Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1944 — Page 8

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By HENRY L. PREE =. Seripps-Howard Staff Writer : DO NOT cut the lawn too closely during July and August. ‘Two at any. time, but three inches is far better when and dry. If the cutting bar on your mower cannot height, coil some rope about the roller, are damaged by skunks who dig into the soil searching for cutworms and grubs and beetles. Grubs, too, will cause

inches is short enough : is hot be raised to this Frequently lawns

considerable damage and along "with the skunks can be kept out of the lawn by applying arsenate of lead at the rate of ac pound for each 100 square feet of

area. I The lead will j | grub-proof your lawn for seven

years. Mix it about 10

sand, spread § evenly over the entire area and wash in with the hose. A good soaking will keep

Mr. Pree the grass greener during the warm

weather, Grass clippings need not be removed from the lawn unless they are an inch and a half or longer. Of course, if crab grass prevails and is gous, to seed be sure to catch all the clippings and burn them, Chinch Bugs Coming Grasses in many sections will soon be infested with chinch bugs, small sucking insects which cause ugly brown patches. Control by dusting with one part rotenane and 10 parts tobacco dust, at the ‘rate of 22 pounds of the mixture to each 100 square feet of lawn area. The adult bug is one-fifth inch or less long but has a conspicuous black body with white wings; the young are reddish. They are to be found on the outer edges of the brown patches sucking juice from the green grass, so dust there and not on the brown patehes. The dust must hit the bugs to be effective. Two applications per brood are recommended, but four may be necessary in some areas where there are two broods per year. - A well-fed and watered grass two inches tall is seldom infested with chinch bugs. Webworm Is Serious Pest The rotenone in the mixture will assist in the control of the sod webworm, a serious pest in many locations. ? Other control measures for this mean caterpillar include lead arsenate, dusted on the lawn and worked down into the ground by sweeping the lawn with a broom or the back of the rake. Following this it should be washed off the grass blades with a strong stream. of water applied with a nozzle. And do not forget that the lawn will ‘benefit greatly from an application of fertilizer strong in nitrogen. To simplify ° distribution, mix 10 pounds of fertilizer with a bushel of sand or screened topsoil for each 1000 square feet.

July 10, 1944

CARD PARTY TONIGHT w A public card party will be spon¥s sored by the auxiliary to Burns74 West-Striebeck Post No. 2099, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at 8:30 p. m. tonight in the hall.

YOUR VICTORY GARDEN—

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Once a Week in Warm Spell

Courtesy O. M. Scott & Sons Co. Long and short-winged chinch

bugs, shown normal size at bottom and magnified seven times under glass, are hard to locate in turf because of their size.

~ SHELL IN HEART

By Science Service WASHINGTON, July 10.—The toughness of G. I. Joes is attested to in the story, released here today by the war department, of one of them who fought through months of the African gampaign with a shell fragment lodged on his heart. Wounded in the chest in March, 1943, this unidentified soldier went back to duty about a month later with his wound healed. In spite of bouts of pain and discomfort from the undetected shell fragment, he did not stop fighting until Aug. 30 when he was sent to a general hospital where X-ray examination showed the fragment and skilful army surgeons removed it. * Majs. Thomas D. Watts and Elam C. Toone, medical corps, formerly of the Medical college of Virginia, report the soldier is now well and restored to a useful life.

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Traveling Unit Bombards Foe in France With

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By S. J. WOOLF NEA Staff Writer © WITH U. S. FORCES IN NORMANDY, July 10—It is dusk. Crawling through the underbrush outside Cherbourg, an American soldier stealthily makes his way to within a quarter of a mile of the German lines. . He carries with him a square box attached to which is a wire hundreds of feet long, running to a van containing a portable radio transmitter. He sets the box down and gives ‘the signal. Immediately, in. perfect German, comes an appeal to give in, “Resistance is hopeless,” it roars. “You are surrounded and in 10 minutes a barrage will be set down. Give up now and save your lives.” Travels With Mobile Unit This is but one kind of job which the radio mobile unit. with which I have been traveling is carrying on in liberated France. For this strange aggregation of men, some military, some civilians supplied by the OWI, is engaged In waging war with bulletins instead of bullets. There are authors, psychologists, newspaper men and college professors preparing scripts and mes-

Weekly

tables your garden produces.

Even the best cooks cannot produce a good meal with inferior raw products. One of the requisites of high quality in many vegetables is freshness. This is especially true of sweet corn; . peas, snap beans, and green lima beans.

Onions and early potatoes, two of our staple vegetables, are now being harvested. When the potato vines are dead the potatoes should be dug. Onions should be pulled when the tops have fallen over and dried. After the tops have practically died, both of these crops should be harvested and not left in the hot soil to spoil.

During prolonged periods of dry weather it is often desirable to apply water to the garden. When watering the garden, enough water should be applied to wet the ground to a depth of at least six inches. Frequent light sprinklings may do more harm than good.

Put the vacant spots in the garden to work. Instead of being left to produce a weed patch, these may be worked over and replanted to some productive vegetable,

can do to their gardens. Take no

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Garden Almanac |] By AA IRWIN i : = . > The weather affects our fotal food production more than any | other one factor. During the past week all

seen what a fairly short dry period ! chances on a shortage—conserve moisture and preserve all the vege-

Victory gardeners have

aL The shorter the time is between the garden the stove the higher the quality will be of this group of vegetables. If the vegetables are to be held long, store in cool place. With the excep-: tion of beans, harvest vegetables in the cool of the morming.

