Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1931 — Page 5

(■[ST tells .HfRIIDON » MONASTERY Prelate Brings KW| Students Back I'roin Spain RkJ .n« >'i Spain are itnH^K IC religious o; • danger ~,.,| according to . A. ringing with him 24 spin, monks, who have .■ n o' it theology courses Hi nedict’s College h<>r. left Spain bent religious ami politi l^B es j V''‘tn ■ :-<ulting from overof the King. 1 in Spain, stay- “. of San Million M l.ognmo. the con visitoil by the governor . an 1 a body oi stale tlm priest said. “The Solmid"''! the monks of their and works of art. in ■ o'dck on die night of August 16. monks had gone to lied. M.. 0 ■i" aim noisterous cla porter ' monks. He refused ad- ' i rowd. But the Kiffr -elt as governor of permitted him to resii works of art as he saw ■ sits 'I the monastery.” which far attack and burn I^K-it ■- i 'invents, aided the ■pi*’- m ' si aping from mobs. - Father Gabriel made up of <iti- ' composed o f hired in ■dM . «m> bail the attacks on

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From high government officials to individuals of ■ lesser rank, old classmates to former business associates, tn fact, from all walks of life were drawn the throng of mourners who paid final tribute to Senator Dwight W. Morrow as he was buried at Englewood, N. J., his home. The sorrowing

religious institutions throughout i the country. The party of young monks nar-I rowly escaped probable injury at : the hands of mobs at Barcelona,' the priest said. A guard of state militia was called out to prevent the rioters from burning down the building. EDISON S BODY RESTS IN SHOP LIBRARY TODAY .CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE) ion not to announce such services. The thousands who wish a last view of the man to whom the world is indebted for many of its pleasures and conveniences will be granted that privilege in the inventor's workshop. Among them will be friends of years standing, official representatives of the government, rich and poor, townspeople and neighbors and pilgrims from afar, some of whom already have paid verbal tribute to the man whose death they had awaited for weeks. Their messages have come by wireless, by cable, by telegram wires—so many of them that telegraph companies were instructed last night to stop deliveries until; this morning. Two secretaries have tried vainly to care for the messages transmitted since Edison 1 died in his sleep at 3:24 Sunday, morning. Today the casket was placed in; the laboratory library on a bier in the center of the great silent room. The room is in the three-story main building of the group that com-| prise the laboratory. It is highi ceilinged, some 30 by 45 feet. The i 84-year-old inventor spent years ol research here productive of many I of the world s most useful inven-1 tions. Two tiers of galleries run around , the walls, one above the other. ' These and the space beneath them ; are divided into alcoves tilled with books which deal with thousands of scientific problems and technical I subjects. Mineral and ecetable specimens also are stored there. One alcove contains a cot where Edison would sleep for an hour or so when tired by his persistent and dogged labors. A desk and several chairs are in one end of the room. That was Edison s own little nook, or study corner. One corner is partitioned off for | an office for Charles Edison, son . of the inventor, president of the! Edison laboratories. The center of the room for years had been purposely left bare for reception of visitors. There Edison’s bier, banked with flowers was placed today. Police were on duty to control the crowds. And police continued ' their guard aiound Llewellyn Park, to protect the Edison family from As A Boy Os Eight » ■«y <■ I A boy of only eight years was Thomas A. Edison when this picture was snapped of the man who later became the greatest inventor of all time.

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t crowd which attended the last rites fo* the banker and statesman ts shown as the flower-bedecked cas ket was carried from the First Presbyterian Church in Englewood. Vice-President Curtis (left) represented President Hoover at the funeral. Congress also sent delegations of notables.

