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CHALLENGE TO NATURE

By Vincent BURKE

(United Press Staff Correspondent) MAN it from Mother Nature,

MAN today is trying ns never before to take control At a U.S. Agriculture Department experiment station at Beltsville, Maryland, man is making his bid with the help of two of his most dently war weapons-atomic- powered radioactivity and chemical plant killers.

Agriculture chemists are using the weapons to spy on nature. They hope to learn the secret means by which she regulaten plant He. From that knowledge they hope some day to develop chemicals which man can use to regulate the life and growth of all plants.

Dr John W. Mitchell, the department's top authority on the subject, elted a few of the practical possibilities that might stem from such control;

POSSIBILITIES LISTED

1. Development of chemicals that could be used in combination to eliminate all propland weeds, especially grasses, before they sprout-but at the same, time would damage no 'craps. That could revolutionise farming by eliminating the need for the hoe and the cultivator, The farmer of the future might be able to do all his weeding with a spray gun and chemicals bought at the drug store.

2. New chemicals that would give the former ex- tended control over the rate of growth of its crops. One possibility is regulator that would keep frit trees from budding until the danger of frost is past and then would automatically speed up the process to make up for "lost time." Another possibility is a regulator that would retain In big peas the flavour that is ob tainable now only in small pens pleked early. The kame goes fur corn.

3. Chemicals that could be used to increase the nutritional value of food crops, especially their mineral content.

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Selence already has found chemicals that will do some of those things.

ARMY KEEPS IT SECRET Some of the chemical regulators were found before the war. "Others, such ns 2,4-d, were discovered during the war when scientists turned their altention toward help- Ing the military. As a result of that help, the US, Army today armed with chemical powders and sprays that can be used in time of wer to kill all plants in an enemy 'country. The Army has clamped on nirtight secrecy on the subject and won't even talle about it.

Many

of the "Inhibiting" and "stimulating" growth regulators have practical. peacetime use. Take 2,4-d. I has been used suc- cessfully to kill bread-lenfed weeds food in fields of narrow-leafed plants, such as sugar cane, rice, corn. wheat and rye. But It's The destruction of the Communists dangerous to use unless precautions Underground will presumably be

are taken. It kills all broad-leafed achieved by the wholesale Intern-plants, crop or weed. ment of the villagers who remained act. It has been used since 1930 Then there is naphthaleneacatle behind and did not become refugees. to keep apples from dropping from They presumably helped the bandits trees before they ripen. And, to- bandits were in theleday is in wide use in orchards

in the Pacific Northwest.

This corps

Greeks are fishing for Near-East Union on Western plan

ATHENS.

OLITICS- or pot-shots among the bandits I have sampled both in a week in Greece. Politics first. The Greek Government would like to see Western Union followed by a Near-Eastern Union.. Tho Turkish Cabinet, I learn, has been studying a draft plan drawn up by Mr Tsaldaris, the Greek... Foreign Minister.

ALDANIA

YUGOSLANTA:

ATHENS

Can the mountains be cleared by autumn↑

the

is to garrison country freed of bandits by the army, ક! that the dumps once destroyed are not rebuilt, and that the Communists do not get going again.

He is an unmilitary figure. Short, very tubby, with round shoulders, he has a large, humorous head with a pair of thick-lensed black specta- cles sitting on a hooked nose above villages. n Groucho Marx moustache.

But

while the

MUST LEARN "HOW" Agriculture scientists are trying 10 refine those regulators and to concoct new and better ones. They believe the first step, is to learn how they work.

Kaltrilakis himself told me that he in the ablest military planner only now the Greek Government is and organiser Greece has produced forming a special service to combat for many yearn.

this organisation because the police When I met him last year he was have falled. a divisional commander fighting the

Mountains, But bandits in the Hassta

the over-riding difficulty "We still don't know what the I see in the way of the mechanism is," gald Dr George Today, although on paper he is only which deputy chief, he, in fact, commands victory-this-year hopes is the or- Irving, assistant chief of agricul- the whole Greek Army.

ganisation of the Greek Army itself.tural chemistry.

When it was reconstituted under British auspices after the war it was turned into a fine machine for fighting an invader.

This plan envisages on economic and political alliance on Western Union lines · between Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the other States of the Arab Lengue. The Turks have not munist guerilla fighters in the not only to seek and yet sent back any comment on the draft to Athens, although they are known to view it with favour.

muntains of Thessaly.

He has been chasing them with an army of 3,000 men equipped with everything a modern soldier dreams Before even half committing of tanks, armoured cars, mountain themselves, the Turks are cau- ortillery, mortars, radlo cars, and tiously sounding out the views rocket-firing Spitfires,

Kaltrilakis has ordered his men destroy the bandits but to seek out and destroy their food and arms dumps. He has told them to stamp out the secret Communist organisation in the towns and villages which helps the bandits to fighting guerillas.

the so-called Democratic Defence organisation.

"We must learn.

what happens between the time the chemical is sprayed and the result is seen in the growing plant."

the Atomic power may solve problem by producing large quan- But it was, and still is unsuited titles of radioactive atoms at Oak

The Tennessee.

chemists midge, took radioactive iodine atoms and You might as well go out hunting worked them into the molecules of the plant regulators. The "built-in rabbits with a tank as try to sur-

radioactivity" put "mark" on tho prise guerillas with the machinery that I saw cluttering up the roads with Geiger counters, the chemists chemient regulator. Standing by Yes, the General wasn't joking now are "tracing" the regulators,

plants. dogs.

of Washington and London.There Is-even a floct-of-highly fence corps of 100,000 men has been when he said, he wanted police- | "walching”__them_to_to_work on.

