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ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
66Beast of the North'’
Hello everybody:
It’s sixteen-year-old Bob Shreves of 1333 Pacific St.,
Brooklyn, N. Y., who crashes into the Adventurers Club
today and wins himself the rating of Distinguished Adven
turer. A ten smacker check is on the way to him right now,
and Bob dragged it down with the story of a fight with a
wild animal—on the streets of Brooklyn.
Now it’* been years since big game hunters roamed around Brooklyn
looking for animals to shoot. Hunting parties have been giving it the
go-by since the days when Peter Minuit was mayor of New York and
the town belonged to the Dutch. It took Bob Shreves, then eight years
old, to get into trouble with one. in November, 1927, and just a few
blocks away from the Long Island railroad station and the Williamsburg
bridge.
It was Just twelve o’clock noon, when eight-year-old Bob filed out of
Public School No. 15 with a bunch of other school kids and started up
State street toward his home, which was then at 146 South Elliott place.
Bob was going home for lunch, but he wasn’t in such a hurry to get it
that he couldn't spare a moment to investigate a crowd of people across
the street.
The Bear Looked Harmless.
The crowd was standing at the back door of a large theater. Young
Bob went over and joined it. On the sidewalk by the stage entrance
was a huge brown bear. Bob learned later that the bear was a trained
one—part of an act that was playing in the theater. Two of the train
er’s helpers had him out there getting a little air.
“The bear was lying down,’* says Bob. “He was pretty old,
and looked like a harmless creature. The helpers were holding
him only by a small piece of worn clothes line tied around the
collar on his neck.’’
That- bear may have looked harmless—but Bob soon found
out that he wasn’t.
A lot of other people shared Bob’s opinion that the bear wouldn’t
hurt anyone. Nearly the whole student body of Public School No. 15 had
trooped down to the theater stage door, attracted by the gathering
One great paw lashed out in a vicious swing.
crowd. Such a mob of kids you never saw in your life. They pushed
and jostled one another as they crowded closer. They yelled to one
another and directed loud, shrill questions at the men who were holding
the big brute. The bear began to get nervous—and then frightened.
And the helpers began to get uneasy, too. They coaxed the bear to get
up, and then began to lead him back into the theater again.
Broke Away and Charged the Crowd.
Then that mob of kids began milling and pushing in their effort to
follow the bear in. Bob Shreves was way up in the front row, being
pushed along by those behind him, when suddenly the bear fell into a
panic. He broke away from the two helpers with one toss of his great
shaggy head. Then, swiftly, he turned around and charged the crowdl
He was coming right toward the spot where young Rob was
standing—and with a mob of three or four hundred kids pushing
from behind, there was no way for Bob to escape. A big boy in
front of him screamed and turned to flee. And in his frantic ef
fort to get away he ran squarely Into Bob and bowled him over.
Bob fell flat on the ground. For a moment he was confused. All
around him now he heard the screams of other kids. Then he looked
up—to see the bear charging straight at him—almost on top of him!
Bob's heart leaped to his mouth—and in another split second the
bear was on him. One great paw lashed out in a vicious swing at
Bob’s head. Instinctively, Bob ducked. “If I hadn't,” Bob says, "he
would have ripped my face wide open. As it was, he took away a
piece of my scalp as big as a man's hand. He was standing over me
now, snarling and growling, and suddenly I found myself in his big,
powerful arms.
“I was still conscious. 1 don’t know why that slap on the
head didn't knock me out. But it didn’t, and at that moment I
didn’t even feel any pain up there. But 1 could feel the brute
crushing the breath out of me with his paws. I could feel my
ribs cracking under the pressure. And 1 could .sec him tearing
at my shoulder with his teeth."
It was cold weather and Bob had on a heavy overcoat. That coat
was all that saved his shoulder from being ripped wide open, too. But
the overcoat was no protection against the squeeze of those powerful
arms.
Was Slowly Crushing the Life Out of Him.
"I thought my chest was going to cave in," he says, "and my lungs
felt as if they would burst. I tried to cry out. but that was impossible.
I couldn’t even draw a breath."
Meanwhile, one of the helpers had grabbed up the bear’s rope again
while the other ran in to get the trainer. Little Bob wasn't even con
scious of that He wasn’t conscious of anything but the big, hairy animal
that kept squeezing—squeezing—slowly crushing the life out of him. The
last thing he remembered were shouts in his ears and strong hands
taking hold of him, dragging him from the bear's embrace.
The next thing he knew he was in Cumberland hospital, with a
badly lacerated head and right shoulder, and a broken rib—and
the doctors told him that if he hadn't had on a thick overcoat he'd
have been maimed for life, if not killed outright. But three months
later Bob was out of the hospital, and all right except for a last
ing ■car on his head.
The bear weighed 880 pounds and stood seven feet tall when erect.
