Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1944 — Page 10

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YANKS PUTO. K.| ON TOMMY GUN

Say Sub-Machine Weapon Is a Natural for Jungle Fighting.

WITH ALLIED FORCES IN NORTHERN BURMA, April Jl (U. P.) (Delayed).—All Americanmade weapons are proving effective: in the Burma campaign, but the Tommy gun is “the- queen of the jungles” in the estimation of Brig. Gen, Frank Merrill, whose American’ infantry Marauders are daily raising hell behind the Japanese lines in northern Burma. Merrill told the United Press that some of his hand-picked infantry veterans clamored for Garand rifles when he began. training them, contending they were more dependable than the full automatic weapons. “Now everyone wants a Tommy gun,” he said.

Annual Sowers, grown in the vegetable garden, shold be placed where they do not interfere with the crops. e = = 8s & = By HENRY 'L. PREE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer The same ‘principles of gardening are applied to both flower and vegetables culture, so no different preparation -of the soil is necessary. However, the seed bed should be of finely sifted or screened sandy soil. Low growing annuals such as dwarf petunias and dwarf marigolds, may be used to edge the walks. Gladioli and dahlias in the far > end of the garden and will provide a background for tomatoes

and similar vegetables, A com- Merrill said hundreds of Japanese plete balanced ; have been killed by his Tommy plant food { gunners in the past six weeks. He

thought the sub-machine gun a natural weapon for men on jungle patrol and highly effective for closein fighting.

BAR Good in Jungle

He described the BAR—Browning automatic rifle—as the “best jungle weapon” used by his troops. | “We also found a definite need lof pack artillery to counter the Japs’ infantry cannon,” Merrill said. He recalled that in one recent operation an advanced column of Americans was trapped in the jungle and an urgent message for artillery was sent back to the Marauders’ supply officer, Maj. Hancock, Little Rock, Ark. Hancock ‘sent word back that the guns would be dropped by parachute the following morning, and the commander of the encircled force sent out a call for men with pack artillery experience.

should be work- ; ed into the soil | before seed is sown. Petunia Cheerful, with clear salmonpink flowers, 2'2 inches and more f{ across, plants for a mound 10 inches high with a spread of 2 feet, derful for cutting. Gallardia, Pinwheel-—single flowers 2!2 inches across, intense wine-red at the canter, tint to a cherry-pink toward thie outside. Torenia fourmeri, Wishbone flowers, bushy globular plants, 6 to 9 inches tall, covered with richly colored snapdragon-like flowers grow vigorously during het weather in sunshine or shade. Caltness and Unwin dahlias produce branching plants 2 to 3 feet tall, bearing single or double flowers 3 inches broad. They are as easily grown as zinnias and blossom in 60 days from seed, un-

DENTAL DECAY,

Sodium Fluoride Being Added to Water System in | 10-Year N.Y. Test.

NEWBURGH. N. Y. April 17 (U. P.).—A 10-year dental decay test—sald to be the first of its kind attempted—soon will be undertaken by this city’s 32,000 inhabitants when sodium fluoride is mixed with the municipal water supply. Dr. Harry L. Chant, district director of the New York state health | department who announced the test, said dental decay has been remarkably low in communities where, sodium fluoride is present naturally .n the water. The salt will be fed into Wash‘ngton lake, source of Newburgh’s wvater, Dr. Chant said, at the rate of one part to 1,000,000 parts of

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Many Volunteers Within® 20 minutes, Merrill said,

water. He added that this city surpassed for cut flowers, bloom- | more experienced mule skinners was picked for the test because a| ing until fall frost. Linarias (had volunteered than could be small quantity of the salt is natu-| (Baby Snapdragons) are free- used, including many veterans of

-ally present in the lake, although not enough to be effective. . As part of the experiment, water ised by Kingston, a city about as big as Newburgh and 32 miles aorth, will be left untouched. The teeth of its younger gai] . will be examined with those of| Judge Mark W. Rhoads of juNewburgh. | venile court will speak on “Juvenile One thousand children in each | Delinquency” at a dinner meeting community will be examined before of the Men's Fellowship club of the test starts. Thereafter, 3500 in the Wallace Street Presbyterian

flowering plants in bright and pastel tones, most suitable for

bordering the walk or flower beds. fit. April 17, 1944, Sgt. John Acker, Bessemer, Ala.

headed the volunteer unit, aided by Pvt. Thomas Averitt, Richmond, Cal; Sgt. George Low, Norma, Tenn., and Pvt. Isaac (Little Chief) {Ross, a full-blooded Cherokee In- | dian from Cherokee, Okla. Two hours after the. guns were dropped, Acker’s crew had them as-

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

Weekly Garden Almanac

By A. A. IRWIN et ds IWIN tn opr The closer . we get to victory the greater will be the demand for food. In addition to the food needed for our armed forces and allies, 33 ous WSSHURY Moves forward Uiers Vi be Wits Syiqueron People

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More. seed is usually Slanted than is required for a stand. As soon as the plants are well started and show signs of being crowded, they should be thinned out to avoid crowding, Unless the root «crops—such as beets, carrots, parsnips and turnips—are thinned out, well-developed roots cannot be expected.

