Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1944 — Page 8

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| WARTIME LIVING— | Cotton Goods Price Boost . Authorized by New Ruling

By ANN STEVICK * Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—There won't be sensational price rises to figure in your clothes budget, but the clause in the new price control set-up which says every separate cotton item must be priced high enough to give cotton growers full legal return is expected to add an extra outlay of between 25 and 50 million collars. All-over cost is high because the items affected are the every-day | sheeting and cottons that millions of people must have for work- | shorts and such standard everyclothes, school clothes, infant's | day items made of basic cotton wear, house- | yarns and cloths whose mill prices dresses, and | must go up are likely to show an underwear. So | increase as the adjustment procfar the only | ess continues. new prices set Prices on housedresses, school up are on | dresses and boys’ shirts made, of denim, which | cotton prints may be evened up by went up a cent forthcoming rules which will do at the mill | away with more expensive cotton level. finishes. The least expensive ones Office of | which haven't been easy to find, : price adminis- | anyway, were usually made of tration price | plainer cottons. Your shopping Ann Stevick experts are troubles in looking for these at 4, Perishable matter will not be looking for some place along the | lowest prices are apt to get worse. . line betw: mill and Ket Price experts point out that as accepted. e ben 20k ngrie studies proceed on costs of cotton . Other Contraband Listed where this increase can come off

items to make sure that prices . te : 50 you, won't pay more for fin- { allow room for full legal return po Loans, Santen eT ished clothes. Since work cloth- | to the cotton grower, some prices whi h — , Kill or injure another ing manufacturers have long may turn out to be above the nec- or Rn ihe mails are prohibited complained they produced at a | essary limit, and come in for a 6 It absolutely necessary that loss, itis certain that many work | reduction. These are likely to articles be wrapped in boxes of clothes prices must go up. be found among more luxurious metal, wood solid fiberboard or Knit underwear and infant's | wear, however, and there are no strong double-faced corrugated clothes, women's slips, men’s p i

OVERSEAS YULE MAIL DATES SET

Rules Given for Preparing Packages to Start September 15.

Christmas packages for men and {women in the armed forces must be mailed between Sept. 15 and Oct, 15, the war, navy and postoffice departments announced today. Here is what you must do to get your gifts safely on the way and there on time: 1. Observe the prescribed mailing date and mark your package “Christmas parcel.” 2. No parcel must -weigh over five pounds and only one such parcel may be sent in any one week by the same person to the same addressee, 3. No package may exceed 15 inches in length or 36 inches in length and girth combined.

Russian Airmen Say Cobra * Is Answer to.Nazi Planes

EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada,] American pilots, and" Aug. 7 (U. P.).—The tough, combatwise Russian airmen, who for the past two years have been ferrying American-built war planes across the wastes of Alaska and Siberia to European battlefronts; are great between them and the American admirers of the Bell P-39 Airacobra | pilots and mechanics. But this was as an antidote to Messerschmitt |largely due to language difficulties, trouble, and after competent interpreters ~ “Cobra—hokay!” they tell you,|were made available relationship making the airman’s universal “on|improved. the beam” sign—thumb and fore- Use Three Crews finger touching. Three crews of Russian pilots now And when you see these veterans operate along” the Alaskan-Eu-of Leningrad, Sevastopol and Stal- ropean route—a crew operating ingrad dog-fighting . with one an-|between Fairbanks and Nome, a other in the frosty sub-arctic sky crew which goes from Nome to a over Fairbanks and Nome, you are/point inside Siberia, and a crew aware that they know all the grim |which takes the planes to their tricks of their trade. American eventual destination in Russia. fighter pilots, among the most high-| Since 1941 some 5000 planes have ly trained in the world, give the [been flown through Canada to RusRussian combat fliers credit for be- |sia, approximately one-half of all ing very, very hot, the lend-lease planes received from . , the United States by the Soviets. At o ‘A Dead Pigeon Nome and Fairbanks I have seen “Went up against one of those | tremendous numbers of P-39's and lads one day for a practice tilt,” | light bombers on the fields awaitsaid an American colonel, “and he ing the Russian ferry crews—lined taught me something I'll never for- up wing to wing, complete with get. I was chasing him in a steep camouflage paint and the hig Soviet red star on their wings and fuse-

men. They are quiet, seldom frequenting bars or night clubs. When they first arrived in the north to begin ferrying airplanes aeross the Bering sea, there was some tension

climb when he dropped 10 degrees | of flaps and let me boom past him, | lages. and the first thing I knew he was| The Russians have shown no deon my tail, and if it had been a sire for the heavy fortress bombers real fight I would have been a dead which have been used with such pigeon.” |effectiveness against the Germans

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FRENCH ENLIST YOUTHS IN ITALY

Legion Recruiting Office Criticized by Press as ‘Allied Error.’

