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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1937)
\ ; Adventurers “City of Death” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter LL during the World war, Anita Johnson of Lynn expected to be blown up by a bomb. In those days she lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia. That, of course, is up Canada way, and from 1914 right through to the Armistice, the folks up there took precautions against air raids and attacks by the Germans. At night, no lights were allowed to face the har bor. The harbor was patrolled by boats day and night. Anita was just a kid then. She didn't know what all those precau tions were for, exactly. But she sort of understood that one day the German airplanes would come flying over the Atlantic and start show ering bombs on the city. But nothing even remotely resembling an air raid happened in Halifax until December 6, 1917. Then something happened that was worse than a hundred air raids. The Great Halifax Explosion. You remember what happened then. You remember how two ships collided in the harbor—how one of them was loaded to the gunnels with ammunition that exploded and almost wrecked the whole town. The great Halifax explosion was one of the notable disasters of the century. And Anita was right where the big blast did some of its worst damage. Anita was ten years old when it happened, and she was in school when the big French munitions ship let go with a roar that was heard round the world. “We had Just been in our class rooms for live minutes,” she says, “when suddenly we heard a series of noises. I remember looking toward a window and thinking that a car must have backfired outside. But It didn't take long to find out that it was no car.” What Anita had heard was Just a couple of little explosions that set off the big one. The real blast didn’t sound like an explosion to her at all. Teacher Knew What Was Coming. Anita may have thought those sounds were the backfiring of a car, but her teacher wasn’t fooled. She seemed to sense what was coming and told the children, t‘Quick! Put your heads down on your desks!” Those kids did as they were told. Then it came! Not a loud report. Those kids were too near it to hear the blast, for the schoolhouse was on a hill, not five minutes’ walk from the harbor. But all of a sudden it seemed as if the whole world were crashing down on them. AND ANITA? Well, suppose we let her tell you herself how she felt. "At tha* age,” she says, “my mind was, of course, full of war. had my own ideas about air raids, so. as iny head lay on the desk, my eyes tightly closed I felt myself traveling skyward as I expected a bomb should send me. "1 kept traveling up and up until it seemed there must be some thing wrong with my means of transportation. “After all, a bomb could only send me so far, and I should be com ing back by now. I was positive I would be killed when I landed, and 1 could sec no reason to prolong the agony, so 1 decided to investigate. "I opened my eyes and saw the floor. Now that floor wasn’t sup posed to have followed me, so I realized that I wasn't up in the air at all. ”1 hadn't even moved. AND I COULDN’T MOVE. There were so many things on top of me. 1 heard some yelling and I yelled too. But that didn't help. any. so I waited.” Most of Them Were Dead or Disabled. Anita doesn't know how long she waited. Time didn’t mean a thing to her. She was so dazed by the shock that she didn't feel any pain. It wasn't until later that she even realized she was hurt But she sat at her desk until some soldiers came into the room and pulled her out of it "Luckily 1 was able to walk," she says. "There were only live or six of us who could." Then Anita started making her way out of the school building "We managed to climb and crawl over things that blocked the halls,” she says. "The stairs were all gone but there was enough debris piled up where they had been to take their place. We slid and crawled down those piles and Anally got outside. "I stayed there at the school for quite a while, too dazed to do any thing else. All 1 could sec around me was Are. The soldiers kept bring ing other girls out of the school building. "Some of them were dead. Others so injured that they couldn't be recognized. Other buildings were down all around us. "It didn't take us long to find out what had happened. After I had been there for ten or fifteen minutes I saw my sister coming out." Anita Was Covered With Blood. Anita waited for her sister to come up. But sister walked right up to her—walked right qn past her and didn't even notice her. Anita called to her and she came back. And only then did Anita learn that she was just as unrecognizable