Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 10

10 THE BNQUIKER AND EVENING NEWS BATTLE CREEK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1931 DRIVERS REPORT TO POLICE AFTER GIVING AID REPORTS NAME WIEMAN ASSISTANT TO CRISLER GEECO WHIN NEW LESSEE FOR TONIGHT'S RADIO PROGRAMS VP be here soon safety patrol at Verona school. She was afraid that her neighbor, Mrs. Eakin, might feel well "Can, can I come up tomorrow?" she asked Mrs. Eakin about 10 p. as the neighbors gathered in the house.

"Yes you can, honey," the mother replied. "And I don't blame you for what has -happened to my children. I love you just the same." Maxine smiled happily at her own mother. On the dining, room table lay Kathleen's doll, clothed in a blue dress, which the little girl had helped her mother make on the sewing machine. As she talked Mrs.

Eakin held the doll In her arms. was there at his bedside when he died. His father arrived on a train only a few minutes after his death. Mr. Ruggles stated that he carries personal liability insurance.

Vail was the youngest of the four MacKenzie children. A pupil in the first grade at the Lakeview school which he had attended for a year, and a half, he was considered to be an exceedingly bright youngster. He had an unusually rugged constitution and had never had any illness more serious than a slight case of the measles. The child is survived by his mother, Mrs. Lillian MacKenzie; his father, Duncan; one brother, George, 13; two sisters, Violet, 11, and Hazel, 10; his grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Alexander MacKenzie of Rosshire, Scotland. Mr. MacKenzie, the child's father was at one time a teacher in the high school here and had been the principal of a school in another city. Funerals Arranged Funeral services for all three of the children had been arranged today.

The Eakins children will be buried in Hicks cemetery following services conducted Saturday morning at 10:30 from the Mennonite church by the Rev. R. E. Dean. Rites for the MacKenzie boy will be held Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock from Hebble's chapel conducted by the Rev.

Carleton Brooks Miller, with burial in Memorial Park cemetery. The jury impaneled this morning for the Eakins inquest is made up of E. W. Dykeman. 171 Grove; E.

Evans, 21 Wilkes: George South- LY Mrs. Elizabeth Wieas, Auljjf Accident Victim, Taken to Nichols Hospital, Mrs. Elizabeth Wieas. Ceresco, route one, is in Nichols hospiUl with probable internal injuries, the result of an accident on US-12 east of Battle Creek about 6 o'clock Thursday evening. Mrs.

Wieas was going to her home eight miles east of Battle Creek a car driven by her son-in-law, Wayne Doucher, when their car was struck by one coming west. The approaching car attempted to pass another on a hill and when the driver saw the Doucher car he put on the brakes, causing his car to skid and strike the Doucher car sideways. Neither Mr. Doucher nor his wife, who was also in the car, was injured. H.

O. Haskitt. who lives at the Wieas home, was notified and took Mrs. Wieas to her home, but the physician who was called advised hcr re-moval to the hospital. CONSTABLE HURT WHEN CAR PLUNGES INTO POLE Constable Frank Meech suffered a badly bruised right side when he lost control of his Ford sedan and the car, after plunging into a telephone pole tipped over on its side.

Mr. Meech was driving out West Michigan avenue about 9 o'clock this morning to serve papers at tffl' Post gardens. When hp had gotten betwen Urbandale and the gardens, near thi residence of Deputy Sheriff Frank Furner. he lost control of his car. After shimmying back and forth on the road the car crashed into the telephone pole and tipped over, throwing Mr.

Meech against the side. Mr. Meech declined to go to a hospital but following the accident was taken home where it w-as said his injuries amounted to a bruised right hip, thieh and leg. His head near the right ear was also swollen. The bark end of the car was badly damaged as a result of the accident.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT; RIPLEY WILL EPEAK Believe it or not. but Bob Ripley, cartoonist for the Believe It or Not feature which appears daily in the Enquirer and Eiening News, Is coming to Ann Arbor February 13 under the auspices of the Oratorical association of the University of Michigan. "Rip" will tell some of the stronge facts that he has uncovered in his travels through more than 64 countries during the last eight years. He has just returned from Central America where he discovered some new and astounding fact that will supply the groundwork by his ture in Hill auditorium this moniln. SIGN JAMS TRAFFIC New York, Feb.

