Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1933 — Page 15

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Rinrr Phil String had his first novel published, the trading public has anxiously been waiting for his next. Harcourt. Brace and company have just jublished Stong’s latest, "Stranger's Return." The chief character is Grandpa Storr, a lovable ostogenarian. ft is a story of lowa fields. Os course you have read Stong’s first published novel, "State Fair." BY WALTER !). HIC KMAN. SINCE reading Gladys Hasty Carroll's "As the Earth Turns." I (eel that T have moved on a Maine farm near to the Mark Shaw place with the Ed Shaw and the George Shaw farms some miles away. I am sure that I am acquainted with every pot and pan in the Shaw kitchen where Jen presided over the stove in winter, spring, summer and fall. Day after day in all the seasons as the earth turns, I have sat. down at the table in the kitchen with the Shaws in the old Mark Shaw farmhouse that never had a telephone because Mark just never got round to puttin’ it in. I attended the wedding of Ed Shaw and Margaret, a country school teacher and a sister of Mil Shaw, wife of George. I went, to funerals with the Shaws and had a great George Washington birthday dinner as w'ell as bountiful Thanksgiving and Christmas feeds with the feet of all the Shaw's under the table with the exception of Ralph who ran away from home twelve years before and became an aviator. T stood with the Shaws and suffered the silent grief of Mark as he stood by the closed cedar casket of his boy, Ralph, the aviator. a a a RALPH was killed in an airplane accident, and when his father heard the news, he said: “You te’l them to send the boy home." And then. "You tell them, we're expecting of him.” I was snowbound in the Mark Shaw place for many weeks one winter and I appreciated the great strength of character of Jen. her loving and understanding attention of every member of the family as well as the Polish family, the Janowskis, who lived in a barn on a big run-down farm and who were termed foreigners by the neighbors. Os this family. Stan, the eldest boy. was born of the soil but his father and mother were of the city pavements and the smaJl apartments. It was this true love of Stan for the earth in all seasons which resulted in Jen s beautiful and solid romance with Stan. Anri Stan's way of proposing was so natural and so earthy that the author’s way of presenting it is a masterpiece and one of the grandest passages I have ever read. I have seen the snow melt and spring come to the Shaw farms. Ed had a system with his hay and cattle but everything was wrong at George's place. Everything at the Mark Shaw place was human perfection. I have seen the spring give way to the harvest of the summer and I have seen the fall turn the leaves to a deathly color and I welcomed winter once again. 808 BUT when winter came again, things had changed—the Shaws had changed and l left them on a Christmas eve—all the Shaws with the exception of Ralph, comfortably tucked away in beds in Mark Shaw's big house. And I parted with Mark Shaw as he was looking at a row of stockings hanging from a mantel-piece as he dropped small coins in the well filled stockings. As the author tells you—"He had done so every Christmas eve for nearly thirty years now. It was his part." This is the first novel of Miss Carroll and it immediately places her among the leading writers who actually understands real people of the soil. You will find no weakness in character drawing. You will find stark realism, the glorious monotony of life on a big Maine farm, the solitude of winter with its security to every farmer if the rules have been followed in the other seasons. BBS "As the Earth Turns” is never melodrama. It is honest realism. It is life recorded intelligently and woven together into a beautiful fabric. As far as I am concerned this book is entitled to the Pulitzer prize. Last year I was for Phil Stong's "State Fair" but it didn't get it. This Carroll book is as great and powerful as "The Good Earth.” And it is as big. The story of the earth is the same whether the people live in China or on a big Maine farm. I feel that if you miss meeting the Mark Shaw family, you have missed one of the most human experiences. Just to read the first chapter is a command to move right over in Jen's kitchen in the Mark Shaw house and stay there as the earth turns from one season to another. ‘ As the Earth Turns" is published by the Macmillan Company and sells for $2.50.

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VERDICT NEAR IN ANDERSON MAYOR CLASH Blow Dealt Baldwin Cause: Councilmen Swing to Mellett Support. ft t) 7 nilr'l Prrtn m ANDERSON. July 14.—Closing ! arguments were to be made and the jury instructed by Judge John W. Craig today in Madison circuit court in the ouster proceedings by which Jesse H. Meliett, former An- I derson mayor, hopes to recover the office from Mayor Harry R Baldwin. Baldwin's cause stiff'red two crushing blows toward tne end of testimony, when Craig ’.efused to allow Baldwin to present two exhibits to the jury and Councilman William Marine, hitherto a strong Baldwin supporter, was reported willing to testify for Mellett. If Marine goes over to Mellett. only one of five councilmen will be left favoring Baldwin. A Mellett verdict might result in a shakeup of the Anderson school board, it was reported today. Four , members of the board were appointed by Baldwin following the athletic scandal and student strike this spring. First trial of Mellett s quo war- j ranto proceedings June 15-22 re- | suited in a disagreement. Baldwin . is charged with assuming office illegally while Mellett was ill in Methodist hospital in Indianapolis and Baldwin contends that Mellett abandoned the office. TWO HURT IN CAR CRASH City Woman Is in Vincennes Hospital After Accident. Two persons from Indianapolis | were injured Thursday night in an automobile accident at Vincennes, j according to word received here to- ; day. Mrs. Bert Emmons is in a j hospital suffering from shock and I head injuries. Emmons escaped injury and Jack j Reegan, driver of the car. incurred j face cuts. None of the persons reported injured is listed in the city directory. BANDITS’ LOOT IS S4O Gunmen Stick Up Operator of North Side Restaurant. Two masked bandits, armed with pistols, early today held up Sam's Subway restaurant. 2735 North Meridian street, and obtained approximately S4O. Sam Hochman. operator of the restaurant, told police the gunmen fled east on Twenty-eighth street in a Ford roadster.

