Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1929 — Page 11
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WESTON, KING OF WALKERS, DEAD AT 90 Disappointment Spoils Last Days. When He Fails to Reach Goal. FAMED ACROSS NATION Hiked From New York City to Frisco When He Was Past 70, BY PAUL FREDIX United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. May 14— Edward Pay son Weston, walker of magnificent distances, rode a wheel chair to his last, goal—death. The “King of Walkers” passed his ninetieth milestone, a, mark he had set for himself, but the end which came Monday found him unable to use the legs that had carried him to triumph in more than a thousand athletic tests. Weston had scorned any other mode of travel than his legs. Asa spy and dispateh bearer during the Civil war. he learned-to rely on his own locomotion when the enemy shot his horses from under him. Hikes to Inauguration At. 2? he. hiked the 443 miles from Bost-n to Washington to attend Liru n’s first inauguration. The trip took mm 208 hours and he arrived two hours late, but Lincoln complimented him. The feat started Weston on a professional walking career. In 1867 he paced the 1,326 miles from Portland. Me., to Chicago in 26 days. Forty years later he made the same distance in 19 hours less. At 70. he walked from New York to San Francisco, 3.895 miles, in 104 days and 7 hours, fighting blizzards for thirty days on the way. The next year he walked from Santa Monica. Cal., to New York, 3,500 miles, in 76 days and 23 hours. His legs stood every kind of strain year after year, but like Achilles he was not invulnerable. Shot in Leg When he was 85. several intruders attacked him at his farm home near Kingston, N. Y. He drove them off, but was shot in the leg. After that, walking wasn't so easy. The mental attitude of the man changed as his physical prowess diminished. Two years ago he was found wandering dazed and penniless on I the streets of New York. Anne Nichols, author of “Abie’s ’ Irish Rcse," came to his aid with 1 a. trust fund of $l5O a month, and j Miss Anna O'Hagan, for twenty-one years his secretary, took him into her home. Wouldn't Admit Defeat He would not admit, even then, that he was through. He vowed he would live to be 90 and take a long walk on each birthday. He tried it at 88. and fell under the wheels of a despised taxicab. Thereafter it was the wheel chair. He managed to take a few steps at 89. but was powerless on March 15 when he reached his goal of 90. “This.” he said then, “is the bitterest day of my life.”
NO WILL ON TUESDAY, LAW SUITS FOLLOW Halim Signora P*es While Waiting for Wednesday, B- United Prct NAPLES. May 14.—The obstinate belief of the late Signora. Maria Fasano in a proverb that a person should nor make a will on a Tuesday has caused a crop of law suits to follow her death. The heirs she did not name are fighting among themselves over the estate of 3.000.000 lire. On a Tuesday, she was warned tirat her end was near, but she refused f /> sign the will, waiting for Wednesday. She died half an hour before midmgnt on Tuesday, leaving the will unsigned. PROMOTER FROWNS AS 10 QUIT DANCE DERBY Exhaustion Claims Couples Before Th-rti Pay. Bv United Press new YORK. May 14—Professor Milton D. Crandall wore an anxious look today. He was afraid his second annual dance derby would stop of its own accord before health authorities stopped it. Only twenty-two of the thirty-two couples who started in the shin marthon Saturday night were still on the march, ten orhers having come to their sense through general exhaustion Ernie Thomas of Astoria. L. 1., and Marie Walsh of Manhattan, took a lead of ninety-one points gained in periodical "sprints." Jimmy Priore of Passaic. N. J., and Jeanne King of Garfield. N. J., are next with *6. WOUND CAUSES COMA Evamrille Pivoreee Lies Unconscioiis at Hospital After Shooting. Bv United Press EVANSVILLE. Xnd.. May 14. Mrs. Josephine Conrad, 27. wealthy dhorcee. who wounded herself with a revolver in an alleged attempt at suicide, was in a state of coma at a hospital today. According to police. Mrs. Conrad mounded herself and shot Miss Margaret Maley. 25. a friend, afetr a party at the former's home. Miss Maley told police she was shot when she attempted to wrest a revolver from Mrs. Conrad's hands >ahen she attempted suicide.
