Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1944 — Page 8
YOUR VICTORY GARDEN—
Cracks in Cabbage Heads
By HENRY L. PREE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer The Mexican bean beetle is particularly active at this time and, undess kept under control will seriously damage the bean crop. Spray or dust with rotenone . to, catch both larvae, and beetles and destroy eggs, on the undérside of the leaves.- Do not use lead arsenate on | beans. since it is apt to burn them. Wor king in the béan patch while | it is wet with rain-or dew is likely to spr -ead diseases which are not easily controlled. — TT Blossom end rot on squash and | other vegetables is caused by an | over = development of the top
Harvest and cat white onions first, because yellow varieties keep | best in storage. Spray potatoes with Bordeaux . mixture to control late blights.
Can Be Controlled Easily
BG 4 LESION Pl
M. F. Murnan, a welder in the Beech Grove shops, has been elect led commander of Big Four Railway Post No. 116 of the American Legion. R. L. Seigler and A. H. Mayo
are vice-commanders and the new {adjutant is Robert Shake. Other officers’ elected were Fred | Meixner, finance officer; C. N. Frost, |chaplin; C. V. Guill, service officer; iH. F. McClain, historian; F. W. | Coombs, sergeant at arms; E. G. | Parish, athletic officer; and Frans cis Hurst, Americanism officer. State delegates are P. M. Pursian, {E. H. Clark and Mr. Guil. Dele{gates for the 1ith district are 8.
“Point 1’Abbe, the aviator stood try-
By ROBERT J. CASEY | Times Foreign Correspondent
ON THE AMERICAN FRONT IN| guess the compass was cockeyed.
NORMANDY, July 17—Beside a pile of rubble on what had been a street corner "in what had been
He was ; dressed in green flying ~ coveralls, hatless, unshaven “and dirty. A square rent in the knee cf his pants flapped like a flag in the ind. The leg underneath was black and blue. I gave him a
ng 10 ad a ride.
lift. “I'm trying to
Mr. Casey get down to the beach,” he said,
and pick up a lift to London, I'l tell you what happened to me, put
aid. ing the soil about the plants from |
0 drying out. Cabbage Heads Crack
ply after a rain or when the soil | is moist. Cucumbers and melons will not cross if planted next to one another. Melons will cross with pumpkins but the eflect does not, show in that same year. -How=seed from the crossed fruits
Cabbage heads are likely to crack slightly during periods of rapid growth. To check the crack-
ing. bend the plants over care- | ever, fully so as to break the root on | will produce an undesirable hyone side only. This will retard brid. boo July 17, 1944
+h of the cabbage.
the grow
BEHIND THE URALS— Rootin’ -footin' Siberia Area
Advances 10 Years in Three
with Johnston to machine, tool and {assembly lines, Mike was a dynamo lof energy. He talked constantly with hundreds of workers, even Jim Farley doesn’t know more naincs
By HARRISON SALISBURY Vnited Press Staff cornet _ NOVOSIBER RSK, U. R.. July (Delayed) .—Out ee in Siberia is
1 ie Soviet Union's “Wild West,” a i rooting -tootin tough-as- nails | than Mike. hat eal "| Mike is the guy who got hundreds country tha inevitably reminds of barracks and sod huts built to
of the frontier of Mon-
pena © [receive hundreds of thousands of “Here is one Soviet region which. | [refugees during the bad times despite hardships and sacrifices, war | When only Russian blood saved roduction and war readjustment; Moscow from falling. He is used to have advanced 10 years in three. (hard times and fighting. He told
5 area was Johnston that during the Russian
The development of this president | civil war he was in the Bolshevik
. shown to Eric Johnston,
of the United States Chamber of | |cavalry. Commerce, and American corre- | “I was only 17 or 18 then” he {said. ‘It was a do-or-die fight,
spon dents during our visit. Ve toured one great plant, built ‘and it was a bad day for me if I
gince the outbreak of the war, 'got less than two.enemy officers, in which Johnston described as equal & day's battling.” for efliciency, smoothness and clean- | Siberia Grows Rapidly ° liness of operation to any similar American industry, | Siberia has been growing like The sparkplug of this vast, young | wood in an August sun since the Siberian area is “Mike.” Mike is war began. There has been no Mihail Kalugin, 44, tousle-haired |, 0 40 git around and figure out secretary of the Communist party - } committee for Novosibersk provinee the cultural and economic impliduring the past seven years. jcations. But Mike and other Soviet |sparkplugs like him beiieve they are creating a Russid of the future. Johnston's party were Mike's! The whole region bulges with guests, all the riches of Siberian huge industrial plants moved here foods and drinks were set before the from the west. At the height of guests as a tribute to Soviet-Amer- the evacuations, Novosibersk had ican good-will relations—sturgeon a population of 800,000, while the in jelly, roast turkeys, suckling pigs, outlying area absorbed another dozens of rare Siberian fishes and 250,000. fresh strawberries. Much of this population has or But den't think Mike wastes time {will return toathe west. But the on lavish living. During our visits | plants have come to stay.
