Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1946 — Page 4

Former Residential Mansion wring Now Most Expensive Fly Tra

rinkled eT PHILADELPHIA, March 14 (U. room where Gen. MacArthur once : 80. P).~If you're a fly and live in the|SPlashed, is one of the chief execu-

tioneers af the insects, state of Pennsylvania, you can get “And"I believe this new ‘666, or yourself killed in a yap that cost! henzene hexachloride * that = we’ re $2,500,000. using Is even more toxic than The execution MARSIOn-~Just out-\ DPT,” Mr, Walker said. “DDT re- { side Philadelphia—has 180 rooms, mains effective longer, but this * gold-plated door knobs, its 0Wn| has a heavier punch.” electric and. heating plants; Dr. Walker, who likes ta kill more Gen. Douglas MacArthur used 10) things than just flies, figures that sleep in one of its many beds, the boll weevil down south had

wt ARATIVE Not only that. but James H. R.| better hunt for cover fast. i Cromwell, Doris Duke's ex-hubby,! “DDT doesn't faze the 11 | used to swing his dumbbells out on| weevil,” he said, “but, boy, wait

| the roof and pound his bared chest | until we get through spraying him in the morning sun. with ‘666’.”

There's no question in any in The house that Morgan’ § partner How To Relieve Sects yund but thas Whitemarsh py; not only serves as an abbatoir hall is the most expensive and [1

or flies but also.acts as the Jump.

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elaborate fly trap in the world, and| ing off place for pea. aphids, bean ronchitis it sometimes does away with 3000 P pe P flies in a single day. | anything else that Dr. Walker ean

turers of DDT and a new insecti-| cide known as “666,” bought the! "| place from Mrs. Edward Stotesbury,’ widow of the famous Morgan part- entomologist, Dr. ner, in 1944. Scientists have been giving poor! flies. They put them in nice boxes, flies the works down in the cham-| With milk and cotton mixtures for pagne room ever since. Dr, Harry G. Walker, who now! 0 a good fighting weight, and then

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Dr. Walker has a reply all fixed up for anyone who starts feeling {sorry for the poor flies, “Do you | know,” he said, “if you started with {two flies fn April and the breeding cycle continued until the next | September without a single fatality { —do you know how many flies you | would have?” “No,” we said. “How many?” “Allowing an eighth of a cubic inch for each fly, they would cover! the entire earth — including the oceans—and lay 49 feet deep,” he, said, Thege's one visitor that hasn't! | Visited Mrs. Stotesbury’s big house | {on the hill, and all-the boys are a [little afraid to see him come, “It's the Harlequin or Calico bug from down south,” Dr. Walker ex- | plained. “He just laps up DDT, you tknow, with no ill effects at all. | We're hoping to stop him with this ‘666°. But some folks figure they'll be | breaking even if that Harlequin | terror doesn’t gobble up their gold! | doorknobs.

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