Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1930 — Page 7

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MAJOR IS BACK ON JOB AFTER MURDER TRIAL Friends Welcome Officer Found Guilty of Killing Hjs Wife. I J United press DENVER, Dec. 25.—Major Charles A. Shepard, expert on tuberculosis, esUmed his duties at Fitzsimmons General hospital Wednesday night, .fter his return from Kansas City, ivan.,, where he was convicted of ’ Ife murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. It was a bleak Christmas "homecoming” for the gray-haired, mid-dle-aged army physician when he .\epped from a train at the Union tation. Only one person was waitng to greet him—a youth who drove in expensive roadster and who decribed himself as "just a friend.” Major Shepard, nevertheless, apcoared in high spirits. He smiled frequently during conversations with reporters. His leave was up Wednesday and he explained he was reporting for duty at once. He is free under $20,000 bond, granted pending irearir g on his motion for anew rial. Admirers Greet Major While hio friends were few, his amirers at the station were many. The Negro train porter brushed the major carefully. He offered the porter a tip, but it was declined hus: "Major, you keep it. Thank you, it. just the same. Just put it in .our defense fund. Merry Christmas.” The army officer then walked to a soda fountain. The young man who served him said, simply, when Major Shepard started to reach in his pocket for a coin, “your money's no good here. Major.” Asked how he planned to spend Christmas. Major Shepard said smiling: "I don't knov; what I’ll do Christmas. I have a dozen invitations for dinner. I can’t say which one I'll accept.” He said he wag disappointed jn Grace Brandon, San Antonio stenographer. to whom the government charged he was engaged and who testified against him at his trial Disappointed in Girl "I'm disappointed in Grace,” he said "I have been ever since this charge was first placed against me. The affair between us is ended. But my faith in the goodness of women in general stands.” He stated he believed he would ultimately be absolved of any connection with his wife’s death. "When I am,” he said, "I shall have the good women who have Interested themselves in my case to thank, as well as the men.” Defense committees in Kansas City and Denver are raising funds to finance' the officer's appeal. NEW BOOK ON WORLD WAR LAUDS FRENCH Pershing, Ilaig and Other Leaders of Allies Ignored. 9y United Press PARIS, Dec. 25.—The bitter internal quarrel which the Foch and Clemenceau books evoked has been reopened again, after having had barely tinlfe to die out, by publication of Colonel Herbillon's valuable historical memories, "From the General-in-Chief of the Government,” which goes behind World war scenes with no attempt to mince words. Colonel Herbillon has praise for both Foch and Clemenceau, and wholly disregarding Pershing. Diaz, Jacques, Haig and other great figures of the allies, fleclares that the only outstanding figures of the hectic four years were Frenchmen —Joffre. Millerand. Gallieni, Petain, Foch. Poincare and Clemenceau. SLEEPS, HIS EYES OPEN New Jersey Man Hasn’t Closed His L'ds in Rest in "8 Years. By Times Special TRENTON. N. J„ Dec. 25.—Albert Herpin, 78. has never closed his eyes in sleep as long as he can remember. Time and again people have set themselves to watch him. but he has nevlr been caught taking as much as a wink of sleep in the seventy-three years he has lived here. He says he has never had a dream, never been aroused by an alarm clock and has never been awakened by any mortal. ARTIST COLLECTS TOYS Musical Biscuit Box. Egg Laying Mechanical Hen In Group. !i u Science Service LONDON. Dec. 25.—Sir William Orpen, the famous painter, has one of the oddest collections In England -a musical toy layout. He has a decanter, which plays a waltz while wine is poured from it. a French hen which, when wound up, walks across the dining room and lays eggs, and a biscuit box that plays music. His toys come from all over the world.

DETROIT COPS AID POOR Police Chip in 55.000 a Month to Help Needy. lit Vnitffl PrfM DETROIT. Dec. 25.—Members of he Detroit police force contribute *5,000 a month from their pay to a special fund to aid unfortunates and the needy. The fund Is adminisered by the department in cases >vhlch come to the persor al attention of the members. Donations range from $35 a month, given by Commissioner Thomas E. Wilcox, to $1 from the detectives and patrolmen. THAMES TOITbRIDGEO *60,000.000 Structures Expected to Relieve London Traffic. Bw Vnilrß Prt* LONDON, Dec. 25.—Many millions of dollars will be spent during the next ten years to build bridges across the Thames at strategic points to help relieve London’s rraffle problem. Seven new bridges are contemplated, old bridges will be widened and the Charin Cross brWtw is expected to be constructed cost' of' about 660,000,000..

