Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1927 — Page 3

Kfe Story Os Captain 1 Charles A. Lindbergh

■w york-to-paris flyer is no super.! I MAN, BUT JUST A NORMAL AMERICAN YOUTH who has three outstand, ing characteristics, namely.com. I PLETE MASTERY OF HIMSELF. DIREC- ! TION IN LIFE AND GREAT COURAGE.

V.' D- Tracy, United Press ytnff f’orrespondenj.) jnpyright 1927 by United Press) K, 1!|( . people of Little Falls. Minn. I&L,. , ess <>f Chalies A. Lindbergh ! jLio.or to Paris Is but, a develop K t of the days when be would aloft a toy balloon or a para-1 Hte he had made himself and it float farther than any other k>y could make one float. according to one boyhood when Charles had proved the eJciency of his latest effort in the of parachutes, he would hol : bis bicycle into a tree, make it fait and climb onto it, sitting there Wiaps for hours dreaming that he SL flying off across the skies—mnybe .ven then dreaming he was flylag to France. ■■Cli.irlie always was experimenting wiftl anything that pertained to flyjag one friend of his school days Ib| Little Falls said. B'lb experimented with paraehii'is 1 toy balloons and would make toy ■ruehutes weighted with stones or •on bars, hurl them high into the Ar, sometimes from out of a tree top, watch them sail away. His parakales would sail sometimes for 'weeks and were he envy of all his Wends. His success so intrigued the |Htcies of the boys of Little Falls la: soon he. had them all busy making parachutes and trying to duplicate his successes. But no matter hi w good the other boys could build ■eni. he could do better. B “He used to spend much time by ■ms.-ls, -puttering and tinkering with at hinery and with his bicycle. But [then the flying dreams seized him hardest he used to hoist his ■cycle into a fallen tree, secure It to the branches, climb onto it ,'fhn.l play that he was flying.” ■ Congressman Lindbergh, Charjes’ bought his son a bicycle when was about 10 years of ago ■«t.l he soon became a familiar sipht at breakneck pace through Mghe village, cap on backwards and mut-distancing all the other boys who ‘ ®r,eil to follow him. I Rut a bicycle became too slow for lad whose soul even then seemyearning to annihilate space, and ■When he was aged 15, he bought his ■first motorcycle. He rode it at top ■speed, while citizens often held their ■breath as he whirled by. | Next caure'Tm automobile. His ■first car was an old Saxon touring ■-car which he brought from Charles ■Farrow, still an automobile sales- ■ man in Little Falls. ‘T iecall vividly teaching young ■ Lindbergh to drive,’’ said Farrow. ■“I took him out one morning and by ■ night he was an expert driver. He ■ took to it like a duck to water and ■ learned 1t all in one day.” I Charlie drove the automobile as he B hail ridden his motorcycle and his B bicycle, at, a furious pace. Yet in all B his driving he never had an accident. | In fact, Lindbergh never has had an I accident of any* ikjnd sufficiently I serious to require the attention of a I physician. The only time a doctor I has ever attended him was when he ■ had the measles in early childhood. When Lindbergh was 15 years old I he became irritated by the difficul- : ties he had each day while bringing the cows in from pasture, in crossing a creek, about 30 feet wide, which flowed through the Lindbergh farm. He had to pick his way carefully across on the stones —or else get wet. So he set about in typical fashion to overcome the difficulty. He gathered together a quanity of fence wire and aoine timber and in a week he had erected without help from anyone, a miniature suspension bridge 30 feet Jong, across the stream. The bridge Was anchored to trees and fence posts and instead of being a rudely built affair, was done according to approve'i engineering practice throughout. At high school Charlie was a peculiar student, he finished his course in three years, being graduated in 19 18, but at no time did he take any Part in any school activities, social or athletic. He was careless of his ant ] j,i s f avor jt e .costume at home was a pair of well worn overalls. 'He never paid any attention to •he girls in school,” Miss Bertha Ruthwell, who was a classmate in h:gh school, said, “And the girls never paid any attention to him because he never spruced up." Those who knew him at the University of Wisconsin told much the same story. ® 'He tore around wildly on a motorcycle while at the university,” one

