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again,” she recalls. “My second

By ROBERT DAHL United Press Staff Corresponden

[times but I never got out of it/soon be making the rounds again hy way of radio and television. “For 800 years people have ‘been laughing at the story about the I know all about it and I can|husband took dope and I started hole fA*Neah's ark,” the president of the American Folklore Society

tell any girl who thinks she wants while I was with him. The nextiand Ohio State University professor said.

to live like I have that it don't] amount to anything.” ~ » n | WHISKY ANN'S story isn’t a pretty one. It's written in part on a six-page police record covering, her 25 years in Indianapolis, a| record of 317 arrests on charges ranging from prostitution to use of narcotics. Back. beyond those 2J¥ years is another 27 years “in other towns, in all 52 years of sinking lower and lower among the dregs of humanity. Huddled in a chair, almost hidden in a ragged old coat and shivering from a chill only she felt, the old woman told her story under the prompting of Municipal Court 3 Judge Joseph Howard. Judge Howard has tried old Ann more times than either remembers, many times in recent vears on her own request to be “locked up” while she fought the ‘drug habit or when she needed shelter. Ld » » “I BEEN a prostitute 52 years,” the old woman started out. “For 40 vears I Was on drugs, but I quit seven years ago and I ain't touched it since. It all goes together, the way you have to live and takin’ drugs to keep goin'.” Born to a stern, God-fearing Baptist farm family in southern Indiana, old Ann became a prostitute at 18 in Terre Haute, when it was the “livest little city in the U: 8.” “I was born in 1831, seventh in a family of nine children,” old Ann recalled” I have three brothers and sisters still living, one right in this town. but they never see me. They all went the other way, led good Christian lives and got good homes and children. I was the only one went bad. “I went to Terre Haute to work for a family there and I met a! felow. He told me if I was ‘gonna do like I was doin’ I might as well make some money.

Well, I didn’t pay no attention to Orderly conduct,

what he said, but when I lost my job and needed some money and a place to stay, I just sort of drifted into it.” - = - ” AFTER FIVE YEARS in one of Terre Haute's “houses,” Ann met up with a childhood sweetheart who was willing to marry her and “forgive and forget.” For! five years she was “out of the business,” until pneumonia caused

Official Weather | UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU | —Apr. 9, 1951—

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Station Hish Low, As old Ann sat_in court and Bostow NINN § @ pondered ending her days on the Chcago ws - 3 3 ‘poor farm.” she thought of her Basie — . 53 sw brothers and sisters living in good Lr = : > 4) homes among loved ones: Pdtanapolis icity) = 54 3 “When I see what I ended up Jansas Clty ......... (8 3] with and what they got, I feel Miami Cat «2 i like they made the right choice,” Jew Qrieans a 52 she concluded, dabbing her eyes oto fy 5 $% with a torn, dirty handkerchief. Omahs . 38 37 “There ain't nothing in this an «5 8 life . tell the young girls is Pranctsco -- 4 3 old Amn said so and she Washington. D. C. ....... !" 57 a ' knows.”

!worRed in every town in all the

a Ann faced courts 139 times on

two took dope, too, and I had to)

dope for us. All three of my husbands died, and Ijjust kept on going.” | To girls who see harlotry as a! way to easy money, old Ann had! this advice: “You'll never get anything. I

states around here. I worked in sporting houses and I ran 'em my-| self, and it's always the same. All the money you make you need to keep going, to pay for lawyers and bondsmen and to use so you don’t get arrested so much.” n u o DRUGS and harlotry are evitably intertwined, she said. “Most girls have to take drugs to keep going 24 hours a day. You can't lead that kind of life with-| out something to keep you going." | In her years, old Ann has seen] too many young girls in pursuit of “fool's gold’: { “One I remember, pretty as a | doll and not 14 when she started. She got on drugs and when she couldn't get them any more, | sleeping powder. She started | goin’ wild, cutting herself with razors and ended up in an insane hospital. She’s still there. There was others, and they all went pretty much the same. Only a few ever get out.” The most money old Whisky Ann ever accumulated was $1000 when she and her third husband were going to “get out of it.” But his craving for drugs was too strong, and the money went to morphine peddlers. Ann herself broke the drug habit seven years ago when af crackdown brought all the ped-| dlers into federal hands and made it impossible for her to get morphine. She spent 180 days. in Women's prison getting away from the drug habit. In her years in Indianapolis,

in-

prostitution charges; 109 times for vagrancy, 28 times for dis25 “times on drunkenness, nine times for keeping a house of ill fame, twice on narcotic charges, once for parole! violation, once for association! with a prostitute, once as a ma-| licious trespasser and ance for| keeping a vicious dog. In all! the years, she was convicted only | 44 times. i = = ” SHE CAME before Judge Howard last week after a city health board inspector found her sick and chilled to the bone in a con-' demned house with three winedrinking .companions. After giv-! ing her a few days in jail to be cleaned up and given medical treatment, Judge Howard arranged her entry to Julietta Marion County Home for the Aged, “for her own good and the good of the public.”

