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Show Rescue Crews Friz-nnrifni Gas in Mine By EMIL SCHUSTER As told to the United Press CENTRALIA. 111., March 28 (U.R) The seventeen dead men we brought up from-the mine looked as II they had fallen asleep jusi before we found them, They were lyin back against the walls, or sprawled lazily on the floor, about two miles from the shaft, and didn't appear to have been hurt by the concussion of the blast somewhere back in 1Ytm min It was the gas that got them. That's .the monoxide gas that follows fol-lows any explosion and eats up all the oxygen in the air. It rolled through the tunnels and caught them on their way to the haftr elevator. We only haveJhe little lanterns on our caps to wrk with down there,' so we'd stoop over each man We found yesterday and see if he was breathing or showed any sign of life. If he didn't, we'd keep, on going, looking for someone some-one who might still be alive. We went about a half mile further into the mine, and there we saw the first effects of the blast. It looked like a cyclone had come down those tunnels, tearing up railroad ties, snapping snap-ping telephone and light wires and throwing braces around like toothpicks. It was pretty obvious there hadn't been a dust explosion There's always a fire after" one of those, and we saw no evidence of a blaze. There was just the terrific force of the gas explosion, explo-sion, probably methane. (Methane gas is found in all coal and sometimes becomes so heavy a spark will set it off.) While the only, men we've found so far were practically untouched, un-touched, we're pretty sure the 98 back where the blast began will be banged up. Near the shaft wc didn't have to use our oxygen, but the furth er we went into me mine inc worse the air became and the more debris there was scattered about. The men who go ahead as air-testers have little open lamps on their helmets and we watch those at all time. If we run into heavy gas the flame goes down and is smothered. smoth-ered. When the air gets better the flame goes higher and brighter. bright-er. We gauge our oxygen by those lights. Because there is notning but bad air in the back part of the mine, and all the timber and ties and wires, it may take several days before we can get to the men. We have to clear the passages pass-ages first so that the good air can be forced in. When our oxygen began to get low we went back through the tunnels, wrapped the bodies of the men in blankets and canvass, can-vass, and put them on six railroad rail-road cars for the trip to the shaft. The cars were pulled by a mule, which had its own gas mask. There were stretchers waiting ,at the elevator, and we took each man up alone, ' putting them in the hearses for the trip to the morgue. I think it's going to take sever al days to work our way that last mile into the tunnel. I don't think there's any hope for the men that have been trapped all this time. Happy Ending . . . Vet, Shack and Landlady Who Likes Kids Give New Twist to flld Housing Story In bedroom, parlor and dininr room of the shack they call home. ex-Cil G. E. Ropers, wife and son pose for a family portrait. Their landlady likes children, let them have the unused shack rent free. NEA Special Correspondent MEMPHIS, Tenn.. (NEA) A GI who sees the sunny side of life A landlady who likes children Want a Bathtub? Mexico Has 'Em REYNOSA, Mexico (U.R) About the only bargains in Mexico these days lor u. S. tourists are bathtubs. bath-tubs. Gone are the days when tourists tour-ists could cross the border and find, for a price, the hard-to-get articles that weren't available in the States. No longer do travelers haul back nylons, bottled-in-b o n d liquors and sugar. Except for the usual curios, leather articles and glassware, the tourists are finding find-ing only one bargain: porcelain bathroom fixtures. But they aren't taking many. For some unexplainable reason, American-made bathroom fixtures, fix-tures, part of a building bottle-reck bottle-reck north of the border, often can be bought here. But border officials, while reporting there have been several instances of sinks, commodes