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Show I THE LEIH SUN, LEIII. UTAn (idd's Treasure Is Searched for With Bulldozer v lbs; IMS j om! witht Com; :asj.t Det , Ci!i Item em ; sett l aut the 1 ?1S2S 8S .C0UE and: f the aitiij na. m -li' sonoi F i Hiiiiiirnjir iy n n i nn ti"i m "HJ nun n Jri Jr I ' ti ? ' mi li M - A MASTERS IN HANDCRAFT . . . Two Indian girls (left) from Arizona show their handiwork to other Girl Scouts at the first world conference to be held by the Girl Scout organization in the U. S. since 1937. Girls from the Americas, Europe and the Far East gathered at Camp Baree, near Tyrone, Pa., to discuss youth's part in world affairs. Fire Chief at 90 Still Heads Force lie Formed in 1920 FLORA, ILL. Still head of the volunteer fire department which he organized 27 years ago, 90-year-old "Uncle Fay" Yeck, ranks as one of the oldest, if not the oldest, fire chiefs in the nation. Recently appointed by Mayor Leo Allen to the job for four more ears, Yeck admits that his years ere numbered but his seamed brown face showed little concern as he predicted: "I don't think 111 last out my term." The white-haired chief has helped fight most of the blazes in this southern Illinois oil town for the last 60 years. Despite administration administra-tion turnovers, he has held the post of fire chief since he organized the Flora volunteer department March 26. 1920. When the volunteer fire department de-partment was organized in 1920, its equipment consisted of a two wheel hose cart with a reel and 150 feet of hose, the veteran chief recalls. The city paid a dollar to the drayman who would haul that cart to a fire "and how the three or four draymen in Flora would race to earn that dollar." be adds. Next advance In equipment was an old steamer. Regarding this machine, ma-chine, Yeck relates: "The fire would be out, or else the place would burn down before they'd get up steam to get tt there." The 30 volunteers include the mayor, police chief, a bank cashier, theater owner, game warden, a bar-tier bar-tier and an undertaker. They fight 3res without pay "because they're all good hearted fellows, I guess. "They enjoy It, though. Especially Espe-cially those pinochle games at their meetings every month over the fire house." Uncle Fay's office is a little desk under a stairs, where he works H from 8 to 5 everv day. but "I'm subject to call at all hours like a j country doctor." He has two pumper trucks, "one's 13 years old; the other's 8. Both as good as the day we got 'em." Although a tiny gold badge on his yest is inscribed "E. D. Yeck," the genial chief explains that his name really is Edwin Dufay Yeck "but i (oiks around Flora just call me "Uncle Fay' especially the kids." Yeck, who came to Illinois from Sistersville, W. Va., as a lad of six, recalls that there were only three otuiva ... " Jfrjthere. He spent his early years in j farming, then was a barber for 50 Vtnra. in hMnra ufhpn hp nrrlvpfl years. h too " He Listens to All "Legislative Wrangle tylets Out One Yelp Jpl ANNAPOLIS, MD.-Omar. an in- dependent who sits in on the Mary-jm Mary-jm land legislative sessions, has taken m the floor only once and that was Mwhen somebody stepped on his tail. 91 He raised the -point of personal """privilege from his seat on the aisle next to C. Clifton Virts, 36-year- old Frederick attorney, who lost his , sight in a dynamite cap explosion when he was nine years old. I Omar, a cross between a chow I and a German shepherd, is a graduate gradu-ate of the seeing eye school at Mor- -j ristown, N. J. Like his master, he is a freshman at the present session. ses-sion. Virts, a Democrat, and Charles M. See, Allegany county Republican, Republi-can, who also is blind, have formed a coalition for going over the bills, ' with See's wife doing the reading. 9) Vet Reusing Project W Will Be War Memorial SAN JOSE. CALIF.-Plans for new ype of community war memo-22? memo-22? rial in the form of a rental housing hous-ing osing development for veterans have ,f jbeen approved by the city counciL r,uThe c"y wm assist the formation w; of a corporation to be known as the BguBSan Jose War Memorial foundation aiwand will sell 20 acres of land to the :-lC foundation at a nominal sum. Proceeds Pro-ceeds will reduce the city debt AVIATION NOTES Airport Chatter More than 1,000 private planes will converge upon University of Illinois airport at Urbana-Cham-paign August 4 when the Flying Farmers of Prairie Farmer Land gather for two days of meetings and demonstrations of agricultural and flying equipment Governors of Illinois, Illi-nois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan, Michi-gan, the area covered by the organization, organ-ization, have been invited. Crop dusting demonstrations with a helicopter heli-copter are scheduled as one of the convention features. . . . Flying Farmers Day will