THURSDAY, DEC. 21. 1939
TIM ES, W ILLAM INA, OREGON
Santa Claus
Gets Around
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
H E A D L IN E S F R O M THE L IV E S
OF P E O P L E L IK E Y O U R S E L F I
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fight modern inventions— he
uses them!
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Helping Make
Your Yuletide
A Happy One
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OU know, boys and girls, Old Lady A dventure has some
funny w ays of sneaking up on a guy. Som etim es she ju st
com es up behind your back, and som etim es she drops on you
from above. And th ere a re tim es, too, when she com es w alking
right up to you from the front, and you don’t try to get out of her
way because she is in disguise and you don’t recognize her.
T h a t’s the way it was with John Hoven, New York city. You
know, John sta rte d his adventurin g c a re e r as a sailo r before the
m a st, und every sailor has half a dozen or m ore ad v en tu res he
Down Florida way where the
can tell you about. But the one John re m e m b ers best is his first chambers of commerce require
that everything be different, Santa
one—a thrill he got in 1894, and still rem em b ers.
goes to work on an aquaplane.
Since last spring they’ve been
It happened when Jo h n ’s ship called a t the port of San
painting toy wagons and putting
L ticar, Spain, to take on a curgo of lead. It w as the 18th of
eyes in baby dolls, just to make
N ovem ber when they arriv e d there, but the w eath er w as still
your family happy Christmas
w arm and balm y. In the evening, m ost of the crew went
morning!
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ashore to see the sights of the town, John went too—and that’s when Old
Lady Adventure walked up and grabbed hint.
You know, I said that the old girl with the thrill bag sneaked up on
John in disguise. She did. She cam e in the clothes customarily worn by
another lady known to the world os Little Rosie Romance. And John
never knew the difference until it was too late.
On their way into town, the sailors from the ship stopped to
watch a group of Spanish señoritas and senors dancing their native
dances. John says he thinks the dance they were doing was the
fandango. Anyway, it was the sort of dance in which a señorita
who wants a new partner, just throws her shawl around the neck
of some bird on the sidelines who looks good to her. John was
standing pretty close to the platform where the dancing was going
on, and the first thing you know a shawl was looped around his
neck.
John Adds Fandango to His Accom plishm ents.
Now John says he never was much of a dancer, and fandangos
were way out of his class. But this girl was a beauty, and one look
from her big round eyes had John feeling that he’d dance in a barrel of
red hot nails if it would please her any. “ I got away with the dance
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"It was only a drop of about ten feet to the ground, and the minute
I felt earth under my feet I ran like a deer for the waterfront. I reached
it all out of breath, for I had never stopped running the entire distance
of alm ost a mile. I went aboard ship and sneaked below. Once in
the forecastle I stopped to catch my breath again. I was still shaking
like a leaf. I started to remove my coat and felt something in the
pocket. I took it out. It was a double-edged dagger, about eight inches
long, with a hollow groove in the middle.”
Just another link in the chain of evidence against John. The
girl had planted that knife in his pocket to make the case against
him all the stronger. He hid the thing under his m attress and
tried to calm his jumpy nerves. And just then one of John's ship
m ates cam e into the forecastle. "Say, what’s the matter with
you?" he wanted to know. "You look pale as a ghost, and I saw
you running.”
Well sir, John says he knew he could trust this pal of his so he
blurted out the whole story. And his shipmate laughed. "Why," he
said, "you just fell for an old swindle. I thought it had been played out
long’ ago in these parts. That was only a dummy you saw in the room,
and the blood was probably catsup or something. The police were fakers,
and all they wanted to do was make you give them all your money to
keep them quiet. Don’t play around with any of those Spanish señoritas.
You’re playing with fire if you do.”
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
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SCHOOLS
At home and abroad they work
long hours to guarantee delivery
by the time Santa Claus arrives.
Early mailing of Christmas pack
ages makes their job easier.
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BRUSSELS.—A French Junior of
ficer was arrested and interned re
cently when he crossed the frontier
to take a drink in a Belgian cafe.
The name of the town was not an
nounced.
TryFAST-ACTION
Relief forPains o f
On that bed lay a dead man, his throat slashed, and blood dripping
all over the floor.
