Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 26 May 1939 — Page 4

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THE POST-DEMOCEAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District, The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second classc matter January 15, 1921, at the Poetoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR 223 North Elm Street, Phone 2540 MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher Muncie, Indiana, Friday, May 26, 1939. Aliens As An Unemployment Problem Querried by Mrs. David Dickson Terry, wife of the congressman from the Fifth district in Arkansas, as “to what extent aliens present an unemployment problem,” Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt says in the May issue of The Democratic Digest, publication of the Women’s Division, Democratic National Committee: “Using the word alien without any qualification makes it a trifle difficult to answer your question. It happens that I know a number of people who have come here from foreign lands of late who have brought patents and enough money to start a business and, therefore, are taking some of the unemployed off our hands. This has been the case in England, too. “When people come here without any visible means of support and there is no work available, that will augment our problem in all probability, but so far many of the people who have come in on the regular quota as refugees from foreign lands have been guaranteed homes and support by members of their family or friends in this country. “Occasionally I get a letter telling me that here or there a neighborhood has had an influx of foreign people who are lowering the standard of living in that neighborhood, but so far that has only happened on the outskirts of one or two big cities. I question if it will last long.” On the whole, Mrs. Roosevelt concludes that “our unemployment problem is very little affected by the fact that many of the people now coming in on the quota are refugees.” In response to a second Digest question propounded by Mrs. Edward J. McCormick of Washington, D. C., as to “what part the individual can play to assist the efforts of our national leaders to prevent war,” the First Lady advises: “An individual can, wherever possible, preach the real study of situations in foreign countries and try to awaken our people to an intelligent understanding of what is at stage in the different parts of the world. We should not be bitter against any people, but we should be able to judge the governments and the leaders in the different nations on facts which we are able to substantiate. If we create a healthy and articulate public opinion, it is bound to have an effect upon other countries.”

Reorganization of Government After arguing for more than a year about whether the President or Congress should undertake the task of reorganizing the Government the responsibility was won by the President. The lawmakers tied strings to the authority that they granted. Now comes the first report from the President to the Congress, in which he proposes to merge 20 agencies of the government into three consolidated bureaus. The reaction of Congress was very favorable, particularly because the whole political machine of the Federal government finds its pets safely protected in office. Few will lose their places on the payrolls through the big shuffle. The President rings the bell by pointing out certain improvements in administrative management of the government that will provide savings of from 15 million to 20 million dollars a year—and hardly anybody hurt. That’s what the voters and taxpayers want more of. Therefore, the President undoubtedly takes a good deal of comfort in the fact that his sample is being so favorably received by the two critical legislative bodies.

Municipal Purchasing Municipalities whose purchasing officers are known to be competent and honest are sometimes offered the same article for as little as one-third of the price asked of other communities where officials are not alert or demand “grease,” according to the recent comment of one who has held responsible positions in both types of cities. This official recalled being asked to pay the full list price on an article in one city where in the other city he had been offered without any bargaining a discount of 70% on the identical thing. Other experiences of a similar, though not so extreme, nature were also reported.

The Townsend Plan The politicians are jockeying with the Townsend plan and are trying, to pass the buck so that the responsibilities for great drafts upon the public treasury may not interfere with their future happiness or their political positions in their many localities. On Capitol Hill the old age scheme is sometimes spoken of among politicians as “the hemlock cup.”

Japan’s apparent disinclination to sign an iron-clad agreement with Germany and Italy, is of immense importance to the U. S. For, in the opinion of military experts, we could keep out of a European war if we wanted to—but we couldn’t keep out of a Pacific war. Germany and Italy are extremely eager to obtain Japan as an ally. And for a while it looked like Nippon was a 100 per cent supporter of the Rome-Berlin axis. Reason for that is supposed to be a Japanese fear of American participation in a future European war—which, in the event Japan was lined up with Hitler and Mussolini, would automatically mean war between Japan and the U. S. And apparently the Japanese government (which is now controlled by more moderate officials than were in power a year or so back) is anxious to avoid that. American-Japanese relations are comparatively good at present, and getting better. And both governments would like to keep them that way. Loss of Japan as an ally would be a heavy blow to the Axis powers, which have depended on Nippon to keep Russia busy in the Far East when and if war comes.

