Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1928 — Page 9

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MOTOR SPEED MARVELS TO SEEKRECORD World’s Fastest Cars Will Start Florida Derby Trials Today. LOCKHART IS IN RACE Speedway Winner of 1926 Will Burn Up Track in Special Stutz. By United Pres* ORMOND - DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 15.—Celebrating the twen-ty-fifth anniversary of automobile racing in America, the International Speed Trials will begin today, when three of the fastest and most powerful cars the world has seen will thunder down the twenty-seven mile beach course in an effort to break Major Segrave’s 203.79 m.p.h. record. The speedway is the one made famous twenty years ago when W. K. Vanderbilt, Barney Oldfield, Henry Ford, Tommy Milton, Ralph De Palma and many others set automobile records. It is the course over which Major Segrave of England streaked a mile in 17 seconds last March. British Ace on Scene Capt. Malcolm Campbell, British speed ace, is on hand to defend England’s speed laurels. He will use one of the British air ministry’s secretly built 450 h. p. Napier engines such as was used in winning the Schneider cup race. L. M. White of Philadelphia, wealthy manufacturer and his thirty-six-cylindered, three-motored, four-ton “Triplex” also are here. White’s car develops 1,500 h.p., weighs four tons and is the most powerful the world has ever seen. Frank Lockhart, young American speed king, winner of the Indianapolis Speedway race in 1926, and a SII,OOO winner in 1927, is another who will strive to travel faster than man has ever before gone on land. His car is a specially built sixteencylinder Stutz. Fortunes have been spent on these cars and it is not unlikely that a speed of 205 m.p.h. will be reached. Speed Beyond Imagination The terrific speeds to be attempted are hardly within the imagination of the average car driver. Segrave’s hand was blistered from the heat worked up by the twenty-four cylinders. He catapulted seventy-three miles per hour in low gear, threw it into second until 142 m.p.h. had been reached, then into high gear. At 170 m.p.h.. he aimed the car as one would a gun and released every ounce of power the SIOO,OOO creation would hold. The great three-ton thing leaped ten and fifteen feet as it struck slight inductions in the white silica sands. Four Miles to Slow Down Newspaper men said they could not turn their heads fast enough to follow it. In the blink of an eyelash he had gone 300 feet and four miles were required to slow down. The races will be held under supervision of the American Automobile Association. The classic will, as a whole, be a test of the speed of cars over a measured mile on a straightaway course, with four miles to start, one mile to run, and four miles to slow down. The beach is smooth and hard, is straight and narrow, 500 feet wide at low tide and when wind and tide conditions are right affords the most perfect straightaway course in the world. Schedule of Events Tire full program of events in the great auto classic follows: February 15— * Event I—Stock cars selling for SI,OOO and under. Event 2—Stock cars selling from SI,OOO to $2,000. February 16— Event 3—Cars selling for $2,000 and over. Event 4—Gentlemen’s race, open only to amateur drivers who must drive their own cars. Cars must be regular stock. February 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 Event s—Free for all speed trials for the world’s straightaway mile record. DENIES SLAIN BROTHER LIVED WITH WOMAN Vincennes Man Makes Statement in Leland Brian Case. By United Preen VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 15.—Leland Brian, 28, son of Dr. J. R. Brian, prominent physician here, was not living with Mrs. Irene Ford in a Chicago apartment where he was slain Saturday by Tom Rogers. This statement was issued here by the slain man’s brother, Weldon Brian. According to the brother, Leland lived alone at an address eight blocks distant from the building where Mrs. Ford made her home. Rogers killed Brian after delivering liquor to the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bosma, where Brian was in company with Mrs. Ford. He escaped after shooting Brian and Mrs. Ford. The woman survived. Chosen for War College By Timen Special TIPTON, Ind., Feb. 15.—Judge C. W. Mount of Tipton Circuit Court has been asked to attend the United States War College at Washington. He served as a captain in the world war and is now a member of the re•erve corps.

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COL. CH AS. A. LI N DBERGH’S OWN LIFE STORY ASSESS.

