Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 95, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1924 — Page 8
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MILLION DOLLAR TOM HP LOSSREPOSTEO State Entomologist Gives Leaf Disease as Reason, Indiana's tomato crop will be cut 25 to 50 per cent by a fungus disease of the leaves known as Septoria leafspot, and growers lose more than a million dollars that could have been saved, according to Harry F. Dietz, assistant State entomologist. This disease is especially troublesome in the central, eastern and south central area. There is no place in the State where tomato fields are free from this trouble, Dietz says, though the damage in many places will depend largely on the weather between now and the first killing frost. Due to Climate. The State entomologist's office, pointea out that the seriousness of the disease is due to climatic conditions since June 15, and failure to spray, and not to poor planting. Wet soil and cloudy weather in June and early July permitted the fungus to obtain a good foothold on the lower leaves. During heavy rains and windstorms the spores of the fungus were widely scattered throughout the fields, and the entire plants were almost uniformly Infected. This disease manifests itself by small brown spots on the foliage. On the surface of each spot are several blackish pustules or spore cases. Leaves are easily severed from the stem. Normally the disease works from the bottom of the plant upward taking leaf by leaf, but not as rapidly as it is now doing. Loss of foliage from plants prevents fruit from increasing in size, or ripening properly. Fruit then is exposed to the hot sun and scalds badly. Could Reduce Loss •‘This loss could have been reduced by at least a million dollars had growers properly sprayed jthe fields. According to entomological officials Septoria leaf spot and several other leaf diseases of tomotoes can be prevented by spraying plants before they are too large. Importance of this gigantic loss to the tomato canning industry is more manifest when it is known that Indiana ranks first of the States for quality of tomatoes produced. In the last eight years an average of 45,000 Hoosier acres have planted to tomatoes annually with an average annual yield of 4.3 tons per acre. Spraying tomatoes must be accepted as the best form of crop insurance. Proper sprays applied at the rlgnt time, will easily double the Indiana yield at a cost of about $4 per acre per season, conservation officials claim. This sum, they say, includes the depreciation of the spray equipment, cost of materials and cost of labor.
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(Copyright, J9if, by United Press) WWJ, Detroit (517 M), 10:30 P. M., EST —Jean Goldkeat’s Orchestra, WGY, Schenectady (340 M), 8 TP. M., EST —Travelogue with accompanying music, “A Polar Cruise.” WFAA, Dallas (476 M), 8:30 P. M., CST—Program by the Wednesday Morning Choral Society. WJAX. Clevelard (390 M), 8 P. M„ EST —Orchestral music, tenor and violinist. WEAF, New York (492 M), 9 P. M.. EST—Vincent Lopez and his orchestra. BIRTHDAY PARTY AT MOORESVILLE City to Observe Hundredth Anniversary of Founding, By Times Special MOORESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 28. A birthday party with candles and every thing will be held tonight to celebrate the hundreth anniversary of the founding of this city. A community party will be held at the high school gymnasium tonight by candle light. Old-time games, songs and reminiscent hour will be on the program. An all-day celebration will be held Friday, to include unveiling of markers for the first school, church and business site. A community dinner will be held at noon In the gymnasium. A pageant, depicting historical events in the history of the city and State will be given in the afternoon. Mooresville was founded in 1824 by Samuel Moore, who established the first trading post. For years Moore gave lots and sometimes lyuses to industrials citizens without cost to build up the town. Miss Helen York, granddaughter of Samuel Moore Rooker, the first man born in the town, will have a prominent part in the festivties.
Hoosier Briefs rprpt R boys left their bicycles in £■ | the watermelon patch of l. J James Sweeny, farmer near Seymour, when they had to flee. "The owners can have them,” says Sweany, "if they call for them in person." A rather delicate situation. Harold Matthews, Rushville farm hand, is mighty glad he didn’t steal the whole flock. He might have been sentenced for years. Mayor Thomas gave him four months on the Indiana Farm for taking four chickens. Leonard Lee, Hagerstown merchant, saw a good tire In the road and stopped to pick it up. Two masked men met him and robbed him of $l7O. "Finders are losers,” says Lee. Six members of the family of A Taggart. Baltimore & Ohio train dispatcher at Washington, are ill from meat which became tainted in the refrigerator. B r_— ' LT7FFTON Is putting on airs and golf stockings. The L -new country club will be j opened Labor day. James Bradley, 11, of Columhus. ivas found dead in a weed patch near his home. Heart disease was assigned as the cause. "No sir,‘we won’t do it againchorused small boys up before Police Chief Gehrett of Blufffon, for scaring motorists on McCoy Rd. The chief told them it was a wonder the motorists hadn’t shot them. Lebanon is prouder than ever. C. E. Pierce, manager of a condensed milk company there, says Boone County milk is used in Hershey nrflk chocolate. Eugene Kearst. 6, of Williamsport, has a good alibi now when his mother wants him to take a bath. He was painfully burned when he slipped and fell into a tub of hot water. I T7 1 I DM DOUGLAS, garage man at lL I Greensburg, says while fish--1 1 ing near Milford, a two and a half pound bass jumped into his boat. ■•s. ■ Reckless motorists are happy at Kokomo. The city has no funds to enforce its traffic ordinances. Contractor Roy Lytle, of Cicero, is peevish. Joy riders have been robbing his dredging machine of gasoline. CONDEMN RUM TRAFFIC Friends Brand Bootleggers as True Anarchists of Day. By United Pre*s RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. 28.—The Indiana Yearly Meetings of the Society of Friends went into the third day of its 104th annual conference today with reiteration of its condemnation of the illegal liquor traffic. A report presented to the conference Wednesday declared the "persons who persist in trafficing in spiritous liquors ■in defiance of national law are the true anarchists of the day.” The conference expressed its interest in home mission work and opposed operation of Sunday moving picture shows. POLK EMPLOYES PICNIC Annual Outing Held at Broad Ripple Park. ■Thirty-second anniversary of the founding of the Polk Sanitary Milk Company will be celebrated tonight with a picnic of employes and their families at Broad Ripple Park. Baseball teams will compete. Rid 9 on the river has been planned.
