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Evening star., 1940-04-24
Mrs. Morgenthou
Underqoes Operation

Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., wife
of the Secretary of the Treasury
underwent minor operation at
Emergency Hospital soon after she
entered incognito Monday. A Treas
ury spokesman said today Mrs. Nor
genthau will be permitted to leave in
q few DAYS.
Evening star., 1940-04-24
Enters OrutoricuI Contest

BRYANTOwN, Md, April "A
SpeciaD Miss Mary Catherine
Adams Of the Notre Dame High
School here will represent the
Southern Maryland Conference Of
the Catholic Students Mission
Crusade at the State nratorieah con-
test tn Baltimore Sunday. :
Evening star., 1940-04-24
Bond Concerts

BY the United States Marine Band
Symphony, tonight at BIS o'clock, in
the Marine Barracks auditorium.
Capt. William F. Santelmann, lead
er; Henry Weber, second leader.
PROGRAM.
Fantasy, Romeo and
Juliet" -.---T Tschaikowsky
Concerto for violin and orchestra,
Symphonic Espagnole" 49, Lalo
Musician Albert Schoepper, soloist.
"Symphony No. 3 in F Major"
opus 80 Brahms
/. Allegro con brio.
2. Andante. r..-
8. POGO allegretto.
4. Allegro.
Overture to the opera
"Tannhauser' Wagner
1.-The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1940-04-24
TOMORROW.

TOMORROW. F.
Concert by the United States Ma
Yine Band, at 2:30 pm, in the Ma
rine Barracks auditorium. Capt.
william F. Santelmann, leader;
Henry Weber, second leader.
, PROGRAM.
"The Marines Hymn"
Overture, william Tell Rossini
xylophons solo, 1.-TWO
Guitars" -~--. - Horlick
Musician Oliver Zinsmeister.
Characteristic, March of the Little
Leaden Soldiers" Pierne
Duet for cornet and trombone,
cousins" - Clarke
Musicians Edward Masters and
Robert Isele.
March-song, God Bless
America" ---B Berlin
March, washington Post" Sousa
Hymn, 'Love Divine" Zundel
'"rhe star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1940-04-24
Motorist Accused
OF Reckless Drivino
After Accident
Boy, 5, Is Injured
As He Steps in Street
Between Parked Cors
Traffic Record

The trafiic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for a.
hour period ending at. 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 20.
Motorists injured, /.
Motorists arrested. 2T.
Pedestrians injured, 5.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation Of pedestrian control
regulations, 5.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Artificial Lake Will
Blot Out Old Mine Camp

DEADWOOD, S. OMAN has
bested nature again and today
Spring creek, gushing Black Hills
mountain stream, runs over bed
cut through the heart of a granite
mountain.
The stream was diverted from its
original course through a channel
drilled $50 feet through solid gram
ite-al because conservationistS
wanted it to feed an artificial lake
being built at Harvey National for
est, near Sheridan.
The tunnel is five by seven feet
and can carry flood waters of Is
feet.
At present $50 CCC enrollees are
constructing a 120-foot dam into
which waters of the creek will be
turned this year. The dam, cost
ing $780, 1000, will cover five acres
at the base, sloping up to half an
acre at the top.
When completed, the artificial
lake will have shoreline Of about
tn miles-400 acres Of water sur
face-and an average depth of so
feet.
And right In the midst Of the lake
site now lies the once thriving min
ing camp Of Sheridan. ALI traces
of the camp will be removed before
water is sent into the lake.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
'Cribbing' for Exams
Launches a Career

A bit of old-fashioned cribbing on
spelling tests when he was in grade
school launched Larry Anderson of
Irwin, Pa, on his career as one of
Americas outstanding penmen.
When a boy, Anderson could write
a dozen words on his thumbnail be-
fore time to make daily recitation.
The letters were SO small that the
teacher could not read them.
That was how Anderson discov-
cred that he had microscopic
eyes.
With the aid of nagnifying glass
he can write on grain of rice, or
salt, hair, or the edge of playing
cards. He can engrave the Lords
Prayer on the head Of a pin and
point out the names of % states on
the portico of the Lincoln Memorial
reproduced on a S. bill. Anderson,
80 years old, a furloughed railroad
worker, explains it this way:
Ordinarily, see like other folks.
But when I'm writing fine charac-
tiers, my eyes change focus SO that
/ can see words others can't. !
don't even wear glasses"
A specially of Anderson's is en-
craving names on watches. He has
done such work for King George vi
and Queen Elizabeth of England
and for President Roosevelt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
VACATION TIME ALMOST HERE

