Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1932 — Page 3

MARCH 18,1032

INDIANA CIVIL WAR VETERAN NEAR 100 MARK Rockport Colonel Believes His Long Life Due to Clean Living. fj I nit fit f'r*** ROCKPORT, Ind., March 18. Colonel James S. Wright, surviving brigade commander of Sherman’s march to the sea, only living colonel of Indiana’s 172 regiments that fought during the Civil war, the world's fourth oldest living Mason, and a member of one of Indiana’s pioneer families, will celebrate his JOOfh birthday here in June. ‘I never have felt better in my life,” he said. •’My recipe for a long life is based on the fact that J have spent my whole life in the out/doors. ”1 have tried at all times to live rleanly and according to the moral code, and to this day I do not know the taste of tea, coffee, or any intoxicating liquor, and have never smoked, or chewed tobacco. T grew to manhood on plain food and among the surroundings of pioneer life, which I believe moulded and built my future life and con•titution. Pace Too Fast “As a whole, I do not think the people under present conditions are living properly—the pace is too fast. They do not, eat, the right kind of food to build the body for a vigorous mind, and. as a people, are straying away from the spiritual things of life. “I believe that m.v splendid health in my hundredth year is due largely to physical exercise in my everyday work. Horseback riding is my hobby. I havp not kept pace with the sports of the day, but I believe that, all clean sports are good for a man from a recreational standpoint. Gets Fight flours’ Sleep "Thp old adage, early to bed and early to rise, still bolds good. The law of nature demands eight hours sleep. The health and happiness of the people of this country would be better and greater if they lived more simply. * Colonel Wright was one of the original Republicans. For five campaigns he was on the national Republican speakers’ bureau. He cast his first vote for Millard Fillmore in 1856, and voted twice for Abraham Lincoln, traveling 1,800 miles, 800 of it, on horseback, to vote the second time. He has voted for pvery Republican candidate since the birth of the party, always from the same precinct. URGES FIXED PRICES Ward Miner Also for Standard Scales of Wages. Standard wage scales and fixed prices for farm products were recommended as a cure for the business slump by Ward B. Hiner, Liberty party candidate for Governor nt, a. meeting Thursday night in Compton hall, 2001 Winter avenue. Other speakers on the program were C. S. Wikoff, candidate for United States senator; Paul B. Elliott and Forrest L. Hackley, state chairman. The party will sponsor a meeting tonight in Chapman hall. 1064 West Thirty-fourth street.

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CHAUNCEY OLCOTT,' NOTED TENOR, DIES

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Famed Ballad Singer, 71, j Was Commanding Stage Figure 30 Years. By f nited Prexx MONTE CARLO. March 18.— Chauncey Olcott. famous ballad singer, who introduced the song j "Mother Machree” died early today j of pernicious anemia. He was 71.! Olcott/s wife, son, and daughter were at his bedside at his villa here. The body of the singer-actor will be buried in New York, they said. Olcott was a native of Buffalo, N. Y., where he was born July 21, 1860. He was developed as a singer by the late F. M. Hooley and became famous as the “Irish tenor.” He. married Margaret O'Donovan of San Francisco in 1897, traveled with Hooley's company several y>;ars, appeared with various minstrel and opera troupes, ana then vent to England to sing in comic opera. Olcott succeeded W. J. Scanlan as star in Irish musical dramas and returned to introduce “Mother Machree,” the greatest song hit of; his career. Other Irish songs which Olcott made famous before his serious illness in 1925 included “I Love the Name of Mary,” “A Little Bit of Heaven, Sure They Call It Ireland ” “My Wild Irish Rose,” “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” and many more sentimental ballads of that type. The roles made famous by Olcott'

