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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1938
“Dangerous Crossing'*
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ello everybody:
Here’s a yarn from Claire Gibson of Chicago about an
adventure that took place in Springfield, 111. Claire was just a
little girl when she had that adventure. It was the first one of
her life, and for thrills and plain out-and-out terror nothing that
has happened to her since could ever even approach it.
It was a hot day in the early summer of 1910. Claire had an invi
tation to a party that was being given at a hou«e some distance away
from her home and she was all dressed and ready to go.
It must have been somewhere between seven and eight in the
evening, because Claire remembers that the party started at eight.
She left her home, walked two blocks to the troUey line, and
waited for a car to come along. When it arrived, she got on and
took a seat np near the end of the car.
The car moved on, and, after a few blocks, an old lady boarded it
and took a seat near the middle. More people got on after that. It was
pretty well filled by the time it reached Fifth and Rafter streets and
started to cross the railroad tracks.
Claire was up in front of the car, and she saw everything that hap
pened. That crossing they were coming to was a dangerous one, and
it seemed to her that all necessary care was being taken to see that the
car got over it safely. The conductor got out and ran ahead to make
sure there were no trains coming.
Freight Engine Smashed the Trolley.
Apparently satisfied, he motioned to the motorman to come ahead,
and swung back aboard the moving trolley. And, then something went
wrong. The trolley was moving across the tracks—was right in the
middle of them—when suddenly a freight train appeared out of nowhere,
looming up in the night not three yards away from the car!
There was no time to avoid it—no time to do anything. Some
one in the car screamed. Then there was a thud—a terrific jar—
a crashing of glass and a terrible grinding sound. The big engine
was tearing and ripping the trolley car to pieces!
The air was full of shouts and screams now. Bodies were flying
everywhere. At the first impact, Claire had been tossed into the air and
thrown bodily through a window, shattering the glass as she went.
She landed in a sitting position on the ground, 30 or 40 feet from the car
tracks. The car, carried along by the train, was right beside her.
Claire got to her feet. Kid-like, she never gave a thought to the pos
sibility that she might be hurt. And as a matter of fact she was so
stunned and dazed by the accident that she didn’t notice such things.
“I was only about half-conscious of what was going on,” she says.
*T didn’t even realize that I had been in a train wreck.”
Climbed Over Bodies of the Dead.
As soon as she got to her feet, she thought of the old woman who had
boarded the car just after she had. Back through the window of the
wrecked car she climbed, in search of that old lady.
"I climbed over bodies,” she says, “until I found her. She
was unconscious but I dragged her out of the window and laid
her on a nearby lawn. I screamed for help, but no one paid any
attention to me.
“Then I ran to the wrecked engine and climbed to the cab to get
the engineer.”
But the engineer wasn’t in the cab. Claire found him lying outside
on the tracks—dead.
By this time she was beginning to realize that she was hurt. She
was covered with blood and her clothing was nearly all tom from her
body. There was a deep cut on her wrist that was bleeding badly. But
still she carried on. She climbed back into the wrecked trolley.
“I found another woman,” she says, “lying on her back and begging
for help. I managed to lift her a little and, as I did, I recognized
her as one of our neighbors. I dragged her out through the window and
laid her on the lawn beside the old lady, but she died a short time
afterward.”
Claire Herself Was Badly Hurt.
But by that time help had arrived. The ambulances, the fire depart
ment, and the police had all been summoned, and now they were reach
ing the scene of the accident. Hundreds of people were gathering, trying
to lend a hand.
By this time, too, Claire’s head was beginning to clear and
she was sick at heart at the horrible sights she had seen.
With the blood still streaming from her, she began to run home,
too excited to realise that she was badly injured.
She reached home all but exhausted—ready to collapse. Her wrist
was cut to the bone, and there were splinters of glass in her face, and
her back was strained from lifting people out through the window of that
wrecked car. She was so weak from loss of blood that she staggered as
she entered her house.
Her folks called a doctor and put her to bed. And it was the next
day before she read in the newspapers the cause of the accident.
The conductor had looked for the train all right. He just hadn’t been
able to see it. It was dark, and in addition to that a thick fog had
fpiion over the city, obscuring the view. The freight’s headlamp had gone
out, and the watchman at the crossing had gone home just a short while
before.
All that was a long time ago. Claire has never forgotten the hor
rible sights she saw that night, but she doesn’t regret that adventure
either.
