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Show THE LEIH SUN. LEW. UTAH 4 ic res irtr I VENTURERS' CLUB ! pUNES FROM THE LIVES (ifOPLE II K E YOURSEIFI W 1 1 99 i "River of Death MLO EVERYBODY: 1111' I Here's a yarn of two men who followed a dog al-'L al-'L L their doom. One of these men was Fred Rowan of N. Y, The OUier was nis inena ana nunung cum fd was working down in Costa Rica in 1922, as over- f a banana farm, tsat was anomer young American !so worked on the plantation. On New Year's morn-!e morn-!e pair of them started out on a hunting trip, taking Bat S uOg.; Ana Uiai inutv tcu uicui mig uic wum ther of them had ever been in in their lives. dog, Fred says, was a brainless animal, untrained ore trouble than he was worth on a hunting trip. They ossed a bridge over a river, struck into the tropical i along a well known trail ana naa Deen nunung ior an ;vhen the dog ran off into the underbrush and, a few nts later, set up a ternhc yelping. yelled: "Come on the pigs have himl" And the two men were trail crashing through matted brush to save the dog from the 3 of the region wmcn wouia tear nun w pieces in no nine, tuejr into low, swampy land ana louna tne aog. to j? rea s aisgust ere no pigs. Tne cause a an ine commouon was a uuie motn- wamp squirrel. ' Rain Drives Them Toward Higher Ground. that moment it started raining, as only it can rain in the tropics. the two men started, bade in wnat tney tnought was the direction ami iw eround. "But," says Fred, "we couidn t see more than 30 feet tut. ilhrough the dense vegetation, and soon we were hopelessly mud- he clAll day long we tried this direction and that, but to no avail. UK 01 ' "Pif 1 gene: red bv ard,'r n4 sters, Phil: peppe chei :ontai oonfd a bis liquid ts full :sia."; OOCtiM it M few know 3 life oA, J lie covered the crossing with a big automatic rifle. E '"Iblng over vines and roots, we floundered helplessly in that tropic ""kti Late in the afternoon we came out on a bit of solid ground ' VaSejthe river. We tried to head upstream, but ran Into another ie, rsip We made our way back to the high ground and all night we acr::ile4 there, cold and wet, with the rain dinning in our ears. Dawn in 4 s wretched with hunger and thirst, for with all the water around jorie of it was safe to drink. Across the river we could see waving iW leaves. Over there would be trails, and a trolley line leading to , baroad. If we could only get across." I ,tq jl!ut to get across that river meant swimming and the river full of alligators. On the other hand, it would be almost If Jjjnliad to go back into the jungle. In front of Fred's eyes was iy r.f Picture of a native he had found a month before. He had been )ur cM for 13 days and when Fred found him he had gone into his :ontl8s sleep a shrunken body covered with torn and festered skin, i'fen alligators would be better than that. annc:N; vaS Bat who decided Fred. - Bat was just over an attack of any , md he was the weaker of the two. "Stay here and rot il you f ttai he croaked- "rm going across the river." Fred felt the the a? ay abou it. He told Bat to go ahead that he'd stay on the bank mep a rifle and "cover" his crossing with his big automatic rifle. Car-5xpe!& Car-5xpe!& tie lighter rifle a .22 Bat called his dog and plunged into the sharr'l maae steady progress, and no alligators showed their noses Hfe Sue surface of the stream. But Fred was relieved when at last mtheSWftbed up on the other bank, ththt'Bft motioned t0 me come along," says Fred, "and with a sick IsioE ? made a few simple preparations. My rifle was much too see J nd awkward to hold; so I unlaced my belt half way, threaded it 3reor the trigger guard and refastened it around my waist. This per- it. i barrel to swing between my legs and gave me freedom to T I entered the water it occurred to me that Bat was covering approach with a .22 full of water. A .22 wouldn't even dent an alli- emer s tough hide. But by then I was out in the current and swimming." lp th Fred swam steadily. He was making it. And then, when he DUt a scant 15 feet from shore, something struck him a terrific -T. tow in the small of the back. At that moment, Fred had visions f big, scaly snout