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PAGE FIFTEEN Wro urande Resident Ordered Held Without Bail on Charge or murder SAN BERNARDINO DAILY SUN. SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1941 ACCUSED IN ACTS TD SPEED SLAYING TRIAL Bennington Waives Preliminary In Slaying of Friend at Oro Grande Plant With the declaration, "I want to get it over with," William Harden Bennington, 61-year-old Oro Grande resident who killed and robbed a friend he had known 30 years, yesterday waived his preliminary hearing in the Oro Grande township court and for the second time freely admitted his guilt. After Bennington made a statement that he shot and killed Cle-mente Chacon, cement plant night watchman, and robbed him of $600 on Feb. 24, Justice of Peace W. E.

Robinson bound him over to supe rior court. Justice Robinson or dered Bennington held without ball on a charge of murder. WITH RIFLE BULLET Bennington said he shot Chacon with a rifle bullet fired from a shotgun. "But I didn't intend to kill him," Bennington maintained. "I only went to the cement plant that night to steal $100 from Chacon so I could leave the desert.

But when he started to draw his revolver I stumbled and my gun went off." Bennington was arrested In Newport Beach by deputies of Sheriff Emmett L. Shay. At first he maintained his innocence, but later admitted he killed and robbed Chacon. Bennington was arrested after he sent a $20 gold note, the type called in by the government under the federal gold reserve act, to his sister, Mrs. Ethel Wiggins, in Oro Grande.

PRESENTED NOTE Mrs. Wiggins presented the note at a store and it eventually reached the bank, which notified the sheriffs office. The money was traced to Bennington and $400 was found in his possession. He first insisted he found the money in a service station. Camp Haan Soldier Held for Assault Taken into custody by Officer Ed fitell nn rhnrca nf QQcaiilf nA of- tempted grand theft, Thomas J.

Arthur, 23, of Camp Haan was released in Colton Saturday afternoon to sheriff's officers. Arthur was arrested at 2:30 p.m. at Pico and Mt. Vernon avenue in Grand Terrace after he assertedly struck and injured John Kilday, Palm avenue, Grand Terrace. Police reported that Kilday, driving a truck belonging to a water company, picked up Arthur, a hitchhiker, and was hit on the head and face.

The injured man was treated by a Colton physician for a split lip and facial bruises. Gate City Resident Injured in Mishap Head injuries and a scalp wound were received by Clyde E. Snowball, 650 Kingman street, San Bernardino, in an auto accident at Colton early Saturday morning. Police reported that Snowball was driving east on I street between Third and Fourth streets when he ran into another enstbound automobile, skidding 60 feet before coming to a stop. Ruby F.

Slaydon, 301 Monterey avenue, Baldwin Park, was driver of the second car. After receiving treatment from a Colton physician, Snowball was returned to his home. Two Motorists Held For Police Inquiry Two motorists were arrested by San Bernardino police yesterday afternoon and booked for investigation of driving while intoxicated. They were Clyde F. Danner, 32, Crestline, and Levergne M.

Hunting-house, 40, San Bernardino. Motorcycle Officers H. B. Hutch- ins and John Brazil took Danner into custody in the 3100 block on a V. 1 rtC nd E.

A. Blakely arrested Hunting- uu.ie at in ra ana Lr sireeis. Police said that both motorists a. leirei. Tr tti: i 1 Visiting Members Will Attend Lodge A delegation from Beaumont and inning iui JIIUCIIIIJ, Ul VUUUU odge, I.O.O.F., at the Masonic tem-)le, according to Barton R.

Lynn, The group will bring a trailer vhich is being passed among the Hiiuus iuuges ui me siaie. jn lni-iatory degree formerly scheduled or Monday night has been post- oneu unui me ionowing Monday. Ct tt i i in induct the meeting, and refresh- eriLS will iir Hprvpn. iano oiuaeni ivft Pnr.ital Miss Marie Brodeur, Bloomington iano instructor, presented Joyce laerene lakeiey, pianist, in a re-ital Saturday night at the Bloom- ACiitxn vv II' innn an- iano, mung, icompanied by her vi i i r-Mi fimt AO wait Konariif GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY WILL INSPIRE RECEPTION TODAY Here are Mr. and Mrs.

