Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 5 November 1943 — Page 2

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1943.

2 War Prisoners Are Recaptured Springfield, 111., Nov. 5.—Two of four German war prisoners who escaped last week from Camp Breckenridge, Ky., were reported by the Springfield federal bureau *oi investigation today as back in custody. ' Lee O. Tague, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI office here, said the two are Erich Wulf, 30, a Nazi airman, and Karl Zigafln, 22, a German paratrooper. They escaped from Breckenridge following their capture and a previous escape from an Austin, Ind., camp. The two apparently were caught as they crossed over an Ohio river bridge from Brookport, 111., to Paducah, Ky. The capture, Tague said, was made by Kentucky state police—a captain Tade and Claude Chappell—and Bridge Guards Hos- , kins and Griffins. Their capture ended a search over Illinois by the FBI, state and ft)cal police. The FBI had warned Waif might try to steal an airplane. Wulf was not able to Speak English but Zigann could. The two are believed to have been captured in North Africa. Still at large, however, are two German prisoners who escaped from Camp Breckenridge. They are Rudolph Mg M. Roenstern and Hans Spitzer. The former is 23, the middle finger on his right hand is amputated. Spitzer is 33, of fair complexion. Also sought, Tague said, are two more German prisoners who escaped. They are Sgt. Erich Heckmann, 21, an airman, and Hans Ansorge, 22,* whosp rank was not given. The two, the FBI said, escaped from a war department camp near Orosvvell, N. M., yesterday.

Save Garden Tools From Rust This Winter

Pope Broadcasts Peace Message London, Nov. 5. — Making his limited retail sales to half a ton. first radio address since German troops seized Rome and surrounded Vatican City, Pope Pius XII broadcast a message last night to the third National Eucharistic Congress at Trujillo, Peru. He did not touch upon political subjects. The Eucharistic Congress “is a great consolation to us at a time when so many sorrows are besieging your common father, and when so many of our brethren are being killed in battle,” Pope Pius said, speaking from his German-ringed study. “Harmony and peace can be reached only through Christianity and faith,” he declared in the Spanish language broadcast re corded by the Associated Press, and “no social justice can thrive in the world without Christ as the source of life.” Pope Pius exhorted his listeners to “unite in God and thus achieve unity in world peace,” which he characterized as a “precious gift which has to be prayed for without respite.”

Tools are as necessary to the Victory gardener as weapons to a soldier and there is much the same obligation to keep them in order. In spite of the fact that more tools and garden implements have been manufactured for next year than were available last, the quantity will still be far behind the demand. Only those who are without tools should buy new ones. Old tools should be cleaned, oiled and repaired before they are put away for the winter, to make sure that they will be in good condition to serve next year. The greatest enemy of tools Js rust. This attacks the metal parts during the winter when the tools are In storage and does more damage then than in the summer, when they are in constant use. To check the rust, first clean all outside metal parts, by washing thoroughly. Caked muol should be softened and removed. Then dry, and cover the metal with a thin

film of lubricating grease, or oil. All oearings of wheel tools should be oiled. It is possible to obtain new handles, where the old ones have broken, and these should be set in place this fall. New spraying and dusting equipment is more difficult to obtain than are cultivating tools. Clean old ones thoroughly of all old spray materials. Take the nozzles of sprayers apart and clean. Oil the pumps ol sprayers, and set them away without screwing down the tank caps, so that the rubber gaskets are not compressed. Dusters should be cleaned and the outside metal parts oiled, but instead of oil powdered graphite should be used on the inside. Make a resolution when your tools have been cleaned, to keep them clean in the future. This will prolong their lives, and make a substantial saving. A rack in which every tool has its place will be found well worthwhile.