THE STORY SO FAR Lindbergh completed his education at the University of Wisconsin, where he became interested In aviation. He entered a flying school and later joined a barnstorming outfit nad learned parachute jamping and wing walking. . * Ie _ bought a Government airplane for S.IOO and made his first solo flight at Americus, Ga. Lindy decided to fly to Texas by direct air line against the advice of more experienced pilots. He made a safe landing the first night at a Government field, but the next night made a hazardous landing in a soft field near Meridian, Miss. CHAPTER 111 T TAXIED up to a fence corner , alongside of a small house and j proceeded to tie down for the night. I had gained considerable respect for the wind In Kansas and Nebraska, so after turning off the gaso line and letting the motor stop by running the carburetor dry (a safety expedient to keep the ever-present, person who stands directly under the propeller while he wiggles it up and down from becoming a aeronautical fatality) I pushed the nose of the plane up to a fence and, afterblocking the wheels securely, tied each wing tip to a fence post and covered the motor and cockpit with a canvas in case of rain. By this time the usual barnstorming crowd had gathered and I spent the remaining daylight explaining that the hole in the radiator was for the propeller shaft to go through; that the wings were not made of catgut, tin or cast iron, but of wood framework covered with cotton or linen shrunk to drum tightness by acetate and nitrate dope; that the only way to find out how it feels to fly was to try it for five dollars; that it was not as serious for the engine to stop as for a wing to fall off, and the thousand other questions which can only be conceived in such a gathering. As night came on and the visibility decreased the crowd departed, leaving me alone with a handful of small boys who always remain to the last and can only be induced to depart by being allowed to follow the aviator from the field. I accepted an invitation to spend the night in the small house beside the field. The next morning I telephoned for a gas truck to come out to the field and spent the time before the truck arrived in the task of cleaning the distributor head, draining the carburetor jet well and oiling the rocker arms on the engine. While I was working one of the local inhabitants came up and volunteered the information that he had been a pilot during the war but had not flown since and “wouldn’t mind takin’ a ride again.” I assured him that much as I would enjoy taking him up flying was very expensive and that I did not have a large fund available to buy gasoline. I added that if he would pt.y operating costs, which would be $5 for a short ride, I would be glad to accommodate him. He produced a $5 bill and after warming up the motor I put him in the cockpit and taxied through the mud to the farthest corner of the field. This was to be my first passenger. The field was soft and the man was heavy; we stalled over the fence by three feet and the nearest tree by five. I found myself heading up a thickly wooded slope, which was asloping upward at least as fast as I was climbing in that direction, and for three minutes my Jenny and the slope fought It out over the fifteen feet of air between them. Eventually, however, in the true Jenny style, we skimmed over the hilltop and obtained a little reserve altitude. I had passed through one of those almost-but-not-quite accidents for which Jennies are so famous and which so greatly retarded the growth of commercial flying during the post-war period. I decided that my passenger was entitled to a good ride after that take-off and kept him up chasing a buzzard for twenty minutes. After we landed he commented on the wonderful take-off and how much he enjoyed flying low over the treetops; again assured me that he had flown a great deal in the war, and rushed off to tell his friends all about his first airplane ride. The gasoline truck had arrived and after servicing the ship I took off again and headed west. I had no place in mind for the next stop and intended to be governed by my fuel supply In picking the next field. The sky was overcast with numerous local storms. I had brought along a compass, but had failed to install it on the instrument board, and it was of Jittle use in a suitcase out of reach. The boundary lines in the South do not run north and south, east and west as they do In the Northern States, but curve and bend in every conceivable direction, being located by natural landmarks father than by meridians and parallels. I was flying by a map of the entire United States, with each State relatively small. I left Meridian and started in the direction of Texas, cutting across country with no regard for roads or railways. For a time during the first hour I was not sure of my location on the map, but soon passed over a railway intersection which appeared to be in the proper place and satisfied me about my position. Then the territory became wilder and again i saw no checkpoints. The storm areas were more numerous and the possible landing fields farther apart, until near the end of the second hour I decided to land in the first available field to locate my position and take on more fuel. It required nearly thirty more minutes to find a place in which a plane could land and take-off with any degree of safety and after circling the field several times to make sure it was hard and con-

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tained no obstacles, I landed in one corner, rolled down a hillside, taxied over a short level stretch and came to rest half-way up the slope on the far side of the field. A storm was approaching rapidly and I taxied back toward the fence comer at rather high speed. Suddenly I saw a ditch directly in front of me and an instant later heard the crash of splintering wood as the landing gear dropped down and the propeller came in contact with the ground. The tail of the plane rose up In the air, turned almost completely over, then settled back to about a 45 degree angle. My first ’crackup!” I climbed out of the cockpit and surveyed the machine. Actually the only damage done was to the propeller, and although the wings and fuselage were covered with mud, no other part of the plane showed any marked signs of strain. I had taxied back about thirty feet east of the landing tracks and had struck the end of a grasscovered ditch. Had I been ten feet farther over the accident would never have happened. The usual crowd was assembling, as the impact of .he ‘ prop” with the ground had been heard in all the neighboring fields and an airplane was a rare eight in those parts. They informed me that I was halfway between Maben and Mathiston. Miss., and that I had flown 125 miles north instead of west. When enough men had assembled we lifted the plane out of the ditch, pushed it over to a group of pine trees and tied it down to two of the trees. After removing all loose equip-

