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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. SsssSSS'' THisiSd.TsHE pip,mjob J JiNP whoin W 5ojE orA w Brety : V fl3 - I stopping. "I tjjk , THE SAHIB LEFT I SUPPOSED TO Be fc L flLiMg! 3W 2 T I IHIS KNOW I n AESiwA5viJsv vouKtjow,MYiTe4eN wT10 S 1 I HlV!!-!! SsfefetT ISMS?! , That So! . ; J 1 JMV I ' rIT MUST BE SOMETHINS EWE... SHE'S 1 W S05H! ' ''''' Tree liis Not Carried Upward By EUGENE BURNS "YOUR COLUMN giving great pleasure. Asking, please, how can duck keep from freezing feet in cold ice-water?" writes T.I., via the Tokyo (Japan) Asahi. H.R.T via Ihe Paterson (N.J.) News de mands: "Got an argument on. I claim a tree's limbs get higher off the ground as the tree grows . . ." F.P.S.-M., a reader of this column in the Newcastle Upon Tyne (England) Chronicle asks: "Actually, can a fish survive af ter being frozen solid? I, frankly, do not believe it." Cold Feet: Apparenlly bird's feet can come close to the outside temperature of their surroundings without affecting their body tem perature, which, as you may know, is about five degrees high er than man's. Observing northern waterbirds paddling about in icy water, or puffins and penguins standing barefooted on ice, it seems quite certain that their feet must be impervious to cold. Likewise, heat docs not seem lo affect birds' feet. I've seen pigcous strutting unconcernedly on near-melting asphalt and a Canada jay was seen standing on an almost red hot stove and remaining there for eight seconds, showing a little nervousness but no discomfort. It may be possible, T.I., that during severe weather extremes, almost all blood circulation is withdrawn from the pedal ex tremities. At any rate, feet consist mostly of bones and tendons cov ered with scales, all of which con- lain little moisture to freeze or be affected by heat. It has been calculated that if a bird in subzero weather had to keep its exposed feet at body tem perature, it couldn't cat enough food to match the loss of heat. Tree Limbs: Few myths hang on tighter than the one that trees grow in height from the roots up, by lengthening the trunk and, in consequence, Ihe lower limbs of a tree gradually are carried upward. Sorry, H.R.T., but there is not and never can be any up ward growth in the trunk of a tree other than that which occurs from the tip-top with the annual extension of the terminal buds. After one growing season, wood fiber does not grow in length. It becomes inert, mostly dead. In fact, 99 per cent of any tree is "dead," although this dead part acts as the tree's framework and plumbing system. The living, growing cells of a tree less than 1 per cent, actually are at the tips of roots, in a thin sheath just below the bark, at the tips of twigs, and in leaves where they work to make food for the tree. That sheath of cells below the bark, however, does cause the tree to grow in circumference. you might say, grow bigger 'round. This forces the bark to stretch. That is why saplings are usually smooth. . But as the tree grows older, this bark usually bursts apart and helps one iden tify a tree in winter when leaves are shed. The red cedar acquires a shredded appearance. The elm, shallow ridges. The ash forms diamond-shaped crisscrosses. The shagbark hickory's outer cover ing breaks off like loose shingles. The sycamore's has so little give that the outer layer promptly breaks off and exposes white patches of the inner and more elastic bark. The beech's gener ally manages to keep from crack ing and develops a beautiful silver-gray surface. The reason limbs may appear to grow higher, H.R.T., is that trees often shed lower limbs and in time the bark . covers the wounds. But if a limb is 20 feet high, it grew that high to begin with or the ground has been washed away! As a timber cruiser, I have chopped base-line marks on trees and returned ten years later to find the marks at exactly the same level. Fence wires stapled to growing trees also are not car ried upward. Had enough, H.R.T.? I could go on. Fish Freeze: Yes, fish are cold blooded and can survive being frozen. Fish which live in north ern waters are sometimes ice locked for months. And it is pos sible to chop frozen fish from the ice frozen just as hard as stone. With the return of spring, after a whole wintertime