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APRIL 2 1950 MONROE (LA.) MORNING WORLD German Writes To iLMlorning Warid Wants Wife In U. S. A German living in Munich wants an American wile. so the Morning vvas advised last week by nail. His name is Rudolf Braun.

He wrote his Qualifications as simply being spry, active, single, reliable, a waiter and cook trade and quite willing and ready to work for a American wife that is, who will help him become an American citizen, In part his letter read: ll trust that you may give my letter publicity which may result in enabling me to return to America and there give more practical help to a deserv mg case. JI only aim in life is to live iii America. You could belt) me do it by publishing this letter and I beg you very much for it. got sick in Germany before the war on a i i to rn a relatives in Germany. I have no relatives Get Rewarded--Solve 3 Murders In This Area in America and have lost connection with friends there.

I have the entry permit to America and can sail as soon as I furnish and affidavit of support and a declaration that my ship ticket will be paid by a sponsor in America am 57, healthy, spry, active, medium size, 13b pounds, waiter and cook but will take any other work. too. also farm work having worked one year on a farm in Germany. would like to marry a woman In Vineries wiih a little farm or who needs a steady, will. Cie- til la hie fellow lo work for her.

am best suited for a woman who an absolutely adaptable, appreciative, obliging fellow who Pettedly serves and caters to her. I will accept all conditions and go to any place city or county no platter how' modest I am diligent gild good-natured I give herewith promise of marrmge to the jA Woman who endorses for me the affidavit of and shit) ticket. I will be ever thankful to lier. I was no solder, no but always a great admirer and adherent of America and enlightened Germans bs my American Fisherman Gets Snakes SYDNEY A big octopus cli nib rd (Into the hmm of George Miles" gillie he Was fishing off L'iladulia. 150 miles' south of Sydney.

Miles gad hooked the octopus, and hauled It to the surface. I hen the octopus took over It tentacles over the side of the launch and hauled itself into ie cockpit it squirted a black fluid at Miles and reached foi him uh its tentacles Miles seized a ieee of board and fought off the 'octopus for several minutes Then he killed it by crashing the board on its head. The octopus w.i« IO feet from tip to tip of its tentacles. ii Wi ong-Way Prayers Kl VTA LUM PGR, Malaya- Malayan Muslims have been praying the wrong way for years, says Tuan Sheikh Tahir Jalaiud- din, Muslim theologian and astronomer. The mosques at Kunia Lumpur, the capita), and at Gulping and Telok in Perak state, are all away from Mecca." he explains.

Tuan Sheikh says religious authorities in Mala'a are aware of the "mistake" done nothing to but have correct it far By Percy Pant Do you like investigations? Ever take part in one? If thev interest solving of crimes, especially roll up your sleeves brother, this is going to he right down your alley. three unsolved murder cases in Ouachita parish and nearby Franklin parish, and there mav be a reward if you dig up leading to the arrest and conviction of the party or guilty of the murders. So far the eases have professional investigators of police and sheriff departments baffled. Why not try your hand at them. Milo knows, maybe the officers have overlooked a small detail that could easily bring the guilty person to justice.

Besides, it is generally accepted that there is no crime." I liven murderers make mistakes. Ifs just a matter of time and method of uncovering the error before the accused or guilty person comes to trial. Let look over the facts of two unsolved murders in Ouachita parish-then turn to the "double in Winnsboro. Thumbing through the files of the Morning World, we find the first story written on the shooting of John Bezz. It read: elderly DeSiard street gro- eeryman.

John Bezz, was in the St Francis Sanitarium last night suffering a bullet wound sustained during what police called an apparent holdup attempt of his store late yesterday I'he story was dated January 20, 1949. Bezz was shot the day before and died shortly before midnight January 20. However, before his death. Bezz explained to his daughter-in-law, Mrs Ben that: He was attending his store shortly after ti in. A Negro entered the store and asked for a jar of peanut butter.

And in own words: I was getting it off the shelf, the Negro "Witched off the electric light and when I turned, he The bullet bit me in my The wounded grocer went on to tell how tile Negro rushed outside. met mother Negro, and together they fled said there vvas no attempt to "rob Bezz had operated his grocery, 1105 DeSiard street, for many He was the victim of a SI.IOO robbery during lhe summer of 1947, according to police records. A few day" after the murder. police took into custody what they Called a "good "lisped" hut several days later, the suspect, a young Negro, was cleared and released from jail. The case was just recently brought to life when local police, March LM of this year booked two suspects in the case.

