Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1939 — Page 15
Eady Brothers of St. Petersburg Happy Pair Who Dive for Living And 'Take Nothing Off Nobody.’
ST PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 9.—Me and the. Eady boys get along swell together.
"The only thing is Bob says I ought to chew
tobacco and get some hair on my chest. Bob looks like Robinson Crusoe. His red
hair hasn’t been cut for a year. Nor his face shaved. His pants are halfway to his knees. : He’s never had on shoes but once in his life. His coat is an old band leader’s coat with black and silk stripes down the back. The Eady boys are the town ‘charac- * ters” of St. Petersburg, and probably the finest natural divers in Florida. They'll dive for anything, from a safety pin to a battleship.
They keep house in an old shed
down on the dock. Oliver is 39 and Bob 27. Oliver is a sort of exaggerated version of Harpo Marx, and Bob has already been mildly described. Bob has no respect for anything, and calls his older brother “Uncle Grandpa.” go Tourists stand and gaze in awe . at them. But these boys know a great deal about
Mr. Pyle
a world that you and I can’t venture into.” Ang |
' they're always happy, too. Bob is’ loud and funny and yells at everybody and cusses. Oliver is quiet and religious and keeps his head down all the time. He’s very short, but has a chest like a concrete mixer. : : They own a sinking rowboat and an appalling ~ collection of gadgets, and a diving helmet they made . out of an old five-gallon kerosene can. “How long can you stay under water with this
“ helmet?” I asked.
“Aw, it ‘ain’t much good any more,” Oliver said, + “You can’t stay longer'n six hours with it.” There are many stories about the Eady boys’ diving. This is the best one: _A Coast Guard cutter got a four-inch hawser - tangled up in her propeller. It was a diving job, and a tough one. They went over to Tampa and priced the professional divers. Their price was =e an hour, and no guarantee on how long it would e. Then somebody suggested the Eady boys. They dived down to take a look. Then Oliver got an snislope and. figured for a long time. Finally he said: . “That’s a mighty hard job. We can’t do it for no less than $4!” : It took both of them two days. They cut the * hawser loose with a butcher knife.
A Visit to the ‘Mooseum’
The boys were born in St. Petersburg. They love “talking machines,” as they call them. They have three down at the dock, and 15 or 20 at home. They have hundreds- of records. Oliver goes $0 church (the others don’t) and he likes religious records. “Let’s go out home and see my mooseum of cooros,” Bob said. “Things I've picked up off the bottom. -All kinds of things. Theyre in a room out there, Wait till I get the key.” : Bob could only get the “mooseum” door open about a foot. The place’ was packed shoulder high with stuff. Thousands of things, thrown in on top of each others. Anchors and sharks’ backbones and broken .talking-machine records and meat axes and things. : The climax to the Eady genius came when we started to leave the room. I noticed Bob was locking up a little trapdoor in the panel of the wooden “door. : I asked what that was for. iS It seems they lost the door key. So instead of _ getting a new key, they sawed a hole in the door, put on hinges and made a little trap door, and bought a padlock for it. : Trip ‘ So to get in, Bob unlocks the trapdoor, opens. it, ‘ reaches his arm through, and unlocks the big door from the inside. After Bob explained it to me, I looked at it for a while, and gradually it sank in. And then I couldn't keep from laughing.
My Day
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Six Predecessors Send "Messages" At Mrs. Morgenthau's Luncheon.
ASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Mrs. Morgenthau, wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, had her annual luncheon for me yesterday and enlivened it by a novel table decoration. These arrangements always fascinate me. At Mrs. Hull’s luncheon, I much admired the charming little Dresden China figures and ornaments decorating her table. Mrs. Morgenthau laid out the center of her table as nearly like the White House rose gardens as . possible and up and down the greensward placed six authentically dressed dolls representing various “First Ladies.” Each of them was there to bring me a message reflecting the years of her experience as the wife of a President and the verses were in character and pertinent to present-day problems. Some of the ladies, Martha Washington and Rachel Jackson, for instance, never lived in the White House, but they have a message for us today, nevertheless. I wish we all knew more about these women, many of whom were real influences in one way or another in their day. One of Washington's best newspaper women did a series “of articles on President's wives and, much to my regret, I have never seen them very widely printed. The other day a well-known ' author sent me a sketch on Mrs. Monroe, which I think he had done for the radio. It certainly gave me much information and I think would be of interest to many women.