“I’m glad,” she says, “that I was able to be there and do a little
to help those who were more badly hurt than I was."
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Habits of the Hummingbird
The hummingbird camouflages its
nest (hung from horizontal branches
for safer wind sway) with moss and
cobwebs, for the nest itself using
soft fibers held together by spider’s
silk.
Naming Birds and Fishes
Birds are not the only wild crea
tures burdened with vernacular
names. There is really more con
fusion among the fishes. There are
hardly two states that refer to the
same species by the same names.
Discovered, Named Brazil
Brazil was discovered by Petro
Alvares Cabral in 1500. He named
it Terra de Santa Cruz, or Land of
the Holy Cross, and took possession
of it in the name of the king of
Portugal.
Meaning of Name Arna
Am a might well be more com
monly used as a girl’s name, being
simple and distinctive. It is of Teu
tonic and Latin origin and means
“of the eagle’s breed” or “like the
eagle.”
Scores Die in Worst Rail Wreck in Years
In the nation’s worst railroad tragedy in years, approximately 40 passengers were killed when the Mil
waukee road’s crack “Olympian” train plunged into the flood waters of Custer creek near Miles City, Mont. A
midnight “flash flood” carried away the trestle spanning the creek and the train plunged into the raging
praters. These two coaches bore many of the passengers who lost their lives.
TWO NO-HIT GAMES
Johnny Vander Meer, twenty-
three-year-old left-handed pitcher of
the Cincinnati Reds who wrote new
baseball history recently when be
pitched two no-hit games in succes
sion. He shut out the Boston Bees
first, and then four days later took
on the Brooklyn Dodgers in a night
game at Ebbetts field and white
washed them 6 to 0. No other pitch
er in the century-old history of base-
bail has ever pitched two no-hit
games in the span of a single sea
son.
Newlywed Roosevelts Honeymoon
John Roosevelt and his bride, the former Anne Lindsay Clark of
Boston, who went to Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada, follow
ing their wedding at Nahant, Mass. The young Roosevelts planned to
continue their honeymoon with a trip to the West Indies.
Greyhound’s Chief Rival
IMPERIAL POTENTATE
This superb action photograph shows Brogan, a 2:01% performer,
owned and driven by E. Roland Harriman of New York, in a fast workout
at Goshen, N. Y., recently in preparation for five clashes with the world’s
champion, Greyhound, this summer. Fans of this area will see Brogan
first July 14 at Harriman’s historic track.
Andrew A. D. Rahn, hearty impe
rial potentate of the Mystic Shrine
who was elected to his post at the
recent convention in Los Angeles,
Calif. Potentate Rahn hails from
the Zuhrah temple at Minneapolis.
Keel h Laid for New U. S. Warship
The scene as the first rivet was driven for the laying of the keel of the navy’s newest battleship, the $65,-
004,900 dreadnaught U. S. S. Washington, at the Philadelphia navy yard. Left to right: Mayor S. Davis Wilson
of Philadelphia; Rear Admiral Wat Cluverius, commandant of the Philadelphia navy yard; Lieut. Comdr. Wil
liam Cunningham, representing Gov. George Earle of Pennsylvania; Rear Admiral Luther Gregory, civil en
gineer corps, (retired), representing Governor Martin of Washington; Capt. Alexander Hamilton Van Keuren
of the civil engineer corps, in charge of construction at the navy yard; and J. C. Kauffman, master sheet
metal worker at the navy yard.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for July 3
A CHOICE OF LOYALTIES
LESSON TEXT—Joshua 1:M:
GOLDEN TEXT—tA* for m« and my
house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 14:13.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Choosing Sides.
JUNIOR TOPIC—A Loyal Leader.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
A Choice of Loyalties.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Man's Highest Allegiance.
“Lives of great men all remind
us,” according to the poet, that we
too may make our lives sublime,
and thus leave our footprints in the
shifting sands of time. The study
of biography is interesting, instruc
tive, and often challenging. When
we enter the field of Bible biography
we bring into consideration an ad
ditional and fundamental factor,
pamely, the power and grace of
God working in and through a sur
rendered life. All strength of char
acter and ability is a gift of God,
but its glory is largely veiled and
its usefulness definitely limited, if
not actually perverted, because
there is no recognition of the
foundation of true greatness, which
is faith in and loyalty to God.
