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WHAT'S THIS, GIRLS? Trying to ring up cherries on the cash
register? I'm afraid the boss won't like -that.
A bit of reflection tells me that he won't mind it, though.
I've an idea anything NONA PIPER, who is doing the ringing,
and JUNE McGRECOR, with the cherries, care to do is likely
to be all right with him; or anyone else, for that matter. -
Nona is the bride of Gary Piper and the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs; Royd Bruton. June is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
B. W. McGregor of Wharton avenue, .home from University of
Oregon (she is a freshman there! for the holidays. Both girls
are employed at Fairhaven market, Nona as a regular.
OHIO STATUTE PREVAILS
Court Issues Injunction
Ending Strike Against
Cleveland Transit Lines
CLEVELAND, Dec. 27. UP) ATT. unionists bowed to a court
Injunction today and called off the city's six-day transit strike.
By a voice vote, members of the AFL-translt union voted over
whelmingly to abide by an Injunction ordering them to give up
the strike against the city-owned Cleveland transit system.
Busses and street cars were expected to start rolling almost
Immediately. The Injunction set a 2 p. m. deadline.
In the Day's News
'.',' By FRANK JENKINS
MODERN political note:
H. H. Stallard of Portland
files his candidacy for the Demo
cratic nomination for congress
from the Third Oregon district
which is. Multnomah county.
.'.
HE has a PLAN.
He calls it Stallard's Commu
nity Center Plan. This Is It:
1. Return to wartime price con
trol. .
2. Pay each dependent adult
$100 a month.
3. Pay each dependent child $25
a month.
4. APPROPRIATE 100 BIL
LION DOLLARS FROM THE
FEDERAL TREASURY.
HIS plan, he says, "would solve
the question of living from the
cradle to the grave."
It certainly would If we could
all eat dollar bills. Personally, I
don't think I'd like the taste of
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Zoning Of Annexed Area
City Planners' Task
A city recommendation for pro
per zoning of three recently an
nexed suburban areas will be
studied tonight by the City Plan
ning commission during its regu
lar meeting in the city council
chambers at 7:30 p.m.
Areas affected are West Rose
burg, Miller's addition Sleepy
Hollow and Beulah addition.
GIs USED AS GUINEA PIGS
Prisoners Tested For
Germ Warfare, Japs Say
At Trial, Soviet Reports
LONDON, Dec. 27. UP) Radio Moscow sai dtbday that Japa
nese on trial for war crimes In Siberia admitted using American
war prisoners as human guinea pigs in germ warfare tests.
In a trial of 12 Japanese army officers, the radio broadcast
said, some of the defendants asserted these experiments with deadly,
plague, cholera and other germs were in preparation for launching
germ-bomb attacks on the United States and Britain during World
War. Two. '
One defendant, . Gen. Otozoo
Yamadaa, former commander of
the Japanese Kwantung army in
Manchuria, was said to have tes
tified tht germ experiments on
prisoners were aimed primarily
for use on the Soviet Union, the
Mongolian people's republic and
China in addition to the U. S. and
Britain.
According to reported testi
mony by Tomlo Karasawa, sec
ond defendant to appear before
the court, lethal germs were used
by the Japanese army's top-secret
germ warfare branch "to ascer
Transit officials, however, said
no attempt would be made before
tomorrow to maintain normal
schedules. '
The injunction was -issued by
Common Pleas Judge Joseph-A.
Artl. Union officials announced
there would be no attempt to re
open the issue of paid vacations
during the present contract.
That was the basis for the walk
out in the first place. David Ralph
Hertz, CTS umpire, ruled last
June that operating employes
should receive only 88 hours of
paid vacations annually, starting
in 1950.
Previously, these employes had
been receiving 96 hours, they
struck in hopes that would be con
tinued. No "Anarchy and Chaos"
In ruling against the transit
strikers, Judge Artl made it plain
he felt an Ohio statute which out
laws strikes by public employes is
entirely justified. He said:
"I say that such a strike is one
means of destroying government
and if you destroy government
you have anarchy and chaos. I be
lieve that is why the legislature
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Rich Cattleman Held
In Slaying Of Wife
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 27.-VP)
Thomas. F. Talle, 37, wealthy
retired New Mexico cattleman
held in the slaying of his wife, re
mained untalkative in his jail
cell today while officers consider
ed what action to take.
