Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1940 — Page 11

~ TUESDAY, OCT. 22, 1940

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

GATLINBURG, Tenn. Oct. 22.—For four years I've been trying to get to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and to write some masterful columns about the astounding manner in which Nature splat-

tered her contours and evolutions over this part of the globe. But I monkeyed around and monkeyed around, and the first - thing 1 knew here was President Roosevelt down here dedicating the thing, and stealing all my glory. But I just figured, well, the mountains are still here and the words are still in the dictionary, so I might as well come on anyway and. compose a little deathless literature on the Smokies. 2 So here we are in Gatlinburg, the north entrance to the great park. Gatlinburg once consisted of five families. But today, thanks to tourist money, it is an amazingly charming little city, oozing with handicraft shops and tasteful inns and lovely stone houses and saddle horses and pretty girls in jodhpurs. Gatlinburg lies in a cup, and low wooded mountains rise on every side, and a little river runs behind the town, and the main street goes a little uphill and around a couple of bends, and it is all just like you'd want a mountain resort to be. Right now is the peak of the fall color season, and the mountains are aflame with red and yellow and green. Centuries ago, white pioneers from England and Scotland came into these mountains and set up their homes. They were so isolated that our so-called progress largely passed them by.

A Race Apart

They grew up to be a little race distinct. There is no denying that a mountain man is different from a plains or city man. I can’t exactly tell you the difference, but there is something basically rugged in si character that would be nice to have within yourself. There are old men in these mountains who would feel embarrassed if the long rifle did not rest on its nails in the wall. You can walk into the hills right behind Gatlinburg and still hear even the children saying “hit” for “it,” and “heered” for “heard.” You can still find leather tanning in the homes, and weaving and spinning, and people who make

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

FOR YEARS the high school football victory celebrations around the Circle have proved the Police Department's prize headache. Mr. Morrissey et al haven't minded the celebrations so much, but the traffic hottleneck around the Circle at rush hour has had the Police Department groggy most of the time anyway and many times the high school celebrations have proved almost too much for the boys in blue. Well, last Friday the police gave their newest trick a whirl and it smashed right through for a touchdown. Matter of fact, Coach Morrissey and Capt. Leo Troutman had their first good belly laughs in a long time. What they did was to employ the old flying wedge. Five motorcycle policemen were there as the backfield and officers at every corner to hold the line. Down swooped the victorious Tech rooters roaring around the Circle. Then came the counter-attack. Cycle police zoomed up to cars, thumbing them out of the inside lane. Out in the outer strips they were faced by implacable officers waving them into the side streets. The celebration broke up with the celebrants headed four different directions. Mr. James A. Carvin of the Light Co. said it was a beautiful sight from up high, “Just like a cowboy roundup,” he said.

What, No Skating Troops!

INTRIGUED BY THE little ad which spoke of “annoying and vicious rumors” about ice skating, we had the temerity to chide Mr. Dick Miller, the general manager of the Coliseum Corp., with using a publicity “gag.” Mr. Miller merely laughed merrily and told us the story. First, he said, came the rumor that there would be no hockey this winter because the players were

Washington

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 22.—Observations in half a dozen Middle-Western states indicate beyond question that this is the hardest-fought campaign since 1916—and the first since then in which the outcome has not been clearly accepted privately by those on the losing side who knew the situation. Therefore this campaign is distinguished from all others over the last quarter-century by a home-stretch: windup in which both sides are fighting with everything they have. It might be assumed from some of the polls that Roosevelt has a decisive edge in the campaign, but the Willkie people do not admit it—more than that, most of them really believe this time the balance can be turned. ; Many of them concede that Roosevelt may still be leading in the nation as a whole, but they won't give up. The will power that is going into the finish of this campaign is unbelievable until you get around and. feel it. There is no apathy now—although there was for a time. Willkie’s own persistent fighting has Pt new heart into his organization workers. They will be in there fighting until the last vote is cast.

Willkie Forces Spurred

This psychology is emphasized because it is the thing that sets this campaign apart from any which I have reported before. If one finds it difficult to see how Willkie can win, there is on the other hand the memory of the Philadelphia convention, when it was impossible to figure how he could get the nomination. Yet he got it. By the same token his workers think the miracle can happen again two weeks hence. This faith is the most remarkable thing about this campaign. It is something to give the Democrats real concern. They will be making a fatal mistake to overlook it. Roosevelt’s decision to change his campaign strategy and to take the air for five political broadcasts

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday—It is always exciting to come home from a trip when you have visited your family, because there are so many foolish little things you have to tell. It may seem trivial when the world is in a turmoil, to tell the President of the United States that Anna’s baby, Johnnie, has curls that should belong to a girl and that I deeply resent their not being on somebody’s head who could enjoy them the rest of her life! Of course, they will have to be cut off and he will spend hours trying to slick his hair straight when he grows older. Nevertheless, the President is interested and I really think it is good for him, for the little things of life are important and one tends to : forget them in the stress of great events. My mother-in-law wanted to hear every de-

et) on a plane and go to Seattle at once to see Johnnie eflore his curls are cut off!