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Good Wallop By Timen Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 15.“Do a good turn each day" meant subduing a drunken husband who attacked his wife, for William Creasey, 16-year-old Boy Scout. Creasey noticed Victor White in a restaurant and that he was drunk. The boy took him to his home where he began abusing Mrs. White and Creasey knocked him down twice, then called police. White was fined $lO and cost in city court.

PLAN JOINT SESSION Dance Groups From Six States Coming Sunday. Dancing Masters of America, Inc., Chicago Association, Masters of Dancing and the Indianapolis Dancing Teachers' Club will hold a joint meeting Sunday at the Stockman Dance Studio, Sixteenth and Illinois Sts. Dancing teachers from Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin will attend. Bonnie Blue Brown, Mae E. Berry, Louise P. Powell, Theo. Hewes and Stockman, all Inlianapolis dance teachers, and Pearl Allen of Lafayette, will demonstrate dances at the meeting. A cabaret supper will follow the meeting.

ADOPT JCEACH PLAN County Democrats Approve Reorganization. County Chairman Leroy J. Keach’s plan to reorganize county Democrats by districts of four to six precincts each was adopted at a meeting of Democratic Ward and precinct leaders at the Claypool, Tuesday night. Keach voiced disapproval of public officials or employes acting as precinct committeemen and as delegates to the State convention. He referred to the 1926 platform of Marlm County Democrats when "machine political rule” was opposed. A previous engagement prevented attendance by Mayor L. Ert Slack. ICEMEN MUST HAVE “IT” Beauty Before Brawn, Is Slogan For Chicago Dealers. CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—“0h, Marjorie, come on over! We’ve the darlingest iceman. And he plays bridge; he uses the sweetest perfume and has the nicest hair.” Just a suggested line/ of chatter over the back fence this summer, when the 1928 model iceman appears, as heralded by Leslie C. Smith, secretary of the National Association of Ice Industries. “We are going to insist that our men be as neat and handsome as possible,” says Smith. “They will be dressed in appropriate uniforms. “While brawn will be essential; beauty will be paramount. They have got to have It.” MAY TRANSFER EYES Science of Future Capable of Transplanting Human Optics. By United Press BUFFALO, Feb. 15.—That medical science of the future will be capable of transferring human eyes, is the prediction of Dr. Lucine Howe. After twenty years of research on the subject, Dr. Howe has succeeded in transplating eyes from the lower classes of animals to those of the We species.

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ment I rode into Ma’oen with one of the storekeepers who had locked up his business when he heard about the landing of the plane. I wired Wyche at Americus to ship me one of the two propellers I- had purchased before leaving, then engaged a room at the old Southern Hotel. While waiting for the propeller I had extracted promises from half a dozen citizens to ride at $5 each. This would about cover the cost of the “prop,” as well as my expenses while waiting for it to arrive. When it did come I put it on the shaft between showers, with the assistance of most of Maben and Mathiston. I gave the plane a test flight and announced that I was ready to carry passengers when it was not raining too hard. The Mississippians who were so anxious to fly when the propeller was broken immediately started a contest in etiquette. Each and every one was quite willing to let someone else be first, and it required psychology, diplomacy and ridicule before the first passenger climbed into the cockpit. I taxied over to the far comer of the field and instructed my passenger how to hold the throttle back to keep the ship from taking off, and lifted the tail around in order to gain every available foot of space for the take-off. The first man was so audibly pleased with his ride that the others forgot their manners of a few minutes before and began arguing about who was to be next. Copyright. 1928. by Charles A. Unabergh (Td Be Continued Tomorrow)

