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Tloyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB DEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFt “Death Headed North” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: Now this is the story of an adventure that almost any one of us might have got into. Anyone who has ever ridden on a rail road train has taken a chance on finding himself in just such a terrifying situation. As luck would have it, it happened to Fenton Barrett of Shaker Hollow, South Salem, N. Y. And, boys and girls, I wish it to be distinctly understood that I am very glad it happened to Fent Barrett, and not to me. Fent Barrett is an actor. He had just finished a run in a successful musical show on Broadway not long before he starred in the thriller he is going to tell us about now. When the show closed, he went south for a vacation, but he hadn’t been there long when he got a wire telling him to come back to New York and start rehearsals in a new produc tion. Fent left that night for Washington, and in Washington he got aboard the train for New York—the train that was to carry him right smack into the most thrilling moment of his life. Fire Started in the Wash Room. It was a hot day, the first of August, 1928. Fent decided to ride in the smoker where he could take his coat off and be comfortable. Usually the smoker is up front, next to the baggage car, but in this case it was the last car on the train. The train bowled along over the countryside, without any interruption, and without any hint of the drama that was to come. It was getting near the Big City, and the train porter came in and began cleaning up the car. Fent was sitting in the third seat from the front, and was watching the porter idly as he moved about. The train was coming into Balloons to Protect London From Airplanes y* 1 Is C| Wild Dog Known as Dingo Ancient as the race of dogs may be, nobody yet definitely has traced their kinship to other mammals. What sort or form of animal pre ceded the domesticated dog as we know him still is a moot question. However, there are some forms of the animal which must more closely resemble the prehistoric than any of those commonly known. Among them is the native wild dog of Aus tralia, also known as the dingo. The Name Eunice The name Eunice is of Greek origin and means “happily victori ous.” It appears in the Bible in II Tim. 1, 5, where the implication is of devout faith. This Eunice was Timothy’s mother. Discoverer of Steam Power James Watt, Scottish engineer (1736-1819), was the first to realize the possibilities of steam power. He never made an electrical discovery, though his name signifies an electric cower unit. for the much discussed barrage for the protection of London from the attacks of enemy aircraft are shown as they were tried out on the field for the Empire day demonstrations at Cardington, England, recently. The plan of British air strategists is to string heavy nets between the balloons as a means of trapping enemy airplanes and preventing their appearance over London for bombing forays. Could You Spare Him a Lift? CHAMP BROAD JUMPER * 1 ys™:;: .? ' I ■ I* - * “J Sr*''" The Whole Wash Room Was Roaring With Flame. Elizabeth, N. J., and the porter, with a large bundle of old newspapers, had just gone into the men’s wash room. “That porter,” says Fent, “had been in the wash room only a few seconds when suddenly he came leaping out into the aisle. As he did, I saw the reflection of flames on the highly polished door. The porter made a desperate attempt to close the door, but by this time the whole wash room was roaring with flame, and he was beaten back.” Fent jumped to his feet. He was one of seven men in the car including the conductor and porter. Before he could get out of his seat, the flames were almost on him, and he had barely time to grab his coat and brief case and dash to the rear of the car. Couldn’t Stop the Blazing Train. Meanwhile, with all the windows open, the blaze spread through the car like wild fire. As Fent reached the rear of the car he looked back, just in time to see the conductor reach for the signal rope to stop the train. The rope was blazing, even as he grabbed for it. As he pulled on it, it snapped in two. Their only way of communicating with the engineer—the only means of stopping that speeding train—was gone. “We all crowded back to the rear platform,” says Fent, “and divided three on each side. The porter had climbed over the iron gate and was hanging to the back end of the train for dear life. By this time half the car was on fire, and with us in the last car and the train doing sixty-five miles an hour, it certainly looked bad. “One of the passengers became hysterical and the conductor had a hard time trying to keep him from jumping off the back end of the train. We were all choking and almost overcome by smoke and the fumes of burning paint and varnish. I felt myself getting panicky and dropped to my knees and put my nose to the floor, trying to get a good breath of air.” The fire was all through the car by this time—streaming right down the aisle and shooting out the door onto the rear platform. Fent felt something move beneath him. It was that iron lid which covers the steps. The porter had loosened it and was motioning the three men who were standing on it to step back so he could swing it open. They squirmed around until they could get it up, and then they crowded down onto the steps. All Jumped at 30-Mile Speed. The porter screamed to them not to jump. The flames crowded them harder now, and Fent was kept busy dodging broken glass and tongues of fire that licked back at him through the rear windows. The heat was so terrific that