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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. APRIL 29, 1954 mFAEM FRONT Agricultural history was made recently when Gerald Rowe, of Riceville, Ont., was sentenced in Magistrate's Court at L'Orffhal, Ont., to pay the maximum fine Of $500 and all costs of the case, which would be at least another $500, for falsifying the pedigrees of Holstein-Friesian cattle on his farm. Five charges were laid by the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, through the RCMP, but when a conviction was secured on the one charge the other four were adjourned. * * * Officials of the Department responsible for enforcing the provisions of the Live Stock Pedigree Act beileve that the conviction recorded in this case will make it easier to prevent this type of fraud in the future. For the first time in Canada, and possibly in any country, results of a blood test to prove percentage of an animal has been submitted to court and^ac-cepted as evidence. In this case it was accepted as proof that the heifer, Mary Bess Supreme, could not be the daughter of the cow, Lady Bess Rena Echo and the sire, Penvale Supreme, as Claimed by Mr. Rowe. In delivering his judgment, Magistrate Lalonde stated the prosecution had proved by two different methods, practically and scientifically, that the parentage of Mary Bess Supreme, as stated in the application for registration, was false. Emmet Collins, an experienced technician for an artificial insemination unit, gave evidence that he had inseminated the cow, Lady Bess Rena Echo, in Mr. Rowe's herd only four months before the calf registered as Mary Bess Supreme was claimed by Mr. Rowe to have been born, and at that time the cow was not in calf. Two veterinarians testified for the prosecution that an experienced technician in artificial insemination would defiinitely know if a cow that far advanced in the pregnancy period was in calf. Close questioning of Mr. Collins emphasized the value Of accurate records being kept by insemination technicians. Mr. Collins had to produce records showing exact dates of insemination services, definite identification of the cow inseminated and of the bull used, in order to prove that the calf in this case could not have been born as the result of this mating. The magistrate stated that as a result of Mr. Collins' testimony, supported by the statements of the veternarians, he was satisfied Lady Bess Rena Echo was not in calf when inseminated on January 4th, 1951, and consequently could not have given birth to a calf on May 8th, 1951 as claimed by the defendant. * * * Magistrate Lalonde stated that the prosecution also had proved by means of blood tests, performed by experts, and the re-Suit presented by them to the court, that Mary Bess Supreme could not have been the daughter of Lady Bess Rena Echo and Penvale Supreme. He stated the evidence given by Dr. Humble of the Ontario Veterinary College, on this point was convincing beyond any doubt. The basis of the evidence given by Dr. Humble was that to prove parentage of an animal by the blood test, all factors found in the blood of a calf Here Are Hollywood's Worst-Tressed Stars MARILYN MONROE: "Shaggy dog." AUDREY HEPBURN: "Lawn-mower haircut." RITA HAYWORTH: "Ten years behind the times." LESLIE CARON: "Caught in the rail Marilyn Monroe is Hollywood's "worst-tressed" actress. Elizabeth Taylor is the best. That's what a poll of 723 beauty salon operators in the U. S., Bermuda, Canada and Cuba turned up. Other favorite movie stars who followed Miss Monroe in disfavor, and the beauty experts' comments are shown above and below. Hairdressers recommended Marilyn chop her locks by at least three inches. They called Liz Taylor "best tressed," because her coiffure is "youthful but sophisticated." MARTHA RAYE: "Untidy and old womanish." TALLULAH BANKHEAD: "Stringy," Dahling. must be present in the blood of either the sire or the dam. If certain factors found in the blood of the calf could not be found in the blood of either the sire or the dam, then the calf could not have been the result Of that particular mating. In the case of the heifer, Mary Bess Supreme, factors were found in her blood that were not present in either the blood of the alleged dam, Lady Bess Rena Echo or the alleged sire, Penvale Supreme, consequently Mary Bess Supreme could not have resulted from that mating. Officials of the Department believe acceptance of the blood test by the court as proof of parentage will aid materially in preventing future substitution of one animal for another in the registration of live stock. With the widespread use of artificial insemination in the breeding of dairy eattle, it will be comparatively easy to make and record blood tests of all sires used in breeding centres. The Canadian Holstein-Friesian Association already requires it for all Hol-stein bulls used in such centres and the results are recorded at the Ontario Veterinary College. With the blood types of the sires recorded, it will not be difficult, where parentage of a calf is in doubt, to have blood tests made of the calf and the calf's dam. Comparing the blood tests of all three animals will determine that the calf is not actually the result of the mating CROSSWORD PUZZLE ft2& 19. Girdled Answer elsewhere on this page. of that particular sire and dam if any substitution has occurred. To this extent the case of the Crown versus Gerald Rowe marks a forward step in maintaining the reliability of Canadian pure bred livestock records. In future the fact that the blood test has been accepted in court will make it difficult for any cattle breeder, either by accident or design, to substitute one animal for another on a certificate of registration. Old Habit -- Sawing wood at the age of 97 is Wallace A. Bently. He saws wood for about two hours a day for exercise. A retired blacksmith, Bently attributes his longevity to tobacco-chewing, a practice he began when he was eight. Lack Of Height Blights Happiness Two marriages look like being blighted because of eight inches. For 15 years the two Munich-born dwarf sisters, Carta and Carola Miele, who are respectively 28 and 30 years old, and three