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PAGE TWO THE VERNON DAILY RECORD, VERNON, TEXAS rUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1942 EIGHT AUTO TAGS ISSUED Certificates of Title Most Be Presented in Order To Obtain Licenses. NEW ELECTRICITY DISCOVERY MAY BE AID IN RESEARCH FOR CURE OF CANCER IN HUMANS INSURANCE ON RAIDS PLANNED Feb. effect 3. (Wide World' An odd ei rotigli of electricity upon Iven discovered at of Texas. have grown tumors i dec trie current them in the direction their growtft.

The bo roots the shapes of Senators Predict Quick Passage of Damage Law Against Air Assaults. VC ireet nt, flow as growt has not been a single exception to this electrical priority in experiments covering many years. Other Experiments In his and other laboratories do- Washington, ir eb. 3. Sen- mg similar work it is becoming ate leaders forecast virtually unapparent tl it elertrir.il forces, in pposed passage today of legisla- form of fields potentials to create within the Recurrent primary facts of inance oipoiation a $100,000,000 War Damage rxpenment shows the eiec- to insure property trical field in the first shoot (the against air Daily Markets (By ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE) Vernon Markets COTTON (1 p.

Middling, Middling, 13-16 COTTON PRODUCTS Bollie cottonseed, per ton GRAIN Wheat Oats Barley PRODUCE other loss An jvery is rii ui it of Scienci scrii or Dr. te.ph of the latest i 3 win the functioi IU( phv tors sh of demons! ges come alt erat ions ould canc od first Tit roleoptile) of a growing oat seed. Such shoots grow vertically up-1 ward. Turn one to a horizontal po-j sit ion and if soon begins to curl upward ui 1 starts in 33 minutes. But only ton seconds after the shoot is horizontal, an electrical change appears.

This change is a rise in electrical potential in the) The potential is the differ-j Regional Representative for Works Agency is Appointed St. in OIL NOTES His: in 'ede laird Snyder -ator icy ic wo ugh ct ion sc ks hi nt act ivi Ft b. 3. e-T Jam appointed today esentative of tl administrator Louisiana, New' Mexico, wi Worth, was announ by Assista acting for A Fleming, facilitate pio- Federal Wor lousing, defen other prograr hzation officia once in eie tween upper of the tip. But it i- trical For other cur! is causer ing in hormone, 'trical pressure ne- and lower surfaces nt a rase of the elec- re bending the shoot, 'is show that the 1 by hormones appear- stem.

The preceded by chern- Ff ointment jshlngton Works ical changes in Rut prior even changes is tiie tion. Tb.e tnstantlv ie stem, to the chemical lee trica! altera- arce of gravitation acts the shoot when it is raid or lrom enemy action. The measure would authorize free insurance against war damage up to $15.000, and thereafter a premium" would be charged. "The necessity for some assurance of protection seems not open to the Senate banking committee told the chamber in asking approval of lie measure. Besides providing for war- dam- tge insurance, the lull would add to the borrowing power of the RFC, chiefly for war production purposes.

Committee members said this would the total borrowing and therefore lending power of the RFC to approximately Heavy Light Springs Bakers Roosters Cream Eggs hens hens .19,53 18.03 .40,00 1.08 .36 .40 .16 .13 .14 .06 .33 .26 New York Cotton Open High Low Close ..18.48 18.59 18.59 18.59 March .18.17 18.82 18.00 18.22 May ...18.32 18.37 18.13 .18.43 18,17 18.24 18.44 Oct. 18.41 18.50 18.25 18.48-49 Dec. ...18.46 19.54 18.32 18.54 (Courtesy Colvvick Son Brokers, grain, cotton, stocks; member Chicago Board of Trade, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, New York Produce Exchange Ira Hagler, local manager.) ihp laid horizontal. This applied force of gravitation along appears to precede the electrical change. Observations Notrd ion.

fi con- here tion rels. ce; Gibson setting six bar- water in Defense Labor Lacks Visual Skills, Optometrists Hear Fort Worth, Feb. 3. bed another root cell is ive at one end, The poten- tho positive end. observed an tent ial appearing a green algae cell, the cell divided into this mid-point.

The the Dist: K- An- apt to par 4,092 fe Rock W. H. abandon Christ 1. plug Christ Sk an ade Congre land fi la nts lack of Wavs of ie-r skilled labo tas revealed visual skills rkers, Dr. A.

