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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON Thursday, June 3, 1937 King George VI Reviews His Guard of Honor Frocks Made Gay With Stitch Flowers Fashion decrees that flowers bloom on our dresses in embroid ery this Spring and Summer. Give this smart touch to that new frock—surprise yourself and all your friends too by what it will do to renew that plain dress from last year. So easily done in single “ Murder on Soochow Creek“ By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter ERE’S a tale from China, where life is cheap. They’ll kill you for your shoes in that desperate, over-crowded, half- starved country. Or they’ll kill you for nothing at all. I’ve seen Chinese killed by the dozen over there for no reason, as far as I could see, but just for the sake of killing. In no country in the world, except possibly revolutionary Spain, is death spread with such a careless hand. H Yes, life is cheap over there in China. Many a man has been killed for something that wasn’t worth a Chinese dollar. But our Distinguished Adventurer of the day—Milton Weaver of New York City—saw the time once when his life wasn’t worth two cents. That was in February, 1932. Milt Weaver was in the United States Marine corps then, and the Marines were stationed in Shang hai protecting our nationals and the International Settlement dur ing the fighting that went on between the Chinese and the Jap anese. Pattern 5801. King George VI is shown inspecting the troops forming his guard of honor during ceremonies at the Royal Military college at Sandhurst, England, when the memorial chapel was dedicated recently. Queen Elizabeth accompanied the king on his visit to Sandhurst. Along the Shores of Soochow Creek. Says Milt: “You probably remember the little dug-out we Marines built and all the warlike atmosphere that surrounded us along Soochow creek?” And Milt is right about that. I sure do. I spent a lot of time down there when the fighting was going on over in the Native City, and if I saw Milt I’d probably remember him, too, for I talked with a lot of those boys who garrisoned that dug-out and stood guard along the creek. Milt’s adventure, though, is one thing I missed, and I’m glad Milt has given me a second chance at it—a second chance to put in on the wire and tell it to the world. It was a cold morning—that one in February—and Milt was patrolling his post along Soochow creek. Outside the walls of the International Set tlement a furious battle was going on between Japanese troops and Chi nese soldiers. Refugees were seeking safety in the Settlement by the thousand, but they weren’t allowed to enter at night. The patrols along the boundaries had strict orders not to let anyone enter before six a. m., but all night long terror-stricken Chinese refugees—many of whom couldn’t pass the inspection at the bridges—kept trying to force their way through the patrols and get in behind Settlement walls. P la n 1 8 ,0 00-M ile Y a c h t V oy ag e JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Messages by Kite The Chinese are much given to the pastime of kite flying and some of the constructions are marvelous to behold. The Chinese kites often have two strings and these enable the operator to make the kite do some wonderful things. It becomes an aerial messenger, as it is possible to make the kite form letters and characters by which messages may be ex changed. At the Mercy of the Chinese. It was about five in the morning when Milt saw a sampan, loaded with Chinese, making its way across the creek. Imme diately Milt shouted to them to go back, but on they came until the nose of the boat touched the shore. Then Milt saw he was in for an argument—maybe even a little trouble. But if he’d known how much trouble it was going to be, he’d have sounded the alarm and called out the guard before he tried to do anything else about it. As the boat touched shore Milt stepped aboard and began telling the coolie who ran it to turn around and go back. “I had to do this in sign lan guage,” Milt says, “because the coolie, apparently, didn’t understand English. The coolie appeared to be doing what I told him. He was try ing to swing the boat around when a small tugboat came along and rammed into his sampan. At the same time it pushed the sampan out into the middle of the stream, making it impossible for me to jump ashore again.” And then, all of a sudden, the demeanor of the Chinese in the boat changed. A few seconds before Milt had represented authority, with a guard of soldiers at his call. Now, out there in the middle of the stream he was alone—helpless—and darned well those Chinese knew it. They began swarming toward him, babbling, gesticulating, threatening. Milt saw what was coming—saw that he had one chance to get away, and that was to jump aboard the tugboat. He turned toward it, and then a thing happened that put him completely at the mercy of the occupants of the sampan. As he turned toward the tug, a puff of smoke, full of fine bits of coal flew straight in his eyes. He was blinded! It was only for a few moments, but during those few moments of blindness Milt experienced the worst fear of his whole life. The natives, seeing him helpless, rushed him—and a man that gets mobbed by a crowd of Chinese natives has darned little chance of getting out alive. and running stitch, you’ll find it fun to embroider these large and email nosegays. Choose all the gay colors you wish, in wool, silk floss or chenille and know you’re in style. In pattern 5801 you will find a transfer pattern of one and one reverse motif 7% by 814 Inches; one and one reverse motif 614 by 6 inches and six motifs 314 by 314 inches; color suggestions; illustrations of all stitches used. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth Street, New York, N. Y. Write pattern number, your name and address plainly. John D. Rockefeller, who died at his winter home at Ormond Beach, Fla., at the age of ninety-seven, af ter making more than a billion dol lars and giving away three-fourths of it for philanthropic, educational and medical research activities. The patriarch was buried at Cleveland, Ohio, where 80 years ago he began work as a penniless youth. Mr. Capt. Bailey Sawyer and Mrs. Sawyer shown fitting out their 89-foot Rockefeller, whose ambition was to two-masted schooner, Henrietta, for an 18,000-mile voyage to Melbourne, live to one hundred, left 38 descend Australia. Mrs. Sawyer, who learned navigation on a previous trip, will ants. Had he lived another month he would have been ninety-eight. serve as navigation officer. YOUNG COLLEGE HEAD G o lf C h a m p io n s o f th e B ig T e n Constipated 3 0 Years •‘For th irty year» I had stubborn constipation. Sometimes I did not go for four or five days. I also had awful gas bloating, headaches and pains in the back. Adlerlka helped right away. Now I eat sausage, bananas, pie, any thing I want and never felt better. I sleep soundly all night and enjoy Ilfs.'