; Two Witnesses Say They Can Identify $75,000 DuPont Paper. By United Presn WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Two witnesses in New York notified the Senate Teapot Dome committee today that they can identify the $75,000 of Liberty bonds sold by Senator T. Coleman Dupont of Delaware to pay off a 1920 debt of the Republican national committee. Chairman Nye said the serial numbers of the bonds indicated they were among the Liberty bonds purchased by the Continental Trading Company from profits derived in the strange o.'l deal of 1921. Joseph F. McMahon of Potter & Cos and James Berniere of C. F. Childs & Cos. were the witnesses with whom the committee communicated. They will appear to testify at reopening of the hearing tomorrow. McMahon will testify concerning the sale Nov. 30, 1923, of $75,000 of VA Liberty bonds for $74,718, which was deposited to Dupont’s account, according to Nye. Bemieri will testify, Nye said, that Potter & Cos. and paid the $74,718 Childs & Cos. bought the bonds from in cash. George White, former chairman and Wilbur Marsh, former treasurer of the Democratic national committee will be summoned later to tell whether they received any monies or continental bonds from the oil men. Will Hays end other Republican leaders will b called to furnish the same information about the Republican party. At first the committee had intended only to go into the 1921 contributions, but Its investigators learned late yesterday that Blackmer had contributed $5,000 to the Republican national committee In 1924. COLISEUM HANGS FIRE Secret Conference With Mayor Is Without Results. Coliseum board members failed to announce a program today following a three-hour secret conference with Mayor L. Ert Slack Tuesday on coliseum board matters. The closed-door meeting was held to draft a program of procedure for the board which split with Mayor L. Ert Slack over delay in selecting a $3,000,000 coliseum site. The conference adjourned without taking any action according to Oren S. Hack, works board president. The next meeting will be Feb. 28.

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COLOR IDEAS RON RIOT AT MOTORSHOW Throngs at City Exposition Dazzled by Hues That Dim the Rainbow. OUTSIDE DEALERS HERE Many From Other States in Attendance on Special Day. Today is “Out-State Dealers Day,” at the seventeenth annual automobile show at the State fairground. Many dealers in the cars represented who could not attend the Chicago and New York shows came here. Indianapolis turned out in full force yesterday in observance of Indianapolis Day." Official recognition was given the motor car exposition last night by Mayor L. Ert Slack, who with several of his official family, inspected the many new creations arrayed, row on row, in the mammoth exposition building. An artist is needed to describe the colors shown in the many makes of cars. Everything from jewels to the Grand Canyon has been used in the way of color or combinations, with a decidedly striking effect.

Striking Colors Shown Falcon-Knight is appearing, for instance, this year, with a sedan finished in Grainger brown below the upper belt molding and Kalyuk drab above. Style and quality in Nash upholstery offers a wide range of attractive hues, with striking two-toned effects in black and mauve, smoke, taupe, torquoise and Baltic green. But listen to this list of colors: Packard and Lincoln, probably using the same dictionary, have corralled such terms as Desert sand, Argentine blue. Copra drab, Chicle drab and Thrush brown. Even the Fords have appellations that smack of originality in color designations. The four standard colors of the "universal car” are Arabian sand, Gunmetal blue, Niagara blue and Fawn gray. The new Fordor sedan, displayed in all its majesty upon a turntable which gives the spectators a chance to see all sides and corners without naving the buttons of his coat pulled off in the Jam, is finished in Athenian green.

Others Fancy, Too And that's not such a bad name at that when you consider that the Ford color designers have combined the glory of old Greece with the latest in Fords. The Fordor sedan, incidentally, is the identical car displayed at the shows in New York and Chicago. Again speaking of fancy names for color, Whippet salesmen are proclaiming that the Toledo-made car is upholstered in gray corduroy which harmonizes with the exterior colors of Himalaya gray above and Vesvidol red stripe below. These are Just a few of many names that characterize the riotous color effects of the body finishes—rivaled only by the profusion of colors used in the decorative scheme of the auto show building. Despite the rainy weather of Tuesday, a good crowd was in attendance, both during the day and evening. The occasion was enlivened by the splendid music of the Trianon Girls’ Orchestra of Chicago, which plays each afternoon and evening. Dealers Meet Graham-Paige dealers met at the Claypool Hotel today at luncheon, when Joseph B. Graham, president of the Graham-Paige Motors Corporation of Detroit, with other company officials, discussed the 1928 sales program. Motion pictures of the vast factory facilities and a screen story behind the principles of the Graham-Paige organization founded on “integrity and unity of purpose” were shown. The doors of the show will open at 10:30 o’clock this morning and the closing hour will be 10:30 tonight. Accidentally Kills Self BEDFORD, Ind., Feb. 15.—Prank Brooking, 46, prominent Lawrence County farmer, accidentally shot and killed himself Tuesday while attempting to climb over a fence with a shotgun in his hand. The body was found by the wile. He also leaves two children.

