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Evening star., 1942-05-27
BY Lillian Cox Athey

These trees reach commercial ma
turity comparatively early-that is,
from Is to 30 years. They do not
live to be over 100 years old.
1t is not difficult to recognize
these trees and, as they are such
important friends, you will see why
they have been given such high
rank by those who have thorough
knowledge Of their value. The open
branching and the frondlike leaves
give the tree a plumelike appear
ance. These leaves are alternate
and pinnately compound. from to
IA inches long and composed OF
from 7 to 10 rounded leaflets. They
arrive in April and May. clothing
the tree in an exquisite shade OF
green. During rainy days or before
dark they fold up and the whole
leaf droops, after the fashion OF
the true acacias. In September
they turn a pale yellow before
futtering to the ground.
The flowers make their appear
ance before the leaves are fully
grown. They are fragrant. white
nealike blossoms and are perfect
that is, they have a pistil as vel
as stamens, and are hrimful Of
uectar, which accounts for the
heavy buzz of bees and other in
sects during the flow. In the place
where these blooms send forth
their invitation to their insect part
ners, beanlike pods with four Z
eight little dark orange seeds VII
swing from September on through
| the winter If spared by the winds
and birds.
Black locust wood Is considered
perfect for the insulator pins In
serted on the crossarms OF tele
phone and power lines. This wooe
| is heavy, durable and hard. M
other tree, with the exception o.
the Usage orange, has wood tina
is so durable in contact with th'
soil.
The black locust is now in grea
| demand for treenails for shipbuild
ing. It is needed for fence posts
mine timbers. poles and tool han
dies. Our greatest stands Of thi
utilitarian tree are in Tennessee
Kentucky. West Virginia and Vir'
J gtnia.
Evening star., 1942-05-27

found out all about them. That Is
the only way to keep out Of trouble
anl live to a ripe old age. Wisdom
is nothing but knowledge, and a
wise fox always knows what he Is
doing"
So Reddy wandered about all the
long night. 1t seemed as if it never
would pass, and yet ne wished it
would last forever. The more he
thought about it, the more afraid
he grew. At last he saw the first
beams from jolly, round, red Mr..
Sun creeping through the Green
Forest. The time had come and he
must choose between making his
boast good or being called coward
by everybody. Very, very slowly
Reddy Fox began to walk toward the
hin where Prickly Porky lives.
Evening star., 1942-05-27
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self up in q tree, where he could
see whether Reddy really did come
or not, and so there was nothing for
Reddy to do but to go and make
good his foolish boast if the strange
creature should appear. You see.
a number of little people had heard
him boast, and had heard Unc' Billy
dare him, and knew that If he didn't
make good he would never hear the
end of it, and would be called
coward by everybody.
Reddy didn't sleep at all well that
afternoon, and when at dusk he
started to hunt for his supper he
found that he had lost his appetite.
Instead Of hunting he spent most of
the night in trying to think of some
good excuse for not appearing at
Prickly Porky's hill at daybreak.
But think as he would he couldnt t
Evening star., 1942-05-27
Bedtime Stories
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.

1t almost always happens when . boaster
blows his horn.
He wishes that he hadn't eer the coming
of the morn.
Evening star., 1942-05-27

him. All he could think Of was that
queer story told by Peter Rabbit
and Unc' Billy Possum and the
scrape he had got himself into by
his foolish boasting. He just wan
dered about restlessly waiting for
daybreak and hoping that some
thing would turn up to prevent him
from going to Prickly Porky's hill.
He didn't dare to tell old Granny
Fox about it. He knew just what
she would say. 1t seemed as though
he could hear her sharp voice and
the very words:
Serves you right for boasting
about something you don't know
anything about. How many times
have told you that no good comes
of boasting? A wise fox never goes
near strange things until he has
Evening star., 1942-05-27

