Adventurers’ “Two Trains on a Track” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. «fjF i'D been embarking on an expedition into some unex plored jungle,” says George Force of New York city, ‘I might have been ready for anything. But as it happened, adven ture came to me on a trip home from the office. A trip I took six days a week, fifty weeks in the year.” Well, George, I’ve been arguing for a long time that that’s the way most adventures happen. It was on January 27, 1903, and George was on a train headed for home, which was then in a small New Jersey sub urban town. It was a funny old train—as we know trains now. The cars were wooden ones. They were heated by coal stoves, one of which was set in the middle of each car. It was a cold, snowy night. The train was rolling along about twenty miles out of New York, and just beyond the town of Westfield. At the other side of Westfield, the train stopped. The express was coming through and the little local was switched to another track. Tne railroad dispatchers intended it to stay there until the express had gone by. Tragic Train Wreck on Winter Night. But something went wrong with the signals. The big train—the Royal Blue Line Philadelphia Express—doing sixty miles an hour—was on the wrong track. It was coming straight for the rear-end of the local train on which George was riding, but not a man on either train knew it until it was too late. The first George knew of it was when the crash came. It came with a terrible, jarring impact that shook the train from one end to another. Then, as far as George was concerned, the whole world seemed to be coming to an end. Says George: “I was In the forward part of the third car. The crash, when It came, was so terrific that It pushed our train half a mile along the tracks. The shock of that collision alone killed many people. But that shock was only the beginning. Jolted half out of his senses, George was dimly conscious of the whole terrible affair. Like a man in a dream he saw the car he was in turn over on its side. As it They Led Him Away from the Frightful Scene. turned, George went Jiead first through a window, cutting his face, bruising his back. With the whole upper part of his body out of that window, he was dragged along the tracks as the car, lying on its side, atill continued to scrape along them. Express Locomotive Bores Into Wooden Car. When a thousand things all happen at onge, it takes a long time to tell them. Actually, George's whole adventure didn’t last more than ten minutes all told. He felt the car turning over almost at the same time as the initial impact. He saw himself going through the window, felt himself being dragged along the rough surface of the roadbed, scarcely a split second after the car had toppled. That scared him plenty, but the moat awesome sight was the one that came Just another split second after he fell through the window of that still-moving car. George was up in the front part of his car. If he hadn’t been, he might not have been alive today. For to the rear of the car came a horrible grinding sound. The whole back-end crumpled like match wood. And into the car—right down its crazily tilted aisle—came the locomotive of the express. George Describes Scenes of Frightful Horror. George watched it in a daze of fear as it pushed its steaming head forward. It had gone through two cars already, killing and mash ing and maiming their passengers. Now it was coming after George. Would that hot, smoking Juggernaut get him? George held his breath, certain that it was the end, but half way down the car, the engine stopped. The car was tilled with cries and groans. Injured people were everywhere. The car was burning, as were ail the other cars on the train, set afire by the up-ended coal stoves that heated them. Says George: "The scenes I witnessed then were indescribable. The car was a twisted, misshapen mass of ruin. Burning ruin, with the locomotive embedded in its midst Dead, wounded and helpless humans were lying along its entire length. Passengers from the few cars that were not harmed seemed stunned, and it was the less serious ly wounded—some of whom had been in the worst of the wreck—who realized that help must be given to the dead and dying and that some thing must be done about those pinned in flaming cars.” Wreck Cost the Lives of 30 Passengers. George himself was one of the latter. He couldn't get out alone, and only did with difficulty when three or four men came to help. When at last they pried him loose, he was still in a state of half-consciousness. His clothes, from his neck to his waist, had been torn completely from his body. They led him away through a scene of the most frightful dis order. Moaning, bleeding, scalded victims lay in rows by the side of the track, and every minute rescuers brought out more. Every passenger in the rear car was killed outright. Few escaped in the next one. The engineer of the express train died a few minutes after the accident. All told, thirty people were killed and scores were injured. And George—well—every time he thinks of that jvreck, and the way that locomotive came crashing right into the car after him, he counts himself pretty lucky not to have been one of those poor devils in the last car. ®~WNU Service. Diet of Japanese Beetle The Japanese beetle was intro duced into the United ^States in lar val form in earth around the roots of a plant from Japan. The adult beetle, which is about three-eighths of an inch long and about the same width, prefers to eat apples, quinces, peaches, sweet