Edison’s First Light 0 m ; —-~ —■■ "■ —— ■ p r th SsRM* - tOMI , J** :l1 ■ W v ' l TI ‘■‘“'Aar < ■ 11 ' . ■■■■■Miiirii 1 IF ila? ’ ' ve Thomas A. Edison shown holding Rr . his first incandescent bulb. This was among the most important inventions of the famous electrical wizard. ————————————— n j, , the morbidly curious. Flags on buildings in the nearby ' j communities and West 1 were at half mast, while school ( | t I children, informed of the death of a | the man who had been a familiar I figure to them all. planned to visit p ( I the bier,in groups late today. Sunday the Edisons remained in 1 their home. Contact with the out- ))( , side world was maintained by n( , ■ Arthur L. Walsh, vice president of ■ The Thomas A. Edison Industries. I w . 1 Inc. A few personal friends only | j,,‘ I were received. Death of the man whose inven- ; tions have meant so much to man--1 kind came after a valiant fight ps I against uremic poisoning compliIcated by Bright's disease, diabetes s(] and ulcers of the stomach. . n Edison first became seriously ill ;in .1 ».y. He had been weakened }e for two years by pneumonia. And jn last spring he spent weeks recuperating in Florida. When he return- j{ led he was unable to continue his |je active interest in the laboratories. m He suffered a collapse Oct. 2. j n and soon thereafter newspapers of g) America and foreign countries, and news association correspondents I began their vigil on the Edison estate that the world might have im- ([| . | mediate news of the death. (r That came before dawn Sunday. ] It was flashed to the world by every J” means of communication, many of ( | which Edison had helped perfect. At the bedside was every mem- (u her of tlie family, summoned Satiny ( . ( day night by Dr. Hubert S. Howe, Edison's personal physician. Edison was ready to die, Dr. ,_ 'Howe revealed, as the aged genius * assuied his family he would rather _ leave this world than leave his I burden of age and illness for his v ' loved ones. Dr. Howe also’revealed a cryptic comment of the dying man as he «5 once apparently roused from his j> fatal stupor. Edison, he said, I smiled and spoke: ■ “It is beautiful over there.” ■ Edison often had been attacked I as an atheist, or an agnostic. His ■ religious beliefs were not confined I ■ to then 10-r al t achini'.s. his rel- | E atives revelled with his death. ,Si The inventor believed in a “su- ■ I preme intelligence,” they said. And I he aertbed to no “Orthodox creed.” * He never was an atheist, they said. ■ And they referred to his quotation & from .Matthew XXII: * "Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, ■ tempting Him and saying: ‘Master, ■ which is the greatest commandment ■ in the law?’ Jesus said unto him: 1 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God o with all thy heart and with all thy " ■ soul and with all thy mind. This is _ ! the first and great commandment - a and the second is like unto it. r I Thou shalt love thy neighbor as'

vmo ui uuiauieß. hyself. On these two commandtents hang all the law and the irophets’.” Edison, they said, lived the life hat reference suggested. It was recalled that once an in■rviewer asked him how he exected to spend his life after.death, I any. “Experimenting,” he chuckled. Indianapolis, Oct. 19. — (U.R) — 'homas Edison received some of is early telegraphic training in he union station here, it was realled by persons who knew him .hen he lived here during 1864 and 565. Chailes E. Tweed, 90, is believd to be the only surviving teleraph operator who worked with Idson. He described the young aventor, then early in his teens, s a "dreamer." “All the time Edison worked,” 'weed said, "he seemed to have is mind on something else.” Reports have it that Edison inented the quad system of teleraph sending while experimenting ith discarded instruments here. — West Orange, N. J., Oct. 19.—(U.R) I -Thomas A. Edison had an un liaken belief in the existence of “Supreme intelligence,” Arthur Valsh, one of the late inventor's losest associates, said today in enying reports Edison was an theist or an agnostic. Walsh, as spokesman for the Idison family, related several intances in which tie inventor had udicated his faith in a Superior eing, although he subscribed to o Orthodox religion. On one occasion, Walsh said, he tas seated in the laboratory where Idison was drinking milk when he inventor raised his glass to the ght and remarked reflectively: “But the Almighty is the greatst chemist.” Again, Walsh said when Edison uddenly discovered the key to an uvention, he turned and said: “There must he a Supreme Inelligence. Often when I’m work ig and I seem to be lost, the right bought seems to come to inc and l has no relation to what I have I een thinking about. That makes I te sure that there is a Supreme utelligence which controls us and ives us the key to thought.” 0 I Village To Enforce Curfew West Jefferson. O. (U.R)— Chil I ren of school age are prohibited rom walking the streets after 9 .m„ unless accompanied by adults, nder terms of an order issued by he village council. The order reuired police to enforce the village urfew ordinance “without fear or ivor.” LADIES NIGHT, ADAMS IHEATKE, WED.. OCT. 21. Bead our ad. 1 With The Dictaphone 7 I Edison with the dictaphone which he invented—a picture made many i years ago when the instrument was j developed.

