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Show PAGE TWO THE I ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! EVERYBODY: know, boys and girls, there are two kinds of adventures the kind that hits you like a ton of bricks and is all over in about five seconds, and the kind that sneaks up on you slowly and subtly and sticks .with you until you're worn down to the point of exhaustion. And it's the latter sort of tale you're going to hear today the story of how Charles Mahler of Brooklyn, N. Y., stepped onto a boat weighing a hundred and forty-fiv- e pounds on a bright day in the winter of 1921, to stagger off it five days later weighing a scant one hundred and ten. Not many reducing addicts would want to follow Charley Mahler's formula for growing thin, though, for it was sheer unadulterated terror that took the pounds off his body. Five days and nights of the most helpless fear he had ever experienced in his life. The story starts In the HELLO Dominican Republic, down in the West todies. Charley had been working there for a sugar concern in La Romana. for about six months. He was off on a week's vacation in Santo Domingo City when orders came transferring him to Barahona, in the same country, where a new project was being started. Books Passage on Sailing Vessel. time a In At about that strike the steamship industry had tied op all the boats. Charley was told that there wouldn't be a steamer sailing for Barahona for three weeks. There are darned few railroads or motor road In the Dominican Republic, and none of them went where Charley wanted to go. It was a boat or nothing. So Charley did the only other thing he could do. He strolled down to the waterfront and booked a passage on a sailing vessel which was leaving port that night. It was supposed to be an overnight trip. Charley had heard strange tales about these sailing packets, so he left his belongings behind to be shipped by freight. With two guns in his pockets and a round of ammunition under his shirt he walked aboard the vessel. It was pitch He saw two dark figures on the deck. dark. His bed the only accommodation the boat afforded was a common wooden box placed on deck. Charley sat down on the box and watched the boat glide out of the harbor. They had barely reached the ocean when a storm blew up. Dark shadows began rising from the deck. There were 40 Haitian natives, also bound for Barahona. It was then that Charley discovered he was the only white man on the boat and the natives of those parts have been known to kill a white man for his shoes. The storm was now knocking the little craft around with all the fury of a tropic cyclone. "Scared?"sailing says Charley. "I was ossified." The captain himself was Jet black, but I slipped him ten dollars for protection. He offered me the hospitality of his cabin. The odor of it damned near killed me. It was with bedbugs and roaches and alive with rats and mice. When crawling I awoke next morning I was really sick from sleeping there, but it was a safer bet than sleeping outside." That morning there wasn't a breath of air stirring. The captain had bad news for Charley when he awoke. The ship had been blown ten miles off Us course and the steering gear was out of commission. The captain was depending entirely on the wind. If they waited long enough it wouU eventually blow them to Barahona. "That whole day," says Charley, "I sat staring at the natives and they cat looking at me. There was no food on the beat and the water had turned hot In the tropic heat. Toward evening I noticed several natives holding a conference and I felt trouble brewing. The blacks were getting hungry, and they'd take It out on me." And what was Charley going to do for sleep that night? He knew darned well he could never stand another night in the filthy, stuffy cabin. He spoke to the captain again and made another bargain. The captain stood the night watch at the wheel, and he agreed to watch over Charley while he slept near him on deck, his body lashed to the rail of the vessel. The Natives Become More Restless. But yon don't get much sleep lashed to a railing. All night long Charley lay awake listening to the snores of the natives around him and thinking of the comforts of home. The next day was hot and humid. Hunger gnawed at his Innards, but he had to make the best of it. The native were getting more and more restless. They eyed Charley's clothes with covetous looks that became more and more Insolent and apparent. And still there was no sign of the wind that would blow them Into Barahona. That night, worn out by two days and nights of wakefulness, Charley fell asleep. Sometime ln the dark hours he woke up suddenly, by sheer instinct In the dim light of a tropic moon he saw two dark figures creeping along the deck toward him two natives great, husky blacks with machetes in their mouths I "They didn't know my eyes were open," he says, "if they had known It I wouldn't be alive today. But their Ignorance gave me an opportunity to draw my guns." Charley got those guns out Just as the natives were taking their machetes