Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1946 — Page 7
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LOOKING BACK over 41 years of active participation in Indianapolis’ turbulent political scene,
Henry A. Fleming, long regarded as a power among
Republican Negro voters, has seen some drastic changes and he doesn’t think they're for the best. The “king maker,” as he is known, because of tis influence in-bringing unknown -candidates-to-the
in 1905, a precinct committeeman knew every voter in his precinct, ° J They really worked the precincts in those days and they learned politics the hard way,” he said. “Now most. of them are amateurs who never really work their precincts and don't know a dozen voters personally,” He has decided that the reason for this change in political tactics is that the “whole operation has become too commercialized . , . toor much paying off under the table.” ’ . ‘ Back in the early days, he recalls, a political or ganization was built up- on a basis of patronage in public jobs and hard work out in the trenches the year around. “ “Now the power of a political organization is built up around gambling; the liquor industry and the dope rackets,” he said.
Sees Change as Unhealthy
“THE HIGHLY commercialized connections between these industries and politics are controlling the machines now days. . . . In other words the man who can commercialize politics the most gets the power now days instead of the man who personalized his political work out in the precincts.) . Mr. Fleming doesn't think this change very healthy for government. ; “Some of our best citizens, those most’ valuahle to politics, being squeezed out by high-pressure commercialism all along the line,” he said. This change he has seen coming for the last 20 years, he says, is hurting law enforcement, too. “It’s that lack of personal contact again,” he said. “Years ago the foot patrolman had personal contact with everyone on his beat. When the police wanted to catch a certain criminal, the personal contact man would ask and get co-operation with any tavern owner and pool room operator where clues would always be found and the criminal caught every time.” Now, he says, the police department has lost most of its personal contacts since most of the officers are riding around in cars instead of watching the hiding places of eriminals.
Candidates Not the Same
THE CANDIDATES running for office are not They're not as colorful nor as popular with the people, he says. “Now most of the candidates are merely handpicked stooges who are chosen to run for office because they will do what the bosses want them to do,” Mr. Fleming said.
.Get-Rich-Quick
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Somebody is crazy and I fear it is the local soda jerk, who wants to sell a second-hand 1946 model six-cylinder Ford coupe which he has driven 4000 miles for—hold on tight to the seat cuyshions—$2200 cash. This metor car actually is worth, according to the used car blue book, $1137. This mixer of chocolate malted milks is not alone in the belief that his car is worth twice what he paid for it. In the capital today are more new auto- - mobiles for sale, almost, than old ones. One philanthropist will let his Cadillac go for not quite three times what it cost him. He'll throw in a radiator full of fresh anti-freeze. All he wants for his vehicle, spare tire and a gallon of alcohol included, is $4885. Make it $5000 even and he might even supply the license plates and a , bottle of scotch. His car, he neglects to point out, is worth (if it could be bought from an honest man $2098. ? It's cheaper to walk. The price of shoe leather is on the way down, One of the local highbinders with a Packard to peddle is naive. He advertises that he paid $2500 and that he will sell it very cheaply for $2900. A get-rich-quick proprietor of an identical Packard Clipper which has rolled off 5000 miles wants $3400 and don't bother him unless you bring the cash.
Drives 5-Year-Old Studebaker
«. 1 DRIVE a Studebaker Commander, myself, and a good car it is, too. When I bought it five years ‘ago the list price, {.-0. b. South Bend., Ind., was $975. “The list price today is $1520. The delivered price, without deliveries, in Washington is $1801, but I know where I can get one this afternoon. - ‘The man will sell it to me for $3500 and he's not talking about a house and lot; he means a middlesized Studebaker.
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KING MAKER-'Candidates are not what they used to be,” says Henry Fleming.
“Some of. the present-day candidates wouldn't have had a ghost of a chance of being elected 40 years ago,” he said. “Then, a candidate had to have something he could sell the people. They had to be colorful. They had to be able to arouse the voters with their oratory.” Now many of the candidates don't even make a single speech during the whole campaign, he says. “I mean a real speech we used to regard as a vote-getting piece of oratory.” Mr. Fleming, who is 62 and lives at 1044 N. West st., has worked in public jobs during 26 years of his 41 years in politics. Right now he is senior foreman of the city asphalt division of the street department. Previously he was a superintendent in the city street department and served as deputy sheriff several times. :
When his party was out of power he was in the |
restaurant business and also was engaged in construction work. He was one of the original supporters of Mayor Robert Tyndall's candidacy before the mayor himself decided to be a candidate -and he helped spearhead the candidacy of Judson L. Stark for the Republican nomination for prosecutor against the regular G. O. P, organization last spring. (By Noble Reed.)
