Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1933 — Page 17
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Man is now flying around the world alone and woman is going alone to Africa. That was the accomplishment of F.rmly Hahn, graduate of the University of *Visconsin. as told in her latest book. "Congo Solo "
BY WALTER I>. lIK'KMAN ¥T wms that, woman ran do what *■ she pleases as lone as she has brains, nerve, determination and an understanding of life. That was my thought when I turned the last pages of Congo Solo b\ Emily Hahn, just published bv the Bobbs-Merriil Company of this city. Here is a sort of a female modern Crusoe, who was not shipwrecked. but who went alone thirdclass from London into the middle of darkest Africa "Congo Solo" is a diary of the misadventures of a modern woman in the Congo region of Africa. Here is the most refreshing and human story of what a person saw. heard and experienced in that strange land which I have read It sees to me that Miss Hahn went to Africa, saw and felt Africa a good deal like the way 1 imagine Mae West would make the trip. In other words. Miss Hahn has mentally photographed and reproduced Africa into modern language. Some of her expressions are so hot that I wanted to yell "Fire.” but. underneath everything she writes is a gigantic understanding of life, even in Africa. She makes you feel that you are going to look in upon her adventures so candid is her recital. You see her in a dramatic and sad mood as she delivers Christmas presents to her friends in London, the day before she was to start third-class to Africa. You meet in London her unusual modern friends- Flossie and her latest flame—the Worst man in London; an American lady in a peacock hat. a blond man with glasses and Rosa. Even m this .strange assortment of friends, you have the hunch that Emily can tak® care of herself, even while she is crying, for no reason at all. except that she is a woman, on the shoulder of the Worst Man in London a a a When Emily gets into her third class bunk on the boat, you recognize at once the Mae West observations of life She had two meals a day as she puts it not counting morning coffee in pajamas." Also—'The more time I spend here the more indignant I am with all the English fvople who raised hell at my coming thus." Emily on this trip learned how to cut bread properly and staged a drinking bout with one of the men on the ship. The ship didn't sink and neither did Emily. I nearly landed out of my chair when she relates that a red-headed man on the boat presented her witn a cirgarette-picture of a very bare. \rry white fat lady, which I have sent off to Mother " With extreme candor she tells how she was nearly prevented from landing in Africa by the authorities on the ancient grounds that because she was unescorted she might be a street walker Every second this writer is registering human reactions to life. It is spice, but it is life Always remember that she is not writing a novel, but daily recording her experiences. conversations and the like in Africa Remember she is a university graduate and yet her style of writing is simple, plain and direct. She can capture the beauty of the forests and the rivers as easly as she tells the horrors of nearly meeting death in the river. Emily's Friday is Dr Den Murray in charge of a medical post deep in the Congo jungle. Her experience at this post with her friend, the doctor, are the most amazing I ever have read. She becomes a sort of an assistant to Den. helps him dig out the jiggers from the sore feet of Mat ope a five-year native boy. She -ees an old native woman die and helps inject hundrdes of natives on .njection days. Here is a story of persona! bravery. A fight against death and disease, all recorded on a mighty hot but honest typewriter. She and the doctor have all kinds of quarrels Both blame it on the climate. She becomes a great ,nend of a chimpanzee who delights ;n biting her superiors. The author has caught the strange spell of the natives and you learn that the sewing machine has been introduced into Africa but the women will not use it. A sort of a God-given [lerson visas ihe districts and do the sewing Native African women are '’ends oter clot lies There is so much to this book She has caught the grand and wild theater of travel. It is a masterpiece. If you read only one so called travel book a year, be sure and read "Cocgo Solo.” It sells lor 12 75.