Gun Toting Father Drafted Into Army Washington, Nov. 5.—A Poinsett County, Ark., father of seven children who “ain’t done nothing but raise hell and drink lemon essence” for eight years is toting a gun in the army today. If he wonders why, he should get someone to read the letter his wife wrote to his draft board and which is printed in the current issue of the selective service bulletin. It said: “Dear United States Army: My husband asked me to write a recommend that he supports his family. He cannot read, so don’t tell him. Just take him. He ain’t no good to me. He ain’t done nothing but raise hell and drink lemon essence since I married him eight years ago, and I got to feed seven kids of his. Maybe you can get him to carry a gun. He’s good on squirrels and eating. Take him and welcome. I need the grub and his bed for the kids. Don’t tell him this, but just take him and send him as

far as you can.” The army took him after he tried to prove a bona fide family relationship by presenting the letter to his draft board. COUNT FLEET TAKES REST Paris, Ky. —|Count Fleet, Mrs. John D. Hertz's king of Jhe three-year-olds, has aVrived here New York for a rest at Creek Stud.

Wlud Wdk WAR BONDS Air Raiders “The air was black with united Nations planes, over the target,” reads the communique. But before those pilots started on their trip to Berlin and Tokio they were trained in American flying schools. Advanced trainers for this work cost between $40,000 and $50,000. To pf.y for this great cost of the war will require great savings in War Bonds, Back {he attack with War Bonds in the Third War Loan.

TWO INMATES ESCAPE FROM SAN QUENTIN San Quentin.—San Quentin prison officials expect the early capture of two inmates who blasted their way to freedom with an underworld variety of the Molotov cocktail. Last night some one hundred men and hunting dogs converged at a point five miles south of Pcnluma. California, where the con victs had been traced through a | stolen truck and coupe. And the search had been narrowed to a wooded, hilly section. Prison officials have identified the fugitives as Gabriel Marcias and Albert Wells. Here’s how the two made their get-away. First they sawed their way out of a one-thousand inmate cell block—one of the largest in the world. Then they fled past a prison guard house. As the convicts reached San Quentin’s outer wall—the last bar to freedom—the Molotov cocktail went to work. They threw jars of gasoline, starting a fire on a warehouse roof and preventing guards from taking accurate aim. The break occurred early yesterday. — o RANGERS GET 17-YEAR-OLD Winnipeg, Man. — Hockey, like football, is searching out the youngsters this year. Evidence of this is the fact that Don Raleigh, a husky lad from Winnipeg, probably will be at center for the New York Rangers this winter—and Don is only 17 years old.

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Plenty of Seeds at Ceiling Prices in 1944

Price ceilings will be in effect on vegetable seeds for Victory gardens for 1944, and Secretary of Agriculture Wiekard promised in his speech at Chicago’s Victory Garden Festival that supplies would be ample v In spite of the fact that the demand for seeds by amateur gardeners trebled last spring, no serious shortages developed, and prices of the packets, which contain quantities sufficient for home gardens, were not increased. Announcement of point rationing started a rush on stores weeks before the normal date, and before stocks were fully distributed by wholesalers. But eventually all demands were met and no Victory gardener failed to get the seed he needed. Next spring will find stores selling seeds prepared for an early demand, according to James A. Young, executive secretary of the American Seed Trade Association. “Facilities for handling a still furthur increase in demand have been prepared,” said he. “Everyone should realize that there is no reason for hoarding seed, or danger of rising prices or having to do without. And fortunately, there will be no reason for anyone using seed of doubtful quality, and taking a chance on losing his crop on that account.” All seeds sold in this country which cross state lines are subject to the federal law, which sets high standards of germination. Most states have laws on the same subject. These laws insure that no seeds so old as to have lost the power to grow are sold. But there is another factor of the greatest importance to Victory gardeners, Mr. Young pointed out. “It is the quality of the vegetables

