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Show Mar t UTAH MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA. PAGE TWO "r b News Scenes and Persons in the Current WHOS VII S Jfi it) NEWS photography ADVENTURERS CLUB THIS HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI Tale of a Modern Mariner By LEMUEL everybody: ? that old phrase Son of a Well, right here in this club weve got one of those old who by golly, Sea-Cook- sea-coo- ks to have such ornery offspring. And be proud to be the son of this sea-coo- Yes, sir, this sea cook Is H. K. Nixon of Elizabeth, N. J., and he tells one of those yams that Joseph Conrad and the rest of those sea story writers would have given their right eye to get hold of. Why, thla yarn of a modern mariner makes that old rime of the ancient mariner teem like a bedtime story. Here are the words and music: By jlminy, 'this adventure of sea cook, Nixon the crew all called him Nix for short starts out with a whale of a good word barkentine Just like a first-rat- e pirate story. It was the barkentine St. James, of San Francisco, and that proud old rakish barque was converted into a coal hulk. Just to get even, the St. James started building up a history that made her known all up and down the Pacific coast as the "Haunted Hulk." When the war came on they converted her back into a barkentine, but her pride had been wounded and she kept right on being a haunted ship. All Gen. Cedillo k. Kinds of Bad Luck Signs. Well, Captain Martin Anderson sailed her into Seattle, loaded her with mine timbers and cleared for Delagoa bay, South Africa. Shiver my timbers, if that wasnt a haunted voyage. It almost gave sea cook Nix the shivers before the St. James got out of the harbor. Before she cast off, the ship's cat jumped ashore three times and that was a pretty strange beginning of a voyage. But that cat was thrown back abdard and maybe she was the mascot that brought that crew through. And then a few miles out two wyd geese swooped down out of the sky and came aboard the St. James. Cook Nixon did to those birds just what the ancient mariner did to that albatross. The crew said there 1 Menace F. PARTON to the menace Cardenas admlnia-N- o. tration, according .7 Sea? happened Wrecked on Island of Oneno. Coming out of the straits of San Juan de Fuca, the St James ran into a howling southeaster. The gale raged for nine days and drove lire barkentine far out of her course. The old St. James battled through that mad Pacific. She battled bravely, but finally with a splintering smash of timbers, she broke her back on the coral reefs of the island of Oneno. The crew took to their boats, but there was little chance for rescue out there In that vast South Pacific. They rode four daa and nights before low headlands and a fringe of palms lay before them. Then the lifeboats scraped on the beach of the historic island of Pitcairn at the break of day, December 17, 1918. Well, those sailors from the St. James dragged their boats up into Bounty bay named after th.it old mutiny ship and waited It was a swell spot to be shipwreiked in. but it wasn't the world for Cook Nixon, nor for Skipper Anderson, nor for the first mate the second mate and t e Iios'n, who were all named Hansen. For 32 ibivs they kept a lookout up i'll that lull beside the ship s bell and cannon of the old 1, i.nty. hoping to see a (iniidlv sail. (v) eighty-five-year-o- ld ld one-arme- ring-mast- Sound Baseball Played by Blind Performers NERVOUS? Do you (mI so nerroua you wut U mrnr An you eroau and Imtibl? Dt ya aw ttaoM daaraat to you? If your nervaa arc on d(, try LTD!! t PIN SHAM'S VEGETABLE COKFOCIui It oltaa hai pa Natura calm qaimiaf umJ For thraa (aaantioiia ona oouu law another how to to milini thrack ui Lydia E. Pinkham'i VntetabU Couywift. bMp Mature tooa up ufitMa.tkaiaainc th dweomiorU from th fuacwmi I oraan which woman must endurm. Mike not NOW to (eta botthdjj l" fa mom Pinkhami Compound todej TO etiau OUT FAIL from your dnicrut miUum women hay writlaa la homi portinf bcDcht. Why not try LYDIA E. HMH1MT VEGETABLE COMPOUND! How Well not how ionf F how well. Seneca. It matters lived, but goal-keepe- r u Sc KillS IHSECTS t of subsidized or bottle, from Srruc. taries and assistant secretaries, trained like a fast ball club to field any challenge or dissent. He is undoubtedly the most highly publicized medical man in America, Through the journal, he reaches the nations 125,000 doctors; through a, the more popularized medical publication, he carries his message to many more thousands and Is a prolific writer for national magaHy-gei- zines. He wolfs hundreds of exchanges and eight or ten medical book ev- leeery week, , s' mas ime tures, on r. for Fights on Quacks speaks the radio, 'reviews KewRemcifyDsesMagneslibfe Skin. Finns and Smooths Cm? Hakes Skin look Yea JocT j Get rid o! ngly, pimply extraordinary Facial Magnesia work make a notioeabl difference, spots gradually grow smaller, Ike toxtur itself beooaea finw. Boh it friends are oompHmsalW your complexion. SPECIAL enjojing a fight, keeps up a fast running fight against the quacks. When he finished Rush Medical school, at the age of twenty-threhe had the choice of becoming a pathologist for the state of Indiana, e, -f- i nal of Medicine. He chose the latter. Mrs. Fish-belwho was Anna Mantel, serves through the war with him, traveling with him and aa- - -sisting him In the blggesTand busiest Job of medical Jonrnal-isever attempted. They have three children. Dr. Fishbein, plump, affable, bald, and forty-eigh- t yean old, also Is deep in art, music, literature, the drama, bridge, golf and pubUc affairs. exercising a sharp critical judgment in all these fields'. He is a magnificent demonstration of how a knowing doctor can build up his basal metabolisms. Consolidated WNU News Features. Service. 