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5 Revenge Is Sweet to Some Russian Gvilians . The Nazis are taking a beating inside Germony, as w*'l as on the war fro-t. This strip of photos shows a German c.vilian poiiceman as he plays the unhappy rale ol "Wermaciit." Two Russians, former slave laborers, take a triumphant role as tbey beat the Nazi into fear and finally let him get away. The Russians met the Nasi as they were searching for American "Displaced Persons Center." Okinawa Invasion Gigantic Military Operation Some of the (hipi which comprised the plfantie fleet that participated in the tnvaaion of Okinawa are loaded with thousands of tons of eqoipment and supplies at an advanced Pacific base. Boldest Allied opera tion in this theatre, an armada of some 1.100 ships took part in the amphibious attaek on this key island in the stepping-sloae chain between Formosa and Japan proper. y Call by Radio for Surrender Psychological warfare branch of the army broadcast* aa ofer to Ma Germans to sorrender city. The sergeant wears a tiny microphone clipped to his npper Hp. His speech Is am pilled by a sound track. Bat Boy to Big-Time Baseball ? htfc? mMjt teat?. A b* ?in? ip IkUt w?. **"?? ??"??? *? Ctor*x JJU gJJ iSL^J >n!pt?U ^TiiiIM! *** ?* ^ Flag Over Gemma Troops of the new 1Mb army's 77th division are shown aa they raise the colon for the Irst time on tiny Genuna Shim a, daring the landing that preceded the Invasion of the isle of Okinawa. The flag was raised by the division chaplain. Murdered by Nazi - - OereZ* Utw* "" man>cr*' bT Peas From Tut's Tomb Live Again 33 - Century-Old Legumes Amaze Experts by Their Vitality and Beauty. By CAPT. HARRY E. HAMMER Released by Western Newspaper Union. ORLANDO, FLA ? Outside a colonel's office window at the air ; forces tactical center, within sight of a hangar and celestial navigation - towers, garden peas are growing. As : is the case with most things at AFTAC, these peas are extraor dinary. The tall, healthy vines are loaded with purple pods, and their stems are thick and branching. Atop the | vines, pretty purple flowers wave in the Florida sunlight. The original j seeds from which these vines sprang were placed by Egyptian priests in the tomb of King Tutankhamen 3,300 years ago. j At least, this is the only theory that fits what facts are known about the peas' origin. Col. Harlan W. Holden, comman dant of the school of applied tactics at AFTAC and present custodian of the King Tut peas, is the man who has done most to stimulate scientific interest in the little vegetables. He has mailed hundreds of seeds from his two crops to experimental and research agencies desiring to experi ment with the "new variety." As to the peas' return from the tomb. Colonel Holden makes no claims. He merely points out the window to where the peas are growing and re minds skeptics that so far no one has been able to offer one fact to disprove the story as given to him. Found by Carter. This is the history of the King Tut peas as compiled by Colonel Hol den: The original peas came from How ard Carter, tfho was a member of the Lord Carnervon expedition to King Tut's tomb in 1922 and 1923. Carter found them in an urn in the tomb. They went to Lady Gilbert of "Grimm's Dyke" Harrow Weald. Her head gardener gave some of the peas to Mr. A. A. Aldrige, who after obtaining a parcel of the peas gave two pods to his friend, Mr. Arthur Easton of Newport, R. I. After raising one crop, Mr. Easton presented two of the pods to Maj. Walter D. Dyer, who planted them in his garden at Portsmouth, R. 1. They proceeded to grow as if they had just come from the grocer's. The seeds from this crop, when planted the next year, bore profuse ly, and Major Dyer harvested about a pound and a half of fresh peas. Some of these he brought with him to the tactical center in Florida, where among a wide variety of mili tary courses there is one on jungle survival. Immediately intrigued by the peas' background, the commandant of AFTAC's school of applied tac tics, Col. Harlan W. Holden, took up agriculture. The season was far from being the prescribed one for pea planting, but Colonel Holden acted on the premise that sand is sand, whether in Egypt or Florida. He also had a hunch that peas which had pulled through three millennia in a tomb could stand off-season cultivation. On April 10, 1944, after the regular Florida pea crop was finished, he planted about 60 seeds from the Rhode Island germination in the sand-based soil just outside his office. Any gardener in this part of the country will tell you that you can't raise peas in this area in the spring. As a matter of fact, they told Colonel Holden that; and while he patiently listened to them over the pijone, he looked out the window at the healthy vines. ou| ana visease itooi. Hardly were the first sprouts, out, of the (round when they started try | ing to set an altitude record. In the first eight weeks they grew 5Vi feet while the natives scratched puzzled heads. By the 4th of July Colonel Holden, who stand 0 feet, 2 inches himself, was looking up to count the budding pods at the tops of the vines. Corp. Merle Tibbets, Jungle sur vival noa com, was fertilizing and watering the vines one day when ho noticed another remarkable thing about these plants. Whereas the usual worms, green lice, and beetles continued to chew up surrounding vegetation, they spurned completely the Egyptian intruders. As one ser geant observed, perhaps the garden pests feared some kind of "King Tut curse," but leaving that theory aside the mstter still was not entirely ex plained. Meanwhile Colonel Holden no ticed some more vines growing with zest in his garden. Then he remem bered that a few worm-eaten, per forated peas from the same Rhode Island crop had been tossed out the door as worthless. Without any cul