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The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-03

and careless that under the spell of
sorrow and gloom, we trudge our
way to graves of ours and other
loved ones, deposit their bodies far
beneath the cluster of floral designs,
wreaths and beauty to return home
and sit supinely by and watch the
florals die and that sacred grave be-
come tomb enshrouded by tie vines,
thorns, thistles, weeds, and even
bushes. Then the body that we de-
post underneath a garb of beauty
soon becomes a wilderness where the
living almost fear to tread. 1t should
not be the spirit of the living to
leave the responsibility of keeping
clean the cemetery to those only who
have put into it their dead, neither
should the cemeteries be attempted
to be kept clean by people going out
for a holiday celebration and dinner
feast where much irreverence and
disregard must surely be the reward
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-03

Mo. 2. A light pontoon raft
built by members of the 385th Engi-
neer Battalion, Camp Edwards, Mass,
during a training period. This raft
may be used in ferrying two light or
one heavy truck across water or may
be hooked up to others to form a
floating bridge.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-03
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You needn't play a losing
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just because your hair is faded,
discolored, streaked with
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younger-looking woman, yoa
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The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-03

radiant, cleaning color
(black, brown OF blonde) to
ALL your hair. And it won't
rub off or wash out. Permits
marcels, permanent waves or
curling. Known and used for
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satisfied. Get Larieuse
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Evening star., 1942-01-11
BY Frank Carey,
Wide World News.

CONCORD, N. H, Jan. l0.-"Sorry to
keep you waiting, gentlemen, but the
Governor Is at the hospital delivering
q baby!"
When a secretary made that announce
ment one day to committee cooling its
heels in the Office of New Hampsh1re'S
Republican Governor Robert o. Blood
the only doctor Governor in the Nation
not an eyebrow was raised.
After all, such developments are ex-
pected during the regime of Dr. Blood,
who continues to carry on an active
medical and surgical practice.
In fact, most people in the Granite
State get chuckle out of the fact that
the Governor can make rapid inter-
change between the toga of government
and the surgeons gown without appar-
ent effect either on his executive de-
neanor-or his bedside manner.
DR.. Blood wasted no time in showing
how things were going to be.
Soon after he took Office. the Governor
:: troduced regularly scheduled press
conferences, but one day, the newsmen
we're left with pencils poised over an
Unfinished sentence. Dr. Blood got a
phone call, and had to hot-foot it to the
hospital to attend to garbage man who
mad dropped loaded can on his foot.
A Doctor in the House.
Even political foes of his excellency
have to admit that it's pretty handy
10 o{ C%ot to
House.
A Senator collapsed during session of
the upper house, and a fellow solon
yelled, Get the Governor!"
Il treated him in the washroom," the
Governor recalled, and added with a
chuckle-"it was funny, he had been one
OF my most bitter opponents"
Although he keeps his doctors kit
handy in his waiting automobile near the
elm-studded lawn of the State House,
the Governor, barring emergencies, at
tempts to divorce his professional life
from his political one as soon as he
enters the green-domed capitol.
For example, you will find no pill boxes
or clinical thermometers on his ma
hogany desk in the executive suite, but
occasionally, the Governor gets his
careers mixed up by jotting down a
memo to his State House stenographer
on prescription pad.
One such note summed up the whole
story. On one side of the paper, writ
ten in a doctors typical hen-scratch
hand, was a notation that he was to be
reminded to call the States Attorney
General for conference. On the other
side was the legend, Mrs. B. owes for
two calls"
Evening star., 1942-01-11

1t didn't Just happen that Denver was
picked for the Navy's first big inland
shiphuilding order.
How Denver Was Chosen.
Clyde c. Hartzeu, the old incubator
man, made It happen. with assists from
big, painstaking G. H. Garrett, Thomp-
son Pipe q Steel Co. general manager,
and Harold F. Silver, purposeful presi-
dent Of Silver Engineering Works. Inc.
Hartzen took over as the Division
Of Contract Distributions Colorado d.
rector last summer. He decided that
Denvers relatively small factories
expert In turning out sugar beet load
ers, ore-crushing ball mills and irrtga-
tions pumps+must be banded together
into cohesive teams.
A prime contractor captain over .
squad Of subcontractors.
Separately, few could ind defense
Evening star., 1942-01-11
BY Lett Erickson.
Wide world NeVs.