"America's playtime," notes The
Fidelity and Casualty Company of
New York, "can be also a particu-
larly troublesome time if proper
consideration is not given the haz-
ards typical of this season."
Frank e. O'Brien, Secretary in
charge of the personal accident in
surance department, points out that
first of all vacationists should an
ticipate the possibility of injury to
themselves while on holiday and
take every precaution to gaurd
against fincmrring disablement. On
vacation the individual is doing
many things which he is not used
to doing the other fifty weeks Of
the year herein lies the danger.
Strains, sprains, fractures and
worse follow sudden violent exercise
and participation in various sports.
Over-exposure to sun is another
common cause of discomfort and
oftentimes acute illness. Drown
ings, through swimming and diving
in unfamiliar waters are still an
other prolific cause of casualties.
Extended automobile drives with
long sessions at the wheel, over
strange roads, through large cities
and through different states, all
contribute to nervous tension on the
part of the operator and as such
make for accidents.
In brief, the vacationist all too
often tries to crowd the outdoor
recreation he has craved through
out the year, into a few weeks with
results which are many times not
happy!
Everyone's motto on vacation
should be-"Take it easy-Be care
full and have the best holiday ever,
unmarried by any sort of mishap!"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Famous Idaho Potato
Has Romantic History

It's just potatoes and gravy on
million dinner tables the world
around, but the story Of the Idaho
Russet's discovery and development
is as romantic as that of a scientific
invention.
1t was in 1884 when the first set
tiers entered the Egin bench of east
ern Idaho that far-sighted farmers
sought a product for the volcanic
soil, a pioneer woman related re-
Gently in Boise, the state capital.
The woman, who prefers to be
known only as Mrs. &c. M. w."
was the daughter of one of the first
settlers.
Mrs. w. told of entering the Up
per Snake river country while In
dams still roamed the prairies. "At
that time" she said, 1--WE were rails
ing the Early Rose, Early Ohio and
a few Goodrich potatoes which, al
though they produced well. would
not keep"
Faced with an unmarketable
product, her brother vowed he was
"going to find something to make
a good crop-one that would stay
without flaw" In the course OF
events new family came to the
community. They were Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles r. Barnes and chill
dren.
Barnes brought a new potato
which he called the English Rus
set.
The brother heard about the new
potato and went to see il he
could buy a few for seed. Barnes
shrugged his shoulders and said he
didn't know If there was a peck
in the whole pit that would grow.
But Mrs. w. and her brother sort
ed through the whole pit. When
finished they had peck and a half.
Barnes gave them the entire lot for
their efforts.
The next day they planted most
of them in part Of 10-acre plot,
after eating few.
The potatoes seemed particularly
suited to the volcanic ash soil and
the eastern Idaho climate. Within
two years, the family which had
grubbed the seeds from an appar-
emily worthless heap had enough to
plant all their land and sell to
neighbors.
It was from this meager begin
ming, Mrs. Sc. M. w." said, that
Idaho's Russet potato industry
sprang.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Coffee Planting Unique
AS Agricultural Process

Coffee plantations are interesting
places, especially to Americans who
are accustomed to seeing only
American-style production Of ordi-
nary agricultural crops. Coffee
seeds are thickly sown in carefully
prepared beds. The seeds sprout
in about 40 days, showing two small
leaves. The plants then are trans
ferred to the nursery plots in rows
about a foot apart. During two
years in the nursery the plants grow
about two feet. Then they are
ready for transplanting into perma-
nent holes.
When the roots take hold firmly
in their new location, the young
trees are bent over and clamped to
the ground by forked pins. This
breaks the skin or bark some eight
or ten inches from the ground.
From these breaks many little
sprouts shoot upward. AS soon as
the healthy ones can be distin-
guished they are pruned down to
four. This process makes for bushy
trees.
About five years later the trees
are ready to produce. In the mean
time the soil must be kept clean
and the shade trees at correct
foliage density. The grown coffee
tree is about eight feet high, and
will last 80 to 40 years if cared for
properly. All soil maintenance is
by hand with hoes and machetes.
Plows are taboo because they aid
soil erosion.
The coffee bean when ripe is red,
and if of good grade half an inch
in diameter. The trees resemble
cherry trees in good seasons.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
GERMAN IDEA OF FREEDOM