But that didn't pan (nit cither and the pair was released. unsolved murder in Monroe occurred March 19. about a couple of weeks ago The murdered person 77-year-old Sam Michatto He was found critically beaten early that morning near 3006 Jackson street. four blocks from his home at 2814 Dick Taylor street Michatto died in a local hospital almost eight hours later without regaining consciousness. Investigating officers said the injured man was found by J.

S. Osterling, of 309 Newman street. Michatto's head, "lien found, was resting on a loaf of bread. Missing from his pocket" was fixe dollars and a new billfold. part of a w(xxien plank, spotted itll blood, was found near chatto and later sent to Shreveport for an analysis.

The spots were human blood, the report showed Michatto had been a resident of Monroe for the past 45 years He was a former grocer. Police have questioned a number of Ne roes in th ease, but haven't found "ulticint proof needed to convict the person The motive for this murder was obviously rob-; bevy. Thumbing back through the files we come to the double murder in Winnsboro. There's a thousand dollars reward if you can find the solution to this one. On Halloween night, 1948, neighbors of Sam Paola and his wife heard several shots and screams, but they thought it was only the work of merrymakers.

Later however. police discovered it was "double body was found lying in a puddle of his own blood near the kitchen door of his Taylor addition home at Winnsboro, His wife's body was found stretched in a small dividing the bath and dining room. Both the Paolas were shot once in the head and again in the body with a .22 cal. firearm. Mrs, Paola was the first to be found when a friend, William Baker, a surveyor, came to see Paola about their shortwave broadcasting units.

Mrs, Florence Taylor, wife of the Winnsboro postmaster, told officers that she heard shots and screams, but since it was Halloween, it was natural to believe it was children shooting firecrackers and playing. Paola vvas 45. his wife. Mary, was 40. They had lived in their Taylor Addition home for the past 20 years and had a son, George Paola, who at the time of his deaths, was working in Texas with an oil company.

After the two killings, residents in and around Winnsboro got jittery and local hardware stores sold out of pad locks and bolts. People were sleeping with their electric lights on and a firearm close to their beds. Several suspects were brought to Monroe and given lie detector Rut the murders are not much nearer being solved than they were the day bodies were first riisroverd. All three of the unsolved murders are still being investigated by police. Any information or leads you might have or find may give officers just the clue they're looking for and at the same time, put reward money in your pocket.

Gar cl eu Success Aided By Fertilizer By Cynthia Lowry (Avsociaifd Press April showers may meke May flowers, but lots more than rainwater goes into the production. Soil care is a year-round job. but the quality of the garden depends, almost entirely on the good rich earth. And the quantity of richness is the responsibility of the gardener. But even after too-sandy soil had been enriched or heavy clay soil had been lightened it must continue to be fed judiciously on a diet which will maintain it.

This means fertilizing the soil. Aud the ways to do it are roughly three: Organic or inorganic fertilizer. lime and compost. Organic fertilizers are primarily the horse, sheep or chicken. Fresh manure has its uses, but must be handled carefully, for it is strong and apt to burn the tender young roots of plants.

Well-rotted manure, mixed with straw, rich and more bland is better to general purposes. it improves the quality of soil and breaks down slowly when dug into and incorporated into the earth. Some roses and peonies (which hate it to come into contact with the inner are among those which benefit immeasureably by an annual feeding. Even during the winter, manure spread over inactive ground provides a tonic, particularly combined with snow. Snow alone is a fertilizer of a type, carrying nitrogen into the soil.

Another, important use for manure is in liquid form. This involves the use of a barrel (best placed in an obtrusive spot). A foot or so of manure is placed in the bottom of the barrel which is ten filled with water and a cover placed on it After brewing for a month or so. the liquid may be drawn off as diluted to the col-1 EARLY ATTEMPTS TG MAKE RAIN REVEALED Ersatz Lightning (left) was tried in the early 1880 when balloons, sent aloft, sparked off ers. Snakes Alive (right) were Indians in their retual dances for used rain.

RPI by Hopi Ghost with a Heart a drab five- story apartment Berlin ghostly taps on the wall scared tenants. One woman occupant lost her reason was removed to an asylum Four families left their flats in despair after many sleepless hours. After two years, the West Berlin police assigned a to investigate. A sergeant was posted in the quarters of an aged, deaf spinster in the attic He could hear the eerie tapping. Tow nights the sergeant was baffled.