Thin leaf lettuce to stand three inches apart in the row, then at the first cutting take out every other lettuce plant, Beets and carrots may be thinned to one inch apart when they are two inches high, thin again by taking out every other one when small and using the small seedlings,

Cultivation will be starting now in the early gardens where the first plantings of vegetables are up.

Cultivate shallow and fairly close to the row to conserve moisture and to kill weeds. :

The European comm borer likes sweet corn just as well as it does fleld corn. The parent corn borer moths pick out the tallest corn upon which to lay their eggs. For this reason, early plantings are almost sure to be heavily infested.

The best way to escape borer damage is to plant sweet corn between May 20 and June 10, with May 20 to 30 the preferred time. Later planted corn may be Jamaged seriously by the second generation of the pest.

“Haste makes waste” Don't start work in your garden before the soil is dry enough to work. If the soil forms a compact 1aass and doesn’t readily crumble when released by the hand, it's too wet to be worked.

8oil that is worked wet now will be baked hard by the hot sun and consequently will remain lumpy and unproductive during the summer, You will profit in the long run by staying out of the garden while the soil is wet.

By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent BERNE, April 17.—Georges Bonnet, French foreign minister in the Daladier cabinet at the outbreak of

the war and erstwhile ambassador

to Washington, has arrived in Switzerland for “reasons of health.” THe health in need of restoring is not so much that of Bonnet himself as of his wife Odette, it is said. Mme. Bonnet’s nerves have been badly shattered by the “terroristic atmosphere created by the police” under which she has been living in France for the last two years, Bonnet, who was foreign minister of France at the time of Munich, made himself conspicuous in world politics by his supine attitude to Hitler's démands and his willingness to abandon the Czechs to their fate.

Signs Pact With Nazi

In December, 1938, he received German Foreign Minister Col. Joachim von Ribbentrop in Paris and signed a joint agreement with him which the Germans immediately interpreted as giving them a free hand in the east. The French foreign minister later protested that this had never been his intention and exchanged acriminious letters with Von Rib-

each city’s ools will have their | church at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday in|sembled and firing at point-blank teeth scru at least once a the church auditorium. W. Cliff range at the surrounding Japanese, year. | Myers will preside. {Merrill said.

bentrop on the subject.

(Mrs. Irene Compton will preside,

Bonnet and Wife of France

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in Switzerland

Since the French defeat, Bonnet has lived in semi-retirement, making frequent visits to Vichy, where he has repeatedly reiterated to friends all his efforts to prevent a declaration of war in 1839. Although his constant defeatism ought to have put him in the Nazis’ good books, Von Ribbentrop, it seems, has never forgotten how Bonnet “went back on his word.”

REICH WILL EDIT THE "FOLIO AT I U.

J. Edward Reich, 622 6. Meridian st, will edit the summer session issue of The Folio, student literary magazine at Indiana university, The managing editor will be Harold Fuhrman of Ft. Wayne, with Loueva Stoner, Pendleton, business manager, and ‘Noemi Rafferty, Osceolay circulation manager. Sub-editors will be Micha Miller, Terre Haute; Betty Ploughe, Anderson; Virginia Rhodes, Indianapolis; Mary Ahlf, Tell City, and Norma Friedland, East Chicago,

G. A. R. MEETING SET

T. W. Bennett Circle 23, Ladies of the G. A. R.,, will meet at 1:30 p. m& Thursday at Ft. Friendly.

ARMY UNITS ADD PSYCHIATRISTS

Step Taken to Salvage Mental Casualties . - Of War.