J. M. Ross, whose fiftieth wedding annlver sary will be celebrated today with a reception at their Redlands home (Photo by Louis J. Perry) Celebrating their golden wedding anniversary today, Mr. and Mrs.

J. M. Ross, 1611 Clay street, Red-lands, have issued invitations to their Redlands and Yucaipa friends to join in a reception this afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock. Children of the pair will be hostesses for the event. Three daughters of the couple all make their homes in Redlands, and with their families, will join in a noon dinner preceding the open house.

The daughters, are M. A. Kyler, San Timoteo canyon; Mrs. W. C.

Scott, 1736 Clay street, and Mrs. F. T. Grow, 432 Walnut avenue. Also at the dinner will be Messrs.

Kyler, Scott and Grow, and the grandchildren of the honorees, the Qridiron Club Turns Its Jokes on Europe Skits Bid Goodbye to Party System, Show Democracy and Free Speech Still Here (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 5. The Gridiron club bade farewell to the old two-party system of the United States and turned to lampooning foreign affairs tonight in a series of sketches which, its president said, proved that democracy and free speech still lived in America. Harold Brayman, Washington correspondent of the Houston Chronicle and new president of the famed dining club, injected a serious note into his humorous welcoming speech when he reminded the guests that this was "the last major capital of the world where we may gather together around the bowl and the table and laugh with and at each other." "As long as the gridiron shines," he continued, pointing to the glowing symbol of the club above bis head in the darkened room, "let no one tell you that there is not freedom of speech and freedom of the press in America. As long as the gridiron shines, let no one deny that the basic liberty of Americans lives. "And so let's celebrate it tonight.

Long life to it. Thumbs up. There'll always be an England. There'll always be democracy in America because we know how to use our liberty in unity." DISTINGUISHED GUESTS Then the club turned to the entertainment of a group of distinguished guests which included President Roosevelt, the ambassador from Great Britain, Wendell Willkie and a wide assortment of men from public, diplomatic and private life. Unreported speeches wore made during the evening by President Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts.

At the outset, the club president's gavel was brought to him under convoy. The convoy was discovered to he Brian Bell, chief of the Washington bureau of the Associated Press, and William H. Mylan-der, Washington correspondent of the Toledo Blade, who were being initiated into club membership. The cordial relations between Great Britain and the United States formed material for several sketches, as did the growing friendship between this country and Latin America. A skit portraying the abandonment of the two-party system depicted Mr.

and Mrs. G.O.P. and Miss Democracy jointly receiving guests to a "farewell to tha two- Misses Opal and Meryl Kyler, Col leen Scott and Ruth Grow, and Billy Grow. During the reception this afternoon, relatives from Los Angeles and Hollywood will join the group, and the Misses Ruth Grow and Opal Kyler will preside at the serving table. Mr.

and Mrs. Ross were married in Winfield, April 6, 1891, and later moved to Pagosa Springs, where they lived 15 years and where Mr. Ross engaged in raising stock and in the livery business. From Colorado they came to Redlands to make their home. They have resided in Redlands and Yucaipa for 18 years.

In Yucaipa, Mr. Ross owned and cared for a fruit ranch for a number of years. party system." The guests included Mrs. High Tariff, Mrs. Gold Standard, Mrs.

Economy and Mrs. Isolation. Mr. G.O.P. remarked that Franklin and Wendell had come closely together.

