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The Neighborly Fund
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‘King of the Cocos’
John Clunies Ross, 16, comes into
his "kingdom” now that the Japs
have surrendered. The "kingdom”
is a group of small islands called
the Cocos, about 600 miles southwest
of Sumatra. John’s great-great
grandfather settled on the Islands in
1827, and the Ross family has ruled
under British royal charter ever
since.
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Rolling your eyes is excellent to
strengthen the eye muscles. Look
straight ahead. Now lower and raise
the upper lids ten times. Then close
the eyes and count ten. Then do it
all over again.
Ledger Syndicate.—WNU Features.
I "GAY GADGETS"
Aaaoclated Newspaper*— WNU Feature*
By NANCY PEPPER
CASBAH CUISINE
What's your favorite dish when
you're cutting up at the Casbah—
when you’re mak
ing talk at the
marble slab?
What we mean
Is, what do you
order at the cor
ner soda foun
tain? Do yon
whittle your
waistline with a
lemon fizz or do
you crave these
cataclysmic calories?
Triple Threat—Three balls of as
sorted ice cream each one dripping
with another kind of goo. The com
binations are gruesome.
Horse's Neck—That’s what you
ask for when you want a coke with
ice cream. Ever try root beer with
ice cream? Lush Mush!
Maiden’s Delight or Epicure Spe
cial—You have two names for this
concoction, but we call it "Anything
Goes.” The idea is for the soda
fountain jerker to use his own imagi
nation.
Dusty Miller—Chocolate marsh
mallow sundae with malt sprinkled
on the top.
Telephone Special — That’s one
name for vanilla cream, chocolate
syrup, marshmallow and peanuts.
Forbidden Fruit — Balls of ice
cream with different kinds of fruit
syrup.
MORNING AFTER
When she telephones you early—
As soon as it is light—
And cannot wait to ask you,
"Did you have fun last night?”
(SHE DID!)
If you try to change the subject
With “Oh, it was all right,”
And don’t even want to know
If she had fun last night—
(YOU DIDN’T!)
TRIXIE TEEN SAYS—
Don't think you're the only teen who’s
been nursing ambitions to be a movie
star, a radio actress or a singer with a
band. No harm building castles in the
air. Hut, just in case those castles never
i come down to earth, you'd better be dig
ging the foundation now for a more
practical bungalow. Clicking a type
writer or selling behind the counter
may not be your idea of glamour, but
th ey’ll certainly tide you over until the
Talent Scout finds you. And—find you,
he will—providing, of course, you have
the Talent. ,
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By FRANK COLBY
HANDBOOK OF
PRACTICAL ENGLISH
• • •
Q.—In our office we have almost
come to blows over the word
“whereabouts." Is It singular or
plural?
A.—Whereabouts is a peculiar
word. It is plural in form, but since
it means “the place where a person
or thing is," it must be treated as
a singular, for obviously a thing
cannot be in more than one place at
a time. Correct: His whereabouts
is known.
On the other hand, headquarters
is customarily used as a plural
noun, as: His headquarters are in
New York.
_• .
Q.—There has been much discus
sion among us concerning the use of
“any more" in such sentences as
“John isn't nice to me any more.”
Please discuss.
A.—Use of “any more" to mean
“still; now; nowadays” is dialectal,
and it appears to have originated in
the North Central States. It is fre
quently heard in parts of Indiana.
"Any more” is correctly used In
negative sentences as: John is not
nice to me any more; I do not need
any more help.
_•_
Q.—Our English class asks that
you give the rule for forming the
plurals of such compound words as
“attorney at law, mother-in-law,”
etc.
A.—A safe rule to follow is to
pluralize the noun part of the words.
In such compounds as attorney at
law, mother-in-law, right of way,
commander in chief, the noun parts
are, “attorney, mother, right, com
mander.” The phrases "at law, in
law, of way, in chief,” act as ad
jectives in that they describe the
noun parts. Therefore, the correct
plurals are: attorneys at law, moth
ers-in-law, rights of way, command
ers in chief.
Form the possessives thus: attor
neys at law's, mothers-in-law’s,
commanders in chief's, etc.
Bell Syndicate.—WNU Features.
Novel Bow Trim
For this deep armholed black
crepe dress with Chinese neckline,
a striped satin and tafTeta bow is
tied from a hip pocket, with im
pressed pleats in the skirt gathered
into the curve. Large bows used in
strikingly novel ways are bringing
high drama into the current style
picture.
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Detective Uses
Laundry Marks to
Identify Crooks
In Eight Years He Has Built
Up a Bureau Containing
File of 300 Cases.
NEW YORK. - Adam Yulch,
whose system of identifying crimi
nals by laundry marks, had a per
fect batting average in 1944. doesn't
look like a man you'd expect to find
mixed up in crime, says an Asso
ciated Press writer.
He can identify most murder or
amnesia victims within 24 hours.
Since he established the first laundry
mark filing bureau eight years ago.
no defense attorney ever has chal
lenged his evidence in cross-exam
ination. A lieutenant on the Nassau
county police force, he likes to call
himself "consultant for the entire
nation’s law enforcement agencies
and that includes the FBI."