: Talle was booked on suspicion
of murdering pretty Margaret Lee
Edwards Talle, 29, former Denver
hotel cashier whom he married
four years ago. Her bullet-pierced
body was found Saturday at the
couple's new $75,000 home in ex
clusive Montecito heights.
A friend of the Talles said the
two "fought like cats and dogs."
Mrs. Talle once sued for divorce
but had dropped the action.
tain the degree of vulnerability
of the American army to differ
ent combat infections."
Not Verified By Records
(In Tokyo, General MacArthur's
headquarters said there ire no
records of the Japanese having
experimented with germs on
American prisoners. As far as
headquarters knew the Japanese
had never been accused by any of
the Americans held at Mukden,
scene of the alleged expriment, of
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Established 1873
Holland's Rule In
East Indies Ends
After
Republic Of
Indonesia Is
Proclaimed
Colonial Rule Succeeded
By 2-Nation Experiment -In
International Union
AMSTERDAM, The Nether
lands, Dec. 27.. UP) Queen
Juliana gave up most of Holland's
rich colonial empire today by pro
claiming independence for , 77,
C 00,000 Indonesians. '
The simple. 30-minute cere
mony in the royal palace climaxed
four years of guerrilla fighting in
the tropical East Indies islands
and weeks of touga bargaining in
conferences between Dutch and
Independence - seeking Indone
sians. With Juliana's signature.' the
United States of Indonesia (U. S.
I.) became the world's newest
Independent nation. It also began
an experiment in international'
partnership the Dutch-Indonesian
union under which the Dutch
kingdom and the Indonesian re
public are loosely linked by the
symbol of The Netherlands
crown.
On the other side of the world,
dark-skinned natives celebrated
the independence for which they
fought four years of sporadic
guerrilla warfare. U. S. I. leaders
took over control of the Indone-
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London In Grip ,
Of Train Strike
LONDON, Dec. 27-UP) The
second day of a wildcat train
stoppage stranded thousands of.
holiday travelers in London and
the south of England today.
Less than a score of 268 motor
men slated for duty reported for
work on the south region electric
lines of the state-owned British
railway system. The strike began
yesterday because of dissatisfac
tion with the holiday duty ros
ter. .
Soldiers and sailors due back
at their stations after holiday
leave piled up at Waterloo sta
tion, main terminus of the lines.
Other travelers waited for
trains in vain at stations strung
out between London, Portsmouth
and Southampton. A big crush
on the bus lines was expected
tonight when the bulk of the holl
dayers tried to reach London.
Today is a banking holiday, the
last of a long workless weekend
which began Christmas day.
The motormen are expected to
go back on the job tomorrow.
Their union has denounced the
strike as unofficial.
Restaurateur Is Santa,
Gives 400 Free Dinners j
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec 27. UP)
Restaurant-owner James R.
Hightower doesn't have a family
with which to spend the holidays,
so yesterday he decided to play
host to his customers.
He put a sign in the window of
his Rose City cafe in the down
town district offering free chick
en dinners to the first 400 per
sons to come in betweeen 10:30
a.m. and 2 p.m.
It didn't take him long to drum
up trade. In a short time his
small cafe was filled and there
was a long line oq the sidewalk
outside.
By 2 p.m. the 400 winners were
gone and Hightower and his
weary employes closed the doors.
Then they had to go home to get
something to eat all the food in
the cafe was gone.
It wouldn't have seemed like
Christmas without giving some
thing," Hightower said.
Burr, Oregon Fugitive,
Caught At San Diego
' SAN DIEGO, Dec. 27 IJP)
Robert Melvin Burr, 22, one of
the men who escaped the Oregon
State hospital Dec. 3, was cap
tured here yesterday by the FBI.
The FBI reported Burr was
seized without a struggle at an
armed services YMCA after they
received a tip from Portland rel
atives on Burr's whereabouts. He
had sent word to Portland for the
relatives to forward him some
money.
It was the second time Burr
had been arrested in Southern
California after escaping Oregon.
In the previous flight, he 'was
with Marion Watson, 21. who is
still at Liberty after the escape
witn uurr uec. a.
