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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1938)
Hoyd fyifofato ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI “Off Kinsale Head” Hello everybody: If you go to see Patrick J. Hanley at his home at Richmond Hill, N. Y., he might show you an old life pre server that he acquired at sea, on the afternoon of Friday, May 7, 1915, off the Old Head of Kinsale on the coast of Ire land. And maybe Pat will even tell you the story of that tale. Pat wouldn’t part with that old contraption of cork and canvas for half the wealth of the Indies, for it carried him safely through his life’s greatest adventure. And how great a danger it was you will easily realize when I tell you that although Pat lived, eleven hundred and ninety-eight others lost their lives before it was over. Maybe you’ve already got a hunch what this story is going to be about. Maybe that mention of Kinsale Head has struck a responsive chord in your memory. Then again, maybe it hasn’t. It’s been more than 20 years now, and few people remember that the Old Head of Kin sale was the scene of the greatest of marine disasters, the sinking of the Lusitania. Was Passenger on the Lusitania. Yes—Pat Hanley was on the Lusitania when a German submarine shot a torpedo into its innards and sent it plunging to the bottom. The big ship had successfully dodged the U-boats all the way across the At lantic. She was racing down the home stretch, and the passengers had forgotten their fears and were beginning to have a good time when suddenly, at two o'clock in the afternoon there came a loud report. Pat Hanley had shaved and come up on deck about 15 minutes before, and he saw it all, right from the first. A panic started immediately. People ran wildly about the ship searching for their friends and children. Then—In less lhan a minute—the ship be gan to list. "Right there,” says Pat, “was where people started drowning. They got on the Incline and started sliding. The deck rail was broken away to starboard and they fell wholesale into the water. An officer bellowed through a megaphone that every one must get on a life preserver, but two-thirds of the passen gers were In such a state of collapse that you couldn't get them to stand still to get a life preserver on them.” Pat found a life preserver and started stripping off his outer clothing. A woman ran into him, and down he went on the slippery deck. With difficulty he managed to keep from sliding overboard like many others had done. But he got to his feet again and began working his way aft. Only five life-boats got clear of the ship with passengers. A sixth got fouled in the davits and the people in it were dumped into the water. "They fell like a load of sand,” says Pat, “and I noticed that not one Only five lifeboats got clear of the ship. of them seemed to survive that upset. I saw two more boats hurriedly pushed oil so that people in the water could cling to them. After that there was no chance to launch any more on either side as the ship was under water to the second deck on the starboard side.” Pat arrived safely at the stern of the ship and, with about 40 other men, made ready to jump. “We couldn’t take a chance Jumping from the side,” he says, "for it looked as though the ship might turn over on top of us if we did. Already the wa ter was full of bobbing heads. Suddenly a shower of water and soot shot up from the second and third funnels of the ship, drench ing the after-deck and turning us all black as ink spots. The ship was going down steadily now, and we all realized that if we didn't Jump soon the suction would carry us down when she went under. Overboard we went.” Fishing Trawler Came to Rescue. By that time an Irish fishing trawler—the first cruft to come to the rescue—was just arriving at the scene of disaster. Pat, held up by his life preserver, began swimming toward it. Says he: "It was a sailing vessel equipped with four big oars which the crew pulled like Trojans. Already they were picking people out of the water by the dozen. Lifeboats were rowing out to it. unloading their passengers and going back to pick up more. The small boats made several trips back and forth, but they only picked up those who showed signs of life. By the time we reached the trawler there were 500 others already on it.” The time Pat spent on that trawler was an adventure all in itself. The cockpit—the deck—the hold—all of them were lit erally jammed with people, lip on deck the passengers had to stand close together and hang onto one another, for they were packed right to the edge of the deck and there was no railing to keep them from going overboard. When the last bit of available space was occupied with the task of saving a human life, the little craft took In tow three lifeboats filled with more of the res cued, and started away from the scene. Less Than 800 Were Saved. Pat clung for his life to the man next to him. Now the waters were full of other craft steaming—rowing—sailing to the rescue. A large boat hove to and took the crowd off the trawler. While the trawler went back to pick up more survivors, the big boat, with Pat aboard it, steamed toward Queenstown harbor. But the trawler didn’t pick up another load like her first, for the records show that less than 800 people were saved out of a total of nearly 2,000. Pat says they met several patrol boats com ing'to the rescue, but they were too late to do anything but pick up the dead. The boat Pat was on landed him in Queenstown at about nine o’clock that night. The next morning he was asked to go down to the Cunard pier, which had been converted into a temporary morgue, to see If he could identify any of the poor souls who had lost their lives. Pat still has the life preserver he wore when he jumped over the stern of the ill-fated Lusitania—a souvenir of a remarkable adventure. He’ll get it out and show it to you and tell you the story of it when you drop over there of an evening. But for the sake of the people who don’t know Pat well enough to be dropping in on him. I’m glad he’s given us a chance to spin that yarn here in this column. Copyright.