He was the biggest critter Bob ever took an for a fight before—or
since. And he’s still wondering if Schmeiing, or Joe Louis, or even
Dempsey in his prime, could have done any better with that animal
than he did.
Copyright—WNU Service.
Men Talk More Than Women
According to a noted psychologist,
men do more talking then women
and are naturally the more talka
tive sex. He says men like to hear
themselves talk because they think
what they say is more important
than what women say. And,
strangely enough, says Pearson’s
London Weekly, he asserts, women
also believe that what men say is
more important than their own chat
ter. This is attributed to the im
pression many men give women:
that women are the inferior sex
and not as intelligent in conversa
tion as their male companions.
Whatever the reason, It is generally
agreed among psychologists that
men do more talking than women.
Name Hugh Means ‘Intellectual’
The name Hugh, of Teutonic ori
gin, means "intellectual" or “in
telligent.” Hugh Capet, king of
France in the Tenth century, found
ed the Capetian dynasty which last
ed from 987 to 1328. St. Hugh was
bishop of Grenoble in the Twelfth
century. Other Hughs of the past:
Latimer (d. 1555) English reformer,
burned at the stake; Legare (d.
1843) attorney-general of the United
States; Miller (d. 1856) Scotch geol
ogist who educated himself by read-'
ing in the intervals of his work as
a stonemason and became one of
the first writers to make geology
popular; Baron Strathnairn (d. 1885)
English field marshal; and Cameron
(d. 1918) Scottish painter.
In a showing ol ail lace fashions
from Paris which took place in New
York recently, it was interesting to
note afternoon dresses of lace cre
ated by leading couturiers. This
one by Marcelle Dormoy is of venise
type lace which has just the right
body to drape well. Note the new
length of the sleeves and the slightly
draped line of the bodice, contrast
ing with the more fully draped gir
dle around the waist. One of the
new violet purples is used here.
Your First Fall Hat
Your first fall hat is apt to be
velvet. For immediate wear the
beret of black velvet that shoots
high to one side is a favorite.
Fine Frocks of Real Silk
Bespeak Ladylike Trends
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
'T'HIS fan a new type of
* woman has come Into
fashion, a type more femi
nine, more enchanting, more dis
cerning—a woman whose personal
ity requires a wardrobe of individu
ality, quality and ladylike elegance.
Superb collections are available in
the best shops, to be sure, but if the
dress of milady’s choice happens to
go beyond her budget, what then?
Many smart women have found
their answer in pattern dresses
made by themselves or by “little
dressmakers.”
They get the very best of mate
rial and glory in its elegance. In
purchasing silk they demand none
other than “pure silk,” knowing it
can be depended upon for sewabili
ty, drapability, cleanability and
wearability. The result is an indi
vidualized gown that flatters the
face and figure, is hand finished and
costs only a fraction of the better
custom-made gowns. Small wonder
is it then, that the woman who does
her own sewing, or who has a dress
maker, does not look standardized,
commonplace or uninteresting.
What a treasure chest of sumptu
ous silk weaves are at her dis
posal this fall! For, according to
the great silk parade of fall fash
ions that takes place nationally
each year in stores throughout the
country, the silks from which she
can make her selection are simply
fascinating and that versatile
there’s a silk tuned to every phase
of fashion.
At the fashion and silk merchan
dise forum held recently in New
York, Manhattan's most charming
mannikins paraded in gowns made
Afternoon Lace
of the season’s swankiest silks, en
sembled and accessoried in a man
ner that spelt Paris. While these
dresses had a highstyle custom look
seen only in the great salons the in
spiring message conveyed in regard
to them was that they can be made
by the most inexperienced sewer
with patterns available even in
small communities.
Here are a few "pointers” gleaned
at the great silk forum fabric revue
that should help in carrying out a
home-sewing program. Daytime
dresses are in plain and novelty silk
crepe, silk satin, silk jersey, silk
twills and silk duvetyne such as
yield gracefully to supple, slender
silhouette treatments. Skirts keep
a slim line with interest centered
in sleeves and bodice. Silk crepes
look smart when combined with a
contrasting color in the same
wave, carrying out the now-so-chic
bi-color scheme. Paris says "fitted”
is the word for most bodices, waist
lines are slender, and yokes are
strongly characteristic of dresses
reflecting 1900 influence. Evening
gowns are either slim and supple or
stiff and bouffant.
Apropos of the simple dress that
you can make yourself of elegant
fabric, we call your attention to the
shirtwaist frock (Paris still adores
shirtwaist types) to the right in the
picture. It is of handsome black
satin and has brilliants for buttons.
Note the below-the-elbow sleeve.
Paris also says shirtwaist frocks of
glamorous materials for gala eve
nings. So why not make two shirt
waist frocks, one of black satin for
practical wear and another of glim
mering lame or gold-threaded silk
weave for formal dates.
