Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1926, Page 6

i 6 * THE SUNDAY STAR, Union Row Figures FALUREWAS IR e FRRNGIONDEFES L= ONGE DURING SWiM Mrs. Corson Asked Trainer i to Get Life Belt Ready, i But lliness Passed. SMINGTON CORSON. (Recond U. §. Woman to Swim Channel.) DOVER, August 28.—I hope nobody will think me discourteous because I could not reply to the congratulations of my frlends and the crowd when I got fo land, but I was all in, and my husband, who must have been nearly as tired as I was—he rowed the small boat the whole way from France to England—and never laid down the oars for a moment-—did the only thing possible in taking me away from the crowd in the small boat and back to the launch again I lay on the deck, and everybody sald “keep her quiet.” I was still ail there. The spirit was willing, but the flesh was wealk. It was wonder- il of them to take me right along the beach from there to the harbor, where I got a hot bath. 1 felt like a new woman, but oh, so sleepy. They took me right back here in the car and put me to bed. Now the cable: are aiready coming in stacks, and I feel as though I had just finished it, and I am so happ Although T am not the first woman to swim the Channel, [ am the first mother to do it. | have two little kiddies at home, u boy and a girl, and they have been away from me since the’ beginning of April. Trainin ince October. I have been training hard since the beginning of October for this swim, walking and swimming in America, and since 1 got here 1 have continued training. T guess some people thought | was pretty cocky when 1 sald 1 was going to dd it and the papers printed it. I will confess now I wished a few times on the way across 1 had not shid that, but my heart would have broken if, after ail 1he tralning and some real sacrifice, 1 had not succeeded this time. I thought about my little ones all the time I was swimming and about my hubby rowing along there. Talk- ing about records, I wonder if it is & common thing to row & boat acra the Channel for 16 hours at a stretch I determined that I could stick it if he could and he wouldn’t let anybody e take the oars for a minute, al- hough there were two others in' the little boat with him. Mr. Timson was cheer leader on the motor boat, the Viking. Wasn't that name a cotncidence? 1'm a Dane and when I saw that name 1 de termined it would bring me good luck If T had that boat. At the end of each mile Timson would shout to me: “Another mile for Sonny, another mile for Sister.” They are the Kids' names. you know, at least, my name for them. Planned Swim Years Ago. It was my ambition for many years to swim the Channel, but 1 did not get the chance to come over until three yvears ago, and there wi a blow that I had to give up after 141; hours. 1 don’t want to advance an alibi, but I n got there, and it blew hard fe two hours. 1 want to s splendid lot I had on the motor hoat. There were 17 of them and 1 don't think one of them took his or her eyes off me or stopped pulling for me the whole time. When I got near shore I could see the crowds and I should have hated to be a quitter with all those people waving to me and cheering me on. Of course, it was the last hour that was so hard, with only three. quarters of a mile to go. 1 could sce the people waving all the time, but it took an hour. My Umbs were like lead. but I knew 1 could do it. and I never lost confidence at the end There was only one time in the small hours thut was bad. 1 suddenly felt i1l and I said to my trainer, Wil- liam Kellingley. who leaned over the edge of the little boat where he was sitting by my husband. in & low volee, because 1 didn’t want the others to hear: Wanted “Get the life queer, but out unless water. [ le whether you not."” But o few minutes second wind and when daylight it was cheery to sce the sunshine on ife Relt Ready. belt ready. 1 feel attempt to pull me u see me go flat on the ve It to your judgme must take me out the cliffs of Dover and I felt ull right again, Wheneve: 1 for a nice song Louls Timson songs and it w to hear them. Every hour they velled out that 1 had done another hour and told me how many miles 1 had to g Apart from my husband and cl dren I thought of my old mothe Denmark. I am going to stay her Dover three day and from there her. She was so ing three ve ., but this e she had set her :ind on my doing it. She wrote me oniy the other day. “You must do it 1 didn’t see any sharks or porpoises, but just as 1 started from Griz-Nez a man on the beach velled out to me “Look out for those dogfish. They are 12 feet long.” Fish Let Her Alone. I guess he was just kidding way the tish let me alone. 1 told you something about that life belt. What 1 told Kellingley about having it ready was because 1 had made up my mind not to ask for it, no matter what happened. 