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Last member of 'late watch' recalls San Francisco quake

SAN FRANCISCO UPI—At 5:12 a.m. on the morning of April 18, 1906, an event occurred that led to the creation of an unusual organization. The event was the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. The creation was an outfit that came to be called “The Late Watch,” a loosely-knit group of newspapermen and women who were on hand when the quake struck. The term “late watch” is descriptive, the appendage given to those who whiled away the early morning hours by drinking, playing cards and waiting for a big story to break. For

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those hanging around the ctiy rooms on the morning of April 18, 1906, it was the break of a lifetime. The first meeting of the Late Watch as a semi-official organization was held a year after the Great Earthquake. As the years passed, the annual meeting grew in size and longevity —until it became a traditional, sumptuous affair held on the eve of the quake each year at San Francisco’s Bohemian Club. Many of the old hands went on to one degree of fame and fortune or another, but most returned to San Francisco for the traditional April 17 get-to-gether. Now, however, time has finally caught up with the Late Watch. It has but one known surviving member, the famed portrait painter Arthur Cahilff Cahill, who was born in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1877 when the city by the Golden Gate was still growing fat on the mining riches from Nevada and the Motner Lode, was a sketch artist at the time of the great quake. In those days, a sketch artist was to a newspaper what the photographer is today.

When a story of pictorial Interest occurred, the sketch artist would race to the scene and quickly reproduce the action— a shipwreck, a murder, or whatever. Despite his years, Cahill remembers the morning of April 18, 1906, very well. “All of a sudden all hell broke loose,” he recalls. “People were running everywhere, in whatever they happened to have on. It was a hell of a sight, and I guess I was lucky to come out of it alive.” Cahill particularly rememberbers an incident which occurred later that morning. “I was at my desk when I heard a colleague yell, “Hey,

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Cahill! Your house is on fire.’ It was, too, but there was nothing to do but go back to the drawing board. Disaster hit just everyone that morning.” In the years after the quake, Cahill bounced from one job to another, mostly on newspapers and magazines. He eventually ended up in New York City, and his journalism career gave way to that of an artist. He became one of America’s best known portrait painters, and his work has hung in such major emporiums as the National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. He still paints, and he says he will continue to paint as long as he can raise his arm.

Actress suffers sprained ankle SAIGON UPI — Swinging a cane to support a sprained ankle, actress Lana Turner returned to Saigon today after a tour of military hospitals and other installations in South Vietnam. “I’ve had a great reception, absolutely the greatest,” Miss Turner said. She said she sprained her ankle "about 10 days ago. I just jumped one trench too many.” A Special Forces insignia was pinned to the top ot her cane.

Follows precedent SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UPI — The prosecution requested a 20-year prison term for Bob Cruz Jr., who pleaded guilty to a charge of killing another man in a barroom fight. The defense suggested 15 years: “I am not Solomon,”’ said District Judge Archie Brawn, “but X ean divide.” Cruz got 17tt years.

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Named chairman

Court upholds lifting of ban

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INDIANAPOLIS UPI — A lower court order to a tax-sup-ported hospital to lift its ban against an osteopath and his patients was upheld Monday by the Indiana Appellate Court. Dr. John Dickinson Hall of Kendallville was not allowed to use the facilities of McGray General Hospital in Kendallville because of a hospital board ruling requiring that all physicians practicing at the hospital be graduated from an American Medical Association approved medical school. Hall filed suit, alleging he was rejected because he had not been graduated from an AMA approved school. He had been licensed to practice medicine, except surgery, in Indiana by the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination

since 1948.

INDIANAPOLIS UPI —Mar-,

shall E. Williams of Indianapo- i

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of the Indiana Traffic Safety Aclu6(l UttrUCtlOII

Advisory Committee Monday by

Govenor Branigin.

Williams had been chairman of the old Govenor’s Traffic Study Commission, one of three organizations merged into the new committee by the 1967 Legislature. Williams is magistrate of Maywood Court of Marion County.

Motorcycles roar Increase steadily NEW YORK UPI — If you think you’ve been seeing a lot more two-wheeled motor vehicles around lately, you’re right. The motorcycle population recently passed the 2 million mark in the United States, according to the Industry’s trade association. The Motorcycle, Scooter and Allied Trades Association said this is a 400 per cent Increase since 1960 and double the number at cycles and scooters using public roads In 1965. Hie Association predicted that perhaps another 500,000 persons will Join the “Two-Wheel Fraternity” during 1967. Special licensing by the states and training programs at state and local levels are accompanying the rapid increase of twowheel travel, the Association said. The “fun” appeal of motorcycles continues to be the major attraction and young adults under age 25 with a broad range of occupations account for the largest percentage of riders, it said. Women account for about 10 per cent of cyclists and the number is growing. Urban and suburban traffic and parking problems are also believed to have inspired more businessmen and housewives to take to two-wheels and it has become commonplace for college campuses to have hundreds and even thousands of cycles scooting around.

DENVER UPI — A travel agency in downtown Denver, taking note of Israel’s large territorial gains in the Middle East conflict, has a new sign in its window. It says: “Visit Israel—see the pyramids."

Indiana traffic toll now 555 By United Free* International Four deaths Monday, two of them in one accident, raised Indiana’s 1967 traffic fatality toll to at least 555 compared with 649 a year ago. Former Cass County Sheriff Claude Berkshire, 76, Lake Cicott, and his wife, Elizabeth, 69, were killed Monday afternoon when the car she was driving collided with a truck on U. S. 24 at the edge of Logansport. Mrs. Berkshire was killed outright and her husband died several hours later at a Logans-

port hospital.

Dorothy Hale, 37, Indianapolis, was killed Monday night when the car in which she was riding struck a tree on the west side of Indianapolis. The driver, Beverly Smith, Chicago, was arrested on preiiminary charges of reckless homicide and involuntary manslaughter. Bret Allen Baker, 5, R. R. 3, Greenwood, died at Indianapolis Monday of injuries suffered May 25 when a car struck him on Indiana 44 near Bargersville.

State purchase slated For property securing

INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Final arrangements are underway for the state’s purchase of the old Levi Coffin home in Northern Wayne County as a historical landmark, Governor Branigin and John Mitchell, director of the Department of Natural Resources, announced jointly. Indiana will acquire the home from the Second National Bank in Richmond, executor of Nola Brittain Foreman, at $15,000. Mitchell said the home will be operated for public use in the name of the State of Indiana by the Wayne County Historical Society.

Coffin, a member of the Free Soil Party and the Society ot Friends or Quakers, was a founder of the New Garden Meeting House which is still in use. Coffin also founded and edited an abolitionist newspaper in Newport, now called Fountain City, Originally from North Carolina, Coffin moved to Richmond in 1827, and with hi« newspaper was an early part of the abolitionist movement. His home was one of the stops for fugitive slaves on the way to Canada from the South.

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NO CHANGE DENVER UPI —A complex hearing on the proposed merger of the Union Pacific and Rock Island railroads was plunged into darkness Monday afternoon by a power failure. Out of the darkness came the voice of Paul C. Albus senior hearing examiner for the Interstate Commerce Commission. “Well, things now are just about as clear as they have been all morning,” he said.

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Body recovered FLORENCE, Ky. UPI — A body recovered from the Ohio River Sunday was tentatively identified as an Indiana man who had been missing for six months. State police said a brother identified the victim as Luther

Police said the body was

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