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1 if 7 2 5 Ay 7 Ln SIAL Ah SoA Sor AEN ¥ \ FITTER ITT ALTA SOILS BR IUIRT SSE ---- Growing Quality Vine Crops By W. J. DRYDEN, WNU Farm Editor, Vine crops need an abundance of room, so their culture in gardens where space is scarce is not justi- fled. The vegetable vine crops are ull tender. They should not be plant- ed until the ground is warm and danger of frost is over. Sunny ex- posure and light soil will prove ideal conditions for the vine crops. The principal vine crops to In- clude in the average garden will be cucumbers, squash, pump- kins and melons. Early varle- ties of cucumbers will mature in two months. While It Is dis- tinctly a warm-weather crop, extreme heat of midsummer in some locations Is too severe. Special care should be made in the selection of melons to plck the variety suitable to the particular district. They need an abundance of room. Muskmelons may be start- ed in seed beds or frames to ad- vantage. In sections where the growing season Is short or earliness desired, this practice is important, They need an abundance of plant food. Mix In a tablespoonful to the hill before planting. Pumpkins are sensitive to both cold and heat. Most varl- eties require an abundance of room, [If planted In hills they should be at least 10 feet apart, but may be started among corn or potatoes, They will thrive under partial shade. Pumpkins should be gathered and stored before they are injured by [rost. :Watermelons also require an abundance of room and are sensi tive to the soil. They are also TO GET THE DELICIOUS SIOR THE MELON SHOULD RIPEN ON THE VINE, WHEN DEAD MIPE THE SKIN CRACKS. warm-weather plants, A half pound of commercial fértilizer should be added to each hill Squash are among the most com- monly grown garden plants. They will grow almost any place where fertile soll and moisture is. avail- able. Summer varieties should be gathered before the seed ripens but the winter ones will not keep: unless- well matured, They should be gath- ered before a hard frost injures the plant, GUINEA PIG SUB IS TESTED Men aboard the submarine rescue vessel USS Widgeon watch the USS Apogon as it is test-submerged off Pearl Harbor in preparation for coming atom bomb experiments. During the actual atom bomb test, the sub will not be manned, but will be controlled by another ship, TEST - RUN : European racing champion Rudi Caracciola gives his twelve-cylinder Mercedes-Benz a test run at Zurich, Switzerland, He will compete Lg in Indianapolis Speed Races this year. Signed to dance in movies is Clarence "Caesar" Murphy of Windsor, Ont. Heavyweight boxer and at one time a bouncer in a hotel, Murphy was spotted by a Hollywood talent scout in Detroit. He starts his movie career at $300 a week, Highlights of the News U. 8. Coal Strike The nation looked to Washing: ton for relief from the strangling effects of the 38-day-old coal strike. Cities and farms from Maine to Oregon were feeling the impact of curtailments in essential electric power, railroad service, industrial activity and other business. In a rapidly-widening radius exs tending in all directions from Chi- cago, ha dest hit by the power cur- teilment, electric service faded from dimou' proportions to threat- ened blackouts. Freight and passenger transport- ation reductions increased almost hourly and unemployment figures mountea into the hundreds of thousands as raw materials ahd shrinking coal supplies diminished almost to the vanishing point. In Detroit, the Ford Motor Co. announced it would begin shut- downs throwing 110,000 out of work, Only 35 per cent, of the freight- ers in the Great Lakes coal and ore - fleet now are in operation, accord ing to A. T. Wood, president of the Lake Carriers' association. Wood said coal shipments on the lakes are about 4,300,000 tons be- low this time last vear. Steel was the industry hardest i hit. It was estimated 100,000 would be without work in the Chi- cago-Calumet area alone before the of the week. Shipments on some railroads have been cut to 75 per cent, of normal. Solid Fuels Administrator Krug banned delivery of soft coal to any cossunier with more than a five day supply. The order already had cut off supplies to all except essential indusry and hospitals with less than a 10-day supply. Britain To Quit Egypt Britain has offered to with-draw all her military, air and naval for- ces from Egypt in return for an alliance negotiated 'between two equal nations having interests in common." This would throw the Egypt. Egyptian extremists ass- defense of the Suez Canal upoa filed any British alliance, Ethiopia Helps Ethiopia has offered' to supply United Nations Relief and Rehab- ilitation Administration with 100, 000 tons of wheat and other food- stuffs in t' e next year and a half for famine relief, The offer also included 10,000 tons of coffee. Living Cost Up ~The cost of living in Canada ay/ April 1 was higher than at ary time during the war, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported .. The bureau said its official cost- of-living index, on the basis 1935- last week. 1939 equals 100, advanced from 120.1 at March 1 to 1208 at April 1. The index slightly ex- ceeded the wartime high level of 120.5 recorded in August, 1945, The bureau said the principal part of the increase came from the iood group which rose from 133.1 to 135.1 Price increases for butter, pork products and vegetables were mainly responsible, Soviet Loan Drive Soviet Russia called on her people to subscribe to a 20,000,000, 000 ruble (nominally ($3,774,000, 000) loan "for restoration and de- velopment of the U.S.S.R.s nat. ional economy," the Moscow radio said. U. S. Rail Service Cut The United States Office of De- fence Transportation last week or- dered a 50 per cent reduction in passenger service by coal-burning locomotives, effective May 15, to conserve dwindling coal supplies. IT IS DIFFICULT TO MAKE THE WORLD REALIZE THE MEANING OF FAMINE So spoke Herbert Hoover as he looked at India in his worldwide investigation of food conditions. His words are a dramatic sound track for these pictures, taken in Calcutta . . . of a young mother covering the dead body of her starved child . . . of tne grim curious watching the corps removal squad take away the body of an old man . . . of the pitiful cargo of young death being loaded into a removal squad truck. But the situation in India, warned Herbert Hoover, is no worse than in other parts of the world. y 5081 SB i AE Rail Strike Seems Certain Two hundred and sixty thous- and members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Broth erhood of Locomotive Engineers will walk out on strike at 4 p.m. on May 18; on orders of heads of the two unions issued shortly after they had stalked out of a meeting in Chicago with carrier represent- atives. Only action by President Tru- man can avert the walkout. 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