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Show THE BULLETIN. nTNfiHAM. TTAH World Events Through the Camera's Lens y..,. '"p ,y lZy , nfi soldiers pole their boats over the Hooded waters of the Yellow river after Chinese troops made breaks In the dykes to delay the Nipponese advance. 2--King George and Queen Elizabeth of tng-- , land, whose recent visit to France strengthened the military alliance between the two nations for deiense. j 3 "Big Jim" Farley shown addressing the meeting of the national gathering of the loung Democrats oi America at Seattle, Wash. ADVENTURERS' CLUB V HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSelfi i "The Particular Thief' By FLOYD GIBBON'S Famous Headline Hunter HELLO EVERYBODY: who's the guest speaker at our quet today? Well, sir, it's Mrs. Anna Robinso?' N. Y. And what's she going to talk about' M going to tell the strange tale of the thief who il' money. That thief certainly made things complicated for A wanted money, it would have been simple. Anna coult ' to him. and he'd have been satisfied. But when a manrt thing you haven't and threatens to kill you if you don't gfy Well, If you're ever In a spot like that, I hone as well as Anna did. m It all happened in a doctor's office in the little upstat. town of JefTcrsonville. In 1927, Anna was working there i wasn't a hard job, but it was a lonesome one, for the doctc calls most of the day, leaving Anna in charge. One quiet afternoon in March, though, Anna had i call I tor was out as usual when the door bell rang, and Ann a' I ring to admit a tall, ragged stranger with a desperate look at him told Anna that this was an " emergency Ca did she dream that the emergency would be her ownl This Caller Just Wanted "Coke." The man pushed his way past her and hurried Into the o" the doctor in"? he wanted to know. That's where Anna gave the wrong answer. The manwai in a hurry. The doctor wouldn't be back for several hours I him she wasn't expecting the Doc to return for quite a while gested that he try at the office of another doctor nearby. It was Just what the stranger wanted to know, id came over his face, And a crafty look gleamed in Uj "So you're alone, eh"? he said. "I was taken aback," says Anna. "I said, 'Yes, fni the minute I said it I could have bitten oft my tongue. If rd at! first told him there were other people in the building I k saved myself the trouble that I was evidently in for. But fe was done, and all I could do was stammer, 'What do youR said: 'Oh, I'll get it myself,' and started walking towaij office." At first Anna thought he was just a petty thief, and u walked toward the office she remembered something the doctor1 told her. "If ever a tramp or a thief comes in," he had said, ' j "Where's the coke?" he cried angrily. to oppose him. Let him take what money there is and gets the stranger didn't seem to be interested in money. He passu by the desk, went to the medicine cabinet and began sir labels on the bottles. He stared a long time while his forehead knitted a i zled frown. Evidently he couldn't understand the labels, he turned angrily on Anna and cried: "Where's the coke!" Ready to Kill for the Drug. That explained things and at the same time it threw A:: panic. This man was no petty thief who would be satisfied He was a dope addict, crazed by a craving for cocaine. He" i kill do anything to get that precious "shot" of narcotic, and s I may, Anna realized that there wasn't so much as a graini in the place. r "We have no cocaine," she stammered. The man tuned c a rage, his eyes blazing, his hands clenching and undent : sides. "Don't lie to me." he shouted. "Get it. Get it or H- S he took a step toward her, raising his claw-lik- e hands to he- r- Say, Anna: "I was terribly frightened. My thoughts ratj He stcod between me and the telephone, madness and mf f eyes. I could not hope that someone would come M people knew the doctor's office hours were in the evening. would do me no good, for screams coming from a doctor's c J only mean that some poor devil was having a broken bone se: s even tried to scream, those terrible claw-lik- e hands would s K my throat. There was only one way out. I had to gamble5 defense God gave to women talk." . She Talked Him Into Submission. t! With fear clutching at her heart, Anna began io tJ i to the stranger. She explained that few doctors caine that they used derivatives like novocaine W j that novocaine wouldn't give him the effect be told him a lot of other things about drugs, too. As H f her fear of the man wore away, for the madness bad 1J his eyes and he sank Into a chair, head hanging W Then Anna switched to another tack. She began fef I use of drugs, painting a terrible picture of what they w il if he kept on using them. She told him the best thing I to go to the local health officer and take a cure for dru jj, him that if his system really needed cocaine, the bealuLj i give it to him. And believe it or not, the dope addicUlhT; b He waited while Anna called the health officer on jj along peacefully when the officer came to get him. After he had gone, though, Anna lay down on the t0" ,1 t hysterically. When the doctor