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The Foundation's Starting to Go lEdU'dmiramlls The Rains Came By JOHN TUMPLB GRAVES i i MM Unsafe Concentration Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, scientist who worked on the atomic bomb during the war, said a Washington and the rains came." address Saturday that a hydrogen bomb blitz could wipe out this country's major cities and kill 10,000,000 Cincinnati What worries Can cinnati about its recent floods and rumors of floods is not the water lion pounds of dried eggs, and 169 million pounds of dried milk acquired in 1948 and 1949 under the price support program can be had, simply by paying freight on what is wanted. But nobody or virtually nobody wants them on these terms. Seemingly there is a disposition to believe that if the government can give tax money to the farmers without charging the farmer any transportation cost on the money, the government can give away surplus food without charging any transportation cost.

Once the government becomes looked upon as a freehanded spender, said government finds it hard to attach strings to its gifts. The intended recipients turn away, with nose lifted. to 15,000,000 Americans in a day. He said the federal government should get busy on but the bad repute. One local newspaper has even suggested that the task of re-distributing American industry, so that the official flood stage of 52 feet be raised to avoid the bad publici in the event of an atomic and hydrogen bomb war essential production could be kept rolling.

With proper distribution of industry, a knockout blow would be ty. Another, obviously anti-Truman, savs you can't do good that way, that no matter what the of ficial mark is, water will go on impossible. His remarks coupled with others of the same sort overflowing above the river sur from scientific men and even stronger expressions from the military leaders responsible for national security About a Finnish Vase face at 52 feel. Come hell or highest water, Cincinnati proper is. well protected now.

The downtown part is on a high plateau, and a flood wall and barrier dam guard And Who Got It uie industrial section. I never come across the Ohio from Kentucky into the majestic By WESTBROOK PEGLER union fetation here without think ing it must seem to our colored people from the South like dying and going to heaven. There is no segregation in the immense railroad station with its ultra-modern facilities. Outside a beautiful park ougnt to stir the Truman administration to action in a field too long neglected. Naturally, the cities and towns of the New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Great Lakes areas which depend upon precision industries are reluctant to see any of them, or any part of them, move to other regions.

Yet they must be aware that concentration is now unsafe, and that if they insist upon it they are jeopardizing the welfare of the nation. Before it was discovered that Russia had stolen our atomic and hydrogen secrets, because of the easy-going attitude of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations toward Communist spies, there was perhaps no need for energetic action in redistribution of industry. Movement could be encouraged, and gradual progress in it would be satisfactory. Now speed is needed. It will be interesting to see whether the administration, in a congressional election year, will find time or 'courage to do what need's to be done toward safeguarding our potential wartime way Dears the name of Lincoln.

Beyond, a "Freeman's Boulevard runs through 'a splendid negro housing project. Yet the most criminal and irresponsible element of Cincinnati's negroes live in that project and vicinities. A name to conjure with here is that of young (35-year-old) Potter Stewart, scion of a distinguished family, who has just been elected to the city council in flattering circumstances and Is being pointed out as a politically marked man. Like F.D.R, he Is a lawyer, young, personable, aggressive. He doesn't see with Franklin on Fair Dealing, however, or cafe society.

For the record, it wasn't Hod-ding Carter but Brainard Cooper, editor of The Chattanooga News Free Press, who first pointed out that two of the three lynchings reported for last year by Tuskegee were actually not lynchings but plain old-fashioned murders. Hod-ding gets credited, deservedly, with so many things he won't mind giving this one up, I am sure. Walter Reuther believes a united labor movement can be formed in America. What could come of that belief on the part of labor's Man of the Future depends on, how well we-the-people understand what could come of It. Take the enormous voting power of labor today, the enormous money power, the "monopoly in key industries, and the ability to employ both economic and political action, and bring them together under one command and you have such a dictatorship as never threatened this nation before.

Especially when you and Walter Reuther's scheme of giving labor a big sayso in management. The gypsies say that If there is a man on horseback in our Ameri fendants choose to defy the order, A mine union official recently en visaged this prospect with the Sentiment for Strong Strike Curb Grows On May 2. 1941, J. Pro-cope, the Finnish minister to the United States, presented to Mrs. James Roosevelt, the mother of Franklin D.