By Times Foreign Service ROME, Aug. 7—The French have opened a recruiting office’ in Rome for the French foreign legion to which “many Italian youths are presenting themselves,” the Action party's newspaper Italia Libera has announced, calling the action “a grave error on the part of the allies.”

The newspaper has nothing against the foreign legion as such, it says, adding that many Italian anti-fascists who joined the legion in the past because they had nowhere else to go, acquitted themselves well. = ; “But recruiting for the legion on Italian soil under the present conditions of hunger, at a time when it is not permitted for Italian youth to take up arms even in slightest

in their own Italian formations, looks too much like a mercenary affair, not to mention an insult to our sense of justice,” the pape says, : Italy's army has an authorized strength of 30,000 men.

, The Russian pilots are older than on the western front. Signs yet that it can be done. fiberboard reinforced with gummed P :

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7. All containers holding more t By A. A. IRWIN

than one gift must be closely : packed. - , 8.-The address must be legible Despite the adverse weather conditions, gardeners are making a strenuous effort to get a fall garden started. The need for these fall _- ._ produced vegetables will be great and the vigilant gardener may bring

and address as well >as the name,|: [frank.serial niimber, branch of seryoo (ice, organization, A. P. O. number Ce a ty and postoffice “of the addressee ns ig Dual son head | through which his mail is normally are:a deep green color, sweet, and | sens. does well here as a fall crop. - Double Check on Address

Sow the seed this week in rows 9. The addressee information and thin the plants to six inches | should be repeated on a sheet of apart in the rows, | paper and wrapped inside the pack- |" | age in order that no loss will ocThe tomato fruit worm can be | cur if it becomes unwrapped in controlled on tomatoes by spray- |

$ ! ) | transit. - : Ing or dusting them with either | 1p Greeting cards must be mailed . an arsenical or cryolite spray or '

in an envelo and mailed first dust. Both of these insecticides pe

: class. are poisonous, and the treated The postoffice department tomatoes should be washed to re- stressed the fact that no packages move the residue before they are mailed through A. P. O. addresses eaten. should be registered or. insured. . Mail to the navy, marine corps or coast guard may be registered or

and must be in typewriting or ink. “u

[It.must indicate the sender's name| . <-. «* them to a successful harvest.’ - zo : 5 FYE , .

Bibb lettuce is a new-old lettuce. It is new to most gardeners, but it was developed over 100 years ago by horticulturist John Bibb. . Until recent years it remained with his family and community near Frankfort, Kentucky.

There have been plenty of tomato troubles ‘this year; first, the fruit would not set on because of the extreme heat; next, the blossom-end rot has been bad this year and now the tomato fruit worm is eating the green tomatoes, The tomato fruit worm is the same as the corn ear worm.

Keep the fall garden growing by

It is not too late to plant early shailow cultivation, killing the

maturing beets, lettuce, early ma-

insured if it meets with require- ‘ weeds and continue watering dur- turing bush snap beans, spinach, ments that are available at any ing dry spells. Garden soils dry | turnips and kale. If you are able |postoffice. out quickly in August unless soil | ‘to get peas started and can keep No special requests are necessary moisture is conserved. The best | them going this month, the cool to secure Christmas delivery, Just - way to conserve moisture is to use | nights of next month should give

> follow the rules. a mulch, \ You some good quality peas.