from their mouths. He whipped up one gun and fired twice. In an instant, two men were dead on the deck and the whole ship was ln an uproar. Dark figures enme swarming toward him. The captain was a big, powerful fcl.'ow. Charley says he was built on the style of Harry Wills in his prime. He picked Charley up with one hand, threw him into his cabin head first, and then, with the aid of a revolver and his powerful physique, held that furious mob at bay. Captain Threatens to Sink the Ship. The next morning the captain held an Inquiry, announced that and threatened la sink the ship Charley had shot in If any more attempts were made on bis life. "Calm was restored at last," says Charley. "And In the meantime, for four solid days and nights we had nothing to eat and little to drink." On the fifth day they sighted land but when they tied the boat up to shore later on that day, Charley was too weak to walk the gangplank. They carried him up it, weighing a hundred and ten pounds all that was left of the hundred and forty-fivpounds of good solid flesh he had carried when he got aboard that lugger at the waterfront of Santo Domingo City. WNU e, e Copyright. Meaning o Word Beccaflros word beccaficos literally and is applied means to a small, itparrowlike bird found in Cyprus. They arrive from Syria in enormous flocks to gorge on figs and become so fat they can scarcely fly. Their plump bodies ar salted and spiced and made Into an excellent pickle by a rare recipe handed down from the Crusaders. In the process of pickling, the bones are softened and the whole bird is calen. The Service. Tusks Shipped te London Elephant tusks from the African and Indian Jungles are shipped to London, says Pearson's London Weekly. Here an age-oltrade, the cutting and selling of Ivory to buyers from all over the world, goes ot. unchanged, much as It has for years. It takes 1.200 elephants to provide the market with ivory for one year. Few elephants are killed for their tusks. Most of the ivory Is collected by natives from dead elephants found in the jungles. d oi the newspaper. can now be a formidable my, the two democracies are ing to make peace. Italy enewill- British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a speech defending his policy of "appeasing" dictators, Agriculture V. S. cotton farmers having voted has led Italy to believe he will work on for territorial concessions to impose taxes on any producer who markets more than his share France's part Italy's demands in clude Savoy, Nice, Corsica, Tunisia In 1939, last spring's agricultural adjustment act seems destined for and the East African seaport of enforcement next year with little Djibouti Thus Europe has apparently change. Not only the cotton elec tion, but three other signs have givemerged from another war scare into another period of diplomatic en encouragement to AAA supporters: conversations, to be followed proba(1) At New Orleans, President bly next spring by a German drive Edward A. O'Neal of the powerful into the Russian Ukraine. Among American Farm Bureau federation the latest diplomatic moves is Gertold his convention that AAA, cou- many's effort to consolidate its expled with the soil conservation act, port trade position in the face of the marketing agreements act and strenuous international objection to allied legislation "gives us the best Jewish persecution. Seeking to kill farm program we have two birds with one stone, Dr. Hjal-mever had." Hitting criticism based Schacht of the Reichsbank has on currently low wheat and cotton proposed several plans for permitprices, he said: "Everybody knows ting German Jews to emigrate with a portion of their capital, in the d exform of port items. Dr. Schacht's recent trip to London on foreign trade business emphasizes Germany's anxiety over the United Kingdom's redoubled efforts to combat any Nazi commercial threat. ar German-manufacture- Congress Last winter Texas' Rep. Wright Patman offered congress a measure to tax chain stores out of existence. Its gist: To levy graded assessments from $50 per store on small chains to $1,000 per store on large chains, each store tax to be multiplied by the number of states in which the chain operated. Sample: A chain operating in 48 states plus the Dis trict of Columbia would pay $49,000 per store annually on each store over 500. Though boasting 73 Mr. Patman's bill failed. Also de " r feated was a New York state chain "J ' , store tax, which signified that chains FARM BUREAU'S O'NEAL had more friends than their foes had 'Compare . . . then toy candidly . . ." expected. But an apparently dying the law was passed too late for issue was revived as congress adwheat growers to comply . . . and journed, for Mr. Patman announced his bill would be introduced in Janeverybody knows that the cotton 1939, as House Resolution No. surplus was produced in 1937, not uary, 1938 . . . Compare the farm income 1. Battle lines since formed presage this year with the 1932 figure, and a bitter contestn next month, as agitators rethen say candidly whether or not our chains and ' view their cases: have the