poking at him before making the final grab. v; aingator! Panic seized him. He threw nn bis hands and I- tamed, "Oh my God!" And as hr did so hp. ent a elimDse of E-ls face above him and horror was written all over it. 3?aT' 1 Ie rawle Ashore and Fell Face Down. ?uo I"1 thrashed madly in the water," he says, "and as I did so I iuo M bottom with my knees. I crawled ashore and flopped face TT. n oa 0x6 ground, gagging and retching with nausea. I lay m -e for a while, and then Bat helped me to my feet and steadied Jne while I took the rifle off my belt." ...... I k stafted to walk away, neither man spoke. Nothing was e b::f "out Fred's terrifying exnerience. Darkness had fallen again. - ater much stumbling they came to the trolley line that led to the -Joal just beforg midnight they came in sight of the winkirg lights :, P'antation camp. They took some whisky and a stiff dose of if apiece and went to bed. ' , .. 1 The next morninsr Fred s morning Fred got op and began taking stock and surprise of his life. When he came to examine his rifle 7 llhe t Jound that the barrel ivaa cnlii fFnm iho mnvsl film net nfl iA i,stock Tnen ne asked Bat a few questions they hadn't spoken 4 lat swbn across the river before and found oat all about that ' . 'Sator' that bad given him such a scare the evening before. . . ... r. f a 3ust djx'i ist It was the gun that had given him ,0ke. 'The motion of swimming;" Fred says, "had pushed th la 'safety' and the "idge, exploding under water, . created a terrific recoil which e skock of the gun into the small of my back. Bat had seen place, and thought from my cries that I had been shot Hence ression of horror oa bis face. And I, of course, thought it was 1 Something had attar.kpd ma ILI-ir mind hati ViPAn ton rfavprl to sorrf. the flly of swimmine with a laarfpd mm ." tion Tfl another fnlw . . aajrs ue 11 never repeal is kuiiik hi uie itituc .'f lf-witted do? Copyright WNTJ Service. irry m j nute'f i in ot ,ut.C SOT ice '' rf- vr.' . me racmo "5 d U on equator in m 159 deg. W, while pau and w 6 deg. if. and in Ion-tfidsS- W. Both are tiny If f e Pacific, with an area t.1 square miles each. P w uninhabited. The States-iearbook States-iearbook lisU them among Possessions; Whitaker's Al-fBrit Al-fBrit sh ' -"uwieages tnem ITlOan TT . ... iuey arp pnn value for eoconuts and out more important in con- -ajjdcuic air routes. Old Sore Spot, Memel Makes Trouble Again Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.i-WNU Service. Recent elections In Memel, ithuania, resulting fat re ported Nazi party victories, swings the busy European news spotlight to another German-border sore spot. Lying along. the northeast rontier of East Prussia (now cut oft from the rest of Germany by the "Polish Corridor"), Memel territory is an irregular sliver of land covering an area of about 1,000 square miles. In general a farming and cattle-raising region, it has a Ship Island, Military Post Ship island in Mississippi was reserved re-served for military purposes by the executive order of August 30, 1847, In 1861 the island was occupied by Confederate troops. In September, 1861, the United States naval forces took possession of the island. The present works on the island were commenced in 1862. Ship island was used as a base for military opera tions in the gulf from that time on. It was sold in 1933 to the Joe Gra ham post. No. 119, of the American Legion. 'HUNGARY Map showing MemeUs stra tegic position as a Baltic out let for Lithuania, also Us con tiguous position to German Prussia. population of about 150,000 people and includes the long-contested and vital Baltic port of Memel "Klai peda" to the Lithuanians. Given up by Germany under the Versailles treaty, Memelland was administered by the Allied powers for several years after the World war. In 1924, following Lithuania's action of the previous year in taking over the area, Memel territory with certain autonomous rights- was legally ceded to mat country in a League of Nations pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and Lithuania. Since then Memel has periodically rated news space as one of Europe's problem chil dren. An International Football. Such dramatic events