Washington D ig e st
One Diplomat Knew Better:
Scratch One Tyro Diplomat
or»'
MCE
FIRST AID to the
I
AILING HOUSE
by Rouer C Whitman
STAGE SCREEN RADIO
Q l'K S T R 'N : T b e rs a re fin g er
My INEZ GERHARD
J m a rk s on the head board of m y
t FAR the United Stales has
bed. probably caused bv t . i .pirlng
’s ü ' 1 k ken only a mild interest in the
'AKING lus first technicolor I hand« llow can I remove tlieaa
lO
coining Olympic gamer to be held
in "Hope.” Jam es Stew art plays m ark»?
th.s summer in London It lias been
a role unlike the shy, bashful young
By BAIKI1AGE
A N SW E R ’ Clean the aurfacc by
taken for granted that the U. S will
men audiences have come io expect
Ann,yjf a n ti C o m m e n t a t o r
from him. He is suave, sophisticated, 1 w ashing Willi th ic k amis of mild
mop up again as usual. Even m oie
so this time, with our athletes well- n university professor whose slight | » u p , not ju st thin, w a te ry aoa|>-
WASHINGTON.—Back in the partially-deserted capital
graying hair resem bles Slew a r ts suda. Follow w ith a rlenn, dam p
after one and before another political convention in these days F a n n e r s are being told to use fed and most other com petitors re ly
own. The Alfred Hitchcock thriller cloth and rub dry. T urpentine m ay
when Washington's tiger heat drives those who are not too DDT dust or sp ray for control of portedly underfed.
also help If tills does not w ork, try
So if we win, well, why not* The was done in beautifully subdued
driven otherwise out to the mountains and beaches, I took a short E uropean corn borer. This raises a
rubbing the m a rk s w ith a sc ratc h -
color with a technique new to pie
United
States
team
should
will
til
a
ride with a friendly official who. like most of the press and radio, question Can corn dusted or
Iras scouring pow der and a llttls
romp. It shouldn't he even close
light oil on Ilia Irisll of your finger.
has to stick out a good share of the summer in the city.
.p ra y e d with put be used tor silage
It
should
he
no
contest
That
s
ths
We passed some of the last few fine old residences and a num ber of (or beef or d airy cattle without dan-
earlv setup No credit if you win - I
Q U ESTIO N ' f o ld I vou give m s
em bissics and legations. Shutters were drawn, orange-red paint was ger
the anim als, or to people who
pretty awful if you lose
any inf- rn .lion i n til1' L orlngT
sm eared in a p attern 1 never have been able to understand on ironw ork u ie the milk*
Can I do th e w ork m yself?
At the Berlin games in 19.1«. we ’
of high picket-fence» and window bars. Some windows were boarded up.
T ests in W isconsin show ed there
wus a truce of DDT in the m ilk of had several talks w ith trainers nnd
A N SW ER : V .'b n in e r tv p a you
dairy cows fed silage m ade from coaches and star athletes from other ¡
“If it hadn't been for you." I re
ehooao, ren • m ber th a t a "
I color
As 1 walked. 1 idly speculated on canning factory pea vines which had nations Here was their verdict
m arked to my companion sitting be
W il l a llo w d irt very quickly. M ottled
what course I would take If knee-
"The United S tairs Is a nation
side me in what he alludes to as
colors lin y clean-looking m uch
breeches were insisted upon when I
at arrobáis—not a tlilrlrs. You
'the
tax p a y ers
longer i t 1" p erfectly |tosalhle for a
was presented at c o u rt Meanwhile,
r a n i win from 4i>0 m eter, and on
limousine.*
“I
hom e ow ner to lav tile, provided ha
1 observed the strolling young ladies
beyond ihl* distance. You have
m ight not have
Is handy w ith tools and has a good
no runners weih any stam ina
been in Wash who, though probably unable to
putde b ■ d, Any kind of Hie m u st
support an ambassador, were never
runners
who
ran
travel
a
mile
and
ington this sum
bo aet ill th e proper •’bed-’ no m a t
theless quite as attractive as any of
mer.
1 might
te r w h eth er It Is clay tils, a sp h alt,
longer.
the better-qualified ones al the re
| rubber or a n y th in g else.
have been loaf
“You are m arvelous a c ro b a ts -
ception.
ing at a m oun
like circus perform ers.