7. W) The latest thing in electric signs on the great white way shows a stout woman doing gymnastims and four thin flappers. The idea is to advertise cigar-ets. The first showing caused such a traffic congestion that the police had the sign turned off. MEMOIRS IN ENGLISH Rur.harest.

Rumania. Feb. 7. Queen Marie has decided to publish her memoirs in English. They will consist of three volumes, the first, nnneavine in Mav and the sec ond next autumn.

A London pub lisher will handle the work. Roy Champlin Takes Three-Year Lease with Privilege Of Purchase. IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED A. N. Brown, Who Last Year Managed Resort, Will Be In Charge Again.

Roy Champlin, a Battle Creek resident for 30 years, announced today that he has taken a three-year lease with option of purchase on the Goguac resort property known as Lakeview park. Mr. Champlin succeeds Herman S. Becker, who has been in charge of the park, and financially interested in it for the last 10 years. The lease was secured from L.

Kersten, owner. Mr. Champlin said that no one else is associated with him in the leasing or the direction of the park. A. N.

Brown, who was manager of the park and the roller coaster last year, will probably act in similar capacity this year. "The park is to be Champlin said. "I am going to make immediate arrangements to have more shrubs placed and a good job cf landscaping r.one. I will start next week to clean up the premises. The roller coaster will Egain operate and there will be several additional rides.

"The new management would like the cooperation of manufacturing plants toward holding pic- MINE EXPLOSION TAKES 18 LIVES, IMPRISONS EIGHT Ccntinued from Page 3d and mine officials believed that the deadly gas made it virtually impossible lor any of the remaining five men in the mine to escape, u.i-less by accident a cave-in of the tunnel cut off the fumes. Tunnel Walls Crumbled Dougherty, one of the four men to escape, said the explosion a deafening and that the walls of the tunnel crumbled. Rescue crews recruited from the day workers immediately rurhed into the mine to search for those entombed and the air system, damage ed by the bast, was again placed in working ordei and soon cleared the mine of gas. State mine officials and officers 1" the Standard Coal company owner of the mine, left Salt Lake City Immediately for the scene of the disaster and assumed charge of the rescue crews. JOINT MEETING PLANNED A joint dinner meeting of members of the Calhoun County Medical society and the Calhoun County Bar association, with their wives, is to be held February 20 at the Battle Creek Country club with two Detroiters as speakers: Judge Joseph A.

Moynihan and Attorney Herbert B. Barbour. Prosecutor Andrew W. Lockton wilj be toastmaster. PROCESSING SATISFACTORY Mrs.

C. P. Baker of 72 Fremont, who broke her left wrist Wednesday noon in a fall on the icy walk near her home, is much more comfortable today, a second x-ray was made Thursday. Mrs. Baker was on her way to the Post Tavern to attend the meeting of the Al-trusa club when the accident i PARK FRIDAY, FEBRCART 7 (Uy the Associated Press) Programs iu Kastern Standard time.

All time is I'. M. unless otherwise Indicated. Wavelengths on left call letters, kiloc.vcles on right. Central Clear Channel Stations 344.6 tVEXIt Chicago 870 Farmer's Farmer (Ijio.) Hance; Mike and Herman; Gossip.

1:00 1 Air Vaudeville (2 416.4 W(iN-VVLIB Chicago "30 CJuin; Hance; Comedians. lt.idio Floorwalker; Dance. Concert Feature. 10:00 Pat liarnes; Troupers. 11:00 News; Dwe 13 344.8 Vt I.S Chicago 8'- Farm Talk.