Louis sai( in con; on M. 1 in the Southwestern Optometry which ting today, lining the visual rs war and dew -Hi nd abam Phillip W-R Nf moving feet frei the south'w 4P. block vey. Wilbarge plugged. Wilbarge S-A.

plugge my 4 so as. Arkan isiana, Mi labama, 'deetimj; wi' re the confi industrv an No iscussed by am states, a Mexico, Oklahoma negative at the i ial is highest at )nce Dr. Lund expected new in the middle of After a while two cells at unexpected potential had been forerunner of the division. Every sort of polar living cell tested has had a positive and a negative end. with an electrical potential between.

Each cell thus resembles an automobile battery. These living batteries discharge by current, flowing between the negative ends when electricallv conduet- The normal a medium. auto batteries, the not run down, ex- State Liquor Control Board Destroys 5,022 Gallons Wine Austin. Feb. 3.

Five thou -and and twenty-two gallons of wine were destroyed in 1941 by Texas Liquor Control Board chemists under State laws setting standards of purity, the hoard disclosed today in a rc port to the Governor. The amount, ho od with 14.772 ga the year previous said the creased oh New Orleans Jan, March July Oct. Dec. Open 18.72 .18.22 ,18.38 .18.48 18.60 18,68 Cotton High Low 18.24 18.40 18.50 18.70 18.71 18.06 18.18 18.29 18.47 18.67 Close 18.75 18,23 18.37 18.48 IS 66 18 71 ever, compar- gallons destroyed ms and the board iison indicated in- vance of statutes as ant posit placed in an ing medium, fluids are But unlike living cells a a rene rcept ion ecpt Win issues death. he are i tev in up H.

abandoned. House Committee Approves Lend-Lease Loan to China Swarr observer land. Jo Misery of of Ji it sea )CUSt 1,00 ha mi ve es Washington, Fel au! horizat ion for war loan to China een unanimously today fr'-'tn for( ign affairs committer Members the action taken in a 3 A i $500,000,000 was approved bv the House They form exhibit fielc moment ant These elect rh plain one of identical twins, egg make into two cells, ted. If urchins grow the eKg. ht circuits which that vary with each iunction of living, ric 11 tun.es may mysteries of ten a sea ur- first division two can be done, twin sea each half of It! on fevp Mk UQUD.1ABUT1 SALVI.

HQSt CROPS NEW AND USED FURNITURE Bought, Sold and F.xthucgeil DOLLAR DOWN FURNITURE CO. Ifttws Fami In Phone 671 without disarm er four cabinet behind i was necossnrj ecute its war Speaker the fast conni as few minutes and immediately aft officials told them loots that the loan to help China pros- ef fort. burn had predicted i ide ireh I i AS TO ORSI1 HA Austin, Feb. 3. State ernment departments will serve the war time nday, Governor said today.

"It. app no practical solution down the difficulties were rtment officials ien the or: row Cf I into egg only INS I RE IN St INSURANCE 5 iw THE RAINWATERS PAY i H1J.D DR OU Fort Worth. Feb. 3 Wtrmett. 13, drowned last night when she fill from a boat into a a fertilized egg, or into twins? answer, suggested experiments, is the that hold the parts Is together.

Any in- breaks the electri- would probably Steinhardt and LaGuardta Are Not in i alking Mood New York Feb. 3 e-Pi With Ambassador Laurence A. htein- is gui-'-t honor and Mayor H. LaGuardia on the a Metropolitan Club lunch- gathering thought it was in ttv good remarks ie usually verbose ctly 30 seconds, ex- hes. gentlemen a ring mhardt to tell them sat happc-ned in Russia Then the l-rrner envoy to Rust soon to leave for up and said: suppose some of vent expect io tell about the I came from and about the mission 1 am going on.

These days when people should keep their mouths That's all. well as effeetiv of enforcement. The new law limiting issuance of prescriptions for liquor in dry areas, showed that in the final four months of last year only 16,115 prescriptions were filled for gallons of liquor as compared to 2,854,087 prescriptions for 275,041 gallons the same months the year before, Texas Sulphur Production Increases by 41 Per Cent Austin. Feb. 3.

An increase of 41.38 per cent in sulphur production from underground sources in Texas which supply a goodly portion ot the consumption was noted today by Comptroller' George II. Sheppard. Sheppard, computing the increase on tax returns from sulphur companies, observed that the war- born higher yield might partially offset an anticipated sharp decline in State gasoline tax revenues because of decreasing transportation facilities. During the last quarter of 1941. the State tax of $1,272 a ton on ajlphur was paid on 802.584 tons for a total of 81,020,887 and com- with tonnage totals of delbsJo, bps Chicago Grain Wheat High 1 OW Close May 1.297*1.29 1.29 July 1.315, 1.301 1.31 Sept.

