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up the bird he shot. He didn’t even let me look at; it.” I didn’t care much, ! The problem worrying me at the moment was why did a man travel almost 900 miles to run through mud, weeds, sharp corn stalks. There must be an easier way to get meat.
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Land Starving
By Harman W. Nichols
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—The richest land on earth is among the .poorest, in a manner of spéaking. That's the word we get from the Department of Agriculture, which says that most of our 6 milYea farmers gradually are starving their fertile d.
In the United States today, economic losses from erosion and soil starvation are something to worry about. We've got about 450,000,000 acres of cropland, and according to the Agriculture people, about 50,000,000 acres have been laid waste through neglect and failure to use enough fer-
What are we going to do? This sounds like an editorial and maybe it is. I'm a country boy at heart. But if we are going to keep our own fam{lies well fed, we've got to do something.
Phosphate Is the Answer
THE UNITED STATES Geological Survey thinks it might have the answer. Phosphate. The Survey says that the good American earth itself can save us if we hurry, There is enough underground to meet all the needs. “Unfortunately,” the officials of the Survey say, “most of what we need—phosphate—is undeveloped out in Wyoming and adjacent states.” Lander, Wyo., for instance, has enough natural gas and coal easily available to assure adequate and. cheap uel, &nd to serve as a source of carbon for either ‘blast furnace or electric furnace production of phosphates.
Deflated Brass
The Survey also points out something that | Florida and Tennessee won't like. Shipments of| phosphate fertilizer used by thé Middle West and: West nom come from Florida and Tennessee: But | the Lander deposits, once they are dug and car-| loaded, are from 1,000 to 1,200 miles closer to this| area than Florida, and 800 miles nearer than| Tennessee. : | Rapidly Pushing West f R. I. THROCKMORTON, dean of the college of | agriculture at Kansas State College, says that' the growing need for commercial fertilizers rapidly is pushing west. In the six plains states of| North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Ok-| lahoma and Texas less than 100,000 tons of fer-| tilizer a year were used in the late '30’s. They now are applying fertilizer atthe rate of more than 325,000 tons a year, . ; | And Dr. George Scarseth, the director of re-| search for the American Farm Research Association, says we can take a lesson from India. People are dying over there at the rate of 10 to 15 million a year because they don't have enough food to go around. Part of the tragedy, Dr.| Scarseth says, can be blamed on poverty, ignorance, intollerance and the excessive birth rates. “But, also,” he adds, “yow’ll find the underlying basic cause—soil exhaustion.” This is not a funny piece. It-does not present a very pleasant picture. Something is happening to] our soil. The soil that produces the rutabagas and |
turnips and potatoes afd corn and wheat that
keeps our families alive. . |
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By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—Looks like the Dapper Dan admirals in their pale-biue suits with the golden filagree must go back quietly to playing with their boats. What few boats they have. And be grateful they've got that many left: The sea-going brass seems to have lost its big argument, Lou Johnson still is boss of the shooting men. President Truman's standing behind him. So apparently is the House Armed Services Committee. And the admirals, who were biting holes in the armor plate last week with their bare teeth, at the moment have nothing whatever, thank you, to say. 5 The big, bald Johnson, Secretary of Defense in a baggy civilian jacket of gray tweed, did a peculiarly adroit job of slapping down the admirals, who'd cemplained that he’d ruined the Navy by giving too much importance to the Air Force. Johnson told the Congressmen, without every sayit in so many words, that the admirals were 1ik$ youngsters ‘who'd had their candy taken away
from them. Of course, they were disappointed, but
later on they'd feel the better for it.
Hoover an Old Smoothie THE SECRETARY brought along an able
"helper, too, in the person of former-President Her-
bert Hoover, who toyed ‘with his new model hearing aid and turned out, as a witness, to be an old smobdthie. The only living ex-president said he wasn't much worried about the wails of the admiralty. Fact was, when he was living at 1600 Pennsylvania ‘Ave. a long time ago he'd run into the same trouble. Only then it was the Army's cavalry, doing its blamedest to prove that the horse had not, either, been supplanted by the gasoline engine. Mr. Hoover said furthermore that the Army, Navy and Air Force had been unified now for only four months. And, he added: “It requires a year for a newly wedded couple to get used to each other.”