—WNU Service. Utah. Indian Name Utah, it has generally been as sumed, was taken directly from the tribal name, the Utes. of the aborig inals who originally lived in the territory. It was not their own name for themselves, but was applied to them by the Navajos and Apaches. The term is derived directly from the word for “upper” and means “the upper people.” or “hill-dwell ers.” It was probably almost the direct equivalent to the English term, “highlanders,” applied to peo ple dwelling in the Scotch moun tains. Wood of Old Ships Useful No electric signs but ancient fig ureheads from the prows of ships hang before the offices of a famous London firm. The company spe cializes in breaking up old vessels, the figureheads from these having made its offices a familiar landmark for travelers. Because the wood of old ships is well seasoned and col ored, it is in demand for many pur poses. Some of the timbers which once sailed the seven seas end up as wine-coolers, others as garden furniture to be set among English daffodils. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON CEW YORK.—To administer the wages and hours law, which re cently went into effect, Elmer F. Andrews left a job which gave him shorter hours E. F. AndreWt and more wages. Has Taken on As New York Full-Time Job state industrial commissioner, ; his salary was $12,000, and he could get by nicely with a seven or eight hour day. This job pays $10,000, : and, considering its volume of de tail, its complications, its novelty ! and its controversial entanglements, it looks like a 24-hour shift for Mr. ! Andrews. He Is a professional engineer, born in New York, earnest and diligent, a glutton for detail, liv ing moderately In Flushing with his wife and three children until his removal to Washington. In addition to his five years as state industrial commissioner, having succeeded his former chief, Miss Frances Perkins, in that office, his experience in wage and hour adjustments has been with Industrial concerns and chambers of commerce. After his graduation from Rens selaer Polytechnic institute, he was pilot in the U. S. army air service in the World war. He built rail roads and factories in Cuba and en gaged in construction work in New York City, planning civic improve ments for the Queensboro Chamber of Commerce, among other large scale enterprises. In these years he engaged in compensation studies for various industrial groups. He was labor adviser for the National Labor board in the coal mining re gions of Kentucky, Alabama and Pennsylvania. Never belligerent, Mr. An drews has been more of an ar biter than a fighter, although he did take on certain employment agencies for a battle when he was industrial commissioner. He swings no nightstick, and tells the employers this isn’t go ing to hurt them in the least. He Is a New Dealer, but goes to Washington with perhaps more political detachment than any similarly placed official down there. Mr. Andrews is 48 years old. THE late Newton D. Baker liked to discourse on the importance of "keeping intellectually liquid," and free from embarrassing alli ances and com J.H.Amen mitments. John Distinguished Harlan Amen, Non-Joiner runner - up for Thomas E. Dew ey in the national racket-busting tournament, is that way, too. As signed to the sensational crime and graft clean-up in Brooklyn, he al lows the reporters to drag out of him the admission that he "never belonged to anything." As an assistant United States attorney, he has been netting racketeers steadily since the United States put teeth in the Sherman act in 1934, In view of J. Edgar Hoover’s revelations as to the overlapping of crime and venal politics, Mr. Amen's political detachment is Interest ing. It is also Interesting in our new realization that federaliza tion of our government has been in part due to the failure of the states really to govern. Mr. Amen, like Mr. Dewey, has made his name in this overlap ping zone of state and federal authority. He is a grave, aloof aristocrat, with an academic background of Phillips-Exeter, Princeton and Har vard. He is a son-in-law of Presi dent Cleveland, with a residence in Park avenue, great intellectual and social reserve. • • • THIS writer happened to be In Italy when the fascist regime was emerging and saw underpriv ileged youth Joyously engaged in . „ beating up hold Jaa. Marshall outs and lag Alarmed Over gurds and slash Jobless Youth ing UP the M* brary of an old professor who had indiscreetly af firmed his faith in democracy. James Marshall, president of the New York board of education, is alarmed about our jobless youth, aged from 18 to 24. He says it was this condition which made fascism in other countries and we had better watch our step. He proposes a dras tic national solution. Mr. Marshall is a lawyer by profession, the son of the late Louis Marshall, one of the most eminent lawyers in New York’s