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Washington-Ex-War Production
Board Head Donald NJ. Nelson. af-
ter mission to china: "China's gov
eminent is now throwing its weight
i~'o the job of winning the war;
Washington-Sen. Harry +. Byrd.
(D).Va). on nomination of Henry
A. Wallace to be Secretary of Com
MERGE: The nomination is a chal-
lenge to our principles of govern
ment. Certainly he is antagonists
to what | have known as the prl.
vate enterprise system
Washington-Se Theodore Bill.
DO (D) Miss: The Republican par
ty and few Democrats are busy In
the process of making Wallace a
martyr and making him the Demo
cratic presidential candidate in
194S. and if he. is nominated. he
will be elected"
Canberra, Australia-Prime Min
lister John curtin In n birthday
message to Gen. Douglas MacArth-
ur: we regard 1t as a favorable
owen for Australia that your natal
day should also be Australia's ma
tional day. Your sDlendid success
in the cause OF Australia. your own
country and the United Nations
has won tho admiration of the
world"
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. agencies, errors sometimes admit
ted and sometimes covered up, but
never sufficiently rectified To make
ii possible for the retailer TO earn
a fair return. This applies par
ticularly TO butchers and the proof
lies I'm the fact that so many are
closing down, No one gives up a
profitable business.
,, Even in time OF war. the law
of supply and demand will con
tinue to function no matter what Is
done 10 suspend or abrogate il.
Black Markets come into existence
for several reasons. often. becarse
of the seltishness of men. The
present so-called Black Market is
not Of that character. 1t is actually
an unpremeditated and unarranged
consent agreement between the
seller and buyer under which the
buyer tacitly agrees to a rectifica-
ton of OPA errors by a slight in
crease in price by the seller.
1t is a very bad process. II opens
the way to excessive price in
tItdStS. IL opens tne way 10 Gov
runt practices such as tipping OF
sales clerks, secret oveycharg %.
thumbing the scale and a thousand
and one devices that the human
mind is capable of connecting.
The cure for such evils is the
proper price administration by the
government agencies chargedi with
that function. Cancelling 10000
100000 red points is not proner
administration; il is an admission
of inconvenience. Even before this
country went to war, Bernard VI.
Baruch, our keerest intellect in
the economic field, and Herbert
Hoover who was in charge of food
during the last war. advised Con-
gress how to do the lob. Their
advice was based uDon experiences
garnered ont of the last war when
many errors were made in a virgin
field. Their advice was rejected
and all our present troubles a~ise
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Side|ights on The News

Those tough fighting men OF ours
oversees are so used to handling
the lethal tools of war that appar-
emily they don't realize soc OF
the trophies they send home are
DANGEROUS.
There was, for instance. the case
Of TIE reading lamp. 1t was quite
a beautiful lamp, fashioned from
several large and small Jan shells.
But in the base Of the brass orna
ment was enough powder to pillow
UP whole family.
Scores of ver.table BOBBY traps
are found weekly in boxes and
packages sent to relatives and
friends by well-intentioned service
men in war theaters. reports Will
liam Jennings Bryan, Jr.. collec.
tor of customs for the port of Los
Angeles.
He ordered the confiscation OF
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More on The OPA
TheseDayss%y s sso '' Z: 5oH0t2%;
More on The OPA

Letters have poured in on me on
the subject of my articles on OPA
and as usual they run about $3.50 i'm
praise and disagreement. Also
there are citations OF injustice One
woman telephoned to say that she
had two unopened cases OF yege.
tables on her floor that her husband
had brought from the wholesale
market TO which he had returned
for more. She did not know what
price TO put on the vegetables. She
sells in a mixed district-well-to-do
persons who want higher grades;
poor folks who want cheap prices.
The OPA inspector came along
and raised Cain with this woman
because she had no price tags. 1t
is impossible to investigate this
instance personally because 1t is
days old and am giving the story
as received II, but il was obvious
from her indignation that another
inspector, whether right or wrong.
behaved as though he were al
mighty.