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BIG BEND-UNCLE SAM’S LAST FRONTIER

Thi is th* first of five stories on the BC B*n<i rountry of Texas, America a last frontier, by Harrv McCormick, special correspondent for NEA Service and The Timex. BY HARRY M’CORMICK NEA Service Writer ROMANCE and adventure ride again on the nation's last frontier, the Big Bend country of Texas—the last untamed area of the old Wild West —where it still is the case that a man's life often depends on his ability to shoot quick and shoot straight. I just have returned from a trip through this mountainous wilderness, as large as several New r England states, which rises abruptly from the level plains of west Texas. It lies within the hollow of the huge bend made by the curving Rio Grande and thereby gets its name. Except for isolated cattle ranches here and there, and tiny towns fifty miles apart on narrow mountain roads, the Big Bend country today is little different from what it was when the earliest pioneers braved the Indians to enter it a century ago. Lofty mountains rear their majestic heads in silent grandeur over the narrow river that winds its snake-like way through the canyons far below; scrawny mesquite ard cactus cling to their rocky sides; mountain lions and panthers roam the underbrush and rattlesnakes as thick as a mans ankle wriggle among the sun-baked rocks. St tt tt AND now anew chapter is being written in the Big Bend's long and colorful history—a chapter almost equally as dramatic as those of guns and bloodshed and cattle rustlers and bad men that have gone before it. The long-standing feud between American ranchers and Candalario Baeza. the wily old Mexican bandit, who rules the wild country just across the border, has been renewed. The trouble started recently w hen Art Hannold and John Rollins, ranchers, were lured across the border by Candalario and made captive, after a plot to have them slain had failed. Eventually, they were released. There is prospect of more trouble. Recent withdrawal of United States army troops from their post at Marfa, Tex., in the interest of economy, has made Candalario bolder, as evidenced by the case of Hannold and Rollins, and further border raids by his band appear likely. Uncle Sam's cavalrymen, who could come clattering through the mountain passes on short notice, are gone now,'but these hardy Texans—rancher*, peace officers and Texas Rangers—are confident they can meet anything the wily Candalario has to offer. One leaves Texas’ modern cities behind and turns back the pages of history for more than a generation when he enters the Big Bend country.

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n M tt It It BUB Mexican- Texan Fend Flares Again wIK The location of the Biff Bend country of western Texas, a vast and untamed wildervest* empire as large as several Few England states, is shown in the map below. jr The scene is typical of that along the Rio Grande in this mountainous section. / J

From San Antonio westward lie mile after mile of gently rolling prairie. Small farms dot the highway and break its tedium until one reaches Uvalde. Texas, the home of Vice-President Garner. Beyond Uvalde the scene changes; the sage brush and the chaparral grow r thicker and the farms are further apart. At Del Rio one finds himself in a rough country that is fit for only grazing and ranching. Here are the cactus, the rugged rocks, the chaparral thickets and countless thousands of acres as

yet untrod by the foot of white man. Here, amid a galaxy of other wonders of nature, is petrified a forest. tt tt a THE fifty miles that separate the villages seem like a hundred over the winding, rocky roads. The Big Bend country is three times the size of Belgium. Four of the smaller New England states could be thrown into Brewster county alone, and there still would be room. It is a country where every weed and eery shrub has a thorn, where every reptile has a poison-

ous sting and where the Rio Grande lures man and beast to drink and then stifles both in treacherous quicksand. It is a place where the river that separates the United States from Mexico is in place only ankle deep—an area into wffiich bad gringos havfe fled to hide from the law, where bad Mexicanos make raids across the border and where a six-shooter is still an honest rancher’s best life insurance. a e u HERE, in the valleys where the grass grows green and ranch houses lie many miles

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apart, are ranchers who live amid surroundings little changed since the days of Davy Crockett and the Alamo. For years soldiers and Texas Rangers waged intermittent warfare with raiding bands of Mexican cattle rustlers from across the border And with the feud between the ranchers and the wily old Candalario renewed, the six-shooter and the rifle may soon be writing new chapters in the Big Bends romantic history.

RECOGNITION ACCORD WITH SOVIET NEAR Russia Reported Ready to Make Concessions to U. S. Government. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srrippx-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. July 14.—After hanging fire for nearly sixteen years, the problem of Russian recognition I today was said to be approaching a I solution. In line with her policy of swiftly j concluding trade agreements and ' pacts of nonaggression with prac- | tically all major western powers. Russia is reported prepared to make ! important concessions to the United States in return for recognition. The peace of the Far East. Moscow is said to hold, would be far ; more secure if the United States j and the Soviet Union were in a position to co-operate. With that m j view. Russia is understood to be 1 more than willing to support American policy in the Orient. With the return from London of | Assistant Secretary of State Rayj mond Moley, President Roosevelt will get a detailed report on the conversations which have taken place between members of the American | delegation to the London conference j and the Russians. Moley. William C. Bullitt—executive officer of the American delegation—Senator James Couzens and others of the American group in London have been in touch with the Russian contingent attending the world economic conference. While the administration is said not to underestimate the importance of the combined Russian-American influence in the interest of peace in the Far East, it is the economic factor which has the greater momentary appeal. In line with this, it is known that the President and state department officials have before them a number of studies showing the trade possibilities between the two countries. One of these was prepared by Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, worldfamous engineer of New York, written at the invitation of the President himself and of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Another, aw-aiting Moley on his return to his desk today, was by a nationally known mid - western economist. Both reports reveal that while the United States is doing little or nothing to capture its share of poj tentially the greatest market in the world today, Great Britain, France, and other leading countries of Europe are leaving no stone unturned to annex theirs —some of it financed with money borrowed in the United States.