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SOME PRANKSTERS who scattered “torpedoes” .over the intersection of Ritter ave. and E. WashingJon st Sunday scored a ‘‘direct “hie” on a state policeman. The trooper was driving peacefully along when his wheels touched off one'of the “torpedpes.”

With the first explosion, the officer dived for his gun. He replaced it very sheepishly when he noticed a bunch of loungers in a filling station laughing hilariously. He, got out and questioned some of the bystanders' and learned he wasn't the first motorist who'd been startled out of a peaceful Sunday drive. These “torpedoes,” incidentally may seem funny to the jokers, but they can cause serfous harm. For instance, a streetcar was derailed by a similar prank Saturday. And one resident near 37th and Pennsylvania sts, a popular “proving ground” for the “torpedoes,” says there's going to be “murder on 37th st.” if it doesn’t cease. . . . Anybody seen a glamorous. cat wandering around the vicinity of 42d st. and Carrollton ave.? Mrs. Doris Cloud, of 4202 Carrollton ave. says “Pretty-Pretty,” her tiger-

striped tomcat, disappeared a few days ago and hasn't returned. Not only does the household ‘miss “Pretty-Pretty,” described as the “handsomest cat on. Carrollton ave.” but Dixie, the family’s dog, keeps moping around the house, looking for her playmate.

Tommy Nave and his 104-inch trout.

He was surprised when he pulled this catch out of Shafer lake.

Hop-Off Point

EN ROUTE TO BIKINI.—With July, the month chosen for the atomic bomb tests at Bikini atoll rapidly approaching, this might be a good time to review some of the facts about nuclear fission, the basic process of the atomic bomb. I wrote extensively on this subject last August after the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima and I have dealt with the subject on many subsequent occasions both in my column and in my book on atomic energy. But it may be that many readers will want a brief summary at this time. The difference between what goes on in the atomic bomb and what occurs in ordinary explosives is that the first is a nuclear process, the second is not. All matter is made up of atoms, particles so small that five hundred million might perch on the period at the end of this sentence. (Yes, I've told you that before if yoff have been a regular reader of my column.)

Mwniature Solar System BUT EACH ATOM is in itself a sort of miniature solar system. At the center is the nucleus. Around this necleus there is a cloud of electrons. In ordinary chemical reactions, the nuclei of atoms undergo no changes. There are merely rearrangements of the electrons. Thus, when you burn coal, the atoms of carbon combine with the atoms of oxygen in the atmosphere to form carbon dioxide. What has happened has been that one atom of carbon and two atoms of oyxgen have formed a molecule, a unit in which they share their clouds of elec trons to a certain extent. The energy of combustion, the heat given off by burning, is the energy given up by the electrons as they move into their new orbits. Now the atomic bomb depends for its energy upon

Science

RECIFE, Brazil, June 25.—Bustling Recife is bidding strongly to become the South American “hop-off point” for Europe. Transatlantic planes of a number of nations are beginning to poke their noses into Recife’s big airport, which was largely developed by United States army and navy forces as a war base. The first plane of the Air France line was in Recife on a preliminary survey flight recently. England’s British Overseas Airways Co. is planning to make this the point of entry and departure on its South Atlantic runs. Pan-Air do Brazil, an affiliate of Pan American airways, already has Constellations in service on the Rio to Lisbon route through here. A Swedish airline also has made a survey flight, and airline officials expect Argentina to use Recife in its transatlantic passenger operations.

Preferred Over Natal AIRLINE officials consider Recife more likely as a transatlantic terminal than Natal, which was favored by American military transports and bombers during the war. It may be 100 or so miles farther than the 1900 miles from Natal to Dakar, on the African coast, but ‘a mere 100 miles will make little difference to Constellations and other passenger planes of the future. Natal has less than Recife to offer. It is a relatively small town which has a big base. Recife is a city of half a million and it has good transportation connections with Rio and other major South Amerfcan cities.

My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday. — On Saturday of last week, I drove to Stamford, Conn., taking Miss Thompson and Dr. Mabel Newcomer of Vassar, who were going over with me to speak at the community forum in the afternoon. The drive was beautiful, but just as we were in one of the loneliest spots, a strange clang-clang under the car made itself heard. Dr. Newcomer and Miss Thompson got out to see what was happening, and cheerfully told me that it looked as though the gas tank was about to fall off. I had a hazy idea that, in a modefn car, the gas tank was located so it could not fall off. Nevertheless, T drove the car at a crawl for three miles and finally reached a garage in Carmel. In 10 minutes, my muffler was firmly back in place. Though this delayed us a little, we were not late for the meeting. The chairman, Rabbi David W. Pearlman, announced that our general subject was “Humanity and Urgency.”

