SOVIET HALTS
BUILDING BOOM
Moscow —(UP)— Thousands of
Muscovites read with pleasure re
cently of official measures to curb
a nuisance which has embittered
their lives.
Over the signature of N. Bulga
nin. mayor here, the local Soviet
ordered the arrest of seven offi
cials of building organizations and
a cessation of indiscriminate
spoilage of houses by the process
of adding -stories to thorn.
Early this year the Moscow So
viet gave its approval to a scheme
for relieving the housing shortage
bv building over existing struc
tures. The idea was a sound one
and solved the housing problem
for thousands.
But like so many Soviet ideas, it
was carried so far that t. did al
most as much harm as good. Ev
ery fairly substantial looking
house became fair prey for the
builders. Construction was begun
on houses without much consider
ation for the inhabitants already
there, the convenience of neigh
bors, or the appearance of the
houses themselves after the addi
tions would be. made.
Worst of all. hundreds of these
construction jobs were undertaken
and then stopped owing to lack of
material and funds. Meanwhile
the houses affected remained with
leaky roofs, without staircases,
without kitchens encumbered by
scaffolding and refuse.
Punishment for those responsi
ble and steps to correct the situa
tion have been ordered.
Dodgers to Cards
A star member of the Brooklyn
Dodgers since 1922, Dazzy Vance,
•whose pitching has longTlominated
the National League, will open the
1933 season wearing the uniform of
the St. Louis Cardinals. Dazzy was
traded to the Red Birds in exchange
for Ownie Carroll, pitcher, and
Jake Flowers, infielder. Gordon
Slade, Dodger shortstop, goes with
Vance to St. Louis.
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Scrapbook Contains
File of 13,000 Ships
Detroit —(UP)— Drawings, pho
tographs and histories of 18,000
ships which have plied the Great
Lakes are contained in a scrap
book owned by John E. Poole, an
unemployed construction engi
neer, of Dearborn.
Filed away on cards which bear
the history of each ship, is an ac
count of the boat’s maiden trip,
where it was built and what was
its glorious or tragic end.
Poole first began his hobby in
1898, when he was 15.
Poole bewails the fact that he
has the histories of only 9,000 of
the ships committed to memory.
Sisters Became Mothers
On the Same Day
Iantha, Mo. —(UP)— Two sisters
who were married at a double
wedding became mothers here the
same day.
A son was bom to Mr. and Mrs.
Arville Snow at 4:30 a. m. At 11
p, m. the same night a son was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rec
tor.
Both babies were born at the
home of their grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. George Mammen.
Mrs. Rector was In the room
with Mrs. Snow when the latter’s
baby was born.
Railroad to Lay
1,000,000 New Ties
Missoula, Mont. — (UP) — One
million ties will ba laid on the
roadbed of the Northern Pacific
route between Milling. Mont., and
Yakima. Wash., according to pres
ent plans of the company for 1933.
The Missoula plant of the com
pany will manufacture 100,000 ties
and 350,000 board feet measure of
switching ties; another 200.000
will be turned out at the Brainerd,
Minn., plant; and 175.000 ties will
be treated at Seattle, Wash. The
company has 500.000 tics in stor«
age from 1932 operations.
Rancher Killed Hawk
Who Killed Snake
Conon City, Colo. — (UP) — A
large hawk, holding in its beak a
partly devoured five-foot bull
snake was killed recently by A. E.
Harper, Wetmora rancher.
The hawk had tom away the
head of the snake and was pre
paring to eat the body when Har
per put an end to the feast.
Harper believes the snake had
come out of its winter hiberna
tion to sun itself when the hawk
swooped down and captured it.
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Glorifying
Yourself
By Alicia Hart
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CORPULENCE DOESN’T AGREE
WITH NEW SPRING MODES
The relef stout women may have
had when fashion notes spoke out
loud about the return of curves was
premature, to say the least.
