Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1943 — Page 9

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By Ernie i Py

and you wouldn't’ now difficult 1t 15/1 ~ "hostile plane.

the two = ie SENS. | eof mine: the. viel Gav knew there was a plane within miles until one of the ,verhiead and 20-millimeter shells splattered on sides of them. i day someone gets strafed “on the roads here, yet it is really the tiniest fraction of a per SF out men thal ever aces 2 German Plans Whep 8 a trip. I have driven hundreds of miles over central Tunisian roads in convoy but have seen: ‘two strafings and they occurred far up the road.

Your Senses Are Deceptive

of attack from the aif. wd 1 have eato's wilitien a great deal about the cold. You can symthere, for you all know what it feels like to be cold. But pu don’t know—can mever know, “without experiencing it—the awful feeling of being shot at by speeding enemy planes. ‘+ If our ‘soldiers are meticulous about any one thing it is about watching the sky. Nobody has to tell them to be cautious. After e RA Just one attack, caution becomes of Tefen action. ‘You never let a plane pass giving it a good looking over. The: sound of motor in the Sky is;a-Slgn $0 stop, Whatever you are. ; Tong enough to make sure. - tn +. Of course, aerial attack if at its worst in actual 00 Sutin wiles Stine ase Aivi u8 vor sions That VOY: a tmare. Buf it’s not y in battle that they. : Lm it. They get it also in. nll and on the Toads, Of sek-agh sells Sy pied ou. remember bject to it all thing ey are: subj the time—not. in great or soning back and soy or

* ‘blanket amounts, to be sure, but the danger is always thers, Hie a snake hidden somewhere along your “There's two dozen of them coming right st us! path. ;

that this sudden peril is always possible, that gets you. There are thousands of Americans over here who {

Soldiers in camp lose no. time in hitting their slit trench and soldiers oft the road flow out of their{ ivehicles like water ¢ every time a plane is seen. 3

x enemy: planes were actually just the black puffs of ots. on How to- Park: a Joop our ‘ack-ack shells. We couldn't see the planes: at all. = ASA RESULT, camouflage becomes second. dature . That shows. how deceptive your ‘senses are when you . $0 you. Near the front you never park a jeep without get excited. | Putting it under a tree. If there are no trees you You Jédrn to hate absolutely flat éountry where : leave it. on the: shady, side of a building or wall. If there are no ditches to jump into or humps to hide 15: m0; cover at 1 you. throw. your camouflage behind, We eyen make jokes about carrying coliapong - gible fox holes for such country. near the front you. fold. your windshield Yes, the cold and the Stukas are the bugaboos of er’ the hood and slip a canvas cover over it the average guy over here. Before long now the cold 't glint and ‘attract a pilot's eye. will disappear, and we all hope the Stukas will take pilots Ihe to sneak on you from behind, the hint also.

Inside In dianapolis By Lowell Nusshi

A CUSTOMER walked: into Leon's Tailoring Co, by and serve themselves, taking whatever they want.) a Masso ttes ave., Friday and laid down several The’ only rule js that they must eat everything they ! ‘packages, one of which contained a beautiful steak, take on their trays. They can have as many refills ‘4nithe counter’ while he looked at some spare trou~ -as they wish.. The result, we're told, is a 63 per cent} Bers. ova After he had made his purchase, he turned. reduction in garbage. % :

nc robe ae a The ‘Honeymoon Is Over’

horr saw ‘his steak being p Sevoured By Sho sims het, o Ir YOU'VE BEEN a little lax lately about Writing}. 5 steak--$1 10~Dbuty the customer to the fellows in the: service, you may be interested still ' was sore. “I don’t know where in an excerpt from & letter written by a service man - I can get another one like it,” he U0 One of his friends on this paper.’ “Oh, well,” he growled. He left the remains of wrote. “I guess the service ‘men’s honeymoon. is over. ‘the steak for the cat. ... The city’s The first six months EVERYBODY wrote—but good. prospective victory gardeners have Ihe Dext six months everybody wrote—occasionally. depleted local, stores’ supplies of The last three: months, hardly anybody writes—never.| - fruit jars. One department store Now I know why the lads overseas kick so much. It’s | which had a nice supply not only going to be the same as the last war. First, people : ‘stop writing. , Then they stop remembering. Then ‘they start forgetting. Finally we end up selling

Ee nm is completely out of fruit jars now but has so y 3 has had to stop 94 ‘apples. My address book is just a book of memories. I. wonder. where all those peqple -are now.” Okay,

cepting + Dealers say. they expect a plentiful supply between now: and ‘the time Ahey 2 are needed. tals, ad A Wrong, but Oly

