Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1937 — Page 9
Vagabond
From Indiana—Ernie Pyle
Sourdoughs of '98 Still Plentiful In Juneau, but Waitress Declares Territory Populated by Love-Lorn.
JUNEAT, Alaska, July 5.—I asked a local reporter if many old prospectors of the ’ . * 98 days were still around. To my surprise he said: “Scads of ‘em. They're under your feet. And the sad part of it is, they're not news up here.” He said an old guy registered at one of the cheap hotels this morning as “Two-Forty Sweed.” He had just come in from the interior and told the reporter his business was catching mink and cutting 60 per cent of their tails off. . “He'd be worth half a column in Seattle,” the reporter said, “But he isn't worth anything here.” “Why does he cut 60 per cent of their tails off?” 1 asked. ‘The reporter didn't know. Just liked to do it, he supposed.
Second Section
By Milton Bronner
NEA Stafr Correspondent
But not all the veterans of the |
rush are meet Chilcoot
Klondike Every day you went up over
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Pass in "97 or ’98, and vou'd never |
Mr. Pyle know but what they were businessmen of Pittsburgh or Denver. Almost all the moneyed men in Alaska today, and the men who are running the territory and its business, are old sourdoughs of the Klondike days. Just down the street frogn where 1 stay is a little “tea room.” It is fresh and clean and quiet. People eat regularly there, and everybody Knows evervhody else. There are never more than four or five people there at a time, and they're liable to be anybody from Judge Wickersham down to a couple of gold miners in dirty overalls and rubber boots. The woman who rins the place is slow and studied. And she is motherly, ‘and speaks with a slight accent. When you go to ‘pay she’s always back in the kitchen, so you just yell “I'll pay you tonight, Mrs. Jacobson,” and walk on out, The other morning while at breakfast I heard her instructing the waitress about what to give a certain customer who always eats lunch there. “Give him buttermilk from now on,” she said. “He wants buttermilk every day.” “What shall I charge him for it?” the girl asked. And Mrs, Jacobson said, in her slow, resigned voice: “Don't charge him anything. He ‘doesn’t like to ‘pay for it.”
Girl Greenhorn Brave
I've struck up an acquaintanceship with a girl who works in another restaurant here. She got the job through an ad in a Seattle paper, and is just up for the summer. We have long chats while I ‘eat dinner.
She whispered to ‘me the sacrilegious word that |
she isn't so crazy about it up here. Which is a
pretty brave thing to say to a comparative stranger, |
because youre supposed to be nuts ‘if go head over heels for Alaska right away. But she says she hasn't ‘been overwhelmed with this famous Alaskan hospitality. And she says she has got the impression that everybody. in Alaska ‘is up here because he (or she) has ‘been disappointed in love back home, and is running away from it.
Razor-Blade Allergy
The Word-of-the-Year “allergic.” is using it. Ti's sweeping the continent, nobody but doctors ever heard of it. Today evervhody uses it—aviators, women, farmers, aceountevervhodv, For those few of vou left ih the world who don't know what it means, it's just another way of saying “I like ‘pumpkin pie, but it doesn't like me.” The reason I happened to think ‘of it now is that a waitress (neither of the ones ‘mentioned above: 1 know lots of em) sprang it on ‘me here the other night All of a sudden she said, almost confidentially You know, I'm allergic to strawberries. 1 love them, but they give ‘me the hives,” Unfortunately I'm not allergic to anything. Oh, I suppose a fellow could break into a ‘conversation and sav “I'm allergic to razor blades.” But people might think he was crazy.
Mrs. Roosevelt's Day
By Eleanor Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt Enjoyed Fourth's
Noise More Than History, It Seems.