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BEGIN HEKE TODAY The "Nervous WrooK," an eccentrif young' easterner, is driving Sally Morgan from her father’s ranch to the station when they run out of gasoline. At the point of a gun the Wreck takes live gallons from a passing car. Eater Charlie McSween, foreman of a ranch along the route, hides the Wreck s car. takes off a wheel, and forces Sally to act as ranch cook. Then they discover that Mr. Underwood. the owner of the ranch was in the car which they held up. Sheriff Bob Wells, Sally's fiance, is unwittingly searching the countryside for the “bandits” who held up Underwood. Chester, Underwoods soil, finds tho hidden car on the ranch. Sally and the Wreck force Chester to show them to the car and then they make an escape. Now Sally is puzzled whether to catch a train for Chicago or to go back to her father's ranch. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY U.T it might be easier to go v,to Chicago, even if she did U... J not buy a trousseau there. There were difficulties in the way of an early return to the Bar-M; it would entail explanations that she did not want to make, not so much on her own account as on that of the Wreck. She felt that if worst came to worst, she could justify her own course fairly well. But she did not know whether she could clear Henry Williams. Every unlawful thing he had done was on her own account, she knew, and not for all the world would she let him take the consequences single-handed. If they went back to the Bar-M she did not see how she could invent a story that would cover the situation. Certainly, she did not propose to tell the truth. She believed in truth, and she did not like inventions—but there was Henry Williams to be considered. And the welfare of Henry Williams rose above ethical considerations. “Let's take the road back the way we came.” she said. “I don’t mean alj the way. But we’ll try to hit a branch road which will take us to the railway line. I think you spoke about Mr. Underwood saying they drove around by way of Duncan. I’ve never been to Duncan, but I think it’s on the railroad. Why not try -it?” “It’s Duncan,” said the Wreck. The flivver turned left into the
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highway and hurried on through the night. 11was running beautifully and noisilyAand the Wreck listened to the beat of the motor with a sense of keen satisfaction. Never had it hit on all four cylinders with more boisterous regularity. The rest had done it good. It was both rhythmic and raucous, which was the way a good flivver ought to be. “If I make the train,” asked Sally, after a long break in the conversation, “what are you going to do?” “Oh, I’ll drift down to the BarM.” “But how will you explain being away so long?” ‘WONDERFUL! AT LAST YOU ADMIT I’M A COOK.” “I’ll say I took my time. Camped.” “But I thought you were just out here to rest your nerves,” she mused. “And they’re all right again, aren’t they?” He shook his head violently. “Bad as ever,” he said. “Fierce.” “Henry, that’s nonsense. You eat like a horse and you sleep like an old cat, I don’t believe there’s a thing the matter with your nerves.” “What do you know about it?” he demanded. “I’m the person that knows. X can feel ’em. If you bad
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my nerves strung through your system you'd be jumping around like a grass hopper. You'd be just what I am—a wreck.” “But you're not a wreck. That’s just one of your silly ideas.” “You're always arguing.” "Oh, you can be disagreeable if you wish,’ said Sally. "But when you talk about needing a rest for your nerves you make ine tired." “Oh, well, I don’t have to rest them at the Ear-M, if that's what you mean.” “I didn’t mean that. You know I didn’t. You can rest them at the Bar-M from nov; until doomsday, if you like.” "I'll go somewhere else,” he said, stubbornly. "Don't be silly.” That was as near she she would go to telling him exactly what she thought. If he was bound to rest his nerves in Montana, she did not know of any better place than the Bar-M. In fact, she did not know of any place which would serve so well. Even if he became a sort of permanent boarder, she did not see that the family would be inconvenienced. There was plenty of room. "Oh, I'll bother somebody else for a while,” he assured her. It sounded to Sally as though he regarded his nerves as so many toys, and that if she did not like his toys he would take them to some other place and play. So she laughed. “We’re always getting into some absurd controversy, Henry. And here we are, right in the middle of an escape. By rights, we ought to be serious. Are j’ou sure that you hid all the saddles?” It was a change of subject that lasted them until the conversation again whojly ceased for miles. The night was cool 1 Sally buttoned her coat. The W never seemed to feel heat or cold; she could not remember that he ever made a comment on the w( tther, not even on the day he arrived at Dad Morgan’s reach. There was a wiry constancy and equanimity about his bone and flesh that often amazed her. Only his nerves gave him the least concern. "Hungry?" she asked. “Sure.” She unwrapped a package of sandwiches and handed him one. He made three bites of it. He accepted another, then a third, and they vanished in the same faAion. "Like ’em?” she ventured. “They’re great.” "Wonderful! At last you admit I’m a cook, Henry. I even baked the bread, you know.” He gave her a quizzical glance.
