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Regbter-Guard, Eugene,, Ore., Page 20 Mon., Apr. II, 1952 Denmark Seeks A Bomb Safely Defense Program Headed by General COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UB A military committee with far reaching authority has been an notated to prepare Denmark'! de fense against atomlo, biological and chemical warfare. Members of the committee are eight officers from the army, navy ' and air force and one from the medical corps. The chairman is Ma. Oen. V. Bennlke, a resistance leader known ai the "sabotage general" during the Oerman occu pation. The committee was authorized to procure information from all civil and military institutions as well as from private oltltens con cerning problems related to de fense against atomic, biological and chemical warfare, and to re quest assistance when needed, au thoritative sources said. One of the main tasks of the committee would be to supervise the training of Danish forces for defense against "ABC" attacks. Denmark is the homeland of the nuclear physicist, Prof. Niels Bohr, member of the Princeton Insti tute of Advanced Studies, who during the second World War as sisted American and British atom ic scientists in developing the atomic bomb. Bohr directs a nuclear research center In Copenhagen. Bennike confirmed that his organization would cooperate olosely with Bohr and his assistants. I I 1 AW Story of Strange Lotus Related Oatis Case Cited by AP . NEW YORK VP) The board of directors of the Associated Press ' said Monday it is confident the United States government "will explore and exploit any opportun ity to end the unjust confinement" of AP reporter William N. Oatls in a Chechoslovakian jail. . Oatis was failed a year ago this ' week April 28 on charges of espionage. He was sentenoed last . July 4 to 10 years Imprisonment. - The AP directors seid the trial ' showed he was guilty "only of en . deavortag, honestly and objective ly, to gather and report informa tion which in the western world is legitimate and essential news." - One effect of retaliatory meaa ' urea invoked bar the United States against Oieoh vade, the directors aid, has been a substantial de cline In exports from Czechoslova kia. tbsea dropped, the board said, from more than $8 million in the first quarter of 1S91 to slightly mora than S2 million in the last three months of 1901. ' 13 Germans Die In Mine Blast BERLIN UP) A coal mine ex plosion behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany has killed at least 13 miners and injured 27. An un disclosed number of miners are listed as missing. An official statement by the East German government said the blast Saturday was in a shaft of a hard coal mine in Zwickau in Southern Saxony, an area closed to Westerners, The announcement was the first of its kind to come from the Com munist government although it is known that copper and uranium mines have exploded in the past. This fact led to speculation that the latest disaster was so great it was felt it eould not be kept se cret. State security police, who nor mally investigate political matters including sabotage, have been called to seek the cause of explosion. Wild Animals Flown to U.S. immOt1-m-A Pan Ameri can Clipper left London Sunday for New Tork carrying 95 wild Jungle animals and 160 birds, An air line official said it was the largest assortment of wild life ever to fly the North Atlantic. The cargo inoludes two baby elephants, two tiger eubs, two leopards, eight bears, two tapirs, 48 monkeys, IB gibbons and a blank panther In addition to the birds. They are destined for the Seattle loo. The aerial two flew at 10,000 feet above the weather, housed in a special pressurized cargo Clip per. The total fare London to New York was over (8,600. Girl Admits Setting Fires CHARLOTTE, N.O. () A pretty, 18-year-old bobby-soxer with a desire to "get even" told ' polloe Sunday she set several fires at Charlotte churches causing damage estimated at $76,000. Polloe said blonde, blue-eyed Margie Davis, an eighth-grade Junior high school student, ad mitted her guilt when questioned about her report that neighbor hood youths were turning in false alarms. Sad-eyed and unsmiling, she told police she set the fires be cause she wanted revenge after being refused permission to play ping-pong at one of the churches YOUNG WOMEN Ago 17 to IS After Mich School Cfofnj to College Dili Fall V so fine, but if you will have to go to work, why not make a connection with one of the air lines? We train girls for such posi tions as HOSTESS, RECEP TIONIST, PASSENGER AGENT .ETC., and there will be hundreds of openings. You can train partly at home, and partly in Holly wood. Free placement, and a wonderful future assured. Write for free literature and interview. CALIFORNIA AIR COLLEGE P.O. Box 861 Eugene, Ore. (AP Wirephoto) SUPERIOR JUDGE Harry Borde (above) has been given the job of deciding whether Walter Wanger, Hollywood motion picture producer, is guilty In the shooting of his wife's agent. Wanger, seeking to avoid a jury trial with attendant sensational testimony, asked that the case be decided on the basis of testimony be fore the grand jury. Bullet Parts Pilot's Hair TOKYO (IP) A Commu nist bullet parted the hair of a downed U. S. jet pilot Monday as he scrambled into a rescue heli copter. Tar Bast Air Tones Headquar ters said the pilot spent Sunday night in enemy territory after his F-80 Shooting Star Jet was dam aged by ground fire and he was forced to bail out. Early Monday a helicopter pi loted by Capt. ,Oail W. Poulton, Twin Falls, Idaho, reached him as Communist troops opened fire. Several bullets hit the alroraft. One bullet grazed the head of the F-80 pilot, leaving a long red welt, xne Air Force withheld his name. Poulton piloted the dam aged helicopter to friendly lines with considerable difficulty. Kaisar-Frazer Cuts Prices on Models DETROIT (U.R) Prices of Kal- ser-Frazer' Henry J. automobiles were cut $100 to $188 Monday, emotive immediately, in the first