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Snapping Doom
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter.
M AKE room for Pete Gill of New York City.
Pete is today’s Distinguished Adventurer, and since there’s
always room for one more in the Adventurers’ Club, we won’t have
any trouble finding a seat for him. Pete is a ship steward—not a
steward on a big ocean liner, but the sort of one who has charge
of the feeding of the crew on a tramp steamer. That kind of a stew
ard goes a heck of a lot of places and sees a heck of a lot of things.
And usually, lie has a heck of a lot of thinps happen to him. too.
Well, sir, Pete is no exception to that rule. He’s had plenty of thir.frs
happen to him. But the most hair-raising of them all was that adventure in
Australia, in the spring of 1922 His ship sailed out of San Francisco in May,
and its first stop w'as at a port that went by the peculiar name of Rockhampton
Meat Works.
It was just a canning factory dock, about four miles from the town
of Rockhampton on the northeast coast of Australia. Rockhampton
itself was only a small town. The whole doggone region wasn’t very
thickly populated. Between the town and the meat works there was
a strip of desert that wasn’t inhabited at all.
It was Pete’s first trip to Australia and he wanted to see the place, so he
decided to take a walk to Rockhampton. Before he left he arranged to meet
some of his shipmates in town at a pub run by a man named Jack Oak. He
started out about 4 o’clock in the afternoon. And as he left a longshoreman
warned him: “Watch out for dingoes. This part of the country is full of them."
Ever Hear of Dingoes? They’re Wild Dogs
Pete had heard of dingoes—the wild dogs of Australia—hut he had never
thought there’d be any that near the coast. He didn’t take the longshoreman’s
warning any too seriously, but he did cut himself a goocLstout stick to defend
himself with, Just in case some of those wild pooches did come along.
Pete walked for about two milesWithout seeing a sign of any wild animal.
He had covered half his journey by then, and he was beginning to think that
longshoreman's story was just a lot of horse feathers. Then suddenly he heard
a sharp yelp behind him and whirled about. There, not a hundred feet away
from him were six dingoes, their heads down, foam dripping from their jaws,
making for him at full speed.
Pete knew better than to try to run from a pack of dogs. That
was just what they wanted. A dog is most dangerous when pursuing
a fleeing quarry. He stood in his tracks and faced the oncoming beasts,
thanking his lucky stars that he had stopped to cut the stick, which he
now held poised, ready to swing at the first dingo that came at him.
“In a few seconds,” Pete says, “they were on me. I swung the»stick and
beat the first one off. I had barely time to w’hlp the stick up again when an
other jumped. I knocked that one down. Then the dogs drew off a bit and
began to.circle around me.”
That was what Pete had been afraid of. Once they began lunging at him
from all sides, he would not be able to defend himself. He’d have given any
thing at that moment for a tree—a wall—a rock—anything he could get his back
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up against. Anything that would keep those snarling, snapping devils out In
front of him, where he could hold them off. But on that flat, sandy stretch of
Australian desert there was no shelter for miles.
Odds Against Him Were Six to One.
Behind him a third dog growled and closed in. Pete turned to beat
him off, and as he did so another leaped at his throat. If that dog had
made it the battle would have been all over—but somehow he managed
to get his stick between him and the animal- A fifth dog jumped and
tore the sleeve off Pete’s coat.
For ten minutes Pete fought on. He didn’t get off unscathed, either. That
dog that had taken his coat sleeve had taken a little flesh along with it. His
trousers were In shreds, and blood was streaming from his fingers, legs and
arms. “I was pretty weak from swinging,” he says, “and from the loss of
blood, although by that time I had almost beaten one of the dingoes to death,
they were still coming at me.”
Courage Plus a Big Stick Saved Him.
• Then the battle began to turn In Pete’s favor. Two of the dingoes ran
away. Another was laid out on the sand, half dead from the beating Pete had
given it. He made another vicious swing and laid out another dog, but the
remaining two still kept coming.
By that time courage began to come creeping back into Pete's body.
