Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1939 — Page 9
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1939
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SECOND SECTIC
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GRAND CANYON, Ariz, (North Rim), Aug. 19.— Here is an example of what a whopper the Grand Canyon. really is. When you stand at the Lodge here on the North Rim, you are only 14 miles from the hotel on the South Rim. | Yet if you want to drive over there, you have to ~ drive 215 miles around the east end of the canyon, or 618 miles around the west end, over Boulder: Da, a letter fr other, ‘it ta there. You can,| however, cross the - canyon in two days, if you want to take yourself a real trip. You ‘80 by mulepack.. It costs you $30, and for that you get a mule, a guide, your meals, and overnight lodging at Phantom Ranch in the bottom of the canyon. s | I had thought of taking this stopped me—the $30, and fright. “Is the trail scary?” I asked the man at the hotel desk. : | “No, it isn’t scary,” he said, * stretches where you look straight down for a thousand feet. But the trail is eight feet wide, and you couldn’t push a mule off with a locomotive.” My great worry is not over the mule staying on the trail. My worry is about me staying on the mule. I decided to Wait till I.got braver.
Lesson, in Geography
The North Rim of the Canyon from the South Rim. It is 1000 [feet higher, so high in fact that it's chilly all summer long. There are no nights when you don’t sleep under blankets, and shiver in the evening. The North Rim is about 8500 feet above sea level.
‘I like the North Rim best. [It isn’t so crowded. You feel more of nature over here. The great central lodge, run by the Union Pacific Is magnificent. But you don’t have that Coney Island feeling you get on the South Rim. True, the view of the Canyon from the North
It Seems to Me
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—A formidable lady in San Francisco is leading a fight for what she chooses to call “Sanity in Art.” The Hearst papers are helping her. Now they have brought the gospel here. When mixed with a red-baiting cartoon and an anti-labor editorial one of these ukases to painters can give a page quite a Goebbels look. - By some process of mind which is difficult to follow the lady in San| Francisco seems to labor under [the impression that unless art [is photographic it must be subversive. Indeed, I rather imagine that she would like to bring|back the studio picture of Grandpa with the pink cheeks which used to hang on the wall of the parlor. You could tell it was Grandpa by the earspread alone. Just why an experimental canvas or a photograph definitely and purposely out of focus should be taken as an indication of economic or political aberration I have never been able to understand. Hitler has held that modernism is treachery to the state, but in Italy the artist may still put a wild oat in the foreground. To me there is connection between Marxism and Matisse. ‘Indeed, a professional friend of mine paints purple cows and votes the straight Republican ticket.” = On a recent Hearst editorial page an article against modern art was twinned with an attack on Harry Bridges, although Mr. Bridges, as it happens greatly admires the work of Maxfield Parrish and likes Landseer.
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He Should Be Coniston
It seems to me unfair for Mr. objectivity from painters, since he does not always ' require it from his editorial commentators. But let us allow the enemy of modern art to continue upon his impartial way. : “Thesso-called modern school of painting,” he says, “proceeds in the opposite direction, until we see aduit
Hearst to demand
‘American
NEW YOR every political Tammany Hall was going to do. by asking what the American Labor Party is up to. That doesn’t mean that Tammany is dead, or that the Labor Party rules the roost. It does mean that an important
, Aug. 19.—In the |old days. you began. analysis in New York by asking what Nowadays you begin
prop. While all of this was happening, aeders of organized labor were putting together a political machine to help President Roosevelt in the 1936 election. Elsewhere, the pro-Rogpsevelt work was done through Labor's Non-Partisan Jeague; in New York an outright labor party was formed, and in the
1936 election it gave Roosevelt 274,000 votes. » ” 2
Hold Balance of Power
The organization was then made permanent. In 1937, it rolled up 482,790 votes for Mayor LaGuardia, bringing about his re-election and demonstrating that in New York City, the new party actually held the balance of power. : Republican and Democratic strength was close enough to being evenly divided oF those 400,000-odd | |
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My Day
HYDE PARK, PFriday—For last June we rode in the woods this morning and the mosquitoes and the flies are gone. A joyous discovery for man and beast! I have noticed some comment in the newspapers on the change of the Thanksgiving Day |date and today I got a most amusing letter atfributing this change to a de-
sire to help a certain race in this
country, which is credited, in this note, with doing most of ‘the “trading’’ and which, they say, is not i terested in American traditions. Of course, I thought it was just Thanksgiving Day which was a tradition with us and not , any particular date, for that has always varied. I think I can give thanks equally well. a week before the last Thursday in November if that happens to make a slightly better division of the holiday season.
