Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1943 — Page 9

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Co.” He mailed it = peturn mail a box each of Ritz and cheese crackers. ~~, Another sharp-eyed reader -called-in to correct

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It isn't true that Klondike dance-hall girl was a prostitute. Kate he all right, and lived with him. But she as a one-man woman. She was in love with him. . _ Everybody in the Klondike, even today, knows the story of Klondike Kate and her man. They lived in years during the boom days—Kate man tending bar, working in stores, finally going into a little business. You would know the name of the man if I told it. became rich and famous, known throughout the United States. And it was Klondike Kate who staked him. It was Kate who shelled out her poke for him, because she loved him, to give him his big chance “outside.” And he took it, and made good, and then he thréw her down.

She Went to Work

SHE DIDN'T cry or squeal. She went to work like # man. She stayed in the show business until a knee injury put her out of professional dancing for good. And then she took in washing. And finally she homesteaded a place back in Oregon, and proved up on it. She traded that for a house in Bend. And She built herself a beautiful

Somehow she could never learn to hate him:

THE GETHSEMANE Lutheran church, at Carlyle and Michigan, has a new limestone front that looks pretty nice. The old front was of stucco. . . . The

* police traffic department has placed signs on Wash-

the state house and another at the court house) reminding motorists that ‘traffic signals are set for 14 miles an hour. , , . The exhibit of antique equipment in the Indiana Typewriter Co. window just north of Christ church has been attracting sizable crowds of spectators. . , . So has the Nazi -—uniform in the Security Trust Co. window. . . . One of our agents picked up a metal box on the Circle the other day and discovered inside a rubber stamp—“Received payment, National Biscuit to the company and received by

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us on a Rost Jewelty Co, ad which included a picture of the naval armory and the statement that-it cost $75,000,000 to build. That's high even for WPA. The ad was changed to read $750,000. The error-catcher was E. D. McGraw, who is navy conscious since he left today for the Great Lakes naval training station. + «+ +» Indianapolis was well represented at the Don McNeill breakfast club broadcast in Chicago Wednesday. The delegation included Judge and Mrs.” John L. Niblack, Chief and Mrs, Clifford Beeker, J. J. - (Jake) Steuerwald and Joe Cunningham, both of the light company; Florence H, Stone and Charles Mosier, of the C. of C., and Mrs. Mosier.

Fooling Uncle Sam

ONE OF OUR AGENTS reports that the girls around town have discovered a couple of ways to ¢ircumvent the new government restrictions on de-*

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Of all the comnients about the secret report of the five senators, the most significant is that of Senator Arthur Capper of

the senators, he felt that the war would last much : longer than he had expected. Senator Capper said the war would be long and expensive in _men and money. Now if the war is going to last a long time, we shall need our present allies for a long time. + It will be difficult to defeat Japan without British co-operation. Senators and American pub-

British and the Russians were our .enemies. Particularly now there critical feeling which tends to get out it is not helpful but it is under-

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STALIN IS out to grab what he can and Churchill fs out to hold what the British Empire has. Russia's

* isolationist tendency and Britain's standpat attitude

about empire possessions create difficult problems. Roth Russia and Britain will have to yield somethere is to be satisfactory collaboration. Chamberlain's experience shows how futile it is if all

hen she was a Dawson dance-hall girl. But he was

Ww is a rough, backward man, and she was taken anyhow,

so he said nothing. And then she disappeared; to where, he didn't know. He stayed on in the hills, panning a little gold. Not much, just a little. Through all these years he has lived out on the creek, alone. And then he found her. That happened less than five years ago. :

Goes North to Johnny

KATE ROTHROCK still lives in Bend most of thie year, But every summer, on the first Yukon boat, the comes north all the way to Dawson-to see “her Johnny.” They see each other only twice a year. He comes in from “the crick” for a few days after she gets here. And again for a few days just before she leaves in the fall, on the last boat out. That's all Kate Rothrock sees of her Johnny. She'd go out on the crick and live, gladly, but he won't let her. “No, he says he waited 30 years fur me, and riow he’s not going to have me living in a cabin up some erick,” she says. “This is what he

: wants me to do, and T want to do it for him.”

