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Evening star., 1942-05-22
the pouch opens up in its charac-
teristic fashion.

the pouch opens up in its charac-
teristic fashion.
The rinds (peridia) open In vari-
Gus ways to permit the spores to
ride the airways. Separate exam
pies have been explained, such as
the manner followed by the stink
horns, earth-stars, birds nests, CAL
ostomas and puffballs. Each has
developed a special way OF its own
to realese its seed children.
Most of the life Of the puf1ban
is spent underground. Here they
get their food from decaying vege-
table matter and this is why they
are called subterranean sapro-
phytes.
When the puffball is ready to
face the sun so that the spores
may be scattered it emerges from
the ground. This Is the time you
see it In pastures, on fallen logs
and alongside roadsides In COM
pany with many of its kind. Often
it appears in vast numbers.
Country children have often been
of great assistance to the puffball-
though unknowingly. Giving the
mature puffball 4 pinch or kick to
see the smoke rise Is al that Is
needed by the fungi to scatter it,
millions Of spores on the air. Come
Evening star., 1942-05-22
30

the Green Forest. There Bundle
left him and returned to the sweet
flowers Of the Green Meadows.
Now Chatterer hadn't been in the
Green Forest for some time. He
used to live there, but since he had
made friends with Farmer Browns S
Boy he had lived In the Old Orchard
and had grown fat and lazy on the
good things Farmer Browns Boy was
forever giving him. Now he realized
that his run had made him hungry
and he began to wonder what he
could ind to eat there In the Green
Forest. It Was the wrong time Of
year for nuts, but there might, there
just might, be some eggs. His bright
eyes darted this way and that way,
and the instant he saw Cresty the
Flycatcher and Mrs. Cresty acting
- II they were trying very hard
Evening star., 1942-05-22

case with those who do mean things.
Chatterer watched and watched,
all the time taking the greatest
care to keep out Of sight himself.
At last he saw Mr.. and Mrs. Cresty
leave the tree where the hollow was
and he knew by the way they acted
that they were going to get their
dinner. No sooner were they out
Of sight then Chatterer was scamp
ering for the tree they had left as
fast as he could 60, and al the time
he was chuckling wickedly Is he
thought Of those unguarded eggs.
Up the tree he scrambled and
around to the hole where he had
seen Cresty 60 in and come out.
Just as he almost reached 1t some
thing hanging from 1t caught his eye.
It moved Chatterer gave . another
ed little shrek Of fright and actually
Evening star., 1942-05-22
Bedtime Stories
Nv THORNTON w. BURGEs
Some people poke their noses in

some people poke their noses in
Where they've no right u oe.
II they ret hurt 1t serves them Ytght
I'm sure you'll all agree.
Chatterer the Red Squirrel didn't
get hurt exactly, but he received .
great fright and disappointment
and I'm sure that you will agree
with me that this was no more than
he deserved. You see, he had no
business there anyway. It all came
about through being chased to the
Green Forest by Bundle the Bee.
1t WAS . joke on the part Of Bundle.
but Chatterer wasn't sure Of this
and didn't dare stop to find out lest
he should feel that sharp little
lance Bundle always has with him.
So he had run until, all out Of
breath and temper, he ha4 reached
Evening star., 1942-05-22
NATURES CHILDREN
COMMON PUFTBALL)
(Order Lycoperdale)

The members of this order are
known in different parts of the
country as devils snuf1boxes, smoke
balls, puffballs and puffs. Some
are rather small in size and usually
are found in fields and woods. The
pouch fungi include all fungi which
have their spores or seeds in closed
chambers until maturity. Then
when they are ripe and ready to
be scattered by winds or animals
Evening star., 1942-05-22
Take Word for 1t
By FRANK COLBY.
What Is Your
Pronouneing !. O.?