After onions are pulled out of the ground- they are spread on the ground to dry for a day or two, then the tops are cut off one inch from the bulb, Place the" onions in slatted crates and store in shed where the air can circu-! late freely. Potatoes require a cool, fairly damp, storage and for most home gardeners this will mean the basement.

Water may be applied with a

lawn sprinkler or by tying a

piece of old burlap over the end of the garden hose and letting the water run between the rows. Whatever method of watering is used, soak the ground to a depth of six inches when you do water.

Such vegetables as beans, Chinese cabbage, cucumber, endive, turnips, and kale may be seeded in mid July, and with proper care will mature before the growing season ends.

|World’s - Reprobation Seen

sages. They confer in shotup houses! i not conferring they are absorbed in reading heavy literature. Among them are Germans, Poles, | Czechs, Hungarians, French and serious-looking Englishmen. } Pamphlets in Shells With them are large vans which have been converted into. printing offices, radio stations and photo. graphic dark rooms. Pamphlets are being printed which, encased in shells, are hurled against the Germans. There are also passenger cars with

ing nearby villages and spreading the gospel of good will. In one town not far back of the lines a printing press has been salvaged which turns out a paper that 1s showered down on unretrieved, near= by France. But it is not only the civilian part of this unit which helps in the work. Truck drivers are of different nationalities, and often interrogate the prisoners. Information gained from them is shot back

FIDELITY REVIEW 140 |

~ WILL GIVE LUNCHEON

A covered dish lunch followed by a card party will be given by Fi- | delity Review No, 140, Women's Benefit association, at noon Wednes- | day in the Castle Hall building.

Mrs. Martha Wallace, Mrs. Grace Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Cora Brown, Mrs. Nettie Lotz and Mrs. Ella Hiatt will be in charge.

PICNIC LUNCH SLATED

The ways and means committee of the Sahara Grotto auxiliary will meet at 12:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Grotto home for a

picnic lunch. Mrs. Marie Manker is chairman, ‘

'Flynn Andrew, a New York law-

at their still-fighting comrades either in type or over the air to show that we know precisely what is going on. Andrew in Charge

Directly responsible for the policy |

of this radio mobile unit is Ls. Col.

yer, who since the beginning of the war has been traveling in the East and Near East as a special service officer, Although he issues orders as to where this particular unit shall operate, it rests upon the civilian portion of it to provide the type of program best suited to fray the enemy's nerves. If this system of psychological warfare is as successful here as it was in Italy, it will not be long before we see disheartened Germans appearing before our lines,

hands and asking to surrender. lother day I was speaking to him

and in tents, and when they 8r€| Speaking with the specialists In in one of our camps. Nearby were the group, one is impressed With a number of intellectual heavytheir enthusiasm for the idea that| weights conferring over a problem, the pen is mightier than the sword. | “Gee,” said he, “if we are going There is an old sergeant con- to send the gab of those guys over nected with this unit who has been = the Jerries, Sherman sure was

in the army for some time. The

‘As Weakening Rulers At Budapest.

By PAUL GHALI

left of Hungary's Jewish population to Turkey, according to information reaching here from a reliable antigovernment source. ; It seems that at last the civilized world’s reprobation of the Quisling regime in Budapest's ruthless persecution of Hungarian Jews may bring results. Although at least. 500,000 Hungarian Jews are still in ghettos or concentration camps awaiting deportation by cattle car to Silesia or Poland, it is believed that orders have now been given to cease these deportations. . Reason Isn't Pity

The reason for this change of heart on the part of the Hungarian government is, observers here are convinced, not pity but the increasing fear that some day the whole Hungarian nation may be made to suffer the consequences if. further persecutions are perpetrated. They have been impressed, too, undoubtedly, by the repeated appeals for leniency from the highest imoral authorities on this continent, i the most recent of which came from the International Red Cross in Geneva, which, it is learned here, has taken “an energetic attitude” in the matter,

ay Solve Post-War Equipment Problem

NEA Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, July 10.~It looks

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as if they're going to keep the war, Department of Agriculture is

3 : busy ‘with, tests to find out what farm work will be suitable for jeeps

when they become “disposable surplus” to be turned back to the home-

folks. 3 «. About a half with more on their way all the time, Jeeps can climb, claw, or jump. They are small enongh to be moved by g : -

they might be'a natural for some rugged ing the period before large Ann Stevick scale auto production puts the great American tourist back on the road. But high farm production will be needed to supply liberated countries. War Production Board is hard pressed to keep farm marchinery up to the demands of the big job to be done, So you're more likely to find a jeep doing essential farm chores than packed up with the family duffie for an excursion. Tests so far have failed to show just how much punishment the tough little wagons can stand, because no test has been devised which will destroy them, Department of Agriculture opinion is, however, that jeeps will be of more use vas -an- extra run-about

million jeeps have come off U. 8. production lines

work implement on large farms, than as .a substitute for the avers age farmer's tractor: . Fish Story

million pounds that wasn’t counte ed on at the first of the year, ‘Department of Interior is pre

Odds and Ends of July will bring out new

beef, depending on what is customarily served by the eating place, . . . New stoves to appear next quarter were supposed to be strictly untrimmed wartime models, but there will be a bit of chromium here and there to make it seem like the good old days, Manufacturers are being given permission to use stocks of chromium handles or trim already in their warehouses.

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