Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1943 — Page 3
MINERAL POISON"
~ FOR V-GARDENS
i _ Shortage of Insecticides Calls for Greater Care - In 1943,
Greater care than usual will be necessary this year to fight off bugs and blights that infest the
Of Plastic
Times Bpeciaa WASHINGTON,
fe April 1—To
householders plagued by point ra-|i &
tioning of canned goods; to commercial canners stymied by their | inability to get cans; to women who
are worrying about finding endugh |i
containers and sealing rings to put
Rationing Cloud Has Living PORK CEILING Seals for Jars
PRICES BOOSTED |
Merchants Now Engaged in Point-Inventory of Food Stocks.
Local housewives should find dol-| lar and cents prices on cuts of pork
Br Tg ean Wh oh
Gates: ‘Bays Had Only Two Choices—He Chose to Smear
members of the legislature, D
house voted unanimously for 46 and the senate voted Wnanimously
ot § | shoppers will be able to ascertain at
up focd for their faniilies this year ag Criticizes GOP Only
® home victory garden,
Mineral poisons will have to be ; Used in place of the safe vegétable * insecticides. The average gardener will be able to make this shift without danger if he follows directions.
Plant diseases are commonly controlled with fungicides containing - . copper or sulphur. There should be ~ enough of the copper materials this year and fhe sulphur materials are plentiful, according to a survey by the National Victory Garden institute.
_ Poisons Recommended
' Poisons such as lead arsenate, calcium arsenate and cryolite, all of which are plentiful, are used to control chewing insects. Sucking insects are combated with contact ‘poisons including nicotine sulphate, which is abundant; with trademarked preparations, also plentiful, . or with rotenone and pyrethrum, which are limited. With the apparent shortage of _ rotenone and pyrethrum, gardeners will learn this year that on most crops and with certain obvious . precautions, it is safe to substitute - the poisonous insecticides. For instance, on root crops where the tops are not eaten for food, there is no danger and no problem. * Where the tops are eaten, they should be washed thoroughly before) eating and no spray or dust applied for a week or 10 days before haryesting., - Peas,” which grow in a pod, or sweet corn and other crops protected by some natural covering, require no special precaution. On such crops as string beans, spraying or dusting should stop if possible a week or 10 days before picking, and in all cases the housewife should wash them thoroughly.
Check Cabbage Spray
With edible vegetables as beans, tomatoes, peppers and eggplant, careful washing is all: that’s required. Cabbages and similar vegetables should not be sprayed with the more poisonous materials after they begin to head. Nicotine sulphate can be substituted at that time. : Dr. Ray Hutson, Michigan ento- . mologist, says that the insect Kkilling powers of cryolite are similar to lead arsenate. Cryolite is more _effective in hot weather than when it is cool. He suggests using arsenate early in the season and cryolite . after the weather becomes warm. : So, be preparad! Have the following materidls on hénd and ready to use as soon as insects appear. 1. Rotenone-sulphiur dust — per- . mitted by the government this year for use on peas against the pea weevil and pea aphid, on beans against the Mexican bean beetle, on sweet corn against the European corn borer, and on broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kohlrabi, mustard, kale, turnips and collards, against caterpillars and aphids. 2. Insoluble copper-arsenical dust for potato insects and diseases and cucumber diseases and wilt. 3. Forty per cent nicotine sulphate for aphids.
Buy These Now
Be alert! Prepare to buy the following materials if the need arises! 1, Barium fluosilicate or cryolite for blister beetles, flea beetles and cabbage worms. _ 2, Calcium arsenate for dust poisons and lead arsenate for liquid poison sprays. 3. Paris green, molasses and bran for cutwerm and grasshopper bait. 4. Copper sulphate and hydrated lime to make bordeaux mixtures and lead arsenate, if potatoes are to be sprayed. There are several insolu4 ble copper compounds on the market—cuprocide, copper compound A, tri-basic copper sulphate and others. These may be used in place of bordeaux mixture. Equipment used to applysmaterials is as important as the insec- _ ticides and fungicides themselves. ~ Purdue university experts recommend a duster for use in the average garden because “it ‘will be easier and simpler to operate than & sprayer.” 1. Plunger, rotary and bellows type dusters are all satisfactory if
> they have a long delivery tube and
an upturned spout. The dust must reach the underside of the leaves. . 2. Sprayers are of many kinds and types. The smallest suitable for garden use is the compressed air sprayer having an adjustable angle nozzle.
