Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1940 — Page 11
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14, 1940
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A number of times in this column, from various} parts of the globe, I've mentioned hotels that are re Ou special favorites of ours.
ABOUT 20 MILES EAST of Indianapolis there is ® town with four names. It will answer to any of them. : This town is registered in the county courthouse As “Carrollton,” and that is the name on the highway obi sign outside of town Yet it is on the road maps as “Finly,” and that is the name recognized by the Postoffice Department. On the railroad depot you see neither of these, but instead, “Reedsville.” And to the Inhabitants thereabouts it is known by the picturesque name of “Tailholt.” It is the very town that James Whitcomb Riley immortalized in his poem "The Little Town of Tailhoit.” Personally, I shall always re-
fer to it as “Joe.
Being a stodgy fellow, who seldom does anvthing spirited, I admire people who do things right out of their hearts on the spur of the moment. For instance, I know a girl here who works at a rather dull Job, and sometimes the endless sameness of life nearly gets the best of her. So the other night, in a frenzy of despair at the monotony, what dia she do but gather up all the money she could find, take a taxi to the airport. get on a TWA airliner and fly clear to St. Louis, and then turn around and flv right back again! It was the first time she had ever been on an airplane. v 3 »
He Likes the Warren
She concluded her epic vovage through the dark, gtarry skies at 2 o'clock in the morning cleansed, refreshed, and able to face the world once more Evervbody who heard about it thought she was nuts 1 think she has discovered the secret of sanity.
Our Town
BENJAMIN HARRISON died in 1901. Less than R year later a group of citizens started the Harnson Monument Fund. Right away, somebody, more onginal than the rest, suggested that the easiest way to raise money for the purpose was to round up the authors of Indiana and Jet them put on a show. It might be called Indiana Authors’ Readings, he said. When it came time to organize the enterprise, it was discovered that Indiana had enough bona fide authors to run off two good shows. And that's what actually happened. The first to strut their stuff were James Whitcomb Riley, Charles Major, George Barr McCutcheon and Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood. The billing for the gecond night included names like George Ade, Gen. lew Wallace, Booth Tarkington, Evaleen Stein and Meredith Nicholson. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Hugh McGibeny played Tschaikowsky's Andante Cantabile at hoth performances. Don't let anybody talk vou into believing that the Indianapolis Svmphony is a modern miracle, = = =
Put City on the Map The two performances cleaned up $2500. The sum included the money brought in by the auction sale which was run off by Harry Adams, the best story teller and toastmaster Indianapolis ever had. The big idea back of the auction sale was to get the people to pay premiums for their tickets. The first offer was $1 which rose to $7, the bid of Harry S. New. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison paid the biggest premium (310) for a single ticket. H. P. Wassen paid 30. the record premium for a box. Other people who fought for boxes were John G. Williams (835); Dr. J. A. Houser ($25) and C. E. Coffin (320). These amounts, mind you, were in addition to the regular price of tickets. I thought you might get the wrong idea if I didn’t make it clear, The Indiana Authors’ Readings served to put Indianapolis on the map. For two reasons «1) Because of the Benjamin Harrison monument we were getting
‘Prosecuter’
COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 4 Wendell L Willkie has assumed the role of relentless prosecutor with the Democratic Party as his victim There has been, in the past. much talk of the *moral” issue involved in big city and state machine politics, in the “shake-down” of corporations who do business with the Government for political contributions through the campaign book racket. But no one has dramatized it, made it stick, and compelled the Administration to action—reluctant it is true—as has Mr. Willkie's rapid series of indictments which he has poured from his campaign headquarters here in the last few days. Nor will he let up. Now, having forced from Attorney General Robert H. Jackson an admission that sale of campaign books is a violation of the Hatch Act, he went a step further today, and demanded that the Democratic National Committee not only pay back the $140,000 which it is reported has been collected from corporations for advertisements in this year’s campaign book, but also the $500,000 which it was reported to have collected for its 1936 campaign book, a total ailtogether of $500.000 He challenged the Attorney General to give vet another opinion and say whether he is not right that corporate advertising in campaign books violates the Corrupt Practices Act and therefore that the monev should be returned. He thinks Mr. Jackson will be inclined to agree. 2 & &
Machine Politics Nothing like this latest phase of his crusade against Democratic campaign tactics has been seen since the late William E Borah demanded that the Republican Party pay back te Harry F. Sinclair, the oil man, the $50.000 which he had contributed in bonds involved in the Continental Trading Co. deal, a part of the famous Teapot Dome scandal. Senator Borah's venture partook of the quixotic, for he called upon the rank and file of the party to contribute funds to pay back the oil man. The Senator gucceeded in raising only some $7000. and he paid 1t back to the contributors when the entire amount was not forthcoming.