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DR, NORRELL ARRESTED Negro Politician Charged With Performing Illegal Operation. Dr. James R. Norrell. 52. Negro. 422 North Senate avenue, was arrested late Monday charged with having performed an illegal operation on Miss Gavbella Moore, 26, NegTO. 919 North West street. May 6. The affidavit was sworn to by George W. Eggleston, deputy prosecutor. Norrell was released on a SI.OOO bond. The doctor has figured in Republican politics in Indianapolis for & number of years. At one time he was a deputy coroner and later unsuccessful candidate for the legislature and congressional nominations.
INDIANAPOLIS. TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1929
Brown, daring British aviators, made a 1.960-mile nonstop flight from St. Johns, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Ireland, in sixteen hours and twelve minutes. In 1924 the German Zeppelin ZR-3, which is now the Los Angeles, was flown to this country and turned over to the United States government in accordance, with terms in the Versailles treaty.
~UM PLOTTERS SENTTOPRISON Federal Judge Sentences Fifteen at Ft, Wayne, Bv Vnitcd Frcss FT. WAYNE, Ind., May 14.—Convicted some time ago on charges of conspiracy to violate the federal prohibition laws, fifteen men today face prison terms, after being sentenced by Judge Thomas Slick in United States district court here. The judge overruled motions for new trials. John Voegtlin. former deputy United States marshal; Frank Conroy, federal prohibition officer, and Sammy Koehler, roadhouse owner, received two-year sentences in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. Paul Harshbarger, formerly an elevator operator in the federal building here, and Ralph Rosewinkle, former deputy sheriff, who confessed that they were implicated in the conspiracy plot, pleaded guilty, but were not sentenced. Conspiring with liquor runners and giving them protection against raids' was charged. Harshbarger testified that he obtained approximately SIO,OOO as a result of tN conspiracy. According to testimony in tin trials, bootleggers paid the elevator operator “protection money” and he in turn “split” with the others. Charles Bruno, Christ Yovan, Clyde Dumbald and Jack Sacks received sentences of one year and a day each. Judge Slick, in passing sentence, said, “these cases strike right at the root of society,” AWARD CONTRACT FOR NEW WATER CONDUIT West Side Line Will Double Protection Against Fire. Contract has been awarded by the Indianapolis Water Company to the Brice Brothers Company of Dayton, 0., for a $220,000 west side conduit which will give the industrial disirict double protection against fire. The new line will be laid from the White river filtration plant near Eighteenth street and Fall creek to the Riverside pumping station at Tenth street and White river. The supplementary conduit will be five feet in diameter and would serve a population of 500.000 by itself. The present conduit, is four feet in diameter. When operating together the two conduits will have a capacity of 76,000,■'00 gallons a day.
35 NURSES TO FINISH St, Vincent Commencement Services May 23, Thirty-five student nurses will be graduated from St. Vincent's hospital school of nursing at exercises at 7:30 p. m. May 23 in Louise de Marillac hall. A reception will follow the program. The graduates: Misses Ida E. Baker, Catherine Mildred Bond. Lucile E. Brown. Carmella A. Fegan. Florence C. Foresman, Mary Margaret Galey, LaVeme Hamlyn, Mary Rose Hardebeck, Gladis C. Hayward. Lois W. Hayward. Mary Louise Hazen, Madonna M. Hughes, Gertrude M. Jones, Mary Louise Kabey, Annette C. Kelly, Evelyn E. Kuhn, Mdrie Ann Luhr, Margaret M. McCauley, Margaret Adeline McCreary, Rita Grace McLaughlin, Lucy M. Moon, Alice Theresa Murphy, Catherine M. O'Connor, Henrietta C. Picker. Helen M. Prue, Helen M. Shanahan, Hazel A. Sinnott, Mary Helen ; Tolle, Mary Kathleen Toon. Mary ! Evelyn Tumilty, Pauline Lindsay ; Tyson, Margaret E. Weadick, VerI onica R. Zinkan, Loualma M. Zin- ; ser end Cornelia Lucille Hirtzel. Train Kills Man Bv United Prces LAKETON. Ind.. May 14. Struck by a passenger train near here. James P. Scopp, 47, near Huntington, was killed.
Bv V EA Service WASHINGTON. May 14.—The open season for crossing the Atlantic by air has arrived again, coincident with the second anniversary of Lindbergh’s New York-Paris flight. The great dirigible Graf Zeppelin, with its second voyage from Germany to America starting Wednesday, inaugurates the 1929 trans-Atlantic flight series. Close on the heels of the Graf Zeppelin will be the new British dirigible, the R-100. wtoich will cake off on a trip to Canada and the United States. It is expected to be followed later by its sister ship the R-101.