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"What’s all this business about cooking, anyhow?” he asked. "Never mind. It's something like a joke. I think. Perhaps I'll tell you some day.” "All right. Can I have another one?” She was smiling as she gave him the fourth sandwich and watched it disappear. The flivver was snorting along famously, and Sally propped herself back in the seat and enjoyed herself. It was good to feel free again on the open road. She would even have been willing to try cutting across the range if there was need for it. The Wreck's mood was exhilarated. He laid it to a nervous exaltation from which he would presently react, in all probability: but while it lasted he proposed to make the most of it. After a little they began discussing trains going cast. Sally, still somewhat doubtful as whether she was really destined for Chicago, said that she did not believe they would make the railroad that night. The Wreok strangely enough, agreed with her. He was less concern ;d about their goal than about the fact that they were in motion, going somewhere. “When it gets to be daylight,” she said, “I’m afraid we’re likely to find the main road risky.” “You mean the sheriff?” / “Yes.” “How big is the posse?" “Don’t tell me you’re dreaming of making a fight if we meet them," she exclaimed. “I was only wondering how big it was.” “It doesn’t make any difference. Even Bob Wells, alone is big enough.” “Is he?” She shook her head impatiently. “You don’t understand. I’m not saying you're not able to fight. What I mean is that we mustn’t meet them at all. Os course, Bob wouldn't do anything to me. But we can’t afford even to let him see us. And, besides, we’ll be dead for sleep by daylight." “Oh.'” “So it seems to me that the sensible thing to do is to turn off the road before it gets light, if we can find a place, and hide until it gets dark again." They discussed it for a while, and agreed with her. He had no doubt of his ability to skip a night’s sleep if necessary, but there was no need to ask the same hardship of Sally. So they decided to find another hide-out as soon as it seemed wise to desert the road. Meantime, the flivver steadily left the, Underwood ranch, farther jand farther behind.
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Sally sat wondering what Charley McSween was saying, what Chester was doing, what everybody was thinking. She was afraid that Charley was having a difficult time of it with the boss of the ranch, and there were points abput Charley that she admired. Os course, he had no business to kidnap them in the beginning, and it was intolerable for him to talk aboufc-tietaining them for a month. But in other respects she found Charley McSween rather agreeable.’* The Wreck was not thinking about Charley at all. He. was not thinking of anything in particular, for that matter. He was in a mood of unusual content, his conscience clear, his mind restful, his optimism unshaken. All he asked was to keep on driving, indefinitely. Even the presence of a woman passenger did not disturb him. The sex still bothered him of course; but Sally was less a trouble than any of the others. There was no foolishness about her, and if it came to a pinch she could be relied upon to do things. In fact, she was just about as good as a man, he admitted to himself. "We mustn't forget to look for a turn-out,” she reminded him, after she glanced at her watch and studied the stars. The moon had already dipped below the horizon. Each watched their own side of the road, the bobbing beam of the
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headlights spreading itself sufficiently wide to illuminate any turn-out they might reach. Sally discovered ■what appeared to be a regular wagon road on her own side, but after an examination they decided against It, There were signs of recent use and she feared that it might belong to another ranch. They were not in a hurry to meet any more ranchers. Considerably later, the Wreck stopped the car and called attention, to what looked like a trail, branching off to the left. Sally got out and examined it. There were wheel ruts, but they were overgrown. Wherever it led, it presented every aspect of abandonment. Sally did not remember it at all; she had been asleep when they passed that way before. (Continued in Our Next Issue.)) EXPOSITION IS BOOSTED This year’s Indianapolis Industrial Exposition will far surpass the one held three years ago and will be larger and more productive, it was predicted by W. B. Harding, Chamber of Commerce vice president, before the Kiwanis Club Wednesday. Dwight S. Ritter, president, announced that the Pennsylvania Railroad has arranged for sleepers to carry Kiwanians to the State convention at Evansville Sept. 11-12. The club will play the Service Club at golf Sept. 30.