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BUTLER URGES U. S. SMASH AT ‘RANSOM RATS’ Modified Martial Law for Kidnapers Is Advocated by General. BV PAI L COMI.Y FRENC H I nit-d Pre* Milt ( rr**pond*nt * iCopvngh' 1933. b Uni’ed Pr**s> NEWTOWN SQUARE Pa , July 28 The kidnaping racket nowsweeping the nation could be stopped within a month. MajorGeneral Smedley D Butler said in an interview today. "Let the President of the United States declare a modified form of martial law superseding civil rights and civil courts only in cases of gangsters and racketeers—and well soon see the end of the rats who live on ransom money," Butler told the United Press. Under Butlers plan of modified martial law," there would be no need to call out the armed forces of the county. The President merely would designate a marshal in each section affected by racketeers, with power to arrest all criminals on sight." he said. "Immediately, trials would be held before a provost court, which would be conducted like a military court-martial." Would Trap Suspect The essence of the former marinp generals plan would come when the racketeer fared the court. • The suspect would be asked to show how he honestly earned the money which permitted him to live in expensive apartments and drive high-priced cars and when he couldn't show an honest job for the last few years he would be sentenced automatically to a tropical island for an indefinite sentence.” There would be no appeal, no high-priced lawyers.no long-draw-n----out litigation under the Butler plan "The only apjieal would be to the President of the United States," h® said. "Local and state police forces, for obvious reasons, are powerless in combating kidnapings. and federal authorities are handicapped greatly by inadequate laws and small forces of investigators. C leanup in Month Seen 'Most kidnapers are either oldtime criminals with police records or boot loggers and gangsters. A real federal force of provost marshals, operating under the district marshal, would have little trouble in bringing in the criminals and gangsters within a month. And the action of the provost court would be swift and sure, uninfluenced by political considerations."
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CYANIDE CARRIES DEATH INTO RIVER
Deadly Waste Takes Toll of Fish and Livestock in Big Blue
(Continued From Page One) of one farmer. Settlement awaits appeal. In another case of violent death of livestock through use of the creek for water facilities, the case was settled out of court. The stat® bureau of the sanitary division sent a letter to the Newcastle mayor in iP3O. outlining the death of the cattle and the circumstances. Manufacturer Is Blamed It says: "The death of these cattle pointed toward the presence of some poisonous substance. The extreme suddenness indicated that cyanide might be involved. Inasmuch as it is known that cyanides are used in the plating and heat treating departments of the plant of the Chrysler Corporation, and that this plant is the only manufacturing establishment making use of cyanides which discharges into the creek—" The report continued with analyses of the "presence of cyanide in three cow-s." The 1933 report of the same deadly poison being flushed into the creek resulted in a letter from the sanitary board of the state to Newcastle health authorities and also proper notification to the Chrysler plant. Officials of the Chrysler plant in the past have promised to remedy the condition. Dangerous to Fish The danger of cyanide to animals makes it equally as death-dealing to fish Pollution of Big Blue river is not confined to the ditch that wanders through farm lands from the motor car factory. A packing house dumps its wastes into the river. City sewage spreads its quota of B. coli. In the days "away back when." Big Blue served as the swimming "hole" for the town boys. Goggleeyed perch, sunfish, bass, cavorted in its jigsaw course. Those were the days when the stream had a fall of twenty feet a mile and Indians roamed near it, built mounds, buried their dead. Bears Drank There Raccoons came down to the Big Blue's brink to drink. Bears inhabited its lower reaches around Knightstown. In fact, one historian relates how it was necessary to chase the bears out of Knightstown to make the streets safe for children. And nowadays they keep the great-grandchildren of these children safe from Big Blue and its germ-laden, poiscn-possible waters with private swimming pools, instead of permitting them to dive from a tree-stump into Blue. Frank Tritt, of Knightstown, re-
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1933
rolls Have n-hpn hr ronlri toko his
calls days when he could take his can of worms and." It's just fifty years ago. And I’d eo down to Blue and get myself a big mess of fish. Perch, bass. cat. and buffalo.” Was Great Fishing Spot Even men who are not grandfathers v®t, in Newcastle, tell of the times in their youth when Big Blue was a credit to the town as a swimming and fishing spot. Plans for a sewage disposal plant to prevent continued pollution of Big Blue have been discussed by Newcastle. "Don't w-ant to saddle any more on the taxpayers under present : conditions than we can. That's why nothing has been done," declares one city official. When mention is made of the dumping of poisons and other wastes into Big Blue by manufactories. the conversation lags or the official importunes, "not to say anything about it these hard times.” Threat Over Town He mentions the constant unspoken threat that hangs over the heads of the townspeople, "You know factories can move aw ay from your town. Your citizens are thrown out of work.” It is the same threat met in any small or large Indiana town when the concrete subject of requiring factories to end their days of pollution is brought up. And so Newcastle swimmers go to private pools for their outings. The Ike Walton of the town takes his rod and reel to clearer and purer waters, where a carp won't be his "bite." And the motorist rides serenely by Big Blue and its ditch that has held poisons for fish and livestock and man and. viewing the scene from the highway, remarks: "Quite pastoral! Quite!" Next—The Birth of Ben-Hur, but the Race of B. Coli).
