Quarterly Newsletter of the Ravenswood/LakeView Historical Association FALL,/VVINTER2013

INQIIRING GEr READYFOR THE 2014 RLVHA HISToRY CoNTEST Attention local students and teaclters! The Ravenswood Lake View Historical Associa- tion, in cooperationwith the Metro History Fair, will again be looking for entries in all media (essays,exhibits, video presentations etc.) Students!Ask your socialscience teachers and principals after the holidays. ffiryfu Patrick Butler, presidentof the Anyoneknow the originaluse of thisbuilding at 3626 N. Ravenswood/LakeView Historical Association,will Halsted?Looks too big for a bike shop.Could it havebeen give the next in the RLV-rur-s an auto showroomduring the 1920s?(see inset) book talk series2 p.m. Sat- lf you know,email: patbutlerl [email protected] urday, Nov. 16, in the Sulzer Library Auditorium, 4455 N. Lincoln. In addition to discussing AuthorPatrick Butler his Hidden Historyt af Rauen- swood/I-ake View, the long- Library, 6000 N. Broadway. time North Side newspaper at 11a.m. reporter will sign copies of His appearanceis part of the book, which will be on an ongoing series of talks salebefore and after the pro- by local authors on various gram. facetsof North Side history. The event is jointly spon- Previous speakers included sored by the Sulzer Library former 44th Vard Ald. Dick and the RL\TIA. Simpson, crime chronicler Butler has served more Richard Lindberg, and Da- than a decadeas the local his- vid \7itter, author of Oldest torical society president and Chicago,detailing the city's was featured on the North oldest businesses,schools SideNeighbors cable TV show (Lake View High School), DIDYOU KNOW... for severalyears. churches, oldest ballpark In what was consideredone of the greatestengineering feats Butler will also hold a (\Trigley Field), oldestnight- of the 1920s,Our Ladyof Mount CarmelChurch was cut book signing for his just- club (Green Mill), and even in half,turned around and movedacross Ashland Avenue releasedsecond book, Hid- the oldest continuously-op- when the city widened the street. Photo by PatrickButler den Historl of Edgewaterand erating Chinese restaurant, i (Jptownat 11 a.m. that same the Orange Garden. :l t*-.****.*'=- day at the EdgewaterPublic At-y tribunal hands homegrown traitor the shock of his life! Deseruedllbut forgotten todal is l-,ake settler. He appointed \Talter Kappe, View's own BenedictArnold. But unlike one of his American specialists from GeorgelYashingtonl onetime fauoite general, the agencyt division, as com- former Lane Tech/Lake View high school mander of the operation. Kappe was a studentHerbert Haupt didn'tget awaltwitb it longtime Nazi who had lived in America Here'sthe account of tbe lWorldIVar II traitor 12 years. Canaris and Kappe hatched thatwan St. Lukel Acad.erytISteuen Beck an the idea to destroy Americat manufac- RLVHA hi$orl award. turing industry, hoping to slow.down 1942. Ow world wasat war. American attacks on Germany. occupied all of France,Austria, Poland, He chose two leaders for his opera- Lithuania, Estonia, Czechoslovakia, tion, John George Dasch and Edward Hungary, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Kerling. Dasch's team was instructed parts of the Soviet lJnion, Denmark, to attack the hydroelectric plants at Ni- Belgium, Norway, Luxembourg, and agara Falls, the canal locks on the Ohio parts of North Africa. River and the Aluminum Company of The Allies were in retreat, Russiawas America factories in , Tennes- trying to keep its capital, Moscow, safe seeand . Theapartment building at2235 N. Fre- from German attacks. Unknown to Kerlingt team was to attack a rail- mont where HerbertHaupt and his fam- many, Germany akeadyhad its eye on road station in Newark, N.J., Horse- ily were arrestedafter the local high America.V4ren the U.b. finally entered shoe Bend in Pennsylvania,and the schooldropout was arrestedalong with sent here.to the war after the bombing of PearlHar- canallocks in St. Louis and . ::I:" ::!:i l"ut,i..:ub9i"urs bor,Hitler knew America was well de- l':]lltl!,"ltescould mountY-s-5:I:1.!:!::Ji"ji an rnvaslonol tne uer- - ,, , ,4, T:t hetuiaize- (rne u'r' wasoutot Americancilizen)wasexecutedforlrea- f:':::lJ:|. LaheVieu-*Fo*ithh"lpfrom bomberrange,J son'PhotobyPatrickButler rr., r,.yr., ,, and nls nlgn Lommancl^ looKeor.^r friendsandsomefamilymilbers- -Hrtler , carry out a teffortsm for strategie. to d-.rtroy America BE- "'!T!*!' the operation itself by calling the FBI's on Arygrica beforeAmeri'can's FoRE America could mobilize. Plot New York field office. Initially, the FBI could get to German\' The German Command chose eight repeatedlydismissed the callsas pranks. men - all of whom had lived or traveled Eventually the agents detained Dasch here- with strong Nazi convictions,to Theyweregivencratesofexplosivesand and capturedthe rest of the team after leastsabotage teams orrer here. Two were $200,000 in American money. 