Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1944 — Page 6

s'in a Barrel ITS AWN | e Planting Space| ~~ ; Little Army Faces Huge Obstacles in Rebuilding Shattered Italy.

By EDWARD P. MORGAN Times Foreign Correspondent BL NAPLES, May 15.—In southern NE Yh ee ws boredom for deliverance after Gen. shattered civilian life at the same Dwight D. Eisenhower’s D-day. . time and in the same place that] Americans, Britishers, Frenchthey are fighting a war. : men, Lowlanders, Norwegians, Poles, 2 Inches Gravel As it is working out the allies — all the nationalities . obliged to fight not only the ob5 Holes in Bottom for Dreinege | | stacle of their own inexperience in| , Salvaging lions, but She far gremte : barrel flowers ener |er handidap of a broken coun 2 : a ta 5 Ye: 300 with its people numbed into apathy |Other side of the Atlantic wall. and confusion by the ravages of| These prisoners represent the war 9 rw = war and 22 years of facism. for many thousands of wives, mgthBy HENRY L. PREE Too many Italians in high places|ers, sisters and sweethearts back Beripps-Howard Statt Wtits and low have seized the occasion|home. Strawberries in a barrel and strawberries in the small flower ito play cheaply with political in- What they are doing inside Gerborder will provide the small home owner with very limited space {trigue and the black market rather many during one single day is more with both fruit and flowers during the summer and autumn, The {than to help will pull their own strawberry barrel is best made from a discarded wine or whisky [fallen nation back to its feet. barrel, because of its substantial construction. A lighter barrel can | The weight of the experiment be used but care must be taken to reinforce the hoops and bottom. falls on the little army of adminisYour efforts to grow strawber- trators, half American, half British,| - : ; : 2 WELW ot ries need not be confined to & | vised. The soil should be rather {who from the A. M. G.—allied miliparrel. A box or any other suit- | loose, and composed of equal parts [tary government—now working : he iio EE loam, sand and humus. hand in hand with the allied con- a - every h Watering and feeding is pro- [trol commission, formed principally 3 : % vided through 4 or 6-inch porous |to implement the terms of last Sepagricultural rain tile placed |tember’s armistice. on end in the center of the bar- AMG’s Priority List rel. Fill this to the top with a rich gravelly compost soil of which 50 per cent is manure. If manure is not available, enrich compost with a cup of 4-12-4 fertilizer. Planting is simplified by placing the plant in the holes and

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In a theater of war the army's needs invariably come first; in Italy the AMG assignment§ follow this priority: 1. To establish and maintain law and order behind the front, to in- : sure clearance and safety of milifilling in the soil during the (ry communications and supplies.

process. = 1 e people. vised. This variety will thrive A pleasing small stréwberry,| 3 xe jos we functions back in most any locality as its root | named Baron Solemacher, flowers |t4 normal. CS growth is vigorous and the plants | in eight weeks and provides fruit 4. To purge the Fascists. Do not fill the barrel with too This plant, which is runnerless, |with almost every kind of emermany holes—a dozen is sufficient | Makes an admirable edging for |gency ever conceived. with 3.or & plants placed in he {| De Small Sows bed and 1s equal- | When the allles took Naples in xP ly at home in the rock garden. | October, this city of nearly 1,000,000 soil to cover the top of the barrel. | The plants set berries a few at a people was without gas, lights, Drainage is necessary, so bore | time gll summer long and 150 to |water or telephones and the harbor 4 or 5 holes in the bottom. A two- | 200 plans will be needed to satisfy [wag shattered. As army engineers, inch layer of coarse gravel in | the average family. z signal corpsmen and AMG officers the bottom of the barrel is ad- May 15, 1944 moved in to assemble order from this chaos, a German time bomb WARTIME LIVING— blew up the postoffice. o More Catastrophes Bureaus Placing Emphasis Ch gr g Pp hit the metropolis, adding a new . . emergency. On Sturdiness of Clothing |... made ot Maren at. ve, g suvius erupted, destroyed most of . ‘ two villages and smothered under By ANN STEVICK tons of ash hundreds of acres of NEA Staff Writer crops, counted on to help feed the| WASHINGTON, May 15—A high-powered sewing-circle is busy in [people this summer and fall Washington on the problem of making durable house dresses, work Through all these emergencies shirts, and children's clothes at reasonable prices. AMG must continue dismantling the Experts rom the war production board, office of price: administra- [Fascist machine. This is really the tion and the clothing industries have their heads together in how-to- |toughest assignment of all do-it discussional. They do not plan uniform designs for the various Between some British and clothes to be made under the pro- American AMG officers the spirit gram. Some attention will be | Youll probably have to limit fof competition sometimes eclipses given, however, to such basic | your food freezing to the old fam- |co-operations matters as | ily ice-cream freezer unless you Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia strength of fab- | already have a frozen food locker. himself might have been forced to rics, seams, the | So many people in various com- give up in despair if he had to try number of | munities are asking for new or |to run New York City with the same stitches per inch, | more frozen food locker plants |number of men that Gen. Sir Frank amount of cloth | that war food administration |Noel, Mason-McFarlane, 55-year-per garment, | says the .equipment won't go |old chief of the AMG in this minimum meas- | around. It will be limited more |theater, has to run Italy. urements, | closely to people who make their This small force—far below 5000 i rss ‘ 3 shrinkage, and | living growing food. men—has the prodigious task of - . Ag ‘replied. Just t colorfastness. patching up the machinery of gov- - ly ‘'® him. Gosh, U To get the Odds and Ends ernment right behind the front, ¢ 0) ; Bq they” cloth for these A new soap has been devised |and making it go until it can be = R J 3 ¥ x Ann Stevick | ior made | which takes the dirt off sciers [handed back to the Italians to op- - i ; Protect Y garments needed by war workers, | even when they must wash in |erate themselves. B housewives and farmers, there | cold sea water. At war's end it ’ will be a system of handing the | will appear in kitchens to help Crowded Capaer : ; sturdier cloths, denims, cham- | clean greasy pans and make | Tab silver-haired, with squint- r x ‘fl timely advice . brays, coverts, and broadcloths to | glassware shine. . . . Small ball- |IN8 eyes, Mason-Marlane has a / : g aA ‘J bagworms. Tt manufacturers for this purpose. | bearings are not so scarce as they |career crowded with accomplish- | : : : oN | Of shade trees Probably very little, if any, will | were, but WPB says there isn't |Ments from winning a pig-sticking ‘ A : ) i egg stage with be left for resort clothes. The | enough to start making washing- contest in India, to the government ; 3 £5 8 | ing on shrubs, plan will go back to the basic | machines, and if there were, [Of Gibraltar. He was military at- : 1 : : . § cloth to avoid fancy finishing | where would you find the frac- |t2che in Berlin in the fateful days i ¥ | i which makes cloth expensive and | tional horsepower motors to make |°f 1939 and two years later headed { : bs out unsuitable for hard use. them go? a military mission of Europe. { \ } j ! : The AMG has had a short but] 8