Y’ou can
1 had just about decided not *0
Q l 'D 'T l
h
1 • lie p atch
tain- lakeside or
sprint and pole vault and hurdle
' m ake an issue of the knee-breeches
JAMES SI'EW YKT
p la s te r th a t haa coma off In a base
elsew here . . . ”
These are all acrobatics. They make
thing—after all I had been on the
"How so?” he
no demand on stam ina or courage " tures by which an entire roll of I m ent ?
stage for a short period in my career
inquired.
It still takes an athlete to run and film, 950 feel, was shot w ithout in- '
a n s w e r - If It s o rdinary p las
and a couple of pairs of long stock
"Don't you re
trrru p tlo n . “ Hope” may well be the te r that ta used f >r liv in g ro in a, I t
Jump.
ings underneath would do for my
call.” I asked,
The answer is that we have won best p lrtu re m ade by the famous v
• . be 1 t 1
re a ll o f M
calves what nature hadn't—w hen I
"that you were
too seldom at testing distances We Hitchcock.
Inati I of ti n g to patch II T his
found myself at the club.
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a new spaperm an yourself once and,
have no runners from the mile to
.ty p e i f | la s ti r t » a ff cted b y damp-
A tall, black-haired gentlem an
corollarily speaking, m et a lot of arose and gave me a' dignified g reet
the m arathon w orth naming.
Pedro A rm cdarlz. said lo be Latin n r \ i and Is not intended fo r use in
interesting people? I was one of
Once again, w e ll probably win America'« foremost actor, baa been • bn
ing. 1 had thought it best while I
them . That m eeting killed what 1 was considering my diplom atic ca
the pole v a u lt—rated a feat of =--:o- signed by W alter W anner for one of
Q U ESTIO N : How ra n I polish
thought then was to be a brilliant
baties and not the work of an a th the m ale starring roles in ‘ Tulsa,
bad sc ra tc h e s off my g lass table
reer to accept a tem porary position
diplom atic career.”
lete by foreign nations. Il is cer at Eagle Lion. Susan Hayw ard and
with the Associated Press—a posi- j
to p ?
The story begins rig h t across the
tainly on the easier side than it is R obert Preston will co-star. A rm en
lion 1 received after some rather
AN SW ER
T h a t type of polish
street from the office 1 now occupy
to
get
ready
for
1.500
or
5.000
or
dariz. who has Just com pleted three
tall talk on th e 'p a rt of David Law
ing cannot he done a t lion »• It Is a
on E ighteenth street, in a fine old
10.000 meters.
pictures for John Ford, won the
rence and a kindly letter from Su- i
Job for a dealer In p late glass who
brick house which I saw first in the
Mexican Academy Award for his
The V. S. has never been much
perintendent Roberts of the Paris
lias the equipm ent.
year 1914. The carriage drive in
role
opposite
Dolores
Del
Rio
in
Interested
in
stam
ina—which
Is
bureau for whom 1 had worked. The
fro n t,o f it is blocked now by the
even
more
Im
portant
than
speed.
"The
Pearl
"
gentlem an who greeted me at the been dusted with DDT. The am ount
curbing, probably because the tra f
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Absent M inded People
Speed gives out quickly. Stamina
club was one of the staff which I of DDT was so m inute, however,
fic officials thought no automobile
Young m others who want to
C hicago tr a n s it rid ers leave m ore
carries you all the way through.
was to join, assigned to the state th a t it was not considered d a n g er
could safely m ake the tu rn which
than $500 BOO worth of c < ds on
departm ent. And he was the man ous.
When you sift all the angles, the , earn money m ight take a tip from
a “spanking p air” negotiated so
Mary Lansing, heard regularly as
stre e tc a rs. I,uses and elevated lines
I alluded to—the friendly official—
United
States hasn't done nearly as
On corn, an application of 30
easily three decades ago.
every year, A m erican M unicipal
"Ju lie Collins" on CBS* ‘T h e
in the early paragraphs of this pounds ut dust (containing 5 per well as our bal!.,!—J experts have
a ss"clati n rep rts. One i f the la rg
G ulldlng L ight* Mary Is a ape-
A sign on the lam p-post in front
column.
cent DDTi per a cre m ight am ount figured out the ease. W ithout our
est sum s ev er I t was one million
cUllftt on baby w alls—learned by
of the house says "no parking at
Right there, or shall we say In
to two ounces of DDT per ton of sil Negro stars, this country would have
dollars In ney-.liable b nils left on
listening to her own children.
any time." A brass plate over one
the course of an hour or two, there
age; th a t is. if all the dust stayed been something of s Joke.
