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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD British Pilots Dinner at Eckener and Lindbergh MONTAGUE Has Something to Say About Noble Art of ' Adventurers Self-Maste- The ry Club a t ' V Asleep at the Wheel By FLOYD 16 GIBBONS - , ' Famous Headline Hunter HERES h $ Fred Bock, whose address is Brooklyn, but home is Route 34, or Route 36, or maybe some other route altogether. Fred, you see, drives one of those big transportation trucks that move between one city and another. Those lads might get back to their houses once in a while, but a good part of the time they do their sleeping on the big front seat of a truck parked at the side of the road. Thats the sort of lad you have to catch on the fly. But Ive nabbed Fred, and heres his story. On a Thursday morning In November, Fred and hs partner Charlie were delivering furniture at various houses in Brooklyn. They went out with a load, delivered it, and finished up about one oclock in the afternoon. They had some lunch and pulled Into the office at two, hoping they were through for the day. But no such luck for Fred. He still had a man-sizejob to do that day and besides that there was a little adventuring to be taken care of. At that stage of the game, though, he didnt know anything about adventuring. t Y'' 4 Vt 4 if ' y i 1 O & C; 2 " ilium rtTfTfil v 'X ' $ $ .4 , & ll hall in Scene at the British Empire Air Pilots guild dinner held at the Innholders Dr. Guest; of Capt. F. E. Guest. C. B. E. Showing, left to right: Capt. to attend the dinner. master; and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Dr. Eckener flew from Germany Britain. of Great is a former air secretary deputy Capt. G 5 She May Wear the Crown of England AIDS TRUCK FARMERS at Me As I Took Up the Stick, Gae Cry and Darted Out of the House. The Young Man Looked d v By Taking a Load to Washington. After Fred had settled up his accounts, the manager called him into liis office and told him the bad news. There was an immediate delivery to be made in Washington, D. C., and Fred had been eleeted to do the job. They loaded the truck and were on their way. Route 1 was to be their home this time. rJTiey picked it up in Jersey City and rolled into Philadelphia along about nine oclock in the evening. Fred and Charlie knew a good lunch wagon In Philly, and they went there for dinner. Back in the truck again, Fred suggested a nap. They had been lip since early morning, and both of them were pretty tired. They lay down on the seat and started to snooze, but not for long. After a brief Interval they were awakened by a cop who told them that the main drag of the Quaker City was no lodging house and suggested that they take their big truck out of there. So they started to move. Fred Was Getting Sleepy. They threaded their way through the city, and once more they were bowling along the open road through a cold, bleak November night, The wind swept across the fields In fitful gusts and the road ahead seemed to darken. Fred drove on through the night. The hours rolled by and he was getting more and more sleepy. Along about midnight a filmy haze began to cloud bis vision. Says Fred: The feeling was nothing new to me. It came from staring ahead over long periods, and had happened to me many times before. I knew that the best thing for me to do was pull over to the side of the road for a short rest. I began looking for a convenient parking space, but the minutes fled by without a sign of a place to stop. The road was getting narrower and more gloomy. My eyes seemed to be getting heavy as lead. We began to roll down hill. Flickering, fantastic shadows danced across the path of the headlights and the road ahead suddenly inclined in a long, steep, tortuous grade. I looked at Charlie and saw him curled up In the corner of the seat fast asleep. His peaceful repose seemed to tempt me. And then Running Wild Toward a Wall. And then, suddenly, Fred's eyes were shut and the truck was running wild! Fred doesnt know how long his eyes were shut or how the truck managed to keep on the road. But something in the back of his brain-so- me drivers instinct brought him wide awake as suddenly as he s his eyes came open he saw in the beam of had fallen asleep. the headlights a sharp, narrow turn in the road and, just at the beginning of the bend, a white concrete walL The headlights brought that scene to his eyes with startling clearness. It didn't take me long to realize what that meant, says Fred. A narrow bridge spanning spanning what was the question. I didnt know, and for a minute it looked as if I never would know. In the few seconds Fred had been asleep the speedometer had A glance told him that and then he climbed to forty-fivjammed on the brakes. But even as I did so, he says, I knew it would be useless. The bend in the road was too narrow to permit a quick turn with a large truik. I couldnt save myself from crashing into the wall. e. Steep Cliff Just Ahead of Them. Fred took a lightning glance to right and left, searching for a way out There was a clear space at the beginning of the walk How long it was what obstructions he might find in it he didn't know, but he determined to take a chance and trust to luck that he didnt run into a tree and pile up. He turned his wheels and headed for the clear space. Then, just as his wheels left the road, the headlights showed him what was ahead. There were no trees In his way. There was nothing. The car was plunging toward a steep cliff, at the bottom of which ran the river! Freds hand tightened on the wheel. The top or the bank was a scant ten feet ahead, and he knew he would never be able to stop that car. With iis whole body tense, he