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Show 3 - CURIOUS BITS Tha minols conaervatlon department killed 150,000 crowa last with dynamite bomba. Boys and girls of Myddle church of England school near Shrewsbury have a team of handbell ringers. In Moline, 'Til., a physician extracted a tooth from the mouth of a baby ten minutes after Its birth. Lead pads, totalling more than 90 font, keep one of New Yorks major hotels from vibrating to the Midget twins, who have attained a height of only 28 Inches In 12 years, were born to a normal Los Angeles couple. The ancient custom of distributing annually to the poor bread from a tomb was carried out recently at Woodbridge, England. Counterfeit money has been found In tome cases to contain much more silver than the official coinage Issued by the Royal mint Iron ore it so abundant round Kropna, a village In Jugoslavia, that every one of its 120 inhabitants Is tk blacksmith irrespective of sex. In memory of the "spirits" of pearl oysters killed" at a Japanese culture farm, a service was 0 performed by 50 priests before 10,-00- people. SHORT AND SNAPPY Advice is like medicine. You gits worse and worse off if you tries to take too many different kinds. After I ha looked srtwntder of an argument fob awhile I begins to feel like mebbe I was gittln mentally cross-eye- -- Whenever someone ssys he's glnter tell me sumpln foh my own good, cause hes a friend, I alius braces myself foh a hard slap. WORTH REMEMBERING A nod for a wise man and a rod for a fool. The stars that have most glory have no rest. S. Daniel. Where there holy ground. sorrow, there Oscar Wilde. Is 'Go to the ant, thou sluggard, sider her ways, and be wise.. con- and noninflammable. special issues of commemorative coins were authorized by the last session of congress. A lie which is half a truth ever the blackest of lies. Some people will believe anything. 65 Switzerland has 3,638 per cent water. miles of It is estimated that Hawaii pays more taxes Into the United States treasury than nineteen of the states. JlnAlasita,.theria. son buttons are The physician, minister, or lawyer can use approximately 25,000 words. d the mellowing or s subsidence of age s every ten square miles while in Puerto Rico there are 520 to a square mile. In downright combat a horse can move a big gun to a new point of vantage better than a motor, cavalry officers have told the house appropriations committee. MILADYS DOINGS PINTS 253 but som have shewn s rather amaalng ef form se far this year. Consider Dizzy Dean, the cham-plo- BOB FELLER can tell you about it Did you ever hear of ML Ida, Ark. T Thata where Lon Wameke of the St. Louis Cardinals was born. Or Lonaconlng, Md.T Thats where Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox made his bow. Cnrlonsly enough, what is tree of the stars of today was tree of those of yesterday. Aa witness, Ty Cobb, who was born in Royston, Ga.; Christy Mathewson, who waa born in Factoryville, Pa.; Grover Alexander, in York, Neb.; Sam Crawford, Wahoo, Neb.; Red Faber, Cascade, Iowa; Hans Wagner, in Mansfield, Pa.; Walter Johnson In Humboldt, Ran. Med wick haa become more It wasnt long ago Leo the Lion into his seventeenth consecutive season as a member of the Chicago Cubs, Charles Leo "Gabby Hartnett continues to set a pace that astonishes the athletic world. Nine year ago It looked as though he were through. A useless throwing arm kept him out of action In the season of 1929 wjien the Cuba won the National league pennant But he came back the newt year and became the greatest catcher in basebalL Last year Gabby was the third leading batter in the league with a A jVo ' Fear of Bullets ON from Fowlerville, Mich.; Mel Harder of the Cleveland Indians from Beemer, Neb.; Sammy Hale from Mosston, Iowa; Dixie Walker of the and Rick Ferrell of the Washington Senators, from Greenville, N. C. You could go on through nntll you had exhausted the rasters of the sixteen cluba In the National and American leagues and yond find that players born In the big cities were relatively few and far between. Why la this the cateT 'Anybodys ruesa is as good aa anybody elses. The smaller town can offer the advantages of greater opportunities for outdoor sports, more places for kids to play in the open, a chance, far a sturdier physical development. Eb DA By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter EVERYBODY: an old saying that a man who Is born to he Pete Lovett of Brooklyn, hanged will never be drowned, and of the sort is true in his N. Y., has a hunch that something of an end the Fates sort what know own case. Pete doesnt that no bullet certain darned but hes have in store for him, career. to his end will ever put an killed, Pete went through two years of the World war without getting was bullet proof. but that only helped make him all the more sure that he HELLO before the The thing that convinced him of It In the first place happened waa kid, Pete when of 1912, summer In the war even started back thirteen years