Certainly no styles ever counted
more on good framework to hang
new clothes on. Just let yourself
accumulate, a neat spare tire about
your diaphram and see how squat
you look in a trim spring suit.
Take off that spare, is the first
and soundest advice. Eat less food
is tho only sane way to do it. Go
cn liquids for breakfast and lunch
and then eat sparingly of dinner.
Nothing between meals. No fudge
sundaes or chocolate eclairs either!
The second best thin<r to do is to
get the right foundation garments,
body gloves, if you please, as the
de luxe nev; corset-brassiere com
binations are called.
Particularly interesting to wo
men with a little fat is the new
brassiere, manufactured by several
companies now, that is made of
material that gives in both direc
tions so you aren’t uncomfortable,
yet designed to do the trick of sup
porting you in handsome manner.
If women only realized it, the
right brassiere can work wonders.
A good one does a lot for the stout
diaphram. Wear the right bras
siere and you look flatter through
the diaphram, which all women
want to do.
Another aid to beauty is the
t good-fitting corset or girdle.
Don't make the mistake of
thinking you can drag in your hips
until you look slander, when you
aren't. Yen will smply bulge over
the top and be fatter than you
really are right where you need it.
least.
However, a well-built founda
tion garment, fitted perfectly, docs
give you a far better line than an
ordinary one. If you yearn for a
svelt figger, remember the corset
or girdle is a first essential.
Fowl Watched to
'^Find Location of Gold
Pinley, Cal. — (UP) — A gold
Military Mode
Pa.ricia Ellis, serpen player, you ng
«•••;! o/ the baby slnrs, introduces this
nru- note in the trend for masculine
feminine fashions. The trouser suit
shown hero, looks like n boy's mili
tary school uniform, brass buttons,
high roller and all. It is of prey
4ianncl. The beret is broten. and the
shoes are ic/tile oxfords.
hunt, with chickens and turkeys
doing the actual searching, was
on here today following the dis
covery of several good-sized nug
gets in a turkey's gizzard.
The turkey, according to its
owner, George Smith, a poultry
man, was raised locally. Where it
found the gold was a mystery, as
hd gold was known to exist near
here.
Several clucks sent from here to
the Los Angelra market also were
reported to have had grains of
gold and small nuggets In their
gizzards.
Poultrymen of the district were
keeping close watch on their
fowls’ feeding grounds as a result
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Old Ore Dumps Are
Reworked for Living
Hillsboro, N. M. ~(UP)— Claim
holders and prospectors are mak
ing a living reworking old ore
dumps while continuing their
search for hidden Spanish treas
ure and lost mines which legend
says are secreted In the hills.
Jobless men. spurred by reports
cf rich veins waiting to be un
covered. have poured into the re
gion. The hills are spotted with
tents of small scale mine opera
tors.
Modern machinery is helping
the prospectors secure "grub
stakes” from the low grade ore
and the old dumps of abandoned
mines. A custom mill being erect
ed here will eliminate freight
charges that have made the poor
ore unprofitable.
Oetogenariar Is
Still Active Blacksmith
Valparaiso, Ind. — (UP) — still
f.n active blacksmith after more
than GO years in the same voca
tion, John J. McCaffcrty, who
lives near here hopes to celebrate
his 102nd birthday in October.
According to War department
records McCafferty was killed in
the battle of Gettysburg during
the Civil war, when his father,
J. M. McCafferty was slain. The
son said he placed his coat under
his father's head when he fell in
battle. The burial record read
J. J. McCafferty. thus depriving
the son of a pension.
McCafferty also was one of Col.
Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Rid
ers during the Spanish-American
war.
At the age of 14 he shod oxen
in Sauck county, Wisconsin,
where he worked at Beatrice, near
here.
Shakespeare never made a con
tinuous journey so far as a round
trip from New York to Boston.
Fighting Fire i
Sub-Zero Temperature
Intense heat and bitter cold conspired to make life
miserable for firemen who battled an apartment house
blaze in Chicago during the coldest weather of the
Winter. The water froze almost as fast as it left
the hoselines, and men, apparatus, and even the burn
ing building were coated with a thick sheeting of ice.