Thus the 1929 season will open with dirigibles occupying the limelight. Although flying across the Atlantic is considered one of the most risky things an aviator can attempt, it is worth noting that in the ten years that have elapsed since the first time the Atlantic was spanned by air, no fewer than 243 persons have sailed over the ocean In airplane or dirigible, not including the second trip of the Graf Zeppelin. The Atlantic was crossed in a, nonstop flight eight years before Lindbergh's triumph. Many Make Trip Here is the list of trans-Atlantic flights and the dates on which they were made: May 8, 1919—The navy’s NC-4, in charge of Lieutenant Commander A. C. Reed, assisted by E. F. Stone and W. Hilton, left Rockaway, N. Y., and flew to Plymouth. Fngland, by way of Azores, Port .gal and Spain in fifty-seven hours -nd sixteen minutes flying time. 4.514 miles. Two other planes failed. May 19, 1919—Harry Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Grieve, British aviators, flying from Newfoundland to Ireland, forced down in ocean a.nd rescued by Danish ship Mary. June 14, 1919—First successful non-stop trans-Atlantic .flight made by Captain John Alcock and Lieu-
B st 35o|n LOOT Two Stores Are Entered by Thieves, Clothing and shoes valued at approximately $1,350 were stolen from two downtown stores Monday nignt or early today, it was discovered when the stores were reopened this morning. Burglars, who entered the Birdsong & Gambrel Clothing store. 213 Massachusetts avenue, by forcing their way into the basement and boring a hole through a rear door, removed thirty suits worth $l,lOO, W. G. Gambrel told police. Seventy-five pairs of shoes valued at, $250 were stolen from the Stout shoe store. 47 South Illinois street, by burglars, who entered through a skylight, C. C. Barnard, manager, reported. SONG WRITER TO \WED Oscar Hammer-stein 11, to Be Married In Baltimore Today. Bn Vn ited Press NEW YORK. May 14.—Oscar Hammerstein 11. musical comedy lyricist, was to be married today in Baltimore to Mrs. Dorothy Blanchard Jacobson. Mrs. Jacobson is the former wife of Henry Jacobson and the daughter of Captain Henry Blanchard of Melbourne, Australia.
States Educators Tell What ‘NextEdison’Needs ALERT! KEEN-MINDED! IMAGINATIVE! CURIOUS! These are some of the traits that Indiana’s foremost educators say are requisite in the youth who desires to become the protege and successor to Thomas Alva Edison. In a penetrating and analytical study of the qualities that must be paramount in the fortunate youth who will succeed the great inventor, Jonathan Rigdon, Ph. D., president of Central Normal College at Danville, one of the state’s leading educators and the author of "College Ideals,” "Science and Religion” and “English Grammars." opens a series of ten articles by Indiana’s educators on "Qualities That Edison's Successor Must Possess." The series begins in Wednesday’s Times. Every parent wall be interested in the discussion of the qualities and traits that go into the makeup of a genius. Every* boy and girl will be interested in learning whether he or she possesses such charactistics. Read the highly illuminating series by Indiana's educators, which begins in Wednesday's issue of The Indianapolis Times.
The 1927 season was a busy one with Lindbergh. Chamberlin and Byrd all making the crossing. Last year witnessed the first westward crossing when the German plane Bremen landed on Greenely Isle, and the newest trans-Atlantic air voyager is the Graf Zeppelin, making its second round trip flight.
