Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1927 — Page 13

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Miracles Shrine Atop Mount Draws Million Pilgrims Every Year: ‘Little Brother’ Cheers Them All.

Hu SEA Service ONTREAL, Quebec, Aug. 12. —The “miracle shrine” atop L__J Mt. Royal ministers now to more than a million ailing pilgrims a year. Drawn from every quarter of the globe by tales of miraculous cures, this vast army of the maimed, the halt and the blind has grown so rapidly that the rude little wooden hall in which they have been received for years is giving way to a magnificent basilica, reared largely by thanks. &£&****-■ Like ,—.iiO mosaic of medieval life is this pageant that moves steadily up the great stone stairway seeking the spiritual aid of Frere Andre, who awaits all supplicants at the oratory of St. Joseph. Only at the ancient grotto of Notre Dame de Lourdes, France can one find such another spectacle. But here, on the outskirts of this colorful Canadian town, there is less of the dramatically emotional. ANDRE, the “Little FT Brother,” quietly speaks his [ 1 I benediction first to one and then another. He stands behind a little counter in a shabby room as the pligrims pass before him—some on crutches; some cadaverous of face; some limping; some, led, with sightless eyes! now and then a short-skirted flapper; now and then an overdressed woman —a cross-cur-rent of all life. The “Little Brother” is himself frail. His priestly robe is faded. There is no effort at ostentation. He reflects a spirit of humility. It is the power and brightness of his brown eyes that attract one. He has a smile for all. They pass by him—more than a million a year! That means nearly 400 a day or one a minute if he were to be constantly on hand foi eight hours. I -I HE “Little Brother” has a T" 1 1 way of bringing a laugh 1 * I from even the sorriest sufferer. For a moment there is a serious conversation, then the “Little Brother’s” eyes twinkle and the solemn supplicant smiles. It happens time after time. Not all the suffering he has seen can dim the ever-present twinkle. And vet, as the day drags on, Frere Andre leans a bit wearily upon a chair or on his little counter. In a small ante-room, just outside, impatient sufferers wait their turn. To each he repeats this admonition: “Rub yourself with the oil and with a medal of St. Joseph. Make a Novenna to St. Joseph and persevere in praying to him.” Then he makes some personal and cheerful commentary and the suffering one gives place to another. Sometimes a cure seems about to be made almost immediately, and the “Little Brother’s” voice rises commandingly: "Carry your crutches to St. Joseph." He refers to a great pile of crutches all about a shrine where, just beyond in the basilica, other fathers hear confessionals throughout the day. fTTHHE tales of cures are endless, | I covering every conceivable 1 1 1 ailment. Thousands of the supplicants follow a long established custom of ascending the interminable stairway on their knees and repeating a prayer on each step. Frere Andre himself was born Albert Bessette. Frail of constitution and forced to make his own bread as a boy, he worked in American factories and on the farm. At the age of 23 a priest heard him speak of spiritual leaning and, in 1870, he began the life of Frere Andre. His duties in the College of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart were mental. He scrubbed floors, patched clothes and barbered the students. He earned S2OO and, with this, established the initial fund for St. Joseph’s Oratory. Then strangers began to appear, asking for an interview. They had heard that he had been secretly working among the ailing and remarkable cures had been attributed to him. Thus began the pilgrim pageant which has grown to more than a million, and increases yearly. CHIEF OF POLICE SUED Bloomington Official Alleged to Have Made Slanderous Remark. By Timex Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 12. Chief of Police S. P. Cardwell is defendant in a $2,000 slander suit filed by Ernest Thrasher who charges the chief remarked to William Tarkington, Blue Goose bus station manager, “Cap Thrasher is running a poker game over the Blue Goose station.” The complaint says the alleged slanderous remark was made after Cardwell sajd to Tarkington, “I can save your neck.”