be a headline attraction at the annual Frm and Home Week scheduled at Louisiana State university August 12-14. Air-minded Air-minded farmers throughout the state will be invited to fly their planes to Baton Rouge to participate partici-pate in the program. . . . Second annual reunion of the Order of Fi-finella Fi-finella (ex-Wasps) is scheduled at Ponca City, Okla., August 24-27, under auspices of the Piper Mid-Continent Mid-Continent plant and the Chamber of Commerce. Approximately 150 ex-Wasps ex-Wasps are expected to attend. . . . A long hotel strike in Phoenix, Ariz., took a new twist when the hotel management used a helicopter to deliver food and beverages ove' picket lines. . Flying Eggbeater Several distinctions are claimed for the unique commuter service offered by a helicopter, which operates oper-ates between Boston's Logan airport air-port and the roof of a downtown garage. The flying eggbeater, as the plane is known, is the only helicopter in scheduled passenger service in the world; is the only one landing regularly regu-larly on a roof of a building; it flies on the shortest airline route in the world; it charges the highest rate per mile, and it flies at the slowest speed of any scheduled passenger plane. The distance is about two miles as the crow flies, and its mechanical cousin, the helicopter, flies. Considering Consid-ering that the fare is $3.50, tax included, in-cluded, passengers are paying at the rate of $1.75 per mile. But the purpose of the helicopter service is not to save money or to go fast but to save time. Another First The nation's first aerial cleaning service is operated by Wayne L. Troutner of Winslow, Ariz. Daily when his Stinson Voyager glides to earth on remote northern Arizona landing strips, Indian natives both young and old cry a greeting "Ka-Ya "Ka-Ya - Pa - Ne - Sha," meaning "the cleaner who flies." Since inaugurating inaugurat-ing the aerial pick-up and delivery service to the widely scattered trading trad-ing posts, ranches and resorts, Troutner has more than doubled the volume of business for his Wins-low Wins-low plant 'KA-YA-PA-NE-SILV Indians Greet Flier Neck Breaker' Waiter Bullock of Minneapolis, Minn., is lonesome for the first time that he tried to break his neck. It was back in 1916 at Newport News, Va., that the veteran pilot stepped into a ramshackle plane and flew it. The plane had no instrument board, beinj operated with only a switch and throttle. It was made of bamboo bam-boo and" the engine was strung up at the back of the wings behind the pilot As he wants the thrill oi such a risk again, Bullocks building build-ing a similar clane and will fly it! RUN OF THE MINE . . . John L. Lewis glances up dourly as he finishes signing new wage contract con-tract for bis United Mine Workers with the mine operators. The miners min-ers returned to work after a brief strike. 4 POETIC JUSTICE ... John B. Kelly Jr., of Philadelphia, whose father was barred from diamond sculls rowing classio in 1920 because be-cause he had done menial labor, saved family honor by winning the meet this year at Henley-on-the-Thames, England. CALLS THE TUNE . . . James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the musicians' mu-sicians' union, has issued an edict that he will prohibit broadcast of musical programs on network hook-ups after February 1, 1948. WW V 1 i HATES TAXES ... So violently opposed to "excessive and confiscatory confis-catory individual income taxes" is E. B. Tiiton of Milwaukee, Wis., that he voluntarily cut his own Income In-come to lower his taxes. President Presi-dent of a manufacturing company, he says he will work without pay In November and December so that he may lower his tax contribution. I ,'i YOUNGEST RADIO STAB . . . Self-styled "youngest story-teller in the whole world," Robin Mor. gan, five years old, has her own radio program over a New York station. She is the nursery set's own disc Jockey. B:f',;fhliii''"'v,' m" 1 ' ' ' nniin-ilniifiiHWilMHHnniirnfll pilWIIUIIJ!llljWWj. s i s&tr-j'- I, ! 4 " I r ' . I v i i j j - j r 4 ' ' M 4 PICTURE FOR BETSY ROSS HOME . . . Frank H. Mancill (left), representing the board of trustees of the Betsy Ross house on hit-torlo hit-torlo Arch street in Philadelphia, is shown accepting painting depicting de-picting Washington's visit to the house from L. J. Gunson who donated It. It will be hung permanently inside the little building where the American flag was born. Mrs. Frederick Stewart impersonates Betsy Ross and holds a duplicate of the original flag. i fur . THERE, WE DID IT AGAIN . . . Two never-say-die congressmen, Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin (Rep., Mass.) (left) and Rep. Harold Knutson (Rep., Minn.) congratulate each other after the house of representatives passed the Income tax cut hill by a vote of 302 to 112. It marked the second time