history. He was appointed to the board of education in 1935 and became president of the board last June. He is a genial, philosophical pipe-smoker, an alumnus of the Columbia school of Journalism, and the author of a novel, “Ordeal by Glory.” • Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Rich, Modish Woolens Are Living a Gay Life Today By CHERIE NICHOLAS OMART, nobby little jacket suits ^ deftly tailored of woolens in art ful weave and alluringly colorful are literally running away with highest sartorial honors this season, and no mistake! They are the best solution of the problem of what to wear these days. Beautifully tailored, trim and bright as a new whistle, these little suits are equally at home in town or country and are taken as a matter of course for the campus. The mor al of which is, if you haven’t already acquired a nifty jacket suit of vogu ish woolen, “do it now” and you will be prepared for any caprice of weather. It is novelty fabric interest that holds one spellbound in these cun ning suits. There's all sorts of tricks of the trade employed in adding zest to the fashion s8ch as gaily pat terned wools used for the jacket with nubbly monotone for the skirt or turn it around vice versa—skirt of gay plaid or stripe, jacket in solid color—and you will win a new style high point in the game. Or if you want some one weave or color to play solitaire, it’s all right with Dame Fashion if the suit is all of one tone and one texture, just so it’s voguishly jacketed. On the list of wools the fabric pro gram has to offer you’ll find sport ing tweeds in herringbone, Shetland or nubby types in devastating col ors, fine soft woolens and coarse meshed weaves you’ll adore, and plaids and stripes and shaggy weaves flecked in multi-color. Oh, it’s a gay life modern wool ens are leading. The type of jacket that repeats and repeats is the short fitted sort after the models pictured. Either single or double breasted closings are fashionable, some few in wrap around lines, uncollared necks shar ing honors with the classic notched lapel styling. Skirts are slightly shorter and follow, as a rule, the slim tailored line with action pro vided by pleats or smartly stitched gores. Novelty knit woolens, treated as fabrics, are more popular than ever this season for the jacket costume. A knit wool costume in black is smart in nubbed zephyr combining striped and solid-color fabrics for interesting contrast. The leather belted jacket of striped fabric opens casually to reveal the high band neckline and tiny metal buttons of the striped blouse. The solid color gored skirt has stitched inverted seams. See this model pictured to the left in the group. The light-jacket-dark-skirt combi nation is an unusually successful type. In the fine soft wool types, in novelty raised weaves or in ever correct tweeds this style is espe cially well-adapted to all-day, all occasion wear. Answering this de FASHION NOTES There is a tendency toward bigger buttons. Furs are more important than ever this winter. Fox fur is used by the majority of French designers on dress suits. Massive costume jewelry for sports wear is important this sea i son. Dresses for women show leanings toward the ‘‘prettier and softer” | trend. Anklets have at last acquired in dividuality that makes them fashion i news. Jaunty coats of patterned woolens hang so straight from shoulder to hemline that there is no indication of the fitted waistline. Four green glass beads, finely cut, dangle from each end of a narrow black silk crepe belt which matches its simple crepe dress scription is the jacket costume cen tered in the illustration. Here the jacket is of soft sandalwood-rose wool, lightweight but amply protec Mve. Wrap-around in style, this jack et has six rounded flap pockets placed slantwise at the front, and a smartly built-up neckline. It is teamed with a dark skirt of choco late brown wool, with brown belt and brown ascot scarf to carry out the ensemble. Contrast again shows up in the three-piece jacket-and-cape costume pictured to the right. The added cape will prove very useful in a season of changing temperatures. The skirt is wine-colored, so is the cape. The button-up-front jacket is of checked wine, blue and white soft wooL © Western Newspaper Union. Style Highlights Button, button—and the "who” that’s "got the button” is none less than Dame Fashion. Paris style cre ators are using buttons with lavish hand. See the smartly gowned young lady pictured at the top. She’s slated for success with lucky four leaf clover buttons designed by La Mode, highlighting her winsome cos tume. A tiny veiled peaked hat of wine velvet with matching gloves completes this autumn symphony. There’s glamor and dignity in the Janet Rose adaptation of a distinc tive dressmaker suit, as shown be low in the picture. The suit in teal blue carries a metal blouse in pink and blue, with lavish fox trim. Fashion Stresses Fantastic Hats This season there is every kind of a hat that the imagination can want and all extreme, fantastic and ab surd. Who wants a hat this year that isn’t? Ribbons and hat pins se cure them because hair is on the up and up, even though you rebel. For windy weather, there are vel vet casuals, to be worn with tweeds, for fall and winter wear. They cov er your head and make sense, and are terribly attractive. Sequin-T rimmed Gay Handkerchiefs To add the last note of glamor to your party frock, carry a gay col ored sequin-trfmmed chiffon hand kerchief. Among the prettiest are the handkerchiefs from