Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1931, Page 5

HOMAGE OF NATION PAID RAIL SPLITTER Schools, Memorial Halls and Other Places Scenes of Lincoln Exercises. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, February 12.— ©One hundred and twenty-two years ago |. today a boy was born in the backwoods of Kentucky. No particular importance was attached to his coming, but today, the anniversary of his birth, an entire nation paid tribute to him. In the schools, memorial halls and cther places throughout the length and breadth of the country, Americans talk- ed again of “Honest Abe” and listened s others extolled the virtues of Amri- ca’s Civil War President. Springfield, focal point for exercises honoring Abra- ham Lincoln's memory because he lies buried here, heard him described as a world figure who had “taught lessons which mankind, whether East or West, must take to heart.” ‘The speaker was Katsuji Debuchi, the Japanese Ambascador, who pleaded last night for a return to the ideals of Abra- ham Lincoln. Nations znd Relations. “The nations,” said the Ambassador, *“are now becoming more and more in- terdependent. We can conceive of few problems, which do not produce direct or indirect effect upon all nations. In such a world society no nation, however werful, however self-sufficient, can be dependent of other nations and indif- ferent to their weal or woe. Today Lincoln’s idealism cries for rescue as it did when Lincoln saw in America a house divided against itself. In say- ing this I do not refer to any specific country—rather I have in mind all countries in the world.” Gov. W. M. Brucker of Michigan, speaking before the Midday Luncheon Club, read in public for the first time the letter from an 11-year-old New York girl which influenced the eman- eipator to grow a rd. In part the letter said: “I have got four brothers and part of them will vote for you any way. If will let your whiskers grow I will and get the rest of them to vote for you. You would look a great deal bet- ter for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you weuld be President.” As a result of this letter from the little girl, Lincoln stopped at Westfield on a campaign train after the beard had been grown, and calling for the little girl, lifted her up and kissed her, drawing her attention to the fact he hlfl‘ taken her advice,” the Governor sai WILL OF “INDIAN DOCTOR” GIVES CHILDREN ESTATE @pecial Dispatch to The Star. D, LE, Va. February 12.—The will of John H. Nanzetta, known here for many years as an “Indian doctor” and who ended his life in Baltimore | several weeks ago, which was probated here, indicates that he lived in fear that he would be the victim of foul play. One of the clauses provided that if he did not die a natural death the ex- ecutors use necessary funds to appre- hend the guilty party or parties and them to trial. In the will he left $15, to each of his three children. ‘The substance of the estate was not indicated. The First National Bank has qualified as executor, giving bond of $30,000. THE WEATHER District of Columbia — Increasing cloudiness tonight, probably followed by occasional rain tomorrow ; slightly warmer tonight, minimum temperature M'Ind: 38 degrees; moderate southwest Maryland—Cloudy, with rain and slightly warmer in west portion to- ht; orrow, _occasional rain; slightly rising temperature in east por- tion; fresh west winds shifting to southwest tomorrow. = Virginia—Increasing cloudiness to- might and slightly warmer, cloudy and warmer tomorrow, followed by occa- sional rain in north and west portions in the afternoon or night; moderate to fresh west shifting to southwest winds. West_Virginia—Cloudy, probably fol- lowed by rain tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer in south and west por- tions tonight. Record for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 37; 8 p.m., 33; 12 midnight, 31; 4 am, 31; 8 am, 31; noon, 43. Barometer—4 pm. 30:18; 8 pm., 30:19; 12 midnight, 30:20; 4 am, 30:17; 8 am.,, 30:21; noon, 30:21. Highest temperature, 43, occurred at noon today; lowest temperature, 30, occurred at 2 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 50; lowest, 28. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today—Low tide, 10:37 a.m. and 11:45 | pam; high tide, 3:55 a.m. and 4.28 pm. ‘Tomorrow—Low tide, 11:35 am.; high tide, 4:53 a.m. and 5:25 p.m. The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose 7:04 a.m.; sun sets 8:41 pm. Tomorrow—Sun rises 7:03 a. sets 5:42 pm. Moon rises 4:02 a.m.; sets 12:54 p.