within a month that the house approved ap-proved the four billion dollar income tax reduction plan. K ?S't ik ? GENUINE UNITED NATIONS SPIRIT ... The diplomatic gentlemen who are wrangling around the peace tables at Lake Success, N. Y., might do well to drop in on the 35th anniversary encampment of the International Girl Scouts at Camp Barree, Pa., for an object lesson in bow to -get along with one another. Shown here are some of the Girl Scout delegates who came from all the states and a score of foreign countries to attend the three-week encampment. ' ft 1 : 4 HP -'"rilfH-j.fiyl DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS . . . Gleaming sails scudded across the outer harbor at Los Angeles as the first Calif ornia-to-IIonolulu yacht race in eight years got off to a perfect start with equally fine weather conditions. Thirty-three entrants caught a fresh breeze which sent the armada whipping out onto the 2,225-mile course to Hawaii. v t -i , -4 1 v 'i fl't -si ' - - abulous Riches Supposed Buried by Old Pirate Long a Mystery. MAHONE BAY, NOVA SCOTIA. With a bulldozer, an American again has sought to hit a possible buried treasure Jackpot which has eluded generations of pick-and shovel wielders. The Oak island story began in 1795. Three young men found a great oak there, with marks on a branch Indicating a block and tackle had been fastened to it. Underneath Un-derneath was a depression in the grass 13 feet in diameter. They started digging. Since 1795, treasure hunters have probed the earth of tiny Oak Island for the fabulous buried silver cache of Captain Kidd. Now Jacob Faulk-enham, Faulk-enham, an Andover, Me., lumberman, lumber-man, is employing a bulldozer in a new search. New Yorker to Try. Later in tie summer Edward Reichart of New York is expected to turn up with a technical crew, bulldozers and other heavy equip ment. Reichart recently made a survey of the island a dot of land one mile long and a half-mile wide in the bay which once was the haunt of pirates and said he would be back later. Captain Kidd, according to local records, was a frequent visitor to this part of Nova Scotia. He was arrested in Boston in 1699 and hanged in London in 1701. Many pirates used Mahone bay as a headquarters. The name Mahone Ma-hone comes from a French word for a pirate craft. Ten feet down was a layer of oak planks. Ten feet farther, a second oak layer; at 30 feet a third. The work was too tiresome for the trio, and digging was stopped. Six years later a company was or ganized, and the hole was extended to 90 feet each 10 feet disclosing a protective layer one of charcoal another of putty. Flood Fills Pit. At 95 feet they found a flat stone bearing a curious inscription. Some said it read: "Ten feet below, two million pounds lies burled." The diggers hit a solid wooden platform, and then an overnight flood filled the pit with water. They sank another shaft, but water seeped into it from the first. Half a century later, another expedition ex-pedition sent a boring apparatus into the water. The bore went through the platform and some metal, 22 inches deep. The effort undermined the bottom of the shafts, and mud and water covered the "treasure." In 1896 there was another try. Twenty shafts were sunk. In 1912 water defeated another enterprise. Four other expeditions, Including a costly one last year, also failed. Steel Mill Worker Plunges To Death In Fiery Slag Pile JOHNSTOWN, PA. John Smat-lak, Smat-lak, 27, plunged to a fiery death from the ironlike crust of a 100-foot-high slag pile in what a Bethlehem Steel company official described as "the most horrible accident" in the company's history. W. H. Slick, a slag train engineer, who was only 18 feet away, said Smatlak "simply threw up his hands and disappeared." "One instant he was there and the next he was gone," Slick said. Smatlak's bride of less than a year, who is to become a mother soon, was prostrated at word of her war veteran husband's death. When the slag pile is cool enough, company officials said, they will use a power shovel in an effort to find Smatlak's remains. Slag piles, containing refuse from steel mills are usually used as the roadbed of a slag train. The interior burns from spontaneous combus tion, often for years. Bethlehem officials said they had never heard of a similar accident Smatlak disappeared into a four- foot hole ripped across the top o' the crust in an almost unprece dented collapse. The crust was so solid a railroad track had been built on it Trainman Riding In Diesel Killed by Mysterious Shot ST. JOSEPH, MO. Lawrence N. Gregory, 42, of Trenton, Mo., brake-man brake-man on a Rock Island railroad freight train, was killed near here when a bullet was fired through the open window of the train's Diesel locomotive. Crew members searched the vi cinity, but found no clew. Authori ties indicated