International Problem Interest WE TWO ladies and Dr. Broadus Mitchell, director of research for the International Ladies Garment Workers union, made our short speeches. - After which we answered some of the questions which the moderator, Stanley High, put to us. Then the questions came from the floor, showing great interest in the international problems of the moment.

The missing cat's owners may be contacted at HU-1023.. ° . :

Admits He's ‘Pretty Good’ o FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tommy Nave, son of ‘Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Nave, 1416 N. Mount st., came home from a day's fishing at Shafer lake with a 10%-inth trout. Tommy, wha admits he’s a “pretty? good” fisherman, said he was surprised when he saw that he'd caught a trout in lake waters, So, incidentally, were the other fisherman around him. The youth

. is a sophomore at Washington high school. . . . An-

other local fisherman, George E. Marsh, of 1730 N. Graham ave. was all set for the opening day of the fishing season, He had a precision built casting reel, a de luxe casting rod, an assortment of famous smoking tobacco, and an aer-a-sol insecticide bomb, all prizes for a series of quiz questions he wrote to a radio sportsman program. . . . Even bicycle racing has its “spills” we learn from a report on the bicycle championship race south of.Riverside park Sunday. Clarence Luedemann crossed the tape at 40 m. p. h. in the final sprint, but his tire loosened from the rim, He and his “racer” hit the pavement with ‘the front wheel collapsed, and the “driver” lost a patch of skin and some hair. . . . Another pedaller took off in a surprise burst that caught both riders and the official car full of judges and cameramen un-

aware. For a while he was ahead of the pace car] ;

and gaining on a motorcycle escort, but the pack finally overtook him,

Here's Another Token Story HERE'S ANOTHER STORY about a much-trav-eled Indianapolis railways token. Mrs Rose Brinson, of Clayton, sent a token to a homesick G. I. on the northern tip of Luzon. The G. I, Cpl. Richard J. Brinson, had written his mother that he was ill with malaria, worried because he had received no word of his son’s birth, and just homesick. Looking around for something to cheer him up, Mrs. Brinson found an Indianapolis token and sent it to him, telling him that he might be able to use it soon. Cpl. Brinson wore the token on a chain around his neck until seven months later, when he arrived home. He then pasted it in his memory book, labelling it one of the most traveled tokens in existence. . . . A stray dog at the corner of Capito] ave, and Market st. got a good breakfast the other morning. One of our agents jaws woman feeding it a breakfast of cereal and mil

By John A. Thale

a nuclear process, a change in the nuclei of the atoms of either uranium 235 or plutonium known as nuclear fission, In this process, the nucleus of the atom involved splits in two and a vastly greater amount of energy is released than can be obtained from ordinary chemical processes. As President Truman disclosed after the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, it possessed the explosive violence of 20,000 tons of TNT.

Annihilate Part of Mass

BUT LET US get back to this question of how the nucleus of an atom is able to release energy. It is by a process in which part of the mass or matter in the nucleus is annihilated. The amount of matter thus destroyed is transformed into energy. . All this goes back to an equation first written by Prof. Albert Einstein in the year 1905. In that year he advanced a theory that under certain circumstances matter might be transformed into energy or vice versa. More than that, he write an equation which said that the amount of energy released in such a transformation of matter would be equal to the mass or amount of matter involved multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, Since the velpcity of light is a tremendously large figure to begin with, this meant that a very little matter would yield a vast amount of energy. For a long times physicists regarded this as a sort of interesting mathematical statement. Then atomsmashing experiments in 1932 verified the equation. It wasn’t just mathematical fiction. It was reality. Its most spectacular verification is the atomic bomb. I shall say more tomorrow about the release of nuclear or atomic energy.

By David Dietz

It all adds up to quite a future for Recife and the city is busily engaged in preparing for it. There is a building boom here of heroic proportions. There is scarcely a block in the mid-city area which does not have at least one or two new building excavations, or a scaffolding-webbed structure going up. Mushrooming developments over a recent period already have given Recife a curious half-and-half look. Ancient towered stone churches of which the city has many stand next to high chromium and glass-decked office buildings. Observers are reminded of a wizened old grandfather standing next to a strapping grandson,

Few U. S. Uniforms Seen ji,

AS IN OTHER Brazilian-base cities, there are few Americans in uniforms to be seen on the streets these days. : Despite clamoring of the Communist’ press. here and abroad, the bases themselves have been turned back almost completely to the Brazilians. Goldbraid generals and admirals of the U. S. forces are gone, The ranking navy man in Recife today is a reserves’ commander, The army's high-ranker is a captain. During the war it sometimes seemed to Recife that there were more persons on the street in U. 8. uniforms than there were Brazilian civilians. Today, by mustering all hands, the army and navy probably would have a hard time showing 120 soldiers and sailors.