Those who disagree with what I
write of the OPA make four gen
eral points
/. | defend the Black Market;
?. Prices must be kept down:
3. Retailers are congenital
cheats;
4. Most OPA service is volun-
tary.
think that all this is beside the
point. The facts in the situation
are these:
|. Retail shops are rapidly clos
ing down because the retailer is
squeezed between the ceiling prices
and the increased cost OF opera
lions. II is uneconomic and un~ea-
sonable to expect anyone to work
for Inadequate paw and the retailer
has a right TO return on his invest
ment. his work and his time Re
is now the victim OF errors made
by the OPA and other government
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Wolf in Mans ;. Clothing
Oy
Mic : Il c.aarT

was running there in the meadow
! reached tie T9cE wall a few f2c.
away and began 70 scramble over it.
Just then another shot whizzed
lower, over my head and the stone
wall. And knew that the scram-
bling figure was at least thirty feet
from me, but that the shots came
from somewhere in the darkening,
irregular meadow below, possibly
from the wooded valley which
seemed to outline the bed Of a small
stream.
Whoever crawled over the stone
wall had ducked; at least no figure
emerged from the shadow of rock
and shrubs.
Suddenly small automobile
whirled around the bend in the
road and began to climb the little
ridge, its lights streaming ahead. l
crept out, running low in the shell
ter Of the rock wall and into those
welcome lights and stopped the car.
In it was DR.. Chivery. He leaned
out to look at me incredulousiy as,
keeping the car between me and
the dusky meadow, | approached.
MISS Redto :"
Somebody's shooting at me !!
From the meadow"
Another figure doomed up from
the shelter of the wall and it was
the maid Anna. Her braids had
slipped over one ear, giving her a
rakish air which almost belied the
terror in her eyes. She gasped,
Doctor - please, sir - someone's
shooting-in the meadow"
Neither DR.. Chivery nor spoke I;
in the little glow from the dash
light his chin retreated still further
and his slightly popped eyes seemed
to take on a kind of reflection OF
the terror in the maids face.
Then Anna caught a long, rasp-
ing breath and said, still painting
81 manufacturing rabbits, I sup
pose, sir. IL was walking in the
meadow, when IL heard someone
in the brush along - along the
brook. lit frightened me. IL
ran :" Her eyes shifted to me
and back to the doctor. "And just
then-as | got to the wall-the
shots began" She paused again,
then said, Doctor, would you mind
taking me back to the housed /
I'm late. Beevens :"
Without a word DR.. Chivery
reached back, swung open the door
to the rear seat, and | got in and
so did Anna. Still silent, he turned
and started back for the Bren;
place. He took US to the house, up
the winding drive to the front door
where he deposited US.
/ thanked him and he drove of
with, it seemed to me, that queer
reflection Of terror still in his eyes
Anna hurried to open the dool
for me. She had caught her breath
and Strengthened the blonde braid,
around her head.
who was in the meadow
Anna?"
81 don't know, Miss."
So let her 60.
But she knew as we'll as did that
our hunter wasn't shooting at rab-
bits. IL was too dark 10 have taker
a good potshot at anything smaller
than q horse-or a human, sllhou
cited against the gray sky.
| glanced in the morning room
where Nieky was reading. His bach
was toward me but his smsll head
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such items as japanese machine
gun, knee mortar, small and
large ammunition, a Jap pointed
wooden cartridge, signal flares, in
cendia~y bombs and bullets and
delayed-action- grenades.
Non-explosive trophies like enc
ny guns and knives may be per-
nitted to continue on Their way
uron clearance by federal author
tiles.
HARMLESS gifts go right through
without delay, of course. In the
past year some 10000 carved and
decorated cocoanuts and $4,000
grass hula skirts have been check
ed through the customs Office.
In charge of examining the pack
aged war trophies is Tech. Cpl.
Robert Cco~er. demolition expert
assigned to the customs office.
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from the ct that we started de
noyo and very impractically. Send
ing out a mob OF OPA inspectors to
prosecute retailers will no more
abate the evils OF the Black Market
than the VClstead Act abolished
the consumption OF alcohol,
II II is recognized that price tx'
ing is essential as an artificial re-
straint upon the law Of demand and
supply. It is essential, in the perm
anent national interest, that the
small business man, the small
manufacturer and the small retail
er should not be driven out of bust
ness. Some of my letter writer's at
tack the retailer as though he were
a profiteer. earning huge sums out
of his oyprcharges. II these small
butchers knew anything about pub
lie relations. they would post their
income tax returns in their win
dows for all customers to see what
II is they have left over when all
is said and done.
