Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1939 — Page 9
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1939
The Ind
CAMERON, Ariz, Aug. 12—When we started this Jong: drawn-out t#ip into the desert country of New » Zico, Utah and Arizona, we prepared ourselves 2 ough We were going from the Cape to Cairo. e replaced two worn tires with new ones. We : bought a shovel, carried a fivegallon can of water for the radiator end a gallon thermos Jug for ourselves. We bought a tire pump, a can of patches, an extra fan belt and two quarts of oil. We took a first-aid kit, and a snake-bite kit. We had a funnel and a tin cup. : We had a small board on which to place the jack in sand. We had a roll of old gunny sacks, to put under the wheels if we got stuck. We had two cans of ~ sardines and a box of crackers, : : just in case. We hada .22 rifle and a German Luger revolver. These were just for fun, and not because we thought we d need them. We wore overalls and heavy shoes. This sounds like a lot, yet we got it all in the baggage compartment, and didn’t have a thing strapped on or hanging outside the car. Now the desert trip is over. Of all this paraphernalia, we had no need for anything except the two cans of water, the funnel and the tin cup. g + Yet if I were making this trip again, I wouldn't eliminate a single thing. For it is entirely possible to need all these things in the desert. Most important of all, I would say, are water, good tires, a shovel and a tire pump. We never did get stuck in the sand, but we came close to it a number of times. Twice we had to stop and let the Yediajor boil, and each time it took about a gallon f water.
: 2 o » The Roads Not So Good . Our thermos jug was indispensable. Nearly every day we carried our lunch, fixed for us at wherever we stayed the night before. These dirt roads through the Navajo reservation
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Our Town
- Now that I look back and review my childhood, I believe I picked up more worth-while facts in the old New York Store than in all the days I spent at School 6. The multiplication table, for example, with which Mary Shearer and I wrestled back in the 4B remains but a blurred memory. On the other hand, I remember every statistical detail in connection with the big silver statue the New York Store brought to Indianapolis after it was on exhibition at the Chicago (1893) World's Fair. The express bill was $172. The New York Store people were always doing something like that for tne cultural enrichment of their customers. The statue, representing Justice, was more than nine feet tall, made of 97,000 ounces of solid silver worth $65,000. Up to that time the biggest silver statue of record was the one Julius Caesar ordered to celebrate something. It | was . just about-half the size of the one on exhibition at - the New York Store. That wasn’t all, though. | The New York Store statue stood on a pedestal made of solid gold worth $235,000. It brought the investment up to $300,000, probably 10 times the cost of Caesar’s statue. - ” ” =
Lovely Actress the Model
iedn- all probability, too, the Caesar statue portrayed the’ al It of ey man. We were spared that. ‘Ada Rehan, the beautiful actress, was the model for “the New York Store statue. And believe it or not, Richard H. Parks was the sculptor. Sure, the same man who turned out the Hendricks monument over in the State House yard. ! = " Of course, Mr. Parks had Miss Rehan holding a pair of scales, too. On one of the scales he had a
‘Washington
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Of course they all work for the same government and they chase the same bunch of crooks, and so on ... but the fact is that the Internal Revenue Bureaus sleuths are just the least bit peeved at the ‘way the Department of Justice’s G-Men seem to be getting all the credit for putting Boss Thomas J. Pendergast of Kansas City behind the bars. Pendergast pleaded guilty on May 22 last to a Federal indictment charging him with evading income tax payments, and is now in Leavenworth Prison. Because he was such a big-wig in the Democratic Party, and because Attorney General Murphy and Chief G-Man Hoover made a dramatic flying trip to Xansas & ; City when his Ipumnent rors, eneral impression is that it was the Departids of ti nirh rounded him up and put him way. 2 x a matter of fact, though, the Pendergast case like all income tax cases—was primarily an Internal Revenue Bureau matter. The Bureau's sleuths —who are about as dogged and relentless a bunch as you can find anywhere—had been on ‘Pendergast’s trail for nearly three years . . . ever. since a worried Chicagoan accidentally dropped a remark about the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary. 2 ” 2 ”
Just a Lucky Accident
For the fact is that the Internal Revenue Bureau got on the trail more or less by accident. A field agent was making a routine check of income tax records of a Chicago lawyer, ‘way back in April of 1936, when he found that the sum of $100,500 had passed through the accounts of the lawyer and his partner
ar before. BO bein was quickly traced to Charles R. Street,
My Day
HYDE PARK, Friday. —I entirely forgot to tell you about DE LE entertainment we went to the other night. Ginger Rogers is one of the young movie stars who came to-Washington for one of the birthday balls, and I: liked her very much. When : ’ we heard that her picture, “Bachelor Mother,” was on, some. of us went to Poughkeepsie to see it.