"ial about the children and announced that she must g b

“The drive up the river yesterday morning was pleksant because the air was delightfully snappy. But as fair as having a chance to look at the scenery, that was/ out of the question. Miss Thompson decided I to work and when she makes that d#cision my

.16 peaks more than 6000 feet high.

By Ernie Pyle

their own furniture, and think it a sin to tend garden

on Sundays. It was to preserve a little of this for posterity, and also to open up the magnificent scenery of the Smokies to the great tax-paying public, that the Great Smokies National Park was created. It started in 1923, when the states of Tennessee

and North Carolina began buying mountain land from

the big timber companies. John D. Rockefeller Jr. played an important mart. He matched, dollar for dollar, every cent put up by the two states. In 1926, Congress authorized the establishment of a Park. The land already bought was turned over to the Federal Government, and the Government itself bought more. The National Park Service actually moved in and

took charge about 10 years ago. Today the park is well up among the older Western parks in the fa-|

cilities it has created for the public, such as roads,

camp grounds, hiking and horse trails. As far as I can see, every thing has been tastefully done.

How It Got Its Name

This year visitors to the park will run more than | 800,000. It is open all year, but summer and fall are | the big seasons. The Great Smokies Park is roughly 54 miles long; and 19 miles wide at the widest point. It is oval in shape. Except for a few high, level pastures, it is tremendously rugged throughout its entirety. It has

Vegetation is lush, clear to the top of the highest peak. There is no timberline in these mountains. Balsam and spruce grow thick in the upper regions. In summer the rainfall is almost tropical, and in winter heavy snows blanket the trees and slopes into a fairyland. Almost constantly a gray haze hangs like a thin, veil over the pile after pile of far, high ridges. That haze is why these mountains are called The Smokies. They say that no one knows for sure what causes this haze, but one explanation credits it to tiny par-| ticles of moisture rising from the heavily-soaked vegetation. The park is half in Tennessee and half in North Carolina. The high, sharp backbone of the Smokies cuts the park in two, and along this backbone runs the state line. A horse trail follows this backbone the length of the Park, but there is no motor road up there. . A fine macadam highway crosses the Park, from Gatlinburg to Cherokee, on the Carolina side. And a few gravel roads stab short distances into’ the hills from several entrances.

all Canadians and had been mustered into service.| He says he didn't mind that because the town would see the team soon encugh. He admitted to being] slightly irritated by gossip that the ice plant had gone ph-t-t but he says the thing that got him was the story that the Government had taken over the Coliseum as an armory and that it was full of soldiers. :

"Taint so, says Richard.

The Golf Ball King

ALBERT O. KOESTERS, the chief deputy at the County Treasurer's office, has a sideline of collecting golfballs.

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He lives directly across from the 16th hole | §

David M. Lewis

Walter C. Boelcher

at Pleasant Run, but most of his business comes from | gi

slicers at the sixth. His biggest one-day bag was 11,| :

all collected in a half hour during the early evening. | With all that he’s only had one window broken in| three years. Incidentally, he gives almost all the balls to the youngsters in the neighborhood, who like to| do a little golfing themselves. Personally, he doesn’t think so much of the game.

Do You Know?

PRIZE POLITICAL question of the week: The caller who wanted to know if Willkie was elected President and if war was declared before Jan. 1 would he get to take office? . . . Add realism: One of the plaster mannikins in a Washington St. dress shop had a run in her stocking the other morning. . . . Col. Roscoe Turner is negotiating for a new radio program contract. . . . Wesley Bunker, the TWA manager here and the hero of the bandit-catching expedition recently, is a proud papa. Mrs. Bunker gave birth to a fine baby girl three days ago. . . . We hear that the proposed modernization of State Road 135 into a _ military superhighway between Ft. Harrison and Ft. Knox is going to go through. According to our information, it will cost several millions. )

By Raymond Clapper

has had an electric effect upon the Willkie forces. Instead. of getting buck fever all over again, they take it as a sign that Roosevelt is worried, that they have him on the defensive, and that the battle is going their way. The Willkieites are going to it like the British fighting off the Germans. They say that when Roosevelt begins to talk now he will give the Republicans new material to chew on. In other words, the reaction to the Roosevelt announcement has been to spur their fighting vigor rather than to cow them into pessimism. That is a revealing index of the will to win that is making this Willkie campaign now, at this late hour, something of the real crusade which the candidate promised.

