Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1927 — Page 3

WILL BEAUTIFY LINCOLN HOME Lincoln Union To Spend $1,265,000 In Beautifying Old Home Indianapolis, Juno 11—(UP)- A memorial flaupole 165 feet high will cast j lt« shadow over the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln near Lincoln City. This will •»” <h e Ol >>y monument ' where the mother of Lincoln Is buried but the Indiana Lincoln union will spend $1,285,000 in beautifying the stir rounding territory and restoring the Martyr President's home to its original appearance. In an address to Indiana Lincoln union members at a meeting here Wednesday night, Col. Richard Lieber, head of the state depailntent of conI servation, explained the plans. "From the beginning" lie said. "It was plain to us that the main area, the sanctuary which includes the site of I Jincoln'B cabin and his mother's grave should be freed of every petty, distarcting alien, self-assertive object. For that reason the present state high way should be carried south and east of the Sanctuary at Lincoln City and i the branch railroad now giseeting it I should be carried east and North." . ... - ——Q Physicians Disagree On Earl Carroll’s Condition Atlant, Ga., June 11 — (United Press)—Condition of Earl Carroll, spending his second day behind prison bars, continued a matter of controversy here today. Following are the conflicting opinions of various interested persons on the seriousness of the former theatI rical producer’s gllness - Warden John Snook —"We may I have him out in the prison yard in a i few weeks. His appetite seems excellent. I believe bringing him here was the best thing for him. He will I be less obsessed with worries than he was at Greenville." Dr. C. T. Mellans, penitentiary . physician—“ Carroll's condition is as good as can be expected. He stood I his trip well.” Dr. Henry M. McGehee, Atlanta ! physician—“l am worried but prefer I at this time not to comment furthI er.” Norman Carroll, the prisoner’s | brother —“I’m afraid it’s all over now. Earl will never »leavls (that plaice j alive. They are not giving him pro- ■ per attention. All we can do is hope I and pray." Carroll is under sentence of one ■ year in the penitentiary for perjury. ; a charge growing out*of investigation i into his now famous "Bathutb Party" in New York at which Joyce Hawley was said to have bathed in chami pagne. ——• o George Dale’s Wife Carries On Ills Fight .;um L ~, . ■,■.. n the beginning of George Dale's prison I term only a few days away, Mrs. Dale, f wife of the Muncie editor who defied Judge Clarence Dearth, today is conI tinuing a desperate, Single-Handed l fight to save her husband from prison. She is awaiting the effect of her J latest appeal to Governor Jackson i for clemency, which she presented yesterday. The petition was signed by Mrs. [ Dale and Joseph Davis, prosecutor of I Delaware county, who declares in it I that he believes the 90-day sentence i against the editor is unjust and that Dale already has suffered enough. The petition also says tnat the truth of the charges Dale made against Judge Dearth, who sentenced him, was brought out in the Dearth impeachment proceedings in the state I senate. o •Jardine Has Hopes For Higher Price For Wheat Washington, June 11 —(UP) —Hope for better prices for wheat than have hitherto prevailed was held out today by Secretary of Agriculture Jardine after a call at the white house. He pointed out that the yield this year will be lower than last year’s. Estimates had indicated, he said, that the crop would be 33,000,001) bushels less than a year ago, but new estimates soon to be made will swell this diminution. The crop shortage, he added, will naturally tend to increase wheat prices. "There has been some drought in Oklahoma and Colorado," he said. “In other parts of the west which I have, visited on a recent trip the crop is good. “I believe the price of wheat now is a crop price." o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays

Pictures Recount Milestones In Life Os Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Hero Os The Day r * . ’ ' _ * / 'a -.< .J*** ’’l ‘fw I, H K- Tft” '■ / fc? U . W-Ydß y ■ UM C.htuies Augustus Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Mich., on February 2. 1902, to Mrs. Evangeline Land Lindbergh, the wife of Charles 11. Lindbergh, a farmer, and later Congressman, of Little Falls. Minn. Pictures above show C.harles at an early age, his mother, and his late father, and the young man in his first d lys tis an aviator. Four parachute leaps saved his life on lour different times, and he won attention by his ski'll in handling a machine.

.'l^l -mb tei The lure of the New York-to-Paris flight got into Lindbergh, and on May 21 he hopped oil to Paris, lie made the flight .don without wireless and with no reserve rations. He succeeded, and became the world’s hero overnight. France. Belgium and England paid him tribute, and now America honors him. Picture shows how lie appeared over Paris, a closeup, and part of one of the many, enthusiastic mobs that besieged him.

Life Story Os Captain Charles A. Lindbergh NEW YORK-TO-PARIS FLYER IS NO SUPERMAN, BUT JUST A NORMAL AMERICAN YOUTH WHO HAS THREE OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS, NAMELY, COMPLETE MASTERY OF HIMSELF, DIRECTION IN LIFE AND GREAT COURAGE.