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Translator, Only Federal Worker Ever Refused the Right to Resign, Can Use 100,000 Words. BY RODNEY DLTCHER Bt United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. WU! fred Stevens, who is one of the most remarkable, Interesting and valuable men in Washington, receives a government salary of $2,700 a year as a principal translator in the department of state. Stevens knows thirty languages and has invented two more languages of his own. He is said to j be tne only man who ever resigned I from the government service whose resignation was not accepted. He rides to work every day on a bicycle, lives largely on the fruit known as the pawpaw, thrives on a diet which costs 25 cents a day and has become an accomplished horticulturist while carrying around at least 100,000 words in his head, i This is more than Woodrow Wilson | knew, for his vocabulary has been j estimated at 62,000. Words Are Confusing Once, when he was asked if he never got the words of one language mixed up with those of another, he admitted: "After learning the first couple of dozen languages, I sometimes did.” The thirty languages at Mr. Stevens’ command, several of which he speaks with the greatest fluency, are English, French. Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch. Sioux, Russian, Polish, Bohemian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Slovak. Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Finnish, Latvian, Armenian, Lithuanian. Ukrainian, Esperanto, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Latin. Once he spent fifteen years in devising a universal language called Ufano. Then he decided it wasn't good eonugh and he threw away the whole thing, with its elaborate iramework and immense vocabulary. Invented New Alphabet He has invented an entirely new alphabet to carry the language which he most recently has developed. In our own alphabet, the name of that language sounds most like *’Zhoeylong." with the last syllable accented. That means “Petty eye” in English, the name of the pet woodthrush which partially inspired him in developing the new universal language. Stevens looks his distinction. His face is darkly tanned and fringed with brown beard. He is rather thin. The bridge of his gold-rimmed spectacles rests half an inch from the tip of his nose. He wears dark brown or black flannel shirts and maroon silk neckties. Became Proofreader He was born in Shakopee, Minn., in May, 1874, and got the idea of learning languages at the age of 10. He began following Gentians, Frenchmen and Italians around and made them talk to hint. He learned the language of the Dakota Sioux Indians—and many years later found a striking similarity between that and Japanese. No college or university taught him an jlhing. He knew German and the romantic languages when he arrived in Washington to become a proofreader in the government printing office. At that time he started on the Slavonic languages and within three months had a good knowledge of Russian. After studying Portuguese for a few' months he did some important special translating for the Brazilian embassy. Finds Learning Different He jumped to tlse Mongolian and Semitic languages and soon afterward was writing an English-Chinese-Japanese dictionary and carrying on conversations in Greek. Chinese is the nearest perfect of all languages, according to Stevens, and “Zhoey-long” is based principally on Chinese. He says it’s really difficult for him to learn a language. In doing so he reads books and newspapers printed in the language he is studying, extracting root w’ords and cataloguing them on large sheets of foolscap paper until he has indexed the main element# of the language. Naturally, he has an amazingly good memory; he also is probably one of the world's most expert phoneticlsts. BLAST HURTS FOUR Celluloid Ignited When Oil Is Poured Into Stove. Morris Maurer. 38. proprietor of the Capitol Auto Parts and Tire Company. 823 North Illinois street, poured oil into a stove in his plant Wednesday. Near by was a pile of celluloid. When police and fire department arrived, they found the front of the store blown into the street and four persons badly burned. They were Maurer, his son Jack. 17; Mrs. Josephine Robold, 17, of 1125 West Thirtieth street, and W. M. Tynes, Negro. 1731 Northwestern avenue, Tynes was in the shop buying a used car. He was blown from the place to the street car tracks in front. All the Injured were treated at city hospital. Mrs. Robold. in addition to burns, was cut on the neck and head and remained there. The rest were sent home. REST FOR WEARY ONES Postoffice Workers Ease Tired Feet and Hands, After Grind. Postoffice workers “rested on their oars” today after handling a recordbreaking amount of Christmas mail the first three days of the week. A large amount of late Christmas mail awaits delivery Friday. There were no deliveries today and only one Wednesday. Approximately 800 extra workers at the postoffice will be released next .\||nday, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson said.

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Expert Says 1,000 Cars an Hour Pass Easily on Two-Lane Highway. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 25.—How many automobiles can travel on a highway without congestion? Dr. A. N. Johnson, dean of engineering of the University of Maryland and member of the highway traffic committee of the national research council’s highway research board, has answered this question. In a report made this morning before the annual meeting of the board, he said: “The two-lane road practically is free from congestion up to 1,000 vehicles per hour. Tire three-lane road practically is free up to 1,600 vehicles and is congested not to exceed one-fifth of the time up to 1.900. “With further increases in the number of vehicles per hour, congestion increases at a more rapid rate on a two-lane than on a threelane road when four-fifths or more of the tr zffic is in one direction, the two-lane road is practically free from congestion up to 1,300 vehicles end the t.rree-lane road up to 2 !00.” Observations also were made on a four-lane road, but there was not enough traffic to cause congestion, the greatest rate of passing being 3,288 vehicles per hour. In making the observations congestion was said to occur, Dr. Johnson explained, when a reduction of speed was noticed and the drivers began to crowd each other. KIWANIANS PLAY SANTA 1,100 Children Are Given Christmas Cheer 4 by Club Members. Indianapolis Kiwanians played Santa Claus Wednesday night to more than 1,100 underprivileged children of the city. Bert Servaas, magician, presented an entertaining program of legerdemain, and Arthur J. Beriault portrayed Santa Claus and distributed gifts. Four hundred children were gathered at the Herman Lauter Memorial clubhouse and 700 at the Enghsh Avenue Boys’ Club. Fo ty children were the guests of the club at a turkey dinner at noon.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to; Alva Heater. 119 West Walnut street. Ford coupe, from 1409 North Pennsylvania street. R. W. Stanley. 5140 Bast Washington street. Hudson sedan. 735-121. from 5140 East Washington street. Howard Foltz. 3016 College avenue. Ford Tudor. 760-596. from 3310 Washington boulevard. Howard Callahan. 2011 Jones street, Chevrolet coach, from 2011 Jones street. B. W. Long. 205 Berkley road. Chevrolet coach. 73-658. from 2247 North Meridian street. William Cash. 811 Maxwell street. Ford coupe, from 968 North Meridian street. Grain Dealers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Comnanv. 4930 Ralston avenue. Pontiac coach. 739-409. from 628 East Twenty-first street. James Stroup. 611 North Pine street. Oldsmobile sedan, from 611 North Pine street. Isaac Marks. 4339 North Illinois street. Chrysler sedan. 730-011, from Capitol avenue and Pearl street. Miller Hardware Company. 363 Massachusetts avenue. Ford coupe, from 970 North Meridian street.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Hudson sedan. 734-909, found at 2118 West Morris street. Chrysler sedan. 582-140 Ohio, found at Ohio street and Capitol avenue.

