Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1936 — Page 5

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17-YEAR LOCUST BACK FOR BRIEF BUT NOISY STAY Champion of Insect World Due to Swarm Over Eastern U. S. (Copyright. 1936. by Science Service! WASHINGTON, May 13-Old-age champions of the insect world are beginning to appear in the Southeast. They will swarm in uncountable millions, over a great part of the eastern United States, before their day of sunlight and song is ended, in the closing days of June. They are the 17-year cicadas, usually called 17-year locusts. They will appear from Georgia on the south to Michigan on the north, from Long Island on the east to the Mississippi River on the West, with smaller outlying swarms in Wisconsin, New England and other border areas. Similar insects, t,he 13-year cicadas, will appear in a single compact area, where the “corner” of Mississippi fits into Louisiana. They are rather large insects, about the size of big bumblebees, with transparent, dark-veined wings. Not Really Loeusts They are not really locusts. True locusts, the kind that were one of the Plagues of Egypt, are longwinged grasshoppers, and are terribly destructive. The 17-yefir cicadas are strictly American insects, and they are usually harmless. The only damage they cause is by laying their eggs in the young green twigs of trees. This causes leaves to drop off, and sometimes kills young nursery and orchard stock. But for the most part they are more noisy than they are economically important The icadas are the longest-lived insects known. After their eggs are hatched, the tiny young ones, no bigger than ants, dig into the ground, and there they live for 17 long years (13, in the Southn species), sucking sap from the roots of trees. In the late spring of the seventeenth year, they burrow to the surface, climb up the trees and bushes, split their “baby-clothes” up the back, and emerge as winged, singing insects. They live for a few weeks In the sunlight, mate, lay their eggs—and die. The brood now emerging are the orphan offspring of the brood that emerged and died in 1919. Not Prophets of War Os the 17-year species there are 17 broods; of the 13-year species in the South, 13 broods. Each brood has its known area, and. of course, its known years of appearance. This year's brood has an unusually large area. Last year’s was confined mainly to West Virginia and the mountainous parts of Virginia and northwestern North Carolina. Next year’s brood is known only from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The enormous numbers and the shrill noisiness of the 17-year cicadas, as they swarm in the woods, sometimes cause a good deal of alarm. Superstitious folk are also prone to think that the orange-red W-shaped mark near the tip of each wing is a sure omen of war. However, since these insecets appear somewhere in this country every year, and since there is almost always a war going on somewhere in the world, the cicada’s powers of prophecy are not really put to a very severe test. GOVERNOR TO ADDRESS CLASS PARTY GUESTS Central Christian Men's Club Festivities to Be Friday. Gov. McNutt is to be principal speaker at the annual May Night party of the Central Christian Church Men's Club at 6:30 Friday. Samuel J. Ashby is to introduce the Governor. Marshall Raeber will be the toastmaster, and the invocation is to be pronounced by R. C. Williams, Sunday school ‘superintendent. Entertainment is to be furnished by Betty and Bobby Stonebreaker and Bobbie Eppner, accordion trio; Danny Kinder, banjo: James Gilbert, tenor, and the New brothers, saxophonists and singers. LECTURE SERIES IS SET Catholic University Frofessor to Speak at Notre Dame. Time* Special NOTRE DAME. Ind., May 13Dr. Heinrich Schumacher, Catholic University professor, Washington, D. C., is to deliver a series of three lectures at the University of Notre Dame beginning Monday night. “The Divine Romance of Sacred Scriptures" is to be his general subject. BOND ISSUE AWARDED Indianapolis Man Handles Franklin School Transaction. 7'ime* Special FRANKLIN. Ind.. May 13.—A bond issue of $27,900 for construction of an addition to Ninevah School has been awarded Raymond A. Jackson. Indianapolis. His bid of 3'+ per cent, with $153 premium, was chosen over the bids of three Franklin banks. Interest cost is to be $6345.44. NOW WOMEN OVER 40 CAN QUIET JUMPY NERVES If you‘re one of those women over 40 who are often troubled by needless fear, worry, emotional upsets and Irritability—ls you suffer from the blues, jitters and jumpy nerves—telephone your druggist right now and have him send you a package of THEMS. You'll lie amused at the blessed relief these harmless white tablets bring—the wav they quickly relieve capillary pressure on thousands of tiny nerve ends thruout the body, quickly relaxing quiverins: nerves, and easing that restless, overwrought feeling. Why should you suffer from climacteric nerves, when you can easily "Kj.irn At Hook’s, Haag's, t're Druggist and other good drug counters

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with Mr. Rogers, American Truckers Association president, is J. H. Welker, committee chairman. The committee is seeking rate adjustments for the industry to comply with new Interstate Commerce Commission restrictions.

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