Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 28 May 1943 — Page 2

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1943.

UNBULANT FEVER Seven Sowings Needed for BECOMES THREAT AU.Summer Salad Leaves

Edsel Ford’s Death Calls Attention To * Infection Washington, May 28.—The great importance of the fight against brucellosis in farm livestock was given tragic illustration in the death of Edsel Ford. The news reports said the head of the Ford industrial empire died of undulant fever, which is transmitted by livestock infected with brucellosis, Bang’s disease or infectious abortion, as it’s variously called. The most common carriers of the infection in this country are milk cows. Non-pasteurized milk from such animals can infect humans with undulant fever. The death of Edsel Ford causes a big renewal of interest in the continuous fight against brucellosis, and it has been 'an uphill fight. The USDA scientists and public health officials engaged in it found it difficult to interest the public in so obscure a disease. But it strikes about three thousand persons a year in this country and is frequently fatal. In addition, it costs farmers and ranchers millions of dollars annually in the loss of aborted calves. A vaccine developed by USDA researchers can pull the fangs of brucellosis. Rapid headway was being made in eradicating it when the war came along and took so many veterinarians that work in the cattle herds had to be cut down. Discovery of the vaccine came mly at the expense of several oars of study and disappointment. ,'Cientists kept on till they found it. Several investigators died before their triumph was achieved. Now, young calves can be immunized very satisfactorily and their milk—when they grow up—is free of disease. A rush order of the vaccine was sent to England by bomber shortly after the start of the war. The British took this unusual precaution because they knew they couldn’t afford to lose milk and meat to brucellosis—killer of animals and men. o — A Scrap Appeal To Every Farmer No farmer is going to get rich hauling scrap metal into town at prices permitted by the government ceiling on such material. It’s a difficult and tiresome job to collect the iron, load it into a truck and take it to the junk dealer. And tire and gasoline rationing don’t make it any easier. But the cold fact about the matter is that the war industries need this metal badly. In fact, the need is so urgent that the War Production Board has asked Indiana farmers to help inaugurate a farm scrap drive in an effort to get 3,000,000 tons of this metal to the steel mills by July. Indiana’s quota is 83,000 tons. This week, May 24 to 29 has been designated for the drive in Delaware county and every effort will be made to fulfill the county quota during the six-day period. In order to meet the goal of 83,000 tons of farm scrap metal it will be necessary to secure an average of 900 pounds per farm, said the county salvage chairman for this county. As we have said, the job of gathering this scrap and hauling it in is difficult and unpleasant. But it is literally true that the life of your boy or your neighbor’s boy may depend upon it. And unless ALL available scrap is sent on its way to the war industries there is going to be a shortage of war malerials. We hope every reader of this paper will take this appeal of Donald Nelson of the War Production Board seriously and make an earnest effort to get available scrap to town during this drive. It is estimated that Indiana’s 83,000 tons of farm scrap will meet the requirements for the construction of three big battleships and one light cruiser or a host of guns or heavy tanks. If you act promptly, your scrap may actually go into action against the enemy within a few months. Get it ready for delivery NOW. Hoosier “SOS” Scrap Drive— means—SALVAGE OUR* SCRAP TO SAVE OUR SONS. o TRAVEL IS CATCHING

Los Angeles — President Roosevelt’s trip to ‘Mexico to meet Mex- : can President Camacho gave the ity council here the itch. They unediately appropriated $2,000 for i hhee of their members to go to Mexico City and do the same.

Green, leafy vegetables supply your family with Vitamin A and calcium, the vitamin and mineral which are expected to be scarcest In war time rationing. The green leafy vegetables include the leaf crops which are served uncooked in salads. If you like bowl salads, you can serve one at least once a day without complaint. Many leaves can be used for bowl salad, including all the greens which are also cooked. But our chief reliance will probably be on leaf lettuce and endive, especially the form known as escarolle, or broad leaved endive. How can one or the other of these fine vegetables be made available for bowl salad from early summer until killing frosts arrive in the fall? Leaf lettuce will be large enough to use in 30 days from sowing, and can be sown April 15, let us assume. The weather will determine the exact date. If we sow a twenty foot row April 15, it will produce daily salads for a family ef four from May 15 to June 4, and a second 20 foot row sown about May 5, will be ready to use June 5 and provide lettuce until June 25. A third sowing of the same size, if made May 25, will be ready a month later and will probably give you the last harvest of lettuce before midsummer heat begins to make this crop go to seed. During the hot weather we must depend on escarolle, which takes 90 days to mature. By sowing a row April 15, at the same time as the first lettuce sowing, we may have It ready July 15 when trouble with lettuce usually begins. Two 20-foot sowings of endive, made twenty days apart, will provide you with daily salad leaves until August 24. In the meanwhile you will have sown as a succession crop to peas, turnips, beans, or carrots which have been used up in June, another row of leaf lettuce and another of endive. The lettuce should be ready late in Ausust. and it will be fol-