as some of those other in jured kids she had been pitying. HER FACE—HER CLOTHING—HER WHOLE BODY—ALL OF THEM WERE COVERED WITH BLOOD. Together, she and sister started for home. They walked around wreckage, dodged live electric wires and stepped over dead bodies by the score. And when they arrived at their home they found it just •□other wreck like the schoolhouse and all the other buildings in the neighborhood. Anita's head was full of bits of glass, but she managed to have it •11 taken out except for one piece which she says she thinks the doctor left there for a souvenir. She has a few fancy scars, too, but they’re nothing to what she might have had. "And," she says, "I have still to find out what it feels like to be blown up in the air by a bomb." ©—WNU Service. Birds’ Muscles Centered; Body Is Short and Deep The whole secret of a bird’s struc ture is found in its adaptation to flight This seems like stating a commonplace, yet if we look into the changes which flight has brought to the structure of the bird, we open a whole storehouse of interesting in formation, observes an authority in the Detroit Free Press. On first glance, it may seem that birds have nothing in common ex cept wings and feathers. Yet, strip them of their feathers and all birds are fundamentally alike. The major ity of their adaptations are directed toward one end: '.o transform a heavier than air body into a flying machine. First of all, the body of a bird is light Feathers, beautiful and delicate as they are, are the strongest structures for their size and weight known. Bones are hollow and thin-walled, not heavy and filled with marrow as those of mammals. There are no heavy teeth, but in stead a light homy beak. The tail has been telescoped and a second ary tail of light, air-resisting feath ers is used as a rudder in flight. The birds* muscles are not scat tered all over the body, but in stead are centered in a compact mass. The large, heavy flight mus cles of the wings are located on the breastbone Birds have small calves and most of the muscles are on the upper legs close to the body. The body itself is short and deep, with all its parts centralized, thus bring ing the relatively heavy liver, giz ard and intestines close to the cen ter of gravity and affording the smallest possible bulk to pass through the air. Albinism Albinism occurs more among birds than with mammals. Albin ism must not be confused with the changes that take place with some birds and mammals on the ap proach of winter. The mountain hare, brown in summer, becomes white when the mountains are cov ered with snow. The ptarmigan, a rich mottled brown in the breeding season, is clothed in snowy white feathers in winter. Privacy for the Windsors. ANTA MONICA, CALIF. —“In order to live quietly and escape as much public attention as possible—” I’m quoting the dispatch — “the duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson, following their mar riage, will seek a secluded residence in the United States.” The idea is not new. Hoping to kill Stanford White in some very remote secret i nook, Harry Thaw picked out a N e w York roof garden on the first night of a big musical comedy. And only lately one of our movie queens, striving to get away from it all, put on all her portable jew elry and went to the Broadway preview of one of those colos sal, titanic, gigantic, Irvin 8. Cobb mastodonic superscreen epics, only to come forth complaining that ono could never flee to the most private of hiding places without being an noyed by crowds. So America is certainly the right place for the newlyweds’ honey moon—where nobody will stare at them, or follow them, or yell all them or ask for autographs or pho tographs or interviews or try to tear their clothes off for souvenirs. Why, just off-hand, I can think of fully three spots where famous folks may enjoy such immunity— Mount McKinley in the winter, Death Valley in the summer and Alcatraz island all the year round. » • • Giving Up Earl Browder. FOR years it has been my regular custom to give up something during Lent. Last year I gave up boiled turnips—I never eat boiled turnips, anyhow—and jokes about Mae West. The year before. I gave up “An thony Adverse” (at page 2,749) and nearly all Little Theater move ments. The year before I gave up Upton Sinclair as my spiritual guide in matters political. For this year I decided to give up Mr. Earl Browder. I don't quarrel with his sincerity. He happens, though, to be the outstanding expo nent in America of the communist movement, which has done so much for human happiness and human progress in the countries that tried it, such as Russia. • • • Victory Dinners. rHO says New Dealers aren’t smart business men? That $100 