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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1938 Ttoyd ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “The Crack of Doom” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: Fate plays dirty tricks on some of us—and to others it gives all the breaks. George Keiser of Clinton, Iowa, must be one of Fate’s favorites. George woke up one day out of a sound sleep to listen to the Crack of Doom—and he lived to tell the story. George is a railroad man—and the lads who work on the railroad all seem to have an adventure yarn or two under their hats. George’s adventure came to him in 1931, when he was working as head brakeman for the C. M. St. P. & P. railroad, on a run between Nahant and Green Island, Iowa. It was the morning of April 5. The night before George had had a meal in a restaurant in Nahant, and some of the food he ate—well— George thinks it was tainted. Anyway, he woke up the next morning a very sick man, with a lot of the symptoms of ptomaine poisoning. George felt pretty bad—but he thought the feeling would wear off if he pitched in and worked a bit. It was a freight run he was braking that day, and when the train started out George was aboard her. But that terrible feeling didn’t wear off. Instead, it got worse. George Was Sick and Went to the Caboose. He stuck to his job and managed to perform his duties until the train reached Le Claire, Iowa, and then he felt he couldn’t take it stand ing up any longer. He went to the conductor and told him what was wrong. The conductor called in the rear-end brakeman and told him to take over George’s work. George went back fo the caboose, thankful for a chance to lie down and rest. But he wouldn’t have been so happy about it had he known that Fate had picked that train out for its especial attention that day, and that the caboose was due to be the most dangerous spot of all. George lay down in a bunk and began to doze. Soon he dropped off into a sound sleep, and while he was sleeping, Fate began to set tha Buried Beneath a Pile of Wreckage. stage. The train stopped at Comanche, to set out a car. The conductor was given some new train orders. He looked over the orders—but there was one he missed. And that order had to do with a certain train—on the same track his own train was using—which had left Davenport behind him and was coming along at a fast clip with no stops scheduled. How It Feels to Be in a Collision. George was asleep, so he didn’t see anything of it. He had been told about it later. But that second train—a C. B. & Q. freight, came up behind them, smashed right through the caboose in which George lay, smashing it to matchwood. Then it Kept right on going until it had smashed up two freight cars up ahead of the caboose. Figure George’s chances out for yourself. A sleeping man in a caboose that had been ploughed right through by an engine. Anybody who would give a nickel for George’s chances would just be throwing away good money. “Since I was asleep at the time,” he says, “I couldn’t know what was happening. The first thing I was aware of was a terrible crashing that broke into my slumber. The crash was followed by an almost deaf ening roar of escaping steam. I felt as though I was being picked up bodily by some giant hand and thrown a great distance. “I opened my eyes just then, and the sight I saw was appall ing. Everything about me seemed to be breaking. The bunks were tearing from the walls and bending at crazy angles. The sides of the car were splitting and breaking. The back end was crushed in. The floor was bucking and heaving. For just a small part of a second I watched the car falling to pieces—and then blackness!” George doesn’t know how long he was out, but when he regained consciousness he was buried beneath a pile of wreckage. Was he hurt? He didn’t know. His body was numbed by the pressure of the debris that held him down. He tried to wriggle around to take a look at himself und see if he was bleeding, but he was pinned fast. Then He Heard the Deadly Steam. “I was held down so tightly,” he says, “that the only thing I could move was my eyes. I lay still a minute, and then, suddenly, I heard the hiss of escaping steam. I began to scream for help then, but the noise of the steam was so loud that my voice couldn’t be heard.” Again George screamed—and again! The sound of the steam threw him into a panic. Hot steam from an engine boiler has scalded many a man to death, and every railroader knows what it means. But this steam wasn’t close enough to George to harm him, and finally one of the trainmen from the C. B. & Q. freight heard his cries. Frantically, the whole crew began dragging for his body, prying up timbers and pushing the debris aside. They were only a few minutes at it, but it seemed hours to George as he lay there fighting the pressure of the stuff that was bearing down on his body. At last they got him out. Not one of that" crew of rescuers expected to find anything but a man badly, if not fatally, injured. After all, when a locomotive crashes through a car, smashing it to matchwood, you don’t expect the man inside to come out unhurt. But THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT GEORGE DID! When they got him out there was nothing showing on his body but a few scratches. They took him to a hospital, and the doctors couldn’t find anything else wrong with him either, outside of a bad case of nerves. And if George isn’t one of Fate’s white-headed boys—well—I’d like to know who is. Copyright.