The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 11

is Daily Star SPORT SECTION All the news of baseball, football and boxing told by Charles Johnson and a staff of experts. MARKETS, COMICS All the news of the financial world and a half dozen comla strips by the world's best comic artists. MINNEAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1926 Mmneapol COURT COLLECTIONS NET $235,000 FOR CITY TREASURY GLEN LAKE SUMMER CAMP REBUILDS Y0VTH; OUTDOOR PLAY AS GOOD HEALTH INSURANCE Power Machine Which Resulted From Accident at World's Fair Perfected After 33 Years' Work 3 FACE COURT AS POLICE RAID CLUBS IN LOOP Paddy Foy, Dan Moriarity and Joe Kato Arrested on Liquor Charges Three men faced arraignment in municipal court today as the result of police raids on two so-called clubs In the downtown district as municipal authorities followed the lead of federal agents in raiding alleged loop drinking places. The first raid was on the Twin City GASH REGISTER GETS $15,744 IN SEVEN MONTHS Clerk Quotes Figures to i' Show Seriousness of Motor Problem Criminal convictions in municipal court have more than doubled in the past 10 years If figures don't lie, but they do in this case, according to Oscar J. Hanson, the clerk, who explains how fill the traffic violations run through the traffic bureau cash register aro included in the total convlc-tions.

The system of accepting guilty pleas automatically and shoving money by the handful into the cash register was Inaugurated In the fall of .1924. It was derided at that time to list 'k all such cases under the head of "crim inal convictions," hence the office has the following figures: .1925 Criminal convictions, 36,600. 1916 Criminal convictions, 14,601. This. Mr.

Hanson says, calls attention to the fact that the automobile traffic problem la increasing by leaps Id and bounds that there isn't, actually. llnli stnrtliiKr itlprfls In nrimp nnri that his cashier and bookkeeper, Karl T. Howard, handles an immense amount of money during the year. 19,532 Cash Register Cases Mr. Hanson explains that the 36,000 odd convictions in 1925 include 19,632 cases "run through the cash register," 5,159 through traffic court, and 11,809 miscellaneous cases.

The court collected between an. 1 and Aug. 1 this year a total of nearly $235,000, this including- $136,887 deposited for bail; $15,744 taken in the cash register; $20,116.75 collected in fines in Traffic court; $20,168 in fines in the reg- Charles J. Wolfe and the self-propelling machine he has. perfected after 33 years tireless work.

I ular criminal branch; $24,914 in fees 1 collected in tlie civil branch; $16,775 COMMUNITY FUND BEST FRIEND OF NEEDY CHILDREN Prevents Neglect and 111 Health to Youngsters and Adults paid Into court by officers for firms on account of judgments entered; and a little" miscellaneous item of $260. Of the total, the net was $107,863.27, which went to the city's general i'und. Baily Balance About $35,000 Mr. Howard's average daily bank balance is about Mis average daily deposits in behalf of the court are around $2,000. The "net" turned over to the city i durinjr the entire year 1916 was 919.67, this showing the present re-mendous increase in the business of the Minneapolis municipal court.

The total taken in by tlie cashier last year was $446,359.68, of which he net of $204,093 went to the city's general fund. Civil Cases Doubled The civil cases handled in municipal court in 12; totalled 26.447. Only 13.277 civil cases were disposed of in 1916. "The state wld traffic conference in October will be a fjood thins," Mr. Hanson said today following a istudy of-the figures.

"Few -people realize how tlie traffic problem is wowing beyond reasonable bounds. The best brains of the state should be recruited i'or the work in hand." Passing Motorists Endan-i gered, Declares Secre- tary of Auto Club OVERLOkDING of- CARS IS CALLED safety mm club, third floor at 23 Sixth street where Paddy Foy was arrested and charged with possession of liquor for sale. The other raid was on the Busi ness Men's club at 618 Third ave nue S. Two More Arrested Dan Morlarty and Joe Kato were ar rested at the Third avenue place, Morl arty charged with maintaining gambling devices and Kato charged with having liquor in his possession for sale. Liquor and six slot machines were found by the officers.

