nick VanderRoest of Kalamazoo and Mr. and Mrs. Ed McNitt of Watervl iet were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Paul.

Miss Patr icia Baltinger visited Fr iday and Sa turday at the home of he r grandmother , Mrs. George M. Balt inger and cousin, Miss Etta Krause.

Barney Kinyon who went about ten days ago to the home of his sister, Mrs. Frank Mack at Eau Claire, has suffered a paralytic s t roke and Is seriously 111.

Mr. and Mrs. William Watkins and son Jack , of Detroit, l e f t Tues-day morning a f t e r a five day vaca-tion spent wi th Mrs. Watkln's moth-er, Mrs. Vina Hocker.

Miss Leona Bachman was at the home of he r parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bachman for the Easter va-cation. Miss Bachman is at tending Moody Bible Inst i tute in Chicago.

Dr. and Mrs. B. H. Rolen and fami ly of Hamilton, Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Carlson and family of Chicago spent the Easter vacation a t the home of their fa ther , W. C. Vilwock.

Have You Tried Blahnlk 's Home Remedies? Bronchlt lne for coughs, Bronco R u b for chest rub, Rheumat -ic Remedy, Bls-Mo-Tar for all skin eruptions, and Boll Ointment, a wonderfu l drawing salve. For sale a t Scott 's Pharmacy.—Adv.—38tf.

Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Kelgley, former residents of Litt le Paw P a w Lake, re turned f rom the i r winter ' s stay in Florida last week and are now at their home on R. F. D. 3, Benton Harbor , where they moved af te r selling the i r fa rm proper ty .

Mr. and Mrs. Alber t Os t rum are moving this week to the home they recently purchased f rom Elmer End-ers on Ryno Road. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bale who have occupied the house, have moved into the Al Kol-berg house near the Washington schoolhouse.

Girl Scout Troop No. 1 will sponsor an exhibit of quilts and other flne needle work, china, antiques and hobbies which will be held Tuesday evening. May 4th. a t the Coloma school. Mothers of the

f;irlfl, troop committee members and rlends are invited. Miss Joan Lyon is

the general chairman.

The Brit ish Countess' last visit f rom the fatal Black Ghost. When-ever the phantom appeared he he r -alded t ragedy, but the skeptical noblewoman defied him until his four th appearance, then dea th came to her . Read of her s t range psychic exper iences as told In The American Weekly, the magazine distr ibuted wi th nex t Sunday 's Chicago Herald-American.—Adv.

The Rebekah convention for dis-trict No. 28 was held a t Har t fo rd! on Apri l 21st wi th twenty-s ix ladles f rom Coloma In a t tendance. The Coloma lodge put on the memorial work In the evening. Three can-didates w e r e Initiated f rom Coloma. Mrs. Ear le Smith, noble grand of the Coloma Rebekah lodge, was elected district t reasurer . The 1944 conven-tion wil l be held in South Haven.

Mr. and Mrs. William Bloomlng-dale of Coloma had as the i r guests on Easter their two daughters and their families—Mrs. Clarence John -son and he r th ree daughters, P a -tricia A n n West, Sher ry Lee West and Adrlenne Sue West; Mr. and Mrs. Carrol l Wright and two daugh-ters, Nancy Elaine and Deanna Faye, Patr icia Ann's bir thday was April 24th and Mrs. Wright 's b i r th-day was Apri l 26th. Mrs. Bloom-lngdale baked a b i r thday cake for the observance of the two anniver-saries on Easter and all had a very f ine t ime.

Brazil 's Coffee for Plas t ics Brazil is keen about a large pro-

gram for the production of plastics f rom coffee. Soybean resins have a l ready entered the field. Patents appear in g rea t numbers for the production of plastics f rom cotton-seed hulls, c o m protein, and bagasse .

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Women Toughen Life is harsher for men than for

women, who seem to have devel-oped a tougher fiber.—Gertrude Atherton.

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Gas Ancient Weapon The first recorded use of suffo-

cating gases in war fa re was about 431 B. C. between the Athenians and Spartans, sulphur fumes being used.

CLASSIFIED 'WANT ADS' LOST AND FOUND

LOST—Car license P la te No. J S 82-29, fo r 1943. F inder please phone Coloma 201-M. 39tl

MALE HELP WANTED

WANTED—Man by the month to dr ive team, or a couple, white or colored. One mile west of Bundy school. Phone Harbor 7-1254.

F O B BALE

PEKIN DUCK EGGS FOR SALE. Phone Coloma 144. 39tlx

FOR SALE—Premier S t rawberry plants, $5.00 per 1000. Minnie Rock-well, one mile east of the Fish school. 39t2x

MONUMENTS, Markers , Every-thing for your cemetery lot, large selection, open evenings and Sun-days. Victor E. Ferguson, Cemetery Memorials, Pipestone road a t Napier Ave., Benton Harbor , near entrance to Crystal Spr ings cemetery. Phone 9658. 32tl0

REAL ESTATE

Tenting Tonight Here 's a t rainee who just can ' t

seem to get away from canvas. Pri-vate J a m e s L. Kelly of Co. A, 61st Bn. MRTC, was a former canvasser for the awning depar tment of an At-lanta, Ga., store. Arriving in Camp Barkeley, Texas, he found him-self quar tered in the tent area on Barkeley Heights.

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Cool Soapy Water To clean a pot to which food has

stuck, fill it immediately with cool soapy wate r and let stand until the par t ic les have loosened. Remove t h e m completely with a scraper or spatula , and then wash the pot in the usual way.

A Civilian Recapping

Under present conditions, not one pound of crude rubber can be allot-ted for new tires or for recapping old ones for civilian use.

Understand Bomb Explosion Ef fec t ? Ear th shock, one of the most dan-

| gerous and least understood effects of bomb explosions, endangers l a rge and small buildings of nearly eve ry

[ type of construction and foundation in an a rea under a t tack. With the exception of all-steel or concre te f r a m e buildings, all s t ruc tures a r e affected to some degree by the vi-brational effcct, or ea r th shock, pro-duced by a bomb explosion below the

| surface of the earth, an effect which i is similar to that of a local ear th-

quake, except that ea r thquake movements m a y be said to be slow-er .

Mound or P i t ? He who thinks he is raising a

mound m a y only in reali ty be dig-ging a pit.—Chinese Proverb .

By Reducing Speed Mileage of a new tire can be ex-

tended f rom 10,000 to 17,000 miles by reducing average speed from 40 miles an hour to 25 miles an hour.

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Reformer There is one kind of reformer who

does not come to you in person and kindly t ry to persuade you. He gets a law passed and sends a constable*

WANTED—Who has a house in or nea r Coloma tha t $1,000 cash will buy? Inquire at Van 's Furni ture , Phone 51, Coloma. 37tf

WANTED TO RENT—My Cherry orchard on shares; also some pears. Edi th Kremer , Phone 128, Coloma. 33tf.

WE HAVE BUYERS for town properties, farms, lake and r iver frontage. For quick sale, list your property wi th F. W. Schurman, Har t ford . Phone 230 or drop card.

25tf

WANTED

WE PAY T O P PRICES for quality poultry. Davis Pou l t ry Fa rm, Co-loma, Mich., Phone 9 - J , Coloma.

31tf

WANTED—Furni ture , stoves, and household gonds of all kinds; also guns and bicycles. The largest used fu rn i tu re store In Southwestern Michigan. V A N ' S FURNITURE STORE, Phone 51, Coloma, Mich.

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WANTED — Bedbugs, termites, moths and roaches to kil l . Results guaranteed. Inqui re a t Scott 's P h a r -macy, Coloma. 37tf

MISCELLANEOUS

DAY NURSERY—At the home ol Mrs. Emil Hoffenkamp. Will care fo r children by the hour, day or week . Phone 12-F22, Coloma. 43tl

GARBAGE COLLECTIONS—I will collect garbage and rubbish as o f -ten as necessary, and wil l also do local hauling. Call L. M. Jones, phone Coloma 238, or leave orders fo r col-lection a t T h e Courier office. 33tf

Not All on Radio Dr . Char les E a r l e Funk es t imates

there a r e one million words in the ffngHah language. He explains tha t no dictionary includes anything like ftiia n u m b e r of words but in speak-ing of the "EnglisV language" one m u s t consider au the so-called Anglo-Saxon words, all technical words, al l s lang words throughout the centur ies and a number of other categories . Dialects and localisms and all the words used by English-speaking people among themselves in whatever corner of the globe also mus t b e included.

WUatyou&uyWUU

W A R B O N D S A peloms, used by the Navy, is a

device which fits over the surface of a compass to enable the operator to t ake bearings on distant objects. I t h a s split hair sights, has been in use f o r many yea r s . . . and costs approximately $125.

Dr . J O E F. R E E D

Ottcopathk Phruaian and Satfaon

North Main Straat

WatarrUat Phoaa 150

NATIONAL SHOES—HE OVERALLS Fine Shoe Repairing

FRED WATTS' MODERN SHOE SHOP COLOMA, MICH.

Dr. M. D. Tonnelier DENTIST

Phone Coloma SIX. State Bank ot Coloma B u g . Boars B a. m. to 6 p.

m. Mondays and Fridays.

Dr. Leo Hosbein VETERINARIAN

P h e n C o l u n a

D a n t u t r y a a W a a k D a f t O n l y

Reeicfonce, Coloma, Mieh

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Coloma Lodge No. 162 F. AND A M.