cherries, plums, grapes, blackberries, clo ver and corn. When these are not available, it attacks the foliage of shade trees and ornamental shrubs. The adult beetle is bright metallic green in color, with coppery brown wing covers. It flies easily and has a voracious appetite. There is only one generation each year, five sixths of the time being spent in the soil as egg, larva or pupa. Europeans Explored Ohio Ohio was explored by Europeans in the latter part of the Seventeenth century. It was the pioneer state which embraced also what is now of the old “Northwest Territory"— Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon sin and the northeast corner of Minnesota. It was the battleground of the Indian tribes. The French explorers tried hard to get a foot hold in this rich territory, rhey planted leaden plates at the mouths of the rivers and sought to back up these claims to sovereign ty. John Bull later set himself up as master of all this region, says Pathfinder Magazine, and in 1774 the British parliament passed an act annexing Ohio to Canada. BRISBANE THIS WEEK Chose* Vues Furs, Conscience-Proof Caterpillars and Weed* Wise Generosity An able Frenchman, long since dead, yvrote about choses vues— “things seen.” There are still Arthur Ilrlahnne many things to see and to hear, although there is nobody to write about them as that old French man wrote. At the head of the London Times’ “personal column," some one pays to print this impressive extract from the Psalms: “Seek the Lord, and His strength; seek His face evermore. Remember his marvelous works that He hath done; His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth.” You spend a moment wondering what kind of English man or wom an, strong in faith, decided to put that text before statesmen that to day seek the “face” of Hitler, Mus solini, Stalin, but forget the greater power of the Creator of those gen tlemen. After that, you read in the same Times this advertisement: "Furs humanely obtained that can be worn with a clean con science—full particulars from Maj. C. Van Der Byl, Wappenham, Tow cester.” This being an Ingenious and doubtless quite sincere appeal to the tender-hearted Englishwoman who does not like to think that the fur around her neck once belonged to an animal that suffered for days and perhaps weeks tortured in a trap. Possibly the best way to “obtain furs humanely obtained that can be worn with a clear conscience” is to buy and wear some of the innu merable furs, from rugged bears to silky chinchilla, made from the skins of rabbits that are nourished in little hutches in the suburbs of Los Angeles, and fed with “rabbit hay,” tender young alfalfa, grown on the Mojave desert, a good deal of it on a ranch owned and operated by this writer. When you buy furs, no matter what kind, with a rabbit skin foun dation, you may be sure that the animal suffered very little, if at all, and when you buy that fur you also buy honest American alfalfa, which is a vegetarian product. F. C. Cobb wrote from the Boy Scout reservation at Allaire, N. J.: “The last four week-ends have been spent by our scouts collecting tent caterpillar egg clusters from wild cherry and apple trees along the highways of Monmouth and Ocean counties. Many thousands of egg clusters, each containing on the average 250 eggs, have been destroyed.” No better work could be done by scouts and other boys. It is far better exercise than perfunc tory "hikes,” often exhausting for smaller boys. The fathers of the boys, also in need of exercise, can be useful mowing weeds along highways, ex cellent work for the lungs and for reducing the waist. Edward S. Harkness, generous young New York financier, gave to Lawrenceville School for Boys a sum that will make possible im portant new building, plus rebuild ing and a more extensive system of small-group instruction, with more teachers. Mr. Harkness, who does not like publicity, refused to make public the amount of his gift to Lawrence ville, but he gave $7,000,000 to Ex eter academy, $13,000,000 each to Yale and Harvard, to finance their housing systems. That gives some idea of the size of his gifts. Some Americans will agree that it is a good thing to have men of unusual ability accumulate wealth and use it thus generously and wisely. Old-fashioned Americans would rather encourage such gifts and praise the givers than inculcate the notion that anybody with brains enough to accumulate wealth in this country of opportunity is prob ably a thief and ought to be in jail. Mussolini knows how a dictator can keep his hold on the people. He establishes 2,000 government camps where half a million poor children enjoy free vacations at sea and mountain resorts. For nine years Mussolini has carried on this work. In Europe, English, French, Ger man, Italian or Czechoslovakian will believe anything you say about American crime, and that is hardly surprising. The heading “Chicago Politician Dies Under Hail of Racketeers’ Bullets’’ surprises nobody. There might be mild surprise it the head ing read, “Chicago Politician Does NOT Die Under Hail of Racketeers’ Bullets.” ® King Features Syndicate, Iucl WNU Service. Fashion Back to Femininity Trend " By CHERIE NICHOLAS Mannishly tailored to the pink of perfection during the prac tical hours and for sports? Decidedly so, if you would be smartly in fashion. However, it is an entirely different story which the mode is telling “what to wear” at festive midsummer events that take place midst glamorous set tings. Comes then into the style scene as lacy and lovely and