Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1938 — Page 3

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.- 1098-TON SOOTFALL IN JANUARY HEAVIEST IN 3 MONTHS

Trail of ‘Honest Abe’s’ Ancestors

BEVILLE AVE.-£. NEW YORK ST.

AREA IS REPORTED SMOKIEST; RECORDS MADE AT 12 SPOTS

Sections Around Harding and 29th Sts. and |

College Ave. and 54th St. Found to Be Cleanest in City.

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Eighty-two more tons of soot fell on Indianapolis in January than in December, the City smoke survey revealed today. The largest sootfall during the past months, 1098 tons,

was recorded in January. Th

and during December, 1016. ¢

The mile square area around Beville Ave. and E. New York St. continued to be the city’s worst smoke district. The survey showed that 54.48 orl of soot fell in that district last

month. Cleanest Areas Reported

The areas around Harding and 20th Sts, and College Ave. and 54th St. were reported as the “cleanest” in the city. The survey showed that 7.27 and 945 fell in those districts, respectively. The average soot fall in the 12 mile-square districts last month was 20.96 tons. George R. Popp Jr, city building commissioner, who is directing the survey, said that more than 20 of the 80-ton sootfall increase, was recorded at the E. New York St. and Beville Ave. district. The figures are obtained from records made at 12 stations in all parts of town. The surveys are made by WPA employees.

COLLEGE HEAD FLAYS STATE LIQUOR LAWS

Rejects Suggestion for Card

Student Identification.

FRANKLIN, Feb. 12 (U. P.) ~Indiana’'s liquor control system was branded as “debasing” today by Dr. William Gear Spencer, Franklin college president, Dr. Spencer wrote to Hugh A. Barnhart, Alcoholic Beverages Com-

mission director, rejecting a suggestion that identification cards be issued to students in an effort to prevent tavern owners from selling to minors. : The college's “hostility” to any such “scheme” was expressed in the letter. Dr. Spencer said the identification cards would “advertise the liquor business on the campus” and would amount to tacit permission for any student over 21 to drink. “It would indicate that Franklin College has gone into co-operation with the liquor business,” Dr. Spencer said. The Alcoholic Beverages Commission was attacked for “dragging the fair name of Indiana into the mud of a beer war with Michigan” Mr. Barnhart recently wiote to all State college presidents suggesting that identification cards be given all students. He explained that tavern owners by this method could determine whether a student was over 21.

ANNULMENT SOUGHT BY ROCHESTER MAN

ROCHESTER, Feb. 12 (U. P.) — James Abbott, local merchant, today had filled an application in Circuit Court to have his marriage to

Edith May Miller Abbott annuled on grounds of bigamy. The Abbotts were married Oct. 2, 1935, but Mr. Abbott claims he did not know of his wife's former marriage to William John Miller of Milwaukee, until a few days ago.

TURNERS TO HOLD DANCE A Valentine dance is to be sponsored by South Side Turners at 306 Prospect St. tonight.

IN INDIA

Here Is the Traffic Record

County Deaths (To Date)

(Feb. 11)

Accidents Injured

Running Preferential Street 2

Running Red Light 3 Drunken Drive ing, 1 Others 22

MEETINGS TODAY

Alliance Francaise, Washington, noon.

BIRTHS Boys

, Hagel! Reeves, at City. Ry Rachel Smith, at City. Arthur, Hilda Jay, at Methodist. Bernard, ma Waggoner. at Goleman a . . Sy = Emith. at Coleman. Hutchinson, at St. Girls

ward. at Method DIES OF HEART ATTACK VALPARAISO, Feb, 12 (U.P) — Edward Clifford, 58, for 34 years associated with the Sprague Warner Co. of Chicago, died of a heart at-

luncheon, Hotel

ude, Marguerite Reassell, Aletha Francis,

e fall in November was 1091,

DROP NOTEDIN TRAFFIC TOLL

Police, Press and Courts Are Praised for Success of Safety Drive.