John Finds D agger in Coat Pocket.
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Here he pops up in a railroad
I engine—
somehow," he says, "and then she left the platform and motioned me to
com e along. She led me to a little cafe—a two-story building with a lot
of tables and chairs out in the open and a big canopy sloping down the
side of the wall. There was a big bay window above this canopy and a
sm all side entrance led to the room above."
The girl led John into that side entrance. He followed her up the
stairs and into a big room on the second floor. "She spoke to m e in
Spanish,” John says, "but I couldn't understand a word. However, I
said, ‘Si, Si,’ to everything she said. She smiled, and so did I. Then she
• opened a cupboard, brought out som e wine glasses and an empty bottle
and made a motion meaning that she was going to take the bottle and
have it filled. Then she left the room.”
John could hardly believe his luck. When the girl was gone
he began to look around the room. There was an alcove at one
end, with portiers drawn across it. He walked over and peeped
through those curtains—and right there John got the shock of his
life. In the alcove was a bed. and on that bed lay a dead man,
his throat slashed, and blood dripping all over the floor!
“ I felt a chill run up my spine,” he says, "and for a minute I was so
stiff I couldn't move. I turned away from the grisly sight in the alcove
and ran toward the door. I turned the knob, but the door didn’t give.
It was locked!”
John ran to the window—and what he saw there made the
hair stand straight up on his head. Down below in the street was
the girl, coming back—and with her were two big husky Spanish
policemen. John says that thousands of thoughts ran through his
head then, but the principal one was the realization that he was
the victim of a frame-up. That girl had killed a man and was
going to put tlie blame on him!
Says he: "I knew my only chance lay in getting out of that room.
The girl and the policemen were almost to the door now. I waited
until they were all in the hallway, and then I threw open the window.
They would be opening the door of the room at any moment, and I had
to hurry. Swiftly climbing through the window, I slid down the canopy
below it.
W N U S ervie« .
Then, again, he abandons his toy
bag and travels in an automobile—
They start several weeks before
Christmas each year, cutting ever
greens in the north woods and
shipping them to far away comer!
to brighten up a living room on
Christmas morning.
COLDS
3 simple steps begin amazing
relief in a ¡iffy
L To relieve headache.
body discomfort and
aches, lake ? Saver
Aspirin Tablets and
drink a glass of water.
Repeat in 2 hours.
2.
For jpre throat from
cold, dissolve 3 Bayer
Aspirin Tablets in
glass of water and
gargle.
But in the end he goes back to
reindeers. Can’t get along with
out ’em !
3 Christmas Islands,
Harbor, Cove, Sound,
Are Found in Atlas
Not one, but three Christmas is
lands will celebrate the Yuletide this
year, all of them under the British
flag. The first is located in mid-
Pacific and is really a submerged
mountain 15,000 feet high with only
its top above water. The second,
in the Indian ocean, is forest-cov
ered and had a population of 40
when the last census was taken in
1898. The last Christmas islands is
near Cape Breton in the m aritim e
provinces of Canada.
France has a Christmas harbor on
Desolation or Kerguelen island
about 2,000 miles southwest of Aus
tralia. The United States has a
Christmas cove near Boothbay har
bor, Maine, which is a sum m er re
sort.
There is also a Christmas sound
near the southern tip of South Amer
ica about 120 miles northwest of
Cape Horn and located in an island
belonging to Chile.
Just be sure you get genuine fa s t
acting BA YER Aspirin.
ing candles for the Moraviar
church Christmas love-feasts.
At the first sign of a cold, follow the
directions in the pictures above—
the simplest and among the most
effective methods of relief known
to modern science.
So quickly does Bayer Aspirin
"take hold” of painful cold symp
toms, welcome relief you can really
feel often starts in a short time.
It’s amazing how fast it works.
Try this way. You will say it is
unequalled. But be sure
you get the fast-acting
Bayer product you want.
Ask for Bayer Aspirin by
the full name when you
buy.
G E N U IN E B A Y E R A S P IR IN
WNU—13
51—
mODERIUZE
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in time to reach your dining room
table Christmas day.
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