RISBANE THIS WEEK The Pope's Health One Pillar Missing Big London Fire A Pretty Good Country News, far more important than any English royal marriage contro- versy concerns the health of Pope Pius. The whole world, ad miring the Pope's character and his loyal ef- forts for peace, hopes earnestly covery, millions that fol- low the spiritual ance pray that Arthur Brisbane the Pope’s bedside. there is reason for hope, in his al- ways temperate life and his early Alpine climbing expeditions. “eight pillars of peace” upon which American peace and prosperity might rest. among the eight. attack upon this country unthink- able. When John L. Sullivan lived no one hit him. London's Crystal palace, covering 17 acres, went up in flames, visible for 50 miles. London has not seen so great a fire since ‘‘the’’ great fire of 1660. That fire started at one o'clock in the morning in a house in Pudding lane; you may read some interesting details in Pepys’ diary. Burning four cays, the fire caused great destruction, but did good in the end. It wiped out, for one thing, the great plague of Lon- don, that made the citizens mark their doors with a red cross apd “Lord, have mercy upon us,” and caused the grass to grow in Lon- don's streets. London was rebuilt of brick; after the fire no more wooden houses, and streets were made wid- er. Our misfortunes often improve us. Former President Hoover, just pow in New York, smiles at the sug- gestion that he plans to leave this country and take up his residence in England. The former President, in spite of the "‘Maine-Vermont" incident, thinks this is a pretty good country and he is right; it made him President. This is ‘the day of woman,” as a well-known religious leader said. Hongkong tells of a lady, chief of pirates, looting a ship, taking $10, 000, displaying unusual ability and ferocity. The airplane, in a better way, helps to establish woman's more- than-equality; Capt. Mollison starts through the air from England to Af- rica, trying to beat the record of his own wife, not that of some other pilot. Women have more nerve and physical it. ident, him by congress, will order the con- $50,000,000 each. that the statement is mistaken, especially as the President is said move." I we ships, squandering $100,000,000 of the public money on them, and then be foolish enough to send them out, up. If you have imagined at any time that the United States has lost its interest in kings, titles and nobility, turning away from such things in its complete, simple-hearted democ- racy, look at your newspaper and see how many columns and pic- tures it prints about Britain's king and his proposed marriage at this time; and observe, if you dine out, the general subject of conversation. It was truly a marvelous recep- tion that Buenos Aires and the en- tire Argentine Republic, its Presi- dent, cabinet and people, gave to the President of the United States. An enthusiastic crowd of a million and a half crowded every street in the great Argentine city, now in the spring season, and most pleas- ing were two words used by the Ar- gentine president, Justo, “Mi ami- £0” ("my friend”), as he greeted the American President. Adventurers’ Club “Red Death and Black Panic” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter ILTON AUERBACH of Atlantic City, N. J., brings us today’s thrill, and it happened to him on his first day back at work after being mustered out of service after the war. The war didn’t give Milt much of anything to write home about, but the min- ute he got home things began to happen to him. That's the way it always is. Adventures happen most often right in your own | back yard. This one started with a cry and a roar. On January 7, 1919, shortly before five o'clock in the afternoon, a woman thrust her head out of a win- | dow on the fourth floor of the Sauer building on Penn avenue, Pitts- { burgh and screamed one word, “Fire.” There was a moment of quiet. { A fireman standing on the sidewalk turned and started to run toward his engine house. He had taken two steps when Hell burst its boun- daries and began roaring in the streets of Pittsburgh. Celluloid Films Exploded. There was a loud, shattering BOOM! A gush of smoke from a first floor window and a bright red flash streaked out from somewhere between the first and second stories. A man's bedy shot out of a window as though it had come from a cannon—head first. A man standing in front of the building was thrown halfway across the street. Flame ran through the whole edifice—blazed fifty feet from the top of the roof. Highly inflammable celluloid films stored in the building had exploded and turned