as it has seen since the war, however, are mild compared with the bloody past of this strip of land on the cross roads of international history. More than 700 years ago, before the town of Memel was founded, its site was a battleground between Lithuanian tribes and invading Teutonic Teu-tonic JCnights, a military and religious re-ligious order of German crusaders. Destroying the Lithuanian fortress which stood guard against Baltic pirates, the Knights built their own stronghold, following it with the town of "Memelburg." As an early trade center, Memel grew and prospered, but found little peace. In the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries, it was attacked at-tacked and burned time and again in a three-cornered tug-of-war between be-tween Lithuanians, Poles and Teutons, Teu-tons, the latter winning out in the Peace of Melno in 1422. For a short time in the 1600s, the Swedes called Memel theirs; later it was occupied by Russian troops. After sacking and burning the town they left it to the mercy of a deadly plague. But the stubborn city again struggled to its feet As a thriving Prussian town, it became, until the World war, Germany's northernmost northern-most Baltic port. Lithuania's Window on the Sea. Today Memel is the Lithuanian republic's only good port. Modernized Modern-ized by the government with new wharves, warehouses, docking machinery, ma-chinery, grain elevators, and cold storage equipment the old city has been given a new lease on life, not only as a timber center, but as a general transit port for foreign and domestic trade. Regular shipping service links it with British, Polish and Latvian ports; rail and airplane lines connect it with Berlin and Mos-jcow. Mos-jcow. Much of Lithuania's commerce flows through Memel, including im ports of textiles, coal, machinery, and cement; and exports of bacon, butter, eggs, lumber and skins. To its protected harbor, which, unlike many other Baltic ports, never freezes over, nearly 1,400 ships came in 1936. A Non-Melting Pot. Sandwiched between East Prussia and Lithuania, both the territory and town of Memel are mixtures of German and Lithuanian influence. Like that other border region of Su-detenland, Su-detenland, where German population popula-tion is largely centered in the cities, with the Czechs in the country, Memelland's Teutonic concentration is urban; the Lithuanians are predominant pre-dominant in rural districts. Memelland has not only Lithuania's Lithu-ania's sole port but also four-fifths of its already limited seaboard with a teeming fishing industry. While Memelland is not especially fertile, particularly in the sandy regions near the shore, it holds the lower and navigable section of Lithuania's chief river, the Nemunas, a vital 1 economic artery of the country. Liberia, Uncle Sam's Protege, Tightens Bonds ivith Sponsor "71 I m iui -sr it MMMft t y TOW' Prepared by National Geographic Society, wasningion, u. wmu oeivite. Another link in Uncle Sam's bond with Africa's only independent inde-pendent republic was forged recently with the signing ot a new treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation with the "Black Republic" of Liberia. Colonized by freed slaves of the United States some 40 years before the Civil war, Liberia has long been a "protege" of the United States. Although established as a free and independent republic in 1847, this West African country has, in its turbulent history, more than, once turned to the larger republic re-public for "aid and comfort" Its flag, constitution, and government are patterned, with certain reservations, reserva-tions, after the U. S. model, while an American receiver heads the commission in charge of customs duties. Zebra Antelope Size of Small Goat. A ragged patch of land on the under side of the great west African shoulder that bulges into the Atlantic Atlan-tic ocean, Liberia is about the size of Ohio, with a population estimated at more than a million and a half Christian, Moslem and pagan Negroes. Ne-groes. As the last stop of the continental con-tinental curve on the sea lane, between be-tween Europe and South Africa, this state occupies a strategic geographic geograph-ic