PRISON GAMPS ARE IN WAITING , United States Will Assume Care Of War Captives Washington, May 28. — Prison camps have already been established in the United States to Care for all the Axis prisoners that will be sent to this country from North Africa. The disclosure was made this morning by Secretary of War Stimson. The secretary said a recheck shows that about 26-thousand prisoners were taken in the entire Tunisian campaign. He added that he doesn’t know just what proportion of this total will be allotted to the United States. The actual nunmber to be cared for in this country, he pointed out, will depend upon problems of food, supply, and available ships for transportation. Secretary Stimson said the War Department is now studying plans for the disposition of prisoners and their use for farm work and other types of labor permissible under the articles of the Geneva convention. The secretary was quick to add, however, that the prisoners are not being brought to this country to replace our own labor. And he added: “They will not be used as strikebreakers, or anything like that.” Rations for prisoners will be the same as those provided United States troops. Prisoners will be required to wear the clothing they had at the time of their capture, unless it is unfit for further use. Uniforms of all prisoners will be dyed dark blue and marked in whit # e paint with the symbol P-W— indicating prisoners of war. Prison camps will be made up of prisoners of the same nationality. Every enlisted prisoner will receipt a minimum of lb cents daily for incidentals, and 80 cents daily if he is employed outside his detention camp. Close 13 Roads

Indianapolis, May 28.—The state highway department reports that 13 roads remain closed in flooded areas of Indiana. Routes closed to travel include Indiana 3 south of Indiana 118, Indiana 10 east of Argus, U-S 36 west of Montezuma, U-S 40 north of Hazelton, U-S west of Vincennes, Indiana 38 west of Elnora, Indiana, 64 west of Princeton, Indiana, 116 east of Geneva, Indiana 154 west of Sullivan, Indiana 157 at the Green-Owen county line, Indiana 450 east of Trinity Springs.

The New Broad Leaf Endive Is a Fine Summer Salad

lowed by the escq,rolle in the fall, when it is most delicious. This will complete your 120 days or more of green salad leaves, harvested from your garden continuously, in fine quality and abundant supply. This, you will note, takes seven separate sowings, spaced at carefully estimated intervals, and requires that 140 feet of garden space be devoted to these two vegetables. Obviously if you sow all 140 feet at once early in the spring, aa may be done, in poorly planned gardens, you will have a superabundance of green leaves in the early summer, and do without the rest of the season. It is impossible to give any gardener a complete pattern of hia planting schedule; he must figure it out himself, and it must be closely related to his actual family needs.

Will Investigate Shooting of Girl Tipton, Indiana, May 28.—Tipton county prosecutor Horace Holmes says that a county grand jury will investigate the fatal shooting _of Laura Oda Smith of Indianapolis. ""The 15’-year-old girl was shot last week as she sat in a parked car with 28-year-old Russell Krauss, an Indianapolis filling station operator. State police say that Krauss has admitted that he, in his own words, “probably shot her.” The dead girl’s sister, Mrs. Jeanne Belle Griffin, and Private Robert Groover, both of Indianapolis, are being held as witnesses. Both accompanied Krauss and Miss Smith on the trip from Indianapolis to Elwood. FORD'S BEATH IS NATIONAL SHOCK

Corporation Has Done Much For Progress of Entire World Detroit, May 28. — The death of Edsel Ford has stirred up speculation on this question—who will step into his shoes? Henry Ford, himself, founder of the motor car empire that Edsel managed, will be 80 years old in July. And although he is alert and energetic, it’s doubtful if he’ll take over the reins again. What probably will happen ie this: Ford will call on Vice-Pres-ident Sorenson and Personnel Director Harry Bennett to carry on until Edsel’s three sons, now in military service, can lend a hand. One thing is certain. American industry lost a great leader when quiet, mild-manhered Edsel Ford died of undulant fever. He has efficiently managed a firm that produced over 30-million motor cars and trucks before it turned its attention to war work. And it was Edsel who took the lead in turning the giant firjn into a war plant, with a four-and j a-haif billion dollar armament program. Edsel became president of the company back in 1919. The company had been incorporated in 1909 with an actual cash investment of only 26-thousand dollars. At the beginning of last year tt was" valued at 718-million. Messages of condolence are pouring in. Lieutenant General William Knudsen, former General Motors president who is now in war work, says he very shocked to hear of Ford’s death. Housewives May Use Oil Burners Washington, May 28. — Rural housewives can light up the oil cooking stove as usual this summer. The OPA has reversed its order that folks who can get wood or coal for cooking fuel mustn’t burn oil. It made the discovery that wood and coal are just about as scarce as oil. Reversal of the rule also affects city kitchens. The OPA hopes that much of oil to be used this summer will result in greater activity on the canning front. Preservation of food in the household is being emphasized by OPA as well as the department of agriculture.