— —' — — - — X * ■ classmate there said, "As a protest against the social life of the college"] “I never knew Charlie Lindbergh to wear a white shirt," said a kiry who knew him at the university. • | It is interesting to note the change I which came over Lindbergh in that re- . | gard for while he was at Curtiss I Field, New York, making ready to . I fly to Paris his immaculate costume was always noticeable and even after flying from St. Louis he stepped , from his plane without, a spot of , grease on his clothing and with a I stiff coVar set off by a tie not a fraction of an inch askew. , Friends of Lindbergh's father re- , member the boy as Congressman . Lindbergh's constant companion and I . they say that seldom are father and son seen who could be more alike. They recall that at the age of 10 years Charlie started out with his , father on a canoe trip which occupied an entire summer. They launch- , ed their canoe at the headwaters of . the Mississippi river and followed . the stream southward to its mouth — , just Ute two of them paddling along in the frail boat. “Charlie was just like his father.” , said Carl Bolander, real estate deal- ! er and close friend of the elder' , Lindbergh. "Congressman Lindbergh , was quiet, reticent and inclined to play a lone hand. He was a man of great determination and of great , courage.” To people in Little Falls it was interesting to note that the night be-' fore Lindbergh started for Paris he ( slept but about three hours. "Just like his father.” they said. ’ “That’s an inherited characteristic. > When his father had important work in hand he forgot about sleep, working day and night almost without rest for days at a time." , o Indiana Writers Meet At Culver Academy 1 Culver, Ind., June 6 —Hoosierdom’s • annual literary festival is under way 1 today on the campus of Culver Military Academy, which is host so" the occasion. About SOO Indiana writers, ' educators, editors, artists, and others ' engaged in the literary trades are here. ' in addition to the thousands or more ’ visitors who came primarily for the Culver commencement exercises, which began today. A special train arrived shortly be- ' fore noon, bringing a party of one hundred from Chieagc'e Indiana colony. New York is represented by a half dozen or more Hoosiers ex-pat- : riates, now famous in the book and ' newspaper world. The program was opened by a recep--1 tion at 10 o’clock. At noon the 1 ment of Cunliver cadets turned out on the parade field and marched in review past the notables who were the i I guests of honor. After a luncheon in the Academy gardans, the guests assembled on the ' shore of Lake Maxinkuckee for the Literary Court of Honor, where the , 23 prize winners in the all-state fine- , arts tournament were presented to the most noted guests. I Many Jewels Stolen ’ New Yor. June 6 — (UP) — Jewel ' thieves operating in New York metro--1 politan area today brought their total ■ loot to more than a quarter of a mil- ’ lion dollars in less than a week when • they stole gems valued at SIOO,OOO ’ from the home of Carl Schmidlott at 1 Mill Neck, near Oyster Bay, Long 1 Island. 1 The robbery occurred between 1:00 1 and 7:00 a. m., according to reports to police. ’ 1 Stone Age Cave Found Near Moscow Moscow (United Press)—The cave , of a Stone Age family has been uni earthed in the peat bogs of the Moscow • Province, ten feet under the ground. 1 Clay dishes and a rough wall, built i „p and almost blocking the entrance] to the cave, attracted the attention | . of peat diggers and a group ol scientists, sent from Moscow to investigate, i established the find as a human habii tation of the Neolithic Age. Further i exploration is being carried on in the hope of finding more implements. ' ——oHARD COAL Excellent quality, very low summer prices. Leave us your order now before advance in CARROLL COAL & COKE CO.

