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“Hand-Made Inferno'*
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter k
GATHER ’round the soda fountain, boys and girls. Mike
Foley is standing treat. Mike lives at Jackson Heights,
N. Y., and he’s going to treat us to a swell yarn.
Mike’s an old hand at this treating business. He was doing it
professionally as far back as June, 1884—the month and year in which
he had his big adventure.
But don’t get the Idea that Mike went around handing out
ten-cent cigars like a guy that’s trying to be elected alderman.
Not ou your life. Mike was an oil treater—one of the lads
who processed kerosene so It could be burned In lamps. And a
mighty dangerous Job that was, too.
Mike worked for the Standard Oil company at a big refinery and
storage yard that was then located in Long Island City.
Lightning Strikes Huge Oil Tank!
The tanks in which the oil was treated, and on which Mike worked,
were huge affairs twenty feet in diameter and thirty or more feet
high. You got to the top of them by wooden stairways. And up the side
of each tank ran a pair of six-inch pipes that carried the chemicals with
which the oil was treated.
Well sir. to get down to the story, Mike Foley was up on the
top of one of the big tanks giving its contents a good, thorough
treating. Part of that job consisted of blowing compressed air
through the oil, and that was often a messy procedure. Oil
would slop over the side of the tank and saturate the wooden
staircase. That was not only messy, but dangerous—as subse
quent events amply demonstrated.
A thunderstorm was brewing while Mike was inside, under cover
of the tank’s sheltering top. The storm broke, about quarter after two
in the afternoon, and about two-thirty he heard a loud crack. Light
ning! It had struck the tank.
Mike Moves Swiftly to Close Trap Doors.
Mike's two bosses had gone to the office to give in their reports.
Mike was all alone in the tank, so it was up to him. He ran out from under
the shelter-roof to see what had happened. The lightning had struck
The Whole Stair Was a Raging Inferno of Fire.
all right. The oil-soaked, wooden stairs were on fire. The blaze, start
ing apparently from the top, had spread down four or five steps by the
time Mike got there.
There was one thing that had to he done, then—done mighty
quickly, too. Around the top of the tank were five trap doors,
wide open to let out the gases that formed in the tank during
treatments. Those doors had to be closed before the fire got
through them and the whole tank went up in flames.
Mike dashed for the doors. He got one closed—then another. At
that point he turned and took a look at the burning stairway. The
flames had spread down four or live more steps. The fire was blazing
with even greater fury.
Casabianca Really Had Nothing on Mike
And that wasn’t all that was worrying Mike, either. Any minute
now—doors or no doors—the tank might take fire and go up with a big
WHOOSH! And where would that leave Mike? Not much of anywhere,
to tell the truth about it. Just let that tank get going good, and Mike
would be trapped. There wouldn’t be much left of him but a few cinders
when it was all over.
The thonght put new energy into him. He got the next three
doors closed in jig time. And then he went back to the stairway
that was his only avenue of escape. But when Mike got to the
stairway, he stopped. No use trying to get down there. Not only
the whole stair, but likewise the platform leading to it, was a
raging Inferno of flame. The timbers that supported it had been
eaten through by the blaze. If Mike wasn’t burned to death on
the way down, he’d be killed in a fall when the weakened sup
ports broke and sent him crashing to earth.
’’So there I stood,” says Mike, "forty-five feet from the ground, like
young Casabianca—the boy who stood on the burning deck. A crowd
had gathered down below, and about eight hundred men who worked in
the loading sheds near the dock were yelling to me to jump. I didn’t
want to do that—it would have been almost as bad as burning to death.
Still, I couldn’t stay up there, either. Most any minute that tank
might go up with a roar—and take me along with it.”
Mike Was a Good Hand on the Flying Rings.
It looked pretty bad for Mike—but he still had a trick or two up his
sleeve. “At that time,” he says, "I was a member of the Star Athletic
club of Long Island City, and I was pretty good on the flying rings. So
I swung over the edge of the platform.”
What followed after that brought gasps from the men down
below. Like a circus acrobat, high overhead, he began swinging
himself along on the braces that held the platform up. He had
traveled eight or ten feet around the side of the tank before the
spectators saw what he was aiming at. Then they set up a cheer
as Mike reached one of the six-inch pipes that ran down the side
of the tank and began sliding to safety.