1.32% 1.31 1.32% Corn May .873 2 K7 -1 July89 .88 Sept. .895 .90 ()ats: May ,57 .58 July .56 11 .5714 -1 Sept 2 .57 pare 578.384 and quarter 669,016 of 1941 for a Mrs. at the Paul home Lipps. of Dr. and RELY ON YOUR BRAKES INSTEAD OF YOUR HORN Have Your Brakes Repaired By Our Brake Shoe Service City Auto Supply Best Equipped Machine Shop in West Texas for Motor Work GIVE US A TRIAL East Side Square Phone 466 Brazil Minister of Finance En Route to United States Washington, Feb.

3. Bra! minister ot finance, Dr. Ar: thur de Gosta, is en i to the United States to discuss increased production of Brazilian rubber and other problems of hemispheric war economy with finals in this country, i He will spend about ten days in Washington and ten days in New York. While here he will devote some attention to the delivery of equipment for essential in Brazil. Morgan and Company Stock Will Be Sold to Public New York, Feb.

3. cTr- I he outside world the public- today lor the first time had a chance for a voice in the aflairs of .1 Mor- gan and Company, Inc. Just as Wall Street closed up; shop yesterday, Smith Barneji and brokers, announced they had boucht 16.500 shares of the Mor-j capital stock 8.25 per cent of the outstanding stock and woUld sell them publicly at 8206 a share. Through 80 years of few changes the bank had remained a firfan-1 eial citadel in every sense of the; word, with hand-picked partners tnd officers and only an estimat- ed 80 shareholders since it ehang- ed from a partnership to a cor-1 po ration two years ago, Picketing Scouts Win Decision Over Woolen Mills Newport, N. IF, 3.

Labor tactics have won a derision for the guild Boy Srouts over the Door Woolen Mills. When their scoutmaster was transferred to the night shift at he mill, the boys picketed the plant with placards proclaiming: "We want our scoutmaster back The management has placed Joseph Willette back shift. British Officer Is Decorated For Valor on Libyan Front London, Feb. 3. John C.

Campbell, an artillery commander in Libya who replaced one of Ins wounded gunners and kept on firing even after being wounded himself, has been given the Victoria Cross, highest award for valor, it was announced today. The 48-year-old officer was decorated for his part in the lighting last Nov. 21 and 22 in the Libyan battlefront at Rezegh. His courage during the two-day fight was described as an inspiration to his men and a "direct cause of very heavy casualties inflicted on the route i Scoutmaster the dav I INNS 1.1)I Helsinki, Finland, Feb, 3. President Risto Ryti told the Finnish Parliament today that schemes for the reorganization of Europe agreed upon in Moscow by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Premier Joseph Stalin were nothing for they will never be He said he had no official information concerning Eden-Stalin agreements but on the basis of experiences with Bolshevism he could safely conjecture that Stalin's program constituted "the greatest danger threatening us and the whole of Fort Worth Livestock Fort Worth, Feb.

3. (U. S. Dept. Ag.) calves 700; market slow; most cattle steady with Monday's decline; calves fully steady; good to choice fed steers and yearlings 10.2512.00, some held higher; common to medium kind 7.00-10.00; beef cows 6.75-8.50, canners and cutters 4.50-6.75, bulls 6.50-8.75; killing calves 7.50-11.50, culls 6.50- TYPHUS FEVER IS SPREADING Nazi-Occupied Nations of Europe Are Stricken by Highly Dreaded Disease.

Bern, Switzerland, Feb. 3. typhus has spread from the eastern front to Germany and the Nazi-occupied areas, the Ger-j man health ministry announced to- day, listing 126 cases in Germany i LOCAL BRIEFS Dr. W. F.

Baber and Dr. C. H. Robertson have returned from Fort Worth, where they attended the annual Southwestern Congress of Optometry. Mr.

and Mrs. J. F. Minarik are expected to return home day from Dallas, where Mr. Minarik has been confined to a hos- pital since Christmas.

Dr. G. N. Wilson has returned from Houston, where he went to be at the bedside of a sister, who is seriously ill. His sister is reported to be slightly improved.