At last, he happened to lean over the woman's bed. pressing his head tightly against the wall. As he did so, the tapping was heard. Further tests apparently confirmed his solution. The hollow walls of the house were built of porous clay slabs.

Tho spinster bed had been placed close to the wall. In certain positions of sleep lier heart heat was transmitted to the wall and the sound earned farther through the building. SETS THREE OBJECTIVES THE HAGLE. The Netherlands. April U.

Defense Secretary Loins Johnson today set three objectives for the 12-nation north Atlantic defense program. we seek to deter aggression; second, to defend ourselves, and finally, to defeat the aggressor if he forces war upon Johnson told the third session of defense ministers from tho nations signing the north Atlantic treaty. MODEL SKYSCRAPERS PLANNED FOR MOSCOW or of weak tea. It is particularly handy for feeding plants in midsummer or where quick feeding is indicated. If you have enough of it.

there nothing better for trees as well as flowers and vegetables. Wood ashes, bonemeal, these are fertilizers, too, to be used where and as needed in the job of giving plant food to sterile earth of replenishing the supplies absorbed by growing things. But none of them be used thoughtlessly or even too often. You'd never dig in wood-ashes around acid-loving plants or scatter it on lawns, for instance. Lime is a soil for sandy soil as well as and is an important tool of the gardener, it will sweeten sour soil, make a too-rich soil better, but it is rare earth indeed which requires an annual dosage.

Commercial fertilizers are the ones with the numerical legends traced on the bags. 5-10-5, 2-6-4 and such. These magic figures merely I by represent the proportions of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash contained in the compound. They are necessary adjuncts to every they are supplementary aids. They are safe and easy to use but they are more like shots- in-the-arm, not long term soil improvers.

Peat moss, like lime, is not a fertilizer. There no plant food in it, but it's a wonderful soil ingredient to lighten and aerate heavy soil. Bonemeal is a wonderful plant food, its compared to lime, for its advantage when mixed into the garden is that it dissolves slowly and does a long-term enriching job. By Sherry Bowen NEW to make New York is about lo begin in hopes of filling its re- been going on at least 10.000 years. OI course, new to spend 850,000 to seed clouds with dry ice and chemicals to quench a thirst.

But dream of rain making is an old story. Primitive man tried to make rain as soon as he had crops to water. First he tiled magic. The best rain maker of a tribe often became chief. It was a good job, except when he failed to bring rain he often was killed.

Wierd Rites Tried Most of the rites hinged on sprinkling or pouring out water. The Omaha Indians, for instance, dumped water and then sucked up the mud and blew it from their mouths to imitate spray. But in Java, Australia and other places they heat each other until blood flowed to imitate rain. Or the rain maker might take a bath. The Arabs used to toss their holy man into a pool when they wanted rain.

In South Africa grass and leaf-clad women sang ribald songs while they cleaned the wells. The rites of the Hope Indians in which they dance with rattlesnakes in their mouths are known to most Americans. That, too, is a rain making ceremony. Twins, frogs, black animals, were among the things some people thought helped bring rain. These became the center of the rites, Or they might call upon their dead.

Orinoco Indians scattered the ashes of relatives a year after death as a rain charm. Men also appealed to their gods, Zeus in Greece was a rain god, among other things, as was Jupiter in Rome. Or they might be- come angry at their gods after a long drouth. As late as 1893 in 1 Sicily, images of saints were turned to the all, stripped, thrown into pools and otherwise abused. Smoke Clouds Prescribed South American Indians also burned grass in a drouth, thinking the smoke would rise and form clouds.

Very early men believed that battles caused rain. This was supposed to be due to the noise or to the blood anc! sweat evaporating and forming clouds. Or the gods were supposed to want to cleanse the battle field. When guns came to be used, the smoke and concussion were supposed to bring rain. This was taken seriously even in the United States.

Between 1890 and 1893 congress spent $19,000 trying to make rain sending up balloons and kites with explosives. Some of the ex- Modern rain-making: Wing tip of plane at right, shown abovs cumulus clouds to be seeded with dry ice. ian, gained repute as a rain maker near Canton, Ohio. Then Goodland, called him. He set up a two-story building and let fumes of his secret formula escape through a vent in the roof.