position. Furthermore, the "Grain Coast" (so-called from its one-time trade in pepper, or "Grains of Paradise,") Para-dise,") not only boasts one of the more healthful climates for this part of the world, but a wealth of natural nat-ural resources, and some of nature's best side-show oddities. Star Bust k Pick of the New Crop Tone Takes Up N. Y, k Kerrigan Still Leaving 1 lly Virginia Vale 1 TF ,YOU don't believe that -I "Motion pictures are your best entertainment," but that only really good pictures can come under that heading, you'll be interested (I think) in knowing which ones an expert ex-pert has selected as the best of the new crop. The expert Is W. G. Van Schmus, managing director of the Radio City Music HalL in New York. Mr. Van Schmus is on a spot always. Visitors to New York, as well ts natives, na-tives, troop to his theater. He can't let them go away saying that the show was good but why In the world did he select that picture to go with It! Ushering In the new year with "Topper Takes a Trip," co-starring Constance Bennett and Roland Young, he picked "There's That Woman Again," (Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce), to follow it Then "Trade Winds," (Frederio March and Joan Bennett), "The Great Man Votes," (John Barry-more, Barry-more, Virginia Weldler), "Gunga Din," (Cary Grant Victor McLag-len, McLag-len, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), "Mads for Each Other," (co-starring Carole Car-ole Lombard and James Stewart), "Love Affair," (with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer), and "Stage Coach" (with Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carra-dine, Carra-dine, and Louise Piatt). Each film is scheduled for a week's run. The theater accommo dates an audience of more than 6,000 persons; the picture Is shown five times a day. It has to be good, you seel , Franchot Tone bobs up all over New York these days; leaving Hoi lywood certainly didn't mean leav ing the limelight He Is appearing on the stage in a new play, doing a A general view of the main street of Monrovia, capital of the African republic of Liberia, Li-beria, during the military parade pa-rade featuring the inauguration inaugura-tion of President Edwin Barclay, Bar-clay, early in 1936. Found in Liberia, for example, is the zebra antelope, no bigger than a small goat and made up in prison garb of broad black stripes on a bright brown coat Two species of Liberian shrew (a molelike creature with velvety fur) are peculiar to the country; while out of "Alice in Wonderland" itself is a local version of the dormouse, a small rodent whose habit of going torpid in cold weather may have had something to do with his sleepy characterization at Alice's famous tea party. Untapped Economic Wealth. Liberia has been called the "Garden "Gar-den Spot of West Africa," blessed with the "good earth," dense tropical trop-ical forests, mineral deposits and that modern essential to a world-on-wheels, rubber. Its well-watered soil is capable of producing a lush growth of coconuts, a good grade of coffee, considerable cocoa, cotton, and rice. Its pasture land is well suited to the raising of goats, sheep and caUle. Gold and diamonds are found there, as well as eopper, zinc and iron. Yet with the exception of the vast rubber plantations worked under concession to American interests, much of this potential wealth is as sterile as buried treasure. In an area of some 43,000 square miles, there is no railway, and only about 150 miles of motor road. lilt T Is t OUT3I0S j I EDGg FINISH 9 1 2 Gifts, Novelties and Embroidery, Embroid-ery, will give you a new interest for long winter evenings. It contains con-tains complete directions for making mak-ing many useful things. Books are 25 cents each; if you order both books, Patchwork Quilt Leaflet Leaf-let is incjuded free; it contains 33 authentic stitches illustrated in de tail. Address: Mrs. Spears. 