YDE PARK, Sunday.—I often wonder how ‘many of the children who set off firecrackers on the Fourth of July really think about the significance ‘of this day to our country. In some of the letters which I found in old boxes not long ago, my father and his ‘older brother, Theodore, told of this day when they were small boys at Oyster Bay. Both of them were interested in history, and had a father who brought them up with ‘considerable strictness and attempted to educate them well. Yet the Fourth of July to them ‘was largely important because they had to get up ‘earlier in the morning than any other small boys in the neighborhood and be the first to rend the air ‘with “horrid noises.” Much later, when g larger Roosevelt clan had gathered at Oyster Bay, my own brother tells ‘me the tale of Fourth of July activities when all the young Roosevelts of the neighborhood stole stealthily from their beds and visited as many houses ‘as they possibly could to awaken the people out ‘of their ‘early morning stumbers, and slip away without being ‘caught, Very little of the real significance of real patriotism of the day gets across, IT am afraid, in ‘most ‘of our voungsters' celebrations. Noise ‘and ‘excitement are, after all, the things they really think about. Freedom hes become something which they take as a matter ‘of ‘oMirse Their parents mav grumble now and then that freedom is not all that it ‘once was, but the vouthful members of the community who celebrate it the loudect are seldom troubled by their ‘parents’ interpretation of the word. 1 sometimes wish 1 ‘could bring a little ‘more thoughtfulness into this holiday and draw the distinction between freedom and license which so often needs to be ‘drawn. T am always glad when a holiday falls on & Sunday * 80 that Monday must, also be included. ‘Of course, IT
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holidays there occasionally seems to be difficulty in finding ‘days on which one ‘can work, but with ‘us that is not the case. To ‘many people, a long week-end means a chance to get out into the country, to swim or hike or play tennis or golf. Two daysinstead of one makes such a difference in what you can do. If by chance, you have a place of your ‘own, you can putter around in your garden, and do some minor repairs which you have been waiting to co for a long time, Altogether, the Fourth ‘of July on & Sunday is welcome news, and since my husband and I are all alone, with us it is a very quiet day. Tn the late afternoon over at the cottage there will gather, I hope, the representatives of the newspaper fraternity for & swim and a picnic. We hope the mosquitoes will recognize the fact that this is a holiday and let us ‘enjoy ‘our out-of-door activities without bringing too many ‘of their kind to visit wus.
DETECTS BLOOD STAINS
By Science Service J ASHINGTON, July 5.—The detection ot blood stains on furniture, walls or wood after several weeks even though it supposedly has been wiped clean and exposed to rain is claimed possible by the discovery of chemicals which react with the hemin in the blood and create a brilliant blue luminescence, Dr. W, Specht reports the new aid for crime detection in a ‘German scientific journal. A solution of peroxide and a complex derivative of pthalic acid are employed. Hemin is & constituent of all blood but is found fn a higher proportion in old than in new blood. Dr. Specht's photographs, taken in the dark after &
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headed by the Duchess of Atholl, began making the necessary preparations. Generous individual ‘citizens came forward with financial help. Thus they secured the six-acre tract of meadow land here upon which to found the camp. Tents were rented from the British War Department at
a very low figure and soon a village of tents had been erected, with proper flooring in each tent to keep out the damp and cold when it rains. The village was divided into two parts—one for the girls and one for the boys. Each tent was supplied with cots for five occupants. Six very large tents, with a seating capacity of 250 to 300 each, were put up as dining rooms, fully equipped with tables, benches and all the chinaware and knives, forks and spoons that were necessary. » 4 ” NOTHER large tent was desighated as a religious chapel. Still another, thanks to the generosity of a rich owner of movie houses, was turned into a movie and here every afternoon and night some 300 Basque children see the kind of pictures they were familiar with even in their home town — animated cartoons and travelogs. Tents were also fixed up as bathing places for the children. In still ‘others doctors are now in constant attendance in case of accident ‘or disease. And, finally, there is one distant tent for delousing children who ‘may still be verminous despite all the care taken while they were en route on the sea. The nurses have given it a ‘more polite name, They call it the “Lyceum.” From the standpoint of the children, outside of the movie tent, the {wd most interesting are the big fenced-in stockade where a bunch of cooks are busy all day long over huge kettles, ‘preparing the food for
MONDAY, JULY 5, 1987
(First of a Series)
ORTH STONEHAM, England, July 5.—Not since the English, during the World War, housed and fed thousands of Belgian refugees who had fled before the advancing German armies, have they undertaken such a big task of hospitality as that of caring for 4000 Basque refugee children, 2500 of whom are now encamped here. Long before the children were placed ‘on a ship for this country, the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief,
2500 hungry mouths, and ‘the canteen where those with pennies to spare may buy little extras like chocolate and ice cream.