ing and charmingly done. ~ Another « short film, “The Giant of Norway,” was shown and it impressed me very much. It briefly tells the work done by Nansen for refugees under the ue of Nations. I. remember meeting Mr. Nansen on various occasions. You felt that he was suited to an outdoor life of ture and, above all, he was an outdoor type in oye he spent years of his life at a desk interminably talking in diplomatic terms to people who diplomatically desired . do little or nothing. ‘big sacrifice to as’/ of any man, and yet ‘of people who do not even know - his a blessed the work he did on their behalf. 1 have'a letter from a lady who puts me on the spot for my on that we ask our representatives “questions which will keep them working . on this, question of peace. She mentions also Clarence Street’s book, “Union Now,” and asks what I think
- hardly sit in the car.
. showed just about that much of the stocking.
The movie seems an impossible story, but it is amus-
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are not what you would go out on for a Sunday ‘afternoon’s spin. Yet they are not as bad as we expected. GR Se The worst part was the 10 miles between Bluff and Comb Wash, in Utah. You're in second or low gear much of the time. You're driving across acres of solid sheet rock. You're through sand to the hubs. You're all the time so up-and-downish you can Sometimes the steering. wheel is jerked out of your hand. nell And when you finally make the summit of Comb Ridge, and swing around a hairpin turn, you are suddenly and surprisingly confronted. with the .steepest down-grade I've ever been on. They call it Navajo Hill. It is just wide enough for one car. The thing gave me a terrific start. I threw into second gear, and then into low, and used both brakes. They differ locally on just how steep it is. After we were down in the valley we stopped and looked back, and tried to judge. We figured at least 25 degrees. But the boys around Mexican Hat
say it is 32 degrees. o ”
Sand Chief Worry
We laughed many times at what appears to be a road rivalry between Utah and Arizona. Every person we met in Utah would say: “The roads are-all right till you hit Arizona, and thén theyre pretty bad.” And the truth is that nowhere on the Arizona side did we find roads. as bad as in Utah! : The main worry, all along, is about getting stuck in the sand. If you do, above everything don’t sit there and spin your wheels. ri Get out, shovel a channel ahead of your wheels, gather some sage brush and make a carpet of it in the channel, let the air out of your tires down to about 15 pounds, be sure that your front wheels are
: headed straight, and then get in and drive out,
The best months for a trip through this country are June and September and October. The rains come in July and August. We didn’t suffer at all from the heat. -But' of course we're sort of hot weather maniacs. In fact, a couple of nights I had lo go out and chase Indians to keep my blood circuating. :
By Anton Scherrer
pile of gold coins all of one size. On the other, he had a like number. of silver coins all the same size as the gold coins. The scales balanced perfectly. Funny how a kid remembers such things. a The New York Store people were also the first to bring the Directoire gown to Indianapolis. That was back in 1908 when Ed. Lambeth ran the ladies suit department. The Directoire gown, in case you're t00 young to know, was a tight fitting dress which was so snug that it necessitated slitting the left side of the skirt to enable a woman to walk. The slit ran up a matter of four inches above the shoe tops and It wasn’t worth the designer’s effort. ” ” 2
Romance in a Restaurant
The old New York Store was the first department].
store, too, to have a restaurant. It occupied the greater part of the fifth floor. Just to the left of the entrance was a round table and it was here that Volney T. Malott, Louis Eubank, Linton. Cox and George Calvert, to name only a few, met to take their noonday meal and straighten out the affairs of the world. Lew Shank always took his lunch here, too, but he never sat at the round table. Sarah, the head waitress, always gave him a little: table to himself. Sarah, as nifty a head waitress as this town ever had, started out as a regular waitress and proved so good that there was nothing to do but let her run the whale place. . : Finally Sarah proved too good for even the New York: Store because the way things turned she ended up running the City of Indianapolis. Remember? She married Lew, our Mayor, who always referred to his
“administration as “Me and Sarah.”