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than for the preceding year. Meanwhile, in Judge John MecNelis' Municipal Court today, five traffic cases were continued, three

taken under advisement, and 30 defendants given fines and costs totaling $170. Additional fines and costs of $188 were suspended. Judge McNelis held to the Marion County Grand Jury on an involuntary manslaughter charge Robert White, 24, of 3625 Prospect Street, arrested in the traffic deaths of Thomas Morrison, 33, of 25th St. and College Ave., and Lloyd Wood= ruff, 21, of 1106 Southeastern Ave. The accident, which occurred Jan. 1 near Glenn's Valley, was described by Thomas McNulty, defense attorney, as the first fatal accident this year in the United States. The two victims were helping Arthur Williamson, 20, of 1102 Southeastern Ave, change a tire on his car when they were struck, according to sheriff's records. Trial of Mr. Williamson on a charge of parking on a highway was continued until March 31 on request of his attorney, Lawrence Shaw,

Woman Driver Accused

Mrs. Mary Runyan of Plainfield, under indictment in the hit-and-run deaths of Noah Russell and his daughter Margaret, on Road 40 last December, is to be arraigned Mon-

day before Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker, She is charged with failing to stop after the fatal accident. Mrs. Lucille Humphrey, 32, of 1618 Cornell Ave. received a possible fracture of the right wrist last night when struck while walking across the street in the 100 block W. St. Clair St. She was taken to City Hospital by McVella Fields, 32, of 2120 N. Capitol Ave. driver of the car, Struck by a hit-and-run driver at 11th and West Sts. last night, Miss Dorothy Crenshaw, 24, of 2461 Bond St., was treated at City Hospital for injuries to her right arm and side.

Universal Resident Killed in Crash

PETERSBURG, Feb. 12 (U. P).— Gurney Foltz, 48, of Universal, Ind. was killed yesterday when a car in which he was riding was struck head-on by a truck on Road 64 near Arthur, Ind, during a dense fog. Two companions were injured.

WINS SCHOOL CONTEST

Times Special LOGANSPORT, Feb. 12.—Harold Quick of Tipton, will go to the State High School Discussion Contest as result of winning the Group 4 meet here Friday, sponsored by the Rotary Club. Dale Love, Peru, and Mark Doudna, Huntington, took second and third places.

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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; possibly rain; ris. ing temperatures,

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MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; rain probable north portion and possibly south: rising temperature north and east portions. Illinois—Rain probable north, possibly some rain south tonight or tomorrow: slightly warmer extreme north tonight. colder extreme northwest tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Rain tonight and tomorrow except rain or snow north portion: rising temperature south tonight and extreme south tomorrow; colder tomorrow extreme north, Ohio—Cloudy, probably with occasional light rain tonight and tomorrow: slowly rising temperature tonight and in east and south portions tomorrow, Kentucky — rtly cloudy, slightly warmer tonight ahd tomorrow followed by gctasional rain tomorrow afternoon or

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ironworker, blacksmith, miller.

1712-Mordecai IT and his brother Abraham moved to New Jersey. 1725--Mordecai IT and Abraham grew wealthy as ironmongers, 1733--Mordecai IT bought a large farm, left it to his son, John, 1758--John settled in Virginia, left a farm to his son, Abraham. 1780-—Abraham moved to Kentucky, homesteaded a 1500-acte tract. 1804--Thomas, Abraham's son, bought farm in Hardin Co., Ky. 1809-—Tom’s son, Abraham Lincoln, born near Hodgenville, 1816—Lincoln family moved to Gentryville, near Ohio river, 1830--Made new home in Iliinois, near what is now Decatur, 1831-—Lincoln, “on his own,” worked in store, began political career.

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Pioneer Lincoln

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Family Found

Home in U.S. as 1637 Pilgrims

By NEA Service As the nation pauses in respect

on the 120th anniversary of Abra-

ham Lincoln's birth, few realize the length and distinction of the pioneer-

ing trail of his Pilgrim ancestors.

The forbears of Abraham Lincoln came to America earlier than most People know, and achieved greater distinction. Painstaking research by

Ida Tarbell, biographer of Lincoln

and other great American figures,

shows how the humble circumstances of Lincoln's own youth have ob-

secured the earlier Lincoln trail In 1637, only 17 years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth, there came to Hingham, Mass, an immigrant from western England, Samuel Lincoln, one of eight Lincolns who came about the same lime. All these Lincolns left a distinguished record behind them in the Indian wars, the Continental Army, and the colonial and succeeding legislatures, Miss Tarbell found. Samuel was the one from whom Abraham Lincoln's family stemmed. His fourth son, Mordecai, became wealthy for those days as an ironmonger, and proprietor of sawmills and grist mills. Mordecai’s son, inheriting both a good estate and his father's trade, moved to New Jersey and later to Pennsylvania. The restless strain that was to drive Abraham's family westward and westward was apparent in the earlier Lincolns, too. The son of Mordecai IT, John, inherited New Jersey estate from his father, but preferred to move westward into Virginia, and by the time he died he was able to leave to his son Abraham a considerable farm in what is now Rockingham County, Virginia. By this time, however, the westward migration had begun in earnest, and Abraham sold his farm in Virginia, packed up his whole family and struck out into what was then the wilderness of Kentucky.