IN INDIANAPOLIS

BIRTHS

Borys At Heme—Jams Madiine Rose, 1630 W Market St; George, Rowena Jones, 2153 Boulevard Place Joseph Dorothy Messer, 1607 Bellefontaine St.: Os Lovey Harper, 1062 Roach St. At St. Frameis—John, Edith Roseland: as win. Laverne Rusie; Ralph, Patricia At Gemeral—Mack, Janie Parsons: Way-' man. Heien Butler; Ds y

ul le, Ruth Crider; Edward, Louvenia Williams; Edsar.

A$ Celeman—iiton, Harriet Miller: Wil-| , Lois Woodruns;

Car,

lam, Jean Servass: Don. Ab M neth: Peggy i ethodist—Kenne!, George; | Keith, Annabelle Schuetz: John Bar. | bara Laverne, Mary Peterson; John, Ellis; Gene, Threasa Hinds- | : Robert. Pauline Cole. At St. Vimeemt's—Eddy, Geraldine Uphoid: h, , Matilda | Margaret Bovss: ; ' rgare : leonard, Gladys Deming. ' Girls

44 Home Hiawatha, Annabelle Shelby, 2758 Eastern Ave.; Willie, Hazel 8: ny a Eh a vi Lula Miles, | ; , Dorot ‘oliins, 3608 Clifton St.; "efi

ad ans Ave, No. 30, rameis—Russell, Nons Case: Robe: Eva Parish: Victor, Rita N ABaer. tH Th Bak Thom iar: Michas. | er; mas, Craig. At Coleman—Edwin, Lorraine Cohan; Leo. | Barbara Stevens: Sherman, Madge Min- | ton; John, Juanita Baker; Howard, Vir-|

ginis ! At Methodist—Alvis, Maxine Taylor: How-! ard. Betty Schuls: Robert, Ludie Steven. | son; Bernard, Betty Gordon; Austin, Anna Plike. |

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James, Mary Mills, 315 wn

|At St. Vineent’ rt, Cynthia Conner

Henry, Cecelia Stickan; Calvin, Phyliis Phillips; Clifford. Erma Bandy, Foils Lucille Berkowits: James Lorraine McGee: Albert. Mary Peacock: Stephen Facaueiine Kuslewski. Robert, Harriet arsy

DEATHS

Henrietta Leonard. 86. at 2700 W. St. Clatr, cerebral hemorrhage. 8

Virginia M. Hebson. 83. at 3603 Washington Bivd.. Apt. 24, myocarditis. Margaret Hoffman, 80. at 2420 N. New

Jersey, cerebral hemorrhage.

Herman George Muegge, 88, at General, carcinoms. Lorenzo Woods, 72, at 1518 N. Senate. cardiovascular-renal. William C. Chatman, 81, at Veterans, carcinoma. Nathan Jackson, 91, at 318 McClain Pi, hypertensive cardiovascular. Margaret B. Monroe, 74, at 1230 Pleasant Run Pkwy. myocarditis. Walter W. Ward. 70, at 5718 Pleasant Run Blvd., North Dr., cerebral hemorrhage Prank Washington, 71. at 744 W. New York, congestive heart. Hubert R. Bell. 58, at Veterans, carciDoma. oss R. Brown, 75, at 310 W, New York,

colitis. | John Benjamin Bryan, 76, at Long, cere-

bral thrombosis. Edna Louise Crabtree, 48, at 422 N. Dela-| ware, embolism. Hulda Bell Herring, 63, at 527 N. King, | carcinoma. | 82, at St. Vin-

cent’s, congestive heart. i James Albert Rigel, at Methodist, | coron occlusion John Rolland, 58, at General, hypertensive heart.

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t : COLUMBUS, O., Apr. 9—A folklore authority, Francis L. Utley,|to plug the hole with her elbow.

“I was marriéd three more says a story people laughed at as far back as 800 years ago may|Noah finally has to stop the ship

or television soon.” keep in it to get money to BUY again go you'll probably be hear-| The story goes like this: A hole their coat-tails to the fire,” Prof.

ing some version of it on the radio develops in Noah's ark and the Utley chuckled.

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