Embarrassing Mi on THOSE FOUR Norwegian sailors who have been

MRS. SAM. HYLTON, 340 Kenwood, experienced furloughing here have spent a good deal of their time out at the Coliseum, on the ice. They're all pretty

| ray of life's most embarrassing moments the other good skaters, albeit they have a ‘somewhat peculiar ‘stance. They skate

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ay. She bought a new slip cover for an upholstered ‘ chair, but found a hole in it as she put it on the chair, and pl phagied the. Shahin th it up. She was busy getting: ¢ ‘Loyal cirele. of ~ Grace Church of the: ‘Brethren and didn’t bother to take it off Tight: then. Tip the mirst of the circle meeting, there was # knock at the door. It was the ‘store’s deliveryman, coming for the. cover. The guests

boys; incidentally, caine to Indianapolis by accident. When their ship docked, they: inquired where they

countrymen, “you'll find plenty of Norwegians in Minneapolis,” they were told. The railroad ticket seller misunderstood them, and. that’s how they landed here. They hadn't been here I before they got in touch: with some of the city’s Norwegian residents, ‘and they seem to have enjoyed their svisit just as much as if they had reached Minneapolis.

By Raymond Clapper

aohely delivered on the hoof.

the cover from the chair. . 4% “The mess hall at Stout fleld is trying out the ‘cafeteria system, and finding the results good. The men used to line up, carrying their divided trays, while ‘K. Ps dumped ‘a little of ‘everything on ‘the trays. ‘Now the service men walk

‘Washington

: WASHINGTON, March 8.—A most amazing and unexpectéd crackup in axis airpower seems to be taking place. If it continues, and if it is as real . * agit appears to be, the war just might possibly go our way much faster than we have dared to hope. Anything can happen when you find that the incredible report of Maj. Gen. George C. Kenney's alr smashing of the Japanese con- - voy is substantiated. Our air ‘forces ‘down an entire Jap--anese convoy of 22 ships, and brought down 72 planes, and’ . probably 23 more. -That was ‘achieved with a loss of only three * planes and 12 men who ‘were Jost: with the ¢ pomber and two "fighter plané§l That isn’t’ attriA tion, it is annihilation at low cost. xX At end of the axis, enemy airpower also eats to be be sagging. It has been little in evidence

stances: contribute to ‘that is taking place in the air. The superiority o allied planes and of allied guns and ammunition, > ‘be'part of it. Americans are showing the BE natural skill in the air that R. A. F. fliers have shown. That natural aptitude plus the most modern training enable us to pass the ‘axis in 'man-for-man skill in: the air. German and Jap planes production may be far less: / than ‘we had supposed, or possibly curtailed by production difficulties. Some think that in Germany fuel shortage is hampering operations. Maybe more bombing of the Rumanian oil fields would pinch the Nazis in a very. soft spot right now.

Plane Least Costly in Lives

ANYWAY, WE have come a long way from the battle of Britain in the Sumer of 1940 when every Ger air allied plane had to be h ed, held back -for the o a en climax of the German attack on England. Now we weak, hardly more than token raids. t4Waht {o:pull the axis Planes into action. Aftrition. will defeat Germany and Japan. I ‘cannot defeat us. If we lose plane for plane with the ; “axis, or two planes for one of the axis, we win. Buf it is being done without paying any such cost. - And if you contrast the cost.of commando raids as against the bomber- ‘Josses on. these attacks against Nazi submarine bases, the airplane: is- the least costly in lives.

rman air force was, ; ude that the air force that they was mee oR isn't anywhere,

Production Already Beaten

: UNQUESTIONABLY is the result in part of - h of American aircraft production— st month, of which about 3500 were comgis he big: fact that will hammer

-the way for the rapid victories in 1940 all over The Germans: didn’t do it by’ air alone by all

Europe. any means. But they could not have done if at if they had not-obidined control of the air. out the first rqugh sh : ui Those who want to get this war over with as soon the unanswerable challenge that: stares ‘the axis in“ as possible: will pray that the allied high' command : will put every plane that it can put into Europe. Let

We.ran across the fields about 50 yards to a small} - ditoh, and stopped there to look again. My two dozen]

i Tae ah fli disagreed | with gloomy predictions. that this| year's food goals cannot be reached. 1

and cited reports. covering 21 per}: cent of Indiana’ farmland to show|

In addition to growing production, oiler circum-} - to the swift change of alae) ;

All of: us, remember how the German air force

IT’S THE stealthiness of the thing, tne knoviedse|

are calm under ground fire but bate strafing planes.| \

Vogler Discounts “Shortage :

In Manpower; Weather ‘Is Chief Factor.

that goals in several important foods will be more than met.

