Newspapers / The Wallace Enterprise (Wallace, … / June 10, 1937, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Wallace Enterprise (Wallace, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
lYtNTuetr/ “Strange Visitor” k' By FLOYD GIBBONS You kttow, they say troubles never come singly—which is just another way of saying that Old Lady Adventure is .Bever content with giving you just one sock in the jaw. I *■ don’t know how true that is, but it certainly worked out that way in the case of Hattie Rohr of Chicago. Hattie’s big bout with Old Lady Adventure came in the Winter of 1917. There was trouble enough in the world then, without having the old girl with the thrill bag on your neck.' The war was on and the influenza epidemic was sweeping the country. Hattie, in those days, was just an eleven-year-old girl, living with her mother and dad and three sisters on e farm between Clare and Dodge City, Iowa. Her name then was Hattie McLaughlin. The flu epidemic struck the McLaughlin family in January. B brought down Hattie’s dad and her three sisters, and that left Hattie and her mother to do all the chores around that big farm. It was one of those days when everything seemed to go wrong. Mother bed just come from upstairs to call the doctor. Dad and the three sick girls were worse. While they were waiting for the doctor the party-line phene rang. It was the school teacher, down with the flu herself, who wanted Hattie to go to the schoolhouse and post a notice saying there would be no school that day. Strange Man Came to the Door. Already tired from her morning’s work, Hattie struggled more than a mile through the snow to post that notice. She found two small children shivering in the cold, waiting for the school to open, and took them to her home and phoned their father to come and get them. And no sooner had he come and gone with his pair of kids than Hattie heard another knock on the door. A strange man was out front. He said he was a telephone Uaeman from Clare, and wanted to know if he could come in and get warm. Hattie and her mother asked him in and gave Mm a , . cup ef tea. While he was drinking his tea and eating a piece of com bread, Hattie and her mother went on with their work. Nothing unusual hap | pened until he had finished eating and drinking. Then the stranger got up and walked over to the stove, i It was such an unusual movement that Hattie stopped to watch him. He backed up against the stove as if to warm himself, but Hattie saw one of his hands slide into his pocket and come out holding a $ tiny bottle. He Poured Something Into the Beans. There was a pot of beans boiling on the stove. Slowly, | shielded by his body, the stranger’s hand crept np and emptied the contents of the bottle into the pot of beans! Her mother hadn’t seen it, but Hattie was standing in such a position ■ that she could see every move he made. She was startled—fright • ened: An older person might have said nothing, for fear of precipitating trouble. That mother and child were defenseless, with dad ill in bed upstairs. But kids of Hattie’s age-do^rt stop to think of those things. . She let out a scream and then. Impulsively, she darted across the t. room and knocked the bottle from the man’s hand. Her mother turned to see what was the matter. At the same time, Hie stranger reached inside his coat, pulled out a long, thin-bladed knife, and slashed Hattie across the legs. Blood began to flow from a long deep cut Dazed at the turn affairs had taken, Hattie backed away, staring at the man. The man stood, knife in hand, staring back at Hattie. Her mother was staring at both of them. For a minute there was a deathly silence. Hattie Fought to Save Her Mother. The man made no other move—said nothing. Hattie and her mother were too frightened to speak. They began to realize the fellow was stark mad. Hattie sat down, took off a stocking and tied it about her wound. The man stood looking, first at her, then at her mother. He watted until she was finished tying np her bleeding leg, and then be walked across the room to where her mother was standing, breathless and paralysed with fright, AND RAISED THE KNIFE. And again Hattie acted impulsively. In an instant she was out of her chair and darting across the room. Reaching out quickly grabbed the knife! The man gave the knife a quick pull. It came out of Hattie’s hand, . cutting it clear to the bone at the base of the thumb. Crying out in pain, she grabbed at her wrist with her other hand. The madman shoved her away, and knocked her mother down. For another moment Hattie stood dazed. The man fell on her mother, sat on her chest and began choking her. And at that, a sudden change came over Hattie. Before, she had been