But, my dear man or woman, for you wrote to me
anonymously, how about remembering how the Yankees were always good traders and perhaps gome of them are still in the business! Thanksgiving Day is one of my favorite holidays, but I am not going to enter into any discussions over the 50 len we retain a dav on ‘which 29 count our
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Roundup
(Fourth of a Series)
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By Ernie Pyle
Rim is not as good as from the South. Buf to me the North Rim is a place where you wouldn’t mind spending a vacation; while on the South Rim my feeling is to look, and move on. One ‘odd thing about the Grand Canyon is that most people think it's in Colorado. But the Grand Canyon is wholly, thoroughly and completely in Arizona. And don’t let anybody tell you it isn't. ” ” ®
Benny Goodman of Photography Y
Having myself already passed through that feverish malady known as amateur photography, I can now sit back in silent placidity and enjoy the antics of chose who are still in the horrible throes of taking pictures of everything. We ran onto a very bad case here today. We went out with a tourist party, where you sit on logs on
the rim of the Canyon and listen to a geological|
lecture by the Ranger. In the party was one man who did no listening. He was too busy. He didn’t even give his wife time to listen. He had one of these tourists eye-shades turned backward on his head. And he had five cameras. Yes,” I said five cameras. Everything from: a pocket Leica to a big movie machine on a tripod. And he used them all. Goodman of amateur photography. Most people don’t know it, but there is a tribe of Indians liviag right in the bottom of Grand CanThey are Havasupais. There are about 200
As I understand it, they were chased: down there by bad Indians back in the ’80s and have never come out. A white Indian agent stays down there with them. ! :
I asked an old cowboy about them—whether they |:
were smart or not. He was the kind of cowboy who would never say anything bad about anybody. Of the |Havaspuais’ intelligence he said, “Well, I'd say it’s about average. Yes, just about average.” Meaning, | I judge, that there arent any Einsteins down there. The only way to get down to these Indians is by mule or foot over an 1b-mile trail. Some day. you bet [your life, I'm going down there to see them. Maybe I'll stay down there, too, you can't tell.
By Heywood Broun
and| presumably skillful ‘artists’ carefully cultivating infantilism. | In other words, instead of cultivating maturity of thought and workmanship they go back to the meaningless and fantastic scribbling of fumbling babies.” :
I think the|gentleman who writes in this manner should go back] to the galleries of the world, and even more particularly to the great cathedrals, for there, if he has eyes to) see, he may observe both in sculpture and painting much that is primitive and lovely. And surely the famous church painters wete not men who set down| their subject matter objectively.
A Startling Suggestion
The ladyiin San Francisco will never live to see an adequate literal representation of God set down in any mural. It has been said:that we shall not enter the kingdom of heaven unless we become as little children. I rather think that the same spiritual truth obtains in the kingdom of art.
