Page Two The Gold Hill News, Gold Hill, Oregon BRISBANE THURS., (M’T. 8, 1936 in Bob Id, Davi/ THIS WEEK Adventurers* Club One Human Shipload A Floating Microcosm Intelligent Mrs. Widener Mrs. Astor and Dr. Carrel On Board the Normandie.—The Praising California. Annals of Kauai, the Garden ancient w riter made this admission: , T 7E R N A L IS , CALIF. — They Island—Mother litre. HONOLULU. There be t h r e e | ’ used to say that California ^ p O D A Y the Hawaiian islands things which are too wonderful for j flov ers had no real smell, and that are among our richest posses me, yea, f o u r California birds had no song —and sions, otic of the world's finest w h i c h I know ! that’s a lie because the resident playgrounds; the most prolific not: mix-king bird feels it his Christian semi-tropical spot under the flag, “Room 27“ The way of a n , ....... , » ■ eagle in the a ir; | dut* t o . « '/ r,« ht Ullder «‘X bed' a renter of culture, educational By F LO Y D GIBBONS the way of a ser- room window and sing all night facilities, industry and natural Famous Headline Hunter p e n t u p o n a j — and that C alifornia grown foods beauty ; the halting spot for lux rock; the way of had no flavor. t p ROM the hair-raising and blood-curdling to the weird and eerie, ury ships touring the globe in a s h i p in the A these adventure yams strike all the keys in the scale of human It s true California still produces midst of the sea; one pear which suggests a low search of earthly splendors—a emotions. Here's one that's bizarre and gruesome as well, and and the way of a grade of damp cot Pacific ixean oasis between the packed full of a sort of danger that would make any man shiver in m a n w ith a ton batting, and one Far East and the West and a fruit maid. his boots. Frank Ritno of New York tells it—the story of a true variety of fig which and floral kingdom second to What w o u ld could pass for li and terrifying experience that happened to him in 1931. none on the two hemispheres. th a t inspired brary paste, and a In June. 1931, Frank Ritno was a junior clerk in a small hotel in Man w riter say of this modern ship in Midst this archipelago of riches, c e r t a i n tropical hattan’s Roaring Forties. He came down to work at eight o'clock one Kauai, in which pineapple and sug which morning, destined to walk into the most fateful moment of his life— the the midst of the sea? The biggest p a w p a w ar reign as twin monarchs, is known atrange episode of Room 21. It may be that you have read some of the ship he ever saw could be hung makes you t h i n k as the Garden Island, upon which details of that story in the newspapers. But here is the yarn, told for the from the ceiling of the dining salon you've been licking on this boat or tucked away in a postage stamps. And 37,000 industrious und prosperous first time by its principal character. corner of the sun deck, disturbing there's people live contented lives. a special “ When I arrived in the lobby.” says F ra n k ,"I found that no one. breed of mushrooms It was on Kauai that Captain both (be elevator operator and the bell-hop were ill. That left Cook first landed 1778 to meet death which is about the no one but myself and the switchboard operator on the main floor, A modern ocean liner, Queen size of a derby hat so I settled down to a busy morning running the elevator, an Irvin S. Cobb the following year. It was 40 years Mary, Normandie, Rex or Europa, and tastes like one. before this group of islands began swering caUs, and taking care of the desk. But we can grow apricots and to attract world attention. Mission- “ It is customary for hotel guests who go to business to leave a steady as it crosses the ocean indifferent call for a certain time every morning. At 9:05 a. m. the telephone operator to waves and winds, is a small ‘ cherries and nectarines and peaches aries arrived 1820; recognition by told me that Room 21 did not answer. I knew that one of two young women world in itself, a microcosm, with ns toothsome as you’d ask for; and the United States 1842; provisional who occupied that room had got a job just a few days before, so I went up this little earth playing the role of noble berries and luscious prunes cession to Great Britain 1843; pro stairs to knock at her door. There was no response to that knock—or to ‘Cosmos.” I f this ship should sail and delectable grapes; and. on this tectorate offered United States 1851; to some new, uninhabited island of great ranch, about the finest mel reign of kings and queens up to several others." Utopia, it might supply everything ons I ever ate. There's likewise a 1893; republic established 1894; Decides to Open Door With Pass Key. necessary to start a new civiliza red onion which has a taste all American annexation secured 1898; Frank figured that the girl was sound asleep. He knew she needed tion better than the one invented