which are produced by the Seed; and in solving that problem great advances have been made in developing scientific breeding methods.” Use of home grown garden seeds has been obsolete in this country for fifty years, because of the deterioration taking place in the progeny, where the seed parents have not been properly selected for type, and protected against accidental crossing with other varieties. This deterioration is not shown in the appearance of the seed, but only becomes known when the crop is mature. It may be caused by cross pollination of two varieties, producing a mixture of types; or by harvesting seeds from inferior plants. Methods of scientific accuracy can be used to cause a constant improvement in well bred strains, but to apply them requires thorough training in genetics, and long experience in the field. It is a rare amateur who is able to select from his garden, seeds which will insure him as good a crop as he grew this year. “There are few crops which mature seeds in the garden in the ordinary course,” said Mr. Young. “The early crops, such as lettuce, and radishes should be pulled up befor"', making seed, to make room for other plantings, which will produce crops much more valuable than seed. Crops of which we eat the mature fruits, such as tomatoes, squash, and melons and those of which we eat the seed, such as beans, peas and corn, could be saved, but the risk of accidental crossing is present with all of them. The difficulties of saving home grown seeds are so many, and the risk of using them so great, that it is fortunate there is enough scientifically bred seed to go around.”

Fall Sown Flowers for Victory Garden Borders

Victory Gardens May Be Beautiful. now are all the various members of the poppy tribe, petunias, snapdragons, alyssum, nicotina (the flowering tobacco), gypsophila, Chinese forget-me-nots, calendulas and hosts of others. The tender annuals, such as marigolds and zinnias, should be held until spring, although occasionally marigolds self-

sow.

Snapdragons which have bloomed this summer may be cut back and given a protective cover and come through for early bloom next spring. Experiment has shown that the California wax paper cloches will bring the snaps through the winter in fine shape. The cloche should have a small ventilating slit cut in its side. The one factor in fall seed sowing to be attended to is mulch. Heavy rains will wash the seeda out of their regular rows unless a protection against the driving showers is given. Leaves, straw or stalks of the flower garden will give ample protection. If the seeds can be sown in a seed bed for transplanting in the spring, a wooden curb about the bed to prevent the washing of heavy rains is advisable.

A fashion for decorating Victory gardens with flower borders began to spread last summer, and such beautiful effects were achieved that the practice is sure to increase. Unless the flowers are confined to narrow ribbons along paths and boundaries in which d\frarf bedding types can be used, the best flowers to grow alongside vegetables are those which are tall and stay upright, where they will not interfere

With cultivating.

These are also the flowers for cutting, and not only will decorate the garden but also provide blossoms for bowl and vase arrangements in the house. Many of these annuals can be sown this fall, after the Victory garden plot has been cleaned up and spaded for next spring’s plant-

ing.

Centaureas, which include excellent red, white and blue varieties, will winter safely even if they come up from seed this fall. The same is true of annual larkspur, indispensable for cutting. Both had best be sown this fall to get an early start next spring. Other annuals that can be sown

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TWO PRISONERS CAPTURED

Sharon, Pa., Nov. 5.—One of two Negro soldiers who escaped from the* prisoner’s stockade at Camp Reynolds, near here, was in serious condition in the camp hospital after being shot when he ignored a command to halt. The second was back in the guard house. Camp authorities said that Pvt. Hardwick Bryan, 23, home address unlisted, was shot in the back late Saturday when he and Pvt. Lonzsen Gardner, 24, of Paducah, Ky., fled despite a command of military police to halt. Gardner was captured in a haystack yesterday. Officials said the two soldiers fled the stockade Friday night. They had been placed under detention for violating camp regulations.

Tracing their history back to the early days of the American Revolution, the United States Marine Corps will observe its 168th anniversary on November 10.

CORNELL UN1V. GETS NOTES OF ‘HOOS1ER SCHOOLMASTER’ Ithaca, N. Y.—Papers of Edward Eggleston, author of “The Hoosier Schoolmaster,” have been placed in Cornell University’s Collection of Regional History through Edward Eggleston Seelye of White Plains, N. Y. Mbre than 2,500 personal letters covering Eggleston’s adulthood, from 1852 to 1902, comprise a good part of the collection, and a sheaf of notes for “The Hoosier Schoolmaster” is considered particularly valuable since no complete original draft remains. o — SAVES COST OF ELECTION

Hamlet. Ind., Nov. 5.—The little town of Hamlet, population 519, saved itself the cost of an election of town officers at the last minute before election day. When Democrats failed to file a list of candidates, thrifty Republicans withdrew their ticket and 'town officials continued in office.

