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FOOT MTOrORD (OHEGOIf) GUILTY OF SELLING TAX INFLUENCE James P. rfamegan (right), whose activities as St Louis tax collector touch off the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Reconstruction Finance Corp., investigations, leaves Federal Court in St. Louis after he was con victed on two counts of misconduct in office. He was acquitted on a third charge of misconduct and two counts of bribery. Judge Rubey M. Hulen set March 24 as the date of sentencing. Each count of misconduct carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison and $10,000 fine. A Nichols' Worth of . Comment On BY HARMAN Unite Press vashington U.K As my old friend,. Dr. Henry Canby, looks ? t. -.retina fi erica has learped I V HTT! how to breathe in tne past two decades. Dr. Canby, who is , con nected with the dental di vision . of the district health service, re ferred to breathing as Harmon Nichols practiced b y aut.v., t-ai ncularly runners and jumpers. -' "A runner or a jumper," Hank told me at lunch, "has to know how to breathe. When I was competing, it wasn't so import tant. Track records were pretty fancv then but they are fancier now." ". When I knew Henry Canby at the University of Iowa he was a dental student. He was serious about his studies, but he also was serious about his track ability. Broke World Record Henry was a pole vaulter. In 1930 he and a fine vaulter named I t . X McDormott from Illinois traded week-ends breaking the indoor world's record. When the records finally were inked into the books that year, Henry had it. From a dirt and cinder runway 13 feet, 7 and one-half inches. "If I had been jumping off a board runway, with a better grip on my cleats, I could have cleared 14 feet," he said. Today at least four jumpers have cleared 15 feet. They do it, according to Henry, because they know how to breathe on the take-off. and because they use a different kind of pole. Pole Didn't Straighten "We used to use a bamboo pole that didn't straighten out when you needed the final kick," he said. "Today, a metal pole is used. It comes up perpendicular when you are about to cross the bar. It has more strength, which - is important." Henry says that when a kid wants to become a pole vaulter he ought to make up his mind early. Henry did just that on his dad's farm near Olds, la. He started at the age of five, pitch- GET NEW ENERGY NEW JOY IN LIFE with the , new wonder capsule BEXEL SPECIAL FORMULA There it no need to to be tifeel. nervous, cranky Of conttipoioo m ovo w dietary dficinci which lh daily intake of h ! than mimatufll torn hi ihcmsoiVw do oot grooa okrorf deficiency and may novo olMr be due to faactionol Contain vitamins sad mtnoraU known to be essential in horn an nutri tion. AIM Vltar min Bia o Eeononltafe only day. Easy to tote ...aaiety polled TOO FEEL BETTER after Kot Tory ft rat ttleORTOUB MONET BACK! PENNY WISE DRUG (Next Doer to Hubbard's) WALGREEN AGENCY MAIL TRIBOTS --; 5:f This and That W. NICHOLS Feature Write forking his way over the hedges He doesn't recommend that method because a pitchfork is dangerous. A kid can get hurt. But that is the way he learned it. In high school he hit 11 feet. 9'2 inches, which was good in those days and could win a lot of dual meets today, too. Have To Have It "You have to love this pole vaulting business to keep at it," the dentist said. "Most of the moderns who are setting the rec ords do better after they leave school when they get to be 25 to 27. That is their peak. They have perfected what we never did the delayed pull-up, mean ing riding up the pole, instead of letting the pole pull you up. But getting back to this breath ing business. In pole vaulting, according fo Canby, you fill your lungs before you sprint to the take-off. And maybe you gulp in a little ozone before you kick yourself over the bar. Running Different In running it's a little differ ent. Thirty years ago a hundred yard dash man used to puff and steam to make it in 10 seconds. Today, a man takes on a load of air and gasps a couple of times and winds up a few tenths of a second faster. Will there ever be a four-min ute mile? "Before you have a four-min ute mile, you'll see a 16-foot pole vault." Acl by Congress Allows Adoption Washington 0J.R) It re quired an act of Congress for Tina, a five-month-old Norwe gian girl, to join her foster fam ily here. , She is the new addition to the family of Rep. Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. (D., Tex.), who started adop tion proceedings in Norway last summer while on a vacation trip. When the congressman returned he .found that the Norwegian quota had been exceeded for the year. A senator introduced a bill to waive quota restrictions. The bill went through the House and Senate in only two days and was promptly signed by President Truman. Tina is the Bentsens third child, joining sons Lloyd, seven, and Lan, four, whose wish for a baby sister led to the adoption. $400 Million Tax Bite Predicted for Oregon Portland iu.fi it will be no blarney and all bite for Oregon tax payers come Monday, March 17. Midnight Monday is the dead line for filing 1951 income tax returns without penalty and so far as can be ascertained the St. Patrick's day blarney not withstanding Uncle Sam's an nual bite will add up to an esti mated $400,000,000 in income, excess profit and withholding taxes in Oregon. Tax Collector Hugh Earle of the Oregon district made the' es timate today on the basis of last year's annual tax bite, when the three categories produced $382, 318,308 for the U. S. treasury. 1 t t HSMIUKKCI botol roorat I IOW COST IUXUIT i lEomcorODO! ft CIAIO P SMITH. MClOWNf 1 1 (SittiratfMMSt S TUX 5-1444 P Mewdar. Merck 17. ItSt Increase Seen In Draft Calls - Washington (UJ9 Defense Secretary Robert R. Lovett has reported that the armed services will need a "substantial" number of men this year, indicating a sharp set-up in draft calls this summer. Lovett's semi-annual report to President Truman covering the period through last December 31 made no direct comment on the possibility of increasing the size of draft calls. , But the secretary said that "military manpower require ments will remain substantial during 1952," and he promised to continue efforts "for proced ures providing greater equality of sacrifice and limiting the re call of reservists to the absolute minimum." Deadly, Tasteless Poison Trapped by Science Effort London U.R) The "poison er's best friend," a . deadly, tasteless, odorless, liquid hither to almost impossible to detect in the human body, has been trap ped by science in a brilliant piece of international research extending from native Africa to Oxford. No one will ever know how many "heart attacks" or how many fatal cases of "lockjaw' were really murder through its use. From now on poisoners no longer can administer the fluid with imounity. Science has caught up with them. The story of fluoroacetic acid the active component of the gifblaar plant of Africa was told by Prof. R. A. Peters of the biochemistry department of Ox ford, where the clue to paralysis and death was found to be an innocent chemical, citric acid. No one had suspected prev ioussly that citric acid, which is produced by the body Itself in burning sugar, could be linked to murder. Used By Witch Doctors Peters said Sir Henry .Dale, who investigated the plant 40 years ago, told him it was wide ly believed witch doctors in West Africa used it as a secret poison and that it was respon sible for a fatal paralytic dis ease among natives raging at that time. The difficulty in' detecting the poison has been due to in complete knowledge of the pro cess In the body by wrucn energy is drawn from sugar. Peters and his team were doing a biochemical study of flutoa cetic acid when they discovered it prevents the body from break ing down the citric acid created when sugar is burned into simpler compounds. Retention of the waste citric acid they found finally acted as a violent poison on heart and nervous system. Can Be Traced The importance of this dis covery to criminal investigation was noted immediately and Pet ers and his chemists, who came from Belgium, Italy, Britain, the United States and Australia, set about finding a method of determining when the poison had been administered, That cannot be done before death but it may be some com- Relatives Involved In Three-Car Crash Robbins, Md. U.R It was all in the family when three cars were involved in an accident in front of the home of Elihu Ab bott on Maryland's eastern shore. A northbound car driven by William P. Abbott of Andrews collided with a car driven by Russell Abbott of Lakesville. The impact drove the second Abbott's car into a parked auto owned by Thurman G. Abbott of Bishop's Head. The owners of all three cars and Elihu Abbott are all distant relatives. No charges were filed. Tunis, Tunisia (U.R) A homemade bomb exploded early Saturday in the garden of the home of Tunisian Premier Mo hammed Chenik. There were no casualties. Chenik is a strong supporter of the Tunisian Na tionalist cause. Trlbvao Want Ado Medford ! Milled Feeds Field Seeds Fertilizers n Around Hollywood Hollywood U.R) John Barrymore Jr. said today he wishes he coud imitate his fa- Te3 mer s pnva ie me oecause he thinks off screen. exist ence these days is dulL The profile Jr. said today he has no yen to duplicate his pater's acting style or mar- Aline Momby tini capacity. But Junior wouldn't mind re peating that