motor Industry price slash since tne Korean War. Edgar J. Kaiser, president, an nounced that advertised delivered prices of Henry J. "Corsair" mod els were slashed $160 to $168 and prices of Henry J. "Vagabond" models lowered $100, This is the Case of the Bounti ful Weed, one of the strangest stories of American agriculture. Lane County seed growers are sharing in the story. It began, writes Norris Paxton of Associated Press, when dairy men on the placid slopes of the Helderberg Mountains near Al bany, New York, marvelled at the gusto with which cattle ate some unfdentifled yelllow blossoms in rocky fields. Some of the farmers noted too that these same animals put on more weight and gave more miik than usual. The puzzle continued for sev eral years, until a county farm bureau agent brought in an agron. omist from Cornell University. He collected samples, took them back to Cornell, and there Identified them as Lotus Comiculatus, popu. larly known now as Blrdsfoot Trefoil. Thus began in 1938 the saga of how a legume forage crop, new to America, but not to Europe, was put to work in the New World. Development of new or better crops usually requires a lot of patience and a lot of time. The best seed must be screened care- full', planted and replanted. This is the history of the Helderberg weed. Its cultivation has spread slowly but steadily, until it now is grown in at least 14 states. AGRONOMISTS at Cornell, who have experimented with the le gume ever since, praise it enthusi astically. Prof. H. A. MacDonald considers "the recognition and use of this legume one of the most im portant agricultural developments in recent years." The plant has long tap roots, reaching far underground, hence is unusually drought resistant, its root nodules collect nitrogen from the air and store the element so it becomes available for use by other plant life. Blrdsfoot Trefoil is grown by farmers in Lane County and other parts of Oregon as a seed crop. It's not used for forage out here, explains County Agent O. S. Fletcher, because of its slow re covery once It is grazed down. Apparently, he said, Eastern growers don't have the same troubles as far as grazing goes because of their enthusiastic mar ket for seed. Experimenters at Oregon State College are trying to go Cornell University one better by develop ing a superior lotus strain which carries all the good qualities of Birdsfoot Trefoil plus quick re growth besides. THEY ARE staking their claims on the new Granger Lotus which is still being planted only experi mentally. Last year Fletcher suc ceeded In getting four pounds of seed from the Experiment Station for two Lane farmers Bart Flan agan ana E. H. Vogt. Vogt didn't plant his, though, because of the extremely, dry sea son and will have it to plant this year. Flanagan succeeded In get ting a stand on of an acre de spite the dry weather because he had irrigation available. There is no seed at all avail able from the Experiment Station this year because of poor yields due, to last year's dry season. Re quests are coming in "for even a couple of tablespoonsful" of seed from farmers who are anxious to try the new variety. By another year, providing a seed crop is harvested this fall, limited amounts of the new Granger Lotus seed will be available. Then local farm ers will be able to test Its re markable claims. JUST HOW did the original Lotus Comiculatus immigrate to the United States? No one knows with certainty, but interesting speculation con cerns a few German families who reached New York City in 1710. They contracted a plague while on the Atlantic, and the city fathers shooed them immediately 100 miles up the Hudson River. They earned food and shelter by making tar from the pine forests but yearned for the good earth. A year or two later they were per mitted to cross the Catskill Moun tains and settle in the fertile Sho harie Valley. They farmed suc cessfully, multiplied, fought In dians, and many moved on West ward. Legend has it that these Pala tine Germans brought bags of seed from Europe. It would have been natural for them to Include Tre foil, which has been known in Eu rope and .Asia since the days of ancient Greece. If they planted Trefoil for hay and pasture, they gradually lost Interest In It. LATER NEW YORK agricultur ists knew nothing about the crop. Other Helderbergers have an other theory. They recall that In the early 1920's seed grain was imported from Europe. The farm ers who planted it knew nothing of Trefoil. But, since Trefoil grows in both a wild and domesticated state in Europe seed could have arrived mixed with other grain. Trefoil has become almost a re ligion to men like Herbert Miller, C. W. Goodfellow and Leland Cooke. In 1935 Goodfellow, now a graying but active fellow, rallied his wife and children and hand picked six pounds of tiny seeds. They came from pods resembling a bird's foot, which explains the name. Most of the first Goodfel low seed went to Cornell where it was planted experimentally. THE HELDERBERG farmers organized a seed cooperative in 1941 to produce and market cer tified seed. It has been successful. The seed is sifted, blown through the air, re-sifted again and again to eliminate Impurities. Then it is bagged and marketed all over the country. As Trefoil has won favor, other cooperatives and private growers have entered the seed field. We help them," explains Harry Garry, another member of the coopera ting. "Trefoil is such a wonder ful legume we want everyone to grow it." . r ARENA BALLROOM APRIL 22 General Admission $1.20 Keierved Sestii l.U - S.M - 4.M Discover The ow.., W. Proach to !. I available 1 Principle' SM ESS Mkf J available ti 2 y '-verybofl a i" W ADVERTISEMENT Help Kidneys Por quick comforting help for Backache, Rheumatic Paltu, Getting up Nights, strong cloudy urine, irritating passages, Leg Pains, circles under eves, and swollen ankles, due to Kidney and Bladder troubles without or ganic or system lo cause, try OY8TEX. 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