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tenant A. W. Brown of England, who flew from Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland, in sixteen hours and twelve minutes, covering 1.960 July 2, 1919—British dirigible R-34 crossed Atlantic with thirty-one persons aboard (one a stowaway) from Scotland, arriving at Mineoia, N. Y„ July 6. Return voyage safely negotiated. beginning July 10. Sept. 28. 1924—Tw0 of the four United States army round-the-world planes crossed Atlantic via. Iceland. Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland Oct. 12. 1924—The ZR-3. now the Los Angeles, left Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen. Germany. and landed at Lakehurst. N. J.. Oct. 15, flying 5.000 miles in eighty-one hours. Lindbergh Made History Jan. 1926—Commandant Franco of Spain, flew his seaplane to Buenos Aires, Argentina, via Canary Islands. Feb. 22. 1927—Commander Francesco DePinedo. flew across the lower Atlantic from Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of Africa, to South America. On May 23, he left Newfoundland on his way back to Italy via the Azores. May 21. 1927—Lindbergh, New York to Paris, 3,6lommiles. 31;:3 1 ;: hours. June 4. 1927—Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine took off from New York and landed at Eisleben. Germany, on June 6. breaking world record for long distance flying with. 3.911 miles in 42 hours and 31 minutes. June 29. 1927—Commander Byrd, Bert Acosta. George O. Noville and Bernt Balchen left New York and came down in shallow water off coast of France early on morning of July 1, after 3,477 miles in 46 hours and 6 minutes. Aug. 27. 1927—William S . Brock and Edward F. Schlee, round-the-world aviators, flew from Newfoundland to Croydon airdrome, London, covering 2,400 miles in.-23 hours and 9 minutes. Oct, 11, 1927—Ruth Elder and George Haldeman left New York for Paris: two days later resoued from ocean by Dutch tanker near Azores. April 12. 1928—Koehl. Von Huenefeld and Fitzmaurice leave Ireland and landed on Greenely Island, off Labrador coast, on Friday the 13th, making first westward airplane crossing in single-motored plane. Lady LLndy June 17. 1928—Miss Amelia Earhart, Lieutenant Wilmer Stultz and Lew Gordon, left Newfoundland and landed in Wales on following day, completing 2.100-mile hop in 20 hours and 49 minutes. Oct. 11, 1928 Graf Zeppelin crossed from Germany to the United States with twenty passengers and forty crew, 6.000 miles in lilts hours. Oct. 29, 1928—Graf Zeppelin began return flight with twenty-five passengers and forty crew. Completed in 71 hoars and 12 minutes. March 26, 1929—Captains Ignacio Jiminez and Francisco Iglesia, Spanish aviators, landed at Bahia. Brazil, after a flight from Spain. (Copyright, 1929. NEA Service. Inc.)
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WICKER SHAM TO READ DRY QUIZ Probe to Cover All Forms of Law Violation. Bn Vnitcd Press WASHINGTON. May 14.—George W. Wickersham. who in a recent speech said such legislation as the
Jones “five-and-ten” law was too harsh, will become. chairman of President Herbert. Hoover’s law ens orcement commission, i t authoritat i v c 1 y has been learned. Wickers ham, internatio na 11 y known as a lawyer. attorney - general in the Taft cabinet, and a former president of the American Bar Association, recently consented to become a member of the commission, but asked further
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time to consider the President's request he be chairman. As chiarman, Wickersbam will have charge of an investigation covering prohibition as well as all forms of law enforcement and lationWickersbam is 70 and a native of Pittsburgh, pa. 500 AT CONVENTION Indiana Lions Club in Session at Bedford. Bv United ! Press BEDFORD, Ind., May 14.—The seventh annual state convention of Lions Clubs entered its second day this morning with a varied program. Approximately 500 delegates, representing cities throughout Indiana are in attendance. Earl Hodges, vice-president of Lions International, was the principal speaker Monday. A tour of the stone quarries and a train trip to points of interest in Lawrence county are included in in the activities. NAME LEAGUE HEADS City Manager Club Elects New Directors. Appointments to the executive and campaign committees and the board of directors of the City Manager League were announced today by Claude H. Anderson, chairman of the campaign committee. Additional members of the campaign committee are: Mrs. Estelle E Eshbach and Mrs. Tom Sheerin. The campaign committee will include: Mrs. Walter Greenough. Mrs. Frederick Balz. H. Nathan Swaim, Robert L. Sloan, James L. Kingsbury, State Senator John Niblack and Mrs. Elsie Huebner Olsen. Other members of the directorate are: Lawrence N. Helm, Mrs. Bran<H Do? - ney. Mrs. Warrack Wallace, Mrs. Margarte L. Shuler. Firman C. Sims, Frank L. Martino. Mrs. Ray Trent. Mrs. Jennie Forsyth Jeffries, Bert S. Gadd Edward Barker. Dr. Homer W. Cox. J. Harry Holtman, William L. Hutchison, general president of the United Brothers of Carpenters and Joiners of America; Mrs. A. Otto A.bel. Mrs A. M. Anderson. J. Ed Burk, Mrs. James H. Butler. Mrs. Maurice Coburn. F. Elbert Glass. | Arch D. Hinch, Mrs. George W. Horst, Mrs. W. E. Heyer. John C. Kirch. Mrs Peter Liehr Jr.. Mrs. j Magdelene Perrlne, Ralph M. Spann Mrs. John T. Wheeler. Mrs. H. P. Wiilwcrth, j Robert H. Espey. Mrs. Albert Wasson. Mrs. Kurt Wurz and Roscoe F Lee. The additional members will raise the total number of directors to 150. A meeting of the organization will be held Wednesday noon at the Liruoln.