and the lyrics of some of his most popular numbers were; “I love the name of Mary,” from “Shameen Dhu:” “T lovp the name of Mary Gentle and sweet, nor airy Tedner as e'er a fairy, .Inst as true." “A Little Bit of Heaven,” which Olcott sang in “Barry of Barrymore," ended with the line that became famous in many parts of the world, “and when they had it finished. sure they called it Ireland” Olcott always had to sing “My Wild Irish Rose,” no matter in what play he appeared. "My wild Irish rose, the sweetest flower that prows You may search everywhere, hut none can romnare With my wild Irish rose. My wild Irish rose, the sweetest flower that prows And some day for my sake she may let me take The bloom from my wild Irish rose.” In “The Heart of Paddy Whack” Olcott introduced “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling;” “When Irish eyes are smiling sure it’s like a morn in spring In the lilt of Irish laughter you can hear the angels sing. When Irish hearts are happy all the world seems bright and gay And when Irish eyes are smiling, sure they steal your heart away, “Mother Machree” was the most famous of Olcott’s songs, and he introduced it in “Rugged Robin:” "Sure I love the dear silver that shines in your hair And the brow that's all furrowed and wrinkled with care; I kiss the dear fingers all toil-worn for me May God bless you and keep you, Mother Machi’ee.”

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FRIENDS FIGHT TO REINSTATE MRS SCHOEN Appeal Will Be • Made to Safety Board to Recall Police Ouster. Delayed temporarily in presenting an appeal for Mrs. Ruth E. Schoen, widow of a slain police officer, her friends today announced they will appeal to the safety board Tuesday for her reinstatement as a police department clerk. Mrs. Schoen, whose husband was shot down in front of his Irvington avenue home March 6, 1928, by hired gunmen, it is alleged, was discharged on recommendation of Chief Mike Morrissey March 1. Since then she has received no other funds for maintenance of herself and two daughters other than a S6O a month pension from the police department. Mrs. Schoen’s discharge, said by Morrissey to have been for economy purposes, came shortly after it was rumored that investigation had been reopened into her husband’s slaying. The underworld has pronounced

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‘Bums’With Tot By United Prext . LADONIA, Mo.. March 18.— When railroad police came upon a youth climbing out of a freight car here, they shouted, “Drop that bundle.” The boy clutched it tighter, and they approached him with guns drawn. The little package was a 4-month-old baby. “It's mother died.” the boy whimpered. “I’m trying to get back to relatives in Arkansas.” Officers raised $5 and a conductor gave the little passenger and its custodian a seat in the caboose. The boy wanted to “borrow” 15 cents for milk for the child.

that Shoen, attacked twice by gangsters in MiUtary park, was killed because he knew too much. The economy move by the police department, which has resulted in an entire change of procedure at headquarters, was followed by bringing three men into the office after Mrs. Shoen was dismissed. Mrs. Schoen filed case records during her eight hours on duty. Now the system has been extended throughout twenty-four hours and is handled by patrolmen Lawrence Fanning, Richard Fogarty and Edward Moore. Each of the trio devotes eight hours daily to handling the cross-system of filing.

LESLIE AVOIDS DEFINITE MOVE IN CASE OF KOS Prosecutors Demand Killer Serve Time: Legion Wants Clemency. Despite insistence of prosecuting authorities that Max S. Kos, World i war veteran, serve an imposed one to ten-year prison sentence on a | manslaughter conviction. Governor Harry G. Leslie today had taken no action in the case. Leslie is faced with these demands from state's attorneys while American Legion members and other friends of Kos are seeking a pardon for him. Kos was convicted several months ago on charges that his automobile i struck and killed two Indianapolis Street Railway Company employes Dec. 31, 1928. Kos wras sentenced by Harvey Grabill, special criminal judge. Prosecutor Herbert Wilson is to inform Leslie that he believes delay in the case should be halted and Kos required to serve his term. In seeking clemency for Kos.

American Legion members charge Ira M. Holmes, attorney for Kos. did not. treat him “fairly.” It is charged, and denied by Holmes, that the retainer fee he accepted in the case was to include carrying the appeal to the state supreme court. In denying this. Holmes points out that there were two criminal court trials and says the appeal

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was not perfected because additional fees were not provided. Kos. who now is not in the city, can be called into criminal courtand sentenced by Grabill, due to failure to complete the appeal action. Members and officials of the Indianapolis Bar Association, Investigating the legion's charges against Kos, today declined to make any statement concerning their investigation.