Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1945 — Page 8

YOUR VICTORY GARDEN . . By Henry L. Pres’ | Care Is Required to Tie Tomato Vines to Stakes

The common problem PoRfrONinG the Victory - gardener at this “time is when and how to prune and train tomato plants to.stakes or other support which, 1 assume, were placed In the ground before setting out plants. At present we are much excited about the unusually heavy infesta- * tion of aphids which we are trying to o kill with a nicotine- Riiste soapy water spray... Generally — peaking, tomato branch, First pinch out with the plants are tfimmed to a single | firigers—do not use a knife—all side stem and fast- 2 I shoots appearing just above where “ened to the ! |the young branches join the main stakes with a soft stem. Continue removal of ‘these twine or piece of side shoots, or . suckers as -most cloth, ‘and the gardeners calt them, as the plants sucker growth continue to grow, Na top pruning removed -as-it-de« should -sbe-—doné---until—the—vine . vélops along the . reaches the top of the stake or stem. whatever support is used. And, as a _mat- Tying of the vines begins when Ro the plants are a. foot in height {ter ‘of caution w | First tie tight around the stake and users of ‘tobacco, ‘then loosely around the stet, and always wash your Itie “just under a strong leaf stem hands before Mr. Pree {or branch. _ touching the plants at all times | Allow at ‘least two fingers width throughout the season to avoid|of space between the stem and the possibilities of tobacco mosaic, afstake—and be sure that blossom virus type of disease which will kill land fruit clusters are swung away your plants, and for which there is from the stake. no cure. or even control. Pruning ‘and staking'.is a pracIt also affects peppers, eggplants, tical and advisable procedure * fot potatoes, petunias and a large num~ home gardeners with limited land ber of other members of the night- | areas. Gardeners haying large shade family.» This deadly virus areas of ground and the commercial is readily transmitted in ty ing and growers of outdoor tomatoes will pruning tomato vines. probably find it more satisfactory tc : Pruning ~begins when plants are|let the plant grow unstaked and unabout a foot high and beginning to!pruned.

Unrest, Political Uncertainty

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NEW AIR RECORD ~ OVER ATLANTIC SET

CASABLANCA, June 30 (U. P.) —

By GEORGE WELLER

Times Foreign Correspondent

mand Douglas Skymaster has estab- BASE IN EASTERN BURMA =(De-

lished a new trans-Atlantic record|layed).—Rhythmic taps on the nape |

WITH THE AMERICAN JING-| (Delayed). —An .air transport com-| PAW RANGERS, AT ADVANCED

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*u. S. Rangers a Hill Tribesmen fo Fight Tapote! in Bite ips

farmy’'s neck—have pushed that {army to the edge of desperation:

[ THE JAPANESE Kfiew. that thelr|

[ backs southern Asia.

were against the - wall in But they did not

for scheduled transport planes by|of the neck can induct madness in know that the-wall was studded flying the. 3298 miles between. Ber-|an army as in a human being. The | with American spikes. These spikes

muda and Casablanca in 14 hours{ Japanese army is and 2 minutes.. etting those taps © “Capt. James .I. Thomas, pilot,|fr-om America’s Pittsburgh, reported the plane aver: |strangest army. aged a ground. speed of 235 miles an| The Jingpaw hour over most of the route. The|rangers are the transport carried a peak load of 3560] 0 rly American gallons oi gasoline, Puna troops The Skymaster—one-of those being (6 till fighting in used to transport American troops to| Burma. - the United States—made the round|. These . slouch- § trip in 31 hours and 4 ‘minutes 1y- hatted rangers, in § ing-time:- a ttheir-—Robinhood——— ATC officials pointed put the non-| green, look more Mr. Weller stop flight would not be practicalllike characters from some frontier regularly because of the large gaso- western than soldiers: line. load required at the take-off,| They lead bands of’ 'slant- eyed) cutting down the payload. | fighters - from the

TOWN CLERK 34 TERMS “GRAY; Me. (U. P.).~It’s a habit with William H. Dumphe of Gray. Dumphe recently consecutive clerk here.

the Chinese and Thai borders.

{the rear of Japanese withdrawals was elected to his|into Indo-China and Thailand. term as town!