Musical urchestra. The President. 10 Ml) Musical Features. 11:011 as YVF.AF Show Uoat (1 447.3 VtMAQ Chicago 7:00 Concert Urchestra. YVAIIC Programs -'-l.

singers; Han and Sylvia; Piano. 11 Amos-Andy Pianist. 1J Music CI 4 1H.H I i nnat i 700 7:00 Kducationnl S''rap Dook. Same as WJZ S-Od Champions Ask Me. and Features (2 1-4 hrs 11 Trio: liurnt Corkers: Orchestra.

12 Sn.ct and Low Ijown. 1 Thirteenth Ilotir il WOC lanport 1000 The MilTS Program. Siiii WFAF (llir. Oak Grove. same as WF.AF il'i hrs.l.

11:00 Feature: Iream Hour (1 1-4 brs) 308.8 W.I It Detroit 150 6:00 lMnncr Music: Feature. 7 -no AnK.s-Andy Orchestras. Sioituhhlp r.lowers: Orchestra, i-oii WJZ Programs Orchestra i.loui i WJZ (l.iiu.j. 11 Hance: Feasy Chair; Dance. WOWO Ft.

Wayne 1160 W.W.C Programs (4 hrs wi'to MinneaMilis-St. l'aui 810 s-fio Programs tl (Mm.) 11 io Traffic Court tuOiu I Hance. Southern Clear Channel Stations 40S.J WSIt Atlanta 740 7:00 CJOtn WFAF Finance P.alladist. Concert rrngram. li.iinWMZ Programs iJ 11 -on Concert Program.

llO-WMZ Hawaiian 3HS.6 II I.nnsivillt 820 7-00 The Clnh: Studio Concert. 7 :) WJZ I Hance Music. Voice of the Innk. 0no WJZ Programs il' hrs). WIIAS Aristocrats.

11:00 Homing Program and WJZ. 1 2 00 Hance Music Hour. 4CI.3 WSM Nashville 650 7-00 Orchestra anil Vocal. WFAF Orchestra. .17, and Studio (i 1-4.

hrs). 10 Musical Movie News. 11:00 The Shield Men: WJZ. SMTROAV. FF.HRI ARV 8 iHy the Associated Press) TroTams in Fastern Standard time.

All time is P. M. unless otherwise indicated. Wavelengths on left of call letters, kilocycles on right. Centrul Clear Channel Stations 344.

K.N'R Chicago K70 Farmer's Farmer 1 i-rtiv 1X Air Vaudeville 410 4 WGN-W Mil Chicago 720 7-00 Larry Fnrsen: Dance; Feature. Radio Floorwalker. Hance Orchestras. 0 WtiN Players. 10-0O Hour frmu WFAF.

News; Dance (4 1-4 hrs). 314. I.S Chicago 870 8:30 Farm P.arn Dance. 0 Sociability. 10-30 Harn Dance Program nrs.) 447.5 WMAO Chicago 070 700 Orchestra: Pratt and Sherman.

S-lo WAUO Photologue. 1, -OA-Feature WAIN, 10 no Musical Programs hrs.) Concert Orch. 12-00 Dance Music (3 I.W Cincinnati .00 7-00 orchestra Scrap r'30 WJZ Itanjokester. Knights: Feature. W.ltf (30U1.I-: llonolulans.

Cossacks: Trio. Music Hour. ooy.ft WHO Mnes 10D0 7-OOliocking Chair. 7:30 Chicapo Studio Nile. Same as WFAF.

11 -mi Concert Orchcst from WF.AF. 30S.S W-IK Detroit fi-on-Dinnor Music: Orchestra. ti-30-Anios-Andy: Ladies 7- niv. Michigan Hour. P.arn Dance.

o'-oo Songs: Symphony and Singers. Same as WJZ i1 hr.) 10:30 Dance; News: Dance. 1-. oo Songs and Dance (1 hr 2S.5 WOW Ft Wayne 1160 8- 00 WAUC Organ. Programs (2 hrs): News 370.2 WCCIl Minneapolls-St.

rani 810 7:00 Dinner Concert; i 8:00 WA1SC Poppers. Programs (2 1-4 hrs). FLOWS REAL ESTATE CONCERN BRINGS SUIT Six Battle Creek Persons Named Defendants in Action to Collect. Six local persons were named defendants in suits brought in circuit court today by the New Miami Shores corporation of Miami. seeking to collect on notes given in 1925 for purchase of Florida land.

