Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 262, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1929 — Page 15

MARCH 22, 1929.

ONE MAN RUNS MOST UNUSUAL U. S. RAILROAD Owns 11 Miles of Track and Four Cars; Manager, Engineer, Conductor in One. By EE A Service TABOR. la.. March 22.—This town is the terminus for what is undoubtedly the smallest, shortest, oddest and most obliging railroad in the country. The road is the Tabor <Sc Northern line, with eleven miles of track, four cars and a personnel of one —E. V. Stopper, who combines in his own person the functions of owner, general manager, agent, conductor and —most of the time — engineer and fireman. It was forty years ago that the road was built, connecting Tabor with the town of Malvern. For a long time It prospered hugely; then cafne hard-sprfaced roads, automobiles, motor busses and so on, and it almost went out of business. But Stopper revived it. He built his own cars —miniature coaches powered with Ford motors. And he became the most obliging trainman in lowa’s history. Housewives along the right of way' will stop the train and entrust

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Sampan Drifts to Sea in Search of Six Souls HONOLULU, T. H., March 22.—A miniature sampan about ten feet in length is somewhere on the Pacific today, if waves have been merciful, bobbing along in search of the souls of si:-. Japanese fishermen lost at sea. No human hand guides this little craf| which was cast adrift, sails set, into the trade winds as part of picturesque Buddhist rites for the seamen given up as dead. In the sampan when it was set adrift were fruit and vegetables, sandals, water, many flowers and six “toba” or sticks of wood bearing the names of the victims. These seamen were believed to have been lost in the severe Christmas storms. Their sampan was inbound from Necker Island and should have reached Honolulu shortly after Christmas, but it never appeared. The ill-fated craft was the Daikoku Maru. The miniature ritualistic sampan will carry the souls of the lost fishermen to paradise, according to the symbolism of the faith of the mourners. The belief follows an old Okinawan legend, according to which those for whom the provisional funeral was held would be provided with food and water until their safe return. The ceremonies caused no little sensation in Honolulu, as hundreds of mourners followed a hearse which carried the flower-laden sampan through the streets to Kewalo wharf.

Stopper with the task of buying a pound of butter, a dozen eggs or a couple of yards of gingham at the town store. If there is a passenger in Malvern who missed the train, all he has to do is phone Tabor; when the train finishes its trip it will go back to Malvern and get him. Often* Stopper has got out of bed at night to go to one town or the other to get a doctor for a sick patient along the line somewhere. When you embark here for a trip

oji this line, Stopper is the station agent who sells you your ticket. Then he goes out and helps you aboard. Then he mounts to the cab and guides the train to its destination. Just at present, to be sure, things are a bit more complicated. The state is engaged in a huge road building program in this vicinity, and practically all of the material has to come in over Stopper’s railroad, which connects at Malvern with the Burlington route.

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LIBERALS WILL LOSE POWER IN, NEXT CONGRESS Progressives Not Needed by Republicans; Put Through Important Acts. By Times Special WASHINGTON, March 22.—Liberals, who for two years have held the balance of power in the United States senate, will find themselves relegated to an obscure position when the seventy-first congress convenes in April. , Twelve of this group belonged on the Republican side, and only with their support was the Republican party able to organize the senate two years ago and retain chairmanships of committee^ - In the new congress the Republican majority is so increased that the party will retain control even if most or all of the liberals bolt. During the time they held the whip hand liberals secured passage of the McNary-Haugen bill in the senate, kept alive the Boulder Dam fight and were finally successful with it, and passed the Norris Muscle Shoals bill. They backed Investigation of the power industry, but split on the question of who should conduct it, finally sending

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