Attends Garner Reception
At 8 o'clock we started for our annual dinner with the Vice President and Mrs. Garner. We had, as usual, a very pleasant evening. Mr. Gene Buck, who always provides the entertainment, produced a - marvellous magician, Mr. John Mulholland, who performed seemingly impossible feats before our eyes. There was also Fred Waring’s band ‘and a chorus which the leader told me represented 28 states. All the musicians seemed young and they were all Americans. The emphasis was largely on doing the unusual. One boy performed a. dance while playing a saxophone, which really proved him to be an acrobat of the first water. ‘ When 1 woke this morning I felt as though there was a stirring of spring in the air and by 11 o'clock I was out on the bridle path. In February, we nearly always have a few days.here when we begin to think that spring is just around the corner and then, before we know it, our hopes are dashed and back we are in midwinter again. I don’t feel very hopeful today pecause the weather prophesy is “increasing cold.
Day-by-Day Science
By Science Service. : ANY persons boast they “know all the answers,” M put for diabetics, of all people, this boast must be true. The diabetic patient’s life, health and happiness depends largely on his really knowing the answers —127 of them, the Mayo Clinic specifies. This (127) is the number of questions which patients attending the Clinic's diabetic school are required to answer before they are willingly dismissed. There can be no coaching from the sidelines, either, when the patients are asked to answer these questions. Diabetics is a condition in which the body fails to take care of sugar normally. Usually this failure is due to deficient insulin production by the islands of Langerhans in the pancreas. To make up for this deficiency, the diabetic patient gets insulin. - Too much "insulin, however, is as dangerous as too little. dose must be nicely adjusted to the amount of sugar the patient gets from his food. Allowances must also be made for the amount of sugar he can take care of without any outside insulin, since his body may produce a little even if not enough. This factor may vary and if it does, the insulin dose must be varied, or the patient is headed for fouble—
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Second Section
Kilian and Vopel, Gordon and Crosetti— They Click. in the World of Sports
(Second of a Series)
By Elliott Arnold
Times Specia:r Writer
EW YORK, Feb. 9.—It was just before the big six-day bike race in Madison Square Garden and Gustav Kilian was homesick. It was an awk-
ward time to get sentimental like that, but the noise and confusion of New York were wearing
him down, and he wanted to go home. His partner, Heinz Vopel, watched him moon about for a while, and then he decided he would give him a surprise. “I went to Long Tsland, and 1 buy lobsters,” Heinz explained. “Gustav—he love lobsters. I come back with plenty lobster. Myself I make them cogk, and with special sauce I make. I give them to Gustav. Boy, he love them. How much he love them. But so many of them he eats he becomes himself sick.” : : So here it was day of the race, and here was Gustav Kilian deathly ill. They brought him to the Garden on a stretcher and laid him in his cot inside the track. When the word got around that Kilian was in bad shape a dozen riders offered to make a new team with Vopel. He turned them all down. “I ride with no one but Gustav,” he said. A doctor was kept at Kilian’s
bedside through those six days. |
Vopel rode three-quarters of that race. Kilian came out infrequently for brief spurts. He was fed a special diet, given special massages. The experts watched. It didn’t seem possible for anyone to do what Vopel was silently doing. Only he did it and kept doing it, and Vopel and Kilian won the six-day grind against the finest racers in the world. 2 These two men, inseparable now, once were the greatest of enemies. They used to race singly and in separate teams ‘against each other on every bicycle track in Germany. Vopel was the plod-
der, the man with endless reserves
of strength, who could keep pump-
ing steadily until he broke the
heart of every competitor. Kilian was the showman, the lad who grinned and waved his arms and shot ahead into fantastic bursts of speed when everyone agreed there was no more speed left in him. 2 ” ”
ND, everyone discovered, ‘each
rode far better races when matched against the other. When
they raced alone their perform-
ance sagged. Their mutual hatred was the joy of the bike racing aficianados from one end of preNazi Germany to the other. Kilian would willingly lose 10 races to beat Vopel once. Vopel had it just as bad. And what made it
everi worse was that both were:
born within 25 miles of each other in the province of Westphalia, so they both were local boys and carried their disesteem right into their back yards. “Many. times,” Kilian said, “our friends said why do not you join and make one great team? Always we say no, race together, never us. We can fight but we can never be friends.” .Finally their fathers put their heads together and they formed a team. But they worked against each other. They still tried to show each other up and they became almost second-raters. Slowly, however, there developed a mutual respect and then a friendship. The morose, cold, plugging Vopel complemented the flashy, brilliant Kilian. Today, without question, they make the greatest six-day bike riding team in the history of that lunatic enterprise. 4 | They've won 20 of their last 22 races. No other team in the history of the six-day race to nowhere has won more than six or seven races. Both men are 30. They are the
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same height, both wear the same
size clothing. : : - “We are even the same wid here,” Vopel marveled, holding his hands to his collar. ] Kilian is. the laughing boy of the tracks. He sleeps very little during the races. He ducks around and kids other . riders. He's blond, good-looking. He delights in the spectacular. There never has been a rider who leans so completely over, the handlebars. He gets so much of his weight in his work he frequently skins his nose and chin on his front tire while traveling 55 miles an hour on a banked track.