tivation at all they too were doing fine. And?you guessed it?they were also immune from attack! Bulgarians Cruel to Captives, Is Report I LONDON, ENGLAND. - British ' and American prisoners in Bul i garia before that country was granted an armistice were brutally treated at times and some were put to death. Sir James Grigg, war secretary, told com mons recently. He said that the number killed "certainly was be low 10." Ho^did nct^aay whether Hitler 4Yes Man' Is Paid Lavishly Had Elaborately Furnished Home to Himself. COLOGNE, GERMANY. ? His neighbors all called him a "dirty Nazi" but he had 29 bathrooms in his house. It is a snug little cot tage with a pipe organ, three pianos and a kitchen no bigger than the Astor hotel ballroom. This Nazi big shot was "cooking with gas" as far as party prestige went, but his own modest meals were prepared on an electric stove with a dozen burners. It did nicely for the American battalion head quarters which used the house for a command post. The owner had departed in haste, leaving behind a clutter of good things which had come his way as a reward for his uninhibited col laboration with Adolf Hitler's war program. The four floor rambling brick man sion was built only a few years ago. It bore a studious resemblance to the old castles which stud the Rhine land countryside and even the color of the bricks was chosen carefully to convey the impression of an tiquity. A high brick fence enclosed the building and the landscaped grounds. Inside his little dream bungalow, however, the owner, one of Ger many's swastika profiteers, had gone to extreme expense to construct as modern and comfortable an ivory tower as his warborn millions of marks could buy. Into it he had channeled the wealth produced by great Rhineland mines and factories hliRV urith war nrHprq American doughboys have nullified this investment to a considerable ex tent. Only a few random bullets spanged through the windows but the owner didn't hang around to keep tab on his mines and factories or this 60-odd room hut by the Rhine. He skipped?but there are many mementos of his passing, including a few hundred thousand mark prop erty mortgages which now look sus piciously like so much waste paper. Yanks Hit Jackpot When Shell Gets Silver Cache MANILA.?A 25th division artil lery battery firing on suspected Jap positions near Rizal the other day hit the jackpot with a 105-mm. shell. A veritable geyser of silver spout ed up as the shell exploded. Coins showered down on troops several hundred yards away. The shell had struck a cache of Filipino prewar silver, including some U. S. money. The cash, scooped up into sand bags after Americans captured the area, required two trucks to haul it to the 6th army finance officer who began a hunt for the owners. This was one of several such caches uncovered by advancing Americans, said Capt. Francis Bran nan, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Brannan hesitated to estimate the amount finally raked up, but said it certainly would run into the hundreds of thou sands of dollars. Population in the North Decreased by 3 Million WASHINGTON. ? Latest esti mates on wartime population shifts, issued by the census bureau, give this picture of the period 1940-44: South and West increased nearly 4,000,000; North decreased nearly 3,000,000. State-by-state figures were given as between April 1, 1940, and July 1, 1944. The figures represent the changes both in civilian population and military population within con tinental United States. Thus army camps and training centers in the South had a great effect on that region's population. Because of a large excess of births | over deaths, the total continental population increased from 131,669, 275 to an estimated 132,563,271 in the , four-year period, despite the sending I of between 5 and 6 million men over seas. Port and Pipe Lover Woman Dies at 102 Years CHICAGO.?Mrs. Catherine Copu [ los, who drank port wine and1 smoked a Turkish pipe for 50 years but abandoned the wine in favor of milk three years ago, is dead iff Chi cago, two months short of her 103rd birthday. Mrs. Copulos took up wine drink ing and pipe smoking at 50 upon the advice of her husband. Dr. De mosthenes Copulos, Greek neurolo gist, that it was relaxing for the nerves. Three years ago, after her hip was broken in a fall, she gave up wise, bat con tinned to smoke. When 77 years old, Mrs. Copulos visited New York and climbed to the top of the Statue of Liberty. At 60 years, against the advice of guards, she took two trips on the Coney Island roller coaster. Window Service FUffc Can Designate Veteran WASHINGTON. ? A family or or ganization service flag may now car ry a symbol to designate an honor ably discharged veteran. The symbol, based on the same , design used on the lapel button for a discharged veteran, will replace the blue star which represented a [ man or woman in service. The design will be in gold color Kathleen Norris Says: Some Women Are Like Oysters Bell Syndicate.?WNU Feature*. This man wants a wife, not ? dainty, timorous, mollusk of a woman who will expect him to dine off milk toast in an invalid's bedroom, smoke in the back yard and enjoy the companionship of a few gossiping old ladies By KATHLEEN NORRIS TOO many women are like oysters. When the oyster is young he is free and in dependent; he swims about in the ocean in a glory of inde pendence. But as he gets older his shell gradually forms and hardens upon him, and finally he is trapped in it and can only cling a great deal and drift a little. Perhaps you are one of the women who have grown shells and are im prisoned in them? Perhaps it is you, yourself, who have shut away all changes and adventures, and closed yourself into a narrow groove from which there is no escape. It sounds to me as if Gertrude Day, who writes me from