came back he gave ber j,c sent her home. 4. All that was quite a few years ago, and Anna has Jeflersonville a long time. She's married now, sne ff ( New York policeman, but I doubt if that cop husband oi finer bit of police work than Anna did with her tn8ue l that drug-craze- maniac right into the hands of the A Copyright. WNU Service. , II Speaking of Sports Rookie Stars Pace Majors In 1938 Race Baseball Sloths A RACE of clow-foote- d, dull-w- li ted ball players will soon dom-inate (be national fame if the pres-ent emphasis on slugging continues, according to Bill Lange, who 42 years ago stole 100 bases for the Chicago Cabs and speeded his way Into diamond Immortality. By GEORGE A. BARCLAY LRESHMAN ball players are rnl- - lng the roost In the major leagues this year. A crop of brilliant rookies unprecedented In the history of the game have achieved stardom right off (he bat and clinched key Jobs on seven 'of the sixteen teams In the American and National leagues. These boy wonders are no morn-ing glories, mind you, who are likely to fold when the going gets tough. They've demonstrated their right to their Jobs by sheer merit For in-stance, up to the half-wa- mark of the season, six of the freshmen out-fielders and inflelders playing regu-lar positions had knocked in 249 runs and compiled a composite bat-- ' Modern ball players think too much in terms of home runs and not enough about base stealing," Lange declared. "The slugger has supplanted the thinker In baseball. Base stealing makes a player more alert mentally. He has to try to outguess the pitcher and the rest of the opposition, instead of trying to knock the ball out of the lot by brute force. "As a rule the superior base steal-er is also the brainier player. One of your illustrations is Ty Cobb, the greatest we ever had. He was worth more to a team than a dozen Babe. Ruths." It Is an Interesting coincidence that Lange, in his day regarded as the outstanding player of the game and the Immortal Ty Cobb now are t ' - V.; i Jj ' f wVy'? J neighboring country squires near San Francisco, Calif. Lange, now a prosperous real estate operator, was a star for seven years, from 1893 to 1899. He quit the game In his prime. Lange was the last man to steal as many as 100 bases. He reached that peak In 1896, leading the National league that year and in 1897. Two men preceded and bettered him in stolen bases. They were John M. Ward of the New York Giants with 111 in 1887 and Billy Hamilton of Philadelphia with 102 in 1890 and the major league record number of 115 in 1891. Wonder Woman UELEN WILLS MOODY'S recent victory over Helen Jacobs at Wimbledon, England, confirmed her as the greatest woman player in the history of tennis. Whether you like poker-face- d Helen or not, you must agree that her championship feat after a layoff of three years was unparalleled. This latest comeback was the sec-ond in her career. In 1935 after being Inactive for the two previous years because of a back Injury, she triumphed at Wimbledon. Now, FRANK McCORMICK ting average of .322. And four of the rookie pitchers taking their reg-ular turn on the slab had won 28 out of 42 games for an average of .700. Standout among the first year men, of course, Is Cincinnati's sen-sational Johnny Vander Mecr with two no-hl- t, no-ru- n games In succes-sion to his credit. His teammate, Frank McCormirk, a husky, slug-ging first baseman, has also made good in a big way. Classy Talent Another scintillating recruit Is Joe (Flash) Gordon, second baseman of the New York Yankees and regard-ed as about the classiest inficlder in the Junior circuit. The Cleveland Indians have Ken Keltner on third base, who specializes In home runs between hair-raisin- g plays. In the outfield there are such ' young stalwarts as Sammy Chap-man, the Philadelphia Athletics' star rookie from the University of California, Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Hank Steln-bache-who has been batting around .350 for the Chicago White Sox. Ranking next to Vander Meer among the young pitchers Is Bob Klinger, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who has had an earned-ru- n average of about two per nine-innin- g game up to date. Bob is a cousin of Char-lie Hollocher, one time Chicago Cubs shortstop and one of the most amazing fielders in the history of the game. Then there's Jim Bagby Jr. or the Boston Red Sox, who has shown enough stuff to become a dependa-ble regular starter. Jim Is the son of famous old Sergeant Jim Bagby who was a a year winner for the Cleveland Indians a couple of decades ago. Tot Presnell has helped the Brooklyn Dodgers make things uncomfortable for other Na-tional league teams this year and has become about the most dependa-ble starter on the club. Behind the plate, Cincinnati scores again with Willard Hershberger, who came from Newark, the won-der team of the International league last year. There are several other HELEN WILLS MOODY three years later, she has repeated. She dropped out of tennis so far as major competition was concerned after her 1935 triumph and stayed out until she hit the comeback trail this year in England. Helen has been a