IN INDIANAPOLIS—VITAL. STA TISTI cs
HERE IS THE TRAFFIC RECORD
FATALITIES County City Total
=—March 31— 10 | Arrests 3 | Dead WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic-
Yiations Tried tions 1 ' 88
kless driving Failure to Stop Fag through st .
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EVENTS TODAY
falar Sing Week begins. : rs,’”’ openi resentation of * pening p English
Hart ws ical El 8: . Indian
revue,
Hotel Washington "club, luncheon ti
removed the obstacle.
in the Pacific and the cutting off
GOOD NEWS.
lining, sealed by a non-priority plas
tic gasket. Two developments in!!
food packaging give promise of breaking the bottleneck and rescuing America from a good many of its canned food scarcities.
New Sealed Jar
Most important is a newly perfected substance called norepol, which will serve as a substitute for rubber in making sealing rings for all kinds of fruit jars and other glass containers. There will be plenty of these for everybody. Of equal importance, potentially, is a new type all-glass container
which can be filled and sealed by|: Mazechinery |& jars and the necessary norepol seal-|:
automatic machinery.
ing rings now are being manufac-
materials to make more equipment. This means that as soon as the output hits its stride, it should take care of practically all commercial canning needs for the domestic market, leaving the - critical and curtailed supply of tin and steel for packaging food for the armed services and lend-lease export. It means, according to some authorities here, that an easing of processed. foods restrictions is likely before ‘the end of this year, since the shortage of tin had more to do: with bringing about canned foods rationing than any shortage of actual food.
War Interfered
Patents on the vacuum glass jar and the packaging machine were taken out by Container Corp. two years ago. But before they could get into production, all plans were halted by the rubber shortage and the consequent inability to make the nécessary sealing rings. The development of norepol, and possibly of a couple of other synthetics, has
With the beginning of the war
of rubber and tin supplies, food men in every branch of the federal government began to worry about materials for canning. Department of agriculture and WPB officials appealed to chemists, laboratories and the packaging industry for research on a new substance for use
in sealing foods in glass. Synthetic| rubbers already developed weuldn’t
work.
Busiest group working on the £
problem were chemists under Dr. John C. Cowan at the department
research laboratory in Peoria, Ill. Last July they issued a cautious announcement of norepol—the name being compounded from the first two letters of northern regional plus the first three letters of a chemical process called polymerization. The stuff showed promise but there still were a few “bugs” to take out. Heat, pressure, moisture and acids encountered in canning made the requirements especially complex. Other technicians went to work on norepol, and a few weeks ago a Detroit company, Reichhold Chemicals, licked the remaining problems by a variation of procedure
The rationing cloud is discovered to have a pressure-resistant glass|i
tured and the war production board |: has granted AAA-1 priorities on|j
of agriculture’s northern regional]
" This young woman is placing the plastic sealing ring in the jar’s glass top. A light metal clamp holds the top on the jar during the canning process, is removed after a vacuum has formed.
Cut-away section above shows the grooving of the jar top and the position of the gasket. Below: The vacuum is broken afd the top released by insertion of knife or other thin object—in this case the opener key from a sardine can.
in treating linseed oil. ‘The resulting rubber-like substance is actually a plastic.
The Turnip Is Easily Grown And All of It Is Edible
Those who like turnips will find them an easily grown crop which gives large returns, for the .whole plant is edible. Except fop vitamin C the root is low in vitamin content but the tops are second only to kale, which contains more than any other of our vegetables. Purple Top Milan is recommended for early planting and can he sown now if the soil is not too wet. Fresh produce may be obtained in approximately 60 days. For the fall and winter storage crop a popular variety is Purple Top Globe. Turnip seedlings are tender and
‘| will not thrive with a heavy cover-
ing. The seeds should be just barely covered with fine soil and the plants thinned after they are about three inches tall to stand two to three inches apart in the row with rows 12 to 16 jnches apart. To make rapid growth the early crop needs to be fertilized at the
rate of two cupfuls to®ach 40 square
apolis Beni BE Estate board, | Junehesn "Murat
Jeet or half the above amount may a
- C. A, all day.
