Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1931 — Page 6

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AUTOS TO USE RAIL TUNNEL ANO BRIDGE Plan Only Awaits Approval of Pittsburgh Voters By James Fetzer, VP. Staff Corrnapondent Pittsburgh. Feb <U.R>—A tunnel and bridge which market! the' ent try of the Wabash railroad sys-' tern Into Pittsburgh 25 years ago and precipitated one of the out standing railroad battles, will be. re-vamped for use of automobiles County commissioners have unanimously approved a bond issue for purchase of the tunnel and bridge for 13.000,000 from the Pittsburgh ' and West Virginia railroad. It will be converted into » new traffic toute to ♦south Hills suburbs if vot-] ers.approve. Sale, however, does not indicate the- Pittsburgh and West Virginia, pregpfit owner of the tunnel, is abandoning the Pittsburgh field. I Other facilities will lie arranged | for their terminal here and the 1 company, with completion of the new lli!,000,000 extension to Connellsville, Pa., is preparing for even greater business. Long Fight The Wabash interests, headed by

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George .1. Gould, succeeded in entering Pittsburgh only after a long, i hard fight. Several months' struggle was necessary to get a charter grant from city council. Millions of dollars was spent In l building Hie road, but the expected ' profits were not realized. Since the Taplin brothers of . Cleveland acquired the Pittsburgh and West Virginia several years into. they have pushed projected plans for a new Erie to Baltimore route. This, through the. Great Lakes, would provide a new route j for traffic from the northwest to 'tidewater at Baltimore. Old Dream The Connellsville extension gives the P. and W. Va. connection with the Western Maryland at Connellsville. The P. and W. Va. already has connected with the Wheeling , atfd Lake Erie at Pittsburgh Junction. Through acquisition of the two 1 two lines, for which the p. and W. Va. has applications before the Interstate Commerce Commission, 'the Taplins might realize a dream of years. , Pittsburgh and West Virginia is fighting to establish such a system in the face of double odds. The proposed plan of the Interstate Commerce Commission would assign the P. and W. Va, to the Wabash system along with the Wheeling and Lake Erie, to establish a new short route from St. Louis to New York and a fifth eastern trunk system. The proposed four-trunk line system of the leading eastern railroad executives would assign the P. and W. Va. to the New' York Central,

Tragic Death of Lillian Leilzel Spurs Relatives to Train Successor * * * * * * * * ♦ Although the Rolling Beat of the Snare Drum Has Been Heard for the Last Time by Noted Aerialiste, Family Tradition Will Be Upheld by Her Seven-Year-Old Niece. H iCYiI W |XI I w I I- o .I ji w w ■ • jdp ■4 ' /'im I tW f ■ \ r Uphold! ng\ A I ’ IrWHW / i» *■ m r e - r j/' x J Lillian Leitzel ~ p J 111 j ' j _1 bF T T7.F.T / —LJ

By AI.ICE ALDEN. New York. Feb. 1. —A dark cloud has blotted out a ray of golden i sunshine. The fell hand of death has clutched the dainty form of Lillian Leitzel as she swung in midair and carried her away to the real "big top". And so passes away one of the greatest personages that the circus world has ever known: that circus world where famous families become dynasties with almost royal prerogatives. Every circus addict, both here and in Europe was familiar with the marvellous breathtaking act that the diminutive star staged. Her feat of twisting her body completely over for more than one hundred consecutive turns while suspended in midair by only one arm made her the undisputed queen of the circus world. She was one of the few attractions who worked alone in the ring. No other arts while lovely Lillian did her stuff. Such a thing was never thought of. For Miss Leitzel received the homage that is accorded only to the great regardless of their field of endeavor. Private dressing rooms, maids, secretaries, private cars on trains, all this she received. But it never altered her friendly attitude and camaraderie with even the humblest worker under the "Big Top." It has often been said that Lil-

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jlian Leitzel was a fatalist and that i she expected to die as the result l i of an accident similar to that which 1 occurred at the Valencia Music Hall. Denmark. It has become! known that Miss Leitzel expressed her forebodings about the engagement to her husband. Alfredo Cor- 1 dona, the great Mexican trapeze' artist. But she took the work despite herself and although the rig-, ging was carefully examined the ! I iron bar that she held with one arm while in midair broke and pre- i .cipitated her 50 feet to the ground, with nothing hut a thin rubber mat . to break her fall. Out in Milwaukee, Lillian Leifzel’s brother and his family are mourning the loss of the greatest ■ woman in the world so far as they were concerned. Iler brother, Alfred Pelikan, is art director of the, i public schools there and each year Miss Leitzel used to make the trip • to Milwaukee to see her brother i and her niece. Little seven-year-j old Lillian Leitzel Pelikan has for some time been in strict training II to emulate Aunt Lillian's breathI taking feats. Her aunt presented ; her with a trapeze and during ■ each visit spent much of her time teaching her small niece the tech- ’ nique behind the marvelous Leiti zel body twists and flip-overs. Circus people the. world over i are glad that Lillian has left a suei cesser to her throne as head of the

