Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1933 — Page 13

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Charles G. Norris

One of the most discussed novels just now is "Zest” by Charles G. Norris, published by Doubleday, Doran. It is a lengthy novel because it concerns a man who had too many women in his life.

BV WALTER I). HICKMAN IT is probably not, the wise thing to open a book chat with an “if” but I am going to do it this time. If you enjoyed ‘‘Trader Horn,” you will have a grand and glorious time reading "Black Bagdad.” There is really no direct connections between the two books. One is the life story of Horn. The other is the story of the experiences of •John Houston Craige. captain of the U S. marine corps, in Haiti. The reader is concerned with the memories of an early visit paid by Craige, to Haiti in 1912 but most particularly to his three years experiences as an officer in the Haitian army, "a sort of a white Emir to command the black troops of a providence.” Craige gives you a splendid picture of the strange spell of Haiti when he quotes the opinion of his friend Hennessey, a gun-runner, in the beginning and ending- of the book as follows: "This is black Bagdad. These people are still living in the days of the Arabian Nights. You may meet Haroun al Raschid and Giafer. his Grand Wazir, any day, walking arm in arm in the street. You may hear tales as amazing as any Sheherezade ever told.” And the warning—no matter what ones experiences are in Haiti, pleasant or unpleasant—“you are bound to come back.” a a a The titles of the chapters are really an index to the nature cf the experiences of the captain. Take these titles for example—" Three Who Were Slain,” "Home Sweet Jail,” one of the most interesting chapters in the book; “Trail of A Murderer,” "Sun-Poison,” “Burial of a Prince.” “Death of a God and A Priestess” and "Bewitched,” a remarkable chapter dealing with voodoo powers and witch doctors. To me this is the most interesting chapter in the book and everything recorded is facts. ‘ Black Bagdad” has been splendidly written and the author is unusual for a marine officer, I take it, because he speaks and w rites several languages and the book is full of proof of the authors accomplishments. The fact is I have a better idea of the strange spell of the natives of Haiti than I ever have had since reading this book. Here is a strange charm coupled up with equally strange habits and experiences. The curse that a strange native girl places on Craige is one of the weirdest recitals I have encountered in many a moon. This witch girl was able to cast a .spell over Craige which cast him into a terrible illness and only a witch doctor on the island was able to break that evil spell with a charm. That's the author's story and he must believe it because he still has the charm that the witch doctor gave him. Here is a book that is not only fine theater in reading, it is instructive at the same time it gives entertainment. "Black Bagdad.” is published by Minton, Balch and Company of New York. Sells for $3. a a a In answer to several inquiries regarding a book of a certain type, I am informed that the latest book w hich is considered standard on the subject is "The Sex Factor In Marriage,” by Dr. Helena Wright, published by the Vanguard Press. 100 Fifth avenue, New York and sells for $2. a a a Logmans, Green and Company have just published in London, Thornton Wilder’s translation of “Lucrece” from Andre Obey's French play. "Le Viol de Lucrece.” It was published in America byHoughton Miflin Company while it was being presented in New York by Katherine Cornell. Since so much reading interest is, being aroused in this play. Miss Cornell plans to present it next season in a series of matinees. a a a Am trying to find the person who has reread "Alice In Wonderland" the most times. If you have read It many times, let me know. Also what edition you like best. PICKS BLIND ATTORNEY Roosevelt's Choice for Idaho Post Is Sightless Man. My United Pre* POCATELLO. Idaho, June 23. Justice may not be blind here, but the prosecutor will be as a result of the nomination by President Roosevelt of John A. Carver, blind attorney. for the post of United States district attorney.

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11. S. CENTERS ITS DRIVE ON HOME REVIVAL Internal Recovery First, Regardless of World Developments. POLICY MADE CLEAR London Parley Results Will Be Secondary in Roosevelt Program. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER t nil.'l Presa Staff Corresoomlent iCoDvrleht. 1933. bv United Press* WASHINGTON. June 23.—The Roosevelt administration has decided to concentrate everything on its domestic recovery program, irrespective of international developments, the United Press learned today. While the United States will not withdraw from the world economic conference, the administraton feels that its chief ho{>e is that other nations can be induced to concentrate in a similar way upon internal recovery. The Roosevelt administration is determined that nothing shall hinder its main drive at home. If the London conference can agree upon any measures which will facilitate that program, so much the better. But this government will join in nothing that might retard or endanger it.

