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IF 11 4 7 4, A 0 CHICA-GO DAILYTRIBUNE -2- SATURDAY. OCTOBER 190'14- uriiu 1Ji I i I I I I KILLED BY FALL 500, MUNDELEIN SILVER-MEDALS-- SENT TO CHICAGO gni) and gave damaging testimony. It was Miss Cal lions story, linking the names of Mrs. Vanderbilt and the marchioness of Milford Haven, which led Justice Carew to bar press and public from the courtroom. 4 and gave damaging testimony.

It was 11 1ADY FURNESS -1 OPENS ATTACK ON MRS, WHITNEY RECALLS GLORIES THAT ONCE WERE IN ALDINE SQUARE TOMORROW! INENR LUX RADIO THEATRE VIALTER HUSTON Although Burkan promised that Mrs. Vanderbilt would be In court today if she had to be borne on a litter and attended by fourteen physicians, she was nott present when he continued his direct examination of Lady Fur. ness at 10:28 a. m. Mrs.

Vanderbilt looked very pale yesterday and walked very slowly. She was attended by a trained nurse at the morning session, but did not return in the afternoon. Chicago Tribune Press Service. ROME, Oct. hundred silver medals designed by the Roman sculptor, Silvio Silva, and struck off here in honor of Cardinal Mundelein's jubilee year were packed today in a large case and dispatched to Naples by courier to be shipped Tuesday to Chicago on the liner Rex.

The medals will be received at Chicago in time for the celebration of Cardinal Mundelein's 25th anniversary of his consecration as bishop, at which time they will be distributed to archbishops, bishops, and other high dignitaries who attend the ceremonies. On one side of the medals is the cardinal's profile and on the other is a facsimile of the chair he used here during the commemorative mass at St. Peter's. was not known; since Justice Carew continued his ban on the press and public, despite Mrs. Vanderbilt's desire for an open hearing.

but in the corridor she gave vent to rhetorical questions which left no doubt regarding the vehemence of her testimony in defense of her twin sister. Assails Mrs. Whitney Why should people in glass houses sling mud?" Lady Furness demanded. That woman always has had what she wants." A 4 By that woman she referred to Mrs. Whitney, Gloria's maternal aunt, with whom the child has been living for the past two years and with whom, according to counsel for Mrs.

Whitney, she prefers to go on living. Mrs. Whitney. noted' society sculptor, has maintained that Mrs. Vander.

hilt is unfit to rear Gloria, and her counsel has produced witnesses, among them former servants of Mrs. Vanderbilt, to support the allegation. Why should she want to adopt this child when the asylums are full of lovely children who would appreciate being adopted? Lady Furness con. tinned. Why should she want to adopt my sister's only child? If she Mrs.

Vanderbilt had four or five children. I could understand her trying to do this because she was fascinated by the child. But why is she trying to do this when my sister has only one Asked if she had seen her mother, Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Morgan, who has testified that she did not believe her daughter, Mrs. Vanderbilt, is a proper person to rear Gloria, Lady Furness replied dryly that she had not: She has been here two weeks, having come from England to help her twin Lady Furness spent the entire session yesterday and most of this morning testifying in her sister's behalf.

She was the second witness called by Nathan Burkan, Mrs. Vanderbilt's attorney. Herbert C. Smyth, Mrs. Whit.

ney's attorney, cross-examined her fifteen minutes. The next witness called by Burkan was Mrs. Olga Wright, wife of Harry Wright, Mrs. Vanderbilt's former but. ler, who testified last week in behalf of the child's mother.

Tells of Household. Mrs. Wright, who was Mrs. Vanderbilt's personal maid prior to the employment of Marie Caillot, was under. stood to have testified concerning the Vanderbilt household at Biarritz, Cannes, and New York.

Burkan apparently put Mrs. Wright on the stand to attempt to refute the testimony of Miss Caillot, who ap. peared as a witness for Mrs. Whitney 1g to do this when my sister Assails Her Stand in the Vanderbilt Case. THE BARKER Resident Tells of Area for Housing Project.