1 r OFFE or.fowwer chance ta by Hera Is Facial kSgnaria ; wUloond you a full6 o. kin's, plus a regular susjx Milnaria Wafers iffdasb or stamps0 ,1 yjj LT J DENTON'S Facial ' Mag- SELECT PRODUCT. m Thla streamlined river boat now wider construction on the St. Lonls levee is beginning to assume the graceful lines which will make it the f most beautiful craft on the Mississippi. It will be used as a pleasure u!ynnuebfflCrCy ronin " Here Is a delight- steamer plying north and south from SL Louis. ed trooper with the supply " GET RID OF PIMPLES writes books, books and, always n, Falling like manna from heaven, food for a platoon of in maneuvers at Valentine,cavalry Texas, was dropped by plane. The men were fed for four days by this means as a go so- cialised medicine. As editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, with headquarters in Chicago, he commands a large staff of secre- Streamlined Boat for Mississippi SHE01S Demand original Dr. Fishbein is elaborately and organized for equipped timelv blasts against any en- croachment BIBB ON BOWERS VEGETABLES n Teams from the Industrial Home for the Blind at Oakland. Calif . demonstrate "sound" baseball The batter hits a jingling ball and runs down a padded baseline. Ten plavers form a team. The fielders How Nix Fixed It lTp. kneel on of back to the baseline catch the sounding ball and register an out bv rolling the ball across the pads bases or A a was vertebra which had been twistSuddenly there snap. baseline ahead of the runner. Home plate has a bell on it to show when runs are scored. ed and held fast by one of those tendons Nix had been massaging, knapped hack into place and Lindsay shot out of that ihair like he'd been silling on a hot stove. Well, sir, that islander tried turning his neck m all directions. He almost wagged his head oft By jimmy, it worked as well as ever trying out his new neck. Nix tells me that LiiuKai started to laugh and then cry and wound up by doing a series of hand springs and flip flops. And then Lindsay Inb tied out of that huUrau up Hie hill to the-c- 'd Bounty bell and began hammering like a bass d'ummer, trv.ng to get all the islanders ti gether so he could tell them the goi d news rui that ended the curse that hung over the crew of the haunted larkentine St James When divlight broke, there was a smudge of sin ike on the hoi izon It w is the old Dominion liner. Port Augusta. Captain Allen of the Port Augusta laid her by until that shipwrecked crew of tie badluck barkentine yes, sir. and the ships cat also pulled out thrnughj.he sutf breaking over the coral reefs and climbed on board The Port Augusta dropped Nixon and his slwpmatcs in Sydney, Australia. Lipstick of Hindu Women The lipstick of Hindu women is pan or betel leaf chewed with chu-nalime, which leaves the tongue, teeth and lips as ruddy as a sunset. Most distinctive item in the Hindu womans makeup is the wafer stamped between her brows. This is not a caste-marWhen black, the wafer is made of burnt, powdered sago, mixed with sandalwood oil; when pink, it comes from th dried and powdered "kumku" flower, common in the land. it. d - Columbia Has Old Church Tiles Two t les, taken from the oldest church in the Western hemisphere and presented to Dr Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, as a commemoration of his visit last year to Santo Domingo, now hang in the Spanish house at Columbia. Both ceramics are accompanied by papers certifying that they come from the Iglesia de San Nicolas, which was built In the old city of Santo Domingo 14 years after Columbus arrived in America. color to1 illustrations oi gestions; stitches used; material reqra1 ments. Send 15 cents in stamps or nig (coins preferred) for this patted to the Sewing Circle, NcedlecraJ Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New Yon medical against quacks heresies, panaceas, innovations, utopias and unsanctioned experiments. When Dr. James H. Means, retiring president of the American College of Physicians, drops a few provocative words about medical reform, they scarcely hit a press wire before Dr. Fishbein swings a devastating counter-assertio- lit NU pattern pieces; plique Da er on Fishbein Will sir, shipwrecked as that ertw was tin weien't in half as b.iji a sp.t one of the islanders named lands iv Throe months