frightened—trembling. Now she became furious. A red mist seemed to drop before her eyes. She grabbed up a piece of wood from the pile beside the stove, raised it over her head and brought it down, as hard as she could, on the madman’s head. The Beans Were Poisoned. The man rolled over and lay still. Hattie’s wrist was still bleeding and her mother tied it np tightly to stop the flow. They got ropes and tied the maniac’s hands behind his back and then well—then Hattie keeled over in a dead faint. When she came to, the doctor had been to the house. He had sewed up Hattie’s wounds and she had never known a thing about it The doctor also took the madman back to town and turned him over to police. They found out later that he had escaped from an institu tion down in the South, where he had been put for murder. And when they analyzed that pot of beans into which he had emptied that bottle, it was found that they were poisoned! e—WNU Service. Anal* Laurie Home Held by the Family Since 1611 The home of the famous Annie Laurie, the heroine of the Scottish ballad sung in every corner of the world, is known, as the estate of Maxwelton, Dumfrieshire, Scotland. The ownership of this property goes,back more than 300 years, says a writer in the New York Her ald Tribune. . Maxwelton House, originally a fortress at the Earls of Glencairn and known as Glencairn castle, has been in the hands of the Laurie family since 1611. Seventy-one years later. In 1682, was bom, the daughter of Sir Laurie. The first Baronet of Fingland, the author of original words of the ballad, was first sweetheart, but the engage was broken off, and in 1709 married Alexander Fergus son, Cralgdarroch, a neighboring es Her picture and that of her in the dining room rare 4,000 acres in the prop wfaich overlooks die Calm . In the house there are four rooms, two boudoirs, flf or dressing rooms, two “ servants’ accom aafe&v Brides of Granna Island Wear Queen’s Headdress Not orange blossoms but a crown Intended for a queen Is the wedding headdress of brides at Granna, Swe den, on the island of Visingso in Lake Vattern, one of Sweden’s larg est and finest lakes. Now over 300 years old, the crown was original ly made for a daughter of the Brahe family, which built the Castle of Visingsborg and the Brahe church on the island. The girl, Ebba Brahe, was loved by Gustavus Adolphus and the crown was made for her wedding to him, but for reasons of state he was forced to give her up and marry a princess instead. The crown was placed in the Brahe church, where visitors to the island sometimes see it worn by a bride of the parish. The castle-built by the Brahe fam ily was destroyed by fire in 1718 and became an imposing ruin over-run by vines. The family is also credit ed with founding Granna, called by travelers one of the loveliest towns in Sweden. Besides being famous for its beauty, Granna has a great reputation as the “Pear Town" of Sweden. The original pear tree was planted more than 300 years ago in a hillside orchard near the one street of the town, and long was known as a national monument. ! STAR | | DUST | $ Movie • Radio * ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE*** JOAN BENNETT is so homesick for the stage that she has signed up to work with a Cape Cod stock company this summer for a few weeks. Some of the mo tion picture producers who have planned busy summers for their players wish that she wasn’t quite so thrilled at the prospect. Her Infectious enthusiasm has sent half of Hollywood scurrying to their bosses to ask if they can’t have leave of absence too. Bette Davis wants to go, but Warners have big plans for her. Josephine Hutchinson wants her annual fling on the stage. And Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone are acting mighty mysterious, reading plays and time tables. Add one more picture to the cur rent list of those you simply have to see. jvietro-uoiawyn Mayer’s "Captains Courageous” is one of the finest pictures of all time. There isn’t a woman in the cast, but even the young girls who think any picture without torrid love scenes is a washout, confess that they never even miss the Freddie Bartholomew romantic angle m this one. It is a story of the Gloucester fishing fleet in which Spencer Tracy and young Freddie Bartholomew do the finest acting of their careers. Indeed, it is the first picture in which young Bartholomew has had a chance to show that he is not just a sweet and handsome lad with pa thetic eyes. He is a grand actor. As soon as Ernst Lnbttsch finishes directing Marlene Dietrich and Her bert Marshall in “Angel” he is go ing to turn actor for a few days. Long ago when he was an actor in Germany, his great ambition was to play Napoleon, and Just now