waited for the sickening plunge over the bank and the end. And then Fred got the surprise of his life. Suddenly, the truck slowed down as the wheels struck something soft and mushy. It moved another two or three feet and came to an abrupt stop. Fred climbed out of the cab and jumped to the ground, and heaved a sigh of relief and gratitude. The wheels had run into a pile of sand left by the highway patrol. And Fred says: As I stood there listening to the swish of water far below it certainly seemed to me as if Providence were riding with us that night. For if that pile of sand had been six feet to right or left we would have shot over that clearing and dropped into the river below. MONTAGUE few years or so I hear a EVERY article,or orread am assured by some friend that I ought to be something besides a meie creature of habit. Then I get to thinking about what an aimless and miserable thing I am to drift along without any rudder, to allow circum- stinctively as the fragrance of tt weed titillated my nostrils, to be gin pawing through my pockets fc a cigar or a pouch. Presently ho ever I would remember my determi nation to go through vuth this teand setting my teeth together tr to concentrate on my job But I found that every time tried to work I would feel that some thing was missing, and be unab' to get a start If I did, by a si preme effort brush away this yearn ing, along would come somebod smoking a pipe or a cigar or a ciga rette, and I would have to come t a full mental stop ur.til the scent c the tobacco had been blown awa by a breeze or a draught. Then came the chewing period I there wras not a butt or a pipe ste between my teeth I was seized t a sense of incompleteness. I seemed to me that I was not a there. I would pick up any obje that met my eye and chew on it l my jaws ached from wearinss-GuI was not allowed to use, s I chewed lead pencils, bits of sbeV spools which I found on my vie sewing table, handfuls of grass th I plucked from the front lawn, ar now and then the leaves that it from the trees. Presently I found myself gna ing at the door jamb, and biting the corners of fence posts as passed them on the way to the - stances to shape my career for me, and probably rum it. I dont know just exactly what a career is, but it is something that sounds important and I always wanted one. My turning point as you might call it came a few weeks ago when talking to a young nephew who had been studying in a college a branch of learning he called behaviourism. He said that there is no need for a person to continue to be what he is, provided that what he is, is not as valuable to him as what he isnt, but could be if he changed his habAlfred Pfeiffer, former salesman, its. It was all a little vague to me whose invention of a machine to at first, but after he had talked to cover plants with paper coats on me for three quarters of an hour one is of weather the approach freezing it dawned on me that possiRecent photograph of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of evening seen as a boon to winter truck farmnot built up within myI had bly ers. Pfeiffer, a native of Comfort, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England. With the ascent of self the character that I ought to of VIII on to the recent the abdication Edward throne father her for machine the King idea Texas, got the not hurt it that and might possess, she Should will next in line. In 1932 and worked to perfect it un- she is eventually ascend the throne, she any if I uprooted some of my old wear the crown last worn by Queen Victoria. til last summer. habits and substituted new ones for them. So I asked him which habit I YOUNGEST U. S. MAYOR The most teought to begin with. nacious one you have got, he said. Get rid of that first, and then you fice. Work became practically of the question, for I was whol1 will be so imbued with self confiunable to persuade my office male: dence that the other habits will almost get rid of themselves. What not to smoke, and whenever they object, tr is your worst habit? any scent came to me as the scent Well, my worst habit Is probably the lotus must have come to trav golf. tiers nearing an oasis, and all abi No, I dont mean that Thats more of an affliction than a habit ity to think straight departed fr me. Why not break yourself of drinkI must have had far more resell ing? I dont drink enough to hurt me. tion during these days than 1 ha I cant afford to. Maybe after had before or since, for I kept th weeks enough states have voted for repeal asceticism up the full two thinner, an I I while can drink grew for while a to constantly enough I make reformation a task worth takmy temper gained such a start book a ing up. But for the last 12 years or edge that I would throw a so drinking hasnt been one of my the cat if it lashed its tail Ut I , addictions. What else could I do dreaming before the fireplace. I X X to build or rebuild my character? If the reek from a pipe in tb How about cutting out tobacco. mouth of a delivery man seeped ini snes Dont be foolish. How could I the house, and I sat up and m do any work without tobacco? How the air, my nephew would pat on the bead, could I aim my golf shots except by affectionately Be strong. down over to a sighting keep Kennard E. Goldsmith, twenty-thre- e my eye on the ball? cigar Then one day on a little motor tr How would I - year - old mayor of Ports- solace myself when I looked at my I took to get away from it all, an mouth, N. H., said to bo the young-es- t card after a game if it were not for breathe in a little gasoline snel municipal executive in the the narcotic and which anyway was something, Influence United States. Young Goldsmith, a of the weed? No,soothing to the