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'AKRON1 BEACON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, mt El EDISON, AMERICA'S WIZARD No. 5 By R. J. Scott Uses Seidlitz Powders To Inflate Playmate For Ascension Akron Real Estate Board To Offer Series Of Discussions ALL BUT ENDS FATALLY CHICAG0AN TO SPEAK FJGHT MS AERA PUBLIC NVITED TEST IS FAILUR 10 TAX IK EDITOR'S NOTE Following la tlif ifteond of a series of artttles on the life of the late Thomas Atva Edison, prepared for Beacon Journal readers by Lemuel F. Parton, feature writer.

By LEMUEL F. PARTON Michael Oates, an 11-year-old boy who lived down the street, was picked up by voung Tom Edison for Afl By THE REAL ESTATE EDITOR Realty board members and the public in general have been urged to take advantage of the series of tax meetings sponsored by the Akron Real Estate board. The second lecture in the series Is to be offered next, Tuesday night at the Mayflower hotel. Professor Simeon E. Leland of Chicago university Is to speak at 8 p.

m. and the session will be called to order promptly on time. President Clarence Smith of the board has promised. Leland is nationally recognized as a student on tax affairs and has announced as the topic of his address: "Tax Relief for Real Estate." Besides his faculty connection, is national consultant for the legal department of the National Asso-elation of Real Estate boards. BUILDERS COMMITTEE WORKS ON CONVENTION Local committee of the Ohio Sheet Metal Contractors which 1 In 1891 he filed a patent for the kinetograph but It was not until 1917 the patent was granted by the government.

Improvement in the machine followed In 1880 the inventor built his pioneer electric railway lins at Menlo Park and in 1882 opened the first commercial electric light station in the U. S. at New York. With the incandescent electric light a reality Edison developed a new type of dynamo and planned and worked out his system of central electric lighting plants. Removing his laboratory to West Oranga, N.

in 1887 Edison improved the phonograph and set to work on the production of a motion-picture, machine, the kinetograph, During the nineties the great inventor turned his attention to a magnetic ore separator, seeking to make low grade ore available to the steel mills of the east. The venture failed and at the close of the century Edison began to be interested in the manufacture of Portland cement and In a new type of storage bat-, tery. Edison at the CHAGRIN VALLEY Many Return Bruised From Majestic9 "Whoopee" Trip DRIVE SUGGESTED AKRON RATES THIRD IN BUILDING PERMITS Ohio Comparisons For Sep tembe'r Show Cincinnati, Cleveland First Comparison of building permit records of cities in Ohio for September compiled by W. Straus and revealed today shows that Akron trailed only Cincinnati and Cleveland this year whereas a year ago it was under both Columbus and Toledo. The total for September is as compared with a little less than $400,000 for September, 1930.

Cincinnati In Lead The largest record in the state is credited to Cincinnati with The total for Ohio, with 34 cities reporting, is $3,305,256. Throughout the United States, the seasonal in building activity as reflected in permits is said to be 13.7 per cent as compared with August. Thirteen of the larger cities made actual gains over the month of September, 1930, the Straus figures show. New York leads in the total volume of build ing construction in September this year with $15,685,140. FAIL TO INDICT HAMILTON, Oct.

24. (AP) No indictments in five cases dating back to operation of the Springdale Amusement Park's dog track near here recently were returned by the Butler county grand jury. Says 300 Women Direct Funerals CINCINNATI, Oct. 24. (INS) Funeral directing as a profession is in no way limited to men, Lon S.

Ashley, president of the Casket Manufacturers' Association of America, revealed here today. There are more thaiv 300 women employed as funeral directors throughout the country, he stated. POSTOFFICE STEPS WILL BE REPAIRED Bids Asked On Replacement Of Marble Treads With Granite Bids for replacing the marble treads on the postoffice steps with granite treads have been requested by treasury department officials and specifications are expected to arrive early next week, it was announced today. According to Postmaster L. D.

Carter, recommendation calling for changing the marble treads was made some time ago. Local contractors will have opportunity to submit bids as soon as the complete plans and specifications arrive. OE mm MUST microphone JURY IN FOSHAY'S TRIAL DISAGREES Woman Lone Holdout Asking Acquittal As Twelve Take 200 Ballots MINNEAPOLIS. Oct. 2i.

(AP) W. B. Foshay will have a second chancS to win freedom from government charges of mail fraud because the only woman member of the Jury which heard his trial Mrs. Genevieve A. Clark of Minneapolis, said she trusted him.