“ I." train by a South A m erican
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of the windows, still barred with
In place of mopping up in London,
developed the beginning of a on the corn, which is ex trem ely un
the gracefolly-eurving ironwork
An Im pressive car is usually a banker. M si unusual Item forgot
beautiful friendship and the be likely. Even th a t m uch would result we still can be something of a joke
ten was a box of white m ice.
of another century says: “Colum
ginning of the end of any illusions
in only about a gram of DDT dally —despite the winning edge we have young actress' first purchase when
she
signs
a
good
contract
in
Holly
bus University.” The plate it re
in
food,
the
main
basis
of
condition.
concerning a diplomatic career. I
in the ration of s cow or steer.
placed used to say “Form er Home
applied for 'm em bership in the
DDT toxicity studies a t a priv ate We have every advantage this wav. wood. but Teresa W right Is different.
of Secretary of State Lansing.”
club, never went to another "at
re sea rc h farm indicate no danger to It will be interesting to see what In 1941 Samuel Goldwyn took her
w ell for “The L ittle F o x e s’’ She
home” in the fine old brick house
anim als from considerably larg e r we can do with IL
In 1914 it was some two hours
bought an inexpensivs coupe. Since
am ounts. E ven so, if any fa rm e r
on Eighteenth street.
after leaving that red brick house
then she has risen to stardom, won
that I began “putting off”—iputt.ng
From that tim e on it has been fe a rs a tra c e of DDT in m ilk from
Star» Minis Big S / ioic
an Academy Award and established
th in g, off is a great a rt and one deadlines instead of receiving lines. silage m ade from sprayed or dusted
One world sertea wca' ness is that herself as one of the screen's belter
t h a t h as reached a high point of
Although I didn't realize it at the com , he can feed the silage to
too many stars had no chance to actresses, now starring in ’'E nchant
refinem ent in W ashington. 1 always
time I really w asn't properly equip steers, heifers or dry cows.
show at the big show.
ed." So she has bought a two-door
have practiced it-> If I hadn't put
ped for a diplom atic career—my
Napoleon Lnjoie, one of the g reat car and given the seven-ycnr-old
o i t then,
I m ight have become a spats were black.
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est, never was seen in this classic. one to her father.
Twice-Day Record
d ip lo m at As it was, all 1 got was
The diplom atic world has not been
And he was som ething to see. the
deadlines the rest of my hie.
altogether neglected in the course
most graceful ballplayer that ever ( David Niven says th a t used tea
It happened this way. I had just of m eeting deadlines, but when I
lived. And one of the game's g re at leaves, placed arourt 1 the bushes,
returned from an extended per.od
entered th at allegedly rom antic
est natural hitters.
m ake roses “p re ttier than anything '
in Europe w here 1 had been going
demesne as I still do in the course
The juk « of a lem on in u gift«* of
W alter Johnson came to his first He m ay be right, b u t most of us get
through the motions of acquiring an
w ater, when taken find thing on aria-
of my job, it is by way of the back
world series when he was on his better results with good fertilizer!
ing, in all th a t m ost people nee«l to
education. In the process I acquired
door, an entrance which, I have
way over the m ystic hill.
The Niven's departure from Hollywood
mnure prom pt, norm*) elim ination.
the am bition to become a m ember discovered, often provides a much
earlier W alter Johnson would have is scheduled for Ju ly ; he goes lo
N o m o ro h o r t h lo a o liv e s th a t irrita te
of the foreign service of the state
m ore revealing view of the su r
Joined M athewson with three sh u t England to m ake “The Scarlet Pim
t h e t i tract andimpaii nutri
d e p artm e n t 1 planned to rise, by
roundings. Perhaps it isn't polite to
tio n ' Lemon in w ater lay«»«*/ for you!
outs.
pernel." He is co-starred currently
easy stages, on pure m erit, of course,
refer to the chancery entrance that
G e n e r a t io n * o f A m e ric a n » h a v e t a k e n
Bob Feller h a t never had a
in “A Kiss in the D ark" with Jane
to the position of ambassador to the
way, but it is certainly not the
lemons for health —and generation«
world serirs appearance, and F e l
/ a» W&fo.