Meetings held in Masonic hall, on the first Thursday evening of

each month. Visiting Brothers Always Welcome,

ROGER CARTER. W. M. PAUL DAVIDSON, Secretary

These instruments a re essential equipment to every American ship which comes out of the shipyards. ; With the scores of ships now being completed each month, we need many of these instruments. Your purchase of War Bonds and Stamps will help pay for them. Invest at least ten percent of your income ev-

I e ry payday in these interest bear-ing Government securities.

U. S. Trtatury Dipartmtnl

"Friend" Sprayer Parts We have a complete line of repair parts in stock, Spray hose and Guns. Repairs for Hamilton Guns.

FRUIT TREES Our fruit trees are the best that money can buy. Many new varie-ties still in stock. Buy now while you can still get what you want,

BEE SUPPLIES Everything for the bee keeper. Get ready for spring blossoms now.

Tree Bands for Codling Moth Order now and have bands to pro-tect your trees in May and June.

Hill Top Orchards & Nurseries Hartford, Mich.

I COLON.RECTUM (Lower Bowel) DISEASES and problemt of Food, Digestion, Elimination

HERNIA ( R u p t u r e ) ; VARICOSE VEINS, ULCERS

CHAS. M. GASH, D.O. APPOVED Specialist 300 State Street, St. Joseph, Michigan

N O T I C E ! Effective April 25, 1943, we will sell gasoline during

the following hours:

SUNDAYS—From 10:00 a. m. to 8:00 p. m.

MONDAYS Thru FRIDAY—From 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. and 3:00 p. m. to 8:00 p. m.

SATURDAYS—From 7:00 a. m. to 12:00 noon, and 1:00 p. m. to 8:00 p. m.

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Hitler can never stop oux war supplies unless you stop your buying of war bonds.

It is you against the "U" boats.

Invest in victory. In-vest for personal secur-ity. Buy war bonds at this bank. Our services are free.

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D A S H - D A S H

THE S T E T S O N " P L A Y B O Y "

Plenty of " i t* here I The jaunty set of this light

Stetson will create admirers. Made to give you that

free and easy air, the MPlayboy" fits the faster pace

of nresent-day town or country life. Goes anywhere

—like a breeze I Make the "Playboy" your hat today.

Made by the esolusive Stetson Vita-Felt* Frocesa. $5.00.

A v e r y ^ L o n g a c r e 1 4 3 E A S T M A I N S T .

T H E C O L O M A C O U R I E R , C O L O M A , M I C H .

A SERIES OF SPECIAL ARTICLES BY THE LEADING Aft CORRESPONDENTS

Flying Fortress Dishes It Out

By Capt. Clyde B. W alker

TWNU FTMHIRT—Thtoutb tptehl artingimtnt with Thi i4ni*ficjn UMguiBt.)

We were carrying some mighty heavy stuff for Jerry in our big Flying Fortress.

Leaving our home field in Eng-land at six o'clock in the morning, our objective was the submarine pens at Lorient, France.

As we approached, somebody yelled "Flak!" and the anti aircraft shells broke around us. At the same time the ball turret gunner shouted "Wolves coming up!" He had sighted a dozen German fighters, Focke-WuW 190s, climbing fast from downstairs.

1 held the ship steidy on her course. A few seconds later Bombardier Bentinck pressed his bomb triggers. The giant bombs hit exactly where he had aimed them. In the middle of a platform between two subma-rine pens. "Bull's-eye!" he whooped over

the intercom. I never heard any-one sound so jubilant. Those were the last words Bentinck ever spoke.

The next second, everything hit ua at once. Things started happening much faster than I can tell them.

FW's Take Us On. We were raked from end to end

with fiak. At the same time a swarm of FW's dived out of the sun. They came in like hornets, with 20-millimeter cannon and ma-chine guns wide open.

One burst of flak ripped into the nose. It killed Bentinclc instantly. The same burst wounded Navigator Smith and knocked him uncon-scious.

A second burst ripped away the doors of the bomb bay. Another burst sprayed around Co-pilot Bill Reed and myself.

That wasn't half of it. Krucher, in the tail, had been hit. A cannon shell had torn a big hole in the ball turret. Radio Operator Frishholz had a flak hole in the back of his head, and the radio room was on fire.

No. 1 Engine Is Out. The first broadside of fiak smashed

the drive shaft of No. 1 engine. The No. 2 had been hit on top and was throwing oil. It might catch fire any second. Flak had knocked a big dent in the propeller of No. 3, and No. 4 had a big hole in its base. I carried on with 3 and 4. The ship staggered and started falling behind the rest of the squadron. I put the nose down and dived steep-ly for the cover of some clouds far below us.

FW's Close In For Kill. Seeing we were badly hurt, the

FW's closed in for the kill. Then the boat really lived up to her name of Flying Fortress. We took plenty during the next 60 seconds, but not half as much as we dished out.

My waist gunner, Bill Stroud, took care of the first one. k was so close that he could see the back of the pilot's head. Stroud poured a stream of bullets into him. The FW went into a spin, and Stroud fol-lowed him with burst after burst.

A moment later another Jer-ry came under his sights. He poured steel into him, saw him break up.

Right waist gunner Berring was pumping 50-caIIber slugs at range. He, too, got a "preba-ble," a red-nosed FW which spun down and out of sight. Meanwhile the wounded tail gun-

ner got a chance. While he was ly-ing back there losing blood, an FW roared in to finish him off. Krucher took steady aim and rapped out one long burst. I t literally sawed the German's wing off. He went down in fiames.

With the wind shrieking through the flak holes, we raced down, down, for that beautiful layer of clouds. We made it. The remaining FW'i didn't attempt to follow us into the clouds.

Somehow or other, we limped home on our two engines and landed at an English airport near the coast. Our wounded went to the hospital, and have now recovered.

Bentinck—as great a bombardier as ever served in any man's a r m y -was gone, but the other nine of us will soon be flying again.

Our trip back was as big an ad-venture as our fight with the FW's. Coming out of the cloud cover, we were down to 600 feet when we saw the ocean again, then a large town, which I recognized as Brest, one of the most atrongly fortified places in France.

I pointed the ship straight over Brest. We were so low that we could see people staring up at us, but there were no fireworks.

Crossing the harbor, we passed right between two German destroy-ers at anchor. They could have blasted us to blazes.

Then two FW's appeared over us, but they didn't come downstairs.

We were getting lower all the time. When we were about 25 feet above the whitecaps, I ordered the crew to stand by for a crash land-ing on the sea.

Three times we scraped the wa-ter with the ball turret . Each time, tiie ship bounced up about 100 feet. Then she'd gradually settle down again. We went on like that over 100 miles of choppy sea.

Somehow we got across. With one last bounce we were over Eng-land

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

Rommel's Southern Front Stronghold Captured in British Eighth Army Drive; FDR, Camacho Join in 'Neighbor' Plea; American Fliers Pound Japs in Pacific

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Wktn oplnlani art ciprcntd In ibctt eolamnt. Ihty art that* at WttUni Ntwspapcr VaUa'a m w i •oalyt l i aot ntctnar l l j r »t tkls nawipaptr.)

RcIcaMd by Wtitcrn Ntwtpaper Union.

Gen. Dwlght D. Elsenhower, U. S. A., he td of the Allied forees in Africa, takes the salute of a sentry as be Inspects front lines ID Tunisia. Lieut. Gen. George S. Fatten Jr . , commander of American ground forces driving through Tunisia, follows him. The colonel commanding the unit being Inspected returns the sentry's salute.

TUNISIA: Nazis Run Gauntlet

Axis efforts to reinforce their em-battled armies in Tunisia met strong Allied resistance as Gen. Bernard Montgomery's 8th army opened a successful assault on the Enfidaville passes on the southern front. En-fidaville, Rommel's coastal anchor, fell after furious fighting.

While British naval units charged an Italian convcy in the narrow channel separating Sicily from Tu-nisia, American and British fighter planes fell upon huge German Junk-ers transports and cargo planes crossing the straits.

While British Spitfires held off Axis fighter escorts, American War-hawks (P-40) dived to attack the giant Junkers, flying almost at wa-ter level.

Fifty-eight of the Junkers and 16 of the fighters were claimed shot down. That brought to 142 the num-ber of Axis aircraft destroyed in a three-day period.

Gen. Montgomery's hardened in-fantry stormed initial Axis positions in the mountains after artillery had laid down a heavy barrage.

FARM MEASURE: House Economy

In one of its sharpest economy moves to date, the house passed by a voice vote and sent to the senate an agriculture department appropri-ation bill allotting $715,099,622 for the fiscal year 1944 but abolishing the Farm Security administration and banning incentive payments to farm-ers.

In its budget request the depart-ment had asked for $947,134,491. The measure lopped $240,093,647 off the original request. The' revised total was reached by adding $20,000,-000 for the Rural Electrification ad-ministration and striking $12,000,000 sought by the FSA for rural re-habilitation loans.

In its final form the house bill abol-ishes the FSA, abolishes the federal crop insurance program for wheat and cotton, stipulates that none of the funds may be used for incentive payments to farmers producing war crops, sets aside $300,000,000 for the AAA conservation program, prohib-its payment of more than $500 to any one person for soil conservation purposes, prevents restoration of the Regional Credit Agricultural corpo-ration and allots $20,000,000 for REA.

Belief was expressed in some quarters that the senate committee would reinstate the FSA to prevent it from being snuffed out.

RUSSIA: Scramble for Base

Portending possible large scale action in the Caucasus, German troops continued their pressure in the Novorossisk region.