2103 Desplaine3 St., Chicago, 111. "HEAR MRS. SPEARS: With have just made a slip cover for a wing chair. I never would have tried it if your directions had not been so clear. I am now planning an other slip cover and draperies which I would like to trim in fringe. Will you please show me with a 6ketch how I should sew the fringe? Also should the draperies and chair match? M. J.N." . This reader evidently agrees with the Chinese proverb, "One picture is worth a thousand words." So here are the sketches showing how to apply fringe in the seams of slip covers and also for an edge finish. The raw edge of the material in the lower sketch is turned to the right side and fringe is stitched over it. If figured draperies are used, the best effect is obtained if not more than one slip cover in the room is of figured material. Plain slip covers may match one or more of the colors in draperies rug or wall paper. NOTE: Now is the time to give your house a fresh start. Crisp new curtains; a bright sup cover; a new lampshade; or ottoman will do the trick. Make these things yourself. Mrs. Spears' Book 1 SEWING, for the Home Decora tor, shows you how with step by 6tep, easy to follow sketches. Book AROUND THE HOUSE FRANCHOT TONE bit of radio work, and recently shared honors with Abe Lyman and Dick Foran as a celebrity at the first of the International Casino's "Sunday Night Informals," dedicated dedicat-ed to celebrities. When J. M. Kerrigan arrived in Hollywood eight years ago he said that he'd stay long enough to play the film role he'd been engaged for and then he'd go back to Ireland. He was then one of the Abbey players. play-ers. He's still in Hollywood, (a role to "The Great Man Votes' was the most recent bait), and still thinks that, as soon as be can get away, he'll go back to Ireland, Edward Small is in favor of giving giv-ing new people a chance in his pictures. pic-tures. It was he who brought Robert Donat to this country to appear In "The Count of Monte Cristo," and recently he made Louis HaywaM a star in "The Duke of West Point" In his current production, "King ot the Turf," starring Adolphe Men-Jou, Men-Jou, it's 15-year-old Roger Daniel who gets the big break. With radio and stage tempting movie stars to lose Interest in motion picture-making, picture-making, it's a wise producer who can spot talent and cultivate It and put it under contractl By the way, in "The Duke of West Point" you'll see some old-timers-Mary MacLaren, William Bakewell and Kenneth Harlan. Use for Old Christmas Cards. When you are through with your Christmas cards, the children wil, enjoy cutting, pasting and redeco rating them. Cleaning Isinglass. Apply vine gar on a cioth to the stains on isinglass on stoves. With a little rubbing, the stains will come off Lowering High Ceilings. One way to help make a ceiling look lower is to use simple valances at high windows. Flavoring Mashed Potatoes. One teaspoon of onion juice or half a sliced raw onion added to mashed potatoes gives them a dif ferent flavor. For Coffee Stains. Remove coffee cof-fee stains from table linen with glycerin. Apply glycerin and let stand three or four hours or until stain disappears. For Gravy or Soup. When you wish to make gravy or soup with the water in which meat has been cooked, wring a cloth out in cold water and strain the liquor through it. No grease will go through. xne vnua s i;nair. a child s dining chair should be only deep enough to support his back and yet shallow enough to allow his knees to bend, and it should have a support if the child's feet do not reach the floor. Safety Measure. Chemical fire extinguishers nave saved many homes from being reduced to ashes. Even a bucket of sand or damp sawdust is effective if used before a fire gets too much start All of the music that Frank R. White, organist on Dr. William L. SUdger's "Getting the Most Out of Life" program, writes for the Stid-ger Stid-ger hymns must stand up under Mrs. White's "24 hour test" When he writes a new hymn tune Mrs. White plays It twice on the organ. or-gan. Then if she's able to play It from memory the next day Whit feels sure that the public will remember re-member the tune without any effort ef-fort But does he make allowances for the fact that Mrs. White probably prob-ably has an unusual memory? ODDS AND ENDS Joan Fontaine tan claim to be one girl in a thousand; the cast of "Gunga Din" numbert about IfiOO, and sAe'i the lone female in it . . . Gabriel 11 editor has m private