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POTASH FIELDS AID SOUTHWEST San Angelo, Tex. —(UP)— Pot ash. a mineral long obtained chiefly from Germany and France, now is being mined successfully for the first time in the recently discovered potash-bearing Permi an basin of New Mexico and West Texas. The largest of two companies now producing potash has an an nual output of approximately 40 000 tons. A second shaft is being sunk, and is expected to double the output. The other company is operating on a smaller scale. The Permian basin is 600 miles long and 300 miles wide, and lies In eastern New Mexico and West Texas. J. F. Hinkle. New Mexico land commissioner, estimates that in Eddy county. N. M., alone there is a potential yield of 20 million tons of potash. Engineers believe there is sufficient quantity in the entire basin to present exhaustion within a century. The United States now’ con sumes about 400.COO tons annu ally. The current price is $10 a ton. Potash also is being produced from the saline beds in California and from the residue cf molasses factories in Baltimore. Business Man Was School’s Godsend Moscow, Idaho. —(UP)— If Mos cow high school was to nominate anybody for patron saint of the institution, that person would un doubtedly be Jerry Gelwick, local business man. Moscow had wen its district basketball championship title, but was without funds to go to the state basketball meet at Pocatello, Idaho. So Gelwick scraped up $200 and sent the lads to the tourney. When they defeated Moreland, 43 to 32 in the finals, they won wick’s faith in them. And if it the title and substantiated Gel hadn’t been for Gelwick, the lads wouldn’t have been able to bring home the state hoop bacon. Officer Has System To Still Rooster’s Crow Colorado Springs. Colo. —(UP) — An expert at making roosters keep quiet, during those early morning hours, is the qualification of Offi cer E. W. Teater. Officer Teater has been called upon several times to still the voices of the barnyard alarm clocks and thereby enforce the anti-noise ordinance. The system Officer Teater uses Is to have the loud mouthed roost er placed on a perch near the top of the chicken house so he cannot straighten up. A rooster needs plenty of room in which to do his crowing, Officer Teater said. . Cheap at Any Price. Prom Answers. She: Penny for your thoughts, darling. • i He: I was just thinking of go ing. { Father (yelling down from up stairs) : Give him a dollar, Deris Spring Ensemble This neat Spring suit, worn by Muriel Evans, M-G-M player, has been favorably reported upon by | the fashion arbiters of Hollywood. It features the longer length of jacket, and a novel tailored skirt. Tha white silk blouse tucks under the skirt. Records Reveal That Puritans Had Bootleggers Plymouth. Maas. —(UP)— The Puritans had their btotlcggers. Yellowed court records on file in this ancient town so rich In Pil grim history show that on Septem ber 14. 1638. Captain Myles Stand iah arrested one Stephen Hopkins, charged with selling wine, beer and splrituoua liquors at excessive prices. | Governor William Bradford fined Hopkins five pounds. > Out Our Way By Williams GOOD might • \/WO -Ta»S NMHuT OO WOO \ / gAStBAV-U, CAV.U TVAAf, NOuP I 9uT AC. CAvi'r pUAM>Ki'-Cpvcv<t.T?l -r*-*PO\M FAF?. wvta a Post L aw' vms aaooa FEP TWvMiCKfcT. /r PoT A POST __ \K1 TA' PiltAtPS y\ eox tp KtesP T-4‘ \ BAT from HirTTtw I /V mim. ggu.s.pat Off. iH STAMP _ei«g nr mm wbvici. iwc. 1-**J Evening Novelty This charming evening ensemble is of cclanese lacquered chiffon, a new cire fabric printed in a floral design. It is one of the new Spring models exhibited at n recent fashion show in New York. Note the novel arrange ment of the shoulder sleeves and the train-like skirts. A capelet of cela nete taffeta accompanies the town. -.—--0-v Mississippi Town Has Monthly Barter Day Starkville, Miss. — (UP) — "Barter Day,, will be observed in Starkville on the first Monday in every month, at which time citi zens of this section are invited to bring to the city anything they may have to swap. The first "Barter Day,” pro claimed by Mayor E. R. Lord, was observed on April 10. Motorists Are Warned Of “Traffic Ostriches’* Harrisburg. — (UP) — Spring Showers bring "traffic ostriches,” declares Walter M. Mathews, chief of the safety division, Penn sylvania department of revenue. “Traffic ostriches,” Mathews explains, “are pedestrians with heads hurried in umbrellas and view blocked who calmly make their way through traffic possessed of a strong faith in the motor driver and his brakeg. Such pe destrians are accident hazards on the sidewalks as well as on the street,” Mathews says. ■■ •' - ■■■ »♦ - Account Book Lists 1726 Funeral Charges Middleboro, Mass. — (UP) — Mourners who attended a certain funeral here back in the early 18th Century must have absorbed the full spirit of the solemn occa sion. A family account book kept by one Jacob Thomson in 1726 lists these funeral charges, the amounts being in pounds, shil lings and pence: To Thomas Tomson sons for 4 gallons of wine and six pounds of sugar procured by him for the funeral — 2-1-6. To Deacon Bosworth for mak ing the coffin 0-8-0. To James Bryant for 3 gallons of rum for funeral—1-4-0. To William Thomas for digging the grave—0-3-0. Pajd for a pair of gravestones— 4-2-0. Total—7-19-6. 