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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH GQ&GC0G tT' GQ?e0$32u ADVENTURErW HEADLINES CLUB SCHOOLS ST PCIMT COAST GUARD ACADE3Y AKNAFCUS-WE- FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! 'Playing With Dynamite PHOTOGRAPHY By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter By LEMUEL F. PARTON Hello everybody: old phrase, Playing Grinding Salvaged Powder. HL . c. - 0' - Bobs swap shop will trade you a set of chipped dishes for an alarm that ticks when lying face down (only), for 15 cents in cash or almost anything else. Here, where the economic system is reduced to ultimate simplicity, reigns Bob, New Yorks most enthusiastic tradesman. clock Over in France, millions of men were crouching in trenches, avoiding the explosives that the enemy was hurling at them, but Herman Beaver had no way to avoid the explosive that he was dealing with. His job was to handle the stuff and to handle it roughly, too. He was grinding salvaged powder that came in to him in chunks and long tubes that looked like spaghetti grinding it in a machine that looked a lot like an coffee grinder. That powder, when it had been reduced to bits, would be used to load rifle grenades. In only one, way did that machine differ from a coffee grinder. Between the handle that he turned continuously and the hopper into which he fed the unground powder, was a steel plate fixed so as to shield his body in case anything happened while he was grinding. On this day, while Herman ground away, his eyes wandered out the window and down the row of a dozen or more wooden buildings where the work of loading the grenades was going on. They were little better than shacks, about twenty-fiv- e by fifty feet, built about fifty feet apart, in. among trees, so as to obscure the plants hand-operate- YORK. The playing fields of Eton have been given due credit for Britains power and durability. We seem to have overlooked the playing fields Army to Apt of West Point. A Strategy sweeping technical reorganization Of Football of the army is news this week. It might not have come off had it not been for a certain incident on the West Point football field. Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff, is the reorganizer. He is preparing the army for the open game swiftness, mobility, adaptiveness, as in modern football. It was an instant of inspired open football, back in the juggernaut days of the guards back and the side-lin-e buck, that saved young Malin Craig tor the army and the current reordering of tactics and equipment. Just before the game with Trinity eollege In 1897, the West Point scholastic command had decided to retire Cadet Craig. Of an ancient army line, with many relatives in the service, he had been visiting around army posts. His marks had suffered. The ax was to fail just after the game. Craig was a brilliant backfield player, but somewhat given to unplanned maneuvers. Carrying the ball at a critical turn of the game, he lost his interference in a broken field. He shook off several tacklers, but, somewhere around the line, a stone wall of Trinity players loomed ahead. Ducking a hurtling body, scarcely checking his stride, he booted a per-- . feet field goal oung Craig winning the game, Boote Coal with appropriate Frank MerriweU On the Bun trimmings. Of course, the faculty couldnt fire a hero. The ax was put away, a tutor was found, and Cadet Craig finished creditably to establish the open game in the American army. He was a baseball star, also, and old Pop Anson tried to sign him for the Chicago National team. Bora in St. Joseph, Mo., he was the grandson of a Civil war general. His father was a major and he has a son recently out of West Point. n In the war, the Philippines, France and in minor mixups, he was a quick thinker and a heavily garlanded from the first and known as a progressive tactician. NEW with dynamite has come to mean about the same thing as doing something foolhardy. Thats the figurative meaning of the expression. But literally speaking, the man who monkeys around with high explosives is usually one of the unsung heroes of our age. Over in France, twenty years ago, millions of men were playing with dynamite, and T. N. T. and just about every other explosive known. We didnt call those fellows foolhardy. In those days, it was generally considered that they were doing a brave and noble thing. This is a story of another such lad who toyed with danger in a good cause. Herman Beaver of Chicago wasnt juggling explosives in and out of some sort of firearms over in France. He was taking an even longer chance with the dangerous stuff. On a hot day in July, 1917, he was working in a munitions plant on the northern outskirts of Milwaukee, Wis., on the banks of the upper Mil waukee river. ! Hire School endasMe UMlenrrmdaatM let WriiaUeoi.X W.Uryaa. USB I Ret I Anuapolla. M4. Out. Civil Beivloe eien. tut spsolalmms. d & ROLLS DEVELOPED eiteteSeoahle nlitt nluitniM or roar eholoe o t M prists ililua S sslrryaanti Via anla Miprinu ieafe rwe Two Pretty Frocks, Both Easy to Mako one of those women P'whoYOURE so often say Dear me, I wish I could sew!, then by nil means try your hand on these smart designs, and like many, many others, just as inexperienced as you are, youll find that you can sew, and enjoy itt Our patterns include detailed sew charts that show you just what to do, step by step, and youll get a real thrill out of seeing how easy it is. ' The Womans Dress. Here we have a diagram design, which means you can finish it successfully in a few hours. And youll find it one of the most becoming and comfortable you ever 35-ya- rd iO Everybody is My good man to Bob. Here a youngster would like to swap a baseball bat and glove (the season having ended) for a movie projector. terrible concussion threw him backward. position . from the air. Even in those days they were concerned about airplanes. Those shacks were filled with men and women, and even boys and girls all taking long chances, to supply our soldiers with ammunition. A Blast and Deadly Flames. But Herman wasnt thinking about the chanees. The view from the window was pleasant. The trees outside swayed in a I was at peace with the world, says Herman. gentle breeze. And then Spanish-America- self-starte- Without warning, there was a deafening blast. Acrid choking smoko filled the air and fire bit into Hermans flesh. He felt the earth rock beneath his feet felt a terrible concussion that threw him backward. It happened so fast that only when he was on the floor did he realize what had happened. The powder that he was grinding had exploded. Behind