By Frederick C. Othman
Only trouble seems to be that the Wallingfords can't get together on what their automobiles are worth. New Chryslers, for instance, can be bought for $4500, $3500, $3250 and $3000 cash. A Plymouth two-door sedan costs $2500 one place, while a fourdoor Plymouth down the street is $2200,
Maybe I'm Crazy MY OLD PAL, Chester Bowles, T guess, is chortling. So, probably, is Paul Porter. When a $1900 Buick brings $4000 and a $1700 Dodge, $2800, then maybe that soda jerk with the $2200 Ford is smart, Maybe I'm crazy. I have checked the situation with one of America’s leading automobile dealers, however, and he’s gasping; too. He's resisting the temptation to make a fortune.
“But when I see a little crook around the COTNer They sim marvel at my spirit doing it,” he said, “and strictly within the law, I y py sometimes wonder if I'm as intelligent as my mother |
thought.” He said that many citizens, including some government workers he could name if he wanted, ordered two cars and three and sometimes half a dozen last year, intending to take the one that arrived first and carcel the rest. “Now they're getting delivery,” he said, “and of course, they are taking every car they ordered. A man who ordered two cars can sell one and the other costs him nothing. A man with six new cars, and there are plenty of them, is rich.” My man said he seemed to detect that most of the fools already had been parted from their money. A few more weeks and a few more new cars, he said, and the easy-money boys may be holding bargain sales. He said he thought I ought to make my Studebaker last a while longer. I tink I will. When it wears out, I'm going to buy a 1934 model horse.
By Max B. Cook
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Great Britain and the United States are launching simultaneous tests to ‘attempt to break the transonic and supersonic’ speed Abarriers with airplanes, in an international race “against time that no Jules Verne could have imagined. The English tests are being carried on at Cornwall, in southwest England, with automatically controlled dircraft. America’s tests are to be conducted at Muroc field, Cal, near Los Angeles. Army air forces’ Bell X8-1 monoplane, powered with rockets, will be utilized. It is probable that Chalmers H. (Slick) Goodlin, Bell Aircraft test pilot, will be in the XS-1 cockpit. One interesting phase of both tests is the fact that the test planes are to be dropped from larger planes at altitudes ranging from 30,000 to 36,000 feet. While American tests will be made with the “sturdiest plane ever built,” the British are utilizing several model airplanes of about eight feet wingspan, controlled automatically and powered also with
rockets. This is due to the fact that the ministry of.
supply announces it wishes to get away from the restrictions of wind tunnels, in which past tests have been made.
Dropped From Planes
IT IS HIGHLY improbable the American tests at first will exceed by far the 830 miles per hour mark at the beginning of the so-called transonic speed range. What is learned from the first flights will determine, it is said, how far the XS8-1 can go in at-
We, the Women
IMAGINFD reactions of 8t. Paul, Minn, parents whose kids received an unexpected holiday of indefinite length when a teachers’ strike closed down 77 schools: 2 FIRST DAY: “It's not very dignified for teachers to be out on strike, carrying placards in picket lines, etc. “They seem to want a pretty big salary increase, What would that do to taxes?” SECOND DAY: “Wonder how long this strike is going to last. The kids ought to be in school. Think how far behind in their school work they are getting.
' And if Junior asks, ‘What can I do now?’ one more
time, I'll not be responsible for the consequences.” THIRD DAY: “This strike is getting serious. Junior's gang is in the house all day, acting like a bunch of caged Indians. How do the ‘teachers stand it all day long? Maybe they ARE overworked and underpaid.”
SOMETHING-—ANYTHING? Why don't they give
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FOURTH DAY: “Why doesn't the school board do
tempting to attain speeds as high as 1500 to 1700 miles per hour. The rocket-powered XS-1 is to be dropped from a speeding B-29 at an altitude between 30,000 and 35,000 feet. The British test planes are being dropped from the bellies of Mosquito bombers at about 36,000 feet, after the bombers attain about 400 miles per hour speed. After dropping about 1000 feet, it is re-
ported, the little models, under rocket power, will petition asking lower streetcar fares| Amd all this droppin’— attain about 900 miles per hour, under control of an'
automatic pilot. After 70 seconds of flight, the engine cuts off and the plane plunges into the sea.