Mr. Hearst's authority on art is misinformed in his contention that the juvenile painter invariably improves with practice and instruction. Very often the reverse is true. A child may get extraordinary effects through the very fact that he is ignorant of technical problems, and therefore unafraid. Many an. academician should go back to his earliest adventures with pigment, and I believe that there are those who might well say, “At 10 I had something which now eludes me.” The critic who espouses sanity in art speaks contemptuously of “the hasty smears from a child's brush” and jassails grownups who exhibit and sell work done in primitive tradition. Such painters, he says, are obtaining money under false pretenses, and the editorial ends with the startling suggestion, “They should be prosecuted like anyone else who commits that| offense.” And so one of the great champions of “free press” now | commits himself to| the “Hitler tlieory that art should be regulated. And in concentration camps we may find prisoners whose sole offense is the fact that a tree turnk may seem to them a bright magenta.
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By Bruce Catton
Labor Party votes could decide the issue. This was proved again last fall when Governor Lehman, reelected by the narrow margin of 64,000 votes, was given 419,000 by the Labor Party. So while Tammany—out of power in New York, and in bad with the New Deal Administration— languishes for lack of patronage, which is thus added to all its other woes, the Labor Party occupies an extremely important position. And it will go down the line for President Roosevelt, or any other “satisfactory” New Deal candidate, next year. Which may easily mean that New York will go Democratic in the 1940 Presidential election.
” Have National Viewpoint Mayor LaGuardia recently sought; to throw the party’s support to William Herlands for the post of District Attorney of Kings County (Brooklyn). Scan-. dals have clustered about the controlling Democratic machine there. Mr. Herlands is an able man, formerly chief assistant to Thomas E. Dewey in Manhattan. But the Labor Party refused to follow the Mayor, indorsing instead Magistrate Charles Solomon.
The disagreement reflects the fact that Mr. LaGuardia’s prime concern is to break the power of the New York Democratic machine, and the Labor Party is thinking primarily in terms of national politics. Party leaders figure that they must not do anything now | to build up Republican strength which, in the 1940 campaign, would be used against the New Deal. In reaching that decision, these leaders were thinking principally of Mr. Dewey. They believe that with any other candidate running against a New Dealer, the vote in New York will be even enough so that their 400,000 votes will bring about a New Deal viciory. |
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‘By Eleanor Roosevelt
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1 had a note the other day telling me of the Williamstown Institute of Human Relations which will be held from Aug. 27 to Sept. 1 at Williams College. The subject for discussiorf is to be “Citizenship and Religion.” This is certainly an interesting subject at the present time and the speakers listed promise a very interesting three days. I would like very much to be able to attend some of the sessions and [I shall make an effort to be there. I have a letter from a lady who is very much inShe knows a woman whose husband died during the depression and whose son. has been unable to earn enough to Sup. Their ancestors helped to develop this country and she feels quite rightly that they should receive assistance; The lady adds that aliens should not receive aid and that her sister is a public school teacher who has taught citizenship in her locality for many years and cannot believe that any man spent 30 years in this country without becoming a citizen unless he was unfitted to be one. All I can say, dear lady, is travel around over your own country a little. Yesterday afternoon I had only one obligation. Mr. James H. Hubert of the New York Urban League had written to ask if he could bring a group of negro
social workers to see the grounds of the big house
and of the President's cottage and where the future library will be. I was glad to be able to show them around and they showed gread appreciation of the things of historical interest,
He was a regular Benny|
Lepke Believed
to Be
Calmy Hiding Out in
Some Secluded
Spot
(Last of a Series)
By Jack Foster
Times Special Writer
EW YORK, Aug. 19.—Lepke’s peculiar temperament is his one greatest asset in hiding from police, G-Men, narcotics agents and special detectives who are searching
the country for him.
He has no nerves in the common sense of the world.
He never becomes desperate, frantic or hysterical.
He
has developed the power of reflection to an unusual degree for one from his slam-bang slice of life. ~~ Whereas most dumb-witted gangsters would go “room crazy’ in a short time, Lepke can sit patiently and ponder
without feeling the gnawing land Williams in discussing the part being played by the narcotics bureau in the nation-wide chase said of him: “Lepke’s the toughest kind of fugitive to capture. Give him an armload of books and magazines and he could hide out in a tworoom apartment for six months without ever leaving it.” A former member of the Lepke
mob verified this opinion in talking to police several days ago.
