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Berlin Orchestra Boycott Urged New York (U.P.) The Jewish Labor Committee and the New York City CIO Council today denounced the appearance of the Berlin Philharmonic Orches tra in this country and urged a boycott of its performances. The orchestra arrived here last week for a three-week tour of the United States and Canada. Both the conductor, Herbert Von Karajan, and the manager, Gerhart Von Westerman, have admitted, being former Nazi party members. But they said they joined to be allowed to con tinue their musical work. The two labor groups asked the West German government to show its "announced fidelity to democracy by immediately re calling Von Karajan and other members of the Berlin Philhar monic Orchestra who have been affiliated with the Nazis." The organizations called on "those whose consciences revolt against attendance at a concert under the baton of such a man should exercise their principles by remaining away." On The Side By E. V. DURLING (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) Let once aeain those aching arms be placed The tender jailers of your waist, Let me leel tiiat warm breath here and there To spread a. rapture in my very hair. . , O the sweetness of the pain: Give me those lips again! Keats f - MOVING UP FROM protective trench, 2nd Lt. William Ambroner, Hammond, Ind., and Pvt. Rob ert Towry (right). Paradise, Cal., members of Army radiological safety team, check radiation following atomic blast at Yucca Flat, Nev. Troops advance after tests are made. (International) The word "love", in a film title is bad for the box office. Such is the claim of theater owners. Come to think of it, Greta Garbo and John Gilbert were once co-starred in a film entitled "Love." It was not a box office sensation. The all time box office champion among films is "The Birth of a Nation." Sec ond is "Gone With The Wind." If you can think of a box office smash with the word "love" in the title, you have a better mem mory than I have. Incidentally, no film with the word "love" in the title has ever won the mo tion picture Acedemy award. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Has there ever been a native of Tex as who has been outstanding as a composer of popular music? A. Gene Austin, who wrote and popularized many songs, was born in Gainesville, Tex. Scott Joplin, composer of "The Maple Leaf Rag," was a native of Tex arkana, Tex.- Gene Austry. com poser of "That S.lver Haired Daddy of Mine," was born in Ti oga, Tex. Sidelights An extremely effective way for a woman to decrease her waist line and do away with spreading hips is to take up bowling. That sport can really streamline a plump feminine fig ure . . . There are over 50,000, 000 mothers in this country, so Mother's day is second only to Christmas in gift buying. Amono Tha Married What is the preferred type of husband material? Investigation indicates while most women have a "dream man" resemb ling Gregory Peck or Gilbert Roland, they do not care ior that type as a husband. Prefer red is a kindly, considerate man between 38 and 43, who is fi nancially well fixed. Appear ance and talent as a lover is of secondary importance. In mar riage most women want peace, appreciation, absence of worry in the present, and future fi nancial security. Only one wo man in 2,000 marries her "dream man." Not that many couldn't but they don't consider it a smart idea. Asides An addition to the field of "how to" literature that many people might find interesting is the book by Norman Ford titled "How To Get A Job That Takes You Traveling." . . . The most important players on a baseball club are, in the order named, catcher, pitcher, shortstop and second baseman. Horses and Women Am asked what were the mea surements of Lillian Russell? All I know is that in her heyday as a beauty she weighed 160. At that time she featured the so called "hour glass figure." No mean feat for a 160 pound wo man. According to the fashion experts, to comfortably feature the "hour glass figure," a wo man should have the following measurements: weight, 112 to 118; bust, 36; waist 21, and hips, 34. Success A jurprising number of mil lionaires went broke several times before they hit the jack pot. As for example, William Wrigtey Jr., who went broke four times before he achieved his financial success as a chewing gum manufacturer. One time he went broke trying to sell umbrellas. Your Health and Its Care By OR. WILLIAM BRADY, M.D. Readers should address inquiries to: William Brady, 263 El Camino, Beverly Hills, Calif. POISON LEFT AROUND THE HOUSE Per 100,000 times as many children under five vears of age died of poison ing in the Uni- Or. Brady LA