Roosevelt, a rare vase carved from rock crystal. The value of this work of art is unknown to me. Mr. Procope, now living in New York, can only say that it was "not without value." Mrs. James Roosevelt died on Sept 1, 1941.

Mrs. Simone V. Miller, of Albany, N. is the wife of Earl Miller, a former New York state policeman and physical instructor in the navy living apart from him under a legal separation. Mrs.

Miller, a native of Belguim but an American citizen, says this vase fas given to her husband. She understood that it was worth about S300. It occupied a niche in their home in Lou-donville, a relatively aristoratic and certainly expensive suburb, of Albany. She says the niche was built to accomodate the vase and that it "was there from some time time about 1941 until they were separated in the autumn of 1946 when she complained to her lawyer that her husband had punched her. Miller had been a w-eight lifter and instructor in gymnastics.

John J. Glavin, of Albany, the lawyer who first represented Mrs. Miller in her marital troubles, says he also saw the vase and read" a story of its presentation on a sheet of paper in a frame above the niche, which was lined with black velvet. Procope's memory is vague, but he believes the gift was made to Roosevelt's mother because she had shown great interest in the Finnish exhibit at the World Fair in New York. Mrs.

Miller understood that it had some connection with the payment of an instalment of the Finnish debt to the United States. She recalls that the vase was. decorated with carvings depicting "The Story of Flame" whatever that might be. Miller has been married three times. In 1932, at the Roosevelt Manion in Hyde Park, he married his second wife, a girl from Endi-cott, N.

Y. Anna and Elliott Roosevelt were at the wedding. This was annulled. Miller became a bodyguard for Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt when Roosevelt was first elected governor of New York in 1928.

Miller was a handsome man with a dashing manner. Because Roosevelt was physically handicapped and the mansion was a fire-trap, the detail of state police was augmented for a 24-hour watch and Miller was given command. Others in the detail came and went, but Miller stayed until the Ros-evelts left for Washington in 1933. statement: "If they try to force us to dig The Toriiadic Visitor Tornado tragedy has struck again in Ark-La-Tex and its hub city, Shreveport. The havoc wrought at Slack Air Force Base, in nearby homes and at other points in Northwest Louisiana and East Texas shows once more the deadly fury of these destroyers.

The several tornadoes which seemingly were at work in this region Sunday showed one kindly characteristic. They appeared to hop along, touching the ground briefly, though with devastation where they touched. There were no wide swaths cut through thickly-settled areas and it was difficult to trace where any given tornado went "after it touched the ground and departed. Exceptionally good work was done by police, firemen, Air Force personnel, ambulance services and other agencies in dealing swiftly with the casualties inflicted at Slack Air Force Base. Within half an hour after the tornado struck the tasks of emergency relief were being done, in an orderly fashion marred only by the hosts of motorists who rushed to the scene and hampered the movement of necessary traffic.

All in all, the swift action of the" rescue organizations was welcome evidence that Shreveport stands well prepared to deal with such disasters. coal. let President Truman, Justice Vinson and Secretary Johnson come out here and try to make By RAY TUCKER Simone Van Haver, took place at Pensacola, on June 23, 1941. They had two children, the younger a daughter named Anna Eleanor Miller. Miss Van Haver had been a waitress or hostess in the Ten Eyck hotel in Albany, a house frequented by state politicians.

Her reputation is excellent. Her photograph shows a pretty woman and persons who know "her confirm this. One photograph shows her to the left of Eleanor Roosevelt and Earl Miller to the right. On the reverse the picture bears the stamp: "No. 25498, IT.

S. Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla." Miller is in sporty civilian attire, a snappy suit, a two-colored tie and white shoes. Miller got a reserve commission in the navy and wanted an assignment in the navy's physical fitness program. I do not know who, if anyone, got him his commission and promotion to the rank of Lieutenant-commander. But Gene Tunney, a naval captain as director of the navy's entire physical fitness program, states that George T.

Bye, then and for a long time previous' Mrs. Roosevelt's "literary" agent, came to him as a go-between for Eleanor Roosevelt, to get Miller a good assignment. He said Bye asked him to put Miller into the fitness program and told him that he was making this request at the request of Mrs. Roosevelt. To me.