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- balf hour after sunset. Weather in Various Cities. ] § Temperature. & 1 i sun o80T ~m'e g o1 Stations. Weather. ASUSTE *++ soparuor - equaru ase) ++kwpansas Abiiene, Tex. . Albany, N. Y. Atlanta, Ga.. Atlantic City Baltimore, Birm nehas Cloudy REENES e usuRNEEesspusE e BRRE8eR288NERESEER m., Greenwich time. today ) Temperature, Weather. coes 38 Clear 0 18 22 t," France. a, Switzerland holm, Sweden (Noon, Green Horta (Payal), Aszores (Cutrent ol lamijton, Bermuda. o Juas ivana, Upper (left to right): Rosemary Deibel, Eleanor M. Hurley, Joan F. Perry and Helen G. Caffey are members of the committee arranging the pro- gram for the Trinity College prom, to be held tomorrow night at the Mayflower Hotel. Lower (left to right): Alice Evans, Ethel Moran and Ruth Vanderbilt, who are in charge of the arrangements for the Phi Sigma Chi Sorority dance, to be held at the Arlington Hotel Fri- day night. —Star Staff Photos. JHTONNS BEAR NANE OF LINCOLA Only One Christened by Emancipator Himself—Used Watermelons at Fete. By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Il February 12.—Twenty- four American cities and towns bear the name of Lincoln, but only one— Lincoln, Ill.—received its name during the livetime of the emancipator and had the honor of being christened, with the cutting of & watermelon, by Lincoln imself. “All right, boys, go ahead, but I think you're making a mistake; nothing named Lincoln, so far as I know, ever amounted to much.” ‘That was Lincoln's rejoinder to the proposal of three of his friends to give the name of Lincoln to this newly laid out town in Central Illinols. The date was 1853 and Lincoln was an obscure rural lawyer. ‘When what is now the Chicago & Alton was laid through Illinois in 1852, Robert Latham, Virgil Hickox and John D. Gillette, 21l Illinois pioneers, pur- chased a section of land in the center of Logan County, near the railroad right of way, as a prospective town site and with a view to making it the county seat. “At the noon hour,” so relates a Lincoln chronicler, “he purchased two watermelons at a vender’s booth, d with a melon under each arm called the proprietors of the new town to the proposed Court House Square and cut the two melons in twain, giving half to each proprietor and retaining a half for himself, with the remark: We will af:w proceed to christen the new wn.' ROTARIANS PLEDGE TRAVEL AID WORKER Club Accepts Obligation on Learn- ing Need at Bus Terminals and Tourist Camp. The Rotary Club will finance an ad- ditional Travelers' Aid Society worker during the coming year, it was an- nounced at the annual meeting of the Travelers' Aid at the Burlington Hotel yesterday. Arthur May, Rotary rep- resentative, said his organization tries to promote some civic enterprise each year, and learning that this additional worker was needed for bus terminals and the tourist camp, decided to as- sume this obligation. ' Mrs. Charles D. Walcott and C. Mel- vin Sharpe, whose terms expired this year, were re-elected to the board of directors of the society, and four new | members were chosen as follows: Mrs. Thomas Brown, Mrs. Charles A. Gold- | smith, Mrs. Joel T. Boone and Dr. | George Farnham. Mrs. E. J. Brennan and Theodore P. Noyes completed their terms on the board. The society decided to take up with the Council of Social Agencies the ques- tion of a retirement fund for social workers. This idea was advanced by Arthur C. Moses, president of the so- clety, in making his annual report. He also discussed the possibilities of op- erating a transient bureau which would include a central station for homeless men. The soclety assisted 25,100 per- sons in the past year, he reported. DRIVER FATALLY INJURED Callao Resident Hurt in Collision Near Lodge. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., February 12.—Emerson Lewis, filling station man- ager at Callao, Va., was fatally injured when the car which he was driving near Lodge sideswiped another ma- chine, throwing him 20 feet. He died several hours later at his home, where he was taken when it became apparent that he could not live. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1381. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, I!l, February 12.— “The Flea,” 0 called by President Ab: ham Lincoln because of his ability to move quickly as a spy for the Union forces during the Civil War, still lives. | He is Jason H. Edgerly, 92-year-old resident of Blue Island, Ill., whose stock of anecdotes of the Emancipator was added to the long list recounted with the approach each year of the anniver- sary of Lincoln’s birth. Tomorrow will mark the 122d anniversary. It was after he had stolen the Wil- low Creek battle plans “from under the nose of Robert E. Lee,” Edgerly said, that Lincoln gave him the nickname of “The Flea.” Secretary of State Seward had doubted the authenticity of Lee's signature on the plan, so Lincoln called Edgerly in for a conference. Comparison With Flea. “Did you ever try to put your finger on a flea,” Lincoln is quoted as asking Seward, “to find he wasn't there? That’s the way with my man. He got these plans and immediately wasn't there.” ‘When Confederate Gen. Early started his four-day attack on the city of ‘Washington, Edgerly said he escorted SPY LINCOLN CALLED “THE FLEA,"| 92-YEAR-OLD ILLINOIS RESIDENT [HE SUCCORED LINCOLN How Willow Creek Battle Plans Were Stolen “From Under Nose of Lee,” and President’s Tour of Defenses Recalled.