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Show i THE tfT NEPHI, county teat of Jub county, Utah, the greatest dry farming section of Utah, owns its own electric light plant, water works and 1 8 miles paved sidewalks. Two banks, lumber yard, plaster mill, fine schools and a modern hotel, t t TIMES-NEW- S, NEPHI. UTAH Line Times N ew of Live Home Page Topics THE WITH WAR GASES imals and Insects. SOME PROMISE TO EE USEFUL Infestation Regarded as Worst in Many Years. Minnesota Woman Indorsed for Senate Where Parasite Is Present In Large Numbers Crop Should Be Plowed Under, as It Will Not Amount to Anything. A prevalence of Hessian fly Is reDo Damage Blackbirds Migratory ported In winter wheat sections and, Amounting to Thousands of Dojudging from samples received from llars in Imperial Valley of Calmany areas, the infestation is the ifornia Injure Milo Crop. worst for several years. d Favorable climatic conditions, the United Btatea Department Prepard by of K Agriculture.) with an absence of a parasite Deadly guses that were developed that ordinarily destroys the larvae of or war purposes are now being tried the Hessian fly and too early planting out by the United States Department of the wheat last' fall, is the cause of Agriculture as a means for destroy' of the outbreak. Where wheat was Ing noxious birds, animals, and insects. sown early It needs to be carefully Some of them promise to be useful examined for traces of the fly. when applied under proper conditions, Signs of the infestation may be departicularly those that are heavier tected by examining the wheat field. than air and can be used on burrowing rodents, and possibly subterranean In sects and pests in stored products. Kill Destructive Birds. The most recent proposal Is to use gas to kill destructive birds that conIn the coming gregate In marshes. fall the biological survey, in tion with the chemical warfare service, is planning to make a trial of the method on blackbirds In the Imperial valley of California. In that region 0 these birds are said to do at least worth of damage to the milo crop each year. Because of their feeding habits It Is Impossible to destroy these birds with poisoned baits, but, as they j roost on the reeds In the marshes. It is thought that they can be killed by a1 gas cloud at night when the wind Is favorable. The blackbirds are migratory and return to the same places year after year. It Is thought that a big killing In a certain locality will probably free It of the pests for many j years. A few other birds In the marshes will be killed at Hessian Fly and Wheat Insert Shows Adult Female, Greatly Enlarged. the same time, but the department believes that these local birds will soon If It has stunted plants npon which reach their normal numbers again. small brown seedlike bodies are at made are also being Arrangements tached to the stalks, the fly Is probchemthe with by the biological survey or "flax ical warfare service for Investigating ably present In the pupal seedlike These brown seed" stage. the possibility of using poison gases on such burrowing1 rodents as rats, bodies can be found below the surface of the 'ground between the leaf sheath prairie dogs, ground squirrels, and of the plant. Within a woodehucks. Tests on pocket gophers and the stemsmall flies hatch and ground squirrels by these two co- - few weeks a secondgnatlikeof eggs which crop out, laying result In the spring brood of flies. The Hesslnn fly has four stages in Its life. The egg, the maggot, the pupal and the fly. It is the maggot, a " of white, flaky worm, about an inch long, that does the damage. If the plant survives the first attack there Is a chance of considerable dam age resulting from the second crop, which eat the stems and cause the grain to lodge and lessens the grain production. Wheat- - that fs badly Infested with the Hessian fly ought to be plowed un Blackbirds Return to Same Place Year der, as It will not amount to anything After Year. as a crop and will only serve as of the government hatching ground for further crops branches operating In California show that chlorine may Often some parts of the yield only are be used with good results If handled affected and the farmer may use his a properly. The chemical warfare serv- Judgment as to turning under only ice used phosgene on rats In Porto part of the field. Where volunteer seedings of last Rico with promising results. Some of these war gases will be compared with years crop are detected containing carbon bisulphide for the killing of Hessian fly they hould be plowed un woodchucks and other rodents In their der at once. If trrere are any suspl clous signs of the presence of the fly burrows. Entomologists of the department In the fields the entomologists