Nachinists and steel workers In Dem
ver-1,300 miles from ocean water and
. mile above twill build ships for the
United States Navy.
The idea was hatched by . man who
used to make incubators.
Here's the setup:
The steel hulls for "A naval escort ves-
sells will be prefabricated in Denver.
It's . SIS. 1000. 900 Job. It will take into
1914 to finish.
During al that time just about every
metal machine shop In Denver viii be
working to capacity on the ship Job.
Some Of these plants had been close
70 going out Of business because Of war
priofities.
The bulkhead, deck and shell plates
cut and drilled IN Denver Will b put
together at Mare Island Navy Yard. On
California; eoask
Evening star., 1942-01-11

The ~ ships. launched and complete,
will cost about tl44, 4,000, 900. Just how
big they'll be and exactly what they u
be used for are Navy secrets.
The Once Of Production Management
regards the project as . model Of about
the ultimate In contract distribution to
convert interior plants to war produc-
ton.
The way the Denver nrms-eight prime
contractors and more than so subcontrac-
tors-handle the ship job is important.
II the Denver companies meet speci-
fications in quality and time, similar
mass production pre-fabrication< con-
tracts can keep shutdown threatened
interior plarts busy.
Ship production can be increased
vastly without building new shipyards
that would require steel essential else
where. that might be finished too late.
and which might be abandoned anyway
after peace.
Evening star., 1942-01-11
BY John Ferris,
lIyiA yYHexlA NAHa

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-Bidu Sayao the
Brazilian soprano and Metropolitan
Opera Co. star, is always astonishing new
acquaintances who have preconceived
notions of what an opera singer should
be like.
She isn't fat and she isn't tempera-
mental and she lives fairly cloistered
life with her mother. She is slim and
unpretentious. She doesn't sleep until
noon or take afternoon maps before an
evening performance, and she doesn't
fret about her singing or her diet.
So people whose ideas of opera singers
derive from a reading Of books like
George Moore's Evelyn Inness" or Pitt
Sanborn's "Prima Donna" are likely to
be surprised when they meet Miss Sayao
and see for themselves how quiet and
unassuming she really is.
The one thing which really absorbs her
is her work She accepts this quietly and
with an objectivity which proves a little
surprising to an interviewer.
The name Bidu is a diminutive Of
Baldwine, which was her grandmother
family name. (The grandmother, Incl
dentally, was Swiss -French) Miss Sayao
was born in Brazil and fixed on sing
ing career at the age of Il.
II was a very determined little girl
and had only q little voice. q small
and light voice." she said the other day
as she sat in her apartment In the
Hotel Marie Antoinette on upper Broad
way.
Her teacher was a Rumanian and at
the end of three years Miss Sayao, her
mother and the teacher went to Ru-
mania to further Miss Sayao's musical
education. In Bucharest, the pretty
young Brazilian sang at the Rumanian
court for the late Queen Marie and her
son Carol There were arias from "Rigo-
letto" and two songs in Rumanian.
The Queen was charmed and gave
Miss Sayao an autographed portrait Of
herself and a decoration, too.
Evening star., 1942-01-11
Medicine VS.. Mars