Tusiiegee Choir Booms
Negro Spirituals
New York —lUP)— A new im
petus was given Negro spirituals
as a result oi' the recent debut c£
the Tuskegce Institute choir.
The hundred students from the
institution provided for New York
ers the strange, hypnotic rhythms
which gave Negro music its uni
versal appeal. They introduced a
group of new spirituals, which
brought offers from music pub
lishers to William L. Dawson,
conductor and composer. Dawson
discovered and arranged them for
concert presentation.
The students, of many trades,
ranging from agriculture to do
mestic science, introduced among
other spirituals. "Oh! What a
Beautiful City,’’ “Study Yor
Prayer,” “I’m in His Care,’ and
"Good News.”
Dawson explained that in iso
lated communities in the south,
songs are taught to each succeed
ing generation, but newer are
written down. For instance he
first heard and old Negro sing
“Good News" as she bent over her
v.ash tub.
He said another source of ma
terial is the students themselves,
many of whom come from distant
plantations. In this way he heard
a boy humming. “Lawd, I would
n’t mind dyin’ if dyin’ was all."
Q. Where does Shakecpeare re
fer to rats leaving a sinking ship?
W. P.
A. The Tempest. Art 1, Scene 2,
contains the following: “A rotten
carcass of a boat, not rigged, nor
tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rata
, instinctively have quit it.”
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
STRIVE FOR BETTER EGGS
A poultryman’s revenue can be
increased without extra expense if
he will give more attention to breed
ing and selection for size of eggs..
And now is the time to put an egg- ;
breeding procram into effect. Trap- ;
nest the eggs from a limited num
ber of carefully selected breeders —
first, to find those hens which lay
normally large-sized eggs; and sec
ond, to make passible a system of
pedigree incubation and brooding so i
that chicks from the large-f gif hens j
can be bnnded and identified when
they reach maturity. One of the
most important pieces of equipment i
in this work is a good egg scale. ;
Try to get one which has a bar or
weight-recording mechanism that (
shows not the. individual weight of
the single egg but Its weight in
ounces per dozen. Wo think of 23,
2t or 25 ounce eggs as the number
oi ounces per dozen the eggs will
weigh. This automatically grades
the eggs into comparative weight-s I
per dozen. Most manufacturers of !
egg scales already provide equip- ■
ment with scale baren so graduated.
The great advantage in starting i
egg-breeding work now is that we ;
can secure from such mating pedi
gree-hatched and brooded male j
birds of known female parentage,
which, when used in succeeding
generations k* sires will transmit i
the desired egg quality to the pro- j
gtny. Egg weight Is inherited and
it can be definitely improved through j
selection and breeding for egg slza. j
CROWING BEST BIROS
We have found the following
scheme helpful In choosing breeder
turkeys with the so-much-d'.slred
long bodies and relatively short legs,
says a poultrymar. Measure the
length of the breastbone and then
the upper lag, or drumstick. Keep
the birds having these two parts as
nearly as posrble the same length.
Seven indies is a good minimum
length for these two measurements ,
in breeding turkeys. Keep In mind |
that broad, well-fleshrd breasts and
backs as just as important as a long
body and relatively short legs If
one wishes the best market florl:. j
At what age will a well-fed turkey
start, to lay?? Birds that simply run j
on range usually begin to lay at 11
months, but several breeders who
trap-nest and feed their turkeys
properly are reporting that their
turkeys start to lay at e'ght and
nine months. It has also been shown
that February r.nd March hatched
turkey pullats will lay more eggs
than two-ycar-o!d hens. Young tur
key hens that have laid some eggs
this fall should be kept for breeders
next season, for they are. early ma
turing and should give you a flock
that will be ready to market early
in 1834.
A NEW RASPBERRY
Black Beauty is the name given
to a promising new black raspberry.
