The Willamina times., February 13, 1941, Image 6

TIMES, WILLAMINA, OREGON
He Served 3 Flags,
Ready for the RAF,
Jailed for Bigamy
F arm
T o p ic s
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SOIL FERTILITY
VITAL TO U. S,
Canadian Judge Is Puzzled
Over Rare Case, Gives
Him 9 Months.
TORONTO.—V eteran of service
under three flags and applicant for
enlistm ent under a fourth, Donald
Willis, 27, w as sentenced to nine
m onths in reform atory for p erju ry
By PROF. J. C. CHAPMAN
i and bigam y, with probable d ep o rta­
(D e p a r t m e n t o f A f’ ro n o m y . U n iv e r s it y o f
tion to the United S tates to follow.
Wisconsin)
Willis, who served in the U nited
A m erican agricu ltu re is com ing to
realize th a t a national defense pro­ S tates arm y in H aw aii, and la ter
g ram against the forces of soil de­ fought for Finland and Norw ay, and
pletion and exploitation is ju st as ■ who was aw aiting enlistm ent in the
vital to the future of this country as | Royal Air force, adm itted having
defense again st foreign aggression. m a rrie d a Toronto girl in H am ilton,
In every past age soil fertility has but pleading th a t he believed his
played a dom inant part. Succeed­ first v/ife, M ary K athleen K rouse,
ing civilizations have sought and whom he m arried in New York in
fought for fertile lands th a t would 1937, had divorced him.
Willis testified that he enlisted in
provide food and clothing.
The restlessness of the e a rth ’s the United States arm y at the age
He adm itted serving 14
early inhabitants, their m igrations of 17.
and invasions of new countries w ere m onths in A lcatraz prison for as­
in m ost instances due to the deple­ sault.
Fought With Norse.
tion of the soils in their own coun­
tries and a desire to acquire and
He stated th a t upon R u ssia's in­
settle the m ore fertile are as of the vasion of Finland a y ear ago he en­
then-known world.
listed in the Finnish air force, serv ­
It w as not until com paratively re ­ ing th ere until the end of the ca m ­
cently th a t the developm ent of the paign. L ater he m ade his w ay to
science of soil chem istry taught the Norway and served in the air force
nations of the world how to m ain ­ there with C om m ander H ans Bugge,
tain soil fertility on their lands.
now in com m and of N orw egian av ia­
Of recent date, too, is the re c ­ tors training in Toronto.
ognition by A m erican ag riculture of
A fter collapse of the N orw egian
the dan g ers of soil exhaustion in cam paign, Willis flew with Bugge to
this country. F a rm e rs have come I England in a cap tu red G erm an
to realize that every y ea r they a re plane. L ater he cam e to C anada,
selling plant food from their land trained with the Royal N orw egian
in the form of cash crops, dairy j a ir force and received an honorable
products and live stock. They have discharge to perm it him to qualify
discovered th a t even in a system of for a com m ission in the British or
live stock farm ing w here all the C anadian a ir force.
crops a re fed to stock and the m a ­
Willis testified that on arriv in g in
nure retu rn ed to the fields, th e y ’a re C anada he was inform ed th a t his
losing fertility at an alarm ing rate. | first wife had launched divorce pro­
E veryw here we have been draw ing ceedings ag ain st him and th a t he
checks on our bank account—the soil
had assum ed he was free to re- j
—and spending and using our fe r­ m a rry .
tility m uch faster than we have been
“ I don’t know w hat to do with
replacing it with plant foods.
The hopeful fact in our situation, this m a n ,” Judge Otto Klein com ­
however, is th a t farm e rs in increas­ m ented. “ He has a rem a rk a b le rec­
ing num bers are becom ing aw are of o rd .”
“ He is a m an of restless disposi­
the seriousness of these losses and
are taking steps to prevent them . tion, enterprising, energetic, and of ,
They a re using lim e and fertilizers such a m entality that he would not :
and following soil and crop m anag e­ inquire too closely into w hat was
m ent p ractices th a t will restore the best for h im ,” E. G. Black, defense
native p roductiveness of their farm s. counsel, pleaded. “ But his m otives
This national defense program i w ere right, and he has alw ays been !
against the forces of soil depletion on the right side. He is the impul- j
is steadily gathering m om entum . It sive ty p e.”