old. most of Pete was brought up over In Brooklyn, and as a kid he spent his time playing around the waterfront A regular dock rat, Pete waa la those days a youngster whs loved to be In, or on, or anywhere near the water. He and a couple of other lads used to go down to the dock together, who waa captain of a lighterand one of those boys had a brother-in-laRed Hook section. age barge tied up at the foot of Columbia street in the w ' ROLLS DEVn.C' FARM LAND inch raveO-UUe- y Really CeTutalSi, 'jjneht Making Patterns . for By RUTH CoT:' Slip WYETH C TRIPES are i SPEAL u covers this season. popular tor i Dont 3 get to center a striped patter the back and the aeat of a L It was a day in August and the three kids went down to the barge, Tha crosswise use of stripes e at the captain invitation, to spend the day aboard it The captain and also have possibilities as fa i The Captain Was Drinking Whisky. his wife had quarters aboard the boat but the three youngster no sooner armed than the captain wife left to pay a visit to a friend. That left the three kids alone with the captain. He was a heavy drinker, Pete says, and this day waa no exception. But he started In to ahow the kids a good time by taking them out In hi rowboat to hunt crabs In the harbor. They did pretty well hunting crabs. One after another they scooped in with a neL until they had a peach basket full of them. They went back to the barge, cooked the crabs, and sat down to a meal of crabs, boiled potatoes and tea. Only the captain didnt drink any tea. He had a bottle of whisky alongside o( him and he took freqnent nips oat of that. The captains wife hadnt returned, and the bottle was almost empty. He asked the boys if they would go out and get him soma beer, and two of them went, but Pete stayed behind. Pete aays the Captain waa bottom of the chair ihovi k Generally the main piece i slip cover are fitted indent c on the piece of furniture generous allowance for lean i a tuck in around spring a t For small shaped Wsiti sections, a as the fronts of some chair . and parts of some wing dz. paper patterns may be madelI use in cutting the fabric. Pin the paper to the part, acting normally, and he didn't notice anything strange about him. If he hud, "he might have expected what came later. But the captain, as a matter of facL didn't look as if he had taken so much as a single drop of liquor, though he had been pouring it down all afternoon. which you wish to make a paLJ as shown here at A, then martj outline on the paper way along the edge line ntt side rather than the tip d pencil point. Cut the patten inch outside the outline as sic at B. This allows for a aeam should never be taut at any When gathers are needed to ft, fabric over rounded Pthe He Began Shooting at Pete. the edge and arrasp After the other two boys had gone he told Pete his wife would be back gather with the cover ) gathers shortly and he thought he'd start getting supper ready. He asked Pete 9 in place as shown at tj pinned he'd go down the aft hatch where he stored his potatoes, and bring some Directions for making var back to him. Pete walked aft and started down the hatch. of slip covers are gn types In the meantime," says Pete, "he most have rone stark mad. SEWING, for ft L book, my Most barge captains keep pistols aboard for protection against harDecorator; also many type bor thieves, and he had two loaded ones somewhere about the dressing table covers, fvbj boat. I was down below, standing just to one side of the hatchway, different types of curtains, 1 when all of a sudden he appeared overhead and began blazing spreads, and numerous otha I away at me! ful and decorative things to I It was dark down there in the hold of the barge, and Pete was thankful home. I shall be glad to wj w of for that. The captain couldnt see him and he was standing to one side, a copy upon receiptAddress. out of range of the fire. "At the sound of the first shot," says Pete, "I (coins preferred). went stiff with fright. I never prayed so long or so hard in Desplaine my life. I have Spears at 210 S. laced machine gun fire and hand grenades in France, but 111. I ever Chicago, nothing pc f GABBY HARTNETT record of .354, an almost phenomenal feat considering the way age has slowed up his running. He received only two fewer votes than Joe Medwick in the leagues most valuable player poll;-b- e made the major's all stat team and his hitting streak through straight games was the lot gest compiled by a National leaguer. In 110 games he increased h's lifetime batting average to an even .300. 