Special announcement. In re-
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There is no greater social or busi-
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War bonds are the premiums on
Evening star., 1942-05-22

caps" These may be called "feel-
ers" since they feel the way for the
roots as they grow into the soil.
The liquid which the roots drink
up from the soil rises In the trunk
of the tree, then spreads through
the branches. Later the liquid, or
sap" runs back down the limbs
and trunk. On its return journey
1t usually carries starch which 1t
has obtained from the leaves. The
starch helps to feed the cells IN
soft parts of the bark.
Often more water rises in a tree
than is needed and some Of 1t turns
into vapor after reaching the leaves
A large oak tree. on a warm day,
may give of as much as 200 gallons
OF water In the form of vapor.
Seeds of trees sometimes fall into
cracks in rocks. Finding . bit OF
soil there they sprout and take
root. Then a sapling grows out OF
the rock. There is a great deal OF
power in the growing roots and they
have been known to split large
boulders.
(For Nature section Of your scrapoooko
II you want = free copy Of the
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Evening star., 1942-05-22
LETTER-OUT

spell the word
column opposite
which "IeteredOut
correctly they escape.
10 Yesterdays LETTER. OUT.
Letter-Out
RECEDES-DECREE order.
POLISHED-SPOIIED dts bad).
% Observation-Disclosures q good place to rest).
PICKIED-LICKED Che beaten
DAGGERS-RAGGED this
Evening star., 1942-05-22

War bonds are the premiums or
the insurance of national liberty;
Don't let the policy lapse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-18

take peaches and cream. Has
she u face worth painting9"
Myra sat UP, If you think I
am going 10 go and pick up a
strange female 10 make Lorton
weekend, you're mistaken"
But think Of NIGEL"
sorry" said MyrO ARMY
Peaches and cream Is wrong, !
should have said, mascara and
II like them BOTH" said Ferdy,
THAT is, at the proper place and
time"
Exactly" agreed Myra, That's
Just what I meant"
That night at the Mack house.
hold IN Notre Dame de Grace
II was on evening OF celebration,
Michael Mack, the eldest son, had
been overseas for more than a
year, and II was not likely that
he would have many more leaves
before going overseas again with
the Third Division. Something
had happened TO him In that year
OF absence. He had Allied out.
There was new firmnesS TO the set
OF his lips and his eyes were
thoughtful, Some Of the things
he had seen had mGtured him
more than his twenty-threO years
In Canada, Michael had lost none
OF the bAntering ways and happy
go-lucky careleSsneSB that his
father had tried vainly 10 cure
him OF, but he had with II q clear
cut Self-posseSsion. His dark hair
waved Tricky from his brow Just
rs gently aS II had always done
but there was o flpe line drawn
across his forehead, and bron2ed
cheeks, now followed slightly gave
him lean, hard look.
Myra, when she first saw him,
realized at once that the boy she
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-18

/ had always regarded as "kId
brother" had suddenly, swiftly
grown up, Peggy, her younger
sister, had beon not quite sixteen
when he had gone overseas, and
Michael was obviously just Us sur
prised to see what changes eight
cen months had made IN her as
she was rapt with brother-wor-
ship over the changed young man
who had come back again.
Myra made no mention Of the
projected Weekend,
She had had enough experience
with her family to suggest things
quietly 10 each member separate
" rather than drop any proposal,
mild or bombshell, into the family
circle. She took her sister aside
quietly later In the evening and
told her what was proposed, Peggy
was delighted. She had heard 80
much about Myra's friend Ferdy
Iorton, and knew his reputation
AS an artist, but she had never
yet met him and was consumed
with curiosity.
More important, she had not yet
Ind much opportunity 10 escape
from the family circle. Peggy, as
Myra had told Ferdy. was "dyna-
mite" She yeGrned to meet in-
teFesting people and see something
OF the world beyond school and
home and teen-ager friends. She
had q healthy curiosity, an Idle
young iadyS penchant for In
trigue, irrepressible energy, and q
gay beauty that was Just the per-
cilsSion cap these spirited traits
needed TO SGT them Off.
'FunW Peggy exclaimed to
Myra. And I'll see that It's excite.
Ing. too, she added 10 herself
(TO Ne COntlnueA)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-18
J SERIAL STORY

wFER STORYl Returning 70
mRameseal from q summer resort
NHyrM Mack shares q train scat
WilA lieutenant Nigel MOnkhOuse,
Ih alscover = mutual friend In
NeNy k@rt0n, artist, and y mueu.
I'll Admiration Of q pretty gsrl
aboard the train, Back az her
MtenaKraphers Job MyrA makes .
bualm1sa call, yecS The pretty girl
behind q desk,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
Youthful Train WIeders
pesaIlzed BY CeuIt

