Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1938 — Page 9

Visiting in Indiana, ~ Historians Informed

That Ts, If Affidavits All ~~ Are True; Society Opens Sessions.

By JOE COLLIER If Apraham Lincoln visited every place in Indiana affidavits on file say he did, he must have made more calls than a sweeper salesman working in three shifts. And every place where an old residenter can recall that his grandfather told of having seen Lincoln visiting neighbors down the street when he was a boy wants a marker. " So today reported Christopher B. Coleman, State Historical Bureau director, as the annual two-day ses“sion of the Indiana State Historical Society opened in the Lincoln Hotel. The speaker after the luncheon was to be Otho Winger, North Manchester, on the “Historic Mississinewa.” Tonight at the general session Prof. Roy M. Robbins, Butler University, is to talk on “Horace Greeley and the Quest for Social Justice” and Prof Paul W. Gates, Cornell College, is to give an address on “Land Speculation and Tenancy in the Prairie Counties. of Indiana.”

1250 Markers Placed

Mr. Coleman reported, among other things, that the WPA Historical Project has placed 1250 markers at important Indiana sites, and added that the Bureau had been called upon to determine the “probable authenticity of claims about Lincoln and about every other person of historical interest who ever visited the state. There is an interstate battle of affidavits on the burial place of the Rev. David Elkins, who preached the funeral of Nancy Hanks, Lincoln’s mother. : - Kentucky claims he is buried there and has amassed a large number of affidavits to prove it. Indiana claims he is buried here in the same graveyard where Nancy Hanks wad buried and has affidavits to prove that. © Mr. Coleman also told the Society that little had been accomplished

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13,600 TERRAPINS HATGHED AT ONGE

Diamond-Back Propagation Record Is Claimed.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. P.).— The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries today announced a record hatch of 13,600 young diamond-back terrapins, a sea food delicacy, at its Beaufort, N. C., station. Since artificial propagation was undertaken at Beaufort in 1909, more than 128,000 young diamondbacks have been reared for restocking coastal salt marshes of North Carolina and other Southern states. In former years diamond-back terrapins were abundant from the Chesapeake Bay southward. Sought relentlessly for market, terrapins became so scarce their extermination was feared. The Fisheries Bureau accordingly began experiments in 1902 which led to development of a successful method of breeding terrapins in captivity. It was esti-

mated that it cost from 3% to § cents to rear each terrapin. They

in the last year on determining the retail for from $1.50 to $4.50 apiece.

true route taken in 1830 by the Lincoln family as it left Indiana for linois. : A Long Way Home

In 1932, a Commission appointed by the late Governor Harry Leslie inquired into it and found that, if

- all claims were justified, the family must have taken a longest-way-home route that touched on the following cities: Gentryville, near . where they lived, Folsomyille, Lynnville, Selvin, Jasper, Princeton, Otwell, Petersburg, Porterville, Washington, Monroe City, Vincennes and even Boonville. ° However vague the Lincoln trail is, the Buffalo trail has been pretty well nailed down by a committee which was appointed in 1934 and reported in 1936, in a quiet sort of way. Mr. Coleman urged the Society to finance the publishing of the report during the next year. As it is, there are two copies, one in the Archives Department, and one in the possession of Paul V. McNutt.

Clever, Those Buffalo

“The buffalo, the report pointed out, blazed the trails for most of our roads and was one of the most sagacious of road planners. It shows that when the first Main St. of Lexington, Ky., became impossible to negotiate in wet weather, the city shifted to the buffalo trail, which was well-packed by thousands of Indiana buffalo trekking single file from the Hoosier state to the salt licks of Kentucky. One of the Indiena governors settled the road problem for the time by merely repairing the buffalo trail, which then had been nearly 40 years without a buffalo.

GOVERNOR TOWNSEND DENIES EXTRADITION

Governor Townsend today had refused to turn over Edna Odle and George W. Rich to Jefferson County, Ky., authorities, who sought to extradite them on a charge of converting to their own use $1400 from the estate of the late Newton A. Green, former New Albany, Ind., Mayor. Declaring that the facts seemed to indicate this was a “collection - case,” the Governor at a hearing yesterday

sajd he did not care to have his office involved in the matter.

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WHH-=WHERE SERVICE IS STARTED Celebrity Concern Publishes Notables’ Schedules.

NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (U. D.)— Celebrity-hunting became a business today when Celebrity Service opened for customers. ; Earl Blackwell and Ted Strong, who thought of the idea, said they already had a dozen or so clients. The service works like this: If you want to find out what

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POLE FINALLY GETS FLAG LORAIN, O., Dec. 5 (U. P.).—Police have found finally an expert flagpole-climber to place a flag at the top of their 2-year-old, 92-foot “flagless flagpole.” Edgar Ellis, who repairs the School Board's flagpoles, agreed to equip the police pole with pulley and rope, paint it and at-

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: IN BUSINE S ARS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. P).—

Reconstruction Finance Corp, Chair-9

man Jesse Jones said today that small business loans have been falling off in the last 90 days, indicating an. improvement in economic conditions. ae “The average small business or industry doesn’t need a lot of money,” Mr. Jones said. “They apparently don’t need even that money now because business is getting better.” At the same time Mr. Jones disclosed that the RFC is consider-~ ing making two “substantial-sized loans” to utility companies in con-

WOMAN, 94, RECALLS DAYS AS FIRST COED

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 9 (U. P.).— Mrs. Sophie Krueger, now 94, remembers with a smile the haughtiness. of male students at the University of Wisconsin when .coeds first were admitted to the school. Half the student body left the

university to fight for the Union during the Civil War and something had to be done. So in 1865 women were permitted to enter and among them was Scphie Schmedeman, now Mrs. Krueger, She says the feminine contingent held its own and smooth sailing soon followed.

"CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 9 (U.P). — The livery stables built by John D, Rockefeller in 1868 are being transformed into the Stables Inn—an old

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