belief the slaying may have been accidental Voman Killed in Plunge From Hotel in Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, WIS. A woman plunged to her death from the 17tb floor . of the Hotel Schroeder in downtown Milwaukee. She was tentatively identified through a card she carried bearing the name Mrs. Glenn HilL Beloit, Wis. The coroner's office said she also carried a card with the name Henrietta Hen-rietta HilL DASEBALL, above all other games, has known more than its share in the way of masterpieces )f eccentricity. Many of these I lappen to know. They were true solor, because they" were naturals, jorn with oddities few could believe. Rube Waddell was one of them. ne of the greatest of all pitchers who would rather go fishing or tend bar (for nothing) than win a ball game. Another was Crazy Schmidt of the old Reds, who carried a small notebook in bis hip pocket, denoting the weak spots of all opposing hitters. Against Hans Wagner's Wag-ner's name he had this one line "A G. Rice ase on balls." That's what Wag-ier Wag-ier got from Schmidt. Shufflln' Phil Douglas of the Siants Dizzy Dean of the Cards ire around the head of the list. Also Hint Rhein, Babe Herman, Bobo Jlewsom, Germany Schaefer, Shoe-ess Shoe-ess Joe Jackson, Arlie Latham luts, wits and half-wits but all great ballplayers. Latham was one )f the smartest The list is too long o go into further details. But, one of the leaders In this iolorful field has been overlooked ind forgotten. His name is Bugs Raymond, the pitcher John Mo Sraw always insisted had the finest pitching motion he ever saw, In-sluding In-sluding Walter Johnson, who was tmooth as the west wind, and as ornadic or cyclonic. Raymond ihould be right around the top in his human oddity group that includes in-cludes only stars. I still remember ray first meeting vith Raymond, some 43 years ago. his happened to be a spring day in Atlanta around the now forgotten sra of 1904. Crackers vs. Boston The Atlanta Crackers on that day were to play the world's champion Boston Americans, who, the fall before, be-fore, had beaten Pittsburgh's great wm in the first, but still unofficial (prld series of 1903. This Boston team, managed by the Drilliant Jimmy Collins, one of the greatest inflelders of all time, was jaseball's sensation. Big Bill Di-aeen Di-aeen had been a major factor in winning this series from a team Jiat had such stars as Hans Wag-ler, Wag-ler, Fred Clarke, Tommy Leach ind Kitty Bransfield. Boston, long before any Red Sox appellation, was about a 1 to 40 bet to win champions of the world playing against a ' strictly bush '.eague outfit. By some odd chance, before starting start-ing a mile, and a half walk to the jail park, I happened to be v taking a drink at some wayside bar In preparation for the trip. A heavy hand fell on my shoulder and, as ( looked around, there was an unkempt-looking fellow, around 200 pounds, who wore no necktie and ladn't shaved in at least two days. Here was the king of all the tramps I'd ever seen. How about buying me a drink. !eilow?" was his opening remark. I bought him a drink. Then I had buy him another drink. "How do we get out to this ball park?" he asked. We walk," I said, "if you are going with me." Then a sudden morbid thought hit me. "Isn't your oame Raymond?" I asked. "Yes," he said, "Bugs Raymond." Shuts Out the Champs "Do you happen to know," I sug gested, "that you are pitching today igainst the Boston Americans, the world champions?" "I never heard of 'em," Raymond laid. "Where's Boston?" ; On the walk to the ball park that ifternoon, Bugs spent most of the trek throwing rocks at pigeons, telegraph tele-graph poles and any target in sight. , People I had known in Atlanta gave me an odd look after taking i brief glance at my unshaven. ough and rowdy-looking compan ion. Knowing what would happen later, I wasn't bothered about any locial check-up. . Raymond started the game by in sulting Jimmy Collins, Freddy Par ent, George LaChance and every itar on the Boston team. He would walx from the pitcher's box up towards to-wards the plate and let them know, in forcible and smoking language. what he thought they all were. What the Boston Americans, the world's champions, didn't know, and what I didn't know, or anyone else, was this: They were facing one of the greatest spit-ball pitchers and ne of the greatest natural pitchers tf all time if you could only keep him ene-third sobet, which even Mc-Graw Mc-Graw couldn't. Not even with four bodyguards. Raymond had speed, curves, control plus an Ed Walsh gpitter. But on this particular occasion. Raymond shut out the world's champions, 3 to 0, and allowed them ust three scratch singles. As we laintly recall iLe hazy details, Raymond Ray-mond had 11 strikeouts. "Even half sober," McGraw told ne once, "Raymond would have een one of the greatest " i I ; s |