known in the First World war as Sneu
shock. 1t af11icts hundreds of thousands.
Testosterone Is the first Of the hor-
mones to find . healing war use. Most
of the hormones are new since the last
war, in the sense that they had not been
isolated then, many had not even been
recognized, and they had not been syn
thesized.
New also are nearly all the vitamins.
Most of them were known, but they
were not available in pure form. Un-
known in the last war were most of the
B vitamins, and E, a potent remedy for
some Of the muscle weaknesses, and K,
the vitamin which helps blood to clot.
General Changes.
Merely the names Of new chemical
remedies would fill pages. This war Is
likely to show that some are valuable.
Probably of far more importance to
American boys than these spectacular
things are certain general changes.
One is the airplane ambulance. In
this war for the first time physicians
expect to be able to fly urgent cases to
base hospitals.
Surgery of the brain and the head 10
almost a new art. 1t is vital IN mechan-
lied war, which seems to cause more
head wounds In the last Is years surgery
has reduced the mortality In head and
brain surgery from the former 40 or
so per cent, down to 10 per cent. And
sometimes much less.
The airplane ambulance, rushing head
wound cases back to brain surgeons.
already in this war has saved men from
certain death. Furthermore. these men
recovered to complete health. and not
to pitiful wrecks.
In the last war the American SOL
diers greatest menace was communities
BILE disease, especially flu, pneumonia,
bronchitis and tonsilitis. One man out
of every 1873 in the Army and Navy died
of infectious disease, and these four
were the principal horsemen.
There is now q vaccine for flu, IT.
effectiveness waiting for trial.
The so-called children's diseases af-
fected 500, 900 men In the American mill
tary forces, cost the services loss OF
1000 900 days, as well as many deaths.
Those diseases, in the order Of their
frequency. were: Mumps, measles, scabies
dtch), rheumatic fever, cowpox, Ger
man measles, scarlet fever. diphtheria,
meningitis. dysentery, impetigo, chicken
pox This list affected twice Is many
men rs did wounds, and half as many
as fiu.
Children's Diseases.
These are called children's diseases
because their treatment is the speciality
Of the pediatricians.
Hardly any one except the medical
profession knows that the pediatricians
have . plan to reduce these diseases IN
the present war. No new medicine, no
new treatment. but merely . eomplsto
medical record Of each soldier.
Evening star., 1942-01-11
Neighboring>Star

Mrs. Sayso however, wasn't altogether
persuaded that her daughter would be-
come a great singer or even an i'm
portant one. but she withheld her final
decision as to whether Bidu should 60
ahead until the girl made her debut in
Rome as Rosina In The Barber Of
Seville"
"The notices received were won
derful," Miss Sayao said, land We were
all very happy"
That was in 1927. Thereafter she sang
in every major opera house in Italy and
in Paris and Lisbon and Buenos Aires.
Tn Milan had met Toscanini. When
I came to New York in 1896 communi-
Gated with him and he arranged to have
me sing with the Philharmonic Orches-
ira at Carnegie Hall. There were three
concerts"
The immediate result Of the concerts
was that Edward johnson, general man
ager, and others at the Metropolitan
Opera House gave Miss Sayao an audi
ton and signed her to a three-year con-
tract.
She knows IS French and italian
operas, not all of which she sings at
the Met. Her contract now calls for
IL operas q season. She has already
sung that many this year since the
opening, November "A.
She has no rules for young singers
except to sing and study, and she has
no rules .or health or nerves.
II go to bed about / or O'Clock and
I sleep about seven hours" she said.
Il eat as I please and don't worry about
dieting. like to walk. I am Just
naturally healthy"
The good-neighbor policy appeals to
Miss Sayao because she loves the United
States. She Is . little proud Of her
unique position Is the only South
American singer Of prominence In the
North American operate field. And she
admires American singers like Lawrence
Tibbett, Richard Crooks and Charles
Kullman.
"They are wonderful men," she says.
Evening star., 1942-01-11
Relatives Ruled Out.