carvers of China and India have
become famous over the world.
Ivory is employed for fans, statues
and sman-scale models Of temples
and other buildings. Sets of ivory
chessmen have been made A car
yer may spend months of time on a
single chess set.
Some of the best ivory goes into
billiard balls also into piano keys
When we speak of true ivory"
we usually mean ivory obtained
from elephants. Yet the tusks of
the walruS and narwhal may be
classed as ivory, also the teeth OF
the hippopotamus.
Vegetable ivory is not true ivory,
but it is used to make buttons. 1t
Is obtained from ivory nuts which
grow on ivory palms. These trees
are natives of the New World, and
grow chiefly in South America.
For General Interest section Of your
serapbook)
Ten Of Frank Pape's illustrations
appear in the new picture leafiet,
"Africa's People and Customs" If
you want a copy, send stamped
t3-cent), self f-addressed envelope to
Uncel Ray, in care Of The Evening
Star.
I~e& Had
Read Uncle Ray in The Junior Star
Every Sunday.
War bonds are the premiums on
the insurance Of national liberty.
Don't let the policy lapse.
Evening star., 1942-05-27

IN the 18th century Jean and Yes
basin Robin Oerbalists to the King
Of France, introduced the black
locust to Europe. Today 1t Is the
most generally accepted American
tree abroad.
These trees attain heights Of 40
TO 80 feet and a trunk diameter
of to 4 feet. They prefer we'll
drained, fertile loan or reddish
brown subsoils with a limestone
origin having brown or reddish
brown subsoils. However, they will
DO we'll in almost any soil, with the
exception of sandy. wet, heavy OF
acid soil.
Naturally, the rate of growth
varies widely in different soils and
climates in the United States
Where all Ii favorable the black
locust will be large enough for
fence posts In from 10 to 20 years
Evening star., 1942-05-27

1t almost always happens Wnen . ooAstef
blows his horn.
He wishes that he hadn't eer the coming
Reddy Fox wished so with all his
might. He wished that he had kept
his tongue still about not being
afraid to meet the strange creature
that had given Peter Rabbit such q
fright. When he had boasted that
he wouldn't be afraid Of it, but that
If he should meet 1t he would stop
to find all about 1t, he didn't have
the least intention Of doing anything
Of the kind. He was just idly boast
ing and nothing more. You see,
Reddy is very fond Of boasting. He
is one Of the greatest boasters in
the Green Forest or on the Green
Meadows. He likes to strut around
and talk big. But like most boasters
he is a coward at heart.
Unc' Billy Possum knew this, and
so he dared Reddy to 60 the next
morning to the foot OF the hill
where Prickly Porky the Porcupine
lives, and where Peter Rabbit had
had his strange adventure, and
where Unc' Billy himself claimed to
have seen the same strange creature
without head, tail or legs which had
50 frightened Peter. Unc' Billy had
said that he would be there him
Evening star., 1942-05-27
think Of q single excuse that would

sound reasonable.
"If only Bowser the Hound wasn't
chained up at night I would get
him to chase me, and then I would
have the very best kind of an ex-
cuse," thought he. But he knew
that Bowser was chained. Neverthe-
less, he did. go up to Farmer
Browns dooryard to make sure. 1t
was just as he expected-Bowser was
chained.
Reddy sneaked away without even
look at Farmer Browns henhouse.
He didn't see that the door had care
lessly been left open, and even II
he had it would have made no
difference. He hadn't a bit Of
appetite. No sir. Reddy Fox wouldn't
have eaten the fattest chicken there
II It had been right there before
Evening star., 1942-05-27
NATURES CHILDREN
(Robinia pseudoacacia)

Black locusts are in class A among
all trees because they are i'm
portant soil-builders. They have
a spreading fibrous root system and
the ability (present in most legumi-
nous plants to develop nitrogen
fixing nodules on their roots, which
Is vital to the reclamation Of soils
and control of erosion.
The black locust Is native to the
Appalachian Mountains from Penn
sylvania to Georgia and to parts
of Arkansas and Eastern Okla
homa, but it has been successfully
established in every State. Early
Evening star., 1942-05-27

War bonds are the premiums on
the insurance Of national liberty.
Don't let the policy lapse.
Evening star., 1942-05-27
1~eAx Ra4

Read Uncle Ray in The Junior Star
Every Sunday.
Evening star., 1942-05-27
"Yuh know-you need a haircut.