The defendants are Frank W. French, in a separate bill for Marie Otis and Dorothy and David Black in a separate bill for S5.000, and John F. Gordon and Sarah A. Gordon in a bill for $5,000. WILL LECTURE ON BIRDS William Roberts, naturalist, will speak at the meeting of the Battle Creek Nature club which is to be held at 8 p.

m. Saturday in the museura of natural history. Mr. Roberts will illustrate with slides a lecture on his research on the anatomy of birds. Tne tecond February meetmg to ha held by the club will oe Februaiy when Professor W.

Stack of Mxhigan ftate college will uilfc on Bird Banding and Bird Study Piofes-fcr Stack will with him a number of reels of motion pictures. CLUB-MEETS NEXT WEEK No meeting of the Three-Quar ter-Century club will be held Sat urday afternoon; February 8. Club members have adopted for the win ter months a schedule of fortnightly meetings, the next of which will fall on Saturday, February 15. Dur ing the winter, while Sunshine Cen ter is closed, meetings are being held at the First Methodist church With the reopening of Sunshine Center in the spring, weekly meet ings will be resumed. CALIFORNIA REPLIES Los Angeles, Feb.

7. Well, Florida, living in the brilliant sun shine which floods the stately grandeur of the southern part of this romantic state we offer John Oscar Strai.s, William Wrigley, Max Fleischmann. Jesse L. Lasky, E. A.

Cudahy, Jack Demp- sey. Jack Kearns, Montague Glass, William Randolph Heardt. Peter De Paolo, Fred Duesenberg, Alastair MacDonald, Jimmy Doolittle and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.

RECTOR IS RETAINED Dayton. Feb. Rev. Julius Arnold Velasco, 31, will be retained as rector at St. John Episcopal church here, it was decided when a vote of the vestry was taken, "despite a suspension order issued by Bishop H.

P. Almon Abbott of the Lexington diocese. Suspension by bishop Abott follow ed the Rev. Mr. Velasco's marriage to Miss Catherine Rogers of Ellicot City, by a Catholic priest.

Mrs. Velasco is a Catholic. SLAYER IS HUNTED Akron, Feb. 7. Police seeking the slayer of Mrs.

Ruth Murray, 34, known in Detroit as a narcotic informer, today concentrated their attention on the theory that she was killed by members of a narcotic ring. In addition to a desire to prevent her from reporting on narcotic activities, a motive of robbery may have prompted the murder, police believe, since there was a report that she carried a large sum of money. worth, 574 West Michigan avenue; E. C. Oviatt, 29 Greenwood; R.

N. 11. Wheeler 18 Frelinghuysen avenue; George W. Hard, 2335 West Michigan avenue. Jury for the MacKenzie child's inquest consists of Howard Davis, 12 South Jay; Joseph Armstrong, Ward building; William Rothberg, city hall; James Threapleton.

city hall; John Mc-Rae, 31 Wentworith, and W. H. Mott. BIRTHS Born to Mr. and Mrs.

Edward L. Rickard, 34 Fairfield avenue, a daughter, Charlotte Elaine, weighing six pounds, seven and one-half ounces, at the Sanitarium at 7:32 p. m. Thursday. DEATHS Rollin W.

Adams Rollin W. Adams of Battle Crrek township died at 5:15 a. Friday at a local hospital, aged 61 years. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. E.

A. Backofen of Battle Creek, and Mrs. Richard Eaton of Epson. N. and two brothers.

Orwin and Shirlev Adr.ms. both of Battle Creek township. Funeral announcements will be made later. Mrs. Ida Mabel French Mrs.

Ida Mabel French, 44, died it her residence. 33 -i South IMvis-ion, at 8 o'clock Thursday night. She is survived by her Charles S. French: a riauehtsr, virs. Don Wheeler.

