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
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Now I eat sausage, bananas, pie, any
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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
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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.
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