Bye confirmed this. He said it was all in writing. I asked him whether he knew Miller personally and he replied, "No." I asked him if he put this request to Tunney on behalf of Mrs. Roosevelt and he said "yes." Bye also said that, although he had sold Mrs. Roosevelt's stuff for publication ever since-she went to the White House he was now out as her agent.

Her son, Elliott, superseded Bye as agent. The commission usually is 10 per cent. The Millers bought a $7,000 house at Pensacola. A "situation" developed with Mrs. Roosevelt moved in for a visit without notification to the post commander, who thus was unable to pay the 'courtesies due the wife of a cammander-in-chief.

Mr. Tunney was not enthusiastic about having Miller under such patronage. However, knowning that Bye was then in good standing at the White House, Tunney took it gracefully. "I had" a uniform on." Tunney said, "and you don't say 'no' to that. Miller already had "his commission.

It was only a question of getting him a billet. I thould he could help the navy in getting the president to approve things the navy wanted." Eleanor Roosevelt mentions Miller three times in her book. She says he gave her his horse. Dot, when they left Albany for Washington and confirms the fact that "when Franklin left Albany, Earl Miller went into the department of correction and became personnel director." A frequent observation heard during former crisis is that "you can't dig coal with bayonets or with court orders: But proponents of this new legislation suggest a unique method of permanent prohibition of nationwide stoppages or slowdowns. Proponents argue that the postwar integration of industry, when natural gas wells in Texas and pipelines strung across the nation provide fuel and heat for homes and industries in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and even New England, necessitates legislation that would have once been considered fantastic.

penalizing disobedience of an In junction handed down by a federal court. They advance the idea that individuals defying the order be deprived of all possible fed Washington, Feb. 13 Amove-ment for federal legislation prohibiting strikes in key industries that endanger the public welfare will gain great momentum if John L. Lewis's 400,000 coal miners defy a back-to-work injunction issued under the Tafty-Hartley Act. Never before has there been such serious discussion of this kind of measure in congressional corridors.

Industries mentioned for listing under this sort of prohibition are coal, oil and gas, railroads and all public carriers, maritime shipping. packing houses and interstate trucking. Under the supreme court's recent extension of "interstate commerce" jurisdiction, almost any industry with the most remote "connection with public service and interest would be affected by such a ban. eral benefits. These would include retirement and pension payments.

Social Security allowances, any protection under the National Labor Relations act. If FEPC should become law, rights such a statute would also be terminated. can future his initials are K. "As one who has been watching the national administration with uneasiness since about 1938," J. M.

McCarty. of Shreveport, commends this column for employing "the appropriate name of 'Pendergas-tian He agrees that a Pendergastian Socialist doesn't really care about so-icalism but achieves it in course of handing things out. State Curbs on Oleo There's still a clouded path ahead for yellow oleomargarine despite senate and house approval of a bill wiping out all federal taxes and license fees on margarine. The house majority last year was three to one, and the senate majority in January was four to one. The repealer is now in conference, to iron out differences between the house and senate versions.

A dairy-state amendment adopted in the senate is the chief obstacle to agreement. It would require that all colored oleo be put up in packages of not more than one pound, divided into four triangular pieces. A more ridiculous requirement could hardly be imagined. Almost as silly is a house clause requiring that restau They also point out that, save for the fact that injunctions would be permanent, it is really no more extreme than President Truman's Dtan to draft striking railway workers into the arm', even after the war had ended. A less punitive substitute also proposed on Capitol Hill is amendment of the Taft-Hartley Act to eliminate wage-hour bargaining and negotiation for other benefits on a nationwide basis.

That idea was actually debated during last year's administration attempt to repeal this controversial statute. The practical objection raised against the grant of such federal power in the past has been that even the most stringent court injunction is uneforceable if the de In previous strike crises, there has been talk of piecemeal legisla Morning Meditations Thereafter, political influence tion with respect to the particular industry involved in the dispute I at the time. But the present agita- tion is direct toward a general and I created a new job for him as supervisor of some categories of guards at the state prisons. Colonel John Warner, who commanded the foi-ce in those days, recalls that he learned that Miller was living in an expensive house with a swimming pool and generally at a rate strikingly higher than that of state troopers without outside Those Who Knew Ahout Alger Hiss By GEORGE SOKOLSKY Obviously, such extreme laws would be fought bitterly by the unions and their legislative friends. It is doubtful if they could be enacted, for some of the present proponents would not dare to vote for them in a showdown on the floor.