He began to feel that maybe he could handle those two remaining dogs
after all. And then over the top of a sand dune came a man—a native
of the country. He raised a rifle and there was a sharp crack. The last
two dogs turned and ran, and in another minute Pete was being half
carried toward the town of Rockhampton.
The Australian took Pete to Jack Oak’s pub, and they put a couple of stiff
drinks of brandy into him and tied up his wounds. After that, Pete felt better
again. Jack Oak drove him back to his ship in his car, and the ship’s doctor
did the rest. But here’s the Joke of the whole business. “If I had only known
enough to light a match,” says Pete, “I’d have been all right, because the
dingoes don’t like tire and won’t go anywhere near it.”
©—WNU Service.
Tobacco Used as Remedy
for Cholera in France
During the cholera epidemic in
France in 1831 the use of tobacco was
raid to induce immunity. To ward
«>ff Illness while the great plague of
1065 was in progress in London every
one was urged to smoke. Small chil
dren were compelled to take tobacco.
At Eton classes were instructed to
*iause and light up at frequent inter
vals, writes Charles Smutny in the
Ohlcag# Tribune.
Who first brought the plant to Eu-
i ope is not established, nor Is >t cer
tain who smoked the first pipeful.
Jean Nicot, whose name remains to
day in nicotine, sent tobacco seeds to
France about 15G0. Within five years
Sir John Hawkins returned to Eng
land with tobacco. Most of Europe
and parts of Africa and Asia had the
weed by the opening of the Seven
teenth century. Snuff was preferred
in France for many years. I lie drink
ing of tobacco,” ns smoking was
termed In England, became common
and later fashionable through the ex
ample of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Every schoolboy knows the legend
of the drenching of Sir Walter Ra
leigh by his valet. This faithful fel
low, for the first time seeing smoke
Issuing from the mouth and nostrils
of his master, believed him to be afire
and promptly emptied a bow) of water,
ale. or beer over Sir Walter. The
beverage changes as do the characters
in the anecdote. Slightly varied ver
sions are given for Richard Tarleton
and ethers. Another Sir Walter Ra
leigh yarn involves a wager with
Queen Elizabeth. He bet that lie could
weigh tobacco smoke, First he weighed
a pipeful of tobacco, then smoked It
and subtracted the weight of the ashes.
The Kalmucks
The Kalmucks are a nomadic Mon
gol race of fearless horsemen and sol
diers, Buddhist In religion, who In
habit parts of China. Siberia and Rus
sia. Although of small stature, for
centuries they have been noted us
fierce warriors.
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M iriam hopkins sailed
for Europe the other day,
planning to spend her six weeks
vacation traveling in central Eu
rope and Russia, mostly by air.
She left her little boy, Michael, in
school in New York, which was
hard to do, for she adores that small,
yellow haired chap, and is doing a
beautiful job of bringing him up. But
he’s rather young to go traipsing about
Europe. She stayed in New York lofig
enough to hear her latest pioture,
“These Three,” which she made with
Merle Oberon and Joel McCrae, hailed
as one of the best pictures made in a
long, long time. She also stayed
long enough to annoy the people who
wanted to Interview her by promising
each day that she’d see the interview
ers the next, and then avoiding prac
tically all cf them.
And that’s bad business; Katherine
Hepburn proved that.
Of course you know how ehe has
been treating interviewers for these
many moons; just snubbing them right
and left. A while ago she decided
to give in. and told the press agent
for her company that she would see a
representative from one paper. And,
according to the story, he began with
the New York i paper with the biggest
circulation and went right down the
line, and met with nothing but re
fusals !
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You've heard Rosa Ponselle and her
sister, Carmela, on the radio; theirs
are some of the loveliest voices to be
found among opera stars. Well, now
there's a family feud on In the Pon
selle family, because Carmela's writing
memoirs, and Rosa doesn’t like the
idea.
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Some years ago Willie and Eugene
Howard, who are doing that new radio
feature, “Folies Bergere of the Air,”
were appearing In a musical comedy.