While the Russians claimed to have beaten back Nazi efforts to pre-vent their forces from tightening their vise around Novorossisk, the Germans said the luftwaffe pounded Red positions and supply bases on the Black sea coast.

Novorossisk stands as the Ger-mans' lone important base in the Caucasus. Situated across from the Crimea, it was the only major posi-tion retained by the Nazis during their retreat this winter. It is a relatively short distance to Novoros-sisk from the Russian mainland con-necting with the Crimea.

GOOD NEIGHBORS: Visit in Monterrey

"We have, all of us, recognized the privilege of interdependence-one upon another."—Fronfc/in D. Roosevelt.

"Good neighbors. Good friends. That is what we have always wished to be for all the peoples of the earth."—Manuel Avila Camacho.

With those words, spoken on Mex-ican soil, the President of the Unit-ed States and the president of Mex-ico reaffirmed the unity of the Americas and offered the good-neighbor policy as a model for the world, once the "machinery of bar-barism constructed by the dictators is completely destroyed."

President Roosevelt arrived in Monterrey, site of the historic meet-ing, following an extensive tour of inspection through war centers in the southern part of the United States. He was high in praise of the troops, which he compared with those he had seen on his trip last September. He told the press he had found morale very, very high and declared the men looked ex-tremely fit.

PACIFIC: Action at Both Ends

Giving the Japs no rest, American fliers pounded enemy air fields and shipping at both ends of the Pacific.

Flying Fortresses, Liberators and Avengers struck at the Jap air base of Kahili In the Solomons, starting big fires and pocking the runways with bomb craters. Other units at-tacked Munda far ther to the west, also causing damage.

While the air fields were being raided, Avenger torpedo planes sailed Into a cluster of Jap ships bearing reinforcements for enemy troops In the Shortland Island area ol the Solomons. Five hits were scored on a 10,000-ton vessel, which was left sinking, and two other ships were battered by hits and near misses (bombs exploding alongside the target).

In the Aleutians to the north, bombers and fighter planes swooped down on Attu and Kiska. Results were unobserved at Attu, but han-gars and camps were blown up and grounded planes strafed at Kiska.

WAR MANPOWER: 27 Million Frozen

If you're an employee in an essen-tial Industry, you're as good as fro-zen for the duration.

That is the substance of the War Manpower commission's orders for-bidding employees In essential In-dustry from changing jobs except under especial conditions.

Under the WMC's order, a work-er must be Irregularly employed or not employed to his best ability In an essential Industry before he can shift jobs. In regions in which the WMC has decreed no labor short-age exists, employees In essential Industry can take higher paying jobs If the moves are approved by the WMC.

The WMC order does not affect employees In non-essential Industry, who are free to switch positions. In all, some 27 million workers are af-fected by the WMC ruling.

Invoking provisions of the Eco-nomic Stabilization act, the WMC established a fine of $1,000 and a year 's imprisonment for violation of the order.

H I G H L I G H T S in the week** newt

LEND-LEASE: Lend-lease ship-ments to North Africa during the first four months of Allied occupation reached $26,250,000. Shipments in-cluded flour, sugar, clothing, seed.

HONEST STEEL: In • special report, the Truman war Investigat-ing committee called upon steel pro-ducers to overhaul their Inspection systems so as to assure the govern-ment of the highest grades.

R E A R M F R E N C H : Seeking to weld the 350,000 French soldiers in North Africa into a modern fighting unit, the United States is supplying tanks, tank-destroyers, mobile artil-lery, Garand rifles and jeeps. Uni-forms of the disbanded Civilian Con-servation corps are being distributed to soldiers.

RUML PLAN: Bi-partisan sup-port was seen for a compromise version of the Ruml plan which would call for partial forgiveness of 1942 taxes and imposition of a v/ith-holding tax to start coJlections on the 1913 levy.

FOUR FREEDOMS: Speaking In Guayaquil, Ecuador, Henry Wallace said that unless the four freedoms were instituted alter the war, democracy will have failed.

PRATERS: Prayers for peace were asked as the Vatican Inaugu-rated weekly broadcasts to Russia. The broadcast told the people not to give up hope for a peace despite the continuance of the war.

HOLDING TARIFFS: Declaring America had 78 million head of cat-tle now and Indications pointed to large numbers when the war end-ed, F. E. Mollin, National Livestock association representative, called for an adequate tariff to protect the pro-ducer against imports. He spoke at hearings on the reciprocal trade act.

PLAN REVIVAL: Meeting In Montevideo, Uruguay, exiled leaders of the former Spanish republic laid plans for uniting the various fac-tions into an extra-territorial govern-ment, with a view toward eventual restoration of the republic.

FOOD SUPPLY: Another Pull on Belt

Following a statement of the Of-fice of War Information that there would be a reduction of 6 per cent In the food supply for this year, the department of agriculture revised its previous production estimates downward.

The department said there would be about 12 pounds less meat, a pound less poultry and fish, 2Vt pounds less lard, margarine and cooking compounds, and about 10% pounds less citrus fruits per person than anticipated earlier. Fraction-al Increases were reported lor canned fruits, potatoes and rice.

Despite the cut, the department said that the food supply per capita would equal the 1935-,39 total, but that rationing would spread the amount more equitably. The de-partment also revealed that food production In 1943 will be 3 per cent above last year. If favorable weath-er prevails, and 31 per cent above the 1935-'39 average.

Of the total supply of food avail-able this year, however, the army, lend-lease and world relief will ob-tain 25 per cent. Army require-ments are based on a force of 8,200,-000 men, who eat twice as much as civilians.

In Its report, the OWI declared that food shortages will bring "In-conveniences" and "exasperations" to consumers, but will not affect their life or health.

TOKYO: Slung From Hornet

Equipped with a 20-cent bomb-sight, 16 North American B-25 me-dium bombers used the flight deck of the aircrdft carrier Hornet to take off for the historic raid on Tokyo.

The Hornet was 800 miles from Tokyo when the B-25s rose In the air and headed lor the Japanese coast line. As they approached, the airmen flew in at low level to avoid detection, and then raised their planes to 1,500 feet as they plastered factories, railways and refineries In Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe.

The original plan was to alight a t certain points in unoccupied China, but storms arose, exhausting the planes' ebbing fuel supplies. Of the 16 craft, IS made crash landings or were lost as their crews balled out. Major General Doollttle, who led the raid, was among those who para-chuted to safety.

Of the 80 pilots, eight fell Into Jap hands. One was killed and two are still missing. Sixty-lour survived, many of them landing In occupied China, but working their way to the unoccupied zone with the help ol Irlendly natives.

Weak fighter opposition was en-countered and anti-alrcralt fire was Inaccurate as the Japs were caught completely by surprise.

GOEBBELS: /Vo End of Sufferings

"The war Is In Its lourth year and has reached Its hardest stage so lar , and the end or a way out ol its burdens and sufferings Is at present nowhere In sight."

Thus spoke Nazi Propaganda Min-ister Joseph Goebbela on the eve ol Adoll Hitler's 54th birthday, Goeb-bels said the luehrer would spend the day at field headquarters.

While Goebbels spoke. Marshal Herman Goerlng Issued an order ol the day to the German army, stress-ing the same lorebodlng note.

Said he: . . We will lollow the glorious German flag in accordance with our oaths a s brave soldiers—In any hours and In any fight on land and sea In any area with the great-est readiness to sacrifice."

Eulogizing Hitler as the "libera-tor of the latherland," Goerlng also called him the "savior ol western civilization from the Bolshevik men-ace."

SUBMARINES: Planes vs. Wolves

Allied airplanes have joined In the battle of the Atlantic.

Manning American Flying For-tresses and Liberators and British Sunderlands, Allied airmen a re ranging far into the North Atlantic to strike against packs ol Nazi U-boats, attacking the east-bound convoys.

Attached to the British coastal command, these long-range heavy bombers are meeting the harassed convoys on the last leg ol their journey. They are dumping thou-sands ol depth charges on the woll-packs they can spot Irom aloft.

In recent actlpn, the bombers de-livered 19 attacks In four days. Seek-ing to avoid the concussion ol the depth charges, U-boats climbed to the surlace' and then engaged the airplanes with antl-alrcralt fire Irom their decks. The British air min-istry claimed no kills, but said there was evidence ol at least five sub-marines destroyed.

The Allied planes were manned by British, Canadian, Rhodeslan, Australian, New Zealand and Bel-gian aviators.

FOOD CONFERENCE: U. S. Has /Vo Scheme

Representatives ol United Nations will crowd Hot Springs, Va., May 18, lor the Allied lood conlerence spon-sored by the United States.

According to Sen. Albon Berkley, the conlerence will be chiefly ex-ploratory, with the various delegates specllylng the needs ol conquered peoples, the means required to re-store production In occupied coun-tries and the mutual distribution of loodstuffs.

"There Is no Intention ol making any commitments at the conler-ence on the part ol any of the na-tions represented," Barkley said. "This government has no scheme to put over on the other nations.'

Barkley said each nation will be free to determine Its action on rec-ommendations which might be lorth-coming later. , .

To still protests against the ban of American correspondents from the conference, It was announced congress would receive a preview of the U. S. delegates' program to ob-tain an exchange ol views.

W a s h i n g t o n D i g e s t ; Terrible Hatreds Kindled

By 'Blood Revenge' Spirit Rumors From Embattled Nations Hint of Plans

For Organized Extermination of Enemy Peoples.

By BAUKHAGE Newi Analyst and Commentator.

WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C.