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ECENTLY, too, another big tent was erected fo house the huge bundles of clothes which housewives all over Britain have been sending here for the children. Many of the children came arrayed in their Sunday best, their sorrowing ‘parents wanting their offspring to look their finest. But English weather, even inh the socalled summer, is often very much colder than anything Spanish children know. So the extra clothing came in handy. One enterprising youngster, fearing his shoes were wearing out, succeeded in getting eight pairs. Now a very strict check-up system is in use before any of the refugees can raw clothing from the clothing nt.
As it ‘originally landed at Southampton, the refugee band consisted of 4000 children, ranging in age from 5 to 15. Accompanying them ‘were 100 Basque teachers and 100 other young women, acting as auxiliaries. There were also 15 Catholic priests, At ‘present, there are only 2500 children in this camp, the others having been transferred elsewhere. Ultimately it is hoped to scatter the rest in parties of from 30 to 100 all over Great Britain, housing them in country mansions, schools, etc. In case the camp is thus emptied, it is quite ‘possible that it will be maintained intact, so that if refugees from Santander are allowed to come to England accommodations will ‘be ready for them.
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HIS ‘plan ‘depends upon two things: whether the home office will permit more refugees to come and whether the necessary money can be obtained.
Now that the children here have settled in, a regular camp routine has been ‘established. They all get up, wash themselves and tidy their tents at 6 a. 'm. There is a ‘medical inspection at 7 and, so far, the camp has been comparatively free from disease. Break-
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For Coroners’
By DAVID DIETZ
Times Science Editor MOVEMENT to do away with the county coroner system in America has been launched by the Harvard University Medical School with the creation of a department of legal medicine, This department has been organized to train men for posts as medical ‘examiners. So far, only two states, New York and Massachusetts, have adopted the medical examiner system in which specially trained men are appointed to carry on the tasks which otherwise fall t6¢ an elected ‘coroner. In many places, the coroner is merely a politician. ‘He is not even a physician. Ahd ‘even where he is a physician, he frequently has had no training as a pathologist. And vet pathological decisions ‘of the utmost importance must be made by the ‘coroner’s office.
seems obscure, involves possibility ‘of ‘murder. Often the determination of guilt in a ‘murder case revolves about a pathological finding. The situation is not al-
upon the accused. Sometimes it is a ‘case of saving an innocent man. Death, for example, 'mav follow ‘a violent ‘quarrel. The
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natural tendency is to put the blame upon concussion of the brain or some other violent cause. Not ‘only ‘criminal cases, but many civil cases arising out of accidents, industrial ‘deaths, and the like, require the determination of important ‘medical facts. Harvard has ‘engaged Dr. Alan Richard Moritz, associate professor of ‘pathology at the Western Reserve University Medical School and ‘pathologist ‘of the University Hospitals in ‘Cleveland, to head its new department ‘of legal medicine. Europe is considerably ahead of America in regard to legal medicine, Dr. Moritz says. Tn most European countries there is an Institute of Tegal Medicine which is ‘either a Federal or State Bureau. These institutes have large staffs Which carry on their work in ‘connection with the police ‘departments and other government ‘departments,
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IVIL as well as ‘criminal ques4 tions come in the province of these institutes. They are ‘chiefly concerned with questions of pathology, toxicology and psychiatry. “If ‘a state is to protect its eiti-
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obscure death as a problem which must be investigated,” Dr. Moritz
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Forced to accept more or less adult responsibilities in looking after themselves, the little Basque refugees live on England's bounty while their native Bilbao is conquered. At top, typical youngsters from the Basque capital getting a square meal again, Below, two scenes of ‘domesticity in the Basque children’s tent city near Southampton,
fast is at 8:30. There are school classes from 10 to 11:30. There is training from 11:45 to
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mich to their own devices, They have supper at 7 and are supposed to be in bed at 9. “Supposed” is used advisedly. Because this camp is no longer England. Tt is a little bit of Spain transplanted here. And no frue Spaniard, big or little, thinks of going to sleep as early as 9 p. m.