By Morris De Haven Tracy (U. P. Staff Correspondent) (Copyright 1927 by United Press) The fall of 1925 found Charles A. Lindbergh a free lance aviator at the Lambert Flying Field, St. Louis. One afternoon he was called upon to take up a new plane for a test flight. 'I he plane flew satisfactorily for a time and then Lindbergh began putting it through a series of loops, and turns, designed to prove the air-worthiness of the machine. At 2,500 feet Lindbergh sent the plane into a tail spin.* It came spinning down but as it approached the earth it failed to respond to the controls and continued its giddy plunge. Lindbergh stayed with the ship, fighting to get it righted again, until only 250 feet from the ground. Then he quickly leaped from the plane and came swinging down in a parachute, landing on his back with terrific force, in a garden adjoining the flying field and the plane only a few yards away. The drop had been so short the parachute had not had time to break the fall entirely and when flying field attendants came up, Lindbergh's nose was bleeding and they feared he was severely injured. “Defective design somewhere," spoke up Lindbergh. "I couldn t come out of that tail spin. Little close too.” He dusted himself off, rested an hour and went up again to test a second plane for “defective design. That was second escape by parachute Lindbergh had had from a disabled plane. Later he had two others and his record in the war department at Washington shows he is the only aviator in this ountry who has had four such escapes. Lindbergh had come to Lambert

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field from Kelly Field Texas, where he had completed his course at the army advanced flying school, March 15,"1925. and had neon rated as a pilot and given a commission as a second I lieutenant in the army air corps reserve. On receiving his , commission . he outfitted himself in the uniform of his rank, was photographed and tin■til he joined the Missouri National ' guard approximately a year later, tnought no more of military flying. A glance through his record at Kelly field shows that his standing there was remarkable. In 17 of the 24' subjects in which he was examined, his standing was rated as "excellent," in five as “very good" and in one, property accounting, as "far." In military law, army regulations field service regulations, guard, aerodynamics, metrology, handling of the Lewis machine gun, and synchronizing gears he had an average of 99 out of a possible 100. In subjects ' having to do with navigation and with radio his marks were around 90. In only six subjects was be below 90. On leaving Kelly field he headed for St. Louis, a place he had visited once previously. That was in October, 1923 when he arrived alone and unheralded—as always—in. a .decrepit appearing old biplane and entered it in the International Air Races. He then had been flying less than two years. A few days after the races Harlan Guerijey, Lindbergh's flying mate, was injured in a parachute jump from Lindbergh's plane and Lindbergh remained in St. Louis until Guernex. recovered, selling his plane in the .meantime, and buying the old Standard bi-plane in which he arrived at Brooks Field, Texas, the next year for his army training. It was while free-lancing at Lam-

LINDY GETS THE FIRST 9* ♦ i***’*' ♦ * V L MHMMMMI A/" " Jb ■ ,/jOOiR Bsßwwfex&l . ... . . Jl - I B ® 8 ! .’Wefel’S'?^W****® ■ BhM|S& “... ih»' .'>M ■ J^WOri * I V-Wk- »• . -•■•. •' “*- Here is the Distinguished Flying Cross, the (iovernnu nfs newest and highest award in aviation. I'he first one struck will be presented to Charles A. Lindbergh by President Coolidge. Hie Pan-American Goodwill fliers will get_Jh< _awardjaler bert field in 1925 that Lindbergh made j bed so it wouhl collapse' about the his connection with the Robertson lime a comrade tried to sleep in it. Aircraft Corporation, which led him He never seined too tired after a into the air-mail service and Indirect-. long trip to turn loose his pranks on ly played a patt in his crowning ven- whoever might appeal to him as a tore, the flight to Paris. ; likely victim. He joined a group of brother avia- it was at this time that Lindbergh tors in maintaining bachelor quarters J became the jaunty, well dres.-md aviain a little frame house near the flying tor, when he was (lying, that Im prov field. There he settled down to thejed to bo the evening lie arrived in exacting life of a commercial aviator. New York from SI. Louis and startHe was up early, slept when he could, led the nations blase metropolis with and always subpect to call. But lite his faultless a’tire. But when he was was not all work. Aviators, when not not in his flying costume, he still flying, are a light hearted crew who seemed the gangling country boy he worry little and Lindbergh, when not was in 1921 when ho arrived at Linemployed, was usually busy at his coin, Nebraska and began learning to favorite diversion, playing practical fly. He usually wore blue serge, and jokes He delighted in loosening up a ' regardless of how carefully his clothes •I

LINDBERGH BROADCASTS HELLO TO MILLIONS FROM WASHINGTON B iol nr uIbKI I II BMBBIHBB I II Charles Lindbergh as he appeared broadcasting a message of greeting Io millions of waiting radio fans alter his arrival in Washington. LINDBERGH IN MOTHER’S ARMS 't his is the stirring scene witnessed by those who met Cliarh s Lindbergh’s incoming ship at Washinkion. He is seen in the arms of his mother, Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh.