~ Msmbs Of the armed invited send Il ren osin.l
pssd snS viii eosd the fsr,oG His VII sc
Evening star., 1942-05-27
Points for Parents
BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE

Trying to keep up tDith Mrs.
Jones spending OF time may be
as disastrous as endedporing to
tollo1D her lead In the spending
OF money.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-10

a weekend guest at the home of Mr..
and Mrs Marshall Mclean.
Mr.. and Mrs Bert DeGood left
last week for Yakima where he viii
be employed. DeGood has been man
I ager of the Columbia Basin orchard
here for number Of years.
Rev. and Mrs. Robert Allen of
Selah, Wash, called at Dry Falls
park. Rev Allen was "best man" at
the wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. Giezen-
tanner seven years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Guenther and
son, Bill, of Walla Walla. former
residents here, visited friends dur
ing the weekend.
Mrs. Peter Wanamaker is visiting
relatives in Oregon.
MIR and Mrs. Oscar Singert were
visitors in Spokane Saturday.
Mrs. H. F. Bledsoe left yesterday
for her home in Seattle. after visit
+ ing several days with her parentss,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. T. Giezentanner.
Mrs. Ted Jenkins and son, Teddy,
| Jr., OF Spokane visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Mitchell this week.
O. J. Martin left Tuesday for New
York, where he was called by the
serious illness of his sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Mitchell and
daughter Shirley, took Mrs. Mitch
ellis sister. Mrs. Roy Stevenson to
Wenatchee Sunday from where she
continued on to her home in Port
land after visit here.
Junior Triplett, Bonneville, spent
the weekend and holiday with his
parents.
! Mrs. Fred Scheibner is a patient
at the Mason City hospital where
she underwent minor operation
on Tuesday.
Registrations at Dry Falls for
the month of August were 1892,
big reduction from last years to-
tai for the same month.
Mrs. George Smith and Mrs. Bill
Patterson spent Saturday in Spo-
kane.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred VALLEY are
acting as caretakers at the Colum-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-10
WASHINGTON WEEKLY SHORTS

Five Aberdeen Residents Out $40
Five residents of Aberdeen, Wash
lost $240 in hard-earned currency,
thirteen tires and all prospects of
getting new tires or recaps for the
duration last week, because they
had purchased "hot tires from a
bootlegger."
The "bootlegger" is alleged to
have stolen the tires and is in Jail
The fact that the tires may or may
not have been stolen did not influ-
ence the status of the five purchas-
ers, according to the OPA. Under
the Second War Powers Act, illegal
purchasers of rationed items may be
punished by a fine of $4,000 pen
atty, year in Jail, or both. In this
case, one of OPA's first crackdowns,
they were only forced to return the
tires to their former owner for ra-
tioning.
The "bootlegging" was discovered
when a waitress in tavern happen
ed to mention she knew where tires
could be purchased-and OPA heard
the whisper
War Production Board Still Hunt
ing Jalopies-
An intensified drive to increase
the turnover of discarded jalopies
from the auto graveyards of the Pa
cific Northwest to meet the increas-
ing demands for scrap iron and steel
is being waged by A. F. Blangy
district chief, Auto Graveyard Sec
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-10

