Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1937 — Page 13

" Vagabond

From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

So You'd Prefer Nice Quarters In Sun Valley Lodge of Idaho? O. K., but It Will Cost $26 Daily.

K ETCHUM, ida., Oct. 13.—There is no height a common American can’t attain if he just sets his will to it and keeps plugging away. Take me, a poor Indiana farm boy . . . and here I am vacationing in one of America's ritziest spas—the noted Sun Valley of Idaho. 'm not actually vacationing at the big vo where the rich people stay. We originally intended spending one night there, so we could boast to friends about it later. But here's what happened: We drove up in front of the Lodge where it says “No Parking,’ and I got out of the car all windburned and bareheaded like a rich sportsman, and sauntered in the

Of course, Sun Valle

had

for a room with twin beds and bath, The man looked up at the rate card, as if he didn't already know, and came back with the calm information that the least he was getting was $26 a da} I simply said, “I guess that's a little more than I want to pay,” and marched sadly out of the lobby, just a hatless tourist covered with dust. Then we drove down here into Ketchum (only a mile from the Lodge) and found a place where we can live very scrumptiously a whole week for just a little more than one day at the Lodge. Ketchum is definitely a town of the West. It lies in valley, and the valley floor is nearly 6000 feet high. Although roads lead out through passes in four directions, they twist and are soon out of sight. So if you stand in Ketchum and look around, it's as though the mountains made an unbroken circle Most. of the mountains are bare, except for a foot-high growth of blue-brown sagebrush. From & long distance you can’t even see this, and the slopes lock clean and That's the reason the Union Pacific Railroad this spot for building up a skiing resort—on account of the smooth slopes. Mining Boom Faded Forty thousands ere

around here, and

Mr. Pyle

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picked

was a town of several lead and silver mines ind Ketchum was a booming camp But about 13900 the bottom fell out. and Ketchum started down. It dwindled and dried up until, about a year and a half ago, its population numbered only

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Ketchum were big

years ago

Then came skiing used skis—to get considered skiing, I New York store window Pacific brought A visitor to the great Lodge Ketchum,

People around here had always But that isn't really have to dress up like a That's what the Union

arouna on.

uess. You

Valley

There are

have small

doesn’t two

to stay at hotels in

y 1s not legal in Idaho. Neither is liquor by But phooey to such stuff as that, says of Idaho. t's illegal, but they just don't 7 attention. Ever Ss wide open.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Tells of Happy Evening At Home With Friends and Music.

RW oro Tuesday.—We were 16 at dinner I was thrilled to have Franklin Jr. and Ethel come up from Charlottesville. This was time I had seen Ethel since she came back from abroad. Though they both told me their house is not really they seemed delighted with everything they have done and with life in general. It is grand to be voung! As I looked at my two daughters-in-law, I could not help thinking how lucky we are! All the boys seem not only can enjoy more and more the all, we all can have it is a fine thing for a on happy times.

last night and the first

in order

So far

to have chosen wives whom one looking at, but whom you like better vou know them. Best of good times together, and I think family to be able to look back

table stretched

until I opened an across the arms that Jimmy and Betsy had Jimmy remarked to go up to see the Massachusetts, and

I couldn't sit enormous package of my chair and discovered brought me a pair of snow-shoes. ] date with me Is wintei buy i them

that I would certainly neec

Whole Family Enjoys Dance

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t occurred to us at dinner that we would like rward. My brother and 1 decided we the household for someone who could At first we could find no one, but rad to us there was a gentleman comin to do some work, who had the gift of music might be diverted into playing. He not only

he piano and sang. My husband time as anyone, and amused us all i one or two old college songs 1t work afterward for sevSecretary Morgenthau and Jimmy home. Some of 1s went { few of the party still at labors ‘hen rent in to see my husband disgustedly and said: to sleep!” on my rounds, to the

normously by This gay eral of the r could go

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| By Jack Heil

A ——

Hoosier Bandit Chief Made

First of a Series)

Brady

L BRADY swore he would “make Dil-

linger look like a piker.”

He did—

and went out the same way, killed by

G-Men's bullets.

Federal Agents mowed down Brady and

Clarence Lee Shaffer

Jr.,

Indianapolis

hoodlum, in Bangor, Me., yesterday. They captured the third member of the outlaw

trio, James Dalhover, trigger man. expected to be returned to Indianapolis

He is

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and to face possible death in the electric chair for murdering a State Police officer. A few short years ago mere mention of the name of John Dillinger sent shivers down the spine of every police officer in the Middle West, and G-Men as well.

