Show Rodent Expert Is I I General in War on Mice Hordes TAFT RAFT C Cal l. l Jan 24 United Press of at the anti antl- mice army with colonels captains sergeants and corporals corporal wis ws formed formed form form- ed here today under the I leadership of General S. S E. E Piper Washington Washing Washing- ash Inton In ton D. D C C. rodent expert At the same tIme the first official official cial was Issued by bythe bythe the piper general In which he admitted his plan of of- of e against the hundreds of thousands of Invading mice In the Buena lake country would make a long stor story but that secrecy so- so crecy must surround the campaign PIper made several trIps across the lines of poisoned grain that surround the mice infested terri tern tory We Ve have met the enemy and amI some of them are ours his corn com stated Of course we realize the odds we must encounter before the rodents rodents ro- ro dents are conquered Our prolific enemy Is banded against us outnumbering outnumbering out out- numbering us u. yet man many hundreds to one The mice mothers start bearing little soldiers at the age of three months and have litters of five to six every twenty days thereafter Piper saId however the numbers have been decreased through poisonIng pot poi sufficiently to balk baUt the mice hordes from enterIng cities Their siege lIege has has' been blen razed against Bakersfield and Taft and they have resor resorted ed to sorties upon grain laden barns a and nd farmhouses |