Here’s Thumbnail History Os Charles A. Lindbergh

1901— Evangeline Lodge Land, of Detroit, njarried to Charles H • Limfbergh, latpr congressman, of Little Falls, Minn., where she wont as a school teacher. 1902— February 2. son born to Mrs. Lindbergh wh lent the borne of her mother. No. 258 Forest avenue. Detroit. Miih. Christened Charles Augustus. 1910 Charles, now fourteen, exhibits interest in things mechanical. and after an hour's instruct on. runs an automobile. 191 - Was graduat/'d from high school with no unusually high honors. Entered University of Wisconsin. 1920—Quit the I T niversity of Wis- ... ■ i mailt the profe-'loi-s a,i ii« knew." 1921 Having been more interested in av’ation than in college, he • ntered a l ying school at Lincoln. Neb. Started poorly as a pilot until bis first solo flight, when he seemed to dr/elop an unusual air souse. 1922 Toured western United States, with only short school'ng in avia-1 Hon, as a stunt and advertising Her. 1923 —Bought bis first p’ane nt an; army savage sale at Americus,, Ga. It was Curtis "Jennie." Il": ! continued his ciireor as a stunt | I flier. [1924 March 14. Enlisted ns cadet | at Kelly Flying Field, Texas. 1925- March (’>. Locked planes wth | another pilot while in combat practice over Kelly Field. Both took I to parachutes and wore saved, though ther planes tumbled a 1 mass of wreckage. might have been selected, his suit always seemed too small and his arms too long. His commercial flying was varied | that summer when he and PhilMp 1’ I Love, who had been a class mat® al | Kelly field flew to Chi ago in DH-ll planes, blazing the trail for the St. , to Chicago air mail route. *whlch later he was destined to fly with the mails. Ho joined the One Hundred Tenth Missouri Aviation Squadron, National Guard, at that time, became flight | commander and that was when he obtained his rank of captain, the rank •which he still holds. April 15, 1925. Lindbergh became the "Flying Mail .Vian" when lie made his first fligh over the Chicago-St. Louis air-mail route with United States mai ! . During the following winter he and Thos. P. Nelson, also a graduate of the Kelly Field, army flying school, made aviation history with 1 their night flying between those two cities. The route was not lighted in any way. They flew just-as Lindbergh

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1925—October 19. Having been graduated from the Army Flying School, ami being given a cominisson in the reserve, Lindbergh obtained empToyment with the Roirertsou Aircraft Corporation, of St. Louis. 1925 December 10. Appointed captain tn the Missouri National Guard. * 1926 Apr! 15. Inaugurated the Chicago-St. Louis airmail route. ]c,26 —June 2. Saved life again in second parachute drop, this time over Bridgeton Field. St Lou s. 1926 September 16. Pintle ran out of gas in fog; dropped in paraiiiuie. dodging gliding plane, to ground near Ottawa, 11l ■ ■ - 150 fe<t off ground; saved life by skillful handling in landing. 1926 November 3. Broke record for forced parachute jump when lie dropped 13.000 feet through fog over Peoria, 111., after running out of gas. 1927 May 21. Hopped off from Roosevelt Field. Long Island at 7:52 a. m. 1927 May 22. Landed at Le Bour1 get Field. Paris, at 5:21 p. m. (New York time.) 1927 May 23- Plunged into a triumphal vis t that took him before the kings of Belgium and England, the officials of France, and brought civilian Europe tn his feet. 11927 .lune 1. Sails for America on | Memphis. 1'127 .lune IL One of the greatest recent'ons in history awhits h'm in Washington; to be followed by Ceremonies in New York and St. Lottis. flew into Paris, with unlighted planes. No matter what the weather Lindbergh always seemed ready to go. He would lake the air with the mail when no one (‘lse cared to go aloft and at the end of the winter his record show ed that he had delivered the mail at its destination with as great regularity as had fliers on many of the welllighted routes. Fog. snow and sleet all were itnet and overcome by him and It was in this treacherous flying that he gained much of the skill which permitted hith to outwit a sleet storm in the North Atlantic while flying to Paris. New Harbor To Be Opened At Buffington, Indiana Gary, Ind., June 11 — (UP) — VivePresident Charles Gates Dawes, form- : ally will open Buffington Harbor, ’ Gary's second lake port, next Thurs- ' day afternoon. * -O—— —- '—— i Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pay*