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‘When the Sea Came In”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
IT HAPPENED a long time ago, but maybe some of you
still remember the wreck, of the U. S. cruiser Memphis
in San Domingo harbor August 29, 1916.
Do you remember how, caught in the disturbance set up by a sub
marine volcano, battered by a series of tidal waves, she was tossed
against the cliffs of a rockbound shore and smashed to pieces in the
short space of an hour and a half?
But we're going to have the story of the Memphis told by
a man who never saw those waves—by a man who saw the Mem
phis disaster from the spot where the IlKAL battle was fought.
We’re going to hear about the wreck as it was seen by the boys
down in the engine room, where some of the most heroic deeds
of that historic affair were done.
Charles H. Willey, warrant machinist, United States Navy retired,
of Concord. N. H., is the Distinguished Adventurer of today’s column.
Ordered Below to Get Up Steam.
Charley was in his stateroom reading when, without any warning,
the ship rolled over at an alarming angle. At the same time the order
came for the emergency watch to go below and get the ship under way.
When Charley got below his men were already going about their
duties. The steam was up in only two boilers. The Job now was to
raise it in the other four so the ship could get under way. For. until she
was under way, the Memphis would be at the mercy of the raging seas.
The waves, which had been mere heavy swells at first, were
getting higher every minute. The ship rocked alarmingly, but
inside of ten minutes steam was forming in four boilers and
the men in the engine rooms were warming up the engines with
steam from the two live boilers.
Firemen All Worked Desperately.
’There was a fireman at every one of those boilers, working des
perately t® force it," says Charley. "The ship kept pitching and heav
ing. Us poor devils down there couldn’t see the waves, but we knew
wc were in their grip.
"Over the voice tube from the engine room came the cry of ’STEAM
—Give us steam.’
"And the steam, thank God, was rising fast. The gauges were show
ing pressure, but we had to get it to at least 200 pounds. Even 250
would have been little enough in an emergency like this qpe.”
The steam was on the way up. Navy efficiency and discipline were
doing their work.
In another few moments the engines would be turning.
And then—SUDDENLY—another violent lurch of the ship and
a deluge from above. Water—sea water—COMING DOWN THE
VENTILATORS.
Engines Stopped, Fourteen Men Killed.
Says Charley: "We knew what that meant. The ship was broad
side to the waves and those waves were sweeping clean over us. Now
water began coming down the smoke stacks, putting out our fires just
when we were nearing victory.
"We cut in the four boilers on the main steam line. The engines
were turning slowly, but how they ate up the steam!
“A sudden lurching pitch—a sickening pounding of the ship on the
bottom, and then, with a roar the 14-inch main steam line burst in the
port engine room killing seven men and stopping the engine.
"There is a mad rush to close the stop valve. Water—tons of
It—still pouring down the stacks! Steam hisses from strained
boiler tubes. The lights go out. The dynamos have been shorted
by sea water and we are left in darkness!"
Forced to Abandon Stations.
And still those gallant firemen in the engine room of the Memphis
■tuck to their posts trying to get up steam. There was bedlam every
where below decks.
Slice bars, hoes, coal buckets were sloshing around the room with
every roll and toss of the ship.
And yet, in the flickering light of the fires, the men were trying
to get up steam.
There was another crash—A DEAFENING ROAR OF ESCAPING
STEAM.
"And then,” says Charley, "I knew we were gone. In another
minute she had struck again and the boilers let go at their tube
Joints.
"I yelled: 'Abandon stations. Every man for himself.’
"I tried to get to the air lock—stumbled and fell into sea water that
was coming in through the ship’s bottom. Live steam was tilling the
room.
“I ripped off my jumper, soaked it and wrapped it around my head.
How Willey Escaped the Inferno.
"1 heard agonized screams from the men who had gone up the
ladder ahead of me—up over those hot, hellish, steam-twisted boilers
to what they thought was safety in the uptake passage.
"Somehow God gave me strength to reach them in the uptake.
Steam had risen there first and they were trapped in it.
"They were breathing it. It was searing their flesh and their lungs
and cutting them down before they could open the heavy iron door.
“I kept my wet jumper over my face and reached the door. Fran
tically I worked at the dogs that clamped it shut At last I got it open
—dragged out some of those dying men—”
And then Charley lost consciousness. He awoke TWO WEEKS later
in the Naval hospital in Washington—to leurn that he was the only one
of that brave flreroom crew of his that had lived!