^t was a soft, Washington spring afternoon. The late shifts of gov-ernment workers were hurrying home. The two guardian magnolias that stand on the White House lawn were tipped with the rays of the setting sun. My thoughts were nei-ther on tills blissful scene nor on the latest news of the battlefront which I had just finished broadcast-ing. Frankly, I was concerned chief-ly with dinner.

The announcer was just finishing the "commercial" and I was picking my hat up from the sofa In the studio when I saw the engineer beck-oning to me from behind the glass wall of his goldfish bowl. He held up a paper on which was printed "Stop In News Room—Important I"

I did. The atmosphere was tense as It Is frequently these days. A notice had just appeared on the news ticker to the effect that the White House was about to release an im-portant statement.

It is possible, but not probable, that the thing we were all thinking that statement was going to an-nounce but didn't, will happen be-fore these lines reach print—the in-vasion ol Europe. Until it does, we shall continue to expect It and while the busy home front keeps our nose pretty well to the grindstone, one hint irom overseas and an atmos-phere ol suspense envelops the Capitol.

Secrecy's Curtain Meanwhile, there is the leeling

that tremendous things are happen-ing under a heavy curtain of secrecy in Europe even the hint ol which docs not reach the press or the pub-lic.

Russia, of course, is a mystery. What is happening there? Is the

remarkable Red army, which In the past has seemed to be able to draw endless men and supplies Irom no-where alter each crushing deleat, finally exhausted? Spring came ear-ly to the steppes this year and the Germans, il they are able, will launch their annual summer offen-sive a month earlier. They hope to be able to break the Red army this time and then hold back the rem-nants with a sparsely manned but intricate line ol delense while they turn their attention to the Allies in the West.

No one knows what the strength ol Russia is today. One does know that a terrible hate has been enkin-dled In the whole race against the Germans and it Is reported that the Red a rmy has threatened that 11 Soviet lorces ever do reach German soil, they will leave no human being living. One story has been spread through Switzerland that U an Al-lies' army Is on the continent whtn Russia breaks Germany's eastern Irontlers—il she does—that the Ger-mans will open their western Iront to the Allies and let them In rather than expose themselves to the Rus-sians.

Plan for Prisoners Another report has seeped out ol

Russia. I t is continuously repeated that simply because ol the Incon-venience ol caring lor prisoners, both the Germans and Russians have been shooting men who are captured or who surrender. On the other hand, the Russians are said to be carelully preserving some ol the men they take. Russian propagan-da, dropped over the German lines, is very alluring. Some of the pam-phlets instruct the German soldiers to surrender and bring with them the leaflet which acts as a passport.

Then, according to a report which has ccme in Irom a neutral country, the prisoners are carelully exam-ined and a small percentage weeded out for Soviet Indoctrination. They go through a long course ol Instruc-tion so carelul that it is said finally only 10 per cent are accepted as satislactory. These elite are then trained to be used as the spearhead ol a political invasion ol Germany.

Hatred, like that in Russia, has poisoned all Europe. There is a be-lief now on the part of many ol the conquered countries that the Ger-mans, having given up hope of vic-tory, intend to go lorward with a systematic extermination ol other races within their reach, as they have in Poland and with the Jews, so that regardless ol what happens, the Teutonic stock will dominate

numerically when the war is over. To meet this, the other nations are talking about turning the tables and beginning organized mass murder ol Germans everywhere the moment the Nazi armies lay down their arms.

Only the other day, I talked with a widely traveled Russian newspa-per man, who said Irankly that he believed this was the proper course.

How powerlul this spirit ol blood revenge really is and whether it will be carried out, one can only guess.

Another mystery of which there are only tiny hints is the power and scope of the underground move-ments in the occupied countries and the extent to which Allied agents are now working hand-ln-hand with the saboteurs in France and Belgium and particularly Holland. Hints leak out.

Saboteurs A secret German report which

reached Allied hands stated the lol-lowlng:

"Sometime ago, English parachut-ists landed near Prague. When they were held up by the local police, they obeyed the order, "hands up.' But they carried a special device on their belts with a pistol from which cords rap to their hands. The latter fired the pistol. Thus they succeeded by a quick and appro-priate movement in accounting lor the policemen."

Here is a part ol another enemy report, revealing the activities be-hind the lines. I t came through Italian military channels:

"During the attack on the Fuka Aerdrome (Africa) the enemy Allied troops put up distress signals. They succeeded in enticing the sentries away from their posts for a time and successlully carried out their sabotage."

Reports have come ol British saboteurs gaining entrance to fac-tories in the daytime, planting time bombs and leaving. A device has been peiiected which can be car-ried concealed In the hand—I have held one—attached by a clover means to a tank car or a locomo-tive, it would blow it to pieces. That Is only one ol hundreds of ingenious gadgets which have been perlected lor this strange work ol secret de-struction that is going on every-where. Even more ingenious are the methods which the underground organizations In France and Italy are using to obtain arms and sup-piles lor the Insurrection when the moment comes.

Some day, "an important state-ment from the White House" will come, heralding events many ol which we have not even dreamed.

• • • While the airplane lactories turn

out bombers and fighters, the air-minded leaders continue to make their, air plans for peace. . The lat^ est scheme which has come to my attention Is an announcement from the Northeast Airlines company which says this company has made application lor a helicopter service to carry air mall and air express In New England.

These little planes that can rise straight up and hover, can land on a parlor fug. They would. In this proposed service, land on the rools ol post office buildings—provided, I take it, that the buildings are not ol the rococo vintage with peaked and pointed and turreted roofs.

The service would carry first-class as well as air mall, according to the application filed with the Civil Aeronautics board. Four hundred points would be Included. .The little "flying automobiles" would not only fly between towns and cities but would carry mall from urban centers to the large airports where the mall would be translerred to the air liners.

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A national labor service act still hovers just beyond the horizon. The chlel purpose ol Manpower Commis-sioner McNutt's Intricate plans, in-cluding shifts ol men from non-deferrable industry to war work is to build the machinery so that when the act is passed it can be put into effect a t once.

Now that the farm labor problem has been taken off McNutt's door-step, and with the definite "back-to-the-larm" trend, congress may ease up on McNutt and give him the money he needs to build his pre-national service machinery.

Who's News This Week

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ConpoUdated Faaturu.—WNU Rtlcaa*.

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B R I E F S • • • fry Baukhage

Emperor HfroUto on the occasion of the Japanese diet adjournment "granted Premier Tojo, in recogni-tion ol his services, one package ol chrysanthemum - crested cigarettes and one box of scents," the Tokyo radio told the Japanese people.

• • • The Nazis and Italian Fascists and

the Japanese reler to their propa-ganda as "thought warfare ."

* 0 0 A Japanese finance ministry of-

ficial, In a domestic broadcast over •the Tokyo radio, urged Japanese to take out war insurance because "enemy raids are very possible."

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About eight pounds of dehydrated Irish potatoes are the equivalent of a bushel of raw potatoes weighing 60 pounds.

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Patents seized by the Allen Prop-erty Custodian and made available to public Inspection occupy 75 feet of shell space.

In the recent battle between the White House and the press over ex-cluding newspaper men from the ho-tels where the United Nations Food conlerence delegates are to be housed, Elmer Davis, OWI head, was strictly on the side of the press.

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Some ol our soldiers in American camps during the meat shortage learned to eat goat and like I t

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An American attached to General Montgomery's column In Africa re-cently wrote such a highly objec-tionable dispatch that he was put In the guardhouse by the general.

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When the British film, "Next of Kin," originally made for exclusive use In army camps, came to Amer-ica there had to be considerable de-letions made In It. Some of the bar-racks language was polished up for polite ears and some of the scenes, like the bayoneting ol a German soldier, were soltened.

W f O R K . - In army circles they rate Maj. Gen. Harold L.

George as one ol the best Impromptu speakers In the service. He likes

Hit Air Trarupcri couSgu« Command 1$ Gen. will tell you»

George't Pet Topic and do€8 11

easily and well. He's the chlel ol the air trans-port command of the army air corps, and has been ever since ita formation last July.

Out In Ausfrnlia the other day he likened the feats of his fliers to the tales ol Jules Verne, and it wasn't so long ago that he was picturing with delight how his men had flown the equipment lor a 24-bed hospital to Nome, Alaska, alter a fire had de-stroyed Its lone hospital. Jus t a year ago when he was made head of the lerry command of the army air corps, bis major task was getting new planes from the factories to wherever they were needed. Now he haa that problem and a whole lot of others, such as flying troops and essential supplies overseas. He first learned about flying In

World War I. A native of Soner-ville, Mass., he was a student In the law school at National university on April 6, 1917. A month later he was a second lieutenant ol cavalry Fall lound him training to be a filer, however. He won his wings In March, 1918, and the lollowlng Sep-tember he was In France as a bomb-ing Instructor at Clermont. Belore the Armistice, he had been assigned to the 163rd aero squadron. Alter the war, he resumed his studies and won his LL B In 1920. His heart was in the army, however, and in 1921, he went back, this time to stay.

, Slnee his return he has been stationed at a lot ol plaees, Kelly Field, Texas,'the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, ont in Hawaii, and down at Maxwell Field, Ala-bama. They made him a cap-tain In '32 and a major In '39. Meanwhile he had done plenty ol flying. Fit and bronzed and with keen

blue eyes, he looks every inch a flier. He'll be 50 this summer, bu t he seems a lot younger despite gray-ing hair.

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T P HE man who has been swinging A Bolivia Into war against Hitler

& Co. Is a fighter and a believer in orderly government. Enrique Pena-

n f . • n . . . randa won Bolwta s President hia way ta

Can Swing Mailed the top as a Fist When Needed 1

m 1 J*4a7 l e a d e r i n

the Chaco war against Paraguay. Today he Is equally lamous as an able president.

