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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1936)
V Loyalists Fighting the Rebels Near Madrid ^ Loyal soldiers of the regular Spanish army and civilian volunteers are pictured entrenched in rocky coun try near Somosierra, a few miles outside Madrid. Is Mascot of , Vv.. “Well, I can get tough,” little Lila Jan Goodin opines as her trigger finger toys with a Texas ranger’s single action Colt. At two she is mascot of Cavalcade, the $250,000 historic production at the Texas Centennial exposition in Dallas. Hawaiian Baby Has Longest Name This Hawaiian mother proudly displays her tiny infant to whom she has just given the longest name on record. It contains 63 letters—more than five times as many as there are in the Hawaiian alphabet The name is "Kananinoheaokuuhomeopuukaimanaalohinokeaweaweulamakao kalani” and means "the-beautiful-aroma-of-my-home-at-Sparkling-dia mond-hill-is-carried-to-the-eyes-of-heaven.” They call him "Joe" for short. J1W'~ ilt — "■* Joe Is Toughest of Top Sergeants Here is "Joe E. Brown,” probably the toughest top sergeant in the serves, and was a great attraction during recent maneuvers in the vicini ty of Washington, D. C. New Governor of Canal Zone Recent photograph of Col. Clar ence S. Ridley, U. S. corps of en gineers, who has been designated by the President to succeed Col. Julian L. Schley as governor of the Panama Canal Zone. The new gov ernor is a native of Corydon, Ind. He saw service in Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippines, and was military aide to President Woodrow Wilson during the World war. How Los Angeles Welcomes Its Guests I . Los Angeles hospitality is being extended far beyond the city limits in the operation of a new plan for welcoming hotel guests devised by a local manager, P. G. B. Morriss, to expedite the handling of large tour parties. Detailed as a traveling room clerk, a junior executive of the hotel boards trains at San Francisco or San Bernadino and registers expected guests as they sit in their train seats. Room keys are given out and baggage marked with room numbers, on the train. After detraining the guests go by taxi-cab to the hotel and then direct to their rooms without delay in the lobby. Scenes and Persons in the Current News ' r4 J“\ 2 ^ Zx 1—Maurice Duplessis, leader of the Conservative party that routed the Liberals in the Quebec province election and who becomes premier. 2—New United States destroyer Moffett at the Boston navy yard where it was officially accepted by the navy. 3—President Roosevelt getting first hand information about the drouth from some farmers at Beaver Creek, N. D. Wins Title of No. 1 Life Guard Eddie Stetser, twenty-five, of the Atlantic City beach patrol, who won the title of national champion life guard against 93 competitors from all the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Miami. The grueling test required ocean rescues by swim ming, by lifeboat and by a combi nation of the two. Stetser graduat ed from Atlantic City Trades school two years ago, after starring in football there. Hi** '' rl" ” Wedding in Mouth of Wlude KV.V'" - '’•MnHBBHKRWi-rx-.'.'mra-XffiMNOW"''-'."-J--—.. ...... » With a jawful of whalebone for decorations and the leviathan’s tor sils for an altar, Betty Gentry and J. Rob Henderson, were married in the cavernous mouth of a captured whale at Long Beach, Calif., with Rev. Isaac McRae officiating at the novel ceremony. The bride and groom hail from Baird and Olney, Texas, respectively. Cowdrey Brothers in the Navy “The Cowdrey Brothers in Uncle Sam’s Navy” might well prove a fit ting title for the gentlemen in this picture. The cruising Cowdrey brothers of Virden, 111., are viewing the Hawaiian landscape from Koko Head beach on the island of Oahu. All are serving aboard the flagship Pennsylvania. They are each six feet tall and wear the same size clothes. They remit a total of $160 monthly to their mother, maintain ing a joint bank account. All are high school graduates and winners of many military and athletic competition prizes. They comprise a basketball team which remains undefeated. “HANDSOMEST COACH” University of Santa Clara in Cal ifornia claims that in Laurence T. "Buck” Shaw it has the handsom est coach in football. Buck was offered a contract by a Hollywood movie concern the other day but de clined, saying: "I know my limita tions and I wouldn’t be any more use to you as an actor than the Marx Brothers would be to me as a backfleld.” New Vi inter Sports Mecca Planned in Idaho An architect’s drawing of the palatial Sun Valley lodge which the Union Pacific railroad is building near Ketchum, Idaho, and which is to be opened for guests at the Christmas holidays. Sun Valley lodge and its surrounding terrain is expected to be the winter sports mecca of America and to rival in magnificence similar resorts in various European