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YOUR VICTORY GARDEN... By Henry L. Pree,

DDT, Army Wonder Spray,

Has Garden Pisa eantrnes

at Orlando, Fla., quarantine, rediscovered DDT pyrethrum and rotenone. tremely favorable results of laboratory and field test in caused DDT to po become a house- | hold word to mil« lions of Americans who have never used it nor even seen it, To | our armed forces | abread, and to ‘| the inhabitants | in many foreign lands, it is a familiar and nec-

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protection against insect-borne dis-| and trees.

In 1042, entomologists

|demic in the Naples area by dei | Jousing several millions of Italians | | with it. | Many wild

‘| natural for farmers, gardeners and

housewives to want to use DDT]

now. Unfortunately some: of these

| claims are unture,

DDT insecticides were found ex- | perimentally to be definitely mare [effective than those clirrently ised

{for control of some 30 pests that |

attack field crops, man, livestock

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MEMORIAL SERVICE. “FOR ENSIGN SCHENK

Memorial services for Ensign Har- |

and Mrs. Hugo G. killed in action, will be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday in’ the Fairfax Christian church. A member of the 81st Fighting squadron: with~ the Pacific fleet, he lost his life Dec. 14, 1944, when his

plane burst in flames after crash-|

ing into the’ ocean while attempting a night landing. He. entered ‘the navy as an aviation cadet Nov, 11, 1942, and went He was a graduate of Washington high school and was a member of Puritan lodge No. 678, I. O. O. F., and Libby lodge No. 1452, A. F. of I. He was also active in the Indianapolis Roller Aces, MEERA £. Ne Mel Other survivors are a sister, Betty Jane, and his grandfather, O, W. Howard, :

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Pohosts i in Our Howse? in Pacific—Futile Jap Garrisons on oy Pasiad Islands’

By JAMES C. L

Times Foreign Correspondent 20.—~The

old Earl Schenk, husband of Mrs. ! {States holds the western Pacific, anas,

DDT is the new insecticide, unknown to the public in 1942, but about | Helen Schenk, 1218 Oliver ave., and and firmly, but there are ghosts in. & Tinian ‘and Saipan as well which over 500 articles had been published in 1944. DDT was discovered son of © Mr, ' 70 years ago by an abscure German cheniist, but not used until a few Schenk, 506.Somerset ave, who was The ghosts are the futile” Jap! years ago by the Swiss to-.combat a potato pest. laboratory of the bureau of entomology and plant in their search for a substitute for The eRe" 4 the ease and death. U. 8S. army .med1943 ical units thwarted a typhus epi-

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garrisons spotted on. and there around fhe holdings, neutralized by air, cut off by sea and bypassed as the army and navy smashed on toward Japan Kwajalein and Eniwetok, for instance, are two Marshall islands that are Ameri-

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teantheld, but there are substantial a. couple of battalions of Japs had to warrant the cost in blood of cestors. {Jap garrisons on Wotje, Mille and Jaluit, estimated at sev-|it is used for practice bombing by [the useless .garrison. |

eral thousands in all

Mr. Leary

EARY From a plane near Rota, the bat- | Guam and Saipan: Every day or so |1sland, was asked how it was he had