right—eat it raw and you taste it territorial government began 1900. her job, and he didn't want to see her lose it for being late. He decided by Sir Thomas More, who has been for days and days. The first English newspaper was es to open the door with a pass key and see to it that she was awakened. made a s a i n t since he wrote And if you think our flowers don’t tablished 100 years ago. He got the key from downstairs and went in. "U topia” to amuse himself and had smell enough, try our politics. Klee Fam ily Distinguished. • • • “ The door,” he says, “ closed automatically behind me. It was his head cut off for his Catholic Lacking space in which to do jus an airshaft room with the curtain drawn— pitch dark inside. I faith. Troubles of a Pioneer. even smallest f r 'l ' 2 «L - » I tice to »v w V w ll t the u t. rs I I I <111V < | percent- r ilk .L llla couldn't see a thing, but I had an idea where the light - switch On board, w i t h h is friend, 1 . . ln y*ese parts is just one age of those countless noble und out- was. I groped until my baud found it. The lights flashed on. The George Bacon, is Myron Taylor, thing after another, and some standing figures identified with the glare made me blink. And when I opened them, I saw a sight head of the United States Steel com times it’s several things after an development of Kauai, what re that 1 will never forget. pany, biggest industrial unit on other, all at once—such as the rush “On the bed lay one of the occupants of the room, scantily clad, earth. He would supply the m a of the autograph collectors upon a mains of this column I dedicate to her head and body frightfully bruised and discolored. Her tongue, livid terial for skyscrapers, ships, rail poor, shy movie star, or the yelp that benign character, M ary Water- house, born in Tasmania in July, roads and machinery, plus organ ing onslaught of our estate beagles 1847, died in June. 1933, beloved of ization. when a visiting nobleman incau every man, woman and child, na Simon Guggenheim w o u ld tell tiously intimates that he might tive and otherwise, living on Kauai. them how to make corporations sell his trailer and buy a lot. To all of these she was known affec profitable, by “ holding on.” But complications also pile up for tionately as “ Mother Rice.” She a life-long resident who has been was the granddaughter of a superin Various newspaper workers on here, as I have, nearly two years tendent of the Wesleyan Missions the boat would be ready to start now and so is qualified to join the in the South Seas, from which she “ the New Utopia Gazette” ; Floyd E arly Pioneers' California society. caine with her father in 1851 to Gibbons for w ar correspondent, plus Here I go and take on a radio pro Honolulu, where in the course of members of the Edward H. Butler gram—and I did so hope to fly east events M ary Waterhouse in her fam ily, that own the Buffalo News, to see what Mrs. Harrison Williams twenty-fifth year met and m ar j and t h e able Abraham Cahan, will be wearing this fall. At times ried W illiam Hyde Rice, two years known to more New Yorkers than the temptation just to drop every her senior, the son of W illiam H ar any editor in America, with one thing and start has been well-nigh rison Rice, teacher of the Ameri exception. And, most important to overpowering. can Protestant mission to the then • • • Sandwich Islands. Reducing M otor Accidents. Frank Saw a Sight He Would Never Forget newspaper prosperity, the Not 1 in all the ww S -s r .... ship • ~ ear 1 W T C” D C ’ r v w n . t — 1 a a at ' (1 <111 IIIL I history llb lO I > ( of II I Hawai- 1Ü W Ü 1* about y&veah L and blackened, protruded from between swollen lips, and her face was covered with a mass of clotted blood. Tries to Restore Girl to Life. “As I stared at her horror stricken, I thought I saw her move. I went over to the bed and noticed, for the first time, that a bath towel had been wrapped tightly around her throat. I snatched it away— started to give her first aid. That was my biggest mistake.” In vain Frank worked to restore the breath of the g irl’s lungs. Finally, he knew the truth—the girl was dead. He went back to the elevator and ran it down to the main floor. He told the switch board operator, who immediately called an ambulance and ran outride to get a policeman. Inside of fifteen minutes the hotel swarmed with policemen in uniform, plainclothesmen and detectives, reporters, photographers, ambulance attendants. “ And last, but not least.” says Frank, “ the Medical Examiner ” Police Grill Frank About Murdered Girl. The Medical Examiner went to work and announced that the girl had been murdered. He found a lot of things that didn’t quite look right. The victim had been moved recently. Someone had been tampering with the body. The detectives went to work too. They found Franks fingerprints all over the place. The detectives asked Frank a