victory dinner means a clear profit of $94.70, figuring the food at $5 a head and the combined speeches at 30 cents, which, even if they average up to most after-din ner speeches, is indeed a high valu ation. Back in Andy Jackson's day you could pay off a campaign deficit with hoop poles and coon pelts. And in Thomas Jefferson’s time the strongest pack mule in Virginia couldn't tote $100 worth of vittles. So. naturally Jeffersonian simplic ity and Jacksonian thrift will be extolled. Presumably the Republicans will follow suit with a nonvictory din ner or donation shower for John Hamilton's hope chest. Needy guests will wear Liberty Leaguers' old clothes, w*hile the idea of hav ing Canada annex Maine and Ver mont will be strongly opposed. Congressman Ham Fish will speak—such being his habit—un less, for economy's sake, they switch his name around hind part before and serve him as two courses. Signs of Spring. OUT here the first sign of spring is not the birds coming back. Mainly, our birds don't flit away. They go mute awhile, being practi cally the only residents that even temporarily refrain from bragging about the climate, or, in case of a cold snap, explaining that this is very unusual. With us the herald of spring is the surf-bather—that hardy adven turer who plunges in and comes forth as blue as an Easter egg and as deflated-looking as a toy balloon on the morning after circus day. Be cause the Pacific is never what you'd call a real cozy ocean and especially it isn't following a chill some winter. We make fun of the bathing suits our mothers wore. But middle-aged persons of both sexes disporting on the beach in the modern skimpies present a morbid, not to say grue some, spectacle, except to students of the adult human leg, including the siabby-shanked, the full-called, the bowed, the double-jointed, the buckled, the knock-kneed, the spav ined, the ankle-sprung, the heavy hocked, the varicose-veined, the fur-bearing, etc., etc. Sometimes a fellow gets to think ing that right young babies and raw oysters are almost the only things that should ever be exhibited on the balf-shelL IRVIN S. COBB #—WNU Serric*. Wool Tailleur for an Early Easter Dy CIIERIE NICHOLAS THE calendar announces an ear A ly Easter. Supposing the weath er should happen to go tempera mental. Just merely supposing it should by any chance happen to cloud a bit, rain a bit, possibly send down a snowflake or so, then, oh then, comes that ever haunting “what-to-wear” question. And the answer? A practical, ul tra modish tailored wool outfit is the logical answer if you want to be ready for rain or shine. Smart ly, simply fashioned, it must be of a swanky wool weave in latest ap proved color with fashion-right ac cessories that add the final accent of chic. The illustration pictures what we are meaning to say. Per fect is this trio of “what-to-wears” for Easter or for any spring day, be it sunshiny or cloudy. Before we describe in detail the stunning tailleurs pictured we want to say a word in regard to out standing colors for spring. We are going to talk mostly about black, navy, beige, gray and the new pas tels. Many best-dressed women are selecting black cloth suits with which they plan to wear frilly lin gerie blouse or neckwear, adding white doeskin gloves and a white boutonniere. As to navy, it's big news for spring, navy wool twills especially for the classic suit. And there’s beige! It, also, is staging a most exciting comeback. In the pastels you’ll adore the new “dusty pinks,” also various soft blues, “rusty” yellows and misty greens. You will be hearing the expres sion “softly tailored” frequently this season because most suits have lost their mannish lines and the trend is to graceful, subtle silhou ettes. Note, for example, the charm ing youthful suit as illustrated to the right in the above picture. Smart in either black or navy is the lightweight wool that styles this distinctive spring model. The skirt is short and slim and the cutaway jacket buttons up to a "young” rounc collar. The short blouse is of white satin. The pillbox hat with jaunty quill and piquant face-veil is decidedly chic. Pastel blue wool kasha makes the three-piece cape costume centered in the group. Capes are very im portant this season, emphasizing as they do the softly tailored theme. A slightly flared skirt is topped by a short-sleeved, front-buttoned jack et with body of jacket and sleeves made in one piece, stitched into a yoke. The matching cape with fit ted shoulder ties at the thin under the jacket collar. It is to be expected that the three-piece tailored ensemble to the left be in the smart widely-exploit ed beige color, for as we said be fore beige is definitely "in” this rpring. With