Show fiwel d Ms 4 1 adventurers CLUB at a V HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES A OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF 1 t hair Rai raising silly b honeymoon 9 ow this is an adventurers column devoted to hair raising tales of danger and action so just hold fast to your chairs while you hear of abner Rabb inos honeymoon this must be the first honeymoon that ever deserved to be classed with the first ascent of mt eve everest rest Lind berghs flight to paris chris columbus expedition to america and other adventures of note most people when they get married seem to think that trying to pay the bills is enough of an adventure for anybody but ab is the sort of a guy who would find trouble in m a million dollar legacy the old jinx just rides around on his shoulder and on rainy days it crawls inside his shirt to keep dry alongside of ab jonah was a goodluck good luck charm and when ab got married and started out on his wedding trip the jinx began showing off to impress the bride ab lives in brooklyn N Y lie he met a girl in 1931 and married her on september 16 1933 they sailed the next day I 1 on the liner virginia bound for california on a six week tour that a travel agency had mapped out for them and a few days later they were in ae the caribbean sea it was a cool breezy night with a brisk wind blowing abs bride was sitting on deck enjoying the salt spray that dashed against her face ace ab like the spray ile he stepped into the lounge and was about to settle himself into a comfortable chair when BAM BAAI something som e thing hit the ship and sent it over at a 33 32 degree angle A hurricane shrieks fill air as lights go out passengers pianos furniture all were catapulted to one side of the lounge lights went out and shrieks filled the room ab picked himself up from a mixture of chairs desks potted palms and squirming rp people eople and ran to the deck where he had left his wife she therel there nor was there any other living thing on that storm swept deck it was impossible to stand much less walk on the spot where he had tast ast seen her ab was frantic ile he hoped his wife of a few days was still i alive but at the same time he was forced to doubt it water began to pour through the ship in a veritable niagara the next thing he knew he be was down in the doorway fighting for his own A W a 6 afif il I 1 t if 6 tf it 4 ea 11 SE i i 2 passengers pianos furniture all were catapulted to one side of the lounge life bracing his feet against the door posts to keep from being washed away then suddenly the lights went on and ab saw ids his wife wedged in another doorway held by two ships officers they had taken her inside just a moment before the storm struck that was only the beginning of it I 1 could tell you more about that hurricane but this yarn about a storm its about a honeymoon ab says seen the picture cavalcade a few weeks before and sithey St they felt like the two lovers on the titanic must have felt when the 11 ship struck an iceberg before it was over one man was killed one sailor lost an arm and others were injured but in the end they aagot got through it the same storm which two days later destroyed the city of tampico mexico earthquake aids exciting honeymoon finally the ship reached los angeles ab and his wife were going athe to stay there a week and they settled down to a quiet time thank the lord they have hurricanes on the west coast they found a d 1 hotel went out to see the sights spent a glorious day and retired about midnight happily exhausted from the strenuous time had they idere were asleep for about one hour when ab felt himself being tossed tb odily from fro the bed he landed heavily on the floor scrambled to his ofelt 51 feet and switched on the light the chandelier was swinging to and atro aaro fro like a pendulum an earthquake 3 ab looked at his wife she was still in bed sound asleep how she could sleep through that quake is still a mystery to ab ile he shook her told her to get up and get dressed that they were in an earthquake she replied sleepily that she been so tired in months and she care what hat they were in ab called the operator and asked her what to expect she told him the quake was pretty bad and he could expect three more shocks so ab sat up all night in terror while the earth heaved and rumbled finally about six a in m the world gave a final weak convulsion and 91 B it was all over s ab had planned a weeks stay at colorado springs and as they left los angeles a week later he remarked that he be at all suri if the colorado river overflowed well it could have at that but it exactly what happened travel agency lets ab down with thud ali ab and his bride found colorado springs about as pleasant a fi place as ever seen in their lives pikes peak reared alfr its huge bulk high above them the hotel was comfortable the golf course was good the sun shone all the time they passed a delightful week ab with his supply of money running low and just enough to pay his way back to new york was ready to go home ile he began to think he had shaken the jinx at last when at the end of their stay he stopped at the cashiers window to pay his bill ile he need money for that the travel agency had given him vouchers that would take care of S all hotel bills ile he got out the proper voucher and handed it to the cashier the man took it and told him to wait a minute as w he had bad something to check over A few minutes later the fellow was back again im sorry he said putting abs voucher back on the counter 1 I cant accept this you see the agency went bankrupt yesterday j no the colorado river overflow but ab would have been a PI lot less embarrassed if it had and I 1 he says arntie am arn the guy jhc 1 was told by his elders that marriage was the beginning of a quiet au i settled type of life j released by western newspaper union |