CAPETOWN ISLE TO BE FORTIFIED

Cape Town, South Africa—The “Island of Desolation,” as Robben Island,/ facing Cape Town, is known, may become South Africa’s “Singapore.” New batteries are to be erected at various points and the island will form a key point of the proposed coast defenses. Oswald Pirow, minister of defense, and general staff officers have been making inspections of the island, which has been taken over by the military for fortification. Access to it by sea is forbidden, and fishermen and tourists must keep clear. This is not the first time that the island has been fortified. Toward the end of the 17th century several four-pounders were sent over as a protection from attack and to command a part of the Table Bay. Now 15-inch guns are to be mounted on the island. Once Planned for Tourists Before the critical developments of the past year, the South African tourist department had intended to develop the uninhabited island as a pleasure ground. Plans had been drawn up to equip the island with a casino, a beach and amusement ground. Other schemes being considered were to use the island as South Africa’s “Ellis Island.” At one time the government tried, unsuccessfully, to encourage the establishment of dangerous industries on the island. Now, in face of the pressing need for defense, all these schemes have been abandoned. The island covers an area of only two square miles, and is inhabited mainly by rabbits, said to be descended from one pair introduced years ago. Several thousand men and women once lived on the island but it has reverted back to nature since the leper compound was destroyed five years ago. Now seabirds make their nests in the deserted buildings. Isle Old Penal Colony At one time Robben Island was a penal colony, convicts being sent there to hew the bluestone for Cape Town houses, and collecting shells for the lime kilns. Their treatment was said to have been compared with that on Devil’s Island at its worst. Often the only food they got was refuse thrown overboard from ships and washed ashore. o CONSTABLE CUSHIONS FALL Vancouver, B. C.—George Dickson, 52, escaped death or serious injury when he jumped 20 feet from the first floor of a downtown hotel, because he hit Police Constable Ron Eveleigh before he landed on the pavement. The constable deliberately ran under the man and broke his fall as he hurtled to the cement sidewalk. o NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND TO PUBLIC

Notice is hereby given to the public and to all contractors that the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Muncie, Indiana, invites sealed proposals for the furnishing of all material, equipment and or supervision as may be required by the plans, profiles, drawings and specifications therefor on file in the office of said Board, of each of

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•s • '■ 1 i Improvement Jlosolution 'No. * 8Q51939, for local sfewer in ^thp -first al/ley'.south', of. Second Street, exiifehding fronr’Brady Street r East to" the first alley West.^pf Macedonia Avenue land - Whence, North 'to 'Second Improvement Resolution No. 8061939, for construction of curb and gutter on both sides of 15th Street and of sidewalk on the North side of 15th Street, from Hoyt Avenue Easterwardly to the East line of the Muncie Land Company’s Subdivision of the Witt Tract; and also of sidewalk on the South side of 15th Street from Hoyt Avenue Easterwardly to Elliott Street. Improvement Resolution No. 8071939, for construction of sidewalk and curb and gutter on the West side of Hackley Street from 21st Street to 24th Street. Improvement Resolution No. 8081939, for construction of curbs and gutters on both sides of West Ninth Street from Gillman Avenue to Dailey Street. Improvement Resolution No. 8091939, for construction of sidewalk on the North side of East Eighth Street from Brotherton Street to Oakland Avenue. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in any way affecting said bid, according to the terms of Sec. 95, of the Act of March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p. 219). All such proposals should be sealed, and must be deposited with said Board before the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon of the 8th day of June, 1939, and each such proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable to said City, for the sum equal to two and one-half per cent (2%%) of City Civil Engineer’s estimate which shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated damages, if the bidder depositing the .same shall fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in case a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying proposal. Said Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Board of Public Works and Safety of Muncie, Indiana. By WILBUR A. FULL, Clerk. May 26, June 2. 0 NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

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Says There’s Limit Space Penetration Boston—Science sets “an” upper limit to the distance man’s knowledge can go.” according to Prof. Arthur H. Compton of the University of Chicago, Nobel prize physicist. “Whether we think of the uni- | verse as finite or not,” Dr. Compton said in a lecture here, “the knowable universe is definitely limited, and by dimensions not

much greater than are already observed. Declaring relativists calculated that the diameter of the universe “is of the order of a billion light years,” he said: “Astronomers who cautiously interpret their observations admit that however powerful may he their telescopes,, objects at a greater distance than this cannot be observed.” o Nova Scotia receives a subsidy from Canada for the support of the provincial government.

Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that an emergency exists for a meeting of the Township Advisory Board of Liberty Township, Delaware County, Indiana, to make appropriations of additional amounts of money for expenditures for said Township during the current year of 1939, as follows, towit: SPECIAL SCHOOL FUND Fund No. 12, Repair to Buildings, Gymnasium Floor—$1,200.00. And that a meeting of the Township Advisory Board of said Township and the trustee thereof, will be held at the office of the said Township Trustee in said Township of Liberty, on the 5th day of June, 1939 at 7:30 o’clock P. M. of said day, at which time said appropriation will be considered. VIRGIL R. RUBY, Trustee of Liberty Township May 26, June 2.

FRIDAY, MAY 26, 193S.

Many Repeaters File For Unemployment Nearly half of the Hoosiers cur- son, director of the Division. “This

rently filing new applications foi unemployment insurance are “repeaters,” officials of the Indiana Unemployment Compesnation Di-

vision said today.

“During April, 11,482 persons in Indiana who had their earnings reduced below benefit levels or entirely cut off, filed applications for job insurance benefits,” said Ellis E. Homy, unemployment compensation manager in this district. “Of that number 5,041 had drawn benefits last year. “Whether they are calling upon job insurance for the first or second time, they are finding it invaluable in helping offset the loss

of regular earnings.

“The number of persons applying for a second benefit period has varied greatly in different sections. In this district last month it was 371 out of a total of 611 applications. To date There have been 788 repeat applications in this area and 12,035 in the state since late last year. Second applications were scattered until April, having amounted to about one sixth of the claims filed in the first three

months of the year.”

The Two Millionth Check Indianapolis May 19—The two millionth unemployment insurance check paid in Indiana was issued today, nearly 13 months after payment of the first benefit check. “The checks issued by the Indiana Unemployment Compensation Division represent 2,000,000 weeks of total or partial unemployment, for which 215,000 applicants have been compensated to the extent of $21,540,000,” said Clarence A. Jack-

sum has been p, tremendous boon to worker and employer alike, through maintaining individual income and locai and general markets. “From the time the first benefit check was issued on April 25, 1938, it took 5 1-2 months to pass the 1,000,000 mark last October 14. With employment conditions steadily improving, it took 7 1-2 months to issue the second million benefit checks. “Almost a quarter of a million checks—246,935 valued at $2,730,000—were issued in October, the peak month. Value of payments was highest in August, when 243,277 checks aggregated $2,841,000. “After October the number of persons making claims for total or partial loss of earnings declined steadily until in April beneficiaries drew only 80,319 checks for $745,400. Payments m May are showing a moderate increase, averaging about 21,500 checks per week against the April average of 18,720. The average last October was 55,740 per week.” Giving figures for the same period, Ellis E. Henry, Muncie District job insurance manager, said 91,000 weeks of total or partial unemployment for 10(680 persons have been compensated in this district to the extent of $1,020,000. Payments in May, he added, have been averaging 1,010 per week compared to an average of 873 in April and 2,830 in September. The highest monthly mark in this area last year was 12,250 for $147,670, in September. The top this year was 6,720 for $70,820, in January.