CHURCH UNION WILL DECIDE COLLEGE ROW Baptist Bible Group Meets to Probe Des Moines University ri tr^TRUSTEES HOLD EDGE Ousting of Faculty, Which Brought Rioting, Likely to Be Approved. B<i United Press BUFFALO. N. Y.. May 14.—Delegates arriving here for the annual convention of the Baptist Bible Union of North America said a resolution probably would be introduced favoring dismissal of President Harry C. Wayman and forty teachers of Des Moines university for their alleged conversion to modernism. It was indicated that Dr. T. T. Shieds, president, of the board of trustees of the university, would receive strong support from the delegates. Shields will address the convention tonight and Wednesday. The entire controversy at the university will be investigated by the convention. All Quiet on Campus Bu United Press DES MONIES, la.. May 14.—Higher education by injunction was resumed peaceably on the campus of Des Moines (Baptist! university today as fresh breezes from the corn belt carried away the last taint of bag eggs which students had hurled | a t their administration building in j week-end rioting. | Only an occasional dark splotch J on the brick walls of the building and here and there a broken window remained to remind students of the outbreaks as they picked up the threads of latin and theology where they had dropped them last week to take up brickbats and spoiled [ vegetables. Miss Edith Rebman, secretary to', the board of trustees, and one of the persons against whom the students j revolted, left Monday night for l Buffalo, her send-off being a chorus !of jeers and American patriotic j songs. Send Representatives The students had gathered to give a send-off to the Rev. Minor j Stevens, pastor of the Calvary i Baptist church, and Dean E. C. Calloway, of the college of pharmacy, who also are bound for Buffalo to present before the convention of the Baptist Bible Union of North ' America the students’ side of the controversy. When the students learned that Miss Rebman was on the train, they surged around her sleeping car and “serenaded’’ her with cat-calls and jeers. Later four Canadian students who I were accused of spying on their j fellows, at the instigation of Dr. T. | T. Shields, president of the board of ! trustees, and Miss Rebman, left on I another train for Toronto, acj eompanied by Max Schimpf, a trustee. The four were accompanied to the ! train by a police guard, but no demonstration marked their departure. To the contrary, a half dozen students asked them if they would not remain, assuring the four that they would not be harmed, Court Stops Lockout On records of the district court is an order restraining the board of trustees from keeping the school closed in accordance with the wishes of Dr. Shields, who fled under police guard after his dismissal of the entire faculty had brought on the student rioting. No hearing to make the injunction permanent is probable before the end of this semester next month. Dr. Shields had “fired” the faculty because he felt its members were not in sympathy with the strict fundamentalist view’s of the Baptist Bible Union which controls the university. Included in the dismissal order was Dr. Harry C Wayman, president of the school, who has been in similar difficuulties before, notably when he was president of William Jewell college at Liberty, Mo. flint at Relationship Students displayed banners Saturday hinting that Dr. Shields and Miss Rebman had more in common than their school work and that the dismissal order was to prevent an expose of their relations. Both Shields and Miss Rebman denied such suggestions. Some of the faculty members insisted that Dr. Shields’ pro-British leanings caused the trouble. His home is in Toronto, Canada.
WINS BACK SMOKING DOG Ownership Suit Settled When Pet Takes Fag in Mouth. Bn United Prrt NEW YORK, May 14.—Teddy, Manchester Toy Spaniel, convinced Magistrate Vitale he belonged to Julius Kahn and not to Elsie Cambridge, who had claimed him. At Kahn's command he stood on two feet, rolled over and barked. When Kahn handed him a cigaret in a holder, Teddy held it in his mouth awaiting a light. “The dog is yours,” the judge said to Kahn and Teddy got his smoke outside the courtroom. Marion Mavor 11! Bn If litre So^cinl MARION, Ind.. May 14.—Mayor James H. McConnell is seriously ill with acute indigestion. His condition is regarded as critical