Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1930 — Page 6

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GIRL FLIER HAD PREMONITION OF DIVETQDEATH Left Notes for Parents and Husband She Had Wedded Secretly. o'/ Pre.s* SAN DIEGO, Cal , Sept. 19—A premonition o! the fatal ending to Ruth Alexander’s last aerial exploit was revealed today In a notebook left behind by the young San Diego aviator when she started on the, transcontinental flight attempt that brought her death. With the notebook was a message making known her secret marriage to Robert. Elliott, young naval aviator once stationed at North Island, across San Diego bay, and now at the Brooklyn navy yard. "To mv husband, Bob," the note read "If Igo before you, do not grieve, he content as I am content Finish your work and make me proud of you. I’ll always love you and wait—and sweetheart, keep my pretty v adding ring always. RUTH." Wanted Poem Bead at Grave Beside it. were her own written instructions for her funeral I want to be dressed in comfortable, pretty night clothing- 1 want to be placed on my side in a comfortable sleeping position—my body will lie there a long time and I -want to be comfortable while I am going on. I want to be placed whe.re there are trees and sunshine and grass. I wish no long funeral sermon ‘‘ln mv scrapbook there is a poem marked with ink, and if my wish is observed, I will be put away only by my closest friends, a song shall be sung, this poem read and that is all." Notes in Hotel Room The. pcc-m was "We Call Thi? Life," by Douglas Malloch The notes were found in her hotel room here twelve hours after her tiny monoplane, fighting to rise above a heavy, long-hanging fog, crashed into a hillside at Loma Portal The accident, occurred only a. few miles from Lindbergh field, from where she took off on an inter '*d one-stop trip to New York by way of Wichita, Kan The tragedy resulted from a. spin into which the plane fell while climbing ior altitude, according to a decision of the San Diego city board air con f rol. Ship Was Overloaded The midget ship was overloaded, the beard declared. Miss Alexander's weight combined with the 117 gallons of fuel, exceeding the weight of the 780-pound plane She had planned to stay overnight with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W T Blane, and her young brother at Elaney, Kan. ~he left for them this note "Please, don’t, wish me back I've gone to my happier life and I shall await you there. lam not unhappy and don't, you be—please " Disclosure of her secret, marriage to Elliott, in Yuma, Ariz, on June 31 was a surprise to her. closest friends. Previously she had been married to a Kansas youth named Alexander, but they parted. Husband Is Overcome Bu United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 19.—Manifestly overcome bv the tragic death of his aviator brid°, Futh Alexander, whose marriage to him three months ago. was revealed onlv bv her death Thursday. Ensign Robert Elliott indicated at his Brooklyn home today that he would go to San Diego for Iris wife’s funeral

HANDLESS, BUT SHE WRITES FAIRY TALES Girl in Fourth Grade. Dictates Stories to Mother, Studies at Home. BvXEA. Service SEATTLE. Wash, Sept. 19 Catherine Donnelly, young girl writer of Seattle, is without hands, but she was written some fairy stories which have a wide appeal in the state She can't use her hands and she is 'chatr-ndden But. sh e dilates the stories and her mother takes them down for her She Is in the fourth grade in school and a teacher calls at. her house once a. week to outline her studies for her

TOWN LEFT FORTUNE BY NEGRO MERCHANT 5100.m0 Amassed From Pennies to Be Spent on Park, Gym. MAYS LANDING. Fa.. Sept 19. —John W. Underhill, negro philanthropist amassed a fortune cf SIOO,OOO from pennies .spent, in his little store by school children, it. was revealed at. the settlement of his estate recently. His will provides that two-thirds of his estate shall go for improvement of the town park and onethird to equip the high school gymnasium LINCOLN MEMORIAL GROUP ANNOUNCED Ftv Appointed to Commission by Governor Leslie. Membership on the Indiana Lincoln memorial highway commission was announced today by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Members are Arthur F. Hall, president of the Lincoln Life Insurance Company. Ft. Wayne J. I. Holcomb, Indianapolis: Jess L. Murden, Peru, member of the state highway commission; Director Richard Ueber of the state conservation department. and Curtis G. Shake, former state senator of Vincennes. Similar commission* have been appointed in Kentucky and Illinois to interest themselves in promotion of a paved highway linking midwest points in the life of Lincoln. ORGANIZE FLOOD GROUP /Tw f 'nittd Free* WASHINGION. Sept 19,_a centra) research council to study’ flood control methods and test them in an experimental laboratory is being organized by the army corps of engineers with the hope of saving millions of dollars for the government and solving the Mississippi flood control problem.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s "Believe It or Not” which appeared in Thursday's Times: The Crooked Spire Church of Chesterfield, England The All Saints’ church of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, is surmounted by the curious "crooked spire,” which is 228 feet high and 8 feet off the perpendicular It is said that this phenomenon is due to the use of unseasoned timber in construction of the edifice in the fourteenth century, with considerable warping of the woodwork as a result. \ Samoan Becomes "Os Height.” Not "Os Age —Samoa has a consid-