13 hours of questioning. Chicagoans- one from LakeView - who On June 13, Dasch'steam landed near The suspectswere held in a federal with help from friendsand somefamily Amagansett,N.Y.. wheretheywere dis- prisonuntilPresidentFranklinRoosevelt members- attempted to caffy out a ter- covered burying crates by a National decidedto try them by military tribunal. rorism plot on America before Ameri- Guardsmanpatrolling the beach.Dasch The trial beganJuly 9, 1942, with Maj. canscould get to Germany. claimed they were stranded fishermen, Gen. Frank McCoy acting as presid- The l,ake View resident, Herbert but the suspiciousguard ran back for ing judge. Behind closeddoors because Haupt, his gidfriend and his parents, help. The cratesDasch's men just buried of national security considerations, who lived at 2235 N. Fremont, were all were filled with . all eight defendantswere found guilty eventuallycaptured. The other saboteurslanded in Jaclaon- and sentencedto death in the \7ash- The , Germany'sintelligence ville,Fl., onJune 16. Hauptandanother ington, D.C., prison electricchair. For agency,created bombs that looked like man headedfor Chicago.\Mhile there,he their help in the case,Dasch and Ernst lumps of coal to destroy railroads, and got a visit from the U.S. Army who carne Burger,who Dasch said was never fully time-delay sticks that looked like pens to his parents'home to find out why he "involved" in the operation, got their and pencils. Some explosionscould be had not registeredfor the draft. sentencesreduced to life in prison. delayedup to four days. His parentssaid he wasnt there. Their Media coveragecaptivated an Ameri- Adm. \Tilhelm Canaris, chief of the lie and their knowledgeof the sabotage cawondering how German agentscould Abwehr, began "Operation Pastorius," plan led to their imprisonment later on. named for the first German-American Back east,Dasch decidedto sabotage TRIBUNAL seenext page Indians camped out at Cubs Park LONGTIME during summer of '71 RLVHATREASURER - and they uterenltfrom Cleueland HONORED 81,,Patick Batler Man, then making the rounds at (From The Hidden History local theaters. of Rauenswooddz I nke View) But in early July, after a siege lasting severalweeks, police and During the summer of 197I, park workers routed some 50 In- \Trigley Field became the unlikely dians in a predawn raid censured protest site for a handful of Chi- that very evening by the Lake cagot 14,000 American Indians View Citizens Council. who camped out in wigwams Neil Ganz, chairman of the at the front gate to protest poor LVCCT Nike Site Committee, housing conditions. said the forcible eviction solved \X/hile nobody ever explained none of the problemsthat led the what the ballpark had to do with Indians to take over the vacant Indian housing, most of the pro- outpostin the first place. testersquickly headed for the lake- Deputy Patrol Chief Rob- front to seize a recendy-vacated ert Lynslcy said police never Nike missile site in Belmont Har- intended to move out the Indi- bor. At about the same time, an ans,but only provideprotection HeleneOrtega receivesa token of appre- l uneasy nation watched the stand- for work crews being bought in ciation from Ravenswood/LakeView off between angry l,akota Sioux at 5 a.m, to tear down a seven- HistoricalAssociationPresident Fat Butler : and FBI agents at the \Tounded foot high wire fencesurrounding on her retirementafter more than a Knee, S.D,, reservation. the former missile site. The plan decadeof serviceas the group's treasurer. Inside the compound, Indi- changedwhen he Indians resist- Photo by lack Lydon 1 an spokesmen like Mike Chosa ed with clubs,bricks, botdes and vowed not to be intimidated by even firebombs, one of which a sailboatan- the dozens of police surrounding destroyed $10,000 BOARD MTMNINS the abandoned Army installation. chored in the harbor. Rev.David Abrahamson "My heart leaps like an ea- Despite the LVCC's condem- Donna Beck gle," Chosa told a reporter as he nation, the Indians' action drew Nancy Benjamin 2OI2-73 OFFICERS watched the "bluecoats" moving sharpcriticism eYenfrom Fr. Carl PatrickBoyl* Presifu nt, PatrickButler into position, preparing to deal Lezak of St. SebastiantChurch, Dan O'Donnell Vice President, Carolyn BuIl with what looked like Chicago's who after leaving the priesthood Rev.George Rice Secretary,Leah Steele Ron Roenigk first Indian hostilities in nearly a short time servedbriefly as Il- Tieasurer,Jack Lydon Richard Rush 150 years. "Any day is a good day linois director of the American Dick Simpson to die," said Chosa, who had ob- Civil Liberties Union and the viously seen the movie Little Big LVCCT executivedirecror.

TMBUNALfromp.2 and Navy set up anti-submarine nets in altitude bombers, the Navy developed even have gotten into this country and and around U.S. ports. They also set up the Nike Ajax rocket to fend off inter- fearingmore attacksmight come. Amer- coastal mortars and minefields. continentalmissiles. ica was on high alert, which led to an Following the war, the Beach Patrol The Department of Homeland influx of Army volunteers and a new was no longer used. Coast Guard his- Security- now one of the largestU.S. approach to national defense, as torian Nora Chidlow said the "greatest government agencies- was founded In happenedafter 9-11. impact of Operation Pastorius was the 2002 andencompassesthe CoastGuard In 1941., a year before the Abwehr's ar- creation of 8.000 miles of coastal tele- and responsibility for customs and rival, therewere only sixcoast artillery bat- communication lines. border protection, which makes us tery emplacements,with five more under In 1951, after the realization that better preparedto identify future threats and defend ourselvesagainst them. construction.-When the U.S. got involved mortars and coast artillery would be in World \Var II, the CoastGuard, At-y, ineffbctive against missiles and high