Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1929 — Page 14

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THREE TRAINS CRASH IN FOG; FIVE_ARE DEAD Flyer Piles Up in Wreck After Passenger Smashes Into Freight. Bu United Pret* ABERDEEN, Md., Jan. 18Wrecking crews worked hastily today to clear away debris left by a double train wreck in which five Pennsylvania trainmen were killed and one more seriously scalded by steam. The wreck occurred Thursday night two miles south of here when a north-bound passenger train crashed into the rear end of a freight train moving ontp a siding. Hardly had the reverberation of the first collision been silenced when a third train, a southbound passenger train, plowed into the wreckage of the freight, tossed onto the southbound right of way by the first crash. Those killec were: K. A Klein, brakeman of the freight train: W. W. Stewart, freight train flagman. A. C. Terhune, engineer of the southbound passenger train; ■ T. J. Kavanaugh, fireman of the southbound passenger train, Leon Sweetin, engineer on the north- ' bound passenger train died in the hospital. John Lee, his fireman, is in the same hospital badly scalded. Passengers Escape ( None of the passengers were nei-ioasly injured. Many were ■ si , hi ly cut or bruised when tossed \ about in the swaying coaches. Pennsylvania road officials have * hot yet issued an official statement, ' but it was believed Thursday night that at least part of the wreck ( might have been caused by failure l ot Terhune to see a signal set 1 against him. because of the heavy fog. Maryland at this point was ; covered with a dense fogbank of ' moisture, and it was suposed that ■ hn 1 much to do with the accident. V As soon as was possible relief t trains were organijed and pas- > sengers taken into Washington and Baltimore. The Washington train 1 arrived some time after the regular \ southbound train was due. Among i those who were abo trd were Repj resentative Wallace Dempsey, of the ■ fortieth district of New York and j Washington people. Coaches Stay on Track ; ' Miraculously, the coaches were hot uncoupled and all but the first stayed on the rails. It was this happening, combined with the fact the coaches of the north-bound passenger train were tossed in the opposite direction to the south-bound right-of-way that expUins the fortunate and unexpected escape of all passengers. Wrecking crews worked hastily today to restore train service on a normal basis. By Ba. m. the northbound tracks had been cleared and regular service was resumed. South-bound service may not be restored until late today. Two hundred laborers were rushing work on replacing one-quarter of a mile of track tom up by the wreck. Workers succeeded in recovering the body of Terhune, engineer of the flyer, from under the locomotive shortly after day break. Acetylene touches were used to cut through tons of iron under which Terhune was pinned. Influenza Much Milder This Year Than In 1918 But Vicks Laboratories Again Operating Night and Day to Supply Record-Making Demand. Although the type of flu this year Is not so serious as in 1918, health authorities are urging everybody to treat even the slightest cold at the start, as colds lower the resistance and make the body an easy prey to bronchitis or pneumonia. An interesting response to this Warning has been the phenomenal call for Vicks Vapoßub, the external treatment which proved so help- • ful in the 1918 epidemic. In spite of vastly increased capacity, the Vicks laboratories are once more operating all night long and are now producing 375,000 jars daily. A substantial part of this Increase is attributed to the wide- , spread use of Vicks as a preventive.—Advertisement.

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PAULINE LORD HAS MIGHTY LONG ROLE i— ■ - -- NEARLY every one, at some time or other *n his life, has taken part in a play and knows the severe strain of memorizing a role so that it is letter-perfect, not only at home before a mirror, but on a brightlylit stage in front of the annihilating gaze of an audience. But still, though we all have an idea of the effort involved in memorizing the lines of a play, we are apt to forget that such an effort has been expended when skillful players spontaneously recite their lines so glibly as to make it seem incredible that they are actually speaking from memory—never a frantic pause to find a word, or a feverish glance to heaven to find a phrase that has escaped.

But though we are apt to forget these trials of actors in the ordinary length play, the enormous feat of the players in “Strange Interlude” at English’s opera house, three days —Thursday, Friday and Saturday— Jan. 31-Feb. 1-2, of having memorized roles reaching through nine acts and over four and a half hours’ time, can not help but elicit our admiration. Miss Pauline Lord’s part in “Strange Interlude” is one of the longest ever written, totalling 210 speeches, and many of them quite long, to express the inner thoughts of her role as well as the regularly voiced speeches. She said she was “tired enough to go to pieces” when the play finally opened, but its swift success —a well-known tonic to any trouper—“made everything suddenly easy.” Miss Lord was unable to account, in the rehearsals of “Strange Interlude,” why her mind and the minds of all the other players suddenly went dead after learning the first five acts. / But then she discovered it was because the first five acts are the length of an ordinaiy play. So tired did the players become that it seemed they couldn’t go on through the other four acts that follow the dinner intermission, which are even longer and more emotionally exhausting. Miss Lord remembers waking up at night and going over lines she already knew, though she realized it wasn’t getting her anywhere.

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FATE OF ‘THRILL’ KILLER RESTS ON PLEA College Youth’s Case Simmers to Difference of Medical Opinions. Bu United Prest ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 18.—The hope of George Harsh, young Oglethorpe university student, to escape the electric chair for the murder of two men killed during robberies today hung on the slim thread of the testimony of medical men. The case has simmered down to a difference of opinion in medical minds as to the alleged thrill slayer’s sanity. On the side of the defense, stand ten physicians, each of whom has testified under oath they believe Harsh insane. For the prosecution, three medical men have given their word they believed Harsh completely normal. Today may see more of the same mind on the stand. Give Subnormal Evidence Thursday’s testimony ended with neither side carrying an advantage. The state’s contention that Harsh and his friend Gallogly, alleged driver of the auto Harsh is said to have used in the holdups, committed the robberies because they needed the money. Mrs. J. S. Disosway, sister of the accused, told he jury she had furnished money freely to her brother while he was at school. Half a dozen instances which may have caused the boy Marsh to be subnormal have been presented by the defense lawyers. In addition to the picture of a yougster holding over a dual personality from a juvenile case of influenza, the picture of a youth with numerous physical deformities tending to show insanity, the attorneys Thursday presented anew picture. Plead Unbalanced Mind Mrs. George Prentiss of Milwaukee, a neighbor of the Harsh family, told of an accident she said she

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