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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1938, Page 3

Lately Rumanian Jews, eager to emigrate to Mexico have been flocking to the Mexican Legation, which is situated in a fashionable Bucharest hotel. The manager of the hotel had to call the police to keep the crowd out on one occasion. As an unprecedented horde of insects devour United States crops, cause damage amounting to three billion dollars, the Department of Agriculture masses its forces to check and destroy these pests. Putting 20,000 temporary employees in the field and enlisting the aid of amateur entomologists, the bureau’s agents under the direction of Mr Lee A. Strong, cope with the destructive gypsy moth by destroying egg clusters with creosote. Traps are set for the omnivorous Japanese beetle, which is killed ■with fire. A million dollars of insecticide is used to control outbreaks of parasitic pests like the screw worm fly which is deadly to both human beings and livestock. They look for contaminated elm trees with autogyros, condemning all that are infected with the elm bark beetle which today is imperilling the existence of this picturesque shade tree.