Dies for Love By United Presi ' BERLIN, Aug. 12.—Trying to please his sweetheart, who used to hint that she’d love him mare if she could get her arms around him, Fritz Pelzer, wine merchant, lost his life. “You ought to have a lap,” his fiancee used to laugh, and and at the movies she admired the slim, sleek heroes. A customer, entering Pelzer’s wine shop, found him lying dead on the.floor. "Heart failure, due to a ■trenuous cure undertaken to reduce weight,” the coroner’s jury reported.

JARDINE BUSY ON NEW FARM RELIEF PLANS Agriculture Chief Confers With Rural Leaders and ‘Co-op’ Heads. CONGRESS TO GET BILL Federal Board, to Be Guide on Marketing Surplus, Part of Program. BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Secretary of Agriculture Jardine is drafting farm relief legislation for presentation to the next Congress. The Administration has decided that something must be (lone for farmers to put agriculture on a plane with other business, so Jardine, a practical soil tiller, was selected as the doctor. Jardine has been holding conferences with farm leaders and heads of cooperative associations to obtain suggestions for improving the Industry. He also has been making trips to rural sections to obtain first hand information on conditions. While contending that a “cure all” is impossible, the secretary believes the agricultural situation can be improved vastly by three methods: 1. Farmers cooperating among themselves and adjusting crops to avoid excessive surpluses. 2. Setting up a Federal board to guide farmers on handling surpluses and general farm problems. 3. The Government can not give financial aid to agriculture as the surplus this year will probably be used for a tax reduction, it was said. But the Federal board can help, as intermediate credit bshks have ample resources to advance farmers needing loans. Jardine is arranging to meet representatives of newspapers once a week—something new for a Secretary of Agriculture. At these press conferences, Jardine will outline for publication the Administration’s farm relief program, and thus seek the support of the entire country for his plans.

MILLER TO ACT AFTERJJONFAB School Chief to Attend Republican Meet. The long-pending question of the resignation of Charles F. Miller, superintendent of public instruction, may be settled at the Republican leaders conference at the home of State Chairman Clyde Walb of La Grange, Saturdfty. Both Miller and his assistant, Fred Gladden, to whom he seeks to will the position should he resign, are to be present. Governor Jackson also is expected to attend. Miller has until Tuesday to accept or refuse the Indianapolis School superintendency. His hesitation has been an effort to get Jackson committed to Gladden as his successor. The Governor has the appointing power, but until he was about to leaye for a mission conference in NeW Jersey, he had been cold to Miller’s program. After two conferences this week it was reported that he had looked on it more kindly, and possibility of reconciliation will remain open at the chieftans’ pow-wow.

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Roger Kahn, jazz artist and airman, and his father, Otto H. Kahn.

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Henry L. Stenger, 512 N. DeQuincy St„ is shown here with a model airplane built in accordance with instructions printed in The Times. He named it “Spirit of Indianapolis” and placed it in the window of his place of business at 36 S. Meridian St., on the day of the Lindbergh celebration.

So many men are building model airplanes that The Times will arrange for an exhibit of their machines in connectinon with that of models built by boys. The model which The Times now is printing directions for building is more complicated than the first, and adults interested in aviation find building it is a fascinating and engrossing hobby. Mortimer Wohlfeid, who has been interested in model planes for some time, works before a gallery of from ten to fifteen boys in the neighborhood of his home at 2819 Washington Blvd., nearly every evening. He has compelted two models of

