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floyd (jiMrttoS* ADVENTURERS’ CLUB • ■■■■ ■ ■ HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI “So/t and Deadly” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter 'T'HE trouble with Leo Caron was that he had it too soft, in fact, so soft it doggone near killed him. That’s a new sort of a complaint tor an adventurer to be making. But it’s a fact, just the same. Leo lives in New York City, but in 1916, when he was a kid, his home was in New Bedford, Mass. He was twelve years old then, and just a few blocks away from the .juse he lived in were the Gosnold Cotton mills—a collection of great, rambling buildings full of all sorts of things that a kid would be interested in. All the kids in Leo’s neighborhood played around those mills— that is they did when the mill people didn’t catch up with them. Some of the workers didn’t mind. But if the bosses saw them they were chased out. Leo says he didn’t blame those bosses much. “We weren’t any Little Lord Fauntleroys around our neighbor hood,” he says, “and some of our pranks must have cost the mill owners a lot of money.” Boys Liked to Dive Into the Cotton. There was one place in that mill that the kids liked better than all the rest. That was a big room that was used to store the cotton in after it was unbaled. The bales were pulled apart and the cotton blown through tubes into a huge pile in the middle of the storeroom floor. It came out of the blower all fuzzy and soft—the softest stuff Leo had ever seen. That was the trouble with it—as Leo was to find out later. It was so dog gone soft that it almost killed Leo. ✓ There was little- work to do in that big room. Its only occupant jwas a big fellow who weighed in the neighborhood of three hundred pounds and his sole duty was to push the cotton down through a great tube when it was needed in the room below. But he only had to do that at certain intervals. A good part of the time he wasn’t there at all. And in those intervals, kids used to run all over the place. The kids had one favorite stunt that they did in that room. They would sneak through the mill yard, run for the big room full of cotton, climb up on a partition that divided the room into staUs, and jump down onto the edge of the big soft pUe of fluffy stuff. They always jumped feet first, and like as not they’d sink in up to their 'knees before their feet came to rest on the solid floor. That was near the edge where the cotton wasn’t very deep. They never got near the middle of the pile. They had no time for that That big fellow might come back any minute and catch them. They always jumped, and then ran as fast as they could for the door. One day, when none of the other kids were around, Leo Caron sneaked into the mill alone. It was just about half an hour before closing time as he went up the stairs, ducked into the store-room and climbed onto the partition. As he was ready to take the jump a thought occurred to him. Here was his chance to try out a new trick and show it to the other kids the next time they all came up together. Leo Couldn’t Get Out Again. Leo poised himself on the top of the partition. But instead of Jump ing, he raised his, arms and dived head first right into the middle of the pile of cotton. r That pile was ten or twelve feet high in the middle. “I had dived,” Leo says, “with my arms together, palms touching over my head. That wedge-like formation of my arms carried me deep into the cotton. From where I lay I couldn't see anything, but it seemed to me that I had penetrated that mass of fluff until I was buried completely. It was hard to breathe, under all that cotton, and the topsy-turvy position I was in was most uncomfortable. I knew I would suffocate if I stayed there long, and I decided ifaat it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get out of that pile as soon as possible.-* - But getting out of that pile wasn’t going to be so easy as getting ini Leo tried to get out—and found that he could hardly move a muscle. The cotton had packed down tight against him, and all his wriggling only served to put him deeper into the pile. That soft stuff was like quicksand—and slowly but surely it was smoth ering him. Says he: “No one had seen me come in—and it was almost time for the mill to shut down for the night. I realized that my chances of rescue were small and I became panic-stricken. In my frantic efforts to free myself I became exhausted and gasped freely for air which, all the time, was becoming more and more scarce. In my childish horror of death, all sorts of ghastly visions arose in my imagination. Memo ries of my youthful past flashed before my mind, and