Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1928 — Page 5

OCT. 17, 1928

‘MOST FOOLISH thing; label ON PROHIBITION \ English Noble Woman in City Today Expresses View. BY JOSEPHINE DORAN Slatey skies, dripping gray rain on shining car windows. Flashes of orange and green and red from the trees, like a succession of futuristic paintings framed by the window sill. And a throaty, musical English voice talking about America. Lady Edward Spencer - Churchill, her slate-blue eyes turned, first to the passing countryside, then to Mrs. Robert Walbridge who sat opposite and then to me, who sat beside her. She talks decisively. “Prohibition? The most foolish thing I ever heard of. We have no prohibition in England, and yet I have not seen a drunken man on the streets of London for ten years. I cannot say the same for San Antonio. But then, that was a special occasion.” Lady Edward is returning from the American Legion and auxiliary convention. “They say it was the saloon that needed to be destroyed. Do not our inns in England correspond to the American saloon? They are all over the place, and still there is no drunkenness. In England it is a disgrace to be seen drunk. “Politics? I know little about American politics. I am an English conservative, and they tell me in America I would be a Republican. I can not say, because I do not know enough about the two parties to choose. This is my first trip to America and I love it, even more than I had imagined I should. You are so busy, so industrious here.” Nobility Easy to Meet There was no need to ask questions. Lady Edward is so vitally interested in everything that is going on in the world. I had pondered a bit as to how one greeted nobility. It is a most simple procedure with Lady Edward. You walk up and are introduced and she takes your hand and smiles a most fascinating smile. While she is doing this, you stand fascinated, looking at a gracious woman, her graying black hair coiled rather high on her head. A tall woman, vigorous and intelligent. v “I am recording my trip day by day. I have a little portable typewriter, and I make carbon copies ; and send those to my daughters. It saves no end of trouble about writing letters. The others I save to chronicle when I return to England. And speaking of letters. Are not the air mail envelops the most fascinating things, with the red and blue bands on them? I must send by daughters air mail letters, so they may see them.” I asked her about American writers, what she thought of our contribution to literature? “I do not have much time to read. I am very busy with British Legion auxilithy work.” And she mentioned Lowell and some of the poets. “But the modern novelists. What of them?” And I mentioned Thornton Wilder and Ernest Hemingway. “ ‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey?’ It was delightful, but was it written by an American? I did not know Wilder was American. I thought he was English. And ‘Death Comes to the Archbishop,’ is that also an American novel?” Finds Press Spectacular Finally the conversation drifted to American newspapers. “They are much more spectacular than English papers. In England the details of a divorce case are no longer allowed to be published. Here you do not use many adjectives, but everything is pretty clear/’ D. R. Cooper, who was in charge of the Big Four special train that was bringing Lady Edward, her confidential maid, K. Baird; Mrs. Walbridge and Mrs. William Schofield and her nurse, Miss Mary Seccombe, to Indianapolis from San Antonio, came over to show her an account of Lady DrummondHay, who flew from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst in the Graf Zeppelin. She read it with interest and laughed heartily when she came to the place where Lady DrummondHay wrote that it was regarded a tragedy if the wine ran out, proving the English have a sense of humor. There were other proofs. When the porter brought 4 o’clock tea she refused. The soda she had had shortly before was enough. An English noblewoman turning down tea for an ice cream soda! Another illusion shattered.

2 HURT, S4O ',OOO LOSS IN WAKE OF STORM Sections of Vanderburgh and Posey Counties Struck.* By United Brest MT. VERNON, Ind., Oct. 17. Two persons suffered from injuries today and property damage is estimated at $40,000 as a result of a storm which struck near here late Tuesday afternoon. The injured are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bennem, both past 80 years old. They received head wounds and body lacerations when a small log cabin, in which they lived, was wrecked. The storm covered an area seven miles in length and half a mile wide, dipping up and down as it traveled. The most serious damage was done near St. Wendells, though some property loss was reported from both Vanderburgh and Posey Counties. That no one was killed was attributed to the numerous storm cellars in this section. Practically all residents of homes which were struck saw* the storm coming in time to reach cellars. Scientists to View Eclipse Hii Un.li<i I'r s* LONDON. Oct. 17.—Four British scientists expect to leave in February for the Malay peninsula where they will make a study of the eclipse of the sun on May 9, and also they hope to solve the secret of the atom. They will measure the temperatures and pressure of gases around the sun.