MARMETTE, WIS.,, Feb. s.
R3-Two boys received penal
ties In court yesterday for their
attempts to derail fast passen-
ger trains Of the Milwaukee
road near the Wisconsin Mich
iean state lire last Dec. 1. A
lS-year-old Kinssford. Mich,
boy was SAINT to the state In
dustrial school for b6ys for six
years. His 13-yesr.old compan-
Ion was placed on probation.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05

practical experience through
patriotic service"
The President followed this
expression of faith in the Boy
Scouts with the first call for
service to the nation In April
1941, when he requested the
aid Of the Boy Scouts rs special
messengers for the Treasury
Department in distributing L.
100000 posters announcing the
sale Of us. Defense Bonds.
With q thoroughness character
istic. the Scouts placed these
posters In prominent places
simultaneously In every city,
town and hamlet Of the nation.
The third In this series will
appear shortly.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05

cradle disease In the navy 10
reported by Rear Admiral Ross
+. McIntire, navy surgeon gen
eral. with Z per cent fewer
cases last year than In 1910.
Incomplete records for 1871.
the 10th annual regional con-
ference on social hygiene was
told yesterday. showed . syphil-
ID Incidence rate in the navy Of
SIS cases for each 1000 men.
The admiral termed the drop
'very satisfactory." but added
"this u not enough. We are
going further" he said, declar-
ing commercialized prostitu-
ton was the chief source Of
disease.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05

CHICAGO Shortage Of play
ers due 10 the war miy take Jack
Man1sesy veteran Chicago Bear
hullbock, OF the cooching roster
end put him back In uniform. 4
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
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COLDS

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ofood-oouoh ino. pl,legm. iSliin-
ticn. cioousd upper cir pasoaon-
Vicks vapoRub. In poultioe-end-
vspor scfion bEineB relief without
doiing.
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
Boy Scouts Did Much for Nation
During First Great World Conflict

(Editor'S note: THIS Is the
second Of q series Of three ar
ticles dealing with the part the
Boy Scouts are playing in the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05

NEW YORK, Feb. AR-A
l0-year low In the rate Of ven
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09
Press ExtoIIed
Before Rotorions

The Importance of the newspaper
and the institution of freedom of
the press in both peacetime and
wartime American life was extolled
Thursday by Alfred d. Haworth. edi-
tor and publisher of the CaleXico
Chronicle before the Ell Centre Ro-
tary club at its weekly meeting.
Haworth defined the newspaper
as Americas greatest secret weapon.
forming the union between gov
ernment and the people and Great
ing for this country a power that
Hitler can only envy.
Consider the wartime loads plac-
ed upon your hometown newspaper. ="
Haworth declared. In every move
whether it be aluminium drive or
rubber collections, bond sales effort
or get in the scrap campaigns the
newspapers have been relief upon
to so inform the people that the
necessary esprit de corps and public
cooperation can be obtained"
In the peacetme scene. he said
the newspaper forms the foundation
stone of all the American freedoms.
such as freedom of religion. assem-
bly,. expression, the ballot and econ
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09
Children Pile Up
Great Scrap Heaps
In Hot Contests
Continued From Page L

Continued From Page L
will be sold to junk dealers and the
money used to buy war bonds to be
credited to the student body.
Scrap drives at Mckinley and
Washington schools were scheduled
to begin next Monday Mckinley pu-
pills collected Is pounds of keys
for the Lewis drive and the Wash
ington school pupils also were busy
collecting keys. Harding schools
scrap metal drive will start next
Tuesday along the lines so success
fully carried out in this schools
scrap drive last spring.
ADULTS BUSY
Not to be outdone by the school
children, El Centre adults rushed
Friday to complete arrangements for
the big collection drive scheduled
for Sunday with soldier and sailor
volunteers and Army and Navy
equipment to join in the work
We want all Elks and American
Legionnaires to be at Veterans
Memorial hall at 9 am. Sunday to
join the soldier and sailor volun-
teerS, said George Whitcher chair
man of the FL Centre scrap commit
tee. We've got to outnumber the
servicemen volunteers. Wear old
clothes and bring heavy gloves. We
mean to drag in all the scrap metal
we can find, the heavier the better"
All businessmen in Ell Centro were
asked to put their scrap metal con-
tributions in the alley so the trucks
may collect it Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09

