"UU OVER, PET" . . . Terrell Jacobs, noted lion trainer, has one
of the Hi cats do hU stall. He enee appeared with 1M animals In one
at J > y Weisaoiler's "Tarxan" pictures.
' AT TIE CIRCUS
Lion Tamer Has 538 Stitches
Where Big Cats Clawed and Bit
By AL JEDLICKA
WNO TMlirti.
There is no doubt that the lion reigns as the king of beasts,
saya Terrell Jacobs of Barnes Brothers circus, which opened its
summer swing in the Chicago stadium. On the question Jacobs,
who has broken over 500 beasts in 26 years, is even led to philos
onhizp a little. a
The two is king, says Jacobs, be
wtf the Creator made him to be
by nrpplymg him with a great
buahy mumm underneath his neck
which prevents other beasts from
; ripping his Jugular vein while hs
daws them to pieces.
Expert that he is, Jacobs has
had Us dose calls in the cage and
he can show 538 stitches on his body
to prove it- Where the scarred flesh
is depressed, that's where he was
bitten, and where it's jagged, that'a
where he was clawed.
Ko less than 54 wounds were in
flicted up in Minneapolis, Minn.,
where a leopard, frightened by the
collapse of a wall of the arena,
leaped from its stand and mauled
Jacobs around before it was driven
off. On another occasion, one lion
came at him in Peru, Ind , and three
others joined in to clamber atop of
him before one cat came to his res
cue and snapped at his attackers.
"No, it wasn't any case of loyal
ty," he adds. "The rescuer Just saw
a good chance to rip into some of
the others it didn't like."
, Cats Are Not Loyal.
Cracking his whip and firing his
M revolver, Jacobs enters the huge
circular cage to get the roaring and
Sharliag cats u> climb up onto their
ilanil i and sit, and then clamber
, down to lie down in a cluster be
fore him. While shaggy "Sammy"
walks a tight-rope and rolls a barrel
to him, "Sheba" rises on her
haunches to follow Jacobs in a pon
derous waltz.
Born to the circus, the stocky, mus
cular Jacoba is the coolest person in
the house when he steps into the
cage. Precisely because of the dan
ger which confronts him with each
performance and the prime impor
tance of handwork in handling
beasts, he must remain cool to as
sure his own safety.
Taang Ones Easily Injured.
When it comes to taming lions
and tigers, headwork plays the chief
role, Jacobs says. By studying the
antics of a cat. a trainer can obtain
a knowledge of his peculiarities and
then strive to counteract them. For
instannr, when Jacobs first sought to
teach a lion to roll a barrel to him,
the cat would slide off the sloping
end and upset It. Failing to get the
animal to push the barrel ahead,
Jacobs then fastened an angle iron
flange around the center to cut into
the dirt and hold it straight. In that
way, the Hon was taught to keep an
even coucse
to (rawing lions, Jacobs starts
KITTEN ... Jacob*, whs a* a
hoy ran awaj from hi* hone in
Para, tod., to Join the elreai. la
shown hen hoidiaf a jonni circs*
out with cats over two years of age
since cubs up to two possess deli
cate spinal vertebrae, injury to
which may result in permanent kid
ney trouble. Lions fresh from the
jungle are preferred since native
J>orn animals, used to the fawning
of crowds, are easily distracted and
lack the single-mindedness of wild
beasts.
First, the cats are taught to walk
down the ramp, with a collar and
chain being applied to animals in
cases where they are slow to re
spond. Once the lion has learned to
walk down the runway, he is next
drilled to take his seat, with from
six weeks to three months required
for. this training. Finally, the ani
mals, are taught to mix.
Some Are Good, Some Bad.
Broken in at 2, the lions attain their
full maturity at 7, and are retired
from tbe show at 12, though they
may live to be 18 or 20. They are
very much like people, Jacobs said,
some being good, some bad, some
bright, others slow. While only so
much can be accomplished with
animals, daily year-round associ
ation with them enables a trainer
to perceive their capabilities more
closely and discover new qualities
for exploitation.
Jacobs' attachment to a menag
erie when he first joined the circus
led to his employment as an ap
prentice to a Swiss lion-tamer, and
the experience he acquired permit
ted him to take over the act whea
his boss returned to the old coun
try. Starting with S lions, he stead
ily broadened his act, the high point
arriving when he appeared with 190
animals in one of Johnny Weismul
ler's "Tarzan" motion pictures.
