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FOR REPLACEMENTS SPECIFY 0-1 PRE-TESTED RADIO TUBES ADVENTURERS* CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI k 99 A Mean Eye Little Joan was learning to sew, and had been trying for several minutes to thread her needle. At length, losing patience, she said crossly: “I do believe\he nasty eye isn’t looking for the dfctfton.”— Windsor Sthr. Resourceful: The man who promised his wife a circular tour --and took her on a merry-go- round. Wrong Darling “Is that you, darling? M-may I bring three friends home to sup per?” * “Why, certainly, dear.” “I say, did you hear what I said?” “Of course, dear: you asked if you could bring home three friends!” “Then I’m sorry, madam, I’ve got the wrong number!” LEADING MAN Through a Tropic Holocaust By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: Well, sir, fellow adventurers, people have all kinds of troubles in this bothersome old world of ours. You have your troubles and I have mine. Maybe the old spinning ball would be just TOO nice a place to live on if we didn’t have our share of adversity to make the sweet seem sweeter and the bright seem brighter still. Anyhow, I have a letter here from Alberta L. Hitchins of New York City, who has had her troubles—plenty of ’em—but who doesn’t let them bother her very much. No, sir. Because every time she begins to think her troubles are too much for her, she looks back on that horrible day in Kingston, Jamaica, in January, 1907, and realizes that what looks like troubles to her now don’t really deserve the name of trouble at all. On that fateful day Mrs. Hitchins was sitting in the office of J. Eustace Burke A Brothers, the firm for which she worked. She wasn't Mrs. Hitchins then—just Alberta, the assistant cashier. With her in the office was her boss, her sister—one or two other women who worked there, too. Outside, it was a clear, tropical sunshiny day. From over head came the nimbi* of machinery in a bottling plant on the floor above When the Earthquake Struck. At 3:3* in the afternoon, a distant, ominous, rumbling sound startled all Kingston. In the office where Alberta worked, how ever, nobody paid any attention to these sounds. The bottling plant on the floor above was always noisy. Rumblings wer* nothing new to the employees of Burke & Brothers. The first Intimation that Alberta had that anything was wrong was wkea * she happened to look up from her work and saw that the wall la front of her desk SEEMED TO BE BENDING OVER! At the same time, she felt herself suddenly—inexplicably—slipping from her chair. She Jumped to her feet. From overhead a shower of pluster fell Uttering her desk. All at once, things seemed to be flying in aU directions. Then, in a moment. aU was quiet again. In the office, there was a moment of tense silence. Then Alberta beard the voice of her boss saying: "My God! An earthquake! San Francisco aU over again!** Alberta took a quick look around the of- A Tottering Wall FeU With a Crash. There were five people in It Miraculously, not one of them was injured. Alberts heaved a sigh at relief—too toon. At that moment the trembling started aU over again. Frem outside came the so and at a piercing shriek. A wemaa In the nest building' Alberta started teward the door—felt some one grab her by the arm. It waa her sister. "Don’t ge eat there.** her slater cried. A Uttering wall fell with a crash. The wsmaa's voice waa stilled. Terrible Scenes in the Streets. The boss started to gather up the company's books and put them la the safe. The girls turned to and helped. When that was finished. Alberta and her sister made their way out to the street and started to head for home, down by the waterfront The town was a shambles. Buildings were down everywhere. Walls were down—streets a mass of wreckage—debris strewn everywhere. Men. women, children—even animals—were stretched out on the pave ment. dead or frightfully injured. Everywhere, cries for help. People pinned under falling buildings—half buried in the wreckage—shouted pathetic appeals for aid that almost drove ..Iberta and her sister mad with pity. And to add to the horror. Are broke out—everywhere—and many who could otherwise have been saved had to be abandoned by the rescuers to a living death in the flames. It was the most harrowing sight two girls had ever seen. They struggled home to find their mother and younger sister alive, but frightfully injured. They had just been dug out r.om under the wreckage of what had been their home. Earthquake shocks were still coming at interva... Alberta and her sister cast about for medical aid for their mother and the little girl. The hospital was miles away—and in ruins. The cnly safe place left was the sea. They took them aboard a vessel anchor.d in the har bor and put them in care of the ship's doctor. There were hundreds of other people on that boat—..undreds of refugees from the stricken city. All afternoon they straggbd aboard. Doctors—volunteer nurses came from the town. They turned that boat into a hospital ship for the care of the injured. Tragedies in a Night of Horrors. Night came—a night that transformed the city into a red ~ifemo rimmed by the cosmic blackness. Fire flamed up anew in a hundred different quarters. Buildings tottered. Walls crumbled. The shrieks of the victims continued all through the night. Dogs howled in the stree •. Fanatics sang wildly. People went insane for no other reason than t...