Jan. 11, the second trial of the promoter with six co-defendants will begin, following the dismissal yesterday of the panel which was unable to agree on a verdict after deliberations lasting more than a week in which the woman consistently refused to change her mind. 11 Ask Conviction The eleven men who were members of the panel were agreed, voting for conviction of the seven men. But Mrs. Clark voted for acquittal on the 200th ballot as well as the first and her colleagues finally gave up the effort to convert her to their view.

The group was given the case Oct. 16. ADMITS STEALING $250 FROM FIANCE Girl Tells Of Flight When Lover Becomes "Cold," Held At St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Oct.

24. (API How she took $250 belonging to her1 fiance, who also was her employer, and left Saginaw, when he became "cold and indifferent," was related to police today by Miss Helen Walsh, 20, an attractive brunette of Windsor, Ont. Miss Walsh, who arrived here two weeks ago from Toledo, was arrested yesterday on information furnished by another young woman in whom she had confided. Last July, Miss Walsh said, she began working in the dental offices of Dr. J.

I. Dalpe of Saginaw. She and the dentist lived at the same boarding house, she said, and they became engaged. Takes Money As Pay "We were to have been married Labor day," she said. "About a week before that day, Dr.

Dalpe be came cold and indifferent. When, I reproved him about his attitude he asked me what I was going to do about it. instead of telling him, I went to the boarding house and in lieu of a salary never received, took $250 belonging to him. "Leaving Sajinaw Oct. 1 I went to Flint, and later to Detroit.

Failing to find employment, I went to Toledo and then came here." were 276 passengers. The bar opened at 8:30 p. m. after the ship had passed the 12-mile limit, the Sun's story says. Drinking began moderately enough.

After dinner a good many passengers went to a movie in the lounge, others strolled the decks in the moonlight, while a small but powerful minority adjourned to the bar, Fighting broke out later during the night with boat detectives defeating drinkers and gamblers, reports said. FATE OF PROPOSED RADIO STATION UP Start Fight Over Use Northern Ohio Broad-casting Assignment Of By RADFORD E. MOBLEY Beaeon Journal Bureau, 505 Albee bid. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.

A spirited fight over the use of a radio assignment in northern Ohio upon which will depend the transfer of a new station to Akron was initiated today by the federal radio commission when it set for hearing the applications for use of the 1.210-kilocycle band now assigned to WALR Zanesville. The commission decided that the application of Roy W. Waller, operator of WALR for a renewal of his license with 100 watts power will be heard Thursday, Oct. 29. At the same time will be heard Waller's application for assignment of his license to the Akron Broadcasting Co.

Other Applications Up Preceding these applications on the commission calendar for hearing on the same date are the applica tions the Zanesville Radio Broadcasting Zanesville, and the Ohio Broadcasting Cleveland, for per mission to use the same kilocycle band for construction of new sti-tions. The commission's purpose Is to throw together these applications and decide them upon comparative merit. After ths hearings the approval of one probably will lead to the denial of the others. OPPOSES OUTSIDE WORK COLUMBUS, Oct. 24.

(AP) Informed that convicts had been working at a summer cottage owned by Warden Preston E. Thomas of Ohio penitentiary, W. J. Kennedy, assistant welfare director, said lie was opposed to the employment of prisoners on outside jobs and that he had conferred with Thomas on the matter. mum SELL 25 human material in his first flying experiment.

Pouring water on 1 1 1 1 powders, Tom had been amazed and delighted with the resulting excitement. From his books he had learned nothing about gaseous qualities of chemicals, but he had made his own deductions. He had concluded that if the seidlitz ponders were put in ac tion In an en Thomas Edison close a space, they would yield a useful expansive and possibly lifting force. Michael, a submissive lad, enamored of Tom's genius, was led to a large cow pasture. Tom tied to Michael's suspenders about 200 feet of stout cord.

Then he fed him, one by one, a vast quantity of seidlitz powders and handed him a pitcher of water to drink. The idea was that Michael, thus violently inflated, would soar gracefully over the cow pistvre and possibly down the village main street, to the triumph of the young inventor. The cord, of course, was to pull him down if necessary. Call Family Doctor Michael stood poised for a moment with arms outspread. Then he ran, bellowing, for home.