I even pictured my four best friends as my pallbearers.” How He Was Saved by a Rat. And now, into our story comes—a rat! Doggone few people ever have a good word to say for rats, but Leo will give them a boost any old time. For it was a rat—a great big factory rat that saved his life that day. The one man working in the store-room—the big three-hundred-pound er—was making his last round of the day, closing windows and locking ' the place up for the night. As he approached the pile of cotton, he espied a rat and began looking around for something to throw at it. There was only one solid object in the place—a black thing that seemed to be lying on the side of the pile of cotton. He reached over and grabbed it. It was a shoe and it seemed to be attached to something. The big fellow gave a hearty tug, and out of the pile came a twelve-year-old boy, limp, exhausted unconscious. The big fellow called for help. They gave Leo artificial respiration, and it took a full half hour to revive him. It was several days before he whs completely recovered—but he never would have breathed again if it hadn’t been for—a rat C—WNU Service. Alaska's Reindeer Herds Are Growing Rapidly The reindeer herds of Alaska now contain more than 600,000 animals, owned by about 3,600 persons, ac cording to a recent estimate of the Department of the Interior. The federal government, through its reindeer service staffed by seven employees, supervises these herds oyer a vast area, from Bristol bay to Point Barrow, on the mainland, and also on several islands. In addition to exyroising general supervision over the reindeer herds, the interior department service as sists in keeping ownership records, teaches care and management, and : where possible "helps to establish new herds. The supervisory person nel consists of one general super visor and five unit managers, with a clerk stenographer at headquar ters. The work is such as to require much traveling, over long dis tances, by airplane, dog sled, boat and.afooL Reindeer herds are a valuable native industry. They provide food and-, some cash for many native Alaskans. On account of transpor tation and other difficulties, and the competition of meat products in the United States, reindeer meat has not yet won more than a minor place in the American market. Ter ritorial officials are hopeful, how the opportunities in the American market will be considerably en larged. A heavier demand for rein deer is reported from other parts of Alaska than those in which rein deer herds are now maintained. The Aleutian islanders, too, want rein deer to supplement their meager resources. Few natives can pay the costs of transportation of reindeer herds; so the territorial govern ment, when it has the money avail able, seeks a wider distribution of the reindeer herds. Judge Advocate General, Adviser Hie judge advocate general is the official legal adviser of the secre tary of war, the chief of staff, the War department and its bureaus, and the entire military establish ment. He advises concerning the legal correctness of military admin istration, including disciplinary ac tion, matters affecting the rights and mutual relationship of the per sonnel of the army, and the finan cial, contractual, and other busi ness affairs of the War department and the army. The functions of the judge advocate general's depart ment include not only those of file judge advocate general and of bis office in Washington, but also those of judge advocates serving as staff officers at the headquarters of army, corps area, department, corps, division, and separate bri UaflfcCPffiBaaadsH, sad At thtisad-. quarters of other officers essseising , mm Cj9«rt-ffl®rttel jurts&ctjqh. / WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Perton NEW YORK.—Big, bulbous Gen. Feng Yu-Hsiang craves action. Among all China’s rampant war lords, the old Christian general is _ . the least inclined General Feng turn the other Doesn't Turn cheek, and the one Other Cheek most conspicuous ly free from charges of dealing under the table with Japan. It was he, say the news reports, who eased Chinese troops into the Japanese Tientsin concession, in civilian clothes, threw Japanese strategy into confusion and pretty nearly wrecked it. The peasants love him. If ever a hu man tidal wave engulfs the invad ing Japanese, he will be riding it He has been fighting, off and on, for about 40 years, sometimes as a regular and sometimes in more or less private wars. The politicians dislike him and every once in a while have him sent off to the fog belt. The last time was in 1929, when he stirred up a revolt in an effort to start an “up-and-at-em” movement against Japan. But