In any event, it would require many months before the supreme court could pass final judgement. Therefore, It would provide no overnight remedy in the current emergency. But the widespread interest in such a full and formal "outlawry" of strikes invested with broad interest measures the degree of animosity toward all labor hich Mr. Iewis' wartime and postwar defiance of the federal government has generated. John L.

Lewis, incidentally. ought to be the first man to sense the danger that he may price coal out of the residential and industrial market. Rival oil and gas executives describe him as "their best The inference is that his tactics turn homeowners and factories to other fuels in self-protection. Although his United Mine Workers own three business buildings in the downtown district of Washington, they are heated by oil Matthew 538-42 Ye have heard that it hath been said. An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you.

That ye resist not evil: but hosoever t-hall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And If any man will sue thee at law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. income.

Miller's third marriage, to Miss 1 1 UL-J A point to noe is that a fellow can commit an act of treachery against the United States, wait three years, announce his crimes, You Won't Believe It But It's True By HENRY McLEMORE and nothing can be done about it. The statute of limitations shall rants which serve yellow margarine notify their customers or serve it in triangular pats. The congress of the United States is indeed becoming petty and nosey in an intolerable degree, in accepting such restraints upon a product which has high food value and is used daily by millions of Americans. The repealer, as finally agreed upon in conference, seems bound to contain one or the other of these clauses. But the main objective, tax and license repeal, will be reached when the president signs the bill.

Still to be hurdled are the restrictions which many states place on yellow oleo, and it is unlikely that all of these legislative curbs will disappear in the present century. In 1948 five states Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Massachusetts and New Jersey wiped out their prohibitions on yellow margarine. Last year New Hampshire, California and Ohio took similar action, the Ohio vote being notable in that the state ranks sixth among the dairy states. Voters there gave a repeal measure majority of nearly half a million votes. There are only two states in which the margarine issue will arise in legislative sessions this year New York and Michigan.

Governor Dewey favors repeal in New York and it may go through the legislature despite the powerful opposition of the assembly's agricultural committee, which has shelved all bills to repeal the yellow margarine ban. The 15 states which now ban the manufacture and have run and he is safe. This is the open season for ex-spies announcing their crimes. There is even money in such confessions. Acheson, assistant secretary of state, who had Alger Hiss as his executive assistant; and Acheson vouched for both the Hisses absolutely.

"Sometime later, Levine conveyed the Chambers revelations to William C. Bullitt, then ambassador to France, and to Lloyd (he must mean Henderson, in charge of the Russian section of the state department. Since then, the state department has removed 134 members of the state department, for disloyalty reasons. (The pamphlet was prepared in December 194S G.E.S.) "In 1943, and again in 1945, hour. It is the source of the Homosassa river, which runs nine miles into the Gulf of Mexico.

rather than coal. Mr. lewis nun-self has opposed all suggestions for a changeover to his product. Few weeks ago, however, a member of a mine union was expelled because he dared to shift from coal. He was later reinstated.

Today's Birthdays Robert R- Young, board chairman of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, born in Canadian, Texas, 53 vears aeo. Sam H. Husbands, vice-president of Transamerica corporation, born in Florence. S. 59 years ago.

George Jean Nathan of New York, author-editor, born Fort Wavne. Ind, 68 years ago. Harold S. Latham of New York, publisher. Universalist church assembly leader, born in Marlboro, Conn, 63 years ago.

Charles T. Fisher. Detroit banker, born there 43 years ago. Dr. Merwin J.

Kelly, vice-president and research engineer for the Bell Telephone laboratories, born Princeton. N. 56 years ago. After reading Dave Newell's story in ihe February 4th issue of Saturday Evening Post entitled, "I Make a Living Doing What I Like," I drove over to Homosassa Spring, to ask Brother Newell if he could use an assistant. I hadn't seen the former editor of Field and "Stream for quite a few years but I well recall that last meeting.