the jacket this very lovely three-piece becomes a smart suit, just such as will fit into the Easter style program admirably. Without the jacket you have a win some light wool dress which will come in perfectly for mild spring days. The matching beige fur is a smart detail for the fur-trimmed suit is conspicuously present in ad vance style displays. Note the ofT face hat of Breton influence, for this is the very latest for hat and hairdress. The black doeskin gloves and strap-handle bag "say it” with fashion emphasis. £> Western Newspaper Union. SMART PLAID TWEED By CHKR1E NICHOLAS Plaia woolens lor spring! You’ll be ‘’tops’’ in fashion if you come out in a full-length reefer coat, a picturesque cape suit, a classic jacket suit or with a short box coat of plaid woolen It's English, it's | Scotch, it’s both. Due to the inter est shown in the coming corona tion. woolens take on a decidedly English accent this spring. The coat pictured is of imported tweed with coronation red prominent in its coloring. The white toya hat has red grosgram inserts in comple ment to the red in the plaid. GLOVES PROMINENT IN SPRING STYLES By CHERIE NICHOLAS Soft, oozey glace kidskin, that makes the hands look long and slen der, is very much in fashion now. The styles shown by Aris for formal afternoon wear are exceedingly chic and those marvelous 16-button eve ning gloves in glace kid or suede reach the nth degree of extrava gance. Mokado, the superlative quality French doeskin, is the supreme in that leather. It is washable, which accounts for its continued popular ity. Nothing could be handsomer than a pair of six or eight button handsewn doeskin gloves. The longer lengths, by the way. are smarter this season than the short, either in white, black or fetching new colors. While the plain, classic slipon re mains most acceptable, the cos tume glove is more interestihg and more fun to wear. Then, there are ah sorts of touches, such as hand whipping. embroidery, stitching, thong lacing and so on. that give the new gloves distinction. Flower Styles Varied The smartest complement for the printed dress is a bright nosegay from the florists. Flowers are no longer limited to the conventional shoulder corsage. Two-Jacket Suits A dressmaker type of suit which is advocated for wear under the winter coat has two jackets that are designed after the manner of fitted overblouses Slide f asteners Used The Schiaparelli types of house coat ueveloped in flannel and fasten ing at the front with a patent slide fastener is popular. Household Items oj Interest 1 OllOSUOIIS «» Il.mscuife To make lace look new, squeeze in hot, soapy water, then in cold water, and then in milk to stiffim it. Press on the wrong side with a fairly hot iron. * • • When blankets are to be washed for the first time they ahould he soaked over night in cold water and then rinsed. This is to re move the sulphur used in bleach ing. After this they should be soused until clear in a lukewarm lather made with boiled soap and water, and then rinsed well in clear water. • * • Dishes that have contained sug ar or greasy articles should be soaked in hot water before washing. • * • Using Beef Fat — Pour off the fat from the pan in which the IHBBBHILBIIHIlUiHBilWI Ask Me Another £ A General Quiz © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. ....■■■■■■■■ 1. What Revolutionary leader was known as the “swamp fox”? 2. What is meant by “high Ger man”? 3. To what do “great primer” and “long primer” refer? 4. In what state was Abraham Lincoln born? 5. In geography, what is meant by a march? 6. What two great mountain systems traverse the United States? 7. By what church official is a mitre worn? 8. What mountains separate Europe from Asia? 9. What is meant by a “modi cum”? 10. In what ocean is the island of St. Helena? Answers 1. Francis Marion. 2. The language of Germany as distinguished from that of the Netherlands, etc. 3. Sizes of type. 4. Kentucky. 5. A boundary or the territory adjacent. 6. The Appalachian in the East and the Rocky in the West. 7. A bishop. 8. The Ural mountains. 9. A small account. 10. The Atlantic. roust of beef has been cooked. PuV it in a bowl and let cool until it sturts to harden. Then beat well with a fork. Afterwards it may be used in place of lard. • ♦ * Don’t treat your stockings care lessly. Put them on carefully, and be sure that feet and leg seams are straight. The slightest twist will alter the position of reinforced splicings, and wrinkles always run into holes. • • • One gallon of coffee will serve 25 medium sized cups. The size that would accompany a dessert after a dinner. • • • Rayons should be pressed with a warm, but not hot iron. 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