MONROE GETS VOTES Tokyo U.R) Several Japan ese voters in Sunday's national election apparently wanted to throw curves at the government. They wrote in the name of Mari lyn Monroe on ballots for the House of Representatives. One-third of poisonings of five years of age in the United biates are due to drugs. The commonest drugs that poison children are salicylates, mostly aspirin. Aspirin, I said, stepid, and aspirin is aspirin, no matter who makes it or how attractive it may be to children. We seem to be a nation of aspirin eaters, and there are fpw households in which a suddIv of this drug in one form or an other cannot be found, com mented the journal of the Amer ican Medical Association editor ially. . One form of aspirin favored guuuoie customers is a powder that is virtually taste less and soluble in water or fruit juice. Another is so-called "baby d&pirm laoiets," pmk and sweet to the child these are "candy." When Americans find straight aspirin no longer sufficiently benumbs sensation of ache, pain or discomfort they may still put off consulting a physician and try one or another of the vari ous headache, neuralgia, neu ritis, artnritis nostrums com posed of aspirin and acetanilid or phenacetin. These coaltar anilin derivatives have caused many deaths, but the cause of death in most instances is care fully concealed. Another drug which has killed many children who found it about the house and swallowed the pills or tablets as "candy" is strychnine. Pink or red sugar coated tablets or chocolate coated pills of straight strych nine sulfate or that crude nine teenth century combination, aloin, belladonna and strych nine. In some such instances the poison pills were prescribed or dispensed by physicians, in ethers the pills were purchased by some member of the family who felt competent to doctor himself. It makes no difference to the child who finds a few of the pills which have been left perhaps long after they were placed in the cupboard or on the shelf. Acetanilid poisoning is char acterized by fall in body tem perature, collapse, rapid feeble pulse, cold clammy skin, drowsi ness, ringing in the ears, widen ing or dilation of the pupils. (Cyanosis, or dusky bluish ap pearance of skin and lips, occurs in chronic acetanilide poison ing, from habitual use of the drug.) Strychnine poisoning is char acterized by jerking or twitch ing of muscles of neck, body and limbs and within half an hour, more or less, severe convulsions, alJ out of a clear sky. Such con vulsions might conceivably spell tetanus (lockjaw), but even te tanus doesn't convulse a child who was perfectly well and happy an hour ago. If there is a young child in your family, for heaven's sake make sure none of these or other poisons are left about the house where the child can pos sibly find them. QUESTIONS ASD ANSWERS Allergic My Eye Want to take vitamin B complex in stead of digitalis but am apparenUy allergic to B complex . . . (G. H. C.) I believe l am allergic to iodine be cause . . . (O. w. .-mswer I doubt that any one is allergic to vitamin B complex or to iodine. However, if you believe you are. I know of no way to solve the problem. Eye Color io doubt it is true, as you say, that population four 1 a11 babies are blue-eyed at birth and Kciuicijiciii Hig1Jle"iaiiun 01 me irises appears after four to six weeks. But my son's eyes appeared definitely dark brown an hour after birth and are the same color at his present age, four years. The hospital attendants thought this ! was unusual. I think you should have been less positive, per haps saying instead that MOST babies appear blue-eyed at first. (B. N. G.) Answer Posey's HYGIENE OF THE EYE says: "All eyes are blue at birth, the commencement of perma nent coloration taking place about the sixth week." On the other hand the doctor who wrote the article on the eye in the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITAN NIC A says: "The pigment in the sub stance of the iris is . . . aften depos ited after birth, so that, in newly born European children, the colour" (God Save the King) "of the eyes is often slate-blue . . . while brownish pigment is deposited later ..." (Protected 1955 by John F. Dille Co.) ted States in the year 1949 19 5 0 as in Great Britain. When it comes to fooling around with poison we Americans don't value children's lives so highly, all accidental children under Pine Lake Swamp Biological Wonderland Wolf Lake, 111. (U.R) The Pine Lake swamp near here is a biological wonderland that in cludes among its oddities fish which are one to three inches long when mature. A study of the swamp's fish population has been made by William M. Lewis, assistant pro fessor of zoology at Southern Illinois