‘HERCULES’ TO PERFORM FREE Strong Man Will Be Run Over by Times Truck. Galen Gough, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, will demonstrate his braveness Saturday morning at 11:30, in the first block of Kentucky Ave. just off Washington St. He wih lie on the pavement and aUow a loaded Times delivery truck to be driven over him. The modern Hercules, who has been at Riverside Park this week, has been held over at the park for performances Sunday afternoon and evening as a free attraction. Gough was given honorable discharge from the Marines on account of disability, and was an invalid when he left the service. In an effort to regain his health he made a study of the science of physical culture and developed his body to a high point. Holding a blacksmith’s anvil by his teeth and allowing spectators to hammer on it with sledgehammers is one of the feats Gough performs. In another stunt, he lies on a bed of steel spcikes and allows the anvil to be placed on his chest and beaten with sledges. STEER POISONED; SUE Owners Assert Animal Ate Wild Cherry Leaves. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 12.—The Kirkpatrick Telephone Company faces a suit for $175 damages as the result of the death of a steer. William Morin and Herbert Fleming, of the steer, allege that workmen for the company trimming trees away from wires at the farm of Morin left wild cherry leaves within the steer’s reach. It ate the leaves and was fatally poisoned.

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the S-S-l type described in The 'Times, and is working now on S-S-2. For “motors” in his plane, Wohlfeid cuts his own rubber strips from large sheets of rubber. It is sold by the pound, Wohlfeid says, and 25 cents worth is plenty for any model. He uses dowel rods in the frame, which he obtains at a hardware store. Although most model builders use silk on the wings, Wohlfeid gets remarkable results with glazed blue print drawing paper. He points out that it is easier to put on smoothly than silk and that it is sufficiently light.

FOIL ESCAPE FROM PRISON Woman Leaves Saws at Jail in Columbus. Following failure of efforts of Owen M. Day and his alleged common law wife, Vanetta Kelley, to free him from the Bartholomew County jail at Columbus, Ind., Thursday is held in Marion County jail today. He is under SIO,OOO bond. Day was shot by Federal Agerft Oscar Holman three weeks ago during a liquor raid. He was removed to the Columbus jail from a hospital Monday. Thursday afternoon Vanetta Kelly came to the jail, while Holman, Federal beputy Marshal Oscar Johnson, Federal Agent Door and Sheriff Llnza Allen and Deputy B. Frank Harden concealed themselves and watched her movements. She handed Day a package. As she started to leave she was ar-, rested and the package, when opened, contained six hack saw blades and six blank skeleton keys. According to information, Day was to make his escape by auto to Richmond, Ind., and thence to Canada. The Kelley woman was placed in the Columbus jail pending prosecution and Day was brought here. HOMAGE PAID TO POET England Observes Centenary of Death of William Blake. H\i United Press LONDON, Aug. 12.—A1l England is today commemorating the centenary of the death of William Blake, lamous mystic, poet and painter, who died in London, Aug. 12, 1827, “singing of the things he saw in heaven.” Many literary societies and intellectual organizations throughout the country will today hold special meetings dedicated to discussions of the work and life the poet whose fantastical visions of God and angles caused his contemporaries to think him crazy, but whose works have since been accepted as a products of a genius. Donates Slave Receipt By Timex Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Aug. 12.—A receipt for the sale of a slave has been donated to the Bartholomew County Historical Society by William J. Dahn. It was given by L. H. Powell, Lynchburg, Va., in 1844. Sale of a girl, 17, for S7OO was covered by the receipt. 1,000 in Retreat By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Aug. 12. One thousand Catholic laymen from five States are in retreat at the University of Notre Dame today, to continue meditations until Sunday morning.

Roger Kahn Always Wins Over Millionaire Father

BY HORTENSE SAUNDERS NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Roger Wolfe Kahn goes on the air every day now, usually from 9 to 4. Not with his jazz band, but in plane No. 3020, which he is using until the completion of the Bellanca monoplane he has ordered. This young son of the millionaire, Otto H. Kahn, has repeatedly refused to feed from the silver spoon that was his heritage and he’s now winning his father, famous financier and patron of the arts, to aeronautics, just as he did to night clubs and jazz. Young Roger is accustomed to winning over his father, for he has