When General Penaranda was elected chlel executive In March, 1940, he depended on the ballots ol his countrymen, not the mus-kets ol his troops. For some years belore that the stylish way to land in the presidential palace

• was by conp d'etat. Hia politieal opponents, on bearing the re-turns from the polls, decided old methods were best. The gen-eral promptly showed them he was still a warrior, and inangv-ration day found him taking of-fice as scheduled and express-ing bis faith In democracy. Born in the La Paz district 50

years ago, he entered his country's West Point In 1907 and graduated a second lieutenant three years later. He became a captain In '17, a ma jo r In '21, and a colonel In *32. The start of the war with Paraguay shot him swiftly to the top and three months after hostilities began he was made commander-in-chief.

T R E E FRENCH circles offer a r double barreled explanation for the failure of the United States to clear up the muddle of Martinique

mm • • , t v a n d V i c e Martinique's 'Four Admiral Families' Control George All but Ml. Pele * 0 b « r 1 •

T h e y s a y the vice admiral Is pro-Robert, but antl-everythlng else save the Four Families. These, they explain, boast of being the only truly white families on the Island.

The four families are In complete control, it is claimed, of 247,000 na-tives and Martinique's economic ex-istcnce. . . u

The vice admiral could, if he would, make any deal without eonsultlog Vichy to which he still vows loyalty. Viehy gave him full power in the French Antilles and authority to eon-elude any arrangement with the United States. He entered the French navy 6# years ago. The admiral, after an old French

custom, has an assortment ol names —Gebfge Achilla Marie-Joseph. He is 68 years old now, with a white, out-jutting spade beard, and a tem-per some describe as not unlike a hornet's.

Whether Martinique's Social Reg-ister is limited to a mere quartette of families Is, probably, debatable, but Independent, reports of Vice Ad-miral Robert 's speech made last year a t Fort-de-France certainly made it and him anti-American. He gave the "greed of Americans" a fine going over.

If this elite group lays claim to any tie with Napoleon's Josephine, the Isle of Martinique's most notable citizen. It Is not recorded.

Linseed Surplus 'Although exports of linseed from

Argentina In 1942 declined more than 54 per cent from the amount shipped in 1941, they totaled 336.000 tons, of which 104,000 tons went to Europe. Argentina started 19i;i with an exportable surplus of linseed ol 3,103,000 tons compared with 2,257.. 000 tons In January, 1942. Linseed is an alternate name for flaxseed.

T H E C O L O M A C O U R I E R . C O L O M A , M I C H .

Men Who Go Down to Sea In Ships—for Victory Food

In quaint fishing towns off America's many coasts men who a r e following their forefathers on the sea find fishing a booming industry. The armed forces consume more than half of all the frozen fish in the United States.

An even greater amount, 80 per cent, of the mackerel and sardine pack is consumed by the armed forces. In addition, ci-vilian requirements have in-creased as housewives, faced with a m e a t s h o r t a g e , h a v e turned to fish as a main course alternate.

The fisherman's job is not an easy one. Added to the normal hazards of the sea are the sub-marine menace and the difficul-ties resulting from material shortages. However, fishermen continue operations despite new perils, striving to equal former production records.

John Riberia, captain of the fish-ing trawler, Old Glory, kisses his wife before leaving for the fishing grounds off the Massachusetts coast. Fishing trips usually extend from four days to a week.

Certain varieties of fish are ap-pearing on the markets for the first time, and New England fishermen are hauling in large quantities of rosefish, a variety considered useless five years ago. Picture at right shows heavy nets sliding down Old Gloryi side, where rosefish are be-ing sought. This species can be caught only in daytime.

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How the Joneses, Hansons And Smiths Were Named

Muscles strain as husky fishermen of Portuguese descent pull nets on board the Old Glory. Their haul is rosefish, once called "goldfish" be-

cause of the brilliant color.

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Shown above is a typical pier hand on the docks at Gloucester, Mass. This port, a famous fishing center for centuries, ships thou-sands of tons of fish.

Some family names grew out of flrst names. Thus, we have John-son (son of John), Peterson (son of Peter) , Hanson (son of Hans), and so on. The common name of Jones also came from a first name. Long ago In England, it was the custom to speak of a man by a single name—as John or Richard, or whatnot. Sometimes the members of hia family were called "the John" of "the Johnses"—or "the Richards" In the case of a family with Richard as the father. The names "Johnses" seems to have been changed to "Jones," to make It short.

A great number of names sprang f rom occupations. The name of Smith became common in early days because there were so many smiths at work. Not only were there blacksmiths, but also gold-smiths, silversmiths, arrowsmiths and locksmiths.

Spring Classic. DUTTON-FRONT classic to do

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The Real Problem Hubby—Have you ever wondered

what you would do if you had Rockefeller's Income?

Wife—No, but I have often won-dered what Rockefeller would do if he had mine.

Her Touch A parson had occasion to reprove a

small hny for swearing. "If you jrel yon must say something

just say 'Bother!'" he said. "Your lather doesn't swear, does he?"

"Oh no, sir!" "Well, then: if he were working in

the Harden and suddenly stepped back-wards on In a rake which flew up and hit him from behind, what would he say?"

"He'd say: 'You're back early, dear." "

No Moss on It "What's that stone in Ann's en-

gagement ring, Joyce?" "A rolling stone, my dear. I

had it once."

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The boys In Australia sent us this one. A mother kangaroo had patiently scratched her stomach three times, but when the process was to be renewed a fourth time, she snatched two baby kangaroos from her pouch, spanked them, and said: "How many times have I told you not to eat crackers in bed!"

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SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT

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Immediately after being caught rose-fish are shoveled into the hold for packing in ice.

The crew members are up at dawn and put in their trawl for the morning catch.

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The 12th century Spanish monas-tery which Mr. William Randolph Hearst purchased and had shipped to America In a specially chartered steamer in 1923 has been sold to an anonymous buyer for $19,000.

Twice this sum was spent on re-packing the monastery, after It ar-rived In the United States In 10,500 cases. This had to be done be-cause the stones had been wrapped In straw, and It was discovered too late that It was Illegal—for sani-tary reasons—to Import straw. Mr. Hearst Is believed to have spent $500,000 on the monastery. It has been estimated that It will cost an-other $125,000 to transport it from its present resting place In a New York warehouse to wherever It Is to be re-erected.

Quarter Down It happened at an Income tax

office in Washington. A colored resident, with his form all filled out, approached the " P a y " window and laid a quarter on the ledge.

"What's that for?" asked the clerk, who had read the total amount of the tax.

"Why, that 's for my Income tax. They done told me I could pay a quarter at a time."

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L I ERE Is how you can play Fairy * Godmother to a kitchen chair. Pad the back as shown here, using at least three layers of cotton batting for the front of it and one for the back. Next, cut an 18-inch circle of cardboard and use it for a pattern for marking the shape of the round seat on boards or plywood. Cut out the wooden seat and screw It to the chair. Save the cardboard pattern.

Cover the front of the chair back next, tufting It with covered but-tons sewn through the back with a long needle. Sew the back of the cover In place with stitches hidden under welting. Tack a strip of muslin around the scat, and . cw the ruffles to it. Now, pad the

round cardboard; stretch covering fabric over it; then sew it in place on the chair.

NOTE: Readers are writing to tell us that the new BOOK 9 should be called th« Victory Book as It contains so many waya to make pretty things (or the home that could not otherwise be had (or the dura-tion. Copies are available by mall post-paid (or 19 cents. Address:

MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford UlUs New York

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A quiz with answers offering

information on various subjects

The Questions

1. A radio wave travels so fast that In one second It can circle the earth how many times?

2. If a sailor is punished for be-ing AWOL, where is he put?

3. The rank of colonel In the army corresponds to what rank In the navy?

4. What city pioneered In intro-ducing music into the public schools?

5. What literary work is credit-ed to a member of the court of Croesus, king of Lydia?

6. How long Is the period for which a patent Is granted In the United States?

7. What Is the average number of hen eggs to a pound?

8. Why Is the sentence, "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy

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dog" used as a typewriting exer-cise?

9. Age limits for field service In the United States army are: 10. What large office is a mile

around, five stories high, has 16% miles of corridor, 1,500 clocks, 700 janitors and will house 40,000 workers?

BUY ASPIRIN tha t can do more for you than S t Joseph Aspirin. Why pay mort? World's largest seller a t 10c. Demand S t Joseph Asptrin.

One Rascal Less Make yourself an honest man,

and then you may be sure that there Is one rascal less in the world.—Carlyle.

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A clean, well-kept iron gives ef-ficient service. With s damp cloth, wipe off any starch marks. If the iron sticks while pressing, rub it over salt sprinkled on a paper. Once a month rub the warm iron with beeswax or paraffin and then rub over a clean cloth or paper until the excess wax is entirely removed.

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To keep tacks bandy, drill a three-eighth inch hole, two or three inches deep, in the handle of your tack hammer. Fill this with tacks and plug the end with a cork.

O O O Next t ime the steps need paint-

ing, try painting every other step; let these dry, then paint the oth-ers. It takes a bit longer, 'tis true, but It's a lot handier and the kiddies will love having to take 'em "two at a t ime."

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Keep the tops of your spice tins very secure as the air tends to make spices lose their flavor.

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Small bits of soap in a thin cloth bag arc as effective as a large cake of soap for use in a bath.