"They're so close, you can't tell them apart except by their voices," replied Mrs. G.O.P. WILLKIE CALLED About that time, Harry Hopkins and Willkie entered together, wearing trench helmets, a loud speaker announced that the White House was calling Willkie, and a butler observed that this call was a lot louder than the one last November. The curtain closed upon huge pictures of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant and Mr. G.O.P.

said one epoch was ended and another begun. One skit gibed at the requirements that Washington newspapermen have an array of special credentials to assure their admission to some government buildings. A Gridiron actor depicting Stephen T. Early, the presidential press secretary, assured newspapermen that there would be no censorship so long as they printed "anything we will let you print" and wore badges giving their great-grandmother's maiden names. Another skit contrasted 1776 A.

D. with 1776 H. depicting in song the era of Paul Revere and the battle for independence and the slow flow of events that have brought America and England side by side again in agreement that "your fate and our fate are the world's fate today." Still another depicted former Postmaster-General James A. Farley and Vice-President Henry A. Wallace in South America, upsetting the efforts at economic penetration of a character called "Herman the German." FARLEY IRRITATED An American diplomat irritated Farley by displaying a champagne bottle.

Rebuked, the diplomat apologized: "Ever since George Earle went to Bulgaria this bottle Is the badge of diplomacy." But Farley replied that he wanted no diplomacy: "With my brains and Henry Wallace's Spanish, we will paddle our own canoe." He wound up by converting South Americans to a soft drink instead of Herman's beer, despite the offer HTKDI TELLS IF PLANS FDR COASTER MCE Orange Blossom Derby April 18 Will Be Run on Buena Vista Street, Chairman Says Detailed arrangements for the Orange Blossom coaster derby, youth's major part in Redlands' coming Orange Blossom festival, were announced yesterday by Du-shane Hynson. He is chairman of a special Rotary club committee, which is sponsoring the event. The coaster races will be run on South Buena Vista street, starting at Palm avenue and finishing at Olive avenue. TRAFFIC DIVERTED Buena Vista street will be closed during the races, which are scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 18.

Traffic will be diverted around that section of the thoroughfare, said Theodore Krumm, police commissioner. Rotary club members will act as official judges of the event. Prizes will be awarded as follows: first, second, third, fourth, and fifth, $1. Cash prizes will be awarded to the first two places In each heat. ENTRIES CLOSE SOON All children 15 years of age or younger, with permission from their parents, may compete.

Application blanks can be obtained from the chamber of commerce. The dead line on entry blanks is Wednesday, April 16. Of all the many interesting events scheduled for this week-long cele bration, the Rotary club's Orange Blossom coaster derby, which is a feature set aside exclusively for children of this communtiy, has met with an immediate response. Dushane Hynson, chairman of this event, is working with Roy Coble at the Y.M.C.A., who is also receiving entries for the coaster derby. Chairman Asks Production Aid An appeal for women to sew and knit, for Red Cross war relief was issued yesterday by Mrs.

L. E. Newcomer, Colton production chairman as the next quota for shipment abroad is not nearly completed. Garments which are to be made are women's and men's sweaters and women's and girls' dresses and men's shirts. Anyone wno is inter ested in assisting with the work is invited to contact Mrs.

Newcomer. Organizations which have coop-erated in the sewing are the Chris tian Advent Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, the Methodist Women's Society of Christian Service, the Presbyterian Women, the Baptist Women's union. The Seventh Day Adventist society, Grace Episcopal Women's aux iliary, American Legion auxiliary, Lincoln and Roosevelt P.T.A. and the Woman's club. Mrs.

A. M. Byrn's sewing class at Colton High school has also assisted. Millay Book Will Be Review's Topic "Make Bright the Arrows," a volume of poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay, will be reviewed Thursday at 2:15 p.m.

for Bloomington Woman's club book section. Mrs. Robert Chaffee, chairman, will be hostess at her home, 348 West Slover avenue. Mrs. Robert W.

Langley will give her usual mental hygiene report and Mrs. Paul Noble is to conduct the parliamentary law drill. Young Women's Society to Convene Meeting at the home of Mrs. Jack Walker, 256 West street, Colton, Thursday at 12 noon will be the Young Women's Society of Christian Service of Jewell Memorial Methodist church. Mrs.