4-'- 4 s. A 'N t'" 0,..,,011 A IN a full-hour presentation, this brilliant actor will re-createfor you the role he made famous in the comedy-drama that Was an outstanding Broadway hit. Bishop Stewart to Get $1,000 for Church Fund Presentation of a fund of $1,000 to Bishop George Craig Stewart of the Episcopal diocese of Chicago will be a feature of the annual Chicago cathedral service at Grace church in Oak Park at 4 p. tn. Sunday.

The money will go into the general fund for the erection of an Episcopal cathedral. Bishop Stewart will deliver his annual message to members of Gamma Kappa Delta at the service. A dinner and entertainment will follow the service. Every Sunday a Lux Radio Theatre presentation of famous plays with famous stars. NBC Coast-to-Coast Blue Network.

sm. 1 1 1 1 1 (Picture on back page.) New York, Oct. Lady Furness, former wife of Lord Furness, the British shipping magnate, made a bitter oral attack on Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney after testifying today before Supreme Court Justice John F. Carew in the suit brought by her sister, Mrs.

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, to regain custody of her 10 year old child, Gloria. What Lady Furness said hi court Eero larnefelt Is Named Finnish Minister to U. S. HELSINGFORS, Finland, Oct. 26, (i1))Eero Jarnefelt today was named Finnish minister to Washington.

Advertise in the Tribune From PremProhibition Casks MRS. JOHN P. BECKER. Mrs. John P.

Becker, mother of Arthur C. Becker, dean of music at De Paul university, Was fatally injured yesterday when. after her clothing had become ignited. she jumped from a fourth floor window of her Bon's apartment at 27 East Bellevue place. She sustained fractures of both legs, burns on face and arms and possible internal injuries and died last night at the hospital.

According to Miss Agnes Stevens, maid in the apartment, Mrs. Becker was cleaning the kitchen stove with a combustible fluid when the tragedy occurred. She apparently had forgotten the danger of the pilot light which evidently ignited the fluid. Instantly the stove was a mass of flames. Airs.

Becker, her clothing burning. ran to a window and jumped before the maid could go to her rescue. A tire department ambulance rushed the injured woman to the hospital. Dean Becker was in his classroom when notified of the accident. Mrs.

Becker, who is 63 years old, came to Chicago two weeks ago from Louisville, to visit her son and see the World's Fair. 717 9. i 77 11 'ft1'p (1)1(ii xx 1 11 xxxx 1 I. I 'I, I i 11 1 ii 11 1,. 1 '4 411 7,.

'I) yz- 7 7 NI 0 RS IICE LIIOU A nearby resident of 68 years standing yesterday recalled memories of Aldine square as it was in the eighties. Aldine square Is included in the 35 acre territory bounded by 37th street, south Park way, Pershing road, Langley avenue, 3Sth street and Cottage Grove avenue, which is slated to be the Mt of a proposed $7,000,000 federal housing project. The little square, surrounding a park and containing 42 now weather beaten houses which still retain marks of their one-time elegance, may be entered from Vincennes avenue between 37th and 3Sth streets, or from Eden avenue. It once housed many of Chicago's elite. Old Resident Recalls Old Days.

The oldest resident of the neighborhood located yesterday was Andrew Witt, 70 years old, a hardware dealer, who occupies the newly painted gray clapboard house with flower filled yard surrounded by a picket fence at 3306 'Vincennes avenue. Ills father, the late Peter II. Witt, formerly postmaster in the old Cottage Grove postoffice, now Station built the house and lir. Witt has lived in it for 68 years. "When we moved here from a house which still stands on 38th street then Pier street west of the Illinois Central tracks," said Mr.

Witt, this street was a beautiful sand road. After the great fire it was paved with cedar blocks, the same kind tised when Aldine square was paved. "At that time Aldine square was rot built. This was all prairie country. At Grand boulevard there was a clay pipe factory, and at 37th street and Vincennes avenue there was a house, and one at 39th and Vincennes." Aldine square was built by U.

P. Smith, Mr. Witt recalled, after the Chicago lire. For years it was con'idered second to none as fashionable neighborhoods went, reaching its peak in the eighties. Remembers the Old Carriages.