They lent a helping hand to a young
man who needed a start; being the
show’s feature stars, they could do it
And now the world knows his name—■
John Charles Thomas.
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The news reels brought home to
many of us the full tragedy of the re
cent floods, and it is a relief to know
that some funny things happened in
the midst of all that horror. The news
reel companies usually have local peo
ple who, If anything interesting hap
pens, photograph it on the chance the
company will buy it. During the
Pennsylvania floods, a free lance cam
era man phoned one of the news reel
companies in New York, announcing
that he had some good stuff. He was
urged to send it right in by train. He
said he couldn’t, that no trains were
running. The company checked up
and found that one would leave that
afternoon. Did he have a boat? Yes,
he had his boat tied to the window sill.
Well, then, he was to get into that
boat and take his film to the railway
station. “But I can’t,” he protested.
“I fell out of the boat once and got
wet, so I left my suit at the tailor’s,
and the water came in and washed
away everything in his place—and I
haven’t any other clothes!”
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Too many bouquets can’t be thrown
at “The Country Doctor," which would
be a delightful picture even without
the famous quintuplets. And wouldn’t
you have enjoyed being present when
the father and mother of the quints
saw it recently for the first time?
Dietrich
They’re still having a hard time at
the Paramount studio with “I Loved
a Soldier”; pretty
soon people are going
to think there’s a jinx
on it. Marlene Diet-
rich, you’ll recall,
walked out on It.
Margaret Sullavan was
then borrowed for it,
and broke her arm
Nobody seems to care
for the leading role—
so some unknown girl
may get it, and if she
does, she’ll be a sen
sational success, be
cause that’s the way things happen In
Hollywood.
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There’s no stopping these amateur
hours on the radio. WMCA and the
Inter-city claim now have an Ugly
Duckling amateur hour, (for singers
who feel that lack of beauty keeps
them from succeeding), a Comedy
Writer amateur hour (this is the place
for you if you want to be funny on
the air; a stock company of profes
sionals does the broadcasting; you Just
send your material in), and another
one for song writers; the winning
songs submitted for this hour will be
published.
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ODDS AND ENDS . . . Wallace Beery
teas one of the most worried men on the
coast when doctors told him that Carol
Ann, his little daughter, would have to
have her tonsils out . . . Mrs. Beery has
just returned from London where she
talked with British producers about
Wally's making a picture there . . . /*««/
Whiteman loses five pounds every time he
broadcasts, and then puts them right hack
op again . . . Charles W inninger,
ok “Show Boat" fame, is under contract
tir Fox, with
picture.
‘II hite Fang" as his first
Jacket Costumes Lead Fashion P
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J ACKET costume! A mere matter of
two words and about the most im
portant chapter in the story of the new
spring and summer fashions is told.
The consensus among style creators
who know whereof they speak is that
becomingness, femininity and individu
ality are the keynotes of women’s
fashions this season.
The new costume with its Inevitable
jacket (if not a cunningly devised
cape) does just that. It flatters, it fem
inizes and being in a widely versatile
mood, it tunes to type at the will of
Its Ingenious designer. So it Is that
the colorful spring parade is mostly a
matter of just one jacket costume after
another.
Trekking along in the procession, bo
leros of Spanish extraction hobnob with
jackets that have gone obviously Chi
nese. Hosts of smart Etons vary the
program together with a goodly show
ing of §tylish fingertip jackets. The
new “baby reefer” and the just as new
and Important “baby swagger” are
likewise keeping step to the spring-
song of fashion.
The new redingote, Eton and bolero
costumes in navy or black which are
considered fashion “firsts” on the style
program form Intriguing alliances with
prints that pride themselves on their
gay coloring. Jacket linings, sleeve
facings, blouses and innumerable trim
ming details of bizarre print In con
trast to monotones challenge designers
to work out stunning effects.