sheer costumes-beautiful as ere graced a fashion picture. The lavish use of nets, laces, or ganzas, marquisettes, tulles and similar materials of filmy texture and transparency quite exceeds anything of its kind seen for many a year. In the daytime they are tailored and for the night hours and for garden party wear these entrancing sheers are made up as pretty-prettily as genius and imag ination can possibly create them. The trio of dainty costumes in the picture most eloquently car ries the message of lovely ladies clad in beguilingly feminine array such as is gracing the midsummer landscape with romance and the picturesque. The first impression one gets from this group, aside from the beauty of the sheer ma terials, is that of big hats, cun ning puff sleeves and hemlines that are generously and gracefully wide. Since first impressions usual ly ring true, we learn important facts in regard to the correct sil houette for 1936 midsummer gar den party and dance frocks. The winsome dress pictured to the left is of a very fine crossbar net. Style points to note are the fancifully picketed hemline with like-pointed rufflings on the volumi nous puffed sleeves, the flower ruche about the throat, also the huge-brimmed hat that is made of the selfsame net (stiffly starched) as the gown. Here also we see the return of the parasol. Garden party dresses when they are as fanciful and airy as the one to the right in the picture make one think of a fairy-story princess, stepping lightly across her garden. The dress is pure white, in organza most beautifully embroidered to knee-depth about the hemline of the skirt and on the sleeves. The gown is simply cut, its graceful lines taking on an added touch of the exquisite in that a double row of binche lace borders the wide skirt working up into a deep point in the front in combination with the embroidery. The treatment of the puffed sleeves is fittingly quaint. Lovers of beautiful lace will adore the gown shewn centered in foreground. It is one of the loveli est from among most lovely dresses brought over on the maid en voyage of the royal steamship Queen Mary and shown at the dis play of exclusive British fashion creations recently presented here in America. It adds to its inter est to know that it was one of four Reville creations approved for the royal garden party of King Edward VIII at Buckingham palace. The gown is of exquisitely fine lupin blue cellophane lace. The girdle is of forget-me-nots, matching the crown of the hat in the same col or. It would seem next to impos sible to imagine anything prettier than this fantasy of lace and flow ers which is done all in delicate blues. In the present back-to-femininity trend, the garden party dress has its important place, especially when in the instances cited in this group it is just as perfect for coun try club or roof dancing on sum mer evenings. © Western Newspaper Onion. “PAX” SILK PRINTS Itr CHEK1E NICHOLAS Prints continue to hold sway In the world of fashion. The lure of them is stronger than ever. Shown in the picture is one of the very interesting and unique "pax” , _ LOWELL Meter • henderson © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. The Four-Word Test In this test there are four words given in each problem. Three of the four in each case beax a defi nite relationship to one another; Cross out the one word that does not belong in each problem. 1. Holy, sacred, profane, divine. 2. Tall, squat, lofty, high. 3. Lob, double-play, net ball, ace. 4. New Hampshire, Vermont, Boston, Connecticut. 5. Vain, humble, modest, sub missive. 6. Shot put, javelin throw, 100 yard dash, discus throw. 7. Hot, stolid, fiery, ardent. 8. Harvard, Princeton, Vassar, Yale. 9. Tallahassee, Sacramento, Chicago, Baton Rouge. 10. Running, swimming, walking, trotting. Answers 1. Profane. 6. 100-yard dash. 2. Squat. 7. Stolid. 3. Double-play. 8. Vassar. 4. Boston. 9. Chicago. 5. Vain. 10. Swimming. of sparrows alight to have their turn at the cooling process. * • • But in the suburban town where I live, and in the great city which is not far away, men and women are doing their regular work. If a fire should break out in another part of the town, the fire men who are now watching the children enjoy their shower baths would mount their ladder trucks and man their engines, ana be off with a blare of sirens to do their appointed job. If they decided they didn’t want to get any hotter and stayed where they were perhaps the town might be consumed. * * * Men and women can do in a pinch what they have to do, whether the temperature is up or down. When the need arises, especial ly the need to help others out of danger, their courage crops out and they all become heroes for the time being. And I, who have nothing to do for the present but pound a type writing machine would do well to forget the fact that it is uncom fortable, and stop breathing hard and making continuous trips to the refrigerator for ice cubes to fill my glass. * * • Rain or snow, cold or hot, one is easier in his mind if he forgets the discomforts that are bound to come, and to continue with his work. And the more indispensable work he has to do, the more eas ily he will withstand the steam ing streets and the torrid skies. As long as it is not humanly possible to change the weather, the only intelligent thing to do is to forget about it. BOYS! GIRLS! Read the Grape Nuts ad in another column of this paper and learn how to join the Dizzy Dean Winners and win valuable free prizes.—Adv. 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