* Lincoln in an examination of defenses. Lincoln was curious, he said. He stood boldly on the fortifications looking out toward the Confederate lines. Cannon shot fell near him. “‘Get down from there, Mr. Lincoln,’ Edgerly said he advised. ‘They have our range. Get down and let me watch.’ “Lincoln said something about my life being as sweet to me as his to hen, but right than a minie ball hit be- tween his feet. “‘Get down, Mr. Lincoln,’ Edgerly said he yelled, and reached up to help the President. “All right,” Lincoln answering, “I will.” New Lincoln Stories. Discovery of the part that Edgerly played in Lincoln’s career and the finding of documentary evidence that Lincoln once served on the Circuit Court bench in Springfield as an acting judge were the only new stories of Lincoln’s life that have been brought to light during the past year, local historians say. Since Lincoln’s death, 65 years ago, some 2,000,000 persons have journeyed is quoted as BOOKS ON LINCOLN TREITAASILDISTRICT GRG Biographical Expert Shows‘ Trials of Emancipator Continue in Volumes. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 12.—The trials and tribulations which beset Abraham | Lincoln in life have their counterpart in the treatment he has received after death at the hands of his biographers. Presented in the school histories as a kindly gentleman, bowed in grief at the terrible sacrifices he was forced to call upon his countrymen to make, he has been called in biographies a pica- yune politician and worse. Emanuel Hertz, New York authority on Lincoln, celebrated the Great Eman- cipator's 122d birthday today by calling attention to the “strange fatality that seems” to be pursuing him so far as biographies are concerned.” Mr. Hertz owns more than 3,500 books and documents on the life of Lincoln and he has read every one of them, including the latest, Edgar Lee Mas- ters’ iconoclastic work. Comment on Biographies. Here's what Mr, Hertz says about Lincoln’s principal biographers: William H. Herndon—“Worn out by the stress of the Civil War, he waited 23 years, during which time he was subject to drink and drugs, before he wrote his story of Lincoln. Intellectu- ally, he never reached to Lincoln's knee. Any conclusions he draws may be viewed with a great deal of skepti- cism.” Ward H. Lamon—“A good-natured, rollicking country lawyer and marshal. Unable to write the biography himself, he hired Chauncey F. Black, the son of Jeremiah of Buchanan's cabinet. to write it. Black hated Lincoln; hence, no matter how loyal Lamon was, the voice was the voice of Jacob, but the hands were the hands of Esau.” A. J. Beveridge—"His work is a frag- ment and written in the decline of his mental powers. He listened to the Southern claque. It would not have surprised me if the hero of his four- volume book—if he had lived to finish it—would have been Douglas instead of Lincoln.” Nickolay and Hay's Work. J. G. Nickolay and John Hay, Lin- coln's secretaries—“They produced a wilderness of facts about the Civil War, with a little of Lincoln thrown in here and there, with a great many of his phases neglected. But it is the best to_this day.” Mr. Hertz credits Ida M. Tarbell with “a splendid popular book,” and Carl Sandburg with “by all odds the best book from every standpoint—but he stops on March 4, 1861.” And 'this is the Lincoln specialist’s opinion of the recently published work by Mr, Masters: “It cannot be explained or excused from any standpoint and might best be judged from his indictment of John Brown as a horse thief and murderer. One cannot read it without thinking of his Spoon River anthology. The dead do not talk back. His is the hugest libel thn has yet been uttered against Lin- coln.” SURVIVOR TELLS HOW Wounded President From The- ater, in Pittsburgh. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, February 12.—A gray- haired little man, past 83, who has spent the most of his life in the coal mines of Western Pennsylvania, sat back in his rocker today and told about that Good Friday night, April 14, 1865, when he and three comrades carried the wounded Abraham Lincoln from the Ford Theater in Washington. Jacob A. Soles, then a member of ‘Fhompson's Light Artillery, and three other young soldiers were among the first to reach the side of the fallen President after John Wilkes Booth had fired the fatal shot. Tenderly they carried the President through the tur- moil to the Peterson home across the street. Soles’ three companions of that night—J. Griffiths, John Corey and William Sample—all enlisted from the Pittsburgh district, since have passed on The four were part of a company sent to Fort Barry to protect Washing- ton in 1864. They had permission to attend the theater the night Lincoln was assassinated. “We four were up in the balcony, about 15 feet from where President Lincoln was shot,” Sol{s said. “I don't know just what time happened, but the play had gone on Mr some time. “We didn't know at first when we heard the pistol going off that it was to Springfield, where he is buried, to pay tribute to his memory. MISSING GIRL FOUND SLAIN BY ROADSIDE Police Seek Clues as Corpse Is Lo- cated Two Weeks After Dis- appearance in Kansas. By the Associated Press. NEWTON, Kans, February 12.