Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1952 — Page 8

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A. C. Steger Dies at 32

Alfred C. Steger, Allison Division, General Motors Corp., ex-| ecutive, died yesterday in St. Vin-| cent’s Hospital of a heart ailment. He was 52. He had entered the hospital for observation

shortly before

advice of his per-|

He lived at 2716 E. 62d St. Administrative

© lison’s - aircraft service manager since Jan. 1, Mr. Steger had been with the firm since 1942. During World War II he was sent to Cairo, Egypt, as Allison's Middle East aircraft service department zone manager and then in 1944 was shifted to London as its European zone manager.

Born in New York

He was made zone manager of the Los Angeles office after the war. Before being appointed administrative assistant here, he worked in the sales department two years. Mr. Steger came here in 1927 from his native New YorK as sales manager of the Thermoid Rubber Co. Six years later he became manager of the Ford Motor Co.'s Indiana Lincoln Division. In the early 19208 he was associated with a rubber-growing experiment pioneered by the late Thomas A. Edison, Harvey 8.

Mr. Steger

his death on the|

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assistant to Al-|

Mrs. Hanks | Rites Arranged

Services will be here tomorrow! for a former resident, Mrs, Eliz-| abeth Hanks, who died Saturday in her Detroit home. She was 72,! | A resident of Indianapolis for

120 years, Mrs. Hanks moved to Detroit in 1936. {8he was a mem{ber of the Hill[side Christian {Church here. | Mrs. Hanks was a native of Seymour, and resided in that city until her marriage in 1906 to Clarence Hanks, Services will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow in Jacobs Brothers Funeral Home, Burial in Washington Park.

In addition to her’ husband, Mrs. Hanks is survived by a son, Everett, and a daughter, Mrs.

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RITES TOMORROW — Services for Capt. George Russell Shumway Sr., 1030 S. Mount St., a veteran Air Force pilot, will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow in Beanblossom Mortuary. Burial will be in Floral Park.

Mrs. Hanks

Mrs. Hartman Dies In Home at Age 82

New Drug Aids Sight Of Girl, 11, Born Blind

By United Press |vision in the left eye — good RIVERA, Cal, Sept. 22—AD|,,, on 50 that she could begin 11-year-old girl, blind since birth, | learn to read was familiarizing herself today . with objects she had never First of Kind on Record The apparent of her

known before, except through her fingertips. Linda Brown slowly is develop- blindness was the first of its ing eyesight through the use of kind on record, doctors sald. a new TUE oct ors said, a) Mr. Lientz said he began to ey adde at her case Ww making medical history. (work on the sulphur drug in 1940 suffered after his own dapghter suffered

Curly-haired Linda from corneal ulcers since birth, |an eye injury. He said that cal-

“cure”

but application of a refined sul- sulfyydryl was applied to her eye|in St. Patrick’s Catholic Church. | 4

fur drug, called ‘calsulfyydryl, (and it healed quickly.

apparently is pestoring sight in her eye. “Restoring this one little girl's eyesight has made all the years worthwhile,” said E. C. Lientz, a former engineer who helped to develop the drug.

Consults 25 Doctors | “I don't know whether you'd call it a miracle drug, but to us it certainly is,” said Mrs. Ruth Brown, the child’s mother, Mrs, Brown said she consulted 25 doctors, who told her there

posed a problem for her parents. The California School for the Blind has refused Her admission because, they said, her eyesight was not bad enough to allow her entry.

Forsythe Rite

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{former Indianapolis resident who

Linda’s new-found . sight has,

Mrs, Elizabeth Hartman, mother of two North Side furniture | store owners, died yesterday in|

Mary Robbins, both of *Indianapolis; two sisters, Miss Mary Catherine Carter, New York City, and

was no chance of curing the corneal ulcers which - blinded the child.