he made up his mind to jump soon, rather than be burned to death. And then—the brakes went on. The train started to jerk and slow down. It slowed from sixty-five—to fifty—to forty. When it was going about thirty, Fent jumped, and the rest of them fol lowed. “I was thrown up against the bank,” Fent says, “but I wasn’t badly hurt. A few scratches and bruises—but I was too glad to be off that burning car to pay any attention to a little thing like that. The train went on for half a mile before it came to a stop, and we ran and caught up with it. By that time, the car we had been in was just a red-hot steel frame. Not a window or a seat left. And they were having quite a time trying to disconnect it from the rest of the train because the steel was so hot the brakeman couldn’t touch the couplings. We got into another car, I fell into the seat exhausted, for it was then that I first realized what I had been through.” Copyright.—WNU Service. mm. The newest refinement in hitchhiking is being tried out by L. A. Schaldenbrand of Detroit, Mich., who is seeking lifts from considerate motorists who would be kind enough to tow him westward. >»i% i <3* ^ Here’s Mack Rouinson, University of Oregon’s Negro star as he leaped 24 feet 2% inches to win the broad jump event in the Pacific Coast con ference meet at Berkeley, Calif. English Tennis Ace Defeats Helen Moody Miss Mary Ruth Hardwick, Great Britain’s second-ranking woman tennis player, who defeated Mrs. Helen Wills Moody in the quarter final round of the St. George Hill Bishop Praises China’s Spirit Star Dust ★ Speaking of Doubles ★ Flynn Out—Lynn In 'k Musical Lombardos By Virginia Vale W HEN you see “Robin Hood” you’re going to see some remarkable archery; it will look as if Errol Flynn is a wizard with the bow and ar row. But the man behind the bow was really Howard Hill, and you will be able to see him in a film of his own before long —one of those Pete Smith shorts. Hill will go William Tell one better by lining up fif teen pretty girls with apples on their heads and shooting the apples off. Remember the days when no studio would ever admit that any actor had a double for any stunt? They used to make Douglas Fair banks have one sometimes, when the stunt was too dangerous — and he’d manage to do it himself when the cam- e r a s weren’t grinding, just to show that he wasn’t afraid. Speaking of Flynn—recently he worried Warner Brothers no little. He bought a new yacht, and decided to go on a six months’ trip in search of adventure. The executives ob jected. They finally gave him three weeks off. He had to go to Miami to get the yacht; be was to sail it through the canal, and fly to Holly wood to work in “Sister Act.” Off he went, and off he stayed. He spent four weeks in Miami. A studio representative went after him, and went back without him. So Jeffrey Lynn, whose face isn’t exactly familiar on the screen as yet, was given the lead in “Sister Act,” with everybody cheering for him, and now the studio’s delighted with his work. It may be another of those cases where a star walks out and a new star walks right in. * If Jeffrey Lynn does climb to star dom he can thank Bette Davis for giving him a start. While appear ing in a road company of a New York stage success he was given a screen test by Metro. Nothing came of it so far as Metro was concerned, but Miss Davis saw the test and wanted Lynn for a role in “Jezebel.” He didn’t get it, but Warner Broth ers liked the test and gave the young man a contract. * They’re admitting now that the clever Miss Davis was right when she refused to play in “Comet Over Broadway,” saying that the „• mm A1 I: tennis tournament at Weybridge, England, recently. Mrs. Moody, who has been attempting a come back, bad previously won the Sur rey championship and the North London hard-court title. “The spirit of wartorn China is akin to the spirit of revolutionary Christianity ... I think China will demonstrate to the world today arms are not necessarily supreme.” These were the words of Right Reverend Logan H. Roots, bishop for 34 years of the Protestant Episcopal church of Hankow, as he arrived in the United States after retiring from his duties in China. . World’s Largest Motorship Launched . Oldest College Fraternity Oldest college fraternity in the world. Phi Beta Kappa, was found ed in 1776 as a social and literary society at William and Mary col lege, Williamsburg, Va. It spread to Yale (1780), Harvard (1781), sur vived the closure of William and Mary by Revolutionary battles in 1781. Since 1826 it has been a non secret, purely honorary fraternity, choosing members on the basis of excellence in studies. 'M Grows Blue Grass In a general way the southwestern section of Virginia grows natural blue grass; the Shenandoah valley and the tier of counties lying east of the Blue Ridge, called Piedmont, also grow a great deal of blue grass. Scott’s Curiosities In Sir Walter Scott’s old home, Abbotsford, can be seen the crucifix of Mary Queen of Scots, Napoleon’s pistol and blotter, a tumbler from which Burns drank, Rob Roy’s gun, and other curios. Shipyard workers, Fascist leaders and Swedish officials participated iu the launching of the world’s largest notorshlp, the Swedisb-American liner Stockholm, at Monfalcone, Italy, recently. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQTJ1ST. Dun of tb* Moody Blblo Instttut* of Chicago. 