My Day
HYDE PARK, Tuesdav.—I looked at the moon last night as I drove home and later, while I sat on my porch, I could not help thinking of what its beauty means to us, and in contrast what horror its bright light means for England. It is this week, I imagine, that a landing must be made by the Germans or the attack must be put off for some time. So. as we read of constantly renewed flights over various parts of England. we can only hope that ba. weather will envelope the British Isles and 3 those traditional English fogs & will be worse than thev ever —_— have been before. Thev are SY. perhaps the best protection that i Great Britain can have outside +3 of her fighting air force which seems to be acquitting itself exwell. T cannot help but think of ruined houses and countrysides in terms of people whom 1 know. Having members of your family and friends in various parts of England, Scotland and Ireland makes bombing raids which victimize civilians a much more personal thing than if you could simply sympathize with unknown men, women and children. I spent most of the day vesterday working with Miss Thompson and playing probably more than I
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By Ernie Pyle
These favorite hotels are places where we have | a feeling nf being “back home”; where the rooms are | nice and the prices reasonable; where the maids and | bellbovs and clerks know us by name: and above all! where there is a decency of working conditions and a
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Just Like Home And now to our list of hotel “homes” must be | added another. It is the Warren, here in Indian-| apolis. Here is the kind of place the Warren is: I came in at 2 o'clock in the morning, just off the plane from Albuquerque. I had no reservation. When 1 walked up, the clerk held out his hand and called my name. I had stayed here only twice previously, and the last time had been three vears before “Yes. you had your Dad with you the last time” the night clerk said. “You stayed in those two corner rooms on the ninth floor. I remember it very well.” Everything about the hotel is like that. It gives vou a feeling of belonging to the place. In fact when | I finally leave here I'm going to be mighty upset if the whole staff, including Mr. Warren himself, doesn’t line up on the sidewalk and cry as I drive away. { = = =
Several times I've mentioned the fact that I never drive over 50 miles an hour. I just put it down more or less to be making conversation, and with practically | no intention or even desire to influence anyone else | to do likewise. | But here in Indianapolis I've run onto two people who actually, and for no other reason than seeing it in this column, have set a 50-mile limit for them-| selves. And they are delighted with the results, They | get where theyre going, and with much less strain. | What is this wonderful power I have over people?
By Anton Scherrer
ready te build which was news to the rest of the country, and (2) because of the news that Indianapolis was the home of so many professional writers. | Not until the authors were actually rounded up by the Harrison Monument Fund did America recognize and realize the literary atmosphere of Indianapolis, Which brings me to the point of today’s piece, | namely a hoax as ghastly as any ever perpetrated in America. The hoax took the form of a column- | long dispatch which appeared in Indianapolis papers | shortly after the Indiana Authors’ Readings— just | about the time America woke up to find Indianapolis a seat of literary culture, » =»
~ The Awful Truth The dispatch carried a Iondon date line and, as near as I recall, had big bold headlines which ran| something hike this:
ROY IS KIDNAPED BY LONDON GANG
REMARKABLE STORY OF A BOLD ORGANIZA- | TION OF THIEVES AND PICKPOCKETS IN METROPOLIS
TALE OF TRAGEDY IN SLUMS
FULL CONFESSION OF A PLOTTER ENDS MYSTERY OF WOMAN'S DISAPPEARANCE DEATH OF MURDERER.