* — Mrs. Mabel Schott. If you are suffering from constipation, sleeplessness, sour stomach, and gas bloating, there is quick relief for you In Adlerika. Many report action In th irty minutes after taking Just one dose. Adlerika gives complete action, cleaning your bowel tract where ordi nary laxatives do not even reach. D r . H . L . S h n u b , N w n Y orfc, r e p o r t« » f * i n a d d i t i o n t o in t a e t in o i c f« o n a in < , d d ie rifc o rfc a rlta th e a rnu>th o j i n t a a t in o i 6 « c C « rie o n d c o lo n b o c i f i i. " Give your bowels a real cleanslno w ith Adlerika and see how good you feel. Just one spoonful relieves GAS and stubborn constipation. A t all Leading Druggists. ! Foe’s Anger The anger of an enemy repre sents our faults or admonishes us of the duty with more heartiness than the kindness of a friend.— Taylor. Desperate Fight on the Sampan. “They came at me with bamboo sticks,” says Milt, “trying to push me overboard into the filthy waters of the creek. T knew I was doomed if I let them get me into the water, for once I was in it they would push me under and hold me there until I drowned. I blew my whistle for help. I had a pistol in a holster at my hip, but I couldn’t see to shoot it. But I also carried a baton —like a policeman’s nightstick—and I began swinging it around my head as best I could.” Milt says he doesn’t know how he managed to stay on his feet all through the hullabaloo. He could feel bamboo poles poking at him, and he could feel that his own stick was doing some damage, too, for every once in a while it came in contact with something that felt like a coolie’s head. But little by little he was being forced back toward the edge of the sampan. Milt was getting desperate. Another step or two and he’d be over board. He was thinking of drawing his pistol and firing blindly into the mob, when suddenly he heard English voices on the bank, mixed in with the native shouting and cursing. That stopped the coolies. A minute before, Milt had been a lone, hated foreign devil. Now he was backed by authority again. They put the boat back to shore, and Milt was helped ashore by English police men and a few of his own pals, the American Marines. They gave Milt first aid treatment for his eyes, and for the cuts and bruises he had re ceived, and Milt says he was mighty doggone glad to get his feet back on the ground of the International Settlement where good old American, British and French law and order were in force and life was worth more than a couple of plugged Chinese pennies. ©—WNU Service. F O R COLDS Nature can more quickly expel Infection when sided by Internal medication of recognized merit Salicon Tablets HAVE Dr. Paul Swain Havens, Prince ton graduate, Rhodes scholar, pro Here are Northwestern university’s champion golfers, who won the fessor and author who was inaugu rated as president of Wilson college Big Ten conference title played at the Kildeer course near Chicago. Left at Chambersburg, Pa., recently. He to right: James Marek, Bill Kostelecky, Coach Ted Payseur, Sid Richard son, individual champ, and Frank Perpich. is only thirty-three. R E C O G N IZ E D MERIT Neglected Ideas Some ideas which have more than once offered themselves to the senses have yet been little taken notice of.—Locke. Gigantic Aqueduct Approaches Completion First Before British Royalty Born in 1744, Abigail Smith be came the wife of a young Massa chusetts lawyer, John Adams, when she was twenty. Acknowledged as one of those who helped shape a new nation, John Adams was rewarded with the appointment of first United States minister to Great Britain in 1784, and his wife and eighteen- year-old daughter Abby joined him in London. The following summer they curtsied, as the first bona fide Americans, before British royalty— thereby leading off a picturesque procession which a favored few of their sisters have continued for years. Blondes and Brunettes The brunette is thoughtful, im aginative, serious and tenacious. When they start anything they see it through. They are conservative and more stable than blondes, de clares a writer in Pearson’s London Weekly. They are emotional and it is remarkable that many of the great religious cults have b e e n founded by brunettes. The brunette , is slower than the blonde, not so , brilliant, but sometimes more sure of “getting there” in the end. The blonde is the builder, the go-getter, seeker after fresh fields and pas tures new. They are the explorers j and inventors, the civil engineers. | Claims First Sleeping Car That the first sleeping car to be built and placed in actual service on this continent was designed and made in Canada is stated in an ar ticle in the Canadian National Rail way Magazine. The plan for a sleep ing car was prepared in 1859 in prep aration for the visit of the then Prince of Wales, later to become Edward VII, and the actual con struction was carried out at Brant ford, Ont., in a plant later used for malleable iron castings for passen ger and freight cars. The Chaldeans The Chaldeans were not Egyp tians but were a Semitic tribe, simi- ' lar to the Babylonians, who prob- ably migrated from Arabia into low- i er Mesopotamia about 700 B. C. They were absorbed in the great Persian empire and some of their descendants probably remain in that part of Asia. They were poly theists and noted for their knowl- > The 392-mile aqueduct which will bring water to Los Angeles and surrounding communities from Parkei edge of astrology and occult sci ence. It appears quite likely that dam on the Colorado river was recently reported 62 per cent complete. This view shows a construction scene the Wise Men from the East were on one of the concrete covered tunnels. These sections are built in deep trenches carved out of the mountain sides or desert floor they traverse. Chaldeans or Babylonians. KILLS INSECTS ON FLOWERS • FRUITS VEGETABLES A SHRUBS Dem and o rig in a l t t a l e d b o l l l t t , fro m y o u r d e a le r WNU—13 22—37 TOE CHEERFUL CHERUB I ta d good tim es when I w m s m iJ l. I like the ch ild I used to b e . I ’m s o r r y y e a rs keep p ilin g - up And separating him fro m me. •vrc***