Buffalo, is one of these "oyster" women. Gertrude is 29, pretty, clever, suc cessful as a big man's secretary, devoted to an invalid mother. Ger trude and her mother live in a pretty white cottage with a garden, just out of town. Engaged Seven Years. For seven years Gertrude has been engaged to be married. This seems to me a record for America; in Europe and in England girls think nothing of a five or six-year engage ment, and in Sweden I met a sweet serene woman who was engaged to an engineer who had been 11 years in Argentina. But these are not American ways, and hence Gertrude Day's letter indicates to me that she la fast on the way to becoming an oyster, ? * ? "Frederick was a school-teacher when first we were engaged, and as I had full responsibility for Mamma, who is bedridden, and his salary was small, we could not think of marriage then. He taught in a school 40 miles away, so that we only saw each other for weekends twice a month. After some years he decided to study law, which took much of his time; passed his bar examination just before the war and immediately went into officer's training camp. He now has a captaincy and is tem porarily stationed here after 15 months overseas, and his desire is to be married at once. "Now, please don't think me a terrible old maid," the letter goes on, "but I just can't bear the idea of any change?I never could. I love Frederick, I know I do, but the thought of a man in this little white house of ours is staggering. Mamma and I have grown used to certain ways; breakfast late on Sunday, no cards or liquor in the house, certain radio programs ev ery week, just a few dear old friends, mostly Mamma's, things in their right places, reading aloud. Also we have very light suppers, milk toast or waffles or a salad, which I serve on two trays in Mamma's room. "We would have to live here, as Mamma naturally dreads the thought of moving, anil?well, Fred is simply too big for this place. He likes hearty food; he actually sug gested to me that we move Mamma to the third bedroom, off the kitchen, where she would have her own bath and be further away from us. This I will not even suggest to her. Fears Change. "In short," the Jetter concludes, "I am afraid I do not want .to make the concessions he seems to take for granted. And yet I love and admire Frederick, and know that he has an honorable and successful career ahead of him. But I am so happy as I am that I fear to change pres ent circumstances for the untried. On the other hand. Mamma has not long to live, in a year or two at most they tell me, or at any moment, she may leave me, and contemplating the utter desolation of that event I feel what a comfort Fred's kindness would be. How can I gently influence him to fit his ways to mine, since I am so con stituted that change is actual suffer ing to me?" My dear Gertrude, I say in an swer, you can't. And it would only be cruelty to try. This man wants a wife, a woman of an adaptable, imaginative, enthusiastic type of mind who will plan with him for a wider future, not a dainty, tim orous, mollusk of a woman who will expect him to dine off milk toast in an invalid's bedroom, smoke in the back yard, and enjoy the compan ionship of a few gossiping old ladies. You are too deeply encased in your shell ever to emerge into normal wifehood, and I wouldn't try. Just go as you are, and when Mamma dies try to get some other elderly woman to come and live with you, to keep the rugs and lamps and the teapot and the parrot-stand just where they belong. Give Fred a generous and whole hearted dismissal. He'd wreck your little Dresden statue scheme if he married you. It will be a great re lief to you to feel, "Well, that's overt" and it will free him to find some other woman, a woman who likes househunting and loves her roan, and bears him children, and faces the daily ups and downs, the disappointments and triumphs, scares and glories, responsibilities and rewards, that make up married life. Use a Water Softener Soap won't soften water ... in fact, you'U waste a great deal of soap if you try this. Get a good chemical water softener. There are plenty of good water softeners on the market, and Mrs. Bernice Clay tor, specialist at the Texas A. and tl. college extension service, says sal soda is one good softening agent. Studies made at one experiment , station recently showed that where ' pure soap was used to soften hard water, the cast ran more than six cents per tubfuL Pork Fat for Shortening Fresh-pork drippings can be used to season vegetables and to make gravy. If clarified, you can use this fat for baking in place of lard. Sau sage, ham, and bacon fats are espe cially good for frying and warming foods, because of their excellent fla vor. Put ham tat in dry-bean soup or bean dishes; the two flavors blend wen. Use mild bacon fat, that has not been permitted to snoke, to muf fins, comb reads, cakes, gingerbread FAMILIAR IF AYS To some women the most dreaded thing is change. They have their little nays and rou tines, their friends and their associations, and they want to keep the pattern intact. It isn't altvays that they are so fond of the little scheme of things that they have developed; it is just that they are accustomed to it, and are comfortable in a sort of dull way. One such woman asks Miss Norris for advice in this issue. Gertrude is 29, pretty, and a suc cessful secretary. For the last seven years she has been engaged to an ambitious, well educated man, who is now a captain in the army. He wants to get married, now that he can well afford it. Gertrude, however, is so tied up with her invalid mother that she cannot bear to think of any ad justments. She wants her hus band to do all the altering, yet she knows in her heart that she is asking the impossible.
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