‘The reports are those from farm-|

ers telling what they intend to plant this year. Last year these “intention reports” came very close

to actual performance, according to} {L. M. Vogler, chairman of the Indi-}| | ana agricultural adjustmens ad-

ministration.

The reports for Indiana show

that: Corn acreage will be 10 per cent

larger than last year whereas the}

goal was only 104 per cent larger.

ar More Milk Cows’

‘The number of milk cows will be/ | {104 per cent larger than last year}:

against the goal of 102 per cent.

‘The number of hens and pullets}’ will be 119 per cent larger than inj} 1042, against a goal of 108 per cent.| Soybean acreage, which was cut this year fo 98 per cent ‘of last}: year’s, will actually be 118 per cent :

of last year’s.

: Sows fo farrdw this spring will}:

sumber 129 per cent of last year’s total as compared to a goal of 110 per cent. ;

Sows to farrow this fall will bel 129 per: cent greater than the num- |: ber last year, against a goal of 115. 4

per cent. "Tomato Prospects Not Clear

“The = situation ‘on’ sweet corn, | tomatoes and peas is still not clear, Mr. Vogler said. Some of the canners. still have not signed up farm acreage: for these Crops.

skate as though they were skiing. The|- But although the “érobs may bel

“difficult to get” he expressed confidence the goals would be met. .

could go: inland for a rest and meet some of theiry Mr. Vogler discounted the effects

of shortages -of manpower, machinery and fertilizer on crop pro-| duction. the most important factor,” said. the most part, was ideal.

he If the

Lord helps us again this year, we

need not WorTy. ad

BANKHEAD BLL ‘MAY. LOSE out

But More Con Congressional Demands for Farm Aid Are Likely.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY | Times Stalt Writer - WASHINGTON, March 8—~—The new selective service-agriculture department program, designed fo in-

sure that no more ° essential farm |toes

labor will be drafted into! the armed forces, may head off the Bankhead bill, which would mean automatic deferment for farmers. and -farm hands. That is its obvious purpose. ‘But it seems likelier. that :congressional demands for more aid to agriculture will gain force as a result of: developments over the ‘Weekend. “These included: Secretary of Agriculture Wickard’ Ss admissions, as reported to the senate by Senator Nye (R. N. D.), that} “the - prospects are we cannot” in-} creasq last year's food-production| acreage, and “it doesn't look very good now” for getting even as much acreage into production dis spring as last.

“Crops Forecast ‘Gloomy ; Ehasges by Secretary Charles Ww.

_alfesdy has been defeated in he & sideshows ride on subsistence rations temporarily| Ho Iman, speaking for the executive

There remains to carry thé ‘the main show is finished off. That is the

. Hopes ‘because apparently aches ay to win the war, not only in Burope, but {erative Milk Producers federation, that serious shortages of dairy

By Eleanor Rouseo

committee of the National Co-Op-

products are looming in the east-

ern, southern and Pacific coast} areas and elsewhere, as a result of and

labor shortages, : price policies eT aE ao

“The weather is by far].

“Last year the weather, for

| you'w ak

one worth the fewest points per ounce is cheaper. in pro-. .

portion. 1 “This is how: It works: Di- || vide 14" (point cost of a‘No. 2: can) ‘by ‘21. (number of ounces). This comes to .66 eins. per, ounce in a N0i3, can, & Then divide 21 (point price. of a No. 2% can) by 30-(num-" ‘ber-of ounces in No, 2% can).: : This comes to .70 points per ounce in a No. 2% can. fog Therefore it is : relatively cheaper in point value to buy

costs .66 points per ounce than | points per ‘ounce. Simple?

<damp, to be,

sud, eulls. J

a wom

A Vial

fh Oe ea Beloe-of an ounce for each Gan afd. spare:

the smaller can; which only E==SgAVAWN a larger can ‘costing .70

BETTER TAKE care of that. iron anid: onl cord. Looks as though laundries may start simplifying their services in localities where manpower is short. Already in some cities it ‘takes two or three weeks to get back a clean shirt ‘from ‘the ‘laundry. Now, 4 officials feel that the next step may be that laur dry will come back ready oned. Shirts may be exempted from this ‘since it’s. not every’ little housewile who can wrestle with collars