'faL..
Wyman.
C ourt of S t Jam es. Beyond that, front door.
of doctors have recommended them .
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ler
also
is
Just
about
over
the
top.
as a cabinet officer says following
With a record-sm ashing total of
As it turned out, not many weeks
They are rich in vitam in C. simply
Feller came to Cleveland 12 years
F rank B urk's ‘T iring ’em Bark
valuable «mount« of Bi and I* They
a change in adm inistration, I had
1,118.8 pounds of butterfat, C rest
after I had given up my dream s of
ago
and
he
has
been
pouring
that
Alive" is being re released by It Kt),
alkahnize, aid digestion.
no plans.
becoming a M achiavelli or a M etter-
view Toitiila Susan, purebred Hol
fast
ball
through
for
a
long
time.
18 years a fte r its original presenta
N o t to o th o r p o r to u r , lern o n III w ater
stein dairy cow owned by Lake-
nich, I found myself a caller at six
I did have four out of five nec
The navy also took three or four
has a refi< dung tang — clears the
tion. The locales of the safari o r
field F a rm s, C larkston, Mich., has
essary qualifications which 1 knew . or eight embassies a day—I was put
m outh, w ake« you ui> I t 's not a
of his best years. The navy caught
ganized to capture jungle beasts and
established a new all-tim e IL S.
from experience on the Quai | on the diplom atic run because a war
purgative simply helps your ay a-
him
at
his
peak
and
held
him
a
reeord
battles
betw
een
them
were
b u tte rfat figure for cows being
tem r e g u la t e lis t I f Try it 10 day«.
d'O rsay and elsew here assured a i had broken out and it was quite as
long
time.
M
alaya
and
Sum
atra.
for
belligerents
and
m ilked twiee daily. “ Susan” pro
U S f C A ll f O U N I A S U N K IS T U M O N S
successful diplomatic career. The I im portant
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Also after returning to baseball.
duced close to 1,100 pounds of ta
four which 1 possessed were a I nervous neutrals to provide news
Feller has given a good p art of his
ble b utter during the year.
from th eir points of view as it war
A rth u r Godfrey has given private
top-hat. a tailcoat, striped pants
tim e to outside Interests, which flying such a boost on his radio
■ for us to collect it.
and a pair of spats.
hasn’t helped his baseball. B ut he shows th at a m em ber of a flying
The butlers in most of the em
The fifth 1 was confident 1 could .
still would be a shining spot in any club to which he belongs gave him
bassies before World War I would
Herds
and
Flocks
soon acquire easily since I had an
post-season cham pionship. Feller is a ' special aw ard—a check for $5.
as soon adm it a reporter as they
excellent letter to the father-in-law 1
( « P B io ih A ppli«
one of the all-tim e greats. He won't which enables Godfrey to pay his
would a rug-peddler or a scissors-
....he« B A N H A I 4 I J
of the secretary of state, who had |
FaB pigs have a d v an tag e s over have to bother about his spot al enrollm ent fees until 1950. Godfrey
JUST
grinder. It required considerable
\
N « A S V N Itj
D A S H I N « IA T H I R S
been a secretary of stale hirnseif
spring litters because they arc fa r Cooperstown.
appreciated
the
idea
behind
the
art
working over to bring them into
OR S P R E A D O M R
rowed under m ore favorable condi
and an im portant pillar of Wash
Rube W addell, a world series —but he m akes $200.000 every year.
line.
tions. Sows and gilts have been on natural, had his lone chance in 1905
ington society. 1 was sure that
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And
w
hat
a
change
today!