BOOKS GIVEN BUTLER South Sea Collection Is Donated by Charters, Gift of one of the largest collections of books regarding the South Sea Islands to Butler university library was acknowledged today by, J. W. Atherton, financial secretary of the institution. The donor Is William F. Charters, long a resident of Indianapolis. Charters never has been to the South Seas. He is a tax adjuster with offices in the Odd Fellow building and makes his home at the Columbia Club. But while his days were spent in prosaic matters, his evenings have been given over to the rich lure of the Orient. Starting with “White Shadows in the South Seas” by Frederick O’Brien, he carried his dreams forward, book by book, until he had collected more than 3,000 of them—all on the same subject. The collection is valued at $15,000. A special bookplate has been prepared by the university for the collection.

BODIES OF 31 REMOVED FROM QUAKE RUINS Rescue *Crews Are Periled by Reeling Walls in Argentina. B'j United Press SALTA, Salta Province. Argentina, Dec. 25.—The bodies of thirtyone persons killed in an earthquake at La Poma, near here, had been recovered from the ruins today, according to advices received here. The quake was felt throughout northern Argentina. Approximately seventy injured persons, mostly women and children, received medical attention. The earth tremors began early Wednesday and continued until daylight, with lessening intensity. The undulatory shocks moved from east to west. Great crevices appeared in the earth and a majority of the buildings in La Poma were reported demolished. Survivors labored in the ruins, beneath tottering walls and parts of structures left hanging in dangerous positions. Seeking the bodies of relatives and friends, military forces were sent to the region to take charge of rescue work and render first aid. It was reported here that only two policemen were on duty in the town when the quake occurred, and the pupulation was thrown into the utmost confusion. Heavy rains, accompanied by an electrical storm, broke over the ruins and hindered the search for injured survivors and dead, and inflicted great difficulties upon rescue parties. The widespread damage of the earthquake was not revealed until daylight, when it was found that many edifices had been made insecure. Many women were restrained with difficulty during the night from entering the ruins of their dwellings to seek missing members of their families.

DROUGHT BELIEF BATTLEJ.OOMS Cut in Loan to Farmers Will Stir Strife, By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 25.—The war over drought relief appropriations will be fought all over again after the congressional recess, if the house appropriations committee reduces the authorized $45,000,000 for loans to farmers. Democrats served notice today they would rigorously oppose any | attempt to reduce this figure in the appropriation bill, to be drafted soon, when they heard reports that Secretary of Agriculture Hyde might urge a smaller appropriation at this time. The bill passed recently merely was an authorization for the $45,000,000, and a separate measure must be passed carrying the money. J The committee will begin next week to draft a bill when it hears from j Hyde, who originally recommended a $25,000,000 appropriation. The senate raised the amount to $60,000,000 and the house voted $30,000,000, a compromise being reached j at $45,000,000. CLOCKS IN SPEED CRAZE Large Second Hands Popular as Civilization Increases Pace. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Clocks and watches are changing their faces to keep up with a civilization that whirls onward at dizzier speeds. The United States, land of the ; split second, buys more and mor6 clocks on which the second hand has grown from a sliver to a full- t sizsd pointer as large as the min- j ute hand, declares a bulletin is- ! sued by the National Geographic j Society. ORCHIDS COST MILLION World’s Rarest Flower Producer Has Varied Collection. By United Press NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 25.—Orchids, the world’s rarest and costliest j flower, are produced on a quantity j and quality basis by E. A. Farley of Gentilly. His collection of orchids is valued j at more than $1,000,000. A blueprint j location system enables him to find j his many varieties, in Burma, Siam and closer tropical and Latin coun- ; tries. 500-Pound Man Dies By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. 25. ; George Butterworth, 60, who weighed 500 pounds, is dead here of | paralysis. He had appeared with : carnivals and side shows.

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