Weekly Garden Almanac
By A. A. IRWIN
period of dry, hot weather, Victory gardeners ses of any time simce the Victory garden pro‘eduction in the harvest from home gardens was an d Victory gardeners fully realize now the im-
Feeds Guests Lavishly
During the recent suffered the greatest os gram started. The noticed by evervone portant role:
. y still plenty of time to |
There Is | Remember any crop planted at produce a good p of green | this time of the vear requires a beans {rom seed planted this «| better seed bed than spring seedweek. The blush type green bear ing. Spade up those vacant areas will start yiel f sixty days in vour garden, prepare a deep, and So continue mellow seed bed and plant now.
Pr i»)
Fertilizing d a little will has fertilizer they
the crops planted now ten their maturity and improve the quality of vegetables at harvest time this fall.
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before {roc
1 uv ‘ int t 1~turnip seed may be nf J et or dr best results are obTi date ally jus Vv row planting. The young Most cs may be cultivated and the ! : 60 & seedlings tlunned when 1 1 decide inted 1 the row. The Purple dare Co m fall To nor Whit e Globe 1s one of the
t for maturing beet vanities for fall planting and
for winter storage,
i will find that the finest Lettuce, kohlrabi, kale, spinach, whole vear an beets, radishes, mustard, Chinese , Ww No cabbage, peas, beans, endive and late cabbage plants may all be
Gals grow planted for
assurance of
a fall-crop with reaA sonable harvesting n beter, , them.
that weeds
rly as bad at this time of year,
true are not
seedlings of but it is essential that the new | our { getables. Pla € planted garden be kept free from e ia mmer weeds as they are competition for biz Le 1st water and plant food when young Y n cedlings need it, most.
RATIONING DATES
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MEAT Red ntil they have been indorsed in ink
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28 in Book ¢ good indefinitely or pencil with automobile registra-| 10 points each tion number and state. Motorists] should write 1044 numbers on book | CANNED GOODS—Blue stamps and coupons. A8 through Z8 and A5 In Book 4 FUEL OIL—Period 4 and 5 cou-
Valid threugh Sept. 30. All changemaking coupons and reserve coupons are now good. Fuel oil
good indefinitely for 10 points each.
pons
SUGAR~—Stamps 30, 31 and 32 in
ouk 4 gre good indefinitely for rat 5 i Bouk are good Indefinltely 10r 5 yutions for 1944-45 heating season poungs. Stamp 40 1n Book 4 good yoy peing issued. Period 1 good ~ nds of can ug or 5 pounds of canning sugar, immediately. Applicants applying for canning ; :Q ; «sugar should send In one pare TREE ~Inapeotin: on passenger £ 1t Y 1 a 37. attached to the appli ca- | 2UPIOON! es discontinued. Commertion for, each applicant... cial vehicle tire inspection every six
- a months or every 5000 miles. InspecfGASOLINE—Stamp A-12 is good tion certificates still will be a requi- . for 3 gallons and expires Sept. 21, Site in obtaining replacement tires. B23 and C3 and Bi and C4 good for B card holders are now eligible for § gallons. T ‘good - for 5 jgallons grade 1 tires if they can prove exthrough Sept. 30; E and Hl good | !Yéme necessity. All A holders are for 1 gallon: R and R1 not Valid at ©ligible for grade 3 tires, including nz stations but consumer may factory seconds, if they find tires exchange R for E at bis jocal board Which may he purchased, to purchase non-high-, . SHOES—No, Tr and No. .2 “alr-
| vember were: | compared with 2,336,000 in 1942; mackerel, 718,000 cases, and 498,000 in 1942.