Forcing the Breaks

None of this is brought about particularly by what Willkie is saying. His campaign speeches are furnishing no particular texts to his workers. It is rather an intense determination to beat Roosevelt.

Not Willkie’s words but his determined campaigning, the mere physical effort that he is putting forth and has put forth through days of discouraging trends, is giving the final spurt to the Republican effort. Illinois is in the balance. Wisconsin is close. Kansas seems sure. Missouri may be won. "Ohio can be won. Michigan is hard going but not beyond saving. Such are the private judgments of the Republicans. They think the decision will rest with New York, in the sense that Willkie must carry it to win the election. He must win most of the tier of industrial states, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. If it seems that Willkie must have every break to win, his workers believe the breaks can be made. Like many of my colleagues, I feel uncertain of my judgments as to the way individual states will go. Usually by this time the result is clear and the losing side has been reduced to going through the motions of campaigning, knowing it is a futile effort. That is the reverse of the temper among Willkie workers now and it is the most significant thing about this campaign.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

nose is kept to the grindstone, so I read letters the whole way to Hyde Park. : Lunch at the big house with my mother-in-law and her guests was delightful. The Governor-General and his wife. Princess Alice, and their daughter, Lady May ‘Abel Smith, were all very friendly and attractive. I was sorry to leave in the afternoon in order to catch up with my work and be free today to keep my various engagements. We meant to come down to Washington by train, but I forgot that even on a coldish, autumn Sunday, traffic going to New York City would be very heavy, so we missed the train and took a plane instead. A very nice young man, who sat across the aisle from us, said he was coming down to start in on a job here today. He was reading Romain Rolland and, after a while, said:that he thought he would finish his volume some day, but it didn’t look to him as though our mail would ever be done. ; If the serious things of the world depress you too much, I recommend that you go out and buy a book called, “My Mother Is a Violent Woman,” by Tommy Wadelton. The gentleman may not be as young as his name or his style indicates, but he certainly has the gift of making a family group seem alive. He describes his character in a delightful way, always with the humorous side to the fore. I feel as though I knew “The Violent Woman” and, knowing her, no one could help liking her. ’

John S. Newhouse

Editor's Note: The Indianapolis Times today presents photos and biographical sketches of the Marion County candidates seeking election Nov. 5. Similar sketches of the candidates for U. S. Senator, for Governor of Indiana, for Congress from the 11th and 12th Districts and for the Indiana Legislature from Marion County will follow.

PROSECUTOR DEMOCRAT

David M. Lewis — Incumbent. Elected in 1938. Served two years as a deputy and is a former attorney for Lawrence Township. Native of Indianapolis. Graduate of Lawrence High School and DePauw University. Received doctor of jurisprudence degree from University of Chicago. Served as Democratic member of the County Election Board in 1936. Previously was precinct committeeman in Lawrence Township. Democratic chairman of township four years. Unsuccessfully sought nomination: for Governor in last = Democratic State Convention. Member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, Lawyers’ Association of Indianapolis, Delta Upsilon Fraternity, Blue Key, a national honorary scholastic Mystic Circle Lodge. F. & A. M,, Scottish Rite, Murat Temple of the Shrine. Married. has three sons and lives at 6135 Central Ave.

REPUBLICAN

Sherwood Blue—Born dianapolis, a member of pioneer Marion County family. Attended James Whitcomb Riley School, Tech High School and Indiana University. Received degree from I. U. School of Business Administration in 1926 and law degree in 1928. Has been lecturer in advanced business law at I. U. extension division here and now is lecturer in social work and the law in so-

cial work training course spon--

sored by the University here. Member of Indianapolis, Indiana and American Bar Associations, Lawyers’ Association of Indianapolis, Commercial Law League of America, Lawyers’ Club, Minute Men, Indiana University Club of Indianapolis, Theta Chi, Phi Delta Phi, Civic Theater, Y. M. C. A. and Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. First lieutenant in U. S. Army Reserve. Married and lives at 4232 Graceland Ave.

TREASURER DEMOCRAT

Walter C. Boetcher—Incumbent. Born in: LaPorte 58 years ago. Active in Marion County politics many years. Former member of Marion County Council. president of Indianapolisg Works

in In-.