It was a whole year before Charley was out of the hospital. Now he
lives in retirement on a little inland farm in New England. A few years
ago he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
“Yet,” says Charley. ”1 have never worn it. for somehow 1 feel I
am unworthy of it. Those men who stuck by me down there in that black
inferno till the last—they were the real heroes. THEY PAID WITH
THEIR LIVES.”
e—WNU Servlet.
Burgos Played Important
Role in Spanish History
Burgos, once the capital of Spain,
does not rank as one of the major
cities of the Iberian peninsula, but it
is ri~h in history and in architec
tural treasures. Until 1087, when the
royal residence was moved to To
ledo, the city wds the capital of Old
Castile. In fact, it is hinted that
the crumbling castle above the city
is one of the main reasons for the
name of Castile, says a writer in
the Los Angeles Times.
Even after the transfer of the
royal residence, it was still the
scene of much royal pomp, splendor
and treachery. Several kings were
crowned there and some were born
within its walls. Perhaps Burgos'
most notorious son was King Pedro
the Cruel, who was reputed to deco
rate his rooms with the heads of his
victims.
Columbus, returning from his sec
ond expedition to the New World,
was welcomed by Ferdinand and
Isabella in that palatial residence of
old Burgos, the Casa de Gordon.
The building spreads its stone front
across one side of the Plaza de
Llbertad.
In Burgos was born El Cid, the
national hero of Spain in the strug
gle to reconquer the country from
the Moors. The hilltop castle, then a
magnificent stronghold, was the
scene of his marriage to Ximena,
who is buried with him in the cathe
dral. One of the town’s saddest days
was that of their hero’s return,when
all doors were closed by the jealous
king's command and the grieving
populace had to do their hero-wor
shiping silently from their windows.
Hustings, a Court
Hustings is the name of a court of
limited jurisdiction which at one
time sat in London. Before the Eng
lish ballot act of 1872, this court
was the place where members of
Parliament were usually nominated,
the method of nomination being by
a speech made from the platform
of the court. From this custom the
term hust ngs came to be applied
to any stump speech or organized
canvassing for votes in a political
campaign.
Windsor's Finances.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
By latest reports, the duke
of Windsor must start life as
a married man reduced to a
personal estate of only about
$600,000, plus guaranteed an
nual remittances amounting
to but a beggarly $100,000
more.
To be sure, as the old saying is,
two can live as cheaply as one—if
one of the two hap- ___„
pens to be a gold
fish or even a ca
nary—but otherwise
the notion hasn't
worked out under
modern conditions,
wives these days
being what wives
are these days.
Still, they do say
Mrs. simpson is wtkt
pretty handy with a
skillpt, which, on |rVin 8. Cobb
the cook's Thurs
days off, ought to save getting in
extra kitchen hi ^p: and what with
there being no crow.- "wels toiteep
polished and installment houses just
crying to help all young honeymoon
ers out—you furnish the bird, we
furnish the nest!—Well, by scrimp
ing, the couple should get by, don’t
you think?
Washington Rumors.
HOW rumors do float about—es
pecially in the neighborhood of
Washington. Well. Washington al
ways has been kind of a windy
place.
First we hear a boom is to be
started for Mrs. Roosevelt to suc
ceed the President at the conclu
sion of his term. This is promptly
denied and the question arises—how
is that loyal soul. Uncle Jim Far
ley, going to stand the strain of
waiting until Sistie Dahl gets old
enough to run?
Uncontradicted as yet is the ether
report that the White House craves
to revive the NRA, under another
set of initials and—let us hope—with
a better-looking Blue Eagle than
that first one was.
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“Sweeping” Inquiries.
AFTER every major disaster
which conceivably was pre
ventable, we have a “sweeping in
quiry" or a “searching probe”—it
depends on which phrase the re
porters like best—to fix the blame.
Rarely does anything come of this,
but it must indeed be a great con
solation to the widows and the or
phans of the victims.
Seemingly, it never occurs to any
one to make the said investigation
before the tragedy occurs, with a
view of searching out defective
mechanism or imperfect construc
tion then.
We are a great people for shut
ting the stable door after the horse
is gone—shutting it good and tight
so the probers may have leisure
for their probing.
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Defying a Olacler.
IN ALASKA, the Revell family are
defying Black Rapids glacier
which, without seeming provocation
and after remaining perfectly calm
for several million years, suddenly
started coming down upon them,
rumbling and roaring and acting
up generally as it advances. Its
icy snout is only about a mile away
from their roadhouse now, but
they’re still serving ye olde blue
plate special—choice of jello or
stewed prunes—as usual.