Harry Norfleet is chairman. of the latter to give free Italian cheese with purchases of the beer. The skit concluded with rout for the German, and Wallace and the South Americans sirlging: "There's nothing else to do "We're in the same canoe "So here's my hand to you "For weal or woe. "Now let us give a cheer "For our own hemisphere "And none of us need fear "A foreign foe." TAXES LAMPOONED Other skits showed the cabinet with all its "dull incessant cackle" taking the President's mind off his "fishing tackle;" ten minutes in the life of Associate Justice Frankfurter which dwelt upon the liking of the justice for a long word when a short one would serve the purpose. John Q.

Public was shown muddling through his income tax. He was pained by the corporation tax, amusement tax, nuisance tax, old- age tax and liquor tax, and com plained that the income tax had taken $500 off the value of his wife. But when he came to defense taxes, he linked arms with a soldier and sailor to proclaim: "Taxes will beat the axis." 1H1 FESTIVAL PLANS Tl OPEN Election of Officers Is Slated For Meeting at Legion Hall; Organizations Invited (Special Staff Correspondence) BLOOMINGTON, April 5 Plans for the 1941 Bloomington Water melon festival will be officially launched next Tuesday evening when last year's executive board, together with representatives from several civic organizations, will hold their first meeting of the season. The primary purpose of the session is to elect officers for this year's celebration. The meeting will be held at the American Legion clubhouse on North Cedar avenue and will open at 7:30.

SESSIONS RETIRES Dewey Sessions is the retiring president of the festival association. Other officers who served for the 1940 event were Walter Zimmerman, vice-president; Mrs. Dewey Beaton, secretary, and Robert W. Langley, treasurer. Major organizations of the community have been notified of the meeting, and their presidents have been asked to appoint representatives.

Those which usually cooperate in staging the festival are the chamber of commerce, the American Legion post and auxiliary, the Woman's club, the Community Congregational church, and the Parent Teacher association. PROVE POPULAR Watermelon festivals have been held in Bloomington each August for the past several years and have attracted increasingly larger crowds from all parts of the district. The events arc centered at the school grounds. Another meeting scheduled for the week at the Legion clubhouse is the monthly directors' meeting of the chamber of commerce Monday evening. Townspeople are invited.

This session will likewise begin at 7:30. President Grant S. Earr will be in charge. A final report on the membership drive will be made by Chairman S. H.

Brainard, and a report on the community banquet which the chamber sponsored last Saturday evening will be given. i Terrace Benefit Attracts Crowd Attracting a crowd of ,150 persons, the benefit, dinner and program staged by Grand Terrace P.T.A. and school Friday night raised a sum of approximately $20, Principal Roland B. Adams said yesterday. The event was an early celebration of public schools week which comes later in the month.

Before the crowd was seated for the dinner, Jimmy Harpham played "America" on the trumpet and the audience sang the anthem. During the meal, Millis Oakes Jr. offered accordion selections. The school orchestra played "Blue Waves" and the swing band gave three numbers, "There I Go," "Ciu-lito Lindo" and "We Three." The entire orchestra gave an introduction to the chorus' Stephen Foster program with "Plantation Echoes." Mrs. Jesse Rich conducts both the instrumental groups.

Stephen Foster pieces by the chorus, directed by Mrs. Mary Ann Elder, were introduced by Gerald Weston. They included "Old Folks at Home," "My Old Kentucky Home" and "Old Black Joe." Dor- thea Troy played "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" and the final group by the chorus was "Beautiful Dreamer," "Oh, Susanah" and "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair." Old songs by Foster and other composers were flashed on the screen and the audience joined in singing them. Movies of the war were shown, after which parents visited the rooms. Proceeds from the affair will aid in paying for new costumes lor the chorus and in purchasing chairs for the auditorium.