it happens that Cecil De Mille is searching the highways and byways for a man to play Napoleon in “Buc caneer.” Lnbttsch got into costume and make-up, presented himself to De Mille, and was hired at once. Executives at the Twentieth Cen tury Fox studio are disappointed that the public hasn’t made more of a fuss over Simone Simon, so they are going to put her in a comedy and see if she goes over better. They are teaming her with Jack Haley, who made such a hit in “Wake Up and Live,” in a fast-moving comedy called “Love at Work.” Motion picture studio officials al ways change the subject when any one asks if their stars really sing or if some singer substitutes for them, but radio listeners can rec ognize their favorite voices under any circumstances. They insist that Buddy Clark of the Hit Parade did Jack Haley’s singing, that Virginia Verrill sang for both Jean Harlow and Virginia Bruce, and that in “The Great Barnum” it was Fran cis White who sang for Miss Bruce. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., has de cided that he likes the United States better, after all. While he was in England, he realized his ambition to become a producer, and felt so grateful to the countrymen who backed him that he thought he would live there always. Coming back to Hollywood to make just one picture, “The Prisoner of Zenda,” he found when it was finished and he was free to go back to England that he just couldn’t bear to leave all his childhood friends. Warner Brothers have arranged to borrow Miriam Hopkins for two pictures and it looks _ as ix it would Keep the entire studio busy for weeks find ing stories to which she won’t raise a violent objection. Scheduled to appear with Errol Flynn in “The Perfect Speci men,” she flatly re fused. Instead she will make a tearful mue romance canea Miriam “Episode” supported Hopkins by Ian Hunter and Charles Winninger. Alter that, War ners would like to have her in “Sis ters’’ with Kay Francis. ODDS AND ENDS ...Joe Partner doesn’t mention ducks even once in “New Faces,” which is being filmed by R-K-O, and furthermore he appears in black face for the first time . . . Ken Murray always dreises most conserva tively when he shows up for a broad cast, but around home he goes in for the dixxiest colored smoking jackets and lounging robes ... Motion picture producers ere wildly enthusiastic over the intimate, caressing voice of Rosa lind Greene who announces,,, firs. Roosevelt’s radio program, end’'-since they have heard that die is young end extraordinarily beautiful they are rush ing to her with contracts for pictures. ^Western Newspaper Union. WHY DID THE HINDENBURG CRASH? Cause Is Still Uncertain, Though Use of Helium Would Have Prevented It. But Uncle Sam Owns All the Helium! By WILLIAM C. UTLEY < f npHERE must be no more J- flying with hydrogen. We must make an jtboutface. We must use helium.” Thus spoke Dr. Hugo Eckener, he who is known as the world’s great est authority on lighter-than-a ir craft, after being informed that Germany’s proud Hindenburg had crashed spectacularly upon com* pleting her maiden 1937 Atlantic crossing at Lakehurst, N. J. There have been several theories advanced as possible causes of the disaster, but no one is yet sure which is hie correct one, and it is doubtful if anyone ever will be. Sabotage was suggested, merely that no possibility be overlooked, and immediately rejected. It might have been static electric ity which set off the highly ex plosive hydrogen gas. All aircraft are apt to accumulate it, especially when flying through or near a thun derstorm. But this seems unlikely in the case of the Hindenburg, for her ground lines had been down three minutes before the crash, and pre sumably all charges of static elec tricity would have passed into the earth. Spontaneous Combustion? Another theory, more complicated than the others, was that of Prof. Otto Stem, of Carnegie Institute of Technology, and formerly connect ed with the Zeppelin works in Ger many. Professor Stem expressed wonderment that the accident had not happened sooner, due to pecu liar action of the proton of the hy drogen atom. The hydrogen proton, he ex plained, is charged with positive electricity, which is offset by a charge of negative electricity in the electron, which covers the proton like a shell. When the gas is leaking under pressure, many of the pro tons lose their electrons, and race madly about seeking new ones. This causes spontaneous combustion. So rapidly did the flames engulf the ship, the versions of witnesses as to the cause were varied (fire swept from one end of the Hinden burg to the other in 32 seconds). Several insisted, however, the rear port engine was throwing sparks from its exhaust as the ship