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FAMOUS PHOTO MAKER IS DEAD

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WEST ENGLEWOOD, N. J, June 25 (U. P.).—James Henry Hare, renowned news photographer who “made the Russo-Japanese war famous,” died last night at the home of his daughter. He was 90 years old. A former camera maker Mr. Hare covered the Spanish-Ameri-

of world war I.

America to cover the banana wars. His first assignment was covering the Spanish-American war for the then infant Collier's magazine. When that was over, he went to the Orient to photograph the Rus-so-Japanese war. Richard Harding Davis said he “made the Russo-Japanese war famous” and he won the admiration of both the Japanese and American observers, one of whom was Capt. John J. Pershing. ‘Me One D--- Fool Once while he was taking a picture under fire a Japanese officer told him: “You one brave man.” “Me one d--- fool,” Mr. Hare replied. Hare was a little man, only five feet, two inches tall, but he made up in energy what he lacked in size. The red tape imposed on photographers when battles moved up into the big leagues made him tired of covering wars. In 1920, at the conclusion of . the fighting between Russia and Poland, he settled down in Brooklyn. He lived there until a few years ago when he moved to New Jersey to reside with his daughter, Mrs. R. J. Kieffer. Mr. Hare was born in London in 1856 and came to the U. S. in 1889.

YOUTH THREATENED

James Hare ‘Covered’ Wars

can war and nearly every conflict between that time and the end

His work took him to all corners of the globe, wherever there was a battle to photograph. And when men and nations tired of conflict, he went off to South and Central

Holy Rosary school, ward C-3s

telephone is a lifeline to the outside world, ., . . She received a collarbone fracture in an auto accident,

CITY HOSPITAL'S ward C-3 is a human repair shop whose stock-in-trade is life's childhood tragedies, There, children recuperate from hundreds of metropolitan mishaps that receive scant notice in newspapers: Auto accidents, falls, burns,

Sunny and airy, it's the cheeriest ward in the sprawling institution,

attaches say. Unlike adults, youth rebounds quickly from physical ine juries. Within days, youngsters forget even severe hard knocks and are again radiating hope and enthusiasm. Ward C-3 administers to an ave erage of 30 boys and girls a day. In summer, its occupancy increases as youngsters subject themselves to outdoor hazards in streets, playgrounds and yards. ~ " » THOUGH child injury cases always alarm parents, they're easy to treat because of youth's cone stitutional resistence and recuperative power. And City hospital's medical staff spares no efforts in placing its vast facilities at ward C-3's service. » ” » C-3 PATIENTS often entertain themselves with childhood chatter, Much of the room’s valiant morale can be attributed to the St. Margaret's Hospital guild, a nonsectarian philanthropic organization. The guild provides toys, games, books, medical devices and occupational therapy programs to help .impatient youngsters while away the hours. Also, a radio and piano are popular standbys. Parties brighten holidays and during regular school terms, visiting teachers offer accredited instruction, .

TUESDAY, JUNE 25, on REPAIR SHOP FOR TRAGEDIES OF YOUTH

City Hospital a Childs Haven

His smile is the best indication that Billy Quinlan, 4, is recovering from burns he received whem he played with matches.

Coke and comics are antidotes for nine-year-old Tommy Tutrow's | bill.

ident Truman will have all this week to consider the Hobbs anti racketeering bill up for his signature. One argument to be studied

of organized labor. .

Truman Has | Week to Look | Over Hobbs Bill |

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, June 25~Pres«

is that it pertains to just one variety

Some labor unions, a fairly small percentage of them, have been charged by former Assistant Ate torney = General Thurman Arnold and various congressmen with being engaged in various forms of racket eering apparently not touched by the Hobbs bill. There is a possibility, however, that if the Hobbs bill becomes law the other forms of labor racketeers ing will be attacked in other legise lation. Rep. Monroney (D. Okla.) has such a bill pending.