Very likable to copy is the model
to the left. Here a gown simply
fashioned of a novelty ribbed heavy
silk sheer takes on dolman sleeves
of black and gold silk lame in a
coat-of-mail effect—ever so smart
for bridge, matinee, cocktails, and
"don’t dress evenings."
® Western Newspaper Union.
Costume Jewelry
Still Is Popular
Costume jewelry gnd lots of it is
the sentiment expressed throughout
the newer fashions. Many of the
gadgets are of the heavy massive
sort—huge fobs and lockets, also
clips that are of the dangling type.
Smart styled jewelry is interpret
ed in close-fitting about-the-throat
effects. The new dog-collar ver
sions are liked by those who can
wear them becomingly and, for
those who do not like the extreme,
there are plastrons and round col
lar items that encircle the neckline
close up but not high. A simple
black foundation dress is trans
formed into a gown de luxe under
the magic of these dramatic gold
jewelry neckwear novelties.
Belts in gold designing comple
ment the costume jewelry gadgets
and necklaces and bracelets.
Braid Is Revived
In Fall Fashions
Braids and all their ramifications
are present in profusion to remind
grandmother of her deb days and to
add a new zest to the fashions of
the “younger generation” who have
never had a chance to know what
glorious effects braids can give.
From thread-fine soutaches to the
heaviest of flat braids, the revived
trimming has a place at the top of
the detail list in every big fall fash
ion collection.
Spring Hues Reappear
Spring tints of pinks, greens and
yellows are a surprising feature of
the new clothes.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK. — Barring world
champion prizefighters, Thomas
E. Dewey probably has received
more public* ty than any other
American of his
Dewey Lulled years. He is only
Bossy With 36, but almost ev
•IlTraviata’ erything about
him is old news.
However, as the New York Repub
licans nominated him for gover
nor, the whole country seems hun
gry for information about the cock
of his eyebrow, his gold fillings, if
any, the set of his suspenders and
whether he runs down the heels of
his shoes. Friends from the West
and Far West have told me, and
some have written, that there is
more talk about Thomas E. Dewey
for President than about all the
other possibilities put together.
These informants say the talk is
not partisan — that New York’s
young racket-buster is becoming the
national symbol of a “happy issue
out of all our afflictions.” *
This reporter hereby hands
him the agrarian vote: on the
banks of the Shiawasse, near
Owosso, in the state of Michi
gan, he was a demon cow milk
er. People would come for miles
to see and hear him milk a cow.
Musically gifted, he could make
the powerful milk stream ring a
tune in the pail as he sang “La
Boheme,” or “II Traviata.” His
father ran a country newspaper.
As to the industrial East, he is a
cagey bridge player who never takes
his partner out of a business double.
He is a squash player in winter,
and a tennis player in summer. He
sings baritone, a safe vocal as well
as political range, and was trained
as an opera singer, first in New
York on a musical scholarship.
There’s nothing showy about him
and he never makes a play to the
press coop.
He appears to be, to this ob
server, the answer to Stuart
Chase’s plea for a new kind of
politician. In a magazine arti
cle printed about a year ago,
Mr. Chase tore all political dog
mas to tatters and said we
would get nowhere until we be
gan to isolate and attack given
problems and settle them ac
cording to their immediate re
quirements, without regard to
their political or philosophical
context. Big town racketeering
is one of those "given problems”
and then some. It is interesting
to note that, in his acceptance
speech, Mr. Dewey renounced
"political dogma.”
On most of the specific political
Issues of the day, Mr. Dewey’s opin
ion has not been revealed. He has
been slated as “liberal” and "pro
gressive,” but, in the days of “Tip
pecanoe and Tyler, too,” the coun
try esteemed fighting men and ap
parently still does.
* * •
GREECE has had several associ
ations to get the Elgin marbles
from England. They’re still there.
The Association of Men With Wings
. seems to have bet
KerwoodOut ter prospects of
To Bring Back reclaiming for
Wright Plane Ar?e"ca *e°ri£
nal Wright broth
ers’ airplane. Orville Wright, who,
for quite human and understanda
ble reasons, let the plane go to Eng
land, now joins the association in its
effort to bring it back to this coun
try.
When and If they succeed, it
will be another feather in the
flying helmet of Col. Charles
Wayne Kerwood. Ever since he
stopped daredeviling as one of
America’s most spectacular and
adventurous aviators, he has
been plotting to get that plane,
even if he has to kidnap it. That
was why he formed the above
association, of which he is presi
dent.
He flew and fought with the
French in the World war, with the
Greeks against the Turks in 1922,
was wounded and grounded more
than once, turned to barnstorming
and sensational knockabout flying,
and became president of the Inter
national League of Aviators. He is
a native of Chicago, big, bronzed,
moustachioed, once a flying and
fighting buddy of General Franco,
! against the Riffs.
i t
THIS department would like to
come out boldly against some
thing. An unflinching stand against
red fingernails looks pretty safe.