State Hi-Y council, Y Mun ton
Indiana gg club, hotel 7:4 rican * meeting, Hotel Washington, 8 p. m 3 Miami university and 8xtard | college, alumni dinner, ¥Y. M. C. A., Ohio Wesleyan alumni of SR A in ner, Propylaeum . m., United Furniture Tie ers, meeting, Hotel Washington, 7:30 p.
MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from Shia) the county court ore, is not Taal errors i names and addresses.
David Bocock, 32, of 202% Gera
Ds unications Besociatian,
Melvin Bryant, 22, of- jabama; Ella Mae Hart,
of 863 NE Charles Edward Bran ands, 23, Ft.
Ar Karal Alexander Brewton, 23, of 946 W. 28th; Henrietta Jorouy McKissack, 24, of 827 N. Senat Elmer LeRoy Puss, 27, of 1718 N. MeridBn: Sorells Marion Skipski, 20, New Windsor, N. Merle Ellsworth Canner, 25, Ft. Harrison; arie Kathleen Johnson, 19, of 703
Massachusetts. James od Raiat, 18, U. 8. Navy, Butler Louise Fn.
cords Inigo ;
! LaSalle; ldine Bartleit, 18, of 207i Houston. Eug 516 N. al
Wal Benes. N. +] 7 C.; Calista Elizabeth Creel, 31, of 402 N. ton.
be used with a thin coat of poultry droppings. The late crop should be in the ground in time to reach full maturity before the early freezes occur in the fall. The spring application of fertilizer may possibly carry over in sufficient quantities to develop a good fall crop, but the gardener who strives for the best will find it to his advantage to use about six or seven pounds of fertilizer in the fall’ planting. | Turnips must be harvested before the period of heavy frosts and can be stored for several months in a cool basement or pit. The average yield per 100 feet of row is about two bushels.
~ PUGILIST WOUNDED : George (King Kong), Merrill, 24,
a pugilist, of 974 N. Sheffield ave, Mi
is in a critical condition in City hospital with bullet wounds received during an arguinent over a girl at a tavern in N. Traub ave,
{be required to report gains or
a glance what prices should be paid for the various cuts. : The regional office of the OPA said today that the standardized listings, in effect for the first time today, would “strike hard at the black markets” and told housewives they would find two sets of prices in effect—one - applying in stores doing less than $250,000 worth of business annually and the other in stores doing business in excess of that amount. Meanwhile, grocers were busy preparing their first inventory of ration points. They are required to register between today and April 10 an inventory of point values of| stock on hand as of March 31 as well as total point sales made during the month of March. From the latter will be determined their allowable inventory OPA said that retailers will not
losses in their processed food points resulting from changes in point values announced during March. Although rationing regulations require each retailer to keep a record of gains and losses in points due to changes in point value, nothing would be gained by keeping such records for March before allowable inventories have been figured, officials pointed out. Dealers were urged to confine themselves to taking their inventory to their local boards and allowing the boards to figure the allowable inventory.
Rationing Dates
Sugar Coupon 12 good for five pounds through May 31. Gasoline A book—coupon 5 good through
Fuel Oil
Coupon 4 good for 11 gallons through April 12. Coupon 5 must last until Sept 30 for heat and hot
Canned Goods Blue Stamps D, E and F good through April 30. Shoes Coupon 17 good for one pak through June 15. Meat
Red stamp A good; B becomes good April 4; C, April 11; D, April|
May 21.
water.
E becomes good April 25.
Coffee Stamp 26 good for 1 pound through April 25. -
More V-Garden Plots Are Asked
PLEAS FOR OWNERS to. register additional lots with the office of civilian defense and for victory gardeners to check on exact locations of their garden property, were issued yesterday by Mrs. Merritt Woolf, chairman of the victory garden committee. Mrs. Woolf cited an example of a gardener who already has dug up another person's seeds. She urged careful checking of proper location of lots and ownership before the ground is broken. Demand for lots is greater than the supply now on file at OCD headquarters in the World War Memorial building,
OFFICIAL WEATHER .