The FBI said Burr has given
them no clue to the whereabouts
of Watson.
ROSEBURG,
300 M
Bottle-Tossing
Boys Deal $1,500
Ruin To Windows
BAKER, Deo. 27. A
milk bottle throwing spree has
ruined S150O worth of plate
glass windows here and landed
three Juveniles in Jail, accord
ing to Police Chief Guy Church.
The youths, Jimmy Ward
Holden, 19, Don Williams, 17,
and Winifred Braokin, 16, told
police that after they had
thrown milk bottles through one
window they deolded to toss
some more.
Damaged were a grocery
store in South Baker, a service
station, a bakery, the C. C.
Anderson store and Palmer
Brothers Jewelry store on Main
street, and a motor company
near Main street. The escap
ade took place between 1 and
2 a. m. last night.
Yule Tree Fire
Levels 3 Blocks,
Takes One Life
HYNDMAN, Pa., Dec. 27 UP)
The fire which leveled this
mounain community's business
section has forged a new spirit
of civic pride in Hyndman.
mat Decame apparent toaay
as merchants, town officials and
businessmen started to lay plans
for a new and better town.
The Christmas eve fire burned
out three blocks of the center of
town; The bank, 12 other business
buildings, about 20 homes and
tc -postoffice : were reduced to
twisted, charred wreckage.
An unofficial estimate of dam
age compiled by businessmen
placed it at around $1,000,000 a
staggering amount for a town of
about 1,500 population.
But Hyndman has not bowed to
late.
"We are going to build a bet
ter town than we ever had be
fore," Charles O Burns, cashier
of the burned-out bank declared.
"The fire has bound the com
munity together," George Keller,
principal of the local high school
said. It is really amazing. Ev
eryone is helping."
' The high school was not dam
aged by the fire. Emergency re
lief headquarters were set up
there.
Food, clothing, furniture and
other items to help the town back
on its feet are being distributed
by Red Cross workers.
The fire started when a Christ
mas tree in the home of Som
mers Fisher blazed up. Fisher's
wife, Corrine, 60, was trapped
and died in the fire. Fisher was
burned badly and is in serious
condition at Memorial hospital in
nearby Cumberland, Md.
Couple Greet 2nd Pair ;
Of Twins In 10 Months
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 UP)-
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse- Kohal are
the proud parents of their second
set of twins within 10 months.
Yesterday, the day after their
third wedding nnnlversary, Jeff
rey and Michael were born. Each
weighed a little more than five
and a half pounds. Mother and
babies are reported to be "doing
fine."
Last Feb. 9 Mrs. Kohal, 27,
gave birth to twin girls.
Following the latest additions
to the family, Kuhai, 31, a gro
cery manager, commented:
I'm a little weak. But very
pleased."
HUNT FOR LOST
Embryo Robin Hoods, 11 And 5, Found
Unhurt After All-Night Trek In Woods
Christmas - festivities in the
Glendale-Azalpa areas went by
the board - Christmas eve and
most of Sunday, while residents
of the area, augmented by state
and county officers, national
guardsmen and forest rangers
combed the rugged mountain
areas In search of two lost boys.
Duane White, 11, and Jack Rae
Louderdale, 5, were the objects
of the searching party. The two
boys, with a collie dog and a
pup, had strayed from their
homes shortly after noon Satur
day. With their new hows and
arrows they had received for
Christmas, they had started out
on a hunting expedition.
When they failed to return by
6 p. m,' their fathers, Olin White
and Alton Louderdale, finally ap
pealed for help, and a searching
party was organized under State
Police Officer Virgil Simpson. Bv
9 o'clock that night Officer Simp-
k
OREGON TUESDAY, DEC.
$60,000 More
To Be Sought
For Hospital
Drive For Community
Project Completion To
Be Planned Tonight
Douglas Community hospital
trustees and a group of local busi
ness men will meet at 7:30 o'clock
tonight to complete plans for the
raising of an additional $60,000
needed for construction of the
new hospital in Roseburg. Those
to attend will be notified of the
meeting place. '
President Kenneth Ford, In an
nouncing the meeting. emDhasiz-
ed the importance of shaping up
ana completing arrangements lor
an intensified campaign to raise
the needed deficit, in order to
start the hospital construction at
the earliest possible time.