came to the mooring mast. The theory considered most probable at the time of this writing is that these sparks, whipped by the wind, per il a p s, ignited hydrogen being valved out as the ship came down. It is customary to valve gas in landing. Whether one of the conditions cit ed in this brief review was the cause of the explosion, or whether the true cause has not yet even been suggested, one thing is cer tain: An explosion of the highly inflammable hydrogen gas wrecked the airship. And no such explosion could have occurred had the Hin denburg been filled with inert, non inflammable helium gas. Thereby hangs a tale. The Germans are the only nation which has continued to make prog ress with lighter-than-air craft The United States abandoned it when a series of dirigible crashes culminat ed in the loss of the Macon off Point Sur, California, February 12, 1934. Great Britain said, “No more dirigibles!” when the R-101 crashed October 4, 1930, with 46 on board, including prominent ministers, at Beauvais, France. France forsook Employee* of the United States bureau of mines at work in the cryogenic laboratory, where research data necessary for helium produc tion and purification are developed. On the present basis our govern ment is not permitting other na tions to buy its helium, despite the fact that our navy is without air ships to use it The only airship we have left the Los Angeles, which Germany turned over to us as part of the spoils of war, is over age, decommissioned and in hangar at Lakehurst Hydrogen, the lightest gas known, is the most practical for airships, except for the fact that it is also one of the most explosive things on Or. Hugo Eckener, Zeppelin ex pert, who njn »U airship* most now be inflated with helium. earth when mixed with air in the right proportion. Helium has not quite the lilt of hydrogen, but it is sale. “He 4,” as helium is known by its chemical formula, is described as “an inert, non-oxidizable, colorless, gaseous element of density 1.98." Sir Norman Lockyer was the first to discover it During the eclipse of 1868 he detected its existence in the sun; it was a bright yellow line in the solar spectrum which could not be associated with the spectrum of Interior of the compression building of Uncle Sam’s helium plant at Amarillo, Texas. Each of the cylinders in the foreground holds about 1% cubic feet. The capacity of the Hlndenburg was cubic feet. Imagine the number of cylinders it would have taken to fill the airship to capacity! airships when the Dixmude disap peared December 21, 1923, presum ably having been destroyed by light ning over the Mediterranean. U. B. Owns All Helium. But the Hindenburg accident has convinced the Germans that they can no longer operate their ships with hydrogen. And where are they to obtain helium? The United States has a monopoly on all the world's helium! Only in American natural i;as does helium 'exist in sufficient .uantity to extract and fiU airships. any element then known. He sug gested the name for the element, which is taken from "hellos/’ the Greek word for sun. In 1895 Sir William Ramsay found that when the mineral uranite was decomposed by acid it gave oft a gas which would not combine with oxygen to "bora.” Further, when examined spectroscopically by means of an electric discharge, it showed a bright yellow spectral line which with that w identified had,found in the solar spectrum. He assigned to the new element the name which Lockyer had suggested for it Germans Lucky in Past The United States, with her plen teous supply of helium, has used it in operating her airships, but the Germans have always been slightly skeptical about the Ameri can enthusiasm for the gas. It is, next to hydrogen, the lightest gas known, yet its pay load efficiency is 20 per cent less. Despite this fact, hydrogen costs about $2.50 per 1,000 cubic feet as against many times that amount for helium. At that rate it can’t be wasted cheerfully in maneuvering a ship. Up to the time of the Hindenburg crash, the Germans had been very expert—and not a little lucky—in handling their many airships with out losses due to Are and explosion. The Hindenburg was the 129th of a noble line (the official number of the ship was LZ-129). Of her predecessors, 10 were never completed, 25 were lost by storm and accident, 6 by causes unknown, 21 were dismantled, 46 were wrecked by the war, 11 were turned over to the Allies after the war and 7 were sabotaged that they need not be surrendered. The Graf Zeppelin and the Los Angeles are the only ones left. The old Graf carries on like the veteran she is, her comings and goings between Germany and South America hardly occasioning com ment any more. She landed a t Frankfort from