That’s Elsie Jams’ Reply to WILL DURANT’S Startling Assertion: “THIRTY IS LOVE’S DEADLINE” “A man over thirty is incapable of love,” says Durant. The most brilliant wits in the country have answered the philosopher. Replies will be by George G. Nathan, Irvin Cobb, Ring Lardner, Elsie Janis, Rupert Hughes, George Ade, Fontaine Fox, Dr. George A. Dorsey, Dr. Arthur Frank Payne, H. L. Mencken, Fanny Ward, Bud Fisher, Mabel Herbert Umer, Montague Glass, Charles G. Shaw and Angelo Patri.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, for the second time since becoming mistress of the White House, was prevented by illness from attending a “cabinet” dinner given in the President’s and her honor last night. She was confined to her room by a cold which has bothered her for a week, and she was unable to accompany the President to the dinner given by Secretary Work in the Pan-American Union Building.

FEDERAL JURY MEETS MARCH 5 Call Tentative Because of Separate Court Bill. The Federal grand jury will be called for March 5, Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell announced today. The grand jury call will be tentative, subject to cancellation if the bill creating two separate Federal Court districts In Indiana should be passed by the Home and signed by the President before hat date. The measure already nas been passed by the Senate. Enactment of the bill would cause dismissal of the present grand and petit juries, requiring drawing of new juries composed solely of residents and taxpayers of this court district. At present the State is listed as one district, although in practice Judge Baltzell hears cases arising in the southern half and Judge Thomas W. Slick hears cases arising in the northern half. Division of the State would create several new posts, Including a district attorney, marshal, and clerk for the northern district. District Attorney Albert Ward, Clerk William C. Kappes and Marshal Alf O. Meloy, with offices here, now serve the entire State through deputies. FOS HOLDS UP FLIER Chicago-Chile Plane Forced Back to Havana. By United Prctn HAVANA, Feb. 15. Captain Joseph Donellan, Chicago-Chile flier, returned shortly after 9 a. m. today from an abortive start on a 650-mile over-water flight to Belize, British Honduras. Donellan, greatly discouraged, said the probability was he would give up his proposed flight to Chile and return to the United States. Donellan started from Columbia flying field, where Lindbergh landed and took off, at 3:05 a. m. on what every one knew was a dangerous flight in his 90-horsepower singlemotored Waco plane. He ran Into a heavy bank of fog off the Cuban coast, Donellan said when he returned.

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SCHOOL SAVING PLAyFFERED Efforts Made to Install System in City. Proposal to institute a savings system in all public schools of the city has been presented to the school board by John Wade Nelson of the Educational Thrift Service System of School Savings, with headquarters in New York. The system is in use in 600 cities ana towns throughout the country, NeLyjn asserts. Under the plan, the children are encouraged to bring their dimes, nickels and pennies to school for deposit in their favorite banks, the work of depositing being handled by the school authorities. Each child has his own passbook. Entries are made by the teacher. The duplicate entries are then used as a ledger file at the bank. Several local banks have expressed tl mselves in favor of the system, Nelson says. He stressed the importance of thrift education through actual practice in savings, in his talk to board members. UNION STATION BLAZE CAUSES LOSS OF $2,000 Most of Damage Due to Flooding by Locked Sprinkler System. Fire, believed to have been started by defective electric wiring on the fourth floor of the Union Station, caused damage estimated at $2,000 late Tuesday. Flooding the building when a sprinkling system became locked caused most of the damage. Water flooded a restaurant, operated in the station by A. A. Fendrick, causing S3OO damage. HONOR CITY EMPLOYE Cullcy Celebrates 72nd Birthday on Duty at Engineer’s Office. Charles P. Culley, city sewer engineer, 1302 N. Keystone Ave., celebrated his seventy-second birthday anniversary today on duty at his office. Employes presented him with a birthday cake and other gifts. Culley, his superiors say, is one of the most efficient employes In the department and Is said to have a broader knowledge of the sewage system than any other person in the city. He has been employed by the city for twenty-three years.