and bathtubs going to Texas builders, caution that it's a long way from a big business. A neighborhood of real folks These are central figures in a South Memphis housing drama with a happy theme. Here's the cast of this real-life true story: G. E. Rogers: twice-torpedoed navy veteran of four years in the Southwest Pacific, electrician by trade, photo studio salesman, too. Mrs. Rogers: his wife, ah auburn au-burn beauty from a seashore suburb of Perth, Australia. They met during the war. Eric: their son. He was born in Australia. Mrs. W. T. Stewart, a widow, their landlady: Glen Stewart, her son; Minnie Stewart, Glen's wife; Leo Warren, a friend of Rogers from the photo studio; H. K. Stewart, Mr. Smith, Mr. Cannon and other friends and neighbors. Act I: Rogers, wife and child reach Memphis from Australia. They room with Mrs. W. T. Stewart. He seeks suitable work and fails to find it. They leave Memphis in June, 1046, for his father's place in Red Bank, Ala. Act II: Rogers, wife and child return to Memphis in November, 1946. They cannot find a place to stay because every time they locate a vacancy they are refused as tenants because they have a child. Their former 'landlady, Mrs. Stewart, has no more rooms to rent because she has converted her house to a boarding nursery for children, but she takes them in for a few days anyhow. Rogers' Rog-ers' eye falls on a tumbledown, dirt-floored but vacant garage out back. He asks Mrs. Stewart, "Can I fix that for a home?" "Welcome," she replied, "and it won't cost you a cent rent." Act III: Rogers, altho already working hard at two jobs, finds time of an evening and on Sundays to buy rough oak boards, building paper, roofing, and makes a start. Glen Stewart pitches in to help him. Minnie and Mrs. Rogers plan the interior.- Leo Warren drops by to help. Mr. Smith lends his tools. All up and down Niese, people act to help the GI who is helping himself. . Act IV: The Rogers move into their shack." It still looks "shack-y loutside. But not inside. The bed room triples as living room and dining room. The kitchen is a compact, ship-style "galley." A buzzer notifies them when a hone call has come to Mrs. itewart's house for them. Act V: The buzzer sounds for Roeers. Going to the phone, he finds it is a reporter, wanting to write the deal up. He agrees. Curtain, as sssr-a-'-a M v k gAC-rT. IB wi if m , ' London Crowds Give Americans Great Reception LONDON. March 28 (U.R) Po lice squads hoisted Barbara Stanwyck Stan-wyck and her husband Robert Taylor on their shoulders last night and carried them disheveled but' unhurt into the Enmire theater through 5,000 surging fans gathered for the opening-of Miss Stanwyck's film The Other Love.' The throng gathered in Leicest er Square was so eager to glimpse the stars that it shoved the mounted police guard, horses and all, into the theater lobby. "It was so overwhelming I was terrified for a few minutes," Miss Stanwyck said as she relaxed on a lobby divan. "Then I found they were so good humored." As she spoke, Taylor knelt at her feet and solicitously rubbed er wrists and ankles. After the performance, the Tay lors escaped out a back door while the crowd milled into the foyer. The fans crowded outside the Empire long before the stars ap peared. They blocked traffic and smashed a glass display frame advertising the film. Movie to Show Traclt Drivers As Bright, Honest, Dignified Gentlemen AUTOrSV ORDERED IN FIGHT DEATH LONG BEACH. Cal., March 27 (U.PJ Police today ordered an autopsy in the death of amateur boxer J. T. Horton, 23. who died last night after he was struck in the temple during a boxing match. Police said Horton collapsed from a blow to the right temple during the third round of a bout with S2C Robert Bouclelle at Municipal auditorium. By PATRICIA CLARY i United Press SUff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, March 28 (OR) -Movie Producer-Director Royl De Ruth said today that he was making a movie in which truck drivers are intelligent and dig- xunea gentlemen. Del Ruth said he was taking the advice of an advisory committee com-mittee of burly truck drivers who convinced him that Hollywood's