"That pipe was so close to the tank,” says Mike, “that I couldn’t put
my legs around it I had to grip it with my knees and slide down in jerks
about two inches at a time. But I got down all right except for some
skin I lost off my hands, and a new pair of pants I had to buy to replace
the ones I was wearing. They were ruined.”
©—WNU Servlc*.
Ancient Legends Account
for Eclipse in Odd Ways
Whether or not we believe that
an eclipse is a portent of evil, the
ancient races invariably linked it
with disaster. In mythology an
evil dragon was said to be lurking
in the heavens and that he made
periodical attempts to swallow the
sun or the moon. In the Norse
legends the sun and the moon were
driven across the heavens by char
ioteers, with huge wolves ever in
pursuit. The ancient Greeks held
that the sun must always be pro
vided with a chariot and horses to
keep it safe, and once a year a
chariot and four horses were
thrown into the sunlit sea as an
offering.
Among many races, an eclipse
of the sun signified that the
giver of light and life had been
caught by an evil monster. The
only thing to save the sun from '
being devoured was to frighten
away the monster by making
noises. The Chinese used to chant
choruses and bang gongs. In
Greenland the natives climbed on
to the roofs of their huts and;
banged kettles and pans to make
as much noise as possible.
The oldest eclipse in history is
believed to have been noted in
China. 2158 B. C., relates a writer
in Pearson’s Weekly. Two man- j
darins who practiced astronomy
were put to death by the emperor
for having failed to give due warn
ing of the phenomenon. The eclipse
of Nineveh in 763 B. C. is believed
to have been foretold by the proph
et Amos when he said: “And it
shall come to pass in that day that
I will cause the sun to go down
at noon, and I will darken the
Earth in the clear lay."
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Honor Dead at Viniy
Spanish War Pitiless
Russia Aids Loyalists
Hitler Watches Spuin
The dedication of the magnificent
j war monument, designed by a Ca
Arthur llrluhnne
naaian artist, re
cently unveiled
by the king of
England in mem
ory of the Cana
dian soldiers that
fell at Vimy
Ridge, is impor
tant to all our
friends north of
the boundary in
Canada. It will
interest, also, all
Americans that
were sent abroad
in that famous
fight, with which
we had nothing
to do except lose our men and our
money. American soldiers, who
liked the Canadian and Australian
troops better than any others they
met, according to statements made
by many, testify to the courage •
with which the colonial Englishmen
fought at Vimy Ridge and else
where.
““
Statistics of the war show that,
on the side of the allies, the per
centage of death was higher among
the Canadians than among any oth
er troops involved, excepting the
French themselves, who fought at
their own frontiers to defend their
own homes.
Sixty thousand Canadians lie bur
ied, each one an “unknown sol
dier,” around that great monument.
The king of England, after a long
and really admirable speech of ap
preciation, lowered the flags that
hid the monument which, as he
said, will forever honor the cour
age of the Canadians that fought
and that lie dead and buried.
The war that killed so many mil
lions, blowing them to pieces, leav
ing them to die shattered and agon
izing on the battlefield; suffocating,
making them insane with the poi
son gas just coming into fashion,
seemed between 1914 and 1918 as
horrible as any war could be.
But the civil war, the worst, most
savage, pitiless and ferocious of all
wars, now going on in Spain, makes
the big war comparatively mild.
Lord Rothermere's London Daily
Mail eclipses in the horror of one
published statement all stories of
horror in the war and goes beyond
anything that could possibly be be
lieved.
When the French newspaper, the
Friend of the People, described
fighters for Madrid’s radical gov
ernment digging up and throwing
from their graves the bodies of
Catholic nuns, that horror seems
beyond belief.
But Lord Rothermere’s newspa
per prints the statement that other
nuns ALIVE were seized—three
of them—their clothing saturated
with gasoline, and burned to death.
The Daily Mail also quotes the
statement that in the city of Barce
lona, when the radical forces had
conquered the rebellious insurgent
inhabitants, "any Catholic priest in
the city was butchered without mer
cy.”
Russia is, according to reliable
reports, in constant communication
with the Madrid government by ra
dio.