COAL DEALERS EXPECT PRICE TO SOAR SOON Raise Is Likely as Soon as Cold Weather Increases Demand. STRIKE NOT YET FELT Conditions Indicate This Fall’s Rise Will Be Abnormal. The condition of the coal industry at present points to a higher coal price for Mr. Indianapolis citizen during the coming winter, -4n—4he opinion of local coal dealers. At present, coal is selling at the following prices: Pocahontas lump, $8.25 a ton. Pocahontas mine run $6.50. West Virginia lump, $7. West Virginia egg, $6.50. W. R. Tuttle, manager of the Marion Fuel Company, 1402 N. Senate Ave., thinks that colder weather, with its greater coal demand will see a price raise, shat will be larger than the normal fall rise. , “So far,” he said, “the strike has not affected coal prices 'because of the light demand. However, I believe that when the demand becomes greater, prices will soar higher. “My company is not taking order more than two or three days aread at present prices.” Strike Not Felt Yet H. L. Dithmer, Polar Ice and Fuel Company president, said that the strike, up to the present, has made no difference in local prices. “I think one reason for this,” he said, “is that there never is a very large demand for Indiana coal in the summer. Indiana coal slacks when stored, and for that reason is not desirable as a storage proposition as much as other coal. Hard to Frediet "Undoubtedly prices will go higher than they are now. but I am not prepared to say Just what effect the strike will have here.” Warren Smith. Consolidated Coal Company, believes that prices will rise entirely above the level of past years. “Right now coal at the mine is bringing 40 cents more a ton than last year,” he said. “If the strike continues there's no telling where the price will go.”

JULY BUILDING AT HIGH PEAK Indiana Has Best Month Since 1922. * Construction started in Indiana j in July reached a total of $14,209,700, according to F. W. Dodge Cor--1 poration. The above figure was the i highest July contract total on rec- ! ord since July. 1922. July’s total ! showed an increase of 7 per cent over the amount reported in July, 1926. However, there was a loss of 13 per cent from the amount reported in June, 1927. Analysis of the July record showed the following important classes of work; $6,793,900. or 48 per cent of all construction, for public works and utilities; $3,239,700, or 23 per cent, for residential buildings; $1,658,800, or 12 per cent, for educational projects, and $795,000, or 6 per cent for commercial buildings. Contracts let on new building and engineering work in Indiana since Jan. 1 last, $9,455,200 in amount, show an increase of 20 per cent over the total for the first seven months of last year. AIR CLUB AT BRAZIL Nine Young Men Organize—Plan Plane Purchase. By Times Special BRAZIL, Ind., Aug. 12.—Nine local young men have formed the Brazil Air Club. Its objects are establishment of a permanent flying field and furtherance of aviation in general. - x Purchase of a plane is planned by the club for use of members with the employment of a competent aviator as flying instructor. Injured Man May Die By Times Special WARSAW, Ind., Auy. 12.—Henry Long, 50, North Manchester, will probably die of injuries suffered when a light coupe he was driving collided with a large auto driven by William Ralston, Warsaw, five miles north of here. Mrs. Long and Ralston were only slightly hurt.

had much of it to do the last three years. They begin by disagreeing on about everything that comes along and end up doing it Roger’s way. * First there was the matter of education. At 16, Roger decided to play the saxophone rather than go to college. He did. His father is a pillar in the Metropolitan opera organization, interested purely in the classical type of music, but Roger came out strong for jazz. Roger organized his own jazz band, much to everyone's amusement, for he was only 16 and looked even younger. But the band could jazz, and Roger could direct it. Today he has about eight bands

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Mothers’ Flock of2oo, Keeps Them All Happy

“She’s a Dandy,’ Says City Recreation Chief of Mrs. O’Connor. Like Old Mother Hubbard who lived in a shoe, Mrs. Margaret O'Connor stands in the doorway of a little gray brick building back of Fire Station No. 21, near Roosevelt and Olney Sts., and smiles at her flock of 200 boys and girls. They're all happy, because Mrs. O'Connor knows what to do. Her interest in every doll, every game, and every palace in the sandpile is as great as if they really j were her children. She keeps them all happy by keeping them all | busy. Likes to Watch Play They make baskets and doll furniture, play basketball and baseball, | learn how to sew. ride the merry-go-round. and sometimes just run, ! jump and shout. Mrs. O’Connor has been “playing” | mother ever since she was 11 years old, when her own mother died, leaving her in charge of the household. Her hair is gray now, and ! there are wrinkles in her face from smiling, but the game has lost none of its zest. When she was through keeping house for her brothers and sisters, she became housekeeper for a priest and served nine years and six months, but her eyes looked with longing at the playgrounds where there were boys and girls to be looked after.