him were benches covered with pans of powder. In rapid succession they were catching fire. Then Herman saw that his own clothing, heavily saturated with powder dust, was afire too. If they had been soaked with gasoline they couldnt have burned any more furiI was a ously. The flames shot many feet above my head, he says. living torch. He was stunned for a moment, but he managed to stagger to his feet. His whole body one mass of flame, he ran to the door and out of it. By that time people were pouring out of all the buildings in the group. Herman dashed out of the door and kept right on running. He had lost all power of reasoning. All that moved him now was a blind, gripping panic. He wanted to run, and keep right on running until he dropped. And in his terror he was headed for another building a building that was filled with powder. Lie Down and Roll. If he had run into that building, this story might never have been written. But suddenly, through his panic, he heard a voice. Out of all the shouts and yells of that mob of screaming humanity that was watching his plight, that one voice, and that alone, penetrated his consciousness. Lie down and roll! Roll, it was shrieking. Herman remembered. That was what he should be doing. Suddenly, That was the only way to save himself. He dropped to the ground and began rolling. The pain was unbearable, as burned, smarting flesh came in contact with the hard earth. He rolled over once twice and then he stopped. It was all he could stand. A workman ran over and tried to beat out the flames. His apron caught fire and he stopped to tear it off. Then the superintendent ran up. He ordered the crowd back, and he himself began rolling Herman over and over. He burned his hands severely, but he stuck at the job until the fire stopped blazing. When the flames were out, Hermans clothing what was left of it glowed and smouldered like one large, live coaL They rushed him into one of the shacks, sat him down on a box, and began tearing the charred cloth off his body. That shack was filled with powder, Herman says, but in . their excitement they never thought of that. There was powder in the very box I was sitting on. The Lord only knows why the whole place didnt blow up. I know I dont. And I have two large scars, one on my right hip and one on the front of my left leg, that remind me every once in a while of what a close call I had. Nobody will ever know how that explosion started, but Herman thinir a percussion cap might have found its way into the powder he was grindIf it had ing. I was working with the lid of the grinder open," he says. been fastened down when the explosion occurred, the whole machine would have shattered to bits and I dont believe Id be here to tell the story. I Copyright WNU Service. Silkworms Like White Mulberry Silkworms will eat any mulberry leaf, but the white mulberry results in ttie finest silk. The white mulberry, a native of China, is found in many other countries. The red mulberry is a native of America. Bill Curves to the 81de d The plover of New Zealand (a stouter, more compact sandpiper), is unique in having a bill that curves to the side, a result, it is said, of searching for food around stones. Ms Has Six Meanings In the Annamite language of southern Asia, the term ma has six different meanings, depending on the inflection used young rice, but, horse, ghost, tomb and mama. Best Man at Wedding The custom of having a best man at a wedding originated in primitive days of marriage by capture, when the husband called his friends to assist in carrying off the bride. wry-bille- r, A FEW years ago, Richard Strauss was in trouble with the Nazis. The libretto of his opera, The Silent Woman, had been written by Stefan Zweig, a The opera was a flop and Herr Strauss was ousted as president of the Reich Culture chamber and chairman of CT the Federation of German Composers. He is now restored to official Bob and his wife live to a great extent on due bills, having eaten for favor. a month in a restaurant in exchange for 50 chairs. His librettist for his new opera, Der Fridenstag, is a certified Aryan, Joseph Gregor, a Viennese poet, and its world premier at Munich is a brilliant success, with new garlands for comthe poser. So apparently all is forgiven, and the traditional rebel of the musical world is rebelling no longer. He had decided to save the world at any cost, but turning sixty, he concluded he was doing well enough by merely keeping out of jail. When Salome was presented in 1905, puritanical New York was shocked, and the mere idea of its being given here caused a row. Its 1 n presentation New York in 1921 was taken calmly. Strauss Murky Psychographies, as the critics called them, didnt bring any riot calls. These muddy phantasmagorias of his earlier years got him into many battles, but he settled down to writing and being a good business man to money making. Once, when he was quarreling with Berlin, he was I asked if he would play there. would play on a manure pile if they The gentleman would like a coat and a pair of pants for a radio. pay me for it, he said. Bob is obliging. He is no kin of the famous Eventually, he says, theres a customer for everywaltz family of Vienna. In melthing, clothing, ice boxes, sheet music, canoes, skis, white mice, pulp low and beery old Bavaria, his magazines and musical instruments. and father was a his mother a brewers daughter. He has prospered through his DENMARK DISCOVERS HISTORIC SHIP later years, the owner of a casin Vienna and an estate in tle Denmark has discovered its first the time of that quaintly named Bavaria. Harold Bluetooth. king, Viking ship grave. When this unknown Viking died, In 1930, German cities were fightThe place where the ship lies, in a cornfield near the sea, has been his ship was dragged up from the ing for him as their leading citizen, with chambers of commerce comroofed over and made an exhibit. sea to a high place. IIi3 favorite The unknown peting and making offers. Then Viking, thus horses and dogs were brought on the brief eclipse over the came board and was into Attendants slain. came the brought spotlight, associations, and now perhaps one of the Danes who har- laden with the Vikings weapons the full effulgence of his restored ried Britain and other European and articles he might need on the career. lands, in wild voyages of adven- mysterious voyages of the future D Consolidated News Features. ture. He lived about 950 A. D. in world. WNU Service. non-Arya- seventy-five-year-ol- d n. Its made lines, with darts that make it slim, but not tight, at the waistline. 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