Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1928 — Page 9

KAY 25, 1928.

SHRILL SONG OF 17-YEAR LOCUST DUEJJTATE Cicada to Appear in Vast Area Over East This Summer. By Science Service WASHINGTON, May 25.—The seventeen-year cicada, often called the seventeen-year locust, is booked to appear late May and early

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June through a wide stretch of territory east of the Alleghenies, from North Carolina up to the Hudson valley and the Long Island Sound region. In a few spots in the middle west, in southern Indiana and southern Michigan, it is also expected to emerge. These remarkable insects, which are the longest-lived of all the sixlegged hordes that crawl the earth, spend over sixteen years under ground, clinging to plant roots from which they suck their nourishment. Then, in the spring of the seventeenth year, they emerge from their burrows, shed their pupa cases, and spend a few weeks as fully developed adults, mating and depositing eggs to provide for the next generation. During the four or five weeks of their above-ground existence the

seventeen-year cicadas make their presence known by the incessant shrill song of the males. The chorus of millions of tiny saw-like voices is very disagreeable to many persons. The Pilgrim Fathers didn’t like it. Governor Bradford spoke of it as “a constant yelling noyes, as made all ye woods ring of them and ready to deafe ye hearers.” The immense number of these rather large insects sometimes causes alarm, but . they are really comparatively harmless. They feed very seldom or not at all, depending on the reserves accumulated during their long underground life. The principal mischief is caused when the females lay their eggs, which they deposit in furrows cut into the green bark of young twigs. This causes a temporary defoliation

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of many trees, but no permanent harm in the forests. It may be very damaging at times, however, In orchards and nurseries. There are seventeen “broods” of the seventeen-year cicada, distributed in various parts of the country. One brood comes out each year. The one emerging this year is designated as Brood 11. Brood 111, which is due in 1929, has its headquarters in the prairie states, especially lowa. In addition to the seventeen-year species there is an allied thirteenyear form which ranges principally in the lower Mississippi region. This is divided into thirteen broods, so that an outbreak of this insect is to be expected somewhere in the South every year. Australia is the only continent that lies wholly within the southern hemisphere.

Indiana Can’t Pr on Big Family Charge

Only Relief for Mother Is Separation or Di- ' vorce. band for insisting on a large family, as is being attempted in Connecticut. The only relief a woman unable to bear more children, and urged to do so by her husband, can find ir. Indiana courts would be a suit for divorce, or a limited divorce, Marion

County prosecutors in Criminal and Juvenile Courts are agreed. In Bridgeport, Conn., Edward Cromwell, a teamster, is under arrest for “technical breach of the peace,” because his wife complained she had borne thirteen children and has been warned by physicians to bear no more. , There could be no criminal prosecution here in such an instance, said Chief Deputy Prosecutor Judson L. Stark. The criminal side of the law takes no hand in such intimate matters, Stark said, expressing doubt that the Connecticut prose-_

cutor will be able to obtain a conviction. Prosecutor John Englke of Jttvenile Court said he knows of no statute under which such a matter could be protected. It has happened that juvenile courts takes a hand in unusual situations on the grounds that the children must be safeguarded, separating parents or parents from their offspring. Such a course might be followed in this instance, it was intimated. The grounds set in the Bridgeport case are similar to those used as a basis for a suit for separate bed and board in Indiana, and often as part grounds for divorces. Courts have recognized such conditions as causes for separation, the husband paying funds into the court for the wife and children.

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JUDGMENT IS REDUCED SIO,OOO Awarded Boy Cut by Judge to $7,000. Judgment of SIO,OOO awarded Hobart Edward Cowgill, 6, son of Joel Cowgill, 434 N. Dearborn St., by a Superior Court One jury last month, has been reduced by Judge James A. Leathers to $7,000. John and Carl Kruge, 4640 E. Tenth St., the defendants, who were ordered to pay the SIO,OOO and costs as a result of an automobile accident Aug. 31, 1927, in which the Cowgill child was hurt, filed motion for anew trial. In overruling the motion, Judge Leathers held the judgment excessive, and reduced it. The boy was run down at E. Michigan and Dearborn Sts.