Intact After Bomb Threat
Charleston Navy Yard, Boston, which was protected by a cordon of
more than 100 police and a detachment of marines after a navy official
had received information that a workman would attempt to carry a time
bomb and dynamite into the navy yard in a lunchbox, when the gates
were opened for the day shift. A thorough search revealed nothing
whatever.
British War Minister in Middle East
Palestine . . . Captain Anthony Eden, British minister of war, is
shown (hatless) shaking hands with an officer of a Trans-Jordan frontier
force during his recent visit to the British army of the Middle East. The
be-medaled officer at left is unidentified, but the gadget be holds in his
band Is a fly-switch, if that’s of any help.
General’s Guest
This is Boy Scout Jim Hast, the
12-year-old who wanted to volunteer
in the Eighth division. He is hold
ing in his hand the invitation he re
ceived from Maj. Gen. Philip Pey
ton, commanding officer, to be the
general’s guest at a division inspec
tion at Columbia, S. C. Scout Hast
went there in the general’s car which
brought him from his home in Swan
sea, S. C., and back again.
Injected Into Arm-y
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This draftee is taking a "shot in
the arm” to ward off disease. This
scene will take place all over the
country as draftees arrive at U. 8.
army training camps to start a
year of training.
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Observe National Hobby Week
Avocations will be featured December 25 to January 1 during National
Hobby week. Some unusual bobbies are pictured above. The “Cinder
ella Carriage," upper left, was made entirely of pipe cleaners. (Upper
right): Gelett Burgess, noted author, with his “nonsense machine,"
which only makes noise. Below, tiny buildings made of boiled match
sticks.
Alien Registration Deadline Approaches
December 26 is the deadline for an
estimated 3,500,000 aliens residing in
the United States to register with the
government. These pictures show
aliens in the various steps of register
ing,. as thev trv to beat the deadline.
Musicians Meet
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Dr. Howard Hanson, who will re
side at the annual conference of the
National Association of Schools of
Music in Cleveland, December 26-27.
Many noted composers and instruc
tors will attend.
Winter’s Debut
.VERNAL EQUINOX
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Winter begins December 21 in the
orthern hemisphere, when earth is
closest to sun. Sketch shows angle
at which sun’s rays strike north
pole at equinoxes.
Senate Convenes in Old Court Chamber
Scene as senate convenes in the original U. S. senate chamber used by them from December, 1819,
to January, 1859, then used by the Supreme court from 1860 to 1935. The move was made because of repairs
to roofs of the regular house and senate chambers. Photo shows Sen. William King, president pro tem of
senate (right) on rostrum.
Navy ‘Mosquito’—Boat With a Sting!
The PT-12, one of the "mosquito boats" of the U. 8. na-'y, buzzing along at about SO knots with the
grand skyline of Manhattan for a backdrop. The little boats ca.-ry a deadly sting in the form of turreted
machine guns and four torpedo tubes. (Inset) Section of pilot-house on one of the mosquito boats, and the
Insignia of the mosquito fleet—a mosquito riding on a torpedo. The insignia was designed by Walt Disney.
Ski Troops Drill on Mt. Rainier 1
Members of the Forty-first division of the United States army are
here shown on a cross-country trek on Mt. Rainier, the highest peak in
the state of Washington, and the second highest peak in the United
States proper. This is the first group of ski troops which has been
organized for snow work in the army.
SI 20,000 Worth of Dogs
These six dogs of movie fame are valued at a total of $120,000. They
are, with pictures in which they appeared, 1. to r., front row: Whiskers
(Scotty) "The Light That Failed” and Toto (Cairn terrier), "The Wizard
of Oz.” Second row: I’rince Carl (Great Dane), “Wuthering Heights”;
Musty (English mastiff), “Swiss Family Robinson”; Buck (St. Bernard) J
“The Call of the Wild,” and Promise (Pointer), “The Biscuit Eater.”
America in Flowers
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Miss Jetsey Posthuma in role ot
“Liberty” for the Rose Parade at
Pasadena, Calif. “America in Flow
ers” was named as the 1941 Tourna
ment of Roses theme.
Ambassador to U. S.
Vice Admiral Kichisabura Nomu
ra, who has been appointed to the
important post of Japanese ambas
sador to the U. S., succeeding Ken
suke Horinouchi.