He was rushed to the family medico, who warned young Tom against more dangerous experiments, There was quite a to-do in the village, which was beginning to regard "that Edison boy" as a bit queer, anyway. For a time Tom was in eclipse, but never for a moment did his mind turn from its eager, curious prying into the world about him. Tom's father was always looking toward the "green fields far away." When Tom was 12, the family was established near Port Huron, Mich, where Edison pere was engaged in some novel and ambitious form of truck gardening. It was alluring on paper, but, like his other ventures, did not quite rome through and the exigencies of the family budget sent young Tom out for a job. He landed as a newsboy on a Grand Trunk railroad train running to Detroit, a job entirely to his liking and in which he first disclosed some of the qualities of mind and personality which marked him for greatness.

First hand records of those days are meaner, but such as thev are they note the unfailing industry and gooa numor of the lad, and, par ticularly, his penchant for being nimsell. He worked up his busi ness in his own way, was alert in picking selling slogans forhis papers, and featuring new lines as "candy butcher." Drawn By Engine At the age of eight he had mas tered the principle of the steam engine, and locomotives obsessed him. When the train pulled in. even on bitterly cold days, he rarely went home without climbing into the cab, pondering the machinery and cnatting with the engineer about some problem of draught or steam pressure. Edison nerer was a particularly good businessman.

While rountlrss millions were made from his inventions, he gained comparatively little. In spite of this he exercised an unerring business Instinct on occasions when he wanted money for a definite purpose. Money, like words, always was to him a tool, rather than a primary objective. On the train job. he needed money to equip a chemical laboratory in the cellar of his home and his business instinct came into play when, among the boys in a Detroit news-paper alley, he learned that the paper would print that day the first complete story of the Civil war battle at Pittsburgh Landing.

He ran to the circulation manager and contracted for as many papers as he could get. On the afternoon run, he deluged the cars with the newspapers. Passengers snapped them up. Loves Main Line The profits from this, and other gleanings, enabled him to establish a tiny business in Port Huron, where he sold papers, butter and eggs, candy and berries, with two bovs traveling for him on trains. He was succeeding, but here he was on aside track.

He loved the main line the brightly grooved highway of his genius, close to machinery, power, precise and tangible things. So the boy went back to the clank and clatter of the old train and the newsboy job, but this time he took his chemical laboratory with him. In an unused end of the baggage car, he Installed his retorts and lest tubes. The boy's energy was boundless. Hawking papers and candy, he found time, not only to carry on his experiments, but to print and publish on the train a tiny paper, which he called "The Weekly Herald," the first newspaper ever printed on a train.

This was in 1862, when Tom was 15 years old. It was a sharp turn of the railroad which made a similarly sharp turn in the career of Thomas Alva Edison. If anyone ever followed his own star it was he, but destiny had marked him out and, from time to time, impelled him none too gently on his charted course. (Anothev Edison story by Parton will appear Monday), THIS MONTH Br The Associated Tress EW YORK, Oct. 24.

The Sun said today that the liner Ma jestic returned last night from a. 24-hour cruise with its bar depleted, and a group of its passengers in bandages. A rough and tumble fight between detectives, a coterie of convivial merrymakers, and several disappointed gamblers was the cause of it all, according to the Sun. The Majestic set out Wednesday night on its regular 100-mile cruise "to nowhere." There Hazed Freshmen Left On Island DETROIT, 24. (INS) Suffering from cold and exposure as the result of an all night stay on Peche island in Lake Erie, fifty freshmen students of the City college of Detroit, alleged "hazing" victims, yesterday were rescued by Detroit river police.

The freshmen were said to have been marooned on the island by sophomores as part of the hazing of first year men. The victims were herded together yesterday afternoon and forced to the island, it was reported. Dr. Wilford Coffey, president of the college, ordered an inves tigation. KOLCZUM SENTENCED FOR MANSLAUGHTER Judge Refuses Suspension; Says Count Should Have Been Murder Andrew 42, Copley farmer, was sentenced to serve from one to 20 years in the Ohio penitentiary when he entered a plea of guilty to a manslaughter charge before Judge L.

S. Pardee in common pleas court late Friday. Kolczum was indicted by the Summit county grand Jury on the manslaughter charge in connection with the slaying of his wife, Anna, at their home three months ago. Ask For Change Attorneys for Kolczum went before Presiding Judge Carl C. Hoyt Friday afternoon and asked that their client be given another continuance to allow him time to harvest his crops.

They then withdrew the motion and asked that the case be assigned to another Judge. Hoyt sent the case to Pardee and a guilty plea was An attempt was made to get a suspended sentence for Kolczum because of his family of four small daughters and two sons. Pardee refused to suspend sentence and said in- view of the facts Kolczum should have been indicted on a second degree murder charge. CONVICTED OF ASSAULT NEWARK, 0 Oct. 24.