If there is-crab grass in your lawn, mow it and catch the clippings. Rake up the prostrate stems and mow again, then repeat this operation again, Removing all of the seed stalks from the lawn is your primary control measure at this time,

‘Spike Bombs' Rip

Japs From Base

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U. P.). —U. 8. army airforee bombers employed “spike bombs” to help blast the Japanese out of Myitkyina, key communications point in northern Burma which has just fallen to Lt. Gen. Joseph W, Stilwell's allied forces, the war department has disclosed. The bombs are 100-pounders with spikes two feet long in the ends like axles. When dropped by low-lying pombers the spikes stick into the targets and prevent the bombs from bouncing away. The Germans used spike bombs in North Africa in 1942, while the allies in the China-Burma-India theater have used them for a year. First improvised in the C.-B.-L theater, they are now standard munitions,

Crab grass is the worst enemy of lawns, and thrives during hot dry weather. It is an annual grass and must start from seed each summer. A well fed, properly cared for lawn that is clipped no shorter than 1!» incnes discourages crab grass,

FARM AGENT CALLS FOR USED BASKETS

An appeal to housewives to return used bushel baskets and lids for ‘|marketing this year's record fruit crop was made today by the Marion county agricultural agent’s office. Because of the shortage of containers, growers are packing fruit and vegetables in substitute used containers, For the next four weeks especially housewives are urged to return the baskets and lids for peaches to the retailer who will, in turn, give them back to the grower for refilling. The fruit is ripening on the trees and the vegetable crops are maturing in the fields, A. A. Irwin, assistant agricultural agent, said, and the quicker these containers are returned the less chance there will be of produce being wasted because of container shortages.

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CARD PARTY, SALE

A cake sale and card party will be held by the August circle of St. Philip's Catholic church at the church at 2 p. m. Wednesday, with Mrs. John McGinty as chairman. The circle will also sponsor a card party at 8 o'clock Saturday night at Forester's hall, 10th and Rural sts. —————————

GROCER TO SPEAK

Edward Dirks, an Irvington grocer | since 1910, will speak to Rotarians! at 12:15 p. m. tcmorrow at the Clay- | , bool hotel on “Food Retailing Marches On, or Yes, We Have No! Bananas Today.” - . A ——————————————————————————— CARD PARTY SCHEDULED

~ The Itasca council 337 of Poca- | hontas will held a public card party | at 8 p. m. tomorrow at Castle hall.!

LUNCHEON PLANNED

“Fidelity Review ‘140, Women's | Benefit association, will sponsor a {covered dish luncheon at noon { Wednesday at Castle Hall, 230 E. | Ohio st, With a public card party [to follow at 2 p, m. in charge cf- | Mrs. Martha Wallace and Mrs. Ella | Hiatt. . : |

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| A8 through Z8 and A5 in Book 4

Tection ‘can be, tolerated. Military

RATIONING DATES

MEAT—Red stamps A8 through Z8 and AS, BS and C5 in Book 4 food indefinitely for 10 points each.

CANNED GOODS—Blue stamps

B3 and C3 and B4 and C4 good rf 5 gallons. T good for 5 gallons #arough Sept. 30; E, El and E23 good for 1 gallon; R, R1 and RJ are good for 5 gallons but are not valid at filling stations. Consumer may exchange R for E at his local board if he wishes to purchase non-highway gasoline at filling sta tion. A, B, C, D and T coupors are not valid until they have been indorsed in ink or pencil with auto mobile registration number and state. Motorists should write 1944 numbers on book and coupons. | FUEL OIL—Period 4 and 5 coue pons valid through Sept. 30, Al change-making coupons and reserve coupons are now good. Fuel oil ra« tions for 1944-45 heating season now being issued, Period 1 good immediately.

TIRES—Commercial vehicle tire inspection every six months or every 5000 miles. Inspection certificates on passenger automobiles will be a requisite in obtaining replacement tires. B card holders are now eligi« ble for grade 1 tires if they can prove extreme necessity. All A holders are eligible for grade 3 tires, incliding factory seconds, if they find tires which may be purchased,

SHOES—No. 1 and No. 2 “aire

good indefinitely for 10 points each.

Stamp B5 through F5 good for an indefinite period. -

SUGAR—Stamps 30, 31 and 32 In Book 4 are good indefinitely for 5 pounds. Stamp 40 in Book 4 good for 5 pounds of canning sugar, Applicants applying for canning sugar should send in one spare stamp 37, attathed to .the application for each applicant. |

GASOLINE—Stamp A-12 is good for 3 gallons and expires Sept, 21.

aged and armed by the allies when they are behind the German lines, but disbanded and disarmed when a junction has been effected between them and the allied armies— a sore point with most Italian antifascists. The Itallan fascist radio, meanwhile, issued a stern warning to partisans in an official broadcast, stating, “No internal leakage or de-

operations against them (the partisans) have been intensified, the so-called patriots are on the whole nothing more than vulgar eriminals,” the fascist radio said. '

Partisan formations are encour-

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