Indiana State Parks Ready for Big Season

Indiana’s state parks are ready for their biggest season with added facilities for the use of the thousands of Hoosiers and tourists from other states who will visit them during the coming months, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, said today. This is the twenty-third year that Indiana has provided for enjoyment of nature and outdoor recreation through the operation of state parks. It was nearly twen-ty-four years ago, late in 1916, that areas constituting the original McCormick’s Creek and Turkey Run state parks were acquired for public use. Since that time additional areas have been established and today Indiana has eleven state parks, five memorials, and a bathing beach on Bass Lake. In 1919 when first attendance records were kept, the two parks then in existence reported an attendance of less than thirty-four thousand visitors. In 1938 the parks and memorials where attendance records are kept, showed an attendance of approximately one and a quarter raufipn persons. Attendance at the parks practically doubled in the past six years, due to efforts to acquaint Injiijina, residents 'with' the facilities which the narks provide for vacation . and weekend outings, and Ho provision of more adequate facilrtieo for the use of the parks by Uje,visitor.., i The state parks have become one of Indiana’s major factors in bringing tourists into the state. Surveys have shown that approximately forty per cent of the attendance during the vacation months is made up of visitors from other states. A recent study in cooperation with the National Park Service, revealed that motorists visiting the state parks traveled approximately thirty-seven million miles in one year and that practically every state was represented. The parks today have picnic facilities adequate for twenty thousand persons, camping areas for hundreds of tents and scores of trailers, more than a hundred miles of bridle paths and over a hundred miles of foot trails. Two have swimming pools and five have bathing beaches. Seven have hotel facilities and two others have cottages. All have scenic beauty and historic backgrounds as well as being havens for all species of birds and plant life, giving them a varied, continuing attraction. o INDUSTRY FINDS RAY MAKES MEATS TENDER

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON AMENDMENT OF ZONING ORDINANCE

Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Muncie, Indiana, that public hearing on an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance, which is now pending before the Common Council of the City of Muncie, Indiana, will be held in the city council chamber in the City Hall at 7:30 p. m., on the 5th day of June, 1939, at which time and place any objections to such amendment or change will be heard. The proposed amendment or change to be made is as follows: To amend, supplement and change the present Zoning Ordinance of said City of Muncie, Indiana, so as to transfer to the business district, to the six hundred (600) square foot area district and to the eighty (80) foot height district the following described territory in said City of Muncie, Indiana, to-wit: A part of the Northwest Quarter (1-4) of the Northeast Quarter (1-4) of Sec- | tion Twenty-three (23) Township Twenty (20) North, Range Ten (10) East, more particularly described as follows, to-wit: Three hundred sixty (360) feet of equal width east and west off of the entire east side of the following described tract: Beginning at appoint thirtyseven and one-half (37 1-2) feet south and fifteen (15) feet east of the northwest corner of said Northwest Quarter of said Northeast Quarter aforesaid; running thence south on a line parallal with the west line of said Northwest Quarter, of said NorthgaMT Quarter' Seption three hundred sixty-five and one-fifth (365 1-5) feet: thence papt on a line (parallel with thg aouth litfe qf said 'Ndrthwest Quarter of said Northeast Quarter Section, five hundred . ninety-sbc. and forty-three hundretlis : (596.43) ' feet; . thence north on a’ line parallel with the west line of sai|t Northwest Quarter ^of said Northeast ■Quarter Section to a'point directly east oU the Jna’ce of beginning ;y and thence west “five hundred ;niriety-sfx and fortythrqe thundreths »(5.9,6.£3)* feet to the place of beginning; estimated to contain five (5) acres, more or less. Said proposed ordinance for such amendment or change of sajdt present Zoning Ordinance has been referred to the City Plan Commission of said City of Muncie, and has been considered, and said City Plan Commission has made its report disapproving the same; Information concerning such proposed amendment or change is now on file in the office of said City Plan Commission, for public examination. Said hearing will be continued from time to time as may be found neces-

sary.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the City of Muncie, Indiana, SEAL J. CLYDE DUNNINGTON City Clerk, and Clerk of the Common Council of the City of Muncie, this 17th day of May, 1939. May 19-26 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

The Board of School Trustees of the School City of Muncie will receive bids for: 1. A new steam steel boiler, stoker and installing materials for Lincoln School Corner 12th and Sampson Avenue, Muncie, Indiana, and 2. Some closets, lavatories and urinals for Jefferson School, West Adams Street, at 4:00 P. M., June 2, 1939. Specifications are on file and may be secured at the office of the Superintendent of Schoola, 226 Central High Scliqpl Building, Muncie, Indiana. BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES, E. ARTHUR BALL. VERNON G. DAVIS, JOSEPH H. DAVIS, H. B. ALLMAN. May 12, 19 and 26