Named

Sherwood Blue

Paul E. Tegarden

William T. Ayres

Board in 1933. County chairman during 1934 and 1936 campaigns. Named City Controller by former Mayor John W. Kern in 1935. Became Mayor in 1937 when Mayor Kern resigned to accept Federal -appointment. Before entering public life was treasurer of Meridian Service Co. As treasurer, installed new system of printing and distributing tax statements. Served few weeks last winter as acting Center Township trustee.

Affiliations: North Park Lodge,

F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, Shrine, Loyal Order of Moose, Indiana Democratic Club and civic organizations. Lives at 142 W. 34th St.

REPUBLICAN

Paul E. Tegarden — Born in Mitchell. In Indianapolis since 1902. Attended public schools here. Engaged in general contracting business more than 20 years prior to election as Washington Town-

. ship Assessor in 1934. Re-elected

fraternity, .

in 1938 for four-year term. Member of North Park Lodge,

F. & A. M,, the Scottish Rite and .

Crooked Creek Baptist Church. His current hobby is taking motion pictures of his family and scenery. Married, has four children and lives at R. R. 17, Box 133, on W. 60th St.

SHERIFF DEMOCRAT

Al G. Feeney — Incumbent. Graduate of Manual High School. Attended University of Notre Dame and was All-America center in 1913. Once aid to Knute Rockne. Played on same football team with Jim Thorpe. Later engaged in furniture business. Named - State Safety Director and head of State Police in 1933. Conducted program to obtain $40,000 for State Police radio. Dismissed by former Governor Paul V. McNutt in 1935 during political dispute. Former administrator of County Milk Marketing Area and former member of County Welfare Department. First lieutenant in World War. Councilor of Boy Scout troop in St. John’s Catholic parish. Director of English Avenue Boys’ Club and Lauter

. Memorial.

Elected Sheriff in 1938 was declared party nominee following a recount.

REPUBLICAN

Otto W. Petit—Member of Indianapolis Police Department 21 years before resigning last March to seek nomination. Patroled district three years, then transferred to motor division. Passed Civil Service examination for uniformed sergeant un-

der Chief Claude Johnson. Pro--

moted to lieutenant by Chief Jerry Kinney and assigned to emergency squad. Later promoted to captain. Reduced to lieutenant in charge of radio broadcasting by Chief Michael F. Morrissey. First police instructor in the present, police merit school of the department. Helped establish rules and regulations for police radio operation and established

method of using radio cars in

i

Candidates for County

Al G. Feeney

Dr. John E. Wyttenbach

a SI

William A. Brown

setting up . blockades. Resigned from force to seek office. Married, has one child and is

51.

INDEPENDENT

Otto Ray—Former Sheriff. Elected as Democrat in 1934 and re-elected in 1936. Unsuccessful candidate for nomination as Mayor in 1938. Organized Machine Busters, Inc., during 1938 primary campaign, to oppose City and County Democratic organizations. . : Prior to election as Sheriff was captain of police in charge of license inspections in City Controller’s office. World War veteran. Past commander of Police Post 56, which he helped organize. Past com"mander 12th District American

Legion. Former president of the

Central Labor Union. During 1938 campaign pledged himself to work for adoption of city manager form of government. Unmarried and 52.

CORONER DEMOCRAT

Dr. John E. Wyttenbach—A former chief deputy coroner. Officer in the U. S. Army Reserve Medical Corps. Member of the Reserve Officers’ Association of the United

States. Serves on the surgical staffs of City, St. Vincent's and’ Methodist Hospitals. A member of the Inana State Medical Association and International College of Surgeons. Graduate of the Indiana University Medical School. Took postgraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania. Served interneship at St. Vincent's Hospital and New York City Hospital. Has been practicing in Indianapolis since 1926. :

Member of the Meridian Heights.

Presbyterian Church, the Masons, Scottish Rite, Shrine, Sahara Grotto and Indiana’ Democratic Club, Married, has two children and lives at 5509 ‘Kenwood Ave.

REPUBLICAN

Dr. R. B. Storms—Graduate of the Indiana University Medical School in 1915. Served interneship in City Hospital and practiced about six months before being called into active service in the U. S. Army. Was a medical officer here and then with the A. E. F. until the end of the World War. Active worker in the Republican Veterans’ Organization and a member of its board, and was its 12th District chairman during the last campaign. Engaged in active practice of medicine in Indianapolis since returning from France after the war. A Baptist. Member of the Indianapolis Medical Society of Marion County, the Indiana State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American Legion, Masons, Sigma Chi Fraternity and Phi Beta Pi, medical fraternity. Lives at 28 E. 16th.