Indianapolis swallowed the story hook, line and | sinker. A week later, somebody down in Texas, of all places, sent a letter to an Indianapolis editor in| the course of which he put the question: { “Is Dickens so nearly forgotten in Indianapolis! that one of his novels can be condensed into a newspaper column and be read by people as a choice bit | of English news? The article is simply the story of | “Oliver Twist” boiled down to the size of a newspaper | column.” | It was the gospel truth. The papers had palmed off the story of “Oliver Twist” without anybody around here recognizing it. Some people who always jonk for a motive said the hoax was the work of a jealous party in the East who didn't like the idea of moving the seat of literary culture from Boston to Indianapolis.
By Thomas L. Stokes
Willkie's eru-|
There's nothing quixotic about Mr. sade He bluntly told the corporations who have paid | for advertising in the campaign book that if the re-| pavments are not made promptly, thev “are under obligation te demand—and sue if necessary for the! recoverv of the money.” “Obviously,” he added, “even the thin disguise that | this advertising had any value disappears completely | now that there can be no distribution of the books.” The Republican candidate used the presence here of Alf M. Landon to strike another blow at Demo-| cratic machine politics by getting the 1936 candidate] to tell about the recent primary in Missouri where the candidate of the Pendergast machine, Senator Harry S. Truman, was nominated over Governor Lloyd M. Stark and Maurice W. Milligan. | An “amazing spectacle,” in this contest, Mr. Lan- | don said, was that Senator Barkley (Kentucky),| Democratic floor leader, went to Missouri and cam- | paigned for Senator Truman, as did Senator Carl| Hatch (D. N. M.) himself, though there were “two clean candidates,” Governor Stark and Mr. Milligan. | the latter having prosecuted the Pendergast machine as U. S. Attorney and sent Tom Pendergast, head of | the machine, to jail, among others, Governor Stark, likewise, fought the Pendergast machine, $ # &
Flynn vs. Martin
By Earl Richert TAKE the Speedway, add the Rose Bowl and then throw in a World Series game or two—and you won't have as many people as the Republicans say they wiil have at Callaway Park at Elwood Saturday to hear Wendell Willkie accept the Presidential nomination. The State Police and the police in other cities near Elwood, most of them Democrats, are getting ready for undoubtedly the biggest day from a traffic standpoint in Indiana history. By sunup Saturday, long lines of cars will be pouring into Indiana from Ohio. Kentucky, Illinois and Michigan, the occupants hoping to get to Elwood early enough to get good seats. By 7 o'clock, the residents from the far southern and northern sections of the state will be nn the way. And bv 9 or 10 o'clock, residents of Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Ft. Wavne, Muncie and other central Indiana towns will begin moving on Elwood. It will be the greatest mass movement of automobiles toward one point ever seen in the state, For all this, the State Police are readyv They will handle the traffic on the state highways going into Elwood, while Indianapolis police and the police from other cities will work in the city proper. ” ” ” Se Police Supt. Don. F Stiver has recommended the following routes For Indianapolis residents— Take Road 13 directly into\ Elwood. While local persons are urged to use Road 13 they are not barred from going to Elwood by Road 31 north to Road 28 and then across through Tipton to Elwood, or east on Road 67 to Anderson, thence north on Road 8 to Road 28 and then west on Road 28 into Elwood. For Chicagoans—Take Road 41 south to junction with Road 52, go southeast on 52 to junction with Road 28 and then take Road 28 through Frankfort and Tipton into Elwood. For Cincinnati—Take Road 52 to Fountaintown, go north on Road 9 through Anderson to junction with Road 28 and then west to Elwood. ” 5 ” AOR Michigan and Northern Indiana residents, three routes — 1. Take Road 31 from South Bend to junction with Road 28 west to Tipton, and then go east on Road 28 into Elwood. 2. Take Road 15 south fo junction with Road 13 at Wabash and then south on Road 13 to Elwood 3. Take Road 27 south to junction with Road 24 at Ft. Wavne, then southwest on Road 24 to junction with Road 9 at Huntington, south on Road 9 through Marion to junction with Road 28 and then west on Road 28 into Elwood.