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OPEL is quiet, dour, dark. He never speaks unless directly addressed. He has a quiet wideeyed wonder at his partner's flash. But he still can ride forever, perpetual motion on the pine boards. What is very strange is that
both ride identical bikes. This is .
extremely unusual, for. the same seat, handlebars and gear rarely suit two pumpers. : In these racing combinations one man usually is the prima donna. He saves his strength and display for the evenings when the seats are packed and the celebrities are around. You'll see him doing ‘all the fancy spurting. His partner does the long steady grinds in the off hours when the crowd is absent. 2 Other stars have found it impossible to get together. Each. tries to make a mug out of his partner. Each tries to convince the audience he is the team and his partner the dead weight, and each team becomes a rivalry in itself. : Y“We good friends, very ‘good friends,” Vopel said. “We help each other all the time. We fry to make the other good.” He looked proudly at Kilian. “He is fine showman, much better rider.” “Ach no,” Kilian said. “Heinz has more; what you call, stamina. He is better man, much better.” Because he is the danger-taking rider of the pair, Kilian has been injured innumerable times. The doctor bills are divided 50-50. Bike riders are paid by the day. If they get injured before a race is over they get paid only for the time they work; During the times Kiliak was injured only. Vopel was paid. At the end of the races they split evenly. ie In Milwaukee last February, Kilian broke his shoulder. He couldn’, .ride. Vopel took on an-
other partner. The new man was
a crack rider, but something was missing in the team. Vopel and the new man finished second. Vopel divided his pay with Kilian.
|By Science Service
The six-day bicycle team of Kilian and Vopel (right) ‘has won 20 of the last 22 races they have ' entered.
Ned Trudeau swears, by Katharin Dewey (above) as one . of the best bobsled pilots. He brakes - the sled - for her in racing runs.
best as a combination during the moments of the pickup in a race. That is when one can, coming in from his run, rides parallel with the man coming out for a few moments, and then shoves him off into ‘the race.: The riders keep a small bar in their rear pocket for the other man to grip in the shove-off. : Faulty pickups incur penalties of laps. Poor pickups lose precious “time. Vopel and Kilian work together like a well-oiled, welltimed machine. They have never been known to slip. They move in and out of the track in mathematical fashion. And they. always whisper “Good luck,” as the new man goes out. 8.8 =»
HE world of spor$-can- show: ticipants if - that
innumerable’ examples of the’ need some people have of the presence of a partner. Probably a classic example can be seen-in the world’s championship: Yankee baseball team. £1 The Yanks were champs as a team but they were bush leaguers in the number of double plays they scored. In 1937 they could show only 134 double plays—the lowest in the American League. Now double plays on & ‘baseball team are a sure indication of in-
"field teamwork. And most double
plays originate with either shortstop or second baseman. : The second baseman on the
Device Traces Movements of
Yankee team was Tony Lazzeri.
The shortstop was Frank Crosetti. Both these men are really great baseball players. They'll go down in baseball history as such. But they couldn’t work together. In 1938 Lazzeri was let go and Joe Gordon, a rookie, was brought. in. As an individual baseball player the sports experts will argue that Gordon falls a whole lot short of “Push ’em Up” Tony. But he clicked immediately as a teamworker with Crosetti. And in 1938 the Yanks ran up a record of 174 double plays—to lead the entire American League.: Probably no sport demands more exacting co-operation than bobsled racing.