“I've. watched Lepke sit in a |
chair for a half hour with his eyes closed not saying a word,” the mobster declared. “You go nuts wondering what he’s ‘thinking about.” Consequently, the cops believe that ‘the million-dollar fugitive is living—soberly and simply—either in a small apartment in New York or in a cabin in the Adirondacks or Catskills. They feel sure that his eventual capture will not come as a result of gunplay or because of his desperate need for a doctor to treat his kidney condition (the seriousness of which has been exaggerated) or because of any dangerous shifting of hiding places. It will come, they believe, either because Lepke chooses to give himself up—in the hope of a compromise with the law—or as the result of a tip passed along by
need for change. Maj. Gar-
‘some reward-hungry stool pigeon. The Board of Estimate’s offer of $25,000 for his capture—dead or alive—added to the Federal Government’s $5000 has spurred the latter hope. 2 #2 8 T any rate, police declare, there is no reason for supposing that he is broke. At the time of his capture after two years fooling the authorities. Ger‘ald Chapman had $5000 in: currency and $3000 in Government bonds. Chapman was a piker compared with Lepke. He was a desperado, not a big businessman of crime and he didn’t know how to take care of his money the way that Lepke has proved that he does.
Lepke, it is believed, has kept the greater part of his assets in cash] and Government bonds, which are as liquid as cash. Whenever he has needed a bail bond, Government certificates have come up promptly. There is only one record in Mr. Dewey's office of Lepke’s having used a bank account. This account was made out to Carl and Morris Shapiro—Carl Shapiro is Gurrah’s brother—in one of Manhattan's smaller banks, but no tremendous sums have passed through it. Yet Lepke did make millions, and somewhere a great part of those millions must exist, and
State May Lose $15,000 Under School Bus Setup
The State Motor Vehicle Bureau would lose $15,000 annually in license fees if the registration of 1500 new school busses remains in the one-ton capacity classification, Frank E. Finney, Bureau Director, es-
timated today.
Safety Director Donald F. Stiver yesterday revealed that the new trucks were listed as one-ton after the State School Bus Committee
questioned their safety status. Committee members pointed out that they would have to carry more than
two tons load. However, manufacturers who sold the chassis to drivers who were awarded four-year bus contracts said they were made to carry two tons easily,
Concession Claimed “The one-ton rating appears to
be a concession made by the manu-
facturers as a selling point to save the buyers $10 a year on their licenses,” Floyd I. McMurray, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, said. He said he will call a special meeting of the School Bus Safety Committee to adopt a definite policy on inspection of the busses after school starts and on enforcement of safety regulations. Mr. Stiver said he will call meetings of all school bus drivers in the state within the next two weeks and outline safety regulations.
. Gives Inspection Date
“However, under our schedule the inspection of the busses will not get under way until after Oct. 1” he said. State officials said they were not
sure what procedure would have to]
be taken if the one-ton rating could not be accepted. Mr. Finney said his department may ask the manufacturers to reregister the trucks in their full capacity by swern statements, “If that is done we will have to collect the additional license fees from the buyers,” he said.
NECK BROKEN IN DIVE
NEW PHILADELPHIA, O., Aug. 18 (U. P.).—Charles Johnson, 17, whose two brothers: were drowned in swimming accidents in the last three years, was in Union Hospital today with a broken neck suffered
when he dived into the®Tuscarawas River, al
NEW COURSES ADDED AT MARIAN COLLEGE
Appointment of new faculty members and addition of new courses for the coming term at Marian College were announced today by Sister Mary John Broderick, O. S. F., dean.