Wherefore it is really long after that hour before complete silence reigns in this village of Bilbao-in-Tents, NEXT-'e grim roar of war is
far away, vet near, to Bilbao’s Innocents Abroad.
Exemptions From Income Taxes Costly
To State and Federal Governments
By E. R. R. ASHINGTON, July 5. — As the ‘Congressional inquiry on tax evasion and avoidance is pressed, attention is being directed to the fact that the Federal ‘Government annually is losing large amounts of revenue through its inability to lay any tax upon the income from state and local securities and through the exemption from the ‘normal income tax ‘of the ‘interest ‘on all Federal obligations. It is being ‘observed also that some revenue is lost through exemption ‘of the salaries of state and municipal officers and employees from Federal income tak, while the 28 states which levy state income taxes are losing revenue through inability to tax the salaries of Federal employees or the income from Federal securities, When President Roosevelt sent his tax-evasion message to ‘Congress on June 1, he ‘did mot /mention this wide avenue of escape from the burome tax. Later, he said that he favored abolition ‘of Mich ‘exemptions but feared that the states would refuse to ratify the necessary constitutional amendment, o ” » HE Constitution ‘does not ‘expressly forbid the Federal Gov-
tax the instrumentalities of the Federal ‘Government, but it has been held in a long line of Supreme Ootirt ‘decisions, beginning with the famous case of McCulloch vs. Maryland in 1819, that such a restraint must be implied as a necessary concomitant of the system of ‘dual
Sound and necessary as this doc-
trine ‘may have been in the country’s formative years, and as it may | still be today as a protection against | discriminatory Federal or state taxes, it is generally conceded that no risk would be run in making a constitutional change the result of | which would be merely to subject all | citizens to equal tax burdens by | wiping out exemptions which can hardly be considered essential to maintenance of the existing constitutional system. of a constitutional
strongly urged by Secretary Mellon in the early 1920s, at & time when it was plainly ‘evident that taxexempt securities were providing for many wealthy persons a refuge from the high surtax rates then prevailing. Tn 19283 the House of Representatives adopted a resolution for submission of such an amendment to the states, but the Senate failed to act. ”n n ® GITATION in behalf of an amendment died ‘down after 1926, when surtax rates were sharply reduced. Tt began to revive in 1933, but while the need for large revenues was then pressing, the Administration was faced likewise
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tensive financing program and hesitated to support any action that might disturb the market for Federal securities. The present situation is more favorable for action. At the present time there are some 3,600,000 persons on Federal, state, and ‘municipal payrolls ‘who escape altogether either state or Federal income taxes. Many would be exempt ih any cave, because their fncomes ‘do
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not reach taxable levels. The time may be approaching, However, when Congress will be forced to broaden the tax base by lowering ‘the present personal exemptions. Th that event, if the necessary constitiitional amendment had been adopted, a large number of state and local employees would become Federal taxpayers. The amount ‘of Federal, state and local securities now outstanding ap= proaches the enormous total of $70,000,000,000. ‘Since it is mot proposed to tax outstanding issues, the revenue from public securities, if future issues were made taxable, would not be substantial at first, The new Joint Committee on Tax Evasion and Avo'dance is ‘concen= trating at present on the problem of plugging up loopholes in the law which have permitted wealthy in=dividuals by various devices to escape the full burden of income taxes. Tt has authority, however, to consider ‘other methods of tax avoidance, so there is nothing te
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Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
First Whites to Be Hanged Legally In U. S. for Murder of Indians Were Executed After Slayings Near Here,
AYBE you don’t know it, but it was right around Indainapolis that the first whita men, anywhere in the United States, wera hanged for the murder of Indians, By dua process of law, I mean. The Indians were camping on the east side ‘of Fall ‘Creek, about eight ‘miles above Pendleton, It was March, 1824, the first year of the settlement, and the trapping season had just begun. The Thdians wholly ‘unsuspicious ‘of harm and unconscious ‘of any approaching enemies, were seated around their campfire When there appeared through the woods five white ‘men —Harper, Hudson, ‘Sawyer and fwo Bridges, father and son. Harper was the ringleader and when he and his gang got done that night there were exactly nine dead Indians ‘on the ground=two bucks, three squaws, and four children. The massacre was hot
unlike that of an average Indiana Sunday nowadays, Y
Harper made a clean getaway. Legend has it tha he got to Ohio, 80 ‘miles away, through the Ai in 24 hours. The rest df the gang didn't have his luck, however. They were arrested, put in irons and lodged in an improvised log jail.