Abraham Was Ambitious

Abraham was apparently ambitious, for he entered several large land tracts totaling nearly 1500 acres. The country was wild then, and settlers lived at fortified “stations,” going out to cultivate their new fields. That was what Abraham was doing when a sudden shot from an Indian ambush dropped him in the furrow. Of the three sons who were at his side in the clearing, and who barely escaped a like fate, one was Thomas, later to be the father of Abraham Lincoln. With the death of the breadwinner, the family gradually gave up land tracts staked out by Abraham. Thomas, the son, learned the trade of carpenter and cabinet-maker, and worked at such jobs as turned

up. Evidently he did fairly well, however, for he was able to buy a farm in Hardin County, Kentucky, and in 1806 married Nancy Hanks, like himself a descendant of early American immigrants. They lived in Elizabethtewn, and later on =a farm near Hodgenville, on Feb, 12, 1809, a son, Abraham, was born. When the boy was 7, Thomas decided to push onward again, this time north to Indiana. On =a densely forested tract near Gentryville, only 15 miles north of the Ohio River in southern Indiana, they put an ax in the hands of the young boy Abe, and until 1830, when he was 21, his great hands and arms helped hew a home out of the wilderness.

Lincoln “On His Own”

Then they took to the trail again, this time to the Sangamon country in central Illinois. Ten miles west of Decatur, they built another

home. Within another year, Lincoln, now a strapping young man “on his own,” began to carve out his own career in Salem as a store-

student. From here Lincoln made his trip down-river to New Orleans, from here he went as captain in the Black Hawk war as far northward as Wisconsin. Here he loved and lost Ann Rutledge, here he entered politics, here he was elected in 1834 to the State Legislature and went to Vandalia to its sessions. Lincoln had a large part in getting the capital transferred to Springfield, and there he went to begin his law practice, marry Mary Todd, and run for Congress. He won the seat, and from 1847 to 1849 they lived in Washington.

Nominated for Presidency

Then he returned to Springfield, where he was marketing for the family groceries late one afternoon in 1860 when news came that the Republican convention meeting in The Wigwam in Chicago had nominated him for the Presidency of the United States. The following spring the long trail turned back eastward again, to Washington, to end four years later with a pistol shot in a theater. The long, solemn return of the funeral train and the closing of a vault door late in the afternoon of May 4,

REORGANIZATION BILL UNDER FIRE

Byrnes Measure to Revamp Government Up in Senate Next Week,

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extend the merit system upward, downward and outward and. apply the classification act’ to Federal employees outside of Washington as well as inside. 3. Abolish the General Accounting Office, formerly headed by Controller General John R. MecCarl (whose successor has never been named) and replace it with a General Auditing Office and Auditor General. 4. Create a new welfare department, under which would be grouped health, social security, relief, education and consumer services. 5. Establish the National Resources Planning Board as a permanent executive establishment, 6. Authorize the President to appoint six administrative assistants, at $10,000 a year. The Senate Committee struck out the controversial clause changing the Interior Department to the Conservation Department,

F. D. R. Demands Action On Pay-Hour Bill

By HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb, 12.—President Roosevelt has spoken sharply to Chairman Mary T. Norton (D. N. J), of the House Labor Committee, it was reported today, because of her failure to get the Wage-Hour Bill started in the first five weeks of the Congressional session. Mrs, Norton is out of town for the week-end, but her office understood today that the Committee would be called together Wednesday. Mrs. Norton called at the White House Thursday for the second time in a week. When she same out she said merely that a general discussion of the Wage-Hour Bill had taken place. Six days earlier, however, after a White House call, she told reporters that the bill would not be taken up by the House until after all the appropriation bills were passed—five or six weeks hence. Between her two visits, 3¢ Progressive members of the House called on the President in a body to urge that he “use dynamite if necessary” to get action on the bill. Several of this group complained to the President because Mrs. Norton had not called the Labor Committee together to act.

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how the restless spirit animated generation after generation, starting with the first Lincoln to set foot on American soil

PREHISTORY OF INDIANA TRAGED

Lilly Volume Is Issued by Society; Delves Into Lore of State.

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close to historical times. In these years the Lenape drifted through our state on their way to the East Coast. According to the tradition repeated by the great Miami chief Little Turtle, members of that tribe, were masters of the whole of Indiana, and of Ohio east to the Scioto River, and had possession of our fertile valleys where they built their villages and planted their waving, fragrant corn.”