‘REPORTS REACHING . OPA show that a great: number. of * consumers ‘and grocers . believe that rice is rstioned. It is not “rationed. 2, ; . Reducing the size of matches is expected to save 7,000,000 board feet or 380 carloads of lumber i11.1943. . . . Price of used bicycles will be substantially reduced hy the OPA. “You will need purchase certificates to buy one -row, Horse-drawn | cultivators of the riding type, previously unrationed. tween: 500,000 and 650,000 Victory Faim Voluntee:s will be recruited from non-farm youth for farm work this spring and summer. -. , . ‘Living costs of city workers. increased 0.2 per cent in January, smallest advance since February, 1941. ~containing ‘less butterfat than: ‘forraerly : used has been lowered. ‘You will Have to surrender coupons for. baby foods whether you bly. them ‘at-a grocery store of the corner drugpist’s. : . “number of ‘mechanical Tefrigerators ‘may be: releiised by the WPB.

+ «a Price of ‘ice cream

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LU HERE OFFERS) GARDEN COURSE|

A A. lrwin Will Lecture “On Six+ Meeting Series

At Extension.

The first course on vegetable gardening to be offered adults in

‘| Indianapolis has been announced by

the Indiana university extension division. Classes will begin March '|18 and will run for six consecutive Thursdays, from 7:30 to 8:30 p. m,, at the extension division Dulling; 122° E. Michigan st. ‘ © A. A. Irwin, assistant county agricultural agent, will be the lecturer. Topics will include planning the vegetable garden (successive planting and , varieties), garden soils and fertilizer (preparing the soil and methods of applying fertilizer) and the hardy vegetable crops (culture of greens, cabbage, onions, ‘radishes, peas and. other| hardy vegetables). . Other_subjects will be the tender vegetable crops ' (culture of toma- , beans, corn, peppers and squash), care of the garden (culti- | vation, thinning, mulching and ro-

trol. + Class shestibets will be given an

Registration must be made in advance of the opening meeting at the I. U. ‘extension center, A nominal fee will be charged.

COLLEGE AIDS WAR PLANT EMPLOYMENT

SOUTH BEND, March 8 (U. P.).— Students at Notre Dame university} pledged their co-operation in

[alleviating the labor shortage today

and set up a campus ‘employment| office to supply part-time for war plants through the U. 8S. employment service. The plan is {sponsored by the student weekly. Scholastic.

OPTOMETRISTS TO. aEer

The Ciutat Tatiana. Oemelrls Pp. soetity wil sect at. 3.3. 1. Samo nopia” will be discussed. Dr. R. A.| Major of Shethyvile Wil prssite,

tation) and insect disease and con-|.

opportunity to ‘ask ‘questions. |’

Horie Private Award ed Medal

Pvt. Dale E. Heard of New Paris, Ind. was one of four men awardad:

soldier's medls yesterday by Mad 7 | Kate. Gien. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.’

of the Alask:, defefise command. | The medsls were given for “courageous /icts in rescuing coms-

| panions fron possible death.”

The four; with “utter disregard for their lives,” descended into a deep - well filled with carbon

monoxide lait Sept. 27 and res-

cued. a fellow soldier lying unconscious from {he fumes, The announcement of the awerd

| to the Hoosier came from the

Alaska deferise command hesdguatiers. :

< {COUNTY LEASE PLAN BLOCKED

Commissio ners Are Stymied ~ Again in ‘Attempt to Relieve Congestion. County con ‘missioners. have b2en stymied again in their two-year ef-

fort to relieve courthouse congestion. More than ¢ month ago the coun-

{ty council insiructed commissioriers

to- reclaim possession of foriner orphanage buildings in E. 25th st. under lease tn the national youth administration, County: attirney Victor Jose Jr. reported toda: that NYA officials in {Chicago had ieclined to release the {county from “ihe lease ‘which gives NYA full ophim: to renew the’ rental nen 3 e. » Mari: Rhoads of juvenile as ‘had urped the council appropriate money o move juvenile court out of the courthouse to: the orrphanage buiklings. -Commission irs now are no nesrer solution of the county building problems ‘than they were: two Jeals ago. a i LUNCH/ION DATE SET The Womel'’s Benefit association

{will celebrate its quarterly birthday

with: a luncheon Wednesday noon

at 230 E. Ohio st. A card pestyi

open en. to the uklie is, scheduled to low - at 2 22 Mss. Nedtie

o perfe .|into consideration.

be put ou; when the soil is too wet, | land radiskes will only do well dur- | |ing the eirly, cool, spring weather - land should ‘be planted: as early as | conditions are suitable.