Crown D isagrees.
is being sp u rred forw ard through the
co-operation of the federal govern- I W. O. Gibson, crown prosecutor, ;
m ent, the AAA, the sta te agricul- ( stated th at he did not ag ree with
tu ra l colleges, and fa rm e rs ’ organi- I the defense estim ate of Willis’ c h a r­
zations everyw here.
The w ar acter.
against soil exhaustion gives prom ­
"H e left K athleen K rouse to go to ;
ise of final victory.
F in lan d ,” the Crown added. " I be- j
lieve he used the sam e m ean s to
Capons Require Special
a ttra c t this Toronto young woman,
as he did to lure the young w oman
Care Before Marketing who
becam e his first w ife.”
W here capons a re being fattened j “ Everybody loves a so ld ier,”
for m a rk e t they should be fed a Judge
Klein
observed — “ nine j
reg u lar growing ration and plenty m o n th s!”
of whole grain, which should be hop­
per fed. Clean q u a rte rs and range
a re im portant. Close confinement Honesty Saves Him From
should be avoided. A clean open !
Long Sentence in Jail
field with protection from the w eath­
ST.
LOUIS — C arl ( “ B abe” )
er, such as th a t afforded by a good
Spikes was hailed into federal court
range shelter, is ideal.
D uring the last couple of weeks at St. Louis charged with possession
before m arketing, it will pay to feed of bootleg whisky.
When Judge John C. Collet asked
a wet m ash tw ice a day consisting
of growing m ash and milk or him if he w anted a law yer the de­
whole grain soaked in m ilk in add i­ fendant refused, explaining, “ You
tion to the usual ration. Such feed­ d o n 't need a law yer when you’re
ing will im prove the quality of the going to tell the tru th .” He then
birds, but actual poundage is m udc pleaded guilty.
“ H ave you had any trouble with
by keeping them on a full and com ­
plete growing ration throughout the the police?” the judge asked.
su m m er and fall m onths.
When Spikes answ ered th a t he
Worms should be strictly guarded had not, Ju d g e Collet pointed to
against, tapew orm s in particular, B abe's record of 28 a rre s ts in 13
since w orm y capons sim ply refuse years.
to get fat. If the birds are wormy,
“ Oh.” replied Spikes, “ I thought
they should be trea ted without fail. you m eant real trouble.”
After which, they should be rem oved
"Y ou have some redeem ing fea­
to a clean range.
tures, B abe,” the judge sm iled.
“ Your candor and bluntness. I ’m
only going to give you four m onths
Mulch of Pine Needles
in ja il."
National Security Requires
Productive Land.
Reforests Eroded Field
Pine needle m ulch can som etim es
be used to reforest old fields or clay
gall areas, recent experim ents at the
Southern Piedm ont Soil C onservation
E xperim ent station at Athens, Ga..
show.
Seeking an econom ical way of
seeding eroded are as, the station
m ulched four clay-galled plots with
800 pounds of pine-needle litter from
adjacent woods. In five m onths a
healthy m ixed vegetation devel­
oped. including m ore than 1,600
shortleaf seedlings—an average of
two seedlings from each pound of
mulch.
The study will observe for several
y ea rs the survival and height grow th '
of the seedlings resulting fron. this
sim ple and inexpensive scattering
pine-needle litter over the bare are a
to a depth of about one inch. If only
one-fourth of the existing seedlings j
live for five y ea rs, the a re a will be
well planted.
Check Suspect Trapped
By Movie Star Photos
CHICAGO—A passion for collect­
ing pictures and autographs of m ov­
ie sta rs resulted today in the a r ­
rest of Harold Rose, 37, Hollywood.
Calif., on charges of passing w orth­
less checks.
He w as bound over to a federal
grand jury under $2.500 bond on a
ch arg e he passed about $10,000
worth of bogus checks, m ost of them j
draw n against insurance com panies,
during the last two y ears. Rose
said he had worked in Hollywood as
publicity agent for screen and radio
stars.
He was a rrested here on tips that
alleged victim s had recognized his
autom obile at Louisville, Ky„ and
Indianapolis, Ind., en route to Chi- ¡
cago. The c a r w as covered with
pictu res of Rose, posing with film >
celebrities.
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