Radar Transmits Details
RADAR SENDS down to the ground all vital details of the performance of the British models.
special adaptation of a radar transmitter, known as night asked representatives of 35 a telemeter, transmits pressure readings, air pressure information, speed-and stress readings to a ground
receiving station.
There has been some talk In army air forces’ circles about the advisability, after the first tests, of robot control of the X8-1, with readings transmitted Complete equipment for this, This would prevent the necessity of a test pilot risking his life at speeds never before attained but, at the same time, enable; scientists to determine exactly what a human being |
to ground by radar. it is understood, is available.
would undergo at the speeds attained.
The speed of sound at which supersonic speeds start varies according to altitude from 600 miles per hour at 40,000 feet, up to 763 miles per hour at sea Transonic speed has a range of from about |
level. 630 miles per hour to 900 miles per hour.
’ By Ruth Millett
imes
SECOND SECTION
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1946
e Indianapolis
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By BARTON REES POGUE Times Roving-Rhyming Reporter
trucks for avid feminine buyers.
I AM not writing about men shopping “on their own.” My discourse concerns the men who follow after. Those benighted souls who become utility trailers or pick-up
1 speak for the burden bearers of the Christmas rush— those take-up-your-bundles-and-follow-me beings for whom
The Men Go Christmas Sho ping;
1 feel such deep distress and sympathy. ; I saw them in the downtown stores last Friday. They were elated.
Davis standing.
in Strauss. I saw them and pitied them—the lame, the halt, the blind — lame in arm and leg from lugging and § trailing; blinded by the bundles that rose before
ears laid back,
helplessly against a counter, On the floor about his feet were many bundles he must soon take!
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fusion,
{tain lost, frantic look in his face. |With each hand he clung to the . |finger-cutting strings of a bundle. {I felt certain he lacked energy to [set them down. FJ ” » IN EACH department were pro- | fessional-looking men, watching the NOt his home. while their ladies tried on, held follows. {up, stretched, sniffed, | tossed aside and thought “they would look a little farther.” Legweary they poured into available chairs. From such an oasis in the shiftjing sands of that desert a man may
isay “yes” or “no” to: day
are totally lost.
man flounders.
Do you like the color?” “What away, pensive?” “Will this garment please Aunt Minnie?” “Please say, dear. Your taste is so good!” But is he there in an advisory where; capacity? I doubt it. Other than|They'll toting her bundles his chief value
square,
afford. x 2 = =»
lighted that I am willing to shop here, |with her. None of the girls in her| Stayin’
room at Sycamore Hall have fathers year,
such missions with their children.
of : Frankly, though she is quite con-
{parental bank roll. If 1 shrug my shoulders, draw a |deep sigh or frown pleasantly she
stoppin’,
{have in the basement store. So
crammed with stuff You're quite convinced they've bought enough, And your arms will be so thoroughly “took”
You can’t even reach for your county jail upon the authority of| E. C. Owen, I. B. 8. social service}, ;heq with lavender and pink. | : {They are opalescent in the sun] Price had been jailed on a vehicle-| oY 0 the fasscer it is he wil About Prize Pigs litself with more glory by bearing The governor sald he has received , spike of coral colored flowers. Mr. no previous complaints of indis-|qoie0, collection also includes six
types of night blooming plants. His featured cactus is the ostrich [day at the eager buyers who crowded The one |About the dressed carcasses of six of
there we go. I get battered hither and yon, but {on she goes—“and where she stops, nobody knows.” FJ . N | THE ALMIGHTY must have
|given women extra stamina for this |
not go in for football is an ever- | present question with me. A few
lother humans would make them
|capable of cutting through any line And of defense with fine success.
they'll
jany woman could have beaten | Army, touchdown after touchdown,
Clubs Support Dawson Petition
| Obtaining 100,000 signatures to al
stoppin’,
'will be “positive proof the people—! Droppin’
|and not just Dawson—want lower | fares.”
community clubs to support his plan
and Blanchard notwith-
None of the men I saw looked I doubt if a single fellow in Ayres, in Block's, in Wasson's, felt he was having a glorious time. Some of them appeared submissive. Most of them looked like they had been dragged in by the halter, their
MY YOUNGSTER used to dress a male kitten in doll clothes. And there he'd stand in the middle of the floor, sort of braced against the humility of it all. A lady kitten might have purred, but not the
their eyes. Hale One dear soul, h not too young and So I felt about the men I saw vestfal. leaned Nr. Pogue in the shopping maelstrom.
in their blood to be in all this conThey are not conditioned to the wearing leg-work. They are
lup again. They looked like they (DO trained for the pushing and
'had been dumped. There was a cer- [Dauling, the trying and selecting. They grow confused.