» » » THE TEETH of the Hobbs. bill are in Section 2, which says, “who ever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce, or the movement of any article or come modity in commerce, by robbery or * extortion, shall be guilty of a fel ony.” Violators could be imprisoned up to 20 years or fined up to $10,000, or both, ; Section 2, according to its original sponsor, Rep. Hobbs (D. Ala.), was intended specifically to fill a void pointed out by the supreme court in a decision that a local of the A. F. of L, International Teamsters® union was not breaking any known Jaw when it extracted around $8 apiece from out-state farmers try ing to deliver produce in their own trucks to New York markets,

~ ” » SOMETIMES the hi-jacked farmers shelled out for the help of a union driver to get them into the city, and then drove on without any such help. i Complaints of the same against locals of the teamsters union—headed by Dan Tobin, an A. F. of L. vice president, active in Democratic national politics— have been registered from Pitts burgh and other citiess Sometimes farmers’ trucks have been involved, Sometimes other kinds of trucks. The unions’ main complaint

lagainst Section 2 of the Hobbs bill

is that it could be applied to active ities other than assessments for truck drivers, However, advocates 1 the Hobbs bill say that the phrase “by robbery or extortion™ should shield from prosecution any legitimate union activity.

® = =» THE A. F. of L, through its gene

eral counsel, Joseph A. Padway, hag been shooting at the Hobbs bill ever since the Alabama congressman devised it. x Now the C. I, O. is appealing to its members to, *, wire President Truman today to veto it.” The C. I. O. says that the Hobbs bill “under guise of anti-racketeering title, provides a new anti- labor weapon.” If the union spokesmen bring about a veto they will chalk up ane

other victory of the kind they won {when Mr, Truman killed the Case The Hobbs bill, originally a

fractured hip, sustained when he was struck by a truck. He's in [bill on its own feet, was made a

Grade 4B at School 9.

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. PARENTS SHOULD not become so absorbed in inflexible routines that they, cannot enjoy their baby's company. As our mental health and happiness in later life largely depends on. our experiences in childhood, we should retain pleasant memories of this time of life. The common parental practice of waiting for a baby to grow up before enjoying him is not a good policy. Little babies need human companionship to help them develop the feeling of security. In his observations on newborn infants, Dr. C. A. Aldrich found that the least crying in hospital nurseries occurred at the time when the most nurses were on duty and the most crying when the night shift was in charge. It might be that during the day more attention

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Loving Care Makes Baby Feel Secure

was given to each infant when he became uncomfostable, but it might also be that babies like company. CE. BABIES NEED love and care from their father, mother, brothers and sisters. Singing to them and rocking them in moderation are good practices. = Babies should be fed on schedule (their schedule). All babies are different, but, like adults, they become hungry when their stomachs are empty, As a rule, this js at three-to-four-hour intervals, and an observing mother soon learns to tell when her baby is hungry. Worrisome mothers may create feeding problems with their youngsters by their meticulous concern over the amount of food taken at each feeding. Much happier are the

We started home about 4:30 and had an entirely| AND TIED 10 TREE

uneventful trip, so we all enjoyed it. And I really appreciated the scenery on the part of the trip where| Deputy sheriffs today searched for in the morning I had had no -eyes, since my whole five young West side hoodlums who | attention had been focused on the ominous clanging 2st night tied 14-year-old Allen | every time we hit a slight rise in the road. Taylor to a tree where they left him id for, several hours after threatening! Pleasant Picnic

| him with a knife, I HAD also stalled my car right at a crowded]

The lad’s father, Robert Taylor,

: 1702 Manhatten st., stayed home from corner and had inconvenienced everybody trying to work today to help search for his

move in two different directions. Although I had|® ", not been a happy chauffeur, the return trip, I hope, |" GR biking Quinn 3 restored the Sonfidence of my two passengers. pg |the case B5 assigne | Yesterday being Sunday, Dr. and s. PJ. Schmidt, from the United Nations secretariat, came DEPUly ty Vial up for the day. With some other friends who were. way from their home Jast night staying with me and my children, we all went on a two youths called young Taylor out picnic in Norrie Park. I was pleased to find that so| , 0 } ce and forced him to ac-| many people are using the facilities provided there. company them ( It is so well planned that the groups who want The boy told deputy sheriffs that | privacy, by walking a little farther, can really find they were joined by three others! themselves almost completely. isolated. It was cool | 1.4 the five tied him to a tree after | and lovely looking out over the river. \threatening him. He was released! After a rather late lunch, I took my guests for py a passerby who heard his calls ures visit © the big house. The crowds were rather at 11:30 p. m arge, and so, very soon, we all came back to thé] said tures cottage to rest in the sun or to swim, until those He said two of the youths had ac |

osted him in a neigh ood thewho had to take a late afternoon train back to New er Sunday 2 Deighte pio ge York City were obliged to leave. “take care of him.”