102 Wiliard; four Hsters. Mrs. Henry Brinkhart, Pontiac, Mrs. Harriet Tyson, and Mrs. Frank Tetler.

Battle Creek, and Mrs. Frank Brainincr, Union City; and one brother, Hsrry Vhninman, Kalamazoo. The Rev. tlarence A. Brady will conduct the funeral services from Hebble's chapel at 2 o'clock Sunday and burial will be in the Memorial Park cemetery.

Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president of the United Slates He a inaugurated at the age of 42. Minneapolis, Feb. 7. (V-In a copyright story the Minneapolis Tribune said today that Fritz Cris-ler, assistant football coach at the University of Chicago, had been selected as head football coach at the University of Minnesota for 1930, and Tad Wieman, former head coach at the University of Michigan, has been chosen as his first assistant. DIES AFTER WRECK Lansing, Feb.

7. Clyde M. Wallace, 30, of Ann Arbor, died at a local hospital this morning after sustaining injuries in an automobile accident six miles east of here on US-16 Thursday night. His widow, Mrs. Cynthia Wallace, 21, is in a critical condition with a fractured skull and lacerations of the right ear and forehead.

PRODUCTION FAR AHEAD Grand Rapids, Feb. 7. (JP Dr. Stephen I. Miller, executive secretary of the National Association of Credit Men, told delegates to the annual convention of the Michigan Retail Lumber Dealers association Thursday night that distribution is 50 years behind production.

The lumbermen will close their convention today with a business meeting and election of officers. TEARS FLOW COUPIOL'SLY Detroit, Feb. 7 Tears flowed copiously in the city treasurer's office Thursday when William a cashier, accidentally touched a button setting off the tear gas equipment installed in the office as a protection against holdups. Two taxpayers, three patrolmen and several employes rushed from the office weeping. EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGED i Pontiac, Feb.

7. Frank D. Glover, 59. of Detroit, a former manager of the Osmun lumber yards at Auburn Heights, was arrested here Thursday on a charge of embezzling $15,000. The complaint was made by William H.

Osmun, owner of the yard. It is claimed that Glover's books show a shortage of approximately $27,000. COUZENS MEETS CHEWNING Washington, Feb. 7. James Couzens.

mutimilionaire senator from Michigan, today saw his son-it-law, William Jeffries Chewning, for the first time, Chewning and his bride, the former Margot Couzens. calling on the senator alter their return from a brief honeymoon trip in Virginia and Maryland. SEEKS DIVORCE Ada Otto began suit in circuit court today by her next friend, Melva McDonald, for divorce from Theodore Otto. LONG TRIP FOR LITTLE Companies one and two of the fire department gallumped out to Urbandale. shortly after 9 o'clock this morning to answer an alarm from the Oliver Barney residence at 1167 West Michigan avenue.

There was no fire. A broken hot water coil, steaming in the furnace, was responsible for the alarm. BRAZILIAN OFFICIAL SHOT Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Feb. 7. Vice President Mello Viar.na was reported seriously wour.ded and several other parsons either wounded or: killed at Montes Claros in the state of Minas Garats in meager dispatches arriving here today.

The smelling organs of some insects are minute pits on the antennae. On a single antenna of an ordinary June beetle there are as many as 40.000. COMPANY REALTORS; a fTiWHAA WTW DEMONSTRATION HOME (Continued from Page One.) them. On the slippery down-hill grade he couldn't have stopped, he told officers, even though there had been time. A Cry and Mother Instinct This story about Margaret and Kathleen, and how they lived and how they died, is not complete without that of Mrs.

George Eakins, their mother. The grimmest of mother tragedy was hers Thursday night for a breathless span of minutes. Dry-eyed but wan and spent Mrs. Eakins told it to the Enquirer and News late in the evening, while sympathetic neighbors clustered about in the front room of the tiny four-room place. It began with a scream, heard faintly but plainly, bringing a sudden pang of fright to a woman cleaning up the supper dishes in the kitchen.