Mr. Lilly then depicts the more or less rapid tribal moves, the entrance of the white man on the scene and the pushing of the red man back into the western and southwestern sections of Indiana.

Dispossession of the Red Man

“Such were the positions of the tribes when the white settlers came and began to crowd the forest people toward the West,” he writes. “A series of cessions extending from 1804 to 1834 finally dispossessed the Indians of practically all their lands in Indiana, The last tribal removal took place in 1838, and if we wish to retain our self-respect, the less said about the departure the better, although it seems to be a law of nature that the weak must retire before the strong.” From there, Mr. Lilly delves into the stories and preservation of the mounds, including those at Anderson, the Angel Mounds near Evansville, the four old hilltop forts at Merom in Sullivan County, those in the Whitewater Valley, the New=castle group on the Little Blue River, those at Vincennes and others in northwestern Indiana. Deploring the fact that many of the state's prehistoric sites have been dug into by amateurs whose only interest was in collecting specimens for their commercial value, Mr. Lilly writes: “It is disheartening to read in the reports of later archeologists, of the wholesale destruction of these ancient earthworks . . . it is unfortunate that for one mound (expert ly) explored, fifty are carelessly destroyed.” More than 100 exciting pages gone, the president of the Historical Society turns to the description of the materials which the Indian used in his daily life. He describes flint objects, celts and axes, cup stones, mortars and pestles, and the myriad stone ornaments and ceremonials used by the red man, Far from being dry-as-dust reading, Mr. Lilly has made his story of these materials a gripping story. He writes, for instance: “Corresponding to the Pittsburgh of the later day, with its roaring blast furnaces, flaming converters, and crashing forges fabricating the tools and weapons of “civilization,” are the flint quarries of Harrison

STATE, NATION JOIN IN PAYING LINCOLN HONOR

Republicans Ask Labor and Youth to Join Against New Deal.

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We have seen the Constitution scored by those in highest authority, whose advice to our lawmakers was to disregard the Constitution.” He charged there are “men holding high official positions, both in

our Federal and State Governments, who preach the doctrine of class | hatred. Even the President of the | United States and the Governor of Indiana have been guilty of these | practices.” | Quoting the Governor as saying | “We are not responsible for the present business slump, which we believe was purposely created by those who wish to halt social progress” and “it is the duty of Government to aid the people at all times and protect them from the hatred of a reactionary minority, Mr. Bobbitt said “the theory of Government expressed in this statement is a far cry from the form of Government advocated by Lineon + ”

He urged Republicans to follow

the doctrines and ideals of Lincoln,

whom he said “knew, too, the sting |!

of political defeat.” Lincoln Advice Quoted

In a speech before the Wayne Township Republican Club last night, Vayne M. Armstrong, attorney, said Republicans may well follow the advice of Lincoln given in his public address during his stop in Indianapolis shortly before he assumed the presidency. Mr. Armstrong quoted Lincoln as declaring at that time: “I appeal to you constantly to bear in mind that not with the politicians, not with Presidents, not with office seekers, but with you is the question: Shall the liberties of this country be preserved to the latest generation?”

G. 0. P. Appeals to Youth and Labor

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U, P). --Republican Party leaders will cel ebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln tonight with appeals to labor and youth to join a concerted drive against the New Deal in the fall Congressional elections, Fifty G. O. P. leaders, headed by National Committee Chairman John D. Hamilton, will address gatherings throughout the country, Party officials said the addresses would place the blame for the recession upon the shoulders of the Administration, but that major emphasis would be political rather than economic, Key positions at tonight's meet-ings--similar in organization to the Jackson Day ceremonies sponsored last month by the Democratic National Committee—will be held by Governor Aiken of Vermont and Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.). Conspicuously absent from the list of speakers were the two leading party members—former President Herbert, C. Hoover and 1936 G. O. P. Presidential nominee Alf M. Landon, who have disagreed on methods of rejuvenating the party, He is on his way to Europe. Governor Aiken, who receptly demanded a purge of Southern Republican committeemen, will be the principal guest of the National Republican Club of New York, regarded as the most important rostrum*in the party's sphere. Senator Vandenberg will speak this year at the Middlesex Club in Boston, Mass.

KILLED BY BOARD ROCHESTER, Feb. 12 (U.P) - Charles C. Vance, 49, employed in a sawmill at Argos, was killed instantly yesterday when he was struck in the chest by a board which buckled as he fed it into an edging saw,

County, where our red predecessors secured and processed the material for their tools and weapons.” The Historical Society has been active in Indiana archeological work for the last decade and the results of the Society's work are embodied in Mr. Lilly's discussion of various sitos, The volume is beautifully illugtrated and contains a fine biography. It deserves a place of honor in the library of Indiana lore.

