Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1951 — Page 16
Sad
and ancient tales of fish which is often
glimpsed but seldom clearly
In the Black River country one may still hear tall tales of a monstrous redhorse called Jube, capafter a struggle which inoe more than 100 men and boys, and almost assumed the ns of a little war, flesh of this great fish, pitkied and dried and salted down, fed. whole villages for several years. The natives saved the seales and used ‘em for shingles, so that there was a new roof on eyery house in the valley. They even say that a blacksmith near Newport gathered up some of the smaller scales, riveted wooden handles on them, and sold ‘em for shovels. ~ - » . ONE ALSO hears many yarns about the abundance of game fish. A man at Waco, Mo., told me seriously that the bass in Spring River are so numerous and ravenous that nobody dares open a minnow bucket or a bait box near the bank. A fisherman is forced to hide behind a bush while he baits his hook, or else to walk back about 50 Jeet from the shore. & Jid8 Bs Frank Payne once found a pool near Galena, Mo. where the James River bass were Swarms like bees.” A big fellow jumped| from the water and snatched a worm out of his hand before he could put it on the hook. Frank reached in his pocke for anothed worm, but dozens of |
big bass chased him up the bankifish away fro and gave the
and out into the road.
[him indignantly.
ping on Horse
{my throat,” John X— says.
“neighborhood,”
in the Washington area.
Tom Donnelly— ‘I'm a Liberal, Not a Red,’ Said John X—, But Company He Kept Brought Him Trouble JOHN X-~ was reading his Sunday morning paper| when he came upon his name in a list of people seen at!
Communist Party functions by the Virginia housewife who! served as an “undercover FBI agent” for some six years|
“My coffee stuck halfway down On Monday morning his wife opened her back door to take in the milk and found a paper bag. on the
whe
“I decided then that things} were ‘going to be rough in my
John. says. “I'm not a Communist and never was one, but there was my name, read out before the House Mr. Donnelly Un-American Activities Committee and printed in all the papers.” A woman who lives across the way advised John to write out a statement disavowing any Com-
| |self-consciousness.
have started speaking to me.| They wave at me from their cars| j
when they drive by, and if I'm out watering the lawn or
the shrubs they a 4 prong :
to stop and éxchange a few words with me. :
“They believe me, and they ought to, because I'm not a Red. I'm a Liberal,-and I guess what you call a Leftist, but I'm not a Communist.” Hs MS . “MY BACKGROUND is mid-dle-class,” John explains, without “When I was) a bachelor I used to live in! YMCA's and I used to take part in lots of ‘Y’ discussion groups, I go to church several times a yéar, on holidays and times like that.” I asked John to tell me something about the parties his late host had given. John says “they were just regular social gather-|
munist connections, “Explain your
* iposition, swear you aren't a Red,”!
WORKING AGREEMENT—"He strung 24 fish without even
wettin' a line.”
iasked Clink. The man turned on netted, “Do you think|rowly missed the guide. The longI'd tell a lle, just for two pounds lost pistol was found in the throat of catfish?”
Jake and Clarence
|Lake Taneycomo, at a time when | ¢ nobody else was catchin’ em.
-
Fawcett ing condition. caught a nice string of bass in| "nn A FAT MAN at Bella Vista, lo me for cne reason and another| John never asked his host,
{Ark used to hold the tourists
Jake explains that he took a spellbound with his story of a
m a big water snake huge catfish in a nearby stream. serpent a drink of This fish had been seen many
“If I hadn't jumped on my moonshine by way of compensa-| times, and our best local fisher-
horse an’ galloped off,” Frank tion. “them big fish With another bass,
told me later,
The snake soon returned men had tried to catch him. He and so it went/had broken countless hooks, lines,
would have tore me limb from until the two of 'em strung 24/Tods and trotline stagings.