death closer to: the nose of par-co-operation is lacking. na There is no time for the steerer, or pilot, to turn around and give directions to the brakeman when .the greased wagon is tearing around a curve:at 55 miles an hour or better. And‘if the brakeman doesn’t understand perfectly what the pilot is going to do— almost before the pilot does it— - anything may happen. 2 -- You can’t say any more for Katharin Dewey and Ned Trudeau as a team than to point out that they have had only one accident in years of racing as partners—and that was when a man dashed out in the middle of the
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Speech, Permits Dialect Study
, - Feb. 9.—Scientists now have the means of recording exactly. the movements of the various organs of articulation in speech and thus of learning why Frenchmen talk like Frenchmen and what makes their speech different from that of persons of other nationalities. : Invented by Dr. Herbert KoeppBaker, in charge of the speech clinic of Pennsylvania State‘ College, the phonokinesigraph - or sound-movement-writer traces the articulation of the lips, teeth, gum ridge and soft palate. Speaking before the National ‘Association of Teachers of Speech here, the Pennsylvania scientist reported that he already has used the instrument to reveal the artic-
~ ulatory vagaries of the Pennsyl-vania-German dialect. He has also used it. to trace graphically the speech movements of stutterers and stammerers, of lispers.. It has also shown itself to be useful in aiding deaf mutes to speak. Dr. Koepp-Baker’s device is electrical in. operation. Tiny electrical contacts .015 of an inch thick are mounted on minute, thin sheets of insulating material which adhere to the particular spots on the organs to be studied. An electric current below the level of feeling is introduced. As the speech. organs make contact with each other during the elaborate muscular sequences of speech, these electrodes touch each other and the contacts are recorded for study.
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run waving a ‘red flag. It seemed somethirg had gone wrong below and he wanted to stop them. He stopped them all right. They shot off the track, Neither was hurt much. Their sled was wrecked. They got another sled and ran two more heats to win the race.
2 8 = “ HERE is a normal drive line for each speed around a curve,” Miss Dewey said, trying to explain—she’s probably the only woman racer in the country—*“and it is up to the driver entirely to decide how to tal:e it. If you can take a curve a little lower than normal you can save a fraction of a second that his won or lost a race many times.: “But the brake has to know you're going to do it so he can lean over farther than normal to offset the tendency to swing up on the curve. And you don’t have any time to tell him in advance. “There’s no time to signal to
him. He has to ieel what you are doing. If there should be a skid it
‘is up to the brakeman ‘to give one
jerk—and then off immediately with the brake—quickly—to check the skid. The skid often is the result of the method of steering and the brakeman almost has to know
“what is going to happen before it
does. “I, as a driver. have been working with Ned repeatedly. I have confidence he feels the way I drive and can respond to any emergency. I fcel I can take any possible opportunity that’s offered to me along the run because I know that whatever I feel like doing—he’ll respond to it.” Trudeau laughed. “Don’t let her hand me any bouquets,” he said. “Katharin is one of the safest pilots ever to handle a bob. There never is any question of whether we shall get to the bottom of the run. She drives smoothly and coolly. There is a sensation of terrific speed but it’s always under perfect control. I get excited, very excited, when roaring down that icy slope, but with Katharin at the wheel it is not the fight against disaster but the fight ’gainst time that thrills. “I would rather ride down the Mt. Van Hoevenberg run with Katharin Dewey driving than with anyone I I:now. And I have my own pilot’s license at that.”
NEXT—Bartlet and Robertson.
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"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Which State in the U. S. has extensive everglades? 2—1In units of length, how many links are in one mile? 3—Under which branch of the Government is the Federal Alcohol Administration? 4—Where is the Colorado River in South America? 5—Name the coach of the Duke . University football team. 6—Should olives be eaten with the fingers or a fork? 7—What is the correct pronunciation of the word mischievous? : 8—Name the second ranking State in the U. S. os ” #
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1—Filorida. : 2—Eight thousand. ; 3—Treasury Department. -4—Argentine Republic. 5—Wallace Wade. 6—With the fingers. T—Mis’-che-vus; not mis-chee’~ vus.
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Ou r Town
By Anton Scherrer
More About Paxton Hibben Who Helped Found Shortridge Comet and Was Honored in Death by Russia.