It rained and he collected. In Australia In 1903 zinc was put iii sulphuric acid. Hydrogen was thus generated in an attempt to make rain. Used In 1905 Charles Hatfield collected 81,000 for making rain in southern California. He released mystery chemicals from a tower.

He op- 1 erated all over western United States and is even said to have gone to Alaska. Another rain making surge came in the early This time it was thought rain could be made by seeding clouds with electrified sand. In one test army planes seeded clouds over McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. They are said to have produced a small shower Since dry ice has worked, all that seems necessary is enough clouds of the right kind and enough ice. 20 Million Given Test To Stop In Karachi, Pakistan By Alton L.

Blakeslee NEW YORK Karachi, Pakistan, a three-year-old girl held out her arm to a Danish doctor, tuberculosis. And a photographer I took a picture. file girl, Zora Mohamood, was recorded as the 20.000.000th child to be tested in an international I campaign against TB. Later she received a shot of BCO. an tuberculosis vaccine.

About 10,000,000 youngsters throughout the 1 orld have received the vaccine iso far in the huge drive against the killer disease. perlments were near Washington, but most of them were in Texas. yearS The vaccine may sa'c Zoeas ln tilted States in 1891. i his life. Her test and vaccination set off a wave of rain makers marked almost the halfway point with scciet formulas.

Frank Mel- in this TB campaign. Some bourne, supposed to be an Audtral- 1000,000 children and young adults I are to be tested. One-third or one half of them will be vaccinated. The skin test whether a person has TB, or has ever had an attack. Those who show no sign can often be protected by the vaccine.

the campaign is sponsored by the United Nations International Emergency F'und the Danish Red Cross, Norwegian Relief for Europe, and Swedish Red Cross. It has been underway for two years as a joint enterprise. Before that, the Scandinavian agencies had been carrying on mass-vac- eination programs in some ravaged European countries, where TB was especially bad. In the spring ot 1948. UNICEF allocated 85,000.000 to extend and continue the vaccination program.

The tests and vaccinations are completed in Finland. Czechoslovakia and Poland. The campaign still is underway in Austria, Greece. Italy and Yugoslavia, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco. Algeria, and Tunisia.

Rain Making Is Old Idea Building Up Earth Is Gardener's Job By Cynthia Lowry Every gardener dreams of the day he can go into any corner of his garden and pick up a damp, clark and rich handful of soil. Some people undoubtedly achieve this happy condition, but mo4 of us work year after year building and improving the earth. But cc en for the fortunate ones with productive loam of the right consistency, there remains constantly the job of keeping soil rich iii organic material which is plant 1 food. Diagnosis, treatment and care of I soil is a huge subject, and it would be easy to acquire quite a heavy library on this phase of gardening I alone. The gardener can carry on 1 an intelligent program of garden betterment, howe'er, without understanding all the whys or wherefores of his activities What Soli Does almost enough to know that soil is a handy way of growing plants.

It provides a place where roots can grow and spread, giving plants a toe hold from which they can grow up into the air and sun. At the same time it is acting as a root anchor, it gives to the feeding roots the plant food to make I grow th. Plants can take food only when the chemical elements are dissolved in soil is a handy receptacle to hold the food in. Finally, the soil acts as a reservoir or storage place for water and food, so that last week's rainstorm can turn into next week's dinner for the plants. Unhappily, not all fact, most of ideally constituted to aet as double-duty anchor and feeder.

That's where the gardener gets into the act. The Sand Problem Soil which is too sandy falls in both its functions, It dries out quickly and permits to leach out. thus providing neither a firm gripping place for the roots nor a constant supply of food. Soil which is mostly clay is too solid to permit the roots to make their growth holds water so hard that air reach the root and when to a hard crust. Obviously ideal soil is somewhere between the two.

Good garden soil contains sand, clay important organic matter which is the food itself. To remedy a too-sandy condition, the gardener has the job of supplying matter to bind the minute sand particles and provide organic matter. About the best materials for this purpose are well- rotted stable manures, compost leaf mold or peatmoss. Sowing sandy soil with a cover-crop of rye, buckwheat or then digging the crop into the soil, is a I wonderful soil conditioner. I tiered clay, evenly distributed, will provide water-holding qualities, and finely sifted coal ashes will help, too.