By Science Service WASHINGTON, April 17.—An important step toward salvaging for combat or other active military duty the men who would otherwise crack up mentally under the excessive strains of warfare is the appointment of a psychiatrist on the ‘staff of each army division. This physician will live with the men—“shoot thél¥ “weapons, ride their vehicles, participate in their bivouacs, take their infiltration courses.” Thus he will gain the respect of the soldiers and will also put himself in a position where he can most effectively apply his professional skill and judgment to problems of training and combat, Acute manpower shortage has led to the reversal of the army's former practice of wholesale discharge of men believed to be emotionally unfit for military service, it is disclosed in a special article in the Bulletin of the U, 8. army medical department announcing this new step in preventive mental medicine, , Must Forget ‘Jargon’ Now the new division neuropsychiatrist will be expected to save such men through his clinical judgment, skill, contacts and influence. He will get personally acquainted with the line officers and be in a position to help them when they seek his advice. He will “forget psychiatric jargon and explain his findings and recommendations in simple terms,” the article, which was prepared in the office of the surgeon general, states, For the first time in the army, te psychiatrist will have an opportunity in some degree to modify.and influence the soldier's environment, it is explained, so as to improve morale and prevent maladjustments, He will advise in all matters pertaining to the mental health of the command. ) Will Form Team

The division neurophsychiatrist will form a team with the classification officer to aid in the placing of individual soldiers where they can function best and thus eliminate improper placement, which is a factor in poor mental health, He will visit division dispensaries and help the medical officers to solve problems where physical ailments are linked with mental or emotional maladjustment. And when the men reach combat, the division neuropsychiatrist will supervise the care of the neuropsychiatric casualties which, it has been found, are numerous in heavy combat.

WARTIME LVING—

- MONDAY, APRID 1, 1

Survey Shows Tire Pumps. headings in Farm Demands

By ANN STEVICK

NEA Stat Writer WASHINGTON, April 17.—~When the tire pump you have breathes its last, you are not likely to find another one. ~~ Tire pumps are what more farmers want more and can't get than any other single item. -Bureau of census sleuths found this out in a recent survey of 3000 rural. families to determine the needs of farmers throughout the country. Flashlight bulbs are reported to be

nearly as hard to find as tire pumps. Electric. motors; rubber tires for farm implements and roofing have been a little easier tp. buy, farmers say, but their lack causes a heap more trouble when they can't be found. Farmers are supposed to get a helping hand in shopping for farm necessities. A declaration that you are a farmer should get you first call on what's for sale. Hardware dealers and mail order houses have orders to this effect from the war production board. Census reporters found, however, that less than 10 per cent of the farmers talked to knew about this ‘method of getting hold of what

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made use of it. In order to make ends meet on scarce feed supplies, war food administration wants poultry

flocks culled 6 per cent this spring. Hog-raisers are being persuaded to cut down next year's “crop, too. Special home-grown rations for dairy cows are being worked out at experimental sta-

tions. Egg Prices Guaranteed

Egg prices ranging from 26 to 36' cents a dozen are guaranteed farmers by war food adminise tration. These prices can’t be cus to discourage overwhelming egg production, because. they are ale ready as low as the law allows farm prices to go. War may bring new recipes for bread, depending on how much of what grains, milk supplies and fats are to be had. Food and drug administration is holding up its proposed bread standards for the duration in order not to interfere with changes in bread mixtures made necessary by une certain supplies, . . Definite ceil ing prices are in effect on used gas cooking stoves, whether bought from a dealer or a neighe bor,

Overseas Yank

Four Days After Primaries

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Times Foreign Correspondent LONDON, April 17—~The futile efforts of some public-spirited citizens now wearing the United States uniform to vote in the primaries should be noted’ for the record in case arguments ever arise on the subject. We correspondents run into public-spirited American citizens often in Britain these days. Their stories are much alike, although the details sometimes vary. ‘Here is the sad tale of Capt. Irvin Dilliard of Collinsville, IIL Three months ago Dilliard began to investigate the possibilities of securing a ballot in order to vote in the state primaries. The adjutant general's office was vague on the question. Applications for federal ballots were available but there was no information on state ballots. Dilliard obtained a federal application, which did not list the primaries, He filled it ih, indicating a desire for a primary ballot and sent it to Springfield. From Spring-

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fleld it was sent to Edwardsville, Madison county seal for Collings ville, The county clerk, Miss Eulalia Hotz, immediately airmailed Dile lard an application for « ballog indicating that the federal apple cation was t. Dillard completed the Madison county ape plication form and returned it to Edwardsville by airmail inasmuch as April 11 was the date of the primaries.

The ballot mailed from Edwardse ville on March 23, regular mail, reached Dilliard Dilliard is a persistent man as well as an officer, He happens to be in a position where he could pay frequent calls to the adjutant general's office. There are thousands of officers and” enlisted men, who either have not his persistence, or are so 0 placed that they cannot do the same care. ful investigating of voting possi. bilities: But the vast majority would like to vote in this year's elece tions.

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