1 didn’t really mean to on the water, I meant| 10 go on until my head went under. ‘Then 1 couldn’'t ask for it, and that was why T wanted it ready—if he threw 1t, well 1 could grab it 1 asked if it was ready when I felt that cramp. Tt began in my right leg and ran up until it affected my spine, and then the pain began around the heart. 1 thought I was nearly fin ished. I got better, but it was still there when the sun came up and 1 saw the cliffs at Dover. 1 praved and the pain went away. Then 1 asked my husband Woman Swimmers Praised. But .1 shouldn't have minded if he was level with me. 1 knew 1 could beat him, for there is no conrparison between i man and a woman swim- mer. There was oue other time when 1 thought 1 had failed and that was when I was looking into Dover har bor and I knew 1 had missed my landing place, and if I didn’t get in to Shakespeare Cliff I would be taken out and would have failed again That was where 1 got my third wind and 1 thought of last Summer, when 1 drove the children down to Virginia. On my way back my little auto went over a 12-foot bank. 1 climbed out unhurt and an old woman ran_up and said: “Whoever you are, vot rll\:r\:”l»eu for something impo W n}":ald. “Yes, to swim the channel. ‘After all, the worst was just before Y started. We didn’t spend any more than we could help on this, you know, and T had no camp on the French side. 1 got permission to get greased in a garage and staved there four hours. Then I had to go out when the car came in and stand on t beach for hours waiting until the tidh, was right to start. Oh, how cofc lnd,-'u;hfll.ml was. ing out to the Viking the® gave me one. American in in then go to London Denmark to see St my try Any MRS. CLEMINGTON CORSO! GERTRUDE EDERLE LAUDS MRS CORSON Declares She Will Consider Manhattan Swim Challenge When It Is Received. the Associated Pres NEW YORK, August 28.—Proud of being the first of her sex to. master the treacherous Channel waters be- tween Cape Gris Nez and Dover and prouder still of the time she made, Gertrude Ederle nevertheless e: pressed elation today that another American woman had gone across. Trudie” cabled “heartiest con gratulations” to Mrs. Clemington Cor- son when she heard of the other woman’s accomplishment. The new came soon after she had arisen to face a world still anxfous to acclaim her. Crowds of admirers weére lingering outside her Amsterdam avenue home, zuarded by twoscore policemen, when the report came that Ars. Corson had reached the English side. She sent a message 1o newspaper men that she thought it was “just great.” Miss Ederle sald she had met Mr: Corson at Cape Gris N In refer- ence a challenge {ssued by the lat- ter's manager for Mrs. Corson to meet all comers in a swim around Manhat- tun Island for a $25,000 purse Miss Ederle sald she would give it consid- eration when it was received. Dudley Field Malone, New York lawyer, munaging Miss Ederle's af- fairs, said that plans for the future had not been worked out. He said the question of her breaking training did not arise, because Gertrude always kept in physical trlm and could pre- pare quickly for any future events. MRS. CORSON WINS CHANNEL VICTORY IN 15-HOUR SWIM (Continued from First Page.) 18 a minute with machinelike regu- larity, as steady a pace, observers sald, as ever had been seen in a Channel swim. At b o'clock this' morning, when about 12 miles from the French shore, Mrs. Corson’s friends considered she good chance to beat Miss Iiderle’s record, but the ebb tide be- ing adverse, she was carried far off her course to the west. All through the night and the morning and the afternoon the swim- mer was encouraged by her friends on the motorboat. 16 in number. Louis Timson of Boston, a Channel aspirant, acted as cheee leader and song director and in a hooming bass voice led his chorus in impromptu ballads such as “Oh! Millie, Millie, Oh, Millie, How You Can Swim. Tonight Mr. Timson seemed more exhausted than Mrs. Corson herself. Big Ship Causes Trouble. The American swimmer was much inconvenienced for a time by the wash from the big Amsterdam steamer Ulysses, which was getting 8o dangerously near that the accom panylng motorboat was obliged. to sound its siren to warn her away. The last part of the swim was the most difficult, as there was much broken water between the cliff and the pier. But by this time the swim- rocould | the encouraging heers from the shore, and she cov- eved the last 300 vards in marvelous yie. Durtng the course of the swim liners and cross-channel boats sounded their sirens and hofsted the American tlag to encourage the intrepid Ameri- can woman: others altered their course so as not to hinder her. Channel swimming expertsat Dover are enthusfastic over Mrs. Corson's success. Her trainer, Willlam Kel- lingley. maintains that it was one of ur “open water swims” across the Channel. The others who have achieved the cross-Channel swim with- out accompanying tugs were Capt. Webb, Sullivan and Burgess. After landing on the beach. Mrs. Corson stumbled for a short distance and collapsed in her trainer’s