The County, Ohio, jail in October, 1933, which resulted in the delivery of Dillinger over the body of Sheriff Jesse Sarber, and the sensational break from the Crown Point, Ind., jail with the aid of a wooden gun, stamped him indelibly as the original public enemy No. 1. Perhaps his crimson crime record deserved the notoriety he got as the nation's most ruthless and desperate Killer. But today Dillinger and his record have been relegated to the piker class, not by accident, but by design “I'll make Dillinger look like a piker.” Those were big words coming from a runt-sized farm boy who came from the same rural Hoosier soil on which Dillinger had grown so tough.

“He was a cream puff. They should have given him a lollypop.

I understand he parted his hair in the middle.” The speaker was a stocky man, The time was January of 1936;

murderous attack on the Allen

the place a garage in Indianapolis. It was Brady. There was nothing in the record of Brady in 1936 to justify the ambitious boast. True, he had been shot in Indianapolis in 1930 by Patrolman Payne and he'd done a short stretch in Pendleton Reformatory for an auto law violation. But so far as Al Brady was concerned he was just another “punk” to police. » n on Ll 7ITH Brady in the garage that night were two companions: Dalhover, a bootlegger, petty racketeer and auto thief from Madison, down on the Ohio River, and Shaffer, Indianapolis born and raised and not yet old enough to vote, a kid with a wavy brown pompadour and a moving picture profile; not even in the rogues’ gallery. The Dblondish Dalhover was squatting between the legs of a massive steel tripod on which was

mounted a machine gun, a five-bullets-a-second weapon; not of

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When Al Brady started his gang on the road to out-Dillinger Dillinger, his first move was to raid an armory for the militarytype machine gun shown above. Daring raids in quick succession netted the gangsters $200,000 in loot. The first “big time” job was the holdup of the Wieland jewelry store in sleepy, little Greenville, in Darke County, O., near the Indiana line and escaping over it with more than $8000 in diamonds.

the sub or tommy variety but a strictly military type that would have been more at home in a pill box or a pursuit ship than in that city garage. Beside the mounted gun was a heavy wood box. In it was an ammunition belt of 150 shells with their steel-jacketed slugs. “Dillinger never had anything as sweet as this,” he boasted The direct quotations of the rady gangsters running through this series are authenticated, verbatim, in statements made by Brady, Dalhover, Shaffer and Charles Geisking, following their arrests in May, 1936, when the

first three vied with each other in claiming credit as the slayer of Sergt. Richard Rivers in Indianapolis. . Before he was taken to Ohio Penitentiary from Lima, O., Geisking revealed details of conversations to newspapermen and authorities. The first three later escaped For the next half hour the trio, all undersized and ranging from Dalhover’s 5 feet 4!'2 inches to Brady's 5 feet 7, wrestled with the massive tripod and the heavy machine gun as they mounted it in the rear of a new sedan, mounted it so it would cover sides or rear instantly. = u ” car beside the Army weapon went more orthodox rifles, revolvers and automatics of varying calibers, scads of ammunition for each. That was the birth of the infamous Al Brady gang; the gang that terrorized Indiana and Ohio, Killed police, shot down citizens, looted a score of banks, jewelry shops and markets and escaped with cash and jewels,

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The Indianapolis Times

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1937

rady Gang Reaches End of

Good on Boast to Out-Dillinger Dillinger

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

Trail

Mr. Wieland

variously estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000, in less than 18 months. The gang defied City, County, State and Federal G-Men with impunity. “They were absolutely kill crazy,” declared Don Stiver, Indiana Safety Director and head of the State Police. “Dillinger couldn't have been a chauffeur for this gang,” said Matt Leach, formerly in command of the Indiana State Police. For five years Mr. Leach fought Dillinger and Brady. He should Know. “Dillinger never killed except to escape; never shot up citizens for the sheer pleasure of killing,” Mr. Leach said. “Al Brady made good his boast. Dillinger was a piker.” No one has ever been able to discover where the gang acquired the Army machine gun but the general opinion is that somewhere they loofed an armory. The midget bandits got the big sedan when they held up Ernest Gentry and his wife near Perkinsville, Ind. and robbed them of cash and car. Shortly after that Brady assumed the name of Gentry and the gang served an apprenticeship of gas station stickups and other jobs petty in comparison with its later accomplishments. Then a fourth man was recruited to round