(AP) -Leonard Ramsey, 20, was convicted of assault and battery at his trial here yesterday on a manslaughter charge arising from the fatal shooting of Tilman Shaw, 53, last June 1. Ramsey claimed he mistook Shaw for a burglar. Hfillowccii Masquerade -DANCE-Sat. Oct. 31 Cash Pritrs For Co lu men A EAGLES TEMPLE Monday Ladies' Guest Don't Forget to Attend Eagles Temple Annual II to hold Its annual convention here early next year met during the week and formed tentative plans for the event.

H. L. Orton, vice president of the state association and chairman of the local committee presided. FIGURES SHOW VAST 1 BUILDING DEPOSITS If all the money in Ohio building' and loan companies were to be equally divided beteewn the two million Ohioans who placed It there, the average would approximate $622. Figures just released by the Ohio Building association league of which A.

E. Albright of the Akron Savings and Loan is vice president, shon that the total resources of the building and loan companies In Ohio are equal to $187.27 for every man, woman, and child in the state. "Practically every penny of the total resources of the Ohio building1 and loan companies is productively employed," said James A. Devine, executive secretary of the organization today. BRACES FOR LEGS, BACK and OTHER DEFORMITIES AKRON TRUSS CO.

Personal Service, Lady Attendant 23 Yean in Akron 276 S. Main St. JEfferson 5S17 CARS Inc. HE-9136 Akron Motorists Urged To See Picturesque Section Of Ohio LEAVE ON ROUTE 36 By The AUTOMOBILE EDITOR Picturesque Chagrin River valley dotted with beautiful estates is always inviting and it is particularly inviting in October when leaves are running riot. with, color, according to Mrs.

Elizabeth Brown Hendrick- son, assistant secretary, Akron Auto mobile club. The green foliage of the summer turning to red, yellow and golden brown, presents an ever changing and gorgeous scene at every curve and turn of the road, while the bracing air of autumn lends zest to the Joy of motoring amid such marvelous surroundings. Turn At Stow The motor ramble up the Chagrin River valley will take you out of Akron over Ohio 36, through Cuyahoga Falls to Stow Corners. Here turn left onto Ohio 91 and keep ahead through Hudson and Swins-burg to Solon, where you turn right onto Ohio 174. This highway winds into Chagrin Falls, then out again and onto the Chagrin River road.

To enjoy this outing to the fullest extent the trip up the valley should be taken leisurely. There is beauty on every hand. The road seems to literally wind through a world hung with crimson and gold. Here is an unusual splash of red. and there is a golden cluster.

Roads In Good Condition Ohio 174 passes through Gates Mills, pa.sses by the north and south Chagrin reservations, and finally enters Ohio 84. A right turn should be made at this point following Ohio 84 to U. S. 20. Turn right again and continue through Willoughby to PainesvUle, then right onto Ohio 44 coming south through Chardon, Auburn Corners and into Ravenna.

Another right turn will bring you back to Akron over Ohio 36. The trip as outlined is approximately 110 miles in length. The roads are in good condition. However some gravel will be encountered on the Chagrin River road. AI, RUST JOINS THORNTON COMPANY A change in personnel of the Thornton Chevrolet 260 W.

Exchange was announced Satur day by D. W. Thornton, president, Al Rust today became manager of the parts and service department of the Thornton Chevrolet organization. Rust came to Akron after a lengthy experience as factory field repre-headquarters at Al Rust tentative, with Kansas Citv, Mo, Rust has had experience in hand ling the parts department from both the dealer and factory angles, and Thornton said that under the new manager he expects to offer a type of service equal to any in the coun try. Asks Co-Eds Share Expenses On Dates SALT LAKE CITY, 24.

(AP) The girls with plenty of spending money are in a fair way to become popular at the University of Utah. President George Thomas has told the student body that the girts ought to share the cost of "dates." OVERRULES DEMURRER COLUMBUS, Oct. 24. (AP) A demurrer in the $150,000 damage suit filed by the estate of Robert D. Parsons, one of 82 persons killed in an explosion at a Sunday Creek Coal Co.

mine at Millfield, a year ago, was overruled in court yesterday. The coal company demurred on the ground the suit failed to allege Parsons was unaware of dangers in the mine. PLUMBING SI Fill OtB'Bintr'f Wliil Plh. gapBlf, fat g. Mill Jf -Mil Our Factory Quota and AND Expects Us to Make Our We Are Going to Do It.

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