arms, but soon recovered. Crowds followed her 1o the bathhouse, where police were needed to control the enthusi- : women and girls who rushed to congratulate her. Hundreds of children from the beaches peered through railings and windows at Dover’s new heroine. M on informed the Assoclated Press correspondent a few days ago that she intended to swim the Chan- nel from France to England this year and come back in 1827 and swim from England to France. When asked about it this evening, she said: “As 1 feel now 1 am through with the Channel. I'm never going to worry about it or the weather again.” Mrs. Corson had watched the weather at Dover for seven weeks for a favorable start. She wiil leave for home September 26. Elsie Fidler Dead at 33. DENVER, August 28 (#) —Mrs. El sie Cavalli, 33, known to the art world as Elsle Fidler, who, with her two sis created the series of “American pictures, which for vears ap n magazine covers and postal cards, died at her home here late ves terday, Not Seeing It. From the London Tid-Bits. The recruit had been at the naval training station two weeks and had spent most of that time digging ditch- es, chopping trees and filling depres- stons. Finally he sought his immedi ate superior “You see. sir,” he complained, “when I joined the navy they said I'd see the world, and here for two weeks 1've done nothing but rear. range it CHARGES OF LEWIS Tells Union It Cannot Dictate | to Him—Coal Head Says Contract Is Signed. By the Associated SPRINGFIELD, 1il. August 28— Challenged by the union whose Iili- nois district 4ie heads to defend him self from. charges of employment by mine owners, or to resign, Fran Farrington, president of Distric No. | 12 of the United Mine Workers of America, foday cabled the executive board from Paris that “you die- tate to me where U'll take em ployment.” The controversy, which began when President Lewis of the international miners union laid the charges against Farrington before the executive board will come to a head on Meuday, when the board will meet at the call Acting President Harry Fishwick to deal with Farrington's reply. Farrington’s cable is sald to have admitted denicd ¢ on that he negotiated Peabody Coal Chicago, sition which Lewis said .w 2 three-year contract and a salar $25,000 a year. m neither the with the for a po- o c of Peabody Announces Contrs Frank Farrington has signed a con- tract to work for the Peabody Coal Co. “when and if Mr. Fagrington re slgns as presideni of the distric Stuyvesant Peabody, hend of the coal company, announced tonight. My, Peabody refused to comment on | statements of President John L. | Lewis of ihe International Miners'| Union 70 the effect that Farrington’ contract was for three a salary of $25,000 a year. that Farrington's duties, if he accepts the position, Wil have to do with rela- tions between the miners and their problems and the company. Thus far the board had been guided, in dealing with the charg argely by the wishes of Lew inter- national president s to have asked the board to obtain Farring- ton’s resignation or to dismiss him if the charges are not disproven. Acting President Fishwick issued statement today saving he will pre sent Farrington's blunt answer to the board Monday for whatever action it sees fit to take. The statement urged the primary importance of soli- ity in union ranks and warned st factional disputes. It de- clared no special election would be held before the regular biennial presi- dent vote in December, at which State Senhtor Willlam J. Sneed of Herrin iss to be a candidate for the presidency. Removal of Farrington as president, Fishwick intimated. would necessitate no emergency vote. Lewls laid before the Tllinots di: trict board, according to a legislative committeeman, a purported copy of a contract which he alleged had been signed by Farrington, in which he agreed to work for three years for the Peabody Company at $2 year. WIith it, sald the committee- men, were coples of telegrams, one advising the Peabody interests that Farrington could not take if he were re-elected president, and | said | John L. Lewis (above), president of ine Workers, whohas call- ank Farrington (below), head of the Illinois_Union, to resign, charg- ing that he is in the employ of the Peabody mine interests at $25,000 a year. another advising the company not to make his contract public. ton, who left with his wife ropean trip in July, did not in his reply to the board to- day that he planned to return to de- fend himseif. te has had frequent differences with Lewis over matters of policy and authority in the unton. B Mice Use Cash Register. Special Dispatch to The Star LONGMIRE, Wash., While mice have not the cash register designated, have found another use for it. On several occasions recently a cash register here did not respond correcg- Iy to the touch. Investigations re- vealed quaritities of melon and other seeds stored there by whitefooted deer August 28.