Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1929, Page 5

i MCORMICK'S TRY AT DEATH RELATED Multimillionaire Attempted to Walk in Front of Train, Says Witness. By the Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., November 80.—An attempt of Stanley McCormick, incompetent multimillionaire, to rush in front pf an oncoming freight train while out on a walk two years ago, was described in Superior Court today in the hearing of a petition for the dis- continuance of McCormick's present medical care and guardianship. Kenneth McKillip, 196-pound Scotch- man who for 26 years has been chief attendant to the patient, testified that McCormick was caught and held when the freight locomotive was but a few feet from him. The witness related the patient apparently was following a dog. with which he had made friends, but that at the time there had been a ques- tion in his own mind as to the insane man’s intention when he rushed on the | track. Court Is Adjourned. At the end of the two-hour morning | gession, Superior Judge William Dehy adjourned court until Thursday. Next | week he will sit in civil cases in his own court in Inyo County. The incident came out while Me- Killip was under re-direct examination by Oscar Lawier, chief counsel for Harcld F. McCormick and Mrs. Anita McCormick Blaine, brother and sister of the patient Ending cf their control of the man's medical care and their removal as guardians is being sought by Mrs. Katherine McCormick, Stan-; ley's wife. ’ McKillip explained Stanley's habit. while playing croquet, of standing over s fellow player with a mallet to insist the game be played as he wanted it. Musical Enthusiast. e witness then went into a de- xrmion of grill work and a flower bank between the patient and orches- tras called to entertain him. He said that now the patient enters the room | where the orchestra is and talks to the leader on musical subjects. Non-medical testimony that the men- tal condition of McCormick showed ‘marked improvement last June as com- pared with 1918 was \ven by Robert | Hunter, former Chicagoan. who identi- | fied himself as & former friend of Mc- Cormick. Hunter said he and McCormick were close friends from 1897 until 1904, when their interests carried them apart. Mc- Cormick was declared incompetent in 1906 and his welfare entrusted to his | relatives. Visit Is Described. ‘The witness came to California in 1918 to lecture at the State University, and said he went at once to Santa Barbara. He was not allowed to see McCormick at first because his physi- cian was absent, but said Stanley saw him at & window and exclaimed, “O! Robert, don't go. I want to see you. ‘When he returned the following day, however, McCormick did not speak and Hunter said there was no doubt of his mind being unbalanced. “I went away feeling that Stanley was very, very much mentally de-| ranged,” he explained. Their second meeting, last June, lasted more than an hour, Hunter said, during which Stanley talked intelli- gently and at times joked J"% old memories of their youthful days i Chi- cago, when they were studying social problems and Hunter was living at Hull House, famous social settlement. “The meeting was remarkable for the difference that had come over Stanley,” “I had the feeling th: there was'no mental derangement what- Stanley is a son of the late Cyrus H. | McCormick, harvester magnate. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL T0 OFFER TWO PLAYS Gordon Students to Present “The Toymaker’ ’and “The Christ- mas Guest.” Gordon Junior High School students i will appear in two_presentations this week, staging “The Toymaker,” a three- act operetta by Monica Savory and Bryceson Treharne, and “The Christ- | mas Guest,” a one-act play by Con- | stance D'Arcy Mackey. The two presen- tations will be given in the school build- | ing auditorium on Wednesday and ‘Thursday afternoons and Friday night. | The cast of characters in the operetta | includes Frances Armstrong, Bautice Butte, Norman Hough, James Couch, Herbert Fuchs, Jane Sturgeon, Janet | O'Neill, Charles Sager, Clinton Brown, | Robert Livingston, Ivan Halberg and | Douglas Thompson, while those who will take part in “The Christmas Guest” are Sydney Hayward, Emily Penn, Thomas Street, Frederick Blachly, Elizabeth Hays, Helen Hayward, Betty Marsden and Edward Pickard. The school orchestra will play during inter- missions. The_productions are directed by Wil- liam Briggs. while the stage crew is composed of Ted Amussen, Charles Bager, Edgar Knight, Roger Kirk, Wil- liam Harrison and James Henderson. The dramatic committee of the school faculty supervising the productions is composed of Mrs. Elizabeth Draper, chairman; Miss Mary Wilkins, Mrs. Nannette White, Miss Camille DuBose, Mrs. Marion Louden, Mrs. Tina Car- penter, Miss Mary McDonnell, Miss Elizabeth Walton, Miss Edith Ward and Mrs. Fernelle Maxwell. Diamond Splitters. ‘The business of the diamond “split- ter” is a dying trade. By an intimate knowledge of the stone's construction this person was enabled to split a dia- mond as a preparation for economical cutting and when this was done suc- cessfully a considerable saving on labor and material resulted. At one time every establishment where diamonds were cut had one of these experts, but modern methods have dispensed with the hand splitting operations and while there are several diamond cutting plants in New York there are but three splitters and there is not work enough for this trio. 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CHEYENNE, Wyo., November 30.— A muddled situation ‘due to conflicting | Wyoming statutes today occupied the attention of Gov. F. C. Emerson, State legal authotities and political leaders in trying to determine a course to pursue | in selecting a successor to the-late Sen- ator F. E. Warren, who died last Sun- day. While a report was current that Pat- rick Sullivan, Casper, Wyo., had been offered and was considering appoint- ment as Senator Warren's successor, Gov. Emerson announced consideration of a special legislative session to straighten out the legal snarl. Three alternative solutions appeared, observers said. First, a liberal con- struction of the statutes and immedi- ate appointment of a Senator, then is- suing a call for a special election within 60 days; second, appointment of a Sen- ator and issuance of a call for a spe- cial election in November, 1930, coin- cident with the regular State election, at which a Senator would be chosen for the full term: and third, issuance of a call for a special session of the Legislature for the purpose of clarify- ing the statutes