farmer." programs helped The importance of Mr. O'Neal's Supporting Mr. Patnational trend statement is that Farm Bureau opin- man is a ion could be a mighty force against (now questionable) which caused 21 state legislatures to enact chain store AAA abolition agitation. taxes. Another state, Colorado, last (2) At Winnipeg, AAA Administrator R. M. Evans spiked rumors of month rejected a referendum to kill drastic wheat acreage curtailment a similar levy. Having won passage act also an next year by pointing out that U. S. of his Robinson-Patma- n measure, Mr. Patman farmers could not be expected to his accept such curtailment without bases thatnew attack on familiar chains (1) force indesimilar action by other exporting charges nations. Hoping that government pendent merchants out of business; subsidized exports need be only a (2) cause low farm prices; (3) take temporary measure, Mr. Evans nev- money out of the community. U. S. census figures ertheless defended it as a justified step to give the U. S. a fair share show a decreasing number of chain stores and more independents, while of the export market. federal trade commission statistics (3) At Washington, F. R. Wilcox credit chains with distributing of AAA announced sale of 5,000,000 additional bushels of wheat to the $8,000,000,000 in goods at an average 10 per cent saving to consumers. If United Kingdom, adding to the bushels he had already sold. the Patman bill passes, resultant Having committed itself to sell 100,- - taxes (with the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea company, they would 000. 000 bushels by next July, the U. S. was already well past the half- total more than half 1937's gross way mark and had begun negotiations for additional sales to China and Mexico. Though such subsidized exports will help reduce the U. S. surplus, granaries will still be far too full when next year's crop comes ln. anti-chai- Anti-Chai- once-pote- anti-chai- nt n Pro-Chai- n. Housing When first created, the federal housing administration was permitted to make loans up to two billion dollars, partially insuring mortgage holders against loss. By December 1, all but 415 million dollars of the original fund was In use. With new applications arriving at the rate of 100 million dollars a month. Administrator Stewart McDonald took an extra step provided by the hous ing law, asked President Roosevelt to increase FHA's loan limit to three billion dollars. Since losses from FHA loans are negligible, since 1939's projected housing boom would make big demands on FHA capital, Mr. Roosevelt approved the boost immediately. Almost at the same time, FHA perfected organization of its new branch to insure mortgages for building or repairing houses and other farm structures, and to refinance existing farm housing loans. This was authorized by congress last February. Europe The initial thunder of Italy's demands for French colonies has died down, as has the German-inspireagitation for autonomy in Lithuania's Mcmcl district Although both France and Britain promise one day they will give no more concessions, the very next day they make gestures in that direction. Trobably recognizing some justice in Italy's complaint, France has reduced Suez canal rates to make Italian East Africa more accessible from Rome. Both France and England remember that they promised to split African War spoils with It aly back in 1915 when the Treaty of London was signed. Since this pact was ignored at Versailles, and since M "f ' i WRIGHT TATMAN Fever notes th in latt year. sales) would destroy practically all chains, would reportedly wipe out 30 per cent of the farmer's market, throw nearly 1,000.000 chain employees out of work and force a sharp rise retail prices. Chains r campoint proudly to their paign cf helping farmers move surplus crops like lamb, beef, walnuts. in two-yea- apples, and canned grapefruit Juice. include the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, speaking for its 5.000.000 members (who charge the measure would increase living costs and unemployment), and the National Association of Retail Boards, which termed It "vicious." Counting noses on the eve of congress' openine, Mr. Patman finds his 73 original dwindled to 32 through ejection defeats, while another (New York's Caroline O'Day) has withdrawn support. If the Patman bill succeeds In reaching the house fitxir, political observers wonder whether continually mounting sentiment w ill not bury it in a protest vote. 1933 FORECAST AAA Supporters, Encouraged, Expect Little Change in Act toy Joseph W. Ln Bine necessarily Thursday, December 22, NEPHI. UTAH S. Weekly News Analysis EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion am expresses' in those eolumoM thty mrm thosa oi tho nawa analyst and not Murder Ship TIMES-NEW- WHO'S of the 1933 CANCELLATION concordat between Germany and the Vatican, to precede enactment of Nazi laws directed against the Roman Catholic church. REVITALIZATION of Japan's drive north and west of Canton, to strengthen Tokyo's position in the event of a Russian war (tee NEWS THIS