Jackets of bright print or embroid
ery worn with gown or skirt in a solid
color are outstanding. This is true not
only of silk and woolen ensembles but
swanky printed linens and colorful
peasant-print cottons are especially
attractive styles, according to this
formula.
At a recent preview of foremost
styles presented by the Chicago Whole
sale Market district to an audience of
fashion enthusiasts who had gathered
from far and near to witness this sig
nificant event, the idea of the jacket
costume was dramatically stressed for
both daytime and evening dress. The
jacketed models herewith illustrated
were selected from tills showing of
surpassingly chic clothes as being not
only practical but also flatteringly
wearable.
The model to the right features a
swank bolero type. The brief Jacket is
lined, cuffed and collared with the
same print that fashions the frilly
blouse pictured with bolero removed
in inset. The fine pleatings, the pep-
lum tabs below the very wide belt, the
straight narrow silhouette of the skirt
and especially the huge full-at-top
sleeves are highly -significant style
details.
The perfectly stunning spectator-
sports costume to the left eloquently
bespeaks the “reason why” jacket en
sembles are at the top o’ the mode. A
style so breathtaking as this will coax
a burst of enthusiasm from even the
most blase. The dress of vogulsh sheer
white woolen is topped with a jacket
of unique cut that is handsomely all-
over braided with soutache. The orig
inal model is done in bright navy but
black on white is equally as effective.
Which leads us to tell you that some of
the smartest costumes going this sea
son are white worked with black sou
tache or made up with effective touches
of black-and-white print. Note the
scroll of soutache finishing the skirt
hemline. It tells you that designful
hemlines are a very important style
gesture.
© Western Newspaper Union.
PLEATED SLEEVES
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
© Western Newspaper Union.
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Designers are doing interesting
things with sleeves. Bleated sleeves
are very high style this season. This
frock of dusty pink moss crepe makes
appeal because of Its sophisticated sim
plicity. Its pleated sleeves give an air
of distinction. The belt, tiny collar
and felt beret are in the popular Du
bonnet shade. Suggestive of spring
and employing all the modern touches
Is tiie lovely petit point bag in pastoral
design by Madame .Tolies ol \ ienna.
This charming bag with Us dark
ground and subdued colorings with
jeweled clasps at the side of the gold
frame makes a striking contrast to the
gown.
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If you are having a number of but.
tons covered for a suit or dress have q
few extra ones made and drop them In
your mending basket. No’doubt ydu
will b4 ver#-'grateful for them later orf. 4
LACE NOW INVADES
WHOLE DRESS FIELD
The new summer collections in Paris
are always eagerly awaited. This year
they have brought more in novelty and
charm than could have been anticipated.
Femininity characterizes the fashions
offered by all of the great designers,
and in achieving feminine charm, the
couturiers have chosen the preferred
medium—lace. This return to favor
of a material so long overlooked by the
mode is outstanding, and it has come
back not only in the classic varieties
of lace to which we have become ac
customed, but in many new and fas
cinating forms, which seem very defi
nitely fabrics.
These new types are being employed
widely for street dresses and summer
suits, definitely tailored in effect. The
prominence given lace in this type of
clothes has also called attention to
the practicalness and charm of cotton
nets and tulle as a material for tailor
ing. Suits of these materials are
shown and the new laces are utilized
for long redingotes which veil eve
ning frocks in an alluring mist.
Hand-Knit Silk Ensembles
Are New Fashion Offering
Import collections show a number
of hand-knitted silk ensembles. Anny
Blatt. first to create a hand-knitted
evening gown, has launched a hand-
knitted silk wedding gown and a fine,
sheer hand-knit veil. Her collection
also includes knitted silk suits, dresses
and blouses in daytime, cocktail and
dinner styles.
New pure silk yarns have been de
veloped for both hand-made and ma
chine-knit costumes. They are easy to
work with, wash like lingerie and are
dressy enough for afternoon and bridge
wear. The new silk yarns, which are
tiie latest word to knitters, come In a
•*&ide range of colors both dark qud
' light. : ’ • ‘
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