Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1937 — Page 14

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Reserve Officers Learn Ways of War

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One hundred and thirty reserve officers, the majority of whom are Indiana men, are shown in the above photo as they inspected the six tanks in the second platoon of the Fifth Tank Co. at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. The officers looked over the interior mechanism and machine gun equipment of the new light, fast tanks following a demonstration.

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rison are shown in the lower photo as they were put through a drill in the manipulation of gas masks

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RECEPTION SET FOR STATE TO GET THIRD LIONS CLUB VISITORS

Times Special { WASHINGTON, July 20.—A new 37,000 acre soil conservation project for study by western Indiana farm- { ers has been announced by H. H. | Bennett, soil conservation service

Florida-Bound Caravan to Be Feted Here.

Indianapolis Lions Club members are to be hosts Saturday to a caravan of 187 club members from Florida who are to stop in this city on

chief of the Department of Agriculture. The ne wdemonstration area, lo- | cated in Benton County, is thw : third to be established in the State. their homeward journey from the | Others are in Lawrence and Henry | International convention Which | counties opened today in Chicago. : : The caravan, including 52 cars, — will be escorted into the city by a TWINS’ ASSOCIATION squad of State police. A luncheon | | is to be served at noon in the Hotel | T0 MEET IN STATE Washington. | S————— Delegates from Indianapolis Who | gy rnited Press | were to leave today for the Chicago | pp WAYNE July 20.—An ” ” | . , ) — annual an re = Thursburen. convention of the National Twins’ presiaent; ard ©. SNELNEn, «. | Association will be held here on Aug. | H. Armington, Dr. Kyle B. Mayhall, 28 and 29, it was announced today. | Albert Evans and J. R. McCoy. | , & : Se More than 60 local Lions and mem- | jem bers of their families were expected to attend. r |

CIVIC LEAGUE'S FUN | FEST OPENS TONIGHT

The Sherman-Emerson Civic League's 11th annual fun fest is to | be opened at 7 p. m. today on the | E. 10th St. showgrounds. A bal- | loon ascension and parachute jump | by the “Patent Leather Kid” is to open the festival. It is to contin. | ue through Saturday night. Children’s Day is to be Saturday | afternoon. Registration for an am- | ateur contest is to be held at 6 p. m, today.

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CROWS HELD AI IN "HOPPER WAR: KILLING DECRIED

State’s Conservation Unit. Taken to Task for Drive On Birds.

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WASHINGTON, July 20.—Indi- | ana’s Conservation Department was |

taken to task today for its crow | killing campaign by Arthur Newton | Pack, American Nature Association president. : He contends that crows aid greatly in destruction of the grasshopper pests. “We read that 194,781 crows have been eliminated in Indiana in a contest for awards from the State Conservation Department,” Mr. Pack declared. “Taking a conservative figure, if each one of those crows ate only

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have eaten 9,713,550 grasshoppers. That is a lot of grasshoppers, and if this figure were mutiplied by 15 or 20, representing the duration of the hopper invasion, it would be a lot more grasshoppers. “It is about time we took a sane view of the balance of nature. She will wreak a worse vengeance, when upset, than any of her forms do by themselves.”

Denies Crow Contests Encourage ’Hoppers

Virgil Simmons, Conservation Department Commissioner, today denied that the state-wide “crow contests” have allowed grasshoppers to become a crop menace. While admitting that crows eat grasshoppers, he said they preferred a diet of game bird eggs.

FACES COURTS IN EAST

Raymond Driscoll, 41, known until Sunday as “one of the few major bank robbers still at large,” and captured without resistance by G-Men near Gary, is to be returned to face two bank robbery indictments in the East after a hearing before a U. S. Commissioner at 10 a. m. today. Driscoll, who is wanted in four states, is being held in the

7 SAVED BY PRIEST, CRASH VICTIM SAYS

By United Press NEW YORK, July 20.—A Catholic missionary was credited today by Armstrong Perry of Westport, Conn,, with saving the lives of seven persons when an airplane crashed in the jungles on April 23 while fiying between Santo Eleana and Maracay, Venezuela, Mr. Perry was among the survivors. Mr. Perry said nine persons were in the plane when it crashed, Kkilling a native and fatally injuring | Frederick Grab, American commer{cial attache in Venezuela. The | missionary, Frere Baltazar, was the {only person to escape injury.

EXECUTE 24 ‘TRAITORS’ MOSCOW, July 20.—Twenty-four additional “traitors” have been executed at Khabarovsk, in the Far East, it was announced today, on conviction of espionage and wrecking activities.

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