HARD SEED CAN
PREVENT LOSS
Helps Insure Against Crop
Failure.
By CARLTON S. GARRISON
(Assistant Extension Agronomist. Rutgera
University.)
Don’t always reject field crop seed
which happens to contain a rela
tively high percentage of hard seed.
This hard seed may later prove a
savior of permanent hay crops of
alfalfa and red clover.
Hard seeds are not "duds.” They
are live seeds which fail to absorb
moisture and sprout when kept for
the official time of six or seven days
in a laboratory under good growing
conditions. They are a provision of
nature to insure the reserve of live
seeds in the soil. By spreading
germination over a longer period of
time, hard seeds often reduce risk
of partial failure due to unfavorable
conditions following seeding.
The state and federal seed laws,
however, require that the percent
age of hard seed be reported on
the test tag used for labeling seeds
for sale to farmers. Sometimes
there is as much as 80 per cent
hard seed present in a lot before
hulling, but the scratching of the
seed coat during the hulling proc
ess reduces the percentage.
The amount of hard seeds in al
falfa and red clover seldom need be
a concern in determining seeding
rates. In fact, if alfalfa is sown
properly and not deeply at the rate
of 15 pounds per acre, 30 to 50 per
cent of the seeds may be hard with
out reducing the final stand of spring
or early 'summer sown alfalfa.
Moderate delays in germination due
to hard seeds may thicken the stand
by the end of the growing season if
severe losses have occurred previ
ously, thus hard seeds have a defi
nite insurance value.
Scarification of alfalfa seed re
duces its keeping qualities to the
extent that it is not advisable. Like
wise scarification of red clover seed
is undesirable where the seed is to
be stored for more than one year.
If the rate of seeding red clover is
eight pounds or more per acre and if
it is sown properly 30 to 40 per cent
of hard seed will not injure the re
sulting stand but rather help thick
en it.
For spring or early summer sow
ing, scarification of red clover seed
is necessary to reduce the number
of hard seeds. And if a fourth or
more are hard, the usual rate of
seeding may have to be increased.
If small grain, hay or other legume
crops are to follow, volunteer sweet
clover plants will reduce the quality
of the seed harvested.
Weigh Farm Animals
With Tape Measure
If you’d ’like to know the weight
of your farm animals, but do not
have a scale, get out your tap*
measure.
The Minnesota experiment station
has just released an interesting
booklet telling how to figure out the
weights of live stock from measure
ments.
In the case of cattle and horses,
you first find the heart-girth in
inches (the distance around the ani
mal’s body just a little way back of
the front legs). Next, find the length
in inches from the pin-bone at the
side of the tail to the prominence
on the shoulder, located on mature
cattle about one inch back of what
is commonly called the point of the
shoulder. See that the animal is
standing squarely on its feet, with
the head forward.
With these measurements taken,
the heart-girth is multiplied by itself
once and the resulting figure is then
multiplied by the animal's length.
The product of these multiplications
is finally divided by 300 to obtain
the approximate weight of a cow. In
the case of horses, the number ob
tained after dividing by 300 is cus
tomarily increased by 50 pounds.
The proper length measurement
for hogs is taken from the base of
the tail over the back to a point
midway between the ears. Also, the
proper dividing figure is 400 rather
than 300.
Rural Briefs
Under modern methods of feed
ing and handling, pullets may be
reared at any time of the year.
* * *
Good quality mixed or legume
hays, with oats, barley, or other
cereal grains as concentrates, make
a satisfactory ration for the work
horse.
• • •
Slightly smaller supplies of eggs
in the United States are indicated
for the last half of 1940 as com
pared with the last half of 1939, re
ports the U. S. bureau of agricul
tural economics.
• • •
Potatoes cooked in their jackets
lose almost none of their food value.
• • •
Apples rank high in carbohydrate
and iron content, and they are a par
ticularly valuable source of vitamins
A and C.
• • •
An all-time record corn yield was
produced last season by Roland Res
ler of Savoy, 111. On a six-acre
field, Resler raised 1,028 bushels, or
more than 171 bushels an acre. The
previous high record, set in Iowa,
was 140 bushels per acre.