— learned to use they tain lodge. _ Clearance Exception Baby Grand Apartment size, full Case. Why Pay More? 1 al WASHINGTON, D. | | | | the post mice living in the walls of the moun- | vour flannels Jale of C.. AUGUST 29, DAVID, HALL CASE SLEUTH, AGAINHIT Prosecutor and Assistant| Say Detective’s Attitude Is Not Approved. - By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J.. August 28 Fred David, chiet of Middlesex| County detectives, and a center of controver: since State Senator Alex- ander Simpson assumed charge of the reopened Hall-Mills murder investiga- tion as specilal deputy attorney gen- eral, received a new blow tod when Francis Monaghan, assista prose- cutor of Middlesex County, said that David® titude and statements were appr »d neither by him nor John A. Toolan, prosecutor. David was on the Middles detective staff four yeurs ago when the bodies of Rev. Edward W. Hall and his choir singer, Mrs. Kleanor Miils, were found in Derussy's lane, near New Brunswick. He was active in the original investigation although the bodies were across the line in Somerset County. x County Act. Simpson charged David with chang ing his statements from time to time. and last night asked Gov. Moore | to take action against the detective for “obstructing justice.” A missing gold brooch, which has caused mueh discussion during the present inquiry, was located yvester- day. It was David's inability to ac- count for the whereabouts of the brooch that was directly responsible for Simpson’s appealing to Gov. Moore. The governor Asked Governor to communicated with Mr. Monaghan and requested that David either co-operate with Simpson or get out of office. The discovery of the brooch verified David's assertion that he turned the brooch over to a Highland Park man when he was convinced that it be- longed to the latter’s wife and did not enter into the murder Investigation. . Statement Borne Out. David has insisted that the brooch was found sevel weeks after the crime and statements by Frank J. Daley bear him out. Daley said it was his wife’s and_was dropped a month after the murder. The brooch was found by kdward Tierce on the old Phillips farm, where the murders were committed Simpson said today the discovery of the brooch would not cause him to drop his attempt to have David re- moved and asserted David has done a lot of things which need to be ex- plained. ANY GARB FOR CHURCH. Vicar Tells Parishioners They Can Worship in Flannels. EAST MOSLEY. England, August 28 (#).—There is no need for any one to don formal attire in order to wor: ship in St. Paul's Chu here which overlooks the Hurst Park race course and also the River Thames. Writing in his parish magazine, the vicar tells holiday makers not rry about thelr dress. You can worship just as well in in a morning dress or a lounge suit,” he sa: Players, Uprights and Grands A GREAT many people who did' not intend to purchase pianos for several months have bought their instruments in this sale. 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Coakley, 69 vears old, with six children, eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild in atten Marrfed in King G » Va.. at the ages of 25 and 19 ) the couple last night is | declared they would give all who visit | them tuday of domest bliss. They can be ef fected by steadfast confidence in cac! unce of each other's Gozgins, land in whose home t |ises there will be a gigantic on the table tonight candles. M nd Mrs. Coak'ey excellent health. Mr. Coakley a retired school teacher and school superintendent. While he is from Virginia, his wife originally came from Tennesse The other five children are land W. . Coakley of Virginia, W liam F. Coakley, 611 B street north Price, 1119 Soutk venue south t: Nancy P. inth street Kentucky prom wedd with both are Way avenue south in and Mary L. | 'COURT MADE ISSUE /IN SOUTH CAROLINA Senator Smith’s Vote for Ad- herence Attacked by Oppo- nent—Primary Tuesday. By the Asao COLUNMBIA, S, (.. August 28 The World Court is an issue in the democratic senatorial campaign in outh (¢ which was brought L close today primary ated Press rrolina., election takes place 1. Smith, who is seek- ing renomingtion to a fourth term |15 opnosed by Edear A. Brown, speak er of the State House of Representa tives. and N. R. Dial. who was de feated for renomination two years 20 by Senator Cole L. Blease. Mr. Brown k critieizing Sen- 1tor Smith voting for American sdherence the World Court. Ile called it a “Republican” proposal and different than the one indorsed by the lust Democratio national conventfon, to which he was a delegate. The Senator has replied that he stood on his party’s platform. The World Court the Georsia sena | where Senator Walter {opposed for renomination by Richavd B. Russell. chlef Jjustice of the Georgin Supreme Court. Senator George has refused to recognize the World Court as an issue, but Judge Hussell has stressed it. 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