tered air-strip and several yellow (a few are.picked up and some are {taken prisoners. - “I don't know, streaks of roads are visible, Nol {now beginning. .to respond ‘to the sir,” he replied. “I guess .they {Japs were seen, though at night | psychological approach by. surrén- | just snuck up on us.” lights appear, dering. The island Jap hunters oc- |Capyright, 1945, by The Indianapoiis Times | In the coral cliffs at the nérth | casionally send a prisoner back into| ~~ *Md the Chicago Daily News, Ige. ! {as Ulithi, 450 miles to the “south-|/end the Japs have been digging | the jungle to persuade his fellows | OFFICERS ELECTED west, while the Japs occupy the caves, leaving streaks of white, !to surrender and they always return : Carolines, south” of the .Marianas|NeW-cut coral dust down the face with a few more prisoners BY PHI KAPPA PHI and east of Ulithi, and Babelthuap | °f the weather gray abutment. The | Loudspeakers with Japanese rec- Officers were electad and- sevemt in the Palau.islands further west. Pattern of their gardens is also ords, or prisoners talking are often Hew: members named: by the Butler ao the group in which the Ameri-|#lear; some are already green, used in this efforts - .vitniversity chapter of Pni Kappa fa cans hold Peleliu. others merely “rectangles marked One Near Headquarters Phi, national honorary scholarship--It is believed that ‘there are | Off in the reddish-brown earth that | Sometimes they are found close society, : : .“e many thousands of well-armed, | 100ks so much like the Connecticut ! Recently on New members are Mrs. Beth > ’ ® } 101} ne . er & - trained and self-sustaining Japs river valley or a Georgia hillside. : | Henderson Elliott. Mrs. Virginia’ { Negley Hollingsworth, Mrs. Jane BE. -

in the Carolines, especially at Truk, Garrison * Is Useless’ - Iwas found holed up in a canyon Jaban’s principal base in the south| No anti-aircraft fire rose, though NOt far from supreme headquarters! gowett Miss Mary Lucille Mare Pacific. There are other thou- | combat ‘ some occa- | though most of them are trying to shall, Miss Betty Frances Thome, sands at- Babelthuap th ; steal food or clothing, rather than and Thomas A: Stump, all of Indie It 1s also true of the Marianas attempt sabotage anapolis, and Mrs. Betly Marie themselves. Just northeast of th® Japs there are probably well | Hunger is forcing manv to sur-!Eck. Zionsville {Guam, a few miles, is the small, {supplied and that the value of the irender, despite the possibility. of Dr. Allegra Stewatt was named [cliff-begirt island of Rota, where little island is not’ great enough theological ‘trouble with their an-|presidént of the Butler chapter. Dr, Occasionally °, taey kill. Ames Carlile is vice president, Dr, They. 'still have it and scaling the steep cli ffs all. around stragglers or souvenir hunters Juna Beal, treasurer; Prof, Esther = Recently the sergeant of a Négro Renfrew, corresponding secretary, . A constant the B-20s Thera are still Japs, even oniunit which is mopping up one and Miss Faye Cantrall, secretary.

watch is Kept, on them. They ive lon stores and fish. The same is true of the Mariwhere the Americans hold

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islands here

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were found to have little or no

| effect,

The 30 pests against which ex- | | periments show DDT to he especia]- |

[ly toxic include the codling” moth, | cabbage looper, cotton flea-hopper,

| eastern tent caterpillar, elm bark |

| beetle, green-striped maple worm, [gypsy moth, horn flies on cattle, | Japanese beetle, Lygus and four other suckling bugs, pine sawflies, | spruce budworm, mosquitoes, bedbugs, three kinds of lice on man, jand house flies and figas in build- | ings. Pollinating Insects Hit, Too

| Experiments have shown that { DDT insecticides are about equal | to other materials in effectiveness |against these 18 pests: Corn ear (worm, diamondback moth, FEuropean corn borer, eockroaches, grape berry moth, grasshoppers, imported {cabbage worm, oriental fruit moth, * potato -leafhopper, silverfish, and the following stored product pests— = cadelle, confused” flour beetle, gran{ary weevil, Indian-meal moth, lesser grain borer, red flour beetle, rice | weevil, and saw-toothed grain beetle.

little or no effect against these 14

common “pests: Boll weevil, Cali-

Florida red scale, Mexican bean beetle, orchard mites, paraltoria scale, plum curculio, red spider, and sugarcane borer. Unhappily DDT insecticides have been found to kill honeybees and

many fruit ahd seed crops depend for fertilization. Parasites and predators. which help to hold in check many harmful pests are also destroyed. A serious problem is how to use DDT to kill injurious pests without too great decimation of insects beneficial to man, The war situation makes inadvisable any prediction regarding availability of DDT for civilian use Even if supplies were available, DDT insecticides could not he gen- | | erally recommerided at this time.

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