The low bid of $379,700 as sub
mitted by Todd Building Co.,
must be accepted within 30 days.
Since it will take about three
weeks to clear the contract
through the state and federal
agencies, there remains only this
week in which to raise the
money.
The overall hospital expendi
ture, according to present plans,
said Ford, is $510,000. Of this
amount $155,000 in federal funds
is assured, if the community can
carry through with its program.
Local Labor to Benefit '
Construction of the hospital,
proper, including the low bid of
Todd at $379,700, a low bid of $18,
846 submitted by Kalberer Hotel
Supply, Portland, and Installation
of laundry facilities would repre
sent an expenditure of nearly
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Oregon Holiday
Death Toll Nine
By The, Associated Press
Oregon's holiday fatalities
stood at nine today. Six died in
traffic accidents and three suc
cumbed in fires, two of these
youngster' who suffocated
Christmas-Eve.
Christmas day victims were Si
mon Head, 44, Linnton, whose
automobile smashed Into -a
bridge between , Prineville and
Redmond: and L. R. Pickett, 70,
Bend, fatally burned when an oil
stove at his house exploeded.
, The fatalities:
TRAFFIC
Daniel Aaron Lake, 67, Port
land. , .
John Roger Smith, 65, Gresh-
am. !
, Nancy J. Werner, 26, Portland.
John T. Huff, 65, Bonneville.
Mrs. Bernlce Hansen, 24, Port
land. .
Simon Head, 44, Linnton. ,'.
BX r 1K
Beverly Ogden, 6, : and
brother, 2, of Portland..
L. R. Pickett, 70, Bend. ;
her
Lou Franco Acquitted
Of Charge Of Speeding
Lou Franco, local western band
leader, today was acquitted by a
five-man Jury of a charge of
speeding within the city limits.
The Jury chose to believe
Franco's statements and those of
his two witnesses during Tues
day's re-trial in which Franco
acted as his own defense attorney.
A previous trial, held Dec. 12,
resulted in a hung jury. The new
jury deliberated only about 20
minutes before returning the
verdict favoring the defendant,
The city's case, represented by
City Attorney Paul Geddes,
charged Franco with violating
the basic rule (speeding) on the
eany morning of uec. t.
HEAT RECORD SET
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.
An all-time heat record for the
date was set today when the ther
mometer registered 60 degrees at
1 p. m. The previous record was
sv.i on uec, it, lajb.
BOYS IS AZALEA'S YULE
son alerted the state police and
sheriff's office In Roseburg.
' An all night and morning hunt
was finally rewarded, when the
youngsters were found shortly
after 2 p. m. Sunday.
Good Judgment Shown
Cold, tired, hungry and with
sore feet, the boys were otherwise
in good condlilon. They had
tramped about 7i miles up Cow
Creek. They were lorated near
the head of White canyon and
Dead Horse canyon, close to the
headwaters of Starveout creek.
The boys had used good judg
ment, officers reported. They
used the shelter of a log, covering
themselves with fir bows and
lying close to their dogs, whose
warmth helped protect them
from the cold mountain air.
After thev were found, the
boys were taken to a Grants Pass
hnanlfat fn. l...ln..nt ThftV haH
been wearing only levis and leath-1
27, 1949
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OUTSTANDING CARRIER Johnny Duval, right,' is considered
by News-Review Circulation Manager Fuller Johnson, left,
his outstanding carrier-salesman. But Johnny Is only one of 36
carrier-salesmen who were guests, along with' motor route, car
riers, their fathers end office personnel, at the third annual
Christmas banquet held for the boys last Friday night at Carl's
Haven. Johnny has been with the News-Review ever since John
son took over as manaaer in January 1946. In all, 76 attended
the dinner. The' boys were treated to all the fried chicken they
could eat. (Picture by Paul Jenkins I V
N.Y. Gets Heavy
Rain; More Slated
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-WP)---The
first heavy rain since last
spring fell on New York and its
parched watershed today and
the weather bureau saw another
24 hours of it coming.
Water-shy New Yorkers were
as happy as dustbowl farmers at
the end of a drought, but the city
water department kept its fin
gers crossed.