FOUR SPADE BID MURDER TRIAL TO OPEN TODAY Former U. S. Senator To Defend Accused Woman Kansas City. Mo., Feb. ;t— <U.R) —Accused of slaying her husband in a fit of anger that followed a bridge game incident, Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, 34. was scheduled to go to trial here. Prosecutor James R. Page was expected to seek life imprisonment for the woman who allegedly shot down her husband. John G. Bmnett, Sept. 30, 1323. because he failed to make a four-spade bid. The case will find the accused woman surrounded by a brilliant array of legal talent, including James A. Reed, former United States senator from Missouri. Reed already has won half a dozen minor skirmishes with the prosecution, obtaining or’ -• rntUoiace after another. Star Witness Page, in pleading for conviction on a first degree murder charge, was expected to place strong reliance cn the testimony of Charles Hoffman, who, with his wife, opposed the Bennetts in the bridge game the night of the slaying. Bennett was killed in the expensive apartment he maintained on Kansas City’s south side. Hoffman, brought forward at the preliminary hearing for Mrs. Bennett as the only eye-witness to a shooting that attracted nation-wide attention, testified at that time that he saw Mrs. Bennett shoot her husband. •‘I saw Bennett slap his wife,” he said in answer to Page's questions.

| Pelikan circus dynasty. For Lillian was born a Pelikan. member of a J famous Bohemian circus troupe. Her grandmother, her mother — who survives her and is still working— her aunt were all famous ! aerialists. . 1 Accidents, death itself has not 'deterred the family from continuJ ing to train its youngsters to perform the same breath-taking feats. All of them fatalists, they know that death comes often just as quickly to those who have never | even attempted an ordinary som- . i ersault or tumble. And that is i why little Lillian is training harder than ever. The great Pellkan-Leit- ■ zel tradition must be kept intact, must never be allowed to die. Most of the great circus dynasties have been European. The ■ > Hannafords, the Gentrys are both • famous circus families. The great Jest of all aerialists are the Clark- ■[ cleans, who for over seventy-five ■lyears have been supreme in their ' work and who have maintained an :' unbroken tradition, despite death (and accident, right down to the 11 present day. In America the Ring- ; ling Brothers are the most famous ■: of all aerialists with a long traui- • tion behind them, while the Daven- ■ ports are the greatest of all eques- | trian performers. All these are re- •. garded as royalty by the average •' circus performer to whom Leitzel • ■ was queen.

“1 heard Mrs. Bennett say that only a cur would strike his wife before his guests. I saw Mrs. Bennett firing a pistol at her husband.” Anticipated Trouble Mrs. Hoffman had left the apartment before the shooting, but her husband, fearing trouble, had remained. The quarrel which. preceded the shooting occurred, the prosecution will claim, after Bennett had bid one spade, h‘3 wife had raised him sharply to four spa-’es. and he had gone set one trick. , Defense attorneys are expected to introduce evidence calculated to show that the shooting was not the result of a single quarrel, but of years of bad feeling, which had increased in proportion to Bennett’s income. The intimate family life of Bennett, who was a super-salesman for a Frepch perfume company, probably will lie brought into evidence. After her arrest, Mrs. Bennett told officers that an increase in income fiom S2OO a month to $35,000 a year had robbed her of her loving husband. This story she probably will repeat at the

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INDIANA CITY i TO TAKE PLACE AS INLAND PORT New $500,000 Terminal to Be Dedicated Feb. 27 At Evansville

Evansville. Ind., Feb. i'>.—<UJ»— Evansville will take its place with the inland ports of America with the opening Febntary 27 of the new $500,000 Mead Johnson terminal on 1 the Ohio river. I The'terminal will provide facili-| ties for handling railroad freight I and motor truck shipments from | the middle west on river barges to cities along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic am’ Fui-ific coasts., lhe-’ce to all wot id ports. Future development of water-; ways transportation in the middle] west, it is expected, will be speed-] ed by opening of the new terminal.; Evansville then will assume im-. portance with Pittsburgh, Cincin-] nati, Louisville, St. Louis. Mem-1 phis and New Orleans as major waterways slipping points. Members of President Hoovers cabinet, the governors of Indiana and Kentucky and other public officials have been invited to the dedication ceremonies. The new terminal will have a capacity for handling 1,000,000 tons of freight annually. It will be served directly on the Ohio, river by the American Barge Line Company, the Mississippi Valley Barge Line and independent towing operators. Tracks of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and Louisville and Nashville railroads will enter the terminal and provide reciprocal switching arrangements for freight moving via the Illinois Central, Big Four and Southern Railway systems, all of which serve Evansville. The terminal will provide warehouse storage space of 90,000 square feet on one floor and accommodations for a trainload of 64 cars at one spotting. FISH FRESH FISH! Gerber Meat Market Phone 97 Free Delivery

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