Rattlers and Mouse Family Live Together

After he had them a few days he thought they might be hungry. So he put two live mice in the The mice were scared and, huddled together in a corner. But the snakes didn't bother

KITTANNING, Pa. June 25 (U. P.) —Maybe a herpetologist (guy that knows “all about snakes) could answer this one: Leonard Smith recently caught three *big rattlesnakes in a field near his home, He decided to keep them as pets and put them in a* wooden box. i

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THREE SHIPS BRING 3929 TROOPS HOME

NEW YORK, June 25 (U, P.).— Three ships carrying 3929 troops were scheduled to arrive here today: Maritime Victory, from Le Havre, with 1363 troops. Williams Victory, from Le Havre, with 1505 troops. Chanute Victory, from Bremen, with 1061 troops.

snakes. One of the reptiles was coiled up, asleep. In the coils laid one of the mice, also asleep. The next day, one of the mice had given birth to two baby mice.The last time Smith looked in - the box the three snakes, the two elder mice and the newborn mice were all huddled together like one big happy family.

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| probably because of so many alco- | , ' - ‘|holics fail to eat while drinking, | os Dave, When theyis Juss; fo}

mothers and babies when breast-| feeding is practiced, for then the mother does hot know how much her baby received at the feeding. He simply falls off to sleep with a contented smile of satisfaction, Babies, like adults, do not eat exactly the same amount at each i meal. Weighing the baby on a certain day each week is satisfactory when he is getting along all right.

» » an IT IS UNFORTUNATE that fathers come home just when the] |baby is getting ready to settled own| {for the night, Infants usually be- | come more restless when they are {tired, and it is easy to imagine that [they are not sleepy and simply wish to be picked up. The sudden interest of an enthusiastic father in his baby, while| it may please the infant may be too much for a mother already tired from a long day's work. Playtime with daddy should be | reserved for that time of the day| when the child is rested. | Young children like to be praised | for the things they do well, They not like punishment because they have difficulty in understanding that certain ‘things are “bad” when they have no well-developed concept of right and wrong. Physical punishment has a place in conditioning a child against danger, but in training children we should practice the golden rule, Spoiled children often are overdisciplined . children, according to many observers.

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{part of the Case bill, and now is on its own feet again,

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Infants Need Human Companionship | Youth Copies

Party Tastes

From Parents

By RUTH MILLETT

PARENTS were supposed to— and probably did—get all worked up over a Maryland high school principal's report that some mem« bers of the graduating class were planning a celebration party at a local inn. The party would, in the language of the invitation, “likely prove the drunkenest, most disse graceful and most talked-about party ever put on by a graduating class.” But whom do you suppose the high school kids were copying when they planned to have a

| “drunken, disgraceful, and talked

about party”? ~ » ” THEY GOT the pattern some where. And, if their community is typical of the small towns and cities of America, they probably got it right from the town's soc leaders, . That's the pattern all right, whether the party is at the country club or in Mrs. So-and-So’s base« ment, Make it the drunkenest, most disgraceful and most talked about party of the year, and you're socially tops. The men will spend the “morne ing after” kidding each other about their hang.overs, and the women will be on the telephone saying, “Really, Agatha wgnt =a little too far last night,” but actu-

» ” QUESTION: 1s cirrhosis of the liver always caused by alcohol? ANSWER: No. Alcohol causes one form of cirrhosis of the liver,

but the other variety is caused by | infections. {

—— | 214,-YEAR-OLD PLANE WRECKAGE IS FOUN OTTAWA, June 25 (U. P.).~The two and one-half-year-old mystery of the disappearance of a Royal Canadian Air Force Liberator bomber with 24 personnel aboard was solved today with the discovery of the wreckage atop a 2000-foot mountain near North Duval, Quebec. The plane disappeared Oct. 20, 1943, while on a routine flight from

Gander, 'Nfld., to Mont Joli, Quebec. The crash was the worst air dis-

ally delighted to have something

|new to cluck about.

» » » IT'S SILLY to get steamed-up over the kind of parties high school

lowing the pattern set by the afe fairs arranged for the town's lead ing citizens. It's their own generation parents had better examine witiféa critical |eye. After all, they set the styles, The kids just live and learn,

DONATES $1000 TO HOSPITAL FUND

Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind, June 25.—The memory of the late D. M. Hougland and Clyde Hougland, Franklin, is being perpetuated in a $1000 dona. tion made recently by the Hougland Packing Co. to the equipment fund

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