dominant figure in the world of tennis for 15 years, ever since she won her first United States championship in 1923. Before that for two years she was the girls' national titleholder. She took the na-tional singles crown seven times, between 1923 and 1931. Since 1927 she has won the Wimbledon singles title eight times, including her re-cent victory. Just for good measure, Mrs. Moody has won four French worn- - en's championships and a respect- - able number of doubles and mixed doubles championships. Here and There WHEN Bob Feller was pitching ) Meter there were only j 200 high schools in Iowa playing baseball. There were 570 high schools entered in an Iowa tourna-ment this spring which climaxed in a three day competition at Manson in Calhoun county . . . Lefty Grove takes a nap on a rubbing table be-fore each game he pitches . . . Rudy York needs only one more home run with the bases full to tie the season record of four, held joint-ly by Frank Schulte of the west side Cubs, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig . . . Jack Beynon, former Illinois and Ail-St- quarterback. Is pre-pared to demonstrate his new mov-able goal posts. The posts, which can be set on the end lines and wheeled up to the goal line when a team attempts a field goal, are designed to eliminate injury, which was the main reason the colleges ' moved them back to the end line j several years ago . . . Nine South- - em California football players, Granville Lansdell, Oliver Day, Fhil Duboski, Bob Peoples, Jack Banta. Roy Engle, Howard Stoecker, Beans Russell and Glen Calvin, are doing extra work in motion pictures dur- - ing the summer . . . Pittsburgh j hasn't made an important mid-sea- - j son 'trade since 1923 . . . Hughie j Criti, who played second base for the Giants for a number of years, never has been inside a New Vorn night club. C Western Newspaper Union. JIM BAGBY JR. classy young catchers, including Johnny Riddle of the Boston Bees, Cap Clark of the Phillies, Herb Bremer of the Cardinals and Tom Heath of the St. Louis Browns. Put all these rookies together on a ball diamond and with the excep-tion of shortstop you would have an all-st- ar aggregation that would give a first-rat- e account of itself In any ball game. And even so, that short-stop position could be acceptably filled by Justin Stein of the Reds. X RED MENACE t " M"7" c7w"iiii"",""': Wally Berger, who came to the Cincinnati Reds from the New York Giants a while ago, has regained the batting form that made him a terror for National league pitchers a year or two ago. His excellent work has contributed to keeping the Reds up among the pennant con-tenders. Kins of the Pic-Eate- rs ' ?' " ' i ' 1 t - ' i " P i. ' y A : r ' V "'Jit J4 With his hands tied behind him, LeRoy Cobb, age thirteen, of Gaines-ville, Ga., won with a crust to spare in a contest that at-tracted lads from all over the countryside. Lelloy ate his lunch at the usual hour, but that didn't handicap him at all when it came to eating a meringue-covere- d chocolate pie in record time. EMPLOYMENT GAINS r - s, r - ,, ':; hm , fit, - 1 ' , t Jk t i wmm ,.v. ,. i .x M,iMSS John I). Biggers, of Toledo, Ohio, who directed President Roosevelt's unemployment census last January, believes better times are ahead for industry and employment. He cited the case of the I.ibbey-Owcns-Fo- Glass company, of which he is pres-ident, which has rehired 1,300 work-ers in the last three months. Big-ge-predicted a fall upturn. Daddy Has Gone ng The wife was away visiting. So faced with the problem of what to do with the baby, this fisherman rigged up a seat and sunshade for her while he calmly fishes from the pier at Miami, Fla. New Rapid-Firin- g Rifles for U. S. Army j s - .,,! .iV , . Army privates at Fort Hamilton, N". i'., test the new Garan-- J m del r I 4 will replace the Springfie'd rides they are niw usin?. Ti c new riH-- s are ' '",7 v mi ai,tnm:iic rifles w',irh ute. The Springfields are capable of firing a maximum of n roundspcr ,,nns 60 ro,'mls P- -i tub In the year i President of Vice ( sent a letter V W phia, beginning. ter from w5 from your sick beiJJJ U 1 so uneasy V'f IN soon as possiMa .f -- at 6 I am to set 4 I don't believe AW wiU go with me- - proud of his we J j not let her go. sUi e:i: coach-and-fou- r. $n ial trumpery ' Xu nothing to " fi travel but by iM J s seat of Govern while they 've t f jver an allowance. start my pi01 f - i : 1 i Definition of an Annuity A common definition for an annu-ity is "a periodic payment to con-tinue during a given status." This status usually is the duration of a single life. Annuities are not in-surance, but insurance provisions of iiTi are included. The person who receives the income from an annu-- h is known as the annuitant. If n annuity is bought on two or m ire lives, the contract usually, is 'joint and survivor" annuity, itiis means that income from the annua continues as long as any of the persons covered by the contract sin vive. although the amount of the payment often decreases at the death oi one. A "joint" annuity, str.cvly speaking, is an annuity that ceases on the first death among the 'ives involved. |