The Revells couldn’t be New York
people. In New York, everybody
strives to move at least once every
two years, whether there’s reason
for it or not. A lady flat dweller
there likes the scriptural promise of
a house of many mansions because
it gives her such a warm glow to
think of spending eternity shifting
from one mansion to another, re
decorating as she goes.
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Crime and Punishment.
AT A recent trial in New York
for a hideous murder, the law
yer for the killer—who, incidentally,
has confessed—wound up his plea
with this old and reliable and beau
tifully logical standby:
“Putting this man in the electric
chair will never bring back the
woman he slew—remember that,
Gentlemen of the jury.”
But putting a brutal killer in the
electric chair will never bring him
back either, which, after all, is the
main idea, isn’t it. Gentlemen of
any rational jury?
IRVIN S. COBB.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Position in Sleeping
Some psychologists attribute spe
cial significance to the position one
takes in sleeping. Lying on the back
with legs straight out. arms and
face uncovered, is interpreted as
a disposition to face life uncom
promisingly. notes a writer in Lit
erary Digest. Sleeping with the arm
partly around a pillow indicates a
subconscious need for affection. The
sleeper who rolls up like a kitten,
knees drawn toward his chin, is
asserted to be unconsciously fleeing
the realities of life. It remains un
explained whether or not character
changes each time the sleeper shifts
position; as he does this at least
ten times an hour, the result might
conceivably be an oscillating per
sonality.
Peasant Trend in^Childs’ Clothes
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
BE AS colorful as you will in fit
ting out the little folks in new
spring togs for fashions «both adult
and juvenile have gone madly, wild
ly, gaily peasant this season. Vivid
colors, quaint and naive silhouettes,
amusing details, wealth of embroi
dery done in bright yarns or metal
thread, applique of wee posies cut
out of gay felt after the manner
of Tyrolean and Dalmatian cos
tumes—what more could designers
ask in way of inspiration in creat
ing clothes to fit into the scheme
of childhood’s realm!
It lends to the glamor and ro
mance of this all-pervading peasant
influence in costume design for lit
tle folks that many of the fash
ions are authentically reproduced in
current style collections. The spe
cialty shops and children's sections
in the larger stores are in many
instances showing actual reproduc
tions of the picturesque dresses
and boleros and gay little hats
and caps as worn by the peasant
folk of the Tyrol and in Dalmatia.
Even when not a faithful copy there
is almost sure to be a touch of em
broidery or a bright little feather
or novel painted buttons or some
one accent or another that be
speaks peasant origin.
You can see by the attractive
fashions pictured that the younger
generation is looking its cunning
est in its new peasant-inspired
clothes. The enthusiasm of a vast
audience knew no bounds when the
little folks who modelled these win
some outfits came shyly, prettily,
smilingly down the runway at one
of the series of breakfast style clin
ics held recently in the spacious
Merchandise Mart in Chicago, that
huge structure which is so alive
with throngs of merchants, manu
facturers, designers, buyers and
sight-seeing out-of-town guests the
very air vibrates with activity.
No end of applause greeted the
child who wore a colorful Dalma
tian costume featuring a gaily em
broidered hat-and-bolero ensemble
—see it shown to the right in our
illustration. The dress is of natu
ral colored linen, the bolero in bright
blue enlivened with typical Dalma
tian embroidery.
Under her Tyrolean coat the older
little girl centered in the group
wears a typical Tyrolean skirt with
embroidered shoulder-strap top to
gether with a sweater in green. Her
Scotch cap of blue straw with a
green feather complements her
princess-cut coat held over her arm.
Princess coat plus peasant dress
thus do both princess and peasant
influences reflect in current vogue.
The sweater worn guimpe fashion,
is ever so Tyrolean with its touches
of bright embroidery at the neck
line. This is a fashion of utmost
practicality.
The tot with her beloved bunny
in arms wears a peasant-type dress
of Venetian wine dimity. It is fash
ioned to create the impression of
two pieces. The full skirt sug
gests the much-talked-of dirndl
dress which is being so widely ex
ploited in connection with Austrian
peasant fashions. Of course, to
catch the true Tyrolean spirit there
must be hand-embroidery on the
waist which there is together with
wee pearl buttons that adorn the
front of the dress.