few questions. Then they took him to headquarters where he was grilled by a police inspector and an assistant district attorney. Frank told them what he -aiew — but it didn’t make a very convincing story. When he was through, he saw his questioners exchange a couple of significant glances. “ And suddenly,” be says, “I realized I was in a tough spot.” The shrewd questioning of the police had brought out a lot of facts that Frank had never thought of before. His wife was away, and he had slept at the .iotel that night. His fingerprints were found, not only on the g irl s body but even on the towel with which she had been strangled. Frank could feel himself getting hot all over. His face was red and he knew he must look the very picture of guilt. He had to think now as he had never thought before if he wanted to convince these cops of his innocence. And if he couldn’t —a trial—and the electric chair. Sees Electric Chair Looming Ahead. Again the detective inspector was questioning him while the assistant district attorney looked on and took notes. Again Frank had to repeat his story, and as they went back over it, it seemed to him that he was not giving the same answers he had in the first place. He was getting more and more confused. With every word he was getting himself deeper into a tangle of suspiciously conflicting statements. Again Frank saw the grim outlines of the electric chair looming up before his eyes. Then _ an interruption! A detective walked into the office, a big grin on his face, and announced—that he had caught the murderer! The girl’s own roommate had killed her in a fit of drunken fury. When the detec tive started to question her, she broke down and confessed. “Relieved?” asks Frank. “ And how!” ® — W N IJ S e rv ic e . “ Point” in Market Reports "Point,” as employed in market reports, means a recognized unit of variation in price and is used in quoting the prices of stocks as well as various commodities. In the United States stock m arket one point ordinarily means one dollar a share. T h ^ value of a point, how ever, varies according to the com modity in question. Therefore in order to understand the market re ports one must be acquainted with the value of a point in reference to any given commodity. In the coffee and cotton markets, for instance, a point is the hundredth part of a cent; in oil, grain, sugar and pork it is 1 cent. When cotton goes up 200 points it goes up 2 cents; when grain goes up 5 points it goes up 5 cents Base Bail erms Some base ball hitters refer to left - handed pitchers as “ twirly- thumbs.” There are many terms for the different types of hits—mostly to describe scratches; nubber», bloopers, bleeders, squibs, hump backed liners, blue darters. The latter are low, hard liners, the name deriving from the snake known as the blue darter, says a writer in the Chicago Daily News. A hard hit ball is one which they say was “ hit good," or “ he got a hold of that one right,” or “ that was a well-whipped ball.” A change-of-pace or slow ball is a "puff ball," and a ball that hasn’t much on it is a “ nothin’ ball.” A batter who swings with the count three-and-nothing, or three- and-one is “ picking on a cripple.” A tall, easy fly is “ a can of corn.” ,Wide?e: of W 8inc* ‘hr arrivai °i something, but, just then, from the outer world, had there Philadelphia, who has traveled up and down in every corner of the along comes a flew crusade or a been a more profound student of new movement or a new style in di Polynesian life, manners and char earth and says to your narrator: “ M r. Brisbane, I have always vided skirts and we trail off after acteristics, or one more highly es wanted to meet you, because I read that, forgetting the issue which had teemed among them than William seemed so passionately important. your articles every day.” Hyde Rice. He died in 1924. His Last January we were all enlist wife survived him nine years. There spoke the nucleus of a high ing to make 1936 a safer year on ly intelligent reading public. William and M ary brought up the highroad. With the year nearly eight children—five sons and three three-fourths gone, what have we Mrs. Vincent Astor, on her way daughters—all save one daughter done to reduce the appalling mor back from a grouse moor in Scot ‘ living. There are twenty grandchil tality? And what are we going to do land, would resume her real job dren and twenty-three great-grand before all of us, except the idiots children, with three or four ex of promoting deep music, finding and drunkards, who are supposed to co-operators in the passenger list ceptions, all residing in the Hawai be the special ward of providence, ian group. The adult progeny adorn —Madame Flagstadt, the admirable have been mowed down? Norwegian singer, a deep soprano the professions, while the younger I'm reminded of the colored man generation prove the adage that able to make