6 Woatarn Wowapapor Union. Lesson for June 26 . mx BETTE DAVIS story and dialogue weren’t up to scratch. One newspaper man called it “a very badly written story full of inane dialogue.” * Jimmy Cagney has bought three tractors for his farm at Martha’s Vineyard, and would rather talk crops than movies any day. They’re a smart family, those Cagneys; his sister took honors at Hunter college the other day. —*— Unlike some news broadcasters, Boake Carter writes his own stuff. But he has able assistance from his wife, who used to be society editor of a Philadelphia newspaper. —*— ODDS AND ENDS—Judging by recent demonstrations, it looks as if television would be in its infancy for a long time to come . . . Helen Hayes is willing to re turn to the movies if somebody can find her a story as good as “Farewell to Arms'' . . . “Farewell” etc., has recently been re- edited, because of the mix-up in interna tional affairs, and will be re-issued ... If “fFoman Against the IFarid” comes your way you’ll see Alice Moore, daughter of Alice Joyce, in a leading role . . . The novel, “Sixteen Hands,” has been bought for the screen for Bob Burns; ills a story about a mule . . . He’ll do “Arkansas Traveler'’ too . . . And he went to court the other day to ask that the records he made in 1933 and 1934 be kept out of cir culation, on the ground that they injure his reputation as a creative artist ... In 1934 he made tlSOO; in 1937, 4400/100 . Nothing like getting a good break, and deserving it! 0 Western Newspaper Union. SHARING SERVICE WITH THE LIVING CHRIST LESSON TEXT—Mark 14-18, 18, 88. GOLDEN TEXT—And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them. Mark 16:20. PRIMARY TOPIC—At Work With Jesus. JUNIOR TOPIC—Jesus Our Living Lord. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Making a New World With Christ. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Making a New World With Christ. Easter again? No, the calendar does not say so, nor have we for gotten that we observed Easter ten weeks ago, but quite properly we study the resurrection story again today. Not only does it come in the sequence of our lessons as our final study in the Gospel of Mark, but the fact is that every Sunday is a re minder of Easter. The reason why we worship on the first day of the week is that it is the resurrection day. What life it would put into our Sunday worship if the glory of the risen Lord would shine forth (as it should) each Lord’s Day in all of our service and worship. It is difficult to think or write about the living Christ without us ing superlatives. Our lesson for to day brings before us the most im portant truth that the world has ever heard—"He is risen”; it speaks of the worst thing in the world—“unbelief”; and it presents the world’s greatest commission— ‘Go . . . and preach.” I. The Transcendent Truth (w. 1-8). “Ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who hath been crucified; He is ris en, He is not here” (v. 6). The world anxiously awaits news, and, hoping almost against hope, it longs for good news. This is the good news—the Gospel—the all-im portant tidings that the Son of God who had taken upon Himself not only the form of man, but the sins of mankind as well, who had tasted the bitter death of Calvary’s cross, could not be holden of death, but breaking its bands asunder had ris en from the dead. This truth becomes the chief bur den of the messages of the disciples as they soon went everywhere pro claiming the Gospel. See the ser mons recorded in the Book of Acts (2:24, 32; 3:14, 15; 4:10, 23; 10:40; 13:30). It was such preaching that was at the foundation of the Chris tian church. It may be that we should emphasize it more. n. The Impassable Barrier (v. 14). “He upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, be cause they believed not.” Many are the sins that men commit, but at the root of them all we find the heart of all sin—unbelief. The tragic consequence of unbe lief is that it shuts the door, throws up a barrier to God’s blessmg that is virtually impassable until God himself gives grace to believe. The astonishing thing is that the hard ness of heart and lack of faith here were on the part of those who had been the disciples of Jesus, to whom He had made known the fact that He was to die and to arise on the third day, and to whom there had now come the word of eye-witnesses that they had seen the Lord. While we marvel at their short sighted unbelief, shall we not ask ourselves what hindrances we have placed in God’s way in our own lives? HI. The Supreme Commission (w. 15, 16, 19, 20). “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole cre ation” (v. 15). “And they went . . and preached, the Lord work ing with them and confirming the word” (v. 20). The great commission of Christ is still the “marching orders of the church,” but how slowly we have marched. The writer of these notes was recently startled by statistics revealing anew the fact that “Chris tian” America is" rapidly returning to the status of a mission field. It is said that last year 60,000 churches in America had no converts, and 9,000 churches were closed during the year. There are 10,000 villages reported to be without church serv ices, and 30,000 communities with out a resident pastor. The command of Christ is that we should go to these pagan communi ties in our own land with the gos pel, and surely it is our double shame that there are still lands where Christ has never been preached, yes, tribes that do not even have a word in their language for the blessed name—Jesus! If we will go He will indeed work with us (v. 20) and accompany the message and ministry with divine authority and power. Who will go? Select Good Company When a man lingers in the neigh borhood of sinners he may expect to be tempted. Our company has not a little to do with our conduct. Try Again The diligent searcher after truth will not be deterred by many dis appointments. His hope may fail, but he will try again. Key to Success There is only one key to success, and that is perseverance.