Policy Definitely Stated That is the policy behind the | sharp rejection of temporary currency stabilization, and the policy ! behind the Couzens resolul/on at , London, urging the other governments to go into internal expansion i programs similar to America’s. When Prime Minister MacDonald \ and other foreign visitors came here a few weeks a|o they w r ere told in i effect: The United States intends I to pursue a domestic policy based upon reaching a higher price level, 1 using inflation so far as necessary j to achieve it and re-employment | through public works and industrial control. This government took the attitude I that the American people were es- | sentially a debtor people—that -is ! they had incurred heaify obligations at a high price level and needed restoration of that price level to j recover. Italy Backs U. S. Idea Britain and Fiance inclined to | the viewpoint of the creditor classes, of keeping down price levels and otherwise operating for the advantage of the money-lending class. Curiously, this government found Italy most responsive. It found Italy doing much the same things attempted here, Italy is spending twice as much per capita on public works as is the United States, American officials say. There w*as such a. lack of sympathy with the American viewpoint in some quarters that the Americans went into the conference with grave misgivings. In addition, the American delegation is regarded here as having bungled badly the situation. After Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley reaches London it is expected that the United States w’ill present a statement of position which will set the w'orld straight as to the American policy. Bernard M. Ba,ruch, at the request of the President, has drafted a memorandum which is being sent to Moley. The American position, when it finally is put forward in clear cut terms, is expected to suggest in substance the following: 1. That economic difficulties are largely domestic to each country. 2. That certain long range aids to recovery can be worked out in time. 3. That parallel internal recovery measures in each country are more important as an immediate aid to recovery. 4. That these internal measures should deal with curtailment of surpluses. balancing of budgets, and reduction of expenditures, development of re-employment through public w’orks and other measures. FIND MIND DISEASES AID Medical Authority Suggests Tumor Operations as Cure. ; By Science Service CHICAGO, June 23.—Many sufferers from mental disorders might be restored to their right minds by | surgical operations removing tumors of the pancreas, a report to the American Association for the Advancement of Science reveals. These patients have a disease that is practically the opposite of diabetes. Dr. Evarts A. Graham of Washington university School of ! Medicine, St. Louis, declared. They suffer from a lack of sugar caused i by the presence of too much insulin, which rapidly uses up the sugar of the body. Dr. Graham explained.

Day Visioned When Knife of Surgery Will Pass BY RAY BLACK United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO. June 23.—The time when biochemistry and biophysics will in large measure supplant the surgeon's knife w’as envisaged today by Dr. George Crile of the famous Cleveland clinic.

His glimpse into the future of surgery was contained in a paper read before a section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His title was "A Century of Progress in Surgery” and his glimpse ahead was expressed as a ‘ Century of Fewer Operations.” Dr. Crile recalled the era 100 years ago when "no tumors were removed from the abdomen; there were no operations for removal of gallstones; brain tumors were not disturbed; there was no science of child birth surgery; no control of infection; no surgical dressings.” He listed also: No X-ray, no skin grafting, no anesthetics. The art of the surgeon then, he said, was the "art of the swordsman.” A far brighter picture was painted i

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ILLINOIS—ALW AYS A PLAYBOY STREET

Rags and Riches Rub Elbows on Gay, Carefree Thoroughfare

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This is the last of a series of stories in the historical background of famous downtown streets. By ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer Tiffany setting in dime-store sparkler . . . mountebank and gentleman . . . w'here the "cancan” and its sister, the “kooch” dance, wdggled . . . where pokerfaced men play rhum and rumfaced men played poker . . . w'here blind beggars w'heedle coin and use it to bet on the ponies . . . where mornings are drugstore pick-me-ups and nights some of the same in coppers and ladies . . . Illinois street! Street of chumps and jackhustlers, chilly fat Chinese laundrymen, store clerks and second-hand valises, strip dances and denim sales, movies and myriad lights, travelers, trams and tattooers . . . levelers and the Old Levee . . . Gay, human, always rouged in lights and red lemonade, w'ith the bangles of flash bankrolls, corner preachers for ear-rings and a slip of store-fronts to cover all. It never could be otherwise than a play boy. Once it tried to ritz its sister streets in 1838. when the Governor's mansion was erected on the present site of the Traction Terminal building in lieu of the dilapidated mansion built on the Circle that never w'as lived in, a n tt BUT the Prince Albert debut in society failed. The mansion took on "ha'nts” or, at least, it seemed that its rafters bode evil, for practically every Governor or his family who lived in it fell under its curse—illness. Governor Bigger died there. The wife of Governor Whitcomb died, too. Illness placed Governor Willard's wife abed. Then the family of Governor Morton ailed under its wide eaves and its political life ended when Morton moved to the southeast