And in case you've forgotten the name of the man who for 10 years did the fancy glass engraving in the New York Store’s basement—the one whose art had us kids spellbound—allow me to remind you that it was Hieronimus Keller. :
By Bruce Catton
head of an insurance committee which in 1935 had negotiated a.settlement of a long-standing rate case between 137 insurance companies and the state of Missouri. ! : Questioned about the money, Street said he had paid it to “a big Missouri politician”; couldn't say who, but would see if he couldn’t get permission to do so when the Queen Mary (then at sea on her maiden voyage) reached New York. The revenuers scanned the Queen Mary’s passenger list, saw Pendergast’s name ¢h it, and decided they were on the trail of something big. : There followed, then, three years of almost incredibly involved checking and rechecking of tax returns, bank accounts and other records. They learned that some kind of a slush fund had apparently been made up by the insurance companies after the rate case settlement in 1935; but it wasn’t until: July, of 1938, that they even traced any of this to Missouri, and then all they could prove was that some $87,000 of it had mysteriously turned up in a deposit box rented by a St. Louis insurance broker named MecCormack. . : :
But He Finally Talked
McCormack was to be the key figure in the case; but until they could get him to talk the revenuers could get nowhere, and they couldn’t get him to talk until they could explode his yarn that this $87,000 was a private little estate he had built up. To. do .that they had to go all the way back to his boyhood and check on every single business transaction he had made. : In the end, they were able to demonstrate to McCormack that his little story just couldn’t possibly be true. Whereupon he broke down and told the truth, which was that he had been the pay-off man “in the insurance case, getting cash from Street in Chicago and taking it personally to Pendergast. And when they look back at it, the revenuers figure that they ought to get at least a little of the credit for the Pendergast case.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
with the work we have all been doing as private citizens, in organizations, as public officials, or as writers, is that all our good ideas usually reach the ears only of people who don’t need them at all. . We, in the United States, don’t need to be told that we want peace, and yet how are the things which we have to say to reach the ears of the people of the world who are either carrying on a war or putting the major part of their effort into preparations for war? :
Of course, I would keep right on urging the leaders in every peaceful nation to continue asking the nations of the world to come together and discuss their basic antagonisms and difficulties. It seems to me that if enough people insist upon this and a meeting is called, attended by those nations who are willing to talk. things over, some word, in spite of all efforts at: censorship, will seep through to the people of
every nation. It will be more difficult to make the|
people of belligerent nations, therefore, believe that
the rest of the world is opposed to meeting together
for discussion of mutual difficulties. I do not think meetings should be held for the purpose of criticizing other nations or for stimulating new hatreds. I think any meetings held should have as an underlying principle the idea that we are going to eliminate, even at great sacrifice to ourselves, the difficulties which Bring about antagonisms and eventually- war. Everyone agrees that war today will leave no victors and means only the .postponement of necessary economic changes which will eventually have to be Da er Leven more difficult
eV
Offer Many Attractions
"By David Marshall
F you haven’t saved much vacation money this year and instead had planned to § catch up on your.summer . reading, toss aside that novel and pack a bag. You can take a vacation, for $25—or less. And in one of the nation’s finest
vacation states—Indiana. Scattered from the level lake plain of the northwest to the rugged, timbered hills of the south, are 11 State parks, one of the best systems in the country. At all of them one person can
stay at least five days, and at some for a week, and yet remain within the $25 budget. None is too far away. Transportation costs are small. Pokagon State Park on Road 67 near Angola holds the distance record. It is 166 miles away. Bus fares are low. The Hoosier Motor Club estimates the cost of operation of a medium-priced car to be 1.5 cents a mile. Depreciation, taxation, insurance and interest on investment, which totals 4.5 cents, would add up even if you stayed home. Each of the 11 parks offer hiking, tennis, picnicking, camping and nature study without charge. Admission to each is 6 10 cents.a person.
or cabins run from $2.50 to $3.75 a day a person or from $15 to $22.50 a week, including meals. "If you want to camp out or you own a trailer, the camping. and parking fee is 25 cents a day. Electricity is sold for the same rate. Generally each park has many of the same attractions, individually they differ widely. 2 ” ‘8 PRING MILL STATE PARK, near Mitchell, is the most popular now, because of the new inn, completed last-month. Here the state is creating one of the most successful pieces of histori-
1 State Parks
Rates for hotel rooms, cottages ©
A ‘cool, shaded trail through virgin
timber, such as this at Mounds Park, typifies the back-to-nature vacations possible in Indiana’s State Parks and historical areas. :
cal restoration in the United States. Spring Mill Village was founded about 1817 and became a thriving frontier trading post. Visitors may see a massive stone grist mill, built before 1817, operated by a 22-foot overshot water wheel, and housing a museum. ; Boat trips, costing 25 cents, are taken in Donaldson and Twin Caves, where there are stalactite formations and: rare blind fish. Free nature trips and twice weekly nature lectures are given. by guides. PRs service also is offered at Pokagon, the Dunes, Turkey Run, Brown County, McCormick’s Creek and Clifty Falls.
