Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1951 — Page 11

. 4, 1951

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. ‘Bates House’ Off Press Feb. 12 ‘By HENRY BUTLER

MUNCIE. § Feb. bi Tr E. Benadum, Muncie attorney and author of a forthcoming Civil War novel, “Bates House,” partly set In Indianapolis, says he hasn't had a vacation since 1037. Inf that year, he and Mrs. Benadum took a Mediterranean cruise, a real break from his customary routine of working straight through the summer. . During the past five years, with a daily 8 a. m, to 6 p. m. schedule as a busy trial lawyer, he has written his new novel, which will be published by Greenberg of New York on Feb. 12, Lincoln's Birthday. The publication date is appro-

- priate, since Lincoln appears as

a character in the novel. So does Jefferson Davis. Mr, Benadum set out to weave the North-South conflict into fiction, and consequently built his story around the chief symbolic personalities opposed in that confligt, The original inspiration for “Bates House” came from the bronze plaque now on the wall of the Claypool Hotel commemorating Lincolns historic

1051 Lincoln Plaque on Claypool Gave dea For New Civil War Novel by Muncie Man

Clarence E. Benadum . . . "Writing is hard work." :

28. His father, Bpenceér A. Ben-|

adum,

from Lancaster, Pa. to Lan-

caster, O., before coming to Indi- \would go to early service at St. ana, and who died in 1908, haa|Mary's Catholic Church, not far,

served in the 121st Regiment of

the Ninth Indiana Cavalry in the!

War Between the States. Young Spencer Benadum was

Indianapolis address in February,(19 when he got his enlisted man’s|

1861. The Great FEmancipator| gpoke from the balcony of the old| Bays House on the present Claysite.

honorable discharge from the {Unjon Army, Done with steel-pen| flourishes in "the now- ~forgotten art of “engrossing,” that framed

Son of Veteran Some five years ago,

olis, Mr. Benadum re-read the| historic plaque. It brought to his| mind the drama of the great con-|

flict and ‘the Civil War stories.

he used to hear from his father,

farm about eight miles northwest of Muncie, on what is now: Ind.

~ Gen, Strickler Speaker For Social Hygiene Day

Maj. Gen. Daniel B, Strickler, commanding general of the 28th Infantry Division, Camp Atter-| bury, will be principal speaker at |2 the annual public observation of Indiana Social Hygiene Day. The luncheon meeting, spongored by Indianapolis Social Hygiene Association, will be held at

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will preside, Gen. Strickler will speak on the

afterYin his office * closing a jury trial in Indiana . about the life of Christ, He esti- : jury P {building at Howard and Walnut| {mates it will take four years, if he continues about two years, if he retires,

document, grey-brown with age, is a treasure Mr. Benadum keeps ih the Benadum!

Sts. Attended Valparaiso “Clarence just grew up in the

jatmosphere of retold stories of ing so much. difficulty throughout! Those stories’ began to be im. | the Civil War,” Mrs. 'Benadum ithe world, everybody is turning to}, portant in “Mr, Benadum’s con- told me, Volunteer chief assistant religion. sciousness not many years after to her husband in his law office "Tite 8 novel with a religious he was born, June 7, 1889, on & for the past 25° years, Mrs. Be-. {theme,” hé concluded. *,

nadum met him in 1910.

“He was reading law in George Cromer’s office then, and I was) teaching in McCreery School in| Harrison Township,” she said. Born on a farm north of Raton, Mrs. Benadum, formerly Miss Mary Brandt, had attended Val. | pa aiso University, her husband's, a mater. I their marriage in 1917, Mr. Benadum enlisted in the World War I Army, serving in the Quartermaster -€orps and Field Artillery.

Previously, he had spent a

couple of years, around 1911-12,

homesteading and looking for gold in the Black Hills country of

Men in Service.” Lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania before he re-entered service, Gen, Strickler! is a veteran of both world wars| and holder of the Purple Heart, Legion of Merit and the Silver p Star.

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going even farther northwest to! the Arctic Circle. When I asked ‘him if he found any gold, he, replied, “Damn little—-not to give you a short answer.” But he did meet Jack London and learned from him a good bit about .the| difficulty of writing for publica-| tion. | All-Night Work

“Writing’'s hard work,” Mr. Benadum sald. ‘Bates House" | went through upwards of 15 re-| visions before it was accepted by | Greenberg, via a literary agent. Much of it was written late Saturday nights, beginning maybe at midnight.

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