The final session of the committee’s hearin into the admiral’s charges was jam-packed with big and little wigs expecting fireworks. What they got was sweetness and light, and if the admirals
crankcase, they were keeping quiet about it.
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Labor Imported For Big Projects
‘By VICTOR PETERSON CONSTRUCTIONWISE Indianapolis is red hot. On a percentage basis it rates third nationally in the number of new buildings, residential, business, industrial and institutional, springing up. Overall, local labor cannot meet the demand. Imported workers have flocked here from surrounding towns. Many also have come from Illinois, Texas, Michigan, Kansas and Nebraska. :
An estimated 20 per cent of the 5000 residential * building tradesmen are outsiders as are about 5 per cent of the 8500 employed on large scale projects. Some imported labor pays a set fee plus a few cents hourly charge to local unions for the privilege of working here. Generally they don’t object, they are happy to be; employed. Ho uw # OUTSIDE WORKERS look upon Indianapolis as an oasis in af In a year of national building decline, the city has forged ahead to its greatest construction peak. The pace was set in 1946, ac-
Indianapolis’ construction boom is not confined to homes and indushy. ‘This view looks over the work being done on the 10th St. bridge. Two other spans are being pushed across White River as part of flood control projects. They are at Michigan and 16th Sts.
The LaRue Carter Mental Screening Hospital is a $5 million venture nearing com sity Medical Center. It lies in direct line with celerated last year and Surresitiy}
is shooting to an all-time high. ! No slowdown is seen for at least|trial expansions. This remaining
a year, the tempo may carry for 18 months.
permits for new construction have been Issued in the city, two-thirds residential with an estimated valuation of more than $14 million.
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Record Building Boom Makes City ecca For Construction Workers
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as Carter Hospital and vast industhird of the building permits accounts for some $25 million plus.
than last year. » » #
One of the greatest projec dollarwise Hospital under construction at the east end bridge. The steel framework reaches skyward.
on on the campus of the Indiana Univere Veterans Hospital and the 10th St. White River span. the Veterans Hospital, LaRue|/der and cement block. are every-
where. Minor remodeling jobs nestle beside ground being cl by powerful bulldozers, To date this year 3063 building|The total valuation is $3,9353561"* It'S a"far"dty from’ the depresalmost an even $9 million greater sion-recession days when building permits sank to a pathetic low of 48 In 1933. The building trade INDIANAPOLIS’ facelifting is'fought back slowly with a The bulk of the dollar valuation evident even to the casual ob-{ual rise in permits to 1625 in 1941. is made up by such huge projects server. Piles of sand, brick, cin-| Then the war set the brakes again!'ening in filings at City Hall,
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were thinking of pouring any more sand into “IF B adm I at | Mr, Johnson said he wasn't spoofing about sav- or dil um
ing a billion dollars on the Armed Forces next year and a billion and a half the year after. He's firing people who don’t have enough work to do, making sailors wear the same kind of union suits as soldiers, and forcing the military attaches at our embassies around the world to give up their private flying machines. ' That's only a sample. All down the line he’s cutting costs, he sald, and he'd be grateful if Congress kindly would give him no more money than he asked. Only a few days ago, he said, the lawgivers passed out a good many millions more than he wanted, or needed, for the Air Force. And, said he, there’s something about an admiral and a general, too, that makes him spend every cent he can get into his paws. Even then he’s never satisfied.
To Squeeze Every Nickel
THESE BABIES, he continues, need somebody to hold the purse strings tight and so long as Lou Johnson is on the job he intends to squeeze every nickel. : ; When it was all over Chairman Fred Vinson of Georgia pulled his spectacles down to the tip of his nose, starred over them pleasantly, and said Yés, he believed when the Navy got to know the Army better, and vice versa, the unification plan would work. In fact, he said, he'd like to know Secretary. Johnson better. He'd be delighted to drop around the Pentagon frequently, so long as Mr. Johnson provided the lunch. The Secretary said he would. And everybody looked happy, except possibly the admirals, who filed out, wearing their best poker faces. .
Hundreds Stampede North To New Alaska Gold Strike
Merchants Close Stores and Workers
Throw Down Tools fo Join Headlong Rush FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 24 (UP)—Merchants closed their
trappers, storekeepers sandbar in the Yukon River
and college students racing to the site, a 160 miles north of here.