Adam, who is 60, joined the police
force of Nassau county 30 years
ago. It was in 1936, while he was on
the detective division, that he be
came aware of the potentialities of
laundry marks. Three bandits in a
stolen car had made a haul of $10,
500, abandoned the car and escaped.
In the car was a suit of clothes with
a cleaner’s mark.
“Then," says Adam, "yours truly
was called in and given the suit of
clothes with: ‘Find the man who
cleaned this suit. I don’t care how
long it takes or how expensive it is.
but don’t come back until you’ve
found him.’ ”
Searched for Three Months.
For three months Adam can
vassed cleaning establishments in
metropolitan area. New York City
alone has 11,000. Says Adam, “I
don’t know how many pairs of shoes
I wore out." Then one day up in
Westchester, “to my surprise and I
almost done a backflip, a cleaner
says ’yes, that's my mark.' ”
All three bandits were caught and
convicted.
Criminals had been detected by
laundry marks since 1883, but de
tection was haphazard and tedious
because not even the FBI had a
laundry mark file. Adam proposed
to start one.
He told his commanding officer.
Inspector Henry R. King, what he
had learned. Every cleaner’s mark
has an indicator, a route designa
tion and a customer's designation.
By collecting sample marks and fil
ing them, Adam thought he could
find the proper cleaner. From the
route and customer’s marks, the
cleaner could tell the name of the
person in question.
Many cleaners use the same in
dicator but, with the selection nar
rowed by locality, Adam main
tained he could pick the right
cleaner ‘‘because no two marks are
alike." Some cleaners use indelible
pencil, some ink. some print, some
write, some use a stamping ma
chine.
"Inspector King gave me the
green light." says Adam, and he
started out. Within a few months
his first murder case turned up. The
body of a man who had been
chained to a tree, his clothing sat
urated with gasoline and set afire,
was found on New Jersey's Pali
sades along the Hudson river.
No one could identify the victim.
Yulch was called in. He carefully
sifted charred cloth. With a mag
nifying glass he found the smudge
of a cleaner’s mark. Since most
cleaner's ink is indelible. Adam
took a chance on moistening it The
number came through.
Within two hours he was in a
tailor shop in the Bronx. The tailor
got out his books, turned to the prop
er page, then became hysterical.
The mark was that of his father-in
law. A dentist’s examination clinch
ed the identification.
West coast states and the FBI be
gan to consult Adam. He identified
amnesia victims, he caught OPA vi
olators, he identified a drowned
man whose body had been in the
water four years.
He caught a counterfeiter who had
deemed himself safe for two years.
The man had left his kit of tools and
a pair of trousers in an automatic
locker at a train station. If not taken
out In 24 hours, the parcels are
stored by the station for two years,
then opened Thirty minutes after he
received the trousers, Adam identi
fied their owner Three hours later
the man was under arrest.
Adam added institutional laundry
marks to his files. His samples ap
proached the 300,000 mark.
Risks His Life to Save
Kids From Falling Plane
SIGNAL HILL, CALIF. - Lt. Her
man A. Albertini, 23, of Stanton,
111., combat flier returned from Eu
rope, recently was credited with
risking his life to avoid hitting chil
dren in the path of his disabled
Thunderbolt fighter plane.
The plane, its engine smoking, cut
a telephone pole in two, sheared
through telephone and power lines
and ripped off the roof of a ware
house before crashlanding.
Police said the plane was barely
100 feet high when onlookers saw
the pilot leaning out, waving fran
tically at children to get out of his
way.
The plane burst into flames and
was destroyed, but Albertini walked
away with only bruises and
scratches. He is serving with the 6th
ferrying group of the air transport
command in Long Beach, Calif.
Hen Needs Auto Ride
Before Laying Egg
LINTON, IND. — A reporter
spied a hen in a parked car on a
busy city street, cackling over a
newly laid egg.
Investigation disclosed that Co
vert McBride brought his pet hen
to town quit^ often. "I have to
take her for an auto ride every
morning, or she w’on’t lay an
egg," he explained.
Pushes Wife 65 Mi.
Looking for Job
Discharged VetFindsTough
Going on Country Roads.
DANVILLE, ILL.*—William Beam,
34, discharged army veteran, ad
mitted that he was “a bit tired" of
walking and was looking around for
a job as chauffeur “so I can ride
a little."
Beam arrived here over the week
end after pushing his crippled wife
in her wheel chair from Terre Haute,
Ind., a distance of 65 miles.
He said it was "tough going"
along the country roads on hot days
and the trip took six days. The last
night, as they reached Possum Trot
bridge on Danville’s outskirts, the
couple slept outdoors beside the high
way. The other days they stopped at
farms en route where Bean would do
chores for food and overnight lodg
ing.
Mrs. Beam, 40, said she didn’t
mind the trip a bit, as she tapped
some tobacco into her corn cob pipe
and asked an interviewer for a
match. A native of Georgia, she
says that Danville is as far north
as she'd ever been.
