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Show vu fhyd ,CcttuUv lIV FROM THE lives 0f PEOPLE LIKE rOURSELFI HEADLINES ktv. lUUlt,lfe n.V Menaiw t By Ftmoti BetdSH Hmter 1 You n hjj,' WBus comes h Wln comes ttidfe i, one know, boys and girls, there are all kinds of fear. of them are worse than others, and the fear that on you when death is staring you right in the eye pretty close kind of to being the worst of them alL But there fear that is worse than even the terror roaching destruction. toaitJ4t Wk nsrrotj1 gu Uirtin J. Colbert, Chicago, had a and of fear that has been known of app- rstitlgowy' itkflac; from sheer bones An this taste of that aort of terror once to make mens minds crack and Selxnlck-Internatlon- -- drop fright It shook Mart Colbert to the very marrow of his happened In 1902. along about the end of June. For seven! jeirs Mart had been in South Africa, fighting with tha British forces in the Boer war. lt? tinag' tended fc, eitzaaj iickhotm' xwd bk Solemn Duty Precedes Big Celebration. at tha end of May, 1902, he was a soldier Lancers, a cavalry regiment stationed about fifty miles tram Its depot at Naawport, Cape Colony. Whea the good news was received, the Lancers packed up and started tack It their depot and when they arrived there It was announced that In which to clean n and rest, and get ready for one ttaj kd tw weeks tot Jib they would have to do before returning to England. That Job wss Is bring in the dead, scattered In temporary graves throughout the cMntry, far reburial la n military cemetery. rest period passed all too quickly and Mart was doTbs t, tted to a squad consisting of himself, three other privates and a commanded by Lieutenant Cooper. They proceeded to a point about fifteen miles from Naawport, where Sa lancers had been in action some time. before, and where a number i their men had fallen and were buried. The Kind of Work That Raises Goose-FlesArriving at the spot, tha men started to work at their grisly and unpleasant job. It was open country, and there was an abandoned farmhouse about a quarter of a mile away. The lieutenant carried a rough map, made In the field, which showed wiier all the dead of the regiment were buried, and he pointed out tha pives which were to be dug up. B was the sort ef work that gave the men the Jitters. They dug U the hdies of two of their old buddies, but none ef them relished the Job. ti udfc When peace R. L d Wttt ' was declared h the Fifth .' Pert probit. diini n , Wrpn R kepi d Their Tommy haa been aelected to play Tom Sawyer In tha film of tha Mark Twain clasaic. Such an opportunity for a youngster would be a dramatio thunderbolt in any family, but for tha Kelly it waa tha first good break In year. Papa Kelly haa been on the relief roll for two year, hi Joba aa Janitor In a achool and d at a beach having dwindled to nothing. Mamma Kelly haa been to tho movies only three timet in her 23 years of marriage. Tommy and hla father are In Hollywood now, and Michael get a day extra work every now end then while hla son la being groomed for stardom. twelve-year-ol- Idiots. Mart had an ezperienca with tha toa them Into gibbering ghastly naknown He saw the impossible happen. that be couldnt something sa Be explained except as the horrible euiltsUUon of some ghostly supernatural hand. Ha saw a raw ef to tad burled corpses start rising from their grave! It was a thing terrifying enough to make hardened men sense-t- o, bytiKj 17Sef.retary 01 th Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., pictured before the Joint house-senat- e committee InvestlgaUng federal tax evasion. of the Bethlehem Steel companys plant at Cambria, Pa., leaving the premises after Governor Earle ordered state martial law during tha steel strike. 