American Circus
Is 100 Years Old
The great circuses of America
are on tour again, just as they
have done for more than 100 years.
And again they include equestrian
exhibitions, gymnastic and acro
batic performances, with variety
added by the quips and fooling of
the clown.
The modem circus dates from the
close of the 18th century. Traveling
circuses were heard of before 1830
in both England and America, and
after 1890 assumed great dimen
sions. Among the earlier ones were
Hengier's, Sanger's, and Barr.um
and Bailey's. Col William F. Cody
(Buffalo Bill) and his Wild West
show traveled all over the world
and gave performances before the
crowned heads of Europe.
New a Big Bsstaess.
The construction of permanent
circuses known as coliseums and
hippodromes has given new life to
the circus, furnishes a variant on
the itinerant show of enormous
dimensions which moves about the
country on special railway trains.
Baraum and Bailey's circus is
still in existence, and along with
Barnes Bros., Beatty's, and others,
continues the grand tonr every
summer. The 1MB season Is expect
ed to be one of the biggest in his
tory, since most circuses were un
abl to travel (luring the war years.
Wild animals, most of them
trained to perform for the crowds,
continue to be the foundation ct
most circuses.
Bmffalo BUI Bora 100 Tows Ago
William F. Cody, the colorful
iBMt and 'riMrnu who became
waU famous aa "Bu??U> BUI." was
ban in Soott county, Iowa, in lMt,
Its years ago. He died in ltIT, and
la buried near Denver, Colo.
Cody befan bis career in 1M0 as
a rides tor toe Pony Express, later
frtotow toe Uaioo army as a car
ton scout durinf the Civil war.
Dwln tbe construction ot the
pStoto hT^tor^T
ed to furnish the laborers with meat.
Known throughout the West, Cody
had a ranch near North Platte.
Nebr., and later went to Wyoming
where he helped establish the Sho
shooe irrigation project. The town at
Cody, Wyo., is named for him.
Most people will remember'fcody,
however, for his great Buffalo Bill's
Wild West show. A parade always
preceded each showing, with Cody
riding at the head of It. his long
whtta hair about Ms Mmildera.
OHIO FARMERS DONATE WHEAT . . . Farmers ot Medina county,
Ohio, are giving a bushel or more of wheat to aggregate enough to feed
an average family for 34 days, with the spirit that a farmer will de
prive himself to do a kindness which he will not "sell" for a 30-cent-a
bnshel bonus. Norman Morton (in truck) is receiving gift wheat for
the farm bureau from Mr. and Mrs. Burt E. Beach, while Mrs. Dor
othy Moorhouse, right, the originator of the campaign, checks with
Mrs. Beach. Mrs. Moorhouse, a farmer's wife, received the active
support of the entire farming region of Medina county.
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TOJO AND PALS EAT LUNCH ... No coddling here. When lunch
time comes at the trial ot the Jap war criminals in Tokyo, ex-premier
Tojo and other defendants are served their meal in regular G.I. mess
kits and eat seated at a long bench, facing a wall and heavily guarded
by American MPs. Tojo is the second man in the photo, with spectacles
lying on table in front of him.
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OUTSTANDING HERO PRESENTS HISTORICAL FLAG . . . Aodie
Murphy, paid W be the matt decorated hero of World War H, is shown
presenting the tag which tew over the capital the day Pearl Harbor
was bombed, to Eugenia Clair Smith, grand hostess of the American
Gold Star mothers. The Sag was loaned for display at national con
ventioa of Gold Star mothers at Philadelphia.
p. . FEN OF BRITAIN'S MERCHANT NAVY . . . Wearia* brr royal
robes, Patricia Parser is preseated (a her admirtaf sabjeets after sbe
bad beea crowaed "Qaeen ai the Merchaat Nary," as the hlfh spat of
nrrciMl nary week la I aadaa. The mayor ad Westaataster is pre
realiax her majesty. Prior to the war the British merchaat aary was
tie t=rcest aflsat. War prodacttoa aI ships saw has placed the C. S. A.
h Brst place.
DRAFT LAW EXTENDED . . .
Leslie Btffle, secretary of the sen
ate, as he arrived at the White
House with the temporary draft
extension bill, exempting teen
agers and fathers from draft.
REGISTERS HAPPINESS . . .