She knew, instinctively, what it was. But before that Margaret and Kathleen wanted to go to the store. Supper was over. Some children in the city would be going to movies. Some children would be going to fine parties.

But not Margaret and Kathleen. Their parents, young, were deep in the struggle to keep a family of four children going. For the two girls a treat was ordinarily something like going to the store for "mymsie." ''I was busy in house and didn't notice how dark it was get ting." Mrs. Eakins said, and she told the whole story. Her husband, his head in his hands, sat in the un-lighted bedroom.

In the day he works as a section hand for the Michigan Central railroad. Were Good Little Girls "The girls had been good all day. So I wanted to please them. They teased to go to the store, so I sent them after a pair of work gloves for daddy." The children went to the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Shay and enticed Maxine McConnell, 10, to go with them. It didn't really take much enticing because the three girls were the best of friends. The Shays live near the foot of the hill, just below the Eakins' residence. On the three blocks walk to the grocery Maxine took command of the situation. And good reason, too.

Wasn't she a member of the Verona school safety patrol? And proud of her badge. "I'll pull you," she told them, and they straddled the sled for the joyous ride. It was very dark by now. About 7 o'clock. And the Maple street road is dangerous for those afoot no matter what the clock says.

There is no sidewalk. What was to happen next is left to Maxine to tell. Behind her a car was coming. She tugged the sled out of the way, but instead of keeping to the right she walked to the left into the other traffic lane. From the other direction came the Chevrolet coach driven by Mr.

Egner, over the brow of the hill, and out of sight of Maxine. In another second the automobile had swept the crumpled sled free of its cargo of two children. Maxine stood, rope in hand, her last second attempt to yank the sled to safety having failed. It was then that the child screamed screamed as she made out two dim forms on the ground near her. In the quiet the child's voice carried straight across the snow covered fields of Convis addition to the ears of a mother already vaguely anxious, she said, on account of the darkness and the dangerous road.

"I snatched up my coat and ran down to the main road, then up the road toward the grocery," Mrs. Eakins said. Passed Bloodstained Spot "Nothing was in sight. Then they must have reached the grocery, I thought. I ran on.

Toward the top of the hill I saw a car turn around in the road and drive away. I learned after what it was. Right then I simply wanted to find my children. In the gloom the mother rushed on past the place where the children had been struck, failing to notice the smashed sled, the mussed snow, the blood. Hoping against hope she stared through the door-way of the lighted grocery.

There were no children there. Turning she ran back, reaching home via Roosevelt street. "As I entered the house I saw Georee standing with his back to me. "He was bending over the couch. "They're dead' he said." But the children weren't gone, just yet Mr.

Egner, who had brought them to the house after the accident, and turned them over to the father, tried to drive after a doctor. His car stuck in the snow. Instead Mr. Shay, Maxine's step-father, sought aid. The police ambulance was called.

It was on the way to the hospital, with their mother sitting beside them in the ambulance, that both girls died. Inseparable in life their sisterhood lasted to death. The two little girls had slept together, played together, quarreled a little together, and even had to be punished together all their lives, their mother said. It was a shocking accident for the driver of the automobile. The Belle-vue man.

who works in the Piggly-Wiggly meat market at 229 West Michigan avenue, was driving home, where he. too, has a small son. Driver Tells Story He told officers that lights of the oncoming car suddenly disclosed the figures of the children in the roadway, walking into the path of his car. "I was coming over the brew of the hill, watching carefully on account of ice forming on the windshield. It all happened so iast that I had no time to turn out." Egner gave a statement to Detectives Charles Thayer and Frank Ziegler, and later a fuller account to Deputy Sheriff Frank Furner, of the sheriff's department, who told him he apparently was without blame.

Egner was shortly allowed to leave the police station for his home. Maxine McConnell was afraid Thursday night. Fears far Her Office She feared that the accident would cause her demotion from the i "I'll miss Margaret and Kath leen in the morning for they were always up and dressed first. Why just this morning she got up before I did and wrote out Chicago and Mississippi, to surprise me when. I got up.