HE strangest thing happened to Mrs, Chandler Pritchard the other night. She had just finished my piece about the bunch of precocious Shortridge boys, including Pax Hibben, when she picked up Eugene
Lyons’ book and resumed her reading of “Assignment in Utopia.” Almost immediately, she ran across a description of Capt. Paxton Hibben’s military funeral in the Red Square of Moscow, fole lowed by an account of his elaborate burial in Russia's Novo-De-vichy Monastery where a lot of Romanoffs. lie. nd Mrs. Pritchard couldn't believe her eyes, she says. The similarity of names, however, and a hunch that anything can turn up in this column (and usually does), got her to wondering whether by any chance Mr. Lyons and I were talking about the same person. As a matter of fact, we were. ; | Paxton Hibben’s gang at Shortridge included Claude Bowers, Fletcher Wagner, George Langsdale, Victor Keene and, believe it or not, Tom Taggart's daughter, the one now known as Mrs. Laurance Chambers. This crowd started The Comet, the first newspaper to be published by Shortridge students, It was a weekly. That was back in 1896, the year of Perrine’s comet, an astrcnomical phenomenon which apparently didn’t escape the kids. : : The Comet started with a capital of exactly $2.50, It finished the year with $800 in the bank, a pere formance which moved Claude Bowers to remark rather ruefully not so very long ago that the old Comet made more money on its capital than any paper -he was ever associated with. With the profits the kids bought a second-hand printing press and presented it to Shortridge. And .with this press, the first copy of The Daily Echo was printed. Indeed, it made The Echo possible. (I hope I don’t have to tell you that The Echo was the first daily school paper printed anywhere in America.) After leaving Shortridge (and The Comet), Paxton Hibben went to Princeton, was graduated in 1903, and received a master’s degree from Harvard the following year. In 1905, with the help of ‘Theodore Roosevelt, he was appointed third secretary of the embassy at St. Petersburg. There with his own eyes he saw the Revolution of 1905. He mixed with the revolutionary crowds and saw them shot down by the Cossacks. This experience more.than anything else determined his whole future. :
Defeated for Congress
After his Russian experience came diplomatic assignments in Mexico (1906), Bogota (1908), the Netherlands and Luxembourg (1909), and Chile (1912), Two years later at the suggestion of Senator Bevere idge, Mr. Hibben ran for Congress on the Progrese sive ticket, but was defeated. Then the war in Europe broke out. Until we got into it, Mr. Hibben spent practically all his time abroad as a war correspondent. In 1917, he joined the Army. A year later he went to France, and three years later, in 1921, he returned to Russia. This time for the North East Relief. Of his sympathy with the Russian Revolution, Mr. Hibben never made a secret. He believed in abolition .of privilege and founding a government based on social justice, but there is little foundae
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‘| tion for the belief that he was ever a Communist.
For some reason, however, he wanted to be buried in Russia and expressed a wish to that effect just before he died in 1928. His wish was granted. Ten years ago, on a day in February, his body lay in state in Moscow’s House of Columns. The next day several thousand Russians gathered in the Red ‘Square before the mausoleum of Lenine and listened to eulogies in memory of the Indiane apolis' boy who helped start the Shortridge Comet. The Soviets did a first rate job of eulogizing, but they forgot to say one thing, namely that the old Comet had for its motto “Not failure, but low aim is crime.” : 5 :
Jane Jordan—
Friend Self-Absorbed, Girl Told To Break Off One-Way Romance.
EAR JANE JORDAN—Steve and I have'been in love more than two years. He is a thorough gentleman, sensitive, affectionate, with great personal charm and magnetism. He has heavy cares and. re=
sponsibilities and works 12 or 13 hours a day. As he lives in a distant city, we never have been together more than four or five times a year. For the first year and a half, Steve was the perfect lover. At the end of that time I began to realize that I cared the most. Letters came infrequently and on the occasion of our rare visits he was often unaccountably moody. I asked him if he wished us to split up but he said, “No, I'm counting on you. You've brought me peace. You've made me believe in myself.” - His letters dwindled to one a month and became casual in tone. He rarely commented on “anything I wrote. but wrote mostly about himself. I remembered him on St. Valentine's Day and on his birthday with greeting cards. On each occasion 1 was rewarded with a tender, beautiful letter. My birthday came in the fall. He ignored it, and shortly before Christmas a letter came in which he conveyed indirectly that it was so difficult to know what would please that there: would be no Christmas present, He sent a box of candy. : Can you understand this man’s nature? How is it possible to be so deeply appreciative of a woman's ‘love and yet show no interest in making her happy? Is’ it through some error in my treatment of him that he has become so inattentive? - Whatever - the true situation is I want to adjust mys io it.
Answer—Apparently the man is completely selfe absorbed. He draws everything in to himself, but puts out nothing. No woman can be happy in such a one-sided relationship. The best thing you can do
You should have made him face the facts when his letters first began to drop away. You were wrong to accept his rather conceited statement that he was counting on you-to make him believe in“himself. You should have explained to him that you expected to receive something from your relationship as well as he. It is possible to demand too little in love as well as too much. : JORDAN.
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