To Be in Home

Local Deaths

toria, O., with burial there,

8 = » WILLIAM D. WARD JR., 36, of 2007 Brookside Ave., New York Central yard conductor fatally injured Saturday night, Services 2 p.m. Wednesday in Broadway

ton Park. / = - ” MRS. SOPHIA NEWMAN, 87, died in Omaha, Neb. Services 9:30

a.m. tomorrow in G. H. Herrmann Funeral Home and 10 a. m.

Burial, Calvary Cemetery.

” ” =” MRS. ANNA BEHRINGER LEE, of 1531 8. Talbot Ave. life resident of Indianapolis. Services 8:30 a. m. Wednesday in G. H. Herrmann Funeral Home and 9 a. m. in Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial, St. Joseph's Cemetery. ” ” ” BENJAMIN O. YEAGER, 177, former Indianapolis resident who died in Chicago. Services 1 p. m.

Side Chapél, Burial, Floral Park. ” n s MRS. ANNIE JOHNSON, 63,

Marion County Home, local resi-| § dent 20 years. Services 1 p. m.| :

her home, 3110 Graceland Ave. Mrs. Gincy Lawrence, Ravenna, She was 82, O.; one brother, Edwin Carter,

Her sons, Harry H. and Ernest|avenna, O., and three grand-

She said she then took the child| Services for Edgar T. Forto Dr. A. E. Cruthirds of Phoenix, |Syth, 80, former head of the Ariz., who, she said, pioneered in|Shortridge High School history the use of calsufyydryl in treating department, will be at 2 p. m.

P., own stores at 3023 N. Illinois children. . St. and 840 E. 64th St. respectively. Mrs. Hartman was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church. Services will be at 1 p. m. Wednesday in Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary, with burial in Crown Hill. Surviving, besides the sons, is

Firestone, Henry Ford and Naturalist John Burroughs.

Member of AAA Group {

He was a member for many, years of the American Automobile | Association's Technical Commit-| tee. This committee served at the| Indianapolis Motor Speedway 500Mile Race. { He also was a member of the Indianapolis Aero Club, Riviera Club, Masonic Lodge here and Al} Chymia Shrine Temple, Memphis. | Services will be held at 3 p. m., Wednesday in Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Cremation will follow. Survivors include his wife, Hazel, and one son, David.

‘Tony’ Lippa Rites In Rochester, N.Y.

Services were to be today in| Rochester, N.Y., for Anthony R. (Tony) Lippa, 1952 Indiana University graduate who worked his] way through college by calling square dances. Doctors gave Mr. Lippa, suffering from cancer of the bone, two or three years to live last spring. He died last Thursday. : Mr. Lippa, 23, received his degree in Public Health from IU although he was unable to finish! the last month of his senior year. | Mr. Lippa collapsed Mar. 29 while calling a dance in the Broad Ripple American Legion Post. He was taken to his home in Rochester where he died. His many friends here held a benefit dance at West Lake June 23, raising $400 for his treatment. Surviving is his wife, Mary Margaret, whom he married last Easter.

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Rites Wednesday For Clair L. Bush

Services for Clair L. Bush, former treasurer of the old Duesen* berg Motors Co., will be at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday in Shirley Bros. Irving Chapel, with burial in| Washington Park. Mr. Bush died Saturday in the home of his sister, Miss Celia Bush, Cincinnati. He was 62. Associated with the famous car manufacturer from 1929 until it discontinued operations, Mr. Bush lived at 56 N. Kenyon St. here. He-was a member of the Hillcrest

{of the Property Owners Associa-|thirds, an ophthalmologist, said

corneal ulcers. Linda was studying Brajlle and | adjusting herself to a lifetime of] bitndueys when treatments were {begun in July, 1951. Dr. Cru-

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tion of America, will be the guest that Linda's right eye was totally speaker tonight at the local blind gud ma she kad 8/200 group's meeting at 612% E. 13th|of tnatmants 1 CC at the start St, Starting time is 7:30 p.m. | Today he said she has 20/100