Your young daughter and son may
not be twins but if they are to be
correctly dressed moderns this
spring they’ll be costumed alike in
gay peasant fashion. Note the young
ster sketched below who has gone
as authentically Tyrolean as a na
tive in his gaily embroidered sus
pender suit. Every little girl’s ward
robe is supposed to include a sweat
er. This season sweaters (see the
outline sketch) are made irresistib
ly attractive with colorful yarn-em
broidered little flowers.
ffi Western Newspaper Union.
BROWN AND BEIGE
By CIIERIE NICHOLAS
Choose beige for your spring cos
tume. for beige is a fashion-first
color on the new season’s pro
gram. Here is an ultra smart en
semble. This suit is fashioned of
lightweight cloth in the new beige
for which everybody is calling just
now. To give it a high-style accent
this young woman chooses to con
trast her beige costume with brown
tortoise shell catalin jewelry. As
our Parisian sisters who are past
masters in dress have long pointed
out the detail is the real secret in
achieving child prestige.
TWO TONES OF ONE
COLOR IS LATEST
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Fashion's latest move is to use
two tones of one color for the cos
tume ensemble. Per example a
navy blue cloth three-piece has the
skirt and cape of the navy with
a lighter blue for the blouse and
the cape lining. In the same man
ner light gray is worked with dark,
brown or perhaps rust with beige,
dubonnet with a related pink and
sonon.
The light-top dress which is such
a general favorite is often de
signed this season with a skirt of
the dark color, the top bodice de
veloping in a lighter tone of the
same color.
Then again the scheme is carried
through with the suit, say in brown
smartened with lighter brown or
beige accessories, or in navy with
light blue scarf, gloves and per
haps a chiffon scarf veil in the
lighter blue on the hat for the
scarf hat is very smart style for
spring.
Wear Flowers
A flower corsage or boutonniere
is almost inevitable this spring with
your dress or suit. Smart vogue
calls for large flowers to correspond
with the huge florals in printed fab
rics.
Sports Jewelry
Light, natural colored wood, in
set with narrow strips of catalin
in four different bright colors pro
vides a really smart accessory for
strictly sports clothes.
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Stung
By McCULLOCH-WILLI AMS
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
'T'HE world drowsed, drunken
-*• with the golden wine of August,
in a stillness broken only by the clit
clitter of grasshoppers in flight
above .the browning clover-heads.
Rains had made the aftermath
heavier than the eafly mowing. Ellis
was glad—his profit lay largely in
the aftermath. Thence came the
clover-seed. High yields depended
on the big gold - banded bumble
bees, whose long noses penetrating
the florets in search of honey, gath
ered also the pollen that gave life
to embryos next visited.
Naturally he rated breaking up
and despoiling their underground
nests among deadly field-sins. Sins
not so easily committed — the big
bees had a trick of hiding their
houses under clumps of thick tangle,
here in the clover. Hikers studying
nature chose to do it in shade rather
than full sunshine. Ellis hated them
heartily. They ignored No Trespass
signs so insolently. He chuckled
sourly as screams broke the hush of
noon, undervoiced by a shrill shout:
“Help! Help! Come here, you
man!”
Two minutes later he faced a
turbulent group — three girls in
khaki, flannel, and straw hats, herd
ed by a gangling youth who made
up in lack of breadth for his excess
length. His open shirt was stained
with crushed bees, almost to the
waist, one eye half closed, his lower
lip swelling visibly. A girl as chub
by as he was lathy, stood pressing
a handkerchief to her cheek. A sec
ond boasted a bracelet of crimson
stings about her bare arm just be
low the elbow. Another as yet un
stung, knelt searching amid the tan
gle for green plantain. She had been
told it was sovereign for any sort of
sting.
“Stung—eh! Serves you right.
What business have you bothering
my bees?” Ellis demanded sourly.
The kneeling figure sprang up
right, crying: "O! O! We didn’t
know they were your pets.”
“Whatever they may be they have
better manners than — folks like
you,” Ellis retorted, his anger
mounting at sight of three despoiled
round grass nests, newly dug from
the hedge-row. “Oblige me by going
away? Quick. And not as you came
—by breaking through the hedge—
but through the gate down yonder—
the big road runs right by it.”
“Not this way! You can’t mean
it!” the lathy one moaned. "It’ll kill
us—in this hot sun. We’ll go through
the gap we made-”
“We will NOT,” said the unhurt
young woman. “The—gentleman—”
the word coming hard, “is right—
entirely so. We had no business
getting ourselves in such a
pickle—”
Masterfully Ellis stepped before
her, faced her about, and said wav
ing an imperative hand to the oth
ers: “Come along all of you. Mam
my Sarah can fix you up in a jiffy.”