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Ind.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Howard Frazee Wants to Know Who Started First Restaurant in Our Town = Here's Telling Him,

OWARD FRAZEE, who runs the Thompson restaurants in Indianapolis, wants to know who started the first restaurant

here. It surprised me all right, because to look at Mr. Frazee you'd size him up as the Kind of man who spends most of his time peering into the future, Well, you never can tell As far as I can find out, the any pretension was kept by John Crowder. He started it in 1838, just about the time the first theater made its appearance in Ollaman's wagon shop. I haven't the least idea whether the two have an) connection, but it's a nice thing to know, anyhow. Mr. Crowder had his kitchen in a room of Blackford's row of onestory frame houses where the Merchant's Bank Building now stands. Here he was succeeded in two or three vears by John Hodg kins, an Englishman, who turned the place into a cone fectionery. Mr. Hodgkins made his own candies. He also made his own ice cream, the first to be served around here, Curiously enough, however, Mr. Hodgkins sold his ice cream at another place, which was where St. John's Church now stands. He had this place fixed up as a kind of garden, with arbors and the like, and it was here, too, that he dug the first ice house to be built in Indianapolis.

Railroad Helped Restaurants

It was not until the completion of the Madison Railroad, however, that houses became =a permanent feature of business, and even then 1t required the impulse of the Civil War to give them any importance. Most of the restaurants at that fime were around the Union Depot and along 8S. Illinois St., which, of course, was natural enough, because in those days, the restaurants had to depend trade. Everybody else went home for

first restaurant of

Mr. Scherrer

eating

on transient his meals. After that, things got kind of lax around here, and people stayed away from home more and more, It was then that restaurants began invading the heart of town. Pop June, Henry Smith and the Stegemeier boys picked the Levee, and over on the Circle, Mrs. Mathilde Rhodius set a grand table. Up to the very last, however, John Strobel stuck to S. Illinois St. He used to run the Blue Front Restaurant, and was the first to advertise “a square meal for a quarter.” TI still remember Mr. Strobel standing in front of his place catching them going and coming.

Jane Jordan—

Lonely Girl Told Own Inhibitions May Block Friendships With Boys.

EAR JANE JORDAN-I am a girl 17 years old and a senior in high school. Although I am not active in sports, 1 like to listen to others talk about

{ them. | considerate of others, although everyone says I am

| vinced that she is worth having. | causes for such a feeling as there are girls

| where one felt | secure

I am considered fairly good-looking and I am

I have lots of girl never cut up,

distant until I get acquainted. friends, but very few boy friends. I but I try to be as jolly as the rest when I am with a group. All the boys seem to like me as a friend, but they never ask me for dates. Please give me some explanation or reason for their seeming dislike. LONESOME FARMERETTE.

Answer—Since this is all the information I have, it is obvious I cannot know the answer. All I can

do is tell you some of the things that hinder other girls and see if you can find yourself in the examples. One df the chief things that handicaps a girl in her relation to boys is her own fear of rejection. She feels no anxiety in her friendships with girls and even is at ease with boys who do not attract her especially, but the moment she is confronted with a man whose regard she wishes to win she is over= whelmed with fear of failure, which makes her painefully self-conscious. Her defense against these painful feelings of ine adequacy is to pretend no interest. She takes on a neutral coloring to help her escape notice even though she may be burning inside to express herself. She is afraid that the slightest coquetry on her part will be interpreted as an attempt to “rope him in” or “run after him,” and that it will meet with rebuff. Therefore she rebuffs him by her negative attitude before he has a chance to rebuff her. Such a girl doubts her own value. She isn't con= There are as many Usually can be traced back to childhood, small and helpless and perhaps ine Doubt of the love of the hands of stronger wtih older children younger

the uncertainty

in one's own family. father or mother, defeat at

brothers or sisters, association to a

whose advancement was discouraging child, or a painful humiliation from which the per sonality did not recover, are some of the reasons which make a girl fear rejection. I note that you interpret the fact that boys like you only as a friend, as dislike. This is an exaggeration which points to an oversensitive disposition. The chances are that you are getting from boys exactly what you expect, or, to be more accurate, you conceal the fact that you secretly hope for more. You ine hibit the come-hither look, the warm and cordial response which is so cheering to the male, because you're afraid he’ll see that you are trying to catch him and take flight. You say you're not active in sports. Does this mean you're not active in anything? Does it mean | that even with girls you are passive and wait for them to make the first friendly move? It will be good training for you to be active in something, such | as sports, games, scholarship, hobbies or friendships. We live in a competitive world and he who wants to | be popular must learn to compete with others. Withe draw into a shell and you'll be forgotten. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter fo Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily.