JUST A THOUGHT Don’t fool yourself that the Republican party is for WPA. In speaking at Charleston, W. Va., G.O.P. National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton included in 15 objectives of the G. O. P. the “elimination of WPA and PWA,” said The Charleston Gajette. —o AFFIDAVIT FOR PUBLICATION OF NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS

LEGAL NOTICE State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: Clem V. Powell,

vs.

William A. Mendenhall, et al In the Delaware Circuit Court, April 1939. Cause No. 12808. Elmer E. Botkin, being duly sworn upon oath deposes and says: 1. That he is the attorney for the plaintiff in the above entitled cause of action and is duly authorized to and does make this affidavit for and on behalf of said plaintiff. 2. That in this his suit, plaintiff seeks to quiet his title in and to the following described real estate in Delaware County, State of Indiana, to-wit: Lots number two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), six (6) and seven (7) in Block number nineteen (19) in Norvan Johnson’s Addition to the City of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. 3. That the residences of the following named defendants, the same being all of said defendants, to-wit: William A. Mendenhall, Carrie Mendenhall, his wife, William H. Hawkins and Hawkins, his wife, whose Christian is unknown, The unknown husband, wife, widow, widower, child, children, descendants, heirs, surviving spouses, creditors, administrators of the estates, devisees, legatees, trustees, executors of the last wills and testaments, successors in interest and assigrfs, repectively of each of the foregoing named persons; all. of whom are unknown to plaintiff; All of the women once known by the names and designations above stated whose names may have been changed and who are now known by other names, the names of all of whom are unknown to the plaintiff and this affiant, and the spouses of all of the persons above named, described and designated as defendants in this action, who are married, the namfes of all of whom are unknown to plaintiff. All persons and corporations who assert or might assert any title, claim or interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint in this action, by, under or through any of the defendants in this action, named, described and designated in the complaint and above named, the names of all of whom are unknown to plaintiffi, 4. That all of above named defendants are believed to be non-residents of the State of Indiana, as plaintiff is informed and believes; and the places and residences of said defendants are unknown to plaintiff; and that where any defendant in said complaint is referred to as the husband, wife, widower, heir, devisee, legatee, executor, representative, husband, wife receiver, lessee, successor or assigns of any defendant, the true and correct name of said defendant, so named is unknown and each of them is believed to be nonresidents of the State of Indiana. \ ELMER E. BOTKIN Subscribed and sworn to before me, this the 22nd day of May, 1939. My commission expires Sept. 17, 1939. EARL H. SWAIN Notary Public May 26. C(NOTICE OF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTIONS

In The Matter of Certain Proposed Public Improvements In The City of Muncie, Indiana. Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Muncie, Indiana, that it is desired to make the following described public improvements in the City of Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by the following numbered preliminary improvement resolutions, adopted by said Board on the 18th day of May, 1939, to-wit: Improvement Resolution No. 1101939, for sewer in the South Side of "'Jackson' Stf<$st, extending from Wilson Road W?st to White River, and plso in the alley between Bellaire ’'Avenue and Leland Avenue, from Leach Street .to Jackson Street:"'' Improvement Resolution No. 8111939, Jor paving of’th<f.alley between (’arson • Street’ 7 ’and Neely Avenue, expending- from y*rgihia Avenue to New’ Vork Avenpe. Li 1^,5, '• Improvement Resolution,.- No.' 8121939, for constructing a sidewalk on the Nofth- side of 8th' Street from Macedonia Avenue to (Brotherton

Street.