26 Lots of fellows would be satisfied with that record, but Hartnett has set an even greater goal In baseball. He wants to have the honor of having caught more games than any other receiver in the history of the national game. Ray Scbalk, formerly of the Chicago White Sox, caught 1.721 games in the American league, which is only 154 more than Hartnett has managed in the NatlonaL Gabby should at least cut that remaining 154 figure in half this year and be in a position to pass it by 1939 He is also shooting for another record. At present he is tied with Scbalk for having caught 100 or more games In 12 camHe wants to beat Ray'i paigns. record. DOB ("LEFTY) GROVE, Boston Also available in Rye Frankfort Distilleries, Ine., Louisville and Baltimore Kca! Differed! The Captain Began Blazing Away at Pete Here and There Carr Hubbell if Fibs Davfcjc Some Exceptions There are, of course, a few brilliant exceptions past and present to the credit of the big cities, but they Cornerstone laying Is an ancient are relatively small in number cii stom, da ngb a C k. la Dr, Uieaiu Babe Ruth, for jnstance, grew up TnBaTtimore, Md ; lank Greenberg cient city of the Chaldees. of the Tigers is a product of New Sound travels 1,100 feet a second; York city; Freddie Lindstrom of the when sent by wireless It takes the Giants, Pirates and Cubs hailed from Chicago; Bill Jurges, Cubs speed of electric waves, 186,000 feet shortstop, is a Brooklyn boy; Lou a second. Gehrig spent his boyhood m New For many centuries before the York City. But generally when you bear discovery of tobacco, hemp, opium, and various herbs were used in some one say that a local boy has pipes by peoples in all part of the made good in the big leagues, youll find that hea from Pageland, N. C world. where Van Lingle Mungo of the Brooklyn Dodgers was born; or Norway. Iowa, where Hal Trosky of the Indiana first saw the light of day; or Celeste, Texas, where Monte Stratton, White Sox pitching ace, waa nshered Into the world. Think of a few other stars. Well Garl Hubbell comes from Carthage. Mo ; Joe Di Maggio, from Martinez. Calif ; Dizzy Dean from Holdenville, Okla ; Mel Ott from Gretna, La ; Arky Vaughan of the Pirates from FIFTHS Clifty, Ark ; Buck Newsom of the St Louis Browns, from Harts ville. CODE NO. 252-N. C.: Billy Herman of the Cubs from New Albany. Ind ; Luke Appling of the White Sox from High Point, N C ; Lefty Gomez of the Yankees from Rodeo, Calif ; Eldon Auker of the Tigers fron Noractur, Kan ; Tommy Bridges from Term.; Rudy York from Aragon. Ga ; Red Ruffing from Granville, 111 ; Tex Carloton of the Cubs from Comanche, Texas; Pepper Martin from Temple. Okla ; Charley Gehringer of the Tigers, u Red Soxs ace, became the sixth major league pitcher in history to pass the 2,000- strikeout mark recently when he tanned tlx Detroit Tigers while gaining the two hundred sixtieth scared me as I was scared that day. "The captain emptied one revolver down the hatch before he stopped Then he slammed the hatch cover down on me and locked firing it ao I couldn't get out while he went back, apparently to get his other gun. I could hear him screeching and yelling up above yelling that I was a mer pirate and he was going to kill me if he had to come down the hatch to do it. Now 1 hcard hlm 0Pn the hatch cover and descend two or three steps down the ladder. I began creeping slowly away from the hatch. I moved along on a string piece barely wide enough to walk on. The barge had four feet of water in its hold for ballastand if I slipped and lell into that, the captain would surely kill me. net E In 1916 Jhon Wiser i ab pe formally 2 w; mothers, iormal. Scienti ouldbe h odd od unc ttlSllS as d 1 mac scho hetwel Aj :t wei Thought Govern bottom fyroid Thought is at the progress or retrogression, success or failure, of all th sirable or undesirable The j m UK oses oi n drink iver 2y at tun life. 1 2,000 "yroid 'umber inlarge; Trapped Down the Dark Hatch. Pete was right alongside of the hatch stairway now. The captain'i legs were within a few inches of his hands In a sudden made a grab for those legs He thought if he threw the desperation he captain into the water he d be able to escape But in the gloom of the hold, he missed his gr.,b He caught the cuff of the captains trousers, and pulled with all his might but he miscalculated his strength. He couldnt budge the Instead, the captain brought his gun down across captain Petes wrist, paralyzing his arm. ,et hi hold- - ln darkness, he he strlngpiece toward the back of the dark began creeping along hole be was trapped in. Then, again, came the sound of shots. Bullets splashed in the water alongside of him and thudded into the wooden tide of barge Again the captain emptied his gnn, and and then the be went back on deckcloslng and locking the hatch after him. He was up In the cabin, reloading his pistols when Petes two voune friends came back with the beer they had been sent for. They got the guns away from him and ran out on the dock. Another bargeman running to the rescue The police were called. They came and took the now thoroughly crazed captain away in a straitjacket "All the tune. aays Pete. "I was pounding on the hatch cover and calling for help. Altogether I was down there about an hour came and let me out. but in that Centura 5 hour I horror. Now, all fear of bullets has been passed through a erased from mind After my that experience. I don't think Ill ever be killed by one Pe Copyright Tha