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and wildly checked coat were UNI
nistakable. However ! felt about
him, it couldn't have been Nicky
shooting at rabbits or at me. No
body else was around and went to
my room, took off my cape, and
again cast my mind back over the
few things / knew of the murder of
Conrad Brent, After while | had
to give up; if those shots had been
intended to remove me and at the
same time any clue in my possess
sion, l didn't know what that clue
was.
. | didn't 60 in TO see Drue for, =
little belatedly, ! .bethought myself
of my patient and the fact that he
had been presumably alone, with
DR.. Chivery dashing about the
roads in his little car and Anna fee
ing from bullets in the meadow. On
the way to his room | stopped and
told the trooper on guard in the hall
what had happened.
So l went on to Craig's room
where | found Peter Huber with
him, both talking of Chivery. "Who
does he think did it," asked Peter
as | entered the room and Craig
looked at me, said Hello, Miss
Keate," and replied to Peter. "He
says he doesn't know. He says it
had to be somebody that knew
about digitalis. How much to give
and how. He says you've got to give
enough to cause heart block, as il
does, right away. If you give too
little there are all kinds Of symp-
toms of poisoning--nausea and con-
vulsions and-but that isn't what
happened"
Craig took a quick breath and
went on hurriedly, "Claud has been
looking it up in his reference
books" He frowned. "He says he
doesn't know who did it. But :"
"But what, Craig?"
"Oh. Nothing. :" He paused
again, frowned into space and said,
"If only could get up and aboutl
II | could even find out who it was
that gave me this. =" His fingers
touched the bandage on his temple.
81 didn't see anybody didn't even
hear anything. Look, Pete, scout
around little, will you? Find out,
if you can, exactly who was up and
about till midnight or shortly be-
fore. Find out what happened at
dinner. :"
Nothing happened at dinner"
said Peter. 81 was there"
A touch Of evaporation crossed
Craig's face.
YOU'D better 90 now, Mr.. HUI
ber," | suggested. cycling the tinge
of scarlet that was coming up in
Craig's lean cheeks.
"Wait, not yet, Nurse" said
Craig quickly. Listen, Pete, keen
your eyes open and tell me if you
see anything out Of the way. And
and another thing" Craig hesi-
tated, shot me an oblique glance and
said, Look through the house and
see IL you can find some yellow
gloves. Loose-biggish. Don't let
anybody know and if you find them,
bring them here"
Peter nodded "Okay." And then
I sent him away. But Craig said no
more of the mysterious yellow
gloves and, still aware of his condi-
ton. didn't ask further question:
Ito be conti1ued)
c.pyrishs 81 kisnoo ro.rhsri
oistxibutsd b. kns Fssigrs syndicst.. -
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BY PAUL MALLION

WASHINGTON. - The govern
ment is sponsoring a food scare.
New York's Mayor LaGuardia has
been calling for meatless days. Lo-
cal retioning boards are putting out
to their newspapers around the coun-
try alarming predictions Of search
ties. Some people are concluding 1t
is just the usual government fright
campaign TO get desired popular re-
action. but this time II Is real.
Hard as this may be for the aver
age maidless housewife in the
kitchen TO believe, after all the stuff
she has been hearing about great
food stockpiles in government hoard
ing to feed the world. and large re-
serves bought up by the army and
navy, the truth is VIC could lose this
war on the food front II we do not
have good crop weather this spring.
Behind the tightening condition Is
an explanation the government Is
not telling, namely that II misman-
aged Its food supplies situation last
year and Is now reaping the harvest
OF its mistakes.
Look at poultry. The government
last summer thought it was faced
with an over-supply, expected the
war to be won swiftly in France.
and discouraged poultry raisers
from Matching eggs. That now
proves to have been very bad judy
ment, and there is a shortage Of
poultry.
In hogs, the farmers we're SINH
larly scared OF an over-supply, and
reduced their feeder schedule upon
government advice. We are now
short on pork.
The sheep feeders ran into cold
weather at lambing time last year,
and we have a shortage Of lamb
Beef Prices Too Low.
Beef has been handled so slop
PLY as to discourage production.
Last summer both the OPA and
VIA (War Food administration
promised no ceiling price would be
put on cattle, but one is now about
to be applied.
An investigator went out TO the
midwest to hold hearings and re-
ported the farmers were for a S17.50
ceiling. This proved to be false.