If she can’t, why you must wait for
dark before you take the road.”
Mammy Sarah did work wonders
but the hikers waited for dark. Ellis
left them to themselves, yet showed
himself a perfect host, asking no
questions, but anticipating every
need. Involuntarily he had learned
that the girls were Kate, Nanny and
Prue—also that Kate was sister to
the lathy “Aggie.”
When in thickening dusk, full fed
and much comforted, Aggie shep
herded his flock toward the highway,
he said awkwardly to Ellis: “I
reckon we—you ought to know—
who we are—but if it’s the same to
you—please won^ you remember us
—just as fools all.”
“Not quite,” Ellis answered with
a chuckle. “There was one, remem
ber, too wise to get stung.”
Darkness hid it—but really the
wise one blushed a beautiful scarlet
over the speech.
Upon a crisp November morning
that autumn Ellis stood bursting
with pride in the ring at a Fat Stock
Show. He had all but swept its
boards of blue ribbons — indeed.
Ellis, First, was growing a thought
monotonous, when glancing up he
saw his lathy guest, who caught his
arm, crying: "Lord! But I’m glad
you’re here! Come with me! You
must. The girls are waiting back of
the pens.”
Very shortly Ellis stood facing the
feminine invaders, and staring at a
magnificent chronometer, crested
with a bumble bee in diamonds they
had collectively thrust upon him.
“A souvenir of salvation,” their
father explained—he was, it ap
peared, Joseph Barnes, president of
the Stock-Show authorities—and by
common report worth several mil
lions. The bee-hunter was Allan
Lane his prospective brother-in-law,
and his fiancee, blushing and smil
ing up at him. the plump snubby
creature who had been so nearly
eye-stung that only Ellis’ succors
had saved her sight.
Ellis went home with them—for a
week he belonged to them—no mat
ter about his cattle, his place—any
thing but getting what was due. To
his astonishment he was booked to
be best man at the Barnes wedding.
Perhaps the fact that Nan was maid
of honor had something to do with
it. However that may have been,
after the ceremony and the going
away of bride and groom, he found
her suddenly in his arms, smiling up
at him roguishly and whispering:
“We had to get stung also — to
match the rest.”
Of INTEREST TO]
I HOUSEWIfE i
Agateware is easily chipped, so
don’t scrape out food that be-1
I comes stuck in it.
* • •
Rugs should be turned around
| every six months. Frequent turn
I ing causes them to wear evenly.
* * *
A little salt added to an egg
before beating makes it light and
easier to beat.
• • •
Cretonne slip covers will retain
their color better if washed in
bran water.
* • *
Coddled Apples—Two cups boil
ing water, one or two cups sugar,
eight apples. Make a syrup of!
sugar and water, boiling five min
utes. Core and pare apples; cook
slowly in the syrup; cover closely
and watch carefully. When tender,
lift out the apples, add a little
lemon juice to syrup and pour
over apples. The cavities in the
apples may be filled with jelly or
raisins.
* • *
Sweet Prunes—A very delicious
as well as unusual way of serving
prunes for breakfast is to soak
them in fruit juices. Whenever a
jai of fruit is opened save the
juices and put a few prunes in
the jar. When they have become
swollen they are ready to be
eaten.
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To make perfect muffins com
bine all dry ingredients, then add
liquids quickly, stirring but not
beating. Do not stir after ingredi
ents are moistened. Fill muffin
pans two-thirds full and if mix
ture looks lumpy it will smooth
out during baking.
Clear boiling water will remove
tea stains from table linen.
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Keep the top on the milk bottle
so the milk does not absorb ice
box or refrigerator odors from
other foods.
WNU Service.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets made of
May Apple are effective in removing
accumulated body waste.—Adv.
Lost Virtues
Virtues lose themselves in self
interest, as streams lose them
selves in the sea.—Rochefoucauld.
Why Laxatives
Fail In Stubborn
Constipation
Twelve to 24 hours is too long to wait
when relief from clogged bowels and
constipation Is needed, for then enor
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many restless, sleepless nights.
If you want REAL, QUICK RELIEF,
take a liquid compound such as Ad
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gists for 35 years. Take Adlerika one
half hour before breakfast or one hour
before bedtime and in a short while v
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