Mrs. Henry Bird of Store left Monday for Dalas, where she will buy new Spring merchandise. 10 00 strong F25; good and choice steer calves countries, 10.60-12.50. a demarcation line has been os-. Hogs market steady to tablished at vvhich persons coming lower than average; I from tfcP eas1 arP examined for Welders Map New Course in 12.00; good and choice 180- th(? H( pritmiry typhus carrier Salaries lb.

mostly 11.75-90; good and Thc village of Bernik, in: Hlgner salaries 11.20-<0; pack- Bulgaria, was mentioned as one where typhus has broken out. German press dispatches also reported a number of cases among Bulgarian gypsies. Other dispatches said the German postal chief in Poland had forbidden forwarding of packages and letters from Jews, (Most of Jews are confined to the cramped quarters of Nazi-ordained ghettos in which any sort of hygienic protection is lacking.) top 290 choice 160-175 lb. ing sows steady, mostly 50, few 10.75, stocker pigs to 25c higher, 8.00-9.25. Sheep 2.300; all classes around steady; milk fed lambs 12.00, Fall shorn and wo led iambs mosth II.00, strictly good grades absent, medium grade lambs 10.50, fat yearlings 9.00-50, 2-year-old ers shorn wethers 6.00, wooled ewes 5.50; feeder lambs 9.25 down.

Chicago Potatoes Chicago. Feb. 3. Potatoes, arrivals 109; on track 559; total U. S.

shipments 704: supplies heavy, demand very light; market steady; Idaho Musset, Burbanks U. S. No. 1, Colorado Red McClures U. No.

1. 2.45; Minnesota and North Dakota Bliss Triumphs FT, commercials 2.05-30. Chicago Produce Chicago, Feb. 3. -Butter unsettled; creamery, 93 score, 35Vi-36; 92, 35; other prices unchanged.

unsettled; fresh graded iirsts, cars 31 other prices unchanged. Poultry, live, 29 trucks; steady; liens, over 5 lbs. 21 5 lbs. and down 22 Us Leghorn hens 17 rollers, 2Vg lbs. and down, colored 17! 2.

Plymouth Rock White Rock 1812: Springs, 4 lbs. up, colored 22. Plymouth Rock 2312, White Rock 23. under 4 lbs. colored 1912, Plymouth Rock White Rock 21, bareback chickt ns 14-18; roosters 151 Leghorn roosters ducks, 4H lbs.

up. colored 20, white 215a; small, colored 17, white 18; gc 12 lbs. 18. over 12 lbs. 17; turkeys, toms, old 19, young, over 18 lbs.

21. 18 lbs. down 21, hens, old 24. young 26; capons 7 lbs. up 26, un- Department of Agriculture Will Move 3,848 Employes Washington.

Feb. 3. Director Harold D. Smith announced today that the Agriculture Department had agreed to move 3,848 employes out of Washington to make room for defense workers. Approved by President Roosevelt, the transfers will send 1,140 Farm Credit Administration ployes to Kansas City.

700 Agricultural Adjustment Administration employes to various cities where the agency now has field offices, 1.155 Rural Electrification Administration employes to St. Louis, 633 Farm Security Administration employes to Cincinnati, and 220 Agriculture Department solicitor's office workers to various cities. Difference in Soldier Pay fs Confronting Parliament London, Feb. 3. question of differences in pay between tr 11 it ed States and British soldiers already has been raised in Parliament eight days after the arrival of American troops in Northern Ireland.

Lieut. Col. Sir Thomas Moore asked War Secretary Captain Henry R. Margesson in the House of Commons today "how the pay and rations of the British army compared with those of I American soldiers as stationed in this country or Northern I The question was not answered immediately. The British basic pay is two shillings ninepence (about 55 cents) a day.

An American buck private gets about TO cents. Tacoma, Feb. 3. With employers reporting a baek- to-work move under way, idle welders of the Puget Sound area I announced today they would pursue an undisclosed new course in their rebellion against compulsory membership in AFL unions. The change in tactics, which Shell Knutson new S.

111 said he not reveal followed a stinging iiidu nnt by war leaders of the walkout in Seattle and Tacoma shipyards. The statement issued yesterday by War Production Director Donald Secretary of War Hen- rv L. Stimson, Secretary of the Navv Frank and Maritime Comm ssion Chairman Emory Land branded the walkout as "an runted impairment of the war War nm iih iikr lanal Feb. 3. the 1 cached in January, the first full monta of the conflict.

This was nearly 830: .000,000 more han in December, and a doubling in the speed of defense-war expenditures in about six months. ELECTRIC WIRING. Appliances and Repairing. Rogers Electric Service. Phone 810 tfc Non-Defense Projects Will Be Curtailed by Congress Washington, Feb, 3.