the whole place into a funeral pyre in which nine | people eventually lost their lives. Milt Auerbach was in an office on the sixth floor. There were eight ! of them there altogether—salesmen and stenographers busy at their respective desks making out reports and finishing up for the day. They heard the terrific report and made a dash for the door. “When we opened the door,” says Milt, “were were enveloped in A SHEET OF FLAME. We turned, then and ran to the windows facing the street. By the time we reached them the flames were at our heels.” They Were Jumping to Death. Milt saw one of the girl stenographers escape through the window. Another one followed her. It was Milt's first day in the office. He thought there must be a fire escape down which the girls were fleeing. The porter Holding the Girl, He Stood on a Narrow Ledge. was climbing out of the window now, and Milt told him to hurry so he could follow. Then the porter was gone and Milt started out the window after him. He pushed out his head and recoiled in horror. There was NO FIRE ESCAPE there! Down below on the side- walk he saw the bodies of the two girls and the porter. Another girl tried to push by him. Milt caught her and she fainted. Still holding the unconscious girl in his arms he climbed out of the win- dow and stood on a narrow ledge. With his free hand he clung to the window sill. Inside the office the remaining salesmen were huddled in a corner the flames had not yet reached, shaking hands and saying good-bye to one another. Fire engines began to arrive in the street below. They spread a net, but from the sixth floor it appeared to be about the size of a dime. No one dared jump, Milt says, because it would have been im- | possible to gauge the distance to that net correctly. Other trucks were unreeling hose lines. Still others were raising ladders. But the hose lines didn't hold out much hope. Water would be of little help to the people trapped in the building. The ladders were their only hope. He Couldn't Get to the Ladder. They were hoisting a ladder right under the ledge to which Milt was clinging, but to Milt's dismay they had it on the wrong side of the trolley wires and could not lean it against the building. The unconscious girl was getting heavy in his arms. His other hand, still clinging to the sill, was tired and just about ready to lose its hold. Milt looked inside and noticed that the flames didn’t seem to be com- ing any farther into the office. There was a little space in there that | they did not cover. He bundled the unconscious girl back in through the window and followed, himself. In other parts of the building, dense fumes were driving people to the upper floors. Fire began to spread to the building next door. Every- where in the burning structure people were clinging to the windows as Milt Auerbach had, and the streets were fllled with people shouting over | and over again the monotonous warning refrain, “DON'T JUMP!” On the sidewalk, dozens of limp, motionless bodies testified to the soundness of that advice. Few of those who jumped had landed in the nets. Now firemen were fighting their way inside the build- ing. Two men, their clothes ablaze, but still alive, were carried out. A little farther in they found the body of a woman, her hair gone and her clothing in ashes, just a few feet from a stairway that would have led her to safety. Milt Was Almost Electrocuted. Meanwhile, up on the sixth floor, Milt Auerbach waited impatiently for the firemen to raise their ladder again. ‘‘At last,” he says, "a ladder did reach our floor. A fireman came up and relieved me of the girl in my arms. He carried her down to safety, and then the men followed.” That trip down the ladder was almost as bad as the suspense of waiting for it. It swayed alarmingly as Milt started down it. The rungs were far apart. Every step Milt took made him feel as if he were missing his foothold. Down he went. The bottom of the ladder was set in the top of the fire truck, and in order to get down from it Milt had to rest his hand on the back of one of the horses that drew it. That's where Milt got one final thrill. For as he put his hand on the horse's back an overhead electric wire broke. It fell, hit the horse, and sparks flew. Just as Milt landed on the ground, the horse fell beside him-— STONE DEAD—-ELECTROCUTED! Nine people died in that fire, and many more were injured. The girl Milt had held on the window ledge was in a coma for months as a result of her ordeal. But Milt was lucky. He came out without a scratch. ©—~WNU Service. Beginning of Labor Day the Baltimore Ohio, August 1830. The third engineer olas