CLARK BOARD IS HARD TO FINISH
Easier to Appoint Than Disband, Governor Discovers.
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OR residents of East Indiana and Central two routes: 1. Take Road 67 through Brvant and Portland to junction with Road 28 at Albany and then west on Road 28 to Elwood. 2. Take Road 40 to Richmond, hen Road 35 through Muncie to Junction with Road 28, and west on Road 28 into Elwood. For residents of West Central Indiana and Central Illinois, three routes— 1. Road 40 from Terre Haute to Indianapolis; north on Road 31 to junction with 28; east on 28 to Elwood. 2. Road 36 from Dana to Indianapolis, then to Elwood by the route listed directly above. 3. Road 34 from Covingion to Crawfordsville; east from Crawfordsville on Road 32 to junction with Road 31 at Westfield; north on Road 31 to junction with Road 28 and then east into Elwood. 4a ¥ » OR residents of southern Indiana and Kentucky, three routes (all persons from this area are to go from Indianapolis north on Road 31 to junction with Road 28 and then east to Elwood— 1. Road 41 from Evansville to junction with Road 67 at Vincennes; Road 67 to Indianapolis
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RADIO WORRIES
Bedford Police Seek Own Birth Records: Runaways Camp at Hamburger Stand
It’s a Jot easier to appoint a com-
mission than to disband one.
The subject of machine politics and particulary] Governor Townsend found that boss Flynn touched off Mr. Willkie himself, out yesterday Yuen pone of the 15 “Let's look at the picture—on the question of ma HET hers of $e Gedrge Rovers chine politics,” he said. “President Roosevelt and I! emoMal Goum sion Showed each had a choice, namely to name a national chair- wd tr Te oe en! man, { 3 3 a { “I named one of the outstanding public servants in| the 13-year-old COTES on: | America—who was voted by the newspaper eatresi, So many of tie COMMISSION mem. spondents in Washington as the ablest representative... 0 aris to Hen the roses in the American House of Representatives. [that the COMMISSION SECIELAry NOt. “Franklin D. Roosevelt had the same kind of & ged the others there was no need of ii to make and he named Ed Flynn, boss of thei; em coming sie ho quorum would ronx i! sine “During the course of this campaign I want the | °¢ present. y two candidates for President to be faded by what we! Covernol Townsend Sued, ans respectively sav, by what we each do, and with whom other meeting jor Aug. 30 ap Bh we associate and consult and whom we ask to per- houfices that | a Jor wee no form for us. | present at that time the commis“And I call the comparison on the first association Son Drobably woulg be: dishrniied Joe Martin against Boss Flynn.” "The Governor has been seeking to disband the commission since early last spring. but one complicaBy Eleanor Roosevelt ion ter anoiner has delayed j8etion, Title to the George Rogers Clark should. considering the work that ought to be done! Memorial at Vincennes passes to A young man dropped in for lunch who is in the the state upon the disbanding of
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National Park Service and who had brought an/ the commission. The memorial will engineer and some workmen from the CCC camp be cared for with State Conservain his park down to work on the Vanderbilt estate. tion Commission funds. When these places are taken over by the park serv-| ice, it takes some time to put them in order. In the| Ey » this estate, no one has lived there for the, MISSING 3 WEEKS, ast few years and the gardens and greenhouses! which require constant keeping up TA of course, | BOY FOUND IN BARN greatly deteriorated. 1 imagine that gradually the will come back to their former hearty. e y y ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 14 (U.P) .