Isolde more impres in Mississippi who was convicted “ blood will tell.” Blessed is the sive than Wagner ever imagined of murder, and his lawyer forgot union responsible for the Rice pos her. On board also is Arthur Bo- to file an appeal, and finally the terity. Kauai, to its eternal credit, danzky, ready to conduct the “New condemned man sat down and wrote has at least a dozen families equal Utopia orchestra." M a y o r La this letter: "D ear Guvnor: Please, ly distinctive. Guardia of New York will tell you sub, I is on the middle of a purticu- how earnestly Mrs. Astor talks to lar fix and onlessen you do some Believed In Work. him about her plans for a great thin’ right away, they hang me "Satan finds work for- idle hands musical center. But M r. LaGuardia Friday—here ’tis Wednesday al to do,” was the text upon which she w ill never know what shudders ready!” fashioned the course of her life and would s w e e p f r o m Ward Mc those about her. She kept every Allister’s pineal gland to h is body busy. With the true instinct of Saving Your Teeth. Achilles tendon if he could hear T ’ HOUGH thy teeth be but state- a pioneer woman she recognized the Mayor LaGuardia say of the young ly ruins, with English ivy grow worth of labor. In her opinion hon lady in question, “ That Mrs. Astor ing all over them and bullbats nest est toil, self-sacrifice and the doc is a nice, serious girl, thoroughly in ing in the hollows, fight off for as trine summed up in the golden rule earnest.” long as possible those who think the was the road to attainment. She root of all evil is the bottom of your was mother to all. To her came the To make this list complete, P. remaining bicuspid. Don’t let ’em lame, the halt and the blind; the G. Wodehouse is on board, one be too fast about photographing rich and poor, when in extremes, certain that Mother Rice would not who could and should describe this your jaw either. shipload of “ important humanity” No man ever yet had an X-ray turn a deaf ear, nor withhold coun going nowhere in particular, for no picture that flattered him. Particu- sel. When the telephone came to reason in particular, some in the , larly is that true when it’s an in Kauai she turned it into a voice and an ear to widen the scope of steerage, some "tourist” and some, terior view of the human face. with cabins on the sundeck, whose Because, the next thing yoL know, her action. Possessing a Napole names break up passenger list con a gentleman in a white smock is onic passion for detail, an insatiate tinuity to make room for the magic testing some forceps and saying, yearning for particulars, minor and words “ maid, valet a n d chauf “This may hurt—just a little.” And major, always with the single idea feur.” : then the next thing after that, your of serving others, she became an impelling force among the people. uppers are as false as Judas. Her purse, her heart and her The contest between modern ships I did so and the result is that, no for the "Atlantic blue ribbon,” or matter what else is on the menu, I mind, always open to the needs of ocean championship, held at this go in for the Cobb pink plate spe others, seemed never to be drained moment by the British Queen M ary, cial. A fellow does get tired of to emptiness. She founded schools, supplies most amazing proof of mod- having everything he eats taste like libraries, hospitals, playgrounds, kindergartens, when and where ern engineering efficiency. Consider rubber. needed. She discovered before it was that, in a race icross 3,000 miles of IR V IN 8. COBB. - W N U S e rvice . too late every weak link in the moral water, the Queen M ary, after being and economic fabric of the island, beaten several times by the French Sea Horse Is a Fish coming to the rescue without wait liner Normandie, beat the latter The sea horse is a fish, but a very ing to be called. and took the Atlantic blue ribbon In her later years, stricken by by a margin of less than half a strange kind of fish. It spends al mile, across 3,000 miles of ocean. most all the time in an upright posi blindness, Mother Rice, accorded tion, with its head up and its tail the franking privilege over all lines down. With thé tail it can do some of communication throughout the The oftener you cross, the more thing which the common fish can’t islands, telephone, telegraph, radio, clearly you realize that the ocean do. It can cling to a weed. A sea with every inhabitant a willing mes is a great deal too big for our horse swims while in upright posi small planet. I t is all one ocean— tion. A fin on the back is moved senger, subject to her beck and Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Antarctic, to give forward motion, and this fin call, directed the movements of an all touching—water covering three- has been compared to a propeller. arm y trained and anxious to take orders for the common good. quarters of the