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CLARENCE DARROW—Believes only what he can hear, see, taste, feel, smell. Accepts only scientific facts. Chemicals in man can be bought at a drug store for 95 cents. Pictures of life after death from forefathers and theology are theories, not based on scentific data. Explains man's creation the same as the egg in the chicken. Simply a cell fertilized which grows into life, “makes so many trips from the couch to the table,” then dies, returns to the elements from which it came. Pictures death as pleasant, eternal, unconscious sleep. Wishes he could think himself all wrong, but can’t. No scientific data to change his thoughts. Talks like a man resigned to the belief that life ends in death. Presents his views in a cynical drawl, with satire and wit sprinkled in. But he leaves little, if any, hope. British and American troops in China have caused a decided increase in shipments of ice cream to Shanghai from Vancouver.

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RABBI M. M. FEUERLICHT—A face lighted with animation, accepting the teachings out of the past that man is clay plus a soul. That the clay goes back to dust, but the soul lives on. Believing life here is but a schooling, a preparatory step for greater adventures and service in the hereafter. Picturing man as having a power of thought, of expression, of idealism not found in others of the animal kingdom. Looking upon a God as some great power or force that carries man out of his earthly vale of pain into a spiritual life of happiness and usefulness. In his face and eye there is that light which comes from hope, from belief in the spiritual He sees man as a machine only in the sense that the body is used. But this body is a tool of the mind or spirit. It must do the mind’s bidding, and when the body fulfills its mission, it is cast aside, and the soul or personality of the individual goes on.

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25 LIFERS TO ASK TRUSTEES FORJJLEMENCY 61 Cases Will Be Placed Before Pardon Board at Conference. Twenty-five life-term prisoners will seek pardon, parole or sentence commutation when trustees of the Indiana state prison meet as a pardon board at that Institution Sept. 25. Os the twenty-five, nineteen were sent up for murder and the others for statutory offenses or habitual criminality. A total of sixty-one cases is scheduled for hearing. Seventeen new cases and thirty-two reopened cases are prisoners sentenced direct to Michigan City. Three new and nine reopened cases are transfers from the Indiana State Reformatory. Ten are from Marion county. Robert Manley, sentenced to life for murder here Feb. 7, 1925, is the new murder case set for hearing He asks commutation of sentence. Two Life Ttermers Marion county life-termers on the reopened case list are Joseph Dietrick. sentenced May 22, 1920, and Jordan Walker, sentenced April 23. 1909. The former was sentenced for a statutory offense and the latter for murder. Other murderers seeking release are Harvey Nalley, Posey county; Henry Pollard, Shelby county; George Schwanderer, Madison county; Walter Brocaill, Posey county; Thomas Burke, Allen county; William E. Cook. St. Joseph county; Charles Couts, Vanderburgh county; John Deboard, Daviess county; Roscoe Detamore Hendricks county; Alfred Hizer Fulton county; Robert Holcomb, Montgomery county; Marine Jagliardi, Lake county; Charles Johnson, Delaware county; Edward McCoy, Delaware county; Lase Montgomery, Vanderburgh county; John O’Reilly, Porter county, and Clarence Thornton. Greene county. Other Marion Prisoners Besides the life-termers Marion county prisoners include Charles Dalton, sentenced May 6, 1927, for two to twenty-one years, incest; Fred

AAA-Blooey! l\ v Times Special PORTLAND. Ind., Oct. 17. A local man whose name is withheld at his. request claims discovery of what he terms “super-triple power AAA.” He claims that up to the present he has been unable to perfect an engine ytrong enough to utilize the power. The inventor says he discovered the power while making experiments in an effort to develop solar energy. A small engine, about the size of a one-eighth horsepower electric motor when subjeetd to the new energy, developed three horsepower before flying to pieces, the inventor reports.

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HOOVER MAPS ‘FRONT PORCH’ BALLOT DRIVE Expects to Keep Continually Before People in Last Two Weeks of Campaign. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Herbert Hoover will change his style of campaign in the last two weeks before election to provide more public appearances. This will keep him in the public eye during the critical closing days when his Democratic opponent, Alfred E. Smith, will be continually on the stump. Plans are being made for a “front porch” campaign at his Massachusetts avenue headquarters here next week, after his return from his New York speaking engagement Monday night and before his departure for California to vote early the following week. Hoover Is expected to make these more than “how-do-you-do,” glad-to-see-you” meetings and probably will touch upon campaign issues. The Republican candidate’s advisers are urging him. as well, to devote at least one of the impromptu speeches he will make every day on his way west to campaign issues. Hoover plans to make many impromptu addresses on this trip, as well as one major radio speech, which will be at St. Louis, Minnapolis, Chicago or Milwaukee. Highly pleased with his Massachusetts reception the Republican candidate turned his attention today to his second invasion of the east, his trip to New York Monday. He continued work upon his speech which will be a general discussion on several issues, with “prosperity” as the keynote.

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