Broadcasting to- German youth,
DR.. Robert Ley, chief of the German
Labor Front and Nazi philosopher,
recently gave the official National
Socialist definition of freedom.
ga man is Free" he said, first, when
he can eat, drink, dress and live as
and where he pleases or finds neces-
sary: second, when he can wander
out into the world whenever and
however he pleases, and, third, when
others honor and esteem his labors.
That is the true meaning of the word
freedom"
In giving these three points, DR..
Ley indicated they were what the
German nation is now fighting to
gain. Observers wondered whose
honor and esteem" the Germans are
gaining by the unending. chain of
broken promises and the ruthless
persecution of millions of Jews,
Czechs, Poles and other conquered
peoples.
Apparently the general phrase "a
man is free" is accepted as applying
only to- Hitler-minded Germans
the rest of the world does not count.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Submarine Disaster

While en- route to Baltimore from
Boston on 72-hour endurance run
the U. S. submarine SIS sank while
making crash dive off the Della
ware capes on September l, 1920.
The submarine responded to its div
ing rudders, but failed to straighten
out after submergence and dived
until her bow was embedded in the
sea bottom. BY blowing the main
and after tanks the stern was lifted
above water. The crew then drilled
q small hole in the stern through
which they passed rod flying an
article of clothing by means of
which they managed to attract the
attention of a passing steamer, the
Atlantis. The crews Of the Atlantis
and General Goethals, another
steamer, cut a large hole in the
stern of the submarine, releasing its
crew after 81 hours Of SUBJ
mergence. The SIS subsequently sank
and efforts to salvage were aban-
doned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Cold-R Resisting Peach
Developed by Botanist

The world has q new peach tree
and DR.. Andrew Fletcher Ogle, New
Mexico botanist, the surprise of his
life--a surprise that was Is years In
Undertaking..
DR.. Ogle, who Is professor In
teacher education at Eastern New
Mexico junior college, recently re-
lated the story Of the new Giant
SNOWFALL peach which he has been
developing since 1918.
The professor has been expert
menting in the development of new
colors and forms of tulips, dah1ias
and apple trees, for many years.
He began the peach experiments in
1918 at his home in northern In
diana. Only one tree on the prop
erty of neighbor, Peter Johler,
had survived the hard freeze of that
year and it produced a large crop
of peaches.
Johler gave DR.. Ogle seeds from
the tree and the professor raised 480
little trees. These he budded into
his own trees and three years later
was rewarded by two remarkably
hardy crops-one a yellow-meated
freestone and the other white
meated.
Several years later DR.. Ogle sent
his samples to the Stark nursery at
Louisiana, Mo. The nursery, owned
by Gov. Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri,
analysed and experimental with
Ogle's product.
The nursery notified him IS years
later that his new strain of peaches
was success. 1t also sent him
royalties on sales of the Giant
SNOWFALL peach which the nursery
sold through its marketing organi-
cation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
TO sBEAR DOWN. ON HIGHWAY
VIOLATORS

In an effort to reduce materially
the mounting total of traffic fatal
tiles in the State, members of the
Executive Committee of Governor
O'Conor's Maryland Traffic Safety
Committee decided to "bear down"
on speeding and other dangerous
driving practices by instituting a
carefully planned system of select
i've law enforcement In other
words, having determined by a care
full and extended check of accident
records, where and when the great
est number of serious accidents were
occurring, the Law Enforcement
Committee, with the complete ap-
prevail Of Governor O'Conor, and
with the cooperation of Colonel Bev-
erly Ober, Superintendent of State,
and Police Commissioner Robert F..
Stanton, of Baltimore City, will in
stitute a close check upon traffic at
the danger spots and during the dan
gerous hours.
The Committee is serving notice
on all motorists of the State, and on
transportation lines and others
from out of the State using the
State Roads, that Maryland's laws
must be obeyed under threat of
severe penalties.
1t is. the hope of the Committee
that this warning will prove effec-
tive in immediate reduction of acct
dents. If traffic violations continue,
however, the Committee is insistent
that offenders will be dealt with
summarily.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Sons Inherit 81 Each
Because They're Thrifty