BROWN COUNTY STATE PARK, near Nashville, is the largest park, containing more than 15,000 acres, nearly four-fifths of which is a game preserve. The park is a memorial to Kin Hubbard, creator of Abe Martin, the vagabond -philosopher of the Brown County hills. Within the game preserve, pheasants, wild turkeys, ducks, squirrel and quail are propagated. This is the archery hunting area where the game is stalked with bow and arrow. Laws governing bow hunting are the same as those for rifle shooting. None of the latter is permitted in the preserve. A wildlife exhibit of deer, buffalo, elk, bear and other animals and birds is maintained. Visitors may stay at either the Abe Martin Lodge or the cottages named for Kin Hubbard characters—Grandma Pash, Fawn Lippencut, etc. Here, as at McCormick’s Creek,
Conservation Department.
beavers do best for themselves. The Department is going: to build a dam between the upper and lower pools at the Department’s wild life exhibit at the State Fair this year. It will be big enough to house about half a dozen beavers. Talent scouts are rounding up the beavers for the display now.
Paradox Completed
The paradox is deliciously complete. The Department can always depend on the beavers to build ‘a dam, but never can depend on them to build it at any certain place. ‘They might escape the county and build a dam some place else. ? . So the Department is digging one up at the Jasper-Pulaski Game Preserve and is transporting it, except for crumbs, to the Fair Grounds and Teassenunling it in a cement foundaon. SE : It is digging up a number of little aspen trees, which are dessert for beavers, - and planting them nearby for the beavers to eat during the run of the show. :
"A Lack of Confidence Privately, the Department expects ‘that the beavers will eat mostly at night when the Fair crowds are gone and practically never when the
will be able to see authentic beaver cuttings on the ground. ~~
Turkey Run, Clifty Falls, Pokagon and the Mounds, horses may be rented for from 50 cents to $1 an hour. Swimming in the pool is 25 cents a person, the same as at McCormick’s Creek. The Dunes, Pokagon, Shakamak, and Bass Lake parks are on or near lakes where bath house facilities are 25 cents. At Turkey Run visitors swim in Sugar Creek. : imam ow PHPOKAGON STATE PARK is ‘named for one of the chiefs of the Potawatomi tribes. It is near Angola on the shores of Lake James and Snow Lake. Arrow heads and other Indian relies are found in the area. Lake James is stocked with pickerel, small-mouth bass, bluegills and perch. ‘A fish hatchery and aviary are of interest. The craft shop offers an opportunity to learn various handicrafts, such as weaving, pottery ‘making, metal working, wood carving and sketching. All equipment and machinery is furnished and materials are sold at lost cost. Canoes, rowboats and motorboats may’ be rented and passenger service: ‘is ‘available in large launches.
. TURKEY RUN STATE PARK has scenery which is unsurpassed in the State. It is three and onehalf miles north of Marshall and contains 285 acres of virgin timber. Two nature hikes are conducted daily over the 30 miles of trails. A natural history museum is in the basement of the Inn. The
Beavers ‘Bored’ as State Chisels in on Dam Site
By JOE COLLIER I All Hoosier beavers who have any information on the subject are laughing and slapping: their tails over the latest project of the State
Chiefly because of the complete indifference beavers always have shown to any and all blue prints and a society planned by anyone but beavers, the Department: finds it necessary to do for the beavers what].
beavers, is going to cage them at the dam—for two reasons.
First, so they will remain in view,| °
which: they most certainly would not do otherwise. . And second, so they won’t begin
building another dam on the site|
and cross up the whole Fair.
Oscar Butler, 2132 N. Drexel Ave, president ‘of the E. 21st St. Civic
League, announced today ‘that 148 5 © Avemometer. Fm I
persons out of 150 had signed a petition asking an extension of the Brookside trackless trolley or feeder
bus lines to replace 21st’ St. and |
Ritter’ Ave. bus line.
