Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1945 — Page 12
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1048 _ ~ YOUR VICTORY GARDEN . . . By Henry L. Pree
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is the slogan for victory gardeners of 1045 as they start off on a | hobby that not only is fun, but
healthful. ‘There's: nothing. that |
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a session with ™ soil and seeds. | Vegetable gar- | dening can be : made to pay | dash dividends as well as save blue points this year. Every jar of tomatoes rep= resents a Save ing of 20 blue
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stated in her report that-she, with the help of one daughter, canned 390 jars of vegetables and 110 jars fruit, plus storing some 30 bushels of onions, beets, carrots. potatoes, cabbage, squash. and turnips. - All this came from her own garden, In addition to supplying - her. table during the growing season, Mrs. Benzo, 69, less than five feet tall and weighing but 105 pounds, sold her surplus tomatoes and other vegetables for $163.68 and won $70.45 in cash premiums at the county fair. The prize-win-ning garden of 4his tiny lady covers only a half-acre and furnished
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points, and every jar of peaches { or pears means 60 blue points, | which can be used next winter to purchase luxuries such as |
asparagus, pineapple and other 5 vegetables and fruits which canr not be grown in the average | garden, Mrs. Catherine Benzo, Norway, Mich,, winner of last year's Green. |
Thumb contest conducted by the | _National Victor; Victory Gar den n Institute, 1
fresh and canned vegetables for 15 people in her family, Opening of the garden season is determined by the date when danger of frost is past. The Green Thumb contest will
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again be sponsored by the Na- | tional Victory Garden Institute. The national award, as first prize
will be a $1000 war, bond. Addi-
tional awards will be given ele- |
mentary and high school
Iestants,
Brazen Thievery of-Supplies Hampers Allied War Effort
By EDWARD P. MORGAN Times Foreign Correspondent PARIS. —The allied war effort is still being bled today by the brazen -pilfering of supplies. There is a startling. degree of “boohdoggling” in Atlantic shipping: > U. 8 army officials privately admit that the recent black market. courtmartials of serve icemen here touch only part of the problem. There is petty thievery a n d
SOMEBODY in the quartermaster corps. ordered 30,000 tons of fresh Florida and California oranges shipped to American troops in western Europe. The cargoes were dispatched—not in refrigerator —ships—but in ordinary cargo vessels with the hatches sealed. When the oranges arrived in France and Belgium in January, there was snow on the ground
{ and the crates were taken from
the ships literally steaming. Fifteen thousand tons——onehalf of the consignment—were condemned, Some army. officials failed to see the sense of placing such an order in the first place.
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organized racketeering on a scale which Mr. Morgan would ‘make the old-time prohibition gangsters sit up and take natice. 2 5 =
ACCORDING to Relief Information, a recent behind-the-scenes investigation of army sup=ply operations in France has revealed that pilferage of items of high civilian value such as gasoline and dry and perishable foodstuffs, including meats, has some; times run as high as 25 per cent. Clothing is- another item on which “leakages” have béen substantial. Here are three illustrations obtained from a responsible army . source of the sort of thing going on: ou 8s = ONE: Recently, the U. 8. medical corps ordered 50,000 cases of French cognac for shipment to Britain to use for legitimate me- ‘ dicinal purposes in American hospitals there.. This shipment was dispatched by rail to the port-of
embarkation. “But before it -was + even loaded aboard: thesship; it was |
discovered that 10,000 cases—120,000 bottles—were missing. § Somewhere en route the carefully ranized theft was staged and presumably these cases found
their way into the black market. |
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THREE: The quartermaster corps also bought 10,000 tons of fresh tomatoes in the Canary islands for army messes in the European theater. The shipment was to have been made to France in a slow Spanish coaster which had no facilities to keep the tomatoes at the proper temperature = (approxi-
| quired to prevent spoiling. The cargo probably would have { been ruined before it arrived, but it was never shipped, because 9.000 tons were frostbitten in the | Canaries before they could be dispatchéd. os o THERE WAS another project reported afoot to move a large "shipment of fresh pineapples from the Azores to the western front, but it was canceled. Fresh pineapples have about 75 per cent waste tonnage due to their bulky skin. The pilfering of supplies can b
blamed largely on ecivilia racketeers. 4 ? But- the sarmy’s black market |.
trials have already proved that military personnel are involved.
Such bungling business.as the |
oranges and .tomatoe§ must be
blamed on the officers who made the orders Copyright, 1045 by The Indian s Times
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WAC HOPES To MEET HUSBAND IN MANILA
first 44 WACs to arrive in Manila, {hopes to meet her husband, Wil[liam Smith, who is fighting in the | Philippines with Gen. MacArthur's | forces.
Welch, 1127 N. Mount st., duty in New Guinea, Leyte and | Australia. |W AC detachment,
_ “THe thousands - of veterans of immortalized in ‘misery, the gran- at the tournament of their own excombat who have come home are | deur and the godlike ~patience— |istence. And that genius has mide as well as the grim humor—of the him, in a little more than a year, front-line fighting man. Most of us uthern France
trying hard to teach their wives and friends how to appreciate Bill |i Mauldin,” says Frederick C. Painton | knew long ago that Bill was a topWith |drawer cartoonist, but recently on la day in northern Italy, watching [the Yanks slug their way through
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Capt. Margaret L. Perry
' MARGARET L. PERRY (above), daughter of -Mr., and Mrs. James E. Perry, 3716 College ave. has been promoted to captain.in the army nurse corps. A graduate. of Memorial . hospital schook of nursing in Louisville,- Ky., and of the University of Chicago, she is chief nurse at the 158th general hospital in England. Two of her brothers are in the navy Pharmacist's Mate 3-c David B. Perry is stationed at the naval hospital in Honolulu and Pharmacist’'s Mate 1-¢ James W. Perry is serving in the South Pacific. .
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the Gothic line, I realized that Bill SCH among the great of this earth.” Mr. Painton gives a vivid picture of- the Mauldin drawings and says in the that the art staff of the Stars and [front line roaring with laughter at| Stripes have concluded “that Bill Referring to the Mauldin char- the sight of some Mauldin car- is in direct line of the great car-
soldiers
acters, Joe and Willie, who appear toons, and adds:
exclusively in Indianapolis in The | { Times, { “In these two hollow-eyed,
| shaven infantry characters he has'constant peril of their lives laugh creator of The Better 'Ole.”
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front-line guys” Mauldin sald. |church will unite with the churc “We've been away from home a long, | {for a sunrise service at 6:30 Faste! one ni and ue combat troops morning at West Newton. : on't realize things change. p ik isi Son 2 eke. ating churches are the many of the girls married, guys nasyood Baptist, Fairfield they knew going Hp in better jobs, Friends, Camby Community, Valley towns ‘changing It's* going fo be {Mills Friends, Mount Pleasant and tough on Joe and Willie when they | West Newton churches, The Rev
come home. They have to adjust themselves. So, after the parades Alfred H. Backus, Lester Clay, Mor the and the whoopee are over, I hope |!S Arnott-and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
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the idol of combat men in North Africa and - Italy, Sardinia and Corsica, and now, at last, in France.” It is through the understanding of these cartoons that there lies the best hope of understanding the returned veterans. He goes into {detail about the absolute accuracy
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