they always have to call him out of re tirement, as when Chiang Kai-shek was kidnaped last December. Feng always has enough loyal sol diers in reserve to count him in in any large-scale ruction—he has commanded as many as half a mil lion men. When Chiang was res cued, he made peace with Feng and the latter assumed full responsibil ity for the national military coun cil, of which Chiang is chairman. He was born of coolie parents in Chaohsien, Anhwei. In June, 1900, . he was a big hulk Munonary ing lad> stand. Unscrambles ing guard in a Snake Dream Peking compound. where some American missionaries had been trapped by the Boxers. He became friends with Mary Morrill, a mis sionary girl from Maine. One night he had a terrible dream about a snake under his bed. He asked Miss Morrill to interpret it. What Miss Morrill made of the dream is not recorded. A day or two later, Feng saw a woman be headed. He was troubled, without knowing just why, and again saw Miss Morrill. She converted him to Christianity. In the following years, the fighting trade was brisk in Chi ■ na, and Feng began to get a repu tation, now as a free lance and now with the imperial armies. He preached to his troops every day. If his men didn’t want to listen, he used to pay them. Each soldier wore a brassard, pinned on with a safety pin, and written on it the Ten Command ments. But Feng had done a re write job on the original. His ten commandments gave specific direc tions for overcoming an enemy in different situations. Every so often, Feng would announce that, no mat ter what the exigencies of battle might be, it was important for a man to discover his own soul. Stops Battle to Paint or Read Poetry On these occasions, he would go to the country, wearing an old pad ded coolie coat, with a vacuum bottle full of paint brushes hung from a cord around his waist. He would paint plum blos soms for a while and then squat on his heels and read Confucius or Lao Tze. After a few months of this he would get back to his fight ing. When Chiang Kai-shek counted him out in 1929, he went to a hovel hung high on a rocky shoulder of T’ai Shan, China’s “sacred moun tain,’’ a place set aside for citizens who wanted to take spiritual inven tory. Nearby was the ancient “Hall of the Five Sages.’’ Feng used the hall as a sort of private university. He hired a fac ulty of seven venerable teachers, he being the only pupil. The curricu lum listed first a course on “the spring and autumn period of the Chou dynasty.” Feng is an ascetic, abstemious in bis diet, wearing cotton coolie clothes, subjecting himself to rigid discipline. In his retreat on the sacred mountain, he rose every morning at four o’clock. His task was to draw on each of four sheets of parchment the four _ . _ . most beautiful Retiree Early characters he at Retreat on could possibly de Saered Mountvise- “» furnjture consisted of a mat, a table and two straight backed chairs and a tiny oil lamp. He always went to bed at 8:30 o’clock, to save oil, he said, and to be rested for his early rising. When Miss Morrill converted him, she made him a member of the “Way-Way-Wbay,” which means “beautiful, beautiful society.” It is, in essence, the Chinese name for the Methodist church, but to Feng, the frustrated artist, it was an or ganization for the propagation of beauty. So when he isn’t fighting, he ful fills his Christian duty, as he sees it, by searching out beauty. He is a pacifist and dislikes violence in all forms, but before he gets back to his plum blossoms and his Lao ..JXze. he. would iUke. to get lust one.. ★★★★★★★★★★★♦★★★★★•A | STAR ! ! DUST | * Movie • Radio $ ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE*** IT IS children’s day in Hol lywood, with contracts be ing signed in carload lots to exploit youngsters in films. The five tough young lads whom Sam Goldwyn import ed to play in “Dead End” made such a hit at the pre view that he promptly put all them under contract to make more pictures. Their next for him will be "Street Corners” after which Mervyn lie Roy would like to borrow them for a series. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s fa vorite is fourteen-year-old Judy Garland. They have lined up three stories for her. Universal intends to keep Deanna Durbin very busy for the next year, and Paramount plan to star the youngest of all, four-year-old Kitty Clancy, in "Call Back Love.” —■¥— Rubinoff does not like to expose his priceless Stradivarius violin to brilliant studio lights any longer than is necessary, so during rehearsals and whenever he was not playing tor the sound track of ‘‘You Can’t Have Everything,” h e | used a double. The I husky virtuoso car-. | ries a big insurance 4 policy on the violin Rubinoft and would feel lost if anything hap pened to it He had it with him when he played at an open air con cert on Chicago’s lake front recent ly when more than 100,000 people listened to him. When Frances Farmer arrived in New Fork, instead of pausing po litely to let ail the news photogra phers take pictures of her, she rushed off to Mount Kisco upstate to go in rehearsal for her first stage engagement. Four nights later I saw her performance and sudden ly found myself wanting to burst into cheers. Flaying a role quite unlike any she has done on the screen, a role simply made to or der for Lupe Veles, she displayed a cat-like grace of movement, a voice musically rich, and great variety of moods. —■¥— Ozzie Nelson and his popular radio orchestra are currently ap pearing at the Astor roof in New York, but soon he will move his activities to Hollywood so as to be near his wife, Harriet Hilliard, who is under long-term contract at the KKO studios. Ozzie is the hero of all boy scouts who want to make a name for themselves. At fourteen he was honored at a jamboree in London as the youngest Eagle scout Youngsters who were the original fans of “The Lone Ranger” are getting pretty grown up now, but they confess that they still follow the adventures with bated breath. The popular three-times-a-week se rial recently celebrated its seven hundred and twenty-fifth broadcast. Fran Striker, who has written this series ever since it started in Janu ary, 1933, estimates that more than 3,500 characters have appeared in the adventures. All the summer radio surveys re ported that Edgar Bergen and Char lie McCarthy were miles ahead of every other performer in popular ity. Their salary is said to have sky-rocketed from $300 to $3,500 per week. "High, Wide, and Handsome," • story of the early oil rush in Penn sylvania, is attract ing attention. It more than lives up to the promise of its title, for it is spec tacular, melodious and frenzied. Irene Dunne and Dorothy Lamour provide the beauty and melody; Randolph Scott, pit ted against as tough a lot OI Villains as ....mmmv II you ever hissed—in- DuBIle eluding that incom parable Akim Tamiroff—provides the rough and ready drama. —+— ODDS AND ENDS — Randolph Scott attended hit fust film premiere in July, 1928, standing on an orange crate watching the crowds arrive to see Colleen Moore and Gary Cooper in "Lilac Time.” His most recent pre miere found him in a choice aisle seat watching himself as star of “High, Wide and Handsome” . . . Jack Haley has bowed out of the “Show Boat” pro gram but he wilt have one of his own very soon . . . Adolphe Menjou and Katherine Hepburn are; bitter rivals on the golf course . . . Dorothy Gish, whom film fans have never forgotten, will play the lead in a Mutual broad casting system serial called “The Cou ple Next Door'’.. . When John Barry more returns to radio, it won't be in Shakespeare, but in “The Animal Kingdom” and “Accent- on Youth” stUMt- dmt in September. Meanwhile ho is making a picture ot RfCO with Iretio Dunne. O Western Newspaper Union. 'WayBackWhen By JEANNE SCIENTIST WAS BORN IN SLAVERY HIS master traded a broken-down race horse, worth about $300, for George Washington Carver when he was a little pickaninny just before the Civil war. Today, he is the pride of the negro race. A worn-out speller was the only education available to him until he was ten years old, when he attended a small school in Neosho, Mo. He slept in a bam there and did odd jobs to earn a living while learn ing. The young negro boy’s thirst for knowledge grew, and he went on to finish his elementary school education in Fort Scott, Kan., where he worked as a hotel cook, a dish washer, and a housekeeper. Later he bent over wash tubs night after night doing laundry for people, to pay his way through high school. He worked as a hotel clerk for awhile and then entered Simpson college at Indianola, Iowa, where he earned his tuition by doing odd jobs. Three years later, George Wash ington Carver went on to Iowa State university, graduating with a de gree in agriculture. In two more years he won his Master of Science degree, and was made a member of the faculty, so impressive were his accomplishments in agricultural chemistry. In 1897, he took charge of the agricultural department at Tuskegee institute, in Alabama, leading negro university. The contributions George Wash ington Carver has made to agricul ture of the South are outstanding. He was among the first to advocate crop rotation for wornout soil and he has developed hundreds of com mercially useful articles from the principal agricultural products of Southern states. From the