500,000-Y ear-Qld Crab Is Displayed Philadelphia — (UP) — A crab 500,000 years old is now on dis play in the Academy of Natural Science cn the Parkway. The fossilized crab, embedded in a stone, was picked up on the beach at Beach Haven, N, J., near the spot where the ne.vy blimp —3 crashed while searching for the Naval aircruiser Akron. Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry, curator of the museum, said the fossil is one of the finest ever seen. According to Dr. Pilsbry the crab was deposited in a warm stage of the Pleistocene age dur ing the days when the saber toothed tiger, the mammoth and other huge animals roamed the earth. Famous Painter’s Birthplace Restored North Kingston, R. I. —(UP)— The birthplace of Gilbert Stu art, famed portrait painter of Co lonial times, has been restored by the Rhode Island Historical So ciety. Norman M. Isham, who direct ed the work, made researches in England and America to secure accurate information concerning the old snuff mill at the Stuart birthplace. The mill has been restored as it Nobel Winner Back Dr. Irving Langmuir, American winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize foq chemistry, pictured as he arrived at New York on the liner Rex after an extended stay abroad. Dr. Lang«j muir was the guest of King GustaVj of Sweden during his stay in tkafj country. was in Stuart's time and snuff hat actually been ground in it. — ■ ■ ♦ ♦ ■ — All to Ills Credit. From Answers. Sandy seemed worried. There was obviously something on his mind. "What is it?" asked his friend. "I want ycur help,” replied San dy quietly; “In fact, I want you to come and choose a suit for me.” His friend smiled modestly. "But I don’t think my taste is any better than yours," he replied. "Na, perhaps not,” said the Scot, “but I'm thinking your credit is.’* In the News. From Humorist. Wife: Good heavens! It says in my paper that a young film actress is going to make a parachute de scent in mid-Atlantic. Where does she hope to land? Husband: On the front page to morrow. I expect! Such Dumbness! From Tit-Bits. Laura (who has just heard of her rival’s engagement): I—I didn’t quite get your intended’s name. Norah: No, my dear, but you tried hard enough, didn’t you? An Angry Lamb. From Tit-Bits. First Clerk: How did you mak« out with the boss about a raise? Second: Oh, he was like a Iambi “What did he say?” "Baa!” French Dirigible Wrecked on Test Flight ' ■ ■ ■ ■ 4 °n the very day that the U. S S Akron crashed off the New Jersey coast, the French dirigible, E-». crashed near (juerande, France, as shown here, inj uring two of Ita crew of twelve. The airship was on a test flight when engine trouble forced her down. Autoist Asked Charity Office for Gaa and Oil Texarkana, Ark. — <UP) — Mrs. 2. B. Hicks, secretary of the United Charities, has had several exasperating demands made upon her by person; seeking charity, but a recent one was almost too much for her, she raid. 8hn declared a man drove up in front of tire charities office in a .'nckarci car. and insisted upon be* \«ig supplied wlih gas and oil to complete a Journey from New York to Houston. She ta.d his car contained a 5100 radio. In It he was traveling with his wife, who was wearing several diamond rings, a son and three grand children, according to Mrs. Hicks. The family left Texarkana without receiving aid from chari ties here. -—-»♦ —■■■.■ ■ Buyers A.void New York Tobacco Elmira, N. Y. — (UP>— One hun dncl thousand dollars worth of leaf tobacco is hanging in the warehouses oi tobacco growers m Big Plats, near here, with no talc* era. even at the cut price of three cents a pound. Last year nine cents was the average price, but so far no buy ers have been Interested In the local crop, which is usually sold , In lVccmber or January. Tobacco Is one of the Chemung county's big gest money crops, and the county ranks second in New York Slat* In production. The Prtbilof Islands seal lierd. n«w rated the most valuable in the world, inerraaed 8 24 per r»nt. lit numbers the Uat seer. 1 t----— Roosevelt's New Conservation From New York World-Telegram. V .. ...