Feeder stock had been bought for
around SIS, to put on 200 to 400
additional pounds, and . $3.50 cell
ing would have meant ruination OF
this production process. So now the
ceiling will be upped TO SIS SO as
not to discourage the production Of
this additional meat.
But in order that the price to the
consumer not be raised. the govern
ment is 10 pay the packers an addi-
tional 81 per 100 pounds subsidy out
OF the treasury and the taxpsy-
ers' pocketbooks "a secret price in
crease under which those who pay
taxes actually pay a portion OF
the rice on steaks bought by ev-
err e.
81 this retracing and self.repudi-
alto 5y the government officials ma
turaiy tended to demoralize the
cate industry and scare of pro-
ducuon.
Worse than this, the war man.
power commission is threatening to
draft farm help and the War Pro-
duction board is cutting down or out
the ALLEGATIONS for production of new
farm machinery. The local draft
boards in farm communities. how.
ever, have shown some signs Of re-
voting against drafting More farm
help. and frankly. l doubt that VINO
orders will be obeyed.
Yet it is clear that farm help,
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Danger ofFood Shortage
This Year Believed Real

lew machinery. and parts for re-
pairs will be scarcer than last year
II spring weather is bad, we will
be in trouble. As for large reserves,
we simply do not have them in any
line.
The department Of agriculture il
now out holding meetings to get the
farmers TO increase planting. and
extension directors are doing good
constructive work. but the OPA,
WA, and the other government
bureaus are doing nothing to extend
production that ! can see.
Bureaucratic wranglinE.
Indeed, there Is constant quarrel
ing and pickering on policy between
OPA and VIA which is somewhat
demoralizing, and coordinator Vim
sons Office is full Of left-wing boys
who always have sociology upper
most in mind.
II is evident then that this new
food scare has more validity behind
il than in former cases. although
the wrong reasons are being Of
fered by the administration. natural.
ly enough, in order to cover its old
mistakes. People are eating more, !"
they say. for instance. l doubt that
this is true.
O.. L..
tured = large quantity Of our
canned goods In their Belgian
smash, and there Is some black
market seepage corruption from
army supplies In France. but II Is
hard to believe the official excuse
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that q soldier In France eats more
than In the United States. Lend lease
Is taking no more, and, indeed. our
own supply situation is preventing
US from living up. to commitments.
Army has secured several convic-
lions for black market operations.
How many have been concerned with
foodstuff IL not known.
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CHAPTER TwENTY-SIX


Nicky practically invited suspi
eion, and so did his twin sister
Alexia. She was young, beautiful
married to man she fatty declared
she had never loved and that man
was the father of a man to whom
she had been all but engaged and
for whom, apparently, she still
cherished what appeared TO be far
from a purely stepmotherly regard.
/ thought Of her kneeling beside
Craig, and the things she had said.
"You knew - you always knew !
never loved Conrad" And then,
"a. all that is ended now for US
both, my darling" Craig hadn't
exactly said. "Oh, isn't that fine,
hurrah, my fathers dead and you
are free!" Still, he hadn't said,
Don't be fool, Alexia," or even
looked it.
Yet there was no real evidence
against either Nicky or Alexia.
Nor, as to that, against Peter HUI
Der or Maud Chivery. Maud had
all but run the household during
the long years of Conrad's widow
erhood; il would not have been un-
natural for her TO feel kind of
jealousy for her young supplanter,
Alexia. But Maud fairly exuded an
almost belligerent responsibility
which did not go with the secret,
horribly urgent emotion that finds
its only relief in murder.
So | went on to Peter Huber. He
had appeared on the scene almost
as soon as had. He had fumbled
around about the telephone call TO
the doctor; he had run straight up
stairs at the sound Of something
falling and had disappeared. And
while he was no relation and so
couldn't profit directly by Conrad
Brent's death (as all Of the others
might conceivably do, even the
Chiverys) he might have a motive
IL he we're in love with Alexia. Yet
certainly no man is going to MUIR
der woman's husband without
making sure that he's going to get
the woman and (if I had eyes in
my head) it wasn't Peter Alexia
wanted; it was Craig, and Craig
knew it. Besides, Peter Huber was
only friend happening to be there
as an innocent bystander does hap
pen to be on the spot
DR.. Claud Chivery remained. He
had prescribed the medicine which
might have some as yet unsuggest-
ed significance; and somewhere in
the history Of that long friend
ship between the Chiverys and the
Brents might lie seeds for murder.
