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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Prize Winners Glum Over Victory - r Indians Move Village on Their Shoulders Bella Coola, B. C. Coming off second best in two encounters with the Bella Coola river since ADVENTURERS CLUB " 1933, HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! Death Headed North9 By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter Hello everybody: this is the story of an adventure that almost any one of us might have got into. Anyone who has ever ridden on a railroad train has taken a chance on finding himself in just such a terrifying situation. As luck would have it, it happened to Fenton Barrett of Shaker Hollow, South Salem, N. Y. And, boys and girls? I wish it to be distinctly understood that I am very glad it happened to Fent Barrett, and not to me. Fent Barrett is an actor. He had just finished a run in a successful musical show on Broadway not long before he starred in the thriller he is going to tell us about now. When the show closed, he went south for a vacation, but he hadnt been there long when he got a wire telling him to come back to New York and start rehearsals in a new production. Fent left that night for Washington, and in Washington he got aboard the train for New York the train that was to carry him right smack into the most thrilling moment of his life. Fire Started in the Wash Room. It was a hot day, the first Fent decided to ride in be comfortable. Usually the smoker where he the smoker is up front, next to the baggage car, but in this case it was the last car on the train. The train bowled along over the countryside, without any interruption, and without any hint of the drama that was to come. It was getting near the Big City, and the train porter came in and began cleaning up the car. Fent was sitting in the third seat from the front, and was watching the porter idly as he moved about. The train was coming into of August, 1928. could take his coat off and . beaten back. Fent jumped to his feet. He was one of seven men in the car including the conductor and porter. Before he could get out of his seat, the flames were almost on him, and he had barely time to grab his coat and brief case and dash to the rear of the car. Couldnt Stop the Blazing Train. Meanwhile, with all the windows open, the blaze spread through the car like wild fire. As Fent reached the rear of the car he looked back, just in time to see the conductor reach for the signal rope to stop the train. The rope was blazing, even as he grabbed for it. As he pulled on it, it snapped in two. Their only way of communicating with the engineer the only means of stopping that speeding train was gone. We all crowded back to the rear platform, says Fent, and' divided three on each side. The porter had climbed over the iron gate and was hanging to the back end of the train for dear life. By this time half the car was on fire, and with us in the last car and the train doing sixty-fiv- e miles an hour, it certainly looked bad. One of the passengers became hysterical and the conductor had a hard time trying to keep him from jumping off the back end of the train. We were all choking and almost overcome by smoke and the fumes of burning paint and varnish. I felt myself getting panicky and dropped to my knees and put my nose to the floor, trying to get a good breath of air. The fire' was all through the car by this time streaming right down the aisle and shooting out the door onto the rear platform. Fent felt something move beneath him. It was that iron lid which covers the steps. The porter had loosened it and was motioning the three men who were standing on it to step back so he could swing it open. They squirmed around until they could get it up, and then they crowded down onto the steps. All Jumped at 30-Mi- le Speed. The porter screamed to them not to jump. The flames crowded them harder now, and Fent was kept busy dodging broken glass and tongues of fire that licked back at him through the rear windows. The heat was so terrific that he made up his mind to jump soon, rather than be burned to death. he train started to jerk and And then the brakes went on. to fifty to forty. When it slow down. It slowed from sixty-fiv- e was going about thirty, Fent' jumped, and the rest of them followed. I was thrown up against the bank, Fent says, but I wasnt badly hurt. A few scratches and bruises but I was too glad to be off thal; burning car to pay any attention to a little thing like that. The train went on for half a mile before it came to a stop, and we ran and caught up stee with it. By that time, the car we had been in was just a red-hframe. Not a window or a seat left. And they were having quite a time trying to disconnect it from the rest of the train because the steel was so hot the brakeman couldnt touch the couplings. We got into another car, I fell into the seat exhausted, for it was then that I first realizec .what I had been through. ot -- Copyright. Wild Dog Known as Dingo Ancient as the race of dogs may be, nobody yet definitely has traced their kinship to other mammals. What sort or form of animal preceded the domesticated dog as we yknow him still is a moot question. However, there are some forms of the animal which must more closely resemble the prehistoric than any of those commonly known. Among them is the native wild dog of Australia, also known as the dingo.. WNU Service. Oldest College Fraternity Oldest college fraternity in the world, Phi Beta Kappa, was founded in 1776 as a social and literary society at William and Mary college, Williamsburg, Va. It spread to Yale (1780), Harvard (1781), survived the closure of William anc Mary by Revolutionary battles in 1781. Since 1826 it has been a non- secret, purely honorary fraternity, choosing members on the basis o:! excellence in studies. Indian village here U. S. Government Assists West in War on Rodents Some of the victors in baby health competitions at the Colony house in Brooklyn recently refused to welcome their triumphs with smiles. Left to right, George Planco, Marion Pietrowski, Arthur Rynander and Joan Marie Hubiak. The contest awards were on the basis of general health and had added significance because the institution is celebrating the twenty-fift- h anniversary of its founding. " - Trouble in Shoe Industry Affects Old Lynn, Mass. - - boots and shoes City Once Proud First Lady makes by millions new population for the necessary of Leather Business. which is developing with