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Upper Left—A bridge entering Newcastle at the north; just below the bridge, the city's untreated sewage empties into Big Blue river.
KIWANIS AND ROTARY BACK RADIO CAMPAIGN Full Support to Proposal for State Police System Is Pledged. Full support of the Indiana districts of Kiwar.is International and Rotary International were placed behind the state police radio drive today, with announcement that district governors of both organizations had instructed all members to lend full co-operation to the movement The project is being headed by Al Feeney, state dircetor of public j safety, who lauded the move of the 1 sixty-nine Kiwanis clubs and flfty- ■ eight Rotary clubs in the state in support of the drive "We are designating the state po-
Upper Right—Wastes from a packing company being emptied into Blue. The pipes can be seen, side by side, jxniring out of the plant into the river.
lice radio as a major objective' of the Indiana district for the next few weeks." said Paul W McKe" 01 Hartford City, governor of Kiwanis. 111 his letter to all Kiwanians in the state. "Get behind the state police radio." he added, not only to bring honor to the organization, but also I to protect your business, your family and yourself." "I urge every Rotarian to take active part in seeing that this movement is an assured succcess," said Oscar Cravens of Bloomington, govi ernor of Indiana Rotary. "Indiana must be made a safer and happier state." he declared. Rainfall is measured regularly at about 35.030 stations in various 1 parts of the world.
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Lower—The Big Blue looking upstream at Newcastle and at the juncture where a ditch pours acids that have caused death to livestock
SALEM MAN IS HELD AFTER FATHER'S DEATH Arrest Made al Grave of Parent, Victim of Broken Neck. ft’i 1 niff’l PrrKK SALEM. Ind. July 28 James Whitman. 49. Fredericksburg, was held for questioning here today in connection with the death of his father William. The elder man was found in the barnyard of his home with a broken neck. James was taken into custody a his father's grave immediately after funeral services. A ;hort time later Arthur Dewes.se. 21. living near here, was arrested in connection with the same case.
THOUSANDS GO BACK TO WORK, SURVEY SHOWS Business and Industry Gain Is Noted in All Parts of Nation.
iCopvr;sht 1933. t>r United Presrt Spurred by the quickening busU ness pace and activity of the National Recovery Administration, thousands of men are returning to work daily, a United Press survey of nation-wide conditions showed today A corresponding decrease in the burden of public relief rolls wn* reported Though no general figures were available as to effect of the general code for industry submitted bv President Roosevelt, a number of cities advised that there had boon sharp increases in employment in the last ten days Asa direct result of the President s message this week, two large Chieago corporations issued a . ail to the emergency relief commission for 2.20.1 workers. More than 30.000 families have been removed from the Illinois relief rolls since the peak in March Relief Rolls Decrease The March total was 203,543 families. This month only 14R.000 families were dependent upon emergency support. It was |>ointed out .that part of the reduction was due to seasonal outdoor employment. Thousands of workers are going back to their jobs in Detroit’s motor industry. One unit reported 11.000 men re-employed sine® June 1. Between 100 and 150 families are being removed from relief rolls daily in that city. Pennsylvania reported 56.000 families had b®cn removed from the welfare list in recent weeks due to the opening of new opportunities for wage earners. The burden now is 12 p®r cent under the May peak, 467.000 families. Cleveland reported that employment was decreasing the relief necessity at the rate of 5 per cent a month New opportunities in the steel, automotive, and other industries have come for thousands. Gain in St. Louis St Louis officials announced that 25000 persons had gained jobs in the last three months. Revival of the brewing industry was a potent factor. Employment in Wisconsin, based on figures for the twenty-nine leading industrial cities, has gained about 15 per cent, with a cor- , responding decrease in the number dependent upon relief. More than 12.000 families went off the relief rolls in Indiana in ihe last few weeks. Cost of relief i dropped about 10 per cent.