bia Basin orchard.
Bill Austin and Bob Jones left
this week for Seattle where they
will enter the University of Wash
ington. Bob has joined the army en-
listed reserve, while Bill joined the
Coast Guard reserve. The boys will
go to an officers training school at
the finish of their studies at the
university.
FOR SALE-Modern home. Five
rooms, bath. Fine cellar; two lots.
Reasonable. W. G. Caldwell. adv.
The Misses Betty Chappell and
Billie Jean Lewis returned to Spo-
kane after vacation with their pa
rents here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Rhodes, Jr.,
and son. Stanley, spent the weekend
here.
Mrs Calvin Higginbotham is
spending a weeks vacation in Spo-
kane.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Swank of
Occur d'Alene, Idaho, were guests
of MIR. and Mrs. Clyde Evans over
the weekend.
SEND PROKEN GLASSES Direct
20 DR.. Alfred E. Jones, Box 1915,
Spokane. Glasses manufactured by
recognized dispensers. adv. If
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-10

ed 20 pounds. the retail price was
$500 have sold fat hogs in
eastern Oregon for less money 1T
are all of those price ceilings any
how?? Yakima peaches are sell
ing in some Seattle markets today
for $3.50 small box ,..--- Wonder
what the grower got for them
May be about time for we common
folks to take more interest in some
of these things.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-10
Attorney Generals Opinion May
Have Far-Rcaching Effect

Officials of various counties are
becoming interested in the opinion
of Attorney General Smith Troy, de-
livered on August Fl for Chelan
county. This county had issued bonds
for the construction of court house
without providing i'll the bond itself
for "call date that is for the
privilege of paying the bonds before
their due date. This practice has
been accept for years by bond deal
ers and buyers as preCluding any
possibility of payment before the
regular due date Now the attorney
general says, the county may call
the bonds and thus stop high in
terest payments. If SO, this will
ave counties a lot of money in in
terest. The state has an issue of
such bonds outstanding too.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-10

in Spokane.
Miss Hilda Mesick was a guest
at the home of her parents in Spo.
kane over the weekend and holiday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Schumacher
and children and Juanita LETTERS Of
Spokane spent the weekend and La
Dor Day at the l.. E. LETTERS home.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Osborn and
daughter of Seattle returned to their
home after a visit with her moher,
Mrs. j. 7. Davidson.
Mr.. and Mrs E. M. Bogart visited
relatives in Kellogg this week.
Mrs. Ethel McGain OF Almira was
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-10
CITY IN BRIEF

Mr.. and Mrs. Allan Dudley and
Roger of Longview were here Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmie Borst left
Thursday for Hood River to make
their home
Mrs. j. H. Woods has returned
from the Deaconess hospital at We
natchee where she has been pa
tent
Mr.. and Mrs. a. j. Twining and
Mrs. H. R. Heron spent Saturday
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-10
ABOUT THE STATE
Continued from page u

stopped the fishing at the end of
the third day because of heavy
supply------Canneries stopped weigh
ing fish to save time Paid S1.OS
each instead We rushed to our
market the day the report came.
And paid 43 cents per pound fol
fresh salmon. that fish weigh
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-10

Seattle Advertising Man Joins Staff
OF State OPA-
r. E. Morgan, widely-known Sc
attic advertising man, was named
State Commodity Rationing Repre-
sentative by Henry B. Owen, State
Director of OPA.
Thoroughly experienced in mer-
chandising, Morgan for 10 years was
advertising manager for Frederick
& Nelson, serving as vice president
in charge of advertising and sales
when he resigned in 1929 to become
assistant to the publisher of the Sc
attic Times Since 1880 he has
headed his own advertising agency
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-10

ton, WPB. Auto graveyards are a
rich mine of scrap metal from
which the furnaces must obtain
a good share of the 100000 tons
of scrap month in order to keep
operating at full capacity during the
coming winter.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-10

IN LIVELY COMEDY: Above
domesticiy
Miland Char Cecil Keaway.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-15
ALLIED FL|ERS REPORT
NAzIS FLEEING TR|P0L|
italians Close
Schools, Use Radio
BY UNITED PRESS