Goes After Job So she obtained recommendations and went down to city hall after a job. They sent her to the Willard playground for a year, then to Military and finally to the Brightwood playground. where she nas played neighborhood mother for seven years. “I like children,” she said, but her mind was so full of their interests that she couldn’t stop to philosophize. “We're having a ball game this afternoon. Our girls haven’t been beaten yet. You should come out and see the crowd.” “She’s a Dandy” Her assistant. Miss Helen Estan, added that the girls’ games always attract more people than the boys’ games. “It’s because the girls play better ball,” she explained. But Jess McClure, city recreation ! director, knows that it isn't the ball ! games, and the doll’s clothes and basket weaving, that makes Bright-' wood the brightest and happiest place in town. “It’s Mrs. O’Connor,” he says. "She’s a dandy.” Woman Kills 20 Snakes By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 12.—Mrs.' Cliff Taylor killed twenty snakes with a hoe at her farm home one ' mile west of Florida Station.

playing in his name at different hotels in the leading cities. Roger wanted to open a night club. His father disapproved. Roger opened Le Perroquet de Paris with a $5 <_ver charge. And he made it the smart place to go in spite of opposition from home and from the organized Broadway) element, who didn’t care to have him crash into that particular game. Roger conducted his club a year, demonstrated that he couldn’t be frozen out, then sold it. Then there was that little matter of fast driving. Roger likes to drive a good, fast car at a ninety or 100mile clip. His father pleaded for less speed. Finally, he provided a

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Prize . of State _JL Miss Hilda Koch, South Bend, as Miss Indiana will represent Hoosierdom • at the National Beauty tournament at Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 6 to 10. The winner of the State contest is 19, has dark brown hair and blue eyes. w

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COSGRAVE TOTTERING De Valera Faction Expected to Gain Control. Hu I nit nl I'riss DUBLIN, Aug. 12.—The Cosgrave government was expected to fall today and anew coalition government take its place, with Eamon De Valera's Fianna Fail and the labor party in control. . The national league, with eight seats, held the balance of power as the forty-four Fianna Fail deputies prepared to take their seats in parliament today. If, as was expected, the National League suports the De Valera and the Labor party, the new coalition will have seventy-seven seats to the government’s sixtyeight. It was expected Cosgrave would resign as soon as the dail assembles. Even if Cosgrave demanded anew general election, it was doubted by a spokesman for the home office, if the governor general would permit the calling of an election.

track on his own estate so that Roger could race at home. “Airplaining hasn’t spoiled my taste for auto-racing,” Roger said. My interest in aviation is purely that of sport. I'm interested in it as lam in golf or polo. But music will always be the real interest of my life, particularly composition.” It was music that led Roger to aviation. He went over to Europe to study and compose his symphony and became interested in traveling by air. Then came the Lindbergh triumphs, and Roger felt the call. He hurried home, hired an instructor, and can now hop off and pilot his plane with remarkable skill.'