Mrs. Edwards Will Speak at Terrace Election of officers is the principal item of business for Grand Terrace Woman's club Wednesday at I p.m. at the school auditorium, according to Mrs. J. P.

Flynn, president. Mrs. S. C. Edwards, a member of the club, will be the afternoon's speaker.

Offices to be filled are president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, corresponding secretary, auditor and member-at-large. Mrs. Edwards is to tell of various trips she has taken, entitling her talk, "Travelogue." Hostesses at the tea hour will be Mrs. Catherine Rhodes, chairman; Mrs. Arlo Olson, Mrs.

Frank Ogden and Mrs. W. M. Hollingsworth. Rainbow Advisory Board to Convene Colton Rainbow advisory board is to convene for a routine business session Monday night at 7:30 at the home of Mrs.

LeRoy Morgan, 1241 Holly drive. Mrs. G. W. Snyder is chairman.

YUCAIPA 'SPIDER FARM' The war-minded world clamors for the products of San Bernardino valley's most extraordinary enterprise a Yucaipa valley spider farm. Spider web filament, worth many times its weight in gold, is the unique crop. This remarkable "rancher" is Mrs. Nan Songer. Her home, on Highway 99 east of Redlands, is one of the world's few sources of spider silk, specially spun for the manufacturers of technical instruments.

Her "farm," where everything is done on a microscopic scale, is a room 8x10 feet. HOBBY BECOMES JOB Mrs. Songer's lifetime hobby of chasing bugs suddenly has caught the attention of scientists. Today her vocation consists of raising spiders and extracting their silk, which she reels onto tiny steel frames, packs in special cartons, and ships to the makers of expensive, highly precise lenses, which men use to bring instruments to bear upon distant targets. German bombing planes, for which the Nazis claim more deadly accuracy, are said to be equipped with bomb-sights employing spider web crosses to find the targets.

If this is true, the United States may have the advantage even in this respect, for Mrs. Songer claims superiority for her product. She claims certain skill and certain secret processes of supplying better filament for optical devices. STRONGER THAN METAL The American navy has tried spi der filament in the sighting of guns, but has abandoned it because the fiber is too delicate to withstand the jolt when a gun is fired. Instead the navy uses such materials as finely spun platinum wire.

In some gun-sights the intersecting lines are engraved upon the lense, so that the recoil can not alter the all-impor tant cross. No such shock to the sighting de vice is involved in bombing from aircraft or in releasing torpedoes from submarines. "Spider web filament is several times stronger than any metal wire of similar size," said Mrs. Songer yesterday, "and it is much finer material than anything that can be spun artificially. It is three times finer than any line that can be etched on glass.

"The national bureau of standards specifies that spider filament shall have a diameter of .0001 of an inch. Fine as this is, the silk is so strong that it is possible with delicate instruments to split it into as many as four strands. PREFERS BABY SPIDERS "To understand how fine a segment of spider web can be made, first you must realize that the natural silk, as it comes from the young spider, can not be seen with the naked eye. You see the light reflecting from the web, but you don't see the web itself. "I get the best material from the baby crab spider.

The silk is stronger, finer and more even in diameter." Mrs. Songer keeps 50 producing spiders on hand. Because they are cannibalistic, she has to house them in separate Jars. To get the most perfect silk, she does not feed a spider for two days before it is induced to spin. It is a nerve-wracking, eye-straining task to extract spider silk and reel it onto a metal frame.

Mrs. Songer can stand it only two hours day. But she gets 100 feet per hour, and the market price is 10 cents per foot. First Mrs. Songer weights down the spider's feet, so it can't escape.

With a small instrument she gently IDE HEAR ADDRESS Feeds and diseases of game birds formed the topic for an address by E. D. Platte of the state game farm at Chino, Friday night at a meeting of the Citrus Belt chapter of the California Game Breeders' association at the Alabama tea room, Colton. Thirty-four members and guests were present. During the business session conducted by Richard Chaffee, chairman, reports on membership and supply were made by Guy S.