Among the nrSt to Jump INTO the
battle were 500 relatives Of Mrs. CARROTS
wealthy husband. They were quickly
ruled out by the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court, because Walter Garrett had willed
his millions to his wife.
He was the first to foresee, so years
ago, the possibility Of fight over his
wealth. He wrote letter to his wife
at that time, telling her OF his fortune
and urging her to make q will at once
II would not like It," he said, III what
have worked long and hard to accu-
mulate should be squandered by your
or my sisters, cousins and aunts and
uncles'
do not let the scalawags get any If
you can help it. It is my desire and
I trust you will oblige me by making
a will at once. Do not put 1t of. :"
Mrs. Garrett's Letter.
The document she finally did write was
her now-famous letter to Dear Mr..
Charles s. Starr" wealthy investment
broker and one Of the two executors Of
the estate.
"Give you my estate an belongings
which are named in my book per A/C
the following amounts:
"Give Henrietta c. Ferguson the sumo
of $4,000, if living. Give to Mary A.
Weaver :"
To is intimate friends and employees
she thus disposed Of $62,500. She said
nothing about the other $l7,549, ,652.58.
The document wasn't witnessed; 1t named
no executor.
Starr. who found the letter in bureau
drawer in her home. declared its meaning
vas perfectly clear-that he meant
Evening star., 1942-01-11
BV Howard w. BlakeSlee,
Wide World News.

Wide World News.
American sick and wounded have many
more chances Of recovery now than in
the First World War.
The reason: Medicine has made more
advances than Mars.
There are many remedies which did
not exist in the First World War, and
scme Of them are flguratively more po-
tent than tanks, planes or any other
mechanized equipment.
New remedies which did not exist are:
Sulfanilamide. 1t is q double-edged
weapon. It cures pneumonia, meningi-
tis and other infectious diseases. It also
is a powerful antiseptic for wounds
Plasma as substitute for blood trans
fusions. Plasma needs no typing. can be
taken to front lines in small bottles and
administered right on the field. Plasma
Is the blood with red cells removed.
Globulin, which is the main part of
plasma and does most of the work Of
blood in TRANSMISSION. This is not yet in
practical use, but looms big because it
probably can be obtained from cattle.
Plasma comes from human donors. and
so is limited. Cow globulin would be
plentiful.
A vaccine for typhus fever. the disease
which killed nearly as many persons, In
and after the First World War, Is
fighting.
Gramicidin and penicillin, two new
antiseptics that in preliminary trials
surpass anything else Of the kind. Gram
icidin was obtained by new method Of
cultivating microbes in earth. Penicillin
IS from an organism related to the green
mold Of camembert cheese.
New Healing Process.
An adult tissue, probably protein, de-
veloped at the Hebrew University, Jeru-
salem, for healing wounds. It is not an
antiseptic. but growth stimulating sub
stance which speeds formation Of new
tissue.
Uniting Of severed nerves by . collar
Of clotted plasma. This does away with
sewing the nerves, A technique which
surgeons say is much like using . two
inch rope to repair rent In silk brocade.
With the plasma, the nerves unite and
regenerate more quickly. There Is also
less crossing Of wires: that is, Of fibers
failing to get back into their proper nerve
channels.
The envelope method Of treating burns.
Burns, due to incendiary bombing. air
plane fires and flame-throwers. are on
the increase. The envelope Is . water
tight silk fabric, laid over the burn. its
edges gummed to the unburned mar
gins. It has IN opening by which .
wound can be irrigated and treated,
without painful and risky changing Of
dressings.
Testosterone, the ynthetic male sex
hormone, used IN England and Germany.
Tor treating shock, the mental breakdown
Evening star., 1942-01-11

ing in organization which is invaluable,
and a doctors life gives one knowledge
of people and an understanding Of the
way they react to things that is helpful
in civic life
The 17O-pound Governor admits he's
little worried about getting too stout,
because he's put on five pounds since
taking Office. This, despite the fact that
he's almost a faddist on food, eating
only simple fare. A teetotaler and nom
smoker, Blood doesn't even drink coffee.
Evening star., 1942-01-11
Americas Only Doctor>Governor
WSds Word Photo.