SWEDE BUILDS PONTOONS TO RAISE SUBS| Invention Draws Attention Os World’s Naval Experts Stockholm, —(UP) —A new device for the salvaging of sunken submarines and their crews has | been patented by a Swedish civil j engineer, Ragnar Blomquist. It consists of a number of folding pontoons built into the hull of the submarine and always ready to. use. Being callapsible, they occupy little space and can be mechanically filled with air through a pneumatic device operated (rom the inside of the ship. When completely filled, they increase the displacement of the craft considerably and are thus able to raise it to the surface. The pontoons are extremely light in weight, and being many in number, a few of them will always remain intact and ready to be inflated in case of a collision. The invention includes a special arrangement calculated to regulate 1 automatically the atmospheric pres-1 sure to correspond with the pres-: sure of the surruonding water while i the submarine is being raised by aid of the pontoons. Blomquist has experimented with a model aparatus at 70 meters and it has functioned very satisfactorily The invention now will be offered to the Swedish navy, which already has taken an interest in its development. —— Judge Carlin To Speak Judge C. C. Carlin of Angola will deliver an address before members of the Woman's Club and the public at the Library Hall, tonight at 8 o'clock. The literature Department of the club will sponsor the program and members of the club are requested to meet at 7:45 o'clock. The public is also invited to the program and may secure tickets from members of the Literature Department for fifty cents. The Mes-' dames H. B. Heller, O. L. Vance and J. H. Tyndall comprise the | committee in charge.

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Inventor At Work Iwk ■ .dip Inggmg / A late picture of Thomas A. Edison as he appeared at work in his laboratory in Menlo Park, N. J. SIMMONS TRIAL IN FOURTH WEEK (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Another highlight promised for this week is the return to the stand of Charles Friedman, Indii anapolis druggist. Prosecutor Ben Scifres said Friedman would be given an opportunity to re- : identify Mrs. Simmons as the woman who purchased 60 grains of strychnine from him June 18, three days before the tragic picnic. In addition to Friedman’s testimony, the state is expected to attempt to find a flaw in the story of Miss Louise Robinson, who came to the courthouse last week and volunteered testimony that it was she. not Mrs. Simsons, who purchased the poison from Friedman. Miss Robinson exhibited a bottle in which she claimed *as a portion of the poison Friedman sold her. o— Cops Lived Up to Praise Somerville. Mass. —(U.R) —Boston's traffic commissioner, Joseph A. Conry, praised the efficiency of Somerville police. A week later his automobile was halted here for infraction of a traffic rule. Hollyhock Grew 1,500 Blooms Brainerd. Minn.—(U.R)—An eightfoot hollyhock grown by Mrs. Dan - Peterson had nine flower spikes i and during the summer bore more' than 1.500 blooms.

SOLON URGES U. S. DRIVE ON SPEED RECORDS Congressman Backs Al Williams In Schneider Cup Drive Lancaster, Pa., —(UP)—Lieutenant Al Williams, formerly speed king of the U. S. Navy air forces, has found a staunch supporter of his ambition to win the Schneider Trophy and regain America’s air supremacy in Congressman Roh and Kinser of Lancaster County. Klnzer, in a public statement I here called upon the United States i to regain the speed supremacy of | the air. “Since Lieutenant Al Williams reI signed from the Navy to take up re- ! search work on plane speeds, there has been no one except Captain Frank Hawks to turn public attenI tion to this all-important subject." Kinzer said. "America is lamentably far behind other nations in the develop j ment of fast ships. An Englishman

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has don£ 357 miles an hour; a Frenchman nearly as much; and Italy has ships believed capable of 400 miles an hour or more. “These speeds should make America ashamed when it looks at its own records. This country must catch up and the only way to do it is by determined and unsustained effort” Kinzer said. Lowell Bayles, at the. Cleveland National Air Races this year, set an American straightaway record of 286 miles an hour. This ifpeea was attained, however, in a land type plane, while sea planes set' the foreign records. o Peterson Funeral Held Funeral services for Eugene Peterson, 6 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Peterson of Fort Wayne who died Saturday morning, were held today in Fort Wayne. Burial was at Sherwood, Ohio. .The baby died of pneumonia. Surviving are the parents, a sister, and 2 brothers at home. An article in Saturday’s Democrat stated the father had died but that error was due to a misunderstood telephone message. o Think It Over The most Important thing In life i Is living.