earth’s surface. It does not look or turn just like a A birth or death occurring on Consider the Pacific; take your propeller, but it gives about the world map, Mercator’s projection, same result. An air sac, or “swinr. Kauai at any hour of the day or fold it over from Asia toward New bladder,” helps the sea horse keep night was first recorded in the ear York and beyond. I t will cover in balance. Most of the time, how of Mother Rice, who at once related the United States, the Atlantic ocean ever, the fish holds tightly to a sea the news, good or bad, over the grape-vine system where she sat in and all Europe to the Bosporus. weed, wrapping its tail around in control. ® K ing FAftturen H yndlcate, Ina, spiral fashion. W NU S ervice. Copyright.— WNU Service. Life of a Grain of Wheat Stories have appeared from time to time regarding the finding of wheat In Egyptian tombs which hud been stored for centuries and which germinated when planted. There Is no truth In such stories. The m ax imum life of a grain of wheat Is less Uinn 20 years, and a grain buried for so many years would have ab solutely no viability. Dame Durden Dame Durden was Uie notable housewife of a (unions old English song. She kept, so the ballad says, five serving girls to curry the m ilk ing palls, and five serving mon to use the spade and Hail. The careful and conscientious Esther Summer- son in Dicken's “ Bleak House” Is nick named "Dame Durden." Glue l ong In Use The history of glue dates as far hack as the story of civilisation runs. Among the possessions of King Tut which were brought to light were beautiful Inlaid wooden plaques that were put together with glue Apparently it was one of the first manufactured products which are still in generul use today. Mararonl. Spaghetti Shapes Macaroni and spaghetti in Italy have iilmost us many shapes us there are cities In the country. Zit Bologna it is ribbon sha|x*d; in Rome it comes in strips, but that of Sicily amuses travelers most of all. It Is skillfully rolled around knitting needles to muke It u tiny spirul. Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island was long called St. John's Island, but was given its present name in 1799 in compliment to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who paid II a visit. The prince was the fourth son of King George H I and the father of Queen Victoria. Color Symbolism Color symbol in, has some of Its roots in mythology. For Instance, divine beings were supposed to in habit heaven which was in the blue- sky region. As a result blue be came symbolic of much that wus as sociated with divine beings. Forestry Saves Water The Hawaiian Sugar Planters* as sociation sets out hundreds of thou sands of trees annually to restore the native forests of Hawaii, chief watershed for the American sugar producing area In the islands. Panama Clouds Tricky Panama clouds may be tricky. The rainfall of 140 Inches a yeur on the Caribbean side of the Republic is more than double that on the Pacific side, a feature of trade wind phenomena. Natives Wall for Joy Walling is a sign of joy among natives found on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, and at weddings or other festive occasions they huddle together and wail for an hour. Mats From Trees In Hawaii, where the ancient na tive and modem American customs blend, hula trees furnish leaves from which are woven mats used In homes. Airplane’s Nhadow (onalanl The shadow of an airplane Is al ways the same size regardless of the altitude because the sun's rays arc virtually parallel. Inspiration In Teaching The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Hctenee Enriches Land Two-thirds of America's produc tive agricultural land in Hawaii Is devoted to growing sugar cand. Designed Original White Heuae The original White House was de signed by James Hoban, a native of Dublin. Five Wars Regan In Hprlng Five of America's big wars began in tho pleasant spring month of April. Many Planta In Bermuda Bermuda has nearly 2,000 distinct species of plants. MORNING DISTRESS ¡»due to acid, upset stomach. Mdnesis wafers (the orig inal) quicldy relieve acid stomach sod give neceatery e lim in a tio n . E ach w a fe r equals 4 teopoonfuls o f m ilk of magnesia. 20c, 35c 6t 60c. Watch Your Kidneys/ Be Sure They Properly Cleanse the Blood V O U R kidneys are eonstsnlly filUr- I Inp waste matter from the blood stream. But kidneys sometimes lag lit their work— d o not set as nature in tended— fail to remove impurities that poison the system when retained. Ihen you may suffer nagging beak- id le , dizziness, scanty or too frequenl urination, getting up at night, puffiness under the eyes/ feel nervous, misera b l e - a l l upset D o n ’t d e la y ? U se Doen's PMIs. Doan s are especially lot poorly func tioning kidneys. They are recom mended b y grateful usen the country over. G et thgm from m y druggist, D oans P ills