Newspapers in England, and the
more conservative newspapers in
France, declare that Russia, in ad
dition to advising Madrid concern
ing the immediate civil war and
helping the Spanish government by
the purchase of Spanish bonds, is
also sending by radio detailed in
formation as to the organization in
Spain of a "Soviet government”
similar to that existing in Russia.
France, thanks to the existing al
liance with Russia — resented by
many of the old-fashioned French
men, who ask, "Is Stalin the real
ruler of France?”—is under pres
sure from Russia to help the Ma
drid government against the insur
gents.
If Spain should become really so
vietized, under the guidance of Rus
sia, the Spanish peninsula would be
practically a branch and a depen
dency of Soviet Russia at the south
west corner of Europe.
Russia, whose planes have been
taking information on manufactur
ing poison gas and building fac
tories to the nations that are friend
ly to her in central Europe, might
build up a chain of Communist
states too powerful even for the dic
tator governments of Italy and Ger
many, and the remaining "demo
cratic" government of Great Brit
ain. It is not a happy time for
Europeans, or for any interested in
Europe's future peace and welfare.
Hitler is reported on the point of
siding with the Spanish insurgents
against t*e radical Madrid regime,
because of savage attacks made on
Nazi officers in Spain. It is reported
that a woman in charge of the Hit
ler office was threatened with death
if she would not reveal the where
abouts of her principal; dragged in
to the streets, her dress was soaked
with gasoline. An interruption pre
vented applying the match.
King Features Syndicate, Iuq.
WNU Service.
Solving Midseason Dress Problem
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By CHERIE NICHOLAS
\I7' HEN summer clothes begin to
take on a jaded and some
what worse-for-wear “has been”
air, and you are loath to force the
season by donning advance fall
fashions before the psychological
moment arrives, then what? Aye,
that’s the problem that has de
stroyed perfectly good dispositions
and peace of mind of the fair sex
throughout decades and decades of
time.
However, we are not going to be
tantalized and tormented with such
momentous worries this midsea
son, for good news concerning this
question is winging its way fash
ionward at this very moment. Tid
ings of great cheer, they are told
in terms of dresses and suits tai
lored of the black or dark - toned
silk sheers, nets and laces which
have come into favor of late as
they never came before. These
cool and comfortable dbrk sheers
are a perfect blend from summer
to fall. In such you are sure to
hold poise and serenity in the as
surance that you will be smartly
and appropriately costumed a 11
through the prologue which nature
and the weather man play to
autumn. In fai;t, no wardrobe
may be said to be complete these
days without at least one tailored
black or dark sheer in its col
lection.
Acquire a two - piece gown of
black silk marquisette as shown
to the left in the illustration and
your between-season dress trials
will vanish like dew on a sunny
morn. In regard to selecting a
sheer for dependable wear, per
haps a few words of advice will
not come amiss. When you buy,
insist on a weave of guaranteed
quality. In order to get maximum
service and real joy and satisfac
tion in the costume you rely upon
to carry you through the between
season valiantly, the sheer of
which it is made should be nothing
less than pure silk and fast dye.
Perish the thought of a shoddy
black that is apt to take on a
greenish bilious cast as cheaper
blacks in cheaper weaves are wont
to do. Buy pure silk and your
dress will wear dependably. As to
the smart styling of the model pic
tured, note that it is a tunic cos
tume. Newly arriving fashions
verify previous reports that the
tunic will continue to be the big
idea for fall. The large black but
tons that fasten this tunic, also
the modish short sleeve and the
white jabot, register important
fashion details.
Advance fashions tell of the em
phasis placed on the princess sil
houette for both dresses and coats
as the print costume with full
length princess coat of the print
in this group demonstrates. The
print is black and wine on a cream
ground. There is increasing inter
est shown for wine and red shades
and they are regarded as color
“firsts” for fall and winter. An
innovation is the use of velvet
revers on coats and jackets after
the manner noted in this costume.
This coat-dress qualifies admirably
as an ideal midsummer costume.
Its sheer print guarantees comfort
while its modish velvet revers tune
to the march of time that leads
to fall days. *
In the redingote made of fine
black lace as portrayed to the
right, answer to the midseason
dress problem is given in no un
certain terms. A lace redingote
such as this may be worn over
different dresses converting the
simplest frock into a costume of
style distinction. For formal wear
pose it over a black satin slip.