of froz en immobility, these fish "come alive." But why not try an ex periment yourself? Take some cold-water fish. To make it easy, a common little minnow. Keep it in cold water for a day and then put it in the freezing chamber of your refrigerator overnight and see what happens. (Better use a container that won't crack.) If you like keep him there for a week, or a month. If he doesn't thaw out and swim I'll eat him and I'm not fond of stale min nows. (Copyright, 1954, by Eugene Burns). LOS ANGELES 'WELCOMING COMMITTEE' Police Fight 'Hoods' With Publicity By RALPH JIOVIS LOS ANGELES Wl A welcom Ing committee was on hand the day Anlhony J. Accardo stepped off a plane at International Air port. But Ihe Chicago hoodlum de scribed by the director of the Chi cago Crime Commission as the head of the old Al Capone syndi categot no heartly handclasp or keys to the city from this com mittee. Instead he received a curt or der: "Get out of town." And Accardo did. That's a good example of the unfriendly gesture being extend ed to all bigshot hoods and "mus cle men" who come here planning to make Los Angeles a base for Western operations. Accardo's welcomers were three members of the 34-man In telligence Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, an unusual organizalion set up four years ago which has received bouquets of praise from city com missioners, criminologists and the 0. S. Senate. UNIQUE' "Our division is unique," ex plained Capt. James E. Hamilton, its chief, "because our main re sponsibility is to see who is try ing to get big in the field of crime and to find a means to slop him legally. "Our job is lo gather informa tion about every big hood in the nation and keep him out of Los Angeles." How docs the division get its information? It has ils own files, cross-refer enced with those of the full files of Ihe police department. As a whole, it subscribes lo 18 major city daily newspapers and clips every major crime story in those papers. HIT PARADE' A black notebook-Hiihheri "I ho hit Darade" contain: nirfnrnc of the gangsters, their addresses, aliases, criminal records, auto mobile descriptions, jobs and avocations. Even the names and addresses of their pals. The division has informants in every large city. They give tips about the trips of hoods to Cali fornia. 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I "We are seeing Ihe prototypes j of what may well be a new, but yet ancient, architecture," he concluded. I can't stand publicity. He works UKe a kid. When he knows the police are wise to him, he'll back off and start somewhere else. He seldom operates in a place where the publicity and heat are on." The division operates on a bud get of $112,000 per year. Its of ficers fall in no single category. Most of them have 6 to 10 years of work in narcotics or other units. Some, however, are young er, with less specialized back ground but plenty of drive, the chief reports. . In contacts with gangsters and racketeers, the officers follow a strict non-fraternization rule. 'We don't accept so much as a cup of coffee from a hood. "We don't use clubs over their heads. That's out. And we don't make a pinch unless we have a case. These hoods fight time. We face an appeal with every one of the top racketeers." " Putting on the heat takes va rious courses. 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Shortest, fasteit to th i6Sfr 1 TR1 ILWAYS Mrs. M. K. Downing IHM Pearl 4-4253 Carol's Widow Denies Ex-King Left Fortune LISBON UP The widow of ex King Carol of Romania, Ihe for mer Magda Lupescu, has denied reports Carol left a fortune when he died here suddenly more than a year ago. "What has ben said in this re spect is pure legend," she added in an interview with the Lisbon newspaper, Diario do Nolicias. With the title Princess Helena, Carol's widow has continued to live quietly at Ihe nearby Esloril chateau, Mar o Sol, since the former monarch's death. "The king carried hardly any thing from Romania," she said, "All he had is there. His life in exile was always modest and hon orable." A three-way legal battle is un der way in Lisbon courts for Carol's estate. Besides his widow, the contestants are Carol's son by his second marriage, ex-King Mi chael, and Mirca Lambrinc of Paris. 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