All work done in the making of said described public improvements shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Works on the above named date, and the drawings, plans, profiles and specifications which are on file in the office of said Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Muncie, Indiana. , „ - The Board of Public Works and Safety has fixed the 15th day of June, 1939, as a date upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested in, or affected by said described public improvements, and on said date at the hour of 10:00 o’clock A. M., said Board of Public Works and Safety will meet at its office in said City for the purpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have been filed, or which may have been presented; said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification, confirmation, rescinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances; and on said date will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said proposed improvements, and will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to the property abutting and adjacent to the proposed improvement and to the said City will be equal to or exceed the estimated cost of the proposed improvements, as estimated by the City Civil Engineer. Board of Public Works and Safety of Muncie, Indiana. By WILBUR A. FULL,

Clerk

May 26, June 2

Housewives may soon go to the butcher shop and order “airconditioned, ultra-violet-treated steaks” and he sure hubby will not complain that the meat was tough. Industrial engineers have devised a special ray-lamp for the treatment of meats, which, they claim, assures a consistently tender cut. The lamp, they found, produced the best results wnen the meat to be treated was hung in air-conditioned atmosphere and the ray directed at it from one to three days. GREENLEE (Continued From Page One) mitted himself upon the choice of his successor, it is believed that McNutt will not be unfavorable. It has been widely stated that Roosevelt would seek a third term in the White House but this probability is thought to be unlikely.

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Since Senatoi Robert A. Taft of Ohio, son of the former President is prominently mentioned as a Republican Presidential possibility, his speeches on public questions are important as showing just how the G. O. P. leadership is thinking. Senator Taft delivered a speech before the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association in which he said what he thought was wrong with the country and what ought to be done about it. Taxes, Senator Taft has decided, are too high. They should be reduced onethird. How? Senator Taft suggests an end of relief spending by the federal government and a return of the relief problem to the states and local communities. That would undoubtedly decrease the total spent by the federal government, but would it decrease or increase local taxes? State and local governments raise their money by taxation, too. To shift from federal spending to local spending only means a far greater burden on the shoulders of the real estate owners and rent payers. While Senator Taft and other lepublicans continue to chirp bout “return of relief to local govirnment,” a few highlights from he interesting session of the louse Appropriations Committee ,t which eight mayors testified aight to help put that pipe dream 0 sleep. Mayoi LaGuardia testified hat in New York, where relief is aore liberal than in more places, if 750,000 jobless, only 350,000 leads of families are on WPA or lome relief. Those other 400,000 memployed New Yorkers are gating no relief at all. Mayor Kelly if Chicago testified that in his ity one out oi five persons is livng on relief funds and that funds re almost gene. “The city is at he bottom of the till,” he told the ommittee. These mayors know aore about local government than 5enator Taft. It was their opinion hat a cut in WPA would be a disster—that the federal government oust continue work relief until here is a recovery in business. ■ o Check Is Kept On Water Table Through a series of regular measurements of eighty wells widely scattered over the state, data on the underground water table is being compiled by geologists, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, said today. This study of the water table

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Three Areas Are Treated for Pest of Japan Beetles

Treatment of approximately for-ty-five acres of ground in Indianapolis, Logansport and Fort Wayne with arsenate of lead as a part of the campaign against Japanese beetle, was announced today by Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation. The three areas—10 acres in Indianapolis, 15 acres in Logansport, and 18 acres in Fort Wayne—are those in which beetles were discovered for the first time during trapping operations conducted last summer. The control program is being waged cooperatively by the Department of Conservation, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and officials of the three cities. Application of the arsenate of lead to soil in areas where beetles were trapped for the first time poisons the beetles while in the grub stage when they feed on the roots of grass and plants. The treatment remains effective for six to seven years and has been successful in Indianapolis where the beetles were first discovered five

years ago.

JAIL LABOR MISSED

Anadarko, Okla.—A dance was held here to raise funds for the city’s wood chopping project — a charity program. Dance proceeds were allocated to pay men to cut wood for distribution for the needy. The work formerly was done by jail inmates, but the jail population has fallen off.

Inaianju i€>ve^ a period pf Several ^earsyrie ports'on swells- in; different areas will show whether the water table has remained stationary or has dropped. This will be especially important in determining the effect of removal of large quantities of water in metropolitan areas for air cooling and conditioning purposes. A lowered table has a harmful effect on farm crops, trees and other vegetation in that area.

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