This new variety originated as a
chanca seedling on the farm of a
small fruit grower. In 1919 his rasp
berry patch, consisting of such
standard varieties as Gregg, Kansas
and Cumberland, was so badly dis
eased that he plowed the land and
planted it to orchard. A few ycais
later he discovered a vigorous rasp
berry seedling in his orchard. Prom
this seedling plant sufficient stock
was soon developed to give an op
portunity to observe its behavior.
The ability of the new variety to
resist the dreaded virus disease was
scon noted by the state plant in
spector assigned to that section.
On the advice of the inspector and
others, it was decided to name the
seedling and make it available to
the trade. Black Beauty ripens in
season with the. well-known Cum
berland, being rated a midseason
variety. It is later than New Logan,
another relatively new variety which
is also highly resistant to the virus
diseases. The berries are large and
the quality good. Ie seems to be
productive. Like all varieties of fruit,
the full value of Black Beauty will
not be known until it has been more
widely tested. At least the variety
should commend itself to growers
who have had trouble n maintain
ing raspberry plantations on ac
count of disease.
MARKETING FRUIT
Popularity is never a permanent
thing with fruit varieties and the
favorites of a few years ago may be
going into the discard today. Com
mercial fruit growers need to study
the trends carefully. Looking at it
from the market angle only, a suc
cessful commercial variety must
have at least two qualities. It must
be attractive in appearance and be
a good shipper. If it has good flavor
so much the better. The apple list
seems to be narrowing instead of
widening. Some of the old favor
ites are holding their own but others
are slipping. Rhode Island Green
ings are. still In high favor as cook
ing apples in some markets and
York Imperials are holding their
own both here ar.d abroad. The
Eon Davis is still popular with the
export trade. Baldwins have lost
ground during the last thre.e or four
seasons and Thompkins King is no
longer in favor. The Stayman is
popular in many markets, particu
larly for cooking, and seems likely
to hold its own. Rome Beauty is a
HOW SOIL USES LIMESTONE
Tests recently completed indicate j
that the reaction between finely
ground limestone and soil acids j
proceeds with surprising speed. Un
der practical conditions, however the ;
rate of decomposition is not so great
because commercial ground lime
stone is not so uniformly fine and
can not. be mixed with soil as per
fectly. The moisture content of the
soil is important: limestone is not
decomjKJsed in dry soil. Although
the limestone as such has disap
peared by reaction with the soil, it j
has not been lost. The lime content j
Iras simply combined with soil acids j
good all-round apple that Li well
liked In most domestic markets and
the same is true of the Winesnp.
The Jonathan and Spitzenburg have
lost slightly in popularity despite
their good qualities. Delicious and
McIntosh are still increasing in pop.
ularity.
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FOR BATTERY BIRDS
Every yen more and mors chicks
are brooded in batteries. The intent
may be to hold them there for only
two or three weeks, but sometimes
through necessity they remain
much longer. For some reason, after
the first few vreku tha cnlcks iail
k> continue .'vj-mul growth *nd de
velop symptoms of malnutrition. Ex
periments apjwr to 'how that there
is a definite requirement of vitamin
A in 'hicks a- tl.cy approach ma
turity. The results further tended
to chow that health;/ chicks appar
ent v do not need vitamin .* in the
hed fsi the fiisL two Piob
old/ the a mo m: stored up in :ho
c!u. i. .1 body anrt absorb'd by tlva
yolk is sufficient to lost for n short
time only, cent rued deficiency of
v.iainin A as the chicks arc kept In
the batter.;.; tlnvl :p.v kicir.cv uijury
watte ry eyes, rufffled fcatlirrs, poor
growth and a high mortality. ILjicc,
if the chicks aie kept in batteries
for longer than two or time weeks,
they should fcs fed regularly cod
Iher oil, which supplies both vita
mins A and D, with liberal quanti
ties of yellow corn, either cracked
or ground into meal. The mors
freshly ground this can bo, the bet*'
ter.