life of the movie gods that kept Hollywood jump ing 'in the gay '20s. "Boy. Td imitate my father's private life," he enthused. "He had two yachts and between movies he'd go out and catch sharks. "I'd have a yacht in the Car ibbean with," he took a deep fort to the victim to know his slayer probably will be punish ed. Highly technical, in itvolves detection of the amount of citric acid in the kidney (which has to be ground up for the purpose). An abnormal amount indicates poison. . "We have a new discovery which should be of medico-legal importance," Dr. Peters an nounced. "I cannot think of any other instance of a research in which investigation into the bio chemistry of a poison has pro vided a possible means of prov ing its administration." Prisoners To Receive igious Teachings Columbus, O. (U.B Protest ant religious educators are plan ning to extend religious teach ing in the country's prisons. The program will be pushed, said Dr. Richard E. Lentz. execu tive director of adult work for the division of Christian educa tion of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A because of the success of a three year experiment in the Calif ornia prisons. Dr. Lentz said the A's and B's in religion on the report cards of California prisoners improv ed their morale considerably. He said 2,992 students completed 79 classes in the prisons at San Quentin, San Pedro, and Chino. Ghost Painting Big Washington Business Washington U.R A new ghost has been found on the Washington scene the ghost painter. Ghost painting is big business, at least for the few here who paint minus only their signa tures. It started as a joke, but when their friends and other customers returned with more and bigger requests, these part-time ghosts found a good way to pick up ex tra money and also to experiment with new ideas. Included in "the staff' besides the Number One Ghost, a promi nent Washingtonian are five other artists: two painters in New York, two here and one sculptor." Ghost painting has developed to a point where those who buy the ghosts' products, can t stop. Friends who admire their latest "masterpiece" want to know what they are "working on now." That involves another pic ture. DEFENSE TAX FREE .Chicago (U.PJ Bomb shelter costs can be deducted from tax es as current business expenses. according xo tne commerce Clearing House. The clearing house said the Bureau of Inter nal Revenue must be convinced however, that the shelter would be worthless for any other pur- pose. CENTRAL POINT PHARMACY Prompt Prescription Service We Give S&H GREEN STAMPS DOUBLE ON PRESCRIPTIONS Now Open SUNDAYS 1 1 a.m. to 6 p.m. PHONI CENTRAL POINT 12 V4 I i y ALTNI MOOT Ifaftadj Press Cimaiwlii breath, "40 women aboard. Td build a big house and live in the lap of luxury. '1 don't drink, though," he added. "But one of these days," he said, "I'm going to take a drink if I want to. I think that's right, don't you? Town How Different . "Anyway. Hollywood Just isn't the town it used to be. It never will be again, unless dras tic steps are taken. What we need is another Jolson. another Barrymore." He thinks the' only thespians left in movleland who "are real stars, legends like my dad," are James Stewart, James Cag ney, Humphrey Bogart, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore, Gloria Swanson, Katberine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Charlie Chap lin. "By great stars." he explained, "I mean the people who still throw me when I see them. They have the atmosphere of the past They've been built into legends." Kicked Heels Once Once young Barrymore did kick up his heels, in Quebec, Canada, where he was on a per sonal appearance tour. "We tried the old gag." he grinned. "I walked across the street and a friend, driving a car, pretended to hit me. I had a blood capsule in my mouth and it broke and this technicolor blood trickled down my face. Corinne Calvert rushed over and hit the other guy on the face. "Oh. the crowds that gath ered! They thought it was an accident Then they saw it was a gag and they thought we were wonderful. "I also drove down the street steering from below like there was no driver. Then I did that dumb-waiter gag. I bought $40 worth 'of dishes, put on a white coat and dropped all of them in a restaurant Oh, everybody in Quebec loved us! ' "If we'd tried that in Holly wood we'd have been thrown in Jail in two minutes." Eight presidents (Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, J. Q. Adams, Jackson and W. H. Harrison) were bom British subjects. WHAT ARE TODAY 'S FACTS ABOUT NEW CAR ENGINES AND POWER STEERING? I AST tia Chrysler introduced Ha J new FirePower V-8 engine, and America's first passenger car full-time power steering. Both new ideas "took hold" in