BRIDGETON, N. 1.-Two Ger
man sons Of Rudolph Zeh, Rosen-
hayn farmer who died last Novem-
Der, will receive 81 each under
terms of his will admitted for pro-
bate here.
Zeh's three sons were born by a
first marriage before he came to
this country 81 years ago. In the
United States he married again and
had four American-born children.
His German-born sons fought in the
World war and one of them was
killed in action.
Zeh's attorney said that the father
loved his German sons, but felt
that since they were grown men
they could care for themselves with
out financial help from him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Modern Plumbers Education


The ability to bring the right tools
and to cope with an emergency
now and then is not sufficient to be
a good plumber, according to the
U. S. office Of education, Washing
ton, D. c. The day of the 'handy
man" plumber is past, the Office
reports, and today an efficient
plumber must have ian elementary
knowledge of bacteriology, chemis-
try, physics, mathematics and
drawing as they apply to the plumb
ing trade" In addition to this
knowledge the plumber should also
know something about the history
and organization Of the plumbing
trade, plan reading, plumbing ma
terials, fixtures and appliances,
care and use of tools and equip
ment, safety and accident preven-
ton, plumbing laws and the BUSH
ness aspects of plumbing" The Of
flee of education, which has made
a study of the plumbing business,
says that 1.-The industry regrets the
ease with which it has been possible
in the past for an individual to
break in to the trade by working
for master plumber for brief
period and then going into the
plumbing business for himself"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Origin of Life Is
Shotun in Picture
Movie Catches First Beat of
Heart of Chicken.

VENICE, FLA.-A motion picture
Of the origin of life--the formation
and flrst-beat of the heart of an en-
bryo chieken-was shown at the as
sembly of the International College
Of Surgeons.
The film, photographed through a
microscope, provided the surgeons
an exciting drama of the most mys-
FERROUS of all the phases of their
work. It covered a 10-hour interval,
from the time the incipient chick
ems heart, little more than thin
walled tube, first began to witch,
until blood circulation started. 1t
showed the spasmodic twitching be-
come q pulsating; the blood cells
and blood vessels begin to form,
and the heart gain strength until it
was able to pump life fluid through
the embryonic blood vessels.
DR.. Bradley Patten, of the Uni
versity of Michigan's anatomy de-
partment, gave the demonstration.
In paper he explained that he
and his associates cut a tiny win
dow in the cell of a fortified egg
and exposed the embryo, the size
of pin head. This preparation was
transferred to a glass chamber and
supplied with nutrient fluid.
The first futterings Of the tube,
later to become the heart, are not
rhythmic or orderly. Different
parts of it merely contract and there
are periods as long as five minutes
when there is no activity. Then
comes a series of fibrillations and
gradually, after two or three hours,
the witches seem to combine, al
though mostly on the right side of
the tube.
After another hour, scattered
areas of the left side begin to con-
tract. Then right and left sides
witch in time with each other.
Still there is no regular rhythm to
the movements as whole.
Three hours later there is a
change, so gradual it is impossible
to tell when it starts. The motions
are starting at one end Of the tube
and ripping in waves to the other
end. The motion originates in what
is to be the auricle Of the heart.
The rate of the beat increases, be-
comes stronger.
Then the blood starts to form. At
first there is just fluid; then few
corpuscles appear within the heart
tube. They shuttle back and forth
at each beat. The beating in
creases, the blood cells become
more numerous. At last the en-
bryonic heart is pumping blood into
embryonic arteries. The chick is 40
hours old. Circulation has started.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Modern Judas

Fear that fellow prisoners would
take vengeance on him because he
had betrayed his fellow partners in
crime caused John Strong to hang
himself in his cell in Pentridge jail,
Melbourne, Australia. Strong was
serving a five-year sentence for
completely in a daring holdup. At
his trial he was branded as Judas
who had sold his fellow criminals
for 20 pieces of silver by betraying
the others to a detective. This SO
preyed on his mind after this con-
viction that he asked the jail Of
ficials to protect him from the other
prisoners. This they did, but his
nerves became more frayed each
day until he could stand it no
longer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Elephant Collection