so much The threat Washington, which became news of nine shoe manufacturers of Lynn, Massachusetts, either to liquidate their holdings or move out, calls attention to D. C. a troubled modern industry that was once the leader in its field and a model followed by the world. Domestic and foreign competition, failing markets, and friction inside the factories have been blamed for the. sickness that has come upon this trade that made. Lynn famous, a business that now employs about 3,500 workers where 10,000 were formerly kept busy. As far back as 1795, recalls the National Geographic society, Lynn turned out 300,000 pairs of shoes. g by then, was Industry Number One both in origin and in importance. Settled in 1629, Lynn received its town charter in 1631. Four years later a couple of skilled shoemakers Well-establish- ed The Whole Wash Boom Was Roaring With Flame. Elizabeth, N. J., and the porter, with a large bundle of old newspapers, had just gone into the mens wash room. That porter, says Fent, had been in the wash room only a few seconds when suddenly he came leaping out into the aisle. As he did, I saw the reflection of flames on the highly polished door. The porter made a desperate attempt to close the door, but by this time the whole wash room was roaring with flame, and he was an picked up its bed and baggage and walked, rowed and drove to the southern and higher side of the Bella Coola river. With the assistance of the department of Indian affairs, the Indians' gouged a new townsite out of the forest and moved in. The villagers number about 250 and earn their living by fishing, trapping and logging. 's. shoe-makin- ACE JUMPING FROG rapidity in the immense basin of the Mississippi. Until the Civil war, the skilled workman, with his awl, hammer and lapstone, was the acknowledged Titan of this anciently-know- n gentle craft. Around that time, however, forces came into play that were eventually to reduce the shoe craftsman to the status of mere machine tender. Elias Howes sewing machine ushered in an age of invention for the art that had changed little in all the preceding centuries. Within a short time men brought more than a hundred old under machine control, and paved the way for still other improvements. In addition, enormous impetus to the new machine era was provided by the war itself, which brought the sudden, urgent need for shoes to equip marching armies. Prediction by Lincoln. There is a story that Mayor Peter Neal of Lynn explained to President Lincoln that one of the new machines could sew around the sole of a shoe in 30 seconds. Friend Neal, remarked Mr. Lincoln, go home and buy real estate. The day of the little country shops is coming to an end. Shoes will be made in big factories in cities. With the ensuing change in methods, resulting inevitably in human displacement and social distress, came friction and strikes. But Lynn carried on under the new system, and remained tmtil toward the end of the Nineteenth century the countrys leading shoe center. King Edward VII of England had his shoes and those of his royal family made hand-operatio- While the prize hopping frog of Eddie Robinson of Stockton, Calif., showed plenty of zip at the historic Angels Camp Frog Jumping jubilee in Calaveras county recently when it pounced out 15 feet 10 inches to set a new worlds record. The jubilee honors Mark Twain, who wrote a story about a jumping frog and other figures of the early days in the Mother Lode gold mining section. ld j HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS - today shoes no longer march at the head of Lynns industrial parade (the city having turned Zip, 750-pou- ns here. eight-year-o- Santa Fe, N. M. Its no easy thing to be a rat in New Mexico even if you have the inclination. Ranchers have become tired of only: planting and cultivating cropseaten to find their efforts are being by Mr. and Mrs. Kangaroo Rat. A citizen figured out that as long as the government was spending, money, New Mexico might as well ask for funds for rat control. Director F. G. Carpenter, chief of the division of grazing, Department of Interior, sent a crew of federal rat controllers to get the situation in hand. The experts estimate that eighty kangaroo rats will consume as cow or much forage as a three sheep. Elimination of the rodents is ac- -i complished with two servings of oats. One straight helping and another garnished with strychnine. Over 130,000 acres of lcind havei been cleared of rodent pests by this method throughout the western states. to diversified products for its living), shoe manufacturers and shoe wearers everywhere still owe a debt to this town and state for the model on which the modern world industry was based. In Massachusetts all the impor-- Mrs. E. Roland Harriman, society trotting enthusiast, is shown aboard the high wheeled sulky which Jay Eye See pulled to a world record of 2:10 back in 1884 as she gave the; ancient relic a workout over the track at Goshen, N. Y. Mrs. Harriman is an expert driver of trotting horses. tant changes in machinery and fac- tory methods were originated. The robot age, while responsible for the impressive growth of the shoe industry in the last century, is accountable for another product now adding to shoe mens worries. The automobile takes so many Americans off their feet that they wear out fewer shoes than they used to a situation to which is attributed a lessening shoe demand. Toe Shine Boy Does Rushing Business moved in near a tannery already set up, and went to wprk. Geographical and other factors made this part of the country ideal for the craft. Useful in tanning processes were the nearby forests g of hemlock and oak. streams provided water power. New England fisheries furnished oil to soften the leather. And Yankee skippers were soon to develop a seaborne trade with the West coast destined to bring shiploads of hides to waiting workmen. ' Lynn Was Supreme. Boston and other towns took up the art; but Lynn was supreme, especially in the field of womens shoes. By the end of the Eighteenth century she counted among her citizens some 200 master craftsmen, with 600 journeymen and apprentices. Export trade expanded, in response to demand by the growing wrote Americas first Toe Shine Boy is enterprising young Keoki Kepoo, Massachusetts, country. Baron Dupin to Napoleon III in the who does a rushing business of massaging the pedal digits of fair swim-- ! thirties of the Nineteenth century, mers at Hawaiis popular Waikiki beach at Honolulu. Swift-flowin- i j |