Mir INCREASE in lending power of U. S. Export-Impor- t bank to expand trade with Latin America. of Franklin REQUEST by small businessmen for congressional creation of a system of credit banks to meet the needs of "little business." our own model. We cite big, smiling, durable Gabby Hartnett bat ting .296 over a Gabby Is Our period of 16 Own Model of years, with a An Iron Man high of - .354, only dropping three pop flies in all that time and still pegging the ball to second with no letdown in machine-gu- n speed and precision. Phil Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, ups him $5,000 in a $27,500 player-managcontract, for his eighteenth season with the Cubs. He's growing gray over the ears, but this department is ready to lay a bet that he'll stiU be In his catcher's armor after the overseas iron men have been pent to the showers, even if they are batting 1.000 at this moment. He's a marvelous handler of pitchers, with a laugh that eases tension and keys down nerves. At Woonsocket L. I., where he grew up, he was Charles Leo, a name long since lost It was in 1922 that he signed for what looks like a lifetime stretch, as a rookie catcher for the Cubs. in 1944. Asia The possibility of a major Far Eastern crisis involving Japan, China and Russia becomes more imminent each week. Far from denying it Japan has taken new hitches in her economic belt and settled down for a struggle which may begin shortly after January 1. Having made supplementary army-nav- y appropriations of $1,634,400,000. Japan e faces a probable alliance forcing her to desperate measures to protect what gains she has already made in Manchuria and Russ-Chines- China. Having penetrated deep into the vast Shansi province, Jap troops are confronted with guerrilla attacks which in 10 days cost 6,000 lives. Generalissimo Chiang who is already getting supplies from Russia, promises the guerrilla warfare will continue. That Japanese are at a disadvantage fighting so far from their base of operations is evidenced by Chinese recapture of several key towns near Canton. Two clashes with Russia form the basis for a new war scare. The first concerns Japanese fishing concessions in Russian waters. Though Russia refuses to renew the concessions, which lapse January 1, Tokyo threatens to continue fishing even though an armed patrol is needed. The second dispute centers on Sakhalin island, where the Japs charge Russia is seeking to expel Nipponese oil workers. For her part Moscow is demanding Japanese payment for the Russian in terest in the Chinese eastern rail road, seized when Japan took Manchuria. Meanwhile Japan has substantiat ed the belief held by observers for many months, that China's "open door" guaranteed by the treaty is about to be closed. Seeking to liberate Japan and China from dependency on foreign mar kets, finance and raw materials, Tokyo has virtually dictated what Great Britain and the U. S. can henceforth expect in the way of trading privileges. Shrugging its shoulders over still another treaty broken in 1938. the U. S. state de partment has called home Nelson T. Johnson, ambassador to China. to see what can be done about it Since Ambassador Joseph P. Ken nedy has also been called home from London, it is thought the U. S. may solicit British support for a uni fied protest against Japan's econom ic activity in tnina. rrobabie re sult: nothing. Kai-she- nine-pow- Espionage In New York, Hairdresser Johan- na Hoffman and other members of Be. gilltl fashions proud of TR. - OLrVER CROMWELL CAR. MICHAEL lives up to his name. At the conference of southern busi ness leaders at Atlanta, the chancel- . . . lor of Vanderbilt Ur. larmichael university cries Cries Down Yen down the yen for security as For Security goal of stagnation and defeat." With grim Cromwellian tenacity, he has been shoving this home for years. Dr, Carmichael says "security" is fun damentally at war with sound eco nomics. He is a native of Goodwater, Ala., a Rhodes scholar from the University of Alabama. x - A HAT?n.RDTT.1rr -............ , rtonf .w&.n British newsnaDer man was as signed to a colonel's staff in the worm war. The colonel was con . temptuous. He warns cng tana tossed th no. Clean Sweeping comer a hand- D0OK on Syria. Is Vital Need "Take that" he said, "and study it. You might be able to digest it in six months." "Perhaps I can," said the scrivener. "It took me only three months to write it." That was gamey little Leopold e S. Amcry, ace reporter for the London Times, later a cabinet member, now putting his steel spurs to Mr. Chamber-Iain- 's "appeasement," the reciprocal trade treaty and all deals with the dictators. He says, "Yon might as well try to please a tortoise by stroking its back." In parliament, he has been for many years the leader of the diehard conservatives. He is against any social fixings or trimmings whatsoever, and, having been, like Kipling, a reporter in India, is for the old empire formula without any modifications. The son of a poor civil servant in India, he scrambled through Oxford by snagging every scholarship In sight He went