Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1940 — Page 24

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6. 0. P, LABOR AID APPOINTED

Albert W. . Sulivan Again! Named Secretary of County Division.

‘Waits Are Short and Trains Mean Prosperity, She Tells Motorists.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Tower Watchwoman for 2 Crossings Believes People Are Too Impatient

FRIDAY, AUG. 9, 1940

STURGEON GROUNDED Bap Franklin's First Poem

ON JERSEY BEACH

CAPE MAY, N. J, Aug. 9 (U. P) =~Thomas Hughes, a policeman, waded knee deep into the surf here and captured a 90-pound sturgeon that had been washed through the | breakers and grounded in a shal- | low gully { He noticed thrashing about

the fish

five-foot the

shallow |

Believed Found on Island

BOSTON, Aug. 9 (U. P.).—Benja-| min Franklin's first literary work— | “The Lighthouse which he wrote at the age

a ballad Tragedy” of 14 and hawked on the streets of Boston--may have been discovered after 175 years. Maurice Babcock

called

Jr, son of the

water as he patrolled his beat along Boston light keeper, found the yel-/

In his autobiography, Franklin mentioned writing and selling the ballad, but hibliophilies, collectors and students have sought in vain a copy of the words. The “Tragedy” tells of the drowning of the first keeper of Boston Light, named Worthylake, with his wife and daughter.

a man,

ICRIMINALS HOPE FOR JAILLESS HOPE, N. M.

HOPE, N. M,, Aug. 9 (U. P.).— | Hope has no jail. Under a tax deed, Max Johnson bought three lots, including one upon which the city's calaboocse rested. Then the Hope marshal, unaware

of the change in ownership of the jail, locked up a prisoner.

The ballad, Johnson returned home — and stanzas, begins: found someone in his vrivate jail Oh! George. This wild November, He told the marshal to move the We must not pass, with vou | jail—or at least remove the prisoner For Ruth, our fragile daughter, So the marshal removed the It's chilly gales will rue. prisoner.

By JOE COLLIER eleven

Mrs. Eva B. Kennedy lives alone

low sheet printed in old English containing characters in a ruined house once owned by the Adams family on lonely Middle Brewster Island, Boston Harbor. If authentic, the docu-

ment is of great value.

the boardwalk. Veteran fishermen believed the

and works alone, and likes it {fish might have been injured or that it may have been swimming

| She is a tower watchman, or too close to shore when the tide | watchwoman, for the Pennsylvania receded, leaving it stranded. | Railroad at E. Raymond St, the {only woman so employed by the company. She has had such a job {since the World War stripped the gg | (country of manpower. ine > Yous ; year and a half ago she was I Suh ae ransferred from a street-level . | crossing to the tower, which she ploved in the of- | NS : : {considers the best break she has fice of the A HE i had in the business. ican Hominy Co. | Now she has a warm office in 15 years and lat-| the winter, a breeze in the summer.

er was in the in-| | surance business | ) a : | Her Office Is Tiny i 15 Jes The tower office is six by six by Bon he six, has a baby pot-bellied stove in’ it, and windows on all sides. As she sits facing the tracks, able to

the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union and | {see up and down the line, she is | Nitin reach of an instrument

Albert W. sullivan, 3360 BroadWay, today was appointed secretary | of the labor division of the Mar-| fon County Republican Central Committee by County Chairman James I. Bradford | Mr. Sullivan is a lifelong resident of Indianapolis. He was born on the West Side, lived six years) on the East Side |

Mr, Sullivan

was a delegate to the Central La-| bor Union. He was secretary of the! G. O. P. labor division two years|__ ago. For the last two vears he has been secretary of the Republican Wage Earners League The working man.” ftatem his appointment demai nding better opportunity today than is afforded him by PWA WPA. He is anxious to return © his old place in private industry and the last eight years have con vinced him that this hope is futile under poli cies of the New Deal’

APPLE TREES UNFAILING PT. ROSS, Cal, Aug. 8 (U. P.).Although neglected for more than three score years, a group of cen-tury-old apple trees here are bearing their regular annual crop which no on can remember ever having failed

[imes Piolo “hells and trains and whistles on her mind.”

WAR MAY RESULT IN

DECLINE IN INSANITY OR, MYERS SUED vt BY EX-ORDERLY :

the war

Mrs. Kennedy '