1 beans, cucumbers, melons, tomatoes|be

| ger of frost is over. You will find

AA frwin, ortionlturist for By A. A.

signs found in the almanac. A vou wish to 1. Seeds or plants should never 2. Certain crops like peas, lettuce

-3.-The lender vegetables. such as

and many others should not be put out until the seil is warm and dan-

te sts cent

answers Fragery victory garden questions olay.

mWIN

QBessis: sentence. haver ba vlan wool; on 's vitally day Shy what signs? In the easlier days all the farmers planted by certain

Ima yolir seeds in. certain signs of the’ moon the ly all right. However, there are many other things to take

for vegetables will give you a spread

ent vegetables.

“The following table dives’: th planting dates for these vegetab

the light or dark of the moon, I believe with the wide spread give in this table you will still be able to follow this schedule and the out line factors influencing dates of

that “most: of the planting tebles

Asparagus Rhubarh flowers Melon Onion Lettuce Radish Mustard Kale Turnip Early Cabbage - Early potato Small fruits Tree fruits and trees Strawberries Shrubs, hardy - . "flowers, grass April 10 to May 1

Beant’ Corn

Melon Tomato Squash Pumpkin

. Beet Carrot Celery . Kohlrabi _. Parsnip Parsley .Salsify Swiss Chard

" @=What kind of potatoes should I plant in clay ground and how many Seeds to a hill?

A—The Trish Cobbler, Early Ohio and Katahdin are recommended varieties of early potatoes for Cen-

Okra,

Bean Corn Beet Carrot

tahdin. a for. late: planting. “In planting’ potatoes you use the potato itself rather than the potato seeds. The potatoes should be cut in approximately two-ounce pieces. “This will mean that you it get about four seed pieces from an average sized potato. The potato seed pieces should be planted 10 to}, = 12 inches apart in the row and{ 12 rows should be about 30 inches apart. i Q—Whast should I use? A—The victory. garden fertilizer will be the only complete commercial . fertilizer available for home gardens. This fertilizer will ‘confain

kind of fertilizer.

articles on nine vegetables easily grown in Marion county. If is suggested. that you clip and save each installment for future use.

The carnot is a a very important member of the vegetable family ahd should be in every. victory garden. . Its food value:.and vitamin content are necessary in building and keeping healthy bodies. “Tastiest, mcst healthful and longest yie ding of Toot crops, ” one expert reperts.

garden soils if the gardener digs deep and cultivates well. Knotty, twisted roots often result from the

Carrot ‘varieties differ in color, quality, size and shape. The variety Chantenay is being planted ex-|

our armed forces and for lendFor thi¢ reason home gardeners may find it easier to obtain seed of} the types ‘Streamliner, Morse’s ‘Runching, Danver’s Half-long and Nantes.

plrass is ib presinent

{ MISSING N AFRICA

‘Pvt. Norman E. ‘Williams has |veen missing in action in the North - African area . since Feb. 17, the war department informed his ts. ‘Mr. and Mrs, Clarence

Cucumber : May 10 to May 25 Kale

Cabbage seed . Cauliflower seed Broccoli seed ‘Brussels sprouts seed Cucumber

June 1 to July 10

tral Indinria and the Irish Cobbler, and Rurals are varieties}

plant's effort to develop in hard}. ground.

tensively to supply the needs, off}

1444 Guilgora ave, . year]

planting ‘in the table. below. -

WHAT AND WHEN TO PLANT

Februaty {o Early April New Zealand spinach Broceoll : Tender annual =

Brussels Sprouts Kohlrabi Rutabaga

Chinese Cabbage Late Potato or July 15 to August X. Cucumber ) Bean : Chinese Cabbage Turnip ; Endive

Sweet: potato Egg Plant

Grass

Radish October to Nov, 38 Crocus . + Tulips Narcissus Fy

You Will be able to purchase this fertilizer at dealers within. a few

ducing vegetables for _ home foo supply only.

QI have Bad trouble with cuf worms cutting down my cabbage plants. Can you advise me what to do? :

.A—If you are only setting a f

proximately ne inch in the soil a three inches up on the plant. will prevent the cut worms from alan when it is dull sel

ee Growing Vegetables—No; a Carrots Furnish Needed

Vitamins for War Living

This is ‘he sixth in a series of] .

withstand light freeges. The deed is very fine. Its trench and sprinkled with well verized soil to a depth of not one-fourth inch. One ounce of seed will plant feet of row. Plant in rows 1 18 inches. apart and thin so plants stand from. two to inches apirt When the plants attained a size of about {

The crop will do well “in most} ¥ a

root will not develop propetly The new sprouts of carrots

when. about two-thirds several plantings are advised. a ‘second. planting about weeks after’ the first,

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