W. Darrell, who Friend of Charleston trip, November 2, 1830, AAARARAARARARAR AAA NAAN STAR DUST Movie « Radio %%% By VIRGINIA VALE ®k% O COSTUME Designer Royer went all of the research information on wardrobes for the 20th Century-Fox production M20 20 20 20 2 20 20 20 6 2 L222 222 22 22 2 1806. to be day house of appropriated to and night shifts weer Ween year old girl whom Eddie Cantor re- Sunday night broad- casts over CBS. Little Miss Durbin is really young — quite unlike some of the girls fresh from Hollywood who have conveniently forgot- ten half a dozen years. If you have on the air you know that she sings beauti- fully. Eddie Cantor T_T Leslie Howard has refused, once and for all, to allow his daughter, Leslie Ruth, to make “National Vel- vet” for Paramount. If you heard her on the air with her father you'll recall what an excellent actress she was on the air. The story calls for a young girl—and Leslie Ruth How- ard is just thirteen, which seems to be the lucky age for motion picture and radio debutantes this year. But papa says no, i searching for play the heroine of “Gone with the Wind,” whereby hangs a story. In New York there is a young actress who has proved her ability on the stage, but has never made a picture, The question is—would the pulgie go in greater numbers to see the picture if a well known actress played the lead, or They're still right girl to the unknown girl gave a grand per- formance, the crowds would go any- way? asf Monte Blue, a favorite with film fans for many years, plays the lead in a picture that rekindles the ploneer agricultural west of a cen- tury ago. He has the role of John Deere, in “The Blacksmith's Gift,” a story which recounts the life and times of the man who gave to the world the steel plow, The action takes place in 1837 in the Illinois of Abraham Lincoln's day. anf Mary Rogers, daughter of the be- loved Will, has gone to work at the Twentieth Century - Fox studios where her father made pictures, and has the bungalow dressingroom which he used, and which no one else has had since his death. The beautiful Mary deserves a would have helped with a movie career, but she went out and got When you see “White Hunter,” June Lang in the wl ¢ battle tropical made right in the studio, storm, what with re- June Lang hearsals and re- and another, and were black and blue when it was over,” where they had been bruised by objects blown against them by the wind. ODDS AND ENDS . . . It cost Claire Trevor 320000 to visit her parents re cently; she'd have received that sum for making a picture for an outside io, when she finished “Career Women” . . . The color in “The Garden of Allah” is beautiful, and Charles Boyer's perform. ance is excellent, but Marlene Dietrich’s makes you wish she hadn't been able to get the role away from Merle Oberon « + « When Eleanor Powell arrived in New York some time ago she gave an exhibition of mp dancing in the railway station, to the delight of the crowds. © Western Newspaper Union, Where Speech Comes From Actual speech, so far as is known, is an exclusive accomplishment of human beings. It requires not only the ability to make finely differen- objects, ideas and emotions, accord. ing to a scientist. A part of the area is the crest of the fashion wave. Good news for members of The © 1 Sewing Circle, for y lines have always favored by se who sew at me. 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Everyone knows how uncertain the old smokehouse method is. Other so-called smoking methods, or substitutes for smoking, are likewise risky. How can you tell whether or not the meat is thor oughly smoked? But if you want to be your meat will come through the hot summer months sweet and wholesome and eatable, don’t take chances. Brush every square inch with FIGARO Condensed Smoke, It 12 a liquid ; and me FIGARO it penetrates every crevice and pore of the meat surface. It positively PREVENTS skippers, green mold, rancidness, or hardening. And fia vor? FIGAROsmoked meat is the finest you'll ever eat AND COSTS NOTHING! Actually FIGARO-smoking costs you nothing. The average farm loses 50 pounds of meat every year through improper smoking. At 30 cents per pound, that's $15.00! To protect your meat, to guarantee ev- ery pound of It keeping perfectly, will cost you less than ewne-third cent per pound, the FIGARO way! And using plain salt In the cure, then brushing FIGARO on the meat afterward, actually will cost yom only HALF the cost of using “smoke salt.” HAS SMOKED OVER TWO ILLION POUNDS OF MEAT More than 30 certain additiéns to improve the C0. oauas mex.
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