PREVENTING HOG "FLU"
A few precautions will prevent
much of the "flu.” Accumulations
of dust and manure should bo
cleaned out of the winter sleeping
quarto’s. The house should bo
made free of drafts or cold winds.
Cracks and doors on the north and
w:st should be closed, but the south
side may be left open until cold
weather comes. After that, cara
should be take.n that the ventilation
system works properly without floor
drafts. The houses may bo bedded
with clean, dry' material such os
straw hay or corn fodder. Corn
fodder is excellent beridlm* us it is
clean, wears well and absorbs munli
moisture without becoming v.-et.
Putting the corn fodder In me
houses with the corn cn il and al
lowing th" pigs to do the ■'■ding
will bring the pigs into the shelter
and get th;,m accustomed to ••’ecp
inp there. Cate should bo tak n that
pips arc in the house on cold, rainy,
nights. Since feeding has morn in—i
fluence cn the ease wh'eh a pig TO-,
sists the "fin” the coni ration!
should be balanced with pie ,l.y ofi
protein feed, pasture or lo-vge. ns'
long as it lack, and a o <1 mineral
mixture.
RABBIT INJURY TO TliTiJTl
Weather conditions have been lav-!
crable for rabbits to do consider-,
able injury to young- apple trees, if i
they are not prot.-eb d. With tho,
ground covered with anew, food for,
rabbits is greatly d " ’•eased, Kvep
with r.o sr.cw. they may do eon.-id-i
crable damn"". as they are fond of
apple bark. Mien may a ho damage
young trees by girdling th> hark at|
or just below the surface cf tho
gTCund. There are various methods,
of eon<rol. Galvanized hardware
cloth, three meshes to the inch, is
generally used. Copper bronze
screen w;re also is used, ns It is ef
fective in keeping out Ur: round
headed opp’e borer if it is tightly
wrapped around the tree. Heavy
wrapping paper may also It used.
Tar papex has been known b> dam
age the trunks of the trees. Repel
lent dressings o- lliiukl bme sulphur
Is .sometimes used.
HEN AMONG LKADKHJJ
An insurance company's* farm
loan agent has recently pointed out
that the farmer practicing the ”iv
cow, a sew, and n little ml hen"
propram are better risks and, tliere
forc receive greater consideration.
This recognition of livestock farm
ing and particularly of the "httlo
red hen” is important to the gnat
poultry industry symbolized by th®
“little red hen” titles. That title,
however, is net altogether true to
day. The “little red hen" has grown
up from the status of a backyard
fowl end has became an eeoiwmio
unit, a corn crop, of prime lm
pertanre to the farmer. V/ith al!
due respects to the value of the eour
and the sew, tho "little red hen”
represented by purebred flocks of
Lepbomr. Rock,*' Reds, Buffs, and
many others need not. take a bark
seat. She leads them all as an effi
cient converter ol grains into meat
and eggs and as an exce.’lent rev
enue producer.
NOT AL WAVS LUCKY
When my wile’s fat sister, Kitty,
come to visit, ficm the city, all she
talked about was Fate—B.ul luck
signs r.nd rood luck omens —Porta
mode me unh iu JThen—she found
a four-leaf < clover; thought slic’d
pluck it. and stooped over. Fata
stepped in. Our gout named Blatter
made n pc>wcrfui lunge right at, 'rr,
Kitty yelled and kissed the d«w;
Lost her balance ami her temper
end her rut partitions, too!
neutraliza/ig ur«t being held by them,
'This active inn* is gradually r<*
moved by cropr ami lost by solut.io*
in drainage wat*i ami by surface
wash.
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THINK IT OVER
If you haven't lost faith In Am
erica. if you still believe In the
soundness of American agriculture
and animal husbandry Invest now
in as many brad sows as you can
possibly handle. Do it even though
your faith may be shaken, for they
will make you iuouey in spito ol
yourself,