+ It is also planned, Mr. Butler said, to ‘circulate similar petitions to pa-| trons of the 16th St. and Emerson |. Ave. ‘bus line to obtain their views] on the proposed establishment of| a feeder line to the 16th and Olney | Cam en Ee WW ) ‘Mr. Butler said he had been| crowds are there, but then people asked fs
Sts. trackless trolley. ~~ ficials. to “sound 3 4 and ;
polis Railways of-
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out” sentiment ‘in|: ‘advi
home of “Salmon Lusk, original owner of the land who came to Indiana in 1821 still stands. The old mill race and the mill supports are carved in solid sandstone. A quaint pioneer log church stands in a forest clearing and Sunset Point Cottage, built of -immense hand-hewn timbers in the early 40s, overlook one of the gorges. Archery equipment, saddle horses and bicycles can be rented.
DUNES STATE PARK extends for more than three miles along Lake Michigan about 10
miles west of Michigan City. The
beach is backed by lofty sand dunes, some of which are nearly 200 feet above the mean level of the lake. Between the waterfront and the ridge the dunes are in almost consfant motion, sometimes engulfing “trees and uncovering others long buried. ' Of the 2221
acres in the park, 1800 are wooded. -
MV comics CREEK CANYON STATE PARK is across the White River and three miles from Spencer on the edge of the great stone belt. Ten miles of marked trails lead to deep ravines, gulches and timbered slopes. For more than a mile and a half from the falls to its mouth, McCormick’s Creek cuts through a gorge carved in the limestone to a depth of 100 feet. Old State House
Quarry furnished the foundation.
stones of the old Capitol. There is an observation tower, croquet, swimming, riding and fishing.
MOUNDS STATE PARK, two and one-half miles northeast of Anderson, contains some of the most remarkable of the mounds built by an unidentified prehistoric race.
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'5—J. Louis Comiskey.
.6—A fictitious name: ‘assumed
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1013 13th St. N. W., Washing-
- affords bathing and boating.
There are two groups of earthworks; four of them perfect circles. The Park has ’'a museum of natural .history and archeology, including displays of Indian relics. It also has facilities for fishing, boating and bathing and is a nat-
_ural bird sanctuary.
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HAKAMAK STATE PARK lies just west of Jasonville.® An artificial lake, covering 55 acres, It is well ‘stocked with fish and controlled fishing is permitted.
BASS LAKE STATE PARK is a tract of 10 acres in Starke County bordering Bass Lake about five miles south of Knox. The Bass Lake State Fish Hatch-
ery is on the northeastern shore.
On the ‘eastern shore of the lake is a 2000-foot bathing beach.
CLIFTY FALLS STATE PARK . overlooks the valley of the Ohio
River above Madison. The chief feature is the lower gorge at the head of which Big Clifty Creek drops 70 feet over a stone ledge. Ornithologists state that there are more different kinds of birds in
- this glen than in any other gpot bétween the Allegheny and Rocky.
Mountains. Botanists say there are more kinds of flowers here than in any county between the Great Lakes and the Gulf. A steel observation tower overlooks the valley. There are nature trails and guides, riding, tennis, hiking, dancing and golf. :
MUSCATATUCK STATE PARK is just south of North Vernon, contains 205 acres with a rocky, timbered gorge, through which runs a tributary of ‘the Muscatatuck River. The remains
‘the’ . Indiana
of a pioneer water mill still stand
near an old dam. The river is
a noted bass stream. : Cities which are of particular historical interest to Hoosiers are
‘Vincennes and Corydon. Modern
hotel rooms are available at from
- $1 up and meals per day should
not be more than $1.50.
CORYDON was the capital of territory from 1813 to 1816 and of the State until 1825. The original building now
is a State Historical Memorial and °
is built of native stone and handhewn timbers. Admission is 25 cents. Constitution. Elm, uncer which the first state Constitution was drafted, stands on High St, near: Big Indian Creek. Admission is free to the D. A. R:. Museum, the old Col. Thomas Lloyd Posey Mansion. : Vincennes is the oldest city in the state. The first fort -was erected in 1732. The town was the territorial capital for 13 years, The George Rogers Clark Memos rial occupies part of the site. of Ft. - Sackville. Nearby is the Lincoln Memorial Bridge. In the crypt of the Old Cathedral lie the remains of four early bishops. Five bishops have been installed withe in its sanctuary. : i Other historical points include the Old French Cemetery, west of the Cathedral; the Cathedral Library, the oldest. library in-In-diana containing more than 2500 volumes printed before 1700; Territorial Hall, first capitol of the Indians Territory; Harrison Mansion, built by William Henry Hare risoh; the Bonner-Allison Mane sion, where Abraham Lincoln vise ited frequently; the Old Post Mu= seum. of History, and several Ine dian mounds. :
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