—WNU Service. Naval Time Is Correct When you ascertain the time of ■day at the naval observatory you can rest assured that it is the right time, says the Washington Star. The instruments used for the measure ment of time include three stand ard clocks maintained in an under ground vault under constant tem perature and air pressure. No one enters the vault except to repair the clocks, which are viewed by visitors by means of a periscope arrange ment. Composers Used Same Titles An astonishing number of musi cal works with identical titles have been written by different compos ers, states a writer in Collier’s Weekly. The index of the Ameri can Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, shows that “Lullaby” is the title of 721 pieces, “Romance” of 628, “Reverie” of 615, “Nocturne” of 548, “Barcarolle” of 496, “Memo ries” of 530, “Longing” of 313, “Maybe” of 291 and “Someday’’ of 190. Austrian Youths Celebrate Hitler Coup International News Hadiophoto. A contingent of the Hitler Youth Organization of Austria are shown parading through the streets of Vi enna in celebration of the Nazis’ triumphant march into Austria. The successful Nazi coup spelled the end of Austria’s existence as a nation and its beginning as a state of the German reich. “The Law” in Austria Today These German anti-aircraft machine gunners and thousands of others like them are enforcing Germany’s will on Austria now, since that coun try became a part of the German reich in Hitler’s bloodless coup. When this photograph was made these gunners were merely playing at war in maneuvers at Kiss ingen, Germany. NAZI ARMY CHIEF Field Marshal Herman Wilhelm Goering, under whose direction the plans for the Nazification of Austria were successfully completed. Ad dressing an audience in Berlin fol lowing the coup, he declared that Germany is determined further to increase her army. When Hitler Made Austria a German State 1—Adolf Hitler, who made a triumphant entry into Vienna after Germany took undisputed possession of Austria in a bloodless coup, defying the world to interfere. 2—On to Austria went 100,000 crack German troops like these as Hitler captured his homeland for the reich. 3—Armed German trucks and tanks such as these patroled the streets of Vienna. HITLER LIEUTENANT Arthur Seyss-Inquart, made chan cellor of Austria by decree of Adolf Hitler, following the resignation of Kurt Schuschnigg and the success ful Nazi coup. Czechoslovakia May Be Next With informed observers predicting that Czechoslovakia will be the next object of Adolf Hitler’s Pan-German campaign, following his blood less subjugation of Austria, the government of Czechoslovakia has re iterated its previous warning that it will resist to the last any attempt to conquer it. President Edouard Benes (center) is shown conferring with some of his military chiefs during army maneuvers recently. Why Not Fix Those Sagging Springs? CPRINGS in furniture seldom ^ break. The twine that holds them does break and webbing wears out throwing the springs out of position. To set the springs you will need a ball of twine and a needle such as used by the upholsterer, enough webbing to replace the old, tacks %-inch long with large heads, a block of wood for stretch ing the webbing, a tack hammer and a tack lifter. Remove the cover from the seat carefully so that it may either be used again or serve as a pattern. Most of the padding may also be used. Ob serve how each layer of material is fastened in place, so that you may put it back the same way. Remove the springs and all old tacks. Tack the first strip of web bing to one edge of the bottom of the frame, letting the end extend Vi inch beyond the edge, then fold the end over the first tacks and tack again as at A. Draw the webbing across the frame us ing the block of wood as a lever to stretch webbing taut as at B. When all the strips have been stretched and tacked across the frame one way, stretch strips of webbing across the other way weaving these over and under the first ones as at C. Now, sew the bottom of each spring to the web- TIPS to (jrardeners Vegetable Pests T HERE are two major classifi cations of insect pests—suck ing and chewing. Chewing insects, such as beetles, leave telltale holes in leaves. They are best controlled, according to Harold N. Coulter, vegetable expert of the Ferry Seed Institute, by dusting or spraying plants with arsenicals (poisons with arsenate of lead as a base). These arsenicals are known as stomach poisons, for they must be eaten by the insects. Plants at tacked by chewing insects include cucumber, squash, other vine crops, mustard, tomato, pepper. Sucking insects, such as aphids or plant lice, can be detected in small groups on the under surface of the leaves. Control by dusting or spraying nicotine sulphate or pyrethnun directly on the insects. Plants attacked by sucking in sects include peas, pepper, cab bage, and crops grown for greens. Make certain what type pest you are fighting. Buy properly pre pared poisons; follow directions. Jlsk Me Another % A General Quiz 1. What city is called the Moth er of the World? 2. Government meat graders rec ognize how many grades of meat? 3. How many cities have the city manager form of govern ment? 4. Are there any stingless honey bees? 5. What was the longest nation al convention of the Democrats or Republicans? The Answers 1. Cairo. 2. Five grades: (I) Prime, (2) choice, (3) good, (4) medium, (5) plain. 3. There are now 465 cities and 7 counties using this form of gov ernment. Staunton, Va., started the movement 30 years ago. 4. There are several species of stingless bees native to tropical and subtropical countries, but they produce very little honey. 5. The longest national conven tion of a major party since 1880 was the Democratic in 1924, last ing 17 days before the Davis- Bryan ticket was nominated. bing with the upholsterer’s twinei and curved needle as shown in this diagram. Next, turn the frame right side up, drive tacks part way in along the edges; then tie the springs across each way with upholster er’s twine as shown in diagram C. The twine is tied to the tacks and to each spring and regulates the height of the springs—the out side edges usually being lower than the center to make a rounded top. When the springs are regu lated evenly, drive the tacks in; then replace burlap or muslin cov erings and padding. Have you seen Mrs. Spears’ book SEWING for the home dec orator? Forty-eight pages of step- by-step directions for making cur tains, slip-covers and other house hold furnishings. It is full of in spiration for homemakers. 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