All summer she ‘stays in Dawson, living in a room in the home of a I[riend, strolling the dead boardwalks of the town that once roared and fumed to the touch of gold. = - So Klondike Kate Rothrock, who couldn't learn to hate, and her Johnny, who waited 30 years, go at last with each other into the sunset. It is too late now, far too late. for either of them, but they did reach in time to snatch something—a quality of unsual tenderness, and a beauty surely, the beauty of brown autumn leaves along the north rivers. Leaves that the frosts can't hurt, because the fros have already touched them. . .

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

defense transportation, you know, has ruled that now shoppers must carry all packages weighing less than five pounds or whose girth and length are less than 60 inches. The shoppers look at what they want, go to another part of the store and telephone their orders (all telephone orders may be delivered regardless of size) or they have them sent as a “gift” to a neighbor across the alley (all gifts may be delivered). Clever, these gals. . . , One of our readers reports that young Jackie Lanagan (son of J. B.) had such luck as a chicken raiser that he now has branched out. He has acquired three Duro¢ porkers. Their names are Faith, Hope and Charity. . . . Bill Michler, operator of the Tower Studio, is having trouble. In his streetcar and bus advertising he uses actual photos of some of his patrons. The photos have a habit of disappearing. Bill thinks the subjects themselves, or maybe their relatives, snitch the pictures. Sometimes young America beats them to it and pencils mustaches and chin whiskers on the pictures. Surprise, Surprise’ A FEMININE employee of The Times whose husband has been in the Sea Bees the last year and a

half wrote him recently that their 17-year-old son was going to the hospital soon for a minor operation. After the operation had taken place, she wired her husband: “Bob doing nicely, Be home Saturday.” That evening she got a long distance call from hubby.

~“What's this -all--about?” he asked....Then he read]

her the telegram. The message had been garbled in transmission and -what—he received read: “Babe doing nicely, Be home Saturday.” He was greatly relieved to hear it was all a mistake, . . . The principal topic of conversation whenever two or more Marcy villagers get together nowadays is the “rent-situation.” It interferes with bridge games and even the poker games break up when the subject arises. It's all the result of notices being sent that the rental agency has asked the OPA for permission to raise rent from

* partment store deliveries. The government office of $5 to $7.50 per apartment.

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Even Britain's liberal-minded labor leader, Herbert Morrison, echoes the standpat empire position of Churchill. They will hold everything. They will hold

Kansas who said that after hearing the reports of Hongkong. Stalin will hold the Baltic -states, and

God knows what else. If their diplomatic representatives in Washington are on the job and are reporting faithfully American opinion, they must be telling Moscow and London that such attitudes are having an unfavorable effect on American opinion,

Must Prevent Aggression

EVERY INDICATION has been that the American people and the senate itself have come overwhelm-

with other nations to prevent future aggression. It was after one of our leading Republican figures, Governor Thomas E. Dewey, urged an alliance between the United States, Britain and other allies that Prime Minister Churchill, hearing a report of Dewey’s remarks on the radio, stddenly suggested an AngloAmerican alliance in his Harvard speech. “Yet believing as 1 do completely in the necessity of collaboration among us,'I am at a loss to find any suggestion from London or Moscow that advances the cause of collaboration. There is not the faintest sign of any concession. / Both of our principal allies have contributed heavily to victory. Americans wish that the victory may be converted into a long-term permanent asset. +

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It was a grim piece of reporting. Mr. Herron, it ap- | pears, was a victim of spring housecleaning. A can of coal oil used in the process caught fire and enveloped the helpless man in flames, Miss Anna Turrell, a remote relative (his wifes niece) and a woman as courageous as they

come, tried her best to save

Two weeks later, Miss Turrell and Ambrose P. Stanton brought Mr. Herron home. Mr. Stanton, an Indianapolis attorney, had hurried west when a telegram told him ol the accident. A little group of mourners attended services at the Herron home, 330 College ave. (between Irwin st.

and Lincoln ave., which now of 14th and 15th sts,). laid beside that of his wife in the ancestral graveyard in Mt. Carmel, Franklin

"county. All of which latter

news was tucked away on the inside pages of Indianapolis papers. Three days after the funeral, Mr. Herron's name reappeared in print, this time on the front page. On that day the records of the Marion county probate court revealed that Mr. Herron had be-

“queathed the bulk of his estate "to the Art association of Indian-

apolis, It amounted to more than a quarter of a million dollars.