2 Premier Paul Van Zeeland of Belgium, who waa a recent visitor to the United States. Russ Airmen in Epic Flight to U. S. labor expert h When you see Claudette Colbert In I Met Him In Pari you will find 7:'7' ! X ser-pin- nnaitij,- - lbiniii--o deept, It the gayest, most utterly delightful v---- film ' bi ilnjtet, t a kit i a: jv cal t out and kb to cxpb el! oewi ;t Claudette Melvyn Douglas, and Robert Young romp through the picture ai If they were having the time of their lives. It la tha story of a girl who has saved for five years for a trip to Paris, and when she gets there everything happens aa It might have In a fantastic dream. A giddy novelist and a cynical playwright fall in love with her. Mrs. r paVi' d Above, the monoplane which brought three Russian flyers from Moscow to Vancouver, Wash., via the North pole in a p flight taking 63 hours. Left to right are shown Alexander Della-konavigator, Valeria Chkalov, pilot, and George Deldukov, i dead afj hit red-wing- daetj four juts KraQ; a single-motore- v, non-ato- co-pil- Mary Norton, congreas-woma- n from New Jersey who hat become the first woman to hold a chairmanship of a house committee. She recently accepted the chairmanship of the house labor committee. She was elected to congress in 1924. Far the first Ums since their marriage, Jeel McCrea and Frances Deo wiU play eppeeita each ether In the Paramount picture Well Fargo.1 Adolph Menjoa and tho Mrs. known to ns as Varreo Teasdale wiU be together la Sam Goldwyaa Marco Polo and the one extra clanse they Insisted ea la their contract waa that the dividing wall betwees two dressing rooms should be taken down a that they could be together. era i Louis Is Crowned Heavyweight Champ of World fn ktibU ut then ad i kr o recta Everybody As the second man out of his grave, one of the men discovered close by. It was n wide grave much wider than the other. Fbea it was pointed out to the lieutenant he said it looked as If several Wies were buried there together. He looked on his map, but this grave didn't appear on it Whatever they took third grave j fofwh tbvrtq -- jospv. verUl R ng! ics re IW i act excises1 frcolC stars it Train Sheep Dogs Sheep dog field trials are as popular in Scotland as ar hunting dog trials in America. Dog and master enter a afield. Four or five sheep are released 500 yards away. The dog runs out, brings the sheel to its master. Then the dog singles out certain sheep, drives them into a pen. All must be done within a few mlnutei. Dogs are judged on form, speed and skilL The King Maker earl of Warwick wai nated king maker because The desigof his decisive Influence in the Wars of the Roses. .He succeeded In having Henry VI deposed In favor of Edward IV, whom he later drove from the country and supplanted by restoring Henry VI to the throne. Rouen Museum Town Victor Hugo called Frances city of Rouen the City of a Hundred Steeple. It is situated on the main routes from the Channel porta to Paris. It ia a great museum town and haa been called the Florence of the North because of its art treasures. Tickets ef Ivory Rome's largest and grandest ruin is the Colosseum which In its time could accommodate 69,000 spectators who were given tickets of ivory so clearly marked that there was little difficulty in finding one's place amidst the huge passages and ways. Vetoes of God The voices of nature ar the voices of God, Jean Sibeliua, famous Finnish composer, has said, and if an artist can give a mere echo of them in hi creations, he is fully rewarded for all of bis The dinner party that marked the end of tho recent Twentieth-Centur- y Fox convention pat on n ehow that Included abont a million dot-ta- rs worth of talent. Irving Berlin tang Remember, the Rita Brothers made the rafters ring with hilarious abont by their imprompta ' foolishment, bat Eddie Cantor off the honors of tho with walked evening whea he arrived ia blond curls and baby dress and did an imitation of Shirley Temple. Prettiest girls at the party were Loretta Young, who came with Merle O heron's former fiance, David Niven, and Alice Faye, wbe came with her constant bean, Tony Martin. Incidentally, Tony will be back an the radio regularly again soon. -- there digging. were stand-a- t diggera had the ground. scoopful of erth after another. working rhythmically, Mart was looking at tha bottom of tha grave, when suddenly, his je body stiffened. The other men saw it too. earth at the bottom of the grave began to move. Dirt end stones . aside, and a row of long buried corpses hardly more than pushing their way up out of the ground! akele-tbega- Down In the . n Strong Men Fainted in Terror. grave, the two diggers dropped unconscious from sheer Mart, with the icy hand of fear clutching