The
sum m er pasture soaking up sun when he suffered an injured shoul- i
un d er such auspices 1 could acquire
Vic Damonc, In search of peace
amount of time, money and energy shine during pregnancy. Iowa State der in a train scuffle.
th a t sine qua non—a wife rich
So the
and quiet, he claims, bought a house
enough to keep a diplom at in the expended by foreign nations in get college swine specialists say fall pigs M athewson - W addell duel never
in Brooklyn. But he Invited 200 fans
style to which he is supposed to be 1 ting inform ation to the American usually come stronger and m ore came off. T hat would have been up
to a housewarm ing, they gave other
radio,
press
and
public
is
one
of
pigs a re saved.
In the super class, the motion pic-
accustomed.
fans the address and now the I
the m ajor items on their W ashington
I recall th at afternoon very well.
I lure colossal stuff.
Damone home is ns peaceful as
1 rang the bell to that door—well, 1 budgets!
Still m any stars have made the
T urkey ra ise rs a re being advised
G rand C entral station.
it was a different door of course— |
world
scries
grade—M
athewson,
Al
now nut to put baking soda or salt
there are four there now with brass , A n o t h e r J a w b o n e
exander,
Cobb,
Ruth,
Collins,
Jack-
Odds and Ends . . . When Edgar I
Aro you going th ro u g h th n fu n c
in drinking w ater for poults, because
tio n a l 'm id d le ngn' period pocullar
handles worn shiny by am bitious I F o r S a m a o n
use of these In excessive am ounts son, Hornsby, G r o v e . Wagner, Bergen sailed fur Europe our coun
to w om en (3B to 52 y rs.)? Does tills
Colum bians—but at least the door '
Brown.
Kling.
Plank.
Coombs,
Ben-
An old fashioned dentist thinks causes a condition known as “ w ater
m ake you suffer from h o t flnnhM,
try 's most popular ventriloquist's
| der, Johnson, Wood, Fox, Fritsch.
w hich th at afternoon was to be my
fool no nervous, h lg h stru n g , tire d ?
the R ussians have H itler's jaw. The belly.”
dum my was down on the passenger
T
h e n do try Lydia E. P ln k h a rn ’s
Dizzy Dean. Cochrane, Dickey, too
portal to a brilliant career was 1 dentist. Dr. Plaschke, says he read
Bst as Axel M cCarthy . . . Reeortl
V egetable C om pound to relievo su ch
rig h t there in the same frame.
, m any more to mention.
in a G erm an dentistry m agazine
sym
ptom s. P ln k h s m 's C om pound
for the largest attendance each week
Burn the c a rc ass of every anim al
also ban w h a t D octors call a s to
It opened, I handed the silk hat | th at his form er assistant, now in
It would be nice to sec Feller and
goes to NBC’s ’’G rand Ole Opry."
m ach ic to n ic effect I
that
dies
of
anthrax.
Don’t
open
the
and ebony stick to the servant and , Russian custody, had identified a
a few more stars, who have never
carcass.
Soak it with kerosene, m ade the big show, slip under the It is broadcast from a Nashville.
LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S c o K »
in a few moments 1 was being
jaw which the R ussians w ere toy
cover it with a load of cobs or I tent and m ingle w ith the elephants. Tenn., auditorium accomm odating
w arm ly greeted by a gentlem an j ing with a s H itler’s.
5,000, which Is filled to capacity
straw , put a load of m an u re over
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wearing what Sam Blythe once j
Dr. P laschke claim s the assistant
. , . Kay Mllland and G eraldine
called the most diplom atic whiskers ' couldn't positively identify it, but them and set fire to the pile. If
Fitzgerald both live In Hollywood,
Fitzsim m ons Is Tops
In Washington, John Watson Foster , he him self feels it m ust be H itler's possible, burn a n th ra x carc asse s
right w here the anim al dies.
In the m iddlew eight boxing dl- liLt travelled 8.000 miles to London
1 saw th at my striped pants and j because the m agazine ridicules the
i vision my nom ination for the top before they m et to co-star In "So
work as old-fashioned.
tailcoat which had Just enough of
H elp T h e m C leanse th e W ood
man is Bob Fitzsimmons. Fltz was Evil My Love” . , . Jack Paar has
C
a
stra
te
pigs
any
tim
e
a
fte
r
they
a conbnental cut to make a proper i
Plaschke says he did an old-
o f H a rm fu l Body Want«
m
iddlew eight champion, light-heavy had his option renew ed by RKO
a
re
a
week
old.