Rio de Janiero the day after the disaster, with 23 pas sengers, and was immediately grounded indefinitely. She will not take off again without helium. Before the World war helium was worth hundreds of dollars per cubic foot. It was obtained from minerals such as clevelte, fergusonite, mo nazite, thorianite, and other radio active minerals, as well as the uranite used by Ramsay. But It was not until war-time that the United States bureau of mines solved the problem of producing it from natural gas in quantities sufficient to inflate giant airships. The victory of the bureau is con sidered an epic of science. The first war-time helium plant was at Petrolia, Texas, but the compressors and other apparatus for extraction were later moved to Amarillo, a better location. Here the government has a complete plant producing helium from a gas field which is one of the world’s richest in the inert, non-inflamma ble gas. Nails Ni . In adi has establ fust the serves. Uncle Sam reserves in has oil re in the past to permit the helium, to the safety of many had m or insistent it that the Ui helium to the but certain sidered the gas too great for and, furthermore, lifting power of hyi The President has cretionary power to a foreign nation, if he ommendation of the interior, war and According to Wa rector of Science the writer is indebted j his information, ly a war angle to whether America even to a limited given'monopoly of he was a growing feeling ship line across the be made as safe as would mean extending the courtesy of helium, navy has given them 1 Its Lakehurst airship only suitable landing ships in eastern United • Wasters Nee Quick to Make; ' Smart to Wear “Suited to a tea”—this captivat ing apron which “home girl” or matron will find quick to make> easy to embroider, smart to wearl There’s a pattern for the entire apron, its yoke, border and pocket to be done in contrasting rafa terial. Cut flowers for applique from colorful scraps. In pattern Pattern 5800 5800 you will find a transfer pat tern of the apron with the motif 7V4 by 9% inches (including pocket) correctly placed, a motif 4 by 4% inches and applique pattern pieces; color suggestions; mate rial requirements; illustrations of all stitches used; directions for making the apron. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, ad dress and pattern number plainly. Advertising Speaks for Industry WE ARE all members of a privileged class today. We don’t have to wait months for news, travelling by word of mouth, to reach us. If a manufacturer in a distant city produces a lpbor saving device, or an application to conceal birthmarks, these boons are brought to our attention at once through advertising. Ad vertising is the great voice of in dustry which we are all privileged to hear. Many, Many Women Say Cardui Helped Them By taking Cardnl, thousands of women have found they can avoid much of the monthly suffering they used to endure. Cramping spells, nagging pains and jangled nerves can be relieved — either by Cardui or by a physician’s treatment. Besides easing certain pains, Car dui -aids In building up the whole system by helping women to get more strength from their food. Cardui, with directions for home use by women, may be bought at the drug store. (Pronounced “Cardui.”) Peace and Reason Peace rules the day, where rea son rules the mind.—Collins. Don't Irritate Gas Bloating If you want to really GET RID OF OAS and terrible bloating, don’t oxpoot to do it by Juot doctoring your atom ach with haroh, irritating alkalies and “gas tablets.’’ Most GAS is lodgsd in tha stomach and uppar intestine and Is dua to old poisonous mattar In the constipated bowels that ars loadsd with Ill-causing bacteria. If your constipation is of long stand ing, enormous quantities of dangerous bacteria accumulate. Then your diges tion is upset. GA8 often presses heart and lungs, making Ilfs miserable. You can’t eat or sleep. Your head aches. Your back aches. Your'com plexion is sallow and pimply. Your breath Is foul. You are a sick, grouchy, wretched, unhappy person. YOUR SYSTEM IS POISONED. Thousands of sufferers have found In Adlerika the quick, scientific way to rid their syetems of harmful bacteria. Adlerika rids you of gas and deans foul poisons out of BOTH upper and lower bowels. Give your bowels • REAL cleansing with Adlerika. Get rid of GAS. Adlerika does not grips —Is not habit forming. At all Lsadlng Druggists. WNU—4 23—37 One Word A single word often betrays • great design.—Racine. Watch You y Kidneys/ Help Them Cleanse the_ of Harmful Body Waste Tow Doan5 D! ns
The Wallace Enterprise (Wallace, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 10, 1937, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75