We were at a fishing lodge in the Florida Keys and Dave used to entertain us at night by sitting on the front porch and calling owls in from the trees. I write a story about ability to make owls stop what they were doing to come in and visit him, and I must have gotten a hundred letters calling me a liar. But it was the truth, so help me, and what I found him doing a few days ago undoubtedly will get me another 100 letters of the same sort, but it's also the truth. Dave was preparing to do a taxidermy job on a tarpon that weighed exactly cne-half ounce. I know the tarpon weighed that because I weighed him myself on postal scales.

The little cuss was sale of yellow margarine are: Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan- Minnesota, Montana, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, Wash Although the California-Arizona scrap over priority rights to Colorado river water is one of the hottest among a group of important states since the division over the slavery issue, senate interest is eloquently lacking. When Senator' William F. Know-land presented California's argument, he had only two colleagues as listeners. There were more men and women in the press gallery than there were on the floor. When Senator Sheridan Downey of the same state arose, he looked around and remarked: "This is a magnificent spot for delivering a soliloquyr ington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Illinois bars the sale but not the manufacture. Nebraska and California bar the sale only in public eating places. Many of the above states levy excise taxes or license fees, as do the following states which impose no ban: Colorado, Massa chusetts, North Carolina, North Dakota and Utah. So there is a long road ahead before the yellow mar For a reason no one has been able to explain, thousands of fish of every variety swim up the salt water Gulf to the pool and stay there the year round. The pool is jampacked with fish all the time.

The Homosassa river affords mag-nificant fishing and it is possible to anchor your boat near where the Gulf and the fresh water meet and catch a salt water fish -on one side of the boat and a fresh water fish on the other. That sounds like a fish story, but it is a true one. If you ever come down the west coast of Florida don't miss Nature's Giant Fish Bowl. For sheer, unspoiled natural beauty Florida has nothing to match it. And for your information, just a mile away from Newell's place is the Homosassa Springs hotel, run by Vicki and Oscar Johnson.

For comfort and out-of-this-world eating it can't be beat anywhere. After the first meal Jean always took a notebook into the dining room with her to copy down recipes. The fish, the turtle steaks and soup, the ducks and quail the Johnsons serve make you want to pitch a tent i the dining room and never leave the place. The hotel has the charm and easy atmosphere of a private anglers' club rather than that of a hotel. If the government ever gives me another- bonus I'm going right back to Homosassa Springs and eat up every penny of it.

Horoscope An intellectual Derson is Indi garine is given the place to which it is entitled in Amer lean life. That is why former spies like Whittaker Chambers, Henry Julian Wadleigh and Mrs. Hede Massing can tell their stories in safety. That is why Alger Hiss could only be held for perjury. That is why some of them are only held in contempt of a congressional committee.

The statute of limitations gives them a wonderful blanket protection for the they actually committed. The Hiss case, as Important as it is, must reopen the question of the statute of limitations in such crimes. Actually, there ought to be no statute of limitations in crimes Involving treason, espionage, treachery. There is no statute of limitations for murder; and while a murder may involve only one person, such treachery as the theft of the A-bomb involves all of us. I want to quote from "a factual review of the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss controversy," by William Marshall Bullitt, a distinguished lawyer and a trustee of the Carnegie endowment for international peace, of which Alger Hiss was president.

"On or about August 29, 1939, Chambers and (Isaac Don) Levine dined with Mr. (A. Berle at the 1 a 1 1 8 Washington residence. Chambers revealed to Berle his whole story of the Communist 'underground' in Washington, and particularly mentioned the names of Alger Hiss, Donald Hiss, Nathan and Lee Pressman. "Mr.

Berle was both worried and disturbed, because he 'believed that Chambers was telling the truth as he saw Berle at once took the following precautionary steps: -(1) Established very close relations between the state department and the FBI: (2) organized a special section in the state department to follow any Communist activities; (3) arranged to have a weekly liaison meeting with the FBI for the exchange of information; (4) worked with the department of justice in passing needed legislation for the government's protection; and (5) twice checked with Dean Anniversaries 1817 Frederick Douglas, the escaped slave who became a famed orator, journalist and leader of his people, born Easton, Md. Died Feb. 20. 1S95. 1819 Christopher Latham Sholes.

Wisconsin printer-journalist, credited as the inventor of the modern typewriter, who couldn't market it "until taken over by Remington, born Mooresburg. Pa. Died Feb. 17. 1900.

it (Times (Founded June L. I87J Robert Ewing. Publisher 1908-1931 Entered second clan matter at tb ShreveDort post office under the act at March 3. 1879. Issued moraines, dally and Sunday, by The Times Publishing company.