Two Others Released 'Two other men were found in the club with Foy and were taken to po lice headquarters but were released The raid was conducted by Detective J. L. Levens and Oscar Eidem of a gun squad and two patrolmen. The officers reported finding two gallons of alcohol and six bottles of whisky In the place. Federal officers raided the Key club a few days ago several men and seizing an alleged membership list of 1,600 names as well as a quantity of liquor.

DATE OF INQUEST ON ADMIRAL SET Nurse Left $75,000 in Death Bed Will Seri-, ously 111 San Francisco, Aug. 28. The formal inquest over Rear Admiral George H. Barber's body will be held on Sept, 1. it was announced today.

Admiral Barber died suddenly Monday of ptomaine poisoning. It was found that he had made a deathbed codicil to his will whereby his nurse. Miss Helen C. Ashley, was to receive $75,000 from his estate. It was said they were to have been married in Oc tober.

In asking that an inquest be held navy officials denied there was any intention of reflecting on anyone. Miss Ashley is confined to her hqme, seriously ill. She collapsed following-the death of the naval officer. Youths Take Dip in Nature's Garb; Six Are Lectured, One Is Fined $15 It was a hot day. Eight North Minneapolis boys wanted to swim.

They had no suits so they plunged Into one of the Twin Lakes at Golden Valley garbed au natural that is not garbed at all. Today six of the boys were lectured by Judge Gunnar H. Nordbyo in juvenile court, and released. It was Constable Rydmark who broke up the swimming party. The boys were all taken before Justice of the Peace Stamway of Golden Valley where the eldest, 16 years of age, was fined $15, and the case against another of the lads was dismissed.

The other six were held to juvenile court. Thirty residents of the North Side were outside the juvenile court chambers when the boys were taken before the judge today. They included fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters and minister all interested in the boys. Perhaps the fact that the court room was warm and. the judge mopped his brow with a handkerchief made him lenient when he recalled how cool are lake waters to sweltering youngsters.

Anyhow he let them all go with a warning to wear swimming duds the next time they take a plunge. Closing Entry Dates Women's Activities, Saturday, Aug. 28. Agriculture, Monday, Aug. 30.

Horticulture, Monday, Aug. 30. Bee Culture, Wednesday, Sept. 1. books, pictures, Interior decoration, education, recreation and budgets, will be demonstrated by helpful and striking exhibits In the Woman's building.

A series of foreign booths will be an unusual Forty county exhibits will bo presented in the Agricultural building, as well as large displays of corn, grains and potatoes. Because of the excellent crop of fruit, an extraordinary exhibit of apples, plums, grapes and other fruits will bo shown. Flowers and vegetables also will be exhibited in-record-breaking quantities. Exhibits Worth Above Million In the art show canvasses and sculptures worth more than a million dollars will be exhibited. It Is the first time that sculptures have been given emphasis.

Alfonso Ianelli, the great Chicago sculptor, will have 100 subjects in the exhibition. who need all-year treatment are sent 1:1 If Charles J. Wolfe. 3601 Third ptreet hadn't gone to the World's fair In Chicago in 1893 he never would have been an inventor. And if he hadn't happened to pass by when the Ferris wheel got stalled on the exposition grounds the Wolfe automatic power machine never would have been created.

Accident Started It. It all started, according- to Mr. Wolfe, when the big Ferris wheel at the Chicago fair got stuck, and dozens of joyriders were held suspended In the air for three hours. Wolfe, wasn't a passenger, but "It got me to thinking," he said today. "As I stood by and watched those excited passengers w-aving their arms, while the men1 tinkered with the engine below.

