Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 174, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1931 — Page 5

NOV, 30, 1931

ABE LINCOLN'S ‘DOUBLE' PAYS VISIT TO CITY Illinois Man’s Likeness to Great Emancipator Is Winning Him Fame. “Abraham Lincoln" is paying his respects to Crossroads of America. Ed Carrell of Lawrenccville, 111., visiting the home of his sister, Mrs. Grant Moore at 615 Congress avenue, is so like the great emancipator in appearance that five of the ex-President’s iriends have readily acknowledged the close resemblance. One decided that Carrell's complexion is darker, but otherwise he is almost a duplicate of Lincoln. Two years ago, Carrell was a restaurant owner at Lawrenceville. One day he noted a customer watching him curiously. Finally growing embarrassed at such close scrutiny he asked: “What’s wrong with me? Do I need a shave or is something wrong?" Beard Turns the Trick The customer continued his gaze and replied, "I was just wondering why you didn’t grow a beard?” "A beard?" and Carrell smiled, “Why I prefer to be clean shaven.” Then his visitor suggested that if he would grow a beard, he'd be an exact duplicate of “Abe.” Carrell recalled that his mother had noted such a resemblance, but he'd never considered it seriously. But Carrell gave up the daily rite ol shaving. Soon his friends generally began to comment upon the resemblance. His first public appearance in the role of Lincoln impersonator was at the dedication of the Lincoln memorial at Springfield, June 16, when he met President Hoover, who keenly was impressed with the tall figure so like the great President. Now Well Known Carrell soon came to be a wellknown figure in Illinois. He traveled with the “Great Emancipator Collection”—a log cabin on wheels containing many Lincoln relics. The cabin is floored with boards on which Lincoln once made a speech, last year this exhibit was at the Indiana state fair. The impersonator has appeared

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Mrs. Annis Miller Believed to Have Nephew, Older Sister Living. For several years, Mrs. Annis Miller, 62, has led a life of poverty, but never talked much to her friends about her troubles. * Thanksgiving day, she died at the city hospital, victim of injuries incurred nine days before when she was struck by an automobile as she crossed Delaware at Michigan j streets. For the last four days, friends have been searching for relatives. They are positive a nephew resides in Indianapolis and an older sister i in Florida, probably Orlando. Mrs. Miller last resided at 1210 North Illinois street. She will be buried in Crown Hill cemetery Tifesday foliowring funeral services

in a Fox newsreel at Decatur and has headed many parades. At the time Jesse Lucas w T as released from a prison term in the Illinois penitentiary for a crime he didn’t commit, a Chicago reporter took a picture of him posed with the bogus “great emancipator.” Carrell has studied many books written about the Civil war president and has visited every landmark of Lincoln history with the exception of the grave of Lincoln’s mother at Lincoln, Ind. Carrell is only 49. His friends have urged him to go to Hollywood and seek fame, but his wife doesn’t like the stories she’s heard about the movie rendezvous and frowms on the idea. However, he expects to make a visit to California next spring. “I’ve spent more money than I have earned the last two years,” he said, “but I get pleasure in looking like Lincoln without the use of makeup to convince the public that I represent him in appearance more than anyone else.” CEMENT DECISION DUE Decision on the state’s 1932 cement purchase policy is expected to be made at a meeting of the state highway commission Wednesday. Commissioners are understood to be considering a plan to let each road contractor purchase his own cement. In the past, the annual 2,000,000-barrel cement purchase had been made by the state.

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COL. JOHN H. CARROLL, RAIL ATTORNEY, DEAD Passing at 73 Ends Career Which Started on Streets. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Colonel John H. Carroll, a leading railroad attorney, died Sunday at the age of 73. He will be buried in Rock Creek cemetery here Tuesday. Carroll’s death ends a career which began on the streets of Cincinnati. When he was 5 his mother died there while en route to visit her husband, a Civil war soldier, who was ill in a hospital. The streets were Carroll’s home for nearly a year. By the time ihe was 30, Carroll had established himself as a successful lawyer in Unionville, Mo. In 1890 he was appointed general counsel of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad. He retained this post to the time of his death, and also was general counsel of the Northern Pacific, assistant to the president of the Baltimore & Ohio and represented a number of other corporations.

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those accepting the invitation will be paid in Russian currency. There are more than 5.000 foreign specialists working in the Soviet Union. German workers are in t-he majority, with Americans second. BEAVERS COME BACK Tree Felling Animals Return to Farm North of Elkhart. By Times Special ELKHART, Ind., Nov. 30.—Beavers have returned to this section of Indiana and are located on the farm of Bert Dickerhoff, thirteen miles north of Elkhart in a swamp at Puterbaugh lake, according to D. E. Stutsman. Stutsman reports several fairly large trees have been felled by the beavers. Farmers in the vicinity are taking steps to protect the animals.

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