U. 8S. Weather Bureau ______|
All Data in Central War Time Sunrise 6:29 |
=a 1, 1942 ‘7 am. . 36 .
Eaton 24 hrs. end. T: 30 a. m.. Total precipitation since Jan. 1..... Deficiency since Jan. l.........céieen . 384
The following table shows the tempera-|
ther cities: ture in other Highest Lowest Yesterday Last Night. Ki 58
race 5.84
Station Atlanta Boston Chicago «. Cincinnati Cleveland
Wayn yy is (city) sees Kansas Ci M ami, Mianeapolis-St.
New York . Na Quy Omaha, Neb. oe Pittsburgh ... San Antonio, Tex. es
1900 block. Police held & suspect on 3a
vagrancy charge.
Wilbur D. Tinney, 34, of 1308, N. Tinols: Mary Elza Revers, 37, of * 138 BE. _ Joseph,
BIRTHS
Twins x J Ira, Ervie Woods, Lg Vrinthrop, boys.
Harold, Betty Trull, at St. Prancis. James, Julia T at Cit 7
Lewis, Geo Clarence, ce Limp, at St. Vincent's. a Hinchman, at St. Vincent's. LaVerne Ener, at St. Vincent's. Vone Regan, at Sf. Vincent's. iy y ' Ann Kearns, at Be Via John, Ruch Jailer, at Lai Vincent's. Alfred, Ir Beveér, at Methodist. John, Merguerkte Heavrin ali Methodist.
Paul, Helen Hi t Methodist. Noble, a Methodist. Dorothy Sloan, a! b Methodist, | Ss.
t 125 1531 Kap Thearon, Vivian Grayson, ot 1515
Sylvester, Zella Harvey, at 2605 Eastern. Orlese ii Grace Cavanaugh, at 2403 Coumb
Sor * Malinda Colhagar, it 1035 Udell. Herman, Vietoria Shroter, at 921 E. 16th.
‘Boys Harold, Jeanette Schuttle, o% St. Francis. a Lora me Denhal t St. Francie.
rtha. Ei ry Clark, at St. Carol 21 at St.
undy
Car! owers, Viney: "| Clarence, “Bdna Snider, at gt. es, *| Robert” alts ’¢ Hatha: J id 2 : ou
Martin, at Methodist Walter, Helen a 6 ‘Methodist
‘41 Arn rie, at 921 Payette. elma Tracy, at 1318 N. Pershing.
; DEATHS Ida M. ai ent amen ovale. 1, at 2001 N. Meridian, at 243 N. Gray, car75, at 425% Massaacute cardiac dilatation. James Robinson, §3, at City, tuMary W Westover, 65, at 905 8B. Kenwood, insufficiency. Charles Henry Goettling, 41, at 2642 mle, nephritis. 2a Scarbrough, 65, at 1515 Olive, cereEl AeSorriage : Zona A. Manan, 30, at Long, duodenal
rs Rowena R. Polly, 11, at st. Vincent's, dia-
Olive Meeks, 53, & Long Hattie. French, Meinodist beams brain
yo. ©. a1 Cental, eter:
ona Leda Si Weir, cinoma.
William | chuset:
where the housewife does very little baking and can-
"ning.
o o # War and Wax Paper:
Housewives are urged to conserve all their wax paper against the time when this handy commodity may be
very scarce, Wax, says WPB, is hard to obtain, and has many
important war uses.