Hughes and Rudy Steiner. C. R. Knight Jr. directed the question box.

Special prizes were received by John Laughlin, Richard Chaffee and Mrs. Glen Horton. Next meeting will be May 2. Attending were Mr. and Mrs.

West Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Potes, El Monte; Mrs. Joe L. McCarthy, John Harrison, Upland; E.

A. Kendall, Banning; Mr. and Mrs. Glen Horton, Mr. and Mrs.

C. R. Knight, Mrs. Pearl Bloomer, Mrs B. A.

Chilson, San Bernardino; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Flower, Mr. and Mrs. Guy S.

Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Chaffee, Bloomington. John Laughlin, Loyal Layton, Mr. and Mrs.

E. M. Pearson, Riverside; Mr. and Mrs. H.

L. Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Walter HarpoM, Colton; R. J.

Steiner, Corona; G. E. McDorman, Monterey Park; Harry Warren, president of the State Game Breed ers' association, Van Nuys; Mrs. Fern Norris, secretary of the as sociation, Whittier; and Mr. and Mrs.

E. D. Platte, Chino. At the invitation of the Rev. George Davidson, rector, the Rev, John Marsden Poole of Colton spoke at a recent Lenten service at St John's Episcopal church, Los An geles.

it fllldtliaWlMiii6llMW i mmmaiuiiShifa II Above is pictured Mrs. Nan Songer, fishing a spider from its glass jar home at her Yucaipa "spider farm." (Photo by Louis J. Perry) agitates the spinneret, the nipplelike organ with which the spider spins its web. This starts the tiny thread, the end of which she attaches to the reel. Slowly she turns the U-shaped frame, careful that the thread does not overlap at any point.

Outer surfaces of the spindle are coated with shellac, which holds the thread in place. So long as the pull is constant and slow, the spider spins until its supply is exhausted and the thread is unbroken, it the spiaer is aoie to free its legs, it breaks the web and scurries away. The spindles resemble croquet wickets. They fit into the slots of a specially built shipping box, which protects the spider silk, in transit. The cost of these delicate crates cuts down the profit.

It is no get-rich-quick business, although Mr. Songer is expanding his wife's farm into a room 20 feet square. Some spiders live several years, yielding several hundred feet of commercial silk In a lifetime. Careful not to overwork her pets, Mrs. Songer subjects them to the spinning ordeal no more than five times.

It's no work to produce new spiders, for the adults need no coaxing. But it is a full-time Job to keep them fed. Spiders demand living food, so Mrs. Songer is busier raising crickets and catching flies than she is in gathering silk. The crickets, too, are produced in the one-room farm.

Eight years ago, before she became interested in spiders, Mrs. Songer raised crickets "just for the fun of having their music in the house." A nationally known scientist asked for someone to record the life history of the cricket, which hadn't been done. Mrs. Songer did it. ONCE RAISED MOTHS As a youngster Mrs.

Songer raised moths, which she sold to collectors. From that she branched into crickets, then spiders. She knows of only one other American woman, who Weather permitting, the post poned wiener bake of Troop No. 44, Boy Scouts, will take place Monday evening at 7 at the home of Duncan Sprague, 676 West I street, Colton, Scoutmaster John Marsden Poole said yesterday. George Carreon was winner of last week's scavenger hunt.

The Scouts are planning a snow sports hike along the Vivian creek trail in Upper Mill Creek canyon Tues day. An invitation has been received from' Troop No. 41 for a re turn visit to the group April 15. Registration cards will be awarded Kenneth Johnson and Jack Crocker Monday evening by their parents. Next pack meeting of Cub Pack No.

1 will include a talk and motion pictures on Mexico by Dr. J. J. H. Smith.

The art of fire building was studied by Den No. 2 at its last gathering. Hunter's stew was served with Elsie Sprague, den mother, acting as chef. Newest members of Den No. 3 are Tommy Schultz, a transfer from No.