-The House rivers and harbors committee voted today to amend a general authorization bill so as to prevent expenditures for rivers and harbors work not tied to the war effort. (lhairman Mansfield, Democrat, Texas, said he hoped to obtain House consideration of the bill within two weeks. it would authorize navigation and hydro-electric power projects estimated to cost more than 81,000 000 000 Tire Manufacturer Says U. S. Supply Is Good for 3 Years Akron.

Ohio, Feb. 3. President William of General Tire and Rubber Co. -aid today, is my considered judgment that we can keep all American cars rolling for three years without making another new O'Neil told stockholders at their annual meeting: and panic have caused thousands of motorists to rush to their tire dealers for recapping. In many in most instances tires have contained thousands of miles ot good rubber.

It is as important to save this processed rubber as it is to save the crude rubber in the stock SINGLE OR DOUBLE EDGE IAFFIT-OFF Hospital Briefs Mrs. Lynn Moore and Infant daughter were dismissed Miss Evelyn Lemon was dismissed following an appendectomy. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Richie announce the birth Mondav of a son.

Mrs. Jim Hughes underwent a major operation Tuesday. Mrs. Wayne English was admitted for medical treatment. M.

P. Pybus was admitted for medical treatment. Loyd Richter was dismissed following an appendectomy. Mrs. J.

L. Crisp entered for following medical treatment. School-Sponsored Sales Classes Will Open Here 1 Sponsored by the Vernon public schools and the Chamber of Com- merce, Miss Laura G. ilson, with Department of Distributive Education, University of Texas, arrived in Vernon Tuesday to duct a series of sales classes. These classes are being put on for the benefit of merchants and I their employes.

They will be conducted here for several days, Miss Wilson was presented to a group of retail merchants at a I meeting of the Chamber of merce committee Tuesday. John Wesley was the founder of the first Sunday School Savannah, Ga. Demon Fir no quarter You cart 7 get money back with WA TEJRtf But Lai fit Off retains Ins cheer He cohered by insurance HERE' T.E.ORVIS ncEncv INSURANCE REEL ESTRTE 155 I Austin, Feb, 3. of Texas student enrollment for the Spring semester starting today was exceeding that of last year. Through last night 5.681 registra- tions were recorded, 705 more than had fees on the same date last year.

More than 300 new students were counted. Registration ends tonight. Bing Crosbv and Bob Hope Will Make Texas Relief Tour Texas hardware stores enjoyed the biggest increase of any type of consumer business during 1941 trading, the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research reported. Hardware trade was up 23 per cent for the year. Los Angeles, Feb, 3.

ePi- Bing Crosby and Bob Hope will join a trio of Texans, Ben Hogan, Jimmy Demaret and Byron Nelson, on industries a war relief tour of their home State next week. Fred Corcoran, tournament bureau manager of the Professional Golfers Association, said the five would play exhibitions in Dallas, Corpus Christi, San Antonio and Houston. They also will appear at Army bases in the Southwest. RUSSIANS ADVANCE New York, Feb, 3. London radio said today a Moscow broadcast claimed Soviet forces were than 20 miles from Dnepropetrovsk," the site of the big hydro-electric power dam on the bend of the Dnieper.

The Russians were last reported within 37 miles of the city. The broadcast was heard by NBC. ITS WAR AD Seattle, Feb. 3, e-P' The classified ad columns of a Seattle newspaper today carried these Wall trade dresser, bed, wiekei 1 settee for 6.00x16 tires. W'i! exchange furniture for labor, dig The ging bombproof shelter.

Will exchange fur coat, actylenc welding outfit. Will accept horse. Record Classified Ads Get Results. Kuala Lumpur is the largest city as well as the capital of the Federated Malay States. TIRE PROBES OPEN Dallas, Feb.

3. ten-day investigation of tire rationing violations in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana will be started tomorrow by the regonal division of the OPM, Max McCullough, manager, said today. He said the office had received numerous reports of violations of the rationing regulations. DAMAGE SI1T HEARD Testimony was being taken Tuesday in a suit for damages, Tressie Jewel Gatewood, et al, vs. R.

D. Clary, et al, in Forty-sixth District Court, Mrs. J. Roberts, district clerk said. Selection of a jury to hear the case was completed Monday, FOR A SQUARE DEAL in MOTOR REWINDING MOTOR BRUSHES Call Deal Electric Service Fannin at Mnolmll Phono 1059 TO THE WORKERS The free men and women of America are going to outproduce the slave hordes of Germany and Japan.

vV want to help in every way that a bank can, the workers of this community who are backing the men at the front. Use our services freely, Ask for our cooperation any time. We will do our best. The First State Bank VERNON, TEXAS MEMBER A OtPOSIT IN UR A'W 0 0.