Plague Prosperous Swed n|

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN [materially and to succor Norwegian, Times Foreign Correspondent Russian, French and other survivors STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 2—|of the German terror camps. Coming to Sweden today is like What _is far more to -the credit taking a trip right back into the of Sweden and the Swedes is that

3 3 every decent Swede to whom you American boom days of 1923. talk is sorry that the country could

isthe surface the country is s0|not have cut a nobler figure back in normal and so fiercely prosperous the days when it was dangerous that it is shock- | to do so. ing It must be Fecorded in this conThe people 100K | nection that the Swedish governwell fed and well | ment did not consult the riksdag dressed and|before submitting to Germarr teStockholm is its mands for transit rights. lovely old self, oy than which there] ECONOMIC and political unrest

is nothing much js present even in this comparative lovelier. héaven.

The same pale- / blue €treetcars| For five months now, 125000 swing around Te- | workers in the metallurgical indusMr. Stoneman gelbacken, G US-{tries have been on strike—prostraitavadolphstorg and Stureplan. |ing such splendid export firms as The sélfsame . steamers—Express |L._M. Ericsson, the Swedish Ball1, Express 2, the “Torbaatar” and| bearing Co.:“ Bofors, Swedish Gen Wazxholm, lie in front of the Grand eral Electric hotel waiting to take travelers out] : : {great Goteborg shipbuilding works. to the island resorts of the Skaer- Their demands have been for about

garrden. 3 cents an hour increase in time rates and a 5 per cent increase in piece rate pay. The employers have resiste demands on the ground t their [employees are already Sweden's | highest pald workers and that an increase would spoil export possi- | bilities.

» » ” THE SAME fishermen ply their| - dipnets in the fastflowing Stroemmen and gaping crowds still line the nearby parapets waiting for them! to catch something. At Operakaellaren, Bernssalonger, Bellmansro and Hasselbracken people still. stuff themselves with * 2 8 smorgasbord and good red meal. | OTHERWISE, Sweden's general At Veesex we found old. friends from the Dagens Nyheter (Stock- | {economic position has not suffered holm newspaper) eating their 10 seriously during the war, o'clock supper as they did 17 years, National incomes have decreased

Electrolux and the|.

ago and teasing Ida, the same little | 14 har cent since the War's beginning | -

waitress from Blekinge, who served |,nq living standards have decreased us in the good old days. in the same “proportion.

#2. a ® dud + But the cost of living has been NORDISKA KOMPANIET, which | | absolutely stable since autumn ol

rates as one of the finest depart=| gs ment stores’iti the world, is jammed | What may cause a further defull of things that you can't buyi ce is the fact that Sweden has anywhere else in Europe, barring, o granted such enormous credits possibly Switzerland. to the allied belligerents. Gold, silver and pewterware shine a in the shop windows and the clerks| ‘CREDITS to Norway, Finland and are as polite as they ever were. | Denmark during the past year You.can get a taxi and the tele- amount to 1,000,000,000 kroner, or. 7 phones *work, something. that just per cent of the national: income doesn’t happen elsewhere in -the purther credits to Holland, Belgium, Europe of 1945. and France bring the-total to 10 per 8:8 8 |cent of the national income. THIS is the surface picture of] portunately, these credits are eafSweden—and it is a true one to the marked for the purchase of Swedish extent that the Swedes are infinitely | 5, nius goods which are already on better off than any other Europeans hand, Underneath the surface there i| primase a less pleasant pieture, a picture of pO LI T I C A L uncertainty is mental unrest and political un- |grounded on the apparent intention certainty based largely on the “red|of the Social Democrats to form a menace.’ | purely labor government this fall to Sweden has a natural superiority | replace the present coalition. complex . based ‘upon the natural wealth of the eountry, the magnifi-|the social democratic radical faccent manner in which the Swedes | tion which they fear will control the have exploited that natural wealth|nayw oovernment, and, particularly of —and, the fact that as a race the iw, men, Prof. Gunnar Myrdal, Swedes unquestionably are SUPerior | ov ocens head of the government mentally and physically to manyloianning commission, and Ernst other peoples of this world. | Wistorss, minister of finance s 7% . . TODAY this superiority: complex is’ badly scrambled with a tent. porary, but potent, inferiority complex—growing out of the fact that | Sweden was a neutral. in a world] and at a time when decent-minded | people, as individuals, could not he . 'p nejtral, = : | sTRONG Torche including Sweden's wartime position can be conservative wing in, the explained away; but dec i Swedes: no nocratic party, itself, will combat —and that means most of the the. formation of a radical governSwedes who count--will not. forget ment and it may that Sweden allowed German troops fori : to cross its boundaries bound for . Norway, : The fact that Sweden three times refused the Germans transit while “active hostilities” lasted does not) erase the fact tliat the Germans! crossed Swedish territory while the Norwegians were being tossbd into Grinni, Moellergaten 19 .and other| gestapo hellholes