What could make a more charm
ing hostess or dinner gown than
the redingote of black lace top
ping a white cotton pique founda
tion as here illustrated. The soft
pique collar and perky bow lend
fetching accents to this costume.
You’ll love a black lace redingote
or jacket over your summer pastel
silk crepe frocks. Try out the idea.
You will find it well worth while.
Separate lace jackets are smart,
too, in either black or white.
© Western Newspaper Union.
TYROLEAN JACKET
By CHKUIK NICHOLAS
„
Here is a little indispensable
jacket you will want to wear with
I your culottes or shorts. It is made
of white linen bound in bright col
ors like copen, red, navy or black
with silver buttons. It is colorful
and has the decorative buttons be
cause it is of Tyrolean inspiration.
Much of the fashionable sports
wear this season reflects influence
of Austrian peasant dress. The
outstanding fashion note of this at
tractive jacket is the hand-quilted
Trapunto design at the neck and
i on the pockets and sleeves. The
vogue for hand-quilting is growing
into a most outstanding style
movement.
Pique for Toque
White pique flowers make a sum
mer toque.
GLACE KID IS NEW
FALL GLOVE STYLE
-“Jk
The smartest gloves this fall will
be “smooth.” There is a definite
revival, to quote Vogue, “of the
firm, moulded hand,” possibly fol
lowing the moulded silhouette, the
moulded bust and moulded hips,
which will be featured for fall. As
the high style leather of the com
ing season, Paris is consequently
sponsoring thin, supple glace kid.
It has always been a standby and
favorite, but now it is coming up
rapidly in the fashion world.
Since three out of the four gloves
Molyneux will show with his col
lection are glace kid, it goes with
out saying that the smartest
women in Paris and this country
will adopt the fashion. Fashions,
as a whole, are becoming more
and more feminine and the glace
glove is but a natural result of
that trend. Thin, smooth leather !
is the most flattering a woman
can wear. It outlines the shape
of her hand and makes her Angers
appear long and slender.
Color is again a dominant note.
Colored gloves are not going out
of style. On the contrary, the fash
ion will be harnessed to practical,
sensible shades of which some will
become almost staples.
Prints and Big Hats
Colorful prints, broad - brimmed
hats, and strap pumps with high
built-up heels are favorites among
outdoor diners at Manhattan’s
fashionable terrace cafes during
the noon hour.
Choosing Corsages
A good principle to follow in se
lecting a corsage or shoulder bou
quet is that the large flowers look
best on the tall woman, small ones
on a short woman.
PARASITE CONTROL
TO IMPROVE FLOCK
Poultrymen Can Help the
Birds by Routing Lice.
By O. C. UFFORD, Extension Poultry
man, Colorado State College.—WNU
Service.
Poultry producers can improve
the vigor and producing capacity of
their flocks by controlling poultry
parasites.
Internal parasites such as round
worms and tape worms are increas
ing, but may easily be prevented by
growing young stock on ground that
has been plowed and used for crop
production or on ground that has
not been used by poultry for at least
one year.
External parasites such as lice
and mites can readily be controlled.
The former may be eliminated by
applying nicotine sulphate to the
roosts or by using sodium chloride
as a dip or by sprinkling the dry
powder into the plumage of indi
vidual birds.
For the control of mites strong
spraying material such as com
mercial dips, is recommended.
These may be painted or sprayed
on the roosts, walls and floors of the
chicken house.
Pt is during the warm months that
parasites multiply most rapidly and
become a serious menace to the
poultry flock. These pests are re
sponsible for much of the poor
health and lack of vigor among
many flocks.
Best Time to Caponize
From Two to Four Months
Cockerels may be caponized at
from two to four months of age or
at from 1% to 2 pounds in weight,
the weight being a better guide than
the age. They should be kept with
out food for from 24 to 36 hours
previous to the operation and by
themselves for a few days there
after, being then fed the usual ra
tion. The American breeds, notes an
authority in the Rural New-Yorker
— Barred Rocks, R. I. Reds, Wyan
dottes and others of this class are
preferred for medium - weight ca
pons, weighing from 8 to 10 pounds
at maturity. The heavy breeds, such
as the Jersey Giants, Light Brah
mas and others of this class will
make capons weighing over 10
pounds. The Barred Rocks are the
most popular of breeds for caponiz
ing and the yellow skinned breeds
have some preference in most
markets. Market demand is great
est from November to April and
the heavier capons are preferred.