John L. Lewis seems to be well
pleased with the results of the coal
strike. He beams happily on leav
ing the meeting of his policy com
mittee during negotiations.
AGAINST FRANCO ... Dr. Jose
Girai, premier of the exiled Span
ish government, who arrived in
New York City to testify before
United Nations against Franco
Spain. Says he has trne picture
of situation.
SALVATION ARMY HEAD . . .
One of the Salvation army's best
known sons writers, Commission
er Albert Orsborn, who has been
elected general of the Salvation
army at recent England meeting.
CLEAN-UP GIRL . . . Hollywood
ckw Utile Terry Tayier, i, u
clean Hip week mascot. She Is
?>??? hard at work with a mop
la a special eRert to pet IMags la
Nazi Assets Are
Hunted in U.S.
Special Investigator* Go to
Search for Evidence of
Secret Deals.
WASHINGTON. ? Twenty special
investigators are in Europe seeking
evidence on the transfer of German
assets in this country to "corpor
ate fronts," Attorney General Clark
told the Associated Press.
In an interview Clark estimated
that the Nazis transferred control
of approximately a billion dollars
worth of American properties to
"trusted individuals" in this coun
try.
"Through corporate intermedi
aries the Germans hoped to hide
ownership of certain corporations,
patents, and other properties in the
United States," he said.
Says Deals Hidden.
"They anticipated the possibility
of war between the two countries
long before 1941 and remembered
the experience of the last war, when
they lost properties in the United
States.
"So they went through a carefully
calculated series of cloaking trans
actions in which they put their
American properties in the hands of
individuals they believed they
could trust."
Clark said Swiss and Swedish neu
trals and "even some naturalized
Americans acted as fronts for the
Germans in these maneuvers."
/vu uie properties invoivea nave
been taken over by the alien prop
erty custodian "on the theory that
they were owned or controlled
by Germany," the attorney general
said.
1M Cases Under Trial.
"More than 100 cases involving
this property are in litigation," he
said, "and others are sure to come
up. The object of our European in
vestigations is to develop evidence
so when a neutral maintains he
owns one of these properties, the
government can prove that it is
German-controlled."
The justice department's special
mission in Europe "has turned up
considerable documentary evidence
to support the government's view?
and we expect to find more," Clark
said.
Edward Rhetts, chief of the mis
sion, was here for several days con
ferring with Clark. He then re
turned to Germany with new in
structions.
"What we are primarily interest
ed in are the corporations con
trolled by the Germans," he said.
"It is the justice department's con
tention that these holdings now be
long to the American government."
Production of Penicillin
Shows Increase of 300%
WASHINGTON. - The penicillin
production rate has tripled since
December, the government report
ed, but there is still only meager
output of a companion drug?strep
lomycin.
The Civilian Production adminis
tration estimated the April supply
of penicillin at approximately 2,178
billibn units, compared with about
737 billion five months ago. This
big increase, plus the fact domestic
requirements begin to fall off in the
spring, has made it possible to fix
export allocations at a new high
level," CPX said.
Production of streptomycin, CPA
said, still is too low to meet even
military requirements. Despite this,
32 per cent of the April supply has
been allocated for civilian and re
search purposes, the agency said.
Insulin Shortage Seen
In Meat Black Market
WASHINGTON. ? Senators were
told that a shortage of insulin and
other medicines is threatened ?s a
result of a black market in meat.
G. L. Childress, a Houston, Tex
as, packer, explained to the senate
agriculture committee that insulin
and many other pharmaceutical
products are made from cattle
glands. He said that the manufac
turers are not getting the glands
because black market slaughter
ers, unequipped to save them, throw
In support of his statements.
Childress read letters from several
manufacturers of pharmaceuticals.
Bride Flies Ocean, but
Death Beats Her to It
NEW YORK. ? Mrs. Mavis Mill
er, blond British actress, arrived
from England by plane to learn that
she had lost her race to be by her
husband's bedside before he died.
She collapsed when informed that
her husband. Donald Miller, an em
ployee of Pan American World
Airways, died at San Francisco of
auto injuries received March 28.
Ration Cards Ready for
Those Who Visit Canada
OTTAWA, ONT. ?Tourists visit
ing Canada for seven days or long
er may apply for special tempor
ary ration cards, the prices board
said recently. Officials said the ar
rangement was designed to provide
for tourists who have their own
?apmer cottages In Canada or
planned to visit friends and rela
tives. Those stopping at hotels or
hoarding houses will not require ra
tion cards.
