The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-27
Sometimes the road was sunny
and fun to follow.
Going Sometimes Is Rough,
but Pair Makes Long
Trip Safely.
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Times STAFF Writer

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-Edwina,
Call Me Eddy Conn, %, and Mil
bred Gojo) Weierich. 49, Travelled
the buns route by freight train
and "thumbed" rides 10000 miles
from their home at 119 West Third
street, New York City, and they in
sist it was and always can be done
in ladylike manner.
we met few girls" Edwina said
today, but the truth is, it's much
easier for girls to bum their way
than for men to do it. We had the
usual propositions, but they never
worried us. If you don't make any
ambiguous remarks, people are pref
ty decent; yes, even along on the
desert late at night.
If the driver does become often
sive, you drop him-make him stop
the car and let you out. Sometimes
however, they drop you"
Teacher and Art Student
They caught freight trains in the
Bad Lands" Of North Dakota, and
on the southwest plains of Okla
homa. They lived in a cooperative
group of about fifteen boys and
girls and sometimes all slept in a
two-room apartment in California
Once a woman picked them up in
a big limousine, and wrecked the car.
A fire chief picked them up in Chi
cago and took them to a firemen's
outing at a resort in Wisconsin.
They camped out with cowboys in
Wyoming and went to rodeo
An embryo school teacher, Edwina
still is waiting for an appointment.
Substituting, she saved $50 last year,
and, disliking the prospect of four
months when she knew there would
be no work, she struck out for
Cleveland.
That is the home of Jojo, art stu
dent who sketched along their route.
The two girls, who had met in New
York, left Cleveland in May and
reached Chicago in two hops.
Overeagerness a Bad Sign
"It's just a matter of standing
on the edge of town and hailing
car" they continued. Usually when
the car stops without being hailed,
you don't ride; if they're too eager,
it's not a good sign"
Wearing breecheS and flannel
shirts, carrying an overnight bag
for towels and soap and tooth
brushes, they got ride from the
fremen's party with a politician, to
Minneapolis.
Then they decided to go to the
Bad Lands because we had heard
they were interesting and differ.
emit"
When they reached Medora, N. D.,
the roads became impossible. 1t
began to rain and continued for
days. They decided to try the rails.
Invited to Lunch
I'VE went around to a railroad
yard" said Eddy, IT think it was
the Northern Pacific, but I'm not
sure. We had read about the
Scottsboro case, so we spoke to an
AAAbk(COCO4-
He let us ride in a gondola, an
open car for carrying coal. A brakey
came around and found us, but we
rode on for some distance.
Then the train stopped and we
got out, expecting to try the road
again. AS we walked over to a
lunchroom, the brakey called to us.
I'VE went back and found they
had lunch for us in the caboose.
Then the inspector let us ride from
there on in an old-fashioned pas
senger train. We rode to Billings,
Mont.
Another time we were stuck in
Geary, Okla It was the Fourth Of
July. We met two boys from Chi
cago who said they were going to
ride the freight to Texas.
I'VE didn't know them, but they