408-10 Marshall street. Food for Free Twenty-four bills have been introduced in congress Chambers reported the facts about Hiss to the FBI." In a word, as far back as August 29, 1939. the state department and the department of justice had a lead to the Harold Ware Conynunist cell and its members. The FBI knew about 'Alger Hiss and must have followed the lead as a routine matter. On August 29, 19.59, Soviet Russia was not our ally; in fact, Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany were in alliance and had signed the Molo-tov-Ribbentrop pact to divide the world by war.

The non-aggression pact, as it is formally called, was signed on August 23, 1939. Actually, the war eventuated nine days later by the invasion of Poland simultaneously by Russia and Germany in accordance with the Stalin-Hitler alliance. From August 23. 1939, until June 21, 1941, Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany were in alliance and the United States was fearful of the implications of the war they had made. Actually, it took us into a disastrous war.

Yet, these high officials, A. A. Berle, Dean Acheson, William C. Bullitt, Loy Henderson, to say nothing of the secretary of state, Cordell Hull, and the attorney general, Frank Murphy, did nothing about the information which Whittaker Chambers gave them and which now has been proved true in two trials before an American jury. Many say today that Hiss and his associates should be forgiven because they operated in the war-time pro-Russian atmosphere.

The truth is they were brought to the attention of our officials during the Stalin-Hitler alliance. The issue raised here is one of responsibility. Who was ultimately responsible about the size of my little finger and Dave, who has caught just about every kind of fish in his time, and hunted everything from grizzly bears in Alaska to jaguars in Brazil, is prouder of that tiny tarpon, I think, than of any other fish or animal he ever caught or shot. He caught the tarpon, which he believes to be the smallest ever hauled in a No. 14 trout fly and 3-X leader.

I asked Dave what sort of board he was going to mount his battler on and he said he thought he'd use either an airmail stamp or a special delivery. Asked how long he had to fight the tarpon before bringing him to gaff, Dave said almost three seconds of fierce fighting took place before his savage catch was in the boat. As he explained in his Post artcle, Dave now is part owner and operator of Nature's Giant Fish Bowl in Homosassa Springs, a fantastic place if there ever was Editor and Publisher General Manager Managing Editor Associate Editor John D. Ewing. A.

Mallhes. Charles A. Hazen. Donald M. Ewinc.

Today in History-ins The first salute given the American flag outside the country as Paul Jones on USS "Ranger" enters Quiberon Harbor, France. 1859 Oregon admitted to statehood. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell and Ellsha Gray of Chicago file application patent for telephone on the very same day Gray's an advance notice of intention to file. Case fought bitterly In courts for 1929 St. Valentine's day massacre in Chicago seven gangsters lined up and shot by fellow gangsters.

1942 Some nine million enroll In third selective draft. 1945 General Patton's forces breach Siegfried line defenses. 1948 After ten rather hectic days, country's commodity markets return to more orderly trading. 1949 Ernie Pyle's body taken from Pacific island of Ie to Pearl Harbor for reburlaL which would require that government-owned surplus foods be distributed among families on relief and to other persons in low income groups. In some of the bills, revival of the prewar food stamp plan is proposed.

This, reaction to the revelation that huge stocks of government owned potatoes were to be fed to livestock or destroyed in the fields is not surprising. The obvious folly of paying farmers tax money to raise food and then tossing the food away is enough to worry any member of congress. However, the fact is that the'department of agriculture already has authority to give surplus foodstuffs away to schools for the free lunch program, to certain groups of needy persons and to welfare agencies. There is only one catch in this give-away program. Under the agricultural act of 1949 the department is forbidden to pay the cost of transporting surplus food from storage to eligible recipients.

Thus, surplus potatoes have been available for some time, but the transport costs are apparently too high for the eligible agencies to contemplate. Also, 73 mil- MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news puollshed herein. The Branham company, national advertising representatives. Offices in New York. Chicago.

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The Springs are 55 feet deep, and flow better than 9.000.000 gal to avoia me danger of frenzy which, unrestrained, may lead to lons fnf crystal clear water per Shreveport, La, Feb. mama. itopyrigniea.j.