It was a prize place," Mr. Witt said. 'Every one who lived there was looked up to and respected. In those days women dressed more elegantly, and they were vain as peacocks as they stepped into their fine carriages in Aldine square." Among the prominent Chicagoans who lived in Aldine square was the late "William G. Jerrems.

Alex N. Jerrems, merchant tailor of B459 Correll avenue, spent his childhood there. Another old family there in the '90s was that of Frank A. Helmer, leading wyer. The impressive stone fronts of the houses in the square still overlook the now scrawny trees of the park which was once the city's pride hi the matter of gardening.

All the residents row are Negroes. Near the Eden street entrance is a dump ground over which a sign reads, "No dumping her "I hate to move from here," said Witt, who lives less than a block away. "I don't mind the neighborhood, and I'm used to the house." GANDHI WON BACK TO CONGRESS BY HIS OWN WEAPON 1 so- L-strw tin I mew 00.4. $11 'w, oy ego.O. F.4: -if 1' ie 1 i 4,.

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1 I NI I 46, It wet ogocir, ocktall ,:4 ,4. i 41 'x'; lo You may be sure that the same care that was taken in protecting our customers on old bourbons has been exercised in the selection of merch andise throughout our liquor depart-men t. "4. )1 N42) 7 euriax 041 Suttla WHISKEY OLD COLONY DRY GIN Straight Distilled Fifth 96c CRAB ORCHARD WHISKEY 93 Proof Straight Pint 89c I RAM WALKER 5 O'CLOCK GIN Dry Distilled Pint 59c SCOTCH WHISKY Indian Delegates Lie on Ground 30 Hours. BOMBAY, India, Oct.

Mahatma Gandhi returned to the Indian congress assembly today, forced out of retirement by the weapon he himself inventedpassive resistance. Cheers greeted the leader as he arrived for the initial gathering of the party pledged to independence for India. Gandhrs determination to withdraw from party activity, which he announced definitly recently, was broken down by seven congress delegates, including two women, who lay stretched at full length on the ground near Gandhi's quarters for 30 hours, despite night chill and midday heat. The champion of India's "untouchables" had split with other leaders of 1 the congress over the role which the spinning wheelregarded by Gandhi as the symbol of Indian independence should play in the congress movement. 30,000 Visitors.

Thirty thousand visitors watched the opening proceedings of the congress. An attempt by communists to invade the congress was repulsed by police, who were forced to use their lathis (sticks). Ten were injured in the course of another communist demonstration near the camp. In the presidential address 33abu Rajendra; strongly attacked the present policy of India, a measure of partial self-government with safeguards, as laid down in the governmental white paper to be discussed in parliament in London shortly. Economic Policy Attacked.

The economic policy of the government of India and the communal awards figuring in the white paper were attacked along with the whole aim of the policy, that of maintaining control over defense and similar matters in British hands. "God is with us in this epic struggle," said Itajendra Prasad. "We are an unarmed people fighting with the weapons of satyagraha passive resistance. of truth and of nonviolence against a government equipped with the latest engines of destruction." Today's was the first open meeting of I he congress since 1931, indicating in itself, observers said, the great improvement in the Indian situation effected under Viscount Willingdon, the viceroy. During the government's vigorous crushing of all forms of subversive activities in recent years the was blocked and unable to meet in 932 and 1923.

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1 ---ire lit 11 ..4 1-, sit wit 4 4 A I A 4. 'i A 1 ft. kc'1011 9 A tx WHITE HORSE Imported Fifth CARNEGIE FUND AWARDS PENSIONS AND 39 MEDALS Pittsburgh, Oct. Awards of a silver medal, 38 bronze medals and a number of pensions or cash payments were announced today by the Carnegie hero fund commission in recognizing 39 acts of heroism in the United States and Canada. In eight of the cases the heroes lost their lives, and dependents of two were given monthly pensions.

The silver medal went to Dr. Miley E. Wesson of the Olympic club, San Francisco for an unusual act of heroism in saving an X-ray technician from death by electric shock. The technician, Gertrude Quinn, while in an operating room touched a wire carrying 30,000 volts. She was hurled unconscious to the floor, still grasping the wire.