‘Thrill Gone’ After Five Suicide Attempts Fail

By United Press Driving away in her own car, TUSCOLA, - ™.,, Sept. 2A |r tried to crash into an auto despondent carnival worker who driven by Robert Jacobs of Tustried five times to commit suicide, cola, but he maneuvered away said today she’s found a “new just in time.

outlook on life.” She then crashed thro While lying in a hospital bed, | ord ri” oa railroad ugh a Mrs, Grace Quillman, 48, said she Faiiro dge, 2 An? ont state police said, but although wouldn't try it «again after the, .. .o; rolled down ‘a 35-foot unsuccessful efforts yesterday. |o...nkment, it did not overturn “I have a new outlook on life,” ’ y she told state police. “And any-| Trying a different slant, a way, after you've failed at five deputy sheriff said she found a

tomorrow in his home near Trafalgar. Burial will be in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Johnson County. 2

Mr. Forsyth died Saturday in his home and birthplace, “Winding Waters.” He was ill for a pe-| riod last winter, but was’ believed to have recovered. He graduated from Butler Col-! lege (now University) in 1895, and began his teaching career in| the old Irvington High School. | He later moved to Shortridge | where he was a faculty member until his retirement several years ago.

' Was Widely Traveled

Extensive tours through Europe and America enabled him to make| history vividly alive to his pupils. | For many years he acted as faculty advisor for.-the Daily, Echo, Shortridge paper. | Always interested in genealogy, | he was one of the organizers of the Forsyth Association of In-| diana and assisted in compiling a history of his family.

Mr. Forsyth was one of the

tomorrow in Miller Mortuary. Burial, New Crown.

” u ” ISAIAH JONES, 1222 Bradbury St., custodian of the Shelby St. Public Library. Services 1 p. m. tomorrow in Scott Methodist Church. Burial, New Crown.

State police today searched for terday,

MRS. WILLIAM C. (GER-|the body of a 53-year-old IndianTRUDE) LOY, 69, of N. Pershing|apolis Ave, retired school teacher, Serv-| White River in Jacks ves 2 p.m. Wednesday in Fos-/near Ind. 258 while fishing yes-

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MONDAY, SEPT. 22, 1952 Hunt Local Fisherman's Body in White River

According to a companion, Ray1015 * Pearl County drowned after he swam out to tree his snagged fishing line.

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PHONE (AT. 8311) AND MAIL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY!

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Country Club and a veteran of suicide tries, the thrill is gone.” World War 1. SE ———————————————— ing at Arcola, near here, for the, ’ . past two months, said: “I'm out] Polio Kills Mother lof work and don’t have anything TERRE HAUTE—Mrs. Violet/to do.” She had been with a Mildred Otte, 38, mother of two carnival which stopped briefly children, died in Union Hospital here. during the week end of pollo,| A deputy sheriff said: “She still | three days after she became ill, |doesn’t have anything to do.” | S————— A hospital spokesman here said |

INDIANAPOLIS Mrs. Quillman was not in serious | TRAFFIC CASUALTIES condition, but X-rays were sched-| (265 Days) uled for today. { 1951 1952 | Authorities reported she first

Accidents ........... 5939 5726 jumped in front of a truck driven! Injured ..ieeseeeesees 2592 2516 by James Brooks of DeKalb, but! Killed 38

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The woman, who has been liv- and went to a railroad {rack to

razor blade, slashed her wrists

wait for a train to run over her, but there weren't any trains.

The final effort was nearly successful when she returned to| the highway. Police said a truck driven by Robert Farmer Jr. of Monahans, Tex., merely brushed her aside when she stepped in his | path. | She was taken to the hospital, by a farmer. The only visible injuries were scratches on her wrist, the hospital reported. |

founders of the Irvington] Dramatic Club and of the School-| men’s Club, which later became the Indiana Federation of Public School Teachers. He served as| an officer in both organizations,

Survivors include the wife, Mar-| garet, and a sister, Mrs, T. A.|

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