Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1936 — Page 4

Grand ry $ Suggestions Prompts Commissioners 10 Action. : Jokn Newhouse, Marion County | Commissioners president, said to-

: day that improvement in discipline of inmates at. the Marion County

Infirmary is being. made. The board ft?

also is making. improvements" in

uildings, he said. The last Marion Coutity Grand |

in its final report, citéd’ the need for more rigid distipline at the county home. .The Grand Jury also cited the need for painting structures on the farm. “We've fired one employe, for drunkenness, and discipline is to be improved some, but of course, we can not regulate inmates as is done in Some institutions, ” Mr. Newhousc said, The Grand Jury suggested - that inmates be governed as to the hours of returning. from leaves of absence. The jury declared inmates returned to the infirmary at all hours. “T' hardly see how we're goihg to

i regulate them completely,” Mr. New-

house declared. Buildings to Get Paint

oo on » “Clarence I. Wheatley, commiission-

er, ‘said $1100 is Deing =spent for painting Structures at’ the firmary. The Grand ,Jury also requested the establishment of an occupational . therapy division: at ‘Julietta, the Marion ‘County Hospital for the "Insane, The commissioners said no occupational therapy department is anticipated ii the new 1937 budget. “We've got a farm at Julietta, and it has 300 acres of occupational therapy. That ought to be enough,” Mr, Wheatley said.

TAX PAYMENTS SHOW _.BIG-GAIN IN INDIANA

Collections ‘Ihérease 13,844,160.80 “Over 1935 Figure. Times Special WASHINGTON , July 10.—Federal ~ tax collections ih Indiana: during the Sosalegens -1936, ended June 30, increased $13,844,160.80 over the 1938 figure, the Internal Revenue Bureau reported today.

Total collections in the state for 1036 were $87,840,838.78 in 1936, as compared to $54,005,377.98 in 1935. Corporation- tax payments in-

in:

: ho tom as Poison War Starts Late.

i mninititt. 4 %

BY DR. FRANK. THONE ‘Science Service Bislogy Writer +(Copyright, 1936; by Joly’ 10, Cir + : WASHINGTON; TRS§~ again! ‘As if “Uncle Sam didn’t have his hands full alréady, in this summer of grace 1936, what

waves, But the and what are you going to do about

Governments scientists knew they

nothing. © Now, ~ with’ inadequate funds, and those supplied after the eleventh hour by a hastily adjourning Congress; -Federal-aided: control | agencies are’ doing: “what they ‘can. The heaviest infél tation is in the trans-Missourf , where prairies merge into" the plains. From a few counties’ in northern Oklahoma and practically. all of Kansas, thc empire of the ‘hoppers spreads in « widening wedge up through the western Dakotas and all except the high mountainous parts of Montana, to the Canadian border and beyond. Island infestations also occur in the rangelands and irrigated regions of New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada, and over \all except the southern part of Michigan. But the big battle rages in the wheat belt, with a loop running’ out into western Iowa's cornJands. 'Hoppers Are, Locusts

- Grasshoppers are the American equivalent of the Biblical: plague of locusts that smote Egypt. In fact, grasshoppers: are locusts. The ‘outbreak of shrilling 17-year “locusts” that made “life interesting weeks ago have no proper claim on the name, but the swarming grasshoppers of the west are zoologically first cousins -of the lenger-winged flying hordes that garken the skies in warmer lands. »

Like locusts; our grasshoppers will eat anything they can bite off-— and they ¢an bite off surprising things when they have: stripped the fields and orchards of every green thing and are still starving. How did the scientists know that the grasshoppers would probably be bad. this year? Easily enough. They ‘went ouf into ‘the fields. last fall, and looked at the eggs that: last summer’s crop of female ‘hoppers had laid just under the soil surface. Thére was a most unusual -abundance of them, and even the severity: of last winter's weather did not avail to kill many ‘of ‘them off. As’ a matter of“fact, ‘cold seldom has much © ‘effect on grasshopper eggs. The Vulnerable part of their life cycle comes in late spring,

.creased from $7,64214199 in 1935 ‘when the new-hatched young ones

to $10,874,935.91 in 1936. ‘Individual income taxes were $6,207,239.61 in 1835 and rose to $8,520,874.51 in 1936. Bxcess profits taxes went from$191,760,31 .in 1935 to :$486,555:12 in 1936. Liguor taxes were $29875,757.58 in 1935 and $37,669,808.36 in 1938. “With ‘the Agricultural Adjustment | Adt being declared unconstitutional by the Supremg Calirt, AAA. tax collections fell from $10,007,852.78; in. 1935 10. 636,192.494n.1936. - The AAA coll «were mot included in the regular revenue total. i

are crawling about on: the’ ground. Wet, chill weathér then will swamp them, and also encourage. the growth ‘of fungous diseases that kill: them off by millions.

Spring Favorahle

But this spring in the West was warm tig. RE ‘just the kind ‘of thing young” “grasshoppers thrive on, The ‘wingless yang nymphs”

is their som

name) went 48 successive skin-si

KINNEY'S

SATURDAY SPECIALS

+550 Pairs of White: SANDALS. AND OXFORDS

NAY

®TIES STRAPS

Ohmk y ®White ® Brown :

with politics, drought, and heat|’ rs are here; |

were coming, and last fall warned |” the ‘state goyernments—which. did |’

; ~8ience Service “Photo. Map ‘shows extent. of grass= hopper empire in West; with outlying “dependencies. Right: “Be-

same cornfield. Inset above: ‘Monarch of all he surveys—and .can fasten ‘his: jaws on. This grasshopper, shown enlarged to about twice natural size, is one of the most troublesome of the several destructive grasshopper species of the lst,

d by eithér weather feasts of poisoned which the sci-

stars,” unHar qr by the Borg bran-and-mo

in time. So now we have grasshopper boarders on our hands. For want

this spring we may _have to pay millions extra for our bread next winter.

fore” and “after” pictures of the :

entists begged for but couldn't get :

of a few hundred thousand dollars

POSTMASTERS CONVENE HERE

Business, Banquet Program Scheduled for Day’s Activities,

The National League. District Postmasters’ state ‘convention opened at 10 today at the Hotel Severin and is to continue shrough tomorrow. ‘The welconie. address was made by Adolph : Seidensticker, ’ Indianapolis postmaster. John TT, Clapp, Beech Grove postmaster; and the: league's

national president, gave the re-

sponse.

Following appointment of commit- |

tees, delegates were to atliend a luncheon meeting. The alternoon session was to open with an address by George J. Ress, inspector in charge, and a report of E, F. Brown,

Indianapolis Postoffice superintend-

ent of finance. Mr. Clapp is to speak at a ban-

quet at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Myra I.

Warcup is to report on the Atlanta (Ga.) convention. Speakers tomorrow morning include Owen A. Keen, chief clerk of the Postoffice Dept., Mrs. Warcup, Mrs. Bertha Dorton and Mrs. Byrd E.” Furguson, league “secretary. The convention is to close with re-

ports of committees and election of

officers.

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FOUR KILLED. IN CRASH

Speeding Train Hits Automobile at Crossing in Los Angeles. By United Press - LOS ANGELES, July 10 ~—An investigation was opened today ‘into a railroad crash which resulted in the deaths of four persons when

an automobile was struck by a | Southern Pacific train at a crossing

on the outskirts of the city. The automobile was dragged 108 feet by the Golden State Limited which was speeding into Angeles.

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