But again there was no evidence.
II had grown dusk as stood
th-rc, although the sky was still
light, 80 realized later that, or
the little ridge. ] was silhouetted
from below against the clear gray
light. A lemon-colored star came
out above the eastern hills. 1t was
colder. too. so | pulled my cape
more tightly around me and pulled
the hood over my head. And it was
just then that heard somebody
running heavily across the meadow
toward me.
Something buzEed Sharply
through the dusk over my head;
heard that before the crack Of the
shot. fell upon my hands and
knees behind the stone wall just a:
both sounds came again. Whoever
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Tuesday, $50 .. m.-Children's
League.
Daily. Monday through Friday,
5 p. m.--Chime-time Story Hour.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:45 p.
m-Simmond's Story Hour
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Wednesday, 1880 p. m.-Midweek
service OF prayer
Baptist Tabernacle
Wednesday, p. m.-Prayer Ser
vice and Bible Study.
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Church Briefs

Christ Lutheran Chanel
(1450 Midway Blvd
Wednesday, $3.50 p. m.-Junior
DIR rehearsal.
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Deaths from starvation in Ben
gal province alone were estimated
al 100000 a week during the 1913
famine i'm India
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More than half the working pop
ulation Of Hungary is engaged In
agriculture.
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Exact Measurements

You don't have to know what all
these mean. put them down SIM
ply to give the impression that
they are exact measurements, car
ried out in a chemical laboratory
and hence not influenced by the
unrestrained imaginings of the ex-
aminer.
There is no place here for the
record Of personality deviations,
Rbnormalities of reproductive
functions or mental activity. These
still remain to the examiners opin-
ion. But in most instances, if there
is anything wrong in these de-
partments which is due to endo-
crime disturbance, the objective
tests as given above will show
some change and it is found in
practice safe TO stick to them for
the determination Of a final judg-
ment.
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were found to influence growth,
weight, nutrition and reproductive
functions and, by implication, per-
sonality, mental life and many
other not readily definable aspects
of health and happiness.
The public was as charmed as
the medical profession with the
possibilities and even more guilt
bic in their willingness to take
shots" designed to improve the
character, complexion and social
graces.
Hopes Too High
Undoubtedly, in many instances,
they got their hopes too high and
as natural consequence there has
been a reaction of disappointment
and skept.cism about these won
der working extracts.
Someone asked me the other
day along these lines whether
there we're any solid objective
methods Of examining a person to
see whether any disturbance Of
the endocrines existed. He was
under the impression that doctors
just sort of guessed that because
this person was too stout or too
short or little eccentric that this
or that endocrine extract would
fix HIM up SO he tried two or three
in highly experimental mood.
The question has a good deal Of
point and deserves an answer. II
the enthusiastic layman, beguiled
by endocrine fairy tales, had look
ed in one of the more conservative
medical treatises on the subject,
he would have found statements
for which proof can be adduced,
and quite a dearth of the wlshful
thinking about the effects of en-
doctrines that characterizes some
Of the popular" pronouncements.
Endoerine Disorder Rare
In the first place, endocrine dis
order is fairly rare. The only
common ones are diabetes and dis
turbances of the thyroid gland.
The idea that everyone or even
fifty per cent of the population is
somewhat unbalanced this way 10
pure fancy.
One of the really scientific prae-
titioners Of endocrinology known
to me, makes the following rou-
tine examinations on every sus-
pected case:
/. Anthromometry - measure
ment Of height, span Of arms, COM
parison Of upper and lower body
segments, and weight.
2. Fat distribution, or type of
leanness.
3. Basal metabolism-this is a
measurement of oxygen consump-
ton, and indicates whether nutri-
ton is going at fast or slow rate.
4. Blood sedimentation test.
5. Xray studies of the bones Of
at least the wrist and ankle. Often
the whole skeleton is xrayed.
Study of these plates indicate bet
ter than anything else whether
growth is proceeding according to
schedule. They are, of course, most
valuable in children.
G. Chemical and blood tests. ~
Blood cholesterol, (2) forty-eight
hour creatine excretion tests, 90
glucose tolerance test, az blood
calcium.
Exact Measurements
You don't have to know what all
these mean. put them down SIM
ply to give the impression that
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DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.