at the expense | of root growth. i Tomato and celery. plants, too, {F. Carelli, Mr. Pursian and Mr. This condition §: {| are subject to the same diseases Myrnan. D. E. Lomon, Mr. Clark cecurs whens 1 and will appreciate a light spray- and Mr. Pursian are on the execuwarm, aryl {| ing at the same time. tive committee. weather follows | {! Oak Leaf Lettuce “ en a cool and 1 oat INCREASED ) CANNING moist spell, Lettuce seed can be sown a The undevel | this time. Try Oak Leaf, a va- OF FISH REPORTED ned SVS riety which withstands summer } opeq Foot Sys. De in out carly to prevent | WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17~ tem cannot Mr. Pree | rer owding. Co | Canning of tuna and mackerel was ® meet the de | © er reater in 11 months in 1943 than 4 z plied in iid form |g is of the forming fruit and | Fertilizer appie liq the entire year of 1942, The - ~ ny | will benefit vegetables more in e rot. sets in. No spray is of any | lied dry. Ap- |€¥act canning figures through NoThe answer lies in keep- | quickly than if applie r pP- | Tuna, 2.555,000 cases,
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way gasoli ne at filling station. A,'plane” stamps in Book 3 good inB. ©, B gad T eoipons ate os vail) Lely. oe
2 Ran Dany
if you write anything about it you'll have to keep my name out, I don't think the old man would like it.”
Gets Off Course
“I'm the -pilot of a Liberator,” he said, “and since D-day we've been flying down into France every day | to bust up railway yards and factories and bridges and things. “About 24 hours ago we were com-
ing back and something went wrong |
with one engine. We adit see anything in this bad weather. I
“We got off our course and we were right on top of the Caen sector before we knew it. We were flying pretty low and. the .next thing we knew a Heinle ack-ack battery had shot another engine off and clipped the tail assembly, and we got out. “IT believe everybody got down all right, but I landed behind the German lines. “1 cut my chute loose and dived through a lot of underbrush. The Heinies had seen us come down and {they were looking for us. I could hear them beating the bush behind me. “
Crawls Through Brambles
“I took a pretty dim view of what was likely to happen if'I was lucky enough to get to the British line. Our green may be a little different from the Nazi green, but it’s nbt enough to convince a front-line doughboy when people are shooting at him. “I snaked along through brambles and prickly weeds for about {an hour, with shells cracking up the fields alongside.
“Then I heard a couple of soldiers talking English, They sounded like
other to do something and the other| was telling him where he could go. “I yelled at them and they came over where I was lying with bayonets pointed t at me. “They turned out to be Canadfans, : “One of them told me to lie there, with .arms stretched out on the ground, while he took a look at me. When he let me get up he kept the bayonet an inch or so from my ribs while the other guy went through my pockets. "I kept telling him I was a Yank. - “Well, all I had was my dogtags and niy accent. They weren't impressed. They said lots of Heinies talked English with an American accent. Any Heinle could pound out a couple of dogtags.
Major Suspicious
The major was pretty suspicious.
proof I was a Yank. “I was feeling pretty low when just then an American doughboy | came by. He was in a jeep dragging a dead cow that was knocked off by a shell. The major yelled at him. “‘Come here,’ he said. tell whether this guy's American or not?’
Americans. One guy was telling the
H.P. WASSON
“The doughboy shook his head.
“They took me to their major.
‘How in hell can I tell whether he's American or not,’ he said. ‘He looks like a Yank, but there's all kinds of Yanks.’ “I was just about ready to cut my throat at that time. But I asked the doughboy where he came from and my luck was. in, “He said Chicago. I told him to ask me some questions about Chicago. “So ‘he asked me what bounded the Loop, and I knew that one, He asked me who was mayor of Chicago and I said Ed KeHy. “He asked me where the Edgewater was and Calvary cemetery, and I knew all about those, too. “And for the $64 question he wanted ‘to know how the Chicago fire started, and I told him and he said to the major, “This guy's all right.’
H } e said I'd have to give him amet got into the jeep and helped lug
Poses $128 Question “So the major told me to scram.
|th e dead cow to this doughboy's mess. Other guys gave me lifts till I got here. ” I admitted it was an amazing story and congratulated him on his good fortune, but there was just a
‘Can you little something about his com-
|pendium of facts about Chicago that failed to rouse the proper {nostalgia on one long gone and far
a radiant
drying effect.
from the Joop. I ventured a ques=
tion, a sort of $128 question. ; “And just what,” we asked “did cause the Chicago fire?” The Heutenant grinned. “I told him it was spontaneous combustion,” he said. “I never was in Chicago except one week af the
world’s fair and I never knew they
had a fire, Me, buque, Ia.” “But the soldier,” we asked. “Didn't he trip you on that one question?” The lieutenant sniffed. “He didn't know anything about it either,” he sald. “He's from some farm town down in Indi :
Copyrigns, 1944, by The Indianapolis Times d The Chicago Daily News Ine,
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