A new course in modern lan-|
guages will be taught by Sister Marie’ Pierre, O. S. F., a graduate of Catholic University. Biology will-be taught by Sister Adelaide, O. 8S. F,, graduate of Villa Nova College. The Rev. Fr. Romuald Mollaun, O. F. M., S. T. D., will conduct a course in leadership for study clubs. ‘Physical education courses will be conducted by Miss Helen Schultheis, a graduate of Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn. Registration will be held Sept. 8-12 and the term will open Sept. 12.
ALLOW JAPANESE “TO FLY OVER U. S.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (U. P). |—A Japanese good will air mission has been granted permission by the Civil Aeronautics Authority to
fly over American territory on a
world flight. The good-will flight is sponsored by two Japanese newspapers—the Osaka Mainichi and the Tokyo Nichi Nichi.
Permission had been asked for the Japanese plane to fly over
Alaska and the Continental United |
States. The flight will toueh American territory at Nome, Alaska, and proceed to Miami, Fla., by way of Seattle, ‘San Francisco, Kansas
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The Board of Estimate and Apportionment, with Mayor LaGuardia presiding, votes a reward of $25,000 for the capture of Lepke, DEAD OR ALIVE. At upper right is the heading of the circular which rolled from police presses in thousands a few hours later and went on to
every city and town in the country.
the Government wanls to know
where. At the time of his conviction, Gurrah declared that he was flat busted. He had not a penny of visible assets, either. But the Federal Bureau of Investigation, through the finest detective work heard of in a long time, traced down Gurrah’s hidden assets and collected every dime of his two $10,000 fines. The FBI will not divulge the method by which it did discover these hidden assets. But it does admit that this same method is being used to trace down Lepke's money in the hope that in finding the money they will find the fugitive. It is a long and complicated process that calls for a bookkeeper as well as a sleuth.
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EANWHILE, mobster friends and lawyer acquaintances have contributed random personal bits about Lepke that have enabled authorities to piece together a word profile of him. He is described as a family man. He is devoted to his wife and son, Harold, 18, a child of hers by a former marriage whom
_ he legally adopted. He and his
wife had known each other for years. before they were married four years ago.
Actually he has always been painfully shy before women. There are reports that he was interested in a blond who lived in the East 30's—and several policemen have declared that this is the case—but if it is so, it was contrary to the opinion of those who knew him best. He liked the company of men. He understood them. He never trusted women; they were ico emotional. His paramount interest was business, and he had
SHIELD DESCRIBES BREAK AT PRISON
The summer edition of The Shield, quarterly publication of the Indiana State Police containing both official and unofficial news, was issued today. ! From a cryptogram to an account of the recent attempt of several convicts to break out of Michigan City Prison, the 48-page publication includes contributions from nine State Police Posts in Indiana. A report of a 15 per cent improvement on the force in pistol shooting in the past year is included in the booklet. Also. given prominence in the publication is a i and explanation of the police pension program.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Are the Andes Mountains on the eastern or western coast of South America? 2—In the Roman Catholic Church, what is a requiem ‘mass? 3—What is an aiperemetes? 4—0Of which country is Andor-ra-la-Vieja the capital? 5—What .does esoteric mean? 6—Name the President of Chile.
Answers 1—Western. 2—The mass for the dead. 3—An instrument for the measurement of electric currents in terms of the unit called the ampere. 4—Republic of Andorra. 5—Meant only for initiated, private, confidential, 6—Pedro Aguirre Cerda.
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made up his mind that no skirt was going to make a monkey out
of him, No skirt will.
“But he was always a gentleman,” one mobster told a policeman. : “What do you mean?” the cop asked. : “Well, whenever a dame would come up to the table, h2 Would get up and bow.” Unlike Gurrah, Lepke despised night clubs. He frequently upbraided his flashy partner for burning So much midnight oil in them. “You can't stay up all night on Broadway and have a clear head for business the next day,” -he would say.
