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
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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." .
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