Fogbound Boone County Apparently Doesn’t Know Jewett From Fifield,

DEMOCRATS were having the laugh on Boone county Republicans today and saying that organization men "don't even know what the head of their state ticket, looks like ” Visitors to the Boone county headquarters the past, few days were surprised to see the familiar features of Charles W Jewett, former mayor of Indianapolis and candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1928 staring at them from a. red background and below the words: "For Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield of Crown Point.” Evidently no one in headquarters had detected the difference in physiognomy and it was declared that, several hundred twotone posters with the same error were distributed Fifield declared he did not know anything about the poster and supposed that, some salesman had just printed a sample to exhibit I am sure none of these cards have been purchased." he added.

FUNERAL MONDAY FOR MRS. EDITH BUTLER Services Scheduled at Home for Wife of Tech Teacher. Last rites for Mrs. Edith Gwartney Butler, 36. wife of James H. Butler, Arsenal Technical high school, who died Thursday at her home. 5718 Oak avenue, will be held Monday at 10 a. m. at the home. Burial will be in Memorial park cemetery. Mrs. Butler was well known in i Irvington as a member of the Butler Alumni Literary Club. Delta Alpha Theta sorority and the Irvingtaon Fortnightly Club. Born in Ohio, she attended the Linton public schools and was eraduated from Butler yrversity in 1919. Surviving her besides her husband and mother are two children, James, 9. and an infant son William, a sister. Miss Helen Gwartney, Indianapolis. and two brothers. Hilbert and Barsh Gwartney, both of Los Angeles. HUNT LAKE FOR PAIR Customs Forces Believe Manufacturer and Little Son Drowned. B;, t Press DETROIT, Sept. 19.—The combined forces of the customs border j patrol, the federal naval reserves ! and the police harbormaster's division today began their second day's search of Lake St. Clair and the Detroit river for Sydney R. Russell, Detroit manufacturer and clubman, and his 8-year-old son Walter. The pair have been missing since Wednesday afternoon when they put out from Grosse Pointe, east of here, for Canada in Russel’s catboat. The boat, keel up, was found in j the Detroit river off Twelfth street Thursday morning. Hunted In Knife Attack Andrew Davis, 30. Negro. 605 North Blake stret. was sought today by police for a knife attack on Mrs. John Cntithers. 26, Negro. 807 North Blake street, in her home late Thursday.

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PICK SUITS BY DUMMY'S FACE Clothes Models in France Represent Living Men. 3v Scripvs-Hoicard yetcivaoer Alliance PARIS, Sept. 19.—1n Paris a woman buys a dress because of the label

“A CHILD CAN BUY AT RITE’S AS SAFELY AS A GROWN-UP” BUY YOUR /tfpX Although Rite's are always first with the /\ s LX/Sw*! NEW FALL newst > r les there is nothing new about V L\- \fjfig fl 07 NOW Rite’s Value-Giving Policy —Just Square /"V X wist ~ n . t „ . r , pfe Dealing—Truthful Advertising and Flain v„ > BHI Men's New Fall JJk LH '/ss£ HR I*— Toj|coaU *t f\ nHn nti S| s Bw|l HM8PBBM f*) \\ Between Washington and Maryland Streets | LUL L I ; : y Open Until 9 o'clock Saturday Night | I\LL,

Inside It; but men's attire. In this gay city, is purchased because of the face of the model on which it is displayed. Store windows along Paris boulevards are filled with anew sort of wax dummies. They are made not only to look like living men, but like men who actually exist. Charles Augustus Lindbergh gazes out from hundreds of windows, letting passersby admire the cut of the suit he is there to show off. Maurice Chevalier is almost as great a favorite, and Premier Tardieu runs a close third. Store-

keepers have found that suits displayed on one of these three model dummies sell faster than any others. But there are other faces in the store windows. There are dummies laughing gayly to show off a jaunty type of suit; dummies looking sinister to sell another type; dummies looking dignified; looking collegiate, looking professional, looking funereal. Not one among them is just a wax dummy. They have character and manage to impart it to the clothes they wear. Frenchmen select the

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type they wish to be and hopefully don the clothes that go with it So men's clothing amuses tho wandering boulevard crowds. The women's dressmakers of Paris display not a stitch in their windows. GAME INVENTOR DIES Ping Pong Creator Leaves Fortune Estimated at 5780.575. ST. LAWRENCE. Isle of Wight, Sept. 19.—James Gibb, inventor of ping pong, died here at the age of 76 and left a fortune of approximately $780,575.