— We all dined with Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau State police brought 16-vear-old at their farm last night, and ate some of the most | Donald Belles back to his West Aldelicious stringbeans, which they have grown in|bany home today, but they had to quantity for the market this year, and the very last plead for some time before the raspberries of the summer. Secretary Wallace pre-|youth agreed to stay. sented some of his specially developed corn to both! Belles ran away from home about the Morgenthaus and to us for our gardens, and three weeks ago after an argument we decided that it is about the best corn we have With his mother about his “dating” ever eaten. | girls. It is curious, however. Living in the country you| The state police said they found take more interest in food that actually comes out Belles in a barn loft near the Al-| of your own or your neighbor's garden. Some day bany Country Club. He told police I am going to be a housewife again and really bhoast!he had been hiding in the desolate] about stocking my house in summer for winter use.! pine plains section of West Albany | and feel whenever I give a jar of preserves away|for four or five days. He refused. that T am really giving something into which I have however, to tell how he had obtained put some personal effort, liood, 3
By EARL HOFF
The Bedford police force has until tomorrow to prove its members
are American-born citizens.
Besides having to produce birth certificates—Chief Mahlon Rainbolt had to get his from the Cznsus Burean at Washington since records hadn't been kept in Bediord long enough-—members of the force had to fill out a very legal looking document concerning other aspects
of their citizenship and swear an nath of allegiance, And then if evervthing doesn’t check out right, the Federal Communications Bureau won't let the department's short-wave radio set Blame it on the blitzkrieg. » ” ” Beatrice Watters, 9, East Chicago, and Mary Dovle, 10, Hammond, cousins, decided they'd like to visit heir grandmother in Pittsburgh. So they got out Beatrice's bicycle, piled it high with clothing, blankets and a couple days supply of food. Not bothering with road maps, they set out north instead of east. Two hours later they camped for the night behind a hamburger stand in nearby Whiting. By that time their mothers missed them and called police. * The girls were talked into calling off the trip until at least next summer, a o = By now Paul V. Van Dusen and his bride should be well on their. honeymoon after a helping hand from City Judge George A. Schock of South Bend. Haled into court for speeding, Mr. Van Dusen explained he was only frying to outdistance pursuers after the wedding. A fine of 85 and costs were suspended. Daniel Webster, who, it was explained to the court, wzs one of the pursuers, didn't fare so well. He was fined $3 and costs and only the costs were suspended. ” ” ” Earl Turner, 17, of Bloomington also is hack home after a bicycle trip. His was exactly 3042 miles long. When he pulled into
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Bloomington after a round-trip to Florida his bike was burdened
down with a snake vertebrae, a collection of different beans and crab claw, a sea horse, hits of plant seeds, shark teeth, a sea shells and coral, pamphlets and maps But finishes
that isn’t all When he building some cages, a friend in Florida has promised to send him five Japanese hantams, a flying squirrel, some land crabs and a pair of parakeets,
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And while matters were running smoothly in the South Bend courts, thieves in other parts of the city were getting the bird. In fact, said two irate owners, they got 13 of them. Michael Manyk said he was missing a canary and five pair of pigeons. A feed store operator said his two prized ca-
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Jacob Ruff of New Albany has no faith in saving now. Distrustful of banks, he secreted $19 in his basement behind a row of fruit jars. Somebody discovered his hiding place. The $19 is gone.
” » ” James Brand decided nothing should interfer with his wedding to Miss Constance E. McCord at Lafayette, not even on appendectomy. The ceremony was per= formed in the Lafayette Home Hospital by the Rev. Isaiah Whitman despite the fact the bridegroom was confined to his bed.
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Patty Emerson of Monticello hecame excited when she saw her father, R. W. Emerson, across the street and, trying to get to him, the 2l-month-old tot pushed through a second story screen and tumbled to the ground. Although she fell 18 feet, she suffered only slight bruises.