THEY WANT to help, but they Where a woman strikes out with mighty strokes, wonder he doesn't look elated. This world is
unfolded, | (onnin’, hoppin’, Never stoppin’, When we help with the Christmas shoppin’!
You'll go to town some zero “Is that large enough for Myrtle?” | And wear your poor old legs
about the style?” “Is it too ex-iA.yisitin’ stores in every Stoppin’ twice most every-
turn you another street is in the financial support he may| And stop three times in two square feet,
MY DAUGHTER ‘says she is de-|Stoppin’ there and stoppin’ Gates to Probe
might-nigh half a
Surely keeps a fellow hoppin’!
pocketbook! {sort of plunging. Why females do But that won't halt the
women folks,
|training sessions at this bucking They surge ahead with mighty strokes,
smooth dime you've got : With a bargain counter for a goal| pr). o Christmas tie that's so have been a special case.
red and so hot
bundles and droppin’ behind. Some things we think are|field by a posse.
keep hoppin'— We're helpin’ with the Christmas shoppin’!
It isn't
Gardening—
of Lamon C. Cotton, 1142 W, 32d st. then to
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Among his more spectacular sorts is a barrel cactus 75 years old, imported under special permit from South America. The size of a small barrel, its tea- | King, 62, of 506 Blake st. and took July | his pocketbook with $150. Others
OWNS 300 CACTUS PLANTS—Starting nine years ago, Lamon V, Cotton, | 142 W, 32d st., began his collection of cacti. It includes a 75-year-old plant imported from South America and
one that eats insects. But on and on he} wm
Expert Says to Hold Cacti Back to Make Them Flower
Collection of 300 Varieties Includes Barrel
Cactus Imported From South America
By MARGUERITE SMITH A PLANT THAT grows a head of hair, another that produces feathers—these are only two,of the odd specimens in the cactus collection
Starting out some nine years ago with. a handful of plants he and
Mrs. Cotton saw in Texas, he built up a collection of 800 varieties. These he has now narrowed down to 300 kinds.
cup shaped flowers appearing in
“look like porcelain.”
(throat,
investigate why a 17-year-old confessed slayer of an Indiana state] Anderson last September
official.
The youth, William V. Price, Was| 10
a parolee from the institution when |... he was freed from the Madison| : director. taking charge.
the last criminate freeing of juvenile offenders. He added that he felt this may
Defends Action Mr. Owen, who earlier
the youth was released.
us from|nersville state police post, was slain'gay Thursday near
by Price.
teen-agers, William Johnson, 17,
a. m. Monday in
{be in the Forest Hill cemetery,
for this number of names On al petition. | This, the representatives, all dele- | gates to the Indianapolis Federation
SILLY NOTIONS
| of Community Civic clubs, agreed to! | do . The petition requests that the] | utility be bought by the city if the! company's alleged “exploitation” does not cease. Rates demanded are the old fare ‘of four tokens for 25 cents, one half-fare for school children during | school hours, and elimination of the transfer charge. Also demanded 1s “an honest and | sincere effort to improve service.”
| {Gets License Branch | | Charles P. Schreck of Evansville
the teachers what they want? Anything to get the |
kids back in school.”
FIFTH DAY: “Think I'll join the picket line myThis strike | mendations of branch manager-| would come just when I'm the busiest, trying to get | &hips.” |
self. Anything to get out of the house.
my Christmas shopping done, etc.”
There’s No Forgetting
ONE THING striking school teachers have in thelr | With the policy laid down by Thom- | favor is the fact that they have an active “picket” in [28s J. Bath, newly-elected secretary |
every home with a school child.
That picket is Junior, who doesn't need to wear any placard to remind Mama that the schools are
closed.
Every day of the strike Mama is bound to be Unfair to
aware that the school board is unfair. Mama—if not to anybody else.