Honors Edison

Times-Acme Photo, The illuminated Edison Tower at Menlo Park, New Jersey, was lighted for the first time when the power was switched on at a banquet held in New York City on the 91st anniversary of the great inventor's birth, William 8S. Bars tow, donor of the $100,000 memorial, pressed the button that illuminated this inland lighthouse erected for the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, The 15-foot light bulb, largest in the world, manufactured by the Corning Glass Works, is the first circular cast job in the glass industry, The bulb is of 5200 watts.

SUES FOR SHARE IN PLANTATION PROFITS

Dance Manager Says He's Due $5425 Commissions.

Charles E. Bourke, former dance hall manager of the closed Plantation Club on Road 67 in Hancock County, today had asked Superior Court to appoint a receiver for the property in a suit seeking $5425 he

said was due him in commissions, He charged the money was owed him by Major A. Riddle and Joe Jacobs, named defendants and described by the suit as partners in the club, Mr, Bourke claimed the $6425 was his 17% per cent share of the $31,000 net profit made by the club during its five months of operation. The club was closed by State Police following a raid last November, Mr. Riddle today denied being a partner in the club and said he had no connection with its operation or management, “I know nothing about the operation or money affairs of the club,” he asserted. “I did lend Mr, Jacobs some money and he agreed to give me a small percentage in consideration. I never got any of the money, however.” Mr. Bourke charged he was entitled to 17% per cent of the profits as the result of a verbal contract raade with Mr. Riddle and Mr, Jacobs on May 28, 1937. Mr. Jacobs could not be reached for comment,

SCHUSCHNIGG, HITLER CONFER AS DUGE WISHED

Carol's Cabinet to Continue Anti-Jewish Policy but Increase Caution.

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bassador to Austria=whose recall to Berlin was announced as part of the shakeup-took the invitation to Chancellor Schuschnigg Monday.

Carol to Continue

Anti-Jewish Policy

BUCHAREST, Feb, 12 (U. P.) = King Carol's new authoritarian Government, ruling Rumania’s 10 million people under a state of siege, announced in a formal proc lamation of policy today that {it would continue the main part of the nationalistic, anti-Jewish pro= gram of the Octavian Goga Cabinet, It was indicated, however, that the policy would be pursued in such manner—=and only to such extent as to guard against the turmoil and international concern which led to the precipitate ‘fall of Goga and his frankly anti-Jewish colleagues, The proclamation said that the Government's program would ine clude a review of naturalization certificates granted since the World War (mainly to Jews who entered Rumania after 1914) and annule ment of any naturalization cers tificates obtained fraudulently, It was announced that the Army would be increased. In the realm of international politics, it was announced that Rue mania would maintain her tradie tional foreign policy, adhering te the League of Nations and her ale liances. This would mean remaine ing faithful to the Little Entente, comprising Rumania, Czechoslo= vakia and Jugoslavia, and presumes ably would entail continuing close friendship with France,

Eden May Resign,

London Hears LONDON, Saturday, Feb, 12 (U, P.) ~The Daily Mirror said today that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden may resign because of dis~ sension in the British Cabinet over the policy toward Italy. The Daily Express also said that dissension existed.

SENATOR DAVIS BACKS EXPANSION OF NAVY

Pennsylvanian Is Attending Moose Parley.

U. 8. Senator Davis (R. Pa.) today characterized Japan's refusal to give details of its naval program as ah invitation to United States to build as big a navy as it pleases “because Japan is doing the same.” Senator Davis, Naval Affairs Com« mittee member, is attending the Moose Pilgrim Governor's Confers ence here today and tomorrow, He said he is in favor of President Roosevelt's naval armaments expansion program and predicted the bill will be passed by Congress with little opposition,

BOB BURNS Says: pourwoon,

always a little suspicious of people who are so ready to call somebody else a crook. The other day I was talkin’ to a lady out here who was suing her husband for a divorce settlement and she was kickin’ about her lawyer bein’ so crooked. I says, “Well, what has he done?” And she says, “Well, he came to me and sald he had talked to my husband and he had gotten a fair settlement. I says, “What's wrong with that?” She says, “Well, I didn’t need to pay a lawyer to get a fair settlement

=I coulda gotten that myself.” (Copyright, 1938)

The President has indicated =a willingness to concede a NorthSouth differential—perhaps a $13 minimum wage in the North and]! $11 south of the Mason-Dixon line. This compares with a $1 differential allowed under NRA codes.

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