Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1937 — Page 19

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STATE'S ROAD FORCES READY

FOR SNOW, ICE.

Crawford Says.

Earl Crawford, State Commission chairman, announced today that the road maintenance force is to be subject to call at any time of the day or night during winter months. Each man has been charged with keeping about 20 miles of highway open for traffic, he said, and is to go on duty whenever there is danger of snowdrifts or ice in his area. “Thoroughly familiar with his maintenance section, each man usually can anticipate the places where drifts or ice will form and will give these first attention,” he said.

Equipment Checked

Preparations for winter were started in the 36 subdistrict garages through the state several ago when trucks, snow plows, graders and other road equipment was checked.

In the northern part of the state, |

miles of snow fences have been constructed and sand, cinders and other material has been placed along highways to be spread on curves. On roads where there are heavy drifts, Mr. Crawford said, all vehicles should remain behind snow plows and not attempt to pass until told the road is clear ahead .

SEAL CAMPAIGN TO START TODAY

$200.000 Goal Set for State As Tuberculosis Drive Is Begun.

Tuberculosis Christmsa Seals

went on sale today in the 92 Indiana counties, with a minimum goal of $200,000 set for the state.

Dr. Stanley Coulter, Indiana chairman, said it is the 31st nationwide sale. “That Indiana citizens are intent on eliminating tuberculosis from among us eventually, is apparent from the statistical record of the state's fight under the banner of the doublebarred cross,” Dr. Coulter said to- | day. “In 1910 when the Indiana Tuberculosis Association was organized, a total of 4710 persons died of tuberculosis and the death rate was i74 per 100,000 annually. A very smail sum was contributed by citizens for Christmas Seals and the beginning of organized work was necessarily slow. Deaths Rise in Depression

“Bach year since then more and more citizens have come to know the significance of the little holiday emblem and the amount of money available for the control of tuberculosis has grown steadily. During the depression, a recession in funds contributed was noted, but during the last three vears, there has been again a steady growth. “The depression, too, has forced the tuberculosis death rate up, and in 1936 for the first time in 20 years an increased death rate for the United States over the previous vear is recorded. Christmas Seals have made possible the establishment of sanatorium beds, clinics, additional public health nursing facilities, school health activities, and a broad program of health education. The finest thing about this continuing battle is that it has proved conclusively that tuberculosis can be prevented or cured.”

SAVE CHILDREN FUND HEAD TO SPEAK HERE

Dr. Voris to Talk at Luncheon for Wokers.

Dr. John R. Voris, New York, president and executive director of the Save the Children Fund of America, is to speak at a citizens’ lunciteon at 12:15 p. m. tomorrow in Spink-Arms Hotel, Dr. Voris is to discuss the organjzation’s program with local committee members and friends of the movement, which aids children of impoverished families in isolated communities. More than 25000 boys and girls

were assisted last year, according |

to Dr. Charles H. Winders, executive representative of the movement in Indiana. The work Is concentrated in the mountains of Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia, with demonstration projects conducted in southern Illinois, the New Jersev Pine Belt and Imperial Valley in California.

SEVEN WILL ATTEND

FRATERNITY MEETING!

Seven men, representing three Indianapolis fraternities, left this week for New York City to attend the 29th annual Nacional Interfraternity Conference tomorrow and Saturday. The fraternities and delegates are Lambda Chi Alpha, Lioyd T. Claycombe, Bruce McIntosh, E. J. C. Fischer and Tozier Brown; Sigma Chi, H. Henry McLean, Sigma Nu, Malcolm C. Sewell, and Charles E. Thomas. Approximately 400 men are expected to participate in a general discussion of the fraternity’s jonship to the educational in-

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6348 Acres in Wolfe County.

riches the world around, echoes through the lofty canyons and deep caves of this mountainous southeastern corner of Kentucky. | Reviving again that fabulous, 200- | year-old Legend of Tight Hollow with its tale of stacks of purest yellow metal, cached away in some [foothill fastness. | The foothills resound once again with the cling of gold miners’ picks, the scrape of shovels, the boom of |dynamite. Maybe all this will turn jout as before. Maybe the legendary | $30,000 cache of pure gold will not be found. Maybe the raw ore doesn't jcontain gold in paying quantities. This isn’t the first time that gold |fever has run—swift and contagious | —through Wolfe County. But this time the would-be sourdoughs are more enthusiastic, the | skeptics less skeptical. This 1937 re|vival of the contagion is based on something more tangible than the [tale of how John Swift buried $30,{000 in gold and silver as he fled be- | fore hostile Indians back in 1754.