Striking teachers never need to worry much about how their strike will turn out. Junior is inevitably on their side.
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| today was appointed Vanderburgh county auto branch manager in what was announced as the first | step in a policy of “accepting county | Republican organization recom-|
H. Dale Brown, director of the state motor vehicle bureau, said Mr. | Schreck’s appointment was in line,
of state.
Scouter to Speak
Dr. Gunnar Berg, national di-| rector of training, Boy Scouts of America, will address district, field and neighborhood commissioners of the Central Indiana Council, at a! Christmas party at the Athaneum | 3-17
age.
Pak
Wednesday evening.
Slain Trooper's Rites j . eater.
‘hazy purple 16 to 18 inch flowers To Be Held Monday | cxude a sticky fluid with a musk|Connolly, 39, of Louisville, woke up Their legs(in the room of a downtown hotel
the Fairland| Cotton says. Christian church there. Burial will pack in the summer time. Mr.
den soil,
the better).
sunny day.
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odor that attracts flies. Governor Gates promised today 10| 0 caught then the flower closes.
feathered mammillaria. cited | with the hair (under he Juejcsoane |t would burn a shirt-front| Price’s good record as a parolee, de- fu has 21} he charsctaristic » uel 1 right straight through— tended his action. 4 " And you know very well that|ough investigation was made before tie is for you!
10 Lord, deliver shoppin’,
He said a thor- Man of the Mountain, : Mr. Cotton's advice on cactus] [culture—water them once in two | Herbert W. Smith, of the Con- weeks and only on a bright sunny | A cactus is like a potato or| i Shelbyville by 2 gnjon—you can leave it lying around ‘All this stoppin’, stoppin’,|fusillade of shots admittedly fired a); winter, pot it in the spring, it Price and three other! stil] grow but it will rot easily. Once you've put them in a sunny and Mary Ruth Ward, 14, of Evans- | window in the fall, don't turn them ville, and Vera Hornbeck; 15, An- around. That's the way you lose | derson, were captured in a nearby fiowers that have started to form, {for they always blossom on the side
them flower?
James Dawson, one-man army unrefined, : The ogy of he Stain pelisiiah toward the sun, fos Bee : . : ane! ry is at the home of his wife's parents, ¢ dedicated to a do-or-die battle with| But we ve not Sloppy Wyse |923 Jefferson st., Shelbyville. | HOW TO MA A Indianapolis Railways, Inc, last|®0 SPOA% QUF MUGS = mus Services will be held at 10:30 This is a trick he had to learn, Mr.|
Simply hold them
| d| auctioneer,
Invert a
Burden Bearers Of Yule Stampede
Hoodlums Roam Streets, Rob Victims
Beating Man
Hoodlums, mostly teen-age small fry, ranged the streets of Indiane apolis after dark last night and early this morning, robbing, slugging and purse snatching. ; It was mine-run business for the police department—what they called
1a quiet night.
Driving home near midnight, Poe lice Sgt. John Foran caught five youths after they finished beating John Newhouse, 26, of -1227 Wright st. Sgt. Foran heard the victim's hoarse screams in a filling station driveway at Kelly and Shelby sts. | Three of the youths were 15 16 {and 17 years old. With them were {Charles Hartl, 20, of 1601 E. Ray mond st. and Roger Mercer, 18, R, R. 2. Morgantown. The youths in cluding the victim who was treated at City hospital were held for vagrancy, the tenn-agers being sent to the juvenile aid division, Rob Attendant Earlier last night two young men held up the Shell service station at E. 30th and Delaware sts. and took $50 from Barney Byram, 15-year« old attendant, of 2050 Washington blvd. A teen-age boy snatched the purse of Sylvia McElfresh, 2738 Carrollton ave. as she was returning home from work. It contained her paycheck, workers’ badge and $4 cash.
Two hefty young men happened to be in the taxicab when Charles Weaver, 42, of 2345 N. Illinois st, hailed it at 3:30 a. m. at 30th st, and Central ave. As the cab driver drove into dim« ly-lighted, unpatrolled Fall Creek blvd., the two hefty young men slugged Mr. Weaver, took $72 from his wallet and "heaved him out of the cab into the roadway.