PALM SPRINGS Cal, Oct. o
U.PD-Film Comedian Joe E.
Brown, his familiar grin erased
by brief, travelled by plane from
Detroit today to claim the body of
his son. Capt. Don f. Brown, 25,
who was killed when an Army
bomber crashed in the desert nine
miles north of here.
Both motors of Browns plane ap-
parently failed, witnesses said, and
the ship nosed into the ground late
Yesterday. Brown. attached to the
Long Beach ferry command base,
was flying alone on routine oper-
alton.
Young Brown joined the Army
infantry reserve in 1899, won an air
force second lieutenant's commits
sion in July. 1941, and became a
captain only a few months ago.
Lieut.. Paul Herbert, commander
of the Palm Springs unit of the
Ferry command reached the scene
of the crash as Brown was pulling
himself from the flaming wreckage
of his plane. Brown died a few
moments later
The film star was notified of his
sons death as he prepared to go
on stage for a performance of THE
Show Off" in which he had been
appearing for the past month. He
cancelled the show Immediately,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09
| GUARDIAN OE FREEDOM

omic effort.
GUARDIAN OF FREEDOM
Take away the press of this coun-
try and one by one, our other free
doms would fade away. There would
be no champion to note and fight
inroadS upon our liberties, no means
of fully informing this nations l30
million people of what is going on, -
he said
The true value of newspaper ad-
vertising, he stated, lies in the fact
that it makes possible a free, indie
pendent press. as against a press
which is economically sustained by
political or governmental groups,
and thus responsible to them. That
newspaper advertising comprises the
biggest connecting link between
American production and American
consumers is of vast economic i'm
portance, secondary only to its worth
in maintaining an unbiased inStitu-
ton.
The speaker was presented by
Randall Henderson, chairman of
the da". following the giving of the
Rotary charge to new member Clar-
ence McFadden by the Rev. Mr.. Ed
ward Hutchinson.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09
Jops Pulling In
Horns i'm Pacific

LONDON. oct. PA-Japan
has begun to pull back in the Pa
cific because Of the tremendous
difficulty of maintaining her supply
lines across thousands Of miles of
sea. informed quarters believe to-
day.
Save in the Solomons where they
have been forced into action, the
japanese have seemingly lapsed into
static situation. If anything
high sources here believe. Japan is
on the defensive.
After the initial successes with
which they began the war, the Jap
anese have run into reverses. some
cf which may not be important but
all of which are symptomatic
They included the severe air de-
ieat in the attempted surprise at
tack on Ceylon, the heavy naval
losses in the battles of the Coral
sea and Midway, and the American
successes in the Solomons.
TRANSPORT SUFFERS
Now the sudden move out of the
Aleutian and New Guinea outpoStS
point up this pulling in of the
Nipponesa horns
Transport is believed to be the
answer. There is no doubt that
Japan has suffered extremely heavy
shipping losses from air and sub
marine attacks Probably the Jap
anese form of blitzbrieg also is
hamstrung by the necessity Of put
ting its best vessels into slow con-
voys to give them adequate protec-
ton.
Now with the first anniversary of
the Pearl Harbor attack Just two
months away, the picture shapes
up something like this:
The apanese apparently have
tried to reduce or, perhaps, elimi-
nate entirely, some Of their COM
mitmentS in China by withdrawing
from Chekiang province when Chi
nese pressure developed there.
NO OFFENSIVE?
In Burma there is no real evi-
dence that the Japanese garrison
is about TO take the offensive Ell
ther against India or China, al
though both appeared imminent a
few months ago.
In the far north, the danger of a
Nipponese attack on the maritime
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09
War Workers Off
Jobs in Dispute
Over Smoking Rule
Continued From Page i

that he would treat strikers as "a
Hitler or a MuSsolini.'
He warned organized labor lead
ers that unless they stop strikes
and slow downs. no matter how
minor that you face danger of
having the good as we'll as the bad
swept away into a rising tide of
popular disapproval.
Any man or group of men who
slow up or impede war production,
thereby causing the death of a
single soldier, is a criminal. a sabo-
teur, a traitor, and as such should
face the consequences" he said.
And had I the power I would
unhesitatingly treat him as I would
a Hitler or a MuSSolini.
Waring said he would continue
to fight for labors rights in peace
time. But in times of war there
are 10 rights. no grievances that
are paramount to the rights OF
your son and my son who are lying
on the sands of Africa or the cold
wastes of the Aleutian islands"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09