I asked myself why couldn't the passengers, by their own weight, furnish the power to propel the darned thing?" And today, 33 years after young Wolfe, meditated on the contrariness of Ferris wheels, his question is finally answered. The answer is a strange machine, 20 feet high, stationed In Mr. Wolfe's attic on Third street N. It revolves, apparently without any propelling force. No gasoline, water, oil or gas is required to i-un it.

It move3, according to Mr. Wolfe, solely through the force of gravity. Not Perpetual Motion Machine "No, it's not a perpetual mootlon machine," he said. "It can be started and stopped by a lever, and that takes the 'perpetual' out of it, doesn't it? only thing required to keep the machine in shape is oil for the bearings, and it will do the work that any stationary engine can do." But to return the World's, fair the Ferris wheel "put the bee in, his bonnet," in Mr. Wolfe's own words.

Living at the time in MacGregor, where he had been brought up, Wolfe had gone to Chicago with a trainload of cattle' and had lingered to see the great exposition, as every Chicago visitor did in that year. "The Ferris wheel had been announced as one of the wonders of the fair, and everyone went out to, see and ride in it," Mr. Wolfe said. "Something happened to the mechanism as I stood watching it, and then it occurred to me that if the passengers on one side were lifted up close to the center shaft by the weight of passengers coming- down on the outer rim on the other side it wouldn't need an engine to run the contraption at all." Problem Had Him Going With this idea buzzing persistently in his head but with no great hope that he could make it materialize into something that actually wprked, Wolfe went back to Iowa, where he was in.the cattle business. He began to read books books on mathematics, on levers, on mechanics.

"I didn't put hand to a model for three years, but spent my odd time in reading up. Previous to that time, Forty County Exhibits-Dozen Concert Bands Will Play Eight acres of machinery, a state departments and state institutions exhibit; demonstrations by 1,200 boys and girls in club a health exposition, display of household conveniences, style fevue, auto show, poultry exhibition, butter and cheese show, fish and game display, and a score of other big features complete the educational program. The entertainment program the opening clay will include auto racing, two stages of open air circus acts, the fireworks spectacle, "1776," Roy D. Smith's Royal Scotch Highlanders band, the Rubin Cherry Midway shows, Miss Gladys Roy in airplane acrobatics and a special exhibition of pole vaulting by Charles Hoff, Norway's world's champion pole vaulter. Harness and running horse races will be staged Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, while auto rac ing will bo continued on Wednesday, i With the congested conditions pre-Y valent on main highways, the overload it had never occurred to me to invent anything, but this problem had me going and I couldn't let go of it.

In 1896, I made my first small model. It wasn't much good, and it didn't work very well. But I kept at it. To Be Displayed at Fair "Well, I worked off and on upon the machine, reading meanwhile, and trying to figure out some way of putting gravity to work in making the thing go. Since that time I have made six different models, and now after 33 years I've got something that works and which wijl prove, I think, one of the most remarkable machines ever invented." The Wolfe automatic power machine will be on view at the state fair from Sept.

4 to 11, when the inventor will demonstrate how it operates. Patent has been applied for the invention. As can be seen in the picture, the machine is in the form of a wheel, with eight projecting arms. Upon these arms, long cylinders, filled with mercury (the amount of power depending upon the quantity of mercury used) are placed. the wheel rotates, half of the cylinders are in a perpendicular position, close to the shaft on the left, and the other half, moving like the hands of a clock are descending on the right.

Mercury Replaces Water The weight of the mercury in the cylinder ends, on the right, 80 inches from the center of the shaft, serves to lift the perpendicular cylinders in "neutral" on the left which, when they reach the top of the wheel slip into place in their respective arnts and descend again, propelling the machine by their weight. i Mr. Wolfe tried using water instead of mercury when experimenting with models, but it was "too slow, and too clumsy." "Mercury weighs 13 pounds per pint and moves with extraordinary quickness," he said. "Eighty pounds Is sufficient to run the machine. Once I put 25 pounds into every cylinder, and the wheel revolved at such a terrific rate it nearly tore itself loose, and it was all I could do to stop it." The model Mr.