The German radio said Tues
day that some 100000 Italian
school children would be in
Structed at home bv radio while
schools are closed until Feb. 16.
In Dispatch from Rome,
broadcast in English, the Ger
man Transocean news service
explained that the closing of
the schools for the Christmas
holidays had to be PROLONGED
owing TO shortage of coal"
Reports last week from italy by
way of neutral Switzerland in
timated that the closing was
part Of the Italian govern
ment's plan for evacuating
children and others frOr, cities
subject to ar ids.
Transoce:n said special teach
ers had been selected to give
the lessons by radio. The child
rem were told to sit by the fam
ilv radio set. with copybooks,
pen. ink, g!sJoooks and all
their usual equipment. They
will be given eXtrp work to be
done after school hours"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-15

now have pushed northWard from
Tengchung in a Spearhead drive
which he described as a preliminary
to the real offensive" against Kun
ming. The spokesman said the Jap
anese were attempting to destroy
Chinese forces north of Tengchung
before opening the campaign against
Running, which he predicted will
be attempted soon.
The tabloid Hsin Min Pao urged
that British, American and Indian
troops Immediately counter-attack
in Burma, Synchronizing with the
Chinese troops in west Yunnan."
The Shih Sih Sin Pao said:
We don't understand why the
Allies still are dilly- y-dallying. We
have heard enough of Churchills
and Wayell's speeches. Now we want
action"
The time is ripe for concerted
action against Burma. The situation
is very clear. Burma is the first
pivot for Far Eastern land opera
tions against the Japanese. With
Burma under Japanese occupation
the enemy is able to hold Singa-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-15
WLB TO Intervene
As Strike Denies
News to New York
Delivery Workers In
Work Stoppage to
Force JOB Freezing

NEW YORK. Dec. Is. (UP)
The War Labor Board was
expected to intervene for
mally today and demand
that a strike by the News
paper and Mail Deliveries union
indepeis1ent against the eight
major New York newspapers end at
CnCe.
The WIB asked the union to 90
back to work. ard the union re-
fused However. the WLB had not
assumed formal jurisdiction.
Frances Perkins, secretary of Ia
Dor. was expected shortly to certifg
it to the WLB, permitting the VILE
to order the strikers back to work
If they refused to obey such al
order they would do so in defiance
of President RooSevelts wartime
authority, under which the VILE
operates.
The eight newspapers. which have
total circulation of 3.500,000 a day
have not been delivered to news
stands since Sunday, when the strike
began.
Conferences involving TIC union
the New York Publishers aSSocia
ton, which represents the struck
newspapers, and federal and state
labor mediation officials were re-
Cessed last night after four hours
They were to be resumed today
but unless there is immediate agree
mcnt thre can be no general circu-
latiOn CT the Post, the Sun. the
Journal-American and the World
Continued on Page 6. Col. 3
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-15
for
SoIomons Wounded

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-U.PD
Read Admiral William Chambers
of the Navy Medical Corps, Just re-
turned from the South Pacific, re-
ported today that the mortality rate
among wounded cvacl>atcd from
the SolomonS to mobile hospitals
remains below the normal expect
ancy.
He said the major share of credit
for this situation was due to speedy
evacuation of The wounded to fully
stated. Wcll-cQuipped hospitals,
Sulfa drugs, blood plaSma, tctanus
toxoid. and efficient doctors and
hospital corps mon.
Rear Admiral Ross II. Mcintyre,
Navy surgeon general, reported last
month that the mortality rate
amoGnt wounded evacuated from
the SolomonS was only | per cent
for The first 1000 men. This COM
pared with . normal expectancy ol
at least 5 per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-15