one corner of which sparkles a cunning bou quet of wee posies worked in multi color sequins, or in matching mono tone if you prefer. | - CWJo SEW 4*-'" Ruth Wyeth Spears cJ^ f T IS not often that a mere mat 1 ter of stitchery strikes • na tional note with Americans, but here is something from a school teacher that may touch your pride a bit. She says, “Your Book 2 on Gifts and Embroidery interests me because it is the only thing I have seen on this subject that shows simply and clearly how to use a little originality in hand work. The women of all nation* but ours find pleasure in express ing their own ideas in embroidery and needle crafts.” Here is another free-hand em broidery design that should be as much fun as those in our book. This attractive border is suggest ed here for a bed jacket. You will have no difficulty in finding a pattern for a jacket as they are quite the thing to wear over sleeveless nighties. Your free hand border will dress it up for a Christmas gift. If the jacket is pale pink, the rows of running stitches might be in several tones of rose. The cross stitches could be in deep rose and turquoise blue to simulate flow ers. The long and short stitches, shown at A and B, should then be done in apple green. Lines may be drawn with a ruler as a guide to keep the rows straight, and evenly spaced dots may be made to indicate the cross stitches beginning the spacing at the cor ners of the design. Are you ready for Christmas; birthdays; and the next church bazaar? Do you turn time into money with things to sell? Mrs. Spears’ Sewing Book 2 has helped thousands of women. If your home is your hobby you will also want Book 1—SEWING for the Home Decorator. Order by number, en closing 25 cents for each book. If you order both books, a leaflet on quilts with 36 authentic stitches will be included free. Address Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, 111. AROUNDj the HOUSE | Items of Interest to the Housewife Care of Book.—Never bend a book backward to keep it open. That weakens the back strap so that the leaves will fall out. Use a book mark or put a small weight on one corner of the book to keep it open. a a a Broken Glass.—Use a wet cloth or dampened absorbent cotton to pick up broken glass. Even the tiniest bits will adhere to it. For safety, discard cloth and all. * * * To Clean Chromium.—Chromi um plated household fittings should be kept clean by frequent dusting with a soft cloth. If dirty, wipe with a cloth wrung out in warm water and then dry thor oughly with a soft duster. Or try wiping with a rag moistened with paraffin. * • a Mending the Wringer.—If a crack appears in the rubber roller of your wringer, bind the cracked part tightly with adhesive tape. It stops the crack from spreading and it does not come off. a a a Vinegar Cures Rust. — Don’t waste time trying to clean rusty articles with emery paper! Place them in a jar of ordinary vinegar, leave for a couple of days, and you will find that they are quite free from rust. * * * On Heat Appliances. — Lamp sockets and cords waste electric ity and deteriorate rapidly when used with heat appliances. If the cord on the toaster or electric iron gives out, a new cord suited to that piece of equipment will save current and possibly a se rious accident. * * • Care of Satin.—Freshen black satin with potato water, sponging on the right side and ironing on the back. Those Dear Gals —v— The girl who speaks volumes usually ends up on the shelf. Winter is here when the girls put on an extra coat of powder. A sophisticated girl is one who knows how to refuse a kiss without being deprived of it. The girl who wants to be a dress designer has to learn more and more about less and less. Fairy tale: Once there was a woman who laughed at her husband’s jokes. A judge recently told a wom an to speak just as if she were at home. The case is still pro ceeding. Renewing Leather.—Since the natural oils in leather slowly dry out and may cause it to crack and look parched, leather coverings on furniture should be treated occa sionally to a slight dose of oil— neat’s foot is excellent and inex pensive for this purpose. Be sure that it is well rubbed into the pores of the leather, and then pol ish the surface with a clean cloth. • • * Repelling Mice.—The smell of peppermint is most obnoxious to mice. A little oil of peppermint placed about their haunts will soon make them look for other quarters. NEVER SLEEP ON AN UPSET’’ STOMACH Neutralize excess stomach acids to wake up feeling like a million To relieve the effects of over-indul gence— escape ‘‘acid indigestion’* next day — ao this: Take 2 table spoonfuls of Phillips’ Milk of Mag nesia in a glass of water — AT BEDTIME. While you sleep, this wonderful alkalizer will be sweetening your stomach... easing the upset-feeling and nausea . . . helping to bring back a “normal” feeling. By morn ing you feel great. Then — when you wake — take 2 more tablespoonfuls of Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia with orange juice. That is one of the quickest, sim £lest, easiest ways to overcome the ad effects of too much eating, smok ing or drinking. Thousands use it. But — never ask for “milk of magnesia” alone — always ask for “PhiHips’”MilkofMagnesia.^!g^ PHILLIPS' MILK OF MAGNESIA * IN LIQUID OR TABLET FORM THADE^i NO JOKE MARK A cough due to a cold is no joke. Get Smith Brothers cough Drops. (Black or Menthol.) Cost only 5tf-yet they’re a real cough medicine. Smith Bros. 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