urge that samples be sent to the state en liave already worked In with the War department In testing tomologist for examination. various gases on Insect pests of growHave Succession of Crops. ing plants and those that Infest stored Make sowings of peas, radish, let grain, but It has not yet been found advisable to recommend anything to tuce and spinach at Intervals of ten tnke the place of hydrocyunle-acigas days or two weeks up to the middle of June. or carbon bisulphide. The serious disadvantages of many First Step to Success. of these new gases Is thot they are Thorough cleaning eind grading of dangerous or very Irritating to men, horses, and mules, and require the use seed Is the first step toward a suc cessful crop. ni masks and great enre In handling. con-ple- $50,-O0- j one-fifth- d Pasture for 6tock. Sweet clover makes nn excellent nil classes of live siock Smstl Space, Properly Managed, Will pasture beforseeded on a June It may grass sod Alth Vegetables Supply Family In early spring with fair results, pro All Summer, vided the soil Is not acid. It Is possible to make the garden ' It Pays to Fertilize. pay Mft dividends for the amount of should be systematically Pastures labor put upon It If that labor Is wll may be ex directed. A spare &0 by 100 feet will. fed. ermanent pastures In corrylng capacity If properly planned and worked, give peeled to decline A dressing of stable n supply of practically all vegetables, tf not fertilized. is valuable. manure r oth-a few except potatoes and coarse vegetables, for a family of fonr Whit Onion Sets Mild. the whole year. It must be rich soil, White onion sets are said to be of well cultivate!, and plnn followed flavor than red or yellow. that will use the space nil the growing mildershould be planted as soon as the They With the season. probable high prices worked easily. can be ground It will pay of vegetables this year every city and town to encourage the Good Rainy Day Job. planting nnd rnre of vocant lots and Another use for a rainy day: Oo small plots of ground. Le Roy Cady. over the farm machinery and make a Associate Horticulturist, University list of repair parts needed; then order Farm. them without delay. Mike Best Gardeners, Plan to Foil Weeds. The best gardeners are nsunlly the Bear In mind that certain weeds, people who take the greatest Interest In the plants and thus like to cultivate for S"tne reason, seem to follow certhem. Good gardeners are often good tain crops. Switch the planting from season to season and foil the weed farmers. GARDENING ON VACANT LOTS known throughout the world. Two railroads pass through NcphL t 1 LEGION WINTER WHEAT CROP Deadly Fumes Beirig Tried to Destroy Noxious Birds, An- EAST JUAB COUNTY invites the stranger within its gates to investigate the possibilities afforded here before going elsewhere. The famous Levan ridge is Suggestions for the Farmer and Housewife, prepared by specialists in the Department of Agriculture for the people of East Juab County. : t t Short stories about people of prominence in our country HESSIAN FLY HARMS KILL NUISANCES ITT -- Economic secrets borrowed from the housewife's budget system can be, taken to congress by women with telling effect. In the opinion of Mrs. Peter Oleson of Cloquet, indorsed by the Minnesota Democratic state convention for the United States senatorial nomination. It Is the first time la the history of the state that a woman has been accorded the Indorsement of a major political party for the United States senatorship. and Mrs. Oleson realizes she is making precedent-Mr. Oleson is superintendent of schools in a city of 8,000, a position he has held for eight years. They ' daughter. have a fourteen-year-olMrs. Oleson is a club woman. She was president of the federated women's club of the Eighth Minnesota district and then was chosen vice president of the Minnesota State federation of the General Federation of Women's clubs. Mrs. Oleson is thirty-si- x years old. She was born in LeSeur county. Min nesota. Her father was P. D. Dickie, and both her paternal ana maieruiu grandparents came to Minnesota as pioneers la 1850. Both her grandfathers fought In the Civil war. j V d L. A. Hill, New Engraving Bureau Head Here Is the latest portrait of Louis Hill, the new head of the bureau of engraving and printing, Treasury department. Washington Is still talk ing of the action of President Harding, who. In the most sweeping discharge order in years, dismissed from the government service Director James L. Wilmeth and 27 division heads of the bureau. The fact that most of the men discharged were civil service em ployees may result In complications. The civil service commission called to the attention of the President to sections of United States statutes stat