During the next three months we
are to share in the study of the life
stories of g'eat men and women
which will not only stimulate am
bitions, but which also reveal what
God can do through those who are
ready to follow Him.
Moses, God’s great leader for
Israel, having brought them out of
the land of bondage and through the
terrible wilderness, is about to
leave them. God’s workman is about
to die, but His work is to go on.
God is not taken by surprise.
I. A Prepared Man Takes Com
mand (1:3-6).
“Moses is dead; now therefore
arise.” Life is like that. “The
king is dead; long live the king,”
is the cry of those who live under
monarchies, as one ruler dies and
his successor takes over the throne.
Until that day when there shall be
“time no longer,” men must put
away their sorrow and go on. Three
words characterize the commission.
1. Promise (w. 2-4). God gave
the land to Israel. Every place that
Joshua planted his foot upon was
to be his possession, even as God
has promised Moses. A river lay
between; there were walled and
armed cities to be taken; there
were even giants in the land, but
God promised it to Joshua; and he
took it by faith.
God has given us many promises,
too. If we are fearful, poverty-
stricken, powerless Christians, it is
because we do not believe God.
2. Power (v. 5). No man is able
to stand against God’s servant who
is doing God’s will, in God’s way,
in God’s time. It was true of Joshua;
it is true today. Men set up their
opposition to God’s plan and pro
gram with the assumed belief that
because they have position, power,
or money, they can readily crush
the poor little band of Christian
workers. Russia tried it. They even
“abolished” God. But religion
thrives in Russia, secretly perhaps,
but none the less sincerely and suc
cessfully.
3. Courage (v. 6). To serve God
means to be assured of His help.
Faith lays hold of that fact and the
whole man becomes courageous.
II. An Experienced Man Gives
Counsel (24:14-21).
More than two decades have
passed since the appointment of
Joshua to lead Israel. God has ful
filled every promise. Israel is in
the Promised Land. Before the aged
leader dies he calls the leaders of
his people together to urge them to
continue in the way of faith and
loyalty to God. This he does by:
Chair or Buffet Set
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Send for This
Free Chart
Showing Iodine Content
of Various Foods
You are invited to write C. Houston
Goudiss for a chart showing the
foods rich in iodine and those
which are poor in this substance.
It will serve as a valuable guide
in preparing balanced menus.
Just ask for the lodinr Chart,
addressing C. Houston Goudiss at
6 East 39th Street, New York
City. A post card is sufficient to
carry your request.
Only Town Crier
Amos Emanuel Kubik, the of
ficial town crier of Provincetown,
Mass., is the only one in the Unit
ed States. On his daily rounds he
wears a Pilgrim costume with
wide-brimmed black hat and bro-
gans with large buckles. He calls
out items of local news, the tides,
time and weather, •>nd official
and commercial anno ncements.
These are prepared for him by a
civic organization known as the
Town Criers of Provincetown. The
town crier tradition has survived
in Provincetown for almost 200
years.
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Self-Help
When looking for a helping
hand, look at the one at the end
of your wrist.—Proverb.
1. Example (v. 15). “As for me
and my house, we will serve the
Lord.” No man can honestly and
effectively call others to devotion to
the Lord unless he sets them an ex
ample.
2. Instruction (w. 16-19). Remem
bering God’s dealings with them,
S e people declare their determina-
m to serve the Lord. They spoke
rather glibly. Joshua instructs
them. God is not interested in lip
service. He does not need them so
much as they need Him. He does
not look upon their confession of
Him, if they continue to live in sin.
3. Warning (v. 20). God will visit
His judgment on His people if they
forsake Him and turn away—such
is Joshua’s warning. We who look
back to the history of Israel know
that they did forsake Him, and that
the judgment of God is still upon
them. “Be not deceived; God is
not mocked: for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap”
(Gal. 6:7) is God’s warning through
Paul to the Christian.
Both Happy
If one would be happy, let him
forget himself and go about mak
ing someone else happy.
P R Al N S
with
xtor
are
__ quickly relieved
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YAGER'S LINIMENT
Be a Torch-Bearer
The poorest can be God’s torch
bearer as well as the richest. The
little candle may do more good in
the world than the flaming beacon.
Giving Up Faults
Most people do not mind their
faults being spread out before them.
But they become impatient if called
upon to give them up.—Goethe.
Living
He lives long that lives well, and
time misspent is not lived, but lost.
RHEUMATISM
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