Where the soil is too firm, because of an over-supply of clay, adit ion of coarse sand will lighten it. Oddly enough, such soil also will be improved by the digging in manure, compost and the other organic tonics, as well as by raising a cover crop and adding coal ashes, too. The Water Problem Good garden lawn is a fairly delicate balance. How it handles water is vitally important. Unhappily, we depend almost entirely on rainfall to feed plants.

Water which soil particles hold is useless to most plants. The idea is to create soil which holds a film of water around each particle of soil. This as capillary water-rises from permanent ground water and is used either by the plant or lost by evaporation. What all of us want is the way of growing soil can be easily identified. Scoop up a handful and squeeze the soil into a ball, lf it holds this form when released by the hand, yet crumbles apart hen touched lightly, chances are it's the consistency seeds and plants will like.

---------------o--------------CENTURY. April A 25-year-old mother was fatally burned when her housecoat caught fire while she was playing with her three sm children yesterday. The victim was Mrs. Margaret Brooks. Her husband, an employe of a Century lumber company, was at work when the tragedy occurred.

Flames from the fireplace Ignited the flowing coat. Surfers Are Risking Lives Down Under of new university building Lenin Hills, the city's highest point, showing the 26 -story skyscraper. central tower, a Russian Skyscrapers Tried Out In Russia NEWS BRIEFS WASHINGTON. April I. Senator told Democratic today that old-guard Republicans want to share a presidential ticket in 1952 with the southern Democrats.

Humphrey, chairman of Ameri- i cans for Democratic Action, (ADA) opened the first meeting of the organization's third national convention with a call to the re a et ion coalition which now rides high in MOSCOW Muscovites are fascinated by the construction of more than a dozen new tall buildings in litho Soviet capital. These structures, rising, from 16 26 stories, are to be provided ith the most modern equipment, id will dominate the skyline of city. Due of them is to be a Moscow diversity building. 26 stories high, jug from the highest point in i city, the Lenin Hills. It will, be the central structure in a massive ensemble of university buildings.

Another new' structure ill house the newest and largest hotel. It will be near the Kiev Railway Station on the Moscow River. Others "ill be apartment and office buildings. One office structure is going up within a hundred yards of the residence of the American Ambassador. It is on Smolenk Square.

Its steel framework has been erected and concrete work already extends up for about 16 out of its 26 stories. Work on this building has gone on all winter. Moscow factories are building the first high speed elevators in the U.S.S R. The ears will rise 26 stories in 30 seconds. Each will carry 20 persons.

MOSCOW. April L- official Soviet government newspaper Izvestia today described recent reports of an unidentified submarine off the U. S. west coast as an attempt by militarists to boost American arms appropriations. American militarists have the custom of discovering secret ships off American shores every time congress is discussing military appropriations the I newspaper said.

By Barbara Gormley summer Sun- to March down 50,000 siders risk life and limb for fun. Only a few think about it. To the rest, there is nothing at all hazardous about going for a surf. A few of us sat on the beach the other day and talked about it. We had just come out of the rolling Pacific.

To listen to our talk, you would think surfing was dangerous. First we discussed sharks. Nearly daily during the summer, newspapers carry warnings to the unwary about the shark menace. Sunday after Sunday, surfers come charging out of the water at the sound of a shark alarm. They stand on the beach while lifesavers take out their boats and chase the shark out to sea.

Then they scramble back into the waves. One of the most nerve racking experience." you can have is to hear the alarm, then see the shark between you and dry land. However, there are amazingly few shark fatalities; about one a year on Sydney beaches. After sharks we brooded on the chances of being swept out to sea in a strong current. This is usually the fate of those who swim too well.

Out they go, to the first line of breakers, in they go with a current, and out go to sea. 1 Life savers are kept busy rescuing surf riders off Australia beaches. Then you can break your nock in a dumper, but somehow' or other don't, A dumpier is a curly wave. After breaking, instead of the wave head sliding down itself, it curls out and under. Get caught up in one of these and you don't know if coming or going After dumpers, we got on the subject of bilio bot hazard of surfing.

These bright blue, bottle-shaped sea creatures have thin cottou-like long. The tails give you the sting of ai! stings. The pain lasts only a few hours, but while it on you wish a shark got you. Sea weed usually is just a ly, unpleasant nuisance to surfers. But this year, two life-savers were drowned when sea weed fouled their rescue lines and dragged them under.

We thought seriously about it all for a good two minutes. Then we had another surf. We ll be there again next Sunday..