The army has been reinforced by

with 20,000 men, re-equipped American material, and a new de They believe that State Depart polished and beautifully

sprung formed, ment officials in Washington Limousines, carrying around British are likely to be in favour of and American generals who help the scheme, but they fear that with advice.

it will meet with considerable Dut, despite all this, the generali opposition from politicians an- is not entirely happy. xious about the New York State

vote in the presidential election.

Hopeful signs

my mind whether or not to fin

C.V.R. THOMPSON reports the U.S. scene

NEW YORK.

In this new

case a 19-year-old machine, a good cheque would say:

Jackie "Smith's ment shop," but if it had Negro,

Barthard, took been tampered with it would just severe beating in a night in Milwau

kee against California's middle- screech.

weight Bert Lytell, aged 23.

Darthard fainted in his

PRESIDENT TRUMAN has announced that he will

Washington that meatless Tues- the general optimism of the open his election campaign in A June.

and

Both Turkey and Greece T, TOO, And It difficult to make up voted against the partition of Palestine, and the fact that in both Turkey and Greece regard Greek,

Jewish Palestine as a poten- officials who have told me they ex- tial Sovict base is not making pect most of Greece to be free of

bandits by the autumn. the project any more acceptable

Certainly, It is essential

American

that

N-

ANNOUNCEMENT

from

corner,

days would be abandoned, startled failed to rally after an operation on Americans. They had forgotten his brain, and died.

The police ordered Lytell to be' detained. they were supposed to observe meat-

Jess Tuesdays,

in New York. And that, say Greece should be cleared of bandits is beaten before he starts. Indeed, NO MATTER what etiquette ex-

БЛУБ

America's reply, even among most of his supporters, was- So what?

But Truman refuse to believe he

perts say, American law the Turks, is where the money by the autumn,

It only to ensure the shows new confidence,

One reason is that he has stopped wedding gifts are not the sole pro.. comes from.

that the 500,000 peasant refugees

"Ell- may return to the village and farms the rebel movement within his own perty of the wife. Buled Hillmols' The bandit story

from which the guerilla terror has party to replace him by General Judge Martin at Northland:

Eisenhower. Another is that he quelle experts cannot be accepted as driven them.

thinks political fortune will run his legal authority." mountains of UP in the

At present they are producing no way from now until the election in

are them-November. Thessaly, where I have spent food and, additionally,

To friends he has put his chances word for slump), which statis- days, these political selves having to be fed at the ex-of victory at oven, or better, de- ticians have been promising every manoeuvrings seem very far pense of the State.

pending on whom the Republicans six months in America since the end of the war, has now been put off meagre ns is the pittance name as candidate. which is handed to them, it is al He thinks young Harold Stassen until spring 1949. intolerable burden for the Greek would be the hardest to beat, Sena-

PROHIBITIONISTS are more BC- Treasury, already bankrupt after tor Robert Taft the easiest.

tive than they have been for 15 With the help of strategists he has now finished plotting his campaign. years. Their present campaign-to eight years of warface

all liquor advertising except It will not be Truman vercus Stas- ban

on stationary hoardings. sen, or Dewey, or Taft. It will be F. D. I. versua Herbert again.

four

away.

As

Do you know of any ambi tious police dog or tough hound Around your way that weld like a job of work in the rough. If it has to be paid out. much rocky mountains of Greece? If longer there will either be a new you do, just drop a line to inflation in Greece, with all its dan- General Kaitrilakis, deputy Kerous consequences of social unrest or the Americans will have to in- chief of the Greek General Staff crease still further their already in Athens.

disagreeably heavy subsidy. For ten days the general has

Among the reasona been trying to round up and optimism In destroy a group of 2,000 Com- himself,

NANCY Ingenious Ingenuity

THOSE SHELVES

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MESSY

Hoover

THAT clusive

recession (polite

THOSE AMERICANS--and there

THOSE

are some who want Britain's Commonwealth and Empire to be- come parts of an American Com- monwealth, while Britain heads t European federation, got a warning from columnist Walter Lippmann. Sald he:-

"The fearful muddle in which we are already involved as successors to Britain in Greece, Palestine, Persia, and the whole Middle East is only a small example of how unsuited to our character and experience is the role of heir and successor to the Bri- this Empire."

IN THE RACE for the Republican

candidacy for President, Harold Stassen has climbed to top favourite position, and only a month ago he ANOTHER prize-fighter's death was a rank outsider. He has bot after a slogging in the ring-the contender Senator Robert Taft so third this year-threatens Amerien's worried that Talt has given up sit- boxing with a thorough quiz.

ting in the Senate for the

Their approximate slogan-Roose velt boom, or Hoover depression.

timo FORGE-PROOF cheques are

The authorities want to know if being and will make 30 speeches in for the now their way. Inventor Burgess unscrupulous managers are matching 15 cities in an attempt to keep his

beginners Kaitrilakis Smith, of Chicago, has patented one unfit General

against superior home State of Ohio from going to which

Stansen. talks.

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