Univers'iy, and his as sistant, Gerald Gunning. One of the rare species is the spring cave-fish which reaches maturity at three inches and spends much of its time in sub terranean passages from which spring water flows into the swamp. Also found were pigmy sun fish one inch long at maturity and a "small sunfish" that grows to three inches. WOFTffilYoWSi tytm STEVENS The Locust Grove ... It was in the bright spring of 1855 that George Waunch, a German-born gunsmith and ten years a pioneer of the Skoo-kumchuch-Chehalis country, met Fraulein Mary Hagar in Port land. She was soon on her way up the Cowlitz and over the timber trail to an opening on the bank of the Skookumchuck where Waunch had a 320-acre claim and a mud-chinked cabin. The river half-circled the cab in on one side, a dense forest of tall old Dauglas firs and red cedars fenced the prairies on the other. Mary dreamed of flowers in the spring, to brighten the dark cast of forest and stream. She had loved the locust blossoms about her old home in Missouri and had brought a packet of the seeds west with her. Now she planted them, putting a tiny tepee over each planting, to protect it from grazing cattle. The seedlings were up and budding when Mary's first child was born. They thrived until the terrible winter of 1860-1861, when the long freeze killed all of the little grove but one locust tree. But by this time there were neighbors on the Skookum chuck. High-School History ... The Waunch story of West Coast pioneering lives on today because of a project that Miss Herndon Smith, Centralia high school teacher, started in 1937, when she began to realize the value of local historical mate rials for English study. Her stu dents enthusiastically went ot work on the teacher's program, interviewing the descendants of pioneer families. Moldering trunks and boxes were opened. County records were studied. And stories came forth. Miss Smith put them into shape for book publication, with due credit to each cooperating student. This rare and inspiring ac complishment is now nearly stumped on an "out of print" situation. Only 60 copies were left when I visited Centralia a spell . back. Centralia ana Chehalis are together in the midst of a self-study program, with the University of Wash ington's Bureau of Community Develonment as adviser. An able history committee is part of the project. It will surely find a way to keep Herndon Smith's unique work of local history in print. For "Centralia: the First Fifty Years," basically a work of teen-age students in our public schools, is a pattern for research and publication on local history thatjshould be applied to all of the older West Coast commu nities. Lady Logger ... Ed Waunch, fourth-born of Mary and George Waunch, has become the Paul -Bunyan of Lewis County pioneer stories. "He was a great horseman," the Smith history tells. "He cculd put one hand on a horse's neck and jump over the animal But it was Amelia, the eldest Waunch daughter, who is best remembered by old-time Lewis County loggers. She married A d o 1 p h Mauermann, another German-born gunsmith; they took up a claim on the Skoo kumchuck and began to clear land. The book relates: "Many was the day she (Amelia) spent on a springboard ten feet above the ground felling trees with a crosscut saw. For the only ready money then available she sawed cordwood to furnish fuel for the new rail road. 'Millie could take a cross cut saw and cut off a slice of log as quick as any man,' ad miringly boasts her brother, Frank ... At 85 she is still living, as active as the average woman of 60." And it tells that the lone locust tree from Mary's plant ing to survive the deathly win ter of 1860-61 sent up fresh shoots. The second grove flour ished, "And the children of George and Mary Waunch mar ried and grandchildren and great-grandchildren came to gather round them under a white fringe of locust blossoms." Tuesday, March 1, 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Hormel Shooting Charge Dismissed Hollywood (U.R) Anthony C. Kent, 26, a publicity man, was cleared of firing a bullet nito the house of meat packing heir George A. Hormel yester day when a judge ruled the in cident a publicity stunt, and therefore committed without malice. Superior Judge David Cole man dismissed the charges upon motion of attorney Ward Sulli van, who pointed out the com plaint accused Kent with malic iously firing the shot but at the same time recognizing it as a publicity stunt. The incident occurred Jan. 19, one week after Hormel was ac quitted on a marijuana posses sion charge. The piano playing heir, now on active duty with the Coast Guard, denied any knowledge of the publicity stunt. Court Records POLICE COURT