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When the Ironing board is fold-ed up and stood away in the closct or corner of the kitchen until need-ed again, the end that rests on the floor becomes soiled. To prevent this, make a slip cover for the end.

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Brooms and other sweeping brushes should be hung up when not in use. For hanging, use ordi-nary picture wire. It wears in-definitely and being stiff will catch on hooks more easily than string.

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If a little piece is chippcd off walnut furniture, touch up the spot with Iodine applied with a piece of cotton, then go over the surface with furniture polish.

To remove fresh paint, wash fabric with soap and water. If the stain is old, soften It with lard or sponge with turpentine. Then launder. If material is nonwash-able, sponge with turpentine or spot remover.

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A small piece of tin or a thin piece of wood is useful when washing the baseboard of a room. It can be slipped along as the woodwork is scrubbed and save many a nasty smear on the wall-paper.

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To remove old wallpaper, wet with a solution of one tablespoon of saltpeter in a gallon of water. Works best If the water is hot.

The Answers

1. Seven times. 2. A sailor is sent to the brig;

a soldier, to the guardhouse. 3. Captain. 4. Boston, In 1837. 5. Aesop's Fables. 6. Seventeen years. 7. Approximately ten. 8. It contains all the letters of

the alphabet. 9. Second and first lieutenants,

36 years; captains, 42; majors, 47; lieutenant colonels, 52; colonels, 55; brigadier and major generals, no maximum age. 10. The army's new Pentagon

building in Washington.

Loudest Wail

The loudest continuous noise ever created by mechanical means is produced by the Victory Siren, one of which is installed on the RCA Building in New York city as an air raid alarm, says Col-lier's. Although operated solely by compressed air, it has a "wai l" equivalent in power at the horns to the combined voices of 4,000,000,-000 men. twice the entire popula-tion of the world.

PUNT mm VEGETABLE SUCCESSES

FOR A BETTER GARDEN

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Day Is Lost or Gained at International Date Line

The International Date Line is a convenient name for the 180th meridian where, by international agreement, Monday (say) changes to Tuesday If one is going west and changes backwards to Sun-day, if one Is going east.

Obviously these changes cancel themselves out, in the long run, though to live on the 180th merid-ian can lead to all sorts of amus-ing complications.

Why Is all this unavoidable? Well, we count our days by sun-rises in practice. If one travels swiftly west one's day lengthens, because the sun seems slower In setting in the west. The opposite happens when we speed to the oast. There must be some spot (any spot would do, but all nations have to agree where it shall be) where travelers must adopt anoth-er day or shed one.

They can get back what they have lost, or lose what they have gained, simply by turning and go-ing back home.

Use More Cereals

IN WARTIME MEALS!

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At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks on the ocean floor.

Boy Plays With Lion The seven-year-old son of Super-

intendent M. Flood of the Dublin zoo has made a pal of a year-old Hon, which was bom during a blitz In the Empire theater. In Leeds, England. So attached has the animal become to the boy that he is the only person it will allow near It. Dally the boy romps with It on the lawn of the Dub-lin Zoological gardens, the pair roll-ing about playfully on the grass. The fun over, the lion meekly fol-lows the boy back to Its cage.

Cultivate Mahogany Tests with African mahoganies in

Florida Indicate that mahogany for furniture and other uses may come from cultivated forests. Trees plantr ed at the Florida experiment sta-tion 12 years ago on rather unprom-ising sites are now around 40 feet in height, with trunks eight Inches in diameter. The trees have survived several cold spells, Including one freeze. Trunks of these trees a re twice the diameter of pines twice their age.

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THE COLOMA COURIER, COLOMA, MICH. APRIL SO, 1*53

Fido Is Under Fire Owners Held Responsible

Home Gardens Are Essential

Betrien County Deaths

By Don F. Cochrane

Fido Is Under Fire

The Victory Garden craze has put the family pet "on the spot" along with the canine tramp.

They are both "dogs" in the eyes of neighbors who have reacted to the patriotic urge to grow their own "garden sass."

City and village fathers are ring-ing curfews for Fidos. They are reviving their municipal pounds and setting stiff redemption fees for unlucky canines caught estray.

Conty sheriffs arc sounding sol-emn warnings that an open season on roaming quadrupeds will extend through the garden season. These things are well enough. Dogs and even cats can cause much havoc among growing things and the neighbor who plants is entitled to reap. It is part of the general plan to refill the nation's emptying bread-basket.

Solons Take Sensible View

But hail Berrien county's super-visors for assuming the sanest at-titude toward the whipping up of anti-dog sentiment. They observed that dogs are rendering invaluable service in fighting for America on the battlefronts, and refused to or-der a crusade against their kind on the home front.

Instead, they would hold owners responsible for the conduct of their dogs, which is going directly to the root of whatever dog evil exists. The owner who does not make him-self responsible for his pet does not deserve the loyalty and companion-ship of his best friend.

Every owner should enter into the spirit of the times by restricting the liberties of his dog during the garden season. If the dog has been permitted to roam the neighborhood in the past he is less to blame than his owner. Well disciplined dogs can be confined to the home prem-ises without even the restraint of q leash

An obedient well manered dog is a contented creature and a family joy. Whether a pet becomes that or a nuisance is entirely up to its owner.

Stray dogs are underprivileged creatures. A good home and pro-per training during puppyhood did , not fall to their lot. In pursuit of their unguided lives they become depredatory and must^ of course, be restrained or destroyed.

But to classify all dogs as de-predators and wage indiscriminate war against them is eminently un-fair. The right of a dog to live is largely determinable by the human benefactor who owns or harbors it.

The reader may, by now, have sus-pected that the writer is an admirer of dogs, of well mannered and pro-perly educated dogs, a conclusion in which you are entirely correct. Many eloquent eulogies to the dog have been written. We should like to write another, could we approach the masterpieces already in print.

Priority Goes to Gardeners

Having given the dog his partial due, we would accord Victory gar-deners their full due. They have priority to the out-of-doors and their labors there will be a distinct service to the country, not the mere indulgence of a summer hobby or the gratification of esthetic tastes.

Food Is one of America's gravest war problems and federal crop au-thorities are already revising their estimates downward. The season thus far has been cold, dry and generally unfavorable. Crops pros-pects are dwindling from the bum-per proportions envisaged a few weeks ago. Farmers have been han-dicapped by shortages of everything from manpower to tools and gas and tires, and lastly by i shortage of time. Weather conditims have di-minished planting days and shorten-ed their season.

Gardens must pinch-hit in filling family larders, and judging from the multiplicity of freshly plowed plats theie will be no shortage of plnch-hltters. Some of them will strike out, others will score nothing but fouls. But many will play the game with skill and tally home-runs. A majority will at least ease the strain on the nation's food stores.

In that laudable undertaking gar-deners are entitled to the co-opera-tlor. of everybody, Including the dog owner. Berrien dog fanciers In particular should justify the confi-dence reposed In them by their board of supervisors by keeping Fido at home, out of the gardens and out of the dog catcher's cage.

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In the Divorce Courts

Charges of cruelty are made by Mrs. Frances Grlffen Pompey of Niles In a suit for divorce from Max Pompey; they were married In South Bend In 1939.

Mrs. Phoebe Pappas Thompson of Coloma was granted a divorce from Louis Thompson on a charge of cruelty; they were married In Gosh-en, Ind., In 1939 and have one child.

Non-support was the charge upon which Mrs. Magda Jacobsen of Ben-ton township was granted a di-vorce from Daniel Gustav Jacobson; they were married In Chicago In 1928 and have one child.

Mrs. Blanche Hunt Manley of Ben-ton Harbor has filed suit for divorce from Charles Manley, charging cruelty; they were married In 1936.

Cruelty Is charged by Andrew Mead of Bridgman In a suit for di-vorce from Mrs .Grace Olson Mead; the were married In Chicago In 1935.

Mrs. Pauline Von Rentzell Moats of Paw Paw Lake charges cruelty in a suit for divorce from Robert Moats. They were married in 1938 and have two children.

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knereasing Road Width A project is under way to increase

the width of roads in Quebec prov-ince to at least 66 feet.

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Live Longer Women of England and Wales live

longer then women of America, sta-tistics show.

The death of Mrs. Mary Nlmczak occurred on April 24, 1943, at her farm home in North Coloma where the family has resided for the past year. Mrs. Nlmczak was apparently in good health until stricken by a heart attack. She was born in Po-land on December 15, 1896, and mov-ed here with her husband, Nicholas, and one son, Walter, about a year ago when thoy purchased the John Peck farm north of Paw Paw Lake. The remains were taken by Paul Davidson to Chicago for the funeral and Interment.

Philip Musllek, 88 years old, died Friday, March 23, 1943, at his home In Coloma where they have resided for the past 23 years. He had been In poor health for some time, but seriously 111 for only a few days. His wife died two months ago in Chicago. Survivors Include three daughters and two sons. The re-mains were taken to Berwyn, Ills., where funeral services were held on Tuesday.

William Heubner, 80-year old res-ident of the Stevensvllle commun-ity, died April 20, 1943. He Is sur-vived by two sons and two daugh-ters. Funeral services were held on Saturday; Interment In the Stevens-vllle cemetery.

Mrs. Nllle Stone, wife of Clifford Stone, former resident of Benton Harbor, died April 20, 1943, at the Stone home In Chicago. Besides her husband, she Is survived by three sisters and a brother. Funeral ser-vices were held In Chicago and the remains were taken to Benton Har-bor for Interment In Crystal Springs cemetery.