version of the typical -American truck driver was all wrong. "I'm as much of a gentleman as any so-and-so Sunday driver who tries to crowd me off the road," roared Malcolm Connell, spokesman for the committee. "Movies are wrong in always making the truck drivers look ill-mannered.' Del Ruth agreed. "Treatment of truck drivers in pictures has been practically scandalous," he said. "They're not all big, illiterate illit-erate bruisers and they're no more discourteous, than any other motorist." In Del Ruth's picture, "Red Light," the leading characters are commercial truckers. But none of them are husky, stupid, dese-and-does guys who break traffic regulations and growl at passing motorists. Del Ruth's drivers are noble examples for American motorists None of them will be permitted to glower or shout "Oh, yeah?" at a policeman. "A truck driver never is a road hog," Connell advised Del Ruth. "His truck is just big. Commer cial drivers are really more care ful; and courteous and observant of the other fellow's rights. .They have to be, or they wouldn't last long." . Questionable portions of Del Ruth's script were censored by the -Committee of Allied Artists' truck drivers. In the original script a driver discovered almost too late that his -truck couldn't clear a low bridge.- The committee laughed, and said' that no professional driver starts without checking those things. In another important scene. stevedores loading a truck delib erately leave the cargo unse cured and it drops off during the trip. That couldn't happen," , the committee argued. "A driver al ways checks the cargo himself. . Del Ruth said it was a key point in his story, but he pen cilled it out anyway. Somebody has to give the truck drivers a break," he said. BABE IS FAVORITE AUGUSTA, Ga., March 27 (U.R) Mrs. Babe Didrikson Zaharias, fresh from a clean sweep of Florida Flor-ida women's tournaments, was an overwhelming favorite today as the eighth annual title-holders golf tournament got underway over the Augusta Country club course. John Alden, friend of Miles Standish and husband of Priscilla, was the last of the Pilgrim fathers. fath-ers. He died in 1687.- DAILY HERALD Friday, March 2SV 1947 9 Bathers Warned Of War Leftovers SAN FRANCISCO UJ Warning" Warn-ing" ocean, bathers and fishermen against handling: strange, objects found on west coast, beachesrthe I 12th Naval .District revealed several sev-eral near-tragedies. In one instance a fishing boat skipper netted' a live depth charge, lifted it aboard his vessel and brought it into port, for in vestigation. 3omb experts discovered discov-ered the" charge was armed and dangerous. In another case, a mother dis-, covered her six-year-old ton playing in the sand with a long tin object, which upon Investigation Investi-gation turned out to be a live bomb fuse. Lenten Dish! Deci"o;ws Thrifty TUNA CUTLETS f tmm Staf-Kit Ta 1(2 tmp Milk . 2a 3 fcl Imt 1 c dry hrm4 il 4raia4frat ' mall - IviMiawlrMlkMttr lf3 crack. ar maraariaa arcraatas S taalat aaaa flawr 114 tMifM Blend flour, oil and melted butter. Stir milk in gradually and cook until thick and smooth. Add tuna, well beaten egg and bread crumbs. Mix thoroughly and chill. Form into cutlet shapes, dip in slighdy beaten egg and roll in cracker crumbs. Brush with melted fat. Bake in moderately Tiotoven(3750)untii brown about 20 minutes. Turn once during baking. EXCITING TUNA RECIPES FREE I Ideas galore to brighten yourtinten sad Spring menu. Send for the new. colorful. 24 .page Star-Kist Tuna Recipe Book. Tetted recipes for deliciout. unusual souffle, casseroles, salads and other tasty dishes. Inspiring, thrifijr treats featuring Star-Kist, the nner-flafored. tuna. Fishing pictures and sea lore, too. for the menfolks and children. For yourree copr, write name and adflress plainly on post card. Mail' to Star-Kist Tuna, Terminal bland. California. Dept. 34) . -a.-Bsss.sss-iss. aassssssasssmsa... In some parts of the Philippines Philip-pines and Japan, during the birth of a child the father must take to his bed and simulate Jabor. 2 L Seed Grains Recleaned - Treated -Bagged CWT. 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