The Tongues Wagged

IMMEDIATELY TONGUES began to wag in an effort to identify Mr. Herron, Nobody connected with the Art association had ever heard of him, let alone ever having seen him. And by the same token, mighty few people in Indianapolis had ever heard of the Art association——certainly nobody moving in Mr. Herron's set. Next morning, bright and early, the directors of the Art association met in the chaste parlors of the Girls’ Classical school, the cultural center of Indianapolis. It was a stylish institution run by Mrs. May Wright Sewall who, at that time, was also president of At

mally accepted the bequest with all conditions attached. Before adjourning, Charles E. Coffin rose

“and: “Resolved, that our werthy

president is a living refutation of the slander that a woman cannot keep a secret.” It then came out that Mrs. Sewall knew of the bequest the night before the will appeared in the papers. It surprised only those who lived mighty sheitered lives. Mrs, Sewall was al» ways. the first to know. anything new in Indianapolis.

The Past Comes Out

IN THE COURSE of the fol lowing week, Mrs. Sewal was seized with an inspiration and rented the Grand Opera house for a mass meeting to celebrate the windfall,’ It lacked only fireworks to make it the greatest celebration ever held in Indianapolis. On that occasion, Mr. Stanton delivered the longest and, certainly, the most entertaining speech. By this time it was common knowledge that Attorney Stanton had been named executor of the will, an appointment pursuant to Mr. Herron’s wish. Mr, Stanton cleared up everything concerning Mr. Herron's past, John Herron, he said, was born in England of a father much like himself — frugal and hardworking with a lot of horse-sense and business ability, He was only six months old when the family came to America in 1817, the period of the depression following the Napoleonic wars. They had little money. The family settled in Oxford, Chester county, Pennsylyania where the .father, a tanner by trade, found work in a cotton factory at $8.00 a week.. It was enough to feed the whole family. Eventually, the father ran the whole factory. The increased pay of a general manager didn't turn his head nor change his style of living. Everything over $8.00 a

THIRTY YEARS later, the family moved to Cincinnati and bought a farm of 160 acres across the Ohio line in Franklin county On that f of art

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penny he would walk a mile to liquidate the debt. When he rented a property, say for $800 a ‘year ($66.66% a month), he asked * for the two-thirds cents — one month $66.66, the next $66.67. Twice a year, on June 1 and again on Dec. 1, he demanded $66.88 to make it come out absolutely right It's o..k., I checked it,’

Made Own Repairs

MOREOVER, IF any of his . properties needed repairs, Mr, Herron would handle the job himself. He would arrive in a spring wagon with his tool chest, don his overalls, and go to work at once. ’ What's more, he came almost immediately when anybody registered a kick. It wasn't mentioned at his funeral but Landlord Herron had the unqualified approval: of his tenants. . . One day in 1892—it was after the loss of his wife and his sister —Mr, Herron called on Mr. Stanton and showed him a handful of family heirlooms, including the first penny he had ever earned. Now that it was pretty certain that the family was headed for. extinction, Mr. Herron was wondering what was going to become of his treasures. There was his fortune too, he said, and gradually a fixed pufpose was formed to leave the estate to some institution and have it preserve his first earned penny. Chances are that then and there Mr. Stanton put him wise to. the Art association, . Up until -

performance and this time Mrs, Adsit brought her - portfolio of "etchings along.