for the present, with anesthesia making all operations practically painless and Caesarian operations almost as safe as normal birth. Such errors of nature as cleft palate, webbed fingers and toes, club foot, dislocated hip—formerly immune to remedy—now can be corrected safely. He quoted figures to show that in operations upon 120.125 patients in two Cleveland hospitals—Lakeside and the Cleveland clinic—there were only three deaths from anesthesia, or one in 40.000. He said that more than 1.000.000 surgical operations now are performed annually in the United States with but a slight mortality -ate/

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1933

Upper Left—lllinois street of 1933 looking northward from the elevated tracks at the Union station. The white streaks on the street are caused by the headlights of automobiles. The lights, coupled with speed of the cars, blotted out the images of autos on the timed photo. Upper Right—The “haunted" residence of Indiana’s Governors, built in 1835 on the site of the present Traction Terminal building. Left Center —The Bates house, intersection of Washington and Illinois streets, where Lincoln spoke from a Washington street balcony to a crowd prior to his inauguration. Right Center—The first Bates house, a frame structure. Lower Left—A “rubberneck” wagon of Indianapolis in 1907. Lower Right—The Union station before track elevation.

corner of Pennsylvania and New' York streets. The street's ghost died with the sale of the mansion and its later rise to the estate of the crossroads of Indiana as interurbans poured in and out of the Traction building. Coming of the railroad in 1846 on South street between Pennsylvania and Delaware streets and con-

AGREEMENT NEAR ON WHEAT LIMIT Four Countries Expected to Join in Accord. By United Prett LONDON. June 23.—A sweeping agreement to limit the world's output of wheat was near today, as delegates of the chief wheat growing countries, the United States, Argentine, Canada and Australia, prepared to meet for the second time within eight hours. 4 They were on the verge of an agreement when, wearied by long discussion, they adjc arned their meeting early today. The agreement is believed to envisage a 15 per cent reduction of wheat acreage in the four countries for two years. The delegates’ effort to enlist Russia in a parallel agreement to curb the world wheat surplus was reported nearing success. While Russia will not agree to limit her acreage, she was reported to have promised adherence to a two-year restriction of exports, with the understanding that her quota would be sufficient for a big crop expected in 1934. 2 HURT HOPPING TRAINS Men Fall From Freight Cars in Efforts to Catch Rides. George Devine, 42, of Wilkesbarre. Pa., suffered a laceration of the face Thursday when he fell from a freight car he attempted to board at the New York Central railroad and Elder avenue. He was sent to city hosiptal. Lucian Hester. Negro, 40. of Owensboro, Ky„ suffered a crushed left foot when he fell in attempting to board a freight car at the Belt railroad near Oliver avenue Thursday. Burglar Steals S3. Driver's License A burglar early today robbed the home of F. J. Shurman, 3045 Central avenue of a billfold containing i $3 cash and a driver's license* *

struction of a Union depot in 1852, on the present site, had much to do with determining the character of Illinois. tt tt TOM TAGGART, the Talleyrand of Indiana's party of Jefferson, was in charge of the cuisine in the Union depot’s first dining room. Deftness and agility of the Taggart mind was equaled by his hand and old-timers like W. W. Spencer, of the state board of election commissioners, tell of the tricks he delighted to play on bigwigs who w’ore diamond studs and huge anchor-chained w r atches. "It w'as even money he'd have your diamond stud in his pocket while asking you where it was today,” Spencer relates in storytelling moods. Jackson place, the circular drive in front of the station, and McNabb street—its predecessor, south of the station —became the battleground of cabbies for fares. Many knock - down -and - dragouts occurred over the right to hoist a carpet-bag into a hansom. tt tt a HOTELS, among them the Spencer house, cluttered near the union statioii and remained through the years with some changes in names, as track elevation railroad from the street that crossed it and later tunneled beneath. Wholesale Arms, pawnshops, saloons, gathered at the station's front door. The street became known as the "Levee” in the days that follow'ed Lincoln's address from the Bates house, northwest corner of Illinois and Washington streets. It w-as the good-time Charlie of the town. On the northeast corner of Washington and Illinois streets, a certain Edward A. Cobb ran a pharmacy which he called "The Comer Drugstore.” He had the first soda fountain of the town and Johnny June dispensed the drinks, except on the Sabbath, when a soda was considered a sin. But nothing was thought of the fact that the town's medical practitioners hung around Cobb's. Prescriptions had to be written and were except on those times when some doctor forgot to get his breakfast pick-up and rather than expose himself to the gossip of patients by entering a saloon, would have one on "Doc'' Cobb behind his prescription case. u n a JUST north of the present site of Block's department store was a circus ground, where on one occasion A. G. Field "mugged” as a 'down for O'Brien's circus. Too many mirrors ended the days of present site of Block's