Challenge Belief

| The new rush is based on belief,

|at least partly authenticated, that

the unbelievers were wrong when they said that Wolfe County’s rock |didn’t contain enough gold to pay | for taking it out. This belief is | bolstered by apparently conclusive [evidence that gold mining operations {were carried out on an extensive scale at two different locations in [the distant past. Chief figure in Wolfe County these days is I. H. Kopf, former Alaskan sourdough, who obtained financial backing and started out | to prove that the skeptics were | wrong when they scoffed at the | John Swift legend. Six years ago Mr. Kopf heard the | story of how John Swift and some | French companions discovered gold lin southeastern Kentucky midway in the 18th century, mined considerable quantities of it, and then were forced to flee after burying the . metal. One version of the legend is that | Mr. Swift went East after slaying his companions, then became blind | and never was able to locate the cache when he returned on searching expeditions in later years.

Seeks Legend's Truth

aska Sourdough Leases |

The magic word, symbol of caty |

Mr. Kopf set to work to find out whether there was any truth to the | legend, aided by two Wolfe County | | men, J. B. Roberts and J. J. Hughes, who have been prospecting in the | Tight Hollow area for years.

| Recently their efforts were re-| Iwarded when they discovered | cavities in the canyon walls that! appeared to be scenes of mining | | operations. Inside the caves, the | men found worm-eaten tools, in- | | cluding spades, trowels, mallets and | crude powder fuses made of river | | reeds. | Just a month ago, another im- | portant discovery was made by two { girls, Emma and Flossie Adams, in | Mill Creek Canyon, a fastness ad- | Joining Tight Hollow. They founa the inscription “J. C. Blackburn, | 1825” carved in a rcck near a re- | cess in which they found several | | wood and metal mining tools and | | the rotting remains of a pair of | shoes, | | After these discoveries, Mr. Kopf | called a meeting of landowners of | the area at Roscoe Tyler's store in Campton and, after a conclave | reminiscent of lusty mining days of the west, he leased mineral rights on 6348 acres of mountain (land. Part of the land is owned | by Mr. Roberts and Mr. Hughes, | | who have beer aiding Kopf in the | subsequent mining operations.

“High” Gold Content

Mr. Kopf refuses to reveal what his preliminary operations have shown, other than to say that ore taken from mines in the Tight | Hollow area has an “exceedingly high” gold content. Outside estimates of the value of the ore have ranged as high as $160 and $180 | per ton. | My. Kopf and ais aids have peen dynamiting large portions of rock from the mountain sides and sending it by truck to Cincinnati for refining. Operations will be enlarged immediately, he says, if new | assays bear out the preliminary | estimates. Prof. D. G. Demorest, Ohio State | metallurgist, recently accompanied | Mr. Kopf to the scene of operations | and made tests of many samples | of ore rock. He described the deposits as being “sedimentary.” | meaning that they are flaked through the rock and are not in nugget form. Excited Wolfe County residents, don't care what kind of gold it is. | 'so long as it's gold. They nave visions that resources underneath the ground will make up for lack | of wealth on top of the rocky soil {on which they nave labored for so many years to eke out a precarious existence by farming.