Presumably the business he was
referring to was that of extortion, terrorism, bombing and skull eracking, 2 8 8
IS principal diversion for
many years was playing pi-
nochle with his lifelong pal. One afternoon an ominous thing happened that interrupted this pleasureable routine. Lepke was having an excellent run of luck . . . melding brilliantly ‘and building large scores on the play. He couldn’t seem to lose. Suddenly the exasperated Gurrah jumped to “his feet and screamed: Lepke! You're cheating. Let me look at those cards!” Lepke turned crimson. you—" “Let nfe look at those cards!” Gurrah repeated. “You're cheating.” Lepke clenched his fists and started around the table. Then, suddenly regaining control of himseld he dropped his hands. One
‘by one and three - and four at a
time he picked up the cards, tore
Hitler Likes Blond Rhythm
ONDON, Aug. 19 (U. P).— 1 Miriam. Verne, Pittsburgh dancer, said in an interview today that Adolf Hitler before whom she danced in Germany, “Likes everything American.” Miss Verne said Herr Hitler especially likes rhythm—American rhythm — and only American blonds understand rhythm. She added that Herr Hitler offered to make her a star in Germany, something comparable to Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo in America. The dancer said she has a long term contract in Germany awaiting only her signature, but only partly understands the terms contained in it.
Everyday Movies—By Wortman
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them up and threw them in the’ waste basket. “That’s the last time you and I play pinochle, Jake,” he said. “I'm not going to have any fights bee tween us.”
And it was the last time they did play pinochle. After that Lepke took up backgammon and he became a fiend at it. Some- | times he played with Gurrah, But mostly he played with his son who to his great delight frequently beat him, Lepke always liked anyone who ‘could beat him —at games. |
All his life Gurrah has idolized Lepke. He thinks he is the smartest guy in the world. He looks up to him with the admiration with which all tough, crude plug-uglies look up to quiet men of brains, 8 5 =» 1 . ONG ago, when he had pulled himself out of small-fry stuff, Léepke could have got along without Gurrah, whose chief funce | tion was to knock blocks off. But for sentimental reasons he kept him on. It is even declared that whenever they participated in a deal, Lepke would share the profits with him on a 50-50 basis, although invariably he did all the scheming. It is fantastic, therefore, to suppose that Gurrah gave himself up to escape. being! murdered by Lepke, as some reports have it. It is much more likely that Gurrah surrendered so that he might act as a guinea pig to test the strength of the law’ s case against them. Lepke would order a murder all right — cold-bloodedly, methodically, deliberately—but not of his own unquestionably faithful companion of the old push-cart days —Gurrah. As for Lepke’s intellectual ate tainments, the underworld is agreed that he | is the most scholarly of them all, He reads a great part of the time, they say. Newspapers, books, magazines, One mobster insists that you might “think he was a college boy to look at him.” “And what. are the kind of books he reads?” an assistant dis trict attorney asked the mobster: “Why, I see around there most< 1y high-class detective stories and Wild West stories,” the mobster replied. “He tells me they make him relax.” Although by no means a sick man, Lepke has not been in buoy= ant health for many years. His insatiable thirst for work, his lack of diversion have told on his stomach and kidneys. He is very strict in his diet, eating chiefly vegetables. He seldom drinks and never served liquor in his home at 25 Central Park West. A few years ago he took a trin to Europe, it where he took
¢ losving hotels in Nice and Paris.
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TO REGISTER SEPT,
Registration of between 24,000 and 25,000 pupils in parochial schools of the Indianapolis diocese
will be held Sept. 1, the Rev. Fr,, |
Leonard Wernsing, B. A., diocesan superintendent of schools reported, The new term will begin Sept. 5. About 21,000 pupils are expected to enroll in the 116 elemen schools and about 3500 in the 14 high schools. Elementary schools will be staffed with 465 priests, sisters and brothers. High scheol teachers will number 135. : The new $110,000 Sacred Heart High School here will be ofiially opened and dedicated this fall.
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