Any water that runs Into the
big reservoirs now two-thirds
empty must not only handle the
present demand but store up a
surplus for summer.
The rain a measured .61 of
an inch during the night fell
while engineers from three states
doggedly planned an enormous
600,000,000,000 gallon 1 reservoir
system that ' would serve New
York, New Jersey and Pennsyl
vania cities for the next hundred
years.
But .this , wouldn't help In the
present shortage, and is planned
only as a long-range remedy; '
New .York City's present reser
voir capacity is 253,000,000,000
gallons but there are only 87,
445,000,000 left in the storage
lakes. ' :
The reservoir level dropped an
other 103,000,000 gallons yester
day in spite of the holiday and the
shutdown of Industrial plants.'
Seting-Eye Dog, Like .. ,
Master, Goes Blind
LOS ANGELES, Dec. ''27. UP)
It was a real tragedy for John
T. Donahue, 78, when his eight-year-old
dog, King, went blind.
Donahue, who lives alone with
the pet, also Is blind and King Is
a sceing-cye dog.
- Now they both help each other
in their land of darkness.
And the philosophic old man is
cheerful about his new loss.
"Could be a lot worse," he says.
"Suppose I had lost my legs or
my hands?"
er jackets, without hats, and had
spent nearly 26 hours in tne
mountains, in' mingled rain and
snow.
The boys were found by forest
rangers Andy Biltz of Quines
Creek, Carl Wlsenburg, George
Mollers and Casper Honn, all 01
Glendale.
Intensive Search Conduoted
They had been In the search
almost from the start. By the
time the boys were located the
searching party had multiplied
to nearly 300 persons, it was re
ported, 'i
In addition to anxious residents
of the areas, forest rangers from
Tiller and Glide stations, national
guardsmen from Roseburg, Trl
City and Grants Pass, representa
tives from the state police and
sheriffs office were on the Job.
Deputy A. A. "Red" Eckhardt
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AFL Lists "Opponents"
Of Labor's Interests ;
WASHINGTON, Dec. .27 '(-
A list of 107 Congress members,
published yesterday by the Amer
ican Federation of labor and des
cribed as having opposed the
best interests of workers, far.
mers and small businessmen,"
contained the names of three
northwest officeholders.
Those mentioned included Sen-'
ators Guy Cordon of Oregon and
Harry Cain of Washington, and
Rep. Harris Ellsworth of Oregon.
All are Republicans. :'
Negro Murder
Suspect Is Slain -
CRAWFORDSVTLLE. Ark.. Dec.
27. UP) A Negro accused of kill
ing a white woman taxi driver
and wounding two peace officers
was snot to aeatn yesteraay wnne
resisting arrest.
Sheriff ' Cecil Vi Goodwin said
his deputies Gladstone Williams
and C.-M. Rieves were forced to
shoot when the Negro Minus
Wilson resisted them in a cafe,
i Shortly before he. was killed,
the sheriff said, the Negro fired
one shot at Williams' wife when
she surprised him in her home.
Mrs. Williams was not injured. '
' Police had been searching for
Wilson since Dec. 9 when Mrs.
Joe McDanlel, 37, wife of the
Luxora, Ark., town marshal, was
shot to death. McDanlel and night
marshal Ralph Williamson were
wounded.
. The Luxora officers were trans
porting Wilson: to Jail In a taxi
cab operated by Mrs. McDanlel.
They said they had arrested him
and a Negro woman,, on minor
charges!
Marshal Tito, Britain ; "
Sign 5-Year Trade Pact
BELGRADE," Yugohlavla,' Dec.
27. UP) Marshal Tito has a new
five-year trade pact with Britain
and a tidy budget surplus to bol
ster Yugoslavia against economic
pressure by the Russian-led Corn
inform. - '
Russia and her eastern Europe
satellites have boycotted Yugo-
I slav trade since Tito's break with
the Kremlin and the new trade
agreement tightens Yugoslavia's
ties witn tne west.-- "
The deal was made public last
night at a meeting of parliament
in which the govrenment an
nounced that the national budget
not only balanced its budget this
vear but bad a surplus oi .-uu,
000,000 in the treasury as well.