SHIP OWNERS AND SEAMEN TO CONFER

NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (U. P).— | The National Maritime Union has | accepted an invitation to a confer-

| ence with the American Steamship | Owner's Association intended to pave the way for elimination of strikes and labor troubles on ships. Joseph Curran, president of the N. M. U. said, however, that bis | group probably would not discuss a | standard form of labor contract— one of the reasons given by the owners for the conference—since it | | already has a satisfactory contract. | He also objected to the invitation extended by the International Seamen's Union, A. F, L, which he

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1937

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SEEK FREEDOM FOR | AMERICANS IN SPAIN...

| WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Cornhog farmers in Indiana and other North Central states will find prac- | tical answers to their soil erosion | problems in a new publication of

WASHINGTON. Nov. 25 (U. P.).— | the Department of Agriculture. Representatives of the National | It is Farmers Bulletin 1795 enJomnine for Se gn Po. titled mDoniserving Corn Bes Soil” State Department to take action to | and may be obtained by writing to aid two Americans sentenced to long | the Department. prison terms by the Spanish Rebel | Written by Glenn K. Rule of the | Soil Conservation Service, it de-

Government. The Americans are Antonio Fer- | scribes methods of controlling eronandez Villa and his wife, who were | sjon which have proven adaptable residing en the island of Majorca to Corn Belt conditions. These when the Spanish civil war broke methods have been tested and apThey were charged with Loy- | proved by the Soil Conservation alist sympathies. A military court | Service on farms throughout the sentenced Mr. Fernandez to 20 years | region. and his wife to 12 years imprison- | ment, S. L. M. Barlow and A. Isserman, | JUNIOR MECHANICS representing the committee, and | Prof. Pedro Villa Fernandez of the | York University Spanish department, a brother of the imprisoned man, conferred with Assistant Sec- : ; retary of State George Messersmith. [oicers Jol the Indiana Junior r= Tt ey said Mr. Messersmith prom- | der, United American Mechanics has ised the State Department would been called for 7 p. m. Saturday in do everything possible for the im- | the Hotel Lincoln. prisoned couple. { The meeting was called by Walter Mr. Fernandez and his wife have O. Stumph, Indiana State Councilor, been in prison for more than a year. | to outline a program for 1938.

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BULLETIN EXPLAINS SOIL SAVING PLANS

Majorca Couple Given Long Terms by Rebels.

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TO MEET SATURDAY

‘Gold’ Echoes Through Caves of Kentucky Mines in Tight Hollow Is Revived; ~ Girls Find Pioneer Implements in Abandoned Shaft

NER TERT Ke) Typical of the Tight Hollow gold mines is the above cavernous hole in the solid rock of Wolfe County, Kentucky, with its rough track for hauling out the ore. The men at the mine are among those who have been prospecting in Tight Hollow for years, ever hopeful. In their mountain home nearby, as shown at left, Emma, left, and Flossie Adams show some of the mining implements the sisters found in an old, hidden mine near Tight Hollow. The tools are crude, often handmade. In the background may be seen the hand-

papered walls of the Adams home. @

CONVICTION OF

HICKS UPHELD

Faces Chair in After Court Denies His Appeal.

Heber L. Hicks today faced death 822

Murder

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

INDIANA'S 4-H CLUB LEADERS SET FOR MEET

Trip to Chicago Congress to Be Made Sunday in Special Coach.

Indiana boys and girls who have distinguished themselves in 4-H Club work are to leave Union Station here Sunday on a special train coach for Chicago where they will compete for honors at the National 4-H Club Congress. In addition to the 4-H Club official delegates—24 girls and 24 boys —several more youths are to attend the six-day congress. They will participate also in the national contests which end Dec. 3. Accompanying the club members from the Purdue University 4-H Club department will be Miss Mae Masten, Miss Edna Troth, J. C. Ralston and W. R. Amick. The group will return home next Friday, after attending programs and inspecting the International Livestock Exposition and grain and hay show, Exhibit Classes Listed Indiana will have exhibits in the following 4-H Club classes: Corn, potatv, canned goods, clothing and home improvement, It will have contestants in these national con-

a little bit uneasy.