— Harvey County officers sought clues to- day in the slaying of Miss Lucille Price, 18-year-old high school graduate who disappeared January 24. Her body, bruised and covered by cob- webs, was found in a ditch beside an isolated road southeast of Newton yes- terday by Robert Jordan, a farmer who was hunting strayed horses. Her cloth- ing was torn. A set was missing from her ring. Rain had erased possible clues from the earth. Miss Price disappeared after leaving Helen Spriggs, a_chum, while walking home from the Public Library. Upon the expressed belief of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Price, that she might have eloped, Jack Brunker of Wichita, Kans., was questioned here Sunday. He was not held. Miss Spriggs told police that soon after Miss Price left her and procecded homeward, a motor car which she be- lieved contained two men and & woman passed down the street in the direction the slain girl had taken. SUCCESS TO HIM By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 12.—Abra- ham Lincoln remains a “hero in any language” to Mrs. Anna L. Sweet, 85, who heard him at Gettysburg, attznded his second inauguration as President and witnessed his assassination at Ford's Theater. A lighter incident, however, was in- cluded in her recollection today of events in the life of the Civil War Ex- ecutive. “In a small Illinois town,” she said, “a big Republican rally was staged in the town “HOORAY FOR LINCOLN!” CRY GAVE AT PARTY RALLY Woman Who Recalls Campaign Tells of Colored Man Hired to Inject Enthusiasm in Crowd. “When the enthusiasm for Lincoln seemed at low ebb, the booming voice of a huge Negro in the gallery was _r;:i‘nd roaflnak “Hooray for Lincoln! e cry was taken up. "Alvrl’;ys‘ when things seemed dull, out would boom the voice of the big black man—'Hooray f'r Lincoln!’—and up would go the ery. I learned later that ‘::e San s | pni:d {u;t ;m services. But ol Plent 1627 Mrl.pgweet is the widow of a Civil War hero, Maj. William E. Sweet, and the mother of George Sweet, chief in- vestigator for the prohibition depart- ment here. PRISONER ORDERED HERE IN STOCK LARCENY CASE Earl Smith Arrested in Maryland on Charge of Taking $1,500 in Cities Service Shares. Charged with larceny after trust in- volving 32 shares of Cities Service Cor- poration stock involving $1,500, Earl Smith is under arrest in Maryland and will be brought here next week to an- swer the complaint preferred by Miss Leila Sponseller, 1629 Columbia road. Smith was arrested in Snow Hill, Md., Tuesday and offered to-return vol- untarily if the sheriff would not detain him, but Chief of Detectives Shelby objected to such an arrangement. De- tective James A. Tolson took a warrant for Smith to Snow Hill yesterday, but the prisoner would not return with- out removal proceedings, so Tolson ob- tained a United States Commissione warrant at Salisbury and had Smith brought there for hearing by Commis- signer O. Norman Forrest, who directed that he be turned over to the marshal to be returned here for trial. MAN HITS SIGNATURES IN DAUGHERTY’S TRIAL Farmer Denies Signing Two Notes Offered in Case by Prosecution. By the Assoclated Press. WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio, Febru 12— John Perrill, a Fayette County farmer who said he signed two checks which the State claims Mal S. Daugherty used to de- fraud the closed Ohio State Bank, was recalled to the witness stand today in Daugherty’s trail on a charge of abstraction of bank funds. Perrill testified that he indorsed two checks for $2,500 each, shortly before the bank closed last May, but was unable to explain how his name appeared on two notes which the pros- ecution contends Daugherty, former president of the bank, intended to offer as security. The farmer denled haying signed notes. ‘When the State’s list of 23 witnesses ‘himself will in the President’s box, but they cried for help and we heard a woman crying and we four broke forward and rushed to the box. Then we picked up Mr. Lincoln and carried him to a little building across the street.” Soles lives with a daughter here. DEATH INVESTIGATED Special Dispatch to The Star. OAKLAND, Md., February 12.—The Garrett County authorities today sent the stomach of Michael Felda, farmer, near Altamont, this county, to Balti- more for chemical analysis. He wa: found dead in his bed and his wife tol the authorities he died from alcoholism. Mrs. Felda’s brother, F. 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