Chinese Reds Lent
Teahs of Eaperors
Treasure-Filled Vaults Are
Stripped of Wealth.
PEIPING, CHINA. ? Chinese
government authorities charge that
militiamen under Chinese Com
munist direction had looted the
treasure-filled tombs of three of
China's Manchu emperors.
The report said the tombs of Em
perors K'ang Hsi, Hsien Feng and
Tung Chi had been entered last De
cember and plundered of gold,
Jades, pearls, precious stones and
ornaments. The tombs are in the se
cluded burial grounds of the Tsing
dynasty, in the western foothills
of Hopei province.
Lt. (jg) Bryan V. Williams of
Pittsburgh, Pa., a navy doctor, vis
ited the tombs, however, and re
ported that although they were
crumbling from neglect, be was un
able to determine that they bad been
looted.
The government report sa|d a
group of militia and volunteers
blasted their way into the tombs
last December It.
The raiders, the report said, first
entered the tomb of K'ang Hsi, sec
ond of the Tsing emperors, who
reigned from 1662 to 1723, and found
the coffins of five of the emperor's
consorts, which were opened and the
bodies removed. -
A purported witness was quoted
as describing the bodies as "look
ing alive."
The haul at K'ang's tomb, the
Nationalists said, included a nine
dragon jade cup, a white jade horse
and a pair ot lions of semiprecious
stones, besides other treasure.
In the tombs of Emperor Hsien
Feng, who ruled from 1850 to 1861,
and Emperor Tung Chi, on the
throne from 1861 to 1875, four gold
coffins and other treasures were
taken, the report said.
Bible Corroboration
Seen in Old Letters
CAIRO, EGYPT. ? Seven let
ters, written more than 2,400
years ago and discovered by Dr.
Sami Gabra, a Coptic archeolo
gist, in a tall stone jar, were de
scribed recently as further cor
roboration of texts of the Bible.
Each of the letters begins with
religious invocations to pagan
deities at the Temple of Nebu at
As swan in Upper Egypt and to
the "Queen of Heaven," men
tioned in Jeremiah I, Chapter 44,
Verses 15, 16 and 17.
In the Bible, Jeremiah is
angry with the Jews of Egypt,
against men who knew that their
wives were offering incense to
gods other than Jehovah.
Dr. Gabra, a professor at the
Egyptian university, pointed out
that this was not the first time
that archeology had proved parts
of the Bible.
"As we proceed, we exneet tn
find much further proof of the
Bible/' he said.
Plan to Do Something
About Shirt Shortage
WASHINGTON. ? The men's suit
shortage moved up for top atten
Ition recently as the government
counted hopefully on new emer
gency measures to help ease an
other clothing scarcity low-cost cot
ton apparel.
The Civilian Production adminis
tration began analyzing reports
from 80 manufacturers on why out
put of inexpensive suits fell nearly
a million garments shy of the three
and one-half million goal set for the
first three months of this year.
From this check the agency ex
pects to learn what new steps may
have to be taken to bring produc
tion up to schedule.
On the cotton clothing front, the
government turned recently to a
combination of price increases and
restoration of wartime production
controls in the latest of a series
of actions to obtain more yarn
and fabric for shirts, underwear, pa
jamas. dresses and work cloth in o
The aim is a 50 per cent increase
in output of low-cost garments.
Warn Yanks in Germany
Against Secret Nuptials
FRANKFURT.?In a move to dis
courage further clandestine mar
riages between Americans and Ger
mans, army headquarters warned
that such marriages would be pun
ished by immediate discharge and
removal from the occupation zone.
The directive declared that mar
riage with Germans, Bulgarians,
Hungarians, Rumanians and any
other enemy nationals by U. S. mili
tary personnel and by U. S. Allied
and neutral civilians employed by
the U. S. forces in Germany and
Austria is strictly prohibited."
Army Wears Down 1,000
Jap Diehards in Luzon
MANILA, P. I.?The largest pock
et of diehard Japanese on Luzon ?
a hungry, disease-ridden force esti
mated at about 1,080 in the moun
tainous San Jose section, 200 miles
north of Manila ? is steadily be
ing reduced. The army captured
Eugenio Bersida, a leader of the
pro-Japanese Ftlipinoa, and said pa
trols had taken SO other prisoners
and killed mora than 100.
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