the flower room to thank to making ves-

Later, Miss Mayris Chaney Side Glances—By Clark [A WOMAN'S VIEW an exhibition of beautiful | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

I went 00K at ) silver which is being held at Galt's. ON : Ee. _— , | | } i ! 9 | 1

jewelry and

New

Public Library Presents— OR centuries the people of Santa Eulalia, “trained to th : in tel of donkey carts and sailing boats,” had lived leisurely and well. EHNiot Paul and his wife, guiet in that peaceful town, grew to know the children, the fishermen, the inn-keepers, {every year I cherish the hope that I and even the dogs, now “skulking in deserted A ; ) shall be able to follow the plays with alleys, dogs, whn once got regular meals and nad a | ; i N i S =F i - lg pi : name and master.” THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A | JW Tal wv ye » ; BE yn N SPANISH TOWN (Random House) records the sim- : : : Sy A : : | 13S Wr enonre u e game, how- | plicity and beauty of life in the seaboard town which | ever, to enjoy the audience. And it's today lies desolated by the implements of modern {more fun than anything to be a warfare, airplanes and torpedo-boat destroyers. part of the huge crowd on a lovely Cre: p ralized with fea ath is arl) : " so impressive.” Mr. Paul saw both fear and death | Ing and the teams lined up for the before he was forced to leave the town in September, | Kickoff. 1936. | The average man in the audience | | never behaves like a sportsman. His |

actions would be more suitable to a | | caveman after a kill. If you want

Jasper—By Frank Owen

S there anything more exhilarat-

| « Ca Re | ing than the first big football Books Today 0 on le | game of the season? Not because of | Hs TS ——— i Ty, B the game itself, but because you get cd A ; a ® ; |such an insight into human psy[chology by watching the fans. A newspaper could easily be filled with the points about the sport | which are obscure to me, although

seekin

strays

Walter O'Keefe —

1 mers in New York these days are rushing down to Wall Street to look at the Stock Exe change. It's the best “still-life” picture to be seen, At the rate stocks are dropping Henry Ford will only have to wait until Christmas and he can buy the Stock Exchange Building for his Dearborn museum of early American antiques. The market is so low that vou have to go looking for it in a glass-bottomed boat

Last week a customer's man went out and bought his wife a new mink coat. His relatives had him put away, adjudged incompetent to handle his affairs. When the market closes at 3 o'clock vou frequently see a party of stockbrokers leave for Grant's Tomb in search of a little excitement. Sentimental old Wall Street operators are getting up a fund to erect a monument to “The Unknown Broker.”

un s "

tracing the development of the wireless,

telephone, cable and radio as instruments of international news, and of the great news-gathering A : oan ut how o el Tal al we | agencies which have grown up throughout the world. " : : | the grandstands The soft-soa theRobert W. Desmond proceeds to analyze the Jorces 3 3 n 2 ; fory that We love the good aD bet- | which affect the presentation of news, especially of ba he. : Fae , : world news, and make it possible for people to say a raps er with some color of truth that “the power of the | strations give Mo "evidence of its | press is the suppress.” | truth, at least 1 THE PRESS AND WORLD AFFAIRS (Apbleton- | For how we do let go at football Rn Rat BN nae and dispassionate survey | games! We turn ourselves loose. razz £1 difficulties and the referee, criticize the players, of the GU) non tes 2 | curse the coach, and shout insults | Paper JwWhers, Suwrs at the opposing team. In short, we a realization of behave like hoodlums and love it. | censorship of a -1e one consolation we can give | | ourselves is that it's an exesilent;

(way of letting off steam. Only | .,,, : el # . . doesn’t jt oor a little crazy to link| Y/hen | let the cat in | didn't know you were playing Cinderella-After-Midnight!"

FTER

pressures under which newsreporters work, and with problems presented by > supreme value of Dr. Desmond's book,” says Harold J. Laski in his introduction to the he, “is the degree to which "it makes irresistibly roblem of the foreign news service lies at the heart of the major problems of the modern state.”

Copr. 1937 by United Feature Syndicate, Tn.

Be EPO y0-13 I'm atraid it my business gets much better my wife will make me the game and our behavior with a | retire again." college education? — 7

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