Heavy Snow Follows
Deadly Quake In Japan
TOKYO, Dec. 27 -J.m Heavy
snow today spread a new blanket
of misery over central Japan,
where elBht persons were killed
and hundreds left homeless by
20-odd earth temblors between
Sunday night and this morning.
National rural police said eight
were killed and one person was
missing. Many were Injured but
only one seriously. Eighty -six
homes and buildings collapsed
and 283 others were badly dam
aged.
Safety Council's Head
Expects Won Record '
in New Year's Whoopee
(By The AuocUUd finl
At least 568 violent deaths were
a grim payment today for the
nation's three-day Christmas noli-
day with another long weekend
looming aneaa. ,
One person was killed In traf
fic, fire or one of a variety of
other., accidents aDoroximatelv
every 13 minutes during the holi
day period irom six p. m. Friday
until midnight Monday.
The biggest killer, as usual was
the automobile with 397. A large
portion of them were pedestrians.
Fires killed 65 persons, many of
them children. And children were
notable among victims of 1)4 mis
cellaneous accidents.
The traffic toll was less than
the 435 predicted by the National
saiety council, out Ned H. Dear
born, president of the council,
pointed out that the cost in Uvea
paid for the holiday in all types
of accidents was higher than the
550 claimed in the Texas City,
Tex., disaster o! two years ago.
May Be Worse New Year's .
"Our holidays have become a
series of Texas Cities,'," Dear
born said. "In a week, we may
expect another one a Joyous
weekend of mass murder over
New Year's unless the people
have sickened of making horror
days out of holidays."
One of the most horrifying
traffic accidents occurred in Tex
as Friday night when an auto
bile and a gasoline truck collid
ed. Gas splashed from the truck's
ruptured tank and Ignited, turn
lng the vehicles into pyres. A fam
ily of five in the automobile and
the truck driver perished.
A mother and her six children
died in a fire which swept their
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Shoots Ex-Spouss,
And Lady Friend
ATHENS, Ga., Dee. 27 UPV
Miss Mirian Thurmond, shot
twice by the divorced wife of a
college professor,' was reported
improving toaay. i
The , 28-yearold woman had
been In serious condition for the
past two days. 1
Miss Thurmond and University
of Georgia journalism dean. John -E.
Drewry, were wounded Friday
night in th e Thurmond home. '
Mrs. Kathleen Drewry, the
dean's ex-wife, Is in jail. Formal
charges have not been filed pend
ing outcome of Mies Thurmond's
condition. .
Dean Drewry condition Is
good and he was up and about in
his hospital room yesterday. He
Is a widely known teacher and
author. .
Mrs. Drewry told Clarke coun
ty officers she shot her ex-husband
and Miss Thurmond in a
fit of rage. She and Drewry din
ed together the night of the shoot
ing, Mrs. Drewry said, ana naa
discussed a reconciliation.
The Drewrys were divorced 1st
July after 23 years of marriage.
Safe At Union Garage :
Resists "Crack" Effort .
Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter to
day reported a safe at Caskey
Bros. Union garage had been
damaged and a .32 caliber auto
matic stolen sometime sun day
night
- According' to the report, en
trance to. the building was made
through a -window, ine tmei or
thieves were unsuccessful in at
tempting to open the safe, but did
drill several holes In It before -giving
up. Tools and other valu
ables were not taken, Sheriff
Carter said. .
A reported second case of break
and entry, the Camp View cafe, is
being Investigated by state police.
State Police Sgt. Holly Holcomb
said his office believes this rob
bery attempt also occurred Sun
day night
Underground Temperature
Read By Radar On Moon I
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 UP)
Radar can now read the temper
ature down under the surface of
the ground on the moon. '
This was reported to the Amer
ican Association for the Advance
ment of Science today by the
Collins Radio company. '
They did it during the last
eclipse of the moon. The cold
spell on tne moon aunng tne
hour when the earth blotted out
the sunlight was so terrific that
half a foot below the surface the
moon was several degrees under
freezing.
The report said that radar wav
es penetrate under the surface
and show that the moon's face
Is probably made of dust
The radar used was a wartime
product made at the Massachu
setts institute of technology..
Post-CKsistmas ads.
Make buyers cjlad
With welcome twe-werd bowl
They refer te slice
Is quoted price,
Artel here they artl ""
Levity fact J ant
By L. T. Retzenstela