Wolfe has just completed was begun five years ago, and the inventor has made many changes and refinements upon it. Room for Improvement 1 "There are plenty of ways it could be he declared. "It's not perfect yet and I intend to make many more improvements." Mr. Wolfe demurred at the title of "inventor." "I'm not a professional Inventor," he claimed. "Before I started on this machine I was just like anybody else.

But I always did like mathematics in school, and never had to ask the teacher how to solve a single History I always considered pretty useless stuff, but mathematics was where I shone." Mr. Wolfe plans some day to return to his first love, the Ferris wheel, and construct one on the same lines he visualized when he attended the 1893 exposition. "Difficult?" he laughed con fidently, "give me till sundown, and I could plrtn one out on paper. I'll do it, too, some day." Ageless Bride Is Still Hushandless Parents Seeking to Prove She's Minor San Francisco, Aug. 28.

Jeanette, Oliver Laidlaw, the "ageless bride," was still hushandless today. Forcibly taken from her wedding supper two weeks ago, when her father claimed she was but 16 years old, the bride was placed in the custody of a friend until the parents and the husband could present definite proof of the girl's age. Iaidtnw claims his wife Is past IS years of age. So does the wife. When Judge Louderback began a hearing- yesterday on Iiidlaw's habeas corpus proceedings, William S.

Oliver, the bride's father, asked for a contin- girl's birth. to the Children's building of the Glen Lake sanatorium. Under the auspices of the Citizens' Aid society, formed for the purpose of combatting tuberculosis, and of the Sanatorium commission of Hennepin county, the Children's building was opened in 1922 to accommodate 60 children. The children's camp is a recent out growth -of the-Glen Lake sanatorium, which was opened, in 1916 with facilities for the accommodation of 50 patients. Recent additions have raised the bed capacity at the sanatorium to 640, Including the 60 children in the children's building.

IOWA U' GRADUATES 169 Iowa City, Iowa, Aug. 28. The University of Iowa conferred advanced degrees on 53 students and bachelor degrees on 116 students at the late summer convocation ceremonies here today. Prof. Frederick E.

Knight of the college of education delivered the ad dress of the day on "The Adequate Life." Activilies at the Glen Lake summer camp for cliildren are many and varied. Clad in abbreviated costumes as shown, the children roam the woods and play around the camp, gaining in health and strength during the' 10 weeks of the summer 'camp conducted under the supervision of the Glen Lnke sanatorium. The top picture shows a tense moment in a croquet game. At the left, Donald Webber, 6 years old, is aiming his ball at the goal. The others are, left to right, Es-ther Milstein, Edna Olson, 9, and Marion Schultis, 6.

Below, at left, is pictured a favorite stunt of boys at the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter." The "daughter" is William Jarvis, with the candle. Sidney Shlimovitz is carrying David Wal-, lack. Below, at right, is shown a group of boys in a pyramid formation. On top is Pershing Schram with the flag. Ift to right, William Jarvis and.

Tommy Schultis -form the second row, and Sidney Shlimovitz; David Wallack and Solomon Robinovltz form the base. The Community fund is the greatest friend of children in Minneapolis, according to statistics announced today by Otto F. Bradley, executive secretary. Although child care fs but one of the many phases of social welfare work problems solved by the Community Fund agencies, the care and protection of children is one of the vital tasks performed. "There were 2,146 families assisted by the family service agencies supported by the Community fund in the past year," said Mr.

Bradley. "Approximately 90 per cent of these families have from one to seven children. In strengthening the family relationships of this large group of Minneapolis residents these agencies assured the children of a normal home life. That is something every child should have. Many at Day Nurseries "There were 346 children of working mothers who have cared for in the Community Fund day nurseries while their mothers worked, usually at tasks found for them through settlement house employment service.