peanut alone Carver made 285 products and from the sweet potato 118. Thomas A. Edison once invited him to work with him, but he preferred to con centrate on problems of southern agriculture. In addition to his prominence in science, George Washington Carver is an accomplished musician. • • • STAR PITCHER WAS A COTTON PICKER JEROME HERMAN (DIZZY) DEAN was born in Lucas, Ark., in 1911. Son of a poor cotton pick er, he was forced to quit school when he reached the fourth grade, because the family was so poor that the 50 cents a day he could earn in the cotton fields was a necessity. Under-nourished, poorly clothed and uneducated, as he was, Dizzy Dean always had confidence in him self. Perhaps that explains why he was able to develop what small ad vantages circumstances in life al lowed him, and develop them to championship quality. Confidence and a strong right arm hardened in the cotton fields were Dizzy’s equip ment for facing life. He learned to throw a baseball with amazing speed and control. In 1929, he was signed up by Don Curtiss, scout for the Cardinals’ Texas league. The salary was com paratively small, but it looked like a fortune to the former cotton pick er. After training in Houston, he was shipped to St Joseph, Mo., where his confidence and fast pitch ing won 17 games. Transferred to Houston, he developed rapidly and soon became star pitcher for the St Louis Cardinals. Meantime, his brother Paul, or “Daffy," also won a pitching berth on the Cardinals. Dizzy was always the more spec tacular, the higher paid, and the more widely publicized. He has endorsed many advertised products, made a motion picture, appeared in vaudeville, and spoken over the ra dio. His recent earnings have been vW.OOO or more per year. ©>—WNU Service. Fine Feathers for three | A_l CEW-YOUR-OWN wouldn’t be ^ your weather prophet for the world, but you know, Milady, and so does S-Y-O, that it’s always fair weather when good fashions get to gether. Which brings us to today’s three sparkling new frocks—a whole crowd of style for the pretty part of any man’s family. A Fun Frock. Rain, nor gloom, nor a flat tire (either kind), can dampen the spir its of the girl who wears this buoy ant, young sports frock (above left) on her daily rounds—be they on the fairway, the campus, behind the counter, or merely from pillar to post. You can easily see why it’s a winner: a button-all-the-way front, the matched collar and gen eral shipshape styling make it just that. It’s surefire in acetate, or silk crepe. Here’s to Mothers. Sew-Your-Own loves nothing more than catering to mother’s wardrobe needs. The frock above (center) is for all mothers: old sweet ones, young darling ones, yes, even for mothers-to-be. It is easy to run up, easy to do up, and best of all, easy to look at. Smart simple lines make it a favorite of women who demand more than a passable appearance when they’re “just at home.” Little Brown Girl. An all-over suntan is her forte, and many sunny days are ahead for young Miss Fortunate whose m Household ® ® Questions Improving: Canned Grapefruit. —The flavor of canned grapefruit can be improved by aerating it, that is, pouring it from one con tainer into another several times. * • • Removing Hair From Upholstery. —Dog hair is rather difficult to brush off car seats, upholstered furniture, etc., but it can be readily removed by rubbing the surface of the cloth with coarse sandpaper. * • • For Bathroom Curtains.—Terry cloth or toweling makes excellent bathroom curtains, easy to wash, requiring no ironing. • • • Hanging Mirrors. — Hang the mirror where it adds to the size as well as attractiveness of the room. A couple of well-hung mir rors can do wonders to the small living room. WNTJ Service. mommy chooses to interpret fetching model at the rightf scallop-edged waist front ac ated by frou-frou trim is down her avenue, and a skirt, that’s second to nu class, fits into her scheme of to a T. Mother, why not ms dressy version, as pictured, er finished differently for (Perhaps with a simple trim) Hayon prints, gingham, sheer wool, will do nicely material. The Patterns. Pattern 1249 is designed for staff! 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 MM quires 4% yards of 39 inch terial. Pattern 1207 is designed foe 34 to 50. Size 36 requires 4% of 35 inch material. With sleeves 4% yards of 39 inch terial. Pattern 1366 is designed for _ 6 to 14 years. Size 8 requires yards of 39-inch material pta f yards of machine pleating. Send your order to The Circle Pattern Dept., 247 W. third Street, New York, N. Price of patterns, 15 cents coins) each. e Ben Syndicate.—WNU Sendee. 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