Imperial county residents have
two wartime salvage campaigns
running simultaneously, the new
born tin can collection campaign
and the full blown scrap metal
campaign.
Since Uncle Sam still needs both
tin and scrap metal. committees
cc"ided to continue both campaigns
at once.
II. w. taWCett, chairman OF the
Imperial county tin can salvage
committee. Tuesday announced the
Charmen for each community. They
arc: A. J.. Her2Og for Ell Centre. w.
L. Townsend for Imperial. Fred
Siuccia for RraWlcV. A HarPrn for
Bard. j. Giegrich for Calexico.
Frank Lyall for WcStmorland, Ben
Young for Holtvillc, Martin Hurlie
for Calipatria. and Clarence Rcvcl
Tor Wintcrhavcn.
The staggering totals in the scrap
metal campaign inspired the tin
can collection committee to put
Imperial county over the top of the
Tin can pic.
Meanwhile the scrap metal totals
continued to molmt. Al the same
time shipments were rolling out of
various valley communities in ever
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-15

Bun q
Enemyin Trouble
On All Fronts as
Offensives Grow
PY UNITED PRESS

Axis armies appeared to
be in serious trouble on the
African and Pacific battle
fronts Tuesday.
The German Afrika Korps
continued it's retreat across Tripoll-
tania and there were reports that
Marshal Erwin Rommel might
abandon the Axis base in Tripoli to
the British Eighth Army and retire
into Tunisia for last stand. Lon
don heard reports that Rommel
himself had gone to Bizerte to as
sumo command of the defense OF
Tunisia.
Four days of Allied aerial recon-
naissance revealed that Axis supply
ships are leaving Tripoli for Tunl-
Sia.
The British Eighth Army was
pushing the Afrika KorpS back to
the other end of the Allied pincers
in Tunisia where American planes
bombed German reinforcement baS-
es along the coast.
In New Guinea, Japanese troops,
driven from the key town OF Buna.
tried to cling to their positions near
Sanananda but Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthurs Allied troops slowly were
pushing them into the sea.
Four weeks of hard fighting came
to a climax when the Allies occu-
pied Buna. United Press Staff Cor
respondent Frank Hewlett, who
went through the siege of Bataan
and now is with the Allied troops
in New Guinea, reported that the
terrain leading to Buna was more
difficult than that IN the Philip
pines. The Americans and Austral-
ians had bested the Japanese jun
gle fighters at their own game.
JAPS HOLD AIR STRIP
The Japanese still clung precar-
iouSly to the Buna air strip and had
foothold around the village of
Sanananda. but their position was
desperate and it seemed only a
matter Of time until they would be
knocked out.
The Japanese made last attempt
to land reinforcementS at Buna and
stave off the Allied assault. They
sent heavily guarded convoy to
the rescue, but Allied planes kept
it under bombardment for two days
and the ships never got closer than
II miles to Buna. They finally turn
cd and fled. A Japanese communi-
que made no mention OF the latest
defeat in New Guinea, but claimed
that four Allied ships and "A planes
had been destroyed in the Buna
fighting.
GERMANS SQUEEZED
In North Africa the pincerS closed
tighter on Axis troops from east
and west Gen. Sir Bernard l.. Mont
gomery's British Eighth Army con-
tinued its pursuit OF the Afrika
Korps into Tripolitania. Marshal
Continued on Page 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-15
Congress Ends Two
Years of Work

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15-tUPp--
The 77th congress voted unani-
mouSly TODAY to adjourn sine die
tomorrow after being in session al
most two years.
Senate adoption Of an adjourn
ment resolution was followed short
II by house approval.
Adjournment will end an his
toric congress which voted declara-
tons cf war for the first time
since 1917; passed about $200.000,-
OO0.G00 in war appropriations ant
authorizations. and imposed the
highest taxes in this country'S his
tory.
The 77th congress began its work
jan. 3. l94l. Its successor, tho
18th, will convene Jan. 6.
The present congress, FIRST SeS-
sion lasted from Jan. 3, l94l, to
Jan. 3, 1912. inclusive a total OF
365 days. This record had beer
exceeded only b. the 10th congress.
whose third session lasted 366 days.