strenuous history. Professional | 5 3 WASHING’ Weekly Garden Almanac |=.mo mints ve | : ; eo y new-fangled organization of busi- | . . . 3 8 couple of s . nessmen and government experts in| ABR } chase labor or By A. A. IRWIN standings over authority which were | " . g 2 tracted attent The Victory Garden is a practical and economical means for help- |{uniform. There were misunder- <: : Q N . +B with in this 1 ing our country and ourselves. There is still time to start a garden’ |standings over authority which, : ye, . and now is no time for relaxation on food production. were never clearly defined. | : Lessons have been learned and | A mulch of straw, leaves, grass | Mulches are especially desirable A ea ut other jneaters clippings or partly decomposed wi more firmly tled to the army oat mold placed on the ground under cucumber vines, tomatoes, mand and authority will be clarified. | in a thin layer of 2 to 2 inches | 22d Melons to keep the frulls \1¢ has taken the Italian force to, thick will help to retain soil clean. Mulching around tomatoes |begin to understand each other's! moisture and eliminates cultiva- | is also a control measure for blos- problems. tion. . sofn-end rot. AMG is a contraction of the, original name of the allied military | In poorly drained soil, the prac- Many gardeners like to plant government of occupied territories | tice of planting on ridges will help | such crops as squash and cucum- —AMGOT. The O and T were to provide better drainage and | bers in hills. For best results place dropped after German papa-| raise the roots above the water | some well-rotted manure or com. |8andists gleefully revealed that the level. In a dry soil, however, the | mercial fertilizer 3 or 4 inches (Original acrostic meant sewage in plants are more likely to dry out | under the seed, plant 5 to 8 seeds | Turkish. and in most of our soils potatoes | and then thin to no more than | CoP na Tre Chicago Daily News nee and other root crops should be | three plants to a hill. Planting — | hilled only enough to keep the | vine crops in rows, with single | tubers covered to prevent sun- | plants evenly spaced, will produce 34 TECH PUPILS ON

burn. Level cultivation is recom- | results as good a lanti i “ | mended for most crops. hills, sR wen A PLUS LIST AGAIN

Thirty-four of the 487 pupils on | Gardeners who wish to grow. | By transplanting in late June |the honor roll of Technical high caulifiower, broccoli, late cabbage | and allowing about three months’ |SC00l made a straight A-plus rec- | and Brussyl sprouts should sow | growing season, these crops will [0Td on their report cards for the the seed during the next two weeks | be ready in time for the fall har- |Second six weeks of the spring for transplanting in late June. A | vest. They all like cool, moist |SETeSter. packet of seed should furnish | weather with short day length for | Seniors making the record are:

plenty of plants for your garden. heading. thy Burdette Jack Poulhaver” I. ; Krebs Bitpicie. Purd Monin if Pests to watch for in the gar- All the vegetable crops except |Joan Richdy, Joan Bee oie, den this week are: Mexican bean | peas, Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, | Taggart. and Morris fz. Wisen. orc" beetle, bean leaf beetle, plant lice, | broccoli, and Brussels sprouts may, | Underclassmen are: Colorado potato beetle, flea beetles, | be started in the garden this week. | David Best. Jack N. Brown, Evelyn leafhoppers, and rabbits. These | Remember! a long period of dry |iackjosn Bryant, Robert Clark Betty : pests are all very destructive. | weather may start any day—con- | Ginger, Barbara Jones, June Jones, i ; "0 . h z Start combating them as soon as | serve moisture by frequent, shal- | Loe’ prmmcs” Deva Behirin el, Vir. Yes it's almost a miracle . . this make-up for day they appear. low cultivation. Emo Andrey Thoman Doris Townsend, : :

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