60 Years Ago Today

ON THE OCCASION of the last lecture, Mrs, Sewall asked everybody to stick around and discuss the organization of a society for the promotion and study of art. Eighteen women, with not a man in sight, signed the Articles of Association on Oct. 11, 1883, which, come to think of it, was exactly 60 years ago today. A competent "reporter: would have managed to get an item as big as that into his .- first sentence, From that day in 1883 to 1805,

then; Mr: Herron- had never the year-of the-windfall; the wom--;

thought of making a will.- He was 75 years old when he got around to it. His first earned penny is in the cornerstone of the structure built with his money. I had

a hunch you'd ask about ft. . : masonic hall, the original ColumEditorial Flurry bia club, the Denison hotel, and THE NEWS -OF Mr. Herron's--—finally.in.the original Propylaeum, generosity moved an Indianapolis another feminine enterprise editor to make two imperative re= thought up by Mrs. Sewall. To quests. First of all, he demanded the few who knew about it, the “that Mr. and Mrs. Herron's bodies Art association, even as far back be dug up and transferred to #8 then, had every appearance of Crown Hill, the sooner the better, stability, His other demand was even more Indeed, the ‘stability of the Art alarming. With a gleam in his Association is shown by nothing eye, the editor wrote: “This be- e©lse in its career more clearly quest is a call for the exercise than by the patience with which of conservation, of wisdom, of the wotften struggled to get hold foresight, in short of those pru- ©f Mr, Herron's money. There dential qualities which men called Were, for example, nearly two and _longheaded exemplify — qualities ® half years of litigation over the which are the fruit of an instinct Will. Mr. Herron left no lineal developed by long years of experi. - descendants closer than a third ence. There is time enough for cousin, but strangely enough (or all this indeed, but when the time Maybe not at al) people purportcomes, when the will is proved, Ing to be his relatives poured in the property made over, and its from everywhere. disposition the question of the Even the legislature got mixed hour, then ‘there must be-saga- Up In the controversy. A bill cious men in command.” bearing. a most innocent title The transparent editorial meant Would have deprived the Art assoonly one thing, namely to oust the ciation of its bequest. The only women and let the men take over reason it didn't was because Mrs. ~now that there was some money Sewall talked Governor Mount to spend. It caught a bear by the Into vetoing the bill in the event tail. At any rate, the reaction ©f its passage. On the day the was immediate, With the fury of bill was up for third reading, Mrs. Xanthippe, the women pro- Sewall sat in the statehouse and nounced the point of view the Silently laughed up her sleeve. most impertinent display of mas- We shall never see her like again. culinity ever seen in Indianapolis. A Lovely Property

For a while it looked as if Indianapolis husbands had all they AFTER THE WILL cleared the court, the matter of a site for the

could do to hold their art-con-scious wives in check, proposed museum came up. Some The editorial served one good purpose, however. It brought into the open what the women of Indiahapolis had done to merit Mr. Herron's confidence. It turned out, for example, that as early as 1881 Mrs. May Wright Sewall brought Mrs, Nancy Adsit of Mil- the two property holders to the waukee to Indianapolis to give a north graciously handed over their series -of illustrated lectures on homes. Except for that gift there ceramics, of all things. The next = wouldn't have been room for a winter Mrs. Sewall repeated the school back of the museum. By

en of the Art association did their best to satisfy a local hunger for beauty. The exhibitions-—at least one a year—were first held In English’s hotel and later in the original Plymouth church, the

_ beer known as Fairbanks where St. Vincent's Hospital now stands. Others plugged for the Talbott property at Pennsylvania and 16th sts. The reason the latter site won out was because

Dangers of the Deep

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"The Kiss of the Siren," the controversial picture of the early days of the Indianapolis Art association, was painted by Gustav Wertheimer, an Austrian whose teacher was Hans Makert, a pet of Emperor Franz Joseph. There is a legend that the picture was purchased in 1886 with pen. nies brought to school by Indianapolis children. { the kids around here were shaken down for every calamity that visited the city.