- . ■ --- Muscle Shoals Is the key to a new power policy in this country, a new idea of conservation, a new understand ing of public resources and how they should be handled. At all events that is the way President Roosevelt seems to think of it. “If we are successful here,” he says, “we can march on, step by step, in a like development of other great ter ritorial units within our borders.” Muscle Shoals as it stands today symbolizes the old order of waste, exploitation and political pull. It was not a private enterprise based on private in vestment or private property rights, yet private interests have been able to check its use for 15 years. The theory back of this curious situation rests on the assumption that the people have no right to make use of what they own, lest by so doing they interfere with the right of great corporations to establish a virtual monopoly. The people have been told that they ought to lose $100,000,000 as well as abandon all their interests in the Tennessee and other great rivers, so that private industry can take charge. Private industry presents individualism as sanction ing such a sacrifice, just as though a combine or trust should be regarded in the same light as the lamplighter or candle dipper of Thomas Jefferson’s day. We are no longer dealing with the individual when it comes to heat, light and power but wdth large and power ful groups, and we can no longer protect ourselves except by the mobilization of public resources through public capi tal. As a matter of common sense Muscle Shoals, as Presi dent Roosevelt proposes to develop it, takes us back to the old idea of competition which big business is doing its best I to kill, especially in the field of electric enterprise. Muscle Shoals offers an opportunity to prove what the production of electricity costs and whether there is not an overabundance of water in the capital of some of the great concerns now producing it. If the project is properly carried out and if the Ten nessee river is brought under anything like scientific con trol we shall learn what can be done not only in the pro duction of electricity but in flood prevention and affore station through a well-planned hydrographic system. We are really going to school when we tackle Muscle Shoals—a school that should teach us much about some of the bigger things which our national resources, techni cal knowledge and surplus wealth make it possible for us to do. We are going to begin a new adventure in the hinter land, a new struggle to harness nature, a new type of un dertake which may lead to a new type of life for many people. If the rehabilitation of Muscle Shoals and the develop ment of the Tennessee river prove successful they may well change the general direction of our economic ant* so cial ideals by introducing us to the possibilities of » Hind which we still know little about. ____ Jig-Saw Puzzles Aid German Teacher Redwood City, Cal. — (UP) — Miss Julienne Wolters, teacher in the Sequoia Union High School, near here, has discovered that jig-saw pusy.les aid the teaching of German to her students. Miss Wolters had a large map of Germany made into a 300 piece jig-saw puzzle. Each day her puoils get better acquainted with Germany by putting the puzzle together. “Sy the time the class assem bles the puzzle two or three times, the students will have a carnprc hensive idea of Germany's geog raphy," she explained. Shamrocks Reflect Love of Flier’s Mother Reno, Nov. — <UP) — Each St. Patrick’s day for the past 10 years, sprigs of shamrick from Iceland, reflecting a mother's love, have been placed on the grave here of William Blanchfield, Reno aviator. Blanchfield lest Ills life In 1924 while flying his plane to drop a wreath of flowers upon the grave of a friend. The plane crashed, and Blanchfield was killed. Each year since, his mother, who resides in Ireland, has sent shamrocks for her son’s grave. But the mother died, and now her daughter, Mrs. Geraldine Deasy, County Cork, Ireland, will con tinue the custom. - -4 4-——* A Perfect Match. From Tit-Bits. Old Tom’s going to marry Miss Flighty. She can ride, swim, sing, dance, drive a racing car, and pilot an airplane. Real all-rounder.” ' -They ought to r;et on fine. Old Toni's quite a cock.” -««.... Turned Tables. From Tiie Wheel. Reporter: I’ve got a perfect story. City Editor: Did the man bite the dog? Reporter: Naw, a bull threw » congressman. Farewell Crime—Hello Beerl Ending more than thirty-seven years on the force, Edward P. Mul rooney is pictured as he handed his resignation as Police Commissioner of New York to Mayor John P. O’Brien. Mulrooney resigned the posh ia order to become State beer czar. He goes from a salary of $13,390 to $12,000. _ Language Professor Met Student Demands Austin. Tex. —<UP>— Mis* Lila Casts, professor of romance lan guages at the University of Texas, has seen In her 40 years at the school the "erase" for different foreign language learning and haa been able to teach them all. Her father was the son of a i French woman and a Spaniard, her mother a German, and the teacher was born and reared on the Island of Jamaica. British Wes', Indies Idas Casts has taught French, German and Spanish, and she remembers when French was in demand because it was a "society asset,” when young men wanted it because they anticipat ed service overseas during the World, war. »» -'■■■ Doesn't Know Now. From Humorist. Smith <to beauty parlor pro prietress): Has my wife ty-en here? Proprietress: Whet is she like, sir? Smith: Well. I car. tell you what she was like when she w. at in.