Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1940 — Page 8

‘HURT SERIOUSLY

LCC Member Struck in 2d Mishap; Driver Fails To Stop.

Seven-year-old Bernard Hansman, 2751 Stuart St, was injured seriously last night when he was struck by an automobile in E. 30th St., 3300 block. He received head injuries and was taken to the City Hospital. * Police said the car was driven by Walter I. Biddlecomb, 2829 . Ruckle St. A 17-year-old CCC youth was injured last night when he Was struck by a hit-and-run motorist while walking along U. S. Road 31, near 77th St. Marvin Alvin® Hall, Evansville, Ind., the injured youth, told deputy sheriffs he saw the lights of the

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New Lions Club officers for 1940-41 will be installed Wednesday at Forest Park, Noblesville, during the annual picnic. New officers and directors are, seated (left to right): J. R. McCoy, retiring president; William E. Bodenhamer, new president, and B. A. Gwynn, director. Standing, left to right, are: R. E. Tanner, tail twister; Frank M. Mutz, lion tamer; F. W. Grovenberry, director; F. N. Daniel, third vice president;

| L. M. Burnette, director; R. S. Davis, first vice president, and Francis A. Sommer, second vice president,

_ | Bloomington chapter, and L. G. Mc-

approaching car but was struck down before he could step off the pavement. He was taken to Soe Borer: Long . Hospital. Two persons were hurt yesterday when two streetcars collided at Delaware and Washington Sts. They were Louis Unversaw, 53, of 854 N. Hamilton Ave, regular operator of one car, and Fernand Watson, 38, of 47 N. Jefferson Ave., B passenger in one of the cars. Mr. Unversaw was taken to the Methodist Hospital with possible fractured ribs. : Police said an eastbound Washington St. car operated by a student operator, Orval V. Callahgn, 26, of 257 Belleview Place, was rammed by a westbound car that split a switch while crossing the intersection. The westbound car. was operated ky Charles Baker, 30, of R. R. 3, Box 730. Harold Bumpus, 19, of 3603 E. Walnut St., was injured today when the car he was driving and a truck driven by Lee F. Klin, 1833 Miller St., collided at Delaware and Michizan Sts. Mr. Bumpus was taken

By JOE COLLIER Times Staff Writer

KANKAKEE SWAMP, Ind. June

20.—Man is co-operating with Nature and her engineers—the beavers —so the ancient Kankakee Swamp is again becoming the Kankakee Swamp.

Two thousand acres already are

fiooded and are again the tangled sanctuary of bird and beast, a wild and mysterious area of natural and beautiful disorder.

Negotiations are under way by

the State Conservation Department for the eventual purchase of more land in the area—land which once was drained and tilled hopefully but which proved to be submarginal in cultivation. :

That which already has been re-

claimed by nature already is the

home of tens of thousands of wild

Conservation Department Gets Help From Beavers as Kankakee Reverts fo Swamp

less muskrats, and any number of other species of wild life. In these 2000 acres, they live their lives of survival of the fittest and of prey and counter-prey, unmolested by man or by man’s machines. They are utterly safe except from nature and each other. You can stand, any day, on a hill in the middle of this area and see them as- they are about their natural business. You can see young rabbits nibble at tender grass. You may see a red fox ready to grab them. You can see a mother duck and her little ones swimming, only for an instant, in a patch of open water. Then they glide into the rushes or the tangle of branches of a fallen tree and vanish almcst miraculously.

to the City Hospital for treatment of a dislocated shoulder.

fowl, upward of 150 beavers, count-

Although there are countless

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such little duck families in the area now, the mothers are so skillful and so wary that you probably will not see more than one brood in open water in an afternoon of hiking, and that only if you are lucky. But they are there. That can be proven by anyone who is watching at daybreak or at nightfall, when the mothers relax their caution a little and their families come out to feed. ; In these swamps are excellent crops of duck potatoes and duck corn coming on in the marshes, lures for the ducks to make Kankakee their permanent home. Only a few years ago, before the reclamation project had been started, wild ducks saw Indiana, for the most part, only from the air. Now they are nesting here as they habitually did before the marsh was drained.

You May See a Turtle

On this walk, especially at this time, you undoubtedly will see ‘a snapping turtle or two crawl out of the water, struggle up the sand

roadway, going wherever a turtle

goes when he’s in a hurry. This is their egg laying season. From the trees and the meadow grass you can hear the label of forest noises from birds, insects and ‘beasts—like the vegetation, triumphantly , disorganized. = They may be calls of warning, they may be summonses to prey (as in the cause of the gangster crows); or they may be just the artless 1emarks of a forest that they -seem to be. As a carpet background for all this are wild flowers in every color, mostly frail and all appearing on. the verge of flight from their moss. The Conservation Department has built levees to retain the water. And the beavers have independently taken over other engineering details. : Beavers Build Dams

In the middle of the swamp the beavers have. built a large and sturdy dam. They built it V shaped for strength and shrewdly used

WARTIME ROLE T0 BE OUTLINED

To Open French Lick Sessions Tomorrow.

Secretaries of Indiana Chambers of Commerce will discuss the role of their organizations in case of war at their two-day state convention opening tomorrow at Spring Mill State Park. Leaders in the association will draft plans for a close co-operation between: the chambers and the industries: of their respective cities. On the committee directing this work will be Clarence A. Jackson, executive vice president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce; Arthur 'P, Eberlin of the Evansville chamber; Guy H., Baker of the

Intire of the’ Bloomington chamber, and L. G. McIntire of the Elk. hart chamber, > ; C. M. Thompson, dean of the College of Commerce at the University of Illinois, will speak at the banquet tomorrow. Open forum discus-

sions will be held tomorrow afternoon.,

Heads of Hoosier C. of C.’s|

3 A ; ” / ’ ; y “§ ) Officers will be elected Saturday.| man, rre. Haute, ‘and

cussions will be led by chamber cutive vice president of the In-|president; M. PF. Hayman, Terre|dents; F. M. Paul, Mishawaka, sec-

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fowl, and for the plants the fowl feed on. ; Evidence of Work

All over the area you can find little beaver slides, where the animals have dragged logs down the banks of gullies before transporting them to the dam. These are the most pronounced pieces of evidence that something house-manages a forest, however haphazardly. The Karikakee Swamp is coming back—creeping back from its sullen resistance to man’s attempt to put

BOYS’ GROUPS-FIGHT AYC ‘RED CONTROL’

NEW YORK, June 20 (U. P.).— Gene Tunney, former heavyweight champion, speaking as an executive of the Boy Scouts of America and the Boys Clubs of America, yesterday announced a drive to “wrest control of the American Youth Congress from pro-Communist forces.” This effort will be made at the national convention at Lak_, Geneva, Wis,, July 3-7, Mr. L..aney said. : He said the ‘pro-American fac-

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CHICAGO, June 20 (U.P.)— Sentencing of M. L., Annenberg on his plea of guilty to evading $1,217,296 . in income taxes, originally scheduled for today, has been postponed until June 27 or 28. Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson said he needed more time to digest the voluminous briefs submitted during a week of arguments. ;

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