roadside a have Ill give found sitting by car had brol college graduate, was elected on up something else. whose man elderly Vice President John N. Garner and U. S. Senator James Hamilton the Republican ticket in the NoSaid the young character rebuild-er- : down. He had telephoned toa sl seen over of of the are senate, Lewis Illinois, whip conferring plans vember landslide, defeating the for assistance, but it was awa At last we have it The thing rage for the opening of the new Seventy-filtcongress. Democratic incumbent. that will be the hardest for you to do in coming, and he was whiling the time with a short clay pipe a: is the thing you must do. Rememfell into conversation with hi, ber that when the pioneers came to old gen this country they had to start with discovered that he was an distnc the job of killing off the Indians, tleman of some considerable told it P I if name, whose hich was very disagreeable and tion, dangerous. Not until they had the would immediately recognize. old yea said he was eighty-fivnoble Red men able k thoroughly cowed and still hale and strong, and afraid of them did possess they liked, Ql eat anything he the normal stamina and self e ever) to build up a new nation. judged was practically chose, he to drink whatever My nephew enlarged on this subnow many beverages sm ject till he had me worn out, even .in to and though I was not convinced. But I porarily proscribed, of strong tobacco every was eager to do all I could to gain pound You dont happen to na'e that self control whose lack had other pipe about you, su:i been a fatal flaw In I agreed to try to my system, so him. four smoking for I always carry the or Yes. a trial period of stop two weeks. My s. Theyre T.D five of these mentor insisted that this was of t not a sufficient period to ar r; but it was the best prove anything, nicotine from tobacco, 1 strength d bargain he could you to get all the make, so he let it go at that. Ms-weed. But they break And dont think ones. Im to extra going always carry rust you, he said it I warningly. He filled one and handed shall person gee ther(j Jf I half shut my eyes, CC k J16 louse and secure n U omitted a blue cloud, from you a pledge 0t. not to buy any when you are down town. then put into words a I . It would I which independence ta' mSvhJ Y I reached hdp yoU U every my Ume nephew when W3S turned I you lit a , f Dine nry,baCk He said merely. j1 Clgar- - Eear 10 mind that it up. v. I'll have roy eye on couldnt keep you, or get in- man for the ssed 0ther people about better V had wMaiou I thought of all I I are doing. j those weeks. Then 1 t confute!0 bCgan my tuning. Self A , . a cane, mere y of d seized 8n dosire to prove to walk out t this short a take 1 a not a ' brea , ... m reC,8, 1 fed give the birds a .. Haiku.. smoke. The young Lluler the expert instruction of Dick Skeen, fltindomg favorite tennis pro. film bemtio. f y me as I took up the n ywo0(1 ou take duly lessors, for the purpose of keeping their perfect figures. Left to right low cry and darted Mr-fill- ? Rhfes ODriseoll, Barbara Read, Nan Grey, film beauties, shown with tennis Instructor Dielr I often wonder what ,kCCn' lca him 'f enilis. pn was going to do tot- Wiv was Vicinity smoking, and in Bell Syndiu9 1.4v. a Solons Gather for Congress Opening c. o v- L nicotine-containin- g c I'M ... h" g h Tennis Helps Keep Movie Beauties Slender e WNU Service. Duke Was JMES J. s Dude George Villiers, Erst duke of Buckingham, was a real dude. His Jewels alone were reckoned at a total of 300,000 pounds English money It was common with him at an ordinary dancing party to have his clothes trimmed with great diamond buttons and to have diamond hat bands, cockades, and earrings; to be yoked with great and manifold ropes and knots of pearl; In short, to be imprisoned in Jewels. On a visit to Paris in 1025 he had twenty-sevesuits of clothes made, thrichest that embroidery, lace, silk, velvet, gold, and gems could contribute, one of which was a white uncut velvet, set all over, both suit and coat, with diamonds. n - Pecularlty of Owls Owls see objects with both eyes at once. Their eyes are set fast In their sockets, which means that they have to turn their entire heads In the direction they want to see. If one walks around an owl, and the bird desires to watch, Its head will turn clear around with the utmost ease until it looks directly If a person goes farbackward. ther, the owl will follow as far as possible, then turn Its heat so quickly that one does not notice it Sidereal Month The moon goes around the earth every twenty seven and days, in a period called the sidereal month. Its path Is not a circle, but an ellipse. Each time it goes around, says Science Service, there Is one point when it is nearest the earth, or perigee, and one when it is farthest, called apogee. Because of the pull on the moon by the sun, and other bodies in the solar system, the shape of its orbit is not constant. At some times it is pulled out into a longer ellipse, while at other times it is squeezed into a more nearly circular form. Tne earth is not at the center of the ellipse, but towards one end, at a point called the focus. one-thir- Bull Teirler a Gladiator Years ago the bull terrier was the gladiator among dogs. It was the day of dog fights when the gentle- man sportsman thought it correct and good fun to pit dogs against each other. It was then that the bull terrier made a name for himself. lie was taught to be a plucky scrapper, full of courage, ready to fight for himself or his master. And he W'as bred so that he was strong, very agile and to never know the significance of the word quit a i r confi-denc- . V y. 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