Harold Roy Hopper, failure to stop at red light, $5. Willard Emery Moss Jr., failure to stop at stop sign, $5. Anna May Great, disregarding traf fic signals. So. Phillip Vernon Rennick, violation of basic rule. $10. Duane P. Rifenbark, failure to stop at stop light, $5. Richard Alvin Myrick. failure to stop at stop light, S5. Nancy Nealon Hamilton, failure to stop at stop light. S5. . Andrew J. Whisnan, improper park ing, $5. DISTRICT COURT Ted Melvin Adams, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. ' CIRCUIT COURT Leland Norman Hanscom vs. Bev erly Ann Hanscom, divorce complaint. n t it M-,HfiH W Bt bacK and forth, a dozen times ! noon Saturday : 10 Jn. Monday for or more." -Monday; other daya 530 previous day. Defense of Country Still Relies Upon Doughfeet Despite Atomic Weapons Age camp Edwards, Mass. U.R) l under the command of Brig, carefully planned utilization of To all former doughfeet every where: Gents, your breed ain't out of style yet. Not by a long M-l shot. Let 'em have their atom bomb tests, lighting up the sky. Let the flyboys go out and break the sound barrier. Let the Navy plough up the ocean with atomic powered tubs. When it comes to going in and taking an objective held by the enemy, what do you think they're using nowadays? Atoms? Ncpe. Jet planes? Hardly. They use the infantry, just plain walk ing soldiers. Hand-Tailored Holes And talk about new-fangled weapons. In an attack problem carried out by two battalions of foot sloggers here against a sim ulated aggressor force, the wea pons they used were, guess what? Rifles. Mortars. Machine guns. Even a clever little de vice called a bayonet. For defense, they used holes in the ground, the individual kind, hand-tailored to fit your own chassis. Even the expenses of the op eration, a 15 day, live ammu nition training exercise for 4000 troops, was typical of the in fantry. It cost 30 cents per day per man. Maybe that's why they called it "exercise shoestring." Stringent Economy The troops who moved in for combat training over the 14,000 acres of spongy, scrub-bearded Cape Cod soil for this camp were from Fort Devens. Mass., Gen. E. G. Gjelsteen. They com prised the 74th Regimental Com bat Team, plus supporting quar termaster, medical, ordnance, and other units. This exercise has been made possible only through the prac tice of stringent economy and Army Hangs Three Negroes for Murder t Lansing, Kan. (U.R) The Army hanged three Negro sol diers today for murdering a taxi driver. . Sent under black hoods to the gallows at the state prison were Chastine Beverly, 25, Baity, Va.; James L. Riggins, 28, Birmingham, Ala., and Louis M. Suttles, 26, Chattanooga, Tenn. All were stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., when taxi cab driver Harry Langley of Waynesville, Mo., was robbed of some $150 Sept. 20, 1951, stabbed and left to die in a wooded area of the Army reser vation. The trio took his cab, but one of the soldiers lost his Army cap containing his serial number at the scene. The trio had been held under maximum security at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., since sen tence was pronounced in Feb ruary, 1952, by a General Court Martial. available funds," general Gjel steen said. The operation cost $18,000. Two-thirds of that came from First Army funds and the rest from Fort Devens. Lasting Impressions In case you've forgotten, here are some impressions of infan try warfare. Noise: Nothing makes so much racket as an infantry company blazing away with 10 types of weapons. Mud: Sticks to your feet, Scrub oak: Your feet stick to it. Signs: "If you go beyond this point, you'll get shot sure as hell." Col. Hamilton A: Twitchell, commander of the regiment, said that nowadays the infan try at war might very well find its forward units having to stress independent action, since atomic and electronic weapons of the enemy might destroy and jam our communications. Who would have to do this indendent thinking? "Sergeants and lieutenants," said the colo nel. See what I mean? Styles haven't changed. PET TROUBLE Austin, Tex. U.R) Jay Caldwell had a ready explan ation when police asked him why his automobile left the road, smacked into a brick wall and overturned. He said that a pet raccoon, riding on his shoul der, gave him a friendly poke in the eye. TRUSTING SOUL Louisville, Ky. (U.R) News man Smith's faith in human nature has been shaken by a motorist whose car struck him. The driver of the car asked Smith, 44, to wait at the scene of the accident while he went for help. Police found Smith the next morning sitting against a building still waiting. Smith was treated for minor injuries. 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