provinces seems to have rcccded
considerably. This again may be
because the japanese oVereXtended
of their own lines, or it might be
because the German east front
campaign is far behind schedule.
1t seems likely that the German
campaign was to fall miles short of
its original summer cbiectiveS and
perhaps even fail to capture Stall
ingrad. Regardless of what hap
pens now. many observers believe
that the Wehrmacht will be forced
to fall back to prepared winter lines
at least as far as the Don river
elbow" That will probably be
another body blow to the japanese
Siberian plans.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09
All IlRegistrants
CIassed in Draft

SACRAMENTO, Oct. g. UPD-
State selective service headquarters
today announced that all but three
of the states 284 draft boards have
completed the classification of all
regiStrants in the first, second,
third and fifth "R-days."
The remainder will be complet-
ed by October 20, said 1t. Col. Ken
meth Leitch, state director
Answering inquiries, Leitch said
that men in a deferred classified
ton are being reclassified into
Glass IA before being inducted
into service.
"a review is made by the local
beard of the status of registrant
presently in deferred classifica-
ton for the purpose of determin-
ing whether such registrant can or
cannot qualify for deferment in
such deferred classification" Leitch
said
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09
Nozi Army Gives
Lie to StdIemute

and more pressure was being
brought to bear in the northwest
sector and against the relief col
umn which Marshal Semyon Tiso-
shenko was driving southwark to-
ward Stalingrad between the Volga
and Don rivers.
Moscow recapitulated German
losses in recent heavy fighting and
reported that it least nine Nazi
generals have been killed.
NAZIS SILENT
A sharply contradictory picture
was presented by Nazi reports on
the Stalingrad front. For the sec
ond time in three davs the Nazi
high command failed to make any
mention of Stalingrad in its Off
cial communicates.
That clearly was in line with a
mass of Nazi propaganda being
poured out by German radio trans
mitters to the effect that Nazi OBJ
iectiveS at Stalingrad have been
attained by the cutting of the Vol
ga transport route and that further
frontal storming of the city is no
longer necessary.
The picture painted by Nazi prop
aganda was that the reduction of
the city would be undertaken by
big artillery guns and lombard
ment aircraft to end the heavy
losses caused by the bitter street
fighting.
Actually, it seemed probable that
if the Nazi propaganda had any
real military significance-the Ger
mans. finding the casualties so high
at Stalingrad and progress so slow
had determined to concentrate their
forces on a smash through the Cau-
casus to the Caspian before snow
cuts their communications over the
mountains.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09
WLB Turns Down
Waqe Increases

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9-CUP) -
The war labor board, in its first
wage case decision since President
Roosevelt inaugurated his stabili-,
zation program, today rejected de-
mands of 800 employees. of the
Sterling Engine Co., Buffalo, N
Y, for a general wage increase.
mo increase is necessary in this
case to correct Embellishments or,
inequalities, to eliminate sub
standards of living, to correct gross
inequitieS, or to aid in the effective
prosecution of the war" Frank P.
Graham, public member of the
board, said in a brief opinion. The
decision was unanimous.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09
Prisoner Wants
To Deliver Self

Jasper Gravy Brown, 38,
Negro, in superior court Friday
offered to deliver himself to San
Quentin penitentiary without
benefit of official escort so he
"could get a better deal there"
At the time he was sentence"
for attempting to murder Willie
johnson last July %, Brown made
his suggestion to Judge R. D. Nc
Pherrin. McPherrin said lit wasn't
done" and ordered Brown held in
the county jail pending transfer
to the penitentiary for term
of l to IA years. Brown was found
guilty By a superior court jury.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-09
Scanning |. v.
News Horizon
MASONS TO ATTEND
GRAND LODGE SESSIONS

DR.. F. w. Peterson, master of El
Centre lodge No 384, F. and A. NJ.
Charles H. Knights, inspector for the
district. and Dr. r. c. Clemons will
attend the sessions of grand lodge
next week in San Francisco. the
meetings beginning on Oct. l3. Rep
resentatives from the other valley
Masonic lodges will also attend