countries. Skiing, skating, sleighing, tobogganing, dog sledding are among the planned activities. The Starved Man Returns ny SUE COLLINS © McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. VINA BELLAMY had almost de cided to chuck her job as as sociate editor of the Gray Book— the well-known short story maga zine. Even though she should not be able to get something else for months, she decided she could no longer work under the editor, Mr. Harvey Doll. She had stood it four years and she was quite sure that the success of the magazine was in no small measure due to her ef forts. But Mr. Doll seemed only to criticize her work and take all the credit for the publication’s suc cess as his. As she sorted through the drawers of her desk, Vina came across a manuscript, typed on cheap manilla paper. It was obviously written by a beginner. Then Vina suddenly recalled the cir cumstances by which she had ac quired that manuscript. A tall, lean, almost ferocious looking young man had pushed his way past the receptionist into her office “to see the guy that bought the stories for the Gray Book.” He had been surprised to see a young girl of twenty-two in the office but it hadn't crushed his spirit. That hnd been three years ago. Vina felt sorry for the young man. He actually had looked hungry as he tossed his manuscript down on her desk. After a glance through the manu script she thought it was worthless but she bought it. That is, she made out a fake pay slip, walked down the corridor with it, where she took thirty dollars from her pay envelope and brought it back, pre tending she had been to the cash ier’s office. The man had thanked her and disappeared without leav ing his name. Well, here was the manuscript turning up again to revive the memories of happier days. She had read the manuscript after the young man had left and finding it quite unusual, she had passed it on to Mr. Doll in hopes he would find it usable and thus she’d get repaid. But Mr. Doll had found it not suited and returned it to her with the suggestion that she had better pick out better stories. But as Vina read the story over after a three-year interlude, she de cided to try her luck with the story again. It really was an unusual bit of writing. So she typed the manuscript on expensive paper at home that night, leaving it just as the young author had written it. not changing a comma or question mark. The next morninn instead of informing Mr. Doll that she was considering leaving she handed him the manuscript, saying it had just been received. Mr. Doll did not remember the first time he had read the storV. Instead, after lunch he walked into Vina’s office and told her that the story was ‘‘amaz ing,’’ that it was certainly just what he had been looking for for the November issue. "It’s just the sort of writing Harold Bell does,” Mr. Doll stated. "Put through a vouch er to the cashier. We’ll accept it for two hundred.” But Vina didn’t have the slight est idea of how to find the author, and she didn't even know his name. vina awaiting developments de cided to stick to her job until the November issue was off the press and to see if the author turned up. Mr. Doll decided to publish the sto ry with a great splash as the manu script of an unknown genius, un paid because neither his name nor address were known. The Novem ber issue of the Gray Book was a sell-out because of the story and critics rpplauded Mr. Doll’s pioneering work for unearthing such a great writer. Then one day the illustrious Har old Bell rushed into the office, brushing aside the receptionist and office boy and making his way di rectly to the editorial offices. Mr. Doll was dumbfounded at a visit from the great writer. But Harold Bell paid no attention to the editor. He was engrossed in conversation with Vina Bellamy. "That’s my story,” he said eager ly, "that everyone’s talking about. And you're the girl that bcught it from me three years ago. I’ve been on the watch for you for some time.” There were explanations cm both ■ides. The now successful writer explained more leisurely than at the time of his first visit that he absolutely had been starving when Vina had bought the story. He’d been in and out of every editorial office in the city peddling the story but he couldn't get in to see the editors. Later, when he had man aged to break through and had be come successful, he had wanted to locate the girl who had actually saved him but he had forgotten where the offices were and even the name of the publication because of his condition. Vina smiled. It certainly hadn’t been a crazy act for her to give that ferocious looking young man thirty dollars of her own three years back. Look what had be come of him—nothing could have made her happier. But two weeks later when she reigned from the Gray Book, Vina was happier. She had a plaus ible excuse for quitting—she was going to marry Harold Bell and tour the world on a honeymoon.