as a hotel and saloon. The hotel and bar was furnished so handsomely and the drunks so boisterous and such good aim with bottles that the Windsor hotel and bar w'ere sold as a bad investment. One of the memorable raids of those days of the Levee was the hammering dowm of the "Iron Door” with a railroad rail by police. The "Iron Door” was a bit of Monte Carlo on Illinois street, near the present site of Rink’s store. Numerous attempts had been made to break into the games conducted by Alexander Mortland, the owmer, but his Capone shield that might have served for a "speak” or "racket” headquarters in modern days always vanquished the cops. a tt tt 'TPHE steel rail was commandeered from railroad shops and the door caved in. Gamblers, some of them, escaped by taking the sky route over roofs of adjoining buildings. The livery stable of William Hinesly and the “Clipper” saloon occupied the present site of Rink's. Upper floors shuffled to the two-steps and rags of the day, as “can-can” dancers shook their hips in the Theater Comique. The building got religion when ti was purchased for the use of the Y. M. C. A. The Kingston bar, present site of the Apollo theater, w'as one of the town's principal cocktail counters Later it became Stegemeier's, with a huge blackboard w'here one could chalk a bet on anything from horses to hot weather. Back doors of the Levee bars were popular on Sunday if one had a “cheater” for a bartender. Joe Stahr's and "Pop” June's were other night-owls of the Levee that breathed the free and easy days of free lunches with a schooner.

Self Help Exchange to Open Bright wood Office

Dedication services for the headquarters of the Indianapolis Self Help Exchange will be held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon at the building formerly occupied by the Railroad Y. M. C. A. in Brightwood. Speakers will be Harry White, Y. M. C. A. secretary; William H. Book, representing the Chamber of Commerce; Hugh McK Landon. and the Rev. Ernest N. Evans, secretary of the Church Federation of Indianapolis. The excnange was organized in March, this year, under the direction of Miss Gertrude B. Brown, social worker with the Community Fund staff, and former Y. W. C. A. secretary. An account of its career is contained in a recent report of the statistics bureau of the United States department of labor. Intended to the needy to

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ON the southeast corner of Illinois and Ohio streets was the Academy of Music, one of the early theaters of the town. It played to the "Hearts and Flowers” dramas. Plays with their saw-mills for cutting heroes in tw r o if help didn't arrive at a "clop-clop” rate of the horse manufactured by the trap-drum-mer or by someone in the wings. Acros-s the street w'as the Indianapolis Turnverein and, in close proximity, on Ohio street, Monninger's, w'here the suds flowed freely. Northward the street gentled into good residences passed by mule-cars. If the mules balked at times, w'hat w'as the "diff,” for they had the expanse of the street —just as trackless trolleys do today—to right the cars in? "Rooms to Let” edged in on the residential portion of the street as richer patrons of its tree-lined curbs moved north. Electric trams came. Electric lights supplanted gas. Apartments w T ere built. Tracks w'ere elevated at the Union Station. tt tt tt ''jT'AXIS junked hansom cabs. X The Claypool ghosted for the old Bates house. The Grand hotel still lived with its memories. Business buildings tried to make the street sedate. They didn't. "Chuck” Wiggins, the Hoosier play-boy boxer, wouldn't let them, what with cop-crowning and hotel free-for-alls. You still can get a "game,” your fortune told, a slug of liquor, watch a snake-dance, read in the Y. M. C. A., or sit with your sweetie in a show’ op the street today as you could in the Levee days. If you stand long enough at the intersection of Illinois and Washington streets, you'll met every one you know, you’ll see everything to be seen and think everything to be thought. It's that kind of a street! THE END.

help themselves, the exchange has 185 acres of land under cultivation, and prospective crops' include several thousand head of cabbage which will be converted into kraut for winter use. Tomatoes also will be canned as well as other garden produce. Officials of the exchange are soliciting equipment, including sprays and also plants to be used for late crops. Already 25.000 plants have been supplied. Named Engineers’ President By United Prf** LAFAYETTE. June 23.—Arthur Huntington, Cedar Rapids, la., headed the American Society of Agricultural Engineers today following his election at the annual meeting here. He succeeds Charles E. Seit, Blackburg, Va*