WIDOW GIVEN FORTUNE Wfll of Bachelor, Woman Hater, Benefits Dead Friend’s Wife. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15.—When Clarence Deshong, a 78-year-old bachelor, died recently, his will revealed that Mrs. Lascelle Bell, the widow of his old friend, Dr. Bell, a dentist of Chester, Pa., was left nearly a million dollars. Although an avowed woman hater, Deshong was lonely in his last years and Mrs. Bell often visited him after her husband’s death. CONVICT’S LACK SHOWN Religion and Education Their Needs, Speaker Says. Less than 8 per cent of the convicts in the United States have had religious training or have religious affiliation, Judson L. Stark, deputy county prosecutor, told the Men’s Brotherhood of Fountain Square Christian Church, Tuesday night. Less than 1 per cent of the criminals have high school education, Stark said.

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EARL ASQUITH, NOTED BRITISH LEADER DEAD Prime Minister in World War Succumbs to Pharyngitis. IN POLITICS 40 YEARS Last Orator of Victorian School; Broke With Lloyd George. By United Press SUTTON-COURTNEY, England, Feb. 15.—The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, one of England’s great political figures and prime minister during the early stages of the World War, died today at 6:50 a. m. He had been ill since Sunday, when he was stricken with an attack of pharyngitis. He had been in a coma most of the time. Death came peacefully to the 75-year-old former prime minister who for two score years had been one of the outstanding politicians of England. At 6:30 a. m. doctors notified his family that he could not live until dawn. His wife, Margot Asquith, whose memoirs caused a sensation some years back, already was at the bedside, having been in almost constant attention for the past fifty hours. Revered in Village At 6:50 doctors announced Lord Oxford was dead. Residents of this little village on the Upper Thames—who revered the elderly statesman quickly gathered in front of the home. Lady Oxford notified the King and Prime Minister Baldwin of the death of her husband. Members of the family besides the widow are Sir Maurice and Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, Princess Bibesfldf and the four sons, Herbert Asquith. Brig. Gen. Arthur Asquith, Cyril and Anthony, and Cyril’s wife. The venerable Lord Oxford—he was born Sept. 12, 1852—was the last in Great Britain of the Victorian school of silver-tongued orators, still extant in the United States. Other speakers were forced, to change their styles of address suit the more business-like times. Lord Oxford’s sonorous sentences, polished and rounded out with frequent classical allusionos, were famous. s From College to Poli.lcs He was an excellent student at Oxford University and went directly from college into politics. His first election to the House of Commons was in 1886. Six years later he had orogressed so rapidly in British affairs that he was made home secretary, his first cabinet job. In 1894, he married Miss Emma Margaret Tennant the Margot whose memoirs created a sensation in England and America alike—as his second wife. He became prime minister in 1908 and held the post until late in 1916, when his cabinet dissatisfied with the prosecution of -the war. He resigned. It was at that time that he and his political lieutenant, David Lloyd George, his successor in office, became enemies and this breach never had been healed completely. Years after the war the Independent Liberal party, which Lord Oxford had formed to combat Lloyd George’s coalition liberals, was merged and again the Liberal party was united.

Takes Peerage in 1925 Lord Oxford took his peerage on Jan. 26, 1925, and apparently ceased to be active as a party politician. Prior to that he and Lloyd George had held a sort of joint leadership, with Lord Oxford the nominal head and Lloyd George the actual head of the party. In recent years. Lord Oxford, who had aged rapidly, had remained fairly well out of political life. The heir to the earldom Is Viscount Asquith, 12, the son of Raymond Asquith, killed during the war. Lord Oxford was the second of the great British war figures to die within the last few weeks. Recently Earl Haig. British field marshal during the World War, died and was burled near his former home In Bermersyde, Scotland.

CHURCH EDUCATION OF YOUTH IS DISCUSSED 200 Presbyterian Ministers, Workers in Parley Here. The problem of church education of youth was discussed by 200 Presbyterian ministers and workers at the second annual Christian education conference of the Synod of Indiana at the Memorial Presbyterian Church yesterday. Prof. Louis H. Dirks, De Pauw University dean of men, spoke on “Church Ministry to Boys and Girls of the Senior High School Age ’ The. Rev. T. M. Pearcy, Evansville, discussed the problems of young people from 18 to 25. The Rev. J W. Miller, assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Indiana, talked on the proble mos providing training for those of junior high school age. The conference continued today. Stylish Bandit Gets SSO B ’/ Times Special NEWCASTLE. Ind., Feb. 15.—A young, stylishly dressed bandit armed with two automatic pistols held up a Standard Oil Company filling station here Tuesday night and robbed the attendant of SSO. He escaped.