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the time all this was setfled it was 1901, six years after the reading of the will, The Talbott place—or old Tinker house as it was often called was one of the loveliest properties in Indianapolis. The house, set in a grove of some of the biggest trees around here, had a twostory porch treated with cast-iron railings and supports, and over this sprawled the most gorgeous vine in town. It was hops and not wisteria or clematis as some old-timers would have you believe, When in bloom the whole thing looked like something brought from New Orleans. When the Art “association. age quired ..the property, it was the home of Theodore C. Steele's family. As a matter of fact, it was here in a little studio to the north of the hotise that Mr. Steele finished some of his best pictures, The - studio, designed and bulit by Mr, Steele shortly after his student. days in Munich, was the first of its kind in Indianapolis,

Opened in 1902

ALMOST LOST in antiquity is the fact that the John , Herron Art institute opened up for business in the Talbott-Tinker-Steele house—not In the present building as many believe, rell was the first curator.’ She wasn't mixed up in the litigation, if I remember correctly. The date of the opening was the night of March 4, 1902; It was a brilliant affair, The ladies came corseted within an inch of their liyes and the men appeared in swallow-tail coats most of which were mighty tight, too. Surrounded as they were that night, by walls hung with pictures by Francois Augusto Bonheur (Rosa's brother) and Josef Israels and Fritz Thaulow and Walter Shirlaw, it was a sight the like of which Indianapolis had never seen, * On the landing of the staircase that night hung “The Kiss of the Siren,” probably the most controversial picture ever shown in Indianapolis. It represents a stark naked woman floating about in the water with nothing more on her mind, apparently, than a determination to pick up a sailor and plant a kiss on his salty lips. Immediately two factions formed: (1) The highbrows who

men wanted their wives to buy the didn’t know what they liked but

knew an awful lot about art; and (2) the lowbrows who didn't know a thing about art (and said so) but knew what they liked (you bet). Of the two, the lowbrows were the most fun. They said “The Kiss of the Siren” was nothing but an example of “saloon art” (and not a very good saloon at that), and even went so far as to intimate that the floating woman was only 99 44/100 per cent pure,

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trol. "The fact is that nothing has happened to call for a revision of of Meredith Nicholson's memorable essay, the one that appeared in the Atlantic in 1004 entitled “Indianapolis, a City of Homes" In the course of that article the gallant Mr. Nicholson remarked: “The women of Indianapolis have aided greatly in. fashioning the city into an enlightened ocommunity. , . , They have been the mainstay of the Indianapolis Art association.” As for the editor who perpetrated the libel back in 1805, he: never again mentioned the women of the Art association. Instead, he took to writing editorials denouncs ing woman's suffrage.

REPEAL IS SOUGHT FOR DRIVING BAN

Democratic Councilman Carso Jordan said today he would seek

ing to the left of safety zones in the downtown district, <s Mr, Jordan sald numerous persons had protested against the ors dinance on grounds that it obstructs trafic and is not in line with present rubber and gasoline ‘conservation’ measures, ui The measure was enacted last spring in the face of stiff opposi= tion from the Chamber of Comes merce, Traffic Engineer J. T. Hale lett, and other safety experts. Its chief backer was Councilman Ed Kealing, an Inspector with the Indianapolis Street railways,

WASHINGTON HIGH TO GIVE RADIO SKIT

Washington high school studen will present a radio sketch, he Spirit of Columbus Lives On on = the public school hour over’ radio station WISH at 11:15 a. m. tomor row. : Participating will be C Amos, Robert Bunch, Robert Wh Elsie McCormick, Kathryn Letitia Harrah, Betty Lou © Betty Paino, Jo Ethel Gray, Hail, Doris Bereman, Anna Wools ums and Ruby Clemons. Mrs. Bess Sanders Wright has written fe directed the sketch. :

HOOSIER AMONG SIX KILLED IN AIR CRA

Sgt. Lyle 8. Mitchell, son of : and Mrs. Marion Mitchell of Mic gan City, was among six army killed in an airplane accident | day near Granbury, Tex.