ing that no person in the classified civil service shall be removed except after being given the charges against him In writing and being given time to answer same In writing. At the same time It was said at the department of Justice unofficially that the executive order was legal. Hints of sensational disclosures to follow, Involving serious monetary losses to the government, were pronounced to be unfounded by Assistant Secretary Elliot Wadsworth, who declared that there is nothing behind the sensational action of the President to reilect upon the integrity of the discharged men Kepresentative It. C. Johnson of South Dakota charged In the house that duplication of Liberty bonds would run as high as $100,000,000. . Bakhmeteff the Table Talk of Capital Having secured plenty of experience WAR ROBS THREE OF MEMORY Trio Among Most Unusual Cases otl Record at Veteran's Bureau In Washington. Three men who have lost them selves and whose memory does not extend back to the war where they received Injury, are among the most unusual cases on record at the Vet erans' bureau In Washington, D. C, among the long list of war victims. The American Legion Is endeavoring to assist the unfortunate men in finding their relutlves. ' Hayward Thompson at least tliat Is what he Is now called Is one of the most peculiar cases. He has forgotten who be Is. In his bead la an His memory ugly shrapnel wound: goes back to Janunry 22, 1922, when he arrived at a hotel In Denver, with a bill In his pocket from one of the most expensive hotels in Colorado Springs. In searching Washington records for some trace of the lost man, it was fouud that a certain Hayward Thomp son enlisted In the Marine corps June 5, 1018, and was discharged Januury He had a wife and three 6, 1919. children r.t Flemlngton, Mo., and a mother, Mrs. Louise Thompson, at Chicago. . The man with a shrapnel wound In his head and no memory of any relatives at all, telegraphed In great eagerness to Flemlngton, Mo., He received no and to Chicago. answer. Not so long ago a clean-cu- t joung man appeared at a Los Angeles hospi an wore American tal. He Legion button. When questioned as to who he was he stated he did not know. "I think I am thirty-tw- o years old," he said. "I am five feet, nine Inches and weigh 130 pounds. My eyes are gray am. I have blond hulr. I believe I was a soldier. If any one can tell me who I am, or anything about my past, please let me know." The Los Angeles post of the Legion Is milking every effort to help the man find himself. A third "unidentified living" lives nt 733 North Thirty-firs- t street. Louis ville. He Is known as Leonard Wells, to the neighborhood. His memory Is He believes that he enlisted hazy. in the eld First Kentucky Infantry, and with the command was transferred to a replacen.ent detachment and sent to France. His photograph: wus forwarded to his company commandef, who recognized the face but did not recall a name. A machine gun bullet had pierced his abdomen and Injured his spine. Another bad Injured the left shoulder cap. X A York-Woodf.- il far-reac- h' Mary McDowell Visits Czechoslovakia w y a member of the navy during the war, Henry J.' Sullivan of Phoenix, Ariz., Is now helping to launch .lie several ships of -- litrlmony that set sail from his home city. When the service men of Phoenix t Senator Borah's desire to have Russian Ambassador Bakhmeteff (por trait herewith) before a senate com mlttee Is the table talk of the moment In the capital. Outwardly, It is a simple proposal to have Mr. Bakhmeteff tell the senators what he ; f&&s knows about the conduct and alleged atrocities of General Semenoff, the Cos ON "GREATEST HEROES" LIST sack leader. In Siberia. Incidentally, Senator Borah wants to get the am Sergt. Samuel Glucksman of the bossador to give details about what American "Devil Dogs," Rival for government he represents. Honors. But under the surface there is Another rival for the crown worn something deeper and more Ing something which one set of minds alternately by Sergeants York and contends goes back to the wisdom of Woodftll as the the framers of the Constitution and greatest hero of on the other hand, something which the World war another set of minds contends ought bas been uncoto be viewed In the light of changing vered by the conditions and progress. United States The dlplomnts are deeply disveterans' bureau In Some two ways. turbed of them In the person of are fearful of a breakdown of their ancient rights and Immunities. Some othSergt. Samuel ers, although they do not say so, Indicate they would not be displeased at a tilurksmon, mem ber of the Amerl precedent which might establish the propriety of having direct Intercourse with officials of the government outside the executive branch. can "Devil Dogs" during the war and decorated by both the Aderl ran and allied governments. Although born In Austria, Sergeant Glucksman enlisted with the marines of Chicago, Bliss Mary McDowell at the outbreak of the war nnd al well known as a student and wort.er though too modest to tell the story of In sociology, sailed for Czechoslovakia his achievements while flirtitlnj conference after the against fli Uermans, the American will She In women Baltimore. for Ivegion at Washington discovered that be the guest of President Massryk ven major en Glucksman fought in on a and his daughters gagements. Verdun, Belleau Woods, vacation. While declaring that the Chateau Thierry, Marbach, St. MlhleL Solssons nnd Mont Blanc. Jmimey wns nominally a vacation In Czechoslovakia, taken nt the InstigaOn the morning of October .1, 191S, tion of Miss Allco Masnrjk, Miss McSergeant Glucksman started out to get Dowell admitted that she would not water for his comrades. He returned be Idle dining Iwr stay In the rewithout the water but with 20 Oernmns end a painful wound. The public, but would devote much time to the study of the position of women "Devil lKg" sergeant captured lone In the state. German and Instead of bayoneting Ms more exact statement a Probably captive forced him to lead hlro to the of Miss McDowell's trip to Europe rest of the advance party. Coining Is that the government of Czechoonto the whole botch of 20. ?ri:ennt slovakia Iihs requested Miss McDowell Glucksman waved a hand grenade aad to Itmugnrnte and orcoi'e In that ordered thern nil out of the shell hole country the system of kovlal settlethey wer occupying and Into the ment work which she hna directed so arms of bis American comrades. By In Chicago. long nnd so successfully executive appointment Glucksman I Miss McDowell will first visit Italy, and make a brief tour f thi contPwuf te. Bow employed at the navy yard at or taking up In July ber work la Czechoslovakia Portsmouth, N. II. 0 CUPID n braving the perils of the deep while LEGION for This Department Supplied the American Lev ion News Service.) TO Henry Sullivan, Phoenix (Ariz.) Organization Enthusiast, as J. P., Ties Many Knots. AMEMN (Copy MAN, AID start their wed- ding barks they seek out Justice of the Peace Sullivan to unsllp the lines of their single blessedness. Mr, Et'llivan Is also, the man who started the "Under one head, the Auierleon Legion" skgin which has been adopted by all the war organisations of his home county to ad- unce the Interests of tbe service men, airv on hospitalization work, elirai- ite uVivs and working generally for le benefit of the men who served ieir country. v As Mr. Sulllvar himself expresses t: "All war orgi.piziitlons in the ounty have united under one head for the purpose of centralizing our work. We expect to lend our tiTorts urgely to hospitalization wcrk and in tlier ways serving the. disabled serv-c- e men by plncing the responsibilities nn the various departments of government where they belong rnther than by advancing their rights In a slip- hod fashion." . CRCE PERSHING TO SPEAK Legionnaires of Bement, Illinois, Hold Up Old Commander's Car and Demand an Address. General Pershing' was captured attempting to pass through friendly territory by a group of, American Legion men at Bement. III. The old leader of the A. K. F. started through the Own on an interurban trolley car, but Legionnaires, aided by while J Pershing Addressing Legionnaires. a powerful ally In the person of the motormun, gathered in front of the trolley and demanded a speech. The rear platform of the car was turned Into a speaker's stage nnd "Black Jack" addressed the service men and their friends for ten minutes. The Legionnaires were marshaled together by Sidney Morgan, their post commander, who stood on the platform with his old general, and it was not until he had given the word that the former members of Pershing's command would give the trolley the riyht of way. j Carrying On With the American Legion The only woman field clerk In the army Is Miss Jean Hudson of San Francisco. Col., secretary to Major General Morton. She hold the rank of ser'eunt major. In Korea, American most of them missionaries umW the lender-shi- p Southern Preshyterlnn misof sion, have formed a pout of the Legion. r If During the to clothe each of present douirhboy Is costing but fl8S, ment states. $.'XHt cost t'neie ,nm his soldiers. The garbed in cloth-In- g the War depart- A questionnaire : "What will yon do with your state bnns7" conducted by the Legion In Toledo, O.. resulted as follows: Sixteen service men t usii of a the money to help defray ttie home; 13 to pay hospital and other hllli; three for clothing ; two for furniture; one for a Ford and one wouliL bunk tl e entire amount. ct |