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RUSSIANS START HEAVY FIGHTING

Fierce Battles Are In Progress On Four Separate Sectors Moscow, May 28.—The heaviest fighting in recent weeks has. broken out along the Russian front. German troops jabbed at four strategic points in the southern sector of the Russian lines, only to be repulsed with heavy losses. The heaviest German attack was launched above Novorossisk in the Caucasus. Axis troops charged toward Russian positions, but were hurled back. West of Rostov, nearly one thousand Nazis advanced toward Red Army lines under cover of darkness. The Russian troops held off until the enemy got within point-blank range and then replied with a concentrated artillery and machine-gun barrage. The Nazis fled in disorder leaving scores of dead on the battlefield. The Germans made two** strong attempts to cross the northern Donets river south of Kharkov but were forced to retreat. Many enemy troops were drowned and the remainder fell back to their original positions. Germany reports that the Red Army is attacking fiercely on two northern fronts. The Nazis admit Russian troops have penetrated German positions southwest of Velikie Luki and southwest of Staraya Russa, below Leningrad. o Describes Torture for Aiding Doolittle St. Louis, May 28.—The bestiality of the Japanese toward Chinese civilians and Catholic missionaries who aided some of the Doolittle flyers is described by an American missionary. The missionary—Father George Yager—served the congregation of missions at Yu Kianz in Kiangsi province, where some of the Doolittle flyers landed after their historic raid on Tokyo. When the Japs discovered that Catholic missionaries and Chinese residents bad aided the flyers and helped them escape, they wrecked indescribable vengeance , upon them. Towns were completely laid waste. Poor country people were savagely torture I and put to death. An Italian priest was murdered. A 70-year-old French priest was beaten and stabbed and left to die. More than 60 children were murdered. Father Yager also reveals that the flyers barely managed to escape the Japs. They arrived in the town o,f Ying-Tan about seventhirty in the morning, spent an hour eating breakfast, and then got on a bus for Chungking. Forty minutes later, three Jap planes swooped down after the buses, but. the American flyers got away.

BULL IN A CAR

Los Angeles—James Brown, 48, had the misfortune to be driving through the city with a Holstein bull calf in the luggage compartment of his car when a blackout suddenly came on. It was the first war manifestation the Holstein bull calf had ever seen and it began bawling so lustily that it attracted the attention of Deputy Sheriff Claude Everle. The latter decided there could only be something sinister in a man driving through a blackout with a bawling bull calf in the baggage compartment of his car and booked them both on suspicion, GAS SHORTAGE NOW GRITIGAL

Millions of Tons of Food Will Be Lost In East

Washington, May 28. — Unless something is done very soon auout the eastern shortage of farm tractor gasoline, millions of tons of food are going to be lost. That is not a “scare” report, it’s the considered opinion of farm leaders and various officials of the Department of Agriculture. The matter is all the more serious in view of the fact that growing conditions are far from ideal in other parts of the country. Even under perfect conditions, other sections couldn’t possibly grow enough additional food to offset the loss of a major portion of the east’s truck crops, meat, eggs and livestock feed. The Petroleum Administrator for War, Harold L. Ickes, reminds farm tractor operators that their right to get fuel ranks with military priority. The cruel fact remains, however, that farmers can’t get fuel. The tanks of their dealers are empty. Meanwhile, civilian automobiles continue to run. Several U-S-D-A officials told the United Press that the farm gas shortage will continue until all non-essential driving is brought to an absolute halt. And their ideas of what constitutes “non-essential” driving don’t jibe with the petroleum administration for war. In a situation of this kind they believe that gasoline use should be restricted to the military, police, ambulances, over-the-road trucks, and a minimum of buses. You can get an idea of how bad things are from Harold E. Bryant of Aroostock County, 'Maine — one of the chief potato growing sections. Bryant—who is manager of the Maine Potato Growers’ Assoc-iation—-writes this: “The tight gasoline situation—plus the failure of our promised quota of machinery to show up—have combined to create a situation where farmers are faced with being compelled to abandon 1943 plans for planting potatoes.” Other reports say that many farmers are tempted to sell their potato seed and forget about planting a fcrop. Potatoes are bringing a very handsome price.

Some people at the U-S-D-A think the farm gas famine will continue indefinitely unless War Food Administrator Davis gets tough about it. One of these men told the United Press: “This thing can’t be solved unless somebody with the gumption of Bill Jeffers puts his toot down. Jeffers got what he wanted in the rubber program by putting up a fight. Somebody’s got to put up a fight on this.” o • EXCUSE MY SMOKE Los Angeles — When traffic police officers arrived at the scene of an auto accident to check up on the details and make a report, the auto was gone and even the innocent bystanders. They were able to ascertain, however, that it had been an ambulance going full speed, with a patient inside, which had turned over. The two internes jumped out, called on bystanders to help rigth the auto, took a glance at the patient and were off again at siren-screaming speed without. the patient having missed a heartbeat.

SENDS MOVIES OF GAMES Madison, Wis.—The University of Wisconsin athletic department has sent motion pictures of the Wis-consin-Ohio State and Wisconsin•Minnesota football games of last fall to soldiers and sailors in the Southwest Pacific area.

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