Otto W. Petit

Dr. R. B. Storms

William Bosson Jr.

COUNTY SURVEYOR DEMOCRAT

John C. Ryan — Incumbent. Born in Lafontaine, Wabash County, 33 years ago. Attended public grade and high schools in Kokomo and Indianapolis. Attended Butler and Purdue Universities. Former motion picture operator and member of the Kokomo Local, I. A. T. S. E. and M. P. O. Served four years with 150th Field Artillery, National Guard. Formerly with Brokaw; Dickson, Garner & McKee, geologists and petroleum engineers of New York. Also formerly with Mis-souri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. in Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. In professional surveying business since 1934. General manager of the American Engineering Co. of Indianapolis when elected in 1938. Member of Irvington Lodge, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, Shrine, Sigma Chi and Phi Lambda Epsilon Fraternities.

. has one child.

REPUBLICAN

Paul R. Brown—Born in McCordsville 52 years ago. Lived in Indianapolis the last 20 years. Graduated in civil engineering from Purdue University in 1910.

‘Le ter received an advanced de-

gree for post-graduate work. For 11 years was chief draftsman and assistant engineer of-the Indianapolis Park Board. ; Registered and licensed engineer under State Board of Registration for professional engineers and surveyors. Member of the American Association of Engineers. Now engaged in private practice. Served as captain in Engineers Corps during World War. In France 13 months. Member MecCordsville Methodist Church, Masons, Shrine, Murat Temple and John W. Holliday Post, American Legion. Unmarried. Makes home with mother, Mrs. Arabella McCord, 3207 Brookside Parkway, South Drive.

COUNTY. COMMISSIONER

First District DEMOCRAT

John 8S. Newhouse—Incumbent Commissioner. Elected to his first term as Commissioner in 1934 and re-elected in 1937. president of the board in 1937 and

. 1939. His first service in an offi-

cial capacity was as.a member of the Marion County Council for two and a half years. Born in Lawrence Township where he engaged in farming until he moved to Cumberland 32 years ago to establish a hardware and implemef##t business which he still operates. Lives in Cumberland and drives to and from the Court House every day. Has been active in Democratic politics since he was 21. Member of the Evangelical Reformed Church, the Indiana Democratic Club and the Indiana County Commissioners’ Association. He is 67 and is married.

Married and

Served as

ices

Otto Ray

John C. Ryan

Paul R. Brown

REPUBLICAN

William T. Ayres— Farmer and- businessman. Lives on a farm on Post Road near New Bethel. Is president of the Ayre-

shire Realty Co.;, Inc., and vice president and director of the D. H. Goble Supply House in Greenfield. Lifelong resident of Marion County. Attended Indianapolis public grade schools, was. graduated from Manual and later studied law and medicine. Engaged in the drug business at Olney and E. 10th Sts. until 1920 wien he entered the real estate d building business. Active in Republican politics many years but has never held public office. Was defeated by -40 votes for Franklin = Township Trustee in 1938. Member of the Masonic Lodge, Mystic Shrine, and Baptist Church. Married and has one daughter.

COUNTY COMMISSIONER

Second District DEMOCRAT

William A. Brown—Incumbent. Now president of the Board. Member of the County Council four years. Member of the Tax Adjustment Board in 1935 and its president in 1936. Secretary-treasurer of the Indiana County Commissioners’ Association. Vice president of the County and Township’s Association, central district. : Lifelong resident of Indianapolis. Born on South Side 56 years ago. Altended South Side schools, became radio technician. Served as precinct committeeman, ward chairman and president of the Riverside Democratic Club.

“Now vice president of the Indiana

Democratic Club. Council member of St. Mark's United Lutheran Church. Member Masons, past chancellor commander of Clifton Lodge 544, Knights of Pythias. Went through chairs in United Ancient Order of Druids.

REPUBLICAN

William Bosson Jr.—Engaged in the real estate and loan business, specializing in farms and suburban property. Lives at 3725 N. lllinois St. Born here, attended Shortridge High School, Wabash Coliege and the University of Michigan. As a young man, served two years as purchasing agent for the

American Gear Manufacturing Co., at Jackson, Mich, then re-

turned here to, operate his farm

at 75th St. and State- Road 13. Handled real estate as a sideline. In 1929 ceased active farming and devoted full time to real estate. Served as State Representative from Marion County in 1927 and 1929 and was chairman of the Marion County delegation in 1929. Was the Republican nominee for Sheriff in 1936. Member of the Masonic Lodge and Methodist Church. jy