She didn't have much chance to go to school until this year, we've moved so often." The Eakins have had their troubles before, but none like this one. Their home in Dayton, they came to Michigan and located in Bellevue several years ago. Fire destroyed their house there about 18 months ago, so thev moved to Battle Creek. Just this winter Kathleen nearly died of pneumonia She was in the kindergarten at Verona school, while Margaret was in the second grade under Mrs Marjorv W'-'brook Powers. Xo Pictures of Girls The two Eakins children were "exceotionally nice." were sweet disnositioned and not backward in their studies.

Miss Margaret Stan- nard. Verona school principal, said today. "We'll feel their loss greatly." she declared. Both were frail and were receiving sunshine treatments." Miss Stannard recalled that just before Christmas vacation the students exchanged gifts. On accoun' of the snow and cold neither of the Eakins children could come, but their mother walked to the school with their little gifts.

The mother's great regret Thursday night was the fact that she has no picture of the girls. Kodak r' tures of the students had been taken at the Verona school by th-teachers a few weeks before, but there was nothing compulsory about it. All those who wished to brin? five cents to pay for a negattive were to be Mrs. Eakins gave one of her children a nickel, but the little girl either forgot or spent the money for something else. The coincidence in the two accidents extended further than the time element, and that they happened during safety week in the schools.

The victims were members of families of four children. Mrs. Eakens, at the hospital, learned of the other accident. In spite of her own bereavement, she inquired concerning the condition of the Mac-Kenkie boy at times during the evening. Vail MacKenzie with two other boys was sliding down little embankments of snow and ice in front of 13 Surby.

It was about 5:10. Glenn Ruggles, 78 SurSy, driving his Pontiac coach, had just turned the corner onto Surby street on his way home from work at the Advance-Rumely plant. He saw the boys sliding down the embankments but they appeared to be out of the way of his car. There was a thud as something struck the left rear wheel of the car. He stopped short.

A boy was unconscious. There was a mark over his right eye where he had struck the wheel of the car. With Mrs. Rena Ziebel. 26 Surby, and Mrs.

William P. Shafer, 13 Surby, Mr. Ruggles took the boy to the hospital. A Driver's Story Mr. Ruggles explained how the accident happened.

"I had just turned the corner from Kernen drive onto Surby street on my way home from work," he said. "There were two boys sliding down banks on the right side of the road. Just as I got in front of 13 Surby, I saw the MacKenzie boy slide from the snow bank at the left side of the street. Although I was traveling slowly, I was unable to turn aside or stop before the boy, sliding on his stomach on top of the sled, hit my car. I stopped within eight or ten feet and picked up the boy.

He was unconscious. I noticed that he had a bad gash about an inch and a half long over his right eye. The gash looked like it had been made by striking one of the tire bolts. Mrs. Ziebel who was standing at the right side of the street told me that she thought the boy was Mrs.

Shafer's son. I carried him to the Shafer house where Mrs. Shafer told me that the child was not hers. The three of us then took the boy to the hospital, Mrs. Ziebel carrying him on her lap." Vail, still unconscious, was sent to the emergency room at the hospital.

Mrs. Shafer called her daughter who identified the boy as the MacKenzie child. Mr. MacKenzie, a civil engineer for the Grand Trunk railroad, was in Port Huron on business. Mrs.

MacKenzie was at the Sanitarium, where she is employed as a graduate nurse. Mr. MacKenzie was wired to return at once. Mrs. MacKenzie left the bedside of one patient at the Sanitarium to hurry to the hospital where she remained at the bedside of her little boy until he died.

Hurried Operation Fails Dr. A. F. Kingsley was called to care for the child. Drs.

H. H. Harris and J. M. Nielson were called as consultants.

The boy had a bad fracture at the right side of the skull. Only an operation to relieve the pressure on the brain could save his life, the doctors decided. But even if the child lived, he would probably be handicapped physically and mentally the rest of his life. However, Ihe operation was performed. The important thing was to save his life, it possible.

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