telephone tele-phone number but thi$ host of "We, the People" gives it to to many friends that it might as well be in the phone book . . . hum end Abner frequently telephone tele-phone former neighbors in Arkansas in order to keep the right vocal inflection for their radio voork . , . Richard llim-ber's llim-ber's commitments for this year include in-clude three different programs en the three different networks for three different dif-ferent sponsors. Western Newspaper Union. ACTS FAST TO BRING RELIEF FROM COLDS This Simple Way Eases i Pain with Amazing Speed i jy s . J L To earn pain and discomfort and ft due fever take t lUjer Tablet druikagUuiaal water. 2. If throat la raw from cold, crush and dlaaolve I Uayee Tablets la Hla of water . gargle. Use Genuine BAYER Aspirin the Moment Your Cold Starts The simple way pictured above often brings amazingly fast relief from discomfort and sore throat accompanying colds. Try it Then - see your doctor. lie probably will tell you to continue con-tinue with Bayer Aspirin because it acts so fast to relieve discomforts of a cold. And to reduce fever. This simple way, backed by scientific authority, has largely supplanted sup-planted the use of strong medicines in easing cold symptoms. Perhaps the easiest most effective way yet discovered. But make sure you get genuine UAYliU Aspma. 15 r OR 12 TABLETS 2 FULL DOZEN 25o Joys Concealed He who can conceal his joys, la greater than he who can hide his grief s.Lavater. How Women in Their Ws Can Attract Mm Here's good advtoe for woman during ht?r change (udually from 88 to b'Z), who loars ahe'll inae hr appeal to men, who worrn-s about bot llanhi'8, loss of pop, dizzy spells, upset nerves and moody spells. Get more freah air, 8 hrs. sloop and If you need a guoi K. Pinklia etveriaUv I up physical rueiHtance, tbus nin give more vivacity to enjoy life and a.t calming; jittery nervea and disturbing aymptoma that often accompany change of Ula. WELL, WOBTa TRViNGI a good general ayatem tonic take Lyrlia inkliam s Vegetable Compound, mads tally fur women. It helps Nature build Overburdened A dying man can do nothing easy. Franklin. HEADAC Hera Is Amazing Hollet for Conditions Dus to Blugolart Bowel) v-f . y J .It you thloi al! laxatives IJdiuTMwcda JiSftaSwS! -rsry-yyi TT.sw Ba mlM miK re- IreaniiiK. Invigorating. Dependable rrtlef from sick headaches, bilious spells, Ural teellug when associated wltn eomrtluatlon. Ul-iL.,,! n:.L art a 2f0 bot of KB from yonr nltnOUl KISK amnulxt. Make the teat then If not delighted, return the box to us. We wUt reruna the purcnane ' " - - & .7 pric Get 1 ALWAYS CARR, JTt'T lift rr QUiCK RELIEF FOR ACID INDIGESTION ow 25 Women Lost Ugly FAT In Special I). Y. Tes Atb Your Doctor If It Isn't Good Wy Rod EVERY Word NEW YORK. N. Y. In a test by a prominent N. Y. Physician and nationally known newspaper woman 25 women lost a total of 286 lbs. in 40 davs. YOU, too, can follow this SAME, SENSIBLE plan right at home and here it is: First of sll go light on fatty meats and sweett. Eat plentifully of lean meats, fih, fowl, fresh fruits end yesretables. And for proper functioning by removal of accumulated accumu-lated wastes take a half teaspoonful of Kruschen in hot water every morning. morn-ing. DON'T MISS A MORNING. Kruschen is made ripht here In TJ. S. A. from famous EnglUh formula. And this is IMPORTANT! Kruscfaea la NOT harmful. It ta not Just ens aalt as soma people linerantly believe. Rather, it'a a blend of 6 active minerals, which when dissolved In water make a healthful health-ful mineral drink similar te effective Spa waters where wealthy wemcn have tana tor years. A Jar of Kruschen costs enly- a. few cents and lasts weeks. So, fat ladies eet some sumption! MAKE UP YOUR MIND YOU'LL STICK to the above Plan for 28 days and just see if yon don't lose fat and feel healthier and younger. You eaa get Kruschen at druggists everywhere. Classified Advertising HAVE YOU anything around the house you would like to trade or sell? Try a classified classi-fied ad. The cost is only a few cents and there are probahly a lot of folks looking for just whatever what-ever it Is you no longer have use for Classified Ads Get Results 1 1 |