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groundhog, he tied the rope 10 the top of a stout elm and lowered the hook into the depths of Sugar Creek. “Well, did you catch the fish?” I asked. . “I pulled on the line, slow an’ careful,” the fat man said. There was a heavy weight on the other end, but seemed like it was a dead weight, There wasn’t no fightin’ like I expected, 86 I just figgered
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» » ” LASTLY, many pérsons in Crawford County, Arkansas, remember the case of Tubb Rawl-! ings, who caught a big catfish
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without
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{been named by | {housewife as a member of a sub-| versive political club. {
John swears that he was never
{a member of any such club, but| {admits that during the years from|
{1935 to 1948 he had on a dozen| {different occasions
nave been a Communist,
he was always a generous and
. loyal friend, and that he never| hic _lonce tried to recruit John for| it fired a shot which nar the Communist Party. |
{litical innocence,
|says, “peonle who used to be cool
JOHN WROTE a letter “to!
whom it may concern.” He haq|2nything as a group, but occa-
the Virginia Sionally jt was suggested that we|
attended] [parties held by a man rumored to|
This| an’ «a {man is now dead, but John says| n
ings. Sometimes there were guest speakers and sometimes we talked, very informally, about political topics. Howard Fast and Rockwell Kent were two of the speakers, “Nobody ever asked us to do
{ {
I remember
send telegrams to Congress or to different officials.
A long automobile jump through the air that proved fatal to Lucky Teter of .Noblesville here in 1942 will be attempted by one of Jack Kochman's Hell Drivers next Tuesday night at the W. 16th St, Midget Speedway. Speeding around the track, Jim Ord: will roadster without protective covering off a steep incline rampway. While soaring through the air he will attempt to man-
short | pilot a |
LOOK, NO WINGS—The idea is to bring "er down on the receiving rampway.
handle the car to bring it down , on all four wheels on a re- | ceiving rampway. : Teter, when he was fatally injured during a performance | to raise funds for the Army Emergency Relief at the Fair- | grounds in 1942, was driving a sedan. Adding to Ord's hazards, Bill Stock will drive a roadster
| on the track underneath the
plains, It “wasn’t any of his busi-/
ness.”
John would not think of] {going to a ball game without find|once during the Spanish War ing who was playing, but he ob-
some of us sent a telegram to the|yiously feels that it is a sign of a
British Embassy demanding that mean, suspicious reactionary na-
Britain lift the embargo against tyre to inquire after other people's
Spain. and Howard Fast's ‘The Ameri-|
Tolls." ¥ » ”
about “For Whom the Bell Tolls” | and he recalled that it was felt
|“anti-Republican.”
John sees himself as
opal We talked about books, |politics, even at meetings devoted! like ‘What Makes Sammy Run? to discussions of political issues. broad-|ent,” he says, “but that's the way ‘For Whom the Bell minded, tolerant, willing to live'I am. I supported Finland in her
soaring car as it approaches the receiving ramp.
was fascism vs. democracy.” Fas-| cism and communism are both|
pretty mad, but fascism is worse, because “with fascism the bankers
take over the country” whereas) with communism ‘‘power comes up from the bottom.” I know I'm not always consist-
and let live, and dedicated to the war with Russia, for instance. I'll
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!doctrine that a man’s politics are bet you're surprised at that!” I ASKED John what was said his own sacred, private possession. >
» ” »
JOHN BELIEVES that the cur-
1 | | JOHN'S political geography rent uproar over Communists in His neighbors have apparently |that even though Hemingway had goes something itke this: lof the big bass, still in good work-|accepted John’s declaration of po-/said harsh things about both sides|
2 ! He feels that the United Na- a smokescreen raised to make it of In fact,” heithe total effect was deplorably tions should not have intervened!
in Korea because the Korean War|
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ment in the country to destroy y or was a civil war. He took sides in freedom of speech and individual!I'm for Peace.
SUNDAY, AUG. 12, 1951’
Kochman's Hell Drivers Coming Tuesday
Ho
Daredevils will drive stock
| cars up and down steep incline
rampways and criss-cross in front of each other; crash automobiles in a roll-over contest during which the cars will be rolled ‘as long as they are able to run. Another daredevil will
| erash a car into a wall of ice
which contains four tons of 300-pound blocks, plus other thrillers. The first event will get under way at 8:30 p. m.
sb emsiath
/his host's guests, what their poli- the Spanish Civil War because liberty. He thinks “it's terrible tics were, He “didn’t care,” he ex- «we]] that was different, That that a man can’t come ont for
Peace without being branded a
Red. Look at the way they're hounding the people who signed that Stockholm Peace Petition.” John does not care that the Stockholm Petition is generally accepted as a Communist front maneuver. ‘If somebody shows me a statement, and I read it, and it says it's for peace, I'm behind it,” John says. “Aren't you interested,” I asked him, “in who makes the statement, in why it is circulated at a particular time, and in what use is made of your name as a signer the statement?” “I don’t care about any of that,” John says, “all 1 know Is,
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