tionaNzation of the insurance busts ness and the oil and coal trades, | partial socialization of the shoe in(dustry, and government publication 10f school Books,

115 seals and seats out of 230 in the rik Another cause Russ talk about possibilities, A solid, comprehensive

(Britain and Russia regarding

: OFFICIALLY, Sweden has taken ot Of Nordic nerves,

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the. nearby rice fields.

green-soaked | mountains of eastern Burfia along|

are the rangers, This dispatch is written on a bamboo table littered with orangecolored explosive fuses, long knives, revolvers and radio parts, in the grass shack of an advanced rangers’ base. The writer came here from northern Burma in two successive one-passenger liagon planes, . The narrow,. short runway glints with motionless water resembling It is monsoon time in Burma.

Even at 500 feet, the air beneath |

{the vibrating plane is. filmy with -haze gathering itself into water vapor, over green. jungle, and go! " 8.8

thick -with squalls

the mountains, gray-black \

- HARDLY has one landed when| . Their mosquito stabs—their tap-|the rainy gray curtain sweeps across preceded both, has ‘landed and pings of the back ef-the Japanese the” half-flooded fleld, wiping from|radioed back word that this hidden

sight the white pagoda standing. like: a wedding cake in a nearby hill, 3 “Which outfit you going. in wih” ofie ranger asks you. You tell him the code name of the outfit fighting behind the Jap lines. “That outfit is on the move, the Japs are after them,” says the sombreroed ranger with a half-grin. “They had two wounded yesterday.” o ” ® SOME of the rangers drop in by parachute, That was the original plan for me. But a- nameless West Pointer ranger—although on the move—was able te, clear a field in the mountain for the broad-winged light plane to land. ~The. rangers__are. improvisers. Their Jingpaw hillmen soldiers expect thé impossible from them and get it.

When - they plunge through the

open plane doors right into the Jap lines, most rangers do so without training. So the Jingpaws likewise place their small, dark hands on the door.and plunge after them. But alwaf® some native agent has

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THE JINGPAW- rangers have

their Stilwells "and ~ ‘Merrills—but

they are nameless and must remain so..until after the war because

Burma is only one. of several fronts;

‘where they are chopping up Japan's rear. Some Americans have Yugoslav or Greek names. That is because they were originally intehded to be dropped into the Balkans. One sergeant medico, wearing a broad-brimmed Gurkha - style hat, actually had been dropped several times along Be ii

WHEN Noga Plies are taken by the Japs they die slowly and with torture. That is-one of the reasons why few. are caught. One such raider—who early in June fell before Japanese machine gunfire—was a six-footer whom his comrades buried in a. coffin only five ‘and one-half feét long. The Japs, who' reached the body first, had severed his ‘feet and hands.

: aH a RANGERS leading hill tribes es-

pecially. sympathetic to the Ameri cans have softened Burma up to 150 miles in advante -of the main ground forces. Yet, they are’ unknown and “will remain anonymous until Japan yields. They. cannot reveal even to their wives what they aré doing. Some have ceased writing home, .- One of them, closely surrounded by the Japanese, had a letter

dropped to him with his ammunition -

supplies.

It contained divorce papers served :

by his wife's lawyers. Her love could not survive his enforced silence. >

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announced ‘a trapper has caught

four coyotes on the 2008-acre Tech -

campus—one of the largest in the nation.

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