News Spread Fast
The news of the murders got evervhod 0 because there was no telling what the Tndians - do to get even. The facts reached Mr. John Johnson of the Indian agency in Pigila, ‘O, and he in turn sent them to the War Department. Tn the meantime Mr, Johnson and William Conner visited all the Indian tribes and begged them to lay off. Certainly ue Government would do something about it, they said. This quieted the fears of everybody an . tions were made for the trials, A Sook Sp because before they could have a trial, they first had to have a Court House. The new Court House proved to be a log building with two rooms, ‘one for the ‘Court and ‘one for the Giang Jury. The Court was composed of William W. Wick, pres siding judge; Samuel Holliday and Adam Winchell, associates, Besides being an associate judge, Mr, Win chell ‘also was the blacksmith who forged the prise oners’ ‘chains. ‘Gen. Noble, then a U.S. Senator was employed by the War Department to prosecute, The
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job ‘of defending the gang fell on William R. Morris and Moses Varice, the latter from Ohio. Besides thesas
there were seven ‘other lawyers oh the sidelines as kibitzers,
Business Quickly Dome
It ‘didn't take the ‘Cotirt Tong to get down to busi= ness. They found the whole gang guilty, With tha exception ‘of young Bridges, wha was pardoned, and Harper, who ‘escaped, all were executed, : Matthias Nowland, the first mason to settla in Indianapolis, ‘dropped everything that dav te have a look at the hanging. What's more, he left a written aceount, These executions ara believed ‘to be the first that ever occurred fh the United States as the penaity, judicially inflicted, of the murder of Tndinms by whites, Tt's worth repeating, even if 1 did mention it in the beginning.
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A Woman's View By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
foung Brides Defy Sob Prediction, Prove Youth Always Masters Fate.
HERE'S a great deal of useless wailing about tha general worthlessness of our girls. And amid all this ‘clacking of middle-aged tongues the brides step out—hundreds of them in every community—=to give the lie to that babbling, There is something thrilling about the way in Which boys and girls go right on getting married and starting homes in the face of vivilization’s downfall and the economic debacle, Which, according to many graybeards, are both just around the corner, It ‘does your heart good to see the light in the faces of these youngsters as they make the immemos rial plans that have engaged the attention of their kind in every age. For it’s the same old things they want—the intimacy of home; the “four feet on the fender” dream, Undaunted, thousands of the very poor defy the croakers, marry, and get along somehow. And out of these thousands, we have no doubt, many hundreds will succeed. Other thousands of girls Nowadays walk out ‘of luxurious homes, where they have been used to comforts and ‘ease, to become mistresses of tiny apart= ments where they will do their own work and get along on their husbands’ small salaries, And they are mot afraid. They fear the futura no more than Their grandmothers feared it when they departed from their sheltered Fastern security to “go west” with ambitious boy husbands, Tn them glows the same assurance that has sped vouthful fess toward new goals fn every generation. The hobgob= Iins their elders conjure up for them, hobgobling of poverty, hard work, defeat, disaster, are only ghosts vo be Iavghed away. Perhaps when their tale is told those ghosts will have taken on substance, but what will that matter? What matters ix that youth is always eady ta defy fate, te lavgh at evil omens and to dare to take from life What it Wants most.
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bition, has found at the bottom of society a