Mrs. Ida M. Skinner, 70 years old, a former resident of Benton Harbor and the widow of Clarence Skinner, died April 24, 1943, at her home In Chicago. She was a daughter of the late Joseph and Susanna Edge-cumbe of Benton Harbor and Is sur-vived by two daughters, a brother, George Edgecumbe of Benton Har-bor, and a sister. Mrs. W. A. West of Chicago. Funeral services were held In Benton Harbor on Tuesday; Interment In Crystal Springs ceme-tery.

Mrs. Harriet Ludlum, wife of James W. Ludlum of St. Joseph, died April 25, 1943, at the age of 83 years. She was born In a log cabin near Berrien Springs. She Is survived by her husband, three sons and grandchildren. Funeral services were held on Wednesday; interment in the New Troy cemetery.

Mrs. Lillian Peebles Kohn, mother of Mrs. Beatrice Crawford, resident matron and hostess at the Eleanor Club in Benton Harbor, died April 25, 1943, after a long Illness at the age of 93 years. Besides her daugh-ter, she Is survived by two grand-daughters. The remains were sent to Anna, Ills., where funeral ser-vices were held on Tuesday.

Mrs. Margaret Pufall, 26 years old, wife of Reinhold Pufall of Bridg-man, died April 20, 1943, after a long Illness. She Is survived by her husband, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Gast of Bridgman, two children, two sisters and a brother. Funeral services were held on Fr i -day; Interment In the Greer.wood cemetery.

Mrs. Emily Stltt, 86 years old,! died April 21, 1943, at the home of ; a daughter, Mrs. Roy Keefer of j Bridgman. Besides Mrs. Keefer, she Is survived by another daughter, two sons, three sisters and a brother. , Funeral services were held at Mld-dleton, Mich., on Saturday.

Mrs. Ellen A. Brewer, wife of | Jesse Brewer of Buchanan, died: April 21, 1943, at the home of her j parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Newsom,. at the age of 25 years. Besides her I husband and parents, she Is survived j by several stepsons and stepdaugh- j ters, and five brothers.

James A. Glllentine, 52 years old, ' died April 21, 1943, at his home in i Benton Harbor after an Illness of i more than a year. He Is survived! by his widow and four children.

Following a heart attack, Law-rence Zebell who resided near Three Oaks, died April 21, 1943, at Mercy hospital. He Is survived by his widow, his father, William Ze-bell, a son and several brothers and sisters. Funeral services were held on Saturday; Interment In Forest Lawn cemetery.

Charles E. Zlndler, 54 years old, wh* has operated a shoe repair shop In Benton Harbor for the past ten years, died suddenly on April 22, 1943 following a heart attack. For over twenty years he was employed by the Baker-Vawter plant. He Is survived by his widow three sons, three brothers, four sisters. Funeral services were held on Monday; In-terment In Crystal Springs ceme-tery.

Arthur Elvis Hunter, 30 years old, a resident of Benton Harbor, died April 22, 1943, at the Berrien county hospital after a four days Illness with pneumonia. He Is survived by his widow, two children, brothers and sisters. Funeral services were held on Monday; Interment In Cry-stal Springs cemetery.

William J. Lltke, ho was employ-ed by the Superior Steel Co. at Benton Harbor for eighteen years, died April 22, 1943, at the Pinecrest sanitarium after an Illness of only a year. He Is survived by his par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lltke of Benton Harbor, a son, four brothers and three sisters. Funeral services were held on Saturday; Interment In the Bridgman cemetery.

Meat Photo His Figs Go to War

Yoang Johnny Clay of Rooky Mount, North Carolina, is typioal of f a rm children raising victory pifg and devoting profits to War Bonds.

Farm Yonth of U. S. Looks to Tomorrow

' T O M O R R O W S farmers and farm A homemakers are second to no

school group in their enthusiasm for investing in War Bonds and Stamps to make sure their future is secure. Through the Schools At War program they are investing what they save and earn in War Stamps and Bonds.

First evidence of this is the amount the 4-H Club boys and girls and the FFA boys invested in War savings in 1942 from "Victory Pig" and other projects. A million and a half 4-H Club members put $6,000,-000 of their own savings in War Bonds and Stamps and sold $2,500,-000 worth of War Savings to their neighbors. Nearly a quarter mil-lion members of Future Farmers of America invested more than $1,-500,000.

Spurred by the realization that the financial welfare of farm fami-lies the next 20 years depends on how wisely they use today s higher incomes from Increased food and other wartime production, both, groups have set their goals still higher for 1943.

These farm youths are building financial reserves, and urging their parents to do the same, for after-the-war necessities, to meet finan-cial emergencies and to help them get started in college.

They're building reserves today for tomorrow's farm buildings and for the other things they will need when they're tomorrow's farmers and homemakers.

Sfax Surpassed Only by Tunis The white, flat-roofed city of Sfax

is Tunisia's second-ranking seaport and second-largest city. It is thus surpassed only by Tunis. The popu-lation of Sfax, however, is only about 45,000, while Tunis has nearly five times as many residents. Sfax rises beside the Mediterranean about 145 miles south of Tunis where the Gulf of Gabes cuts into Tunisia's east coast.

France's N. African Naval Base Bizerte has been rated France's

leading naval base in North Africa. Its population, before the war, was estimated at between 20 and 25 thou-sand, including a settlement of 6,000 naval workers and their families, and a military garrison.

Lake Michigan Beach "Time and tide wait for no man."

Neither does the postman. The days go so fast and there are so many things to squeeze Into each hour that there Is not time enough. Any-way, we are glad that you readers missed our little bit of news last week and we will try and not let It happen again. By the way, why do not you readers help to make our column bigger and better by phon-ing us whatever news you have? It Is nice to know who comes and goes, who is making a garden, who is raising chickens, and the many other interesting things that happen in a neighborhood like ours.

We are adding to our permanent residents the Michael Leonard fam-ily on Cherry street; the Leonards have been coming out for many seasons, raised their family of boys and girls to grown-ups, and now the city furniture Is coming out and they will be here to stay. We wish them all the happiness they might wish for. Mr. Leonard and" daughter Marge are both going into war work In Benton Harbor Their son Joe, who Is stationed at Camp Clay-borne, La., will be at home on a furlough on Thursday of this week.

The Gunns had their first letter from their son John from overseas. Short but happy it was—swell out-fit, swell bunch of boys, a swell captain who knows his stuff—and from that we know that he Is happy in having chosen the marines. He has been away for seven and one-half months.

Our good friends, the Galvins, have given their fourth and last son to Uncle Sam. Young Don, who is In the 18-year-old draft, left last Thursday for Camp Grant; he got a pass for the week-end and came back to the Beach for just one more Sunday. He wears his uniform with pride and looks the straight and upright soldier we know he Is going to be. The Galvin's four sons are Jack, Jay, Frank and Don. Frank Is on his way overseas. Jack is in Texas, Jay is In Detroit, and Don, of course, does not know yet where he will be sent. But wherever he goes we want him to know that our best wishes are following him. He said, "Will you say a prayer for me." No need to ask, Don; every hour, ever second, somewhere in this stricken world, I believe a prayer goes up from the heart of a parent, no matter what task their hands and feet pursue at the mo-ment, and so we say "Farewell to you and every mother's son; you travel not alone you fighting men. Our prayers and love go with you until this war Is done. We'll keep the faith until you come home again."

The Charles Cooks and the Cle-becks are out for the season. Mrs. Cook says she feels much better this spring and we know she will improve when the weather warms up.

Mrs. Helen Keller made a busi-ness trip to Chicago this week. Mary Livingston went in to spend Easter with her family.

Jane Alice Radbury has been quite III all this week. Mrs. Brown and Florence Nelson also have been somewhat under the weather, but, as Florence says, "you can't keep a good guy down" so they are on the go again. But Marian Williams and Hale are both in bed. At this moment we do not know just how sick they are but we hope they will soon be well again.

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Dalhstrom and Billy, of Chicago, were at the Forde cottage over Sunday and Mrs. Cheat, we were just told, has come out for the season. It will be Interesting to watch Mrs. Cheat's garden, for that is her hobby, you know.

The Municipality Club will have Its next meeting on May 4th. It will be an Important business meet-ing and we urge all members to be present. Anyone wishing informa-tion in the village proposition is welcome. Notices will be sent to members as to the place of the meeting. Others may call 7-1195 for the time and place.

Our newest Courier family mem-ber is Mrs. Louis Damon, who, by the way Is one of the first residents of the Beach. In fact, her daughter Anne, whose engagement was an-nounced two weeks ago, was the first Lake Michigan Beach baby.

Lake Michigan Beach people wish to extend their sympathy to the owners of the Loma Theatre and the City of Coloma in the dreadful dis-aster which occurred early last Mon-day. Coloma people will need to be very watchful and alert so as to prevent any fur ther such happen-ings. We sincerely hope the culprit will be apprehended and soon.

Edna Brodlne and daughter Lois and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Joyce are at the Beach for the rest of the week. It is quite evident that the spring bug bites them sooner or later. It cannot bite too many to suit us; we are glad that you want to come.

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SOUTH COVERT NEWS

In and Around The Elms

(Mrs. G. H. Kelly, Correspondent)

Wm. Crawford and grandson Em-ery had as Easter guests the for-mer's son, Claude Crawford, and his wife, and the latter's mother, Mrs. Allen of Ashley, Ind.

Easter Sunday was Scott Derby's birthday and his sister, Mrs. Clyde Grant, with her husband and daugh-ter Denlce, and Jane Derby spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grayson Plnyard In Coloma.