Steel Strikers Get Poor Relief Funds
KOKOMO, Ind.; Oct. 24 (UP)— Center Township Trustee 8. E. Spurgeon said today he had granted poor relief funds to some of the CIO steelworkers on strike against the Continental Steel .| Corp. Dozens of the strikers applied for aid, Mr. Spurgeon said, but some cases did not show emer-
A tent city sprang up here after a fisherman discovered nuggets the size of peas clinging to his fishtrap. The town has been nicknamed Fishwheel.
They loaded
planes with equipment and rushed back to start working claims before the Arctic winter closed in,
dog sleds and dence qualifications.
unemployment benefits and poor
Airline terminals were full of men trying to charter planes to! Fishwheel. { “Ramblin’ Sam” Gamblin, 2 the Sushana strike of 1913, said the filing of claims was being carried out peacefully. “They're = mot jumping each other's diggings like they did in the Klondike Rush of "88 and the Sushana strike of '13” he said. My. Gamblin said the strike had “commercial possibilities.”
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One and Only
LAKELAND, Fla, Oct. 24 (UP) — Florida South-
dered today whether young adults are too wise or too shy about love and mar-
riage. The school offered 2a
cussions about courtship marriage. One person signed up fi
recourse.
Plan ‘Big Blowout’ officials won-
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flocked Fairbanks to buy| and shovels, pans, sieves and other ing equipment. They were the| - the course. first to file claims at Fishwheel. -
gency need and other applicants] had not fulfilled tenure of resi-|}:
Strikers do not receive state(fi relief is their only public aid
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—Hoosiers here have been notified that! the New York Sons of Indiana! society will have “a big blowout” at Rupperts Brewery in New York
| PHOENIX, Ariz, Oct. 24 (UP) i—Hundreds of FBI agents, sher’s deputies and police searched today for badman Jack Tatum. They used planes, horses and mo-| torcars in their search. ! The gunman escaped from the| Maricopa County jail Saturday after a gun battle in which two! other prisoners were slain by a crippled watchman and two others taken into custody before they could flee. Roadblocks were thrown up at the California and Nevada borders. Tatum is a member of a threeman family gang that has terrorized the Southwest repeatedly. FBI men were called into the case because Tatum is wanted for transporting stolen cars across state lines. They were prepared to shoot it out with him. Officers were placed at the homes of Tatums’ relatives and|
friends.”
CARNIVAL
at the apartment of his woman leadership toward world co-op-
Schedule Talk By Mrs. Stewart |
Mrs. Alexander Stewart, who is| an ordained Methodist minister and national president of the Women’s International League for Peace
morrow night. Mrs. Stewart will speak at] 7:45 p. m. in the] First Friends
from her fourth trip abroad. The speaker represents the Friends’ Committee on National Legislation, Washington, D. C. She expresses the be-| lief that a third world war can, be avoided, “especially if the) United States will make those!
changes in policy which will give,
Mrs. Stewart
eration and peace.”
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and 1943 saw ‘but 197 permits issued.
But a home-hungry and a busi-iness-cramped Indianapolis waited only the war's end to { the greatest building in the
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Milks Lioness To Win Hand of Farm Daughter
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Oct. 2¢ (UP) — The youngest radio officer in the South African airways system said today that he milked a full-grown lioness to win the hand of a. farmer's daughter in . Daniel C. Esterhuyse, 22, said his bride's father, a farmer from Outjo, South Africa, refused to permit the marriage unless Mr. Esterhuyse performed the feat. “So with the help of a couple of natives, I went into a lioness’s den and set a trap,” he said. “She fell into it; with front paws first. I tied up her back legs and went to work. “It was a tough job, but thanks to my study of Yogi, I got half a pint.” : :
Dr. Kinsey to Speak
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, Indiana University zoology professor and author of the Kinsey reports on sex life in the U. 8. A,, will give a “com-pletely-off-the-record” talk at a National Press Club luncheon her
Freckles, June Observe Season
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* ° Moves to Quash Poisoning Charges EVANSVILLE, Oct. 24 (UP)— and James D. Lopp contend grand jury had no legal authority for its sevén-day inquiry, that the facts in the indictments did not constitute public offenses, the .indictments. failed to state charges with enough certainty. © 2 fa pleading When Judgs of a pl udge Huntingburg, Reeves called up Mrs. a death of Mr. Dearing’s wife, Eu-/for arraignment. Judge Reeves
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