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Advertise Now, Business Is Told Indianapolis (Special) — Nov. 5. Sales and advertising organizations will hold a bridgehead of public confidence against tue post-war period when industry will be faced with unemployment problems, K. B. Elliott, vice president in charge of sales of the Studebaker Corp., said here. Speaking before the Indianapolis Advertising club at the 'Indianapolis Athletic club, he advocated advertising and dealer aid although the government has become the exclusive customer of a firm. Mr. Elliott declared that, in current times, it is the duty of every industry which has the nation’s welfare at heart, to use institutional advertising. Warns of Crucial Test. He warned that immediately after the war business will face one of its most crucial tests in hastening re-employment. Manufacturers who now keep in touch with their customers and retail sales outlets will be best able to fulfill this responsibility, he said. Mr. Elliott stressed that to meet its post-war challenge, industry “must be as good at distributing goods as it is in manufacturing them and that’s where the sales and advertising people of this country are going to come in.

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In the “Maze of Superstition” at the New York World’s Fair, one of the exhibitions that attracted much attention was that which exploded the popular belief in cobwebs as a healer of wounds. Germs were once supposed to become entangled in the cobwebs and so be kept from the wound. This superstition is still found in many communities. Instead of helping to heal a wound, cobwebs actually hinder it and may cause serious infections.

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Marching down the highroad of history, U. S. Marines will stride by their 168th birthday on Novem-

State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: Elsie A. Conner vs. Dorsey E. Conner In the Delaware Circuit Court September Term, 1943 Complaint: Divcrce No. 18305 Notice is hereby given the said defendant Dorsey E. Conner that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant Dorsey E. C( nner is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Saturday the 18th day of December, 1943, the 90th day the next term of said Court, to be holden tn the 1st Monday in September, A. D., 1943, at the Court House in the City of Muncie in said County ' and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in his absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of said Ccurt, affixed nt the City of Muncie, this 18th day of Oct., A. D., 1943.. JESSE E. GREENE, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney. Oct. 32, 29, Nov. 5 ' o— — PAYABLE IN RIFLE SHELLS Dallas, Ore.— One box of 30-30 rifle shells was the price asked by a Salem contractor for lettering the names of nearly 500 Dallas servicemen for the city's honor roll in a bill received by William Blackley, chamber of commerce secretary. Dallas hunters are pooling their shells to pay the Salem contractor, whose name was not revealed. 1

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• Yard by hard-fought yard . .. paying for every inch of ground with their courage and their lives . . . the armies of Freedom are pushing forward. Now at last, Victory is certain. But the road ahead is tortuous and hard, and grows more difficult with each advancing step. And there is no short cut. No easy way to win. Each stronghold taken, each slave-nation set free, swells the demand for fighting equipment to back the attack. More guns, more tanks, more planes and bombs . . . longer supply lines to speed the endless flow from factories to fronts. America’s primary lines of supply—the railroads of the nation—have already begun to feel the pressure of the tougher task ahead. In the past nine months, for example. New York Central freight loads have increased about 14% . . . and passenger traffic, including troop movements, more than 70% . . . over the same record-breaking months of last year. But even more must be done. For the peak has not yet been reached. The most critical period still lies before us. Only with the continued cooperation of shippers and

receivers of freight—and of the traveling public—can this bigger job be done. The men and women of the New York Central, and of all the nation’s railroads, realize the size of the job ahead, and that there is no short cut—no easy way to do it. They know that time is the one precious war weapon that cannot be manufactured by all our roaring war plants, nor bought with all our billions . . . That hours saved are lives saved . . . And that there is no time to lose on the rocky road to Victory!

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