feet one inch and three feet three inches in height, have been travelling all over the world. They perform clever juggling acts at variety shows, and so proficient and engaging are they that they' have never been short of either bookings Oj. cash. Both little ladies have bee*n married for eight years to dwarfs who live in Rome. Carta's dental-surgeon husband, Dr. Zimbala, is three feet four inches tall. Carola is married to a newsagent named Georgini, who stands three feet -two fhches. Nothing so far has ever interfered with the connubial bliss of the two couples. Now, however. Susan Hayward: "Too long and bushy." ELIZABETH TAYLOR: "Best tressed." a shadow has been thrown on all their lives. For Carta and Carola have suddenly started to grow. Almost overnight they have shot up another eight inches or so, so that Carta now levels off at around three feet nine inches, while Carola has topped four feet. Their husbands dislike the idea of their wives being so much taller than themselves, especially as the girls are continuing to g»ow. The Zimbalas, moreover, have a two-year-old son who is now nearly two feet tall and looks like being a normal child and adult. Disaster has now struck, again. The sisters' manager has given' them the sack. He says they have lost their main asset--their dim-inutiveness. It seems that the sisters inherited a family disability of the endochrine glands, but the glands have suddenly started to function normally, so there is nothing they can do about it. Now Signor Georgini and Dr. Zimbala have started divorce proceedings. Behind The Walls Of A P.O.W. Camp Behind the forbidding walls and barbed wire of Stalag VHIb, brave men were dying . . . and some of them were crying. Into this earthly hell had come a form of torture so subtle that it achieved something German rifle butts and starvation could not do. "Mail up!" yelled a voice. A hushed silence spread through the hut. One by one the lucky names were called out, tension mounted as the pile became smaller, and smaller. Letters from home! From wives, mothers, sweethearts . . . "I've got the world's grandest wife," boasted Bluey, the one i chap who always seemed to be able to laugh at the hardships of prison camp life. "And my little boy wil> be talking -and romping all over the place now. Boy . . . wait until he sees his daddy!" Fellow prisoners were envious at the eagerness with which Bluey tore open his precious letter -- a rather special letter, for two weeks later Bluey hanged himself. A wife's • infidelity, or a sweetheart's refusal to wait, did strange things to the men confined in Stalag VHIb. Unfaithfulness was a cancer which ate at the hearts and minds of soldiers and airmen to whom only the memory of love and kindness, far away, made it possible to live and endure. The soulless wife of a soldier, shell-shocked at Dunkirk, bore two children to an Italian prisoner of war. Repenting, she wrote offering to buy her husband a new . motorcycle after the war, if he would forgive. Another letter which a sergeant received from his best girl -- writes Richard Pape in his moving' and brilliantly written book, "Boldness Be My Friend" -- dismissed the situation at home in five words: "Sorry. Married your father. Mother." An airman, twice decorated for gallantry, suffered terrible burns when his bomber crashed and he had remained at the controls enabling his crew to jump to safety. His fiancee wrote: "I don't want anything further to do with an airman who chooses to play safe by becoming a P.O.W. I would rather be married to a 1941 dead hero than a 1941 prisoner." One soldier, receiving a Red Cross sweater with the name of the donor in the pocket, spared one of his precious letter-cards on which to write his thanks. Came the reply: "I'm sorry you got it. I wish it had gone to someone on active service." Richard Pape, M.M., navigator of an R.A.F. Stirling bomber, shot down over Berlin, has written what his doctor has described as the "unvarnished record of his unending fight for freedom." Pape needed a doctor when he finally came home, battered both in mind and body. Writing "Boldness Be My Friend" was part of his "treatment." SCHOOL ESSON R. Barclay Warren, B.A., B.D. Ahijah Foresees a Divided Kingdom 1 Kings 11:29-38. Memory Selection: If thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways . . I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house. 1 Kings 11:38. With this lesson we begin a study Of the northern kingdom and its prophets. During its 200 years there were 19 kings and nine different dynasties. The dynasty of Jehu lasted 100 years. The kingdom of Israel reached its height under King Solomon. His wives--of which he had 700, in addition to 300 concubines-- turned his heart to their gods. The prophet, Ahijah, foresaw and told Jeroboam that ten of the tribes would forsake Solomon's son and acclaim him, Jeroboam, as their king. Prophecy is often mistaken for a type of fatalism. Events are not caused by prophecy. Prophecy is simply the foretelling of events. The event does not occur because it was prophecied. It was prophecied because God revealed it to his servant in advance. We are always free moral agents. Only God who knows all things can accurately predict what we will do in a given situation. His foreknowledge does not interfere with our freedom of choice. The knowledge of past, present and future are all his. His revelations of 'the future are given to his servants as He wills. The story of Rehoboam's rejection of the advice of the older counsellors was a lesson for us all. Youth is more liable to be hot-headed and impetuous. We need the enthusiasm and venturesome spirit of youth. We also need a humble spirit which leads us toynquire of the Lord for His guidance. He knows best. "It's no use sowing grass seed under two feet of soil."^ "I know, but it annoys the birds." SALLY'S SAtllEt "Oh, honey, it looks like your trapped again!!" (Upside down to prevent peeking) TurfJeneek Duo -- Axel Johansson proudly displays a large turtle he picked up during a naval training tour in the West Indies. At 15, he is the youngest boy aboard the Swedish training schooner Falken which was in dock at Southampton, England.