The fluid milk flush season is underway, in the language of agriculture department experts, and there'll be plenty of milk on hand from now on, especially in communities where there’s been a shortage. The reason: cows are in pasture again, and spring’s
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Odds and Ends /
Clean and pack. your heating stoves and stove pipe elbows carefully this summer as the pipe especially, will be obtainable only in limited quantities from now on. .. . All dehydrated Irish and sweet potatoes, cabbages, carrots, beets, onions and rutabagas are reserved for army and navy use from now on. ... Only forge-finished axes, hatchets, adzes, broad axes and light hammers will be manufactured, and: handle styles will also be limited to . . Replacing that cod liver oil you used to take is pilchard oil, 13 million gallong of it for vitamin-conscious America.
three types. .
at the
Continental Can To Plant Gardens
NEW YORK, April 1 (U. P)— Employees of Continental Can Co., Inc., soon will be planting victory gardens on suitable vacant ground 50 plants throughout the United States and Canada, F. J. O’Brien, executive vice president, announced “today. One of the plants is located at Elwood, Ind. Garden tools, seeds, plowing,
fertilizer, advice and supervision will be provided at no cost by the company, and the resultant crops
company’s
will be the property of the individual employee, Mr. O’Brien said. Where sufficient land is available, he pointed out that separate plots would be assigned to applicants. In other cases, he said,
18. These expire April 30. Red stamp|
a M. 1 , at 1516 W. 21st, | Judith Raines Jacobs, 'S months, at 2317]
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employees may plant a co-opera-tive garden, allotting its produce according to the number of hours" worked by each.
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SWIFT'S EMPLOYEES TO PLANT GARDENS
Victory gardens. in back yards and on vacant lots in Indianapolis will give local employees of Swift & Co., packers, a second food fron{ this spring, according. to H. W. Vornbrock, local branch manager. Twenty-one Swift employees have promised to maintain victory gardens this year. “Employees growing their own vegetable supplies, in whole or part, will be supplied gardening advice and information by the company,” Mr. Vornbrock said. “In addition, proper cooking methods will be described in bulletins prepared by Martha Logan, industrial home economist of Chicago.” Victory garden charts have been distributed to all local Swift employees and the booklet, “How to Have a Better Victory Garden,” Employees’ home gardens ill be ‘encouraged weekly on the Swift Breakfast club radio pro-
general journed that “the spite-filled Democratic leadership in Indiana” was able to decide which of two policies it would pursue in seeking to make political advantage of this wartime
They Had Two Choices
He said that the two choices were: One—To claim that the minority had by folldwing the majority léadership in the main, added their “penny-worth” to the success of the session. .Two—To forget their minority’s co-operation, and decry the assembly, largely on the basis of any minor instances in which the minority had been. able to divert the purpose of the top-heavy majority by assisting in procuring majority splits. “The choice officially made was that the Democratic party could not hope to claim credit for the session, and the other “course would work better,” Mr. Gates said. “To those individuals who recall, or have read the record and know how the minority voted on items affecting the claims of their political bosses, the Democratic state chairman’s effort to make political capital seem flat indeed.
Chose Smear Approach
“Neither method could have gained much for them, but how characteristic that they should have chosen the smear approach, likely to harm government the most.” The Republican state committee’s research division, headed by Lou Bowman, supplemented Mr. Gates’ statement with an analysis designed to answer Mr. Bays’ charge that the session was one of the most costly to the taxpayers in the history of the ‘state. The analysis showed that while
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STRAUSS SAYS:
support of measures that would ins crease taxes in about the ratio as the Republican memb voted. : “If Mr. Bays' criticism is a ju one, then it falls equally on Demo= cratic members as as Republicans. It never sounds well a man to criticise and condemn thing of which he is a part, for so doing, he Indirectly himself.”
Fk You Can Get New Refrigerator, If—
WASHINGTON, Aprii 1 (U. P.).—The war production board & said today that 400,000 new. household refrigerators — 148,847 & of them electric and gas opere ated and the remainder none mechanical ice boxes—will be. available to the public this spring. The order provides that only those who cannot be served by & other types of refrigeration are eligible to buy gas or electric res & frigerators. Each purchaser must attest on an application form 5 that the refrigerator required iso necessary and that the applicant has no other domestic mechanical refrigerator or any refrigeration equipment that is usable.
Garden Help
WASHINGTON, April 1 (U. P.).—In an order designed to "| promote the victory garden | program, the WPB today relaxed restrictions on the construction of new lines by water utilities. > The WPB ruled. that extensions may be built to carry }° water from premises already |’ connected with water service to victory gardens with an area of at least 5000 square feet.
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