When the cat's away, the mice may play—with the kittens. photo above, taken at a cat and mouse show in New York, proves that feline and rodent members of the animal kingdom are not always bitter enemies. The three little fur-ball kittens are displaying intense interest. The white mouse is less enthusiastic, perhaps diffident, maybe just

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Not Always Bitter Enemies

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tests: Poultry judging, junior livestock judging, crops judging, food preparation judging, canning judging, clothing judging, home furnishings judging, health contest and girls’ style dress revue. The Hoosier trio of champion livestock junior judges, composed of Lawrence Clark, Rolling Prairie, Robert Schmidt and Vance Craft, La Porte, and Gordon Craft of Kingsbury, as alternate, coached by Assistant La Porte County Agent |B. L. Hartman, will compete in the | International Junior Livestock judg- | ing contest. The champicns were | selected at the Indiana State Fair | held last September, | Indiana's entry in the national | poultry judging contest will be Robert Arvidson and Edward Klinker, | both of Lafayette, and Donald Brown, Battle Ground.

DAVIES WILL SEE WIFE WHO IS ILL

Just a Christmas Trip, Envoy to Russia Says; To Visit Capital.

| MOSCOW, Nov. 25 (U. P).— | United States Ambassador Joseph E. Davies left Moscow late today en | route to Washington for the Chrisimas holidays. He said he would return to Moscow in January. Asked whether he might replace Ambassador Robert Bingham, in London, in view of the latter's return to the United States because of ill health, Ambassador Davies retorted that he was “tired of being moved by the press to almost every embassy.”

His sudden decision to leave followed receipt of advices from his wife's physician that.it would be unwise for her to travel while she

upheld by the Indiana Supreme Court. Pleading guilty to aiding in the | mutilation slaying, William Kuhl{man, Frank Gore Williams and |john Poholsky already have been executed. Hicks was convicted in | Franklin Circuit Court. His appeal, denied yesterday by the Supreme Court, charged the presence of four armed State Police{men in court during the trial “might have” prejudiced the jury inst the defendant. His attorneys also objected to in-

In ihe State Prison electric chair |i, g,ction Into evidence of an Feb, 4, his conviction in the “head zlleged confession made by the deand hands” murder of Harry R.|fendant to State Police, alleging it

is recuperating from an illness and that she would be unable to join him in Moscow for Christmas.

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he said. “Also, I will take care of personal business.” The Ambassador is taking with him 14 museum pieces of periods from the 12th century onward whica he will present to Wisconsin University, to which he recently gave a group of Russian paintings. He is accompanied by J. D. | Stamm, his nephew and secretary. His daughter is remaining in Mos~ cow,

TVA SEEKS TO BAR UTILITIES’ WITNESS

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Nov. 25 | (U. P.).—Tennessee Valley Author- | ity attorneys today objected to the calling of Charles A. Collier, Ate lanta, vice president of Georgia | Power Co., as a witness for 18 South- | eastern utilities waging a legal ate | tack on the constitutionality of New | Deal competition with private utilie | ties. The Georgia Power Co. had been enjoined by the Northern District of Georgia Federal Court from proceeding with 18 other utilities of the Tennessee Valley in this suit against TVA. Attorneys for the utilities wanted Mr. Collier to testify con=cerning TVA activities in Georgia, | bus Government counsel contended such testimony would be “immaterial and irrelevant” in this litigae I tion,

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OLD SANTA COMING

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Eastern Air Lines Bringing Him to Indianapolis

Police Escort to Meet Jolly Old Fellow at Municipal Airport at NOON Tomorrow and Bring Him to Block's Toyland

FRIDAY, November 26th, will be a red letter day for Indiana boys and girls. That is the day old Santa Claus comes to Block's Toyland. A huge Eastern Air Lines plane will bring him to the Municipal Airport at 12 o'clock noon. Immediately upon his arrival he will be whisked to Block's Toyland, and is scheduled to arrive there at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow,

Santa Claus Broadcast WFBM Mornings—7 :25 Evenings—5:00

‘BOBBY BUMPS"

The Famous Coles Bros. Circus

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The Way of the TRIN Sida

EASTERN AIR LINES