"The Children's Protective society, whose task is specifically the assistance of- neglected, non-supported or deserted children, had under care cases involving 2,183 children in 1,382 families. Court action was necessary in 530 cases. Children boarded while family adjustments were made totaled 676. Of these 132 were boarded in institutions and 544 in carefully selected private homes." Other Types of Child Care Other aid given children was described as follows by Mr. Bradley: Five institutional children's homes, with an aggregate population of 487, participate in the Community Fund.

Three thousand one hundred and forty-two under-nourished mothers and children were taken to fresh air camps this summer. (About t-vo-thirds were children.) Of the 52,502 visits made by the Nurses in the past year appro.i Imately 25 per cent were made vpon small children. thousand one hundred and twenty-six children of needy parents had their teeth cared for at Comn unity Fund dental clinics. These figures give some idea of what the Community Fund means to small children of Minneapolis. They do not take into account the extensive service for babies and for the older boys and girls, the report stated.

VIVIAN DUNCAN HURT; MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DANCE Los Angeles, Aug. 2S. Vivian Duncan, one of the famous Duncan sisters, dancing comediennes, may never able to dance again, as the result of m-, juries suffered in an automobile accident near Oxnard last night, Dr. Everett C. Beach, attending physician an-' nounced today.

MissJDuncan is suffering from a possible, skull fracture and a serious wrench of the knee. Doctor Beach feared the injury might result in a stiff joint. Forger on Probation; Must Shun Liquor Friends who testified to his previous good character succeeded in persuading Judge Paul Guilford Irf district court to place Hans Loe, 1611 Portland avenue, on probation. He is said to have admitted forging checks for $60 while Intoxicated and the condition of his probation was that he should not drink during the yer. The sentence suspended is from one to five years In, Stillwater.

STATE FAIR NEXT WEEK PROMISES TO EXCEL PREVIOUS EXPOSITIONS Pulling out slivers from bare feet and anointing scuffed knees is a nightly ceremony at the children's camp at Glen Lake sanatorium. Children have climbed trees since time began and the spreading branches of tall trees at the children's camp offer an invitation not to be refused. Situated on a little hill with woods and fields on all sides, the summer camp for children established under the supervision of. the Glen -Lake sanatorium, offers unusual facilities outdoor recreation. 'Opened this sum- mer for the' second season, the camp nas dormitory accommodations lor au boys and 30 girls, a large playroom and dining room combined.

Find Time for Gaines As active as any group of boys and girls, the 56 youngsters at the Glen Lake summer camp find time for all kinds of Rames when they aren.t eat- ing or- sleeping or taking their rest periods. Unhampered by skirts that catch on bushes on shirts that tear in a friendly souffle, the children roam the woods and play around the camp while Miss Oletta Lundee, camp director, sees that they all get plenty of food and Between the rising bell at 6:45 a.m., and the bedtime stories jat 7 p.m., for the little ones and at 8 o'clock for those 8 years of age, the days are crammed full of health and play activities. Croquet, baseball, volleyball and horseshoes are popular sports among the boys and girls at the camp, with occasionally a picnic or marsh-mallow roast in the valley below the camp. Secrecy Guards Programs Stunt night is a big night at the camp when the boys with great secrecy plan a program to entertain the girls, or the girls with equal secrecy practice a play or dance for the boys' benefit. Eight-year-old Joseph Cain is a headliner on boys' stunt programs and is always called upon to recite.

When Joseph recites "My Pa," the major portion of the camp recites it with him. In case Joseph forgets the lines, there are very few boys or girls at the camp who can't supply them' for him. Wednesday Is a much-anticipated day by children at the summer camp when all tht.se over seven years of, age are taken to the sanitorium auditorium to see a movie. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday are red letter days, too, for then those with a record of good behavior are taken swimming at Excelsior. Regular Duties Assigned All is not play, however.