4, and Robert May, who rejoins the group. A contest is in progress to determine who has the highest rank. Devere Murrcn is in the lead and Arthur Riggins is his runner- up. LeRoy Johnston has prepared a travel scrapbook and Devere Mur-ren is working on his hobby elective for the wolf gold arrow. Johnnie Mack has passed two of his bobcat tests and Wayne Saffel, strength and safety.

Arthur Rig-gins has completed knot tests. H. and M. Club To Hold Luncheon Colton H. and M.

club will convene Tuesday at 12 M. at the home of Mrs. L. J. Sellman, 630 East street, for luncheon and bridge.

SCOUTS PI WIENER 1 BOOMING 1 1 1 deals In spider filament. She believes that she has some practical knowledge of the game which no one else possesses. She has worked with all types of spiders except the abhorred black widow, whose web is too coarse for commercial value and under enough varied conditions to convince her that if there are any secrets about producing superior spider silk, she has them. Her confidence may not be misplaced, for her address has become one of the busiest stops on the mail man's route. Government agencies, manufacturers with government contracts, and scientific establishments are on her list of customers.

"New uses are being found for spider filament," said Mrs. Songer, "but the application of this material is not altogether new. Long before it was considered possible that this material would have wartime uses, it was being adapted to surveying telescopes and the like. SOME USE COCOONS "For some years the manufacturers of optical instruments have been reaching into the woods of Michigan for spider cocoons, from which they unwound the silk. One of the biggest optical firms has employed a German woman, who does little else.

There Is new technique involved, however, in the production of better silk by the employment of better methods. By proper dieting of the spider, and by extracting silk only from the young ones, under the proper conditions, we produce uniform silk devoid of thick and thin sections and make a peculiar contribution to the manufacture of more precise instruments, for war or for peace." NATIONAL WEATHER REPORT STATE FORECAST (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, April 5. The federal weather bureau forecast: RprnarHinn Vall.u m.n. irai ouiuiav and Monday, with slowly rising ptriHiuru; niuueraie to iresn northerly winds. Los Angeles and Vicinity: Clear Sunday and Monday; maximum temperatures Sunday near 72; Monday 77: moderate to occasionally fresh north to northeasterly winds.

California Coastal and Mountain Area (Point Conception and tha Tehachapis Southward): Clear Sunday and Mond.iv. with slowly rising temperature; moderate to fresh north to northeasterly wind, becoming occasionally strong near mountains. Southern California East of Mountains, (Owens Valley Southward): Clear Sunday and Monday, with slowly rising temperature. San Francisco Bay Region: Oenerallv fair Sunday and increasing cloudiness Monday; rising daytime temperature; moderate northwest wind Northern California: Generally fair Sunday and increasing cloudiness becoming unsettled on extreme north roast Monday: cool at night but rising daytime temperatures: moderate to fresh west and northwest wind off the coast. Sierra Nevada: Generally fair Sunday and Increasing cloudiness Monday; freezing temperature at night but rising daytime temperature; moderate to fresh northerly wind.

Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys: Generally fair Sunday and increasing cloudiness Monday; cool at night but rising daytime temperatures; moderate northerly wind. SA.V FRANCISCO. April 5. and low temperatures from 27 today follow: PACIFIC COAST High Fresno fi4 Los Angeles 67 Needles 73 Phoenix, Ariz 72 Portland. Ore 57 Sacramento 64 San Dieso 6S San Francisco 60 Seattle 56 EASTERN Atlanta .18 Boston 44 Buffalo Chicago 43 Cincinnati .6 Denver 69 Duluth 40 Galveston 74 Kansas City 53 Memphis 61 New Orleans 74 New York 40 Omaha Pittsburgh SO Salt Lake City So San Antonio A3 Tampa 78 Washington 59 High cities Low 42 46 54 47 44 53 49 46 49 36 46 as 31 52 49 37 19 ii 44 46.