BR A certain lights flash thev in« |dicate that a train is approaching from north or south and she sets ite signals going at one or both the crossings for which she is responsible—Raymond and SouthP) One effect ern Ave, She is busiest when the switch Europe, long Crews are moving cars from nearby an Camp's and the American Can

actually involve the Umted States ll V Powe Says city Hospital Co. Her trick is from 3 p. m. to 11

will be a reduction of insanity, be-} |p. m. and she says she likes the lieves Dr. Aaron J. Rosanoff, state Head Slandered Him, dark hours better than the day unemploy- Asks $25,000. ls

director of stitutions. hours. The lights make it He pointed out that she savs. ment is a major cause of insanity | A $25000 slander suit, brought by | land that unemployment is on the William Powell, former Negro order- | decrease now due to defense ac- ‘ ‘ : t | . ly at the eny Hospital; against Dr years ago, was a huckster until his SE = |Charles: W. Myers, the hospitals, ‘health failed and then, for a short ‘superintendent, was on file in Cir-! (while, he had a railroad crossing cuit Court today. watchman’s job. That gave her the Mr. Powell, who was discharged idea and the war gave her the opby Dr. Myers July 24, charged in portunity the suit that the supe ok : superintendent Kennedy has on her mind that conslandered him in a statement to cern safety. and she is decided about

the newspapers outlining the rea- ‘all of them. All of them are based

sons for the discharge. lon the thesis that people are much As ‘a result of Dr. Myers’ state- too impatient,

ment, Mr. Powell has been unable| Time after time she throws the to find employment, the suit con-'switeh that flashes the lights and | tenas. [rings the bells that indicate a train Meetings Are Issue is approaching the crossing. OceaThe suit quotes Dr. Myers as say- Sionally after drivers obey the siging that Mr. Powell was nals and stop, they look down the " tracks, see a train approaching at erate gambler’ and “created dis-! what a layman mayv think is a safe cord among Negro employees at ‘distance, and then cross the tracks the hospital” and that “he wags Just ahead of it.

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Dr. Myers said he did not wish to comment on the suit | Mr. Powell's discharge followed the dismissal of Dr. Clarence! Lucas, Negro hospital interne, who was discharged by Dr. Mvers for violating hospital rules by eating in the white internes’ dining room Mr. Powell charged at the time |

‘of his dismissal that his discharge |

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followed his activities in of the re-instatement of Dr.

WAR BRINGS NEW

HOOSIER INDUSTRY

ELKHART, Ind. Aug. 8 (U P).One of the results of the ENropeon.

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are more and longer trains, and people should be patient with them “Our boys get them out of the way as soon as they can,” she says Children should not use railroad yards as a short cut to any place and parents should see to it that they don’t. Children can't know of the dangers of a railroad

She Has a Whistle, Too

Drivers should look both before crossing a set of tracks | train may have just passed one wa on one set of thew, but there may | be another approaching from the {same or different direction on the other. All in all, though, people mind pretty well when she reinforces the | ringing bells and flashing {with her whistle. As for her hobbies—-she has only one. It is housework, She Keeps

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war is the entry of a local musical her own house at 1523 Hoefgen St, instrument factory into the bassoon and does all her own work except

market. {earrying in coal in the winter and

| The bassoon is one of the most difficult wind instruments to con- | struct. Lower wage scales in Europe | made it impossible for American manufacturers to compete. {

However, when it became appar. | ‘ent that the war would interfere | with European bassoon production, | the local company began developing precision tools for Americanmade instruments. , The first instruments are now in | production and will retail at about $395 as compared with the former | Byron lie of about Sa.

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RIGHORN SHEEP SL OWLY DIE | DENVER, Aug. 9 (U. P.).—Oolo‘rado’s bighorn sheep population is doomed unless steps are taken to | prevent further loss, Herbert 8.

Wallace of the State Game and |Fish Commission, said. Wallace! said the number of bighorn sheep has dropped from 7.000 to 1.800 in the last. 14 vears,

{mowing grass in the summer,

She hires that done,

SHORTEST RAILROAD FINDS NO EXCHANGE

ST. BONAVENTURE, N. Y.. Aug 8 (U. P) —<Although he is president of the St. Bonaventure Railroad. the Very Rev. Thomas Plassman has been unable to find other railroad executives willing to exchange passes with him St Bonaventure's railroad is probably the shortest. standard{gauge line in the United States, {being only a quarter mile in length It links Pennsyivania Railroad and the college campus. Interviewed by a reporter who suggested that he should be eligible for courtesy passes on other lines, the Rev. Plassman said, “Yes, one would think so. But the heads of

| these other lines don't seem to take

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Youth Missing Four Years Shows Up With New Name

SANTA FE NM, Aug 9 (U.P) |

| —Jack Hardy, 19-year-old reporter | |

{that his real name was Earnest

‘Harding Jackson and that he vanished from his grandfather's home at Belleville, Ill, six years ago “to go West and become a cowboy.” A letter which Hardy wrote after a silence of four vears to his fam{ily in Illinois uncovered his real (identity. | The letter, which announced that Hardy had won a scholarship to [Harvard from the Santa Fe high school after working his way through, and the youth would visit his family en route East to enroll] in the university. | The youth said he left home aft-| ler his mother died and his father| remarried. At 15 he hitchhiked to] (Texas and worked on a ranch. He, ‘said he got the name Hardy “be-|

[cause the foreman was deaf and |

{couldn't hear my right name. {Eventually the hoy came to Santa |Fe, where he worked at odd jobs {to get enough money for his school-

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He said he would enroll at Harvard as Jack Hardy “because I like that better than my real names.’

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