Certain regular duties are assigned to the children, and the girls take turns helping with the dishes while the boys keep the grounds clean. All children over ing of cars nas oecome nui um a. nuisance but a very serious factor in reducing the margin of safety, G. Koy HU1, secretary of the Automobile club of Minneapolis, said today. one who has made any lengthy trips this season," Mr.

Hill continued-, "must, have noticed the great number of cars that were load ed to such an extent that all kinds of odds and ends were hanging loose from their sides, taking up more of the road than they were entitled to i and thus reducing the element of safe- "It is not so much the load Itself as the neglect of many careless motor-'lsts who fail- to make their car ship-f shape before they proceed on tour. In the case of this type of car owner, vi ho incidentally carries with him everything but the kitchen sink, you "often prefer to flirt with a ditch rather I than risk complications with the household utensils strung loosely along the sides of a passing car. "Onlv rprentlv tVifr wjih rprtnrtpd the case of a motorist who had a nar row escape from tragedy through con-5 tact between his car and an axe that had become loose from an overloaded jj camping car. Numerous complaints I are heard of the necessity which often arises to give these cars more than meir aue snare or me ngnt or way. BENJAMIN TO FIGHT DIVORCE DEMAND; 2 HINTS SENSATION Los Angeles, Aug.

28. Marian Nixon, pptite Universal star, formerly of Minneapolis, not only brougt suit for divorce against Joe Benjamin, Hght-t weight boxer, but also asked a restrain order to prevent her husband from seeing her. Miss Nixon charged Benjamin with cruelty and failure to provide. Benjamin will answer the petition for an injunction Sept. 7.

He promised a contest and a sensational trial of the suit. '-A nrntppo nf Demnsev. Renin. eight take care of their own beds. It is surprising how much tan can be accumulated in the 10 short weeks the summer camp is open, and how much weight children can gain; Martha Olson, seven years old, is the champion gainer of the camp, who won her title by gaining eight pounds in eight weeks.

Children seldom get homesick at the Glen Lake summer camp. Miss Lundee, camp director says. Coming- mostly from Minneapolis with a few from outlying points in the county, the chil-dren have rvn art the camp since June 21 and most of them are sorry to see the camp close September 1. Robert Rice of Minneapolis, boys' playground director, and Miss Florence Sparks Of "Lakefleld, girls' instructor, are in charge of supervised play activities for the children of the camp. Miss Rachel McCarthy of Madelia is camp nurse.

Public Nurses Guard Health On recommendation of the Minneapolis health department and public health nurse of Hennepin county, children are sent to the summer camp for building up and strengthening their bodies with fresh air, sunshine, proper rest and care. They are sent there on the same basis that children are sent to Lymanhurst, an observatory and preventorium at Chicago avenue and Eighteenth street where suspect cases and children with the juvenile type of tuberosiosis are treated. Those $145,620 Premium Money for Educational Displays (Face of Pictures, Last Faffe This Section) The most complete exposition of Educational and entertainment features ever stage by the Minnesota State fair and Northwest exposition is promised when the gates are thrown open for the sixty-seventh year Saturday morning, Sept. 4. The $145,620 in premium money offered for educational displays' has resulted in the biggest -entry of exhibits ever received by the fair, fair officials declared today.

There are 1,282 cattle entered, exclusive of the 190 calves to be shown by boys' 'and girls' calf club members. The swine and sheep shows will be larger, while the evening horse show, which opens for a five nights' performance on Labor day, has the biggest entry ever obtained by any horse show held in the northwest, It is claimed. Given Unusual Emphasis Women's activities have been given unusual emphasis by the State fair this year. Women's interest in home economics, government, child training, ipion of California. An unexpected do- Sept.

8, and Saturday, Sept. 11. More uance, saying he wished to obtain af-than a dozen concert bands and or- fidavits from those who attended the ifeat by Ace Hudkins sent him into re- uremeni over year ttgu. chestras will play during the week,.