250,000 FAIR ATTENDANCE IS JUBILEE SOAL 1 Farmers From Dozen States Are Expected to Attend Exposition. $155,000 FOR PRIZES i “Greatest in All Departments’ Is Promise Given by Officials. Indiana's diamond Jubilee Stats Fair. Sept. 3-10, will attract 250,070 people. Secretary E. J. Barker pre- ; dieted today. Last year, with rainy weather as ; a handicap, there were more than ; 200,000 pafti admissions. This year will be the greatest fair ! In all departments that the Stats has ever seen and not only Hoosiers, but farmers from a dozen neighbor- | ing States are expected to attend. Finest U. S. Fairground “Folks who attend the Indiana State Fair this year will behold the greatest permanent Fairground panorama existing in any State, Barker asserted. "The Fairgrounds, while completely within the city limits of Indianapolis is fitted with the finest and most marvelous exposition and show pavilions of any exposition grounds in America. "The Indiana State Fair has more to offer the people of the State this year than any previous year. The fair is seventy-five years old and will celebrate it's Diamond Jubilee Anniversary. Each department superintendent is trying to out-do all previous years* display. Every known device for the betterment of the agricultural industry and farm home will be shown and demonstrated by well versed instructors. $155,000 for Frizes “More than $155,000 will be paid out in cash prizes and purses. This is $15,000 more than last year and $20,000 more than any other corn belt fair. Besides, the competition in the open classes, there are special prizes in many departments arranged exclusively for Indiana exhibitors. “In the horse and mule exhibition department $23,000 will be given in prizes. Some of the best known horses and mules will be on exhibition. Arrangements are being made to care for more than 2.000 head of cattle for which more than ' P 24.000 in prizes will be distributed. Twelve thousand is offered in the J : wine department and $7,000 in tha 1 sheep department, i “There is SIO,OOO offered in prizes ;o club members. The poultry ' !overs will dedicate anew poultry ■ building which will hold 5,000 birds, and $6,000 is offered in this deI partment. Four thousand dodars is offered for flowers, bees, and honey. In the women's building, fine arts, applied arts, domestic arts, and culinary will have $5,000 in prizes, 581 Horses in Races "In a brtter-baby contest where over 1,600 entries were judged last, year S7OO is given in prizes. The horreshoe pitching contest will receive S4OO in prizes. The Hoosier Kennel Club will put on a dog show in which $1 000 will be awarded in prizes. Horse-pulling contest will have $525 in awards. "One of the outstanding features of any great fair or exposition is the harness horse races. Prizes amounting to $51,000 are given in this department. The Grand Circuit races, of which there are twelve ‘stakes’ or races, has 581 horses entered, which is 166 more than last year. Most of these twelve races have forty-five or more entries, and one has seventy-two. This is only half of the races. The late closing events usually contain as many entries which will bring the entire race program to more than 1,000 race horsrs to one of the best race tracks of any fair or exposition. Special Railway Fares “A special feature in the Coliseum will be an old fiddlers’ contest open to Hoosiers fifty years old or over. There are a score or more of free vaudeville and circus acts in fi-on tof the grand stand In the aftdThoon and evening, together with unusual diamond Jubilee firework* display. "Every county agent, every farm organization. every agricultural agency, as well as the civic clubs, newspapers. Federal and State institutions, are cooperating to bring to the Indiana people the greatest educational, enjoyable, wholesome and profitable vacation days. “There will be spec...* rates on steam lines, busses and interurbrns leading into Indianapolis, and special excursions will be run on certain days.”

GIRL MOTHER FINED LIGHTLY FOR BIGAMY Story of Misfortune Revealed in Case at Mt. Vernon. I!II Tui)> Sfteviut MT. VERNON, Ind., Aug. 12 Mrs. Leona Simpkins Nation, 19. mother of a boy four and a half years old, is free here after being fined only $lO on a conviction of bigamy. She has been released on her promk-' to pay the .ne. Trial of the case unfolded a story of misfortune in the life of th* young mother. Her parents died when she was 7. At 13 she became the wife of James Willard Wood. 25, and shortly after the child was bom, the father was sent to a penitentiary. Believing the prison sentence equivalent to a divorce, the girl married Phellx Nation of thla city. She confessed to him that she had not been divorced and h* caused her arrest on the bigamy charge.