MASSACRE OF FIVE LAID TO DOUBLE-CROSS Outlaw Frank Nash Slain Because He Robbed Pal, Left Him in Lurch. VICTIM GETS REVENGE Despoiled Convict Flees Prison, Gathers Gang for Kansas City Killing. R’l f nitcd Fret* KANSAS CITY. Mo.. June 23.--Frank Nash was put on the spot' because he double-crossed a pal. it, was believed today by city detectives, trying to trail the machine gunners who killed Nash, an escaped convict, and four peace officers in the union station massacre here last Saturya. Harvey Bailey, one of tne eleven convicts who escaped from the Kani sas prison on Memorial day. kidnaping the warden, two g lards and more than a dozen civilians in their flight, was linked more closely with the wholesale killing by new' evidence. Bailey and Nash had been pals. They had been on several big "jobs” together, and lived together in an expensive hotel while they spent the loot from their pillaging-, it was learned. Then Bailey was arrested on a golf course here, while playing with Francis Keating and " Thomas Holden, escaped convicts. Nash Makes Escape What police did not know then, but found out later, was that Nash was playing right behind them. He saw his friends arrested, but calmly played out his game. Then, while the officers quizzed Bailey, Holden and Keating, the bank bandit Nash jumped into his automobile, raced to the hotel where the men wer# living, and escaped with some $20,000 of Bailey's money, part of it loot from the holdup of the Citizens’ National bank of Ft. Scott, Kan., according to information just made public by police. That was all right with Bailey. He confidently expected that the money would be used to hire an attorney who could help him fight the charge of robbing the Ft. Scott bank. Attorney Is Slain But he was met with the doublecross, police now say. Nash disappeared. taking the money. The high-priced lawyer whom Bailey expected to go from Kansas City to defend him. did not appear. An attorney hired on his behalf in Tulsa, Okla., was slain on a lonely country highway. Bailey w r as convicted and sent to prison. Then he escaped, less than two weeks before federal investigators arrested Nash in Hot Springs, Ark. How' the killers got word from Hot Springs that Nash had been arrested and w'ould walk out of the Union station here after arriving on the 7 a. m. train, has not been learned. But the word arrived, and the Union station literally was surrounded by members of the "mob,” intent on seeing that Nash never reached the safety of a prison cell. Mowed Down by Gang As Nash and his escort left the front door of the station and entered a waiting motor car, bullets hailed at them from machine guns. Nash and four officers were killed, and another officer wounded. If they had left by any other door, the result would have been the same, police believe. Another band of gunmen waited at the side door of the station, it w'as learned. Another group waited near the gates of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, in case Nash got through here alive. As these facts were unfolding before the intensive prying of the police, the investigators were more and more inclined to free Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd from suspicion in the case. They are more firmly convinced that his postcard, mailed from Springfield and declaring that he was not present, was genuine and truthful. INSURANCE CO. AGENT HONORED AT PARTY 200 Employes Pay Tribute to Frank Olin, 80. Ice cream and cake was served more than 200 employes of the State Automobile Insurance Company, Thursday afternoon, when the company gave a birthday party for Frank W. Olin, 2002 Central avenue, a district agent for the company. He was 80 Thursday. Olin was presented with several presents, gifts of the firm and its board of directors, by Arthur Wolf, vice-president of the company. Olin. has been with the company sines its establishment seventeen years ago. The party w r as held at the company's offices in the Occidental building. STAB WOUND IS FATAL Negro Women Dies at Hospital; Assailant Is Hunted. Mrs. Alma Nathan, Negro, 7C7 Indiana avenue, died at city hospital Thursday night from a stab wound inflicted in the abdomen Wednesday night in a fight in the 600 block Utah street. Police are searching for the Negro woman Mrs. Nathan said stabbed her. She would give no reason for the fight. L IST FI RE WORKS RULES Detailed Instructions to Be Given Each City Store Keeper. Orders to all vendors and users of fireworks for Fourth of July celebrations were issued today by Fire Chief Harry Vostell and Bernard Lynch, fire prevention chief. A copy of the/rity ordinance regulating the sale will be given each ->licant for selling licenses, with a of *don’ts.” Only one fire occurred last year in places where fire works were soldi