He says one Of the reasons he can
carry on his twofold life. including the
gubernatorial demands for frequent
speechmaking. Is the fact that he can
catnap or snooze almost any time.
Il sleep Ike top" says DR.. Blood, who
has the back seat OF his car specially
designed for stretching out to take
maps. Il can go over bumps and rough
roads without awaking, and even the
radio doesn't bother me. It's only when
the car stops that wake up."
Evening star., 1942-01-11

special master in the case.
him to have the balance. He promptly
filed claim. Then the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania stepped forward with
its bid, to be defended by battling Irish
man named Thomas j. Minnick.
Few doubt that Mrs. Garrett knew
about her wealth. Walter Garrett had
received a large inheritance from his
father, also snuff king, and he pyra-
mided it with investments.
The Hunt for an Heir
If there was another will, it never has
been found, although investigators
searched so thoroughly that even the
little widows grave was reopened. This
was to investigate a story that q dis
gruntled maid hid will in the coffin as
Mrs. CARROTS body lay in state.
The hunt for an heir Is just as thor
ough, and sometimes just as sensational.
Minnick is ever on hand as the hear
ings slowly reduce the ranks Of claim
ants. He attacks every claim as phony.
His suspicion rests, first Of all, on SIM
pie arithmetic and biological facts. Even
If Mrs. Garrett had s. normal number of
aunts and uncles ano children, it is vir-
tually impossible for her to have $4,000
relatives 10 years after her death at 70.
The hooks with which many try to
fasten themselves to the family tree are
varied. There Is Virginian whose only
proof Of kinship Is that his Aunt Hen
rietta ran away with q man named Gar.
rett. One man stakes his hopes on the
fact that he has the name "Schaefer"
tatooed on his chest.
Many falter on the witness stand. A
st. Louis florist, one of the first claim
ants, disappeared mysteriously after tes-
tifying-falsely, 1t later developed-that
he was q brother. He never was heard
from again.
Some founder helplessly trying to
spot Uncle Jacob" or Aunt Susie"
among "a family pictures taken from
Mrs. CARROTS home and now displayed
in the hearing rooms.
One aged lady boasted from the wit
ness stand that she was Mrs. CARROTS
"favorite niece" that she had visited in
the Garrett home often and that she
knew Walter Garrett we'll
(which arm had he lost?" demanded
Minnick.
"The left one" came the reply-and
bang went her chances Of getting the
fortune. Walter Garrett had two good
arms.
Sooner or later every claimant gea
an opportunity to have his day in cours.
The largest group embraces 4.50l
claimants living In and near Staunton,
Va, and claiming descent from Jacob
Schaffer who died in 1728. It has not
yet been decided when their claim win
be taken up.
Currently. the investigators are occu-
pied with . claim filed by q man now
dead-but considered among those that
look promising. It is that Of Herman
Kretschmar. aged Okwsville. Okla. BACH
elor who contends he was first cousin
Of Mrs. Garrett and - former tobacco
salesman once peddled the snun upon
which the fortune was built. The claim
= being carried on By his estate.
Evening star., 1942-01-11
Combines Jobs Well.

Veteran State House attaches say that
DR.. Blood is able to carry on two jobs
well because he has brought to the State
House the scientists acumen for organ
ization and the doctors ability to handle
appointments with speed and dispatch.
In interviews, the short, blue-eyed,
balding executive answers questions
readily enough, but meanwhile he
glances through his square-top spec
tacles at a telegram, gives few in
structions to his stenographer, and
makes arrangements for a nighttime
speaking gagement-without losing the
train of his thought regarding the in
terview.
When, however, he thinks that enough
time has passed, he arises and termi-
nctes the session with one of those
eligmatic smiles that doctors sometimes
use when they say: Stay in bed to-
morrow, take a couple of these every
two hours and give me ring Thursday
If you're Worried"
The Governor says he rises at $50
O'Clock every morning, breakfasts ut Z
and is ready for hospital rounds or sur
gical appointments at 8. At 10 he goes
to the State House, stays there until
about o'clock-with a desk-Mnch
served to him meanwhile from 2
to receives Office calls at his downtown
medical Offices.
From 4 to he's at the State House
again and then at $50, If he has cleared
his desk, he makes few house calls.
Evenings, if he hasn't any speaking
engagements, he goes to his medical
Office again. but he says his patients
are not neglected because In case Of
emergency he always calls IN an asso-
ciate.
There's nothing in the doctors study
books that helps one to be 0overnor."
be says, but medical training gives tatn'