Records show that it takes from 9
to 10 pounds of feed to produce a
pound of weight, the cost of this
being the largest item in the ex
pense account.
Unless exceptional opportunities
for limiting production costs or ob
taining superior prices in the mar
ket are available, it is a question
whether there is any profit in keep
ing chicks of broiler age for sale as
capons, though these latter fowls
are of unquestioned superiority to
mature fowls on the table.
Testing for Pullorum
There are several methods of test
ing birds for pullorum disease. In
all cases the basic principle in
volved is the same as in the test
for avian or bovine tuberculosis
infectious abortion in cattle typhoid
in humans etc. In the case of pull
orum testing, says a writer in the
Montreal Herald, the procedure is
briefly this. A sample of blood of a
bird is brought into contact with a
standardized suspension of Salmon
ella Pullorum organisms in a saline
solution. This liquid is called antigen.
When antigen comes into contact
either with the blood or serum of the
infected bird a definite reaction
takes place which can be easily ob
served by an experienced techni
cian. If properly conducted the test
is very effective in detecting the
reactors, which should then be
immediately culled out and sent to
market.
Substitute for Green Feed
Where green feed is not available
a balanced laying mash reinforced
with a potent fish oil should be
kept before the birds at all times.
The addition of from 5 to 7 and
one-half per cent of alfalfa leaf meal
will in most cases provide ample
insurance for the lack of this green
feed. Where possible dehydrated
alfalfa leaf meal should be used.
The use of this leaf meal and a
good laying mash should keep the
birds in a good healthy laying con
dition, says the North Carolina
State College.
Salt Additions Desirable
Good chicks have been grown with
Rations that did not contain any
qommon salt (sodium chloride) ad
dition. Rations that carried as much
as a 5 per cent of common salt ap
pear to be mildly injurious. It is
true, says the Wisconsin Agricul
turist, that generous supplies of
chlorine are needed to make hydro
chloric acid in the stomach which
aids in protein digestion. The re
sults secured seem to show quite
definitely that it is well to add from
one-half to one pound of salt to each
hundred pounds of chick mash.
Portrait of Kittens
Done in Stitchery
Pattern No. 5604
How can you resist this appeal
ing pair of kittens? Their “por
trait” on a pillow top or picture
will add charm to your home
aside from your pleasure in mak
ing it. And how effective it is,
worked quickly in colorful floss,
the crosses an easy 8 to the inch.
Since the motif requires but the
merest outline, you’re finished be
fore you know it!
In pattern 5604 you will find a
transfer pattern of these kittens
1314 by 14 inches; a color chart
and key, material requirements;
illustrations of all stitches needed.
To obtain this pattern send 15
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to the Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept., 259 W.
Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y.
Write plainly pattern number,
your name and address.
The Mind l0*lL
jVJptpr # HENDERSON
© Bell Syndicate.—\VNU Service.
The Similarities Test
In each problem of the follow
ing test there are three words.
The first two bear a certain re
lationship to each other. Write in
a fourth word which will bear the
same relationship to the third
word that the second does to the
first.
1. head—hat—hands,. i
2. Ophelia—“Hamlet” — Por-A
tia—..
3. Paraguay—republic — Sweden
4. boy—pants—girl,.
5. Yale—bulldogs—Princeton, —
6. Lou Gehrig — baseball — Wil
mer Allison—..
7. Carter Glass—Virginia — Geo.
W. Norris—..
8. “DombeyandSon—’’Dickens—
“Innocents Abroad”—.4
9. Ohio — Columbus — West Vir
ginia—.
10. pint—capacity—yard—..
Answers
1. gloves. 6. tennis.
2. “Merchant of 7. Nebraska.
Venice.” 8. Mark Twain.
3. kingdom. 9.Charleston.
4. skirt. 10. length,
5. Tigers.
Foreign Words ^
and Phrases
A posteriori. (L.) From that
which follows, from effect to
cause.
Au jour le jour. (F.) From
hand to mouth.
Battre la campagne. (F.) T%
scour the country; to go on a
fool’s errand.
Ca m’est egal. (F.) It is all
thfe same to me.
De profundis. (L.) Out of the
depths.
En grande tenue. (F.) In full
dress.
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