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Kokomo, Ind. is located 125 mi. southwest of Kalamazoo, Mich, and 100 mi. southeast of Kankakee, Ill. In 1842 a trader named David Foster bought for a few dollars from Chief La Fontaine several hundred swampy acres in the Miami Indian reservation. Two years later Trader Foster donated 40 acres and built a log courthouse for a townsite on Wildcat Creek. The village took the name of Kokomo from an Indian who frequented the settlement. History sometimes describes Indian Kokomo as an honorable and courageous chief, sometimes as a common coon-hunting, root-digging, rum-loving, shiftless, abusive no-account...
...pretty little town in the lush Genesee Valley of western New York. Around it lie the broad acres of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., onetime (1925-27) U. S. Senator and now a Representative whose family in the old days could travel all the way to Rochester, 30 mi. north, without setting foot off its own land. Depression has dealt lightly with Geneseo's 2,260 inhabitants, who work on farms or in the cannery & jam factory, or teach in the State Normal School, and deposit their money in the Wadsworth bank. Thriving seat of Livingston County, the town supports...
...ocean rescues-25 men from the British freighter Antinoe in 1926, 32 men from the Italian freighter Florida in 1929. Month ago, as skipper of the S. S. Washington, he sent out a lifeboat to pick up the survivors of a cinema-chartered plane which crashed 600 mi. at sea, while trying to take off newsreels of King Alexander's assassination (TIME, Oct. 22). For that rescue Captain Fried, standing last week for the last time in the shadow of the Washington's funnels, received his company's distinguished service gold medal from Vice President...
Furiously he started the 800-mi. trek back. Sickness, starvation, bad weather ground him and his four companions down. Evans collapsed, lost his mind, died. One day Oates said, "I am just going outside and may be some time." He never came back. His sacrifice was in vain. In November 1912, a searching party found Scott's tent, half buried in snow, a few miles from the last route camp. The three bodies were in their sleeping bags...
...train up free spirits who could live comfortably by their creed the Russells decided they must begin early. In 1927, with their own son and daughter as a nucleus, they started an ultra-progressive school on an isolated woodland in Hampshire 60 mi. from London. The school, now run entirely by Dora Russell, has about 22 pupils, aged 2 to 18. The youngsters study when and what they please. Weather permitting, they romp stark naked. They may say anything they like, get honest answers to any question. They are never coerced, never punished...