to parliament and in 1922 became secretary of the admiralty. Later, as colonial secretary, he swarmed all over the em. pire, making fluent orations in Syri. an, Arabic, Turkish, French, Italian and German. In Cambridge he had confounded his elders by his gift of tongues. He Is a bitter-ende- r who says Der Fuehrer's big horses aren't going to ron over him. He has been a prophet of doom and has warned England against meeting a crisis by sweeping the dust under the rug. one-tim- a Germany spy ring had Just been sentenced. In the Panama Canal Zone, .the government was busy trying four other young Germans accused of photographing fortifica tions. Commented their attorney: "I venture to say that there is not a single construction or equipment for defensive purposes in the Canal Zone, details of which are not now in the possession of any foreign government desiring the information and willing to pay." Hardly had this shock penetrated before the West coast hotbed of espionage, reported its latest spy scare. In Los Angeles government agents arrested Mikhail Gorin, a Soviet tourist agent and Hafis Salich, native Russian who became a Berkeley police officer and was lent to the naval intelligence because he could speak Japanese. The charge: That Salich supplied Gorin with confidential navy department Information regarding Japanese military affairs. How the U. S. (which claims CEVERAL months ago, the Nazis to operate no e expelled George C. agency) secured its Japanese se- realm. He had beaten them to it crets, was not told. While a New by about six years. Just now. he York Soviet vice consul rushed to Beats Hitler's gets American Los Angeles to help defend the priscitizenship. He oners, the government built its case Order of Exile was a savage Karl Drummond, By Six Years against and Ironic cari- Los Angeles aircraft factory work- Catlirinf ttihn kn J er accused of peddling military se raised many blisters on ninF. .i hides before he made his crets to japan. getaway. "IIUC " certified Aryan, he was an outstanding canrliHuta Miscellany concentration camp and was shrewd Invalidated, by the North Dakota enougn 10 see what was coming. Supreme court that state's $40 minWhen he landed here in 1932, imum old age pension plan approved to teach at the Art Students' in the November election, because league, there was a row In the 1937 legislative appropriations can league, but .'resident John Sloan not be used to pay pensions more defended him as "one of the than $30 monthly, also because the greaOftt of modern artists," measure exceeds "reasonable asand here he Is, painting sistance" as outlined in the state happily, and everything Is grmeutlit constitution. h. He has given un rarirh,.. D. Franklin by Roosevelt lets the world go by. Hi, pairitr 1,000 Christmas trees from the farm Ings are hung in many good galleron his Hyde Park estate. ies, and he has Taken, by Mrs. Frnnklin D. Queens, where, with his wife and two children, he says he Roosevelt, a Job as dienjoys h,t rector in Son James' insurance busi- - exile tremendously. ConaolMMM ness. Roosevelt St Sargent of Boston Featur... N u counter-espionag- m-- f. 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SCHRAMM-JOHNSO- DRUGS N YOUR ADVERTISEMENT can be repeated In hundreds of papers like this one, each serving a complete community The rates ars surprisingly low. Write Adv. Mgr.. P. O Box 1950, Salt Lake City, Utah Size of Columbus' Ships Of the ships in which Columbus discovered the Americas, the Santa Maria was the largest The length on deck was 86 feet 3 inches, the 252; the Pinta had a length on deck of 82 feet 8 inches, the tonnage 161, while the Nina had a length on deck of 79 feet and 171. Tonnage figures are in terms of modern weight. ton-na- ton-na- Many Languages in South Africa South Africa alone has 800 languages, and the Bible has been transulated Into 218 of them. Destroyed Baron von wm reputed enemy planes Many War Planes Richtofen of Germany to have destroyed 80 during the World war. Named for Ash Trees Fresno, Calif., is to named from the once heavy growth of ash trees on its aite, Fresno being the Spanish form for ash tree. Famous Anthem in Handbill Form Francis Scott Key had the words of his song, "The Star Spangled Banner," printed in handbill form ln the office of the Baltimore American and they were distributed a few days after the song was written. Before the British fleet had even left the Chesapeake It was uno on the stage of the famous Holliday Street .neater ana taken up through the nation with intense eagerness. Iris Once Colored Pain v, bcciii.ii v;ilbuijr m popular nizment was maA tmm h flowers of the common blue flag iris. The purplish blue flowers were first allowed to ferment, then the juice extracted and mivmi uiih nnit. dered alum. Later the pigment- was v called iris Tk. n.. mansy were also ucd similar pigment. lolet-color- ed Early Romany Empire Exports . n"u.i . : . animal grain were the chief exports of North Africa fluring its Roman empire days. Vircua 'ayelassie.it cne.ro. t tea ee cajier rTniimii. BETTER AND LASTS Inwrtti" .m |