DR.. Leland M. Corliss Of West
Paris, Maine, has nearly 800 ele-
phants-not live ones, but small
models. His collection contains ele-
plants, no two alike, from all cor
ners of the world. The statues clut-
ter the library, dining room, office
and reception room. Corliss can't
explain how he began his hobby,
but says it has been stimulated by
the fact that he studied at Tufts
college, Medford, Mass, where
there is the stuffed hide of P. T..
Barnum's Jumbo, the worlds larg-
est elephant. Besides model ele-
plants, Corliss has elephants on his
candlesticks, door stops, book ends,
playing cards, ash trays, compass
and dozens of other articles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
midas Sandlewood Trees

midas rich forests of sandlewood
have been rescued from dread
disease after a scourge lasting 40
years. Called "spike disease"
owing to the spike-like appearance
it produces on the foliage Of the
trees, the disease caused an annual
loss of more than $3.50, 900 in Madras
and $500, 900 in other parts of India.
Although the exact species of insect
responsible for the disease has not
been discovered, the forestry Off
Gals at Madras have found meas
ures to control and eradicate the
pest. This success is the result OF
years of research at heavy cost.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07

According to DR.. Carel E. Laid,
Dean Of the New York State College
of Agriculture, fair price for milk
is more effective than any other one
factor in keeping people on the
land, maintaining the fertility of
the soil, allowing rural children to
attend high school and college, and
in maintaining the general welfare
and happiness of the rural village
and farm.
During the past few years signal
progress has been made in milk
marketing methods which have re-
suited in fairer price to the farm
er. Leaders of the drive to better
the dairyman's lot have been the
a gric ultural milk marketing
cooperatives.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
BAR Killed Scot

Because he wore kilt, Scottish
soldier was banned from the streets
of Naples. He was sightseeing with
a party of Cameron Highlanders on
their way home from service in
Egypt, and strolled into the center
of the city. Having never before
seen the abbreviated Scotch skirts,
a crowd quickly gathered and held
up traffic while debating loudly
whether the foreigner was man or
a woman. Police appeared and de-
creed that he could not appear on
the street and must return to his
ship by taxi.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
FAMOUS ACTOR LOOKS UPON
LIFE AND LOVE

Brilliant example of the epigramatic
philosophy of a Frenchman, who,
after four marriages, concludes that
one woman can be adorable, but two
terrible. Don't miss this facinating
article in the June 18th issue of
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
the big magazine distributed with the
BALTIMORE AMERICAN
On Sale At All Newsstands
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Bible in One Family
More Than 500 Years

ALBANY, ORE. = The small
hand-set Bible owned by P. J.
Chladek of Lebanon has been in
the family for more than 500
years. According to legend,
Chladek's Seventeenth century
ancestors hid it in a pan of dough
and thrust it in the oven when
soldiers, carrying out an old Eu-
ropean custom of religious perse-
cution for owners of hereto"
books, came to the house.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Jane Barleycorn.

In the old saloon days, there were
few women drinkers. The drinking
wife and mother has become one
of the nations most serious and
most tragic problems since repeal.
A hospital which specializes in
the treatment of alcoholics (Keeley
Institute, Dwight, Ill., has found
that alcoholism among women has
increased 90 per cent since 1888
and among men and women togeth-
er it has risen only AZ per cent.
The hospital reported: "Repeal
returned drinking to the bar room
and the wives followed their hus-
bands. Today public complacency
about women drinking at bars is
making the problem of the woman
nebriate tragically serious"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-07
Milk VS.. Beer
Nv THE w. C. T. u.

a SERIOUS study of "facts, not
"A fancies" indicates that beer is
the greatest competitors of milk, that
the saying of pre-prohibition days,
'"The fathers beer money is the
children's milk money" again is
true.
The dairy farmers had good times
during prohibition, when the major
ity of persons did not drink alcohol.
Since repeal increase in the con-
sumption of dairy products has been
negligible.
John @. Farmer has \ begun to
ponder the question, wondering If
there isn't cause and effect con-
nection here; wondering if perhaps
a dime spent for beer doesn't pre-
vent him from selling a dime bottle
of milk.