Mrs. Lemmon Is spending a few days in Chicago.

A family by the name of Cunning-ham is occupying the J. R. Spellman farm.

Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Kelly visited a short time Sunday evening at the Lawrence Adams home Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ervle Clinard of northwest Toquln.

The attendance at the Congrega-tional church at Covert on Easter was 201.

Fifteen new members were taken Into the church, two by letters f rom Lansing and Kalamazoo; and two babies were baptized.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rendell's oldest son, who has been stationed with the armed forces in California, has been at home on a 15-day f u r -lough which ended April 27th.

Numbered among those from this community who haye been on the sick list the past week'were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ream and G. H. Kelly.

Clarence Joyner, who is employed in Chicago, is having a week's va-cation and is trying to get some farm work done in. that time.

Mrs. Kelly visited Mrs. Derby on Monday and was informed that the latter's grandson, Rex Grant, was among the number of boys who has been sent overseas to fight for our country.

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Berrien County Weddings

At Trinity Lutheran church in St. Joseph on Easter Sunday, April 25, 1943, Miss Anita G. Welmann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J . Wel-mann of St. Joseph, and Corp. Ar-thur B. Wendt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Wendt of the same city, were united in wedlock by Rev. Louis Neuchterlein.

At the post chapel at Fort Sheri-dan, Ills., on April 25, 1943, Miss Elizabeth Jane Farmer, daughter of the J. T. Farmers of Highland Park, Ills., and Lieut. John Edward Rich-ardson, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Richardson of Benton Harbor, were united in wedlock by Rev. Fr. John McDonald.

At an Easter eve wedding which was solemnized at Camp Siebert, Ala., Miss Helene Podjan and Pvt. Edward Stuppy were united in wed-lock by Chaplain George N. Gilligan. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Podjan, and the groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Clem Stup-py, both of Benton Harbor.

Miss Georgette Welty, cashier a t the dining room at the Hotel Whit-comb in St. Joseph, and Ronnet (Tiny) Lombardo, leader of the or-chestra at that hotel, were united in marriage by Justice John W. Rody on April 24, 1943. On Sunday evening a reception was tendered the couple at the Tropical rooms at the hotel.

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES

"Everlasting Punishment" will be the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Christian Science Churches throughout the world on Sunday, May 2.

The Golden Text (Galatlans 6:7) Is: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

Among the Bible citations is this passage (Galatlans 6:1,2): "Brethren, If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such and one in the spirit of meekness: considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ."

Correlative passages to be read from the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, include the following (p.518): "The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man vyho seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good."

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JUST BECAUSE

The sergeant was asking recruits why walnut is used for the butt of a rifle.

"Because it has more resistance," volunteered one man.

"Wrong!" "Because it is mora elastic." "Wrong I" "Perhaps it's because it looks nic-

er than any other kind," said anoth-er, timidly.

"Ridiculous," snapped the ser-geant. " I t ' s simply because it is laid down in the regulations."

Athletie "May I ask you the secret of suc-

cess?" an ambitious young man said to a great merchant.

"There is no easy secret," replied the merchant. "You must Jump at your opportunity."

"But how can I tell when my op-portunity comes?"

"You can' t ," snapped the mer-chant. "You have to keep Jumping."

THREE'S A CROWD

She—Shall I Join you in your walk? He—Yes. Let 's walk over past

the minister 's .and ask him to Join us.

Soma Kicks A baby kicks because of pain or

Joy, A schoolboy kicks when school

days have begun. A lover kicks if his best girl is coy,

But football players kick for fame and fun.

And a Ride "Oh I wilt thou take me, dear,

For better or for worse?" She smiled the while a canny smile.

And took him for—his purse.

Veteran The Visitor—How did your father

acquire such skill with a . golf club. Tommy?

Tommy—I think it was f rom prac-ticin' on me with a bed slat.

Going Up Rover—I haven't seen a bone for a

month. I wonder w h a f s up? Fido—Meat prices.

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Escaped "Tom had a narrow escape when

his roadster hit a t ree last night." "Yes; and wasn' t it luck that he

landed on his head?"

Fooled Lady (after crash)—What's the

mat ter with you? I put out my hand. Man—I know—that's what fooled

me.

Camel Care Visitor: How are the dromedaries

kept clean? Keeper—A camel 's hair brush,

ma ' am, is all we use.

ImagiMthrt Phil—I like to imagine myself in

various places. Bob—Travel round the world on a

train of thought, so to speak.

C a r t See "The self-satisfied ought to be

blind."

Cautious Teacher—And what lesson do we

learn from the busy bee? Smast Boy—Not to be atung.

"How did you enjoy your vaca-t ion?"

"Had my teeth fixed. It didn't hurt any worse than mosquito bites and sunburn, and seemed more like the money's worth."

Troublesome , Doctor—Have you tried counting sheep to cure your insomnia?

Afflicted—Good gosh, yes. Doc; and it only made it worse. The sheep reminded me of the price of meat .

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE

Many Missed Fine Pageant

To those who failed to hear, for one reason or another, the fine pageant given at the vesper service last Sunday evening at the Metho-dist church by the young people of that denomination and their leaders, I am prompted to say that you miss-ed an inspiring hour. The rendi-tion of this pageant which portray-ed the last hours of oUr Savior be-fore His death and His subsequent resurrection; the objective and mis-sion of His resurrection to the world of today, could not fail to leave a lasting impression upon the youth who gave It, and upon the audience who were fortunate enough to hear it.

In a world where mass murder is legalized, practiced generally and sanctioned by even many church people, the death of one lone man isn't significant today unless we fully recognize its objectives. The emphasis upon these objectives, given out in song and study by this fine group of youngsters, aided and led by Mrs. Lawrence's marvelous voice and her chorus, was greatly appreciated by all who heard the program and should bring a pang of regret to all who missed hearing it.

Methinks it should also prompt a resolution never to let another such an opportunity pass of hearing how one man died not in vain and of spending ^ delightful hour among Christian people.

ONE WHO HEARD THIS FINE PROGRAM

V Chemicals Increase Flow of Resin

The labor shortage and the urgent "need for production of more resin and turpentine for war uses focus attention on the discovery by the U. S. Forest service that 40 per cent sulphuric acid solution or a 25 per cent solution of caustic soda (lye) will greatly increase the gum flow of both longleaf and slash pines. Research shows that the 40 per cent sulphuric acid solution applied to fresh streaks or faces will increase the average annual flow of gum by 25 per cent. Furthermore, experi-ments in 1942 with a large number of other chemicals show that a 25 per cent solution of caustic soda will increase yields as much as 75 per cent. A suitable spraying device for use with both chemicals is be-ing developed by government silvi-culturists in co-operation with sev-eral machinery manufacturer!.

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Survey shows that 57 per cent of the fuel-oil consumers on the east-ern coast stiU have doal bins.

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Mountain Chickens Frogs in Hawaii are called "moun-

tain chickens" by the natives who have found frogs' legs a fine deli-cacy.

•The Little Cove' Situated 410 miles east of Tripoli

and 150 miles west of Bengasi, EI Agheila fronts the sea, with boggy salt marshes at its back. These nat-ural barriers determine the defen-sive position by squeezing the coast-al passageway into a rather narrow corridor. As a town. El Agheila (the little cove) is of small significance. Less than a thousand people live in it. Wartime facilities include an air field and a radio station, supple-mented by a hospital and food stores.

eeeanng corn New strains of seedling corn are

given an artificial drouth test, a t Kansas State college, to see how well they withstand heat and dry-ness.

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SA Vts V/rAL WAX MATFRIAL /

FAMILY SIZE f 1 ? ! . 0 0

See them today at

Coloma Hardware Co. Oarks C Srtb, Mgr. Celeoa, Mick

. . BUY U. S WAR BONDS •

Town's Nickname Best Known Caldervale, Scotland, haa been

called Fin ' Me Oot for so many years that many residents don't know its correct name.

Soma Chase -"They tell m e that Jenkins had to

propose at least five times to Miss Moneybags before she accepted him."

"Well, she certainly gave him a run for her money."

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Australian Farm Workers Week-end working bees have

proved a boon to Queensland, Aus-tralia, agriculturists. During the harvesting season upwards of 6,000 volunteers have been migrating to rural areas each week-end. One in-stance is reported of a group of 800 men bringing in 8,000 bags of pota-toes, 800 baga of ooiooi, and 40 b a p of turnips over the holiday.

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Coke for Fael la Eaglaad England plans to use coke as •

fuel in the post-war period.

AUCTION! Having sold my farm I will sell at Auction the follow-ing at the farm, 5 ^ miles So. East of Benton Harbor, at the Pearl Granger Corners, beginning at 10:30 a. m.

Saturday, May 1st. Horses, Hay, Corn, Oats, Tractor, Truck, Spray Rig, Mowing Machine, Peach Brusher and Sizer, Melon Grader, Hot Bed Sash, many other small tools.

LOTT SUTHERLAND, Prop. BENTON HARBOR, MICH.

OSCAR BURCH, Auctioneer.

Springtime is

Cledn-up Time See O u r Stock of

- Wall Paper -Sold In

Room Lots 8 feet "high, as Tow a*

98c T" Several Patterns from which to make your selections

We are Headquarters for

Fella Venetian Blinds Take Advantage of Our Low Prices and

Doll Up Your House Now !

Yes, we have our regular line of

Paints, Varnishes, Etc., in connection with Hardware, Lumber and

Building Materials,

Michigan Shore Lumber and Supply Co.

Phone 103 Coloma, Michigan

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