... . . Magistrate Jean
Woman Jurist ette G Brill,
Raps Foible; Brooklyn's only
We Fall In w o m a n magis
trate, leads the
way for a possible rallying of the
democratic powers around a live
issue. She reproves a woman de
fendant for being thus incarnadined.
Magistrate Brill has been a social’
worker, club woman, teacher, au
thor, student and lawyer. She works
18 hours a day and sleeps five. She
releases subway banjoists, saying
we need music in the subway.
<& Consolidated News Features.
WNU Servtis.
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4"BOARD~ SCREWS (THUMB-TACKS
DOUBLE
CURTAIN
ROD
Pi AIN
PART OF
VALANCE
l DOUBLE
*'r\EAR Mrs. Spears:—I want
to thank you for the clear
diagram of how to hang draw cur
tains in your Book 1—SEWING
for the Home Decorator. This was
just what I have been needing as
we have casement windows and
no shades in our living room. With
a pull of the cord my new curtains
shut out the light or the outside
view. I wonder if you would help
me with another problem? I do
not want to make the curtains for
the rest of the house. Thought I
would buy ruffled net ones. Do
you think they would be too com
monplace? J. T.”
Answer: Here is a suggestion
for hanging ruffled curtains that
will make your windows a little
different from those of your neigh
bors and lend no end of style to
your rooms. Double curtain rods
are needed to give the crossed ef
fect and a valance board is added
to the top of the window as shown.
Here the valance is the sort that
comes with ready made curtains
and the top is folded back to make
it double. In thumbtacking it to
the valance board, do not stretch
it—just “ease it on” so that it
hangs well. If you feel that the
windows need color, the valance
and tie backs may be of plain
glazed chintz that repeats the
strongest color in your room color
scheme. A contrasting valance
may be either plain or gathered.
Let Father and Young Son and
Little Sister help you make the
home a center of interest. Book
1—SEWING, for the Home Deco
rator contains many useful things
that every one may take a hand
in making. Book 2 shows you
with pictures how to make many
novelty gifts. Books are 25 cents
each. Order both books today and
get the patchwork quilt leaflet pic
turing 36 authentic embroidery
stitches free. Address: Mrs.
Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chi
cago, 111.
NO ONE IS
IMMUNE TO
ACID
INDIGESTION
But Why Suffer? Here's
how you can “Alkalize”
anytime—any where-t he
easy “Phillips'” way!
WHY SUFFER from headaches,
“gas,” “upsets” and “biliousness”
due to Acid Indigestion—when now
there is a way that relieves excess
stomach acid with incredible speed.
Simply take two Phillips’ Milk of
Magnesia Tablets at first sign of
distress. Carry them with you —
take them unnoticed by others.
Results are amazing. There’s no
nausea or “bloated’^ feeling. It
produces no “gas” to embarrass you
and offend others. “Acid indiges
tion” disappears. You feel great.
Get a bottle of liquid “Phillips*’*
for home use. And a box of Phillips’
Milk of Magnesia Tablets to carry
with you. But — be sure any bottle
or box you accept is clearly marked
"Phillips”' Milk of Magnesia.
PHILLIPS’ MILK OF MAGNESIA
* IN LIQUID OR TABLET FORM
STARTLING FACTS ABOUT RURAL AMERICA
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$5,000,000. ANNUALLY IN FAIR PRIZES
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ATTEND FAIRS EACH YEAR IN U.S.A.
It isn’t difficult to visualize why agriculture is the world’s largest
industry, after reviewing some of the figures just released by the
Firestone Farm Service Bureau. These amazing facts were uncovered
in connection with the Voice of the Farm noonday radio program.
(1) Five million dollars is the figure that’s handed out in fair
prize money each season. State fairs contribute about half of the
figure and county fairs put up the remainder.
(2) C. P. Mills, St. Joseph, Illinois, farmer, has shown an extra
profit of about $1,000 annually since he started keeping books on his
farm operations. His bookkeeping takes about 208 hours a year —
and that figures $5.00 an hour.
(3) In Nehawka, Nebraska, Harry Knabe paid $83.00 for a
Hampshire brood sow. The $1750.00 he received for the first litter
of pigs for breeding purposes was a gross profit of 2106% on his
investment, and he kept two pigs from the litter.
(4) Crowds equivalent to almost two-fifths of the population
of the United States attend fairs each year. Fairs outdraw the
attendance at big league baseball, college football, basketball and
professional hockey combined.
Through the efforts of the Firestone Farm Service Bureau
millions of farmers throughout the country are receiving authentic
information concerning problems that confront them in the adoption
of better farming practices. This organization maintains a corps
j of practical farm experts and counselors who are prepared to handle
any type of farm problem that may arise.—Adv.