at him. turned and ran. of the men did likewise. ,ensation Mart has aver known could quite equal that strange, g feeling that came over him et the sight of those long-deatheir way up through tha earth at the bottom of their com- - . ibl d skele-Pushin- gravel r11 fuU si hsd Pit m tiu lor about fifty feet and then they stopped, looking ber in fear and wonder. They looked back at the grave, bnt ss no other sign of life there. they eot ffiP on themselves. What about tha two men who ihDi digln8 the men who were now lying senseless in that ghastly its row of moving corpses? They had to get them out of there. Explanation Is a Satisfactory One. back slowly reluctantly. The men were still lying there toDn.CkUS' The corpses e row of bonea clad In rotted clothing and th.by grinmn skulls, were where they bad been when they last uv JremThey had moved upward a few inches and then stopped, went down and on j, pulled out the two unconscious men and found explanation of the whole grisly business. 7 went fight in Chicago, aa Champion Jim Braddock sinks Louis to the eighth round. Inset shows the new Joe of blows knockout Challenger the to the canvas under old. Louis baa been in the professional ring three years. twenty-thre- e years hla Only after victory. champion Scene at the recent worlds heavyweight championship felieved, until, when Iho earth was almost all shoveled prlnff abounded again, pushing the bodies upward. tbtnriJ! vfnd that Ibis waa a Boer's grave probably people from the We could 'ell thM k farmhuse a quarter of a mile a way. aaya Mart y lhe remalns of civilian clothing that still clung to the bodies. Tht liwit nant fill up the Pave ain- - orderel ua to put the bones back in place end i, But sf'erward, we did no more digging for the rest of the tay. Clarence 0. Sherrill, who recently accepted appointment aa city manager of CincinnatL Colonel Sherrill wa formerly president of CoL It ,UbC No Pure Water t0 prepar MSSlblu 8uh purity ly that it Wou,d of n S .f-t- I , J 4 i an? chemical- - Dresses Used hi War Balloon Richmond belles sacrificed their silk dresses vainly to the Confederate cause, when an attempt to build an observation balloon waa made during the siege of the Southern capltaL Too poor to buy a balloon, a patchwork affair was created out of the varnished silk garments of Virginia women. The Federal army captured it after Its first ascent A fragment of the baildon Is preserved In the Smithsonian Institution et Washington. - Plaid Reminisce, Good Word Reminisce is a perfectly good word, meaning to narrate or to tell, at reminiscence. It is found in both the first and second editions of Webster dictionary. Beavers Moat Keep Busy beavera have to keep busy. If not kept short by gnawing, the teeth would grow so long that the animals could not close their mouths. Busy I Death of President Garfield President Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, by Charles Julea Gui-teaand died at Elberon, N. J., on September 19, of the same year. u, Meaning ef Term Hamper nautical term "hamper means the rigging or other necessary articles on a ship; because of their cumbrousness. The The Temple of Heaven The Temple oif Heaven at Peiping was built in 1420, or the eighteenth (Eternal Merriyear of Yung-I- o ment) of the Ming period. ranch a ( ODDS AXD ENDS Martha Raya gets furious when anyone refers to her comedienne, but Joan es a rubber-faceCrawford always refers to herself es Elephant Annie, because she never far-geAlt tha girls on tha enything RKO lot ora grateful to tha costume designer, Eddie Stevenson, for making them look so elegant By way of shoe ing their gratituda Ann Sothern, Harriet Hilliard, Gertruda Michael and Ann Shirler got together and knitted, sewed, end bought him a knockout summer wardrobe . . . Mary Carlisle has added a pretty penny to her earnf ings by having Bing Crosby advise her bets. on horse-rac- e C Western Newspaper Collon . ... gsrjmirinewfi He the American Retail federation. Who A. C. Dykstra, will succeed to become president of the University of Wisconsin. Tartan," Tartan is the proper name for the pattern denoting a Scottish clan. means flat and In Gaelic plaid broad, and refers, in cloth, to something large end unshaped. bouse, and wants