Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1940 — Page 16

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TOSSES CIGAR, DIES IN CHAIR

Oklahoma Wife Slayer Calmly Asks Forgiveness Of Mother-in-Law.

M'ALESTER, Okla. Nov. 15 (U. P.).—Roger Cunningham, 34, tossed aside a half-smoked cigar early today, carefully seated himself in the electric chair at Oklahoma State Prison and was executed for strangling his pretty wife to death. Both had been prominent members of Oklahoma City society. He was strapped in the chair at 12:08 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) and pronounced dead five minutes later. “He was the calmest man I ever saw executed,” Warden Jess Dunn said. : Just before he walked to the death chamber, Cunningham, a former Government employee, had stood outside his cell, smoking and talking to Herbert K. Hyde, his attorney. “Tell my wife's mother that I

- want| her to forgive me for causing

so much grief and anxiety,” he told Mr. Hyde. “God has forgiven me and I am ready to go.” ¢ -He had nothing to say in the

| death, chamber.

He |had tied a handkerchief over his head yesterday to hide his shaved skull. Cunningham was the son of a prominent Oklahoma City physician. His wife, ' Eudora, disappeared in March, 1939, He shrugged off inquiries with the explanation that the had left him and he believed she had gone to the Pacific Coast. After a few days, the body was found |in a culvert in Oklahoma City. Cunningham finally admitted he had strangled her. His pleas of insanity, which he had maintained until late yesterday, were refused.

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And He’s'Also Fond of Those Tables He Makes for The Art Room.

By EARL HOFF There is one thing that interests Homer G. Knight, School 34 prin-

cipal, more than anything else. That is School 34. : He's particularly proud of the system of instruction now in use there—the platoon system instituted 10 years ago. . Only one ‘other school in the city uses a platoon system, he says. That is School 16 which has the Gary Plan. Mr. Knight says his school uses the Detroit Plan. The plan, in brief, is this: Pupils are numbered in each grade and given odd or even numbers. The odd numbers comprise one “platoon,” the even ones the other “platoon.”

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There are two types of teachers, the home room teachers who instruct children in the fundamental subjects and the special teachers who give instruction in art or music or physical education. The odd “platoon” spends half of the morning with the home room teacher and then the second half with one of the special teachers. The same procedure follows in the afternoon. ? The advantage, Mr. Knight says, is that home room teachers can concentrate on fundamentals and special subjects are taught by teachers with special training. Mr. Knight has a hobby, but his application of it sounds almost like school work. The hobby is carpentry. Mr. Knight likes to make school furniture. Perhaps the most clever objects he has made are a pair of adjustable tahles for the art room. ’ For All-Sized Pupils

At the hottom of each table leg is a small block of wood, hinged to the leg. For small children the blocks of wood are not used. When larger children use the tables, the teacher can swing the blocks of wood under the legs, elevating the tables several inches. : Mr. Knight, now 65, began teaching when 19 in Tippecanoe County with only 12 weeks of preparation.

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Principal Homer Knight's First Interest Is * School 34, and Especially Its Platoon System

As an idea of the training given to teachers in those days, Mr. Knight said his instructor at Lafay- got an A. B. degree from Indiana ette ordered a 100-word composition. University in 1905, another degree

Principal H. G. Knight looks over the shoulder of Robert McQueen, 9, as Robert tries out an art department desk which Mr. Knight de-~

State Normal, now Indiana StateMr. Knight swears he was marked and six at a

down because his composition had 101 words.

Holds Three Degrees After he had taught awhile, he

from Indiana State in 1910 and a master’s degree in 1912 from I. U. His experience jncludes five years in Tippecance County, two at Scottsburg, two at Brownstown, four at Charlestown and four at Akron. He has taught in Indianapolis since 1917 and has been School 34 principal for 12 years. Mr. Knight's experience spans the time when anybody who could pass the State examination could get a teacher’s license to today when the profession has been lifted to a high plane with very stringent educational requirements.

Taught One-Room School

His first school was a one-room country school and his present one is one of the most modern in the city. These contrasts have allowed Mr. Knight to draw some conclusions. Pupils today learn more ‘titings than they once did, he says, but they learn fewer things that are non-essential. Discipline as a general rule is better, but the “problem cHildren” are more of a problem because many parents won't allow teachers to chastise them. But methods of 25 years ago could be compared to an automobile of the same age, Mr, Knight concludes. The performance wouldn't measure up for streamlined 1940.

MISSIONARY TO GIVE TALKS ON NICARAGUA

A series of motion pictures and lectures on Nicaragua will be shown here by the Rev. Howard Stortz of Bilwas Karma, Nicaragua, who has been a Moravian missionary there 14 years. : He will show movies at the Second Moravian Church, 34th and Hovey Sts., tenight under the auspices of the Mission Study Group. The program will be repeated Tuesday at the First Moravian Church, 15th St. and College Ave. The Rev. Mr. Stortz will preach Sunday morning at the First Church and Sunday evening at the Second Church.

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Defense Needs May Bring Further Cut, G. M. Aid Declares.

By Science Service CHICAGO, Nov. 15.—Djesel engines, which in 1926 weighed as much as 267 pounds per horsepower, are now made as light as 10 pounds per horsepower, H. C. Mougey of the General Motors Corp. told members of the Division of Refining of the American Petroleum Institute here yesterday. “If it should be desirable for special purposes such as national defense to decrease these weights,” he said, “it should be possible to develop diesels of large power output with weights as low as three pounds

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—Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to! Great Britain. was a guest today of Publisher William Randolph Hearst at: Wyntoon, his

mountain estate in Siskiyou County, California,

Spying Is Feared At U.S. Arsenal

METUCHEN, N. J., Nov, 15 (U. P.).—Guards at the United States Raritan Township Arsenal, two

men in a powered rowboat who were trespassing yesterday on the Raritan River behind the arsenal. The river flows through the arsenal property where travel is prohibited by the U. 8S. Army. The men were ordered to halt by the guards but moved away as guards fired at them, Lieut. Col, Cleveland Bandholtz, commanding officer at the arsenal; notified authorities of river towns to watch for the two men.

KENNEDY VISITS HEARST MEDFORD, Ore., Nov. 15 (U. P.). American

LONG, DEVASTATING | CONFLICT FORECAST

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (U. P.). —Air Marshal William A. Bishop of Canada, who shot down 72 German planes in the World War, sees a long, devastating conflict ahead, but ultimate victory for Great Britain. “The Germans may blow up every brick in England but they |} won't destroy British morale or organization,” he told reporters in an interview last night. “I see a long, long war ahead,” he said. “I think it may-last years. But I'm completely confident of our position; our eventual victory.” Bishop, a director of Canada’s pilot training program, said Canadians have no plans to train Royal ‘Air Force or Royal Canadian Air Force pilots in the United States this winter. He said one advantage of training pilots in Canada’s winter

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ARMY POST NAMES HONOR 2 GENERALS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—(U, P.). —The,_ War Department today selected names for new Army stations at Anchorage, Alaska, and Savannah, Ga., in honor of two brigadier generals. The post near Anchorarge, khown as Elmendorf Field, has been renamed Ft. Richardson in honor of the late Brig. Gen. Wilds P. Richardson, one of Alaska’s * soldier pioneers. The other post to be renamed fis the anti-aircraft training center located near Savannah, Ga. It will be known as Camp Stewart. Brig. Gen. Daniel Stewart, for whom the post is named, was the great-grand-father of Theodore Roosevelt, and won fame in the Revolutionary and Indian wars.

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