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• FAIL IN LONG FLIGHT BSSWW a i I - 'i $ 1 v 11,/— , a * i - I w ofe wiw ■k- i - 1 dU t ; ioi M ■ L W >ll. - ‘1 * Efforts of Lieutenants C. R. Carr (left), and L. M. S. Gillman (right), to fly from London to India xvithout a stop has ended in failure. The men tvere rescued from the waters of the Persian Gulf, but their plane, which yvas forced down, is a total wreck. —

Farmers May Get Pay For Work In Fighting European Corn Borer Indianapolis, June 6—(llP) —Plans for payment of Indiana farmers foi work in clearing their land of corn stubble under supervision of the state entomologist in the fight against the European corn borer, will be dis cussed at a meeting at Toledo today Erank W. Wallace will represent Indiana at the conference and L. N. WortWey, federal administrator of corn borer control and E. F. Woods, director of scientific research will rep resent the U. S. government. A misunderstanding as to whether i farmers who "handpicked" their fields ' would be allowed the government pay lof $2 an acre has arisen, Wallace said. Government regulations require that his be done, but according to the I entomologist a section of several thousand acres in Allen county was not cared for in this way. Wallace contends that the pay should be given regardless of his re.strict ion. I o U. S. Currency To Be Made Smaller ' Washington, June G—V. S. paper money is to be smaller. Secretary of Treasury Mellon announced he had apI proved a proposal to make bills G 1-8 x I 2 5-8 inches, about the size of Phil--1 ippine currency and one-third smaller than the present money. Though Ulis reduction, public convenience will be served, Mellon said, while the cost of paper production and 1 other factors will be decreased $2,000,1 000 annually. I The new one-dollar bills will carry 'a portrait of George Washington and the two-dcllar bills one of Thomas Jefferson. The new money, according to Mellon, will fit better in the pocket book, but its spending qualities will not be altered. ! o--Historic St. Louis Morgue Is Abandoned St. Louis, Mo., June 6 — (United Press)—The old morgue, for more than a half century St. Louis' house of death, has been abandoned to its ghosts. The last scene in thousands of tragedies, the old building has gone the inevitable way of the victims it housed. It will be razed to make way for a new $1,000,000 municipal service buil'ding. I The morgue started its gruesome career in June, 1875, as one of a group of public buildings, housing courts and a jail. SI. Louis was then a hardy river town where justice was rapid. | One room in the morgue housed I gallows, an efficient arrangiement. The scaffold has long since been removed but many of the morgue’s oldest ghosts bear the marks of hemp. In those early days the morgue might have been impressive. Now it is a grimy little building, crouched 'in the shadow of surrounding skyscrapers. It looks its part as a catchall for human debris. Even the glamor of violence has been taken from it. In recent years , its patrons were largely the victims / of traffic aediden'tsy. Occasiouia<ly |

the body of a slain gangster enlivened its routine. But for Cal, an aged negro employe, there was none to regret the abandonment of the morgue this spring. He alone seemed to enjoy the passing show in which death was always the star, the show now robbed of its) old backdrop. “I’ve seen a lot of ’em since I •ame here,” ruminated Cal when the morgue moved to temporary quarters n the city hospital. "Ten thousand of them at least.” "W e used to have one a day at first but last year we averaged more than hree. There are a lot more accidents nowadays with automobiles so common. "The fbigpest month for murders was June, 1924. We had twenty that month, mostly gangsters. They all end up here. Hardly one of ’em more than 24 years old either.” The new municipal service building is part of an extensive program of construction started here. Virtually all public buildings are to be replaocd. o Five Children Crushed By Falling Boulder Moscow (United Press)— Five children were crushed to death near the village of Doshalti when a great boulder. under which they were taking shelter during a rain storm, was loosened by the downpour and fell on them Searching parties sought the missing children for several days before their bodies were discovered, almost hidden under the mass of granite. The rock, weighing several tons, had tn be lifted before their bodies could be taken out, o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pay*