A
fter
castration,
Im pression, as well as the bow- 1 fashioned job on H itler when he
for the third consecutive year. He
Your kidneys are eon«tantly M terlna
fro m -th r-w aist I had learned in ' m ade a bridge of 12 teeth In 1934. keep them on clean g ra ss pasture w eight cham pion and heavyw eight has Im portant roles In "W eep No
WRRln mal t«r from tks blood St room B « l
w here th ere are no m udholes, to r e champion. He was a b rilliant boxer.
kidneys somntlm«Mi I nk In thnlr work do
B erlin, were doing th eir work and | Plaschke also claim s to have
not a rt na N ature intended- fall to re
More" and "V ariety Tim e.”
He was also a terrific puncher.
I m ade m ental note of the less
move Impurltlea th a t, if retained, may
studied dentistry a t the U niver duce danger of lockjaw Infection.
pnlann the ayatem and upaet the whole
Fits broke seven bones in both
u n a ttrac tiv e unattached females.
sity of Philadelphia in 1908. Their
body
machinery.
Roy R ogers s ta rts his 10th y e ar in
hands punching Jeffries In their
Symptoms may ha na|<lrty backache,
So a fte r tossing off a bon mot or
m ethods have probably advanced
Caution Urged In Feeding
peraiatnnt headache, attack« of dlxr.im aa,
pictures
with
his
co-starring
role
in
second fight. He alm ost ripped
tw o, I left, feeling th at my career
since then, but H itler w as old
getting up nlghta, «welling, pulffneM
Walt D isney's "M elody T im e.” He
Salt to Poultry Flock
under the eyea—« fading of nervous
Je ff’s face away from his head.
w as virtu ally launched.
fashioned about som e things.
anxiety and lots of pep and strength.
has
appeared
In
m
ore
than
50
p
ic
Rut he couldn’t knock out the
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis
E x tra sa lt will control cannibalism
I t was still fairly early, so 1 d e
All we can do is hope the bridge
tu
res
with
his
horse,
"T
rigger.”
He
order ars sometime« burning, «canty or
Jeffries of that period. No one
cided to drop in at the National
pained him. And rem em ber that for a short tim e a fte r It Is added
too frequent urination.
sings
nnd
n
a
rra
te
s
the
exploits
of
else could. And this Includes Jack
There ahould be no doubt that prompt
that Jawbone, if it’s authentic, slew to th s ration of chickens, according
P re ss club to w hich my old school
treatm ent Is wlssr than negl«< i I «a
Johnson who whipped a half hald, J Pecos Bill, the cowboy, In the Dis
m ore m en than the one from a to Pennsylvania State college. U s
m ate, David L aw rence, had given
/Mfin'a P ills . Doan’s hare been winning
ney film.
fat.
fading
old-tim
er
who
was
In
new friends for mors than forty years.
sim ilar source th at Sam son used ual am ount Is two teaspoons per
m e a guest card. As the w eather
They have s nation-wide rep»t«tion.
S alt 1 no shape to fight anybody.
when he went a fte r the Philistines. gallon of drinking w ater.
Are recommended by grateful people ths
w as fine, I decided I m ight as well
"My
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will
be
shown
c& jn try over. A»k your neighbor I
.
.
.
should
be
fed
only
long
enough
,o
I
saw
Jeffries
training
fur
the
w a lk and give C onnecticut avenue
all
over
the
w
orld
this
sum
m
er.
It
One of the features of the Re atop cannibalizing, except the sm all Johnson fight In 1910. He was pitiful.
a chance to adm ire m y distinguished
Is a docum entary, film ed In China
publican convention was a m am am ount contained In the m ash.
He was a long way from the Jeffries
strip e s and tails, although tailcoats
with a Chinese cast, under auspices
moth scapple breakfast. The dele F attin g larg e quantities actually
I knew in 1903.
a n d top-hats, p e r se. caused very
of the P ro te stan t film com m ission.
'—>»• harm ful.
gates furnished the scrap.
little constern atio n in those days.
Slight Danger Noted
In DDT Dusted Corn
I
M'
Tests of Silage Show
Minute Trace in Milk
f/arsfi ¿oxa fives
are A /O fn ecessary
for m o st peop/e
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