Hoodlums Slug Man e Young hoodlums slugged Iscah
“ ; . y ; i They are entered the home of James Alex who will even dream of going on| jst g.stoppin’ and a-stoppin’, Slayer S Release orange and yellow with a deep red|ander, 68, of 743 N. California. st., You a-droppin’— ; Droppin’ bundles and droppin’ behind— ervative in her purchasing, I go|But the women do not mind, las sort of a safety valve on the They keep a-goin’ without
hit him over the head with the butt
His giant starfish (stapelia) is anjof a blue steel revolver; took $234, It's deep yellow and he said. } :
Then early this morning, John
and discovered he had been “rolled”
Mr. Cotton also has a relative of {of $125 plus all identity papers. He your old friend the snake plant|told police all he remembered was knows she had better see what they You'll get your pockets so | trooper was released from jail at | mother-in-law's tongue) that has|drinking with a’ stranger he met en . upon 4 hular leaves. His “Rose of Texas,” route here on a bus. orders of an Indiana Boys’ school| oi, ts rosette of leaves like the . {familiar hen and chickens, is one of loveliest plants I have ever
‘Bargain Bidder’
ITS FAT LEAVES look like fade] [ @qrns Hard Way
CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (U. P).—The auctioneer took a suspicious look to-
the nation's choicest hogs at the International Livestock exposition. He said he didn't want any m “green-horn” bids from bargdin hunting city folks. It was t nd {time he'd tried to acution off the meat and he hoped it would be the last. When the meat first went on the {block yesterday, Mr. and Mrs. John | Rupnick, an urbane Chicago couple, pressed through the crowd of restaurateurs, farmers and buying agents and gaped at the six huge mounds of dressed pork. - » n THE GAVEL pounded and the bidding began. It was spirited, but conservative.
| “Twenty-five cents” a farmer offered. Mr. Rupnick\ gasped and looked
Cot- | wife. She nodded excitedly. | ton puts his in the yard in a sunny at his e. Shen ed tedly
| place, gives them no water Jbeyond (what rain comes.
By Palumbo He does, however, spray them off,
without wetting the soil a great |, took the others with bids of 50 deal if drouth is prolonged. Then| ots $1 and $2.
when he brings them inside in the| fall he gives them a little More |e wonder swept the crowd. water to induce growth. Cacti you buy are often potte wrong, he commented. will rot in soil that holds moisture more than 2 or 3 hours. Here's his| Mr. Rupnick was standing there method. Use a pot slightly larger|with $11 in his hand. than the cactus diameter. bottle cap over the hole for drain-|casses by the pound. Put pea gravel mixed with a few grains of charcoal over that|the auction over again and Mr. | (about ‘a half inch layer to a two| Rupnick promised he'd do all his inch pot). .
o o ” FOR POTTING soil use 's garfine sharp sand,
“Go ahead, go ahead,” she said. “1 never saw such bargains.” Mr. Rupnick took the first 183« und carcass with a five-dollar bid.
The auctioneer beamed, and a stir
“That will be $2248," said the
A cactus "RN
THE RUPNICKS nearly fainted.
They didn't know you buy care
Exposition officials agreed to run
trading at the butcher store.
"| Becomes Corn Champ,
granulated plaster (the older it is : ’ ’ : Plasier tiie slder | With Prayer and a Hoe ‘deed his Old Man cactus didn't| BRAZIL, Ind, Dec. 7 (U. P)—A grow well at first until he repotted Middle-aged farm wife who won the it in almost pure lime! | When first potted do not water|Pionship | them for 2 or 3 weeks. u Cacti and succulents love to be|hand hoe. sprayed off, but do it only on a
If you want an easy-to-raise and almost sure to flower|five-acre club championship contest
sort ask a seedsman for a flowering| Was rich. She said she also resorted mammillaria.
2 Ships Leave N. Y. ? «Her crop averaged 103 Feats NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (U. P).— per acre, Clarence Yeageriehner, Ship movements scheduled in New with a yield of 120.7 bushels, won
In-
o| Clay county corn growing chame today attributed her success to’ “good soil, prayer and a
Mrs. Maude Greenwell said the
to prayer and that when the weeds sprung up she went after them with a hoe instead of a tor.
- OK~- SLUGGER! YOUR SENTEN CE 15 uP ! " | York harbor today: the upland and junior N : "|| Departing—Ft. Washington, Ber- honors were awarded Don Leichty, SEMEL oe ALLEY, muda; George Washington Bermuda. 125.7 bushels. Loh ; » } ; 4 3 A * » + ; ‘or y
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