Bad Stomach Caused Fearful Suffering Was Bloated, Nervous, Sleepless and Dizzy. Entirely Well Now. “I suffered with a breakdown five years ago. It just seemed as if everything was the matter with me. I had blood pressure, a bad stomach, constipation, and I was so nervous I would just shake. I could not sleep at night. My nerves just jumped. My stomach would bloat and cramp and the gas would press back my heart till I thought maybe I had organic heart trouble. My bowels would hardly move even with a laxative, and never without one. I had dizzy spells and would stagger and almost fall. I did not have any appetite, and what I did eat wouldn't stay down. I tried different medicines, but only got a little relief. Then hearing from friends about Viuna, I started taking it. Right from the first it helped me, and now I feel fine, as good as I ever did in my life, I eat anything and everything, have, a good appetite, my bowels are in good shape, my nervousness is practically gone. I am a man 70 years of age, and if Viuna helps everyone like it has me, it sure is wonderful.” —Alexander Black, Gaston, Ind. , , Viuna acta promptly on sluggish bowels, lazy liver auil weak kidneys. It purities the blood, clears the akin, restores appetite and digestion, and brings new strength and energy to the whole body. Take a bottle on trial. Then if you're not glad you tried Viuna, your inonev will be refunded. »1 at druggists, or niiiiled postpaid by Iceland Medicine Co., Indianapolis, Ind. VIUNA The vegetable regulator Sold By j CALLOW & KOHNE I

FLOOD CONTROL ACTION URGENT Resolution Urging Immediate Action By (Government Js Adopted Chicagu, June (i (UP)—-Flood control was declared to be a government problem and bridling of the Mississippi one in which the government should take Immediate action by the resolutions committee in reporting to the flood control congress Saturday. The resolution is expected to be adopted. The committee recommended that President Coolidge be requested to call a conference formed in conjunction with all governmental agencies to work out a comprehensive plan for permanent flood control. This conference, the report said, should include army engineers, civil engineers, conservationists, geologists, financiers, agriculturists and other experts representing the various interests. "We recommend that conference petition the president and congress to energetically and immediately carry to a speedy conclusion complete and effective measures for permanent flood control of the Mississippi river and till its tributaries,” the report said. U. S. Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana, was chairman of the committee. NOTICE The person who stole wash tub and gasoline from car on Fifth street was positively seen and recognized. To avoid trouble return same at once to owner. 132t2x o Ladies, Gents, Childrens hair cutting, price 30c, every day except Saturday. Hill & Young, first door south of Peoples Loan and Trust Co. 80tf lAshbaucher’s : FURNACES 1; LIGHTNING RODS 1 SPOUTING SLATE ROOFING !; Phone 765 or 739 :1

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Swiss Cheese is Being Bootlegged Here; Expert Here To Stop Practice ;

New York, Juno C iI.NSi Warning that bootleg Swiss chci ►> Is being imported Inlo Amellcu lias been l‘tsued here liy Dr. Maillice Lusti-iibi-rgor of Herne, Switzerland, who has arrive I hole to undeiliikc n national advertising campaign to eonect the ev'l. Dr. Lustenberger Is here in the int.routs of the Swiss Cheese As loi igtl< n < f Switzerland. "These imp nations last year aniounleil to approximately J.uou.uuo pounds, the greater pait of which h 1 been sold as Imported Swiss i lit e-e and which Hu- public assumed ha I been made in Switzerland." Dr Lustenberger said "While mnt of the

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i-ht-csp is good, It doss not linvn the • aromatic Alpine flavor <>f reiwiin* Swiss. "It is n mnttei' of great concern to " s '• Swltzoi laud that our cheese shout 1 nr t • lie mlsrepresi nted in the United States — which Is our best customer. Also, it is not fair to the American public.” w — —- -o — - —- ■■ llainiiioiid Police arc trying to find thieves who took SHo worth of file- “ works from a city garage. Peru Edward (I. Marbruger, city . clerk, reports thut he issued 20 marriage licenses in May. as against 17 in the 19211 month, and that three di- » vorce complaints were filed this year, eiiiiiputed with two last year. ,