( which they had seen—and heard. Terrible scenes were enacted in those grim hoars. A father and son were trapped between two walls of a fallen building Rescuers were striving to get to them. They were almost free, when flame shot through the building, driving the rescuers back. The trapped man's business partner had just time to pass his hand through a hole In the wall—give his friend a last handshake before the flames were upon him and he had to dash back, the cries of his associate and the boy still ringing in his ears. In the hearti*ending scenes that went on through that terrible night, Alberta almost lost her mind. Long before it was over, she was a wom an moving in a daze. Somehow she lived through it—somehow kept her sanity. And now— Now Alberta is married. As the mother of three children she has responsibilities—sometimes troubles. But when she has troubles, she looks back at that awful January day in Kingston and wonders what the people who. bled and died in that holocaust would think of her feeble little woes. e—WNU Service. Pepper Once Coveted by Kings Pepper once was coveted by kings and explorers laid down their lives to get the precious seasoning. When the Eastern Roman Empire fell Alaric the Goth exacted 3,000 pounds of pepper as part of the tribute. The Pepperers’ guild ol London, organized in 1180, was for many centuries the most powerful of the trade guilds. Portugal sent Vasco de Gama to find a water route to India so that the pepper supply might be more abundant A pound of the seasoning once paid for a year’s rent of land or a house in England. Canton Island Canton island is the chief spot of land among the tiny dots which make up the Phoenix group, 2,700 miles north of New Zealand. The importance of this archipelago, which lies Just south of the equator, is readily seen on any map of the South Pacific. The Phoenix group lies almost on a line between New Zealand and Honolulu, practically half way between the two. Canton island covers about eight and a half square miles, nourishes shrub veg etation and provides a salt-water lagoon navigable tq boats which draw up to S feet Scenes and Persons in the Current News ■ mu :' ■ / m zm. < i m ‘ l i! ' Hite- 1—George Fort Milton, prominent Chattanooga publisher, who has been named as special assistant to Seo- r ri* r y of State Cordell Hull. 2—Frank McNinch, President Roosevelt’s new "trouble shooter,** is sworn in as chairman of the federal communications commission. 3—Announcing that he and his bride wlU soon visit the United States, the duke of Windsor accompanies his wife to a Parisian modiste. Try a scoop ol vanilla lc« cream topped with a spoonful at rich brown apple butter. O 0 o Lattice-Topped Pies.—Fruit end berry pies with lattice-style tope require less baking time than the regular full-crust toppers. O 0 • A Delight for the Children,— Next time your children want a party, cook a cornstarch custard and fill cones. Alternate every spoonful or so with currant jelly and finish with jelly on top. o • o Orange Fritters.—Separate two large navel dranges into sections. Dip sections in batter and fry In deep fat. Serve as accompaniment to roast lamb or braised pork chops. To Wash Curtains.—Lace cur tains before being washed for the first time should be soaked for an hour or two in cold water to which two tablespoons of table salt have been added. This removes dress ing in curtains and makes them much easier to launder. WMUSvnric*. w Ambassador Goes Fishing STARFISH PRINCESS William C. Bullitt, United States ambassador to France, enjoys some fishing in a stream near Chantilly, France, as he and his daughter spend a holiday at the castle of Bois St. Flrmin. She’ll star In aquatic events at Long Beach, Calif. No pun Intended, but Miss Aileen Znlswnick has selected as the "Stsrflsh Princess” to preside in fall and winter events nt the famous sonthern California beach resort. She Is shewn In her stsrflsh costume. ROSE IN HER HAIR New U. S. Cruiser Commissioned A rose by any other name—even "chapeau”—is still a beautiful thing to look at. Particularly is this true when it* wearer is as chic as Miss Lucy Saunders, society girl of Bel mont Park, N. Y., who is pictured here, modeling something different in hats. It is made of robin’s-egg- blue crepe, draped to resemble a rose perched on top of her head. A general view of the 10,000-ton cruiser Philadelphia, the fifth and largest vessel to bear that name, at the Philadelphia navy yards, where she was launched recently. The $14,750,000 vessel is commanded by Capt. Jules James, formerly attached to the United States Naval academy. The construction of this cruiser was part of the administration’s pro gram to strengthen the nation’s naval forces. The program included the construction of a number of other fighting ships President Pays Call on a Cardinal President Roosevelt is pictured as he chatted with George Cardinal Mundelein in the prelate’s Chicago home, where the President was n luncheon guest on the occasion at his recent visit to Chicago. The President and Cardinal Mundelein have been close friends for n number of years. Beware Coughs froa COflUMIB colds That Hang On ,you< No matter bow many you have tried for; cold, or bronchial i get relief now with Serious trouble may be you cannot afford to take * with any remedy len Creomulxlon. which goee right to the east of the trouble and aids na ture to soothe and heal the inflamed mucous membranes and to kona nwd expel the germ-laden phlegm. Even If other remedies have faded, don't be discouraged, try Creocnul- aton. Your druggist Is authorised to refund your money If you are not thoroughly sal fits obtained If you a with the from the bottle. 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