c sterest INSICIS KlllS nowits,,fiI ON VIGITABIIS 1 SHIWJ j irons 9" V Of silt uifs lasrigE Oar lebby m4U Ur trrr too fleawa-T- OO I BrtUlI r" Ini Atnk nc If lit J t Al career. Walter Johnson, in year with Washington, had a. Wfe, a Ifl WNU Service. Charivaris Date Far Back Shews Birds nave Dialects The origin oi charivaris stretches At an assembly of bird back to the early Fourteenth cenfanciers in London phonograph 3.497. The other to reach the 2,000 records wer so historians say. In those tury. mark were Cy Young, Christy Math- far by Ludwig Kocb of the songs distant days, a charivari was played of bird common to Britain ewson, Dazzy Vance and Grover and the out in precisely the same carried Alexander . . . Only two state, Continent He had made the surway. that it waa except meant to prising Pennsylvania and New York, coldiscovery that the Continenlected in excess of a million dollars express disapproval rather than the tal birds, differing in no physical approval that it carries for hunting and fishing licenses respect from the British, sing Charivarist went masked In today in 1937. those Pennsylvania received No one at the gathering 11,120,220 60, New York, $1,103,726 29 days, and harassed people whose with an ear for music could fall to didnt quite meet the detect . . .Jack Dempsey's cut of tha marriage that the magical descending laws of custom. Second for marhis title purse winning battle cadence of the English nightingale of with JCsa Willard in Toledo iuly 4, riages and marriage people waa never used by other nlghtln-galewhose were ages far apart were 1919, was $27,500. It was the that birds, like Western Newmaper Union, particular butt of the human being,argued have dialects pecu-lia- r charivarist. to certain areas. - ; ) FI Skoic ear American league hi 21 M; 5 PHOTOGRAPH grt Lefty Groves teammates are surprised and delighted at the change in the veteran Red Sox pitcher. Instead of being gruff, ailent and Inhaughty, he goes round smiling, and and talk small pranks dulges in la particularly nice to the rookie players. Ducky-WuckAnd they say that TJ EADED CLUB ADVENTURERS n of 1937. The one is serious, practically dignified now. A year ago he would have expounded opinions on any subject under the sun and he would have gone for any stunt Imaginable. But not now. This tendency was apparent even before he became Cub. A sore pitching arm may be tha cause. But In spite of his enforced layoff from pitching, Dlzx says his arm is all right and hell win plenty of game. Tuna will telL Then there Van Mungo, pitching Hes ace of the Dodgers. chastened young man aa far this year. He solemnly tells the world he Is going to continue walking the straight and narrow and that hell keep the peace at all coats. Casey Sfcngel. manager of the Boaton Bees, has quit being a clown. determined Hea seripus and to get the best out of what he regards as I fine ball club. popper-offe- r that tha Cardinals biggest threat would explode suddenly and often. This year he is a happier, more friendly fellow. Maybe its the new baby at his home. Dissy Dean i 035QI0flf, that hare bees in recent years, of baseballs problem beya 1 only-o- ne to CODE NO. Palestine has three times as many Arabs as Jews. Some unbreakable made from blood. sun-spot- H Is plagwlng banians even-tempere- d. DO YOU KNOW THAT Eggs are about f iks Is Sixteen nations Boy Scouts in forty-nin- e now number over 2,600,000, an increase of nearly 87,000 in a year. !' 'ilfe-- f Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought Shelley. No one knows the origin of chess. Helium is favored as a lifting gas for airships because it is both light big league baseball star. Brat see te It that yew' art bora sad reared la a coentry tows. Thats aa almost sare-flr- e recipe, provided yee have what H takes, for practically all of the diamond aces of the present generation hail from hamlets that were unknown until their baseball fame pet those towns ea the map. Few people had heard of Van Meter, Iowa, until a lad named Bob Feller began pitching his way to immortality with tha Cleveland Indians. Now most any school boy One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Shakespeare. Federal hatcheries last men. a MAYBE 1 Longfellow. The electric motors of a great battleship have the energy of 1,000,-00- 0 TOO weal te become Is When she had passed It seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. fish. TF The ears can endure an Injury All birds do have feathers and no other animals have diem. 8,000,000,000 By GEORGE A. BARCLAY better than the eyes. Any game played in the street is game of chance. 87 Main Street Produces Most Diamond Stars r Instinct Is untaught ability. Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. From 20, Baseball Miracles Speaking of Sports UNCLE EBEN SAYS Vienna haa a municipal watch and clock museum. year came some - UTAH MAGNA TIMES, MAGNA, PAGE TWO a - hotel Squaf Temple Si.SO Nafaa Betel SSMWreSsS Si-ss rhmjws -- HIGHLY w rite Y. fra a ERNEST GROSSTg i |