of 1927, which the Legislature left more or less ambiguous. A special election at this time of the year would bring out only a compara- tively light vote and many persons in have an opportunity to express their | choice in selection of a man to further legislation -in which they are intensely interested. . General opinion was that if the Gov- ernor had tendered the place to any one, he might be considering a special election or special legislative session at the same time, @s the appointment would be legal only if made so by the Legislature in enacting & new and spe- cific law, or legal until an election | could be held. PSR S EX-DRY AGENT HELD. CLEVELAND. Ohio, November 30 puted to have made $2,000,000 as the “King of Lake Erie rum runners,” since he resigned from the prohibition de- partment at Washington a few years ago, pleaded not guilty before United States commissioners here today on charge of conspiracy to violate prohibi. tion laws. He was released cn $7,500 bond. Davidson, known as “Handsome Larry,” was arrested with James Court- ney and D. F. Coughlin, both of Pitts- burgh, at a downtown hotel here last night The Pittsburgh men also were arraigned today on charges of violating smuggling laws. and were released on $5.000 bond each when they pleaded not guilty A fourth man arrested with them was released. 1314 | Articles of Your Selection Held Until Christmas Monogrammed or Initialed Without Charge “Stop” Means Just That, Judge Tells Woman Motorist He May Have Heard This | One Before and Scorns Offer to “Settle.” By the Associated Press. EVANSTON, Ill, November 30.—The proper way to stop at a stop street is not to stop at all—just shift gears, Mrs. Frederick W. Penfield told Magis- trate Harry Porter. She had been ar- rested for not stopping. Mrs. Penfield explained that she was one of the really careful drivers of the North Shore. She learned all about motoring from her husband, she said. “Personally,” she stated, “I rarely stop. I just shift gears, but I suppose Evanston is broke and needs money, so I will pay the minimum fine of $1.” “Make it $4,” said the cou pardon me for suggesting that ‘stop a g:un letter word meaning to come to a halt.” SPAIN ACTS TO CURB AUTOMOBILE IMPORTS Premier De Rivera Says Country Needs Cheap Car of Span- ish Make. By the Associated Press. MADRID, November 30.—Increasing | importation of automobiles into Spain has prompted the Spanish government to consider means for prompting the | national automobile industry to cut down imports of foreign cars. Premier Primo de Rivera today said | that approximately 50,000,000 pesetas | (about $7,000,000) were spent by Span- iards every year in payment for nearly twenty thousand automobiles imported from various countries, mainly France and the United States. He added that the government would take steps to remedy this situation. 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Honored by the George Washington University General Alumni Association at luncheon yesterday, three scholars whose services to that institution date , well back into the last century, respond- ed to the tribute paid them with brief reminiscenses of the days they first be- came associated with the university. ‘They were Dr. Howard Lincoln Hodg- kins, dean of the university; Dr. James Howard Gore, professor emeritus of mathematics there, and Dr. Charles Clinton Swisher, professor emeritus of history. At the conclusion of the luncheon, which was served in the Hotel La Fay- ette, the educators, who contributed so many years of their lives to the school- ing of Washington youth were greeted individually by the standing assembly of alumni members and trustees. Hodgkins First Speaker. Dean Hodgkins was the first of the trio to speak. Declaring he was under counsel of his physician to avoid excite- ment and emotions, the dean told his fellow George Washingtonians that he could not refrain from such experiences, as he faced the representative personnel of the institution he had become asso- ciated with “more years ago than I think I'd better tell.” He said he had been secretary of the alumni associa- tion for 30 years, during which he had witriessed extensive growth and develop- ment. _Citing progress in other fields, Dean Hodgkins recalled that when he first joined the university staff there { were not even gas lights in the Corcoran School of Sciences, but that ofl lamps were used for illumination. Dr. Gore was the second of the honor guests to speak. Having become a faculty member in 1878, when he ex- pected to remain only for that year, he said he had stayed with George Washington University until 1909. It was he, he said. who proposed after- noon sessions for the students wnosé daily work permitted earnest study du:- irg those hours, and declared that to- day he stands without apology for that suggestion with considerable prid- for the accomplishments those classes have made. Personal Anecdotes. Entertaining with personal anecdotes from his long association with the school, he told of his refusal to join the faculty of Princeton and Yale Uni~ versities when they invited him, be- cause he did not care for large student bodies and on account of his extreme fondness for the personal contacts which George Washington then was able to give him with his students. He concluded with a reference to the bibli- cal admonition to preach the gospel te all nations, but to begin in Jerusalem, with the admonition to “educate every- body but begin in Washington.” Dr. Swisher told of meeting famous persons in England in the “late 70s,” while he was visiting that country as a newspaper correspondent. Among those he met who made profound im- pressions upon him, he said, were Dis- raeli and the English Queen. His stories of his difficulties in gaining per- sonal contact with these two provided enjoyment for the alumni members who heard him. Guests Are Present. ‘The luncheon was presided over by Dr. Oscar B. Hunter, president of the A D. O, DECEMBER 1, 1929—PART ONE. Youth Suicides Because Mother Refuses Him $1 By the Associated Press. GREENVILLE, S. C., November 30.—William M. Bayne, 18-year- old Greenville County youth, fatally shot himself because his mother refused to give him a dol- lar_he had recently turned over to her to keep for him, witnesses at a coroner’s inquest testified yesterday. The shooting occurred at the youth’s home Thursday. When his mother refused him the money unless he should chop | | some firewood, Bayne waved good-by to members of the fam- ily and went upstairs. A few | | minutes later the shot was heard. 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