befoie fv and ins shipmates arrived. Lmdsav was hunting wild goats, and He broke a leg and doggone near broke his I kind oer a precipice Time he was slowly dying out there on the Pacific and not a lu i k ch i tor or nurse on the island Cook Nixon looked Ian ls,i o i r and detail d bed da some l.fe saung while waiting to be sated himself 'Plats jast where the sea cook became a hero and emud himself .i i , utaa u Bn being one of the fastest tlnnkeis in an ememmey that r li ud of Di ugs- '- , dl, N,x lie went to work on l.mdsay t aid oi t a niment Ho used the acid jn (e of lure as an irut.int. and i i .mat oil as a lubricant, and went to wink on that dislocated neck t .it n uie Iandsay almost helpless. Sute mougli ,n thiee d ivs time 1" it terriblv swollen neck of Lindsav's was reduced But Ins head was s ill contorted and he suffered agonizing pa ns at the nipt- of his neck Nixon kept thinking this over. One night he jun ped out of his tank With an idea N'i shot out of camp yelling. I.ntd, man, l'e t t'" and ho dashed into p Lindsay's house at 2 30 a m ami g t Intn out if Uid NiX sat Lindsay down on a chair and told ban t bald tight wi'h bo'h hands. Nix grabbed him by the head put his thumbs under his jaw and lifted as though he were heating the old St. James' anchor. W A brand new idea . . , ipp. scraps of print to form th ipnt for these gay, embroidered pea? ant figures which cheer ap khcbt towels. Pattern 1679 contaiaj transfer pattern of seven met averaging 6 by 7ty inches andip r, Islander Had Broken His Netk. Copy right. Has AppliquedAprc: s, six-ye- ar would be trouble and, by the beard of Ntptune, there was trouble. But unlike the ancient mariner, Cook Nixon wasn't the goat tur what This CheerfulPeas self-mad- 0, Site Broke Iter Bark on the Coral Reefs. W. to Quit WhlikyT ment: Cun be .nd correctly 5 iff swwgW J.ha, 100 Hd WllUew, Vi,.1 . S crossroads. A friend of this writer, an oil operator who ha reasons for remaining anonymous, bring new from Mexico that the big, awarthy Mestihold-ou- t on zo, the most conspicuous state the agrarian program, is gaining a following in a long sweep of Mexican provinces, and, in this view, dissident faction win swarm in behind him, If there if I further drift toward civil war. of He hai the friendship and 1 Chinese Eighth Route army soldiers la Shansi province decked out In captured Japanese coats, part of various foreign inter anti-- . r 0 of Z an ictims backing invader. the from captured Item aucb aa food, clothing and arma they took to my Informant, 3 ests, h according forty-nintHenry birthday. In New York city which grew out of the recent celebra lion of Adolf Hitlers and around his huge, stolid, of closer a relationship as the was sign House in to White regarded the Roosevelt President Ford, whose visit grim person there Is gathering between business and the administration. powerful opposition to the government. e He is a fighting man MARATHONER who served his apprenticeship in vabefore the rious minor work-outPor-firi- o big upheaval of 1910, when old Diaz was overthrown. He Joined this revolt, but called himA- self a "conservative revolutionist. He never liquidated his personal army, now numbering about 10,000, and his autocratic n m V tk 4 He Keeps Up state is firmly I Army of cysted in the con-1com 000 Men shtutional monwealth. When he resigned as secretary of agriculture on August 16, of last year, it was reported that he had made a truce with President Cardenas, but that talk seems to have been premature. He was a member of the National Revolutionary party committee of 1934, which drafted Mexicos agrarian and economic plan, bnt has been a F determined and effective oppoThe Methuselah of Marathon, nent of such fixings, particularly Peter W. Foley the Cardenas agrarian plan. of Winchester, Mass., shown ss he My friend, picks. JSenQrs.. Cardenas.. discompleted the and Cedillo as the two strong men tance of the famous Boston A. A. of Mexico, one being driven left Blondes from many parts of the I'nited States interested in preserving and the other marathon, just to show em theres the present life In the old dogs yet. He finished peace are pictured as they answered the roll call at the first National social tension. right by in slightly more than 44 hours. The Conference of Blondes to End War. The purpose of the "Blonde Brigade Leslie is to fight war. Should America be invaded, members of the brigade will winner, d the Pawson, made the route in 2 hours, meet the enemy. They are confident that there isn't a soldier in the THE Swiss 35 minutes 34 the circus world who would shoot a lovely blonde. seconds. and all such supposedly busy and preoccupied people are Just snoozing along 66 T compared to Dr. Has Nothing Morris Fishbein. Blondes Hold Peace Conference Sn, Ke personal YORK. Gen. SatumloCe- dillo, the feudal chieftain of thu la movprovince of San Luis PotosI, No. 1 ing out of the ruck aa the are supposed Id lreweat WEEK By FLOYD GIBBONS v orprlnuldoobl your thole fof ff ' Famous Headline Hunter Hello ROLLS DEVELfisT S E- w- d aa so. m rw if i J i |