"I am not an invalid and can do
my own housework, but I can’t do
much walking I could never have
made the trip if Bill hadn’t pushed
me," Mrs. Beam said.
Beam, who was discharged for
disability from the 4th armored divi
sion in 1943, was asked why the
couple chose this mode of travel. He
said:
"You don't see much of the
country riding in a bus; besides, I
wanted to look around for a job en
route."
Mrs. Beam refused to permit a
photographer to take her picture,
saying she had never been photo
graphed in her life and wasn’t going
to start now.
Careless Japanese Saves
U. S. Lieutenant’s Life
TULSA, OKLA.—The son of former
Oklahoma House Speaker Johnson
D Hill is alive to tell of his experi
ence with a careless Japanese. The
story was learned here by Hill from
his son, Lt. J. D. Hill Jr., now in
Letterman hospital in San Francis
co, Calif.
Hill, who is recuperating from a
shell wound, was a platoon leader of
the 27th Infantry (New York) divi
sion and was hit on his second day
in combat on the bloody Byukyus
islands
"The carelessness of a Japanese
saved my life,” young Hill said. "A
mortar shell hit me squarely in the
back, but luckily the gunner had
failed to pull the safety pin and the
projectile did not explode.”
Hill worked on the Sacramento
(Calif.) Bee newspaper before he
enlisted in 1942. He earned a com
mission in the coast artillery, but
later was assigned to the infantry.
Besides Hill’s parents, his wife and
small son live in Tulsa.
Shoots His Wife While
Dancing, Then Kills Self
CHICAGO. ILL. - While they
danced cheek to cheek to the strains
of "I'll Keep on Loving You,” Ed
ward Rzeszutko, 28. shot his pretty
wife in the neck, then turned the
gun on himself, police said.
Mrs Rzeszutko, 27. was reported
in critical condition. Rzeszutko, a
clerk, died almost immediately.
Friends told police that the trag
edy occurred in the apartment of
Mr and Mrs Michael Wojcik, who
were giving a homecoming party for
their soldier son.
None of the guests was able to
explain Rzeszutko's actions. The
couple were happily married, they
said, and apparently devoted to
their three-year-old son.
They said three couples were
dancing when two shots were heard.
"Are you shot, honey?” Rzeszutko
was heard to ask. "Yes," his wife
replied. “Then I might as well fin
ish the job," he said, and fired a
third bullet into his head.
Stays at Wheel Despite
Flames on His Gas Truck
GREEN BAY, WIS.—With flames
shooting 20 feet from the rear of a
tank truck loaded with 5.000 gallons
of gasoline, Robert Miller, 26. of
Route 5, Green Bay, remained at
the steering wheel for five blocks
to get the vehicle out of the west
side business district.
Firemen put out the flames with
only slight loss. Prevention of an
explosion was attributed to the melt
ing of safety plugs on the top of the
tank, refeasing vapor pressure from
the interior.
Miller said he believed that gaso
line spilled on top of the tank when
it was being loaded ran over the
rear end and down a safety chain,
and was ignited from a spark.
MOPSY by GLADYS PARKER
HE'S BEEN IN THE \
SOUTH PACIFIC FOR /
SIX MONTHS./’v'
TIN HATS By Stanton
I , ...
••Now don’t get so impatient, General—I’m POSITIVE I put the mes
sage in here!”
BKACF.D By CLOY AS WILLIAMS
INCH BV INCH RAISES'
TO FEET, BRACING
HIMSELF AGAINST
WALL
GETS THEBE AND LOOKS
AROUND TEIUMPHANTLY
WONDERS IF HE CAN DO
IT ALL ALONE . TRIES
TAKING ONE HANDAWAV
AND THEN THE OTHER.
less IMMEDIATELY
wabble, flatten*
HASTILY AGAINST WALL
PERS EVE RES, SUCCEEDS
AND LOOKS TO MAKE SURE
EVERVONE SEES HIM
LEGS START BUCKLING
SEEKS WALL SUPPORT
IN WRONG DIRECriON.
WISHES WALLS WOULD
STAY IN ONE PLACE.
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DANGEROUS TRIBE
Dumb — I see by the papers
they're starting another campaign
against malaria.
Dora—My goodness, haven’t they
wiped those Malarians off the map
yet!
Correct!
Mack—Give me the definition of
jealousy.
Jack — Friendship between two
girls.
Check!
Smith—I’ll have you know I’m a
selfmade man!
Jones—What interrupted you be
fore you were finished?
Good Start
Joe—You’re acting like a baby.
BUI—I can’t help it. I was born
that way.
HUNGRY WORD
Harry—How do you like my new
lap dog?
Jerry—You call that huge hound a
lap dog?
Harry — Sure. Any time he sees
food he laps it up.
Quiz Kids
Quiz Master—What does a woman
reach for when the telephone rings?
Voice from the Audience — A
chair.
Walkie-Talkie
Kay—Do you know what she
brushes her teeth with?
Mae — I’d say gunpowder. The
way she shoots her mouth off.
Head of the Class
Teacher—Who was Homer?
Bright Girl—He was the fdlo
Babe Ruth made famous.