a big way. Today, others are announcing "new engines" and "power steering" ... but : with somehow differences worth keep ing in mind if you're baying a new car. First: about "new engines." The fact is, a really new engine design hap pens only once in a great while. It did happen in the FirePower V-8. Its 180 h.p. was only incidental to its basic " new design. Its key idea is a hemispheri cal combustion chamber, which makes floft-pvsnnim gasoline develop usable power than other designs can get from premium fuel. HAMLIN r v Y III T, . SHOCKS BRITISH - Sharon Koehnke, 17. of Chicago, shocked the British sports world when sre appeared (above) for a practice session for the English Table Tennis Open at London. Sharon said she would dress more con servatively for the tourney and save the abbreviated outfit for ex hibition in the U. S. Taking Deer Census Said Difficult Job Cleveland, O. (U.R) Taking a census of deer is a much tough er Job than counting humans and it's done more frequently, too. While the U. S. Census bureau counts the nation's noses each 10 years, the Ohio wildlife divi sion surveys the state's deer pop ulation each year, by air. The state wants to know whether herds are moving, stay ing in one place, multiplying, dying or being killed. Twelve northeastern Ohio counties have been selected for the 1952 census. The survey will be made from airplanes flying at about 300 feet Oto Man Tnoune Want AOm Only Chrysler engineering has so far mastered this design. Several cars do have some power increase, in terms of previous designs. The important fact is that. FirePower is not a "warmed over" engine, but brand new in per-, formance, construction, and efficiency. In power steering, too, there are basic differences. Chrysler uses hy draulic power, always in effect, to do two things. First, it does 45 the steer ing work as you turn the wheel Second, we've cut the amount of wheel turn needed by over 13. Parking or cruising, you get more and easier control than ever before. In sand, snow, or ruts, the hydraulic power is always there to keep the front wheels from "steering back" at you. MOTOR CO. Life for Austrians Progressively Grim Vienna (U.PJ Life for Aus trians vwas progressively grim mer and more expensive during 1951. Once, the lowest in' Europe, prices in Austria Jumped by 39.1 per cent during the year, more than four times the average rise through the world. Stringent measures were taken to deal with increasing food shortages. Two weekly meatless days were ordered last autumn. The sale of pork and veal, basis of wiener-schnitzel, the country's national dish, was limited to Saturdays. This winter, rationing of but ter, which has been unobtainable except at black market prices, was ordered. Each person was limited to a weekly ration of 4.5 grams, or less than one-fifth of an ounce. Most painful of all to the cof fee and pastry-loving Austrian was the ban put on the manufac ture and sale of whipped cream, Vienna's famous "schlag" which once topped every steaming cup and filled most rolls. t Soaring food prices have be come the gravest danger to the national economy. In a country which does not produce enough to feed itself and had an unfa forable balance of trade, the ave rage Austrian spends more than 60 per cent of his income on food. When You SEE Rogue TRAVEL SERVICE A FREE SERVICE We Reserve and Sell o Airline and Steamship Tickets LOBBY HOTEL JACKSON 11 FULL-TIME POWER STEERING O 121 N. Barrier!- St. Railroad Engineer School in Cellar f Medford, Mass. (UJJ A school for railroad engineers, possibly the only one of its kind in the world, holds forth in the cellar of a Medford home. ; The schoolmaster is 72-yar old Charles H. Evans, who learned his profession during 40 years with the Boston & Maine before retiring in 1945. He fig ures that since 1915, when he be gan teaching, he has helped about 500 engineers pass their state and federal examinations. His one-room basement class room is equipped with a library of 300 books and pamphlets, complete line of railroad equip ment supplied by manufacturers, and two blackboards. Daily commutation tickets for dogs are sold on German rail roads for less than half the third class fare to accommodate watch men and others who need their dogs in their work. ANOTHER CLUC1 SUM is easy to digest PHONE 2-6779 FftfPOWEX V-8 ENGINI You get the same amount and feel of control all the time . . . full-time ease and full-time safety. Actually, the differences, both in engine performance and in steering safety and ease are impossible to put in words . . . but just as impossible not to feel the moment you get into a Chrysler and drive it! Why not see your Chrysler dealer and do that, soon? CHRYSLER THE FEVEST CAR AMERICA HAS YET PRODUCED