2. Road 75 north from Owensboro, Kv., to junction with Road
ARMY BRINGING | BLITZ TO STATE
It's to Get New Recruits For Second Month of Breaking Records.
A small section of the Wiscon«in | blitzkrieg is coming to Indiana todav. Entering the southern part of the |State, several units of the Mechanized Cavalry will work their way [north spending several days each in Hoosier cities and reaching Indilanapolis in several weeks | It's a new phase of the current [Army enlistment drive which last {month saw the local recruiting of- | fice, headed by Col. Enrique Urrutia |Jr., establish a record of 597. And {another record is already in sight {this month, Col. Urrutia said, with {410 men enlisted in the first 12 days.
271,000 Promoted
The armored cars and tanks will come from Ft. Knox to demonstrate [to prospective Hoosier soldiers the newest and most dramatic arm of the service. . Reports from Washington indicate 31500 men enlisted in the U. S. Army during July, Col. Urrutia said. He also said President Roosevelt has just signed an executive order which {would grant promotion to more than {71,000 non-commissioned officers and raise the rating of nearly 200,000
[privates and first-class privates.
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Wanted Stenographer
Besides the regular vacancies in {the Army now available at the local office, Col. Urrutia said is an opening for a man with stenographic training in his office for recruiting [duty. The one selected would be sent to Ft. Harrison for a month's trial, |the Colonel said, at the end of {which time, if accepted, he would {be promoted to the rank of tech[nical sergeant and returned to the [local office,
REMC GRANTED $75,000
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—A $75.000 allotment for the Jackson County REMC, Brownstown, to build 74 miles of line to serve 418 members in Brown, Scott, Jennings and Lawrence counties was announced today by REA.
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66, east on Road 66 to Rockport, from Rockport north on Road 45 to junction with Road 50 at Loogootee, northeast on Road 50 to Bedford, and then north from Bedford on Road 37 to Indianapolis. 3. Road 31 from Jeffersonville north to junction with Road 3 at Sellersburg: north on Road 3 to junction with Road 7 at North Vernon: northwest on Road 7 tn Columbus and then north to Indianapolis on Road 31. » ” » Sie POLICE will be tioned at every important intersection in the state to direct the travelers and a large number of them will be stationed in the immediate vicinity of Elwood. Once inside the city, the cutoist will come under the charge of local authorities, and the Anderson, Peru, Muncie and Michigan City police who will be there to assist them. At Callaway Park itself they will be under the direction of the Indianapolis police, headed by Chief Michael Morrissey. And by night, Mr. Willkie won't be the only one who is glad the affair is over,
Munk Hits Plunk With Iron Hunk
TYLER, Tex., Aug. 14 (U. P.. Munk took a hunk of iron and hit Plunk. Plunk went kerplunk. G. W. Plunk went to justice of the Peace Roy Vinson's court, He felt punk. His head was bandaged. He had a black eye. Plunk said Virgil Munk clunked him with the iron hunk. Munk pleaded guilty. : “I'm sunk,” said Munk, The court said, “$20.”
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
[1—Spotted fever is contracted from mosquitoes, tsetse flies, or wood ticks? 2—Did Wiley Post make a roundthe world airplane flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, Winnie Mae or America? |3—Which is the largest sea bird? '4—Where is the River Ganges? 5—The primary pigment colors are blue, red and—? |6—What is the name for the sign &? T—The greatest depth of the foun-
dations of some of New York City’s skyscrapers is slightly more than 200 feet, 100 feet or 50 feet? 8—Are American citizens required to have passports to enter Canad?
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| Answers 1—Wood ticks.
| 2—~Winnie Mae,
| 3—Albatross. | 4—India.
| 5—Yellow.
| 6—Ampersand. 7—One hundred. | 8—No. . » »
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