Realizing the wire was highly charged and that if it came in contact with metal an explosion of chemicals in the room would occur, the surgeon reached for the wire. The shock threw him against the wall but he broke the contact. Dr. Wesson suffered a fractured vertebra snd other injuries from which he reeovered. Miss Quinn was slightly burned.

A pension or $30 a month was awarded Mrs. Harry H. Perkins of Bethlehem, widow of Harry Perkins, 38, who died last June 24 in saying Joseph Dunn, an oiler, from suffocal ion. Dunn was overeome by gas while (-leaning a pit. Perkins went down Find helped the unconscious man out, bet collapsed and died.

The widow of Arthur Iiilherg of Vancouver, also was given a $'0 a month pension. Milberg died trying to save John R. Delaney from drowning at Battle Ground, March 10, 1933. Ls Et HENRY HaNnCOGNAC 4,,11 OGNAC Fifth 398 r--------, 4, 4--w 1, CHAMPAGNES 14AT1 INGO' AND MOORE BLEND Whisky by Frankfort Pint 89' SEAGRAM'S 7 Crown Whizkey A Superior Blend Pint I "59 MUMMIS CHAMPAGNE C25 Vintage of 1926... Fifth 4wo DUMINY CHAMPAGNE A.89 Vintage of 1926....

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Aged 6 years Pint Seize Fugitive Adjuster as Arson Ring Suspect Abe Satrin, public insurance adjuster named in five indictments in connection with activities of the so-called million dollar arson ring," was arrested in New York yesterday posing as U. Kutina," the state's attorney's office announced. Satrin was traced by police who followed his wire into a downtown hotel here and arrested her after she had written her husband a letter. Satrin was said to have adtnitted his identity and waived extradition. He will be returned here for trial.

3.25 BACARDI RUM Gold Label Fifth 2 :43.:1:: All 4,: i'l OS CA 1 i''. PE PER I -0, 41.i. ib IIMM kii Ca mbl id ge, Oct. 2 Most persons are willing to wait until their appendixes become troublesome before having them subtracted from their interior mechanism, but not so Florence. youthful society wife of William A.

Robinson, wealthy Cambridge explorer. She is the former Florence Crane of Chicago. Although Mrs. Robinson's appendix is as healthy as any one could desire, she has decided to have it out now and conveniently, and not risk the experience of her husband last spring. While cruising in the South Seas in their ketch, Svaap, Robinson was stricken with appendicitis and the appendix burst before a naval vessel with a surgeon aboard, reached him.

Miraculously, Robinson lived. The Robinsons soon will set out upon another distant voyage, in the South Pacific, and Mrs. Robinson's appendix will not be included in the equipment. 4-39 2-98 REMY-MARTIN Rare Old Cognac MACAW RUM From West ez 111111P01161 re7 1 0 I 0 AtP) e) it DRUG: STO RES ri I .59 CHATEAU D'OR 5 year old Sherry Fifth JOHN JAMESON Irish Whiskey Fifth OLD OSCAR PEPPER Blend by Frankfort Pint 1149 3.67 This advertisement not intended to offer these products for sale or de livery in any community wherein the sale or use thereof is unlawful. Three Building Cleaners Hurt in Two Story Fall John Lattyak, 52 years old, 4800 south Winchester avenue, and his sons, John 26, and Anthony, 23, were seriously injured yesterday when the platform from which they were cleaning a building at 1943 West 48th street gave way and sent them hurtling two stories to the street.

At the Southtown hospital it was found John Jr. had suf. fered fractures of both ankles and a wrist, while the other two had incurred internal injuries and possible skull fractures. at Wctigreen's You're Always Welcome Thrown Out of Store, He Charges; Sues for $25,000 Mauro Garofalo, a food wholesaler, filed a $25,000 damage suit in the Circuit court yesterday against Emil and James Caliendo. The bill charges the Caliendo brothers threw Garofalo bodily from their store last Jan.

10, when he went there to collect a $40 bill. Prices effective Saturday only Copyrtght, 1934, by Walgreen Co..

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