Show Young Sculptor Gets His Big Chance Western Prodigy Starts Starts' Maki Making g Good CHICAGO Sept 18 With Wilh With Witha a wide grin year 18 year old ld Jimmy Webster who Is slightly lame asa as asa asa a result of infantile paralysis swung down from a train today eager to make his way to fame fam a as a sculptor and justify the faith foll folks back in Omaha and Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana have in him Jimmy who has been een modelIng modeling model model- modelIng ing ll Ii in clay since he was 7 years old is being aided up the first rung by H. H k 1 B. B Banta soap manufacturer manufacturer manu manu- of Burlington Iowa who became interested In In the youth through Father Flanagan's bO boy boys boys' home borne in Omaha and is pa pay paying ing his tuition at th the Chicago art institute But Ive I've got to find a job to earn my daily br bread ead lau laughed hed Jimmy and I have to get at that right away Gee dee ee but Im I'm happy Jimmy was born a al at Salmon Idaho and shortly afterward the family went to Montana to home home- stead As Ashe he grew older his mother moth moth- er er- er noticed two things thing He was limping as an aftermath of a strange childhood illness and he was spending his spare time modeling mod mod- cling eling the barnyard animals in clay I Abo About t. t seven cven years cars ago Jimmy was sent to to St. St Vincents Vincent's hospital hospital hos hos- pital pit school for crippled children at Billings Mont and there the talented boy whose father bad t died and md whose mother was unable unable unable un un- un- un able to do much for him because there were live five other children to feed attracted the thc attention of Sister Mary Anthony of the order of Sisters of ot Charity which run un th the hospital When Jimmy had finished high school she interested the authorities authorities authorities ties of Father Flanagan's home for tor boys and the young sculptor who had been his own teacher dep depending on what art books he could get Iet went there Now accompanied b by P. P J. J Norton superintendent of or the home he has reached Chicago for as he described it my bi big chance His His' mother and family are living livina in Butte Mont I 1 |