no reminders of her Mary pjckf0rd former life around to haunt her. Whoever la purchaser will possess an estate at which notables of the world were entertained In the days when Mary and Doug were filmdoms most celebrated couple. ksa.7 - Buddy Rog- ers, she will live in a simple beach house end en V;,: ; Wiru Borrico. be completely free whatever. Ab- olutei. ,lgn wter would be fnjuri- ou to ts human body and to ell other llvln things. All Asking contalna mineral el- trnents ot eonH,,,.' he,her water Is Injurious entire I, onW0 Ule hea,th depends Presence or absence f diiol a it, or . eProducing foreign matter Proportion of minerals. mar marries t ik e Mary Pickford ia asking $700,000 for Pickfair, because when she sella tha house aha will include ell the treasures that sha and Douglas Fairbanks collected in their travels around the world. When she Americas First Aerial Tramway Col. Sherrill Named Manager of Cincinnati had been buried on a bed spring. It had collapsed with JjrhlorPes of he earth that was piled en It, bat as the men dog down, the u Love Our Own Words However unimportant our words may be, eald Hi Ho, the sage of we love them like chilChinatown, dren and seek to give them prominent place when they are our own. Twentieth-Centu- that broad mound, it was evident that it contained none dead. But in order to be on the safe side, the lieutenant ordered the men to dig up that grave as they had dug up the others. Their Eyes Couldnt Believe What They Saw. It was that grave which was to give Mart and bit .buddies the most terrible fright of their lives. The men were taking turns with the spades. Two men at a time nt down mto the graves to do the digging. Mart and another fellow had dug down the first couple of feet, and now two other men were In tossing " 7 T wondering Just what and Simones heavy accent was just too much to be convincing. ry-Fox officials still have faith In her, and say that when they find just the right story for her they will pat her to work again. vas underneath d the Lancers' Mart, another private. Sergeant Kirby and the lieutenant the edge of the pit, watching the ethers work. The two wked their way down te about a level of four feet below Tfcir spades were out one 1 la to become of Simone Simoq. After a few day work in Danger Love at Work" sha waa taken out of the cast and Ann So them substituted. The heroine was supposed to be an American girl educated in France, Corpses began pushing their way up out ef the ground! with Ike' , nie. During the latter part of the Nineteenth century, saya Colliers Weekly, this simple song, despite its theme, attained such widespread fame that more than 300 variations of it were sung from coast to coast. This number equals, possibly exceeds. the total of all extant original ballads in the EngUsh language. et-lur- pi of its J many Colbert, sired n In months. h. m al life-guar- k t cfcW er VIRGINIA VALE TJERHAPS the happiest, but A certainly the most bewildered family in the country just now consists of Michael Kelly, his wife, and five children who live in that part of Popular Ballad New York City known as the Undoubtedly Americas most popular ballad was Frankie end JohnBronx. , By FLOTD GIBBONS Wik Radio j.Tj.ovie T "Terrible Resurrection tUlh Lit of Fenguiaa Rarely do oven adult penguins survive tha Initial days of captivity. Why, is not definitely known. Many explorers have carefully nourished penguins halfway back from tha Antarctic only to see their charges mysteriously die on board tha ship. Even in their native habitat, penguins dont lead soft Uvea. There ia tha vicious skua gull to eat tho eggi and young. Despite those penguin manage to get along, Uvt In communities, are almost human In some actions. A male proposes to tha bird of bis choice by bringing a stone to hef feet. If sha picks It up, the two become Mr. and Mrs. STAR DUST adventurers1 club w4tal 1 Scenes and Persons in the Current News A diagram showing one of the cars of the type which over the first aerial tramway inNorth America.which will be In use wiIl be con- structed up the side of Cannon mountain, about a mile and a quarter from the famous "Old Man of the Mountain, in New Hampshire. A QUATO-2- SI WTS--2J8 ts AUN . OP mAIOHT WHISKIES t PtOOP |